Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 97

Governor Wen and County Magistrate Ming were not like County Magistrate Chen who had Jiang Yipei to tip them off. They had always thought that this was just an ordinary rain that would stop after two days at most. It was not until the rain had not stopped for seven days that they realized something was wrong.

But it was too late. Places were soaked and even flooded one after another.

When Governor Wen and the magistrate of Chunzhou County saw that the rising water was not right, they immediately evacuated the government office and left the people of the county to fend for themselves.

However, when they were transporting the food, they found that the grain in the granary had been almost sold out, with only about 100 stones left. They immediately regretted their decision.

All county governments have granaries. According to the system, grain is stored based on the population base of each county. For example, in lower counties such as Chunzhou County and Luoshui County, the grain reserves are around 2,000 to 3,000 dan.

Its function is to purchase grain at a price slightly higher than the market price during a good harvest, sell grain at a price slightly lower than the market price during a poor harvest, and provide interest-free loans or even free relief during famines.

What we are trying to prevent is low grain prices hurting farmers, high grain prices hurting people, and sudden disasters.

Generally speaking, grain in granaries cannot be bought and sold at will.

However, about ten days before the rain, several grain merchants suddenly came to the city to buy grain, and someone reported that they had bought out most of the old grain from the grain shop. County Magistrate Ming felt that something was amiss and was about to investigate when these grain merchants actually asked someone to approach him to buy the county government's stored grain.

He went to the county government office to buy grain. Is this stupid or does he have something to rely on?

County Magistrate Ming was used to being cautious and prudent, and he thought a lot. He often overwhelmed himself with his imagination, but in the end he still met them.

They said that as the new grain was about to arrive, they would buy some old grain and transport it to the west to earn some hard-earned money.

Gave a lot of respect -

Real gold and silver plus a set of high-quality glass cups.

Glass cup!

County Magistrate Ming was both surprised and delighted.

This kind of appearance... must be offered as tribute!

How many sets are there among the people?

How much are two or three thousand shi of grain worth? How much is a glass lamp worth?

Even a fool knows that this kind of loss-making business cannot be done!

Then the fools came, and there was more than one.

Could it be that some powerful person sent someone to buy grain?

Then you can't offend him!

Magistrate Ming thought about it for a long time, and finally persuaded Governor Wen to sell the grain. Of course, the Liulizhan was given to Governor Wen as a gift. Governor Wen, who was born in the capital, could not help but marvel at the Liulizhan.

He testified that only a wealthy family could produce this thing.

He even ordered County Magistrate Ming to open the granary and sell grain without stopping. He was originally transferred to the local area. If he accidentally offended someone and was impeached, given the emperor's anger towards him, he would probably never be able to return to Beijing in his lifetime, even if his sister was there.

As for what they did with the food, it was none of his business.

In fact, County Magistrate Ming was not without fear. After all, doing so was strictly speaking favoritism and abuse of power. But with the support of Governor Wen, he had enough confidence.

He thought that it would only take about ten days to harvest the new grain, so he could sell the old grain in the granary at the price of new grain, and buy it back when the new grain came in. It would be a simple out and in, and it wouldn't be a big deal. Besides, with this calculation, he would not only break even, but make a profit!

Most importantly, there was a large sum of money in his own pocket.

Who would have thought that this damn rain wouldn’t stop for a month!

If he had not remained sober at the beginning and left two hundred shi of grain for storage, he would not know who to cry to now.

As for these 200 dan of grain, some of it was damaged by rain and moldy when they were moved up the mountain. They had to feed nearly a hundred people, so this amount of grain sounded like a lot, but it actually couldn't last long.

This is also the reason why Governor Wen repeatedly asked Magistrate Chen to pay the autumn tax.

County Magistrate Chen was really lucky. He was one of the first to harvest. The people in his county must have some grain stored.