The upcoming disaster in the Yellow River has also caused concern to Zhao Wenshu and Li Jingzang.
The two worked together to finally determine the sites for several industrial cities to be built first on the Changhang-Hangzhou Highway, and also found a group of businessmen to cooperate to deal with the transportation of required quarries and various materials. The construction of these cement roads was
It is more efficient to rely on these merchants to source materials locally.
This is what Zhao Wenwen and Li Jingzang saw in their eyes.
For Qin Huaidao, the benefits of using local merchants go beyond that. These tasks require a lot of manpower and material resources. When merchants have money in their hands, they will hire people to expand their scale. Money flows from merchants into the hands of the people. When the people have money in their hands, they will definitely expand.
Consumption, improvement of living environment such as house upgrades, is the biggest point of consumption. As long as the industrial city is built, the attraction of cement houses in the industrial city will surely attract many people, and these funds will return again.
In the hands of the imperial court, it was used for secondary purposes.
The cycle goes back and forth, and the Changhang-Hangzhou Highway is naturally pushed forward by this lever until it is completely completed.
A lot of money has been invested in Dahan Transportation in the early stage. If there is a flood, not only Li Jingzang's money will be wasted, but the industrial city will also suffer huge losses.
Although both of them temporarily stopped working to wait for the crisis to come, and sent people to make sufficient preparations, they still had no reason to worry.
Chang'an.
This economic and political center of the entire Han Dynasty ushered in a new day after many days of collecting food and people.
Changshoufang near West Market.
Many grain merchants gathered together.
The recent high price collection by the court has caused many complaints from these merchants. First of all, seeing that the grain collection season is about to come, they have no way to collect grain at a low price. Instead, they have to compete with the court for high-priced grain. Among the crowd, Jiang Shengwei's figure is hidden.
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After a riot in the examination hall, he was rescued, but he also lost his backer. The Jiang family rebelled against Li Ye in Hangzhou and was defeated. The once arrogant Jiang family was also defeated. As for the Jiang family's control in Chang'an,
Several properties were either confiscated or sold in advance, and they fled with the money. At this time, he only thought about revenge.
It's just that he has no money and no power, so he can't make any big moves. Until recently, a masked man not only sent him money and grain, but also gathered many grain merchants for him and asked him to do things in Chang'an. This was exactly what he wanted, so
He had no reason to refuse.
Even when being used as a gunman, he is still an extremely sharp gun.
The grain merchants below were also talking a lot. Their grain reserves over the years would be very low in the summer. After the grain harvest in the fields was abundant, they would buy it in large quantities in order to sell it in the next year. As a result, the court suddenly made a move, which made it difficult for their business to continue.
Following.
There was a grain merchant A with a worried look on his face, anxiously walking around in the hall: "The price given by the imperial court is so much higher. If we raise the price of grain further to compete with the imperial court, if we can't sell it next year, we will lose everything."
, what should we do?"
Grain merchant Yi He said: "What's scary is that if I don't wait until I collect the grain, I'll have to take the following guys to drink northwest music next year. Nothing happens on the surface, so how can I suddenly collect grain at a high price? It's weird?"
Before the discussion even started, the atmosphere among these grain merchants was extremely bleak.
At this moment, Jiang Shengwei took a big step forward and said loudly to the grain merchants: "Everyone, I think we are all here for the same thing. With all due respect, if the imperial court collects grain at such a high price, something big must happen.
According to the experience recorded in history books, there are two reasons for major conquests: one is war and the other is catastrophe. Now that the court has made a new decision, it is not impossible for war to resume. As for catastrophe, I have recently heard that there have been continuous rains in the northwest, or the Yellow River.
There is a danger of breaking the embankment."
"No matter which one it is, it is worthy of the court to reserve food with great fanfare. But think about it, no matter which one it is, it is just a disaster in the future. It may or may not happen. The court is just preparing in advance. However,
Your business and the livelihood of your guys will probably suffer a big disaster first."
After hearing this, these grain merchants became even more anxious.
"The imperial court is going to cut off our livelihood before disaster strikes?"
"We don't have any idea what we should do. Please give me some guidance, sir."
Many merchants asked Jiang Shengwei for advice, but he smiled knowingly, shook his paper fan, walked to the main seat and sat down slowly, picked up a bowl of tea and took a sip, smiling without saying a word.
Some merchants suddenly couldn't sit still.
"Since Sir has called us here and said he has a countermeasure, why hasn't he said a word now? Isn't he just calling us grain merchants here and there for fun?"
They were not familiar with Jiang Shengwei to begin with. If it hadn't been for the secretary saying that he had a solution, they wouldn't have answered the call. Seeing that Jiang Shengwei had reached such a state and was still trying to hide him, he already had a certain status in Chang'an.
The grain merchants were furious.
Seeing the excitement of the grain merchants, Jiang Sheng thought that the time had come, so he said: "Xiaosheng thinks that it is right for you to be angry, but you should not be angry with Xiaosheng. The crisis in the grain market is all caused by the imperial court, not
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Grain Merchant A said angrily: "Everyone knows this kind of thing, so what do you think we should do?"
"What should we do?" Jiang Shengwei said: "Actually, there is more than one way to deal with the catastrophe, but the imperial court still chose to cut off everyone's livelihood. From my point of view, the lives of the people are their lives, but the lives of the grain merchants are not.
Life?"
"The imperial court is using a crisis that may not happen in exchange for the possibility of exterminating grain merchants."
As soon as his words came out, all the grain merchants were shocked.
"Are you saying that the imperial court is using the name of a catastrophic disaster to make grain merchants like us delist?"
"I have been in the grain business since I was a child. If I don't do this, how will I survive?"
"Yes, and those guys, who have been with me for so many years, I can't bear to have them live on the streets. Then again, why on earth would the court do this?"
These grain merchants could not figure out the reason why the imperial court did this.
"It's very simple," Jiang Shengwei said as the mysterious man prepared the words for him: "Because our Emperor of the Han Dynasty wants everyone to be equal in the world."
Grain merchant A was a little confused: "Everyone is equal in the world? What does this have to do with us grain merchants?"
The relationship is very big, Jiang Shengwei thought to himself.
Not to mention that the scholars, farmers, industry and merchants in the world each have their own rights and interests, this grain merchant alone has taken advantage of all kinds of benefits. The world is based on grain. When they have grain in their hands, they can not only make profits, but also get support from the government.
Taking care of people has many privileges that ordinary people do not have.
The government also tried its best to maintain its relationship with these grain merchants, hoping that in case of emergency requisition by the court or a year of famine, these grain merchants would be able to help.