Chapter Ninety-Four: Digging Your Own Grave
Chunlan snorted.
"How did she know that Commander Fu didn't go to the Yang family?"
"The Yang family is far away in Zhongzhou, if you want to find them, Commander Fu will make a detour to Zhongzhou, but the eldest lord watched him board the boat from the Yichun River and take the waterway!" That's twice as fast as a dry road.
There is some truth to this.
stared at Bi Tao for a long time, and Chunlan didn't come up with anything to refute.
"The commander of Du Chuanfu is the most righteous person, and it is true." Mother Wu smiled, "It's okay now, with his support, the third grandmother no longer has to worry about the Shen family being defeated." "After two months of monthly profits, and rumors of the third master's dream, these days, the house can be said to be panicked.
Otherwise, all the rooms would not have been quietly waiting for the good news of the lord last night.
Finally, the clouds are open and the moon is bright.
Mother Wu breathed a sigh of relief, but Xia Zhu's little face turned red urgently.
What a obsession!
She opened her mouth to argue, "Even if she didn't find the Yang family, how could Mother Wu be sure that the Seventh Prince would definitely agree to receive grain at a high price?" ”
has been helping Zhao Qing collect information, and no one knows the danger here better than her.
"Grain from other provinces can't be transported in, and they don't buy us at a high price, in this cold and snowy land, can the Seven Princes still grow their own grain?" Bi Tao learned from Du Juan's original words and retorted, "The two aunts and wives also said that the 500,000 soldiers eat horses to feed, not to mention the Shen family's grain hoarding, even if the Yang family's grain hoarding is not enough, take 10,000 steps back, even if the right to supply grain is taken away by the Yang family, he will have to pay a high price to buy our grain hoard!" ”
"Who said ......"
Who said that grain from other provinces can't be transported in, last night the third grandmother found a secret road!
The words rushed to his lips. Thinking of Zhao Qing's instructions, Xia Zhu swallowed his words back again.
She pursed her lips and looked at Zhao Qing, who had been silent, unwillingly.
Everyone also looked at Zhao Qing.
Obsessed.
These people are really incorrigible.
Pity. I have long been dazzled by this so-called huge benefit, and even the old lady does not hesitate to disobey the old man and the eldest lady is not something that he can convince at all.
But all the business of the Shen Mansion is in their hands!
And they don't believe in themselves at all.
But Qingyunshi, abandon me like dust.
Zhao Qing finally understood the helplessness and melancholy when Li Bai wrote this poem angrily.
Feeling weak for a while, she looked up at the window, "It's about to snow, take advantage of the sun in the past two days, take advantage of the sun to move all the books in the study out to dry." Don't get moldy in the winter. She stared at the camphor tree in front of the window and commanded.
Drying books?
Wu's mother was confused.
was discussing the matter of hoarding food, why did she turn to drying books?
Besides, it's June 6 to dry things. At this time...... She looked at the sky outside, it was gray, and there was no sun.
"Third Grandma's ......"
As soon as she screamed, the little maid hurriedly came in with Huamei. “…… The old lady asked the third grandmother to come over. ”
Don't bother with everyone's arguments. Zhao Qing raised his feet and went to Rongshoutang.
The eldest lady was also there, talking to the old lady in a low voice, and when she saw her, she smiled unprecedentedly, "...... The third grandmother is here. "The voice is extraordinarily gentle.
Zhao Qing's heart sighed.
I really want to look in the mirror to see if I have become a chicken, how did I meet a weasel to come to pay New Year's greetings.
Quietly gave the eldest lady a salute back, and Zhao Qing looked at the old lady.
The old lady had already affectionately taken her hand and sat down beside her.
Yu Guang saw that the corners of the eldest lady's mouth twitched, and Zhao Qing couldn't do it. Smiled and asked the old lady, "...... Grandma is looking for her granddaughter-in-law? ”
The smile froze. The old lady sighed, "Your father wrote again to ask, what happened to Third Master Fang who wanted to go to Jinhua Academy to study?" ”
I thought a lot along the way, but Zhao Qing never expected it to be for this.
She couldn't help but be stunned.
How did she know about that?
When the Begonia Society came to ask for the sacrificial text, the fourth lady quietly told her that Miss Qi, the owner of the Begonia Society, said that Su Dao was moved by her sacrificial text and thought that her sister was so literary and that her brother must not be wrong, especially Fang Sanye was admitted to the middle school at the age of twelve, and he was also famous in Liuhe Town, so he was afraid of missing out on good talents, so he was already planning to accept him, but for some reason, there was no news.
