A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 138
They say all roads lead to Rome.

Some people were born in Rome, and others were born as cattle and horses.

A yellow ox worth nearly a thousand catties is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and the price of one ox in Taiping years can also be worth the annual output of ten or twenty acres of good land.

Ji Guogong Duan Ma Ye was going to entertain guests, but the cow got into a fight and hit a tree and broke its neck.

Huaiyu took his friends back to the Huaiyuanfang house, and was going to make sizzling beef, stir-fried beef, stewed beef bones, etc. for everyone, but just after entering the hospital, he found Zhao Yi waiting for him.

Seeing him coming, I looked forward to it but hesitated.

"Speak directly if you have something to say." Huaiyu laughed.

"Today, the stores of the food banks in Chang'an and the two cities were only open for half an hour, and the price of food has risen again."

Zhao Yi rubbed his hands, "The official price is [-] doumi."

Huaiyu understood the meaning of the words, "What about the market price?"

Huaiyu took Zhao Yi to the hall of the front yard, and specially called Runniang, who was in charge of the accounts, as well. The elder sister, Yu'e, had been helping Runniang all this time, so she also called, and then called the person in charge of the warehouse money and food. Old Liu.

The interest rate is indeed not particularly high at present, but the burden is not light. After all, this is only a half-year loan. The shorter the loan period, the higher the burden.

When there is really no other way, sometimes a bowl of millet can sell children and daughters or even pawn a wife to sell a house.

"Come on, let's talk in the courtyard first."

"Tomorrow and the next two days, everyone will be divided into two shifts. If you borrow food, you will send it home immediately,"

If there is a famine, it is often a fight in spring and three fights in autumn. "

Seeing his troubled look, Huaiyu understood the reason.

But if you don't ask the owner to borrow it, everyone has no other way.

Immediately after the battle of Shuofang in Hexi, Longyou, the food supply to Beijing was greatly reduced, and food had to be pulled to the border.

Qianjintang now has some food, and the apprentices have always had food.

"Doesn't our Qianjin Hall still have some food in stock?" Huaiyu asked.

Although Wu Huaiyi was very surprised when he first found out the identity of Aunt Fan in the Longyou Army, and even disapproved of him getting involved with her, but after experiencing what happened in Longyou, he accepted the two of them.When the beef was first distributed, he even thought of giving it to the Fan family for Huaiyu.

Especially for those apprentices, they only care about board, lodging, clothing and shoes, and they don't get paid during their apprenticeship, so they can't pay back even if they borrow it.

Huaiyi handed him a piece of beef, "This one is about ten catties."

In half a year, borrowing one and paying back three is really terrible.

Now looking at the rice, flour, wheat, millet, millet, beans and other grains on the account and in the warehouse, everyone really thinks that the owner has a good vision.

Even borrowing one and repaying two is amazing, but considering that food famine is life-saving, there is no way.

It’s really not bad to eat and use this piece. It’s two times a day and one dilute. It’s more dilute than other people’s lunch. From time to time, you can see some meat. It’s even been popular twice before, and the apprentices and apprentices are also rewarded by the boss. , no matter how much it is, it is rare.

Huaiyu acted very grandly, although he felt in his heart that borrowing one and repaying two is almost worse than Huang Shiren, but he borrowed one and repayed three is even worse, and even after the expiration, he will pay a huge profit, which is not a big deal. fight into.

A brief look at the ledger shows that Qianjintang has been very busy recently, with good business and high profits. Run Niang's accounts are good, and Lao Liu is in charge of the warehouse money and food, which is also relatively reliable. He is the wife of Fatty Wu. The family who came here was a slave, and the money and food were kept without any mistakes.

Huaiyu couldn't bear to see it.

Walking to the backyard, Huaiyi and Cheng Chumoniu saw Wu and the others were cutting beef, Wu Junya came again, and they only laughed and said a few words to Huaiyu's generosity. In their eyes, this was just Huaiyu After all, the Sanyuan samurai family can't compare with those rich and noble families because they lack the foundation, so they have to be gentler in doing things.

