Chapter 18: Jiao Qian’s dog head must be taken within three days!

Seven days ago, Jinyun Mountain.

The problem of lack of food gave Jin Yun a headache.

The only people around who were capable of helping were the branch of the Jiao family in Lizhou.

Jin Yun's mentor Sheng Xian was a famous scholar in Taimo County. Jiao Jiao was a very famous person, and Sheng Xian had some friendship with Jiao Jiao but not much.

In the end, Jin Yun still visited Jiao Qian in the name of his mentor, but was severely humiliated.

"Who do you think you are? Let Jin Mao come!"

"Isn't Jin Mao very capable?"

"You can borrow the grain, but let Jin Mao come and kowtow to me and confess his guilt."

Jin Yun’s back teeth were almost broken.

What kind of people are the Jiao family?
He only gained his superior status by annexing land and forcing countless people to death. Why are you so proud of that?
Now that he had to ask for help, Jin Yun swallowed his anger and said in the name of Sheng Xian: "My master once said that Jiao Zhengqiang was eager to serve the public and was righteous."

Then he asked back: "Could it be that Jiao Zhengqiang was pretending to be a fake, but he was not really that?"

"That's true." Jiao Qian looked very proud, as if he was the one being praised.

"You can borrow the grain, but the calculation is nine out of 13."

"Okay." Jin Yun's expression eased a little and said, "I want to borrow 500 shi of grain."

"Five hundred shi!?" Jiao Qian broke into a voice, angrily saying, "I don't have five hundred shi, I only have one hundred shi, take it or leave it if you want."

Without waiting for Jin Yun to speak, Jiao Qian added like a machine gun: "You will have to return the grain by this time next month."

An extra 44 shi of grain must be paid back every month?

Why don't you go and grab it?
Jin Yun still endured it: "Okay."

Unexpectedly, Jin Yun's attitude of retreating again and again made Jiao Qian even more aggressive.

When it came time to hand over the grain, Jin Yun finally got angry: "How can it be 90 dan with only dan?"

"Just tell me whether you want it or not, okay?"

Facing a scoundrel like Jiao Qian, Jin Yun's forehead was visibly blue with veins, and he angrily ordered, "Take him away!"

"Bah!" Jiao Qian spat on the ground and sneered, "Nerd!"

Although Lanzhi and others who were accompanying them could not understand the conversation between the two, they could understand it and secretly memorized it in their hearts.

The people of Minyue saw Jin Yun's efforts and hard work during this period, and they also recognized this elder brother of the Divine Lord.

They don't have the concept of "if the king humiliates his subjects, they will die", but they do distinguish between good and bad, and this matter is not over yet.

At present, there are more than a thousand elderly, weak, women and children of Min Yue in Jinyun Mountain. The average daily consumption of grain per person is one catty, and 90 dan can only sustain them for 8 days.

Add the 2 days in the warehouse, the total time is 10 days.

It would be impossible for Jin Yun to not worry, but he had already done the best he could.

Fortunately, on the tenth day, Liu Mu brought a hundred county soldiers and two hundred young and strong Yao people, carrying back a hundred stones of grain, which solved Jin Yun’s urgent problem.

Upon learning of Jinmao's plan, Jin Yun quickly began to arrange for downstream ships to pick him up.

...

Jinmao planned to build a cableway across the two waterfalls of E Creek. In this way, food and small boats could be transported downstream along the cableway in two batches, while people could walk down.

The Yao people have ready-made straw ropes, and just a few of them twisted together are enough to bear hundreds of kilograms.

The most troublesome part is the rocky rapids in the middle reaches, which will take a lot of manpower and resources to clear.

Fortunately, what the Yao people have the most is people.

At present, the young and strong men of the Yao ethnic group were either dead or injured, or working as coolies in Jinyun Mountain. The rest were half-grown children and women and children.

No matter how fierce the Yao women are, they are not armed and have no organization, so they are unlikely to pose a threat.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Jin Mao informed the Yao people in the Yao language.

"As long as you are willing to work, you will be provided with two meals a day, and if you perform well, you can be rewarded with a pound of rice."

This trick really worked. The Yao people showed much less resistance and those who were brave enough came to work that day.

Jinmao spent a fortune to buy horse bones, and all the more than 20 people who came to work that day were given a pound of rice, regardless of their size.

The next day, the number of people coming to work increased tenfold. Jinmao selected twenty people with good performance and gave them one kilogram of rice.

By the third day, more than 2,000 people had arrived, and almost all of the people who could move to the Yao ethnic group’s ancestral land had come.

