Jinyi Music

Si Lian frowned upon hearing this, thought for a while and asked,
"Who are they?"

"There is the Li family, who are old friends with our family's third master, but their appetite has grown a bit, and they want us to have a boatload of food..."

"A boatload of food, this appetite is really big!"

But if you rent a warehouse, you need a boatload of food. This is the lion's big mouth!

Zeng Donkey hurriedly said,
"They didn't ask for nothing, they just said that we can use the warehouse as we like, and they are willing to pay for our food, but they hope that the price can be reduced by [-]% compared to the market price..."

"Oh……"

Silian nodded and asked again,
"Who else?"

"There is also the Sun family, who is backed by the servant of the household department. The Sun family also said that they are using the warehouse on the pier at will, and they want to buy half of the ship's grain for the people in the house to survive the disaster... and the Lei family, they The family is a distant relative of Si Leisong..."

Talk about distant relatives, but they have a reputation outside, and Lei Song is the one who makes money behind the scenes!

She intends to use this food to help the victims, but it is not enough, how can she distribute it to them?

It is also said that they use it for their own use, or to help the victims of disasters. I am afraid that they bought it for the purpose of hoarding it and waiting to buy it at a high price to earn money.

Silian bit her lip for a long while and said,
"That being the case, there is no need to find a warehouse in Tongzhou, let's transport it back to the capital directly..."

It is not far from Tongzhou to the capital. Although his Zhuangzi has been sold, Mou Biao still has a few Zhuangzi outside the city.

Immediately he told Zeng Donkey,

"You hire a convoy to transport the food to the capital..."

I also remembered that there are already many refugees outside the capital, afraid that the road would be unsafe, and said,
"Wait a minute, I'll send someone to send a letter back, and let Ba Ye send someone over to protect him!"

Immediately, I wrote a letter to Mou Biao, and it was quickly sent back to Beijing. That night, Mou Biao sent someone to deliver the letter to the Tongzhou Jinyi Guard, and sent people there to escort the food to the capital the next day. The one who got the news was the Li family,
"What is he, Mou Biao, planning to do? If he eats alone, he won't be afraid of choking!"

The scolding is like this, but this thing belongs to someone else, and their family is not powerful enough to overwhelm Mou Biao. If they don't give it, they really have nothing to do!
The Sun family got the news, but they didn't say anything, they just wanted to buy some for their own use, but now they can't buy it, the big deal is to buy it outside, and the Lei family was a little bit unwilling, so they asked Lei Song to come forward. Lei Song snorted,

"Isn't it just the grain bought from the south? I'm a transshipment department. If I can't even do this, why do I still have to be an official? If he doesn't sell it to us, let's buy it ourselves!"

"But now the price of grain in the whole country has risen, not to mention the capital, even the grain merchants in the south heard that we bought it in the north, and the price of grain went up at that time!"

"Isn't it just spending more money! No problem!"

The three families were dissatisfied with Mou Biao because they didn't get any food, but they dared not say anything. When Silian returned to the capital, he told Mou Biao about the matter, and Mou Biao laughed.
"None of these three families can take care of things. Si Lian can do whatever she wants. If something goes wrong, I will be behind it!"

Silian shook her head,

"This matter can't be left alone, I thought of a way..."

She said this to Mou Biao, and Mou Biao laughed out loud.

"Just do it!"

So after a few days, he personally wrote a letter to the three families, saying that he had transported some grain to Beijing and was going to open a shed for a while to give out porridge. Doing such a great deed together, his move turned against customers, which made it difficult for the three families to step down.

Promise, this porridge will cost a lot of money, and they don't prepare in advance like the Mou family. Going to buy grain now, the price of the grain is enough for them to hurt. The Sun family wrote back at that time explaining that their family There is not enough food storage, and I am worried, but it is a great charity, so I should do my best to send someone 1 taels of silver with the letter. They are soft and begging for peace. The man returned the money, and sent a month's rations to the people of the family, saying that it was to help them survive the disaster. The Sun family was overjoyed when they saw it, and the head of the family personally went to the Mou House to thank him.

The Li family dared to open their mouths like a lion. Naturally, the backing was strong and they were not afraid of Mou Biao.
"I don't know if what that kid said is true or not, but his letter has already arrived. If it is not accepted, it will be ridiculed if it is spread. If it is accepted, it will be a waste of money."

