After hearing this, Yinzhen was a little puzzled, "Those merchants lowered the prices, and the people just refused to sell to them. Why are you so embarrassed?"
Jiang Ranli nodded and said, "Yes, those people want to exploit the people. It would be better if the people didn't sell their food to them."
Wu Yanqing sighed and said, "The price here is reasonable. Since the people don't sell their grain to them, they come to me. But my family really can't absorb so much grain."
After a pause, Wu Yanqing continued, "Today, I looked at the people who begged me to accept their grain, and I felt helpless. Other business people knew that I could not accept so much, so they lowered the price of grain even more."
After hearing this, Jiang Ranli and Yin'er finally understood the crux of the matter and felt great sympathy for the people.
"I'll write a letter to Afan later and ask him to send someone to collect the grain together. It's just right that our grain store can use it."
In fact, Jiang Ranli and Jiang Fan's grain stores were not as large as those of Wu Yanqing's family. They only had about twenty grain stores in the entire Qing Dynasty, while Wu Yanqing's family's grain stores were spread across all the towns in the Qing Dynasty, with hundreds of them.
Therefore, even if Jiang Ranli called people from his own grain shop to collect grain, it would be a drop in the bucket for the farmers in the entire Shanxi.
Wu Yanqing was also aware of this and waved his hand to indicate that Jiang Ranli didn't need to write a letter to inform Jiang Fan.
"Your family's business is huge. Can't you collect grain from Shanxi?" Yinzhen asked.
"My family mainly runs transportation, porcelain, cloth, tea, etc. Although we have many shops, they are not actually our most important businesses. Therefore, the funds invested in grain shops are limited, and we really cannot collect so much grain," Wu Yanqing explained.
Jiang Ranli frowned slightly. Just as Wu Yanqing said, his family really couldn't afford to collect so much grain, but he couldn't just stand by and watch the people sell the grain they had worked so hard to grow at a low price.
"Those people in other businesses try their best to lower prices, so that the people who have worked hard for a year can only barely make back their investment, or even cannot make back their investment at all. This will at the very least affect people's daily lives and make them very tight on finances. At the worst, they will go hungry and even have difficulty surviving the winter, leading to starvation and death."
Thinking of this, Wu Yanqing sighed deeply. He wanted to help the people, but he really didn't have the ability to do so.
The three of them sat facing the candlelight, speechless, when they suddenly heard Chang Shun's voice outside.
"Who, who is there".
The three of them looked at each other and then quickly walked out.
"Chang Shun, what's wrong?" Yinzhen asked.
"Master Jiu, there seems to be someone there," Chang Shun pointed to a place in the darkness, his eyes full of vigilance.
Looking in the direction Chang Shun pointed, I saw a black shadow under a tree in the darkness, but because of the light, I couldn't be sure whether the shadow was a person.
Yinzhen and Wu Yanqing tried hard to look over there. The next second, the black shadow suddenly moved, and then an old man in tattered clothes walked quickly over from there.
Seeing the old man, Jiang Ranli, Yin'er, and Wu Yanqing looked at each other, not understanding why the old man would appear here so late.
The old man came to the fence and without saying anything, he knelt down on the ground.
This situation shocked Jiang Ranli, Yin'er and Wu Yanqing, and they hurried forward.
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