"Your Majesty, Sinong Temple reports that 50% of the grain stored in the imperial court in the east and west cities of Chang'an City was sold today. Before the market closed, the price had been adjusted from fifty to sixty cents." BIquGe.biz
"I have issued a decree. From the opening of the market tomorrow, the price will remain unchanged, but each person can only buy one stone at most. Only one person from a family can come to buy. Anyone who cheats will be severely punished."
"As for private trading houses, the price has already risen to seventy cents at noon, and it has risen to eighty cents before the market closes. I estimate that it will probably rise to one hundred cents before the market opens tomorrow."
Li Shimin sighed and asked, "Are those people still silent?"
Fang Xuanling shook his head and bowed: "There is no tendency to purchase large amounts of grain at the moment, but their private grain store has been closed. It is said that the grain store has no grain for sale."
"Let Sinong Temple intervene. The grain store must sell grain to outsiders, otherwise it will be punished as a crime of harvesting grain."
"Wang De, go tell Datang Daily, tomorrow's front page headline, tell the people not to stockpile grain, Datang has no shortage of food."
After Li Shimin finished speaking, he paused and then said: "Tomorrow, all the food in the east and west cities will be sold out at a price of sixty cents."
Changsun Wuji quickly bowed and said: "Your Majesty, is this too fast?"
"Isn't this year's autumn harvest coming soon? Taicang's grain has been backlogged for three years, and it's time to replace it with new grain."
Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling looked at each other, and began to panic in their hearts. This was not replacing old food with new food, but directly selling it. Once the court ran out of food, the world would be in chaos.
"Your Majesty, please think again!"
"You two can just go ahead and do it. There is nothing to think twice about. The matter has already reached this point. If you are afraid of wolves in the front and tigers in the back, what big things can you accomplish?"
After the two ministers left the hall, Li Shimin immediately said: "Li Shu!"
"My subordinate is here!"
"Notify Luoyang, Yangzhou, Shuzhou, Youzhou..."
"Open a main warehouse and store grain. The price will be determined by yourself based on local conditions."
"yes……"
Li Shu left immediately and ordered his subordinates to notify local officials as quickly as possible.
"Your Majesty, please go and rest for a while. The old slave will be here to guard you. I will inform you of anything important immediately."
Li Shimin nodded, went to the waiting room next door, lay on the bed and fell asleep.
Inside a courtyard in Chongrenfang, Chang'an City.
"Master, the price of grain from the government has been raised. When the market opens tomorrow, it will start at sixty cents. The price will be raised by ten cents."
In the chic little courtyard, a dozen fat-headed middle-aged people were chatting and laughing. When they heard the boy's report, they all looked at the door.
These people were all famous grain merchants throughout the Tang Dynasty. They purchased rice from all over the south of the Yangtze River and transported it to the north. They also transported various light industrial products from the north to the south.
Of course, they have stores in big cities such as Chang'an, Luoyang, and Yangzhou, selling processed rice noodles or grains directly to the people.
Among them are King Jinzi of Jingzhao, Liu Wanjin of Luoyang, the wealthy man of the Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, Yang Zhenjin of Sichuan and Shu...
The ancestors of these four people made their fortune by reselling grain, and now their families are extremely wealthy. Even in small counties, their families have grain shops.
"Okay, the government has sold it for sixty cents, so let's sell it for eighty cents from tomorrow. Let's see if more people buy it tomorrow afternoon, we will increase the price and sell it for one hundred cents and one stone."
"Hahaha, no one would have thought that in this peaceful era, food could be so profitable."
"Okay, then we will sell it openly tomorrow for eighty cents."
After everyone was happy, they saw that King Jingzhao Jinzi kept frowning and said: "Everyone, if our price rises like this, will it make His Majesty unhappy?"
"What are you afraid of? One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. We are not forcing people to buy."
"That's it, if our prices triple, many people may starve to death."
"Once there are disaster victims, it's not as simple as fighting or suffering."
Liu Wanjin smiled and said: "Brother Wang, with such a rise, do you think those noble families will sit back and wait for death. I think starting from tomorrow, they will also stock up on food, and they will even be more ruthless than us."
Song Jufu: "I'm just worried that our way of making money will be cut off by those bastards."
Wang Jinzi smiled and said: "Otherwise, we will sell it at eighty cents as soon as possible tomorrow, and increase the price by one hundred cents before the market closes. If a wealthy family wants to take over, we will give it up immediately."
"What do you think?"
The others frowned. After all, Wang Jinzi lived at the foot of the world and had seen people in the world, but he was so afraid of things?
Even if you sell all the stored grain at a price of one hundred cents, how much money can you make?
Everyone had their own secrets, and they smiled and agreed on the surface, but in their hearts they were thinking about how to get Wang Jinzi's grain for eighty cents and then sell it at a higher price.
It's not just the common people and these grain merchants who are going crazy in Chang'an City today. Some nobles and wealthy people also have crooked thoughts in their hearts.
With such a good opportunity, if they don't make a lot of money, they won't be able to afford their family's spare money.
Among them, the Yang family of Hongnong, also known as the Huayin Yang family, the Yang family of Hongnong in the world, their family took the initiative to have a wrong idea.
"Starting from tomorrow, all cloth workshops, pottery workshops, and silk weaving workshops will be stopped, and all operating funds will be used to purchase grain."
Yang was really jealous. For one stone of rice, the price went from fifty cents to thirty cents in one day. This profit came faster than robbing money.
If you buy all the grain from those grain stores for eighty cents and sell it for one hundred cents tomorrow, that's not a huge profit.
"Come here, follow me to meet those guys who are reselling food."
At Wei's Mansion in Jingzhao.
The head of the Webster family was also dazzled by today's food prices. Their family's main business is mining, but the mining industry has been strictly regulated by the government. Even if it is given to others at that price, others will not dare to take it. It felt as if my neck was being strangled.
Naturally, there is a lot of spare money at home. With such a good opportunity, if you don't make a fortune, you will be laughed at.
It's not illegal to buy food from the grain store, and there's nothing to be afraid of. What's more, the government has increased the price by ten cents, so there is no harm in storing this food.
The war situation in the northwest has deteriorated. Who knows whether the history of the previous dynasty will repeat itself.
"Tonight, follow me on a trip to meet those people who are reselling food."
At Yuwen's house.
The head of Yuwen's family had a quarrel with his son. They had received the exact news from the court. The situation in the northwest was corrupted. The King of Shu traveled twelve miles and eight hundred miles in one day, asking for food and men...
Li Jing and Chai Shao both reported at the same time, asking for food and grass. This was enough to show that the northwest had fallen into a passive situation, but the central government did not have much food and grass at all. This time they announced that they had sent an army of 80,000 to the west, but in fact, they knew it. , North Korea dispatched 160,000 troops.
Food and grass are simply not enough.
Food prices are soaring, this is a sure thing.
Wouldn’t that be a fool if you don’t go collect food now?
But the son refused to agree to the harvesting of grain, saying that he was too familiar with the Living King of Hell and almost killed him last time. This was a conspiracy of the imperial court. The King of Shu holds the post office, and the world's grain can be transported to Guanzhong at any time. Guanzhong will not know how to do it at all. Food shortage.
But the head of the Wei family reprimanded his son, saying that his son was ignorant and incompetent. He was frightened by the king of Shu once and had a psychological shadow.
After all, my son couldn't defeat me, and Webster also started to collect grain.
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