Chapter 254 200,000 Stones of Grain in Hand
Ren Changwei is the president of the "Grain Business Chamber" in Bianliang City, and is also one of the largest grain merchants in Bianliang City.
As a grain merchant, the most important thing is to eat according to the weather. Good weather is definitely not good news for them.
This has been the case in all dynasties. As soon as the famine comes, grain prices begin to soar, until the people cannot afford it, and civil unrest occurs.
So is there any food? Only God knows. Anyway, if 10% or 20% of the disaster relief food allocated by the court came to the hands of the victims, then it would be Master Qingtian.
When the victims gathered to rebel and rushed into the homes of the rich businessmen and officials, they often found that the food was piled up like mountains, and many of them were moldy and eroded. In this way, they could not reach the hands of the victims.
This seems to be true in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.
Just like when there is a check, the official grain warehouse often catches fire, and a torch burns all the sins.
Ren Changwei was also closely monitoring the climate change throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty. He knew better than the court.
The imperial officials may also conceal the reports and report good news but not bad news. However, as the president of the largest grain bank in the country, Ren Changwei knew it clearly.
Because the grain business chamber led by him needs to transport a large amount of grain to the disaster area in time, so that he can make a fortune and create a profit of millions of taels of silver for him and the high-ranking officials behind him every year.
Over the past few months, Ren Changwei has long been keenly discovered that the entire Jingji Road, Jingxi Road and Jingdong Road have almost not rained.
He quickly sent a large number of subordinates to the fields of various prefectures to check the harvest situation on site, which surprised him greatly. The failure of this year is a foregone conclusion, and some areas may even lose their harvest.
This was a catastrophe for the ancient people.
But for big grain merchants like Ren Changwei, this is undoubtedly a good time to make money.
So under his command and deployment, grain merchants on Bianliang City, Jingxi Road and Jingdong Road had already begun to transport large quantities of grain from the south, and at the same time began to sell grain in limited quantities.
A dou of rice is about 12 kilograms, and it has increased from 15 cents last year to 25 cents. His ultimate goal is to increase a dou of rice to more than 50 cents without a cap.
As for whether you are afraid of the severe punishment from the court?
He was not afraid because the officials of the court were the real bosses behind the grain business.
For example, Prime Minister Shi and the four tigers and eight wolves under Prime Minister Shi were all secretly controlling the food store and the rice price.
It was really a wasteland. The large amount of disaster relief grain allocated by the imperial court from Changping Warehouse, Huimin Warehouse and Guanghui Warehouse will eventually be sold at high prices in major grain stores.
The emperor's grace is so great, how can he fight against real gold and silver?
Now millions of stones of grain have been stored in warehouses of all sizes by the Bian River. Even if the grain doubles, the profit will be millions of taels.
This made Ren Changwei feel very happy. He hummed a little song and took a pill of Jingshitang's production of aphrodisiac pills. He happily hugged his concubine and went to bed.
In the early morning, the door was knocked and loudly.
Ren Changwei woke up and rushed to the door: "What's wrong?"
"Master, something big happened, something big happened in Qingcheng warehouse."
Ren Chang was so scared that his palms were sweating. He ignored his body's body and opened the door directly: "What's wrong? Is it because I'm running out of water?"
For the official grain warehouse, the happiest thing is the fire.
But for the private grain warehouse, the most feared thing is to catch fire, the thief steals half of it and burns all the fire.
The manager of the warehouse stamped his feet: "It's not that the water is gone, it's strange. All the grains in the warehouse are gone, and all the grains in the entire 200,000 stones are gone."
"What????"
Ren Changwei screamed, his voice broke.
"You are confused when you sleep? You are 200,000 s of grain. Even if you ship it, you can cover the entire Bian River. How could it be gone overnight? Do you think I am easy to fool?"
The warehouse manager was almost crying: "It's gone, there's no grain left. Master, don't believe it, go and see it yourself."
When Ren Changwei left the city and stood in front of the empty warehouse, his roar echoed in the warehouse for a long time:
"Who did this tm~~~~~"
The Qingcheng Warehouse disappeared overnight with 200,000 stones of grain, and this strange story spread throughout the streets and alleys.
However, most people don’t believe it, thinking that this must be the case that the people who guard the warehouse should cooperate with each other and sell out all the food before reporting it.
As long as people with no problem with their brains, they can imagine that 200,000 stones of grain are piled up like hills. How can you transport them away?
The financial backer, including the financial backers behind the scenes, did not believe it. Ren Changwei's fate can be imagined. People think that this dog is no longer ripe.
As for the loss, of course, the wool comes from the sheep. Should the financial backers bear the losses themselves? It doesn’t exist.
In the following days, the Ren family was confiscated, and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver collected from the big grain merchant were compensated to the financial owners behind the scenes. No one reported the case and the matter was left unresolved.
Only the real perpetrator, Comrade Chen Buer, still regretted that he felt that he was too kind and stolen. He should have stolen all the millions of stones of grain stored by the Bianliang grain merchants.
Now he only stole 200,000 stones, and the impact on grain prices can only be described as a drop in the bucket. He can only increase the price of the money, and even want to increase the amount more to make up for the losses.
After solving the worries about food, Chen Buer is now rich and has no panic.
No matter how the outside world changes, he and the Chen family behind him are stable.
School was about to start in a few days, and in the next few days, he stayed with Shui Ling in Baihualou.
Perhaps it was because the ancients had never been exposed to antibiotics. After taking those antituberculosis drugs orally, the efficacy was very good. The symptoms such as low fever, cough, night sweats disappeared immediately.
This made Shui Ling more confident in curing her tuberculosis, and her love for Chen Buer increased day by day.
But the side effects of the drug also came out, and she felt nauseous and wanted to vomit from time to time.
A beautiful girl with a boyfriend who is disgusted from time to time and can’t eat and wants to vomit. What will normal people think of?
Anyway, Fan's mother was so scared that she was gone. She thought that her little cabbage had been robbed by Chen Buer's pig?
If you are pregnant before marriage, it would be really embarrassing to your grandma's house. Moreover, she stubbornly believes that as long as a woman is possessed by a man, she will not be far from being abandoned.
Time slowly reached the first day of September.
Chen Buerlian's basic introductory medical books, such as "Huangdi Neijing", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Jinkui Yaolue", "Description on Warm Diseases", etc., let alone memorize them, I have not even read them through them.
Chapter completed!