bookrandom Chapter 120 Robbery from the Rich and Giving to the Poor
Chapter 120 Robbery from the Rich and Giving to the Poor
"Master Chen, are you serious?"
Liu Jinyu and Xiao Liuzi's jaws almost dropped to the ground.
They originally thought that Chen Xuan's words about renting himself out were meant to deliberately tease Liao Qing.
But now Chen Xuan looks so serious, it doesn’t seem like he’s joking at all!
Both of them thought it was outrageous. How could they play it like this?
Liao Qing's face was as ugly as it could be.
Rented Chen Xuan?
What a joke! I have a grudge against you. If I rent you, I will have you staring at me every day. How can I take revenge on you?
What's more, the rent of one thousand two taels of silver a day is simply an exorbitant price!
In the end, Liao Qing left alone.
Although he tried his best to take Old Yang away, Chen Xuan would never give him this opportunity.
As soon as they returned to the Liao family, the Liao family's servants cried out: "Master, our rice shop is almost emptied!"
Liao Qing felt so sad inside. He had cheated and deceived people, and had gone to great lengths to get so much rice, just to make a fortune.
As a result, now, all of this has been done for Chen Xuan!
"Chen Xuan, I will never coexist with you!"
After saying that, he immediately asked someone to prepare a sedan chair and go to the prefect's mansion. He wanted to borrow someone from the prefect's mansion!
Siheyuan.
"Liu Jinyu, go to the city and tell the people there that we are selling grain here at the normal price of one tael of silver for one dan of rice."
Chen Xuan gave the order.
He has obtained so much rice now, and he definitely cannot finish it all by himself.
What's more, the reason why Chen Xuan asked for so much food from the Liao family by almost robbing was not for himself, but for the people in the city.
Of course, Chen Xuan couldn't just give the rice to the people. Instead, he wanted them to buy it at a normal price so that they would know that there is no free lunch in the world.
"Yes, Master Chen!"
Liu Jinyu nodded and took a few people into the city to discuss how to spread the news.
"Xiao Liuzi, go set up a porridge distribution area so that the homeless refugees and beggars in the city who can no longer afford food can come and eat porridge, so that they won't starve to death."
Chen Xuan continued to give orders.
Whether in the city or outside the city, there are too many bankrupt poor people who have no place to live and have already become pale and emaciated from hunger.
These people have no money to buy food.
Chen Xuan couldn't just watch them starve to death.
Therefore, setting up a place for porridge distribution and letting them line up to receive porridge twice a day can ensure that they will not starve to death.
"Sir, people are treacherous. If you do good things like this, what if the rich deliberately don't buy rice and compete with the poor people for porridge? What will we do?"
Xu Ruolan asked with some concern.
Chen Xuan shook his head nonchalantly and said, "Those with money in their pockets won't look down on this little porridge. It can't fill their stomachs at all. It can only barely keep people from starving to death. They will still spend money on rice if they need to."
"If you encounter some people who really like to take advantage of small gains and would rather receive porridge even if they have money, then let them take advantage of small gains."
What else can Chen Xuan say when he has to compete with the poor for even a bowl of porridge?
Anyway, he has enough rice here, so he can eat as much as he wants without going broke.
Soon, the two pieces of news spread rapidly throughout the entire Barbarian City.
"Have you heard that there's a Chen's rice shop outside the city? Their rice is only one ounce of silver per stone."
"In our Daqian Dynasty, one dan is one hundred jin of grain. One liang of silver is one dan, so doesn't that mean one jin of rice is ten wen?"
"Is this true? Hasn't rice already been priced at 40 or 50 coins per pound? Is there still rice that costs 10 coins per pound?"
"Is this Chen's Rice Shop related to Chen Kun's Chen family?"
"How could it possibly be related to Chen Kun's family? Chen Kun's rice is even more expensive than Liao's rice by several cents per pound. They're making money with no conscience!"
"Then why is the rice at Chen's Rice Shop so cheap? Is there something wrong with their rice?"
When price increases became the norm and food returned to its original price, people began to feel fearful and even questioned the reliability of food.
"Oh my god, you guys don't know what's going on with Chen's Rice Shop's rice, right? Their rice is absolutely safe and reliable!"
"How do you know it's safe? What if it's poisonous?"
"Poison? Impossible! Their rice is all Liao's rice. I saw with my own eyes yesterday that all the rice from the Liao's rice shop was moved out of the city. It is said that Liao Qing had to pay 10,000 dan of rice as compensation to save his son!"
"real or fake?"
"Of course it's true. Didn't you see that Liao's rice shop is closed today?"
When the people learned the truth, they were all shocked.
The Liao family was robbed?
But then again, if even the prefect could be robbed, it seemed normal for the Liao family to be robbed as well.
"The owner of Chen's Rice Shop is the ruthless man who killed the captain at the city gate, beat up Zhang Tianci, whipped Qin Hao, and captured Liao Jun alive. I think his name is Chen Xuan!"
"Oh my god, it's actually him! The Liao family is really unlucky to have run into him!"
"Why does he sell rice so cheaply?"
"Who knows? Maybe he's a good guy. After all, these past few days he's been doing things that have made us ordinary people applaud and happy!"
The rice at Chen's Rice Shop was cheap. This was the first piece of news that spread throughout the Barbarian City.
The second piece of news was that there was a soup kitchen outside the city gate, where each person could receive two bowls of porridge every day.
Two bowls of porridge are definitely not enough to fill you up. In fact, let alone two bowls of porridge with only a few grains of rice, even two full bowls of rice will not fill you up.
But there was no way. There were too many beggars and refugees. If no one ate two bowls of rice a day, Chen Xuan would soon be broke.
Besides, Chen Xuan deeply understood a truth, that is, it is okay to be a good person, but you cannot be too good, and there must be a bottom line!
As long as these refugees are not full, they will find ways to earn money to buy rice and create wealth through labor.
Of course, there are also some people who just eat and wait to die. If Chen Xuan really meets such people, there is nothing he can do.
There was a long queue at Chen's Rice Shop, all of whom were there to buy rice. After all, the rice here was cheap, so only the fools would continue to buy from those unscrupulous rice shops in the city.
Of course, Chen Xuan couldn't sell all the rice. He had a purchase limit, and one person could only buy two kilograms of rice a day.
This was to prevent some people from buying hundreds of kilograms at once and then selling them at a higher price. Wouldn't that make them scalpers? Chen Xuan would never allow that to happen!
In addition, there was a long queue at the soup kitchen, with ragged beggars queuing up to get porridge.