Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133 lbs.
At week's end the price of rice, up more than 100% in a month, was 320,000 Chinese dollars a picul (133 lbs.
Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya .