In fact, even though Luo Yan doubled the grain sold, this grain still can't make any waves in Lantian County. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

As an upper county, Lantian has a population of 6,000 households. That is, according to the calculation of six people in each household, the daily food needs of the entire Lantian County are at least 540 stones. This is already to reduce the amount of food eaten by adult men to the level of drinking porridge.

A hundred stones, that's too little. What's more, with Luo Yan's connivance, ninety percent of this grain flowed into the grain stores of those wealthy gentry.

Seeing Liu Zongshen and Song Zhen walking out with a happy face, Luo Yan couldn't help but sigh. Punishing these gentry is actually not as simple as Luo Yan's desire to vent the evil breath in his heart. He is familiar with history and knows that this disaster is not only this year. The basic requirement of the liquidation method is that there is enough grain. Blindly releasing grain, the county's losses are too great, and in the real disaster year, there is no ability to even provide disaster relief.

Taking advantage of the fact that things have just begun, the vitality of these people has been greatly damaged, and it will be easier to control them in the future.

It's a pity that fighting with these people will still hurt the people in the end. Thinking of this, Luo Yan secretly decided to speed up the process of the secret fight.

The next day, although many people were ready early and waiting at the place where the grain was kept.

But what makes people angry is that yesterday those who bought food on a large scale are waiting there in a heap. After sending the 100 stone grain, it took half an hour more than yesterday, and it was robbed again. But what really gets into the hands of those who need it is just a drop in the bucket. Well, yesterday fifty stones, thrown into the water. A hundred stone today, so it is.

The people grew angry.

However, it was only the second day, and people's endurance had not yet been forced to the end, at most they were complaining, but there was no substantive action. Moreover, the county government also released news in a timely manner that 200 stone of grain will be released tomorrow, but the price will continue to rise.

It's just a matter of raising prices, it's finally a hundred stones more than today, presumably you can grab some tomorrow, many people just comfort themselves, stop complaining and go home.

In the county office, Luo Yan stared at the book and asked Liu Zongshen: "Today, there are a lot of people in the rice shop in the city, right?" "The cat here is greasy, that is, Liu Zongshen, an old officialdom who has been in Lantian for decades, can see it clearly, and Luo Yan only wants to know a clear answer, so he can't ask anyone else at this time.

"Why should Lang Jun ask more. In fact, for two days in a row, weren't they the ones who snatched the grain early? Liu Zongshen didn't want to talk about the cloud mountain fog cover at all. Anyway, Luo Yan already has a clear answer to this matter, but he is just looking for himself to confirm it, so why lie without flattery.

Getting such a clear answer, Luo Yan lowered his head and tapped his fingers lightly on the table. After thinking about it for a long time, he raised his head, stared at Liu Zongshen and said, "From the day after tomorrow, four hundred stones of grain will be released every day." What was the price of the grain store in the city on the first day, and the price was reduced by ten wen the next day, and the grain we were waiting for was released. However, there is a limit of five buckets per person at a time. Do you understand? ”

Although the words are intended to be inquisitive, the tone is categorical and unquestionable.

As the main bookkeeper, Liu Zongshen certainly knew the amount of grain that Lantian had to consume every day. Although 400 stone is still less than the real consumption, it is about 70%, and presumably people will not make trouble again in the future. In the past two days, he and Song Zhen went to release grain, and they really felt terrified.

The eyes of those people who want to eat people after they can't buy food look at them and feel terrified in their hearts.

On the third day, it was the same as the previous two days. The two hundred stone grain was all robbed in an hour and a half. It was still those who grabbed grain two days ago, and as soon as the door of the workshop opened in the morning, all these people flocked to the grain release point like a long queue. There is no other person's business.

The people were outrageous. They all thought that Luo Yan conspired with these gentry to release grain, but in fact, it was the collusion of officials and businessmen to turn official grain into private grain, and then sell it to them at a high price.

Just as he was about to go to the county government to make trouble, Liu Zongshen was anxious and shouted: "Four hundred stones of grain will be released tomorrow, and the price of the rice shop will be ten wen lower than the price of the rice shop the day before, and each person can buy five stones." Let's go back and have a good rest, and don't make any more trouble. It's the same everywhere you go. ”

All at once it increased from two hundred stone to four hundred stone, and the amount of grain that each person bought also increased. The people were immediately deflated, and they didn't mention going to the county government to make trouble, and went back one after another. After all, Liu Zongshen's words can still be listened to, and everyone is thinking, no matter how many of these gentry there are, can they empty all the four hundred stones, how can they save a lot, enough for themselves and others to buy.

In a restaurant, several gentry who were eating and drinking loudly couldn't help but start laughing when they heard that their subordinates came to report that Luo Yan had directly started to put four hundred stones of grain out at a time.

"It seems that this surnamed Luo was forced by us to have no choice, and he actually wanted to smash so much grain out at one time."

