Within a day after the establishment of the resource exchange office, the amount of food sent out through more than 60 exchange points in various counties had reached 5 million units. At this time, the counties other than the North Sea had not harvested any grain, so Yang Rui used almost half of the Mountain City's grain reserves to ensure the normal operation of the resource exchange office. It could be seen that there was a huge shortage of food in Qingzhou.
Even so, the food that was exchanged couldn't satisfy the needs of many people. The resource exchange center was constantly operating at full capacity. Thus, Yang Rui continued to transfer the stored food from the Great Mountain City to exchange for food, all the way until the Northern Sea Nation's sweet potato harvest.
The North Sea's sweet potato production this season had reached more than 8 million units, 60% of which could be freely allocated by Yang Rui, reaching more than 5 million units, enough for two days. Of course, 40% of the county's share had to be paid in cash, which was about 16000 gold coins.
Next, the various counties' fields also began to produce, and they were slowly able to meet the needs of the resource exchange office. Even so, in the middle three to four days, Yang Rui's Mountain City's grain reserves were almost completely exhausted before they could be transferred over.
These days, Yang Rui was very busy. Among them, the allocation of food and resources all required Yang Rui's presence. Most of the time, Yang Rui's storage ring was used for the transfer. If Yang Rui did not hesitate to spend more than 200,000 gold coins when he set up the resource exchange office to build enough warehouses in various resource exchange offices, he was afraid that the transfer of resources would be too late.
Fortunately, Yang Rui had a good assistant — Wei Xiu.
Previously, as compensation for promoting sweet potatoes a few months in advance, Yang Rui symbolically gave the distribution rights of sweet potatoes produced in Qingzhou to A pint of incense. At that time, Yang Rui did not plan to issue a food ban, so the distribution rights of sweet potatoes in Qingzhou were only a concept, and there were almost no practical benefits.
However, that was then, and this was now. It wasn't known whether to blame Yang Rui for not thinking deeper, or to say that Wei Xiu was lucky. Ever since Yang Rui issued the grain sales ban, the distribution rights of Qingzhou's sweet potatoes went from being worthless to a complete monopoly!
One had to know that the food shortage in Yang Rui's hands was only temporary. After the initial success of the Qingzhou Army Farming System, the amount of sweet potatoes that would eventually flow to Yang Rui would be an astronomical figure. At that time, Wei Xiu would have full authority to sell these grains, and the benefits would be unimaginable.
Therefore, when Yang Rui was extremely busy, Wei Xiu also took the initiative to run errands. She even funded a team of carriages and horses to help Yang Rui transport food and various other resources.
Yang Rui was happy to see this happen. Previously, Yang Rui had experienced a situation where his storage ring could not be used in Luoyang Imperial City and even the entire Si Li Province. In the future, there would probably be no lack of traditional transportation of goods like carriages and horses. Only when war truly broke out would they be able to guarantee the supply of provisions and goods.
Not only that, but Wei Xiu's actions of forming a caravan also reminded Yang Rui that he was considering using water transportation as well. More than half of Qingzhou was surrounded by the sea. If they could build a suitable transport ship, Water transportation would be a good direction in the future.
Of course, Wei Xiu's use was far more than that. Her greatest use was probably in her innate skill of "speculation". The characteristic of "being able to save 10% of purchase costs" was fully utilized by Yang Rui. With her personally paying the various counties and cashing in their shares, a large amount of money was saved in an instant!
The cashing in of the various counties and counties' shares was originally Yang Rui's purchase of food. Therefore, Wei Xiu's "speculation" skill was very popular. Moreover, the effect of this kind of normal business skill would not cause the various counties and counties to be dissatisfied. Since he could give less, Yang Rui was happy to do it.
Currently, Wei Xiu and Yang Rui were in a follower status. The 10% saved was naturally saved for Yang Rui. For this reason, Yang Rui only gave Wei Xiu the position of "bookkeeper and accountant". Her actions were justified.
After a few days of the food ban and resource exchange, the various counties and counties reported it one after another. A frenzy of all kinds of resource collection had been set off in various parts of Qingzhou. Moreover, from the beginning, Yang Rui wanted the various counties and counties to actively guide the people to collect resources. At this time, most of the people were led by villages and towns to establish collection sites to collect resources together.
As the game was currently in the stage of plot adjustment, all the other players were offline. The various resources that they had previously occupied were all in an ownerless state. Most of them were occupied by the NPCs of Qingzhou! Yang Rui's resource strategy for the Qingzhou players had also been preliminarily achieved!
At this time, the game system's plot adjustment was about to end. While the farm system and the food ban were being implemented vigorously, Yang Rui was also constantly recruiting all kinds of soldiers to deal with the upcoming second large-scale system plot.
