Making fortune from disaster

Li Jinshu raised his head and looked at Tianyu. He felt very comfortable. He nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, everything is ready. It is enough for the people in the city to survive for a few more days. Where are the supplies now?"

"They have all been transported back to the mansion. They are being parked in the front hall and being looked after by Pei Dianjun's men. I wonder what the eldest lady is going to do with them?"

Tianyu bowed and replied, lowering his eyes and waiting for Li Jinshu's instructions. Li Shiyao clenched his back molars in anger.

Why are the servants of the fifth family so obedient and capable, and they actually got all the things back? Wouldn't his plan be in vain?

No, we must not give in so easily!

Li Shiyao's eyes were fierce, but when he raised his head, he turned into another cold and arrogant expression: "What can we do even if we have these supplies? It's not like we are sitting on nothing, we will see the bottom in a few days!"

"Yes, although the eldest girl has good intentions and got so many supplies, she must have spent a lot of money and thought, but what my second brother said is not unreasonable. The population of Yishui County is larger than that of the neighboring countries. Although there are not many counties, compared with ordinary small counties, they are still not a handful."

After hearing Li Shiyao's question, Li Shijian's face, which had been slightly softer, returned to its previous worried look.

Even if the desolate city is as rich as the country and the world is rich, it may not be that easy to raise so much rice, grain, medicine and stone at one time around Yishui.

"What your two highnesses said is actually exactly where I feel frustrated."

He put his left hand in his sleeve and carried it behind his back. His right hand was placed in front of him and kept rubbing it. Ji Kangping's eyes were dark and his face was full of gloom.

Looking up at Li Shijian and Li Shiyao, Ji Kangping was in a dilemma and stopped talking.

Seeing Ji Kangping's expression, Li Shijian raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's difficult for Taigong Ji? Why don't you speak up?"

"Alas, Your Highness doesn't know something. Although Yishui County is poor, the harvests of other counties in Suzhou in recent years are quite impressive. I originally wanted to pay some rice grains from farmers in other counties, but Your Highness Guess what?"

Suddenly Ji Kangping asked him, Li Shijian looked confused, how could he know this?

Seeing Li Shijian's expression, Ji Kangping was not surprised. How could a prince who had never left the imperial city and grown up like a noble man know this?

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters often occur in an instant, and businessmen who are good at profit-seeking know how to seize business opportunities and make profits."

As Ji Kangping spoke, he took out a thick stack of notes from his arms, spread them out and held them in his hands, mocking himself: "This is the money raised by the official, several colleagues, and some good people. I wanted to make a purchase." The rice and medicine stones are used, but the tens of thousands of taels of silver are in vain, and they cannot be exchanged for a dou of millet!"

Li Shijian looked very ugly when he heard this.

Ji Kangping's words were implicit and explicit, and he was clearly implying that someone was taking advantage of the disaster to make a fortune.

As a dignified governor of a state, he was unable to solve the problem on his own. Instead, he stabbed him in front of his eyes, which shows that there must be someone behind these people, and he is a more powerful person than Ji Kangping, the governor of Suzhou.

"Nowadays, corrupt officials are appearing frequently in various counties. They collude with unscrupulous businessmen inside and outside. They have robbed all the rice, grains, medicines and stones in Suzhou. They are all backlogged and refuse to sell them. They are waiting for the epidemic in Yishui County to become serious and then sell them at high prices. In order to earn high profits!”

In front of Li Shijian and Li Shiyao, Ji Kangping threw all the banknotes in his hand to the ground in anger, snoring and laughing wildly.
Chapter completed!