Chapter Eighty-Five: Hypocrisy and Wrongdoing
"Wenshen? Why is he here again? ”
"Humph! He wants us to lower the price of food and sell it? No way! ”
"What does it have to do with us what the people don't eat? Are they too expensive? Then don't buy it. Besides, we don't really care about their lives and don't have money to buy food, so we sign a deed of sale with us, become our domestic slaves, and farm for us in the future, we can reward them with a bite to eat. Otherwise, who cares about their life and death? ”
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Hearing that the county Cheng came to see Yang Jie again, the people below expressed their dissatisfaction with Wen Shen one after another.
"Shut up, y'all!" Yang Jie scolded, and then said outside: "Please come in, Lord Wen." ”
After a while, Wen Shen walked in with a cold face, and saw that so many so-called officials present were eating with their mouths full of oil, while the people in the city were hungry and would starve to death at any time, he felt a burst of anger in his heart for no reason, and he had an extreme disgust for these people.
However, when he thought of what Liu Xian told him, let him endure some grievances, and Yang Jie and their grievances, he had to forcibly suppress the anger in his heart and pull himself back from the brink of the outbreak.
"What's the matter with Lord Wen coming to see this official again? Have you eaten it? Come on, set a table for Lord Wen. Yang Jie sat in the main seat and did not move, slowly tearing off a chicken leg and taking a bite.
"No need." Wen Shen really couldn't stand the nausea of drinking with these shameless officials.
"Lord Yang." Wen Shen walked to Yang Jie's banquet table, clasped his fists and saluted: "My subordinates have thought of a way to make the surplus grain in the hands of Lord Yang and everyone here be sold at a high price. ”
"Oh? What is your best plan? Yang Jie was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that this time Wen Shen came to see him, not to say that he wanted to sell grain at a low price, but to say that there was a way to buy his grain at a high price?
"Lord Yang, my subordinates want to ask, in the current situation, who has so much money to buy your high-priced grain? Even if they have money, who would want to buy it? Wen Shen asked.
Yang Jie really wants to throw a chicken bone over, if he knows it, he still needs to ask you? He only knew that as long as those places and people who had no food would be willing to buy their own food to survive. Other? Only a fool would buy it.
Therefore, Yang Jie and them, from the very beginning, the idea was actually to hit those ordinary people.
They are also very good at calculating, not to mention anything else, there are more than 10,000 people in Yang County. If one person buys one pound of grain from them, then it is equivalent to making millions of dollars, and ten pounds is tens of millions. And those people must buy it, and if they don't buy it, they will only starve to death. After a while, they are all very rich.
Of course, this number is calculated like this, but now they have some understanding of the situation, and now the people of Yangshi County have no money.
That's why there is a discussion among the people now.
"Lord Yang Jie, I believe that except for those who are really desperate, the people who still have a little money will buy a little life-saving use, and no one will be willing to buy these high-priced grains." Wen Shen said calmly: "Therefore, the only one who is willing to buy may be ourselves." ”
"Heh, Wen Xiancheng, you can't be crazy, right? We sell and buy our own food? Looking for fun? ”
An official sneered very unceremoniously and said to Wen Shen.
Wen Shen ignored those people, just looked at Yang Jie and said, "Lord Yang Jie, don't forget, we are officials." I mean, you can sell your grain to the government. ”
"Sold to the government? Aren't we the government now? Isn't the government just us? What's more, the current government has no money at all. ”
"The government of Yang's County has no money, but the government of Julu County will have no money? Will there be no money in Jizhou Mansion again? Will the Han court run out of money? Wen Shen moved out of what Liu Xian had said and said: "As long as we govern Yangshi County well, this will be a great achievement, and these grains are bought by all means, in order to save the people of Yangshi County." Therefore, no matter how high the price of these grains is, it can be said that it is life-saving food. ”
Sold to the government?
No one here, including Yang Jie, really thought about selling their grain to the government. They even thought of selling it to the Yellow Turban Bandits, but they didn't even think of selling it to the government.
Yang Jie's eyes couldn't help but flicker for a while, thinking about the possibility of what Wen Shen said.
Now that Yang's County has the final say, how to operate, isn't it up to itself?
But...... This has to ask the government above and the Han court for money, which really makes him feel a little weak. The most important thing is that there is no one above him, and he doesn't know how to operate.
This Wenshen ...... Can you believe it?
Wen Shen said at this time: "The grain belongs to the county commander, and the county magistrate is not good at directly operating these affairs, if Lord Yang can trust my Wenshen, you can handle it by my Wenshen." In the name of the Yang County Government, I will buy grain from you at a high price, and give you a white slip first. Then the grain was handed over to Wen, who would change hands on it. After governing Yang's County, Wen took the official white strip to Julu County and Jizhou Mansion to apply for the transfer of money, and after the money came down, it would belong to the Yang's County Government, which would naturally belong to you. ”
"Is that okay?"
"The government above will allocate all the money and return it to our Yang County?"
"Lord Yang, I think it's okay, I'm afraid only the government can have so much money to buy these grains for us now."
"I also think it's feasible, now the government is buying food from us, and we are not forcing the government to buy it. It's the government that owes us money, and the Yang's county government doesn't have money, so the government above has it. Anyway, it's all the government, so it's impossible to pay the bills, right? ”
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After Wen Shen finished speaking, the people below were gossiping, and some people were worried, but more of them were shining, because this was a good opportunity to make a lot of money. With the right work, the money is in place.
"Master Wen, can you guarantee that you can take care of the top and down, so that the food can be transferred from above? Also, why hand over the grain to you to dispose of? What are you going to do about it? Is it to directly put grain in the warehouse to relieve the people of Yangshi County? ”
Yang Jie looked at Wen Shen with some vigilance.
At this time, Yang Jie really thought that Wen Shen would take their grain to be a good person, and when the time came, Wen Shen would win a good official reputation in Yang's County. So where will the people of Yang's County know about his county order again? I'm afraid that only he will know Wenshen.
He was also a little worried that Wenshen would threaten his status as a county magistrate. Because there are people above Wenshen, it is not impossible to remove his own county order. It's just that in the current situation, the above don't dare. But if Wen Shen is allowed to have official prestige in Yang's County, then the situation will be different.
"Hehe......" Wen Shen smiled faintly at this time, looking a little treacherous, he stepped forward and whispered to Yang Jie: "Lord Yang, you eat meat, you should always let me drink a mouthful of soup, right?" ”