180 Soaring food prices and opportunities for Wu Yijun
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She is dressed in green cloth clothes and a jinghai cloth skirt, which is indeed very elegant, but it is a little too elegant.
"My subordinates think it's good!" Rong Yue stroked her hair, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Okay, my lord, knowing that you have money now, I won't save you, and I'll lose you when you turn around!" ”
When she said this, her face showed a little charming, smiling, beautiful, and full of the allure of a mature female surname.
Lian Zining hurriedly tilted his head, coughed and said, "By the way, there is so much money income this month, but it is related to the lack of food in the capital?" ”
Rongyue's face flashed with a flattering expression, and she nodded with a straight face: "That's true." This year's wheat harvest, the millions of acres of fertile land around Yanjing City, the harvest is less than 30% of previous years, and the farmers themselves are not enough to eat, let alone supply millions of people in the city. At this time, the north is already very short of grain, and the price of rice in the city has risen to one stone and nine cents of silver, which is eighty percent higher than in the past, and it seems that there is a trend of rising. The capital was short of grain, so it had to be transported from the south, but this year's drought in the north was extremely wide, and the places in Shandong and Henan were also short of grain, so they had to transport grain from Jiangnan in the south and Guanzhong and Qin in the west. There are a lot of cars and horses in and out of the banknotes, and most of them are transporting grain to sell, so we will naturally have more income. ”
Lian Zining nodded, muttered a few words about the lack of food, and then asked again: "Are these people secret, escorting silver to my house?" ”
Now for Lian Zining, the specific income of the banknote and the Jingnan Chamber of Commerce must also be kept secret, as long as people know that they are rich, but they must not be allowed to know how rich they are!
If those numbers are exposed, not only will the imperial court definitely add indicators to the Jingnan banknotes, but even Dai Zhangpu will have to take out more silver to make points. And now, most of his money is used to fill the bottomless pit of Wu Yijun, and a small part is used to invest in the Lian chaebol, how can there be spare money?
"Don't worry, my lord, they were all sent in the name of transporting grain to your family's grain and oil store, and they didn't attract anyone's attention." Rong Yue smiled and praised: "After sending money to the adult's house, I took a look on the way, your sister is really a good businessman, and now most of the street is your family's industry, hehe, it looks really spectacular." ”
Lian Zining showed the expression that every brother who dotes on his sister will show when he hears his favorite little sister being praised, his face is full of pride and relief, he laughed: "That's natural, my sister is talented in this aspect." ”
Rong Yue hesitated for a moment, but finally said: "My lord, Wu Yijun is a gold-swallowing beast, the imperial court is only willing to give four thousand taels of silver every month, and Wu Yijun's monthly expenses are at least twenty thousand taels of silver, and that little money is probably only enough for food." You have to prepare the rest of the money yourself, and you pour water into it to make money, is it worth it? ”
"Whether it's worth it or not, we'll find out in a few days." Lian Zining smiled faintly.
"You mean? Shandong riots? Rong Yue raised her eyebrows and asked.
Lian Zining nodded: "It's been more than two months since we became an army, and it's time to go out and see blood." ”
Rong Yue said: "My lord, why are you so sure that the imperial court will send us to quell the rebellion?" ”
Lian Zining said: "Today is not a mediocre person, although he values the firearms army, but he will not value an army with a silver pewter spear head. It has been more than two months since we formed the army, and if we count it, it is not far off for the imperial court to send a big man to test it, and it is time to have some results. Now, of course, we can't take it out and put it right with the people in the border army, but to deal with these mobs, the peasant rebel army with no training and not well-armed should be more than enough, how could the imperial court miss such a great opportunity? ”
As he was talking, a handsome maid walked over lightly, walked up to Lian Zining, and said softly: "My lord, someone is here, saying that it is from the mansion of Lord Dai in Beijing, you have told him, Mama Lin has already beckoned him to wait in the living room." ”
After the completion of the Wu Yijun Presidential Palace, it is natural that someone will serve them, although there are only two entrances in this courtyard, which is not big, but there must be more than a dozen people to do it. For a group of big men to serve him, Lian Zi would rather be respectful and insensitive, besides, it is not his style to treat soldiers as servants. Without the little sister making trouble, the seven or eight little girls that Rongyue bought from Renyazi this time are all good, but they are fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls, who are disgusted and happy, and their appearance is also beautiful.
Lian Zining doesn't have any evil thoughts, but it's also eye-catching, isn't it?
He smiled at Rongyue, got up and said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look!" ”
Rong Yuezi was waiting at the back of the living room, Lian Zining walked in alone, a bearded man in casual clothes was sitting inside drinking tea, and when he saw Lian Zining, he stood up and bowed his hand and said, "I've seen my lord!" ”
Lian Zining hurriedly took two steps forward to support him, and said with a smile: "Chen Xiaoqi doesn't need to be polite!" ”
These days, he often goes in and out of Dai's Mansion, and naturally he is slowly familiar with these Dai Mansion guards, Dai Mansion guards have a total of fifty people, a general flag, five small flags, these officers, all of them are good hands that Dai Zhangpu has recruited from the whole [***].
Let's take this Chen Xiaoqi as an example, he was a lone thief who crisscrossed the Kanto region back then, and he had forty or fifty lives on his hands, but he was later arrested in Shanhaiguan and was already about to be beheaded after the autumn. Dai Zhangpu brought him out of prison through connections and arranged for him to be a guard in his own house.
Although these men are ruthless people who kill people without blinking, they are not ungrateful, on the contrary, every time they slaughter dogs, these men are extremely gracious. Dai Zhangpu has a lot of life-saving grace for them, and he was able to wash away his former identity, and he became a guard officer of Dai's Mansion in one step, so he was naturally loyal.
After greeting each other, Chen Xiaoqi took out an oilcloth bag from his arms, opened it, and inside was a letter, handed it to Lian Zining and said, "This is what Master Dai asked the lower official to hand over to you." ”
Lian Zining nodded, and Chen Xiaoqi also said goodbye and left.
Lian Zining personally delivered it to the door and presented a generous gift of one hundred taels of silver. Chen Xiaoqi thanked him, Lian Zining insisted on stuffing the silver into his sleeve, Chen Xiaoqi also smiled happily, and left with great satisfaction.
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