While the currency crisis in Jiangnan has just been alleviated, the situation in Tokyo has also begun to turn in a direction favorable to Li Qi. This is all thanks to Li Qi's second card, which is policy reading...
After seven days of lottery to buy rice, Li Qi used the Song Dynasty Times magazine to start a widespread publicity on the Changpingcang system. The content of the current propaganda is not to dissect this system from its depth, but also to explain the impact of this system on grain.
What kind of benefits will price control bring? He also said that it may be popularized nationwide within this year.
However, if you read this article carefully, you will find that many parts of it are ambiguous, especially in terms of dates. It is either "no day" or "as soon as possible", and "maybe" and "maybe" are even more
Interspersed throughout the text, the only thing that is certain is that the imperial court has approved it, which makes the people feel itchy, expecting and depressed at the same time.
As early as a few days ago, the imperial court decided to activate this system. For this purpose, a new department was established, called the Agricultural Bureau, which was temporarily placed under the Bureau of Commerce, which meant that the Bureau of Commerce and Dazai Cai Jing were at the helm.
The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs cooperate with each other to check and balance each other. In the central department, people are transferred from the departments mentioned above. As for the local areas, Li Qixiao hires a lot of new people, because the new people have not been polluted by the big dye vat of officialdom.
, they still have a passionate heart to serve the court and ask for orders for the people. Moreover, the newcomers are young and full of energy. They only need to send some experienced officials to take charge of the overall situation.
Different from Wang Anshi's Green Seedling Method, when it was first implemented, the Green Seedling Method was only tested in one county, but this time the Changpingcang test area covered almost the entire Jiangnan.
This is naturally what Li Qi paid attention to, because Jiangnan has basically been ruined, corrupt officials are everywhere, and there is no law. Now it is full of waste, so no matter how bad you are, you cannot be worse than you are now. Since
In this way, testing the new method in Jiangnan will undoubtedly minimize the losses. Song Huizong and others are not stupid. After hearing what Li Qi said was reasonable, they naturally agreed.
However, the new policy of the imperial court has also made the people full of confidence in the price of food, so they will not rush to buy food. Of course, the lottery still has to go. First, they believe that the price of food will not drop again.
In just one month, the total dropped to 180 Wen. Secondly, this is quite exciting, and everyone is also very interested in this sales method.
But as a result, those big grain merchants felt uncomfortable. As soon as the imperial policy came out, the people all assumed a posture of waiting for death. If you don't lower the price, I won't buy it. I will save food, and I will follow
You consume
If this were normal times, they would be able to afford it. After all, sooner or later you will run out of rice, but now they have a lot of old rice on hand. If it is not sold by the autumn harvest, they will suffer a heavy loss, and the autumn harvest
In the future, food will surely be sufficient, and people will be more willing to wait for policies to be introduced.
Seeing that the situation was extremely bad, they finally gave in. On this day, several rice shops in the capital simultaneously reduced the price of rice to two hundred cents.
"The price has dropped, the price of rice has dropped."
“Gujia Rice Shop has reduced its price.”
.......
You can hear some teenagers running around in the streets and alleys, shouting loudly.
"Don't crowd, don't crowd"
"I came first!"
"I came first"
I saw crowds of people in front of the rice shops. Where they were buying rice, they were clearly grabbing it. This also made the major grain merchants sigh. They were really afraid that Li Qi would chase after them.
Of course, there are also many people in the rice shop in Zuixianju. After all, there is still a shortage of twenty coins here. Some people who are not in urgent need of food are still willing to try their luck here.
Fan Lou
"Economic Minister, as expected, they have finally started to cut prices. I believe it won't be long before the prices of other items will come down. By the way, when will we cut prices?" Fan Shaobai stood on the fourth floor, looking at the distance.
Gu's rice shop, hehehe said with a smile
Li Qi rolled his eyes and said: "It goes without saying that we have to surrender today, otherwise, the guests will have to accuse us of annihilating businessmen."
