Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 635 The Mantis Catches the Cicada Oriole Behind
After Li You took Li Mingda away, Feng Zhichen on the one side quickly looked at Wang Xu and the others on the other side and said, "Don't drive, Your Highness, what's wrong with this, you always love the people like your own son, why did you want to do something that would make Guangzhou feel like a child?" difficult things for the people of the government?"

Wang Xu also looked at Feng Zhizhen and shook his head without a clue: "Mr. Ling, I don't know about this. I wonder if His Highness wants to attract some merchants to sell grain with high prices. Selling grain at a high price is better than selling no grain. It's a little better."

"But has your Highness ever thought that the people of Guangzhou Mansion simply cannot bear such a high price!" Feng Zhichen looked at Wang Xu with a frown.

Wang Xu also shook his head slightly at this time, because he didn't know what was going on, it was just that the two of them were on good terms, even if they didn't know Li You's thoughts, they would still follow Li You's request. Do.

In the afternoon of that day, high-priced rice had already appeared in the Guangzhou mansion. The price of these rice was ten times the original price. According to Feng Zhichen's conjecture, no one would buy it, but the strange thing is that these high-priced rice were being sold one after another. Buying them one by one, Feng Zhichen was surprised for a moment. Didn't he know that the wallets of the people in Guangzhou Prefecture in Lingnan were swollen?

In the garden, Li Mingda was leaning against Li You's arms. Li You had pushed Li Mingda out of his arms over and over again, and told Li Mingda that she was already a big girl, so she should not be too close.

But Li Mingda replied with a smile: "It doesn't matter if brothers and sisters are closer."

Li You then said: "You and I are brothers and sisters, we don't think it matters, but the other person and you are not brothers and sisters, he will treat us as a woman and a man, so in the heart of the other person, it is an eyesore for a man and a woman to stick together, They will use the most vicious and ugly language to attack you desperately from the commanding heights."

"It doesn't matter to us, they can say whatever they like, we just need to be aboveboard, you are my brother, you are my reliance, I don't rely on you, who do I rely on?"

After speaking, Li Mingda happily leaned into Li You's arms.

At this time, Li You also showed a relieved smile. Yes, let others see the eyes of others. As long as I am open-minded, there is nothing to be afraid of. Family affection is a very wonderful relationship, and Li You does not want to lose this kind of relationship. Intimate family.

You can't just become a monk if you have a younger sister. Gently hugging Li Mingda in his arms, Li You doesn't think about anything else, he needs to feel the reappearing brother-sister relationship with his heart.

"That's right!" Li Mingda touched Li You's left hand and asked, "Fifth brother, what are you doing this time? I asked Lao Di and he said that you attracted those who bought expensive rice. In the past.! Your head was kicked by a donkey, and you spent a high price to buy your own rice sold at a high price?"

"How do you talk...?" Li You laughed and said, "You kicked my head, so you are a donkey!"

"Ah, I'm not a donkey, so why are you so stupid?" Li Mingda looked at Li You coquettishly.

"Let me tell you a story!" Li You chuckled.

"Okay, I like listening to stories the most, tell them quickly!" Li Mingda looked forward to it.

"During the Han Dynasty, there was a plague of locusts in Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). The locusts were like dark clouds, covering the sky and the sun. Wherever they went, there were no seedlings, no leaves on the trees, and a scene of killing. Therefore, this year's The crops are not harvested.

At this time, Zhao Bian, a newly appointed governor of Yuezhou, was faced with the arduous task of rectifying the disaster.

There are many big families in Yuezhou, who have accumulated food for many years.When the common people are lean and yellow, most of them live half-starved and half-satisfied days, but once a disaster strikes, they will be short of food rations for more than half a year.In a famine year, food is more valuable than gold and silver. For a while, the price of rice in Yuezhou soared.

Faced with this situation, the staff members couldn't hold back anymore, and they came to Zhao Bian one after another, begging him to come up with a solution.Taking this opportunity, Zhao Bian summoned his staff to discuss disaster relief measures, and everyone talked a lot.

The bureaucrats proposed that the government issue a notice to suppress the price of rice in order to save the lives of the people.The bureaucrats kept saying no, saying that a certain county in a nearby state had issued a notice to lower the price of rice. If we didn't take action, the price of rice would rise every day, and the common people would suffer unbearably, and even rebel. "

"Hey, isn't that a bit similar to the situation in our Guangzhou government, but we are not a locust plague, but a human disaster!" Li Mingda asked quickly: "Then how did Zhao Bian solve it?"

Li You continued with a smile: "After Zhao Bian listened to everyone's discussion, he pondered for a long time before saying unhurriedly: For this disaster relief, I want to do the opposite. I don't want to make a notice to lower the price of rice, but to go out." The notice announced that the price of rice was free to rise.

"Ah?" All the staff members were dumbfounded when they heard it. First they suspected that Master Zhizhou was joking, and then seeing that Master Zhizhou was very serious, they wondered whether the Lord Zhizhou had taken the wrong medicine and was talking nonsense.Seeing that everyone didn't understand, Zhao Bian smiled and said confidently: "Let's do it this way, let's draft the document!"

