HCB Chapter 378 Price Gouging
Chapter 378 Price Gouging
In the end, Xiao Yanbao and the others chose to settle in Lanjin County.
Lanjin County is the largest county in Yangzhou and the richest county in Yangzhou.
Emperor Lan did not dare to let his daughter live in the poorest county, because he was afraid that he would not dare to face it.
Xiao Yanbao used the invisibility charm to make Teng Yun invisible, so several people fell into the county without anyone noticing.
After landing, Xiao Yanbao dispersed the invisibility charm.
Originally, Xiao Yanbao wanted to burn the locusts in the wild, but Emperor Langan said he was afraid that Xiao Yanbao would not be able to just eat the locusts, so he came to the county town.
In fact, Emperor Lan Qian didn't want to eat locusts. It's strange that they are delicious.
A few people just planned to go to a restaurant and ask the restaurant's chef to make a plate of fried locusts to try.
But before they took a few steps, they saw many people running.
"Dad, are there bandits? Why are so many people running away?"
Emperor Lan Gan just glanced at the guard.
The guard grabbed a person who was running past him and asked, "Brother, why are you running in such a hurry?"
The man glanced at the guard and said, "Let's grab some food. If you run too slowly, I might not be able to grab it again today."
After the man finished speaking, he threw away the guard's hand, raised his legs and ran away.
"Grab food?" Xiao Yanbao muttered to himself.
Are all bandits so blatant? Will the government not care about grabbing food?
Emperor Lan Qian felt that what this man meant by grabbing food was not literal.
"Let's go take a look too." Emperor Lan Qian said.
This locust plague just happened and they started looting food?
This Lanjin County is still the richest county in Yangzhou. People are robbing food here, so other counties are not allowed to eat people!
Emperor Lan Gan and the others followed the running crowd to a rice row.
People from three floors inside and three floors outside the rice store were surrounded, and the crowd was excited, "Open the door, open the door, we want to buy food."
The door of the rice store is closed, and a sign hangs, "Rice has been sold out today."
The guard grabbed another person and asked, "Brother, since today's rice is all sold out, come back tomorrow. Why are you still hanging around?"
As soon as the man turned around, the guard recognized him. It was the man he had stopped on the street to inquire about.
The man obviously recognized the guard and immediately grimaced.
"It's all because you kept asking me questions just now, so I couldn't buy food. The price will increase tomorrow, and I don't know how much it will increase." The man sighed.
In fact, he was just grumbling for no reason. Even if the guards didn't stop him to talk, he wouldn't be able to buy food. The people in front of him were all heads, and it would be his turn to be the next one.
"It's not autumn yet, how do you know that there is no food growing in the ground?" Xiao Yanbao asked, blinking his big dark eyes.
It doesn't matter what Xiao Yanbao said, it attracted the attention of many people nearby.
This child is either stupid, or he is a child from a wealthy family. He does not distinguish between grains and does not know where food comes from.
Everyone shook their heads, "This kid must not be stupid. He may be from other places and doesn't know that we are having a locust plague."
When the guard heard that someone dared to call the little princess stupid, he immediately got angry and said, "Who is stupid? Your ancestors for eighteen generations combined are not as smart as our little... sister."
If Zhang Fu hadn't given the guard a look in time, the guard would have almost revealed the identity of the little princess.
When they came out, Emperor Lan asked them not to reveal their identities and not to alert local officials.
The man snorted unconvinced, "You're still smart. You don't even understand the principles of sowing in spring and harvesting in autumn. You're still smart."
Xiao Yanbao put his hands on his hips unconvinced, "Who said you have to plant in the spring and harvest in the autumn? You can plant in the summer and harvest in the autumn. Besides, although there is only a tail left in this summer, it is still summer."
After Xiao Yanbao finished speaking, there was a burst of laughter.
"Who says this kid isn't stupid? He is a fool. You are planting radishes and cabbages in the summer and harvesting in the autumn."
The guard raised his fist to hit someone.
As soon as Emperor Lan Gan waved his hand, the guard withdrew his hand.
He wasn't trying to stop the guards from hitting anyone, but he was eager to ask something.
"Yanbao, is it really possible to plant seeds now and harvest them in the fall?"
Xiao Yanbao nodded, "Yes, daddy."
The conversation between Emperor Lan Gan and his daughter caused more people to burst into laughter.
"Not only is this child stupid, but her father is also stupid. The whole family is stupid."
"How dare you dare to say that our master, you don't want your head anymore, right?" the guard said angrily.
"Let's go, let's go, don't listen to the idiots talking nonsense here. Anyway, the food store won't be open today. If the price goes up again, I'm afraid I won't even be able to drink porridge."
Xiao Yanbao didn't care about being called a fool.
After all, there are too many people who have never seen the world.
Emperor Lan Qian was thinking about what his precious daughter said about summer planting and autumn harvest, so he didn't care who said he was stupid.
The most important thing is to allow people to have food to eat.
Just when the crowd was about to disperse, the door of Mihang suddenly opened, and the clerk took down the sold-out sign and posted a notice on the wall.
The content of the notice: Due to the locust plague in Yingzhou and Yangzhou, the imperial court issued a decree that all rice shops are not allowed to sell rice. The grain is turned over to the national treasury and supplied to the soldiers at the border. This grain shop will sell rice for the last day today.
As soon as the notice was posted, the crowd went crazy.
"The emperor wants to starve us people in Yangzhou and Yingzhou to death. We are all starving to death, so what is the use of fighting?"
"No, the court can't do this, then isn't this just the government forcing the people to rebel?"
"Why not? This Xingsheng Rice Store is owned by the county magistrate's brother-in-law. Naturally, his information is better than ours. I don't think this information is false."
Emperor Lan Gan was furious. He was standing here. When had he ever made such a decree?
If you don't let the grain store sell grain, how about letting the grain store sell coffins?
Xiao Yanbao is illiterate, but she can understand everything.
This is obviously the county magistrate and his brother-in-law working together to drive up food prices and make it difficult for the country to make money!
Xiao Yanbao glanced at his father, "Dad, your taste is really bad. What kind of official are you using?"
Officials in the capital are either ambitious, cliquey, corrupt, or do little things...
This is still the case for local officials.
Tsk tsk tsk, daddy’s eyes need some money.
After a while, the clerk from Mihang posted another notice.
White rice costs five thousand cents per dou, corn costs three thousand cents per dou, and even low-grade rice bran and wheat bran cost five hundred cents per dou.
Many people stood at the door of Mihang, afraid to go in.
Look at the money in their hands, it's not even enough to buy a bucket of rice.
Some people started crying on the spot, "Oh God, you are going to starve us to death!"
As soon as someone took the lead, the crying couldn't stop.
The guy from Mihang stopped working, "Why are you yelling? We are a rice shop, not a coffin shop. If you want to scream, go away and don't delay our business."
Emperor Lan Gan's face was livid with anger.
Xiao Yanbao raised his arms and said, "I'm selling rice!"