Take the warehouse back to the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 676

After Zhao Wen came to the imperial study room, he asked Song Yingxing to come over.

Not long after, Song Yingxing came to the imperial study.

After a ceremony, Song Yingxing was given a seat by Zhao Wen and sat in front of Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wen took out the tank drawings he had drawn and bound into a booklet.

"This is a new type of weapon I designed. After you go down, start developing it. As for the current car, leave it to your students.

As long as the prototype of the car is out now, the follow-up work will be simple, and you don't need to keep staring at it. "Zhao Wen said and handed the drawing booklet to Chen Donglai who was standing beside him.

Chen Donglai walked down with Zhao Wen's blueprint and handed it to Song Yingxing.

After Song Yingxing took the brochure, he flipped through it.

After a few glances, Song Yingxing was shocked by the contents of the brochure.

He really didn't expect that Zhao Wen had already thought of using it in war just after the production of wood-burning cars.

Moreover, it is a very perfect strategy that does not require any changes. This strategy is something that Song Yingxing did not think of.

"Your Majesty, although these things seem complicated, I will definitely do my best to deal with this matter." Song Yingxing closed the booklet and said loudly to Zhao Wen.

Zhao Wendao: "Let's start this matter slowly, don't be too anxious. Let's do the basics first, don't think about eating a fat man with one bite, and you won't be able to eat a fat man with one bite. Take your time, don't be too anxious. If you still have If you have anything to do, finish what you are doing before you start."

"In a word, this matter should be detailed, don't be afraid to spend time, and strive to manufacture this prototype in one go.

If you encounter any difficulties during the research, please report them to me in time, and I will definitely do my best to solve them. " Zhao Wen said.

"Obey!" Song Yingxing saluted Zhao Wen, and then walked out with the brochure Zhao Wen gave him.

After Song Yingxing went out, Zhao Wen began to deal with the memorials left in the past few days.

For the next few days, everything went on as normal.

Nothing major happened in the whole Xuan Town, and Xuan Town lived peacefully like this.

Before you know it, time has come to New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, the Xuanzhen Palace is filled with lights and festoons, and all the lights in the palace are covered with bright red lanterns, illuminating the entire palace.

Now in Xuan Town, electricity is also connected to every household, and almost every household is equipped with electric lights.

Therefore, the people in Xuanzhen also decorated the lights with red lanterns.

Of course, the electricity used by these people also needs to pay electricity bills, but the cost is not high.

In front of the gate of every household, a traditional mechanical electricity meter is installed.

The mechanical meter is not a high-tech thing. There are structural diagrams of this kind of meter in the high school physics textbooks of later generations, so it is relatively simple to manufacture.

On New Year's Eve, there were more and more firecrackers in Xuan Town, and there were more and more pedestrians on the street.

On the last day of the year, vendors on the street also worked harder to sell new year's goods.

The people of Xuanzhen also took advantage of this day to buy the last New Year's goods.

The streets and alleys are filled with the smell of gunpowder, and children in new clothes are running non-stop in the streets and alleys, shouting happily, and the taste of the new year is even stronger.

Inversely proportional to the taste of the year in Xuanzhen is the taste of the year in the capital. Now, the taste of the year in the capital is very weak. If it's not today, it's New Year's Eve. I'm afraid people will think that today is just a very ordinary day.

Although there are many people who come out to buy new year's goods on the streets of the capital, the shortage of supplies in the capital is serious. After asking the price, these people had to return without success.

The prices of various non-staple food grains and oils in the capital have reached an unacceptable level.

These ordinary people in the capital can't afford it at all.

The capital city has lost its usual feel, and there are few lanterns hanging on the streets.

Only those honorable families hang lanterns. As for ordinary people, how can they hang lanterns when they can't even eat enough?
Chongzhen stood on the palace wall of the imperial palace, looking at the capital in front of him.

"Hey, the sound of firecrackers in the capital is gone now, how can the capital look like a capital." Chongzhen sighed, and the sadness on his face suddenly became thicker.

Standing behind Chongzhen, Gao Qiqian didn't know how to pick him up.

"My lord, everything will be fine!" Gao Qiqian could only say one thing that he didn't believe.

"Everything will be fine? Hehe, in the past, I still believed in this sentence, but now, I don't believe it at all. Daming..."

Chongzhen closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Suddenly snowflakes floated in the sky, and after a while, the snowflakes fell from the sky like goose feathers.

"My lord, it's snowing, let's go back to the palace!" Gao Qiqian's shoulders were covered with snowflakes, he looked at the indifferent Chongzhen, and persuaded him.

