Everything was told by Prince Gong. This snow disaster is different from ordinary disasters. He has a delay in the news!

The dynasties in the Middle Ages were very sensitive to floods, plagues, locust plagues, droughts, etc., because this kind of disaster spreads very quickly!

When the flood comes, a flood peak can pass through a province in one day. Basically, the upstream calls the police, and the counties below will not be able to be saved soon!

Life and death are at stake in ancient times, officials had to save their lives. They dared not neglect. If they neglect themselves, they would die, and the court would have to behead them even if they did not die!

The plague is even more terrible because people are mobile and will expand soon. You must also find ways to fight the plague!

The locust plague is also terrible. The overwhelming locusts can spread to several surrounding counties in a day. If you don’t hurry up, the imperial court will cut your knife.

In the final analysis, it is difficult for local officials to cover up this kind of disaster. Many dangerous news and data can be summarized through various channels, reaching the sky directly!

The trick of deceiving superiors and hiding subordinates is very dangerous to use, so they must pay attention to it!

Snow disasters are different. This is only a short two or three months in winter, or an occasional disaster in some parts of the north!

After heavy snow blocks the road and mountains, the information is not smooth. In some places, the entire village is frozen to death. You will not be able to discover it until the snow melts in spring.

The heavy snow closed the news, which gave local officials time to make a fuss. Even if they deceived their superiors and concealed their subordinates, they could make a disaster relief memorial for the court!

It is precisely because of the lack of attention that the heavy snow in the Year of the Rat is getting worse and worse!

The news of the snow disaster began to spread slowly in various places. Local county governments summoned wealthy households to force donations, but God still refused to heat up intermittently.

The most prominent manifestation of all these disasters is the rice price!

Before the Spring Festival, when British military officer Delaney bought rice, a liter of ordinary brown rice costs 80 cents and a hulled rice costs 60 cents.

However, after the Spring Festival and before the disaster became clear, the rice price in the capital had reached 95 cents, and some local counties had exceeded 100 cents.

These are all extremely dangerous signals, but no one pays attention to these signals!

Of course, this is also affected by the inconvenience of transportation in the snow disaster. How to transport grains in dispersedly is really a big problem for local governments.

The rice price of 100 citrus was not stable for a few days. After the fifteenth, disasters occurred in various places one after another, and the rice price jumped up quickly like a spring installed.

One hundred one, one hundred two, one hundred three... and then jumped to one hundred six!

Three times! When the county governments in various places began to force wealthy families to donate happily, the rice prices in various places increased by nearly three times!

This is a bad thing. In the past, people were poor. Tenants from the small peasant economy had no grain or deposits. In the late Qing Dynasty, many tenants even had to rent landlords to landlords!

Many extremely poor peasants were no different from slaves in that era, and they were completely dependent on the life of landlords!

They can’t afford to buy rice prices even if they don’t rise, let alone tripled at once, and panic between the markets suddenly burst out!

Daming Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture, Jizhou, Hejian... Lu'an Prefecture, Liaozhou, and Pingdingzhou in Shanxi were the first to emerge in the trend of people buying food!

Starting from the county town, people in groups of people bought as much as they buy, and they offered to buy food no matter how much they deposited the rice!

Everyone is scared. They are afraid that the rice price will continue to rise and then the rice price will be released at the time of five times and six times, and they will not be able to afford it even if they lose everything!

"Hurry up... go grab the food! This morning, it was listed for 165 cents of rice raising! How much does it take to grab as much? Why is there no such snow this year?"

"Go away quickly, it will still rise... Just rushing to the heavy snow, the price of grain will cost more than 200 yuan in spring. This is a big guy who is about to starve to death!"

There were crowds of people at the entrances of all the grain stores, and the grain stores did not dare to open the door at all. They removed all the door panels and blocked the gap with the table.

All transactions were carried out from this hole. The moment the guy removed the door panel, countless hands were holding their pockets and stuffed them into their noses.

"I want five liters...I want six liters...I buy three hundred liters...I'll get mine first..."

The guy hadn't seen this scene for many years, and he was immediately at a loss. The boss behind him sneered and lit the oil lamp and lit the hookah.

"Why are you standing there... Selling rice for these people! Remember, it's not that they can get as much as they want, it depends on how much we want!"

"Take the pocket and put some of it for him... How many are there, then the next one..."

"You have to create a panic atmosphere, and you will be sold out after selling for half a day! My food is not in vain, how can I sell it to you so cheaply!"

"Change the price...175 mins! If you like to buy it, don't buy it!"

The price on the blackboard changed suddenly, and hundreds of people at the door exclaimed, "Why is it rising again? Your heart is too dark... Let's go to the government to sue you!"

"Bah... whatever you want, go to wherever you like to sue. Today's price will rise tomorrow. Should we buy it? If you don't buy it, leave quickly, don't delay others!"

How dare people not bow their heads under the eaves!

The people just complained a few times, but at the end they handed over their pockets, but at this time they didn't buy as much as they wanted.

The guy casually put a dustpan on the scale and took a look at it, "One hundred and fifty cents... Pay the money quickly!"

"I...I want to buy three hundred coins, you only give half of it?"

"Do you want it? Now there is a shortage of food, so it's good to have food. They are all limited supply... Don't you want it? Haha... pour it back!"

As he said that, the guy poured the packed pocket back into the granary again, scaring the people outside to beg for mercy, "I want it! I want it... I want it!"

"Yes! I'm sure I'm looking at it, only one hundred folks are left... I'll pay for it and want to buy rice and queue up tomorrow..."

The more grain merchants sold like this, the more panic they became. The county towns in various places suddenly became chaotic. Although the late Qing Dynasty was closed, the county town was the foundation unit of the imperial court rule.

The famine situation in each county was hidden for a while but not for a lifetime. Soon, Baoding Prefecture and Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi received a telegram, and the officials in both places could no longer sit still.

Especially in Baoding Prefecture, Zuo Dashen was on the railway. When he heard that there was a tide of robbery in the southern counties, he was so scared that he did not negotiate with the local officials, and he actually sent an emergency telegram to the emperor alone.

It was not until this time that Emperor Tongzhi of the Forbidden City learned about the disaster below, and he had frozen to death until the local area!

"Bastard! It's already the first month of the year. Why are you reporting to the court now?"
Chapter completed!