Chapter 252: Food is as expensive as the sky
This kind of trick is all too familiar to Chen Feng. Some merchants in the market outlook have not played such a trick, but the more this is the case, the more the people will obediently send the money to the merchants' pockets, for fear that they will be one step late.
Of course, these are just some luxuries, and if later generations of businessmen really dare to set the price of grain like this, I am afraid that before it is the turn of the common people to get angry and angry, the government will already stretch out its iron fist to let him know what can and cannot be done.
Food is the basis for maintaining the rule of a country, and if the people have no food to eat, the government will also know what the situation is for a country.
Businessmen also know what can and cannot be moved, and people like this kind of livelihood thing will never dare to move it.
For example, some luxury goods, not to mention how high they set the price, even if it is set at a sky-high price, the government is very happy, after all, as long as you set a price, the government can collect taxes, and it will not affect the lives of the vast majority of people, you must naturally be very happy.
"It seems that this is the only way, as long as they put food, we will buy it immediately and leave, this place really can't stay any longer, and if you stay any longer, I'm afraid there will be no one to collect the body."
If two days were put in normal times, it would be just a blink of an eye for Chen Feng, but Chen Feng, who was in a state of hunger, spent these two days like a year, watching the sun in the sky slowly set in the west every day.
Sometimes it's strange why the sun moves so slowly, why time passes so slowly.
Of course, many things happened in the past two days, and there was a riot in the west of the city, and a group of victims tried to storm the city gates.
It's a pity that it's not like the cold weapon era in ancient times, where five or six hundred victims stormed the city gates. Except that at the beginning, the soldiers did not react, and after some guns were snatched and dozens of officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, when the officers and soldiers reacted, they became corpses under the rain of bullets, and then they were dragged away and buried everywhere.
The riot of the victims in the west of the city seems to have also reminded the people in the city that in addition to sending additional personnel to guard the victims outside the city, the distribution of relief food has also been much earlier.
After a difficult third morning, there was finally movement in the city. Three or four large trucks came out of the city with full loads and rushed to the four gates of Luoyang.
"I'm also the president of the War Zone Circuit Court, but I didn't expect to do this stealing and touching of chickens and dogs with you.
Ma Shanyuan followed a young man in a fur coat and kept shaking his head, with an embarrassed expression on his face.
"I said Lao Ma, don't think so, let's also be considered to be relieving the victims, but there is only so much food for this, you have to save those who can be saved first, as for the others, you can't save them if you want to."
The young man pursed his lips, disagreeing with Ma Shanyuan's words, but persuaded Ma Shanyuan.
"Okay, okay, since that's the case, then you can pick a few more and leave them a little way to live."
As the so-called official level crushes people to death, although the young man in front of him is not as big as himself, but this official position is a few heads higher than himself. I'm just complaining, and I really don't dare to do it against young people.
What's more, what the young man said is not wrong, although he does not know how much food he has, it will certainly not be too much. What is the situation of the country, he can be regarded as an official at all, and he can also know that if he wants to really save the victims of the entire Henan, it is wishful thinking. How many can be saved is a few, this is the idea of the people above, and it is okay to be pretentious if it is really not possible.
"Old Ma, you're right.
Wait a while and you'll be by my side and help me maintain order, and we won't be able to command those soldiers."
After greeting people for a while, Ma Shanyuan began to take his two subordinates to form a team.
Standing on a high ground, Ma Shanyuan looked at the expressionless victims around him, and really didn't know what to say.
Although he is greedy for money, this is also human nature, and the entire national government from top to bottom is not greedy for money, and he is also following the trend.
"If you can't live, what dignity do you need"?
I touched the twenty or thirty yuan placed on my chest, which was the money I sold my conscience, and coughed lightly.
"Brothers and sisters, I am the president of the War Zone Circuit Court, and I have followed you all the way along the way, and I am afraid that many of them know me."
Ma Shanyuan's speech, for the victims outside the city who were already hungry to their chests and backs, did not have any nutrition at all, and they nested in the thatched tents built one by one, staring at a pair of eyes and waiting for death.
Ma Shanyuan saw that the victims all had this expression, as if he had expected it a long time ago, and there was no change on his face, and he continued to speak.
"The shopkeeper of the grain shop in the four seas, knowing that your brothers and sisters have no food to eat, specially mobilized a batch of food from the city to ......."
Sure enough, after the victims heard the news of the food, Ma Shanyuan's words were not finished, and one by one they rushed over like ants in an instant, with a look of expectation on their faces.
Looking at these expectant looks, Ma Shanyuan gritted his teeth and continued to say in a deep voice.
"You only need a piece of ocean, and you can buy three catties of millet."
Perhaps because of the riot of the victims in the west of the city, Wu Qing and others were afraid, and the price of two catties of millet that was originally set at a piece of ocean was raised again.
It's just that such a price is still a sky-high price for the victims outside the city, and after hearing such a price, our originally joyful expressions instantly collapsed.
Of course, there are rich people everywhere, and even if he is a poor man's nest, there are always a few rich people.
Some rich people have taken out the ocean from themselves, but there are not too many such oceans, more than three or five are only a piece of sun, which is still left by their own frugality.
"Changgui, don't you hear, don't you hear.
A piece of ocean three catties of millet is one pound more than the two catties of millet that Ma Shanyuan said before, and this pound of millet does not know that it can make us hold on for a while longer."
Fan Dianyuan, who was at the outermost end of the crowd, took Chen Feng's hand excitedly, as if he had heard great news.
Chen Feng couldn't help but pout, at such a price, he really has nothing to say, what is it to say that he is expensive? Or is it better to see you?
A piece of ocean with dozens of catties of millet, that can still be bought, but now in this situation, a piece of ocean buys three catties of millet. These three catties of millet are no longer simple grains, which represents the lives of a few people, is it expensive, or is it cheap?