What’s important is that in the current environment, food is definitely more important than money. Maybe before long, food will become hard currency and more useful than money.

But she was not short of food. On the contrary, she had more than enough food to eat.

Of course, all the food in the space will be used for the poor people, but she just needs to think carefully about how to do it.

She had already considered all the pros and cons of selling the grain to the seven village offices.

At present, the most important thing for the villagers, besides money, is food.

And to a certain extent, silver and money are not as valuable as food.

After all, during the period of food shortage, food prices rose sharply. If you wanted to buy food, you had to spend several times or even dozens of times more silver than before, and even then you might not be able to buy it.

So when she took out a large amount of grain, she sold it to the villagers at the price of two kilograms per kilogram.

Now that the village has food, it will be much easier to recruit people for the patrol.

Anyone who joins the patrol team can buy food from the village office at the price of three kilograms per catty.

This is very attractive to most villagers.

You should know that the price of grain in the grain store in town has risen to 80 kilograms per catty, and I believe it will rise further in the near future.

The patrol members can buy food at normal prices, which is really exciting.

Although there were droughts and locust plagues in that year, the grain harvest was good, but compared with the yield of more than a thousand kilograms per mu in later generations, it was still too little.

Three thousand catties of grain per mu of land is considered a high yield. Besides, many fields cannot reach this yield, and the harvested grain is certainly not enough for the family to eat.

If this happened in previous years, there would be no need to worry as long as there was money at home. We could just go to the grain store and buy some grains.

However, this year was too special. Not only did local disasters occur, but Guangping Prefecture and Yongkang Prefecture also suffered natural disasters, resulting in a large number of fields being harvestless and countless people being displaced and fleeing to the north.

As a result, a rise in food prices is inevitable.

If we tell the villagers that as long as they join the patrol team and spend a small amount of time patrolling the village, they can buy food from the village office at a price of three kilograms per catty, there will definitely be a lot of people who will participate enthusiastically.

What's more, even if you don't eat the food you buy at home, you can sell it in town and make a profit from the difference.

Of course, this situation is not allowed.

Li Mengyue also considered this problem and believed that it could be effectively solved by limiting purchases.

Each member of the patrol team can only buy 20 kilograms of food from the village office every month, so no one will think about selling it.

Li Mengyue is not afraid of the low price of grain sold to the village committee, but the seven village heads do not want to take advantage.

They knew that if it weren't for Li Mengyue, everyone would probably still be hungry, wondering how they could survive until next autumn harvest.

"Girl Yue, I know you mean it, but we old guys can't be so shameless as to take advantage of you. Your money didn't come from the wind, so how can we let you pay out of your own pocket to subsidize seven villages?"

"Yes, Miss Li, what Old Li said is right."

"Even if there is no food, I believe there will be villagers willing to join the patrol."

"Yes, the patrol team is here to protect the villagers' property. It's an honorable thing to do. I don't believe there wouldn't be anyone willing to do it."

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Seeing that all the village heads refused to buy food from her, Li Mengyue felt a little amused and a little touched.

When all seven village heads said they would not buy food, Li Mengyue raised her hand, and the room suddenly fell silent. All seven village heads looked at Li Mengyue.

"Village leaders, I understand your concerns. Don't worry, I have access to a large amount of food at very low prices. Even if I sell it to you at two kilograms per pound, I won't lose money."