Soon, she met her parents again, Zhou Shize, the county magistrate here.

In the public court, the other party seemed to have just finished talking with the subordinates next to him and was slightly tired, but when he saw their arrival, he still cheered up, and asked with a little doubt: "This girl, I heard that the official has something important and wants to ask to see the official, I don't know what it is?" If there is anything about the caravan trade, the official must give his full support. ”

In addition to raising fierce mountain people, such inconvenient mountain villages, it is also easy to cause a lack of materials and a low quality of life. A caravan like this is a rare channel to communicate with the outside world and exchange materials, and he naturally wants to support it vigorously.

Miss Wen nodded slightly, and said slowly: "Tell my lord, the little woman's name is Wen Bingyan, and she passed through here this time for business and trade." But instead of buying and selling supplies, I want to buy one thing with all my might! ”

"Oh?" Zhou Shize was not surprised, because when his subordinates searched the cottage before, they had already found strange places, this caravan came to trade but did not bring anything, but brought all gold and silver treasures, no wonder it was so attractive to those bandits.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Then Miss Wen, you might as well tell me what you want to buy with so much money you have brought with you?" If it is local, the transaction is not a problem. ”

Miss Wen hesitated for a moment and said solemnly: "Food!" ”

"We're going to buy food with all our money!"

"And it's far more than that, in the future, our Wen family will send more caravans, including my brother, just to buy enough food!"

She said word by word, with a sincere gaze that didn't look like she was lying.

It's just that these words made Zhou Shize stunned on the spot, and looked at her in disbelief.

"You say...... Grain? ”

With so much money that is almost the entire wealth of a wealthy businessman to buy food?!

Let's not mention whether you can buy it, I'm afraid that the whole county can eat enough food with so much food!

However, he naturally didn't think that the other party was crazy or something, there must be something else hidden, so he asked thoughtfully: "Miss Wen, can you ask, why did your Wen family use up their wealth to buy so much food?" Don't you want to change careers to buy and sell grain? ”

Miss Wen seemed to have expected him to ask this question, but after a slight pause, she slowly explained: "It's not a secret, our Wen family has been doing business in the Peishan area for generations, and we don't have much to do with grain transactions, but this time we really have to ...... it."

"Peishan?"

Zhou Shize's heart was shocked when he heard the name of this place, and he vaguely seemed to remember something, and couldn't help frowning: "This official has heard before, it seems that the grain harvest in Peishan in recent years is not very good......

"It's been a no-brainer this year!"

Miss Wen sighed softly and added for him.

"In Peishan, the land is full of dead seedlings, and there is not a single grain of rice in the rice shop......

"If it weren't for that, how would we have come all the way to buy food here?"

Zhou Shize couldn't help frowning deeper when he heard this: "But this official heard that the imperial court had already sent a messenger for disaster relief before, and it stands to reason that it should have been alleviated, how can it ......?"

Miss Wen looked at him deeply, but she didn't argue, just lowered her head and said nothing, as if she was already explaining something.

Zhou Shize is not stupid, noticing her attitude, he immediately thought of corruption and the like when he saw more such things. However, he was secretly frightened, after all, being able to force these people to organize themselves to buy food seemed to have shown that the food for disaster relief had not been implemented at all!

"It seems that the corruption situation is much more serious than I imagined!"

He was deeply angry in his heart, but he was powerless against the corrupt officials and corrupt officials who preyed on the common people, and he couldn't help but sigh. If you think about it, there may really be only one way to alleviate the level of famine in the area.

However, even if he agreed, there was another problem.

"Miss Wen, the official naturally agrees to the fact that you want to buy food for the sake of the people, but there is still a trouble in this."

"Even in our areas where there is no famine, food simply cannot supply your needs!"

That's right, since she came here to alleviate the famine, then she may need tens of thousands of stones of food at every turn this time! This can be seen from the amount of gold and silver she brought with her, and even the precious jewelry that many of the women carried with them, which can probably show their true desperate determination.

However, even if they could really come up with the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver they used to buy food, would they be able to supply enough food?

The answer, of course, is no.

Zhou Shize, as the parent official here, naturally has some understanding of the harvest in Qingyang City. Since it is a mountainous area, there is additional food harvest such as hunting in addition to farming. But even so, the grain is still in a state that is just enough to meet the food and clothing of the city residents, and even when the harvest is better occasionally, there is not much that has been accumulated.

A little buying and selling is acceptable, but to say that to feed the people of a famine region is tantamount to a fool's dream!

Even if you really sell a large amount of grain, it may cause a shortage of food in your own house, and the series of reactions will be even worse!

Miss Wen's expression was slightly gloomy, as if she had expected it, so she nodded slightly disappointed and said, "It's okay, thank you Lord Zhou for taking care of us this time." Tomorrow we will continue to the other counties......"

Zhou Shize interrupted a little reluctantly: "Actually, the officials of several surrounding counties have understood, and the food is also not abundant, and it is far from meeting your needs. ”

Miss Wen couldn't help but tremble slightly, her face was a little pale, and she bowed her head and said nothing.

He sighed and said, "Tomorrow, I can arrange for my men to negotiate with you, sell you as much grain as possible, and write a letter to the surrounding county commanders, asking them to take care of your caravan." It's just that no matter how much there is, the official can't do anything. ”

After all, no matter what happens, you can't tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, and ignore your own people. The only thing that is really guilty in this whole thing is the corrupt official sent by the imperial court to be responsible for disaster relief!

Miss Wen nodded slightly, thanked her and walked out slowly, but when she crossed the threshold, her steps were a little staggering, obviously deeply shocked, and she was not in good spirits for a while.