Most of them only accept real gold and silver transactions. If people from the government use Daming treasure money to buy, they will lie and claim that they have no grain.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Ying asked: "Grandpa, how many stones of grain have been prepared for this famine in Henan?"

Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment and stretched out three fingers.

Zhu Ying frowned and said: "Three hundred thousand dan is not enough, but it can solve the urgent need. However, more food will need to be mobilized in the future to stabilize the current situation."

"It's not enough in terms of food alone, plague..."

Before Zhu Ying could continue to speak, he was interrupted by Zhu Yuanzhang, who said helplessly: "It's not 300,000 shi, it's 30,000 shi."

"What!"

Zhu Ying exclaimed and stood up from her seat.

What can we do with 30,000 shi of grain? Isn't it just watching the people of Henan starve to death? From transportation to mobilization, it will take at least half a month.

Moreover, it can be seen from the memorial that the famine has been going on for nearly half a month, and this has already reached the limit of the victims.

Many people will definitely starve to death along the way, but with enough food in hand, most of the people will still be able to survive.

But how long will these 30,000 shi be enough to last? No matter how thin the porridge is, it will definitely not be able to sustain the arrival of the next wave of food.

By then, the number of people who have starved to death will truly be littered with corpses.

Those people who are extremely hungry may even roast their corpses and eat them. This is hell on earth!

"Why don't we know? We are also people who came out of the famine. Thirty thousand dan of grain may not be enough for the whole of Henan. A few bowls of gruel per capita may not be enough."

"Over at the Banking Bureau, we have asked them to print treasure banknotes. The current thirty thousand shi of grain is still the limit that the Ministry of Household Affairs can mobilize."

Zhu Yuanzhang said heartbrokenly that the people in Henan were all his people. Seeing them starving to death, Zhu Yuanzhang felt very uncomfortable.

Zhu Ying was silent for a moment, then called Ye Yueqing who was outside.

"I'm waiting at the Chamber of Commerce in Ming Dynasty. How much food and grain is there that can be mobilized? All of it, I mean all of it, all of the money and food!"

Zhu Ying asked Ye Yueqing.

Ye Yueqing didn't hesitate at all and said directly: "Two million guan of treasure notes, more than 870,000 taels of silver, and about 1.6 million gu of grain."

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing by, had his eyes wide open and looked at Ye Yueqing in disbelief, even suspecting that he had heard wrongly.

He knew that his eldest son was rich, but he never thought that his eldest son was so rich.

The fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty last year was very high. If Zhu Yuanzhang remembered correctly, the annual income was only more than three million taels.

The eldest grandson is just a businessman, but the liquid silver he controls is more than half of the Ming Dynasty's treasury's annual income. This is simply too exaggerated.

This was something Zhu Yuanzhang had never thought of.

The most critical one is 1.6 million shi of food.

This is more than five times more than the grain mobilized by the Ministry of Revenue.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that this sounded a bit exaggerated. In fact, the grain currently controlled by the Ministry of Revenue was far more than 30,000 shi, and even three million shi was available.

It's just that these grains are the amount that can be mobilized on the premise of ensuring the capital and other disaster-stricken areas.

It is impossible to ignore the Henan area and other disaster-stricken areas, and the officials and people in the capital will not eat. This will only make the entire Ming Dynasty turbulent.

After Zhu Ying listened, he made some calculations in his mind, and then said solemnly:

"According to my instructions, in addition to ensuring two months of personnel expenses, the rest of the mobile money will be used to purchase food and send it to Henan for disaster relief."

"My grain merchants used all the grain reserves and sent the rest while ensuring that they could eat."

"In addition, in the name of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, we will lend grain to all transactions, as much as we can. The interest rate does not matter, as long as we can borrow the grain."

"We must prepare enough food in the shortest possible time to alleviate the famine in Henan."

Zhu Ying only paused for a moment before continuing: "There is also a question about medicinal materials. Immediately mobilize all the doctors from the Chamber of Commerce to start studying the situation of the plague. We must work out a usable prescription in the shortest possible time."

"According to the prescription, send all relevant medicinal materials to the plague areas in Henan."
Chapter completed!