Buy food!

For the ordinary people in the capital, buying grain has become the most important thing every day, after all, no one knows when the grain will be sold, let alone what the price of grain will become.

Later, when the Ming army just came, because of a lot of grain copied in Qizhuang, the price of grain in the capital was finally stabilized, but it rose again in a few days.

The Chu army is also out of food!

The news that the granary of Luoyang of the Chu army was burned made the people in the capital rush to buy grain, lest the price of grain soar again, and within a few days, the price of grain would rise, not to mention, the thing that people were most worried about also happened - the food was not available. When the price of grain is soaring, it is not possible to buy as much grain as you want, each person is limited to five catties, and not a single catty is sold.

At the beginning, everyone was still indignant because of five catties, but now, at most, they are buying three or four catties, not because they are unwilling to buy more, but because they have no money.

There is no money to buy food!

If it reaches the point where there is no money to buy food, then it is not far from starvation.

"Go ahead! You go for it, I won't go! ”

Got up early in the morning, looking at the leather jacket that was just sewn last year, Chunxi shook her head, this is the leather jacket she put for the man after staying up for a winter of needlework last year, and now she hasn't even worn it once, so she has to take it away.

"Okay, if you don't go, I'll go."

This leather jacket was bought by a woman who worked for a winter to earn more than one or two silver, and this leather jacket was originally intended to be worn this winter, but now it has not been worn at a time, so I followed vigorously into the pawnshop!

There's no way, whoever makes this family run out of money, if they don't wait for it to be lost, the family will starve to death! Wandering around the door of the pawnshop for a while, I remembered the price that the woman asked for when she went out - one or two less can't be.

The burden was sent to the counter, and he vigorously stood up with his face up, stretched his waist, and stood up on his toes to deliver it, and he really didn't know why the pawnshop set up such a high counter! It's all a hassle to stand, can't it be lowered?

The man with the hat looked through his clothes, and before he could ask, he said:

"One or two silver dollars, this was only purchased for one or three dollars."

The guy didn't even look at Dali, but rolled it up, as if he wanted to throw the burden on Dali's head, looking impatient.

"A tael of silver won't do, so how much do you say?"

"No more."

The pawnshop guy shook his head and said.

"Nowadays, they are all clothes and leather jackets, and they will be changed into clothes on this cupboard."

When he reached out to pick up the burden, Dali knew that he was deliberately making things difficult, so he took the burden and left. He guessed right, the guy wasn't really trying to push the baggage out.

"Five pennies! The fur of this jacket is too thin to be sold for ......"

"Inappropriate."

Shaking his head vigorously, he said.

"This hair is three fingers long, and it is not thick, so how thick it is, no matter how thick it is, it is bear skin."

"Seven pennies of silver,...... It couldn't be more, that's the number. ”

Seven coins of silver!

Although there is still a little gap from the price the woman said, it is not a lot.

After a while, with seven coins of broken silver and a pawn ticket, he walked vigorously, and he felt very happy when he walked, and maybe this is the case for rich people.

What should I do when I have money? Naturally, they went to the grain store to buy grain, because the supply of rice and grain could not be guaranteed, so the grain store was not open normally, and the people who bought the grain had to stay at the door of the store at all times, for fear of missing the time to supply grain.

There were many people in line, and they picked up a brick from the side of the road, and Dali sat there like the people who bought grain, and everyone sat in a long line, and waited for almost an hour before the grain store opened its door.

The price of grain is more than 5 taels of silver and one stone, this is still millet, and white rice is one stone and seven taels.

I bought five catties of millet, and it cost me a total of no more than three dollars of silver. Even if you want to buy more, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it.

Then he went to the vegetable market again, and after a while, he had a lot of things in his hands, and even hugged a pumpkin weighing more than ten catties, he was very willing to hold such a thing, this kind of thing can make people eat, and it is cheap, but it is only two dollars of silver, and it is really lucky to be able to touch it.

These more than ten catties of pumpkin are enough for him and the woman to eat for more than ten days, and with rice that was only enough to eat for more than ten days, it is enough to eat for a month. Excited, he saw an old man named Huazi on the side of the road, and stopped vigorously to give him a big copper plate, he thought that he had something to eat, and he should also eat! However, he did not give more, only a copper coin.

Come home!

Sweating on his back, carrying dozens of pounds of things, he vigorously felt that his legs had become a little, and when he walked to the door, he only felt that his walking legs were weak, and he seemed to have no strength in his whole body, which is no wonder, after all, this time, the family only eats five or two meters a day. Then a little food, at most, can continue to live.

Eat a little more today - there is food! There is food to eat at home!

When he was excited about those catties of rice and pumpkins, in the palace of the king of Chu, Li Ziyuan was excited with the rush of eight hundred miles from Tianjin.

"500,000 stone grain!"

Staring at Xu Yuncheng, Li Ziyuan asked again.

