Second update, please recommend and vote for support I can't live this life anymore Mrs.
Liu Chen glanced at the bottomed rice vat at home and sighed.
A month ago, rice prices in Nanjing began to rise.
It didn't rise very fast at first, and Mr.
Liu Chen didn't pay much attention.
But five days ago, the price of food began to rise sharply, from one tael of silver per stone to one to two to three cents, then to one to two to five cents, three days ago to one to two to six cents, and yesterday it climbed to one to two cents. eight coins Within five days, the price of rice rose from one liang per shi to 1, 28 qian per shi, a full increase of 80%.
This scared Liu Chen to death.
Her husband was just a teacher in a private school, and his total salary for a year was only twenty taels.
Calculated this way, all the silver earned is not enough to buy rice.
Small families like theirs don't have the habit of hoarding rice, and they basically eat and buy it now.
Therefore, the rice grain in the rice vat is always a shallow layer.
Now we have run out of food.
If we don’t buy it, we will go hungry.
Although I still have seven or eight taels of silver saved at home, the current price of food is too outrageous.
Isn’t it equivalent to being ripped off by buying food with money?
Mrs.
Liu Chen bit her lip and finally decided to go to her neighbor's house to borrow some rice.
Her neighbor Wang He's husband's family is in the silk and satin business, and they earn hundreds of taels of silver a year at a time.
They are considered to be one of the few wealthy households of this generation.
She and the Wang He family usually have a good relationship.
This time they went to borrow food when they were in trouble.
The other party would at least lend some.
After thinking about it, Liu Chen went out holding an empty jar.
Wang He's home was to the west of Liu Chen's house.
She knocked lightly on the door, and not long after, a woman in her thirties came to open the door.
Seeing that Mrs.
Liu Chen was here, Mrs.
Wang He smiled slightly and said, "Why are you here, sister?
Come sit down in the room."
She first let Mrs.
Liu Chen into the courtyard, then looked around and locked the door.
Her husband came to the counter early in the morning and she was the only woman in the house, so it was better to be careful.
The Wang family's courtyard has two entrances.
The outer courtyard is generally used for entertaining guests, and the inner courtyard is for the residence of the family.
Wang He asked Liu Chen to go to the small hall in the outer courtyard, made a pot of tea and poured a cup for herself and Liu Chen each.
"Sister, you made pickled cabbage again today, bring me a jar and let me try it."
Seeing Mrs.
Liu Chen holding a jar in her hand, Mrs.
Wang He laughed loudly.
"Sister Wang, I'm here to borrow some rice."
No matter how hard it is to say it, you still have to say it.
Mrs.
Liu Chen gritted her teeth and said, "To be honest, my family has run out of food.
I hope my sister can lend me some rice."
When Mrs.
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Wang He heard that Mrs.
Liu Chen was here to borrow rice, her face immediately turned gloomy.
She smiled and said, "Hey, sister is joking.
The price of rice is so high right now.
We don't have enough to eat at home.
How can we?"
I’ll lend you some extra rice.”
Mrs.
Liu Chen's face turned red.
She was not a good talker, and she didn't know what to say after being ridiculed by Wang He.
"Good sister, even the landlords don't have enough food these days, let alone a small business like mine.
Now the price of rice has risen to one or two and eight taels of silver per stone.
I advise you, sister, to buy some.
Let's see. , the price of rice will still go up.”
After Wang He said this, he picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
"ah" Mrs.
Liu Chen turned pale with fright: "The price of rice will still go up."
"Then the price of rice has risen and I can't stop it.
Sister, have you forgotten that in the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, the price of rice finally rose to three or six taels of silver per stone.
I think it will be at least the same price this time."
After saying that, Wang He said with emotion: "Think about it, life was better during the Wanli period.
One tael of silver could buy two stones of rice, and there was so much rice in the rice vat that I couldn't finish it."
When Wang He said these words, a faint smile appeared on his face, obviously he missed his life very much.
Since the Tianqi Dynasty, the price of rice has been rising, and it went crazy during the Chongzhen Dynasty.
The price of rice finally fell back some time ago, but now it has surged again.
It seems that the price of rice is even more fierce than the one in Chongzhen's 15th year.
Mrs.
Liu Chen is a stupid person, and she couldn't hold back even a single sentence after being fooled by Mrs.
Wang He.
Her fingers pinched her thighs tightly, and the dark red horse-faced skirt was pinched out of pleats.
"Listen to my sister's advice, no matter how expensive the price of rice is, you have to buy some and save it.
If you can't afford one stone, buy a handful of dendrobium.
If you can't afford a handful, buy a bucket.
If you can't afford a bucket, buy a liter.
If you can't afford a bucket, buy a liter.
If you can’t afford a liter, just buy a unit.”
Wang He was so excited that she was spitting, and it almost hit Liu Chen's face.
But no matter what she said, she never mentioned borrowing food.
Mrs.
Liu Chen also saw that Mrs.
Wang did not want to lend her food, nor did she want to stay here and be humiliated, so she stood up and said, "In that case, I will go home and discuss with my husband to see if there are any other ways."
"Sister, walk slowly" When Wang He saw that Liu Chen had finally left, she was very happy.
Borrowing food, bah The Liu family was so poor that they couldn't even afford to pay back the rice they borrowed.
If she really lends the rice out, Roubaozi will never come back.
To take a step back, even if Mrs.
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Liu and Chen did return the borrowed rice afterwards, they would be at a loss.
Now one stone of rice is almost two taels of silver.
If Mrs.
Liu and Chen wait until the price of rice drops to one tael of silver and one stone before returning the same amount of rice, they will lose half of the money inside and outside.
Mrs.
Liu Chen is a kind-hearted person, but she is kind-hearted but cannot be eaten.
Nowadays, in troubled times, it is good to be able to protect yourself, but how can you still have the energy to take care of your neighbors?
Isn't there a saying among scholars: Sweep the snow in front of your own door and don't worry about the frost on other people's houses.
Wang He felt it was very reasonable.
Liu Chen is pitiful, but there are many poor people in the world.
The number of victims who starved to death in Henan and Shaanxi is at least tens or millions.
Who can pity them?
If you want to blame it, just blame it on living in troubled times.
Zhu Cihong finished reading the memorial written by Jiang Yueguang, the Minister of Household Affairs, with a face as cold as ice.
The price of rice in Nanjing has doubled in just five days, and is now close to two taels of silver per stone.
Although there is still some gap between this price and the highest price during the Chongzhen period, it is already very scary.
If the court does not stabilize food prices in time, it will not be long before widespread starvation will occur.
Jiang Yueguang's suggestion was to open a warehouse immediately and rely on the grain stored in the treasury to stabilize grain prices.
This is certainly a solution, but it is only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
The price of rice has soared so sharply in just five days.
It must be because some grain dealers are hoarding goods and driving up rice prices.
What Zhu Cixiang wants to do is not to treat a headache or a foot pain, but to cure the disease from the root.
There is no doubt that this surge in rice prices is rooted in these profiteers.
Well, if you make it impossible for my people to eat, I will kill you to eat
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