The officials gnashed their teeth with hatred. They saw the food in the carriage between the tiger and leopard riders, but they couldn't get it, so they had to follow behind.
Woohoo!
So touching!
I have gone so far, and these people are still following me. How much I like myself!
Lin Fan was almost moved to tears. Each of these officials were so hungry that their eyes were starving. The people in the city were also hungry, and they all followed Lin Fan's tiger and leopard riding away.
After Lin Fan's Tiger and Leopard Riders entered the city, the Jin Yiwei who pulled Luo Yangxing also followed. However, there was no one to greet them, and they could only follow behind the common people.
this……
"We are the Imperial Guards. I never thought that one day, our Imperial Guards would end up like this!"
All the Jin Yiwei felt desolate.
Lin Fan took the tiger and leopard riders all the way to the palace. He asked the tiger and leopard riders to wait outside the palace gate. He only brought five thousand tiger and leopard riders into the palace, carrying food.
When all the officials saw the food coming in, they all followed him into the palace. Chongzhen heard that Lin Fan was back and came out to greet him excitedly. When Lin Fan saw Chongzhen, he hurriedly got off his horse, took a few steps forward, knelt on the ground and said: "
Sir, pay homage to Your Majesty!"
Chongzhen looked at Lin Fan, hurriedly helped him up, patted his shoulder and said: "Okay! Okay! Fan'er, you have made great achievements this time!"
"Your Majesty, this is what I should do!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"Damn it! You just said nothing when I came up, and you didn't publicize my identity. If someone heard about it, they would think you recognized me as your adopted son!"
"However, what you, an old boy, said about making me the prince is not very reliable. After all, you have no evidence to prove that I am your son!"
"It seems that you still have to rely on yourself. Besides, this old guy doesn't look very smart!"
Lin Fan complained in his heart, and Chongzhen heard everything clearly. He really couldn't prove that Lin Fan was his son, but did he look stupid?
Why do I want to kill this kid more and more?
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Distribute food quickly!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, our capital city has been out of food for several days. The food Lin Fan brought back this time only amounted to three million dan! Hurry up and share it with us!"
"Yes! Give some to us first, and then quickly sell it to the grain merchants in the city, let them sell it to the people, and let the people eat first!"
"Your Majesty! I haven't had enough to eat in the past few days. At such an old age, I am feeling dizzy now!"
The ministers all cried loudly.
When Chongzhen saw it, he felt that these ministers were very pitiful, so he looked at Lin Fan and said: "Lin Fan, please distribute some food to these ministers quickly!"
"Ahem! Your Majesty, I bought all these grains with real gold and silver, and these silvers are all my own money!"
"Everyone knows that my Lin family has a great business. For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, I spent so much money to buy food. It seems inappropriate for you to let me give it away for nothing."
"I can understand your colleagues' desire to have enough to eat, but you have to pay for food!"
Lin Fan said.
"Haha! None of these ministers have hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in their families. It's just that there is no food in the city. Even if they have money, they can't buy food!"
"Hehe! If I don't kill them hard this time, I'll be sorry for myself!"
Lin Fan thought in his heart.
When Chongzhen heard this, he looked at the officials with a touch of amusement. After so many things, he also believed that these officials did have a lot of money in their homes.
Since Lin Fan wanted to hack them, he would help Lin Fan hack them once. After all, he was his own son!
"What?
Mr. Lin, you are going too far. Wasn't your money also given to you by His Majesty?
Are you embarrassed to sell us food?"
After hearing this, an official said loudly.
"Ahem! My dear friends, what Lin Fan said is absolutely true. Of his silver, one million taels were given by me, but that was to reward him for regaining the city of Xi'an!"
"As for the remaining silver, it is not the court's silver, it can only be the property of his Lin family. Not long ago, Lin Fan was auctioning his ancestral property!"
"He started auctioning off his ancestral property for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. I can't say anything else. You'd better pay for it!"
Emperor Chongzhen said in a deep voice.
ah!
After hearing what Emperor Chongzhen said, all the officials stared at each other. Now it was impossible for them to get food for free.
"This... ok! His Majesty has spoken, Lin Fan, can we buy grain from you? The grain sold in the grain shop is one hundred and twenty cents per catty, and we will buy it from you at this price!"
an official said.
In the late Ming Dynasty, due to constant natural disasters, the price of grain was about 1.6 taels of silver per stone, and one stone was equivalent to about 150 kilograms.
Calculated in this way, a pound of grain is about 106 Wen, which can be sold for 120 Wen in a grain shop. However, this is the market price!
I bought these grains at double the market price. Can you make a profit at my expense?
"Ahem! You should know that I bought my food at double the price."
Lin Fan coughed twice and said.
"You! Mr. Lin, what do you mean?
Could it be that if you doubled the amount of food you bought, do you still want us to buy double the amount?
You are raising food prices maliciously!"
"Mr. Lin, this method is not advisable. Do you know how much trouble you have brought to the capital by maliciously raising food prices?
Don’t you still know you were wrong?”
All the officials criticized him one after another.
Lin Fan said in a deep voice: "Who told you that I would sell you double the amount?"
When all the officials heard what Lin Fan said, they all let out a sigh of relief.
"What I mean is that I will sell it to you at five times the market price. After all, there is a charge for the tiger and leopard cavalry to escort these grains to the capital!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
hiss!
So dark!
He is worthy of being his own son! I will squeeze these ministers hard once!
When Chongzhen heard that Lin Fan had increased the price five times, he felt secretly happy. Baiguan couldn't bear it anymore: "Black! You are really evil!"
"Lin Fan, I didn't expect you to be so good at business. All the money you make comes from us!"
The ministers pointed at Lin Fan's nose and said.
Lin Fan ignored them and said: "If you want to buy these grains, please pay for them as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will send them to the people in the city soon. By then, the people will rob them all, and you will just have to
I can wait to starve to death."
"You! Black! Too dark! I bought it! One thousand catties first!"
"It's too dark! Your Majesty, it's too dark! I'll give you a thousand pounds too!"