After retreating from the court, the ministers in the court surrounded the ten people who went to Xiao Yao Grange, and Lord Qi quickly made an excuse to slip away, he was in a hurry to go back to prepare the money, which was a huge amount, and it was not easy to get it together in a day or two, so he didn't have time to explain it to others.
In the end, Prime Minister Li Chen and another adult were entangled, and told everyone about the algorithm of five hundred taels and one catty, and everyone suddenly realized that it was actually a very simple calculation, but because they were frightened by the sky-high prices that they had never heard of, they didn't calm down and think.
Knowing such a huge profit margin, the ministers no longer stayed, and they all hurried back to raise money, even the ministers who didn't have so much silver didn't want to let go of the opportunity, even if they gave this opportunity away as a favor?
Xiao Yao left early, she went out of the palace to the restaurant and handed over a dozen carts brought from the farm early in the morning to Steward Liu, who came back from the court, and the carts were full of wheat seeds, grain and 10,000 taels of silver.
Xiao Yao told Steward Liu to drive the car to the household department, and he must weigh and hand over clearly on the spot.
Three hours later, Steward Liu came back happily with the note written by the household, and Xiao Yao asked in particular: "Is the household granary guarded by soldiers?"
” Steward Liu replied: "There are dozens of brave soldiers, and the granary is surrounded by water, and I also saw that Prince Zhong personally explained to the leader of the guards that he must guard day and night, and he must not make mistakes." ” Xiao Yao smiled slightly when she heard this, this Zhao Ruiyun is quite cautious!
On the first day of donation, some people began to donate silver and grain to the household department, and some people who did not have enough silver taels for a while simply reported the amount of silver they wanted to donate to the household officials, trying to occupy the good seed and not be preempted by others, and Lord Qi threatened to donate 30,000 taels.
On the first day, 10,000 taels of silver were delivered to the household.
Twenty pounds of wheat seeds were taken away at a time.
It should be said here that Xiao Yao gave the emperor an idea to restrict the discount of the grain price of officials, neither according to one tael of silver and one hundred catties before the price increase, nor according to the four taels of silver and one hundred catties in the current market, but all according to two taels of silver and one hundred catties.
Although the ministers had a whisper, they did not dare to say anything.
It's just that he cleverly changed his strategy and quickly sold the grain to the big grain merchants at a price of three taels to three taels and three hundred catties, and even two or two hundred catties and seven hundred catties were sold.
This has caused the market price to drop a lot.
Xiao Yao took the opportunity to have people come forward to buy a batch of grain at a low price for the emperor.
The next day, there were only more than 400 catties left of 1,000 catties of good seeds.
The household department is working overtime day and night, and the large trucks and small vehicles that transport grain and silver are constantly lined up, and Zhao Ruiyun has been commanding the soldiers to help weigh and transport the grain.
Before noon on the third day, all the 1,000 catties of good seeds were taken away.
Many of the vehicles queuing in the back learned that the good breed was gone, so they quietly turned the head of the car and slipped away, but it was the Six Old Princes' Mansion, and the convoys of several princes, princesses, and Zhongwangfu continued to line up behind to donate.
In three days, the household department received a total of 620,000 taels of donations and more than 1 million catties of grain.
Coupled with the money and food donated in the early stage, it is equivalent to almost one million taels of silver.
Among them, only the improved seeds raised 500,000 taels of silver, and nearly 300,000 catties of grain.
The officials who fought for the good seeds didn't want the emperor to think that they were only here for the good seeds.
Disguised to donate some more food.
Among them, Lord Qi alone won 60 catties of good seeds, ranking first on the list.
The least fortunate of the ministers also got a pound or two.
However, the princes and princesses did not follow the trend and did not get the seeds, among these people, Zhao Ruiyun, the king of loyalty, donated the most, and donated all the production of his own money and fiefdom this year, about 20,000 taels of silver.
No wonder Xiao Cui heard about this, complained about Xiao Yao for a while, and asked her why she didn't let Young Master Yun fight for seeds, good things are close to outsiders and don't give their own people, Young Master Yun donated all the money, and got nothing, but what can I use to marry Miss?
Xiao Yao couldn't cry or laugh, and didn't know how to explain this to her.
Later, Xiaocui thought about it and begged Xiao Yao to give Zhao Ruiyun some wheat seeds, corn seeds, vegetable seeds and rice seeds, and said in a beautiful name, anyway, sooner or later, they are a family, and he is poor, and our faces are not good-looking!
Xiao Yao fainted on the spot!
Xiao Cui didn't say anything.