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Wu Tang Flourishing Age - Chapter 388

Published at 26th of November 2021 05:16:38 AM


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What Li Luoyang said was really reasonable, but Wu Xinyi's face turned red. She spat and almost scrapped the agreement they had just reached.

Isn't it? If you leave Li Luoyang to your daughter, why should you leave it to Wu Xinyi? Isn't this a hint? Wu Xinyi is a woman no matter how good her martial arts are, and women are far more sensitive than men in some aspects.

"What are you doing?"

"Nothing." Wu Xinyi lowered her head to prevent Li Luoyang from seeing her hot cheekbones and whispered, "when will you give me the money?"

"Later, I'll go and get the money. Perfume will not be given to me. Take care of it. Oh, mine!"

"OK!"

Wu Xinyi doesn't know that Li Luoyang can't get 3000 liang of silver. He has to find someone, such as Zhou Lin.

"Miss Wu's family is so badly affected."

"No, not even perfume."

"Three thousand and two hundred silver, sell it to me." Zhou Lin is a big and tall man. But he has a heart. He also looks at Li Luoyang's perfume and knows what's worth. But it's a shame that Li Luoyang has never considered his feelings.

So a run on Li Luoyang at the moment is a small revenge.

"Are you sure?"

"Forget it, I don't even have a wife, let alone have a daughter in the future." Zhou Lin is also a mouth flower. He has long been used to a person's life. In fact, occasionally he will find a place to comfort himself. Li Luoyang sees through but doesn't tell. After all, from the perspective of age, it's not the time for him to care about these things.

"Three thousand liang of silver. I've given it to you. Now I'm poor again."

Zhou Lin took out a 3000 Liang silver note from the room and handed it to Li Luoyang. Li Luoyang stood in place and was stunned for a while.

"Why, don't you want to or are you going to write me a debit note?"

"I won't write you a debit note." Li Luoyang came back and collected the silver ticket. Then he said, "just now I was just wondering if Wu Xinyi imagined the problem too simple."

"What's the problem?"

"The problem of famine. I don't know where Baiyun Mountain is, but where has suffered a serious drought recently? Should we be able to find it?"

"Do you want to help secretly? Good boy, I already know how to please women."

"I don't mean that. I'm just saying, what can 3000 Liang silver do for the disaster area? Can't the Wu family give 3000 Liang silver?"

"Three thousand taels of silver for a family shouldn't be a lot?" Zhou Lin's thoughts also began to go deep, vaguely knowing what Li Luoyang was worried about.

"Grain and silver can be exchanged and settled at ordinary times. I'm afraid grain will be far more expensive than silver in places with famine."

"Do you mean we buy food and send it?" Zhou Lin scratched his head and pressed his temple.

"Send it? The current grain market here is two liang silver and one stone rice. Three thousand Liang silver can only buy 1500 stone grain." (the environment in the book sets one stone rice as 100 Jin)

Li Luoyang kept converting in his mind that one stone of rice is basically enough for a young man in three months these days, that is to say, even if he can buy 1500 stones of grain, he can only feed two thousand people, or let three or four thousand people not starve to death in two or three months.

"But this is wrong, because we still have to find a way to transport so much grain. If the distance is more than a thousand miles, it will consume more grain just to transport 1500 stone grain."

What Li Luoyang said is what Wu Xinyi really didn't consider.

Three thousand taels of silver is quite a lot. You can really buy a lot of grain where the grain price is normal, but transporting grain itself is a very troublesome thing. These days, there are no fully enclosed carriages, no large trucks that can pull 20 tons at a time, and no highways that can run 120 yards. When shipping is not available, land transportation of grain basically depends on human and animal resources, and human and animal transportation itself needs to consume a large amount of grain.

This is why it is always emphasized in the art of war that the three armed forces should go first without moving food and grass.

And if there is a famine in a place, the problem comes. Food support is certainly needed in the most core areas of famine, but because the level of famine will radiate from the core area to the surrounding areas in all directions, there will also be famine around, and people who can't fill their stomachs will begin to flow.

This kind of personnel flow is both orderly and disorderly. Order means that they will certainly forget the flow in places with light drought or in places with big cities. Disorder means that when the famine reaches a certain degree, the victims will be as terrible as locusts and can eat up any food that appears in their sight.

In this case, a place that could have continued will be destroyed quickly, and the hungry people who lose food again will become more crazy.

Therefore, in ancient times, the imperial court was very sensitive to disaster relief, and disasters often occurred. The biggest reason was not that the imperial court did not send food to the disaster area, but that it was blocked or even consumed by various natural and man-made disasters in the process of transportation.

Even the relief grain delivered by the imperial court can not be guaranteed to be 100% sent to the disaster area. Li Luoyang doesn't think that relying on them and 3000 Liang silver can solve the problem. To be honest, in his opinion, the disaster that 3000 Liang silver can solve is not called disaster at all.

"Why?"

When Li Luoyang and Zhou Lin find Wu Xinyi and discuss the famine in Baiyun Mountain with her, Wu Xinyi turns white. As a woman, she really didn't think so much, but she simply thought that the grain purchased with 3000 Liang silver was enough for the family of Baiyun Mountain to support until the middle of next year, and even help the people around Baiyun Mountain.

However, according to Li Luoyang's current analysis, if the famine is already very serious, let alone 3000 Liang, even 30000 Liang and 300000 liang of silver, I'm afraid it can't solve the problem.

"What should I do?"

After bowing down for a moment, Wu Xinyi looked pitifully at Li Luoyang. Perhaps she had already subconsciously regarded Li Luoyang as an omnipotent person, even if Li Luoyang was actually a child.

"I still need to think about this. The point now is that we don't know how much the famine in your family has been. Does the imperial court know?"

"How can we find out?" Wu Xinyi asked again. She seemed to have lost her ability to think. Although the news was sent to her a few days ago, she didn't think so deeply at that time, and she didn't have the eagerness at this moment.

"I'll find Xiao Hui and ask him to find out now."





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