This scene came too suddenly, and the old man of the Qian family didn't see it clearly for a while, but then he got up subconsciously with an exclamation, and then fell down with a chair......

"Haha!"

Yang Dudu laughed twice with a traitorous minister.

The other guests left the table in fright or anger, Gu Tianxu was the first to walk to the door, but the soldiers guarding there instantly put their knives across his chest, and then a bunch of spears were aimed at them, and those guests who followed quickly grabbed him with one leg that was almost out of the door.

"Sunzhou Gong, don't you give Yang face?"

Yang Xin said.

"Yang Dudu, what do you mean by this?"

Xu Wei said angrily.

The others looked at Yang Xin with the same indignation.

The old man also got up, and thumped his chest there with the help of his two friends.

"Come back and sit down for me, today Yang is to give you face, so I invited you to come, treat each other with a wine banquet, this person doesn't give Yang face, then Yang has no choice but to invite him in this way, today any of you dare to step out of this door, then get ready to make the next dish."

Yang Xin suddenly shouted.

Only then did a group of celebrities recognize that this head was actually an acquaintance......

"Yang Dudu, what is the prince's crime? Just because he refused to go to the banquet, Yang Dudu killed him, Xu wanted to ask, is this Ming still His Majesty's world? ”

Xu Wei looked at the face in the candlelight and said with a sad and angry face.

"Is his surname Wang?"

Yang Dudu asked Li Zhong.

"Back to the governor, this person is not surnamed Wang, his surname is Li, he is our brother who patrols outside, and the captured grain stealing profiteer will be killed directly.

He is definitely not surnamed Wang, how can he be surnamed Wang?

The old man of the Dongshan Wang family was indeed killed by the bandits, but it was killed by the bandits, and it has nothing to do with us. Not to mention that Master Wang was killed by bandits, it is not uncommon for the Wang family to be killed by bandits, and even there are many bandits in Suzhou City. ”

Li Zhong said.

"Ah, that's right."

Yang Dudu said with satisfaction.

"Then Brother Xu, take a closer look, is this person a prince?"

He then said to Xu Wang.

Xu Wei looked at him sadly, then at the dead face, and then at the lonely celebrities around him......

"No, it's not."

He said through gritted teeth.

"Then you all come to confess and tell me if this is a prince?"

Yang Xin said to the rest.

The rest of them quickly shake their heads, what if they don't shake their heads at this time? Anyway, at this time, the whole Suzhou was surrounded by a country, Suzhou was like an isolated island, south to Jiaxing, all affected by the flood, Wujiang was still the hardest hit area. There are constantly grabbing grain in the city of Suzhou, the city is currently crowded with more than two million people, and outside the city is even more popular with food, and there are hungry and crazy victims everywhere.

Who would dare to entangle with him?

He played another popular uprising, estimating that the gentry in this area would be wiped out.

Bear with it.

"Then come and sit down, since you don't like this dish, Li Zhong, remove this dish and replace it with a pot of canned food."

Yang Dudu said.

Li Zhong stepped forward and took the head away.

The guests came back trembling and re-seated.

"Yang invited you to come over today, mainly to help the victims, now the victims everywhere are waiting to be fed, the imperial court has indeed issued a large amount of disaster relief silver, but these are not enough, you also need the help of the elderly, Qian Gong, I heard that your family collects 900,000 stone a year in rent?"

Yang Xin said.

"Rumors, rumors."

Qian Gong wiped the cold sweat on his head and said.

"Rumors or not, you have to admit the 50,000 stone donations, and you must sell 200,000 stone of grain to the outside world within two months at a price of no more than eight dollars and one stone, and this price cannot be higher this year until next year's wheat harvest. I will send someone to watch, two months, 200,000 stones, which cannot be mixed with sand, each person is limited to one bucket, and it cannot be less than 3,000 stones per day, I am a reasonable person, eight dollars and one stone before the disaster, that is to say, this year was originally this price.

You are also satisfied with this price.

The current one, two, or six cents is just an opportunity to make a fortune.

This is absolutely not possible, whoever dares to do this again, then the human head just now will be the end.

Qian Gong? ”

Yang Xin said.

"Old, old, do your best."

Qian Gong said.

"It's not about doing your best, but you have to do it, even if your Qian family doesn't have so much food in stock, and you spend money to buy it in other places and sell it, you have to do it for me."

Yang Xin said.

What else can Qian Gong do?

Yang Xin put the head of the Dongshan Wang family on the table, he didn't think that Yang Xin would dare not put his head on the table, the Wang family had been the champion, his Qian family was not necessarily comparable to the Wang family, and Yang Xin didn't force him to a dead end, 50,000 stone only, it's not worth mentioning the Qian family, make less money, eight dollars and one stone doesn't mean that he doesn't make money, in short, he has no other choice but to accept.

