Chapter 50 Pioneer At the turn of the year, more than one caravan is heading north against the cold wind.
At the turn of the year, Chang Fugui was not the only member of the Huaxia Fuxing Club who infiltrated into the tiger's den among the caravans.
They are all young, and most of them can write and do calculations.
Even if they do not take any risks, they can live quite a prosperous life.
However, at least at this moment, he did not go but no one calculated his own personal life and death honor and disgrace.
They spread like seeds to Jeju, Gaotang, Qingzhou, Dadu, and even as far away as Kaiping and Yingchang.
They silently took root in various places, sprouted and grew silently, until one day, they bloomed into bright flowers with their lives.
According to later statistics from the Huaxia Fuxing Society, more than 1,100 members of the Fuxing Society died at the hands of the Mongolian and Yuan troops and the powerful gentry before and after the Northern Expedition and during the subsequent stabilization of the region.
At the beginning of the Northern Expedition, the entire Fuxing Society only had 3,000 members.
A huge sacrifice also means a huge gain.
In just a few days from the end of the twelfth lunar month to the tenth day of the first lunar month, rice prices in cities north of the Yellow River rocketed by 30%.
Different from the natural fluctuations in the price of rice and noodles during the Chinese New Year in the past, this time the price of rice jumped up and there was no sign of falling back.
The market just started on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and the numbers on the water signs in various grain stores frightened people who came to buy rice.
Brown rice went from two hundred and twenty Huai coins at the end of the twelfth lunar month to three hundred coins.
And the price of one stone of white flour is as high as five hundred.
This is still the standard Huaxia Tongbao discount.
If you use Zhiyuan copper coins, it will be doubled.
"Shopkeeper Sun, you must be so evil.
If you dare to raise the price like this in the first month of the year, you are not afraid that the Stove Lord will see it and be punished by God."
Immediately, some people started to curse, with unconcealable grief and indignation in their voices.
Businesses will make more money during the holidays.
This is common sense and everyone can tolerate it.
But the year has passed, and the price is still high, which is deliberately cheating people.
You know, for almost the entire year last year, the price of rice hovered around 150 Wenhuai Qian per stone.
Many city people were used to it, and they didn't even think about hoarding next year's rations at the beginning of autumn.
And Mipu waited until the new year was over and continued to double the price of rice, which was equivalent to robbing money from everyone's pockets.
Everyone’s money is earned by sweatdrops dropped to the ground and smashed into pieces.
How can one withstand this kind of unconscionable robbery?
"Yes, Shopkeeper Sun.
It snowed so much last year, and it didn't look like there was going to be a famine.
You, the boss, just did this during the Chinese New Year.
What are you planning on doing?"
"Shopkeeper Sun, we accept the two hundred and twenty at the end of the year.
After all, it's the end of the year, and you and the guys have worked hard.
But the year is over, and you, the boss, have to do a good job and let us have a good meal."
Other people around him also spoke.
Move with emotion and reason, and advise shopkeeper Sun not to do immoral things that get stuck in people's necks.
Unexpectedly, shopkeeper Sun not only refused to listen to the advice, but immediately slapped his thigh and cried out.
"Oh, I'm telling you, young and old, dear neighbors, you all say that I am wicked, so why would I want to be stabbed in the spine?
I just lower my head and don't raise my head to see my old neighbor.
I have nothing to do to trick you.
It's really, really impossible to do anything.
The whole winter.
Oh my God, there isn't much rice coming from the south.
It's spring now, and it's said that the Huai bandits are going to go north.
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Who knows when the war will start, and the peace will be restored.
I only have so much rice for sale.
Every fight is missing, how dare you sell it so cheaply at once?”
"Are we really going to fight?"
"Yes, Uncle Sun, you are well-informed, do you really want to fight?"
"Oh, this is terrible, Mr.
Sun, why didn't you inform everyone earlier?"
After everyone heard this, they immediately stopped accusing Shopkeeper Sun of being immoral and looked into the matter with pale faces.
"I just know it, young and old gentlemen."
Shopkeeper Sun said with a grimace, and he repeatedly handed over to everyone, "If I had known the news earlier, I wouldn't have quickly persuaded my boss to stock up on tens of thousands of kilo of grain.
Not to mention selling it, just putting it aside.
Looking at it in the warehouse makes me feel at ease, but like everyone else, I am just an ordinary person who does a small business to support my family.
Who will tell me if something really big happens?"
"well" “Oh what a bad luck” "Isn't it true?
It's only been a few days of rest and relaxation."
Sighs came and went.
Whether it is a change of dynasty or a change of generation, these are the affairs of heroes.
Who can the common people stop?
Who cares?
They were forced to lose their families by the war.
After sighing, everyone looked at each other, took out the maximum amount they could use in their pockets, and bought rice from shopkeeper Sun and the waiter.
If a fight really breaks out, rice prices will definitely continue to rise.
Buy more today and save hundreds of copper coins in the future.
Although the difference is only a few hundred coins, dozens of buckets, or three liang of stone, it often means whether you can survive the war or starve to death.
Some people were unwilling to give up.
While watching the guys put rice into their food bags, they asked tentatively: "Uncle Sun, Master Sun, didn't you say that the Huaiyang people governed the country by business and were greedy for profits?
In the past few wars, they It didn’t get stuck in the canal this time.”
"The problem is, this time is different from the past.
In the past, the imperial court could more or less have the upper hand.
They only wanted to protect themselves and did not dare to do anything.
But this time, the imperial court, alas, stopped talking.
Too much is a disaster."
Shopkeeper Sun looked around alertly and closed his mouth again.
The imperial court is failing, this is something that anyone with a discerning eye can see.
Although the turmoil last autumn had little impact on the people, ordinary people know that only when the family is harmonious can everything prosper.
Both the father and the son have taken action.
How can this family be invincible?
"The key is, even if the Huai'an army doesn't block the canal, we don't dare to do business on the river anymore."
There are some things that shopkeeper Sun didn't dare to say, but among the customers who came to buy rice, there were some who were bold and pointed out one of them. fact.
"Think about it, the emperor can't even control his own wife and children, how can he control the arrogant soldiers and generals below?
You came here from the south to transport rice, because you want to take the opportunity to make a lot of money, and you have accumulated great virtues from the Buddha.
But when the official looked at it, hey, there are so many meters, just right for me.
There's a shortage of military rations here.
I'll show my kindness and let you put down the ration ship and leave.
If you encounter the evil one, I'll find a crime on your head and take you and the ship away with you.
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Will your wife and children go to Dadu to file a complaint and ask the emperor to come forward to uphold justice for you?"
"Alas" everyone heard and sighed in unison again.
Everyone knows the virtues of the Meng Yuan officers and soldiers.
Every time they passed through the canal, the banks were as clean as if they had passed through locusts.
And after that, no one, not the local officials nor the emperor in the capital city, would come forward to recover the losses for the sufferer.
This time the Huai'an army invaded the north, and the officers and soldiers had to go up the canal again.
When the fleet transporting grain encounters officers and soldiers, isn’t it like meat buns beating dogs: