Chapter 655: Rhetorical Question

"There is also food. Market traders buy new rice to stock up, and lend old rice to wine merchants on credit. The price of rice is only about 10% lower than the price of new rice in the past, and 30% higher than the price of old rice!"

"You still have the nerve to regard this as an achievement of average rice price?!"

"However, the wine merchants use old rice to make wine, and the income is meager, and the amount of wine is several percent less than last year!"

"I'm worried that I can't even pay back the cost of buying a wine shop. I still have to repay the rice loan from Shi Yisi and raise interest rates."

"The money owed by the wine merchants to the government is as high as more than 500,000 guan, and the annual tax of three years is a big waste, but the market is easy to take advantage of it."

"Including the rice noodles of the people in Kaifeng City, the difference between old and new here is more than two million yuan!"

"The third major input is patent medicines."

"Patent medicines are originally produced in Beijing. The Imperial Pharmacy Bureau, the Imperial Medical Bureau, the Tianshi Mansion, and the Daxiangguo Temple jointly invested in large pharmaceutical shops for research and development. These places are so rich that they need to borrow credit from the Yisi.

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"But for the medicinal materials they need to produce, Shiyisi said that without it, the patent medicines cannot be sold in Beijing. However, Shiyisi's own medicinal materials are of poor quality."

"So each place had no choice but to use its own medicinal materials and pay the Shiyi Division a 'tooth money' and a 'credit' for nothing. This is the result of the merger of the Shiyi Division!"

"Then the patent medicine is produced, and all is collected by the market and trade department, and the price is increased and put into the market to obtain profits. Here, it is more than two million yuan."

"How much of the seven million guan is left in Shiyisi? There are more than 1 million guan left, of which two cents of annual interest is considered a normal credit loan interest, which is only a few hundred thousand guan."

"Most of the rest is tooth money ripped from the hands of old women carrying soup bottles and peddlers walking around selling food! It's the penalty interest earned from lending money to profligate children for their debauchery and then pawning and selling the house!"

"Last year in Kaifeng, the number of households far above the first-class households, and those called incomparable households, was one-tenth less. There were 17,332 households in Kaifeng that owed Shiyi money, and a total of 17,332 households owed Shiyi money.

The money is more than 1.37 million guan, of which 20 households with the first surname and 27 households with liquor stores owe a total of more than 520,000 guan. There are 17,093 households with the smallest surname and a total debt of more than 200,000 guan.

, and the rest are those who owe less than two hundred guan."

"The people employed in the market affairs are all those who seek profit and advancement. What has become of the market economy law?! Where is the original intention of facilitating public welfare and promoting public benefit?"

"Liu Zuo, the Supervisor of the Upper Realm who does not want to be accomplices, has already lost 180,000 yuan from the market and is begging to be a rent-repaying official in his family's daily living room for a period of two years. The petition has been sent to the Kaifeng government office. Should I accept it or not?

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"Dozens of wine shops in Beijing have sent their petitions to the Kaifeng Prefecture, saying that the Municipal Bureau of Trade and Economics is selling shoddy goods and torturing good people. Should I accept this petition or not?!"

"Now the prison in Kaifeng Prefecture is full of debtors sent by the City Council! How long will I keep these people in detention?!"

"Juzicang, Charity Home, is about to run out of patent medicines. Should I take care of it, or should I not care?!"

"I asked the City Yi Department for supplies and money to prepare for the summer flood. It has been delayed for a month now, and I have not received a reply! If Kaifeng City is really going to be flooded, is it his fault, Lu Jia's fault, or my Su You's fault?!"

"You have the nerve to be angry with me? You have the nerve to call me crazy? I should be the one who is angry, right? To make Kaifeng Mansion like this, I wonder if His Majesty knows that there is going to be a big gap in the wine shop, and there is no need for orphans and orphans.

Will he get furious after taking the charity medicine?!"

Wang Anguo was a little frightened, and pulled Su You to sit down: "Mingrun, if you have something to say, are you telling the truth?"

Su You said: "Some of these things I got from running errands outside, some from Sitong Company, and some from Huangsong Bank. Now that the statistical method is effective, many things can be seen at a glance by pulling out the report and cannot be hidden.

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Wang Anshi breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the report again, and started reading it.

This look was not over, and everyone was looking at each other in confusion. Su You was also dumbfounded. Is this a meal or not? Just sitting there like this?

Seeing the situation, there was no need to save food. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Su You had to interrupt: "Uh, sir, how about you watch slowly first? Wei'er is still waiting for me to come home..."

