The grain merchants were like sharks. At this moment, they tasted blood and their emotions were completely mobilized.

More and more people like Wu Wenlong are starting to find ways to borrow money and prepare for harvesting food.

After all, Wu Wenlong and others are not really big grain merchants. Although they are not small in scale, they are also top-notch.

But at the moment, such a grain price...even a large grain merchant would be very laborious to eat the goods.

The cash on hand is definitely not enough.

Seeing the opportunity to make a fortune is right in front of me, I know that one tael of silver can turn into two taels today. At this time... who can still sit still?

The gentry are actually quite conservative, but the merchants are different. They borrow everywhere like crazy and keep getting cash.

Immediately, the Zhang family began to sell 10,000 stones of grain every day.

The food prices also rise day by day.

The price increase is not large, but it is because it has a small increase every day.

After seven or eight days, the price of grain had reached nearly fifteen taels of silver.

Since Emperor Wanli, the price of grain in the Ming Dynasty has been between two and three liang, and in the desert, it once approached nine liang.

And now, it has directly broken through the historical record.

This is of course because the disasters in Guanzhong are extremely great.

On the other hand, in the past few days, there have been reports in Huainan area that floods occurred in Huainan. Although there are floods in Huainan every year, it is just a difference in size. This year's scale is quite large.

But at this time... any slight disturbance will be considered good news for grain prices.

Everyone held their own food bags tightly. Except for the Zhang family or a small amount of gentry selling grain on the market, they almost had no food.

For the Zhang family... the stock of cash is being sent in. If Zhang Jingyi had not obtained the holy family, had the official position of Baihu and county magistrate, and there was also an earl, I would have thought it would be too hot to hold it.

Until the last stone of rice in the Zhang family was sold out, the price of grain was still at a high of fifteen taels.

Now the Zhang family is calculating gold and silver frantically, and the final accounts are shocking.

Four million and five million taels of silver.

This silver was sent to the Zhang family's farm in Changping for only one reason, that is, the mansion in the capital was really unable to accommodate it.

Zhang Tianlun was stunned. He had never seen such a lot of money in his life.

At this moment, he found that his pitiful life experience could no longer imagine what he should do after getting so much money.

Third uncle...ah... Third uncle must not be able to make such a lot of money.

That poor man.

Zhang Tianlun was overjoyed, but...soon, he woke up, and then, just like all the landlords and old treasures, the first thing was to start digging the cellar.

It is too unsafe to keep so much money at home. You have to hide it in a cellar. The deeper the cellar, the better. It is best to set up many institutions in it. In addition... you have to hire someone to guard it. Of course, the hired people must be trusted.

In this regard, Zhang Tianlun has a high talent. After all, he was born in the Jinyiwei and is considered to be half a thief ancestor.

Of course, the recruited guard candidates must be recruited from Qingpingfang, and the children of the Jinyiwei must be selected. After all... what these people did for their ancestors, and the few people in the family were all as clear as a mirror.

Moreover, most of these people's parents, wives and children make a living in Xinxian County, which is reliable. After all, if you run away, you can't run away from the temple.

Of course, I learned that my dad was going to build a cellar...

Zhang Jingyi became interested.

Let’s build an underground project. In the past few years, wealth is not at ease in your hands. If you want to do it... just make a big one.

How about a direct underground treasure house? The kind with tunnels... may not be sure to use it in the future.

Zhang Jingyi became interested. This was a big project, so after thinking about it, he felt that... his father couldn't do it.

After all, if such underground projects are accidentally collapsed or something, then he will have no father.

Zhang Jing thought about it and finally thought of someone.

So I hurriedly took out my pen and said politely that I wanted to dig a basement. Of course, this basement covers a large area, and Changping is close to the north. If a Jiannu bypasses the border town or a bandit attacks the Chen family's farm, it would be very dangerous.

So... he hoped to be a large scale, and to cover a few hundred acres first. The most important thing is to be strong and solid, and there must be interlaced tunnels...

This memorial was for Emperor Aoki.

In Zhang Jingyi's opinion, His Majesty is best at carpenters, and he is so clever.

In this year, all craftsmen with superb skills may have a little knowledge of structural mechanics. After all, Zhang Jing remembered that Emperor Tianqi had personally designed the Qianqing Palace. Not only that, when the three major projects of Huangji Palace, Zhongji Palace and Jianji Palace were rebuilt, Emperor Tianqi had personally visited the guidance from the starting column, the upper beam to the insertion of sword hanging cards.

People who can play with big projects like this are at least much more professional than Zhang Tianlun, who only guides digging holes.

Ask him to design a picture, how to reinforce and how to design drainage in the tunnel are all knowledge, and most people will definitely not be able to play with it.

The memorial was sent out soon.

Emperor Tianqi naturally couldn't sleep or eat these days.

If the price of grain rises like this, it will really be a death.

