Rice gleams with oil, millet glows white. Both public and private granaries are full. Outside Kaifeng City lie…
Rice gleams with oil, millet glows white. Both public and private granaries are full.
Outside Kaifeng City lies a vast plain of fertile fields, feeding the countless mouths of the realm.
At its heart sits Ever-Normal Granary, a lifeline of the people, built for the public good.
The granary's purpose is to keep grain prices stable, whether harvests are good or bad. By smoothing out the extremes of feast and famine, the granary earns its name: Ever-Normal.
Yet good harvests are hard to come by, and peaceful days harder still. Outside the granary, on the great Plainfield, one side rejoices, the other weeps. One grain of wheat, one kernel of millet, each weighs with it the fate of the people.