"Didn't you see that those mud-legged people have been in a hurry for the past two days? If he doesn't put more grain, I'm afraid someone will make trouble to the county government. Partial and troublesome, and you can't catch it. With such a sensitive time, if he doesn't handle it well, it will really change the people. ”

"Hehe, it's really too much to think about using more food to make those mud legs have something to eat."

"Since you can buy five buckets per person, I will send thirty subordinates out tomorrow. What about you? ”

"Your thirty is a bit too much, and I'll have a dozen."

“……”

At this time, although Luo Yan was in the county government, he also knew that even if he released so much food at once, those gentry would definitely repeat their old tricks. At this time, Luo Yan was happy at the same time, but he also had a headache.

Naturally, the fish was hooked, and the hook bit tighter and tighter. The headache is how to deal with the anger of the people next.

The entry and exit of materials in Lantian were blocked, but the people also learned from various channels that the overall food price in Lantian was higher than that outside. Even the price of grain released by the county government is a few cents lower than the price of the grain stores outside. Partial birth, this grain can't come in. That in itself already made them angry.

If they can't even buy the grain released by the county government, it would be strange if they didn't impact the county government.

Luo Yan naturally couldn't hope that if he released four hundred stone of grain, those gentry would be able to leave a lot. So how to appease the people has become a big problem.

The next day, it took more than an hour for Cang Cao to deliver the 400 stone grain with his people. Selling like this for a while, although the gentry had already prepared to cover these grains, they were still bought by some people.

With the example of this day, the people complained much less. This was beyond Luo Yan's expectations, he was still having a headache last night, and when he heard Liu Zongshen's report at noon, Luo Yan laughed out loud in front of people. You must know that in the past few days, in order to make a tough posture with the gentry, Luo Yan frowned every day.

There are ingredients for packaging, but there is also no lack of real depression. It's not a simple thing to fight with a bunch of old fritters.

Now seeing that the people can solve some difficulties, Luo Yan is of course very happy. This immortal fight, if only there was a little less annoying suffering, it would be better.

However, it is a shame for the people to get the grain, for these gentry who wanted to get all the grain from the beginning.

The gentry who were gathering in the restaurant at noon were angry for a while when they heard that some of the people sent by their families had not grabbed food. This slapping the table, scolding the mother, scolding the mother, are all ready, and they have to clean up these subordinates after they go back. Five buckets of rice per person, the loss here is dozens of Wen, and this loss will be doubled.

Moreover, bribing the grain released by Luo Yan not only made Luo Yan lose face, but he could also monopolize the food supply of the entire Lantian field. If such a thing happens every day, then I and others will lose a lot.

In order to make Luo Yan bow his head, these people also took great pains.

In the following days, the gentry poured out all the servants who had some strength in the house, and all went out to grab food. In this way, the four hundred stone grain was suddenly a little insufficient. In a day or two, the patience of the people passed. But it's been five or six days in a row, and every day it's like this, and the people have returned to their former state.

After the grain was released on this day, the 400 stone grain was sold out, and Liu Zongshen was about to go back with Song Zhen, but suddenly heard someone in the crowd shouting: "What do you say about putting 400 stone of grain every day, I have been waiting here for five days, and I can't grab a grain of grain." In my opinion, this is the collusion between officials and businessmen, but it looks better on the face. ”

As soon as this person's words came out, someone responded instantly: "Yes, yes, I have been waiting for three days." After a while, it's not like going to the rice shop to buy those old rice. Damn, what kind of world is this? ”

"In my opinion, this new county order is not a good thing. It sounds good, but what is it doing? ”

"That's it, in the past few days, 3,000 stone rice has been released, and I haven't even caught a single rice ballast. It's not that there's something greasy here, how can this happen. ”

In an instant, the dissatisfaction of the people was stimulated by these words, and the voices that spoke became louder and louder, and the emotions became more and more excited.

It's just a matter of complaining, why bother being so loud. Liu Zongshen knew that someone was playing tricks, and when he was about to take a closer look with Song Zhen, the person who had just spoken was immediately hidden in the crowd and could no longer be found. Isn't this kind of thing just to stir up public indignation?

Liu Zongshen suddenly became nervous. He himself was not afraid. Although he and Song Zhen are the people directly responsible for releasing grain, these people are talking at this time, and the spearhead is aimed at Luo Yan. At most, these few were coerced to the county office, but it's hard to say what happened to Luo Yan.

Quietly called an errand officer and asked this person to return to the county office as soon as possible to inform Luo Yan, while Liu Zongshen himself was in the crowd, shouting some words to calm the people's anger. I don't know if it's useful, but Liu Zongshen's purpose at this time is to solve it by himself, no matter how bad it is, it will also give Luo Yan some time.

At the same time, he also asked Song Zhen to stare carefully and see who was the one who stirred up trouble.

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