During the disaster year, everything is easy to borrow, including other people's wife and daughter. However, once it is involved in grain, even if it is Wen Yansheng, the prefect of Ningbo, it is difficult to borrow grain from the gentry. Novels.

Although people are willing to give a dozen pounds, no matter how much they are, they naturally don’t have one.

Wen Yansheng had no way to deal with them.

After all, these gentry have been entrenched locally for hundreds of years, and they are all related to each other. They are a whole, and any attack on anyone will cause the gentry of Ningbo Prefecture to share the same hatred.

But Ningbo is the imperial examination prefecture, more or less, the families here will produce some juren and Jinshi.

Some have already been appointed as teachers, while others are still serving as officials in court.

Even if Wen Yansheng took the courage of Xiong Xin, he would not dare to be harsh on them.

So he began to wipe his tears, saying that he could not survive anymore, and the death of the people was right in front of him. Good luck, give him some food.

But there is a lot of grain, but not much. When the disaster year comes, the gentry needs the most. Only when there is grain can small households sell land at a low price. The price of grain has skyrocketed countless times in a flash. At this time, when I took out a pound of grain, my heart was bleeding.

Although some of them are pretty good-hearted, they will always try to take out their own food and are truly willing to give alms to some disaster victims, but they are still a drop in the bucket.

Wen Yansheng returned to the yamen, took a sip of cold tea, and then began to scream and scold. These days, he had suffered too much grievances. In the past, he said that the magistrate of the Po family and the magistrate of the family were not human beings. In Jiangnan, there were scholars, juren, and jinshi at home. Either family had scholars, juren, and jinshi. He was a friend of the scholars, juren, and jinshi everywhere. He was classmates, classmates, teachers and students, and he had a lot of money to destroy the family. Seeing that his family had some food, Wen Yansheng really wanted to destroy it, but he didn't have the courage. Those who were so dignified that he could destroy it, but there was nothing to use. If they were going to starve to death, what would you steal his family?

Wen Yansheng is from the northerner. He was too young at the time and was extremely happy to be in Ningbo Prefecture. But when he arrived at the place, he saw that the relationship here was really complicated.

After cursing for a while, he took another sip of cold tea, moistened his mouth, and then began to scold Zhenguo Mansion for preparing Japanese wards. These people were really edible. The people were in dire straits, and they were lucky to have their food.

But at this moment, a servant came hurriedly: "Master Wen, Master Wen."

"What?" Wen Yansheng glanced at the officer.

"Selling fish, there are people selling fish in the port, there are so many fish, so many fish."

"What fish?"

"Like a yellow croaker, in short, a treasure ship is a lot, and it costs a penny per pound, and it sells as much as it can."

"What?" Wen Yansheng felt that these people were crazy.

A penny per pound of fish?

You know, in normal times, even a pound of rice is not a penny, and even the worst yellow rice costs nearly two cents.

This... sold for one penny?

This is no joke.

When a drought comes, the most terrible thing is not just a natural disaster, but also a **. If there is too little food and a lot of people, a large number of people will inevitably store grain, so the price of grain soars. For example, now, the price of grain has risen twenty times, just this... You may not be able to buy grain even if you have money.

Just kidding this fish that costs a pound of money.

"Let's go." Wen Yansheng cheered up: "Go and take a look."

The news has spread all over the place. Outside Ningbo Port, baskets of fish were unloaded directly. Almost just came down, they weighed the pounds directly, and they would never slaughter them. They weighed one or two fish and took three pounds, okay, three cents.

What you need is to ship quickly, and even if the buyer reports too much, he will never compete. There are too many queues behind him. Not only ordinary people, but many merchants have also come.

Fish that cost a penny per pound, not to mention rare sea fish, even ordinary fish costs more than ten cents. Now is the time of great disaster, and the price has already risen.

Everyone was crowded here frantically, and the crowds were surging. Merchants came to purchase goods, so they needed as much as they could.

All of them are worth tens of thousands of pounds.

This thing is sold for money. Ningbo Mansion now has nothing to lack, but it is just a shortage of food.

Tang Yin of course met all their needs.

In fact, he no longer cares about how to sell it, because no matter how it is sold, it can be sold out in half a day.

This fish cannot be distributed to the victims for nothing.

The problem brought about by severe drought is the decrease in food, with more people and less food, so the food soared. Therefore, as long as the people can have low-priced food, they will not worry about the price of food that cannot fall.

What's more, the sailors have worked hard to go out to sea to fish. Should they give them some rewards?

Furthermore, the majestic official account of the State Government still needs to be replenished now. Tomorrow morning, Tang Yin needs a larger and stronger fishing net, the stronger the better. Many small boats are needed and a large number of fishing tools are needed.

All of these need to be customized immediately, only for the best and the most expensive.

