In the disaster year, everything is easy to borrow, including other people's wives and daughters, but once it comes to grain, even if Wen Yansheng, the prefect of Ningbo, wants to borrow grain from the gentry, it is difficult.

Although people are willing to give a dozen loads, no matter how much they have, naturally there is none.

Wen Yansheng didn't have anything to do with them.

After all, these gentry have been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of years, and they are all related to each other, they are a whole, and whoever they do to them will arouse the common hatred of the gentry of Ningbo Prefecture.

On the contrary, this place in Ningbo is a big imperial examination mansion, more or less, and people here will produce some people and jinshi.

Some have already served as scholars, and some are still serving as officials.

Even if Wen Yansheng ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, he didn't dare to be rough with them.

So, he began to wipe away his tears, he couldn't live anymore, the death of the people was just around the corner, do well, give me some food.

But there will be grain, but not much, in a disaster year, the gentry need the most grain, with food, can let small families sell the land cheaply, the price of grain has been in an instant, skyrocketed I don't know how many times, at this time, take out a pound of grain, the heart is bleeding.

Although there are some people who are still good-hearted, they will always try to come up with their own food and be truly willing to give some relief to the victims, but it is still a drop in the bucket.

Wen Yansheng returned to the yali, took a sip of cold tea, and then began to hiss and scold, these days, he has suffered too many grievances, in the past, he also said that he broke the prefect of the family, destroyed the county, his uncle, in this place in the south of the Yangtze River, the magistrate is not a person, what kind of family, there are Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, or it is related to Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi, everywhere are classmates, classmates, teachers and students, and the whole body is moved, broken family, broken ghost, look at his family has a little food, Wen Yansheng really wants to break it, but he doesn't have the guts. Those who can really break his dignified prefect's mansion, there is a fart, people are going to starve to death, what are you robbing of his house?

Wen Yansheng is a northerner, he was too young at the beginning, and he was very happy to get a poor job in Ningbo Mansion, but when he got to the place, he saw that the relationship here was really intertwined.

scolded for a while, took another sip of cold tea, moistened his mouth, and then began to scold the town and country government to prepare the guards, this group of people can really eat, the people are in dire straits, and they lose their food.

But at this time, an errand came in a hurry: "Lord Wen, Lord Wen." ”

"How?" Wen Yansheng glanced at the errand officer.

"Selling fish, there are people selling fish in the port, a lot of fish, a lot of fish."

"What fish?"

"It's like yellow croaker, all in all, it's a big treasure ship, and it's said that it's a penny and a pound, and how much is sold."

"What?" Wen Yansheng felt that these people were crazy.

A pound of fish for a penny?

You know, in normal times, even if it is a pound of rice, it is not a penny, even the worst yellow rice costs nearly two pennies.

This...... Sold for a penny?

It's not a joke, is it?

When the drought comes, the most terrible thing is not only natural disasters, but also man-made disasters, because there is less food and more people, and a large number of people are bound to stock up on grain, so the price of grain has skyrocketed, for example, now, the price of grain has risen 20 times, and that's it...... If you have money, you may not be able to buy food.

This penny is a pound of fish, just kidding.

"Let's go." Wen Yansheng cheered up: "Go and see." ”

The news has spread all over, outside Ningbo Port, a basket of fish directly unloaded, almost just down, directly weighed the catty, and never slaughtered, directly a fish weighed one or two, three catties, good, three pennies to take away.

What you want is to ship quickly, and what about buyers, even if the number of catties is reported, they will never be blind, there are too many queues behind, not only ordinary people, but also many businessmen.

A pound of fish, not to mention a rare sea fish, is an ordinary fish that costs more than a dozen yuan, now is the season of the catastrophe, and the price has already exploded.

Everyone is crazy to crowd here, the crowd is surging, the merchants are here to buy, as many as they want.

It's all tens of thousands of catties directly.

This thing is resold, it is silver, Ningbo Mansion, now there is no shortage of anything, just lack of food.

For their needs...... Of course, Tang Yin is all satisfied.

In fact, he doesn't care about how to sell it now, because no matter how he sells it, it can be sold out at this price in half a day.

This fish cannot be distributed to the victims in vain.

The problem brought about by the great drought is that there is a decrease in food, and there are more people and less food, so the food has skyrocketed, so as long as the people can have cheap food, there is no need to worry about the price of food not falling.

What's more, the sailors go out to sea to fish hard, should you give them some rewards?

Moreover, the majestic Zhenguo Gong still needs to be replenished, and tomorrow morning, to continue to set sail, Tang Yin needs a bigger and stronger fishing net, the stronger the better. There are also many small boats, and a lot of fishing tools are needed.

All of these need to be ordered immediately, only for the best, but also for the most expensive.

500,000 catties of fish were sold very quickly, and in the evening, the victims who were poorly clothed and hungry began to stew fish one by one with tears in their eyes.