Fan Shaobai said: "Aren't you always proud of annihilating businessmen?"
"I never said that," Li Qi said angrily: "I have completely opposite attitudes towards my enemies and my guests. I will never defraud my guests of their money."
Fan Shaobai curled his lips and said: "I don't know who shouted out the sky-high price of stinky tofu."
Sweat! I don’t even remember these old accounts, but you still remember them. Li Qi coughed lightly and said: "Heroes should not ask for a way out." After saying that, he quickly changed the subject and said: "By the way, your people have been sent out.
without?"
Fan Shaobai pointed forward and said: "Where is it? Other restaurants have also sent people to grab rice, but I guess it won't take a day for them to react."
Li Qi smiled and said: "So what if I understand? Can they stop it? Anyway, whoever sells it is not sold. Tomorrow we will directly reduce the price of rice to one hundred and ninety-nine cents."
Fan Shaobai laughed and said: "This loss-making business is really fun."
At this time, after drinking, he saluted and said: "Economic Envoy, Deputy Superintendent Yu from the Ordnance Supervision is here. He said he is here to see you."
Li Qi was stunned for a moment and said hurriedly: "Bring him up."
"yes"
Fan Shaobai recognized the interest and said: "I'll go and get busy first. You guys can chat slowly."
Not long after he left, Yu Qi walked up and saluted: "I have seen the supervisor."
Li Qi hummed, asked him to sit down, poured him a cup of tea himself, and said with a smile: "Deputy Supervisor, you have really worked hard these days."
"Where, where, this is my job, how dare I talk about the hard work?" Yu Qi said with a hint of fear.
Li Qi smiled and asked, "Is everything okay now?"
"Everything is fine, several batches of weapons have been shipped out"
"That's good"
Yu Qi asked again: "I wonder when the supervisor will go to the weapons inspection?"
Li Qi snorted and smiled bitterly: "I'm really sorry. Since I took office again, I have been busy with too many things, so I haven't gone to the weapons inspection. But it's because you are here that I feel so relieved."
It turns out that Li Qi has been busy with this and that since he took office again, and has never been to the Ordnance Supervision.
You don't look very busy now! Yu Qi's face looked a little strange. Li Qi could see what he was thinking at a glance and said seriously: "Deputy Supervisor, you have misunderstood. I didn't come to Fanlou to have fun."
Yes, but here to do business. Besides, do I have to come here to spend money?"
Yu Qi naturally didn't dare to say anything, so he nodded.
Li Qi asked again: "By the way, why did you come to see me today?"
Only then did Yu Qi remember the purpose of his trip and hurriedly said: "Oh, that's the case. News came from the Wushi brothers that those bed crossbows have been modified, and they also invented a new weapon called a musket."
"puff!"
Li Qi immediately spit out a sip of tea, wiped his mouth quickly and said, "Wait a minute, what did you just say? Fire--musket?"
Yu Qi nodded and said, "Yes."
No? The technology these days can still make muskets. I won’t travel through time again, right? Li Qi stood up quickly and asked: "What does that musket look like?"
Yu Qi said humbly: "The supervisor will not forget it, right? This matter must be approved by you before I can go and see it."
"Yes, yes, I almost forgot." Li Qi nodded a few times and said excitedly: "Let's go, let's hurry, md. If we really get them a musket, I will reward him with a thousand guan each."
Why are you so excited? Before Yu Qi could recover, he was pulled downstairs by Li Qi
However, as soon as he arrived at the door, Chen Anan suddenly ran over and gasped: "Brother, please go back home quickly."
Li Qi frowned and said, "What happened?"
Chen Anan glanced at Yu Qi, then came to Li Qi and whispered a few words in his ear. Li Qi opened his eyes and said, "Seriously?"
Chen Anan nodded and said: "Do I dare to lie to you?"
"He really knows how to choose the time."