"Zhao Yi, ask my elder brother to cut another ten catties of meat. With so many people, no one can get two slices in the ten catties of meat cooking pot. Add another ten catties."

"Since everyone's family conditions are difficult and the current situation is difficult, we will help each other, help each other, and keep warm in groups."

Borrowing one stone and only charging one bucket of interest is generally just a superficial article of the government, and it is not universal, unless it is the clan warehouses inside the big families, lending to the orphans, widows and disabled of their own families, with the nature of relief within the clan, or even food. It is usually donated by everyone, so it is possible to only receive [-]% interest.

Huaiyu said: "They are all people from our own shop. At this time, we have to help if we can. As for the interest,"

The imperial court usually lends money from the public house, with a principal of [-] yuan and an interest of [-] yuan a month.

Many people in the company have difficulties at home, and when they come to them, it is difficult for everyone to do things with peace of mind, but they have to borrow food from the owner. Everyone knows how expensive food is at this time, and it is difficult to say this.

Huaiyu neither refused immediately nor agreed immediately, but first dragged Zhao Yi into the courtyard, where they arranged for the two to cut beef, prepare rice and cook.

Huaiyu made a simple calculation. According to the current reserve of grain, it is enough to sustain the current employees of Qianjintang until next year's summer harvest, and Lao Wu also transported a lot of grain from Sanyuan, both the grain grown by the Wu family and the rent collected. The food, and some Huaiyu asked Lao Wu to collect it from the village.

Even though the government has been interfering strongly, opening Changping warehouses to release grain, and cracking down on high prices, the war in Hedong last year and the Turkic invasion began this summer. A lot of food was transferred to the east of the river.

There is no shortage of food for the time being, and there is even a surplus.

"What's the interest in borrowing food from outside now?"

The price of millet is generally [-]% of the price of rice, and rice is sold for a thousand dollars, and that millet must be sold for at least [-] yuan, and the official price is [-] yuan per bucket of rice. No one will sell it at this time.

They work overtime every day for him, and the apprentices don’t even get paid, so they work twice a day, live in Datong shop, work all day long, and don’t get a day off for a month, and the apprentices have to work like this for several times. Year.Even if you become a buddy, you still have to survive for a few years.

After finishing speaking, Huaiyu said again: "I brought back a leg of beef today, which weighed seventy or eighty catties including the bones. You ask my elder brother to cut ten catties of meat for you, then take the bones and stew a pot of beef beef." Bone soup, everyone has been rushing to work every day recently, and it has been really hard."

Huaiyu had already confessed earlier that after Qianjintang had income in its account, except for some of it being used to purchase medicinal materials and pay wages, the rest had to store most of the grain purchased.

"Go quickly."

"Why don't you send it to Mrs. Fan? You forget about her when you come back? The eldest sister said that she came here during the day and brought a lot of things, including silk brocades, chickens and ducks, and two sheep. "

Lao Liu continued: "Under normal circumstances, borrowing grain is for half a year, spring borrowing autumn to pay back, or autumn borrowing spring to pay back, and the government borrows grain in disaster years, usually at a penny interest, but this kind of grain can not be borrowed by ordinary people. , and not much can be borrowed. Generally, when there is no famine, borrowing grain, at least five percent interest, mostly double interest.

In addition, [-] Turkic cavalry entered the Guanzhong Plain and approached the city of Chang'an, which made the people of Chang'an panic even more and tried their best to grab food.

"In the future, if you still have difficulties in life, remember to tell your boss at any time, we will definitely help if we can find a solution."

Huaiyu closed the account book and spoke up.

Li Tang was able to take Luoyang in the end, not because he captured it, but because the food in the city was exhausted, and Dou Jiande's reinforcements in Hebei were defeated at Hulao Pass. In the end, Zheng Jun surrendered in despair.

"Erlang, apart from doctors and pharmacists, most of our shops are apprentices, and there is nothing to mortgage."

Zhao Yi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard about it.

In the front yard, all the people who were working kept their hands on their hands, but at the same time they kept their ears up, watching Zhao Yi, the shopkeeper, and Huaiyu, the shopkeeper.

