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I can't live this life anymore!

Liu Chen glanced at the rice jar that was at the bottom of his house and sighed.

A month ago, the rice prices in Nanjing began to rise. At the beginning, it did not rise very quickly, and Liu Chen did not pay much attention. However, five days ago, the price of grain began to soar, from one tael of silver per stone of rice to one tael of rice to one tael of three cents, and then to one tael of five cents, three days ago to one tael of six cents, and yesterday it even reached one tael of eight cents!

Within five days, the price of rice rose from one liang and one stone to one liang and eight qian and one stone, up 80%!

This made Liu Chen silly.

Her husband is just a teacher in a private school, and the sum of the training sessions in a year is only twenty taels. By this calculation, all the money you earn is not enough to buy rice.

Small families like them do not have the habit of hoarding rice and grain, and they basically eat and buy it right away.

Therefore, the rice and grain in the rice jar are always shallow.

Now that the food is out of stock, if you don’t buy it, you will be hungry. Although there are still seven or eight taels of silver deposited at home, the price of grain is too outrageous. Isn’t buying grain with money meant to be slaughtered with a pole?

Liu Chen bit his lip and finally decided to borrow some rice from his neighbor's house.

Her neighbor Wang He's husband's family is in a silk business, and he has at least hundreds of taels of silver in a year. He is one of the few rich families among neighbors in this generation. She and Wang He have a good relationship on weekdays. When they encounter difficulties, they will borrow some, right?

After thinking about it, Liu Chen went out with an empty pot.

Wang He's home was just west of Liu Chen's home. She knocked on the door lightly, and soon a woman in her thirties came to open the door.

Seeing that it was Liu Chen coming, Wang He smiled and said, "Why are sister here? Sitting in the fast house."

She first let Liu Chen into the yard, then looked around and inserted the door.

Her husband arrived at the counter early in the morning, and she was the only woman in the family, so it would be better to be careful.

The Wang family’s yard is a second-hand one, the outer courtyard is usually used for guests, while the inner courtyard is for their own family.

Wang He took Liu Chen to the small hall of the outer courtyard and brewed a pot of tea for himself and Liu Chen to pour a cup of each.

"Sister, you made sauerkraut again today. I brought a jar and asked me to taste it?"

Seeing that Liu Chen was holding a jar in his hand, Wang He laughed and said.

"Sister Wang, I'm here to borrow rice."

Even if it is difficult to say, you still have to say this.

Liu Chen gritted his teeth and said, "To be honest, the family has run out of food, I hope my sister can lend me some rice."

When Wang He heard that Liu Chen was here to borrow rice, his face immediately became gloomy and said with a smile: "Oh, my sister is joking. The rice price is so high now that we are not eating enough for our own family, so how can we lend you extra rice?"

Liu Chen's face turned red.

She is not a person who is good at speaking, and she is even more sarcastic about Wang He and she doesn't know what to say.

"Good sister, even the landlords' family have no surplus grain these days, let alone those who do small businesses like my family. The rice price has risen to one tael or eight cents of silver and one stone, right? I advise my sister, you can buy some at least. Look, the rice price will still rise!"

After saying that, Wang He picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"ah!"

Liu Chen was so scared that his face turned pale: "The price of rice still needs to rise?"

"That's right? The rice price can't be stopped when it rises. Didn't my sister forget that in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the rice price finally rose to three or six cents of silver per stone. I think this time it's probably at least this price!"

After saying that, Wang He sighed: "Think about it, it's better to live in the Wanli period. You can buy two stones of rice for one tael of silver, but you can't finish the rice in the rice jar..."

When Wang He said this, a faint smile appeared on his face, obviously he missed his life back then.

Since the Tianqi Dynasty, rice prices have been rising, and even more so by the Chongzhen Dynasty.

The rice price finally fell a little while ago, but it suddenly started to rise again. It seemed that it was even more fierce than the time in Chongzhen in the fifteenth year.

Liu Chen is a stupid person and can't even hold it up even if Wang He fools him.

Her fingers tightly pinched her thighs, and the dark red horse-faced skirt was pleated.

"I listen to my sister's advice, no matter how expensive the rice is, I have to buy some to store it. If I can't afford it, I can buy one hu. If I can't afford it, I can buy one tumbler. If I can't afford it, I can buy one liter. If I can't afford it, I can buy one liter. If I can't afford it, I can buy one tumbler..."

The rise of Wang He's words was like spitting everywhere, almost spitting on Liu Chen's face.

But no matter what she said, the sky was full of flowers and the lotus was bright, she would never mention borrowing food.

Liu Chen also realized that the Wang family’s wife did not want to lend her food, nor was she willing to continue to stay here and be humiliated, so she stood up and said, “Since that’s the case, I will go home to discuss with my husband to see if there is any other way.”

"Sister walk slowly!"

When Wang He saw that Liu Chen finally left, he was very happy.

Borrowing food? Ahhhh!

Just like the poor Liu family, I can't afford to borrow rice even if I borrow it.

If she really lends the rice, she will be a meat bun and beat the dog without returning.

To take a step back, if Liu Chen really returned the borrowed rice afterwards, it would be a loss for his family.

Now a stone of rice is almost two taels of silver. If Liu Chen waits until the rice price drops to one tael of silver and one stone and then returns the same amount of rice, he will lose half of the inside and outside.

Then Liu Chen is a kind-hearted person, but he is kind-hearted but cannot be used as a food.

Now in a chaotic world, it is good to be able to protect yourself and have no energy to take care of your neighbors.

Isn’t there a saying among scholars, “Sweep the snow in front of the door at home, don’t worry about the frost on others’ houses.”

Wang He thought it made sense.

Liu Chen is pitiful, but there are many people in the world. There are at least dozens or millions of victims starving to death in Henan and Shaanxi. Who is pitying them?

If you want to blame, you should be born in a chaotic world!

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Zhu Cilang read the memorial of Jiang Yueguang, the Minister of Revenue, and his face turned cold as ice.

The rice price in Nanjing has doubled in just five days, and now it has approached two taels of silver and one stone.

Although this price is still a little different from the highest price in the Chongzhen period, it is already very terrifying.

If the court does not calm the price of food in time, it will not take long to starve people to death on a large scale.

Jiang Yueguang's suggestion is to open a warehouse immediately and rely on the stored grain in the treasury to stabilize the grain prices.

This is of course a solution, but just this can cure the symptoms but not the root cause.

The rice price soared in just five days, and some grain merchants must have stockpiled goods and raised the rice price.

What Zhu Cilang needs to do is not to treat the head with headaches and feet with feet, but to cure the disease from the root.

There is no doubt that the surge in rice prices this time is caused by these unscrupulous merchants.

Okay, if you make my people unable to afford to eat, I will make you die!

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Chapter completed!