Li You glanced sideways at Zhuge Liang. He also understood why Jian Yong sent Guo Kai back to Chang'an. What could best relieve the fatigue in the young man's heart, of course, the envious looks of his peers.
Guo Kai is already a typical example of someone who achieves fame and success at a young age. Although he laughs at himself for sleeping later than a dog, getting up earlier than a chicken, and working hard every day, he can honestly say that Guo Kai already belongs to the group of people who stand at the top of the world. One of the people.
More importantly, this unlucky kid may have to stand until he is buried before he can come down from his peak position.
"Are today's young people so useless?" Li You muttered.
Li You said this to Zhuge Liang. The most resistant young man Li You has seen in so many years is Zhuge Liang. He is really durable and outstanding.
Zhuge Liang didn't reply after hearing this. Although he also felt that Guo Kai was a little weak and could not withstand this kind of hard work, he was still more inclined to Jian Yong's proposal. After all, he was Jian Yong's right-hand man, and the other party's protection was definitely better than his own. .
"Then wait for the accurate information from Qingxu to arrive, and copy a detailed content and send it to Zichuan. Zichuan will decide how to proceed in the next stage. I will send someone to pick up Guo Shengzhi. As for Qingxu's arrival in Chang'an Let’s take a look at the logistics nodes here.” Zhuge Liang thought for a while and said, and finally decided to be more conservative.
Zhuge Liang was actually a little unsure of these two matters. The Qingxu grain price involved Chen Xi's previous plan, the layout of logistics nodes, and the next plan, so this matter was left to Chen Xi to solve by himself.
Although Zhuge Liang thinks that the official harvest of grain is unlimited, he will then expand Yanzhou's agricultural grain, increase the supporting facilities of the grain industry, attract the agricultural population, digest grain output, increase the output of various non-staple foods, lengthen the industrial link, increase consumption, etc. , can solve the problem to a great extent. .
What's more important is that this solution provides jobs, consumes grain output, and benefits the people. In addition, this low-end non-staple food processing can penetrate into the village level, which is just used to complete Chen Xi's second plan. local industry within the five-year plan.
As for the shortcomings, it seems to be a problem of logistics and transportation. However, as the place where Liu Bei started, Qingxu's supporting facilities are not necessarily the best, but they are definitely better than many places. In addition, after such construction, there will be demand for it, and it will be promoted. It's faster than other places.
From a certain perspective, this can be regarded as a kind of linkage.
Of course, these things were eliminated by Zhuge Liang after they circulated in Zhuge Liang's mind twice. In Zhuge Liang's view, it is up to Chen Xi to confirm this kind of thing himself. After Chen Xi gives a reply, he will look at his own. Whether your thinking is correct or not, there is no need to rush.
After Zhuge Liang and others finalized these, two faith eagles were released by Zhuge Liang to the Ganges River and the Indian Ocean to notify Chen Xi and Zhou Yu respectively.
By the time the letter eagle arrived at Chen Xi's side, Liu Bei and Chen Xi had almost arrived at the Ganges River. To be precise, they had arrived at the place where the Wenjia Dynasty once stood, which was later Bangladesh. If they went a little further, they could take a boat. Now, when we get here, we are actually very close to where Guan Yu and others are.
Because when you arrive at the Ganges River port and can move forward by boat, the speed will instantly speed up a lot.
"What happened in the rear?" Liu Bei asked strangely as he watched Chen Xi open the letter. At this time, there should be nothing major in the rear. Ordinarily, shouldn't Chen Xi have handled all the matters before setting off?
Besides, aren’t Wenru, Zijing, Fengxiao, and Kongming still in charge in Chang’an? How come there is work that needs Chen Xi to handle so soon.
Chen Xi opened the letter, read it, and fell into deep thought. Although he had known for a long time that this day would come only a matter of time, he did not expect that it would come so quickly.
"What happened?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi's thoughtful expression and asked again, "Is it possible that some of the work was not completed when you ran away? Now that the blame has been thrown over, can't I arrest you and go back to work? ?”
Chen Xi's liver hurt a little from Liu Bei's words, and he glared at Liu Bei angrily. I think Chen Xi is so unreliable, so he explained concisely: "The price of Qingxu's grain is seventy cents."
Liu Bei didn't react when he heard the words. He was silent for a while. Maybe he thought clearly. He immediately showed a look of anger, "You even dare to tamper with the official food prices? Life is too short, you have to take shortcuts!"
