Chapter 225: My Lord, Times Have Changed
Xu Chengyue didn't believe that the gentry in the city would not use their connections within the court to eradicate the Qiongzhou group training!
What he was thinking about was how to make good use of the fish that Qiongzhou Tuanlian brought back next time!
It's not that Xu Chengyue has no conscience when he crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, but he knows the temperament of this group of gentry in Ningbo, and understands that this Qiongzhou group training is bound to end!
Even Xu Chengyue has already made up his mind in his heart that when the disaster in Ningbo is alleviated and the food from other places is transferred, even if he fights for the black yarn hat or even his life, he has to go to the court to protect Dangyang Bo Song Ying'an and Cangwu County male Zhao Hengyi!
As for the Qiongzhou group training, Xu Chengyue has no hope.
How much energy those gentry have after huddling, Xu Chengyue has a deep understanding.
As the aroma of cooking large yellow croaker permeated all over Ningbo, the crazy rise in grain prices came to an abrupt end as if someone had smashed a stick on the head.
Today's grain market has been forcibly pulled into a stalemate stage, which belongs to the category of psychological games.
Ordinary people who had no food in their hands drank the mellow fish soup with tears in their eyes, and ate the nutritious fish, even if it was not easy to preserve and could not meet the food needs of the whole family for three whole days, but after all, they would not starve to death.
Those who ate on the first day were full, those who were full on the second day, those who were finished on the third day, and those who were hungry for a day.
The family is poor, we can only eat a penny a pound of big yellow croaker, we can't afford to eat dozens of dollars a pound of rice grain, we will stay up, we will be hungry, anyway, the Qiongzhou group practice that sells fish said that it will be back in three days at most...... If those people in Qiongzhou were faster, maybe they would come back with countless big yellow croakers on the third day, and then they wouldn't have to be hungry for even a day!
And the grain merchant rice store waited silently, waiting for three days after the Qiongzhou regiment training and could not come back!
By that time, the price of food will have to increase at least three or four times!
This is the fate of those poor haha who don't know each other!
Food prices will rise faster and more dramatically than in other disaster years, knocking them into the abyss before everyone reacts!
Even if three days later, the Qiongzhou group practice can come back, then it doesn't matter.
The imperial court will soon have a will, and the Qiongzhou regimental training will inevitably be unlucky with their leader, the Laoshizi Cangwu County men's regimental training envoy, and when the time comes, it is still unclear what the fate of these people is, where can they continue to fish?
If it really lasts for so long, it is very likely that food prices will rise to the top all of a sudden, and then there is no possibility of falling back!
Selling children, selling daughters, selling themselves? Hehehe, someone has to ask for it!
In this way, it doesn't matter whether the Qiongzhou regiment comes back after three days of training, for the ignorant people in the city, it is nothing more than a return to the light before death!
The people, the grain merchants, and the gentry looked at each other as bad pens, and cursed silently in their hearts, and everything would be known in three days!
Xu Chengyue began to raise money, and he wanted to buy the big yellow croaker he could buy in three days, as for how to preserve it...... Why don't you try smoking?
Salting, first, it's too late, and second, it's really not that financial.
In the strange atmosphere where everyone was waiting silently, Ruochang and Ruoyi returned to Ningbo Port ahead of schedule!
It was still full of catches, it was still the price of a penny and a catty, and the people of the whole city flocked to it, and the merchants, who no longer cared about what the gentry would think, also heard the news...... Even if these big yellow croakers are not sold by themselves, the people can eat them after all, so why not make a profit?
Xu Chengyue, who hadn't figured out how to preserve the big yellow croaker for a long time, was told by Song Ying'an, who came to the door on purpose, that the government did not need to hoard the big yellow croaker, and it would not take three days in the future......
The pomp caused by the method of tapping on the sea, as well as the matter of selling fish in Ningbo Port, Song Ying'an sent someone to summon Zhao Hengyi.
As a result, Zhao Caidong directly took action and bought two large ships like horse boats from the Tang family.
This kind of boat takes into account both rapid water warfare and transportation, which is extremely practical, Zhao Hengyi asked people to drive directly from the Tangjia wharf, and sent them to the offshore waters of Ningbo to start a fishing career in shifts.
And Ruochang Ruoyi, that new sea boat, which is similar to a horse boat, can also hold nearly 500,000 catties of fish per boat!
Because the two new sea ships were in a hurry, they didn't have time to name the six little ones, but Zhao Hengyi first let the remaining four little sisters draw lots, and the winner had to think of a majestic name in advance, so he couldn't keep naming the six little ones, right?
The youngest Miao Xiaofang and the fifth Miao Xiaojuan were lucky and won the lottery, and the two little girls had something to worry about, and they had to use their little brains every day to think of a majestic name for the new sea ship.
Xu Chengyue shared his worries and carefully explained the energy of the gentry in Ningbo, but Song Yingan just listened with a smile, and finally expressed considerable disdain.
"Lord Xu, and put your heart in your stomach, my virtuous brother and Qiongzhou can't do anything with the group training!"
At this moment, Song Ying'an remembered Zhao Hengyi's eloquent demeanor in front of him, and couldn't help laughing, "Don't say that in the imperial court, no one will embarrass our two brothers, even if there is, what can it be?"
My lord, times have changed. ”
Xu Chengyue couldn't understand why Zhao Hengyi and Song Yingan were not afraid of the court's condemnation at all...... As for the times that have changed, Xu Chengyue is like a cool breeze blowing, and he doesn't dare to remember it in his heart...... Although this official is a nest made by officials, he has no plans to rebel!
Subsequently, the Qiongzhou Tuanlian from Sanya Bay was really as Song Ying'an said, every other day a boat full of big yellow croaker docked, not to mention that the people in the city would not starve to death, and even many merchants had begun to make dried fish to sell farther away.
However, the gentry in the city, as if they had been spelled, were silent one by one, making Xu Chengyue incomprehensible.
It wasn't until the imperial court finally sent the inner servants and the will that Xu Chengyue understood that the general trend had been decided!
The imperial court sent people to reward Xu Chengyue, the Yin of Ningbo Mansion, who did not let the people starve to death due to disasters, a great achievement, a model for officials!
With the arrival of this award, the price of grain and rice in Ningbo began to quietly decline.
But as if hundreds of thousands of people had made an agreement, the price of grain had dropped, and still no one bought it...... Our small families are poor and can't afford to eat food, so we can only eat fatty and mellow yellow croaker to keep ourselves from starving to death......
The grain merchant Mi Xing almost vomited blood!
Everyone doesn't eat grain and sells grain, what should we do with the grain that was hoarded in the warehouse at a high price? These things also have a cost!
After a few days, the price of grain in the city has fallen back to the normal level at this time of the previous year, but there are still very few people willing to buy grain.
At this time, the price of grain was far lower than the cost of grain merchants to stock up on grain!
And as soon as someone starts selling it, an avalanche-like price reduction begins......
The gentry looked at the moldy grain at home, and while tearfully fighting the price war and selling it, they raised money and participated in the business derived from the big yellow croaker...... No matter how much you hate Zhao Hengyi and Qiongzhou group practice, you can't get along with Yinzi!