In a few days, some dates sold appeared on the streets of the market. It was rare at the beginning. The price was also relatively expensive, and then it gradually increased and the price was also lower.

A few days later, autumn rain started one after another. This was in Chang'an. If it were placed in Longxi, large areas of white flowers would be affected by seedlings.

However, even in Chang'an, it is not a good thing to rain in autumn. The north and south groceries in Chang'an City cooperate with farmers in the suburbs. Recently, Luo Yong has often heard Si Niang talk about the autumn harvest. The rainy weather is obviously not conducive to the autumn harvest.

The people in the city had only eaten the dates for a few days. Because of the rainy days, the dates were almost gone on the market again.

First, it is inconvenient to enter and exit on rainy days, and second, it is the freshly picked fruit. Once it is stained with rain, it cannot be stored and it is easy to rot. Whether it is picking fruits and vegetables or harvesting grain, it must be sunny.

Luo Yong went to court, and the court was also talking about the weather. He was worried that the food in Guanzhong area would be damaged by autumn rain this year. If so, they had to make plans early. After all, Guanzhong has a large population and transportation is quite inconvenient, and the food is often tight. If it is a disaster, it is easy to start famine.

Fortunately, in the past two years, there have been more grain storage in granaries in various places. In addition to peace and few wars in the world, the main reason is that the corn production is high, and most of the grain storage in these granaries is mainly corn.

I remember how precious this corn was when it was just promoted and planted, but now it is everywhere and the price is less than that of millet and wheat.

In order to ensure that there is no accident, the court sent people to inspect the granaries in the pass, including charity warehouses that are specifically used to resist natural disasters, and calendered warehouses that are used to stabilize grain prices.

In this way, granaries of all sizes and large in Guanzhong area will usher in a wave of major inspections. If any deficit is found, another group of officials will inevitably be dismissed.

The largest granary in Chang'an City is Taicang in the palace city. Luo Yong also has a granary in the Chang'an County Public Mansion, which is a small warehouse, mainly used to pay salaries to officials in the public mansion and maintain some infrastructure in Chang'an County.

For example, at this time, there are many ditches outside the walls of the yards in Chang'an City. For the convenience of entering and exit, bridges must be built on the ditches. At present, these bridges are mainly wooden bridges. Pedestrians, cars and horses step on each day, and these wooden bridges are often damaged.

If some rich families live in some yards, they may have to repair them by themselves when they see this situation. If some yards are not repaired, they will definitely have to come forward to do this.

In addition, there are many places that require money. For example, after the promotion of biogas lamps, there were street lights on all streets in Chang'an County, and the maintenance of these street lights and public biogas tanks was also a expense.

These are basically fixed expenses every year, and there are also some temporary emergencies.

Luo Yong wanted to replace the wooden bridges in Chang'an County with steel and concrete bridges, because wooden bridges are not only easy to be damaged, but sometimes they are poured into rain, and they are also prone to growing moss. They may slip or even fall into ditches when walking. There are fewer adults. I often hear that some children fall into the ditches.

However, I had no money. Recently, the railway tracks were built in Luoyang, and the iron price in Chang'an City rose again. There are 54 yards under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County. Under normal circumstances, each yard has several doors and several bridges, some yards have four bridges, some yards have two bridges, some yards next to the city wall, and three bridges. If all these wooden bridges are replaced with steel and concrete bridges, the 54 yards will be added together, which is not a small amount.

After six or seven days of drizzling autumn rain, it finally stopped. As soon as the weather cleared up, farmers outside the city began to rush to harvest food.

Date sellers are starting to be seen everywhere in the market, and the price of the dates is a bit cheaper than before the rain.

Luo Yong had a jujube tree in their yard, and it was enough for his family to eat it.

There is no preservation technique in this era. Sometimes, if the dates that were beaten the first day are not eaten after washing, they will start to rot the next day. Qi Niang and the others used small knives to cut the rotten parts and still ate the dates.

The remaining complete dates without broken skin were dried in the yard, with only this date tree, and they probably didn't have to buy dates all year round.

In addition to dates, there are persimmons and pears at this time, as well as hawthorn and pomegranates. The rest are rare, such as grape oranges, which are very expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary people.

Some poor families in Chang'an City are reluctant to spend money to buy the cheapest dates. People often take the rice bran from their homes and exchange them with the date sellers to some rotten dates for eating.

In such a large Chang'an City, there are always poor and rich. Luo Yong's side of Chang'an County, especially many poor people.

Luo Yong was a human being in poverty for two lives. He didn't think eating a few rotten dates was a big deal. Even now, their brothers and sisters would not throw away some slightly rotten dates.

However, the difference is whether they can avoid eating these rotten dates when they don’t want to eat them, and whether they can afford them when they want to eat better fruits.

Not to mention, the restrictions on these poor people are far more than just a few fruits.

The temporary difficulties are not terrible. What is terrible is the difficulties of generations, there is no hope, and there is no chance to make a comeback. Generation after generation, let the times disappear.
Chapter completed!