"There is a bit of a reason for this, but not much, after all, things like Lantern Festival can be made all year round, even if the price increases, it will only increase by a penny."

"The price increase this time is mainly because the price of rice has risen a bit in the past two days, if you don't sell it at such a high price, I'm afraid it won't even be enough for the capital."

The vendor sighed as he spoke, "Just in the past two days, things have happened suddenly, and many people who have not bought food in the past few days do not know the inside story, so they say that the price of my Lantern Festival has risen sharply, and I am doing black-hearted trading, but even if it rises like this, I don't make any money, it's just hard money."

In the past, a bowl of eight yuan was sold for three yuan, but now it is sold for fifteen yuan, and a bowl only earns two yuan, and the number of sales is suddenly reduced......

And to be scolded.

The vendor said that he was suffering, and he didn't want to complain too much about the diners, so he shook his head helplessly, and then put the white and fat Lantern Festival into the pot, and added a piece of firewood to the stove.

Taking advantage of the vendor's efforts to cook the Lantern Festival, Su Yujin first sandwiched a piece of rice cake into the entrance, "The price of food has risen so fast these days?"

"I heard about the rise in grain prices yesterday, and I asked everywhere overnight, and this increase in grain prices is not because of the rise in grain everywhere, only in the capital and several nearby states and capitals." He Yanxiu replied.

"Why is this happening?" Su Yujin was a little puzzled.

Normally, the capital and its nearby prefectures and prefectures are the areas with the most stable grain prices, because of the annual taxes, a large amount of official grain will be transported into the granaries near the capital to deal with possible wars or disasters at any time.

In the event of a shortage of food near the capital, in order to ensure stability in the vicinity of the capital, the government will open the grain and sell the official grain at a weekday price to ensure the supply of grain, and at the same time prevent black-hearted businessmen from taking the opportunity to harm the people.

It can be said that the price of grain here is more stable than that of the two lakes region, which is rich in grain.

"Some people buy a lot of grain in the prefectures and capitals near the capital, and they do it at a high price." He Yanxiu replied, "This price is extremely high, half higher than the price of grain on weekdays, and no matter how much, whoever comes will not refuse, the grain will be weighed on the spot, and the silver will be settled on the spot."

"Many people think that the price is very reasonable, so they start selling the grain they have at home, and some even want to make a profit from it, buy the grain from unsuspecting grain shops and sell it to these people who buy food at a high price."

"But even though the price is high, it is just the Chinese New Year, and there are still five months before the grain harvest, many people are worried about the grain harvest problem, and they still refuse to sell the grain, and the grain collectors see that they do not receive much food, so they simply raise the price again."

"As a result, many people became very worried, and they only felt that something had happened, and the grain became very expensive, so the people stopped selling it, but began to buy it in reverse."

"As a result, there is a shortage of food in the capital and its nearby states and capitals, and prices have risen, but the household department has already had a corresponding strategy here."

Seeing He Yanxiu say this, Su Yujin nodded slightly.

After a while, he asked, "Why do people suddenly collect grain at a high price?"

And it's also during the Chinese New Year.

"The person who collected the grain at a high price has been found and is being interrogated." He Yan cultivated, "When I found him, the reason he gave him was the good wine of the master's family, but he felt that he had never found good wine in the world, so he thought of digging his own cellar to make wine, so he needed to buy a large amount of grain in order to make a good wine."

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The taste is rich, and the red bean paste is mellow and soft......

The most important thing is to eat two people together, and exchange one or two with each other from time to time, which can be described as doubling the sweetness!

The sweet Lantern Festival was eaten for two whole days.

From time to time, it was mixed with some side food.

What fried noodles and fruits, peanut cheese, purple sweet potato glutinous rice balls, pumpkin sesame balls, fried milk, baked dried apples......

He Yanxiu felt that the sweetness of these days could be said to be seriously exceeded!

Of course, there is also the excess weight.

When he was in office after the resumption of the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, He Yanxiu attracted everyone's attention when he appeared in the morning on the first day.

Even officials who don't have much intersection on weekdays are looking sideways at this time.

Even An Guogong was stunned for a while, and after a while, he patted He Yanxiu's shoulder and smiled, "It is said that after a man gets married, because he has a happy life and a virtuous wife, most of them will be blessed, but you have never been married yet, so it is already like this, can you pay it back after you get married?"

He Yanxiu, who was teased, could only smile vigorously at this time, and even tried hard to take a breath, trying not to let go of his belt that was so easy to tighten at this time, so as to avoid revealing his belly, which was already slightly protruding.

Greed really comes at a price!

You can't be lazy in your daily morning exercise!

However, before planning to lose weight, He Yanxiu first went to check the interrogation status of the matter of purchasing grain at a high price.

Because this matter is quite involved, the emperor personally spoke, and the criminal department and the household department supervised it together.

Qian Shilang of the Criminal Department greeted He Yanxiu and brought the file to him to see, "After several days of interrogation, he brought Ding Maohe, the master of the family, as he said, for questioning, and everyone said that their rhetoric was very unanimous, only saying that they wanted to dig a big wine cellar for wine making on a whim."

"As for why he bought so much grain and gave such a high price to collect it, it is because when Ding Maohe told someone that he wanted to make a winery, some people ridiculed him for just relying on his family's ancestral property to eat and drink, and squandering extravagantly, but in fact he was a useless straw bale, and this winery must not be able to make it."

"Ding Maohe thought that he had suffered great humiliation, and he wanted to let the people who laughed at him take a good look, he was rich and more capable, so when he collected grain, in order to be able to buy it smoothly, the price was quite high, and even those short-term workers who were responsible for transporting grain were paid higher wages than ordinary people."

"I have personally asked Ding Maohe's friends and the Ding family, and there is indeed such a thing, and according to what Ding Maohe said, I have indeed found the winery he is preparing at this time, and everything seems to be fine."

"And Ding Maohe is also a little famous in the capital, the ancestor of the Ding family is an imperial businessman, and his family background is quite thick, this Ding Maohe has been pampered by his family since he was a child, and he does things without considering the consequences, as long as he is happy, he doesn't care about the amount of money."