Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 513 Grain Price Increase
Lu Dongzan heard Wei Hao say that the carriage is very tight now, and he has nothing to do, so he was in a hurry.

"I said, why are you in such a hurry? It's not convenient to go by carriage in winter now. When it's summer, I have a chance. I'll give it to you then, so don't worry!" Wei Hao said to Lu Dongzan.

"Hey, you don't know. I came here to ask for help this time. Tuyuhun hit us and caused us heavy losses. The other one is the snow disaster. We also encountered it. Many people are about to starve to death. I'm here to ask for help. For food, I hope Datang can give us some food, and we can use a horse-drawn cart to pull it back. Straight roads have been built in Datang, which is very easy to walk, and the horse-drawn cart can be dragged there quickly, so I need a horse-drawn cart!" Lu Dong praised. Wei Hao said in embarrassment.

"Oh, that's it. However, Datang doesn't have any extra food, and the disaster in Datang is also serious this time!" Wei Hao looked at Lu Dongzan and reminded.

"Hey, but there is more food than us. The Tang Dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, how can it be short of this food?" Lu Dongzan continued.

"That's true. However, it is estimated that those ministers may not agree, especially since the Jingzhao Mansion was hit by a disaster, and the price of food has also risen a bit. If you continue to help you with food, it may be very difficult. You can go to Jieri Dynasty to buy it. Ah, they have a lot of food, you know that!" Wei Hao looked at him and said.

"That's what I said, but hey, aren't we also poor now?" Lu Dongzan continued to look at Wei Hao in embarrassment and said.

"That's not right, this time we cooperated, you made money?" Wei Hao looked at Lu Dongzan in disbelief and said.

"I made money, but the money didn't fall into my hands, and you also know that we spent a lot of money to move the capital this time. I didn't expect Tuyuhun to really dare to call here, which caused us a lot of losses. Although we are able to resist now, if Tuyuhun continues to attack us, we will have a hard time, and we are short of food, if there is not enough food, I am worried that our foundation in Tubo will be unstable!" Lu Dongzan said to Wei Hao again .

Wei Hao nodded.

"You should think of a way to get your Majesty to agree!" Lu Dongzan continued to make this request.

"I'll try my best!" Wei Hao nodded and said, thinking in his heart that he wished that your foundation would not be stable, and then the two of them continued to chat about the affairs of the two countries.

"Shen Yong, I admire you very much. Datang has developed too fast in the past two years. Look, there are caravans of Datang everywhere. Everyone knows that Datang's goods are the best. , Now in our Tubo, those nobles are all buying Tang’s goods, and they all like it very much! If only we had people like you in Tubo!” Lu Dongzan said with emotion.

"You think highly of me. It's mainly because of my father's wiseness that the merchants of Tang Dynasty have the opportunity to make money. As for me, I have a little credit, but not much!" Wei Hao said with a wave of his hand.

Lu Dongzan looked at Wei Hao's conservatory, and then said enviously: "You know, our imperial palace doesn't have such a conservatory, but here in Datang, I have seen several houses with this! "

"Well. There is this one. I have built several, but the glass has not been produced yet, and it will be produced in Luoyang!" Wei Hao said to Lu Dongzan.

Lu Dongzan nodded, and then chatted about other things. After chatting for about half an hour, Lu Dongzan left, and Wei Hao continued to write in the study, and put the written things in the underground warehouse. Only you have the key to the warehouse, and you can only enter it yourself.

For half a month, Wei Hao was reading, writing, and performing sand table games at home every day. At the same time, he read the mansion newspaper and the report from Luoyang.

In the court hall, Lu Dongzan asked Datang for food assistance, Li Shimin deliberately expressed his willingness to agree, but the ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs disagreed, saying that Datang's food was not enough, so the matter was put on hold like this, which made Lu Dongzan very upset uncomfortable.

At this moment, a large number of businessmen have returned from the outside, and they will not leave the customs this year. Now the road is blocked by heavy snow, and there is no road to go. They need to wait until the spring of next year before they can continue to sell supplies to other countries.

Lu Dongzan had no choice but to find those Hu merchants, hoping that they could buy grain from Datang and send it to Tubo. Tubo was willing to go out and buy their grain. Some Hu merchants agreed, but the merchants of Datang would not Dare, the main reason is that they still don't know the meaning of the court. If the court doesn't want to sell grain, then they transport the grain out, that is courting death.