Chongzhen shook his head, "I'll stay here for a while, if you want to go back, go back."

Chongzhen said so, Gao Qiqian couldn't persuade him anymore, so he could only stay quietly beside Chongzhen.

"This winter, I don't know how many people in the capital will be frozen to death or starved to death!" Chongzhen looked at the heavy snow in the sky and shook his head helplessly.

Chongzhen really wanted the people in the capital to live and work in peace and contentment, but reality did not allow it.

Sun Chengzong took away the last batch of grain from the state treasury before departure, Chongzhen didn't have much grain in his hands, and he was in danger, so how could he care about these people in the capital?
At this moment, a shop in the capital that had been closed for a long time suddenly opened its door.

The shop's plaque was originally "Department Store", but now it has been replaced with a plaque with the words "Grain Store".

The boy in the shop moved out a few wooden signboards with large characters and hung them on the pillars at the entrance of the shop.

The signboard reads "We have rice in this shop, one tael of silver and two stones of rice".

The text on the signboard is just one line, and it is very large.

Soon, the words on the signboard attracted some literate people.

These people gathered around the door of the store, looking at the words on the plaque at the door of the store, all of them showed incredible expressions.

Now the rice in the capital has risen to seven or eight taels of silver per shi, why is the price of rice still at one or two taels of silver now?
And the price is too low, too low to imagine.Even in usual times, it has never been at this price.

"Hey, is the price of rice in your store really that high?" A poor scholar in his 40s was standing at the entrance of the store. When he saw the words on the signboard, he looked at a waiter who was busy at the entrance of the store.

The shop clerk put down his work and smiled at the poor scholar, "Guest officer, it is true. My shopkeeper just hugged two big fat boys before the Chinese New Year today. He was so happy that he specially lowered the price."

"Is that really the case? But, I remember that this store was not a grain store before!" Poor Xiucai asked suspiciously.

He really couldn't believe that there would be such a person in this world, who sold the price of food so low just because he hugged two fat boys.

The poor scholar originally didn't want to come out today, but there was no food at home, and it was New Year's Eve, so he wanted to come out to try his luck.

"Is your shopkeeper so rich? Now the rice in the capital is seven or eight taels of silver a stone. Isn't your shopkeeper afraid of being sold out when he sells the rice so low? Moreover, he is not afraid of offending other grain stores. Is it? Besides, even in previous years, the price of rice has never been so low." Poor Xiucai said in disbelief.

"My shopkeeper is not generally rich, but very rich. My shopkeeper's property is so much that you can't even imagine it. Let me tell you this, even if the people in the entire capital eat for a year, they won't praise my shopkeeper. of.

Besides offending other grain stores, let me tell you this, there is no one in this world that my shopkeeper dare not offend.You have asked so many questions, do you want to buy it or not? "The waiter walked up to the poor scholar and asked.

The common people gathered at the gate of the grain store all set their eyes on the poor scholar.

Poor Xiucai reached into his bosom, touched the few taels of scattered silver at the bottom of the box in his bosom, gritted his teeth, and said, "I bought it!"

The poor scholar was afraid that the rice would be so cheap that there would be something weird in it, but now the family has run out of food, and if they don't eat anymore, they will die.

"Come on, come in with me!" the waiter said and brought the poor scholar into the grain store.

Not long after, several sacks of grain were carried out by the workers in the shop.

Poor Xiucai followed behind these fellows. He looked at the sack in the hand of the worker with an excited smile on his face.

"Can I put this rice with you first, I'll find a car when I go home, I won't be able to get back so much rice for a while." Poor Xiucai said to the men carrying the sacks.

"Okay, go and come back quickly. We will show you these grains. Others don't want to take them away. Don't worry, if there is anything wrong with the rice, we will compensate you." A guy said.

When the poor scholar heard this, he hurriedly thanked him a few times, and then left in a hurry.

Seeing the scene in front of them, the people who were at the entrance of the grain store suddenly became noisy.

"I can actually buy rice, and it's really so cheap!"

"I want to buy rice, I want to buy rice, I want to buy rice!"

All of a sudden, the people at the door crowded into the grain store.

"Don't worry, line up. Anyone who dares to jump in line will get lost!" A vicious guy shouted loudly as he looked at the people rushing into the store.

There is more than one grain store like this in the capital.

When the price of rice from these grain stores spread throughout the capital, ordinary people in the entire capital became lively and rushed to these grain stores.

The reason why the grain in these grain stores can be sold so cheap is because behind them is Xuan Town and Zhao Wen.

(End of this chapter)