"Uh, Mr. Xuande, you have misunderstood." Chen Xi said awkwardly, "The official price of grain collection is one hundred and fifty cents, but the common people's transaction price is seventy cents. Because the grain output is too high, the price of grain has fallen on its own. It can be maintained at seventy cents." Ten coins is because the government routinely collects half of the grain every year."
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"Wait a minute, I'll ask some Qingxu people to ask." Liu Bei left in a hurry. Chen Xi glanced at it and said nothing. It would be better to let Liu Bei go and ask in person.
Liu Bei quickly reached the position of Hua Chen and others. At this time, Hua Chen was bragging with Ni Yuan, Jiang Gong, and Ni Ying. There were also guys Zhang Du and Chen Hong beside them.
This group of people saw Liu Bei preparing to stand up, but when he stood up, Yang Tuo staggered beside him, and then the group of people almost fell to the ground.
"What's going on?" Liu Bei looked at Hua Chen and the group of people and frowned, then looked at Yang Tuo, and then turned his eyes on Ni Ying and the group of people.
Yang Tuo is really strong, and his linkage talent has indeed reached a certain extreme, but if he has to control people like Hua Chen, Sun Liang, and Ni Ying, what a joke!
When singled out, it is not easy to seize the opportunity to control them. This group of people are all typical with outstanding basic quality. It is difficult to completely control opponents who are stronger than themselves with their combined talents. If they are controlled by force, they will even be defeated by the other party. affected by power.
Therefore, Liu Bei didn't understand how the Hua Chen group could be controlled by Yang Tuo.
"Brother Yang and we are playing with wooden figures." Yu Mang is worthy of being a super senior centurion, and he gave a direct answer out of urgency.
In fact, a few of them kidnapped Yang Tuo and asked Yang Tuo to control their walking with linkage, so that they could brag and fart at night and sleepwalk during the day. Who made Yang Tuo control a group of Qingyan veterans at that time, and then Qingyan's The boss came and kidnapped Yang Tuo decisively.
Yang Tuo said that his skills were not as good as others, okay, you brag and beat up at night, and I will drive away the corpses during the day. I am unlucky, there is nothing I can do, no matter how strong Yang Tuo is, he can't beat such a group of people.
If it was really a one-on-one fight, Yang Tuo might have beaten a few of them, but he couldn't resist the unreasonable behavior of the guys on the other side and swarmed him. After all, half of these people were old yellow turbans. They were very disciplined in their actions and allowed their opponents to challenge him in a one-on-one fight. As a group, they will never let each other single out one person.
Therefore, even if Yang Tuo is very brave, he can't solve any problems, not to mention that he is the one who is wrong in the first place, so he has been helping these people to remove corpses every day recently.
Liu Bei glanced at Yu Mang suspiciously and didn't ask. Isn't it just for fun? Jiang Fei and Jiang Guang were fighting every now and then, so it was just like that. Forget it, he didn't bother to care.
"What's the latest price of food in Qingzhou?" Liu Bei asked casually.
Hua Chen didn't know why, "One hundred and fifty coins per stone. The official price has been like this over the years. It has not changed. It has always been one hundred and fifty coins per stone."
"Really?" Liu Bei raised an eyebrow, "What's the private price?"
Sun Liang, Ni Ying and others scratched their heads, "Private prices have been falling every year. This year's summer grain price was more than seventy cents per stone."
"Lu Kuan, where is the price of grain in Xuzhou?" Liu Bei saw Lu Kuan not far away, and immediately looked at Lu Kuan and asked, "Official and private."
"The official government was 150, and the private sector was more than 70 when I came here. We basically sell grain to the government. If you want to buy it, just buy some in the market. In fact, the grain is the same, it is all new grain." Lu Kuan explained that he really didn't think there was a problem.
"Don't you think there's a problem?" Liu Bei asked, looking at the group of people.
"No." Ni Ying and others looked at each other. Is there any problem with this?
"Have you never considered why the price of food in the market is 70?" Liu Bei asked.
A group of people looked at each other in confusion. They really hadn't thought about this silly question.
"Then don't you feel a loss when you sell the grain?" Liu Bei asked a little strangely, "The official price is one hundred and fifty, but the market price is seventy. Don't you feel distressed when you sell the grain?"
