The Zheng family will not know about the reselling behavior of the people?

Definitely know.

But they still let them resell it, as if they didn't care where the grain went.

It's just that they don't know that the Zheng family is secretly buying these grains back to replenish the granary.

Because of the Zheng family's low-priced grain, the panic in the hearts of the people has also disappeared, if these people resell at too high a price, they will not buy it, so the price sold by the reseller will not be high.

It also made the price of grain collected by the Zheng family in their hands lower than that collected in other places, almost as much as they collected.

In this way, not to mention whether or not they can stabilize food prices, the Zheng family at least gives those families who have failed harvests and are destitute have a way to live.

In addition, allowing those who fled to other places to have to return in order to obtain low-cost food can also reduce the large number of displaced people.

There are fewer displaced people, and the people are staying at home, and these affected lands can only be planted in the next year, so as not to delay the next harvest.

And so it went on for a few days.

Many grain merchants can't bear it, especially some middle and lower-class grain merchants, they can't afford to gamble, so they can only sell at a reduced price.

Moreover, this drop is not small.

Otherwise, it is too different from the Zheng family and still can't attract guests.

As the days passed, the Zheng family has always been like this.

It also made more merchants unable to sit still and began to reduce prices.

There are also fewer and fewer grain merchants who continue to stock grain.

In the end, in these places in the north where the disaster was severe, the originally soaring food prices gradually flattened.

This lasted for half a month, and the Zheng family was still strong.

As a result, food prices have fallen sharply.

And at the same time.

The Zheng family sells grain at a low price, but what about the imperial court? is still giving so much rice soup every day, and under the guidance of some well-intentioned people, the people are more and more dissatisfied with the imperial court, and they are more grateful to the Zheng family.

In particular, they knew that the imperial court had taken the opportunity to extort 20 million taels of silver from the Zheng family, and also took away a large amount of grain that the other party intended to sell to the people, leaving them with no grain to buy.

took 20 million, but only gave them 3 million taels of silver for disaster relief, and the rest was divided between the ten major families and the rotten royal family!

Moreover, if three million taels were distributed to them, they would never have received only two bowls of rice soup a day.

The court does not care about the life or death of their people, and corrupt officials are even more greedy for their life-saving money and food.

Therefore, even if the price of food gradually stabilizes, the people are even more disgusted with the royal family and the ten major families.

The well-informed ten families knew that they had been cheated, and in order to save their image, they had to pay money and food for the people to relieve the disaster.

However, in the meantime, something happened.

That is, the Zheng family's potato noodles have increased from two cents to three cents.

As for the reason, it is because the cost of obtaining potato flour is higher than that of cereals.

At first, the price was more favorable, and I wanted to promote this food.

If the price continues to be low, even if the Zheng family has a big business, they can't afford to lose.

And if their Zheng family falls, who will stabilize the price of food for the people?

Although this move caused some people to complain, it did not cause too much dissatisfaction.

If potato flour is the same price as cereals, then the people will still prefer cereals.

Because they found that a pound of whole grains is more durable than a pound of potato noodles.

As a result, sales of potato flour plummeted.

And this is the result that the Zheng family wants.

You must know that in the past half a month, the dried sweet potato residue that the Zheng family receives from Yuan Jiarong every day will be consumed.

This was when they asked Yuan Jiarong to ship all the dry residue in the next few months to them in advance.

The Zheng family actually didn't have much sweet potato residue left, but in order to reassure the people and make them think that the food was enough, they could only deliberately reduce its sales.

In this way, it is possible to ensure that the sweet potato residue can be sold for a long time.

However, in this way, their previous food stocks will be depleted more quickly.

We can only continue to buy high and sell low to maintain grain prices at a loss.

Fortunately, the sugar provided by Yuan Jiarong for the Zheng family made them a lot of money.

Because of the scarcity of food, the people do not have enough to eat, so it is naturally impossible to use it to make caramel sugar.

The sharp drop in the production of starch sugar also made the price of sugar skyrocket, and the sugar in the hands of the Zheng family became fragrant.

And the price of sweet potato flour and sweet potato vermicelli was also copied very high by them.

Whether it is in a good year or a disaster year, the rich are always rich, and no matter how hungry the people at the bottom are, it will not affect them, they should still spend money.

These high-priced foods have become a symbol of their status.

In short, the Zheng family is making money from the rich, subsidizing the people at the bottom and stabilizing food prices.

Overall, of course, they are still losing money.

But there is no way, food prices cannot be stabilized, and the royal family has more excuses to embarrass them.

Therefore, every disaster is a moment when the Zheng family consumes their family resources.

As the days passed, the Zheng family was struggling to calculate and calculate, and those grain merchants, especially the black-hearted businessmen who wanted to make a fortune with a lot of grain, were also cheated by the Zheng family.

Food prices in the affected areas of the north have barely stabilized.

So, what happened to Ning'an Mansion, which was asked by Zheng Yuxin to stabilize food prices?

Nature is steady.

After all, Zheng Linchu has money in his hands and can buy enough grain to stabilize food prices.

By the way, let Ning'an Mansion change to a new Taishou.

The Xue family, which has become a large household in Fengqing County, has enough circulating silver, and the family's strength and assets are also steadily improving.

Of course, the foundation of their growth is still in sweet potatoes.

Handling sweet potatoes has always been the top priority of the Xue family.

After grinding sweet potato flour, you have to dry shredded sweet potatoes, grind sweet potato noodles, and even secretly make sugar.

The amount of work involved in these things is enormous.

Each of these items takes days to toss around and requires a lot of labor.

Toss good sweet potatoes, and it's the end of December.

After the important things were handled and there was enough money to spare, the Xue family put part of their energy into preparing for the future Liclan.

What should the Lizu prepare?

Set up Yixue, build Yizhuang, and set up Yitian.

Now they have a lot of money.

Righteousness?

Build!

Yizhuang?

Build!

As for the purchase of righteous land, the most cost-effective is to buy barren land and reclaim mountains and forests.

Regardless of which of the above items, it requires a lot of labor, especially Zhiyitian.

And the construction of their own house can not be forgotten.

For example, Zheng Linchu let the pig farm built, and the many sheds that were repaired or expanded, so that they could live for a long time and more people.

In the construction of the Xue family, a large number of victims finally entered Ning'an Mansion.

After being affected, the victims were displaced by road for months.

Along the way, it can be said that it is eaten city by city, by house!

It's a pity that they weren't taken in, so they could only keep walking south, especially these relatively wealthy prefectures near the Higashijinno Forest.

I thought that there was another tough battle to be fought when I arrived in Ning'an Mansion, and at most some of them were left behind, and the rest of the large army continued to move forward.

But I don't want to...