The use of grain for distilling spirits and making sugar is everywhere prohibited, and the distillers and sugar-refiners are constantly complaining.
Mandarin
二是农民运动起后，谷子价廉，去春每担六元的，去冬只二元，民食问题不如从前那样严重。
二是農民運動起後，穀子價廉，去春每擔六元的，去冬只二元，民食問題不如從前那樣嚴重。
èr shì nóng mín yùn dòng qǐ hòu ， gǔ zi jià lián ， qù chūn měi dàn liù yuán de ， qù dōng zhǐ èr yuán ， mín shí wèn tí bù rú cóng qián nà yàng yán zhòng ．
Second, since the rise of the peasant movement the price of grain has dropped – it was six yuan a picul last spring but only two yuan last winter – and the problem of food has become less serious for the people.