"No." Everyone responded in unison.
"Understood." Liu Bei nodded, and then left, leaving a group of people looking at each other, not understanding what happened.
"The lieutenant came here to ask what happened to the food price?" Ni Ying asked strangely.
"I don't know." Hua Chen shook his head and said, "Is there a problem with food prices?"
"It's no problem." Shen Quan scratched his head and said. A group of people were very confused about this.
For these people, the price of grain is really no problem. What’s wrong with more than 70 cents per stone? When I bought it, it was at this price, and when I sold it, it was also at this price. The official price of 150 cents was for the official grain collection. Welfare, the market price is more than 70 cents, no problem.
After all, these people who have experienced hardship are taboo about high food prices, but they have no special understanding of low food prices. If food prices are low and food can be bought at any time, wouldn't it be enough to have enough to eat? As for those who don’t have enough money, if the village exchanges grain for vegetables and fruits, isn’t that normal operation? As long as there is no shortage of food, you can survive without money.
In fact, even two thousand years later, merchants who brought watermelons to the village to sell melons in summer would accept payment in grain...
Therefore, these people really don't think there is any problem with low food prices. After all, in rural areas, food prices are low, and when bartering, the prices of other things will also be lowered.
When I exchange a pound of wheat for a pound of watermelon, I don’t care how much the watermelon in your field costs, but how much does the wheat cost? No matter, just ask directly, can you exchange one pound for one pound?
Most people in the village just swapped. Most of the time, it's hard to tell whether they made a profit or a loss by bartering, but basically both parties were satisfied.
Therefore, after Liu Bei asked these big leaders, he also asked some veterans, and finally determined that this was the price of food in Qingxu, and these people really didn't think there was a problem with it.
Of course, some veterans living in the city will think that the official supply and marketing cooperative's annual supply of 150 dan per dan of grain is a mistake. They go to the countryside to sell grain, buying more than 10 dan at a time, and 70 to 80 dan per stone. Make money, save a lot of money and so on.
"In short, this is the situation. The people of Qingxu should all know this situation, but except for the people living in the city who feel that the food from the supply and marketing cooperative is more expensive than the food in the countryside, no one else thinks there is a problem." Liu Bei found a large group of people After confirming, come and inform Chen Xi.
To be honest, after asking, Liu Bei was actually confused. He no longer knew whether to raise or lower prices. The rural areas were eager to increase the price of food to 150, but people living in the city needed to eat. They found that there were I went to the countryside to buy new grain for more than seventy cents per stone.
What does this mean? Liu Bei is already confused. He has no idea what the current price situation is.
"It's no problem at all. I'm just collecting grain to match the price. It's no problem. If I don't collect half of the grain, I'm afraid the price of grain in Qingxu will drop to forty or fifty cents. The low price of grain hurts farmers. We didn't have that in the past. That’s it for special products. Now that products that require money are entering the countryside, grain prices, as an important component, must have a comprehensive price." Chen Xi said matter-of-factly.
Theoretically speaking, it is difficult for this situation to occur in a feudal agricultural society, because there are too few materials that can be circulated, and ordinary rural people basically do not need to buy any messy things, so most of the time they rely on food in exchange for what they need. Other daily necessities are enough, so low food prices will only be more beneficial to the people than high food prices.
Because normally speaking, in the small-scale peasant economy of feudal agricultural society, men farming and women weaving are enough to solve most problems. At this time, a family's main consideration is actually the issue of food, clothing and clothing, and other consumption is very small. .
More importantly, these small amounts of consumption can actually be solved locally through the exchange of grain. Therefore, for feudal society, although there will be incidents of low grain prices and harm to farmers during the grain harvest, in the agricultural society, the low output is super high. Low risk resistance, more food output is better than less food output. Injury or not is a matter of money, not life.
It can be said that in the feudal era, considering this kind of trouble was already a luxury of happiness.
However, when Chen Xi understood the nature of his spiritual talent, he realized that this day would come early. To be honest, Chen Xi thought it was reasonable to delay it until now.
It's just that this time is awkward. Chen Xi has arranged other things, but Zhuge Liang and others broke the news. If Chen Xi wants to deal with it, he has to wait until he comes back next year. After all, what is going to affect this matter is not the price of food, but the price of food. The exchange method between money, food and materials.
"Is there any solution?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.
