The torrential rain has been falling for two more days, and the water is about to overflow to the threshold of Liu Ji, but fortunately, the rain has finally stopped for ten days. The water was slowly receding, and in just half a day, it was back to the knee.

Many rich people stranded in heaven and earth, after being cheated by Li Boyan for more than ten or twenty times, went back to their respective homes to check the disaster.

And the number of people walking around the city increased. The guards of the Yongzhou battalion and the garrison troops maintained law and order in the streets and alleys, so that the floods caused by the torrential rain were not terrible, but the riots caused afterwards were the most terrifying.

The first place to be besieged was two major places. One is the rice shops, and the other is the people who come to the Li family shop on Liuzi Street to withdraw money. Li Boyan didn't care about the interest on these people who saved money, and distributed them all according to the annual interest rate, and the 200,000 yuan left on the Zhuangzi was just in case of emergency.

It's okay if the money is gone, but once the credibility falls, Li Boyan's money bank plan will never get up again.

The people who came to get the money were grateful and took the money and hurried to the city to buy rice and grain. There are still three months before the autumn harvest, and this flood has caused the early rice that is about to be harvested in various places to rot its roots, and the lack of harvest is basically predictable.

The doors of the rice shops are closed, and they can't be knocked open. If you open the door to buy rice, you won't be robbed, and no one is so stupid.

By evening, the water in the city had almost receded.

Li Boyan sent Zhao Ruyu back to the other garden and began to deal with the affairs of Zhuangzi. The craftsmen of the Li family have almost no grain in stock, but fortunately, there is still a lot of grain left behind in the brewing of MSG, which is enough to last until the disaster grain is transported back.

Li Boyan organized the manpower and began to get through the difficult days that were coming.

In the evening, Zhao Bingchen sent Cao Tongju and Han Qishan to come several times, and finally went out in person to Zhuang to ask when the disaster grain would arrive. Li Boyan is not an immortal, how could he know when the Li family's ship will arrive. But this round-trip trip, if you buy grain from Suzhou, counting the purchase of grain, etc., it will take ten days to say less. Zhao Bingchen could only leave a sentence as soon as the disaster food arrived, and immediately reported the leader's "verbal message", and then left dejectedly.

This sad one, thinking that he had taken over a fat shortage, who would have thought that he had only been in office for half a year, and he encountered such an unfortunate thing. If he messes up, what kind of face does he have to deal with Han Xiangye.

The surplus grain of each family in Yongzhou will not exceed 100 catties, and a family of five people counts, which tightens the belt and lasts for half a month. Now it's time to sow late rice again, how can this person have the strength to farm if he doesn't eat? If the disaster food is not enough in half a month, I am afraid that this stable situation will not be able to hold on.

Li Boyan predicts that the grain ship from Jiangnan West Road will arrive in about five days, but it will not be too much. The Great Song Dynasty is now a place of abundant grain production, which is naturally the location of Jiangnan East Road, Su Changshu, and the world's foot. There is not only a lot of grain, but also cheap, so it is naturally the first choice for buying grain.

When the flood waters receded, Zhuangzi still needed to rest. Kang Shuaibo came in with a frown and said, "Childe, there are a few people missing." ”

"How many are missing? Isn't it the West Mountain that goes in a group? How could there be a few less? ”

Kang Shuaibo was not very clear, and said: "There are three laborers who are just ordinary porters, and there are also two masters who burn glaze and five workers who brew MSG. ”

"Yes, I see. Let's go to Xishan to look for it, if there is no whereabouts. ”

Kang Shuaibo frowned and said: "These missing people are all tenants in the village, I just searched, except for the families of the two families, the families of the other eight families are missing." ”

Li Boyan frowned, stared at the candlelight and muttered, "It seems that someone is doing something." ”

"Childe, could it be the He family?"

Li Boyan sat on the chair, closed his eyes and said, "Ask the people in the village to see if they know the inside story, but don't be too anxious." The production method of the glaze, mainly the ratio of raw materials, this except for the three masters no one knows, those who slipped away, should not be the henchmen of the workshop, do not have to be afraid of anything. As for MSG, you don't have to worry about it. ”

In this world, I am afraid he is the only one who can understand microbial cultivation. Mixed with miscellaneous bacteria, temperature and humidity and other factors will affect the brewing of MSG, so there is no need to worry about the theft of secret recipes.

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He Jiayue Wave Building

The old He family, who has been silent in the past few months, because of this flood, the rice seeds obtained were burned, and now the 20 or so wealthy families are sitting together again, discussing the next good plan with a sad face.

"You say, does the Li family still have that rice seed?"

Pan Lugong frowned, now that Changfang has a good relationship with the Li family, he can only come over, "Does this still matter?" The point is that we don't have it on hand! ”

These 20 or so families take turns to communicate, and there is not a single one left on hand, there is no way, such a tempting artifact, planting one less this year, is equivalent to 100 less in the next year, and 10,000 less in the next year, who can bear the temptation?

"The key is that we all signed contracts for those fifth-class households, and we wanted to buy them to death, but now it's okay, we lost our wives and soldiers, it's really better to be counted as people."

Zhou Linping narrowed his eyes and said: "In my opinion, taking advantage of the current turmoil in Yongzhou, we will directly dismiss these tenants, anyway, the most important thing we do in Yongzhou now is customers, and it will be a bad reputation." Anyway, when the catastrophe comes, they will fly separately, and the homeless people will be homeless again, we can't just go without collecting food by ourselves, and we have to post money to go in, right? ”

"That's right, Brother Zhou is right, and I agree with it. However, this matter cannot be done alone, it is easy to invite trouble, let's come together, take advantage of the current famine, this tenant should be easy to recruit. ”

Chu Lifang remained silent.

He Yuqing, who was sitting on the side, asked, "What is the good plan for the uncle?" ”

"I'm thinking, now that Li Boyan wants to provide disaster relief in advance to suppress food prices, if I wait for the forced return of the money to buy shares, how will their Li family choose?"

Zhou Linping raised his eyebrows and said, "But didn't this Li Boyan say that he would have to withdraw his shares at the end of the year." ”

Chu Lifang narrowed her eyes, "I didn't read the contract at the beginning, and forcibly withdrew the shares, but I could get back ninety percent of the money." ”

"Ninety percent? Wouldn't that be a loss of 10,000? Your Chu family has invested 200,000 shares, isn't it 20,000 yuan back and forth? ”

Chu Lifang squinted his eyes and said: "Since Dongfeng Logistics has become a climate, it is impossible not to do business with us in the future, but it can't be used by us, Li Boyan can't get oil and salt, let's give him a trick!" Draw from the bottom of the kettle! See if he takes the money for disaster relief, or obediently relinquishes his authority. ”

"Then if we really withdraw our shares, won't we lose a lot?"

Chu Lifang rubbed the wrench in his hand and said, "Then we have to see if he, Li Boyan, can afford a greater loss." Our rice seeds have been soaked in the soup, and now the interests of Yongzhou have been divided too much by his Li family, don't you think it's hateful? Even God is helping him! ”

Among them, except for the Pan family and the He family, the remaining 21 families have more or less invested in shares.

Some are silent, and some are ready to move.

"We are losing some money, but Li Boyan is gambling with their entire Li family's net worth! I don't believe it, this person is so good that he can escape death again and again! ”