The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 95 Food War

From noon, all kinds of rumors surged all over Dengzhou. People didn't believe it at first, and then they went to the rice shop to ask, and the price of many rice rose to more than four taels, and the supply was limited.

Moreover, Jiannu's price has risen to tens of taels a stone, and some people in Dengzhou know about it.

Thinking about it this way, it is normal for food prices to rise in Dengzhou.

So many shops closed directly, saying that there was no rice.

For a while, the people of Dengzhou panicked, and everyone scrambled to grab rice.

The more this is the case, the more afraid the rice shop is to sell, and the price of rice has also risen steadily.

Five taels, six taels, less than two hours, rose to six taels.

As more rice shops closed, the common people were in a hurry.

Jiannu has already risen to tens of taels a stone, we need to buy it quickly.

While everyone was shouting around a closed rice shop, someone in the crowd said, "I know a place that only sells it for four, two or five dollars."

"where?"

"Take us there."

Soon, people from all directions in Dengzhou City flocked to Qin Nan's former shop.

A lot of beggars at the scene held the pouches of rice and shouted, "I got it, I got it, it's only four, two or five dollars, it's really cheap."

Then happily take the reward and leave.

The people flocked up.

"I want ten stone."

"Oh, it's sold in limited quantities. Our shopkeeper said that everyone has a share, and the customer cares that you can't buy too much."

"I pay five taels, no, six taels."

"That's it, that's fine."

Immediately someone shouted from behind: "I want twenty shi, get out of the way, I have plenty of money."

There are trustees in the crowd, Ding Yi and Qin Nan are both acting as trustees, and Qin Nan's father is in charge of selling rice.

Everyone set off each other, and the people who were attracted rushed to grab rice.

Of course Ding Yi hurriedly shipped the goods.

During this period, a small official from the yamen came to question him with soldiers. Ding Yi went over to reveal his identity, and there was a sergeant with armor beside him.

In fact, Lu Zuoshan, a big household in Dengzhou, received the news at about eight o'clock in the morning.

Lu Zuoshan is the largest landowner in Dengzhou. Both his grandfather and father were court officials. His father retired from the position of prefect of Dengzhou. Taking advantage of the power of the family, three generations have been scrapping, annexing, and occupying everywhere. Now the family has a lot of good land. Thirteen thousand acres.

It is a large household with the most fields in Dengzhou. Its annual harvest of grain and rice is more than 2 shi. It also has its own grain shop in the city, and sells what it can't finish.

He usually stores grain and rice in his grain store for three thousand shi to four thousand shi, which can be sold for about a month.

Unexpectedly, this morning, someone came to report that someone wanted to buy all their food, and offered one, two or three.

Of course Lu Zuoshan didn't take it seriously, relying on the large amount of food stored at home, he said lightly, who wants so much?

I heard that it was soldiers from Dongjiang Town who bought the rations.

Lu Zuoshan smiled and said, if there are rich people in Dongjiang Town, you can tell them to sell them for three thousand shi.

The hand came back to report soon, and the other party agreed.

Lu Zuoshan was stunned for a moment, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and sell three thousand stones.

At this time, there was no more rice in his rice shop, so he planned to have some rice brought from the warehouse.

But soon I heard the news that someone was harvesting rice everywhere.

His people left Dengzhou, went to a farm bunker outside Dengzhou City, and pulled out another two thousand stones.

It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to Dengzhou, and we were even more shocked when we arrived at Mipu.

The outside of the rice shop was full of people, and their rice almost couldn't be transported in, and the common people rushed over.

Lu Zuoshan hurriedly got someone to stop him, and pulled him back desperately.

It turned out that the price of rice had been fired to more than three or two at this time.

But how could Lu Zuoshan want to sell it so favorably? He already felt that he had sold it at a loss in the morning, and there were waves of people deliberately speculating on the price of rice in the city.

Just fry it, I have more rice and I'm afraid of you?Just make some money too.

"Four taels a stone, now it's four taels." Lu Zuoshan immediately raised again.

The common people cursed, but some people still bought it.

At this time, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "The Li's shop next door is selling for five taels, hurry up and buy."

When Lu Zuoshan heard it, it was worth it, five taels, and I was also five taels.

Soon, the person he sent came back and said that others were six taels.

He then went up to six taels.

But people are like this, the more it goes up, the more they want to buy it, and the common people still want to grab it.

Lu Zuoshan felt that something was wrong, someone was deliberately hyping it up.

He immediately sent people out of the city and brought in another five thousand shi to beat down the price of rice.

The subordinates asked strangely, why did they continue to fight?Wouldn't it be nice for us to follow suit, just to make a fortune?
Lu Zuoshan shook his head: "This kind of hype will stop soon, at most one or two days, the price of rice will fall back when the other party sells out the goods, our rice is outside the city, and it takes too long to transport it in and out, so we can't favor others. .”

"We can't let him ship the rice. Let's immediately lower the price of rice. The large amount of rice he received can't be sold, so we can only sell it at a low price in the end."

So Lu Zuoshan announced at the door, everyone, don't panic, our Lu family has a lot of rice, and today we only sell it for two taels and one stone, wait, wait for us to transport the rice.

When the common people heard that there were two taels and one stone, of course they were willing to wait, so a large number of common people gathered here, waiting for the Lu family to transport rice.

"Hmph, let the fried rice guy pay for it, let me see if he sells it for [-] taels?" Lu Zuoshan was complacent, because the fried rice was collected in [-] taels and [-] taels later, and he could still make money in [-] taels, so he felt that the fried rice The price must be paid to death.

Just as his men were leaving the city.

Lu Chao has arrived outside Lu Zuoshan's villa outside the city with eight soldiers.

"Lutou, this is the place. I followed the people who fetched food from them. This is where the Lu family stores food."

"How many people in there know?"

"I don't know, but it seems that the defense is not very strict."

"Dengzhou is relatively peaceful, there are no soldiers and bandits, but we still have to be careful."

The task Ding Yi gave him was to prevent the large amount of rice from the Lu family from entering the city and lower the price of rice that he had managed to raise.

They lay in ambush by the side of the road and soon waited for Lu Zuoshan's horse-drawn carriage team to fetch rice. There were more than 30 people in the group, but all the people making a mess were ordinary people, only half of them were young and strong, and they were holding simple weapons, similar to the refugee army.

It is estimated that no robbers have been encountered in Dengzhou.

After they entered Zhuangzi, not long after, horse-drawn carriages drove out, with grain and rice piled up on them.

A full five thousand stone grains of rice were pushed out.

"Here, come, take the guy, put gunpowder on it." Lu Chao grinned, took out a cloth towel and tied it on his face, only his eyes were exposed, and everyone else followed suit.

A soldier was stunned: "At the end of the road, didn't Master Ding say that it's good to stop them and prevent Youmi from entering the city? After tonight?"

Lu Chao glared at him: "This kind of big family only eats the blood of the common people to get fat like this. Why are you being polite to them? Let's talk about it after grabbing it."

"..." The soldiers were speechless.

"Master Ding wants to scold, I will carry it." Lu Chao said angrily, and stepped forward.

All the soldiers had to follow.

Nine people rushed out and stopped on the road. The people on the other side were shocked at first, and then stopped in front of the carriage because of the crowd: "What are you doing, do you know who we belong to?"

Lu Chao reached out and took the blunderbuss from a soldier, and said loudly, "You guys are so bold, you have raised the price of rice in the city so high, can ordinary people afford it?"

After that, light the fire and raise the gun.

(End of this chapter)