After three drinks and five dishes, Liu Jin, Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao swept away all the seafood on the table. At the same time, there were several empty jars beside them. All four of them were already drunk.
drunk.
"You brat, the price of food here in the capital has skyrocketed. Your Majesty is also very anxious. What should we do next?"
Zhou Jing was already a little drunk. He sat very close to Liu Jin and patted Liu Jin on the shoulder and asked.
"It's very simple, that is, continue to transport sea fish to the capital. We sell it for one penny per catty, and this meat sells for one penny per catty. Do you want to lower the price of this food?"
Liu Jin smiled. The ancients did not deceive me. Sure enough, after a few drinks at the wine table, the relationship was different. Now he has already called himself a brat.
However, these people are all old foxes. Liu Jin is not sure whether they are pretending, so he is always secretly vigilant in his heart and thinks twice before speaking.
"As long as we stabilize food prices in the capital, Tianjin, Yongping Prefecture in North Zhili, and the northwest of Shanxi, there will be no problem with this famine."
"The capital city is naturally the top priority, because there are millions of people in the capital city, and eating and drinking every day is a big problem. Once something goes wrong here, it will cause big trouble."
"As for Yongping Prefecture and Shanxi, we only need to transport the food in our hands there, and use the previous disaster relief methods to support it with porridge and water until the food arrives from the south."
"The price of grain will naturally drop by then, and in the fall, when the spring wheat harvest is harvested, the price of grain will return to its previous price."
Although Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao were slightly drunk, they all listened carefully. They had already heard Liu Jin's analysis of this famine before, and knew that they should treat it differently.
When I heard it now, it became clearer immediately. I understood that the core and key point now is the capital. As long as there is no chaos in the capital and food prices can come down, everything will be fine.
"Haha, I see, all this has already been in your plan."
Li Dongyang thought carefully, and then he couldn't help but laugh.
He now understands that Liu Jin is playing a big game. He has planned everything long ago. He comes to Tianjin to build ships, go fishing, go to North Korea to do business, buy grain, and build buildings.
The cement road leading to the capital.
The distance between Beijing and Tianjin is only over 100 kilometers. With tens of thousands of disaster victims coming to build roads at the same time, it won't take long to build a spacious cement road.
With this cement road, the travel between Beijing and Tianjin has become extremely convenient and fast. The specially-made cargo carriages from Xishan Coal Industry can continuously transport marine fish from Tianjin and rice from North Korea.
past.
Every step is calculated clearly, link by link, seamless, which makes people admire them very much.
Liu Jin smiled when he heard this. To be honest, Liu Jin had already planned all this. Ever since he deduced that someone was deliberately targeting him, Liu Jin had been thinking hard about countermeasures.
He also thought about the strategy of repaying others with his own methods. Since they wanted to rely on the food in their hands to target themselves, he would also let them suffer a big loss in terms of food.
During this period of time, Liu Jin has been asking his student Tong Yuan to pay attention to the price of food from the south.
There was a famine in the three northern provinces. In fact, there was no need for the imperial court to order the transfer of grain. The grain merchants themselves knew how to transport the grain to the north.
Because the grain that usually costs a few pennies per pound can be sold for several times the price during a famine, sometimes even more than ten times the price, the profit can be imagined.
So sometimes famine is not terrible. What is terrible is man-made disaster, or the kind of large-scale famine. Like this famine in the three northern provinces, it is just a serious situation in the north. There is nothing too terrible.
Grain merchants who get the news will continue to transport grain over and make a lot of money.
Originally, when these grain merchants shipped grain, the price would rise. If it increased several times, it would be considered normal operation. Coupled with official disaster relief and so on, the famine soon passed.
But this time, they played a big game and united many grain merchants to eat all the grain shipped from the south. At the same time, they also found a way to take away the grain from the government's hands.
Naturally, the food from the south cannot be as cheap as before. If these people want to eat the food from the south, the price will naturally be several times more expensive than before. And because they eat all the food from the south, they will
Only then can we have the advantage of controlling the market, and the money will continue to flow out like running water.
Of course, their original calculation was very good. As long as the price of food rises, they will not only be able to make a lot of money from the famine, but they can also take advantage of Xishan Coal Industry, Glass Factory, etc.
It can be said that they achieve their goal of ultimately controlling the imperial power by taking it into their belly.
Liu Jin knew very well that these people had spent at least several million taels of silver to eat the food from the south during this period. It could be said that they had already invested all their money.
Originally, their plan was flawless, because they had firm control over the grain and had their spokespersons in the court. In these famine years, the grain merchants who requisitioned grain were said to have no credibility, and the court was required to use money to purchase grain.
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With food in his hands and someone to help him speak, everything seemed to be under control.
However, Liu Jin also used food as a breakthrough. He went to the sea to fish and went to North Korea to buy food. As long as he had enough food in his hands to feed people, their plan would naturally be self-defeating.
The people behind the plan were still limited to the Ming Dynasty. They did not expect Liu Jin to fish from sea fish, and they definitely did not expect that the ocean would be so rich. With just a few boats, millions of kilograms of sea fish could be caught in one day.
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I never thought that I could go to North Korea to buy grain and take the sea route to North Korea. It only takes half a month to go back and forth. Five million kilograms of rice can be transported back at one time and used to cook porridge to help the victims.
It's enough to last a long time.
"Now is the time to fight back. The core point is the capital. As long as the price of food in the capital drops, the food in their hands will be worthless. They will also sell food crazily. The more they rush to sell food, the more money they will have to sell food."
Prices will fall faster, and soon this famine will be over."