Li Qi muttered in a low voice and said to Yu Qi: "Deputy Supervisor, please inform Wu Youhua and ask him to prepare the things. I will go over to check in the afternoon."
Seeing that Li Qi looked a little nervous, Yu Qi didn't dare to ask any more questions and nodded in response.
After bidding farewell to Yu Qi, Li Qi hurried back to the Qin Mansion. He straightened his clothes in front of the door, then walked in and came to the front hall. He saw five distinguished guests in the hall, one in the middle.
The first one is none other than Song Huizong, and the other four are Liang Shicheng, Cai Jing, Li Bangyan and Wang Zhongling
"Li Qi has met a high official"
Li Qi came forward and bowed.
"No etiquette, no etiquette" Song Huizong waved his hands and said
Li Qi probed: "Official, why are you here?"
Song Huizong chuckled and said: "I heard that there is a lottery to buy rice recently in the capital, so I wanted to come to see it and try my luck."
Dizzy! I dare you to make fun of me. Li Qi smiled and said: "The official is joking. This is just a little stunt I made. There is nothing to see."
Song Huizong laughed and said: "A gimmick? This little gimmick of yours has made those grain merchants suffer. Just now, Cai Shimei told me that the price of grain has dropped today. You really did not disappoint me."
Li Qi said hey: "The official has given me a reward."
Song Huizong said again: "We will discuss this matter later. I have to ask you something. I heard that you have recently brewed a new type of unparalleled wine in the world, and it is very delicious. I wonder if this is the case?"
"Uh... there is such a thing. I wonder who the official heard this from?" Li Qi said in surprise.
Song Huizong snorted and said: "I learned it from He Shilie's mouth. As my subject, you brewed fine wine and gave it to outsiders to drink first. It is really unreasonable."
**! This He Shilie is really unloyal. I've been so kind to you, but you even teased me before leaving. Next time, I'll make you drink. Li Qi was full of resentment, but he said:
Said: "Master, you really blame me for this."
Song Huizong snorted and said, "How do you say this?"
Li Qi said sternly: "Because a new material has been added to my unparalleled brew, after it is brewed, I must find someone to try it. Alas, I am ashamed to say that the people around me are all as timid as mice.
No one is willing to try wine, and I don’t drink. Just at that time, He Shilie came. He was very bold, so I gave him some to drink every day. After a period of observation, I found that he
Nothing unusual happened, so I asked a few people to test the wine. Until recently, I was just sure that the wine was absolutely safe, and I was about to donate it to the official. Who knew that the official came today? What a coincidence.
"
Song Huizong and others looked at each other in shock and suddenly burst out laughing.
After laughing, Song Huizong pointed at Li Qi and said: "You kid is really unparalleled in making excuses. It's really not easy to punish you. That's all. I'll settle this account with you later. You
Bring the wine quickly, He Shilie said it was so good, I can't wait any longer."
"yes"
Cai Jing suddenly said: "A high official, you can't have a feast without food and wine. We haven't tasted the skills of King Jin Dao Chef for a long time. Why not ask him to prepare a few dishes of wine and tea as a punishment for him?"
Old man, you are almost going to be buried, and you are still so greedy. Li Qi cursed in his heart.
Li Bangyan chuckled and said: "Since it is punishment, it must be difficult. Senior officials, why not let the Golden Knife Chef cook a few dishes that we have never tasted in one hour?"
Song Huizong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said: "This is a good method." He smiled at Li Qi and said: "Li Qi, do you understand? If you can't do it, then I will punish you for deceiving the emperor."
Li Qi was speechless and said distressedly: "Official, this---this is the same as bullying the king---"
"Um?"
"I'll go now. Sir, please wait a moment."
Li Qi ran out in a flash, and could hear him shouting anxiously: "Ms. Chen, go find a duck. Remember to make it thinner. Recently, I prefer skinny beauty."
Skinny and beautiful?
Song Huizong and others burst out laughing again (to be continued)