The grain merchants of Jingnan were in a state of ecstasy, transporting their stocks of grain to the grain shops and selling them to the people of the county at a price of 2,500 Wen per stone of grain.
After half a day, the grain merchants were already shaking in their hands from receiving money, and their hands were cramped from counting money.
In order to earn more silver, grain merchants will be their savings all out, but also from friends and relatives hands to borrow a lot of silver, all to use as capital, and will be able to mobilise the manpower all mobilised out, to go to Bashu, Shandong and even farther away from the purchase of food, transported to Jingnan sales.
There are some head live, bold grain merchants, such as the Tai shopkeeper and others, and even from the hands of loan sharks loaned thousands of taels of silver, all used as capital. Usury interest, a month is only five points of interest only, we use usury as capital, purchasing to grain resale, that is several times the profit, why not loan.
Grain merchants are in the midst of a world of revelry, while the people of Jingnan are seething with public discontent and cursing!
My goodness!
The natural disaster of the flood has not yet gone, and then came the man-made disaster! Our Jingnan is really plagued by many disasters!
I thought that Zhu was a good man, but I didn’t realise that he was going to be promoted at the end of the day, but he’s revealed his true colours! It’s true that all crows are as black as the sky. No, this dog official is the blackest in the world! The previous governors are nothing compared to him!
I pity the people of Jingnan!
Since the announcement of the food prices, none of the people in Jingnan have not cursed Zhu Pingan, their mouths are dry!
Because the price of grain is too expensive, more than double that of other counties. A stone of grain costs 2500 Wen, and a catty of grain costs 17 Wen. The people of Jingnan don’t even want to eat rice buns, so they have to drink congee with their families.
When the Jingnan commoners used their savings to buy grain, they all gritted their teeth and cursed Zhu Pingan.
Some people wanted to save money to go to Taiping County and other neighbouring counties to buy food, but the price of food in Taiping County and other counties was much higher than that in Jingnan, only that there was a price but not a market, and the grain shops either did not have any food or sold a limited amount of food, and by the time they arrived, the limited amount of food in the grain shops had been sold out, and they had to go back to Jingnan to buy food, put up with the exploitation of the grain merchants, and buy food that was much higher than that in the other counties.
The people of Jingnan are seething with discontent! It was like oil on fire!
When the officials heard about this, they were also outraged to the point of being unable to speak for themselves! This was especially true of three people, Liu Fuzi, the Household Room official, Zhang Tongsheng, the Officials’ Room official, Han Cheng, the Penal Room official, and Old Man Liu, the Rites’ Room official.
Not long after Zhu Pingan’s official document defining the price of grain was posted, the three of them came hand in hand to ask for Zhu Pingan’s resignation.
“Cough cough cough, Your Excellency, the old man is getting old, his body and bones can’t stand the tossing and turning of the past few days, he can no longer contribute to Your Excellency, so he has come here to bid farewell to Your Excellency and return to his hometown in his old age.”
Old man Liu, the Ceremony Room Warden, arched his hand towards Zhu Pingan and said with an expressionless face, requesting to sue for old age and return to his hometown.
Zhu Pingan heard, can not help but bitterly smile, although old man Liu is old, but only fifty eight, where to the age of old age, and Liu old man’s eyes do not flower ear not deaf, the body bone than the young boy is still strong, in the county government office is notorious old when strong.
After old man Liu finished his resignation, Household Office Administrator Liu Fuzi also resigned to Zhu Pingan immediately after, “County Honour, I have also come to ask for your resignation. News has come from home that my wife has contracted a disease and my son is not yet an adult, so I have to go back to take care of my wife, so I ask for your permission.”
Zhu Pingan sniffed and was speechless.
Old man Liu resigned on the grounds of old age, then husband Liu resigned on the grounds of his wife’s illness.
What about you guys?
Zhu Pingan turned his sight to the two men, Han Cheng, the criminal room official, and Zhang Tongsheng, the official room official.
“Your Excellency, my humble servant has also come to ask for your resignation. I am grateful to County Honour for taking care of me during these times at the county office. It’s just that there are three unfilialities and no descendants. I’m already over forty years old, and I don’t have a son at my knees yet, my old parents at home have urged me several times, especially yesterday when my old father forced me to die, I’m also helpless, so I’d like to ask county honourable to be gracious and allow me to go home to work hard with my mother-in-law.”
The criminal room official Han Cheng cupped his fists and said to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan completely speechless, the first two reasons for resignation more or less can still be said, you this reason is too …… Your home is just a few miles away from the county town, you work in the county government office, the daily horseback ride home is only a tea time, also does not affect you and daughter-in-law “efforts” ah!……
Zhu Pingan looked towards the last official, Zhang Tongsheng, and as expected, Zhang Tongsheng also directly and simply arched his hands and said with sarcasm, “County Governor, I am also here to ask for your resignation. I’m not hiding from you, Zhang Mou has always been a glutton, life loves to eat the wild vegetables in the mountains behind the village, a day without eating, it is difficult to feel, the whole body can not lift the strength. Recently the flood ravaged, food prices and high, the village people can not afford to eat, had to dig wild vegetables to fill the hunger, I heard that the village people are fast to the back of the mountains of wild vegetables dug up, Zhang Mou away from the back of the mountains of wild vegetables, the need for wild vegetables to save their lives, especially to the county honourable to ask for resignation, go home to go to the back of the mountains to grab the wild vegetables to go.”
Ahem …… you this reason is really hard ……
Can not leave the wild vegetables in the back of the mountains of his hometown, resigned to go home to dig wild vegetables to go ……
You learn from Zhang Jiying ah!
The autumn wind rises and the wooden leaves fly, the water of the Wujiang River and the perch are getting fat. Three thousand miles Ruoxi home has not returned, hate can not help Ruoxi up to the sky sad.
Zhu Pingan looked at Zhang Tongsheng with a speechless face, and Zhang Tongsheng stared at Zhu Pingan without flinching.
“Alright, gentlemen, no need to rack your brains for these reasons, I know why you resigned. Isn’t it because of the official document I issued defining the Jingnan grain price of 2,500 Wen per stone.”
After listening to Old Man Liu’s reasons for their resignation, Zhu Pingan said to them with a tearful face.
“Hmph, since the county dignitary has singled it out, we won’t hide it either. In addition to that, there are also the county’s large and small grain merchants who are constantly paying their respects to County Dignitary, offering gifts of gratitude to County Dignitary, and County Dignitary accepts all of them, none of them! The county honours for personal gain, disregarding the people’s lives and deaths! It’s really disappointing!”
Old Man Liu, Child Scholar Zhang and the others grunted and said to Zhu Pingan with an indignant face.
“At first, when County Zun invited us to join the Yamen to help him, we also did so because County Zun is a clean and honest official, dedicated to the people, and has a reputation for being a virtuous person who is well loved by the people, which is why we agreed to County Zun’s invitation to come to the Yamen to assist County Zun in his official duties. All along, the work of the county honours, never let us disappointed, we also often privately for us to agree to the invitation of the county honours and celebrate, feel that our original decision is incomparably correct! But I did not expect that the county honourable changed, no, or this is the real county honourable, is that we are blind, did not see the original face of the county honourable! We are not talented, but we don’t want to do it either! We are not talented, but we are also unwilling to aid and abet my Jingnan villagers!”
Old Man Liu, Child Scholar Zhang and the others said with incomparable indignation, insisting on bidding farewell to Zhu Pingan.
