This Maoji grain shop is the largest grain shop in the whole county, the largest scale, the most people, and the largest amount of grain saved, as if it is the head of the city's grain shops, and has a pivotal position in all the grain shops in the city. Some of the other small grain shops almost waited for his house to open and put out the sign of today's grain price, and then opened the door. How much money is sold in this Mao Ji grain store, they will follow how much they sell, as if it is the weather vane of prices.

At the same time, the Mao family is also one of the few big landowners in Chengcheng County, with more than 3,000 acres of land at home, and the grain that is beaten down every year is full of warehouses, so that the grain in the grain store can be fully supplied.

If you want to fight, you will fight the biggest, so as to deter everyone, this Mao family grain shop is the target of Li Keshou.

At this time, the Mao family grain store is undoubtedly the most eye-catching place on the whole street. The army besieged the city, the people were panicked, and all industries were depressed. Those who love to call friends to drink together in the prime of life are not interested at this time, and those who love to sleep in flowers and willows, and indulge in flower streets and willows all day long, are also honestly staying at home at this time, and they are doing business such as restaurants and brothels, which has deteriorated a lot. But only the business of the grain store has become not bad.

No matter how panicked people are, they have to eat food! Otherwise, the intruding army hadn't come in yet, but they would have starved themselves to death first.

Breaking into the siege of the city, the days are not very short.

In the Ming Dynasty, when the times of peace and prosperity, the people in the city generally only bought food for one or two days, and more, at most, it was only three or five days of rations. Because under the peaceful and prosperous times, food prices are stable and will not change much, and the people do not have to worry about anything. But in the year of Chongzhen, everything is different, the price of grain often changes, and there are fewer times when the price is reduced, and more time when the price increases. The habits of the common people have also changed, and they used to buy rations for a maximum of three or five days, but now they often buy them for half a month, not because they don't want to buy more, but because people don't sell so much grain to them. Many grain shops have an extra rule: a person can only buy a certain amount of grain, and if there is more, he will not sell it. Because these grain merchants can't say when the price will increase, if they sell more before the price increase, wouldn't it be equivalent to a loss?

At this point, in the eighth year of Chongzhen, the price of grain has skyrocketed to an almost unbearable level, but the people in the city, compared with the peasants outside the city, are less exploited and earn more money, so they can still barely struggle to survive.

Within two days of the siege of the city, some people in the city had eaten up all the food at home, and the grain shops were not open at that time, so they had to borrow some food from relatives and friends to survive. After waiting for two days, I saw that there seemed to be no movement in the army, and the grain shop in the city was also ready to open, but I didn't expect that the next day was ready to open, but the thief was killed the night before, and the rebel army had already killed the place less than a dozen zhang away from the Mao Ji grain store, but the owner was scared enough.

As a result, the opening that was supposed to be good was not opened.

At this time, many people in the city have no food at home, and they really can't open the pot. Many people came to the county government to find Li Keshou, but Li Keshou personally visited Mao's house, and Mao's family reopened the grain shop.

It's just that although it has opened, what the Mao family has done is not authentic.

On the first day, the grain was still the same price as before the arrival of the army, three taels and nine dollars and one stone, but on the second day, it rose to five taels, on the third day, it rose to six taels, and then one a day, and today, it has risen to eight taels!

Li Keshou didn't know about this at first, but today when he learned that the grain in the granary was running out, he learned that the price of grain had reached this point when he ordered people to come out to buy grain.

It was really jaw-dropping, because he didn't get the letter beforehand.

Not only did Maoji's grain shops rise, but all the grain shops followed up to this price.

This kind of behavior is actually a taboo, and it is not only a poisonous exploitation of the people, but also a great disrespect to the government -- because they have not consulted Li Keshou beforehand. And now in Chengcheng County, what Li Keshou represents is the government. They did not consult Li Keshou, which was disrespectful to the government and despised the authority of the government.

The people regard food as the sky, and generally in the locality, those who can open stores such as grain stores and do such businesses are basically powerful behind them, and they also have many intersections with the local government. Instead, most of the major events such as rising grain prices had to be discussed with the local government in advance, but now, these grain merchants have not done so.

Of course, the reason why they didn't discuss with Li Keshou may also be because they knew Li Keshou's personality and knew that he would definitely not agree, since this was the case, it was better to simply bypass him and do this matter directly.

Of course, they will be very annoyed by doing this, but they don't take it too seriously, if it were Zhang Cheng, they wouldn't do it, because Zhang Cheng is a parent official, and some have means to clean them up, and Li Keshou, now they don't care about it. It's just a temporary governor of the county, what kind of storm can it set?

To put it bluntly, Li Keshou didn't suppress them.

If they were to do business honestly, Li Keshou would have gritted his teeth to buy food, but now that they are doing this, they have completely angered Li Keshou and are ready to give them a little color.

Although the price of grain has risen to such an extent, the number of people who buy grain is still very large. I saw that the door of the grain store was dark and pressed, and a large number of people were crowded, which was still crowded outside and couldn't get in, and I don't know how many people were inside the store. At a glance, there are always hundreds of people inside and outside the store.

Some of the black-clad shopkeepers stood under the eaves, sticks in their hands, and looked fiercely at the crowds, but they were not here to maintain order, but to prevent people from grabbing food.

Grabbing food has happened a lot before.

There is a sign hanging on the wall outside, which indicates the price of all kinds of grain, and the words on it are like sharp blades, which stab people's eyes and make people turn their heads and dare not look at them again.

At the beginning, the people were very angry about the rise in the price of the grain store, but the grain store didn't care at all, and directly let out the words: love to buy or not, don't buy now, and it will be more expensive in the future. If the thieves do not withdraw for a day, the price increase will not stop for a day.

Some people don't believe in evil and go to other stores to look at it, and it turns out that the price is the same.

It's just that the price is too expensive, and many people are reluctant to buy it after all, so they go home and hold on, just to see the price every day, but once they come, the panic in their hearts increases a little -- just as the people in the grain shop said, only the price increases, but not the price reduction. Many people can't survive for a day, and no matter how much they can hold on, they can only survive to this day. When they saw that the price of grain had risen to eight taels of silver, they could no longer resist it, and they all flocked to the grain stores one after another, buying as much as they could, for fear that they would buy too late and spend more silver tomorrow.

So today, it is the day with the largest number of people since the grain store resumed business.

"These untouchables! It's really not dead to the Yellow River, and no tears when you don't see the coffin. ”

A voice sounded faintly, full of disdain and contempt. This is the second floor of the grain store. Where the grain shop is located, is the west wall of the Mao family, the Mao family is also quite brainy, the west wall of the street has been demolished, and then on the original address built a two-story building with a length of seven or eight zhang long, and then the open space behind the building is demarcated, from south to north, every two or three zhang to build an east-west wall, so this building is divided into three buildings facing the street in front, and a small courtyard with a yard in the back, of which the southernmost courtyard serves as a grain store. The other two yards are rented.

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