After Jiang Wanning left, Qin Bochong had to enter the palace to meet the saint, and only Qin Siyue's mother and daughter were left in the house.

"Mother, how much spare money do you have on hand?"

Zhang Shi said vigilantly: "What are you asking for?" ”

"You know about Prince Suhe, right?"

"Yes!"

"Now everyone is saying that Dayuan and Daqi may soon go to war, and the price of food in the city has begun to rise, one price per hour, you think, when the news reaches the north, then the north must not be chaotic? Moreover, I heard that the harvest in the north is not good this year, and there will definitely be a shortage of grain at that time, and ordinary merchants do not dare to transport grain to the north, because if there is chaos, the money will not be earned, and I am afraid that I will not be able to save my life. ”

Zhang frowned: "What exactly do you want to say?" ”

Qin Siyue's eyes lit up: "Mother, don't you think this is a good opportunity to make money?" Others don't dare to transport grain to the north, we don't have to be afraid, Lu Shanshan came to me early this morning, she was going to transport 50,000 loads of grain over, and asked me if I wanted to go together, now the price of grain in Dunzhou and Yunzhou is almost two taels and one stone, and it may rise several times at that time, as long as the grain is transported over, it will be like picking up silver for nothing. ”

Zhang's is quite excited, even if it only doubles, it is very considerable.

Seeing that her mother was moved, Qin Siyue made persistent efforts: "Mother, this trip is worth the rent we have collected for several years, I don't have much spare money on hand, and it's a pity that this opportunity is wasted, so I came to ask you, you have to make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise the price of grain will rise wildly here, and then we will make no profit if we transport it to the north." ”

Qin Siyue really didn't have much money in her hand, and Xiao Wang didn't have a lot of money, so she was ready to borrow money, and she had already raised 30,000 taels.

"Are you sure this business is safe and secure?"

"Mother, now the commander of the north is Uncle Lu, Lu Shanshan said, when the grain is transported, I will ask Uncle Lu to send troops to protect it, and it can't be safer."

Zhang gritted his teeth: "I'll move around, make up 10,000 taels for you, and I'll ask your aunt again to see how much she can make." ”

"Mother, can you ask your aunt directly if it's good to borrow it? When the time comes, calculate more interest for her. "If you have money to earn yourself, your aunt won't lose anything.

Zhang thought about it, and it was right, that is, to borrow it for a few days.

In the evening, Qin Siyue finally collected 50,000 taels of silver and handed it over to Lu Shanshan.

repeatedly advised: "You have to promise to make money, but I took out all my mother's private money." ”

Lu Shanshan patted her chest and packed the ticket: "Don't worry, it's a matter of earning more and earning less, but it's a pity that I know it late, and so does the prince, I will reveal the news to you earlier, let's act sooner, and we will make a lot of money." ”

Qin Siyue resented in her heart, how could Xiao Wang tell her about such a big matter, let alone a big thing, even a small thing Xiao Wang would not tell her, although they are husband and wife, they are very unfamiliar, and they really respect each other like ice.

"It's a matter of confidentiality, how can the prince reveal it at will, how much is the price of grain in the capital now?"

Lu Shanshan said gloomily: "It's still one or two five dollars and a stone this morning, I heard that someone is collecting a lot of grain, and they have forcibly raised the price of grain, and now it's almost three taels and one stone." ”

"But don't worry, even if it's three taels and one stone, it's no problem to earn twice as much when it is transported to the north."

Seeing what Lu Shanshan said, Qin Siyue's heart was hot, as if he had seen his small treasury become full.

In the evening, Wen Liu came to report.

"Little lady, the food will be raised tomorrow, there is not so much food in the capital, I asked people to go to the surrounding towns to raise it, and when the food is ready tomorrow, I will set off immediately."

"Uncle Wen, thank you for your hard work, you go and bring Zhou Li and Zhu Sheng this time, it's not safe over there, bring more people, everything is about safety, and money is something outside the body."

Uncle Wen smiled and said: "Little lady, don't worry, Lao Yang and I have both traveled from south to north, and we have seen all kinds of battles, I can handle it." ”

Jiang Wanning smiled and gave Uncle Wen a tip: "When you encounter difficulties, Uncle Wen can take a look." ”

As he was talking, Qingxing came to report: "Lady, Master Gu is here." ”

Wen Liu gave Gu Zhou a stop and left first, Jiang Wanning asked Gu Zhou to stop and ask him if he had eaten dinner?

Gu Zhou didn't speak, and his face was not very good-looking.

Jiang Wanning said with concern: "What difficulties have you encountered?" ”

Gu Zhou stopped to look at her sideways and hesitated, "Your people are collecting grain?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Wanning admitted frankly.

"The people in the capital are already panicking, and you are collecting grain so aggressively, which has caused more and more panic, and the price of grain has doubled today, and I don't know how much it will rise tomorrow."

Jiang Wanning: "The price of grain in the capital rises again, after all, it is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it is easy to control, and the grain stored in the capital is enough to cope with the food shortage, but the situation in the north is different, those big households are all from deep backgrounds, who can pull out the grain from them?" As far as I know, several large-scale grain merchants in the north are from large households, and they are so kind to sell grain at a reasonable price? ”

I remember that a few years ago, the military salaries of the imperial court could not be paid for a long time, there was a shortage of food in the army, and the soldiers were hungry to defend the frontier and fight with the people of Dayuan hungry.

My father had no choice but to borrow grain from large households in the north, but he refused to borrow a grain of grain.

In the end, she thought of a way to bring the children of these big families together, create contradictions, and let them fight. Then he took them all and wanted to take them back and ransom them with food.

This is the solution to the urgent need.

"The war may not be fought, but when the news spreads, there will be chaos in the north, I heard that the harvest in the north is not good this year, and I don't know how many people will starve to death by then?"

Gu Zhou stopped: "So, the grain you bought here is to be transported to the north to solve the grain shortage over there?" ”

"Yes, there are already 100,000 loads of grain on the way, and tomorrow there are 40,000 loads to set off for the north, and I also sent a letter to the third elder brother who is about to arrive in the capital, asking him to raise food locally, as much as he can raise, and it would be good if he could starve to death one less."

Gu Zhouzhu originally thought that she wanted to take the opportunity to make a lot of money, after all, she is now a businessman. Unexpectedly, what she was thinking about was how to help the people in the north.

It's that he's narrow-minded.

Gu Zhou stopped pursing his dry lips and said, "Actually, the imperial court has already considered it, and at that time, it will send people over to stabilize the situation, there is a shortage of food, and the imperial court will also distribute disaster relief food." ”

Jiang Wanning sighed silently, she knew the situation in the north best, the people sent by the imperial court didn't work to talk, and the relief food was not to be counted on. When did the imperial court allocate disaster relief food and disaster relief money to the people? Layer upon layer, it would be good if two percent could be used on the people.

"Until a large number of people starve to death, the imperial court will not allocate relief food." Jiang Wanning said.

Gu Zhou stopped talking, and had to admit that what she said was the truth.

Unless there is starvation all over the country, and the situation is serious enough to provoke a popular uprising, those ministers in the court and the central government will not agree to allocate disaster relief money, not to mention that now that the treasury is empty, the annual tribute to Daeyuan is already a heavy burden.

"The imperial court has the methods of the imperial court, and the merchants have the way of merchants, but it really can't be done, I will personally go to the north." Jiang Wanning said.

(End of chapter)