With strength in numbers, the upstream section was completed in one day, and the most difficult midstream section took only two days.

When Jinmao led his people to leave, the Yao people were still reluctant to let them go. The elders in the tribe all said that "they haven't had a full meal for many years."

That's right. In just these five days, they consumed three hundred dan of grain. You should know that the total grain seized this time was only about two thousand dan.

Liu Mu brought back 300 shi, and his men consumed nearly 200 shi in the past few days (each person consumed twice as much as normal).
Jinmao felt so painful but had to hold it in, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

...

February 24. After nearly a month on business, Jin Mao finally led his team back to the Jinyun Mountain base.

"You are back!"

At the temporary dock, Jin Yun covered his face and cried. He had endured all kinds of grievances just to wait for this day.

If Jinmao doesn't bring back food, Jinyun will quit his job.

"Men don't shed tears easily!" Jin Mao said with a smile, "What are you saying?"

Jin Yun couldn't stand the stimulation and poured out all his questions at once.

"Rapeseed is about to ripen, but where is the wooden press?"

“The workshop is completed, how to place the craftsmen?”

“How should we deal with the young and strong Yao people?”

"County soldiers' pensions..."

Jin Mao's head was as big as a bucket: "Okay! Okay! Okay!"

"You've worked hard! We can talk later if you have anything to say."

Jin Yun went on strike: "Why bother with your achievements? I'm leaving now!"

"Hey, hey, hey, brother!" Jin Mao said coquettishly, "I beg you, brother, please don't resign."

"It's all my fault!" Jin Mao apologized, "I'll drink three cups of wine tonight to make amends to you."

"Let's deal with the current situation first, okay?"

Only then did Jin Yun nod proudly and get busy with his work.

Seeing Jin Yun recording and directing the stacking of grain, Jin Mao was overjoyed: "Finally, someone can help me."

That night, Jinmao held a grand banquet and both the guests and the hosts enjoyed themselves to the fullest.

The next morning.

Jinmao was pulled out of his comfortable life and taken to the newly built workshop for a meeting.

The participants were: Jin Yun, Bai Shi, Liu Mu, Liu Fang, He Wei, Lan Zhi and Wu Tian.

The top executives of Jinyun Mountain have all arrived. After this period of recuperation, Bai Shi's left hand has improved a lot. If Jin Mao hadn't forced him to wear a sling, Bai Shi would have rushed into training long ago.

At the first meeting, no one knew what to do, so Jinmao asked Jin Yun to report on the experiences and achievements during this period.

Then, Liu Fang, Lan Zhi and Wu Tian were asked separately, and the three of them gave reports one by one.

First of all, Jin Yun’s growth surprised Jin Mao very much. Although he is not capable of presiding over the entire Jinyun Mountain affairs, he can handle it on his own.

Liu Fang is still the same, just a technical nerd, wasting such a good physique.

There is nothing much to say about Wu Tian. Every word he says is about work and praises him. He is just flattering from beginning to end.

On the contrary, Lanzhi was very dissatisfied.

"My Lord, your brother has been insulted, so you're just going to ignore it?"

"Who?!" Jin Mao slammed the table and stood up: "Who dares to insult my brother?!"

Since the two men spoke in Min Yue language, only Bai Shi understood it and knelt on one knee to ask for a fight: "Lord God, please let me kill him!"

The others looked confused, while Jin Yun seemed to be thinking about something and couldn't believe it.

Lanzhi then exaggerated the grievances that Jin Yun had suffered at the hands of Jiao Qian.

"Great Jiao family! Great Jiao Qian!" This time everyone else understood.

Jin Yun looked at Lan Zhi deeply, and was moved. He quickly stood up to stop her: "Brother! Don't be impulsive!"

Jin Mao waved his hand. After several victories, he had accumulated some power and the scene suddenly became quiet.

"I can tolerate Jiao Qian insulting me, but I cannot tolerate him insulting my brother!" He became more and more skilled at speaking polite words.

Jin Yun was quite moved by this and burst into tears.

"Everyone present here is someone I, Jin Mao, can trust."

"I'm putting this here!"

"Within three days, I will take Jiao Qian's dog head!"

Liu Mu, Liu Fang, Wu Tian and He Wei were all excited and more determined to follow Jinmao.

Bai Shi's face was full of fanaticism, this was the god in his mind!

Lanzhi looked at him with a complicated expression, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"All other matters will be postponed."

Jin Mao gave the order: "You all retreat, Bai Shi stays."

(End of this chapter)