17. The day of reckoning is near
"Gelang, you didn't see what they looked like." As soon as Han Sanshi sat down, he began to describe them vividly.
People in Yuanzhou who thought Hong Jinglai was planning to take advantage of the disaster to make a fortune naturally began to change their attitudes significantly.
After all, he is our Qingtian master from the second class!
How could we not make the decision for our two shifts! We can't handle the rioters who got up to gather, and now we have nothing to do with the old, weak, sick and disabled? Since the food that was forcibly borrowed will most likely not be returned,
Then it's the same as scraping it back from the hands of the "obedient" people. It's all scraping anyway, there is no difference.
And Han Sanshi also adhered to Hong Jinglai's will and was "candid" with them. Hong Jinglai wanted to take the blame and take the blame, so the lion opened his mouth and 60% of the profits had to be pocketed. And the reason was very good.
, the money was returned to Hanyang, and half of it had to be given to Jin Zuchun, Park Zongqing and other big bosses. Otherwise, Hong Jinglai would definitely not be able to keep his position, and he might be found guilty.
I’m not afraid that your price will be high, I’m just afraid that you won’t ask for it!
When the village officials in Yuanzhou heard this, they thought that Hong Jinglai was really "cruel" and was cruel to the common people, and he was also cruel to them, the rural yangban. It was indeed in line with the aloof character and style of the Beijing gentry, and it was absolutely true.
Quite happy!
Let's talk. Kong Shangxuan and others were aggrieved and poor. They said that all the industries outside the city had been taken away by Yu Junze. Just these shops in the city had grain and rice. Each family had hundreds of people waiting for the rice to be cooked. Everyone was worried.
Having a hard time.
Superintendent, you are so generous, why don't you take 40%? In addition, there is a separate small gift, no need to open an account, just treat it as a souvenir from us rural classes.
We went back and forth, arguing for a while, and finally it was said that Hong Jinglai took away 45% of the profit. Of course Han Sanseok looked like he had taken advantage of you, and Kong Sangxuan and the others were also in a bleeding mood, but in the end they were sitting on it
After taking a boat, the relationship suddenly became closer.
Grain was originally just the rent they collected from tenants and common people. If the fixed property factor of land was put aside, their rice would not have been spent at all. And the grain purchased by rice shops in the city,
It wasn't bought for five hundred yuan and one stone. Everyone knows what it was like during the autumn harvest in previous years.
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The description in Mr. Ye Shengtao's "Collecting Three or Five Dou More" is extremely vivid and realistic.
Those people wearing old felt hats came out of the boat early in the morning. When they arrived at the pier, they couldn't even breathe, so they came to the counter to divine their fate. "Five pieces of brown rice, three pieces of grain," said the gentleman in the rice shop.
answer them.
"What!" The old felt hat friend could hardly believe his ears. His high hopes suddenly sank, and everyone was stunned for a while.
"In June, don't you sell it for thirteen yuan?"
"We sold them for fifteen yuan, don't say thirteen yuan."
"No one has fallen so hard!"
"Don't you know what time it is now? The rice everywhere is pouring in like a tide, and it will fall in a few days!"
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When these shopkeepers harvested rice, they spent less than 200 yuan per stone. In the past, selling it for 500 yuan per stone was already one and a half times the profit. Now if they really sell it for 3,000 yuan per stone, they would laugh out of their dreams.
Sky-high price.
The control of food grains in the hands of the government and rural landlords is to force the poor people to spend all their wealth to find a way to survive. Not to mention frivolous wealth, clothes, furniture, farm tools, and cattle, which one is worthless?
After these are sold, there will still be fixed properties such as thatched houses and fields that can be sold. In the end, wives and children are just commodities.
I can sell it myself for a share of the money!
The whole Wonju is gearing up and preparing to join forces for a big fight. The grains and rice that were originally well hidden in private warehouses, as well as the rice shops that have been closed, are all like acne on the face of an adolescent boy.
Overnight, all the puffs and puffs burst out happily, and Hong Jingkan could see them all.
Hum hum…
You want to play the game of stopping buying with me and secretly hide the food tightly. You want to force Hong Jing to submit and help you, a bunch of rural landlords, to hunt down the victims who borrowed food and the people in the fish and meat place.
Miss peaches!
The master’s last move hasn’t started yet!
After three or four days, the disaster relief rice was almost exhausted. Only the porridge factory outside the city was left, which could barely supply a bowl of gruel to the victims every day. All the affordable disaster relief rice placed in the city had been sold out. If you want to survive,
To eat, you have to spend a lot of money to buy rice.
According to Hong Jinglai's instructions, all official warehouses and rice stores were closed. The ordinary people were unable to save any money due to the disaster, and they soon encountered obstacles and cried out in distress. The villagers were originally very puzzled and dissatisfied with the closure. Such a good thing
Why not do it when you get the chance to make money?
After four days when the people had no rice to buy, Hong Jinglai allowed the sale of grain and rice, and the market was full of hungry people. When they first saw official rice being sold in the official warehouse, not only was it mixed with sand and gravel, but a bucket of rice actually cost three hundred yuan.
Almost unbelievable.
What happened to the imperial envoy who looked like Mr. Qingtian at the beginning? Didn’t he care about the common people like them?
However, Hong Jinglai had already retreated to the administrative office, and the soldiers of the town camp were waiting. The people who had no way to seek help could only turn to the rice shop of the township team. To their surprise, the rice in the rice shop of the township team only cost 250 yuan a bucket.
The money is actually cheaper than the official warehouse.
Although it was equally expensive, the hungry people were forced to accept the price and flocked to various rice shops to buy rations and seek a way to survive.
Only then did Kong Shangxuan and others understand that Hong Jinglai was really wise! Starve the people for a few days, wait until their food reserves are completely exhausted, and only open the shop when all they can think about is eating a hot meal. That would really mean making money every day.
As Hong Jinglai was still upright and upright, I didn't want to take the money he earned, but distributed it to the local officials in Yuanzhou. After all, part of the rice sold was their salary.
Hong Jinglai is an imperial envoy and will leave in a few months. Some of these lower-level officials and servants in the yamen will work in the local area for the rest of their lives. Since Hong Jinglai does not want to share profits for the time being, the shopkeepers are naturally willing to give money to these officials first.
Servant.
They are all working in the Yuanzhou store, and there will be many days of dealing with them in the future. Since Hong Jinglai is willing to be a good person, they have nothing to say.
And when these officials and servants got the money, they were very happy. They had no psychological burden to give money to the poor. And when they met such an easy-to-talk imperial minister like Hong Jinglai, they felt a sudden sense of life.
For three days in a row, the rice store was packed with customers, and the officials in Yuanzhou Township shared their money day and night, making a fortune.
Hong Jinglai was scratching his fingers, and the relief rice was perfunctory for four days, and he dragged it out by force for four days. The rural class landlords had a carnival of fish and meat for three days.
Chapter completed!