Wang Laowu stood in front of the grain and rice shop, looking at the current grain price written on the wooden sign, almost thinking that he was dazzled: "How is this possible? Why does one bucket cost fifty yuan?" Even though he was honest on weekdays, he couldn't help but shout when he saw the amazing grain price, and even wanted to rush into the shop to argue with the shopkeepers. This was just a robbery of money!

I think that a few days ago, except for the Shen family's grain shops, the other shops in the city had already increased the price of grain to thirty cents, which was enough to make people complain, but people like Wang Laowu who work on weekdays could grit their teeth and buy it. But now, the other party has almost doubled on this basis, so the price of grain is really unacceptable. He worked hard all day long and only earned fifty or sixty copper coins, not enough for the whole family to eat.

Just when Wang Laowu was angry and wanted to go in and argue with others, he was blocked by two big-sleeved and round-waisted guys: "Do you want to make trouble? Don't you look at whose shop is here?"

"No, are you going to grab money? How can you raise the price of grain so high? How many people in this city can afford it?" Wang Laowu was also angry, not afraid of their threats at all, and shouted loudly, "A 50-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-month-mon

The shouting immediately attracted the attention of more people around. Some people also looked at the price of grain in front of the store, and then exclaimed: "How dare you sell such expensive grain in your shop? How can you wait for me to eat?"

"That's right, the Shen family's grain is less than twenty cents, why does it have to be so high when you get to you?"

Faced with the people's questioning, the two guys were not guilty and just said with a straight face: "This is our shop. We have worked hard to get the grain. We want to sell as much as we want, but we didn't force you to spend money to buy it. If you think our grain price is high, just don't buy it!"

These few words suddenly made everyone speechless, and then even more angry and panicked words were said from them: "But I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. From today on, the price of grain in various places in Suizhou Prefecture has been set. At this price, do you like to buy it or not? Either you are hungry or just use money to buy food! Don't expect someone to sell your low-priced food!"

"This is impossible. The Shen family's grain shop has always only sold 18 cents a bucket. My family just bought some a few days ago!" Some people retorted unwillingly, and then heard someone around him whispering: "But I heard that five days ago, the Shen family's shops closed down all due to insufficient food..."

"How is this possible?"

"Let's go and have a look..."

Everyone was really panicked now, and they didn't care about other things. They turned around and rushed towards the nearest Shenjia Grain Store. Behind them, the grain shops were still laughing: "It's useless to go. The grain from the Shen family has been sold out for a long time. Now the whole of Suizhou is at this price!"

As it turns out, they are not false. As everyone walked along the way, the several grain shops they passed by had all sold out today's brand new prices, which were all fifty cents. When everyone rushed to the Shen family shop with final expectations, they saw a tight door panel and a notice of the sale of food.

"How...how could this happen?" Everyone was stunned and began to despair. Once the Shen family could no longer provide more food for everyone, how many families could support it if they really spent money to buy high-priced food?

So in a short time, the bad news spread all over the city, causing more panic among the people. Some people kept walking around the city. As a result, the grain shops were almost the same price, fifty cents, just as if they had already agreed. No, they had agreed, and several grain shops had conspired to set the price of grain to a height that was difficult for the people in the city to accept.

People who still have surplus grain at home are feeling better. Those who are like Wang Laowu who just happened to have bottomed out and need to spend money to buy it were panic. Some people went to the grain shop to argue with them, but they were driven out by Kong Wu's powerful guys. Some went to the government to complain, but they couldn't even enter the gate of the yamen and were driven out. The yamen did not accept it at all.

Of course, some people chose to spend a lot of money to buy grain in desperation. After all, there are many wives, children and young people at home, and they are still waiting to boil the pot. But this is not a long-term solution. How much money can ordinary people have in their families? Moreover, they usually use not only food rations, but also the expenses of food rations, and various prices also begin to increase as the price of grain. I am afraid that in a few days, everyone will not be able to boil the pot.

And this is just an ordinary civilian, at least he can have a job and daily income at home. As for those farmers who farm for a living, those who have no income until now have not yet had much income due to the disaster last year, the situation is getting worse and worse.