"One bucket of millet is five hundred yuan. There is a price but there is no market. Someone secretly sells it in the black market in the south of the city. A bucket of rice costs a thousand dollars."

"A doctor can borrow one stone of grain, and a pharmacist can borrow eight buckets.
"A buddy can borrow five dou, and an apprentice can borrow three dou. If he is diligent and steady in the shop, he can borrow one more dou. If he is not good at ordinary times, stealing and cheating, he can borrow one less dou."

Even if borrowing grain from those big temples, at least one bucket in spring and autumn, two buckets of principal and interest in autumn, and three buckets of repayment, that is double the interest.

"Let's borrow one and repay two, borrow in autumn and return in spring, if everyone is willing, lend at this interest."

It has to be said that people who have the means of production in this era are really nourishing. Money can produce money and food, and they can double their cubs, while ordinary people are the real poor leeks, who will be harvested at any time.

They are actually very satisfied with their jobs in Qianjintang. The conditions given by Qianjintang are good, and they are not harsh on the apprentices.

He is in charge of more than [-] people in Qianjintang.

Chen Runniang said from the side: "Ah Lang, the price of rice in the capital is soaring now, there is no market, and the price of grain is one price a day. I don't know when the Turkic people will come over. It is estimated that there will be a big increase."

Zhao Yi nodded, "Fortunately, Alang, you have already prepared. We bought a lot of grain in advance and shipped a lot of grain from Sanyuan. Now we don't have to go everywhere to grab grain."

"Xie Alang, I'll tell everyone right away." Zhao Yi thanked everyone and went out, and after a while, everyone cheered in the courtyard outside, and then everyone came to the door to thank, and even many young apprentices knelt down and kowtowed Thank you.

At that time, people didn't know that there would be such a serious situation now that the Turkic people would fight to the foot of Chang'an. They still thought that the price of grain was so high and they kept buying it.

A few years ago, when the Tang Dynasty besieged Wang Shichong's Luoyang, there was still no food to buy in Luoyang for three thousand rice buckets. The nobles and rich people in Luoyang City could only exchange gold for food.

"Then how is this food borrowed, and how much profit?"

At this time, it is really a life-saving grace to borrow three buckets of food for these little apprentices. It is not just one person who survives, but their whole family.

This mouth can only be opened by Zhao Yi.

He originally wanted to say no interest, but thinking about it, it is undoubtedly a bad manner.

"Auntie came dressed as a woman during the day? How did Auntie, Eldest Sister, and Runniang react?"

Everyone is full of expectations.

"what?"

It is very common to borrow one stone for one dou, to borrow one stone for five dou, then to borrow one stone for one stone, and then for two stones and three stones.

"It's like this. The current doctors, pharmacists, assistants, and apprentices of our Qianjintang have two meals a day and porridge at noon. Everyone is very grateful to A Lang. However, many people in our Qianjintang are also People from Chang’an, now that food prices are high and they can’t buy it, everyone’s family is in dire straits, and some of them haven’t opened the pot for several days…”

"There is no way to buy food outside now, let alone borrow it."

At present, the autumn grain has not been confiscated, which is the time when the crops are in short supply.

"My family, what to do with these things, write a sum when making the IOU. If you can't repay it when it expires, you can work to repay it."

In this day and age, where can such a job be found?

Zhao Yi is Zhao Xin's sworn brother, and he was also the one who brought Qianjintang to him. After he went to Longyou, he took over as the shopkeeper of Qianjintang.

Even those greedy landlords or monks borrowed grain, and when they borrowed it, they paid a small amount of money, but when they took it back, they used a big amount of money, which was tantamount to raising interest rates in secret.

"I don't know, you go back and ask them, this matter, you'd better tell Aniang Mingming earlier, since we're all together like this, don't procrastinate."

"Isn't this General Fan now in Binzhou? Auntie's mother-in-law is long gone, and I can't find someone who is in charge of the house even though I'm here to propose marriage."

"That's your business, go now."

Huaiyu took the beef with a smile and went, and after a while, unexpectedly brought Fan Xuanfu back to the yard.

(End of this chapter)