"Well, then, here's a list, and it's from each of you."

Yang Xin took out a list that had been prepared a long time ago and said.

Immediately after that, those famous people of the family began to spread that this was their share of each family, donating grain, and selling grain at a low price, and in general, it was in line with the situation of their families, and it was not too difficult for them, but it was just that they could not take advantage of the opportunity to get rich. Of course, they are still very at a loss, because it is impossible for them to receive their field rent due to this flood, and even the autumn harvest will not be much, and their grain stocks will be greatly depleted this year, which is very painful for them who are still supporting the group training.

Originally, there was a plan to expand the group training.

But don't think about it now.

It would be good to be able to maintain the current strength of team training.

"Yang Dudu, the Gu family will do the same, now the old man can go, right?"

Gu Tianxu was the last to finish reading, then pushed the list to the side, and said with a gloomy face.

"Sunzhou Gong, please."

Yang Xin said.

Immediately after that, the others also took their leave.

That's it, they pledged a total of 400,000 stones, these rice can be distributed to the hands of the victims in the shortest possible time, 400,000 stones can support the victims of the three counties for a month, and after a month, basically the rice from other places can pour in in large quantities, the price limit of eight coins and one stone, the rice sold by the gentry at the same price guarantees the supply in the market, and it can basically be maintained normally. In the final analysis, Suzhou is not a pure agricultural city, this is the Ming Dynasty is also the largest industrial area in the world, the biggest problem in the disaster area of Suzhou is that there are too many urban workers, these workers themselves do not have grain reserves, but there is no shortage of silver to buy rice.

All they feared was that the gentry would hoard and make the price of food soar beyond their means.

One or two or six dollars is very high.

The last flood also went up to this price.

Although this price is only a normal slightly higher price for the north.

However, in the later period of Chongzhen, even the price of grain in this area skyrocketed to more than two taels, but that time it was not entirely the gentry hoarding, but the food supply of the entire country was seriously insufficient, and at that time it could almost be said that the landlord's family had no surplus grain.

This flood is not worth mentioning at all, because it is on a good foundation, but the next such continuous disasters will quickly hollow out the foundation of decay, and when the disaster strikes again, even if it is of this level, it will also cause destruction. This time, the gentry can take out 400,000 stones, but if this kind of disaster continues to occur next year, they will not be able to take out the same if they want to take out the same, they do have grain in stock, but as long as such disasters occur for three consecutive years, the landlord's family will also have no surplus grain.

Even if they really put their heads on the table, they won't be able to take them out.

Indeed, they lacked no silver.

But there was really nothing they could do about the food at that time.

The drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty is very important, that is, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang Lake and the wide grain production area are all included, this area is not a year or two, but a whole seven years, like a cloud of death, in the whole from the Taihu Lake around the Dongting Lake, from the south of Zhejiang to the Huai River, just like this, the rest of the place to catch a breath in another place will be extinct.

In the end, in this long seven years, the vitality of this originally major grain-producing area was exhausted.

Of course, the north is more ruthless.

But the north is not a major grain-producing region after all.

What really completely ruined the Ming Dynasty was the exhaustion of vitality in this grain-producing area.

And it is not an ordinary drought, among the 300 drought-stricken counties that have historical records during this period of the Ming Dynasty, 170 are completely extinct Chidi Qianli model.

And the Ming Dynasty had a total of one thousand and one hundred counties.

There are historical records in the country, nearly one-third of the county drought, one-fifth of the extinction, this is not counting those left without historical records, at that time it was true that the landlord's family had no surplus grain, the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not to say that the imperial court had silver to solve, what is the use of having silver without food? This level of drought means that at least 30 million people have no food to eat, let alone the end of the Ming Dynasty, even if 30 million people suddenly have no harvest in modern times, it will also cause a heavy blow to a country.

Outsourcing will not solve the problem, because at present, all the countries in Southeast Asia combined, there are not 30 million people.

How can they have so much surplus food?

So the key is not silver, but food.

"The construction of this canning factory can't be stopped!"

Yang Xin sighed.

The only most realistic choice is the ocean, of course, not only the ocean, but also the Yangtze River and the lakes along the coast, or the fish in it, especially the whaling industry, there are indeed not many in the north, but there is no shortage of whaling grounds along the southern coast, for example, the Xu Wen area has been hunting, and even whale oil as a tribute, and there are also many whales in southern Taiwan.

No food?

Then eat minced meat!

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