Wu Kui walked through the door and felt something familiar and uncertain from a distance.
They are all the attire of a scholar.
"Scholar Wu..."
Sounds a bit familiar, seems like His Highness the Crown Prince.
"Ziwen..."
"Rich Prime Minister? Your Highness...?"
Now he was sure that it was Mr. Fu and His Highness the Crown Prince. If he looked carefully at the other people, they were all familiar...
Written by Bao Zheng, Zeng Gongliang, and Lu Gong from the escort camp!
People of this level had all arrived at the Kaifeng government office, and they had all dressed up. Wu Kui knew that what he was going to say next was definitely not trivial.
First, he cleared out all the idle people, looked at his staff, and refrained from saying anything.
Wu Kui thought that he should make some tea...
"Ziwen, let's drink His Highness's tea."
It seems that tea can really make people calm down. After drinking a round of tea, no one spoke, they all waited.
Zhao Xi felt that the princes had understood, and the imperial court should take full control of the matter next.
Besides, the next arrangement requires the imperial court to come forward and is carried out in the name of the imperial court. There is no need for me to continue to step forward at this time.
Provoking people in the name of the imperial court is better than provoking people in the name of the Eastern Palace.
After all, this time is different from the exchange of new currency. When the new currency was exchanged, there was an imperial edict, and there was a way to do it before. I didn't want to trap people to death.
This time was different. Zhao Xi didn't leave any room for those who made a fortune from disaster, and was ready to go to death.
It’s a bit cruel! So, it’s time to step back at this time.
"Your Highness, please speak clearly for me..."
"Fu Xiang, all the subsequent arrangements cannot be made by the East Palace alone. They require the concerted efforts and coordination of the officials from the three places. Xi hereby makes it clear that rail transportation can completely ensure the cost of all arranged food."
Little fox! Fu Bi glanced at Zhao Xi, His Royal Highness was about to retreat to the background... It seemed that he had never come to the front.
Ever since the imperial edict was issued to open Changpingcang, the imperial court had taken the lead.
Alas! From the very beginning, His Highness the Crown Prince had planned his own reaction, and in the end the blame was really laid on the court.
The whole court knew who the so-called grain merchants were.
The court also knew which households the so-called food hoarders belonged to.
This is the north. The scholar-bureaucrats did not have shipping and barter to make a living, so they relied on the land.
Land income is most abundant only when it is matured like this year.
And what is the court going to do? Not only is it going to cut off all the income, but it may even wipe out years of savings.
This thing... you have to do it even if you can't do it!
Every disaster year is the best time for landowners to expand their fields.
The common people don’t have any food in store, but the landlords do. When a disaster strikes, and the common people don’t have anything to feed them, they first spend money to buy it...
The price of food is high, and the family's money is not enough.
No one thinks about fleeing and becoming a refugee from the beginning.
Don’t they still have land? Therefore, people will exchange the income from the land, or even the land itself, for food to feed their mouths.
Next, it became clear that the people who originally owned land either became tenants or became refugees, while the landlords had more and more fields and more and more surplus grain.
The landowners waited patiently for the next disaster year to come, thus making more fields their own.
This year is the most profitable year for landlords.
We haven’t seen a drop of rain since the beginning of the spring farming season. Let alone farming, I’m afraid we even have enough food to fill our stomachs.
At this time, raise the price of food, and then just sit at home and wait for the people to come and deliver the fields.
This is also the reason why there was not much opposition in the entire court when the imperial court opened Chang Pingcang.
It's very simple. When the imperial court's Changping Granary has no food left, that's when the poor people no longer have any hope.
With the beginning of the drought, an atmosphere of food shortage has begun to be created. Therefore, they will work together to extinguish any signs on the market that may lead to a drop in food prices.
And now...well, His Highness the Crown Prince doesn't want it to end now.
The real pain is still to come, but the court has to bear the blame, and the one who sells the goods in the end is probably His Highness the Crown Prince himself.
Fu Bi was already fully aware of Zhao Xi's plan, and originally wanted to continue to let His Highness the Crown Prince take the lead... It probably didn't make sense, since there would be edicts next, and the only one who would take the blame would be the imperial court.
Who is the imperial court? No one would think it is the official family, only the princes...
"Ziwen, the Changping warehouse will continue to open in two days. After completing the grain sales for the people, the Changping warehouse will not be closed. The rice price will follow the market. Big merchants will not be rejected until the Changping warehouse is empty..."
Fu Bi's words made Wu Kui completely dumbfounded.
What are you doing? Buying grain by ticket, selling grain at a low price, the Changping warehouse may be able to support it for more than a month. But if you let the selling go, and you still don't reject the big merchants... I guess it won't even be able to support it for five days.
My husband! If you want to adjust the mission, there is no need to roast me, Wu Kui, on the stove like this, right? This is the way to dig up the ancestral grave.
"Prime Minister Fu, it is difficult for Wu Kuisu to obey this suggestion! Furthermore, Kui Hui will petition the court tomorrow to accuse Prime Minister Fu of dereliction of duty!"
It's not that Wu Kui is angry, it's just that this is really not what humans do.
There is nothing that can be done about the Changping warehouse being cleared out at a flat price. But for the Kaifeng government to order it to be cleared out at a negotiated price, he has to consider whether the people of Bianliang will throw away rotten eggs!
"Scholar Wu, please be patient! Xi hereby promises that within ten days of emptying the old grain in Changping Granary, he will be responsible for filling Changping Granary with new grain!"
Fu Bi still had to take care of his face, so Zhao Xi answered.
"New food?"
"Yes, the new grain is all rice, the new rice harvested this year."
Wu Kui still didn't believe it and stared at Zhao Xi.
So what about His Highness the Crown Prince? You can still blame yourself for gains and losses.
Zhao Xi didn't know whether to be happy or helpless when encountering such a stubborn person. He was suspicious of everything he said, and would look at you with doubtful eyes even if he didn't say anything.
Yes! Then let him experience it too. Anyway, these husbands, when they left Kaifeng Mansion, they also wanted to experience rail transportation.
During this period of time, there were no carriages on the track, but it was just outside the city, far away from the city wall of Bianliang, and at the end of the abandoned Huimin River channel.
There were people watching the excitement, but most of them were ordinary people in the surrounding area. No one thought that this was transporting food.
As for those merchants, they were focused on water transportation, and even people were watching along the Bianhe River... It was nothing, they just needed to know how much grain was entering Bianliang.
In this year's situation, I'm afraid the Bianhe River's transport capacity will exceed six million shi... No one can see that food can make money.
But no one remembered the idea that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince once said...
"Is this all food?"
"It's all new grain, new rice."
Wu Kui felt relieved and understood what his staff was saying was strange.
With piles of food as a backing, I feel confident in whatever I do.
Isn't it just to be scolded for a while? Isn't it just to be said a few words in the court? You can handle it! As long as you can reverse it in the end, you won't be afraid of taking the blame for a while.