The official order fell like a mountain, and the bureaucrats could only obey it.However, everyone kept muttering in their hearts: This disaster relief will definitely fail, and Yuezhou will be full of dead bodies!At this time, nearby states and counties posted notices one after another: It is strictly forbidden to increase the price of rice without permission!Anyone who violates the law will be severely punished after investigation.Those who expose and report private price increases will be rewarded by the government. "

"The fifth brother is learning from Zhao Bian?" Li Mingda asked quickly.

"Following that, Yuezhou posted a notice that there is no limit to the price of rice, so rice merchants from all over the world came to hear the news. In the first few days, the price of rice did increase a lot, but the rice buyers saw that there was too much rice on the market. , all wait and see and do not buy. However, after a few days, the price of rice began to fall, and fell faster day by day.

The rice merchants wanted to ship it back without selling it, but one reason was that the freight was too expensive, which increased the cost; the other reason was that the price of rice was limited elsewhere, so they had to reluctantly lower the price to sell it.As a result, although the price of rice in Yuezhou is slightly higher than that in other counties, the common people can buy rice with money; while the price of rice in other counties has been lowered, it is difficult for the common people to buy rice.

Therefore, the least number of people starved to death in Yuezhou in this catastrophe.Only then did the subordinates admire Zhao Bian's strategy, and they all came to ask why.

Zhao Bian said: "The market is normal. If there are too many things, it will be cheap, and if there are few things, it will be expensive. We are so uncharacteristically notified that the rice merchants can increase the price at will, and the rice merchants flock. There are still so many people who eat rice, and the price of rice How can it go up?"

Most of the time, you only think about problems from one angle. It is very likely that when you face an unprecedented problem and think along a certain direction, you can’t understand it. You can flexibly adjust the direction of thinking and start from different angles. If you think about it, or even think about the whole thing in reverse, then it is possible to win against the middle and get the fruit of success. "

"Ah, so that's the case. Now I know that the fifth brother sent his own people to buy rice at a high price, just to tell the grain merchants in other state capitals that Guangzhou is profitable."

"Haha.!" Li You laughed, and nodded in satisfaction with his smart sister: "That's right, I made people pretend to be ordinary people to buy high-priced rice, just to tell the surrounding grain Merchants, the people in Guangzhou have plenty of money, and these grain merchants are profit-seeking guys, as long as they can transport the grain, then the food shortage in Guangzhou can be solved.”

"Wow fifth brother, you are really smart, I adore you!" Li Mingda gave Li You a thumbs up.

And things are exactly as Li You thought, those grain merchants are basically profit-seeking guys, when those grain merchants learned that the price of grain in Guangzhou has risen tenfold, and the buyers are still in an endless stream, those grain merchants Merchants can no longer sit still.

Even if he knew that Feng An was behind the strike of the rice shop this time, but now that Feng An is old, Feng Zhizhan is now in charge, and more importantly, it is a lot of money. Anyone who doesn't make money is a fool.

Therefore, these grain merchants from other prefectures began to pour grain into Guangzhou. Some of them were able to reach Guangzhou within three days, and this news was also known by the You family.

The You family is the largest rice merchant in Guangzhou Mansion, and also Feng An's most loyal confidant. When the You family knew that other grain merchants were rushing to Guangzhou Mansion, the owner of the You family came to Feng's house immediately with the news.

"Duke!" You Changjing bowed slightly to Feng An who was leaning on the chair.

"Why are you here?" Feng An asked directly without looking back.

"An accident happened. Our plan may fail. The king of Qi issued a notice that the price of rice can be raised at will. Now all the grain merchants in the state capitals are rushing to our Guangzhou mansion with grain. It will not exceed five days. The food shortage in Guangzhou will be solved, and all our efforts will be useless.

Now I think, can I ask the Duke to issue an order not to allow these grain merchants to come to Guangzhou Mansion? "

After You Changjing finished speaking, Feng An sighed: "I am no longer the former Lingnan manager, I am a bad old man now, how can I stop those people, you must know that they know that there are ten times the money here If you don’t want to come here crazily, no one will listen to my words.”

"But... Duke, then our plan has failed like this?" You Changjing looked at Feng An with some bitterness: "Is our child's life just thrown away for nothing?"

"Hehe...!" Feng An leaned on the chair and sneered: "Li You thought he was so smart, and after reading some history, he thought he could control everything. Used it, it was Zhao Bian's trick, but there was a reason for that trick.

Because the price of rice has been lowered in other places, the grain merchants plus the freight can only solve the grain locally, but Guangzhou is different. We are not in a disaster year, and the grain price in other places is still the same, so we are not afraid of the increase in grain at all. Well, rice is something that can be stored for a long time, and if it cannot be sold, it is brought back, so it is impossible for grain merchants to sell it at a very low price.

Ten times the price, the people in Guangzhou have no money to buy. In the end, there is only one result. How did the grain merchants get it and how did they get it back? Not a single grain of grain will be left to Guangzhou.! "

(End of this chapter)