"Mrs. Yang, have you heard? The wasteland outside the city has been bought," said a woman covered in pearls, sipping tea.

"I heard that, I still know that family." Mrs. Yang smiled.

"You mean? The new one? Another Mrs. Wang was also interested.

"I heard that it's just a woman, with a subordinate, what does her man do?"

"What is she tossing about that piece of land? Get those poor ghosts to work. ”

It is said that three women in one play, and there is not just one woman in this courtyard.

Fighting in the back house all day long, and having to maintain his demeanor in front of others, naturally there is not much to say.

The movement outside the city is really too big, and it is difficult not to look sideways.

However, this topic is not so heavy compared to the words of another lady in green.

"Did you hear that? When the new emperor took office, the first thing he did was to canonize a peasant girl as the queen! ”

"Really?"

"What our lord said, no one has seen it yet, it is estimated that he was married in a fiefdom, so it's not good to stuff the world."

"Shhhh Be cautious, don't die! ”

……

"The third family, is it really as good as you say? Did you get paid? ”

A room full of men stared at Hou San with red eyes.

"Isn't it?" Hou San didn't hide it either, and spread out twenty copper plates in his hands, "I'm going to buy food, the master said, she wants someone to work, at least for a month, I'm not afraid of running out of money." ”

"Ming'er, will I go too? Can you tell us about it? ”

Gossip men, atmosphere of lively discussion.

"Of course there's no problem, that wasteland is big, just go find Steward Ming."

The men who came to work on the first day all chose to buy food.

There was a long queue outside Jiang's grain store.

"What? Why is it almost gone? Hou San pinched the copper plate, and felt a chill in his heart.

"That's it, if you don't buy it, get out of the way!" The guy from the Jiang family spoke very ugly.

After the war, there was a shortage of everything, and grain and grass must be the most intuitive reflection.

The people didn't have the money to buy it at the beginning, but now they can't buy it!

……

Wen Gangsheng in the corner watched silently, the Jiang family was the largest grain merchant in Weizhou, and he couldn't be hard yet.

Luo Xiaoqiao also watched silently, the news had been sent to Wang Sanhai, there was enough food in the north this year, and a small amount of blanks could be filled, but it was not a long-term solution.

"Master Wen, it's not okay to go on like this, right?" Luo Xiaoqiao sighed, it is always the people at the bottom who suffer.

"Madam, the imperial court has decreed that the people are not allowed to raise the price of rice at will, but the decree can't stop merchants from selling rice."

"What did you do before?" Luo Xiaoqiao asked.

"The imperial court originally had a peaceful policy, and the imperial court bought grain so that it could provide relief to the victims when needed. However, the rich officials all cheated, and the war caused the government to lose its capital, and there was no stock. Wen Gangsheng said.

"The big grain store is the Jiang family, and the small grain store is following them, and the Jiang family is really a headache for the imperial court's price limit."

"Then there is no price limit!" Luo Xiaoqiao said.

"No price limit?" Wen Gangsheng was taken aback.

"Not only is there no price limit, but the merchants are told that Weizhou allows the price of rice to be raised."

"What? Ma'am, this is going to be a mess! "Wen Gangsheng doesn't do it.

"Listen to me, wait for half a month! Something happened to me and I was going around. ”

No matter how many complaints Wen Gangsheng has, this announcement of the government can be regarded as going down.

The price of grain and grass in the Jiang family rose by two percent instantly, and although the people complained, they could at least buy grain.

After about seven days, many merchants from other places began to sell grain on the streets.

In addition, after Wang Sanhai's grain team came over, the price gradually stabilized.

Wen Gangsheng looked at the people who were grateful to the yamen, and was a little dumbfounded.

Luo Xiaoqiao explained: "Merchants seek profits, when foreign grain merchants hear that the profits here are high, they will inevitably come, and when they come, the original supply and demand relationship will change." Grain and grass are no longer hard to find, there is still a risk of mildew if they are saved, and it is not cost-effective to transport them away, so they will stay at a balance point..."

Wen Gangsheng nodded again and again.

And in the blink of an eye, the wasteland outside the city has also changed.

Luo Xiaoqiao made people make a small hillside and cleaned up all the sharp stones, weeds and other things.

And then the ice was made...

"Bang... Smack..."

On a dark night, fireworks exploded in the sky south of the city, attracting the attention of the whole city.

On the second day, curious people came to visit.

This time, I didn't come back until dark.

What is that?

There is no snow in Weizhou, and it is white, covering the entire wasteland, and people are dizzy.

"Crackling", the long sound of firecrackers, sounded all the way from the city to the snow field.

"The first ten people who go in are free, and the last ten taels of silver are one person, and there is no time limit!"

Hou San was hired and shouted hard at the door.

The adults hesitated, but the children did not have so much thought, especially when they saw a few descendants, sitting on a snow circle, sliding down the high slopes, and they couldn't hold it back when they landed.

After the first ten children entered, the snow resort was going crazy, and there were screams everywhere.

They had never seen even a simple snow ring, let alone a dog sled, a tumbling snowball or anything like that.

Mrs. Yang was also in the crowd, looking at the scene in front of her, thinking of the woman who squinted and smiled, and suddenly felt some pain in her wallet.

In this era, there are so many entertainment activities, and in the winter, most of the children are confined at home, and it is rare to have such a crazy opportunity to play, and they even forget to eat.

Luo Xiaoqiao's rules are quite pitiful, as long as you go out, you have to pay the money again when you go in again, which is equivalent to ten taels in half a day.

The child cried and shouted that he would not leave, and the adults had to go to the side to buy food.

In the simple shed, the family members of Hou San and others were making pancakes in a pan and collecting money, and Le's mouth couldn't close.

"Bang dang bang", in addition to the notice on the wall, the gong of the government sounded again.

"The local railway should be repaired, and workers should be recruited, and those who want to go to the government office will sign up, and there will be twenty copper plates a day!"

If I had been notified so a month ago, I am afraid that not many people would dare to go, but in the past month, the people's trust in the government has gradually recovered, and the front of the government is crowded.

"Ma'am, are you leaving?" Zi Su packed her luggage and asked Luo Xiaoqiao softly.

Luo Xiaoqiao looked at his stomach, it had been more than five months, and he didn't want to delay any longer.

……

"The head of the house, this is the family".

The little guy stepped forward to knock on the door and knocked for a long time but no one answered.

"Are you looking for that family? Gone in the morning! An old man next to him poked out and said.

"Go back!"

The man flicked his sleeves, his face full of displeasure!

……

Building a railway is a fat gap, and many officials are secretly calculating, how to deduct a piece without a trace.

That's tens of millions of silver taels, even if they grab a handful from the cart that transports money, it's enough for them to get away with it for a few days.

There are even some officials, who work up and down, just waiting to create some loss after going to their own territory.

Unfortunately, this year they are going to be disappointed.

Because, Zhengtong Silver has established semicolons in various states at a rapid pace.

"Lord Huang, we were tricked by Ge Zhengtong!" A petty official hated itchy.

"This old horseman, he didn't pay for it! It's money borrowed from Zhengtong Bank! ”

"Then it doesn't matter, we can also get a handful of borrowed money?" The other person didn't care.

"You know!"

The man at the top took a sip, "They use all silver tickets, and there are no silver taels at all!" I don't know where to get a group of people, one person is in charge of a section of the project, how many people are recruited, how much money is spent, all of them are not leaking, how can we fish! ”