Update time: 22-day, the world will not be peaceful; there is a saying in later generations that "without food, there will be no stability". It is true. If the official warehouse runs out of food tomorrow in spring, the merchants who have hoarded it will sell the food at several times the price.
Rich or wealthy families can survive, but those people living at the bottom of society may have a miserable life.
In May, when Su Ji was collecting grain, the price of grain had risen by nearly 30%. Originally, one stone was less than 500 yuan, but Su Ji acted quickly. In the end, 26 large ships loaded 80,000 shi of grain back, with an average price of 650 yuan.
Wen, it seems that it has increased by as much as 30% in just over ten days.
Following Su Ji, the Luzhou Chamber of Commerce in the south was only half a month behind. Their purchase price had already risen to two to three hundred yuan per stone, which was more than double the original price. This was the first time in the world.
It’s an opportunity to make a lot of money, so it’s not surprising that people hoard aggressively within their financial capacity and drive up the purchase price. The daily price of food is at least one stone for two days, and a family of seven needs to eat at least three stones a month.
The food and spring shortage will last for at least four to five months, and these families will spend nearly 30 yuan on food alone.
For most people in the Song Dynasty, whose annual income was less than 20 guan, they had to save up for more than a year without eating or drinking just to pay for these four or five months of food so as not to starve.
This is just a theoretical calculation. It is a gift from God that the poor people can survive their days tightly. If they can save five guan of money every year, it must be because the family has a clever wife, a careful budget, and usually
Pay attention to frugality. If you are not careful, you will be sad at the end of the year and everything will be sad. The sky will be a chaotic situation. People will do anything to fill their stomachs. Wandering and begging are still light. Selling children and daughters.
They looted, rioted, and even ate human flesh alive.
Su Jin couldn't continue thinking about it. The picture that appeared in his mind made him shudder. Su Jin felt ashamed that he had become a part of the gold merchants who drove up food prices and hoarded food. He did not consider these things at all when he made this decision; indeed, in
When it comes to business, pursuing profit is a businessman's bounden duty. If he were blindly pursuing profit, the first clause of "loyalty, trust and profit" that he personally modified in Su Ji's store motto would be a living joke.
My own affairs are easy to handle. It doesn't matter if I sell this meager 80,000 shi of grain at a low price. It's just a drop in the bucket. What's the use of 80,000 shi? The key to the problem is how to get the grain merchants to dispose of all the grain they have hoarded.
Come out; this is the fundamental solution.
Su Jin anxiously scratched his head and scratched his head, spending the whole day without thinking about food or food. When he was about to leave school, he gave himself a loud mouth in the school, which made all the students look at each other in shock, wondering what kind of evil he had fallen into.
"The emperor is not in a hurry, he is in a hurry to kill the eunuchs." Su Jin cursed himself secretly, should he be thinking about these national affairs? He had already told Yan Biyun about the huge amount of food hoarded by the merchants, and Yan Biyun would definitely tell Yan Shu, who was worried about this.
How to get these grains is a matter for Yan Shu and the court. I am so careless here and worry myself to death that I am a fool who is laughed at. This mouth should be slapped. When did I develop this kind of worry about the country?
The problem of the people has come.
When Su Jin returned to her house after school, she was surprised to find that Yan Biyun had already arrived and was chatting with Huan Niang, Xiao Sui'er and the others in the room.
Su Jin rushed into Rou Niang's room, frightening the few women inside who fled in a hurry, and hid behind the cabinet behind the bed.
Su Jin was surprised and said: "What are you doing? Am I a tiger?"
"Master, why don't you come in without knocking? This is Huan Niang's room." Xiao Sui'er said dissatisfied.
Su Jin rolled his eyes and thought: When did I enter Huan Niang's room and knock on the door? I walked in there several times during the night, and there was no such thing as knocking on the door.
Yan Biyun's voice came to mind behind the bed curtain: "Get out quickly, get out quickly."
Su Jin became even more curious, blinked and said, "What are you doing, sneaky?"
"We are trying on new clothes with Sister Yan. Master, we should go out quickly." Xiao Sui'er waved her white arms towards Su Jin from behind the cabinet.
Only then did Su Jin realize that several women were trying on small clothes inside. It seemed that Xiao Sui'er was using the new clothes brought by Rou Niang as favors again. Although she wanted to poke her head in to take a look, everyone was in the way.
, I had no choice but to mumble out of the room, and walked to the courtyard where I entered to see Zhao Hu and others lifting stone locks and throwing sandbags.
The skills of the four big foodies are not outstanding. The stone locks weighing ten kilograms were dancing in their hands like wind. The muscles on their exposed arms wearing a black waistcoat were tangled and the muscles were bulging. Su Jin was envious.
These foodies eat three or four bowls of food every meal, and the vegetables in the bowls are piled like mountains. If they don't build muscles, they will be dead.
Looking at them, and then at his own thin arms, Su Jin sighed and cursed in his heart. After exercising every day for several months, he was still as thin as a chicken. Fortunately, his skills became more flexible, but with
Compared with the foodies in front of me, they are simply far behind.
Several women in the inner hall packed up and sent Xiao Sui'er out to invite Su Jin in. Su Jin hurriedly entered the palace and entered Huan Niang's room. The tea on the table was made. Yan Biyun sat at the table with a red face and stared.