And many people are going to die.

But are these people willing to die of hunger?

Such consequences are chilling.

In fact, Emperor Tianqi did not place everything on Zhang Jingyi and others.

The factory guards were still thinking of ways to Wei Zhongxian, but soon found that there was a lot of resistance.

These grain merchants are actually just white gloves. They only harvest grain merchants, which has no meaning. If you kill a grain merchant, you will immediately replace them with a new grain merchant.

The shortage of food on the market means shortage of food.

You dare to ask for food from the gentry.

The gentry dared to pass these grains onto the people in the name of paying imperial grain, forcing their families to destroy them.

The cabinet has also tried all its strength.

The Ministry of Revenue originally planned to conduct a good investigation, but the more the investigation, the more frightened he became. In the end, even Huang Liji and Sun Chengzong were scared. They quickly came to see Emperor Tianqi and said that they could not continue to investigate. It would be fine if they did not investigate, but they continued to investigate. At this critical moment, the results of the investigation may have become the reason for the surge in grain prices.

Emperor Tianqi was really dumbfounded and didn't know how to respond, so he kicked down a palace lantern tile: "After the food price is calm, I will ask Wei's partner to come to settle the score with them!"

But when will the grain prices be stabilized?

When the memorial was sent to Emperor Tianqi, Emperor Tianqi felt a little expectant when he saw Zhang Jingyi's news, but when he saw the memorial, his eyes were straightened.

Isn’t you Zhang Jingyi calming the price of grain? Why are you thinking about digging a cellar?

Are you a mouse?

Wei Zhongxian, who was standing beside him, also secretly glanced at the memorial and finally coughed repeatedly.

Emperor Tianqi covered the memorial and pretended not to see the memorial.

Wei Zhongxian naturally knew His Majesty’s thoughts, so he simply didn’t see it.

At this time, Emperor Aoki said, "How many days are there before a month?"

Obviously, Wei Zhongxian was also very concerned about this day, and immediately said, "There are three days left."

"Three days?" Emperor Tianqi frowned and immediately said, "What have Zhang Qing been doing these days?"

"He?" Wei Zhongxian said: "He is selling grain."

"Selling grain?" Emperor Tianqi said suspiciously: "Still grain prices by selling grain?"

"You can't say that the more you sell the grain of the Zhang family, the higher the price. Did Your Majesty forget that the Zhang family bought a large amount of grain, and these days, the Zhang family made a fortune."

Emperor Aoki said oh, his eyes unable to hide his disappointment: "What do you want to say?"

"I don't mean anything. I just think that Zhang Baihu is good at making money. I heard that his family's grain has been sold out now, but...even so, the grain merchants are still trying hard to buy grain, and they dare to buy any price..."

Emperor Tianqi sighed, seemed a little powerless, and said, "If there is any news in Guanzhong, I must report it to me in time."

"yes."

"The Ministry of Revenue transferred grain from Jiangnan, is there any news?"

"The new rice in the south of the Yangtze River has not yet been released, and there is not much left in the Nanjing Grain Depot. I am afraid that I will wait for the autumn harvest. Even if the grain harvested from autumn harvest... Not to mention that the distance water cannot save the near fire, the money and grain of the court have a fixed amount every year, and the expenses are also fixed. I am afraid that it will be difficult to squeeze out the relief grain from it."

Emperor Tianqi sighed quietly and said, "The ancestors and sects will never have such difficulties to me. Why is it so difficult for the country to come to me? You go, it really won't be... I... find a way to save my life..."

After saying this, I seemed to feel that sluggishness was not very meaningful to the current predicament.

He seemed to start thinking about something, then looked at Wei Zhongxian and said, "Parent Wei, I heard that the vassal kings have food?"

Wei Zhongxian had a expressionless face, as if he was saying, "Take it down, your Majesty's relatives... It's okay for others to say that Your Majesty asked them for food, and they immediately hang them for you."

So he looked at Wei Zhongxian's expression and without waiting for his reply, Emperor Tianqi shook his head and said, "Wait a few more days, wait a few more days to see."

As he said that, Emperor Tianqi said, "Does there be maps on the Zhang family in Changping?"

Wei Zhongxian looked surprised: "Your Majesty is this..."

Emperor Tianqi said: "I want to check the mountains and geography there."

"I... go and look for it."

...

After one hour.

Compared with the map, the depressed Emperor Aoki did not say a word and seemed to start thinking about it.

Then, he pointed a location on the map with a red pen and found an eunuch and said, "Check this place to see if the underground is rock or soil, what kind of soil is, how close it is to the river, try to dig a well here to see how deep the well is before water comes out. In addition, bring some nearby stones to me and investigate the terrain clearly and meticulously."

But after a pause, he said again: "Oh, you'd better take a few craftsmen with you. You don't understand even if you talk to you so much."

"Here."
Chapter completed!