Shen Lie's eyes were dark, and he whispered in the ears of Feng Bao and Zhang Jianxiu: "It seems that it will be very difficult for us to touch Jia Mian, but Shen has a way."
There was a pause.
Shen Lie said softly: "First, we will ask Your Majesty to issue a decree to adjust grains from various places to stabilize grain prices, so as to meet the urgent needs."
Hear this.
Feng and Zhang nodded in unison.
"right!"
Arranging food from various places is indeed a top priority.
Now earthquakes and droughts have come together, and the Changping warehouse set up in Tongzhou has been burned down again. This summer's food shortage is a foregone conclusion.
If the factory guards and the inner court leave things alone, the people will only suffer.
Fat profiteer.
Let alone the burning of Chang Pingcang, it should not affect Shuai Qi's training of the frontier troops at the Miyun camp, as well as Li Rusong and Ma Lin's use of troops against the Tatars at Xuanda.
The stakes are high.
He patted the table.
Shen Lie said harshly: "We must not allow the grain merchants in the capital to collude and take advantage of the fire to drive up grain prices and create panic..."
Feng and Zhang nodded again.
This scene seems very ironic. The inner court, a factory guard who is regarded as heinous by scholars, is worried about the soaring food prices.
But the adults who talk about great principles are making money from the national crisis.
A paper full of absurd words and a handful of bitter tears.
Thinking deeply.
Feng Baoxian nodded and said: "Last year, the weather was good and the world was ripe. There was enough grain in warehouses in Huguang, Shandong, and Henan. It should be easy to transfer grain to Beijing nearby."
He looked at this junior with admiration.
Speaking of last year...
Shen Lie made a strange move and used an army of hundreds of thousands of chickens, ducks and geese to control the locust plague, firmly stopping the locust swarms coming from the grasslands at the front line of Gyeonggi and protecting the Huaihe River, the Central Plains, and Shandong from the locust plague.
Until now.
Various places began to feed back the capital.
One drink and one peck, it is destiny.
aside.
Zhang Jianxiu, however, said uneasily: "The method of adjusting food supplies to Beijing... can only solve an urgent need, not a long-term solution."
Shen Lie frowned.
He nodded again.
Thinking of the millions of people living in this land of Gyeonggi, the daily consumption of food is absolutely an astronomical figure. If the big and small grain merchants work together and join forces...
So what if we have to go against the imperial court?
Shen Lie's head is as big as a bucket.
By this time.
Only then did Shen Lie understand what kind of mess Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao, Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli had accepted.
Beginning in the middle of the Jiajing period, with the collapse of the maritime ban system that had been implemented for more than 150 years, the invasion of Japanese pirates led to widespread civil strife and the government's loss of control.
Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Qinjin, Su, Shandong, Anhui...
Shilin groups from all over the country have emerged one after another, invading all walks of life with large amounts of capital, and began to devour the world's wealth, leading to widespread party disputes.
From then on, the Ming Dynasty entered a crazy era where capital was out of control. What appeared in the Ming Dynasty was not the bud of capitalism. The Ming Dynasty...
Created capitalism!
It can't be done well.
The Dutch, who were the first to create capitalism and parliamentary government, and later the Jews, the Children of Great Britain, were all in the process of trading with the Ming Dynasty.
I secretly learned a whole set of systems from the Ming Dynasty!
After all, the systems of those Western powers are exactly the same as those of the Ming Dynasty!
But.
Shen Lie began to wonder in his heart, what is the difference between our Ming Dynasty and the British who established an empire on which the sun never sets in later generations?
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was no worse than the Queen of England. Our Ming army had so many famous generals that it defeated the Dutch, Portuguese, and even the Japanese, the powerful European countries of the same era.
Their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the British Lobster Soldiers.
But why are the European powers, from the Netherlands to Spain, to the United States, establishing hegemony one after another?
Why did our Ming Dynasty end up in ruins?
It shouldn't be.
After Shen Lie pondered hard, his confused eyes gradually became clear. Perhaps we, Ming Dynasty, were a little shameless, due to the collective depravity of the elite...
Still missing is MI6.
After another period of silence.
Feng Bao sighed quietly: "The power is too great to be controlled."
The veteran of three dynasties who had witnessed all this with his own eyes was rubbing his gray temples and temples, feeling particularly painful at this time.
He was talking about Zhang Siwei.
"This old man..."
This treacherous and evil person.
I have endured the position of Second Assistant to the Cabinet for ten years!
I'm afraid it is.
Already, there are party members all over the world.
The atmosphere is somewhat depressing.
But Shen Lie quickly cheered up and said with a cold smile: "Don't worry, Mr. Feng. Our factory guards, the inner court, and your majesty, even if we can't shake Zhang Siwei's party, can't we still deal with a few profiteers?"
aside.
Zhang Jianxiu perked up and said hurriedly: "What's the plan?"
There are endless schemes against this brother-in-law.
He is full of expectations now.
Shen Lie rolled his eyes, walked over, and said something in front of Feng Bao and Zhang Jianxiu, like this, like that...
A clever plan was devised.
Feng Bao and Zhang Jianxiu were both dumbfounded.
a long time.
Feng Bao touched his head. This veteran of three dynasties felt that the method Shen Lie came up with was really unbelievable and could not be put on the table.
Zhang Jianxiu said fearfully: "Is this possible?"
But Shen Lie said firmly: "You can't be wrong if you listen to me. If they did it for the first grade of junior high school, we will do it for the fifteenth grade... Just do it!"
The words fell.
Zhang Jianxiu's fighting spirit was instantly aroused, and he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Okay, then let's fight the profiteers fiercely."
Shen Lie nodded with satisfaction.
It was already dusk. Looking at the gorgeous glow coming in from the window, the three hungry people remembered that they hadn't eaten anything all day.
It was getting late at this time.
Feng Bao then stood up, patted his somewhat stooped waist, waved his hand, got into the sedan with half-hearted interest, and returned to the palace with a few young eunuchs.
And Shen Lie hurriedly ordered some noodles and talked with his fourth uncle by candlelight.
"Why."
now.
Zhang Jianxiu is really hard to swallow.
Mixed feelings.
Still haven't woken up from the shock.
This shock bomb was a bit big, and the fourth son of the Zhang family, who had been smart since childhood but gave up his official career and studied archery and horse martial arts diligently, was unable to recover for a while.
"If Zhang Siwei... really has evil intentions."
Then the new policy would be in danger, the good situation would be ruined, and the Shanxi merchants would become unstoppable. At this time, he still couldn't believe it...
That shameless villain will attack his Zhang family.
In silence.
Zhang Jianxiu felt a little ashamed. Speaking of it, he was too incompetent as the commander of the Imperial Guard. He had lived too peacefully these years.
Forget about being prepared for danger in times of peace.
And at this time.
By the flickering candlelight, Zhang Jianxiu looked at his brother-in-law. This heartless guy was still eating noodles.
hope……
Could his method really work?
A blink of an eye.
Its daybreak.
The people in the capital were anxious and uneasy as they ushered in a sunny day. People carrying basins and pockets walked out of their houses one after another.
I walked towards the large and small grain stores, and there were already long queues in front of each grain store, looking at the dark closed doors and the big signboards high above.
The helpless people were cursing something in fear.
"These... beasts!"
"Keep your voice down, you have to live this life."
When the grain store opened, the arrogant shopkeeper erased yesterday's grain price and wrote today's price of fifty cents per pound of fragrant rice.
