After giving these instructions, Gu Chengyu instantly started to feel a headache coming on again.
It's all about Silver, but what to do without grain? The court only mentioned fifty thousand taels of Official Silver, not grain relief.
Yesterday, he shamelessly asked the merchants for quite a bit of grain. It's not reasonable to keep asking them to donate, is it?
Silver can't fill a stomach, and buying grain won't go far with such high prices—how much can fifty thousand taels buy?
Not to mention, twenty thousand of those taels are meant for reinforcing the river embankment.
Do we really have to open the granary? What happens after it's opened? So many disaster victims, and even the granary has a day when it runs empty.
The granary must never be emptied; otherwise, in case of another emergency, what then? Even if Gu Chengyu moves grain from the granary, he must find a way to replace it quickly.
