One hundred and fifty articles! How dare you flatter me.
Zhao Xi made a special investigation into the grain reserves in Changpingcang, which was enough to support the sale of grain at a low price for two months.
Therefore, although food prices are high on the market, Zhao Xi knows that businessmen are also building momentum.
According to the number of small mouths, grain is released in the Changping warehouse in the first ten days of each month, and the grain is distributed on a monthly basis. In other words, although the market price of grain is high, it is only a price but not a market.
Creating such an atmosphere is just to illustrate one point: food shortage!
Quite effective.
"Your Highness, there are still three days before Changpingcang will be opened. Rice-buying people are already queuing up at Changpingcang today, day and night."
"There are rumors in the market that there is no more grain in Changpingcang for the imperial court to sell at a fair price."
This is the effect, even the guard camp is worried about providing food.
It should be said that the whole of Bianliang is under the pressure of food shortage, and there are almost no smiling faces in the entire market.
In fact, there is no need to worry about these things in the guard camp. Just look at the empty houses after the weapons supervisors and craftsmen were moved, and then look at the barracks where soldiers are trained. There is food everywhere.
The reason why I say this is that a lot of it is affected by the atmosphere and environment.
Zhao Xi didn't say anything. The escort battalion was not involved in this, and Zhao Xi didn't want them to worry about it. What were the responsibilities of the soldiers? They just needed to be themselves.
"Xi'er, what's going on now?"
In order to stabilize his parents' hearts, Zhao Xi stayed at Ciming Palace for a while every day these days, repeating the same words over and over again.
There is no way, the atmosphere in Bianliang today is really depressing and tense.
"Dad, Bianliang's grain reserves should be close to one million dan now, and there are still about 20,000 dan of grain entering the city every day."
"Since the rail began to be put into operation, there has been no pause. Since March, the number of grain transported by the rail has exceeded 2 million tons..."
To be honest, Zhao Xi has calculated that with a population of one million in Bianliang City, the food consumed per day is only 500 tons, which is half a day's transportation volume by rail.
Not to mention that I have already stored it, as long as the track runs like this, it will be enough to feed the entire Bianliang.
Not to mention that the people originally had some food reserves.
As for food sources, Annan is nothing more than swarms of people harvesting food all over the mountains and plains.
Don't be surprised, Zhao Xi remembers a saying that in later generations, until the 1970s and 1980s, Annan was the world's largest rice exporter.
What is the population size? How many people are there in the current dynasty? So, there is really no crisis, and there can be no crisis.
Everyone's sense of crisis now is just frightened by the momentum created by the merchants.
"Today the price of rice is one hundred and fifty cents per dou...tomorrow it may be even higher. Today someone in the court is already accusing Fuyanguo of harming the country and hurting the people..."
Fu Bi was okay, he could hold it in, and still didn't let Zhao Xi make any big move.
Anyway, I should take some pressure off for him.
"Please inform me that tomorrow, if the market price of rice is still at one hundred and fifty cents, all warehouses will sell 30% of their reserves at a price of about one hundred cents!"
Isn't it just to build momentum? If you have spare money, feel free to do it. I will cooperate with you.
"Only 30% will be sold, and when it is sold out, an announcement will be made to inform them that there is no more grain left. At the same time, I implore my father to ask the court to reiterate tomorrow that Changpingcang will be opened on time, and grain will still be purchased with a ticket at the flat price of fifty cents per bucket!"
Anyone who has confidence in the imperial court will not rob the grain here. The 30% that Zhao Xi sold was targeted at grain merchants, speculators who were preparing to make a fortune in disaster years.
At this stall, if Zhao Xi inserted a pole like this, it would really make people confused.
Changping Granary is out of grain. Suddenly there are so many people selling grain, but the quantity is limited. In addition, the court has announced that Changping Granary will still release grain as scheduled...
There is a lot of information, it depends on how people decide.
It's really messy!
Early in the morning, there were suddenly many places selling grain. Even the shops that usually sell cakes had signs showing that they had surplus grain for sale.
A hundred words are worth a fight! Children and old men are not deceived!
At first, they waited and watched, then rushed to tell each other, and groups after groups gathered to discuss.
Buy it or not?
The price of Chang Pingcang in the imperial court was fifty cents, but yesterday the price of those grain stores was one hundred and fifty cents, and today it is even one hundred and sixty cents.
It’s only a hundred cents per dou here… but it only costs fifty cents to close the warehouse!
That's called a tangle.
The people in the guild also heard about it, and wanted to ask people to look for it, but when they went to the store, no one dared to cause trouble.
There is no way, the people who buy grain for a hundred cents a dou are either relatives of the emperor, wealthy families, and even the chief minister's family.
This is not the imperial court, but more representative of the imperial court.
The Kuhaha people don’t know, but they do.
"In terms of clothing, they sell grain and we buy grain. It's just a pure transaction. So what if we are relatives of the emperor? Which one of us doesn't have a foothold?"
This is indeed the truth!
"Let's do it, raise funds and buy them all!"
Then, the entire market in Bianliang was full of horse-drawn carriages, and big customers kept stealing grain from these grain selling points.
"Master Fu, most of the people who purchase grain are grain merchants, mainly grain guilds."
Listening to the reports from the government officials, Wu Kui's initially relaxed heart tightened again.
During this period of time, he had been worried about putting grain in Changping Granary.
Unexpectedly, killing the Changping warehouse officials by himself would actually push up the price of food.
The only good thing is that not many refugees have come to Kaifeng Mansion so far.
In other words, when the imperial court opened Changpingcang, the initial effect was very good.
Early this morning, someone reported to Kaifeng Mansion that thieves were disrupting the market and buying and selling grain without authorization...
After further questioning, it turned out that those shops were selling grain...Wu Kui even wanted to hang a plaque with the name of a righteous merchant on these shops.
Not to mention it was all hard work, even for ordinary people, he would not be able to deal with the merchants because of this.
As a result, it was still hoarded by those profiteers.
"Master, this matter is strange."
"Zizheng, why do you say this?"
Wu Kui thought that the staff was talking about profiteers' behavior of monopolizing food supply. This is not strange, it should be said to be normal.
"Master Fu, it's obvious that the cakes come from the inner garden. And the cake shops are all run by wealthy families, so why are there surplus grains for sale at this time?"
"Master Fu, listen to the report from the Yamen servants. All the grains sold this time are new grains..."
"What you said is that the imperial court has other plans?"
"I think so too."
Does the imperial court have other plans? Wu Kui recalled these events in Tianchaotang.
There are constant memorials accusing the officials and the prime minister of their mistakes in handling this disaster year. It seems that the officials have not made any response and the wealthy prime minister does not seem to care.
The other ministers, Bao Xiren and Zeng Mingzhong, were very worried... What exactly is the reason for this?
"Master, I have a visitor to see you!"
"not see!"
"Master Fu, the visitor said that he is here specifically to answer the questions of Master Fu."
Wu Kui was stunned. At this moment, what he was wondering about... could anyone know?
"Pass him in."
There were about seven or eight people in the group, and the leader seemed to be very young...
Who? Zhao Xi. After today's grain was stolen by merchants, Zhao Xi felt that things were almost done, so he told some of his husbands the overall plan.
Note that it refers to some of the ministers, not just Fu Bi, nor all of them.
Next, there were some things that required the cooperation of Kaifeng Mansion, so the group moved directly to Kaifeng Mansion.
It's just that they put on some disguises for this group of sages.