Yearning: The loyal family, exposed by their daughter!

Chapter 28 Lost the family wealth!Replace whole grains!

Paper?
In such a big box, there is only a pile of useless waste paper?
What is written on these papers?
The camera zooms in.

Sun Zheng picked up the paper on the surface and took a closer look. This piece of paper turned out to be a pawn ticket!
Why pawn?

That is, the written voucher for exchanging things at pawnshops in ancient times!
"Mr. Sun, what is written on this pawn ticket?" Teacher Huang asked.

Sun Zheng opened the pawn ticket, and there were many words written on it.

However, most of the text is the agreed rules of the pawn shop, just like the terms of the contract today.

Sun Zheng didn't read these clauses, but stared at the most eye-catching words and read them out!
"Take a pair of my jade bracelets as 300 taels of silver!"

……

"A pair of jade bracelets, pawning 300 taels of silver, the pawn shop should make a lot of money."

"It must have made a profit. Will the pawnshop do business at a loss?"

"Has the Yue family sold their properties since ancient times?"

"It's actually quite normal. Few families can last forever."

"But this is too prodigal. How can you get more money from pawnshops than selling them directly?"

"If a pair of ancient jade bracelets are kept until now, the price will definitely be sky-high!"

"It's a shame!"

……

The barrage in the live broadcast room kept swiping the screen, expressing their opinions, lamenting the decline of the Yue family.

For 300 taels of silver, it would be a pity to sell something that can be regarded as a family heirloom.

but……

Sun Zheng didn't stop, and picked up the second piece of paper.

This is a contract!
"This is a contract for the purchase of grain. It states that a total of ten dan (dan) of rice was purchased at a cost of 900 taels of silver."

"The buyer's name is Yue Xiangling."

Sun Zheng said.

He is now used to the style of the show, not only to show it to the people around him, but also to let the camera take a close-up.

"Well...Mr. Sun, I'm sorry, how much is a stone of rice?"

Yi Xing asked timidly.

He is not familiar with these ancient measurement units, and feels that he knows too little about Chinese culture, so he is a little embarrassed.

But in fact, most people know the unit of stone, and also know its pronunciation Tongdan, not the stone of stone.

As for how much a stone is equivalent to today's catties, very few people know.

In fact, even Mr. Huang does not fully understand the proportions, because the proportions of each dynasty are different, and it is easy to remember them wrong.

"These two contracts are the standard in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. According to the weights and measures of the Yuan Dynasty, one stone is equivalent to about 150 catties today."

Sun Zheng replied.

"Let me do the math...one stone is 150 catties, ten stones is [-] catties..."

Yi Xing muttered a few words as if talking to himself, then his eyes widened suddenly, and he said in astonishment: "One thousand five hundred catties? How many people did the Yue family have back then? Why did you buy so much rice at once?"

"This...it's hard to say...let's see."

Sun Zheng shook his head.

Perhaps for the current family, buying [-] catties of rice at a time is a bit exaggerated.

But for the ancient big families, it was normal, because the ancient big families would store some grain in the granary for emergencies.

But Sun Zheng didn't explain this reason to Yixing, because there are too many bills here!
Without reading the bills, there is no way to deduce the role of these grains.

In the live broadcast room, the audience also had a lively discussion about this matter.

"Buying so much food at one time, doesn't it feel like home?"

"At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were many peasant uprisings. I guess their families were secretly funding the rebel army."

"It's possible, maybe the Yue family organized a rebel army themselves."

……

Zijun.

Basically, it has become a relatively unified guess in the barrage.

And Sun Zheng's follow-up discovery seems to confirm this conjecture.

Grain purchase contract.

A contract for the purchase of livestock.

Pawn tickets for pawning gold and silver jewelry.

……

Most of the papers in the box were dug out, and almost all of them were pawn tickets or vouchers for buying food.

Of course, this cannot be the key evidence of military capital.

The key piece of evidence is that the bills were traded very close together and the amount of food purchased was huge.

According to statistics so far, the grain purchased is enough to feed tens of thousands of people for two or three months!
No matter how large the population of the Yue family is, it won't be possible to squeeze tens of thousands of people into a small house, right?

"It seems that the Yue family is indeed funding the rebel army, or they formed a rebel army themselves!"

"Yue Xiangling, it should be a woman, she is really a hero among women!"

"The soldiers and horses have not moved, the food and grass go first, and the women of the Yue family are also doing well!"

There were praises on the barrage.

But to everyone's surprise, Sun Zheng actually stood up at this moment and refuted everyone's point of view.

"I can especially understand everyone's expectation that the Yue family will go to battle to kill the enemy, or support the rebel army."

"But judging from a professional point of view, I don't think these grains are used to finance the army."

"I think everyone knows a saying, that is, before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first."

"This sentence reflects the importance of logistics, but if you want to march and fight, attack cities and conquer land, what you need for logistics is not just food."

"Weapons, armor, clothes, siege equipment...these are all in the ranks of the luggage, and they are indispensable."

"Don't just see that Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising succeeded in the end."

"Behind his success, there are actually countless suppressed peasant uprisings!"

"Why were peasant uprisings easily suppressed? It wasn't because of insufficient armaments and poor training!"

"What the peasant uprising army needs most is not only food, but also equipment!"

The crowd was speechless.

The uprising sounds so bloody and just.

But it is impossible to get things done with a passion for blood and justice in his chest.

War is not a game.

There is no chance to keep repeating.

Once the preparation is insufficient and suppressed by the officers and soldiers, the only thing waiting for the rebels is death!
If the Yue family really wanted to invest in the army, how could they not know this.

Why did they only subsidize food, but not weapons and armor?

Could it be that if you have enough to eat, you can fight a good battle?

This is obviously not realistic.

Sun Zheng didn't say anything more, but continued to search down.

When the bills in the box were about to bottom out, he saw a piece of letter paper and some blood-red marks.

blood book!
Another blood book!
However, this is still different from Yue Yang's blood book.

The main body of this letter was written in ink, but there were a lot of blood fingerprints on the place where it was signed.

At a glance, there are seven or eight different fingerprints, big and small.

"call……"

Sun Zheng let out a long sigh of relief, sorted out his emotions, and began to seriously examine the letter.

"Aunt Xiangling!"

"Think twice!"

"Think twice!"

At the beginning of the letter, the frustrating strokes showed the emotional excitement of the writer.

This is a letter of advice!
(End of this chapter)