Nanyang.
Tang Palace.
As soon as King Zhu Shuoji of the Tang Dynasty saw the box containing the head of King De delivered by the envoy, he immediately felt that his stomach was stirred and he was about to vomit out something.
After a while, Zhu Shuoji calmed down and said: "I told you that the palace must not interfere with the appointment of the abbot. Before you come to clear the abbot, you must first conduct a self-examination, check out all the land that is not a gift, and report it to the government." Yousi! If anyone refuses to listen, I will never forgive him lightly!"
With that said, Zhu Shuoji raised his hand to the envoy sent by Zhu Youxiao and said: "Please tell your majesty, father-in-law, that I dare not bend the law, and I will definitely cooperate with all the imperial decrees!"
So, next, the Nanyang government successfully cleared the vassal kings in the Nanyang area.
Because Nanyang has always been an important production area in Henan, more than 200,000 stone grains were paid out at once, and the imperial treasury received a lot more grain revenue.
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"According to the report from the Ministry of Household Affairs, since Zhu Changjie executed and passed the news to the princes of each vassal, the matter of clearing the land has been much smoother, and the matter of clearing the land has basically come to an end. At present, the national treasury has increased grain, and the total of various places has more than 10 million stones of grain. They are being shipped to Jiangnan in batches!”
Here, Han Xu reported to Zhu Youxiao the latest status of land clearing and grain adjustment.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said: "That's great! There is a steady stream of food being transported to the south of the Yangtze River, so there is no need to worry that food prices will continue to rise. How are the food prices in various markets controlled now? Those nobles who have food will Has the wealthy family lowered the price of food and begun to take the initiative to put food on the market?"
"Reporting to your Majesty, according to Dongchang's secret investigation, the price of food on the market has been controlled and has not risen again. However, those noble families who have food have still not taken the initiative to lower the price of food or put food on the market. It is still the case Grain shops and Dongchang comprehensive stores controlled by the imperial court are supplying grain at lower prices."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao asked Han Xu: "Has the second batch of grain been distributed?"
Han Xu replied: "Your Majesty, the distribution has been completed, and we are waiting for the pricing decision. Should we continue to maintain the market price without increasing it, or start to lower the price."
"Turn it down! We already have tens of millions of stones in reserve, so what are we afraid of? Even if all the wealthy families in the world unite to fight against me, there is no need to be afraid now. I don't believe that with the power of the whole country, these noble families cannot be subdued! "
Zhu Youxiao said immediately.
"According to the order!"
Han Xu replied immediately.
In order to coordinate the deployment of various materials, mainly grain, Zhu Youxiao has decreed the establishment of a general department of the Du Branch, directly under the Zhengshitang. Currently, it is mainly composed of Han Xu, Li Zhizao, Li Yongzhen, and Wei Zhongxian.
Han Xu is responsible for coordinating, Li Zhizao is responsible for making transportation more reasonable and prices more scientific through his calculation ability, Li Yongzhen is responsible for auditing, and Wei Zhongxian is responsible for supervising and improving intelligence.
In this way, coupled with the patrol camps and the various levels of government after the addition of township officials, Zhu Youxiao could reasonably and efficiently distribute all the food from various places to the counties, cities and towns in Jiangnan states.
"Eighteen yuan of silver coins per dou, lower the price of rice by two yuan today!"
In Jiangning County, a comprehensive store directly operated by Dongchang received the allocated new rice in the early morning of the next day, changed the price the next morning, and relisted the rice for sale.
"Hey! The price has been almost flat for a month, but it still hasn't increased?! The price has actually been reduced. Isn't the rice in your comprehensive store sold out yet?"
Because the price of rice in the general store has not increased and remains at 20 silver dollars a bucket, so many people come to the general store to buy rice. People come to buy rice almost from before dawn, so as to avoid waiting until the afternoon to buy rice in the general store. After buying rice, you are not forced to go to other private grain stores to buy more expensive rice.
And because it is now under military control, there are officers and soldiers on both sides responsible for maintaining order.
Therefore, people who come to buy rice don’t dare to mess around anymore, and even if they don’t buy rice, they won’t smash up the shop anymore, and they will queue up honestly when buying rice.
And now, this comprehensive store has just opened, and there are already many people queuing outside.
At this time, the person in front saw that this general store had lowered the price of food, and asked in surprise.
"There are so many! Unless you have to eat today, if you want to buy more, try to keep the silver coins in your hands. Come and buy them tomorrow. New rice will arrive tomorrow and the price will continue to drop!"
The clerk replied with a smile.
Because the general store is an imperial store directly operated by Dongchang, and although he is just an ordinary clerk, he also feels a little proud because he is from Dongchang and the emperor's man, so he said one more thing.
"Really? Then hurry up and weigh the rice for me! But I want to buy a few more buckets. How can you take your words seriously! What if the new rice has not arrived yet and the price will rise again? Who doesn't know that Jiangnan is short of rice now!"
The scholar at the front of the line took out a bag of silver coins and said, "Ninety silver coins!"
"believe it or not!"
The clerk replied disdainfully, weighed the rice to the scholar, collected the silver coins, and then was busy selling rice to others.
At that moment, all the people who came to buy rice stretched out their arms and stood on tiptoes to ask for rice. They were anxious to buy rice and go home. Like the scholar, they all took out all the silver coins they had on them to buy rice, fearing the price of rice. Will it rise again? After all, they were really frightened by the increase in rice prices for many days, and they couldn't believe what the clerk said. Now that there is such cheap rice, why not buy more quickly?
Anyway, no one dares to hold silver coins in their hands, they all just want to hold grain in their hands.
Zhu Youxiao also knew the psychology of ordinary people in Jiangnan. Therefore, when he let the general stores and government-controlled grain stores sell grain, he did not drop the price of grain suddenly. Instead, he stabilized the price of grain first and then lowered it after the grain arrived. In this way, the silver coins scattered through the Ming Dynasty Bank can be recovered through grain to the greatest extent.
Because Zhu Youxiao would rather take back the silver coins than let them flow to the hands of noble families through high food prices.
The second day.
Because a new batch of grain arrived, this comprehensive store lowered the price of grain again.
"Fifteen silver dollars per dou!"
"Falling again?"
"It's really falling again?!"
The customer who came to buy rice smiled with joy, but then he beat his chest and regretted: "I would have saved the silver dollars to buy rice today!"
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"Have you heard that the general store and some grain stores have lowered the price of food again, and the general store has dropped it to fifteen silver dollars a dou! What should we do?"
Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi came to Wei Guogong's mansion anxiously and spoke to Xu Hongji, Dou Ding and others.
Xu Hongji smiled and said: "Not only did I hear that I just asked someone to buy 20 shi of rice from the nearest comprehensive store. If it weren't for the purchase restriction, it couldn't exceed 20 shi. Now you are giving such a low price. I wish I could Let the people below buy him dozens or even millions more stones to hoard!"
"This has been expected for a long time. The imperial court will naturally bring some grain to Jiangnan. However, since we have decided to play with grain, our master, Prince Fu and Prince Lu have already made preparations for this. Now we have to see what happens. Whether his court has more food or we have more money, I came to Nandu this time and brought five million taels of silver. I don’t know how much the princes can provide. When the time comes, I will use the money to spread it out and hire tenants and farmers. The servants in the mansion and the villagers go and buy it! We will buy as much grain as the court transfers. One day, the court's grain reserves will be bought out, unless the court increases the grain tax. The sky is angry and people are complaining. If we add grain levies and taxes, won’t war break out?"
Dou Ding sneered and said a few words at this time.
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