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Su Jin smiled and said: "Have you changed your clothes? Is this the one? These don't seem to be new clothes. Didn't you wear this purple skirt this morning?"
Yan Biyun rolled her eyes at him and said, "You are a man, why do you care about what women wear and do every day?"
Su Jin was stunned for a moment and said: "Then what do I care about? What are the national affairs? I would like to take care of it, but who will listen to me?"
Yan Biyun was speechless and turned away to ignore him; Xiao Sui'er said: "My little maid gave Sister Yan the bright yellow satin coat that Sister Rou Niang gave me. The baggy dress I wore was too big, and Sister Yan is just right."
Yan Biyun couldn't stop him in time, and his face turned red with embarrassment.
Su Jin snorted and glanced at the collar of Yan Biyun's clothes involuntarily, thinking: It turns out that he is trying on a small coat. No wonder Xiao Sui'er is wearing a baggy bag. It's just your two little steamed buns that are not baggy.
Weird; Yan Biyun's clothes might be too small for her.
Su Jin's eyes were glaring wildly, and Yan Biyun couldn't bear it anymore. He coughed lightly and said seriously: "The slave family has something serious to tell you. If you don't want to listen, the slave family will leave."
Su Jin hurriedly grabbed her and said, "Listen, why don't you listen! I am sitting here in an unruly manner, waiting for you to say something, but I am not talking or moving."
There was nothing Yan Biyun could do against him. This guy was no different from a gangster on the street when he was lazy. Why was he so determined to get along with him? Yan Biyun seriously doubted whether his vision was accurate.
"The slave family has already written to your uncle about what you said." Yan Biyun said.
"I know that this matter is related to Master Yan's errand, and I should have told him."
"Then do you have any good way to solve this matter smoothly?"
"I haven't thought about this." Su Jin lied shamelessly, but he couldn't say that he hadn't come up with a good idea after thinking about it for a day.
"Think about it, maybe you can help your uncle."
"This matter has to be handled by the imperial court. Master Yan is one of the top figures in today's world in terms of intelligence and ability. He has seen the world ten thousand times better than me. Why do I need to worry about it? Am I full enough to survive?" Su Jin twirled the food on the table.
A quick puff of cake was thrown into his mouth.
Yan Biyun thought for a moment and realized that what Su Jin said was true. She was eager to help her uncle solve this problem and wanted to ask Lang Jun to help him think of a solution. Maybe his uncle didn't need help at all.
For some reason, Yan Biyun always felt that Su Jin must have a good idea. She thought about it for a long time today and felt that it was really difficult to make the merchants spit out the food willingly. She didn't have any tricks herself, so she couldn't be sure whether Yan Shu would do it or not.
There will be a good way.
"You said you have a secret to tell me, what secret?" Su Jin asked while chewing the crispy pastry and sipping the green tea.
Yan Biyun smiled and said: "Aren't you very smart? Guess what?"
Su Jin scratched his head and said: "When did I say that I am smart? Although I am indeed smart, I usually don't say such things publicly."
Yan Biyun covered her mouth and almost spit out the tea in her mouth. Huan Niang giggled, and Xiao Sui'er pointed at Su Jin's nose and laughed so hard.
Su Jin touched his nose nonchalantly and said, "But, you suddenly asked me to guess, and you have no direction. If I guess who you dreamed about last night, don't blame me."
"Who are you dreaming about? Bah! You are as shameless as a city wall." Yan Biyun didn't react at first, but when he did, he spat and turned red with embarrassment. This guy did it in front of the two maids.
My mouth is full of flowers, but fortunately Xiao Xian'er is not here. If she were, I would probably hang a wine bottle from her mouth.
"Give me a reason, what is it about?"
"Well... things about Luzhou... about your plan." Yan Biyun said. Tian launched a counterattack against the Chamber of Commerce. What secrets does Yan Biyun have about this matter?
"Sister Yan found out about the Chamber of Commerce's activities? Found evidence that killed them?" Su Jin guessed casually.
"It's so scary to put people to death. How can the slave family have the ability to catch their evidence?",
"That means Sister Yan will join forces with me to help me?" Su Jin guessed again.
"It's a bit close. Guess again, how can I help you."
Su Jin recalled all her plans and found out the key points. She suddenly trembled and said, "Could it be that Sister Yan will provide me with a large amount of funds to help me?"
Yan Biyun smiled and said: "That's almost it. Your guess is already very close. I can't tell you that you are really smart."
Su Jin said proudly: "That's natural." God let the Chamber of Commerce lose everything. At that time, the most important thing is not money, but..."
Su Jin opened his eyes wide and interrupted Yan Biyun: "Grain? When did you store the grain? How much was it?"
Yan Biyun slowly stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Su Jin's eyes. Su Jin said: "Five thousand stones?"
Yan Biyun shook his head.
"Fifty thousand stones?"
"..."
"Five...ten...ten thousand?" Su Jin's voice began to tremble.
Yan Biyun smiled and nodded.
Su Jin's eyes were as wide as lights, and he couldn't retract his tongue for a long time. He murmured after a while: "You're not kidding." dd