The rise of the poor

Chapter 1289 The Butterfly Effect
Xu Hai and his investigation team set off for Beijing to return to their orders after lunch. They had completed the two main tasks of the trip, and there was no need to stay any longer. Zhu Pingan, Tan Lun and others sent them all the way to the official road.

After sending off Xu Hai and his party, Tan Lun stayed in Jingnan for more than an hour. Accompanied by Zhu Ping'an, he carefully inspected the East Lake project area and learned in detail about all aspects of work-for-relief, precautions, etc.Tan Lun has made up his mind, and when he returns home, he will follow Zhu Ping'an's example in defining food prices and carry out work-for-relief.

"Fu Zun, please take a step to speak." Zhu Pingan saw Tan Lun's determination and said softly to him.

Some words are inconvenient to say in public, so you can only take a step to speak, and Zhu Ping'an will not recognize it after saying it.

"Master Zhu, I don't know what to teach you." Tan Lun followed Zhu Pingan to the side and asked with a smile.

"Would you dare to see the teaching. The government official wants to carry out work-for-relief, but how much does the government treasury have?" Zhu Pingan cupped his hands.

"There are still more than [-] silver in the treasury, but there is not much grain in stock, only about ten thousand stones." Tan Lun knows the situation of the treasury very well. When it came out, there were more than [-] shi of grain stored in the grain depot, but half of it was consumed by porridge and relief since the flood.

Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly, "Master Fu, the deposit of more than 20 taels of silver may not last long. Take my small county in Jingnan as an example. In Jingnan, we held work-for-work relief, with 6 Wen per person per day, and a total of ten Tens of thousands of people and refugees participated, and the wages alone cost 5 taels a month, and the consumption of food and rice was even greater. Even if three meals a day were charged, each person would only recover about [-] Wen per day, which is a drop in the bucket.”

Tan Lun froze when he heard the words, as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, most of the enthusiasm in his body was immediately dispelled.

Yes, food for work requires costs.A small county in Jingnan District has to pay 6 taels a month, not to mention the entire Taizhou Prefecture. There are no less than one million people in need of relief.

What can I do? !
Tan Lun couldn't help frowning, but soon his eyes lit up again. My Fucheng couldn't afford it, so how did Jingnan do it? He immediately cupped his hands and said to Zhu Pingan, "What can Master Zhu teach you?"

"I don't dare to see the teaching. It's just the government. After the price of grain is determined, the grain merchants from all over the country are bound to make a lot of money. They made a fortune in Taizhou Prefecture, so they should make some contributions to Taizhou Prefecture's disaster relief." Zhu Pingan thought somewhat said.

"Master Zhu is asking grain merchants to donate money for disaster relief?" Tan Lun's eyes lit up, and he shook his head at random, "These merchants are the most greedy, and they value money like their lives. How can they be willing to donate money?"

"In this case, the common people may not agree. As parents and officials, we should be the masters for the people."

Zhu Pingan said meaningfully.

Tan Lun understood everything without saying a word. He looked at Zhu Ping'an and nodded vigorously.

Zhu Ping'an also suggested that Tan Lun wait for the food price to be fixed and the grain merchants flood into Taizhou Prefecture before starting work-for-work relief.

Tan Lun understood that the key to the success of this feast of work-for-relief depends on the dish of grain merchants.

Soon, when Tan Lun returned to Taizhou Prefecture from Jingnan, the Taizhou Prefecture posted a notice on the second day, setting the price of grain in Taizhou Prefecture as [-] cash per shi.At the same time, Tan Lun also issued official documents to the counties and counties. The first part of the official document first praised and introduced Zhu Pingan’s experience in fighting floods and disaster relief in Jingnan, and the second part required all counties and counties to raise the price of grain within their jurisdictions to Two thousand five hundred wen per stone.

Soon, the explosive news that the Taizhou government raised the price of grain to [-] yuan per stone spread widely.

As soon as the news got out, it was like a basin of blood was poured into the shark tank, and all the sharks named Grain Merchant went crazy.

On the day when the Taizhou government posted the definition of grain prices, hundreds of large and small grain merchants tried their best to transport grain into Taizhou continuously through various methods such as horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, ox carts, and ships. Territory.They are close to the water and the moon is the first to get the moon. Farther away, more grain merchants are coming.

For a time, grain from all over the Ming Dynasty was continuously transported to Taizhou through grain merchants.

The food shortage in Taizhou Prefecture was immediately relieved. Although the price of food was very expensive, it was no longer a price without a market. As long as you can spend money, you can buy food.Although the common people in Taizhou have consumed the family wealth accumulated over the years, they have finally survived the catastrophe. Taizhou, which has been ravaged by floods, is developing in a good direction.

At the same time, Tan Lun also followed Zhu Pingan's example and accepted all the gifts from grain merchants in the form of donations for disaster relief.For those whose numbers did not meet Tan Lun's psychological expectations, or those who did not come to donate, Tan Lun sent staff to the other party's grain shop to ask them to contribute to Taizhou's disaster relief.

Of course, for some uninformed grain merchants, Tan Lun sent officers to carry out field clearance searches and interrogations in the name of "capturing bandits", "capturing robbers" and "searching stolen goods". Unable to operate normally.You know, now time is money, and opening a grain shop is like stealing money to make money. If you delay for a while, you will make a lot of less money. How can grain merchants have trouble with money.As a result, the grain merchants who had been taught a lesson became wiser and obediently made up their donations.

In this way, Tan Lun quickly raised enough silver and grain for work-for-work relief.

Three days after the Taizhou government announced the definition of food prices, it issued another announcement-relief with work.

Tan Lun almost copied Zhu Pingan's work-for-relief proposal, planning post-disaster reconstruction, water conservancy facilities, repairing city walls, anti-Japanese sentry forts, land reclamation and other series of sieges, and called the people in the territory to participate in work-for-relief.

However, in order to reflect the benevolence of the official uniform who loves the people like a child, Tan Lun provides free three meals a day to the people who participate in the work-for-relief program. Of course, it is only the most basic porridge and steamed buns.

In fact, compared with Jingnan's work-for-relief treatment, the Taizhou government is just going around.

Because three meals a day are provided free of charge every day, and the wages are relatively small, the enthusiasm of the people is slightly lower than that of Jingnan.

However, none of this matters.

Importantly, through the policy of defining food prices and work-for-work relief, the flood situation in Taizhou Prefecture continued to improve.

Under the positive influence of Taizhou Prefecture, neighboring Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua and other prefectures have also begun to raise domestic food prices, or turned a blind eye to the increase in domestic food prices, and tacitly accepted the increase in food prices.

Grain from all over the country is continuously shipped to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the flood situation in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also improving.Affected by Zhu Ping'an, the butterfly, floods in the south of the Yangtze River recovered faster than in history, with fewer losses and countless people living.

(End of this chapter)