Fish is not the same as rice.

It is very perishable.

So somebody wants to stock up on fish, first he has to have a freezer, and then he doesn't.

Therefore, even if the merchants buy the goods, they are quickly transported everywhere and sold directly, one penny comes in, and two pennies are sold, which is profitable enough.

In the entire Ningbo Fucheng, cooking smoke rose everywhere, and countless fish fragrances wafted throughout the city.

It won't be long before the news spreads that merchants from other counties will come to this port to wait, or even ...... Many victims of the disaster will flock to the city.

News has been released in the water village, and there will be ...... fish for this penny in the future.

The big yellow croaker is rich in nutrition, this catty of fish, boiled in soup, is not only fresh and tender, can barely fill the stomach, but also can ensure that there is enough influence.

The family gathered together, the stove was already full of fish, the children swallowed their saliva, and the adults carefully threw a little salt into the boiling pot.

When the fish soup was cooked, the family gathered around the fish and began to distribute it, and the children didn't care about the scalding, so they took the fish pieces and sent them to their mouths.

"It smells so good!"

"Child ......" The man's face couldn't hide his joy: "In the future, our family can only eat fish poorly." ”

Yes, a penny of fish, not to mention a disaster year, even when it is put in a good year, it is also the cheapest food.

This big yellow croaker, if the poor don't eat it, who will eat it?

The fish soup is delicious, especially for hungry people with yellow faces and thin muscles, which almost becomes a huge treat.

The fish was very tender, and when she ate it, she ate it, and the child's mother cried: "It's worth it for a lifetime to be so poor." ”

………………

In the water village.

Wen Yansheng happily carried a few carefully selected big yellow croakers in his hands, this is a gift for this visit to the water village, Tang Bianxiu still gave him face, these three fish, they were specially left, the weight is very heavy, the quality is good, the big yellow croaker, it is very handsome.

Wen Yansheng handed over the fish rope in his hand to the errand officer on the side, and said with a smile: "What a feat, if it is hundreds of thousands of catties in three days, no, no, no, even if it is a supply of 100,000 catties of fish, this month, it is millions of catties, and the lives of hundreds of people in Ningbo Mansion will be saved." ”

Saying that, Wen Yansheng's eyes were red, he was not really afraid of being guilty of ineffective disaster relief, but as a parent official in a place, he could only watch the people under his rule starve to death, which was really uneasy, now that all the problems have been solved, the people can't eat food, why not eat fish?

This is a great achievement, a great achievement.

He looked at this young editor, and was a little envious: "Tang editor, if you need to do anything in Ningbo Mansion when fishing, even if you tell me, this official will give you a hand, and if you can do it, you will be good at it, so as to avoid your worries." ”

500,000 catties of fish is 500,000 yuan, what does this mean? This is nearly a thousand taels of silver, it is a huge wealth, three days round trip, a month, 10,000 taels of silver: "Now there are too few ships, so the Wen Governor needs to recruit more skilled craftsmen, find a way, build a few more ships, in addition, also need some manpower, but manpower...... I see, you still don't have to bother, when the time comes, the ship is coming, and I will go to Yiwu and Yongkang to recruit. ”

Wen Yansheng couldn't help but say: "What, look down on Ningbo people?" ”

Now Wen Yansheng can't wait to stuff some more young strong men to follow the water village to beg for food, there is no way, there is not much now, just a lot of people.

Tang Yin shook his head: "I don't mean to look down on it, it's just Yiwu and Yongkang people...... Poorer ......"

“……”

Poverty may be temporary, but Ningbo Mansion has always been wealthy, and when it suffers a disaster, it is also temporary, and it cannot change one's heart.

But Yiwu people are not the same as Yongkang people, there, people are poor from the eighteenth generation of their ancestors, if they are not brave and ruthless, they don't even have the opportunity to reproduce and survive, under this survival of the fittest, the bravest people, the strongest physique, and fewer genetic diseases, naturally survive.

Wen Yansheng was silent, and after a long time, he sighed and said, "However, Tang Editing, you have to be careful." To tell the truth, as soon as you sell this fish, I don't know how many people who hoard goods and live in strange places, hate you in their hearts, originally this catastrophe, for some people, it is a place to die without a place to be buried, but for some people, it is a good time to make a fortune, those who have hoarded a lot of food in their hands, but they are not simple people, and the time will ......."

Tang Yin smiled contemptuously.

To be honest, he is not afraid of anything, but not this.

Tang Yin said word by word: "It seems that Governor Wen forgot, my name is Tang Yin, my teacher's surname is Fang, and his double name is the successor of the domain, maybe his reputation is not big enough in Ningbo Mansion." But...... Don't care about these details, the people here are lonely and unheard, but those people who are very capable in the Wen Governor's Mansion, if they want to make trouble, they have to repair books for relatives and friends in the capital, and at that time, they will be sensible. Search for "CM" or enter the URL:.