Early the next morning, just at the hour of Mao, the rice shops and the doors of the grain shops in the capital were all crowded.

Everyone was anxiously waiting to open the door and buy rice, but there was no sign of opening the door.

Finally, a small wooden window opened, but the guy just hung up a sign and closed it again.

“No food today”

The four big words are written on the sign.

Some people who got up in line in the middle of the night could not accept this statement at all, and angrily knocked on the wooden boards of the shop.

"Open the door! Open the door! There were so many rice and so much wheat flour yesterday, how could it be gone today?"

"Yes! You are a profiteer!"

"Sell the rice quickly, or we will smash the door!"

"Everyone is from neighbors, can't you be so shameless, right?"

"Old Zhang, you guy who has no x-eyes, are you just so unkind to favor?"

Such scolding happened in every corner of the capital.

I dare not say anything else in the capital, and spreading rumors is a top-notch one.

All kinds of news began to spread late last night, saying that there was a locust plague in Shandong, and the locust plague was coming all the way to the Gyeonggi area.

Anyone with some common sense of life knows what kind of disaster is a locust plague.

Later, there was a "no grass grows when the x army passed by." In fact, that emperor was extended from the "locust", because the locusts passed by were originally everything that could be eaten, including food and fruit trees, etc., and all the grass grows when they were eaten up.

Overall, Dakang Dynasty has a good life, but the three major disasters, such as locust plague, flood and drought, still occur frequently.

People have certain experience in preventing and controlling floods and droughts, but they still don’t have much clue about biological disasters such as locust plagues.

Even if you try your best to hunt, the effect is still very small when facing countless locusts that are overwhelming.

People feel powerless in front of locusts that can cover the sky and the sun.

Moreover, the locusts killed by heaven will come out every time when the crops are about to be harvested, and they will not appear at other times. This makes people lament that they are really natural nemesis of farmland.

Although the people who farmed were crying but still couldn't cry, the same was true for these people living in the capital.

The locust plague will inevitably lead to large-scale grain harvests. In this way, rice and wheat will increase prices significantly - regardless of whether the wheat has just been harvested, the price will rise together if it wants to increase.

If the family does not prepare food in advance at this time, the money in hand will become more valuable and there will be no food to buy.

That's why everyone comes to queue up early in the morning.

Someone who didn't know the news, saw a bunch of people surrounding the rice shop at the door of the rice shop. He went up to ask and found out the result, so he also joined the queue.

As a result, no one expected... or had a little prediction in their minds that these rice shop owners with grain almost never opened their doors to do business.

Of course, do you think anyone has opened the door?

have!

However, they are all small shops, and after selling them all for a morning, they sold out all the inventory in the store and closed the door directly, without mentioning the food they had accumulated in the warehouse outside the city.

At this point, the neighbors around all had to give a thumbs up and call them "Boss-Free".

What kind of rice and grain they want to buy in the future will definitely be here.

The common people are not born unfaithful. If the situation allows, do you think they are willing to take care of good people or bad people?

Just like going to eat with you, even if the newly opened store is cheaper, you still can't help but go to the familiar store.

This is the same thing.

...

Rice shops and grain shops no longer sell grain, but the restaurants in the capital are still open as usual, and everything is as usual, and there is no price increase.

Why?

Because what they sell is only the customers on the day, there is a certain amount of food they consume, and it will not be too exaggerated.

Even if you want to raise the price, you have to wait and see what the situation is.

If you don’t open a store to do business, how can you calculate so many chefs and servants spend all kinds of expenses? It’s better to open a business, at least one day for one day.

So today's restaurants and restaurants are surprisingly lively, and the business is almost twice as good.

I wonder how many people are worried that locusts will be coming and how much harm they will cause.

There are also more people cursing the rice shops and merchants in the capital, calling them even making money like this. They are simply a bad hook and a bastard who has no eyes for having a son!

Among these large and small restaurants, Miaoweilou is not particularly famous. It is not ranked among the top 100 in the capital in terms of taste or fame.

But today it is particularly shiny.

Because from the beginning of the opening of the door to clean up at Si pm in the morning, two red flags were hung on the roof of Miaowei Building.

Originally, those servants in the flower building, disciples of opera troupes, slaves from wealthy families, etc. were all happy and shouted to queule up to buy flower essential oil for their master (girl).

But when I got in front of me, I found that a bunch of people were discussing these two flags.

To be precise, we discuss the above two sentences.

