Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 205, the core point is the capital
After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, Liu Jin, Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao swept away all the seafood on the table. At the same time, there were several empty jars beside them, and the four of them had already drunk a little. drunk.

"Brat, now the price of food in the capital has skyrocketed, and His Majesty is also very anxious, what should we do next?"

Zhou Jing was a little drunk, sat very close to Liu Jin, patted Liu Jin on the shoulder and asked.

"It's very simple, that is to keep transporting sea fish to the capital. We sell it for a penny a catty, and this meat sells for a penny a catty. Do you want to lower the price of this food?"

Liu Jin smiled, the ancients sincerely do not deceive me, as expected, after a few drinks on the wine table, the relationship will be different, and now they call themselves brats.

But these people are old foxes, Liu Jin is not sure if they are pretending, so he is always secretly vigilant in his heart, and thinks twice before speaking.

"As long as we stabilize the grain prices in Beijing, Tianjin, Yongping Prefecture in Beizhili, and the north of Shanxi, there will be no problems with this famine."

"Among them, the capital city is naturally the top priority, because there are millions of people in the capital city, and eating and drinking every day is a big problem. Once there is a problem here, it will be a big problem."

"As for Yongping Mansion and Shanxi, we only need to transport the grain in our hands, use the method of disaster relief in the past, support it with porridge water, and wait until the food in the south arrives."

"At that time, the price of grain will naturally drop, and in autumn, when the spring wheat is harvested, the price of grain will return to the previous price."

Although Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao were slightly drunk, they all listened carefully. They had already heard Liu Jin's analysis of the famine earlier, and knew that they should be treated differently.

Listening to it now, it becomes clearer immediately, and I understand that the core and key point is the capital. As long as the capital is not in chaos and the price of food can be lowered, everything will be easy to talk about.

"Haha, so that's the case, all of this has already been in your plan."

Li Dongyang thought carefully, and soon couldn't help laughing.

He now understands that Liu Jin is playing a big game of chess, and he has already calculated everything a long time ago. He will come to Tianjin to build ships, go fishing, go to North Korea to do business, and buy grain along the way, plus construction. The cement road leading to the capital.

The distance between Beijing and Tianjin is only more than [-] kilometers. These tens of thousands of victims came to repair the road at the same time. It didn't take long to build a spacious concrete road.

With this cement road, the communication between Beijing and Tianjin becomes extremely convenient and fast. Using the special carriage of Xishan Coal Industry, the sea fish from Tianjin and the rice from North Korea can be transported continuously. past.

Every step is clearly calculated, one link after another, seamless, which makes people have to admire it.

Liu Jin smiled when he heard it. To be honest, Liu Jin had already planned all this. Ever since he deduced that someone was deliberately targeting him, Liu Jin had been thinking hard about countermeasures.

I also thought about the strategy of using the other's way to return to the other's body. Since they want to target themselves with the food in their hands, I will also let them suffer a big loss on the food.

During this period of time, Liu Jin has been telling his student Tong Yuan to pay attention to the price of grain from the south.

There is a famine in the three northern provinces. In fact, there is no need for the imperial court to order grain transfers. Those grain merchants themselves know to transport grain to the north.

Because the grain that usually costs a few pennies a catty can be sold for several times the price during a famine, sometimes even ten times the price, and the profits can be imagined.

So sometimes a famine is not terrible, it is a human disaster, or a large-scale, large-scale famine, like this kind of famine in the three northern provinces, it is just that the situation in the north is very serious and there is nothing too terrible. Grain merchants who hear the news will continue to transport the grain to make a fortune.

Originally, when these grain merchants brought in grain, the price would rise, and it would be considered a normal operation if the price increased by several times. Coupled with the official disaster relief and so on, the famine would soon pass.

But this time, there was a big game of chess, and many grain merchants were united to eat all the grain shipped from the south, and at the same time, they tried to get rid of the grain in the hands of the government.

Naturally, the food from the south cannot be as cheap as before. If these people want to eat the food from the south, the price will naturally be several times higher than before, and because they eat all the food from the south, they Only then can the advantage of controlling the disk be formed, and the money will flow out like running water.

Of course, their original calculation was very good. As long as the food price rises, they will not only be able to make a lot of money from the famine, but they will also be able to eat Xishan Coal Industry, Glass Factory, etc. by the way. Going in the stomach, and being able to achieve their goal of ultimately controlling the imperial power, can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Liu Jin is very clear that these people have spent at least several million taels of silver in order to eat the food from the south during this period of time, and it can be said that they have already poured their money into it.

Originally, their plan was flawless, because they firmly controlled the grain, and at the same time they had their spokesperson in the court. In this famine era, the grain expropriated by the grain merchants was said to be without any credit, and the court was required to use money to buy grain. .

There is food in this hand, and someone is helping to speak, everything seems to be under control.

But Liu Jin's side also used food as a breakthrough, went fishing in the sea, and went to North Korea to buy food. As long as they had enough food in their hands to feed people, their plan would naturally fail.

The eyes of the planners behind the scenes were still limited to Daming, and they never thought that Liu Jin would fish from sea fish, and absolutely never thought that the ocean would be so rich, with a few boats, millions of catties of sea fish could be caught in one day .

I didn't expect that I could go to North Korea to buy grain, take the sea route to North Korea, and it only takes half a month to go back and forth. If I can transport five million catties of rice at a time, and use it to cook porridge to help the victims, Enough to last a long time.

"Now is also the time to fight back. The core point is the capital. As long as the price of grain in the capital drops, the grain in their hands will be worthless at that time. They will also sell the grain crazily. The more they scramble to sell the grain, the price of the grain will The price will drop faster, and soon this famine will pass.”

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Liu Jin's face.

　sleep, sleep~ so sleepy
　　
　
(End of this chapter)