[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress":3,"chapter-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-556":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1175197,1524,"Chapter 556 - 556 556 Growth (3)_1","transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-556",556,"\u003Cp>556: Chapter 556 Growth (3)_1 556: Chapter 556 Growth (3)_1 One of the managers mentioned hesitantly, “Without intending to hide anything from you, Miss, the sanctuary has indeed been facing difficulties these days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We have a fixed monthly expenditure, but the sudden increase in grain prices has not changed our fixed allocation of funds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sanctuary accounts are already spending more than we can afford…”“Yes, our accounts are transparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each and every expense is clearly documented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please take a look, Miss.”Cai Wei took the ledger, looked it over, and upon finding no errors, she smiled and said, “Everyone just rest assured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These external factors that lead to expenditures exceeding income, we’ll naturally not blame you all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whatever shortfall, we’ll just top up accordingly.”As she spoke, she took out two hundred taels of silver and placed it on the desk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You guys can take this silver for now to make up for the previous shortfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the leftovers, please hire a decent teacher to educate the children in the sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, I’ll have people deliver some rice and vegetables, we definitely won’t let everyone go hungry due to the increase in rice prices.”“Yes, thank you, Miss!”The managers were extremely grateful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had initially planned to send someone to the capital to discuss with Young Master Huo, but now that Miss Mu had come over, she solved the problem without a word, even hiring a teacher for the children in the sanctuary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This surprise left everyone deeply moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By night, Cai Wei had, indeed, sent two large horse carriages filled with brown rice, white rice, flour, and various fresh vegetables, along with some commonly used medicinal materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If these were given a few days ago, they would have been worth around three to five hundred taels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, they’re worth up to a thousand taels, enough for everyone to get by for two months.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The elderly, weak, sick, and disabled of the sanctuary had all been privately worried when the price of grain increased, fearing that they would need to go hungry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They didn’t anticipate Miss Mu’s surprising generosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only did she bring them enough rice, vegetables, and Chinese medicine, but she also enabled the children to study.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were so moved that they wanted to kowtow in gratitude.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they were told that Miss Mu had already left Lin’an Prefecture, so they had no choice but to set it aside, burying this gratitude in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking care of the sanctuary, Cai Wei left Lin’an Prefecture to lobby the surrounding manors, hoping to purchase some food supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before meeting Nangong Yi, she wanted to give him a surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surprise was to solve his current biggest problem – procuring enough food supply for his army for a month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin’an Prefecture is a prosperous city with large surrounding manors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some are private manors owned by landlords in the city, while others belong to local gentry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These manors have vast amounts of land and each household has a large stockpile of food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She believed that as long as the price was right, these manor owners should be willing to sell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cai Wei didn’t act blindly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She found an experienced mediator to help her purchase, promising that if he could help her acquire ten thousand dan of food, she would gift him a hundred-year-old ginseng root.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The price of a hundred-year-old ginseng roots was more than three hundred taels, so the mediator was naturally willing to make every effort to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He first brought Cai Wei to a manor, called Li Family Manor, located about twenty miles away from Lin’an Prefecture, to persuade the manor owner to sell grain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The manor owner of Li Family Manor was named Li Shoucai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his name suggested, he was a true miser, a man who would split a copper coin in half before spending it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The townsfolk called him Manor Owner Li to his face, while behind his back they called him Li Tieji, implying that he was stingy to a fault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Tieji not only owned vast fertile land, countless manor houses, and innumerable livestock, but he was also renowned as a wealthy man in Lin’an Prefecture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this affluent man was so frugal that he wished he could split a copper coin in half before using it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always went around with a long face lamenting his poverty, acting as if he were so poor that he was on the verge of starvation.\u003C\u002Fp>",739,"2026-06-03T13:14:38.527Z","2026-06-03T13:14:41.855Z",1,"novelbin.me","57a5c70e53d48481a4e7d80976b0fcfd06bf8f4ba3538e0e4cbba526b444ac0a","transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-557","transmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-chapter-555",2136,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ftransmigration-from-farmer-to-empress-cover.jpg"]