This time Wancheng Taishou met with the big households, which can be described as a joy for the guests and hosts. Chen Qiu received the food needed to relieve the displaced people, and the big families found too little to eat. If you want to say who loses, this is the wise man sees the wise and the benevolent sees the benevolent.

After all the big families left, Chen Qiu took Zhang Yang to Liu Mansion to find Liu Zongzheng, preparing to copy a list of too empty food.

The big families came to a restaurant to discuss today's affairs.

As soon as everyone sat down, someone shouted accusations: "Okay, you Wang barley, just now you actually ignored the common advance and retreat we said in order to please Lord Taishou, how can it be unreasonable, I want to cut off your robe and break off your righteousness!" ”

Others also unanimously denounced, "Wang Yan, you have gone too far this time. ”

There is no way, I will have to mix in the circle of Wancheng in the future, Wang Lu can only keep apologizing, "Everyone, you know that you are wrong, forgive me." ”

At this time, a middle-aged man with a wide body and a fat body stopped everyone: "Forget it, it's not all his fault for today's incident, we really have eyes and don't know gold and jade, and we almost missed this delicious Taixu food." ”

This person's name is Zhou Ming, the word is awake, a person from Champion County, and he has some means in Wancheng, and there are channels for buying and selling salt, iron and grain. Therefore, everyone was still very face-saving about his words, and let Wang Barley go for the time being.

Wang Barley also had the foresight, and ran to Zhou Ming and arched his hand: "Thank you Brother Zhou Xing for relieving the siege, I am grateful!" ”

Zhou Ming nodded at him, and said again: "Other things will be put aside for the time being, let's study how to give this food first?" ”

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted: "How else can I give, of course I have given all the beans, is it possible that you want to donate millet rice?" ”

When the other big families heard this, they immediately frowned and thought about it.

In this era, corn was the superior food, soya beans were a cheap food, and even wheat rice was rarely eaten.

Because people at this time had not yet discovered the correct way to eat wheat and soybeans, they were generally cooked and eaten directly with water. Not only are the wheat and soybeans not easily cooked, wasting wood, but they are also difficult to swallow and difficult to digest.

In fact, this can't blame them for being stupid, after all, since ancient times, the ancestors have used grains as their main food.

Speaking of these five grains, we have to mention rice and hemp two crops, because the economic and cultural center of the ancestors in the Yellow River Valley, the main production area of rice in the south, and the north rice is limited, so the five grains originally did not have rice, referring to hemp, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean.

Later, with the expansion of the range of activities of the ancestors, rice slowly became the main food of people in the southern region, replacing the role of hemp, and becoming one of the five grains, at this time the five grains refer to rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean.

Although hemp has lost its status as a grain, it still has an irreplaceable role in agricultural production. Hemp seeds are used to extract oil, mainly as lamp oil.

The bark of the stem of hemp can be made into hemp rope, linen clothes, sacks, etc., which is very durable. The peeled stems can be used as firewood or to build houses.

Therefore, the main food of people at this time is rice, millet, millet, wheat, and soybean, and hemp is used as an auxiliary crop, and it can also be eaten when there is a shortage of food.

The rice in these grains refers to japonica rice and glutinous rice, and the rice that people talk about daily is actually japonica rice, commonly known as rice.

Millet refers to millet yellow rice and millet millet, which were also the main food of people in this era.

Millet refers to sorghum, that is, straw, which has an irreplaceable role in people's daily life.

There are many kinds of wheat, such as wheat, barley, oats, buckwheat, etc., but the wheat that people often talk about in daily life refers to wheat, but at this time, pasta was not popular, and wheat was not treated well by the people.

There are also many kinds of soybeans, such as soybeans, red beans, black beans, peas, broad beans, eyebrow beans, etc., although there are many beans, but they are the most unpopular among the people. Especially soybeans, which are often referred to as soybeans, because soybeans are difficult to digest, and they are prone to flatulence if they eat too much.

Therefore, in daily transactions, millet is the most expensive, and soybean beans are the cheapest.

This person wants to exchange all the donated grain for soybean beans, and these big households are all in favor of raising their hands, but they have just had a conflict with Taishou Chen Qiu, if they are all given soybean beans, it is estimated that the relationship that has just eased will become tense again.

Therefore, after thinking for a long time, Zhou Ming said: "This matter is extremely inappropriate, let's pay the grain according to the ratio of rice two, millet one, millet three, wheat four, and soybean five." ”

The other big families thought about it for a while, and felt that it was best to do this, and he Chen Qiu couldn't find fault with it.

Wang Lu also said with admiration: "Brother Zhou Xing is still thoughtful, and I am willing to take Brother Zhou Xing's head as the leader." ”

Other big families also chimed in: "I wish to be headed by Zhou Ming!" ”

Zhou Ming smiled and excused himself, but in the end, he couldn't bear everyone's enthusiasm and reluctantly agreed.

Because they were still thinking about the delicious food they had eaten, everyone discussed it for a while, and then they went home to prepare.

On Chen Qiu's side, things were not going well, because Liu Zongzheng was unwilling to let him copy this too empty pasta.

"My Lord Zongzheng, now there is only so much food in Wancheng, and the county Cheng Guo Chi does not deal with the mansion and does not let the grain in the treasury of the mansion be moved. Although the food collected by this government seems to be a lot, it is far from enough to be distributed to the homeless, and it will last for three or five days at most! Chen Qiu continued to persuade bitterly, "If Zong Zheng is willing to record the Taixu Food List, this matter of the displaced people will be easily solved!" ”

Liu Zongzheng looked at Chen Qiu and said: "Now that the national crisis is at hand, everyone should be in the same boat." A certain promised to give the Wu family kid food so that he could relieve the homeless, and there should be a lot of food at home of other powerful people in the city, why are you staring at me alone! ”

"If the magnates are like Lord Zongzheng to help the displaced people free of charge, why should this government pray hard and ask for troubles! Last year was a year of great drought, and the families could not provide much food, not to mention that they were unwilling to help the displaced people. Chen Qiu said.

