Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 167 The dog emperor is gone, can food prices fall?Five times the price of food! !

Wang Wenyan was immediately confident.

It can be seen from this that what Zhang Haogu said about fighting and preventing corruption is actually just what he said, and in the end he still wants to compete with the Donglin Party for power.

At the critical moment, Zhang Haogu was not lenient at all when he was fishing for money.

This person is not without weaknesses.

As long as there is a weakness, then he is easy to deal with.

Thinking of this, Wang Wenyan looked up at Chen Fu and said, "Continue to buy more grain, the more the better, it will be winter soon, and we must continue to raise the price of grain."

Golden Autumn October
Harvest season.

At this moment, both Zhang Haogu and Wang Wenyan began to increase the intensity of acquisitions.

In the entire northern market, the price of grain was raised rapidly.

Not only in the north, but even the food in the south began to fluctuate. This year, the power of the Little Ice Age broke out, and a flood did break out in the entire south of the Yangtze River, and a lot of land was submerged.

And in September, it snowed heavily.

The grain harvest is not good.

But now, Wang Wenyan and Zhang Haogu are frantically buying grain again, and the price of grain has been tripled in a short while. Naturally, Wang Wenyan has not been idle, and began to quickly win over other grain merchants , Continue to drive up food prices.

The price is naturally higher and higher.

Yongding County

"This is sweet potato. You asked me to plant all these 80 mu of sweet potato?"

At this moment, Zhu Youxiao looked at the sweet potato churning out of the ground in front of him, with an expression of disbelief indeed on his face.

"Of course!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "County magistrate, do you want to try it?"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly became interested: "Come here, come and give me a taste, this is more than a year, I have planted such a thing!"

Chen Jinglun on the side also said with a smile: "County magistrate, this year's sweet potato planting is not considered a success. This is the first time planting sweet potatoes in the north, with one crop a year. If it is in the south, it can be grown four times in two years." The system often rotates one season of spring potatoes and one season of summer potatoes, and other crops at other times."

"Oh?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and couldn't help sniffing again, saying, "It smells so good!"

The sweet potato had already been cut into pieces and mixed with millet porridge. After it was cooked, a faint aroma came over his face, and Zhu Youxiao immediately licked his lips.

"There are also potatoes, but it's a pity that the corn didn't come, otherwise we can rotate crops!"

Zhang Haogu muttered a few times in his heart.

"The porridge is ready!"

Chen Jinglun on the side smiled and filled a bowl of porridge for Zhu Youxiao, and Zhu Youxiao was naturally impolite. After a few breaths, he began to drink in small sips: "It's so sweet!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help admiring: "It's a good thing!"

"It's more than a good thing!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "County magistrate, look, this is sweet potato leaf, which can be used to feed pigs. This thing can be eaten by humans, and it can still prevent diseases. In addition, we have stopped using it here. A lot of soybeans and some soybean meal are used for breeding, and the effect is also excellent!"

"The most important thing is the yield. It's freezing this year, but even so, the yield per mu is [-] shi. If there is no disaster, one mu can produce [-] shi!"

Zhang Haogu said quickly: "The output of this kind of thing is extremely high!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but use his increasingly proficient mathematical knowledge to start calculating: "The yield per mu is 150 shi, and this is 3000 million mu of land, three hundred, three thousand... ten thousand, [-] million shi?"

One stone in Ming Dynasty is equal to about 150 catties, 4.5 trillion catties? 22.5 billion tons?

Zhu Youxiao was shocked.

"County magistrate, there aren't that many!" Zhang Haogu directly interrupted Zhu Youxiao's flirting.

22.5 billion tons, which is almost four times the output in a few hundred years.

"Not so much? Didn't you say that the 150 million mu of land is all planted with sweet potatoes?" Zhu Youxiao said in a low voice.

"Some of the land is planted with sweet potatoes, but most of the land is planted with other crops. The county magistrate, even if we want to plant all of them, we don't have so many seeds!"

Zhu Youxiao coughed a few times, and then said: "Then, what is the harvest this year?"

"If the calculation is not bad, it should be around 30 shi!" Chen Jinglun on the side gave an answer.

"Is this thing easy to store?" Zhu Youxiao asked again.

"Simple, just dig the cellar!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "I have ordered that cellars be dug in major farms to store sweet potatoes. In addition, if the sweet potatoes are dried in the sun, they can be made into dried sweet potatoes, and the storage time will be longer. , and the other is to grind it into powder and make it into starch. If the amount is too large for people to eat, it can also be used to feed livestock..."

Zhu Youxiao was immediately happy, and said with a smile: "If this thing is really planted, it will really be a great contribution!"

Chen Jinglun on one side became excited.

Although he didn't speak, Chen Jinglun also knew that the man sitting in front of him was probably the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the dog emperor Zhu Youxiao.

After all, Zhang Haogu should be polite when standing in front of Zhu Youxiao.

His identity is self-evident.

The dog emperor said that he has made great contributions to the dynasty, so his own benefits must be indispensable.

And Zhu Youxiao also fell into contemplation. In the past, he didn't plow the fields very much. After being misled by Zhang Haogu, he also knew the farming time very well. With such a high yield, this sweet potato was saved. People, I am afraid that in the future there will be more than one million.

Zhu Youxiao felt that he was so lucky. He had met Zhang Haogu, a virtuous minister through the ages. If he hadn't met Zhang Haogu, how could he have gathered so many talented people?
"Store the sweet potatoes first!"

After Zhu Youxiao gave the order, he asked Chen Jinglun to go down to rest, and then rewarded him later.

Later, Zhu Youxiao and Zhang Haogu were alone on the field, and Zhu Youxiao asked, "Master, what is the price of grain now?"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "We have already purchased a lot of grain. Not long ago, Eunuch Wei released news that the emperor is also hoarding grain now, because the consumption of funds this year is too large, and the emperor is also short of money. I also hope that the price of food will increase to turn some money, and now the price of food is five times as high as before!"

"This businessman really deserves to be killed!" Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and said.

"Your Majesty, it's time to close the net!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "Continuing like this, I am afraid that many people will not be able to survive. They still have a little food, but the food price does not drop for a day. This long winter is simply a nightmare. !"

"Okay!" Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Master, let's do the knife!"

Zhang Haogu laughed: "No problem!"

In fact, as soon as the news came out that Zhu Youxiao was short of money and grain storage, Wang Wenyan moved a little faster.

The reason is simple, the dog emperor also wants to make money, and wants to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money.

The dog emperor has personally ended, can he make food prices fall?Certainly not!
The higher the food price, the more the dog emperor can earn.

Food prices skyrocketed like crazy - five times!
(End of this chapter)