"There are 500,000 stone of grain shipped from Tianjin? Was it sent by Nan Anhou? ”

It's no wonder he is so excited, this time, for the sake of food, he has a headache to the extreme, although he buys rice near Shandong at a high price, but after the price is raised, the people also can't afford to eat, and the capital is even dying of hunger. If it weren't for the fact that there was a porridge shed set up by the Huai Domain more than 100 miles away, I am afraid that this capital would really starve to death.

In the past few months, I don't know how many people in Beijing have left the capital driven by hunger, and have been confused by the Huai Domain to go to Kanto, at least they will not starve to death there. Although only tens of thousands of poor people in the city have left, as the price of food becomes higher and higher, more people will definitely leave the capital in the future.

Maybe even when the holy car returns to the capital, the capital may become an empty city.

"Yes, the king, there are 500,000 stone grain, Jin Wenbo, who accompanied the ship, is a close confidant of Nan'anhou, he told the magistrate of Tianjin that as long as the king has what he needs, Nan'anhou will definitely send someone to transport the grain by sea, even if it is a million stone of grain, it can be transported."

"Million stones!"

Surprised by this number, Li Ziyuan said in disbelief.

"Then why does Nan Anhou have so many meters?"

"The king doesn't know, that Jin Wenbo was originally the third elder of the Jin family, the imperial merchant of the Manchu Dynasty's internal affairs office, originally he was to help the Manchu Qing Dynasty purchase Nanyang rice, and build ships in Liaodong, and later took the opportunity to leave the capital with the eight imperial merchants, if the eight of them are still there, I am afraid that just by copying the income of these eight families, it will not necessarily be much worse than the income of the Huai Fan in Shenyang!"

Although it is a bit exaggerated, the eight families are all rich and rival the country, as early as when he was in Shanxi, Xu Yuncheng had heard how rich the eight families were.

"Nanyang Rice ......"

Li Ziyuan pondered for a moment, and then said in annoyance.

"Originally, I only thought that this Nanyang rice was just a rhetoric used to coax the Qing prisoners, but I thought that there was really Nanyang rice, otherwise, we would send a ship there directly to make rice, how could we be so passive......"

Suddenly, Li Ziyuan stared at Xu Yuncheng and asked.

"You say, what does Zheng Zhilong mean by giving such a big gift?"

Will Zheng Zhilong be so kind to send rice to the door?

He must have a plan, but what did he want?

"King, from the courtier's point of view, the day of Zheng clan's internal strife is probably not far away!"

However, at this time, Xu Yuncheng did not have the slightest pity, and his expression and tone were even a little excited.

"The king, the article I did with the Zheng family before, it seems that the power has been obtained, then Zheng Zhilong himself is not willing to be subordinate, and now he is sending rice to me, naturally in order to befriend me, if the king can say something, the Zheng family's internal strife must be inevitable!"

Xu Yuncheng's smugness fell in Li Ziyuan's eyes, making him just groan for a moment, and then shook his head and said.

"It's a little too early to say that now, since Zheng Zhilong gave this big gift to this king, this gift, this king has to accept it no matter what, but this gift, how is his surname Zheng going to be sent?"

Staring at Xu Yuncheng, Li Ziyuan pondered for a moment, raised his eyebrows slightly, and commanded him.

"Well, after Jin Wenbo comes to the capital, I want to see him in person and ask, what does Zheng Zhilong want? As for the grain, it shall be counted at the rate of one or two taels per stone...... No, buy it at the price of one or two or four yuan, and he Zheng Zhilong must not feel that he has suffered a loss, after all, if we can't guarantee the future, we still have to buy rice from him, this grain way, let others hold it, always feel at ease......"

Shaking his head and sighing lightly, Li Ziyuan said again.

"Last time, we suffered a loss because of this, and we can't suffer the same loss this time."

Because the grain road was once cut off, now he naturally doesn't want to make the same mistake. But he didn't seem to have much of a choice.

Then the two talked about some other things, when Xu Yincheng said goodbye.

"How's going on over there in Xingcheng?"

Suddenly, Li Ziyuan seemed to remember something that had been neglected for a long time, and he looked at Xu Yuncheng and said.

"Li Laiheng's side must solve it as soon as possible, otherwise, in case ......"

Since he captured Wuchang, he has always wanted to solve the loyalty camp and Li Laiheng, but in the past two years, he has been like a copper pea that can't be boiled, and he has not paid attention to his overtures at all.

Now for him, the loyalty camp is no longer as important as it was at the beginning, but has slowly become a hidden danger in his eyes. If this hidden danger is not dealt with, it is very likely that it will threaten him as the fundamental lake.

Shaking his head, Li Ziyuan's brows were tightly locked.

"No one can guarantee that one day, he will not become a confidant of this king! So it must be them as soon as possible! ”