Chapter 213 Cooperation
"What, what limit? Yes, limited quantity."
"Limited quantity?"
Zhu Yingyan's eyebrows wrinkled when she heard this strange word.
"What does it mean?"
"It means that the rice and grain sold to the same person every day is no more than five catties."
"And, after you buy five catties, I won't sell you a second time within ten days."
When explaining, Qiufen was confused by the rules.
Such a complicated rule, she was confused after repeating it again, so what kind of person came up with this, and was that person's brain okay?
"Heh, a mere trifle."
Zhu Yingyan was not shocked by the quantity and purchase restrictions.
"Although it's a little troublesome, there are so many people in a family."
"Does this mean that within these ten days, different people in the same family can go buy five catties of food once?"
In the end, how could the amount of food a family could buy be controlled within five catties?
Such a regulation still has a biggest loophole.
Take their Zhu Mansion as an example. There are almost a hundred servants in the mansion. If
their masters don't need to take action and only let the servants in the mansion buy five catties once in ten days,
she can stock up hundreds of catties of food at once.
But this method is a bit embarrassing and particularly troublesome, and she can't hide it from her father.
Qiufen shook her head, saying that Zhu Yingyan had oversimplified the matter:
"At the beginning, my family thought the same thing, and thought that if they asked someone to help, and each person could give five pounds, they might be able to stockpile enough."
"It's been ten days, how can the shop remember who has bought and who hasn't? At worst, we can just change shops."
"But the people in the shop have made new rules, and everyone who comes to buy grain must bring their household registration."
"After buying grain, not only will there be a grain stamp on the household registration, but the shop will also register it."
"The shop assistant said that all grain shops will reconcile accounts."
"If they find out who breaks this rule and maliciously hoards food, then these people will never be able to buy food in the grain store again."
Once this rule is announced, who else dares to take a gamble and see if it's true enough?
Zhu Yingyan: "..."
Really...
"Who came up with this rule that's so tricky?"
It's like they don't allow anyone to take advantage of any loopholes.
Anyone who really takes advantage of loopholes to hoard food is not doing it for himself, but to sell it at a high price later.
But he can't really not eat.
If you make only one mistake and have only 10 kilograms of grain in your hands, but you are put on the blacklist of the grain store and
have no right to buy grain from then on, who else would dare to do this?
If it were Zhu Yingyan herself, she would not want to do it.
"Blacklist, there is actually a blacklist, and the name is so chosen, hehe..."
Zhu Yingyan sneered and didn't know whether the person who gave the name was too good at giving names, or too smart and annoying.
Because when facing such a person, she couldn't think of any way to deal with him.
"Who made up so many tricky rules, have you heard about it?"
Zhu Yingyan didn't believe that this person would have no reputation in the capital with his ability.
In her previous life, the Yong Dynasty encountered a great disaster, but she had never heard of such a talented person in the capital.
So where did this person come from?
In her previous life, after the snow disaster, there was war.
That person never showed up. Could it be that he died in the heavy snow because of his poor family?
The more Zhu Yingyan thought about it, the more possible it was.
Every year, hundreds of people in the Yong Dynasty were frozen to death because they could not resist the cold.
But this year, I don’t know who came up with a thing called a kang.
It’s not expensive, but it can really provide heating, making winter less unbearable. She even has one in her own house.
So, the ghost who set the rules for the rice bed
came to mess with her because he didn’t freeze to death because of the kang?
Zhu Yingyan became more and more angry as she thought about it. This world was getting weirder and weirder.
After she was reborn, she always found that some things that would not have happened happened one by one.
All kinds of strange people appeared one after another.
As time went on, Zhu Yingyan no longer dared to be proud of her rebirth. She felt that everything was in her own hands.
Therefore, if she didn't want to be beaten without the ability to fight back again,
it would be best to catch this suddenly appearing capable person in her own hands.
Although she was a woman, she was also a capable person.
If that person could be used by her, she would promise him glory and wealth in the future and would never let him regret his decision to follow her.
Qiufen: "...Miss, how could I know such a thing?"
"The rice shops are all opened by the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince. Maybe, it's the staff around the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince?"
Those are all talented people. Apart from these people, she couldn't think of anyone else.
"Staff?"
Zhu Yingyan shook her head. How could the staff around the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince be frozen to death in the middle of winter?
But...
in this life, at her reminder, Song Zichuan became the staff of the Fourth Prince.
In his previous life, Song Zichuan only took the imperial examinations honestly and did not do anything else.
Could it be that the situation of the person she was looking for was similar to Song Zichuan's, and was also a new staff member in this life?
"Okay, go down and have a rest. I don't need you to serve me here."
Even though the failure of the Autumnal Equinox mission was due to some reasons, Zhu Yingyan still didn't like this new maid.
She thinks the old Qiufen is better because the old Qiufen's brother Yijia is much smarter than the new Qiufen's family.
She believes that if Yijia is asked to do the work, what he will bring will definitely not be such pitiful three bags of food.
"Thank you, Miss."
Things have gone so wrong, Qiufen dared not ask Zhu Yingyan for reward . She
wished she could stay away from Zhu Yingyan, so as not to attract Zhu Yingyan's attention and get punished instead of reward.
After the new Qiufen left, Zhu Yingyan sighed long and heavily.
No, she must find that talented person, she can't just let it go!
Zhu Yingyan wanted to find this person, and the fourth prince also wanted to.
The reason why all the rice shops acted so quickly and spoke in unison was, of course, because the Crown Prince went to find the Fourth Prince.
When the Crown Prince saw the Fourth Prince, he got straight to the point:
"Fourth brother, if you don't want the grain you have worked so hard to collect to end up in someone else's pocket." "
I need you to cooperate with me on this matter."
The Fourth Prince: "..."
The Fourth Prince was stunned by the Crown Prince at first, and after he understood the Crown Prince's explanation,
the Fourth Prince's face became extremely ugly. The
reason why he listened to Song Zichuan's advice and sold the grain normally even at a price of 1.5 times higher
was to not lose to the Crown Prince and to preserve his reputation among the people.
The rich actually took this opportunity to hoard their own grain,
buy it from him at a low price, and then wait until the next spring to sell it at a high price. It was really courting death.