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I can't live this day anymore!

Liu Chen glanced at the bottomed rice jar at home and sighed.

A month ago, the price of rice in Nanjing began to rise. At first, it didn't rise very fast, and Liu Chen didn't pay much attention to it. Five days ago, grain prices began to skyrocket, from one tael of silver per stone of rice to one tael or three cents, then to one or two or five cents, three days ago to one or two or six cents, and yesterday it even climbed to one or two or eight cents!

Within five days, the price of rice rose from one tael and one stone to one tael and eight dollars per stone, a full increase of eighty percent!

This scared Liu Chen stupidly.

Her husband is just a teacher in a private school, and the total amount of shackles in a year is only twenty taels. In this way, all the silver earned is not enough to buy rice.

Small families like them do not have the habit of hoarding rice and grain, and basically eat and buy now.

It is that the rice grain in the rice jar is always shallow.

Now that I have run out of food, I will starve if I don't buy it. Although there are still seven or eight taels of silver in the family, but now the price of grain is too outrageous, isn't it equivalent to going to the pole to buy grain with silver?

Liu Chen bit his lip and finally decided to go to a neighbor's house to borrow some rice.

Her neighbor Wang He's husband's family is in the silk business, and he has hundreds of taels of silver a year, which is a rare rich family among the neighbors of this generation. She has a good relationship with Wang He's family on weekdays, and when she encounters difficulties this time, she goes to borrow food, so the other party will borrow some, right?

After thinking about it, Liu Chen went out with an empty jar.

Wang He's home was just west of Liu Chen's house, and she knocked lightly, and soon a woman in her thirties came to open the door.

Seeing that it was Liu Chen's coming, Wang He's smiled slightly: "Why is my sister here, sit in the house quickly." ”

She first let Liu Chen into the courtyard, and then looked around to plug the door.

Her husband arrived at the counter early in the morning, and she was the only woman in the house, so it was better to be careful.

The courtyard of the Wang family is a two-way house, the outer courtyard is generally for entertaining guests, and the inner courtyard is for the family to live in.

Wang He let Liu Chen into the small hall of the outer courtyard, made a pot of tea, and poured a cup for himself and Liu Chen.

"Sister, did you soak sauerkraut again today, and brought me a jar for me to try?"

Seeing Liu Chen holding an altar in his hand, Wang He laughed loudly.

"Sister Wang, I'm here to borrow rice."

No matter how difficult it is to speak, this still has to be said after all.

Liu Chen gritted his teeth and said; "To tell you the truth, the family has run out of food, and I hope my sister can lend me some rice."

When Wang Heshi heard that Liu Chen was here to borrow rice, his face immediately became gloomy, and he smiled without laughing: "Yo, my sister said that she was laughing." At present, the price of rice is scary, and we don't have enough to eat at home, so how can we lend you extra rice. ”

Liu Chen's face turned red.

She is not a person who is good at speaking, and she doesn't know what to say when she is ridiculed by Wang He's family.

"Good sister, there is no surplus grain in the landlord's family these days, not to mention my family's small business. At present, the price of rice has risen to one or two or eight coins of silver, right? I advised my sister to go buy some. I see, the price of this rice has to go up! ”

Wang He said, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Ahh

Liu Chen's face turned pale with fright: "The price of rice still has to rise?" ”

"Isn't that right? The price of this rice will not be able to be stopped when it rises. Sister, have you forgotten that when Chongzhen was fifteen years old, the price of rice finally rose to three taels and six coins of silver. I think this time it's at least at this price! ”

After that, Wang He sighed with emotion: "Think about it, it's better to live in the Wanli years." One tael of silver can buy two stones of rice, and you can't eat enough rice in a rice jar......"

When he said this, a smile appeared on Wang He's face, obviously extremely nostalgic for his life back then.

Since the Apocalypse Dynasty, the price of rice has been rising, and it has risen even more in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Some time ago, the price of rice finally fell, and this time it rose again, and it seemed that it was even more ferocious than the time in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

Liu Chen is a stupid person, and he can't hold back half a sentence when Wang He is so flickered.

Her fingers pinched her thighs tightly, and the dark red horse-faced skirt was pinched out of the folds.

"Listen to my sister's advice, that is, no matter how expensive the price of rice is, you have to buy some and save it. If you can't afford a stone, you can buy a bucket, if you can't afford a bucket, if you can't afford a bucket, you can buy a liter, and if you can't afford a liter, you can buy a ......."

Wang He's words were so hot that they were foaming at the mouth, and they were about to spray on Liu Chen's face.

But no matter what she said, she said that she was full of flowers and lotus flowers, but she never mentioned borrowing food.

Liu Chen also saw that the lady of the Wang family did not want to lend her food, nor did she want to continue to stay here and be humiliated, so he got up and said: "Since this is the case, I will go home and discuss with my husband to see if there is any other way." ”

"Sister go slowly!"

When Wang He saw that Liu Chen was finally gone, he was very happy in his heart.

Borrowing food? Ahh

As far as the Liu family is poor, they can't afford to borrow rice.

If she really lent the rice, it would be a meat bun and a dog that would not come back.

Taking a step back, it was Liu Chen's who really returned the borrowed rice afterwards, and that was also a loss for his own family.

Now a stone of rice is almost two taels of silver. If Liu Chen's waited until the price of rice dropped to one tael of silver and one stone, and then returned the same amount of rice, he would lose half of it inside and out.

That Liu Chen is a kind-hearted person, but he can't be eaten as a meal if he is kind-hearted.

Now that we are in troubled times, it is good to be able to protect ourselves, and how can we have the energy to take care of our neighbors.

Doesn't there a saying among scholars, 'Sweep the snow in front of your own house, and don't care about the frost on other people's houses'.

Wang He felt that it made sense.

Liu Chen is pitiful, but there are many poor people in the world, and there are dozens or millions of victims who starved to death in Henan and Shaanxi, so who can pity them?

If you want to blame it, you can blame it for being born in troubled times!

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Zhu Cihong looked at Jiang Yueguang, the secretary of the household department, and his face was as cold as ice.

The price of rice in Nanjing has doubled in just five days, and now it is approaching two taels of silver and one stone.

Although there is still a gap between this price and the highest price in the Chongzhen years, it is already very terrifying.

If the imperial court does not stabilize the price of grain in time, it will not be long before there will be a large-scale starvation death.

Jiang Yueguang's suggestion was to open a warehouse immediately and rely on the grain stocks in the treasury to stabilize grain prices.

This is certainly an option, but it is not a symptomatic solution.

The price of rice has skyrocketed in just five days, and there must be some grain merchants who are hoarding goods and driving up the price of rice.

What Zhu Cihong has to do is not to treat headaches and foot pain, but to cure the disease from the root.

There is no doubt that the root cause of this skyrocketing rice price is this gang of profiteers.

Well, if you make my people unable to eat, I will kill you!

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