Chapter 386: Someone is buying grain in large quantities
In the afternoon, Shu Hongxuan, who returned home, changed into a regular suit and immediately came to Baiyu Jinxuan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When he saw his sister, he quipped: "What's the matter, is it that you are tired from soup kitchens and free clinics in the past few days?" ”
After Shu Yanhua made an appointment with Boss Zhang in Yuezhonglou, the next day she instructed her brother Qi Dali to start giving porridge and free clinics at the South City Gate, and she and her sister-in-law would go to the porridge shed every morning to watch the situation.
Porridge or meat porridge, many people go to the porridge shed to get porridge to eat, especially in the free clinic next to the porridge shed, there is a long queue from the beginning, there are two doctors there to sit for consultation, even if you are not sick or painful, you can go to the doctor to check the pulse, and will never accept the consultation fee, not to mention that the body itself has a problem, you can also go to the side to let the medicine apprentice pick up the medicine after the doctor diagnoses the pulse and prescribes the medicine.
Shu Yanhua's move made these people who came to see the doctor grateful, and when she learned that it was Miss Guangping Hou who was praying for her biological mother, an old woman stopped Shu Yanhua and Jiang Yingrong when they came and handed them the peace blessing bag in her hand.
The old woman's grandson was sick, and a lot of high-quality medicinal materials were needed to cure it, but the family had a small surplus of money but gradually became poor in the process of treating the grandson's illness and recuperating his body.
However, ginseng is too expensive, and the family can no longer afford to buy ginseng, and the two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law are not hopeful.
At that time, the old woman knelt down and bowed, and her grandson was saved!
When the doctor told her that these were all good deeds of Miss Guangping, the old woman sent her a blessing of peace the next day. With this old woman's actions, she received more peace blessings on the third day, and these people with pure hearts were very grateful, and they sent their most sincere blessings to Shu Yanhua and Jiang Yingrong.
These days, Jiang Yingrong is full of enthusiasm for soup kitchens and free clinics, and she goes out energetically every day, coming back with a smile on her face, and Shu Hongxuan shakes her head and laughs.
He thought that his sister was tired from working with his wife in the past few days, and wanted him to tell his wife that he would not go to the South City Gate, but after seeing his sister's expression, his face immediately became solemn, and he asked in a deep voice, "What's wrong?" ”
My sister's expression was full of solemnity, this matter was definitely not a trivial matter, he also put away his jokes and became serious.
Shu Yanhua waved her hand, let the maids in the room go down, and let the grapes and cherries guard, so that no one could spy on their brother and sister talking.
Seeing that his sister was so cautious, Shu Hongxuan knew that this matter was definitely not trivial, and in Baiyu Jinxuan, his sister was so cautious, which showed the seriousness of the matter.
Shu Yanhua grimaced, and lowered her voice very seriously, "Brother, someone is buying a lot of grain. ”
Shu Hongxuan's expression froze, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he said in a deep voice, "Is this serious?" Why? ”
Someone buys a large amount of grain, this matter can't be joked, Shu Hongxuan knows very well what the meaning of this sentence represents, so he asked his sister very carefully about the truth of this matter.
"Brother, look." Shu Yanhua spread out the account books of Boss Zhang's rice store, one was the rice price five years ago, one was the account book two years ago, and the other was the account book at the beginning of this year, and then put the accounts she asked her uncle to help the shopkeepers from all over the country collect them on the table one by one.
After a while, Shu Hongxuan read all the accounts on the table, and his sister also copied an account and circled the price of rice in red letters.
"The price of rice is getting higher and higher every year." Shu Hongxuan saw at a glance that something was wrong.
Three years ago, he presided over the implementation of the new law, and now more and more silver is being collected, and the treasury is getting stronger and stronger, and the more silver is collected in the fields, the better the harvest, and the harvest is so good, the price of rice in the rice shop, even if it will not fall, should be the same as the eighteen copper coins a bucket of rice five years ago, but now it has risen to twenty-five copper coins a bucket of rice.
"Yes, the harvest is getting better and better every year, but the price of rice is getting higher and higher every year, but there is not much old grain left, brother, all kinds of signs show that someone is buying a lot of grain." After comparing the rice prices in various places, Shu Yanhua was finally able to confirm her conjecture.
Shu Hongxuan glanced up at his sister and asked in a deep voice, "Hua'er, how did you find out that this was inappropriate?" ”
Even Boss Zhang's own rice shop business, he didn't find anything wrong with it, but he didn't expect his sister to find out.
Shu Yanhua glanced at her brother strangely: "Brother, didn't you teach me these since I was a child?" Teach me to count, teach me miscellaneous books, teach me historical records, as long as you connect them, you can see that something is wrong. ”
Shu Hongxuan shook his head and smiled, he forgot, he taught his sister arithmetic and so on since he was a child, and broadened her thinking, her knowledge has long been different from that of ordinary women in the back house.
In fact, in the last life, Shu Hongxuan participated in the Spring Festival too late, Shu Yanhua did not pay attention to the movements of the imperial court at all, at this time in the previous life, the grandfather's family had already been defeated, and the two brothers and sisters took the dowry left by their mothers to help the grandfather's family, where can there be spare money for soup porridge and free clinics?
If it weren't for the fact that she had to buy grain for the soup kitchen this time, Shu Yanhua would not have found out that there was something wrong with it.
Shu Hongxuan has to go to the court every day, and his family will not lack his food, where will he pay attention to the price of rice, because this soup soup and free clinic are the silver from the two brothers and sisters, and the account book wife has also seen it, but his wife did not find out about it, and once sighed with him, I didn't think that a thousand taels of silver could buy so much food, enough for them to give porridge for a month.
Now, compared with the price of rice two years ago, it is clear that there is more grain with the same silver.
Shu Hongxuan paced slowly in the room, although judging from the accounts, he also agreed with his sister's conclusion, but this matter was very important, and if he was not careful, it was easy to startle the snake.
And most importantly, who is he going to talk to about this?
Is it Your Majesty or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
Shu Hongxuan paced in the room and pondered, after Shu Yanhua informed her brother of this matter, she felt that her shoulders were loose and much more comfortable - this matter was no longer something that she, a boudoir woman, could handle, and only by handing it over to her brother could she better handle this matter.
After a while, Shu Hongxuan stopped, glanced at the account books on the table and the collected accounts, and said to his sister: "Hua'er, these brothers are going for the time being, and I will return them to you in a few days." ”
Shu Yanhua waved her hand, "Brother only needs to return the account book, and I will take it back to Boss Zhang in a few days." ”
"You must not say anything about this to a third person." Shu Hongxuan advised.
"Okay, Hua Niang knows." (To be continued.) )