Five hundred thousand kilograms of fish were sold very quickly. In the evening, the victims who were not covered in clothes and could not eat the food all started to stew the fish in tears.

Fish is different from rice.

It is very easy to rot.

So some people want to stock up on fish, first he has to have a freezer, and then there is no.

Therefore, even if the merchants bought the goods, they would quickly ship them to various places and sell them directly. One penny comes in and two pennies is enough profitable.

The entire Ningbo Prefecture City saw smoke rising everywhere, and countless fish fragrances floated across the city.

It won’t take long to come, and the news came out that merchants from other counties would definitely come to this port to wait, and even... many victims of the disaster will come to the city.

News has been released in the water village that there will be fish that will be...

Big yellow croaker is rich in nutrition. After making soup with this pound of fish, it is not only very tender, but can barely fill your stomach, but also ensure that it has sufficient impact.

The family gathered together, and the fish was already fragrant on the stove. The children were swallowing their saliva, and the adults carefully threw some salt into the boiling pot.

When the fish soup was ready, the family gathered around the fish and started distributing it. The children didn't care about the hot water, so they picked up the fish pieces and sent them into their mouths.

"It smells so good!"

"Child..." The man couldn't hide his joy on his face: "In the future, our family can only eat fish if they are poor."

Yes, a fish worth a penny, not to mention a disaster year, even when it is a good year, it is the cheapest food.

Who can eat this big yellow croaker if the poor don’t eat it?

The fish soup is very fragrant, especially for hungry people with pale faces and thin skin, which is almost a huge enjoyment.

The fish was very tender. As I ate it, the child's mother cried: "It's worth living for a lifetime if you're poor."

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In the water village.

Wen Yansheng happily held a few carefully selected big yellow croakers in his hand. This was a gift for visiting the water village this time. Editor Tang still gave him face. These three fish were specially kept. They were very heavy and had good looks. Among the big yellow croakers, they were very handsome.

Wen Yansheng handed the fish rope in his hand to the servant beside him, and said with a smile: "What a feat. If there are hundreds of thousands of kilograms in three days, no, no, no, even if it is 100,000 kilograms of fish, in this month, it will be millions of kilograms. The lives of countless people from all over the palace of Ningbo will be saved."

As he said that, Wen Yansheng's eyes turned red. He was not really afraid of being ineffective in disaster relief. But as a parent official in the area, he could only watch the people under his rule starve to death. He felt uneasy. Now that all the problems have been solved, the people cannot eat food, so why not eat fish?

This is a great achievement, a great achievement.

He looked at the young editor and was a little envious: "Editor Tang, if you need Ningbo Mansion to do something when fishing, just give me instructions. I will help you. If you can do it, I will do it for you to avoid your worries."

Five hundred thousand kilograms of fish are five hundred thousand yuan. What does this mean? This is nearly a thousand taels of silver, which is a huge wealth. It travels back and forth every three days. After a month, ten thousand taels of silver is no problem: "There are too few ships now, so the prefect Wen needs to recruit more skilled craftsmen and find ways to build a few more ships. In addition, some manpower is also needed, but manpower... I see, you don't have to bother. When the ship comes, I will go to Yiwu and Yongkang to recruit."

Wen Yansheng couldn't help but say, "What do you think of Ningbo people?"

Now Wen Yansheng wished to stuff some young men and follow the water village to beg for food. There was no way. Now there was not much, but there were many people.

Tang Yin shook his head: "There is no intention to look down on me, but Yiwu and Yongkang people... are even poorer..."

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Poverty may be temporary, but Ningbo Prefecture has always been considered rich and suffered disasters, so it is also temporary and cannot change its mind.

But Yiwu people are different from Yongkang people. There, people have been poor since the 18th generation of ancestors. If they are not brave enough to fight, they will not even have the chance to reproduce and survive. Under such survival of the fittest, people with the most courageous, strongest physique, and fewer genetic diseases will naturally survive.

Wen Yansheng didn't say anything. After a long time, he sighed and said, "But, Editor Tang, have to be careful. To be honest, when you sell this fish, I don't know how many people who stock up on goods hate you. Originally, this disaster was a place to die without a burial, but for some people, it was a good time to get rich. Those who stocked up a lot of food were not simple people, then..."

Tang Yin smiled contemptuously.

To be honest, he is not afraid of anything, but he is not afraid of this.

Tang Yin said word by word: "It seems that the prefect Wen has forgotten that my name is Tang Yin, my mentor's surname is Fang, and his name is Jifan. Maybe his reputation is not big enough in Ningbo Prefecture. However... there is no need to pay attention to these details. The people here are ignorant, but those who are very capable in the prefect Wen, if they want to have trouble, they must have to compile books for relatives and friends in the capital. By then, they will become sensible."
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