At this time, it was too late to regret that I should not provoke Mou Biao, so I had to hold my nose and admit it. After the disaster was serious, many big families in the capital would open granaries to give out gruel. So he agreed to this matter!
He also said that it was the same for the Lei family, Lei Song couldn't help scolding when he saw the letter,

"Look, I told you earlier not to provoke that kid easily, that kid is difficult to deal with!"

Like the Li family, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and admit the matter in the end. The three families agreed that if the disaster was serious, the three families would open a porridge shed together to give out porridge when the succession began in the capital!

Mou Biao got a reply from the other two families, and with a slight smile, he forwarded the letter from the two families to Si Lian. Si Lian read it and said with a smile,
"Even so, I still have to go back to the old house to borrow a few capable stewards from my mother-in-law!"

They separated, and the young couple, in order to keep quiet, only brought a girl and a woman at home, and didn't even ask for a steward. There were too many burdens, so none of the stewards were confiscated, and they only lived in a low-key house in Mao'er Hutong. Outsiders came here without being introduced, and they really didn't know that this was the residence of the third-rank officials of the imperial court.

Mou Biao laughed and said,

"That's natural, but there's no rush at this moment..."

Speaking of which, he sighed,

"Our idea is just a drop in the bucket, we still need the court to send officials to help the disaster!"

Speaking of Si Lian is also very concerned,

"Now that His Majesty has raised so much money in the south, the imperial court should have money. I think the people will have a better life in this disaster year, right?"

Mou Biao sneered again and again when he heard the words, the contempt in his eyes almost turned into arrows and shot out from his eyeballs, he walked back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back,
"You have been back for so long as His Majesty, what are you doing?"

Silian shook her head,

"I don't know..."

"A group of people are practicing their words every morning!"

Silian widened her eyes,

"Practice your lips, what is there to practice?"

"Hmph! Of course, what you practice is to...score...money...money!"

Mou Biao gritted his teeth and burst out three words from between his teeth,

"This gang eats people and doesn't do human affairs. It's better if they don't have money. Now that they have money, they jumped out one by one..."

Talking about the affairs of the court these days, Mou Biao was full of disgust and disdain. The silver that His Majesty asked for from the south is now in the court, like a pile of huge cow dung suddenly added to the road Well, as soon as the smell wafted out, those shit-eating things immediately surrounded him.

After a while, the Ministry of Officials said that the salaries of officials from all over the country, especially the officials in the capital, had been in arrears for a long time, and hoped that His Majesty would allocate some silver to pay the officials' salaries. silver!

Silian stuck out her tongue when she heard the words,
"Isn't that much?"

Mou Biao snorted,

"It's all once an official, who doesn't know who? Daqing's officials have never paid much attention to salary. The salary set by Emperor Taizong has never been raised in all these years. If it really relies on that little money Live, the officials in Daqing have starved to death in pieces, they stretched out their hands everywhere, and dipped in the money when they saw it, they are all sick!"

Zhu Houzhao was not that foolish emperor either, how could he not know what was going on in the court, so he dismissed the official memorial immediately!
It's not just that Daqing is short of money for a day or two. After pressing down the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of War all call poor in front of His Majesty. Dial money.

For example, the Ministry of War said that the military equipment has been dismantled, and many of the military equipment in the guards have long been dilapidated.
Si Lian also frowned when she heard that,

"This... is what you said!"

Although she was in the capital, she just went out to see the world. She heard that Japanese pirates sometimes came ashore to harass them on the other side of the sea. The officers and soldiers of the guard were ordered to suppress the Japanese. With a long knife in his hand, he can sweep away hundreds of people. The common people scolded the officers and soldiers for being afraid of dying, but they didn't know that the weapons in their hands would be broken nine times out of ten.
Mou Biao sighed with his hands behind his back,

"This matter is not only about money, it is not without money, but this matter of empty pay has never stopped!"

The army can't be rectified, and any amount of money filled in is a bottomless pit, so the people in the Ministry of War don't talk about rectifying the military order, but just ask for money, that's a rogue!

It seems that these other books are still good, but the Ministry of Households is the big head. When he went to the court today, Wang Wanting, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, went to battle in person and spread out the accounts. Even Zhu Houzhao was frightened. According to Mr. Wang's account, the millions of taels of silver to be returned may not even hear the sound of water when thrown in.
"Is Daqing's accountant so deficient?"

In fact, Zhu Houzhao’s responsibility here is not very big. Most of the famines were owed by the previous emperor. There is not enough money, and many taxes are collected in advance. Now that Emperor Zhengde is here, natural disasters continue, and taxes cannot be collected, so the money he wants to return sounds like a lot, but once it is sprinkled , that is drizzle, not enough to watch!