Officials from the Ministry of Revenue are becoming more and more convinced of Lin Fan!
After all, Lin Fan was able to lead them to make money, and the officials in various ministries were honest because they were criticized by Emperor Chongzhen.
After hearing that the Hu Bu had made a lot of money, this group of people were jealous and tried their best to go to the Hu Bu to ask for money. However, they were scolded back by the Hu Bu people.
Two factions gradually formed among the officials in the DPRK and China, one was the Qingliu of the Donglin Party, and the other was the princelings headed by Lin Fan, who suppressed the Donglin Party to death.
After all, princelings are rich and powerful!
"Your Highness, merchants from all over the country have applied for business qualification certificates, but they are all asking, what should we do with those small traders?"
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue came to report.
“Those small traders?
This time we were able to successfully get all the noble families to compromise, and the small traders must have contributed a lot, so we must not take away their business."
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
kindness!
The officials of the Ministry of Revenue thought that after the merchants compromised, His Highness the Prince would stop the small traders from continuing to do business. Unexpectedly, Lin Fan actually did not allow the Ministry of Revenue to take over their business.
"Your Highness, if those small traders continue to set up stalls and do business, what will happen to those merchants who have obtained business qualification certificates?
They're afraid they'll make a fuss!"
The official from the Ministry of Revenue said in a deep voice.
"You are just stupid. This time, if it weren't for the small vendors, could you successfully make the big businessmen give in?
If I don’t allow small vendors to continue doing business now, what if those big merchants continue to close their shops?”
"That's not all. Those small vendors rely on this to support their families. If they don't have food to eat, won't they make trouble?"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
The official from the Ministry of Revenue looked embarrassed and said: "Your Highness, is this matter just like this?
In the second year, I’m afraid no one will be willing to apply for a business qualification certificate!”
"Moreover, the court's credibility will also be affected."
"Of course I know this, but wouldn't you think of a way to get the best of both worlds?
For example, define an area where small vendors gather!”
"You go back now, roughly count how many small vendors there are, and then find a few streets, divide them into small vendor streets, and let those small vendors go there to sell their goods."
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
kindness!
After hearing this, the officials of the Ministry of Revenue showed surprise in their eyes. If this was the case, the merchants would not be able to say anything, and the small traders would also have a place to do business.
"Thank you for your advice, Your Highness, I will go and do it now!"
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue received the order and hurriedly went to do the work.
Lin Fan shook his head helplessly. These ancient officials didn't know how to adapt to anything, so they just knew how to do it!
Businessmen from all over the country were waiting for the small traders to be evicted. As a result, the small traders who were waiting came and were gathered to set up stalls in areas without shops.
In this way, those small traders will not steal their business. However, small traders do exist, but they have nothing to say.
"This...can His Highness the Crown Prince still do this?"
"I always feel that we have been tricked by His Royal Highness, but I have no evidence here."
"Alas! I also feel that I have been fooled, but I have no evidence!"
The nobles of the aristocratic families gritted their teeth, but there was nothing they could do.
"Business qualification certificate?
Damn it! Is this prince trying to kill us?"
"It seems that we people have nothing to offend him, so why does he target us again and again?
The most hateful thing is that those nobles from aristocratic families actually compromised with the prince and paid the money honestly!"
"Haha! What can they do if they don't do this?
Those small vendors are about to lose money, they can only continue to open their doors and do business!"
"We are different. What we control is food. I still don't believe that the dog prince can conjure so much food out of thin air!"
"Even though there is food in the imperial court's granaries, those granaries are not available everywhere. I'll just wait and see how he mobilizes them!"
The nobles of the aristocratic families have all suffered misfortunes, but the grain merchants are still very confident.
They continued to persist and refused to sell their grain. Then, the Ministry of Household’s basic price for grain came out, and it was thirty cents per catty of grain!
This price is not considered high. After all, they previously sold grain for 300 cents per catty, and at its most expensive, it could reach 600 cents per catty.
However, in some places, the selling price of grain is one hundred and fifty cents per catty. The reason is that their purchase price of grain is very cheap, which is only about twenty cents per catty.
The Ministry of Household Affairs directly defined the basic price as thirty cents per catty, which meant that the price they sold grain could not exceed forty-five cents per catty.
This is indeed a certain profit, but compared with the previous one, it is much worse.
"Ma Dan! The more the court behaves like this, the less we will sell food!"
"Fight to death with them! When the people starve to death, they will know how terrible it is to offend us grain merchants!"
"No! Some people have a surplus of grain in their hands. Therefore, these people will not be short of food in a short time. The grain sold in the court's granary is forty-five pounds per pound. We will recycle fifty cents per pound.
Those stupid people will definitely sell it to us!"
The grain merchants gathered together and thought of another insidious plan.
Not only did they collect grain from small grain merchants at fifty cents per catty, they also secretly contacted the people and purchased their grain at fifty cents per catty.
Those common people took fifty cents and then used forty-five cents to buy the court's grain. By going back and forth like this, they made five cents. Who wouldn't do this business?
Inside the prince's residence.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince! It's not good!"
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue came again, and Lin Fan really wanted to kick them!
This group of people come to me every two days. Some of them know that they are the prince, but some of them don’t know that they think they are the stewards!
"What's the matter?"
Lin Fan asked directly.
"Your Highness, the grain consumption in the granary has been intense in the past few days. Wei Chen discovered that someone secretly purchased the grain from the common people at a price of fifty cents. Our price is forty-five cents. They are going back and forth like this.
, I only made five cents, and those people went crazy and started buying and selling food like crazy!"
"If this continues, our imperial court's granary will be empty!"
The official from the Ministry of Revenue said in a deep voice.
"Well! There is such a thing, so are you all fools?
Won’t there be a limited supply?”
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"Your Highness, if the supply is limited, many people will not be able to buy food. It is unrealistic to remember the faces of everyone who has bought food and allow them to buy it only once..."
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue expressed the difficulties.