On August 11, in Qingzhou Mansion, Shen Congdao sat on the Taishi chair in the second hall of Shen's house, his face cloudy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info his wife and two concubines sat on the chairs next to them, crying profusely.

The rice seller "from the south" has notified the Shen family to let the Shen family move out, and the Shen family's compound is about to be taken away.

Last month, Shen Congdao thought that Li Zhi was going to buy a large amount of grain, so he followed the Qingzhou prefect to fry the price of rice in Qingzhou to six taels and one stone. In fact, there was not much idle grain on the market, and most of the stock grain was in the homes of the gentry. Everyone thought that the gentry in Qingzhou would work together and not need to spend much money to stabilize the price of grain at a high level, but who knew that they would encounter a large-scale grain sell-off.

At that time, the gentry did not know what was going on, thinking that stabilizing the price of grain would trap Li Zhi, and desperately bought the high-priced grain sold by others. In Qingzhou Mansion alone, the gentry bought more than 300,000 stone of grain at a high price of more than five taels.

In the back, the gentry were a little afraid to make a move. The prefect of Qingzhou stood up to concentrate on the overall planning and allocated shares to the gentry to buy the grain that was sold on the market. Shen Congdao was valued by the prefect, and was given some more quotas, and finally even mortgaged his own house to a merchant who sold rice.

At that time, when the merchant who sold rice said that the house could be used as a mortgage, Shen Congdao felt inexplicably bad. I didn't expect it to be on the road in the end.

Last month, relief sweet potatoes from Xiaoliuqiu began to arrive in Shandong in large quantities. "Shandong Daily" said that the food needed for this disaster relief has been solved, and there is no need to buy food in the market.

At first, the gentry didn't believe it, thinking that it was because the Duke of Jin Guogong couldn't bear the price of grain, and began to lower the price of grain by lying. But it wasn't until this month that the food in the small people's homes in Shandong ran out and all the disaster relief porridge sheds of Jin Guogong were opened, and the gentry in Shandong found out that Jin Guogong was not lying at all. The sweet potatoes in Xiaoliuqiu can indeed save 10 million Shandong people who have suffered from drought.

The Jin Guogong no longer needs to buy food for disaster relief, the victims have the relief of the Jin Guogong, and there is no need to smash the pot and sell iron to buy life-saving food, and the food hoarded by the gentry has suddenly become useless. Not to mention that the gentry originally had a lot of accumulated grain, and the more than 200 stones of grain from other provinces sold by Li Zhi in Shandong alone made the Shandong gentry miserable, and the granaries of the Shandong gentry were stuffed with rice, flour and rice.

As a result, almost within a few days, grain prices in Shandong plummeted. From the sky-high price of six taels and one stone, it has fallen to the floor price of two taels and one stone. At this price, there is still no market for grain, and if it is sold in large quantities, it will not be sold at all.

When Li Zhi sold grain, he played a dim sum machine and allowed the gentry who hoarded grain to use real estate as collateral to buy on credit. At that time, the gentry only thought that Li Zhi would definitely come to collect grain at a high price if they insisted on it for a month, and it was not a big problem to mortgage the house to the grain merchants. As a result, now that the mortgage deadline has arrived, the price of grain is frighteningly low, and at least seven or eight gentry in Qingzhou Mansion who are hoarding grain will be confiscated. In order to raise money to redeem the mortgaged houses, these gentry desperately sold rice to the market, pushing down the already low price of grain.

However, at such a time to sell food, which will take over? There are only selling orders in the market and there are no buying orders, and grain prices in Shandong are getting lower day by day.

The mortgage term of Shen Congdao's house expired the day before yesterday, and the southern grain merchants who sold rice to Shen Congdao said that if they did not repay the 2,000 taels of silver they had bought grain on credit today, they would drive the Shen family out of the house. However, the rice that Shen Congdao sold at a low price in his own grain store was not bought at all. The people of Shandong did not have a harvest last year, and they were very poor. There is a guarantee of the porridge shed of the Duke of Jin, and the citizens are not willing to take the last bit of emergency money to buy rice.

Shen Congdao sat on the chair, sighed helplessly, and said, "That's it, let's move to the countryside and live." This house can't be saved. ”

Shen Congdao's main room pulled his ten-year-old daughter to wipe her tears, snorted and said, "Master, when I married you, I came through the door with a bride price of two thousand taels. Have you also lost it? ”

Shen Congdao's face turned red, slapped the table and shouted, "How do I know that the situation will become like this?" Now your bride price has become rice and noodles that no one buys, and it is all in the granary in the countryside. If you want, go to the granary and move it! ”

When the main house heard this, he fell forward and began to cry again.

Shen Congdao's second room sat on a chair, gritted his teeth and said: "Master, we moved to the city from the countryside beating gongs and drums. Now that we have moved back to the countryside, the small peasants are afraid that they will look down on us and make trouble. ”

Shen Congdao sighed, curled up in the chair and couldn't speak, without his former paternalistic style at all.

He hoarded grain to obstruct the relief of the Jinguo Public, and this matter was to be pointed out by thousands of people. Now that I have lost my mansion and returned to the countryside, will there be angry people looking for trouble?

Shen Congdao sighed.

The second room said: "Master, why did we give up the house so easily to those grain sellers? If those grain merchants want to go to court, it will take him several months, and maybe the price of grain will rise again at that time. ”

Shen Congdao smiled bitterly and said, "The sweet potatoes from Xiaoliuqiu are constantly being shipped over, and I'm afraid the price of grain won't be able to rise." Don't talk about it, let's move. "Shandong Daily" said that the merchants who sold us grain were all people from Jinguogong. The arm can't twist the thigh, where can we fight the Duke of Jinguo? When the time comes, we'll be caught and hit the board, and that's it. ”

Shen Congdao's main room widened his eyes when he heard this, and said, "You said you would move?" When I first moved to the city, I was so fanfare, and now I am moving back so sluggishly? I don't have the face to go to live in the country! If you want to go back to the country, you go by yourself! ”

Shen Congdao was stunned and asked, "If you don't go to live in the countryside, where are you going?" ”

The main room rolled his eyes, but he couldn't think of a place to go, fell to the ground and cried again, shouting: "I'm not alive anymore!" ”

Thinking about it, Erfang also cried, wiped his tears and said, "Master, can't you borrow a few thousand taels of silver?" ”

Shen Congdao said with a sad face: "This time, the gentry of Qingzhou Mansion don't know how much money they have put in the grain hoarding, and there is no extra silver money in any family. At such a time, where do you ask me to borrow it? ”

"Don't say more, let's go to the country! If there is a small crumb to take the opportunity to make trouble, we will endure and retreat and pass! Now that Li is implanted in Shandong, no one can stop it, and our hard days are still to come! What is this suffering? ”

When the second room heard this, two lines of tears flowed, and he couldn't say a word when he sat on the chair.

The Shen family was crying there when they heard footsteps outside. The "grain merchant" who "came from the south" and sold grain to Shen Congdao walked into the courtyard of Shen's house with ten Tiger Benshi soldiers, and shouted: "Shen Congdao, you still haven't handed over the house?" Do you want to eat the board of the Tsukoku Public Court? ”