The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Yan Song nodded.

He also called Gai Nie and Nie Yinniang, two masters, and Hai Rui also insisted on going.

A group of six people dressed up as a team of businessmen with makeup on.Yan Song is the owner, Hai Rui is the old slave, Gai Nie is the bodyguard, Shakespeare is the foreign translator, Chen Yuanyuan and Nie Yinniang are the boss's wives and concubines, they quietly drove into the busy streets of Tianjin in a carriage. .

Chapter 705 Skyrocketing food prices [3]

On the carriage, Yan Song looked at the merchants on both sides.

The general merchants are still normal, but the grain store has gathered a long line.

In front of a [Yongsheng Grain Store], tens of thousands of people in Tianjin have been queuing, complaining and waiting helplessly.

Yan Song ordered the carriage to stop and got off.

At this time, he was disguised by Chen Yuanyuan. If you want to talk about Chen Yuanyuan's disguise technique, it is the best in the world.With two slight changes, Yan Song has completely turned into a rich businessman in his 50s.

Yan Song walked to the door of [Yongsheng Grain Store], and heard the protest and cursing of the people, wave after wave.

"I only sold 70 buckets of grain yesterday, and the stall was closed! I only sold [-] buckets today? Who can eat this amount of grain?"

"Your price has risen to 4 taels? It's too angry "[-]"! Who can afford it?"

"Do you want to let people live? I still have a pregnant woman and a baby at home!"

"Come out, Shopkeeper Qian, and I promise I won't beat you to death!"

Dozens of clerks in Yongsheng Grain Store looked at each other coldly, and a cashier with a goatee stood up and said with a sneer:

"My boss said that we don't have much in stock, so we only have 4 taels a bucket. You can buy it or not. Besides, supplying 70 buckets a day is already a conscience! Do you want it? If you can't make it to the queue, come back tomorrow! Today we closed."

Shopkeeper Qian laughed and ordered the grain store to close.

Listening to their roar, Yan Song did not speak, but Shakespeare and Chen Yuanyuan behind them became angry.

Shakespeare rushed in front of the manager of the grain shop and shouted angrily, "Our Daming fought fiercely with the Mongols on the city wall. You are hoarding and driving up the price of grain. Wouldn't your conscience ache?"

Shakespeare scolded the shopkeeper so bloody that he couldn't hold back his face. He sneered and said, "Whether to sell or not, and how much it costs are all up to my grain store! Who are you? You're just a crooked nut. Mind your own business here!"

Shakespeare said impassionedly: "Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. Although I am a foreigner, Daming is also my second hometown. I cannot just watch you ruin him."

The surrounding people applauded enthusiastically.

"Okay! Look at others, a foreigner, has such a heart!"

"Boss Qian, your conscience has been eaten by dogs!"

The shopkeeper Qian was pointed at by Wan Fu, but he was very thick-skinned, unmoved, and lazily sneered:

"Don't talk about you grassroots, you can't do anything to us, so what if it's Yan Ge? He ordered the grain merchants in Tianjin to hand over grain at a fair price. If we don't pay, what can he do? He can still dispatch The army, obviously can’t be robbed?”

"Ah?" Shakespeare's eyes turned blue with anger, and Hai Rui sternly said, "You profiteers are hoarding money, why can't the imperial court send out troops to forcefully suppress it?"

The shopkeeper Qian rolled his eyes and said with a sneer, "We are profiteers. But behind us big grain merchants, each of us has a deep background. Even Yan Song has to weigh it carefully, and forcibly confiscated our grain. What to do afterward?"

With a sneer, he ordered the clerk to push Shakespeare and Hai Rui out and close the store.

Looking at the suddenly closed shop doors, the people who couldn't buy food sighed.

"This is how to do?"

"The family can't open the pot anymore."

"Without food, what shall we eat?"

At this moment, from behind the crack in the door, shopkeeper Qian's sinister voice sounded.

"I'm not afraid to tell you that our grain store is also considerate of the need for food. There is still grain for sale at the back door! It's only five taels of silver a bucket. Anyone who wants it should hurry up and buy it! The quantity is limited and sold out!"

This time, the people are fried again.

"What? Five taels of silver for a bucket?"

"The price has already increased tenfold! Will it go up?"

"We are all ordinary people, who can afford such expensive food?"

"Didn't the imperial court not allow the price to increase? Why did it secretly increase the price again?"

The money shopkeeper sneered through the crack of the door: "Would you like to buy it or not! It will go up tomorrow!"

He left with a wicked smile and let the common people scold him.

The common people gathered in front of the grain store were in a dilemma.

Do not buy it?We have to eat at home.

purchase?

Five taels of silver?a bucket?

How can you afford it?

Shopkeeper Qian’s sneer came from the grain shop again: “I forgot to mention, the pawn shop next door to our house...is run by the same owner. If you have no money, you can go to the next door to pawn valuables. Let’s eat food again. How is it? Are we thoughtful?”

Only then did the common people understand the tricks of these profiteers.

On the one hand, the hoarding has driven up the price of grain, forcing the common people to buy grain at five times the price.

On the other hand, pawnshops and pawns are used to plunder the wealth of ordinary people.