A flag says "Don't do good deeds without doing anything"

The other side of course is written as "Don't do evil for the sake of small evil"

Although these excited servants didn't understand the meaning, they also knew that they had been wrong and it was troublesome to not recognize words. They didn't mention jacquard essential oil at all.

What exactly is it?

Before leaving, they also listened to a group of scholars.

It is said that the Miaowei Building of Prince Yu’s Mansion, including four houses outside the city, all posted notices, written in plain language.

"Although my Prince Yu's mansion is not rich, in such difficult times, we still have to respond to the emperor's call and stand up and do something for everyone.

Starting today, from the morning at Mao hour to the evening at Xu hour, in the eight hours, except for the food in the hall, everyone starts to steam rice and steamed buns at the door.

Rice porridge costs half a pound per penny, and big steamed buns cost five. Please buy them for a maximum of one or two days to eat. This building will continue to sell at this price until the disaster is over."

With the posting of this notice, more than ten large earth stoves have been built at the entrance of Miaowei Building, and the stove is burning vigorously.

There are five or six layers of large steamer steamed by water on the five earth stoves, and the fragrance of steamed buns slowly began to waft out.

The remaining five earthen stoves have five large pots, which are boiled with rice porridge.

The rice fragrance and wheat fragrance mixed together and floated dozens of meters away.

Someone stretched out his head and looked at it. The rice porridge was not the kind that was clear and soft, but was very sticky.

Such rice porridge is not much different from dry rice.

While watching the slaves were amazed, they passed the news to the people around them when they went back.

By the time more people knew about it and came to queue up with guys, the entire queue had already stood a hundred meters away.

It's not a row, but divided into four rows.

If it weren't for the lack of space, and the yamen runners were restricted to standing in the middle of the road, at least in eight rows.

Everyone lined up and chatted.

On the one hand, he is scolding the locust plague and the boss of bad rice and grain, and on the other hand, he is also praising the immense merits of Prince Yu's Mansion.

One cent, half a pound of rice porridge, five large steamed buns per cent.

Basically, a family can eat enough for two cents.

If you save a little, not a hard work, this meal will be enough for the evening.

"Compared with those bastards, Prince Yu is really a living Bodhisattva!"

"Yes, yes! Two cents, buying rice and flour some time ago wasn't enough?"

"Haha, you are too conservative, not just not enough, you can basically ignore it! The rice porridge and steamed buns are together, and the cost is ten cents. Not to mention the firewood burned here, but there are so many laborers. Prince Yu lost a lot of money this time!"

"I just don't know how long they can last. Where are the five stores, how much rice, flour and food will be consumed in a day?"

"You don't have to worry about this. You can hold on as long as you can. However, Prince Yu's family is rich now. If you can find the source of rice and flour, you may be able to support it for a longer time."

"It's hard! Prince Yu has no power, he just does some business. Who would give up the profit of thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels of silver to give him this face?"

"No matter what, I can buy it for one day. Now I am worried that I can only buy one meal until the night! "

"Do you want to have three meals? Unless you all come!"

"Hey, you're reminding me! I'll call them to come later!"

...

Standing in front of the window on the second floor, Xu Dongsheng was filled with emotion.

He is an honest scholar himself, so he naturally has a bit of scholarly enthusiasm.

Of course, I was very moved when I saw Prince Yu's mansion spending countless money and food to help the people.

Zhan Shu, who was standing next to him, was frowning, "The family only has 10,000 s of grain. You have to leave 1,000 s of food for your own life-saving rations. The remaining 9,000 stones is enough for such a few million stuttering? Can you hold on for half a month?"

"It's not nine thousand stones. My sister said that since you want to do things, don't keep them, and you'll be moved here." Xu Dongsheng said, "The family is just dozens of stones in the rice cellar before."

Zhan Shu was even more worried when he heard this, "Then I have to burn incense and worship Buddha quickly, begging my uncle to buy the rice and grain back as soon as possible, otherwise it would be bad!"

In fact, it was not just Xu Dongping who left the capital by the fast ship overnight last night. Tian Rong, the butler who worked all night last night, is now leading people to look for food everywhere in the Jingjin area.

"Don't worry, it's not that bad. I think Xiaoqi should have his own idea." Xu Dongsheng said thoughtfully.

Yesterday he thought that Liu Mingqi was a child who was not reliable in doing things, but today when he came here, he saw the people's cheerful look, and suddenly his confidence in his nephew increased a lot.

Unfortunately, I am not qualified and cannot follow him into the palace.

Otherwise, I could go and listen to what he would discuss with His Majesty the Emperor?

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