"Shen Yong, Shen Yong!" On this day, Wei Hao was still writing at home, and Wei Chen hurried to Wei Hao's study.

"What's the matter?" Seeing the anxious tone, Wei Hao was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Now Hu merchants are buying grain. They want to sell it to Tubo. The price of grain here in the capital has risen by [-]%. We dare not open warehouses to release grain. Once we release grain, those Hu merchants will buy it. !" Wei Chen came to Wei Hao's side and said anxiously.

"What, Hu merchants can eat so much food?" Wei Hao asked in surprise when he heard it.

"Of course they can. Those Hu merchants are also rich, and there are Tibetans behind them. Of course they dare to hoard food!" Wei Chen replied.

Wei Hao walked out of the desk, started thinking about it, then looked up at Wei Chen and said, "Have you reported to Jingzhao Mansion? Does Jingzhao Mansion have an answer?"

"Reported, I reported it three days ago, but there is no movement!" Wei Chen nodded and said.

"No movement?" Wei Hao looked at Wei Chen in disbelief. "There is really no movement. I reported it to the King of Yue, but I don't know if the King of Yue has reported it. Anyway, there is no official document from the Ministry of Civil Affairs!" Wei Chen said immediately.

"Ma De, are the Hu merchants so rich?" Wei Hao was still a little surprised by the strength of these Hu merchants.

"Shen Yong, you don't know that behind some Hu merchants are people from our Tang Dynasty. For example, those aristocratic families are all raising Hu merchants. For example, some princes, princes, and county kings' families also raise Hu merchants. The Hu merchant team, and some big merchants, too!" Wei Chen reminded Wei Hao.

Wei Hao heard it, nodded, then looked at Wei Chen and asked, "Do they really dare to sell it?"

"Shen Yong, before they dared to sell pig iron, not to mention food, and I also heard that Lu Dongzan seemed to have promised something to those Hu merchants, otherwise, those Hu merchants would not be so active!" Wei Wei Shen continued to talk to Wei Hao. "What did Lu Dongzan promise them? Well, that's right, otherwise, it would be abnormal for so many Hu merchants to act together! If you say that, it would be normal!" Wei Hao nodded and said to Wei Chen .

"Shen Yong, what should we do about this matter? Let them go on like this, and the price of food in the capital will go up!" Wei Chen looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"Don't worry, I'll go to the Yue Palace!" Wei Hao told Wei Chen not to be impatient, but to find out by himself first.

After a while, Wei Hao arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, because Wei Hao got the news that today Li Tai was on duty at Jingzhao Mansion, Wei Hao had just arrived at the gate of Jingzhao Mansion, those officials saw Wei Hao coming, and they couldn't be happier , saluted Wei Hao one after another.

Wei Hao of Jingzhao Mansion was the first Zuo Shaoyin, and this time Jingzhao Mansion was able to deal with the snow disaster so well, thanks to Wei Hao.

When Li Tai heard that Wei Hao was coming, he also went to the entrance of the hall.

"Brother-in-law, what brought you here? Don't you hide in the mansion every day?" Li Tai looked at Wei Hao and asked with a smile.

"Well, take a look casually. When you come to Jingzhao Mansion, come in and take a look. Didn't disturb you?" Wei Hao also said to Li Tai with a smile.

"How come, brother-in-law, please, go to the office to drink tea, I also have a lot of questions to ask brother-in-law!" Li Tai said to Wei Hao with a smile.

Wei Hao also nodded, and went to the office with Li Tai. Some officials came to accompany him and drink tea together.

"By the way, Shao Yin, I was on the street today and I heard that the price of grain has risen a lot. What's going on?" Wei Hao looked at Li Tai and asked. Some officials heard it and smiled wryly.

"Brother-in-law, I knew that something must be wrong with you!" Li Tai also looked at Wei Hao with a wry smile and said.

"What's wrong?" Wei Hao asked still pretending not to know anything.

"It's okay, brother-in-law, don't worry, I will take care of this matter!" Li Tai immediately said to Wei Hao.

"The Jingzhao Mansion has no more food in stock? Can't it? The food we have in stock is enough to feed the refugees for two years. Now there is still food outside to send to Chang'an. How could there be no food?" Wei Hao saw Li Tai I didn't want to talk, so I continued to ask.

"Well, Shao Yin, Xia Guogong, you are chatting, let's go out first!" The people in Jingzhao Mansion immediately stood up when they heard this, and said to Wei Hao.

"What's wrong?" Wei Hao said still pretending to be confused.

