There were also other villagers from Chenjia Village in the long queue at the entrance of the town.
After the old lady of the Chen family helped Chen De to leave in despair, she immediately told the people around her about the Chen family.
Firstly, they really couldn't stand Mrs. Chen's face. Secondly, they were all favored by the Su family. They kept their kindness in mind and spared no effort to clear Su Xiuer's reputation.
After returning to Chenjia Village, the whole village knew what happened at the entrance of the town. For a time, the Chen family became the bottom of the contempt chain.
Except for this small episode, Ningshui Town and its surrounding areas were turbulent and hesitant. Because the Su family's porridge and medicines effectively soothed them, people gradually calmed down again.
The gangsters who tried to rob and cause trouble, or the nursing home of a large family, were crushed as soon as they came on the scene and never dared to come out to cause trouble again.
After the people resisted for the first time, the following days felt like they had drunk too much chicken blood. When they went out to get porridge, they always had a stick in their hands, ready to defend the life-saving food anytime and anywhere.
Xizhong County is affiliated to Ningshui Town.
Creek Chamber of Commerce.
A group of well-dressed grain merchants gathered at a tea party, chatting and laughing.
"I don't know where the rich man came from, but he cleared out all the rice and noodles in my shop in two days, hahaha! Now I am out of stock. If you colleagues have extra rice and grain, please bring some to me first! The price will definitely not let you suffer!”
"Is Zhang Yuanwai making a lot of money this time? I heard that all the rice and grain shops in Ningshui Town have been sold out. It seems to be true, otherwise you wouldn't be able to come and transfer goods with us. "
"Hey, don't say that. It's not my family's profit. We just happened to meet this situation, right? Now Yuzhou is hit by disasters everywhere. Seeing that the people are without food, Zhang, as a grain merchant, feels sad, but he has a small business. The profit from the business is not much, and there is a big family to feed, so I really can’t give out the rice grains freely. Fortunately, there are kind people! They buy grains and give porridge, so that the people can have life-saving food to survive, and I feel relieved. Got it!"
"Look at how happy you are, hahaha! But you can't adjust the grain with us. We've almost sold out the remaining grain!"
"I calculated the goods in the hands of all the large and small grain merchants in Xizhong County. The total adds up to less than 50,000 dan. Adding in the goods shipped from 'that place', the total reaches more than 150,000 dan! Those people can actually sweep them all away... …Hiss! What kind of financial resources is this? I can’t count three people in Dai Viet who dare to spend money like this without blinking an eye. Who is this person’s background?”
"I asked someone about it, and found out that the other person was originally from a farmer named Su in Dahuai Village, Ningshui Town. He was exiled to Yongzhou sixteen years ago, and was later transferred back to a good place after the amnesty. As for what kind of business he did to earn so much money It’s unknown.”
"Exiled to Yongzhou? I heard that there is Fengyun City in the exile area there. It's not peaceful! Is the money earned by the Su family from the right source?"
"It doesn't matter whether they are upright or not. We sell grain, they buy grain, and it's a matter of money and goods. Anyway, we ourselves are doing serious business, and other things have nothing to do with us."
"That's what I said, but now some people are buying grain wantonly. As a result, grain dealers have less and less grain in their hands. Things are becoming more scarce and prices are rising... Where is the imperial court?"
"Don't worry about the court. The taxes we pay to the yamen every year are quite a lot. Not to mention the county magistrate, even the prefect yamen will give us some thin noodles. A grasshopper on a rope will be prosperous. What's more, Changjing Li Yuzhou is far away, and the news may not have spread yet!"
Those present knew the implication.
In order to take advantage of the disaster to make money, they had already joined forces with the government. The news here would not reach the emperor until at least the twelfth lunar month.
Before that, it was enough for them to continue earning.
After a round of conversation, cups and cups were exchanged again, and everyone was happy.
At this time, Bai Kui, who was far away in Fengyun City, the place of exile, was sitting on a carved armchair in the hall of Bai Mansion, clutching his chest and almost out of breath.
The man covered his heart with one hand and asked the housekeeper with the last glimmer of hope, "Are you too old and deaf to hear correctly?"
The old housekeeper was conscientious and dissatisfied, "Master, this servant is old, but he is definitely not deaf. What the manager of the bank really said was that the Bai Mansion had a major expenditure, and he has already taken away 700,000 taels of silver."
Bai Kui's back slumped and he pressed on the back of the chair. The hand covering his heart dropped weakly, as if he was a wandering spirit. "What important thing has the young master done?"
"The young master bought up all the rice grains in a county in Yuzhou."
"How many?"
"About 150,000 dan."
Bai Kui gasped, and after a moment he slowly sat upright, raised his eyebrows, and smiled slowly, "The big grain merchants are in charge of the small grain merchants, and the fish and shrimps are in the same pond. With Dai Viet's current national power, all the grain merchants in a county can The total amount of grain in hand will not exceed 50,000 shi to survive. But Yuer bought 150,000 shi of grain, and the only source of the remaining 100,000 shi is the official granary... Hahaha!"
The old housekeeper watched his master go from dying to laughing like crazy, and was frightened, "Master?"
The master of the house must have been driven crazy by the young master, right? !
Bai Kui stopped laughing and waved his hand, "Okay, let him play."
The old housekeeper twitched the corner of his mouth and said after a moment of hesitation, "Master, will this be too conspicuous? The emperor's private treasury only has two or three hundred thousand taels of silver. If the young master exposes his family's wealth like this, he may be exposed to others. Eye."
"Family wealth? You mean that 700,000? That's too much to underestimate me, Bai Kui." The man snorted disdainfully, patted the armrest of the chair, stood up, and left the hall with his hands behind his back, his back high and bold, "My Bai family is as rich as any country! I If you dare to let your son spend money to play, will you be afraid of being robbed? Hahahaha!"
The old housekeeper silently looked at the master's handsome back, quietly rolled his eyes and chuckled.
Speaking loudly.
Don't act like you can't relax just now. You're not scaring me.
On the Ningshui side of Yuzhou, Tianbao and others continued to buy food.
Just buy it from the county grain merchant.
I bought all the goods today and will bring them back tomorrow. The price of rice and noodles also changes every two days, rising steadily.
Master Bai, who holds the token of the Bai family, is very arrogant. He accepts all the orders regardless of the price and never bargains. Even if the other party takes the initiative to wipe out the zero, he is worried that the other party will suffer a loss, so he pays a lot of the change.
The account book in Su Wen's hand became thicker and thicker. He clearly recorded how much grain he bought from which grain store on which month and day, from whom, at what price, and how much silver he bought in total.
The accounts are as detailed and accurate as pennies.
More than half of October has passed in a blink of an eye, and the temperature in Yuzhou is getting colder day by day.
Although the people affected by the disaster had porridge and water to barely feed themselves, their days were still becoming more difficult day by day.
The yamen still had no reasonable and effective measures, and the rice grains it took out for disaster relief every day were decreasing day by day. In the end, they just put out a few grain bags as a show.
October twenty-eight.
The government office of Yuzhou received news that the emperor had visited Yuzhou in person and was already at the gate of the government office.
Xu Jin, the prefect of Yuzhou, rushed to meet him.