After more than 20 days, Yang Rui had recruited more than 150,000 soldiers from Dezhou. A total of more than 1.5 million gold coins had been spent, all of which had been put into the Penglai map to train soldiers. Furthermore, the recruitment was still ongoing. At the same time, the 50,000 Beihai County soldiers that Cheng Yu had recruited under the supervision of Yang Rui were still rapidly training in the Penglai map.
As for the other counties, they could also expand their county soldiers to 50,000 like Beihai County. However, Yang Rui did not make such a request for the time being due to the consideration of control. In fact, the number of soldiers recruited by each county had been greatly reduced. The starting limit had been raised to 10,000 soldiers. Soldiers under 10,000 didn't need to pay extra. Soldiers between 10,000 and 30,000 would have to pay 10 gold coins. Soldiers between 30,000 and 60,000 would have to pay 20 gold coins. Soldiers between 60,000 and 100,000 would have to pay 30 gold coins, and the amount would increase accordingly.
Therefore, it was not difficult for a county to maintain 30,000 soldiers. However, Yang Rui also did not make such a request for the sake of control. At the same time, the finances of the counties and counties were temporarily unable to bear the burden of increased recruitment. The situation would probably be better after the farm system and food ban were implemented for a period of time.
At the same time as the recruitment, Yang Rui had also discovered a large pirate camp in the southeast and northeast of Green Province, according to the information provided by the counties and counties. These two pirate camps were on islands off the coast. After Yang Rui received the news, he had used the Flying Carpet to scout from afar. There should be Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade pirates in both camps.
However, it was not easy to farm pirates in both camps. The strength of Yang Rui's soldiers on the water was much weaker compared to the pirates. Moreover, Yang Rui did not have a suitable ship. Ships such as dagger-boats were still too small. Although they were useful in inland rivers, they were not suitable for going out to sea.
As such, Yang Rui had no choice but to send his soldiers to the areas where the pirates were most active. He could only take advantage of the opportunity to kill the pirates when they came ashore. Moreover, the number of pirates that came ashore each time was limited. The highest-grade pirate among them was only Fourth Grade.
Even so, Yang Rui had a stable source of skill books for the soldiers on the water. In addition to the Fourth Grade skill books he had obtained from Crippled One, Yang Rui's strength on the water could be guaranteed to slowly increase.
It was worth mentioning that while Yang Rui was searching for a farming spot on the water, he had also discovered a large lake in the North Sea Nation. It was at least ten times larger than the Black Dragon Pool near Grand Mountain City. The Wei River just happened to flow through this body of water. The locals called it the 'Gorge Lake'. Although there were no farming spots on the water, there were two small islands not far away in the center of the lake. They were called 'Seven Mile Island' and 'Eight Mile Island'.
When Yang Rui saw this place, he suddenly had an idea. He ordered Cheng Yu to build a small village on each of the two islands. He also built docks and docks on each of the two islands for him to cultivate his soldiers on the water. Moreover, the Wei River could be connected to the sea. Perhaps it could be used for other purposes in the future.
The villages on the two islands were directly used by Yang Rui as prison cells. The captured Bocai family, Zhang Mancheng, Bu Ji and the other Yellow Turban Generals, as well as the Prince of Anping, were all arranged by Yang Rui to the village on Seven Mile Island. In the village on Eight Mile Island, Yang Rui arranged for Qiu Linfeng of the Xiongnu Qiulin Tribe and Xu Bu Tumu of the Xiongnu Xu Bu Tumu.
In this way, with the surface of the Gorge Lake acting as a barrier and the many water soldiers moving around, the captives on the two islands would not be able to leave easily. Yang Rui did not have to worry about how to deal with these captives. At the same time, the broken ship was also released. However, this thing could not be stored in the storage ring like the small dagger-rigged ship. Yang Rui basically had no use for it at the moment.
In addition, Yang Rui discovered by chance that teleportation could be done freely around Liang Province, including the small city of Le Capital. Yang Rui took a moment to teleport to the small city of Le Capital to take a look. The soldiers in the city just happened to pass a letter to Yang Rui.
It turned out that the Western Liang region was under the control of Ma Teng and Han Sui, including the small city of Le Capital. This letter was personally written by Han Sui to Yang Rui, implying that Yang Rui should withdraw from the small city of Le Capital.
In fact, at this time, Ma Teng and Han Sui were not on good terms with each other and had no time to care about the small city of Le Capital. Although Yang Rui was not aware of this, relying on the strategic location of the river outside the small city of Le Capital, Yang Rui pretended not to see the letter and threw it aside after reading it.
The small city of Le Capital was currently Yang Rui's hunting base. Of course, Yang Rui would not easily hand it over. He was even considering whether to send more soldiers to the small city of Le Capital. However, it was just a thought. Yang Rui did not have the time to disperse his forces here. He would just occupy it one day at a time.
For many days, Yang Rui had been busy. Before he knew it, it was already time for the system's adjustment to the storyline to end.
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