After Lu Yun returned to the palace, he quickly informed Liang Jing of the incident.
Liang Jing was also shocked when she heard the news. She murmured to herself: "No way, is it really that serious?"
"These people are really rebellious."
"Xiao Yunzi, according to you, the increase in food prices this time is just a trick of these businessmen, or is there someone among them who is supporting it?"
Lu Yun explained: "Your Majesty, I think there must be someone silently supporting this matter."
"Perhaps they will share half of the benefits gained in this way. This is a very reasonable thing. After all, what the collusion between government and businessmen wants is money."
"Then what are you going to do?"
Lu Yun took a look and explained: "Your Majesty, it's very simple. Open the warehouse and put food in."
"Force the price of food to drop and let's see what they do!"
"To reduce food to a very low level, we just need to ensure that we don't lose money. After all, what we want to do is to provide disaster relief."
Liang Jing suddenly realized that this made sense.
A lot of food from the imperial court has been distributed to the cities at the border, allowing them to maintain themselves as quickly as possible.
At the same time, a lot of money was also allocated for them to collect food everywhere.
"Okay, I support you in doing this. Since they want to dig, then I will play with them to the end and see who is behind this."
The next morning.
Liang Jing directly asked people to take out the grain from the treasury and sell it directly to the people at a lower price.
This price is even much lower than the usual price.
This is simply good news for many people.
They would not be polite if they did not buy the cheap food, but it was food distributed by the court. Naturally, they would not be polite and started buying directly. As the price of food from the court became lower and lower.
Many grain merchants were confused. Can they still do this? Originally, they had rare goods and thought they had food at their disposal. However, many people were short of food and were afraid of starving, so they would definitely buy in large quantities. No matter how high the price was, it didn't matter.
But now it's good that the imperial court directly stepped forward to compete with them for business, and they couldn't even do so.
After all, the price of food in the imperial court was even cheaper, so ridiculously cheap that they simply couldn't beat it.
They had no choice but to lower the price of food to almost the same price as the court's food price, but many people were still unwilling to buy it.
Who told you to sell it so expensively? Now that the court’s food is so cheap, why should they buy it?
When this incident became more and more serious, many grain merchants regretted it very much.
At the same time, many people began to suspect that their food had been stolen. How come there are so many of them, how can we sell so many of them and keep so many of them?
They can understand that only those few robbed stores have food.
Those stores that had been robbed of food still had so much food. Where did they get it from?
After all, before the robbery, they had been complaining that there was not much food left. They had not saved much at all, and the landlords had no food left.
Thinking of this... many people began to doubt, even the ministers in the court were suspicious. After all, everyone was not a fool, and the emperor also felt that something was wrong.
Above the main hall.
In the court hall, Liang Jinggao sat on the dragon chair.
"Now, many people have been resettled, and the government's relief funds have also been sent out. It will be possible to stabilize the people in the border cities soon.
In addition, we need to speed up border customs and opening up mutual markets. "
"I have already figured it out. Since we need to open the border, we can allow normal commercial transactions between the two countries."
"Then, we naturally don't have to be afraid. We can let people on the grassland come to do business with us, and we can also let our people do business on the other side of the grassland."
"This will enable the border area to recover faster."
"Your Majesty is wise!"
However, at this time, an old man who had been silent in the court stood up.
Even the Minister of Rites and the Minister of Hubu also stood up.
"Your Majesty, there is not much food stored in the treasury. If you do this, you may put the cart before the horse. Although you have made a lot of money in a short period of time, it also puts the food in the treasury at risk."
"Because of the war in the north this year, food and taxes will definitely not be paid in time, so the only one left is the south."
"It will take half a year to wait for the food to be handed over, and there will be a long wait."
"Your Majesty, we can't use up all the food, and we can't sell it like this anymore."
Liang Jing smiled softly, looked at the Minister of Rites and asked coldly: "Do you think it is wrong for me to do this? Go and see the people in the city. How difficult it is for them to have a bite of food. Those grain merchants randomly sell grains The price has been raised so high!”
"They did this because they didn't care about me."
"You actually think that what I did was wrong."
At this moment, the Minister of Rites hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, we don't dare to think that your Majesty is wrong to do this, but it is really not good for your Majesty's majesty."
"It would be offensive and disrespectful for the imperial court to do something like selling food."
"It's better to stop it as soon as possible. As for the healing prices, they sell them at such high prices. All we need to do is give them a warning and let them restore the price of two rooms."
Liang Jing didn't take it seriously. However, the silver-haired old man stepped forward, hunched his back, and smiled kindly.
"Your Majesty, I believe this matter cannot be rushed."
"We cannot sell the food in the imperial treasury. This food is also the foundation of the country. What if another accident happens one day, or there is another war, and there is not enough food? Should we just take money?"
"At the end of the day, you still need to be able to eat well, be clothed and warm. This food is the most important thing."
Liang Jing was stunned for a moment and said angrily, "Taifu Liu!"
"Why am I wrong? I just want these people to have enough food and clothing. Isn't this wrong? You are all here to force me, right?"
Lu Yun also looked at the old man in front of him at this time, and felt that he had never seen him before.
But he also knew that Taifu was an official position with a greater status than prime minister.
Under normal circumstances, a Taifu is a person with a very high status and speaks with great authority, but the Taifu sounds like a high-ranking person.
But the actual power is simply not as good as thinking about it. In a country, the prime minister has more power.
Tutor basically has an official position, but has no rights and no human position.
But what happened to the Taifu named Liu in front of him? Never met him.
"Taifu Liu, okay, don't talk anymore, I think it's okay."