With Su Dao's identity, he will not make a decision easily, he still wants to investigate, right?
Thinking in his heart, Zhao Qing didn't say it, just listened quietly.
didn't expect her to answer, the old lady glanced at the eldest lady, and then said, "The eldest lady said, we are working hard with the Yang family, at this time, we can't offend the in-laws, knowing that Mr. Su Dao has a good impression of you, see if you can write a letter to beg him in person, for the sake of the third master, maybe you will agree?" ”
The eldest lady's face turned red when she heard this.
These are all the words behind her back, why did the old lady say it to her face.
Doesn't this mean to tell Zhao Qing that if it weren't for the Yang family's strength, the Fang family would be insignificant in the eyes of the Shen family?
She subconsciously looked at Zhao Qing and met Zhao Qing's meaningful gaze.
The eldest lady shuddered.
Hurriedly explained, "...... Commanding the envoy Fu asked the eldest lord how much grain the Shen family had hoarded, and he was afraid that the right to supply grain would be taken away by the Yang family, so the eldest lord reported 850,000 stones. ”
"Eight hundred and fifty thousand stones?" Zhao Qing exclaimed in surprise, "How can the Shen family have so much food? Chi Feng personally told her that the Shen family's hoarding of grain did not exceed 630,000 stones!
The old lady also looked at the eldest lady.
The eldest lady's face turned red, "The eldest lord overreported more than 200,000 stones." The voice paused, "...... It's counting all the grain in Liuhe Town. She was flustered, she didn't pay attention to Zhao Qing, how could a woman in the house who stayed at home know that 850,000 stone was an imaginary number?
I haven't received any of the food yet!
If you can't receive it in the future, it will be a crime of deception that will affect the whole house!
How can the eldest lord be so reckless?
A sharp flash flashed in the old lady's eyes, and she looked at the eldest lady with a piercing gaze.
The eldest lady blushed to the root of her ears, and Nono said, "...... In any case, we also have to receive the grain from Liuhe Town and get the right to supply food to the Western Expeditionary Army. ”
This is drinking to quench your thirst!
Compared with the Yang family, the Shen family is starting early, evenly shared, and the cost of hoarding grain is lower than that of the Yang family, since the eldest lord is not willing to give up the so-called huge profits, he is not willing to throw away the grain, for today's plan is to keep an eye on the Yang family, and drag the Yang family to the death, whether to lose or make depends on the destiny of heaven, if the seventh prince is a compassionate and indecisive, and can't bear to let those merchants go bankrupt, everyone will earn together.
If you don't, everyone will pay together!
With the Yang family to share, the Shen family can at least keep some land and family business.
However, if the grain of Liuhe Town is really collected, with the current market of three taels per stone, 200,000 stone is 600,000 taels, that is, the Shen family will have at least nearly 700,000 taels in debt.
A debt of 700,000 taels.
got it in the previous life, that was nearly 200 million yuan, with the assets of the Shen family, if it really lost, even the old lady had to ask for food!
I've seen stupidity, but I've never seen anything so stupid!
secretly made a hundred determinations to no longer care about the Shen family's business, but in the face of the eldest wife's obsession, Zhao Qing still couldn't help but be angry, with such a family, it was difficult for the Shen family to be undefeated.
I really want to slap her to death!
However, at the moment when the case was about to be filmed, her whole body lost consciousness. (To be continued......)
PS: I checked a lot of information, there are many ancient monetary units in China, and they are different from dynasty to dynasty, and the specific conversion in this article is as follows:
1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 10,000 wen = 2,000 yuan
1 tael = 1000 wen (one copper coin) = 200 yuan
1 text = 0.2 yuan
1 stone = 10 buckets = 100 liters = 125 catties
1 liter of rice = 1.25 catties in modern times
1 stone rice = 0.5 taels of silver = 500 wen
Both: 1 bucket = 50 Wen 1 liter = 5 Wen is equivalent to 1 catty = 0.8 yuan
100,000 taels = 20 million RMB
1,000,000 taels = 200 million RMB
The above is just a convenient calculation, and it will change with the different markets in the article, just to let everyone have a concept, and don't take it seriously according to the party.