After coming out of the Fuga Grain Bank, Xu Hai and the others had somewhat serious expressions, especially Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, who looked grave.
Accompanied by Tan Lun, Xu Hai and the others went to a few more grain stores. As expected, as the shop boy of the Fuga Grain Bank said, these grain shops were basically out of grain even though the selling price of the grain was 500 Wen per stone. After walking around the west side of the city, I only saw two grain stores that were still selling grain, but they were all limited to selling only 100 catties of grain per day, and each person could only buy 1 catties of grain. When Xu Hai and the others arrived at the shop, today’s portion had been sold out long ago, and the shopkeeper asked them to please come back tomorrow morning.
When Xu Hai and the others asked why they were limited in the sale of grain, the fellow replied that the shop had no grain and it was difficult to transport grain, so it could only be like this. If they were forced to release the sale of grain, their grain shop would not be able to sell one incense burner before they had to close down and go out of business.
“It seems that the flood situation in Jiangnan is still very serious.”
After walking out from the City West Place, Xu Hai could not help but sigh sadly and said in a heavy tone.
Although Taizhou Prefecture has stabilised the price of food, but the food has a price but no market, most of the grain houses have no food to sell, only a few grain houses are also limited to sell, limited to sell 100 catties of food per day is enough to do what ah, for the population of hundreds of thousands of people in Taizhou Prefecture, this little bit of food is not enough to even stuff their teeth.
“Luckily, Taizhou Prefecture has stabilised the price of food, otherwise the situation would be even more dire.”Wang Mang spoke up for Tan Lun.
Hearing Wang Mang’s words, Taizhou governor Tan Lun’s awkward application was slightly eased.
“Your Excellency, the address of the nearest black market for grain has been found out.”Just at this moment, a plainclothes East Chamberlain came over and whispered to Zhang Gu Yi, the East Chamberlain’s East Chamberlain’s Ruling Criminal Hundred.
The voice was not loud, but Xu Hai and the others all heard it.
Zhang Gu Yi smiled faintly and said to Xu Hai and others, “I heard a few grain store shop fellows mentioning the black market, and I was curious, so I purposely let my men and boys do some snooping around, and even though it was a bit slow, it didn’t let me down after all. I intend to go to the black market for a walk, I don’t know if all of you adults want to accompany me?”
So fast, and still too slow? The news of the black market had just been obtained on the front foot, and the address was found out on the back foot!
When the crowd heard this, they couldn’t help but look sideways.
The East Chamber is worthy of being the East Chamber, although it is now being pressed by the Brocade Guards, but its energy and the power of searches and spies are still appalling ah.
“I’m sorry to trouble you to lead the way, let’s take a walk together, it seems that this black market is already an inseparable part of the food supply. If we don’t go to the black market to take a look, we’re just not seeing Mt. Taishan through a blindfold.”
Xu Hai nodded.
Thus, a group of people, led by the East Chamber’s soldiers, strangely walked eight times into a semi-closed old alley, and the black market arrived.
There is a lot of foot traffic in the black market, a carriage forming the black market stalls, grain sellers are covering their faces, the black market Lide grain is not much, a lot of grain selling carriages have been empty, are driving the car to go out. There were only six or seven wagons left in the black market that were still selling grain, and many people surrounded the wagons, scrambling for the grain.
“Shopkeeper, how can I sell this grain?”Xu Hai and the others managed to squeeze in front of a carriage that was selling grain and asked for a quote.
“3500 Wen per stone of grain, no bargaining.”The masked seller didn’t raise his head and tugged back.
“What? 3500 Wen per stone? Are you selling grain or robbing?!”
Xu Hai and the others sniffed and sucked in a breath of cool air in shock, they couldn’t believe their ears, selling grain at 3500 Wen per stone! This grain price has gone to heaven ah! Couldn’t help but shout at the seller.
“Heh! Too expensive, go out and turn left, no one is begging you to buy.”The seller looked up and swept Xu Hai and the others with a cold smile.
“What kind of attitude is that!”Zuo Zhen’s bull’s eyes glared and he became furious, “Do you know who we are?!”
“Silence.”Tan Lun, the governor of Taizhou, pulled down Zuo Zhen’s arm and glared at him, lest he ruin the big picture of the secret visit of the superior.
“Hehe, whoever you like, I sell grain at this price, love to buy, not sell roll! Let me tell you, there are only two bags of grain left in the small shop, sold out today, so the next time you come back will be at least ten days later.”
The seller’s attitude is much more horizontal than Zuo Zhen, to Zuo Zhen ridiculed back, really can be said to be a grain in hand, the world I have.
After Zuo Zhen was pulled back by Tan Lun, he also knew that this was not the time to lighten his identity, in case he ruined the general situation of the secret visit of the Shang Diao, the one who would be unlucky at that time would be the Prefecture’s Honour, so he tried his best to restrain his anger.
“Not buying let let let. Shopkeeper, he’s not buying, I’ll buy, I’ll buy, I’ll take them all.”The person behind him had long been impatient, squeezing past Zuo Zhen and the others, squeezing forward, pulling out a money bag from his arms and throwing it onto the carriage without counting.
“Me, I’ll buy.”
There were also quite a few people who chipped in and squeezed forward, waving the money bags in their hands and shouting to buy grain.
Thus, the shopkeeper gave Zuo Zhen a smug glance, lifted his facecloth, spat a mouthful of phlegm, and cursed “poor bastard”.
I am very angry! When have I ever suffered this kind of humiliation, Zuo Zhen can not help but burst into a rage again, but finally remembered not to cause trouble for Fu Zun, hard to hold back, glared hard at the seller, and in his heart gave him a mark, boy, I remember your face, you wait for me!
“Posterior, don’t be like him, tell you ah, buy now is to earn. Come back tomorrow to buy grain, this black market there is no grain is hard to say, even if there is grain, the price is not today’s price, if not up a hundred or two hundred Wen, the sun is out of the west. Today’s price of grain has risen by one hundred and fifty Wen per stone compared to yesterday. Alas ……In this world, grain is the most important thing, the rest, forget it.”
An old man kindly patted Zuo Zhen’s shoulder and shook his head at him, mentioning to him in a sullen tone.
After the old man finished teaching Zuo Zhen, he also joined the army of grain snatchers.
Xu Hai and the others couldn’t help but look grim, and soon, it was only a matter of tea time, the six or seven carriages that were still selling grain just now had already sold all their grain and drove their carriages away. Many people waved their money bags, but they couldn’t buy any more grain.
Alas!
The situation was surprisingly grim to this point.
Although the Taizhou Prefecture has stabilised the price of grain, there is almost no grain left to sell on the market, and the price of grain on the black market has already risen to 3,500 wen per stone of grain, even though the price is so expensive, the black market is still severely short of grain, and often there is a price for it, so you can’t even buy it with a bag of money.
As for cracking down on the black market and tightly controlling the price of grain in the black market? This is unrealistic and cannot be done. This black market for grain is a wagon, if you seal this place, they will run elsewhere and cut it like a leek. The reason why the black market is called a black market is because the sun doesn’t shine and it is not controlled by the government.
After Xu Hai and the others came out of the black market, the look on their faces was a few points more grim than when they came out of the City West Place.