"How unreasonable!" Liu Zongzheng suddenly took the case, his eyes flashed with heavy anger, and said: "On weekdays, I enjoy the high-ranking officials given by the imperial court, and when the people suffer, but they don't know how to solve the problems for the country, what is the use of such people staying, they are all reduced to ordinary people!" ”

Chen Qiu hurriedly persuaded: "Don't worry, Zongzheng, it's not a critical time yet, and it's normal for the magnates to look forward to it." ”

Seeing that his mood was more stable, he continued: "The plan now is to just record the Taixu food slip in Zongzheng's hand to the big households in Wancheng, and they will donate food, and the matter of the displaced people will be stable!" ”

Liu Zongzheng glared at Chen Qiu: "With the problem of this homeless people, this Zongzheng alone will be affected, and you are also a dime a dime!" ”

Chen Qiu Zhengse said: "Righteousness and righteousness, how can we compare with people in the world." ”

Liu Zongzheng couldn't refute what he said, but he was extremely reluctant to take out those bamboo slips that recorded too empty food lists, gritted his teeth and said: "That is, you Chen Qiu is dedicated to the people, and if you change someone to persecute Ben Zongzheng like this, you have to beat him so that he can't get out of bed!" ”

Seeing Chen Qiu taking the bamboo slip with a happy face, Liu Zongzheng asked again: "Go and go back quickly, this is too empty food list, Ben Zongzheng is just in a hurry to browse it, and he hasn't had time to study it carefully, if something goes wrong, you should be too guarded!" ”

Chen Qiu held the bamboo slip, but said with a smile: "But please rest assured, Lord Zongzheng, after the transcription is completed, it will be returned immediately, besides, if it is lost, you can also find the Wu family boy to re-burn it!" ”

Chen Qiu left Liu's Mansion under Liu Zongzheng's beard-blowing glare, and returned to Taishou Mansion with Zhang Yang.

At this time, the big households in Wancheng began to send the promised 100 stone grain one after another, Chen Qiu instructed Zhang Yang to receive the statistics, and he recruited several documents to copy the food list.

After a while, Zhang Yang came over and said, "My lord, the grain sent by the big households, among them, soybean is the most, wheat is second, and millet is the least. ”

Chen Qiu closed his eyes and thought for a while, before he sighed: "If they can do this, what else can this mansion do, if they are forced to make a fuss, everyone's faces will be gloomy." ”

Then Chen Qiu sneered: "But this time they really steal chickens and rice, these pasta are made of wheat, this year, the people's seeds of wheat are less, and they donate so much, it is estimated that it is difficult for them to have a surplus at home, presumably after reading the food list for a while, they will have to change it back in a hurry." ”

Zhang Yang also smiled at this time: "Lord, this time we have to blackmail them, we can't let them go as easily as the city wall did last time." ”

Chen Qiu shook his head, "No, although they have collided with this mansion, they can donate 100 stones of grain to help the displaced people, which can be regarded as loyal, we can't go too far!" ”

Zhang Yang nodded, and then followed Chen Qiu's instructions to invite those big families to come in and discuss the practice of eating too little in exchange for food.

In this era, pasta and stir-fried vegetables have not yet appeared, and people's material enjoyment is extremely limited, even if it is the emperor, three meals a day, in addition to eating a richer variety, the practice is steamed, boiled, fried, stewed, and broiled, which is no different from ordinary people.

Therefore, when the big households saw the pasta that Chen Qiu copied in his hand, they couldn't believe that there were so many foods in this world that they had not eaten, and they had lived half their lives in vain.

These sorrow-relieving buns, flower rolls, dumplings, xiaolongbao, rice noodles, egg cakes, fried buns, green onion cakes, etc., just by looking at the name, they swallow their saliva and can't wait to eat it in their mouths immediately.

At this time, they unanimously agreed that it was too cost-effective to exchange two stones of grain for too much food.

They scrambled to say that they wanted to get all the food on the food list, for fear of missing this opportunity.

However, when they got the practice of eating too much, these big households made a mistake again, because they thought that wheat food was low, so they were willing to donate wheat food, although it only accounted for 40% of the donated grain, but as Chen Qiu thought, wheat food was low, so they planted less.

Now if they want to get the wheat, they have to exchange it for Chen Qiu.

Everyone hesitated for a long time before someone bowed to Chen Qiu and said, "Xiaomin is willing to exchange two stones of millet for one stone of wheat, I wonder if the adults can agree?" ”

This is really shooting yourself in the foot, and wheat food is not well received, so there are few people who grow wheat. They also do not know how long they have been saving to get these wheat in their daily transactions, and now the wheat at home has been donated, and they have to double it back, and their hearts are dripping blood.

However, there is one exception, that is Wang Barley, this time he is really glad, he kept an eye on it, and donated 100 stones of grain to millet the most, wheat food and soybean beans together donated less than 10%.

Chen Qiu didn't pinch them this time, and agreed without even thinking about it, he couldn't imagine that he could deduct so much millet from these big households.

Compared with other foods, the most important thing for the homeless people is millet rice, which is easy to cook and can withstand hunger.

It can really be said that there is a providence in the dark, as if all this was arranged by God, but it's a pity that there are so many beans.

Chen Qiu thought to himself: "It would be nice if these beans could also be exchanged for millet rice!" ”