They had no spare money to buy grain, and as the prices of grain rose, they cut off all their hopes. The women, children and the elderly in the family were hungry, but they could not afford even a pound of grain.

Just as they felt desperate and thought of escaping from famine, some hypocritical guys pulled a full cart of food and came to each village and village.

"Friends, we have seen the difficulties of you all. Although we are not locals in Suizhou, we can't bear to starve you and your family to death, so we came to help you with the order of the master. You all saw that this is the first batch of food we shipped. As long as you need it, there will be a second batch and the third batch of food energy sources constantly coming!"

In Jinjiazhuang, south of Suzhou City, a man shouted loudly, which attracted many villagers to walk out of their homes, curious and expectantly to come. Could it be that there are still kind-hearted people who know the difficulties of everyone in the village and are willing to send food to rescue them?

An elder in the village even stepped forward tremblingly and asked tentatively: "Do you plan to give all this food to our village so that we don't have to starve?"

"The old man is a little wrong. How can such a good thing happen in the world?" The man smiled, "But don't worry, we know that there is not much money in your village, so we don't charge any money for this food."

"Then what are you thinking?" A man next to the old man also asked vigilantly.

"We don't want money, but you can exchange the land under your name for it. Don't worry, the price is absolutely fair. Each acre of land can be exchanged for a hundred kilograms of rice and flour. If it is exchanged for other coarse grains, it can be exchanged for 130 kilograms. This is enough for your family to spend a month."

As soon as these words were said, they immediately caused an uproar among the villagers: "You are too unintentional. Our fields can be sold for more than ten taels of silver per mu, and less than five taels of silver a hundred kilograms of rice and flour..."

"That's right, and without the land, how can we live in the future? You are taking advantage of the situation and robbing..."

"Friends, we cannot believe them. They are robbers who come to steal our fields..."

The roar continued to rise, but it did not make these outsiders feel any fear. The man in the lead smiled and said, "You are wronging us. We are just businessmen in business. How can we rob your land? If you refuse to sell, you will be hungry and you will be forced?

"In addition, our price is already very fair. The price of grain on the market is fifty cents, and that one hundred kilograms is five thousand cents. According to the current ratio of money and silver, it is about ten taels, but I didn't make any money for you. And we also sent grain to the village, which saved you a lot of trouble. Wouldn't you just help you?"

The debate made the villagers not know how to refute it for a moment, because the news received in the village was quite consistent with what he said. Not only was the price of grain rising, but the ratio of local copper coins to silver also soared. Now one tael of silver cannot even be exchanged for 500 cents.

The other party immediately seized the opportunity and said loudly: "Also, you are worried that you will not be able to make a living in the future after selling the fields to us, so that is even more worrying. In fact, our master only needs the name of the land owner. Will you really drive you out of here after buying these fields? No, not only will you not leave your hometown because of this, but you will still plant these fields. Our master just collects some land rent every year, and the remaining food still belongs to you.

"There is another thing you may not know yet, that is, my master is grateful. As long as the land is in my master's name, the yamen will not collect tax grain from you anymore. In other words, in the future, you will only exchange the tax grains you handed over to the government for land and rent it to us. In fact, nothing has changed for you.

"Finally, we also know that you don't even have grain on hand now, so in order to help you overcome the current difficulties as soon as possible, our master promised you that as long as you sell the fields to us, you will provide the original owner of the field for this year so that you don't have to worry about the future.

"Our master helped you out of kindness. If you can't even accept this, there is no way. We can only bring food to the next village. Dear fellow villagers, this opportunity is this time. Maybe the food price will rise again tomorrow. By then, it may not be certain how much food can be exchanged for a mu of land."

The hard and soft words finally touched these villagers who were so hungry that they didn't know what to do. As a villager spoke out that he was willing to take out three acres of land for food, the people behind him could no longer bear it.

So in just half a day, nearly a thousand acres of land were sold to these foreigners in Jinjiazhuang. However, this was only a preliminary agreement. Everything had to be corrected until tomorrow, the representatives were sent to the government office, and the documents were signed there, and the land deeds were transferred to the Cai family.
Chapter completed!