Wang Anshi refused to be polite to him, and said seriously: "Mingrun, put this here first, and I will read it carefully all night. Don't worry, I will send someone to investigate next. If it is true, I...will definitely give you an explanation!"

Su You stood up and said: "Okay, but no matter how crazy Su You is, he will not dare to bully the emperor. This thing... well, after the preliminary data collection is completed, it will take time to sort out the statistics. It is estimated that it will take more than a month.

My husband, please hurry up."

Wang Anshi nodded and buried his head in the book again.

Su You, Lu Huiqing, Wang Anguo and Wang Yu bowed and resigned.

When he reached the door, Wang Anshi suddenly called out: "Mingrun."

Su You turned around and said, "Mr. sir, is there anything else?"

Wang Anshi said: "Si Tianjian reported that April is the New Year's Day. Have you not been to Si Tianjian since you took up your duties?"

Holy shit! Su You suddenly sweated in his vest.

Solar eclipses have never been a big deal, but Si Tianjian left two messages at the government office, but he didn't even have time to open them!

His face turned pale with fright, and he quickly bowed: "Thank you sir for reminding me, I'll be there early tomorrow morning!"

Su You mounted his horse and left. Lu Huiqing sighed: "Ms. sir, why did you bother to remind him?"

Wang Anshi flipped through the book without raising his head: "He is also the judge of Tianjian, shouldn't it be his duty?"

Lu Huiqing rolled her eyes and was speechless. Well, your ideological realm is different from mine. You are all gentlemen, but I am the villain!

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Su You got up early the next day and got out of bed in the dark, kissing Bian Guan who was still sleeping soundly.

Shi Wei had already gotten up and was practicing difficult moves by the wall. Standing on her head, she still had her hands free to wave to him, and pointed at the flat jar to reassure him.

After squatting down and kissing Shi Wei, making Shi Wei smile, Su You quietly walked out of the room.

Zhang Qi came up and waited on Su You to wash up and put on official clothes.

Su You asked: "Where is the Heavenly Master?"

Zhang Qi said: "It's still in Yingtian. But a lot of equipment has arrived."

Su You nodded: "How come you haven't seen Lu Ruo before?"

Zhang Qi said: "Just leave her alone. She also came here and was obsessed with the piano in the house, but she went back before you left the office."

Luruo was very famous in Bianjing and had already purchased his own small courtyard, which was more elegant than the Su family's house in Kezhentang.

Su You got ready: "It's time to meet her. Is she worried about her identity? You tell her it doesn't matter. It was still the same when we were fighting over briquettes in the Earth Temple?"

Zhang Qi smiled and said: "As I said before, the Su family does not care about family status, but her bride is shy and embarrassed to see you."

Opening the gate, there was already a team of carriages and horses waiting outside. There were two lanterns on the carriage, one with the word "Xiangfu" written on it, and the other with the word "王" written on it.

The car curtain was raised, and it was Wang Anshi who said: "Mingrun gets in the car."

Su You had no choice but to abandon his horse and get into the car.

Seeing that Wang Anshi looked a little tired, he asked, "Did your husband not sleep all night?"

Wang Anshi sighed: "As you get older, you sleep less."

Su You thought to himself that it was strange for me to believe you, but he said very respectfully: "My lord, the country is in a faltering state, but we need to balance work and rest."

Wang Anshi waved his hand: "I read your report last night, Mingrun, I am so ashamed that I can't sleep peacefully."

"I ask myself if my heart dares to show the sun and the moon, if I can make the Song Dynasty prosperous and the people strong, even if I go through fire and water and be shattered to pieces, what's the problem?"

"Back then, you really blamed me, but my answer was to do justice and then act, without any regrets. I——"

After saying that, he closed his eyes and relaxed his mood: "It's superfluous to say anything else. I know the power of Mingrun, but do you have any countermeasures?"

Su You looked at Wang Anshi: "In fact, the intention of the new law has been wrong from the beginning. My husband, you are drinking poison to quench your thirst."

Wang Anshi was about to refute, but Su You held up his hands and said, "My lord, we don't have much time. I hope you won't refute this time and just listen to what I have to say."

Wang Anshi nodded: "I believe in Mingrun and have no selfish motives."

Su You said: "The new law has been in effect for several years. Although it has been under the banner of curbing mergers and benefiting people's livelihood, it has not had any effect on people's livelihood except replenishing the national treasury."

"Still what I said, I don't ask how much the country earns, I only ask where the money comes from and where it is used."

"How many poor people have solved their food and clothing problems? How many formerly landless households now have farmland? How many poor people have found their way out?"
Chapter completed!