"Okay, you guys go out first, I'll make it clear to my brother-in-law!" Li Tai said to those people, and they closed the door of the office room when they went out.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Wei Hao still stared at Li Tai and asked.

"Brother-in-law, now the grain is being purchased by Hu merchants, and we have no choice. If we release the warehouse, the price of grain will come down, but Hu merchants can also receive more grain, so we will not release it now. I just thought, let those grain merchants also make money, after all, they are also from our Datang, anyway, they make money from Tubo.

The other one, you also know that the father doesn't want to give food to Tubo, since Tubo wants to buy it now, and we and Tubo are also considered to be friendly countries on the surface, and we can't help them with food now, and we can't stop them if they want to buy it, so , Father means to let them buy at a high price! "Li Tai whispered to Wei Hao.

"Oh, what does the emperor mean to let them buy the grain? In fact, our Tang Dynasty also has a potential food crisis. During the harvest year, we need to save enough grain!" Wei Hao looked at Li. Tai said.

"Father means this. It can't be done if you don't sell it. Moreover, there are also some ministers who are promoting it. In this way, many merchants can make money. In fact, several Hu merchants with the largest grain income are backed by aristocratic families." Li Tai continued in a low voice. talking.

Wei Hao heard this and frowned, thinking about it.

"Brother-in-law, don't worry about it. I sent someone to inquire. People's families don't buy much food recently. Although they have lost money, there is no way!" Li Tai said to Wei Hao.

"Hey, sell them, why sell them?" Wei Hao still couldn't figure it out.

"Shen Yong, there is no way to do this. Father can refuse to help, but he can't refuse them to buy!" Li Tai explained to Wei Hao.

Wei Hao heard it and nodded, thinking about what to do about this matter. Wei Hao wanted to slowly disintegrate Tubo. If he gave them food this time, then the plan of disintegration would be postponed, and it would also be able to make Tubo go back. Come on.

"Brother-in-law, what are you thinking?" Li Tai immediately asked when he saw that Wei Hao was silent.

"We can't give them food, we must find a way!" Wei Hao looked at Li Tai and said.

"Then, what should we do?" Li Tai looked at Wei Hao in surprise and said.

"Speaking of which, did your caravan also participate? How did you talk with Lu Dongzan?" Wei Hao stared at Li Tai and asked.

"Brother-in-law, you really underestimated me this time. I really didn't participate. I wanted to participate, but my eldest sister knew it, so I won't let it!" Li Tai said to Wei Hao.

"Your sister told you?" Wei Hao stared at Li Tai and said, Li Tai nodded.

Wei Hao was even more confused, what does Li Lizhi mean?Are you on Li Tai's side now?What about Li Chengqian?It's not good for Li Chengqian to find out about helping Li Tai so eccentrically!
"That's about the same, okay, I'll think of a way to go, it's fine if you didn't participate!" Wei Hao nodded, and sat there to continue thinking.

"Brother-in-law, there is no way. The father and the ministers have discussed it, and they all said there is no way. Even the servant She said that there is no way for Tubo to stop this move. I, Tang Dynasty, can't stop it!" Li Tai looked at it. Wei Hao said.

"There must be a way, anyway, those grains cannot be sent to Tubo!" Wei Hao said with a glance at Li Tai, and Li Tai looked at Wei Hao puzzled.

"Okay, I won't sit here anymore, I have to find a way!" Wei Hao stood up after speaking, ready to go back.

"Brother-in-law, go have a meal, I invite you!" Li Tai looked at Wei Hao and said, Wei Hao looked at Li Tai with a smile.

"Brother-in-law, don't worry, I'll pay for it, and I'll go to Juxian Building to eat!" Li Tai said, looking at Wei Hao seriously.

"Are you sure you paid the money? Didn't you drag me to get the bill free?" Wei Hao continued to smile and stare at Li Tai and said.

"Brother-in-law, you look down on people too much. Not to mention that I still have property, I am still a prince. I am the Zuo Shaoyin of Jingzhao Mansion, so I can afford you, right?" Li Tai looked at Wei Hao depressedly and said.

"Okay, let's go, it's getting late! You have to notify whoever you want, and do it as soon as possible!" Wei Hao said to Li Tai with a smile.

As soon as Li Tai heard that Wei Hao agreed, he was overjoyed, and immediately dragged Wei Hao outside. Inviting Wei Hao to a meal is not easy, not everyone can invite him.

(End of this chapter)