The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 94 Food War

After Ding Yi visited Zhang Keda, he stayed in Dengzhou for another three days.

He successively purchased a large amount of Suzhou steel, saltpeter, sulfur, cotton cloth, coal coarse cloth, etc., as well as a few daily necessities, various medicines, and agricultural product seeds, which cost more than 1 taels.

Then I bought a lot of farm tools and iron tools, such as the shovel from the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Every five pieces on the market cost three cents for silver. This thing is also good for digging holes. It is exactly what Ding Yi needs now, and it is not expensive. I bought five hundred pieces in one breath, only 30 taels of silver.

If you build your own engineering shovel, it will take at least a few months.

The rest of the hatchets, saws, etc. are bought in hundreds of pieces.

After three days, almost all the goods in Dengzhou and several nearby counties were wiped out, and several thousand taels were spent.

These things are only loaded with less than a quarter of the ship.

His Lushun can hold 20 catties when fully loaded, and even if it is squeezed, it cannot sink within 25 catties.

In addition to leaving the place for the cattle, there are still surplus, so he has to continue to buy.

On the third day, Qin Nan also bought his new shop. There are nine connected shops in total, plus six yards at the back, and thirteen houses. , with an area of ​​more than 40 square meters, converted into the present, it is only 400 million yuan, which is quite appropriate.

Lu Chao bought two houses on the street of the governor's yamen, more than 200 meters away from the yamen, and spent less than 50 taels.

Ding Yi was with Lu Chao and others in the former shop of Qin Nan's house.

The shop has not been sold yet. It is more than 20 square meters in size. There is a yard at the back, the yard is more than 50 square meters, and there is a house in the northwest of the yard for living.

It adds up to nearly 32 square meters, and the listed selling price in Ming Dynasty is [-] taels, which is relatively reasonable.

Ding Yi sat in the middle, as if waiting for something.

After a while, Ruan Wenyan came back with some soldiers.

After their inquiries in the past few days, in Dengzhou City, there are four large merchants selling grain and rice, and more than a dozen small merchants.

In addition to the rice produced locally, the grain and rice from other places are all transported by water.

According to the situation from the pier, the latest shipment of a large amount of grain and rice was seven days ago.

This will be the season just after the summer harvest, and it is estimated that there will be a steady stream of summer grain coming here.

After Ding Yi finished listening, he gave instructions to several people, and they quickly left the shop and went to various rice shops.

Lu Chao first went to the largest rice shop in the city, and asked how much rice was a stone, and the other day, it was one, two, six and one stone.

Lu Chao shook his head. During the Wanli period, one tael could still buy two stones. Last time the Ruan Wenyan brothers and sisters came over, it was only one tael for one stone.

The shopkeeper laughed along with him. The current world is not good, and many places have failed to harvest this year. I am afraid that the price of rice will rise even more.

Lu Chao said solemnly, I am buying rice for Liaodong, we Pidao are fighting the Tartars in front of us, and hundreds of thousands of islanders are waiting to be fed, so the shopkeeper will give me some favors.

"How much do you want?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile.

"How much do you have, how much do I want."

The shopkeeper looked Lu Chao up and down vigilantly. The weather was sweltering, and Lu Chao was still wearing a padded military uniform, so it didn't look like nonsense.

"I can sell you a thousand shi." The shopkeeper said.

Lu Chao refused, one thousand is too little, and we have hundreds of thousands of Liao people in Phi Island, so give me more.

The Tartars were vicious and killed countless Liao people. The Liao people were hungry and wanted to fight bloody for the country. Shopkeeper, please, when Lu Chao said he was excited, tears streamed down his face, the shopkeeper sighed, and the guys shook their heads.

Soft and hard, the shopkeeper agreed to two thousand stones.

Lu Chao refused, but it was still too little, so the shopkeeper had no choice but to say, our grain and rice will be delivered in a few days, and the door can't be opened if it's sold out?

"One tael eight, one tael eight and then sell me two thousand shi, and it's time to save the people of Liao."

The shopkeeper was moved.

Unexpectedly, Siqianshi had a good deal, and another sergeant hurriedly ran behind.

To Lu Chaodao, there is an order from the adults to buy more rice. I have been to Dengzhou this time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come for half a year.

Lu Chao made a bitter face, shopkeeper, you heard me, sell me more, the military order is like a mountain.

The shopkeeper said, we don't have much stock anymore.

"Two taels of silver for one stone?" Lu Chao called again.

The shopkeeper was moved again.

They also have a warehouse in the west of the city, which also has thousands of stones in storage.

Just like that, Lu Chao rubbed it back and forth, and finally sold it to Lu Chao for a total of [-] shi. The stock in the shop was almost sold out, only a few hundred shi remained.

He thought that the rice would arrive in a few days, and there were not many people buying rice these days, because the summer grain was harvested, and many people still had some savings in their homes.

The same thing happened at the same time among several large and small grain merchants in Dengzhou City.

Ding Yi collected 10 grain grains and stones in one morning, and spent [-] taels of silver.

He got 10 taels from Shen Shikui, plus his own capital, and it was almost spent.

He almost bought out most of the grain and rice in Dengzhou City.

At this time, Lu Chao was still asking for rice in another shop.

The shopkeeper felt that there was a problem, so someone bought so many?He had already sold thousands of stones and flatly refused.

"Three taels, I'll pay three taels, and then sell me five thousand shi." Lu Chao said loudly.

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, but he didn't have so much in his hand, and the other party raised the price one after another, which made him feel even more wrong.

It's out of stock, we really are out of stock, why don't you look elsewhere?

"Four taels, I'll pay four taels and one stone." Lu Chao said loudly again: "Sell me some more, and I'll go back to Liaodong. I don't know if I can come again next time. We can die in the battlefield at any time."

There are ordinary people buying rice nearby, and they don't buy much, so they only buy two stones.

The shopkeeper was dumbfounded, the price is too high?It's really exciting.

At this time, the waiter asked: "The shopkeeper, Mr. Xu wants two stones of rice, what price do we charge?"

After Lu Chao came, the price of rice was raised steadily by him. What price will the common people be charged?
Mr. Xu glared at them.

There are other ordinary people in the shop.

The shopkeeper groaned inwardly: "Forget it, do it—three or two—"

"Three taels, you don't sell me four taels, sell them three taels?" Lu Chao was furious.

"You want too much, we're out of stock."

Lu Chao looked at Mr. Xu: "You buy it soon, I will buy yours for four taels."

Mr. Xu seemed to be moved.

But I also feel that the price of rice has risen too fast, and there is always something wrong there.

"You can't do this, so let's sell it for four taels." The shopkeeper thought something was wrong, so he still wanted to sell it for four taels.

"Why did you say three taels just now, but now it has changed to four taels?" Mr. Xu was furious.

The people on the side also booed.

The shopkeeper was dizzy, and finally gritted his teeth: "There is no rice today, the door is closed, and we will talk about it tomorrow."

"Hey, shopkeeper, I don't have any rice to eat at home?" Mr. Xu was anxious.

At the same time, the beggars in Dengzhou, Qingpis, flocked everywhere.

"I heard that there are natural disasters in Fuguang and other places in the south of the Yangtze River, the grain harvest is in short supply, and the price of rice is about to rise."

"Have you heard that there is a natural disaster in the south of the Yangtze River this year, and the price of rice has soared. I'm going to buy a few more stones of rice for storage."

"The Yujia rice shop sold for four taels, and it was closed. I heard that there is no rice."

"It's still going up, the price of rice in the capital has risen to six taels.",

"I heard that Jiannu's price has risen to tens of taels a stone."

(End of this chapter)