Vol 2 Chapter 877: Changan food prices!

"What news~?"
Li Zexuan originally thought that this matter was over, but he didn't expect that there seemed to be something happening again in this babble. Today this is really a twists and turns!
Pu Ya suddenly glanced cautiously in the direction of the door, and Li Zexuan waved his hand: "In fact, if you have something to say, no one will eavesdrop outside the door!"
With his current skill, if someone is eavesdropping nearby, it is absolutely impossible to hide his perception. But the sudden behavior of Pu Ya just shows that what I want to say next is absolutely extraordinary.
Only then did Yatu speak: "I wonder if Lord Hou is surprised, why do our envoys suddenly come to the academy to watch the military training show today?"
Li Zexuan narrowed his eyes, folded his hands on his chest, leaned back on the back of the chair, and said, "The messenger has something to say, please speak straight!"
The other two envoys changed their complexions at this moment. They gritted their teeth and said: "The first person who proposed to come to the academy was Alonashun, the prime minister of the Jie Japanese dynasty. Although I don’t understand why. , But in the first two days, Cui Siqing often interviewed A Luo Dashun alone, so..."
Speaking of this, Puya suddenly closed his mouth and stopped talking, because anyone should be able to guess the following.
Li Zexuan's face was calm, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, Cui Family, this is really like a maggot with bones! Previously, they sent people to assassinate themselves and failed. Instead, the dens of the people they sent were shortened by themselves. Unexpectedly, these people will not stop, and now they come to secretly make small moves. It is really disgusting!
"Well, Benhou knows! Benhou hasn't heard the words before, and you two are not allowed to pass it out~!"
Li Zexuan turned his head to look at the two envoys of Piao and Funan, and said in a deep voice.
He had to settle the Cui family's account by himself, and he didn't want to be out of the question.
"Yes, I will understand, I will never pass it out~!"
The two quickly agreed.
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"Master, why haven't we sold the rent that our family has collected this year?"
At noon that day, Li Zexuan had just returned from the academy, but Xiaohe in the courtyard ran over and asked like this.
Li Zexuan became curious, and asked, "What? Xiaohe also started to care about major events in the mansion~?"
The rent collected by the Li family this year was not intended to be sold. Not only was it not going to be sold. Li Zexuan had also bought a lot of grain from other villagers before. Everything was done to deal with next year’s locust plague. Yu Liang didn't panic in his heart. Although he knew that there would be a locust plague next year, he himself had never seen a locust plague since he was a child. God knows what the specific situation will look like by then. It is always good to be more prepared.
Of course, there are very few people who know about the locust plague, Xiaohe definitely doesn't know, otherwise this girl wouldn't ask like that.
Xiaohe, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, was taken aback by Li Zexuan's casual words. She waved her hand quickly:
"No, no, no, master, I... I didn't mean that! I just heard that the food prices in Chang'an have fallen sharply recently when I was helping the young lady go shopping in the West Market, and that there is still a downward trend. I remember that our food has not been sold yet~!"
I am sorry to see that she is just a maid. She is not qualified to care about the important affairs of the house. This is for a mistress with a smaller mind. After hearing these words, she is sure to expel her from the house!
"The price of food drops drastically~?"
Li Zexuan didn't have as many messy thoughts as Xiaohe. He frowned slightly and asked aloud: "The food prices in Chang'an City are so high now? Why are the food prices suddenly dropping?"
Xiaohe breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "Master, now you can buy a bucket of rice for two cents. The reason why it is so cheap is said to be because the private merchant ships brought back a lot of grain when the court fleet returned a while ago. The merchants were eager to get rid of their hands, so they lowered the price of grain. They wanted to sell the grain stores in Chang'an City as soon as possible. The grain warehouses were basically full!
Earlier, Li Er decided to let the court organize a fleet and lead private merchant ships to trade in Southeast Asia. The main purpose was to obtain a large amount of food to deal with the large locust plague next year.
The more than 500 official ships of the imperial court were all filled with grain when they returned. Li Er has no hard and fast rules for non-governmental merchant ships, but each family must have at least two special ships to load grain. As a result, as soon as the fleet reached the shore, the private merchants were anxious to sell the food on board. This thing is worthless, and it will only rot in their hands.
Two pennies and a bucket of rice?
Nima, a bucket of rice is more than twelve catties. Li Zexuan suddenly felt like a violent thing. Those grain merchants are really a waste. How can they sell food so cheaply?
"Well, it's okay, I know! Xiaohe, you don't have to continue to struggle, Master, I don't sell those grains, naturally there is my reason, you can go ahead and do it!"
Li Zexuan lamented the cheapness of Datang's grain prices, but on the other hand, he was quickly analyzing the impact of the sharp drop in food prices on Datang.
In modern times, foreign food has always been cheaper than domestic food, and a large amount of food flows into China from abroad every year. This will inevitably cause domestic food prices to fluctuate.
As the saying goes, cheap grain hurts the farmers, and the common people hope that the grain they grow can be sold at a good price while they have a good harvest.
In order to protect farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain, the state can only do so by purchasing farmers’ grain, and most of the grain purchased by the state does not flow into the market. Farmers think that when their grain is sold, it meets market requirements. In fact, it was the state that put it away in the end. Although the method will bury many hidden dangers and cannot solve the problem in essence, it is also a good way to stabilize food prices.
But is it really necessary to stabilize food prices in this era he is now in?
At this time, the grain in Datang ~EbookFREE.me~ was mainly concentrated in the hands of the landlords. After the people paid the rent, most of the grain left in their hands was just enough for their own family to survive. If the food is sold out, if he persuades Li Er to stabilize the food price, the landlords are the cheap ones!
Keke, although he is also a landlord now...
In view of this, instead of stabilizing food prices, he might as well take this opportunity to buy more food and save it for next year's fight against the locust plague!
When he thought of it, he did it. After Li Zexuan sent Xiaohe away, he directly fought back to Chang'an and found Wang Zhong, the housekeeper.
"Uncle Wang, you help me contact several other members of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce in the past few days and tell them that I want to buy a large amount of grain and let them help~! At the same time, recently I will also let someone build a large granary at the foot of Yunshan~ !"
Li Zexuan found Wang Zhong in the front yard of the Li Mansion, and directly explained the situation.
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