Chapter 1646: Sucked Dry at Both Ends

Zhu Danniang didn't understand: "That's also what you call the wealthy and well-off families spending money to buy New City land, ordinary commoners can't afford it, so they are also affected?"

"They weren't affected before the grain famine, and instead earned even more, after all, the market was prosperous." During the prosperous period, it seemed like everything could make money, which easily made people confident and spend money lavishly. "As far as I know, some people didn't care about their own financial strength, even borrowing money to buy land in the New City. That wasn't standing on tiptoe to reach, but walking on stilts."

"I heard many examples when I was a deliberative official in the New City expansion. Some commoners mobilized their family and relatives, ranging from seven or eight families to thirty or forty families, to pool money to buy thirty-five plots of land in Tianshui New City, simply called pooling shares."

If one family couldn't afford it, dozens of families pooled funds together, this was always okay, right? Zhu Danniang seemed to understand: "The money earned is divided according to the share, right? Just like when I hunted with my sisters, the prey caught was eaten together."

He Lingchuan nodded: "Similar."

This method was too common in the rural counties, where the clan power was strong; let alone buying land, doing business was also like this.

"Logically speaking, this method can indeed reduce risks, but they felt that the number of people joining was large, and the profit shared was diluted, so usually they wouldn't just buy four or five plots. Especially after making money once or twice, their courage became huge." He Lingchuan continued, "In Halu Township in the southern suburbs of Tianshui City, a small township official named Chen mobilized more than four hundred households to jointly purchase thirty-five plots of land in Tianshui New City! There are many tricks in this. When others heard that he was handling it well, they traveled hundreds of miles to send him money. But in short, some commoners were also coerced onto the carriage."

"On the carriage?" What carriage?

"Of course, most commoners didn't buy it because they were powerless, and couldn't even take out the share money. Think about it, they didn't buy land because they had no money, and they were already tight-fisted, so when grain prices rose, they were the first to suffer." Whether in a strong country or a weak country, this group of people was the vast majority.

He Lingchuan glanced at the night sky; the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the light breeze was blowing, none of them understood human sorrow.

"You have to know, money is like flowing water, the source is at the top, and it must flow down from a high place to flow to the low place. If the rich are stingy with gold and money cannot circulate, the poor will find it very difficult to earn."

Zhu Danniang let out an "oh."

It had no concept of "money," after all, the things it needed usually didn't need to be bought with money. But it peeked at the drunken and dreamy prosperity of Tianshui City through the eyeball spider, and knew that He Lingchuan was right.

"However, the rich have no silver now either." He Lingchuan asked while gnawing on a peach, "Guess, where did the money go?"

"The rich have no money either?" Zhu Danniang stopped sipping the wine jar and thought for a long time before tentatively saying, "Then, did it go to the hands of people who are even richer?"

He Lingchuan immediately held up a thumb: "Old woman is amazing! This statement hits the essence, much better than Dong Rui."

As soon as he praised it, Zhu Danniang was happy, but still had to be polite: "Hmmph, can he compare with me? Where is the money?"

He Lingchuan smiled and told it directly: "The money is in the national treasury and the King of Yao's hands. Then what about the grain?"

This time Zhu Danniang really didn't know, it wiped its eyes: "In your and Qingyang's hands?"

"What I and Qingyang took away is actually less than 20%. It's too complicated to say, just assume the Yao Nation's grain was sucked dry by a bottomless black hole."

The Yao Nation's money was sucked away by the national treasury and the bureaucrats headed by the King of Yao; the Yao Nation's grain was sucked away by a bottomless black hole that appeared inexplicably.

"In the end, if the people at the very bottom have neither money nor grain—" He Lingchuan pointed to the last pot of wine, "you say, what should they do?"

Zhu Danniang thought hard.

"Over the years, the poor have always done this in the end." He Lingchuan prompted it, "Haven't the refugees already set an example?"

"Riot?"

"Currently, it's just refugee riots, the situation hasn't reached the worst step yet, most commoners still have a little surplus grain." Refugees have no surplus wealth, and have to work for a day to eat for a day, so their ability to resist risks is the weakest, which is why they rioted first. "But the time window left for the King of Yao's Court is very short, he must find a way, otherwise true disaster will come. Don't forget, there are forces lurking in the dark. They have finally triggered the current situation, how could they stop halfway?"

"Good job!" This sentence from Zhu Danniang was actually a compliment.

He Lingchuan shook his head: "Things must rot before worms can grow, I just gave them a few ideas."

Zhu Danniang pushed the last jar of wine in front of itself: "When are you leaving? Really on the day the Emperor's Flowing Nectar erupts?"

"Not necessarily." He Lingchuan also ate the last peach, "Who doesn't know that the eruption of the Emperor's Flowing Nectar is a good opportunity to create chaos? Since the King of Yao is suspicious, Qingyang might be forced to advance it. If she advances it, we have to leave early."

Timing, everything is in the two words "timing." Too early or too late, he wouldn't be able to see the brilliant sparks.

Zhu Danniang snorted: "This old King of Yao is also indecisive; if it were me, I would strike first upon discovering Qingyang's plot and kill her!"

"In this world, how many people can maintain a normal heart like you, old woman?" He Lingchuan gave it a small compliment, "After all, Qingyang stands behind Beijia and the Demon Emperor. If the King of Yao has no substantial evidence, how dare he easily attack Qingyang? If Beijia pursues it later, the Yao Nation will be hard to explain."

"Fearful, yet harboring luck." Zhu Danniang was disdainful, "Shrinking back, hard to achieve great things!"

He Lingchuan clapped his hands: "Exactly. I guess, when forced, he still has to have this idea. But by then, Qingyang won't be someone he can remove just because he wants to. The King of Yao is suspicious and lacks decisiveness; I don't favor him in this fight between dragon and tiger."

Although he said so, facing this behemoth Beijia, how many people could still maintain a normal heart? "As for Qingyang, I'm not too worried, she always considers the overall situation, and is too lazy to care about me right now." He pondered, "Instead, it's Bai Ziqi, hmm, I always feel that he will appear again, he shouldn't have died easily in Peng Yukui's hands."

Zhu Danniang drank the last drop of wine and pushed the jar away: "Don't worry, I'm here. Hey, a guest has come to the Youhu Small Abode."

"Who?"

"Not clear, haven't seen them." Zhu Danniang put eyes around Youhu, "Came by carriage, five people behind..." ===== CHAPTER 1647 =====