The little people also have the survival methods of the little people.

They depend on the sky for food, most of them have struggled on the poverty line all their lives, their lives, their wisdom, their experience, let them have their own set of survival methods.

At this time, there are very few people who have read books, and it is almost rare.

Liu Qianli is lucky, not to mention that he is very knowledgeable, but he can also recognize a lot of words.

His wife has been a village teacher for ten years, and the husband and wife get along day and night, influencing each other.

The so-called reading makes people wise, Liu Qianli is bold and careful, and has been doing business outside for more than ten years, with a broader vision and knowledge than the average farmer, he has the wisdom of a scholar and the shrewdness of a small trader, as well as the life experience of the little people at the bottom, which allows him to quickly perceive the changes in the world and have a certain foresight for the future.

When they came to Chang'an, they didn't bring any grain, and Liu Qianli was able to save the family's grain for more than half a year when the price of grain in Chang'an was the same every day, and the purchase was restricted, which was inseparable from the above.

The habit of the peasant family, the family has surplus food and does not panic.

When he first came to Chang'an, he was not familiar with the place, and it was impossible for women to come to the family's procurement, Liu Qianli was the head of the family, and he could afford the family's rice, flour, oil and other food purchases, not to mention that his son insisted on giving living expenses, and his daughter had to take rice back and forth, although he did not pay living expenses every month like his son, but he also changed his way to give them filial piety money every month, and he was responsible for the purchase.

They arrived in Chang'an on the last day of April, and it had been a full month since the last rain in Chang'an.

Old farmers who are busy in the field all the year round should know that in the Guanzhong area, about the end of March and the beginning of April of the lunar calendar, wheat enters the flowering and filling period, and the soil needs sufficient water at this time to ensure that the wheat "absorbs" sufficient water and nutrients, so that the wheat grains can be full and the wheat can be harvested. If the wheat field is dry at this time, it will automatically accelerate the senescence of wheat roots, even if watered, because the wheat roots have declined, the ability to absorb fertilizer is lost, even if it can absorb nutrients, it is also very limited, which directly causes the wheat yield to be reduced, the quality is seriously reduced, and the grains are very sloppy.

When they arrived, the winter wheat output of this year had just passed, and the grain prices in the Guanzhong area naturally rose.

There are many frequent droughts in the Guanzhong area, otherwise there will be no construction of Luoyang Palace, every disaster year, the Son of Heaven will lead the civil and military officials to Luoyang to eat, during the period of Emperor Gaozong of the Shen family, there have been several times because of the famine in Guanzhong to Luoyang to eat.

In the ten years after the empress came to the world, the Guanzhong area caught up with the wind and rain, even if there were occasional natural disasters, they were not serious, and there was no need to go to Luoyang to eat.

However, the merchants have a keen sense of smell, especially the local merchants in Chang'an, who have experienced the old incident of the great drought in Guanzhong during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Shen family to eat in Luoyang...... and so on.

When Liu Qianli first came to Chang'an, he found that the price of grain was so expensive, it can be said that it was ridiculously expensive, and even if the price of Chang'an was high, it would not be so high, and a bucket of rice would cost 300 Wen.

I have doubts in my heart, and I am a person who has been doing business for many years, and I have long lost the crops when I first arrived in the big city, and I always cared about the situation that I couldn't wipe my face, so I went to a few more grain and oil shops to ask about the price, and then asked about the previous price, and found that the most expensive grain price was only more than 100 cents, and I had the bottom in my heart. A Mandarin with a thick local accent sighed: "This weather is too hot, it would be nice to rain, otherwise this biscuit will be shriveled and I will not be able to swallow it." ”

Liu Qianli will still find someone.

Hu cake is a Hu character, indicating that from the Western Regions, there is no shortage in Chang'an is the white-skinned and high-nose bridge of the Western Regions craftsmen spread Hu cakes.

It is estimated that he was also unfamiliar with such a foreigner, so he found an inconspicuous fifty-year-old man Hu Biscuit stall to ask, and the other party saw that Liu Qianli was a diner, and he couldn't help but gossip, "Who doesn't look forward to the rain!?" I remember the last time it rained was in late March, and it's been more than a month since then, and I haven't seen it yet, but how can I be good......

What the old man said, Liu Qianli couldn't listen to it anymore.

There was only one thought in his heart, he was afraid of something, and he really expected that this was going to be a drought.

I also heard that there was no rain when it should have rained, and Liu Qianli also knew that the wheat harvest in Guanzhong this year would definitely be missing.

Then he found that because the empress had been reigning for all these years, the wind and rain were smooth, and after so many years of stable life, even if the grain merchants who intended to hoard grain, they were actually very optimistic, thinking that it was just a small drought, and the rain must still fall, after all, it has only been a month without rain.

Liu Qianli was not so optimistic, mainly because there was no food at home, and his old cropper was panicked, so he came to Chang'an not long ago, and when the price of rice was still 300 wen a bucket, he first bought five stones of grain.

One stone is equal to ten buckets, and five stones is fifty buckets, which is about more than 620 catties of grain now.

At this time, as in ancient times, as in modern times, people in the city have always disliked to store grain, and the staple grains of rice and flour can be stored for a month at most, and when the family has a large population, and the housewives are free, and even a month's grain will not be saved, they will buy rations for three or four days, and then buy them after eating, which is convenient anyway.

The shopkeeper saw that Liu Qianli bought so many rations at once, Liu Qianli could bargain again, and a bucket of grain was given less than 20 yuan, and a total of 14 yuan was spent in the money, which was not at all thought about when the old family had to do it before, ten stones of grain and 14 yuan, it was simply sky-high, and many farmers may not be able to earn 14 yuan all year round, this Chang'an is really not an ordinary person can stay.

After spending a lot of money to buy so much grain back, some people saw it, and they had to laugh at it, to the effect that the price of grain is so expensive now, and they still buy grain like this, isn't it stupid? If it rains in the blink of an eye, and the autumn harvest comes, the price of grain will naturally fall.

Liu Qianli also thought about it this way, but it was still the same sentence - the family has surplus food, and the habits of the croppers for more than 40 years cannot be changed, and if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens.

After spending a lot of money to buy these grains with the savings of their husband and wife, Liu Qianli urgently began to set up a stall.

Life in Chang'an is too difficult.

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