Gao Shenghan didn't know how to explain inflation to him, so he had to choose something he could understand.

"For example, there are only 1,000 catties of rice sold in the rice market in Causeway Lane every month, and 20 families live in the alley, and each household consumes an average of 50 catties of rice per month, and the price of rice is 12 wen a catty. One day, a family suddenly became rich and bought all the rice at a price of 15 wen a catty, do you say the store sells it or not? ”

Shen Yifei nodded. "Naturally, they are happy to sell."

"Others have no rice to buy, what will the rich who get rich overnight do? His family originally had only a few people, and they couldn't eat thousands of catties of rice. ”

"Naturally, the others are buying rice from the rich man." After Shen Yifei finished speaking, he faintly understood, "That rich man raised the price of rice and made a lot of money." ”

Gao Shenghan smiled, and then said: "The rice shop was very angry when he saw the rich man doing this, and in the second month, the price of rice was raised, and the price was fifteen wen a catty. The rich man found the boss again...... cough, find the shopkeeper, buy it at the price of 18 wen a catty, and then sell it. ”

Shen Yifei's face gradually sank, squinted slightly, and said slowly: "The rich man is not short of money, he can afford it." However, the other 19 families could not support themselves. "I could have bought two catties of rice, but I may not be able to afford even one catty in Zuihou, and hunger is inevitable.

"Exactly." Gao Shenghan restrained his smile and finally got to the point.

"There is only so much production in my land every year, if you mine at this time, let those new silver flow to the market, it is nothing for a day or two, and after a long time, everyone will have more money in their hands and more things they want to buy. However, the number of things is still the same, and when you buy it, you find that you can't buy it later. If the materials are insufficient and the shelves are out of stock, everyone will panic and will definitely follow the rush to buy and hoard goods, which will inevitably push prices up. "When the time comes, it will be the common people who will suffer. Because not all the newly produced silver will be equally distributed to everyone, and in the long run, the rich will buy and sell more and become richer, and the poor will spend more money but will not be able to fill their stomachs......

Shen Yifei figured it out without the emperor elaborating, and couldn't help but shudder.

"However, the mine still has to be mined. Anyway, it's Lang fee for the silver to be buried in the ground. Gao Shenghan blinked slyly.

Shen Yifei couldn't keep up with her train of thought, and raised his eyes to look at her, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"It's still Causeway Lane, the rice in the rice grain store is too expensive, and the people can't afford it, so can't they go to the rice store on other streets to buy rice? And not every street has nouveau riche. As long as the shopkeeper of the other rice shop receives the news of the increase in the price of rice grain, it is good to buy the rice back. And it's about buying as much as you can to survive these months. As the days went by, no one bought rice in Causeway Lane, and the shopkeeper and the rich man knew that everyone went to the next street to buy rice, and did not buy his family, so in order to prevent the new rice from becoming old rice, they had no choice but to reduce the price. This is to dispatch materials from other places to stabilize prices, and she has not been exposed to such business wars in that life.

"Other streets and shops?" Shen Yifei was talking to himself, and after a little thought, he understood the emperor's intentions.

"But are they willing?" Several small countries bordering the southwest border are rich in products and have so-so-so populations, neither more nor less, and it is rare that there are rangers who have been here to write downstream notes, describing that the local grain crops can be harvested three times a year. In other words, the annual output of one acre of land here is only half or even one-third of the family's.

Thinking of this, Shen Yifei was a little moved, and talked to himself without waiting for the emperor to answer.

"Trade in our silk, cotton, porcelain and tea, and they will be willing!" He has a rice shop, a medicine shop, a tea shop, a silk shop, and some grocery stores, and everything from all over the world is sold, but the most profitable is the medicine store and tea shop, and the most stable is the rice shop; The silk industry is risky, not every year has such a huge profit, and occasionally it will be attacked by opponents to compete for the supply of goods. If there is a mutual market at the border......

Shen Yifei quietly glanced at the emperor, the autumn waves were tactful, and he was full of charm.

Gao Shenghan knew what he was thinking, smiled, and said, "Okay, get down to business, don't seduce me." ”

Shen Yifei is also a fat guts, and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, let's open a mutual market." ”

Gao Shenghan has this intention, but because of the laws of the ancestors, she can't take the lead in this matter.

Her imperial grandfather, Emperor Qianwu, was a mortal enemy with the Western Turks and the Northern Desert, and fought all the year round, and Emperor Qianwu had to meet good generals in his later years, and finally drove the Western Turks out of 3,000 miles away and directly expelled them to the other side of the mainland. The Northern Desert is still there, but it is not very daring to act when it is getting stronger on the Great Sunday, but it will also go to the border to harass and loot when it encounters a snow disaster, which makes the border guards of the Great Zhou very headache.

In the early days of her reign, her emperor Laozi Xiaozong Emperor in order to reduce the war and pacify the Northern Desert, once opened a mutual market, allowing the other party to exchange silk and satin cloth with the Great Zhou Dynasty, as well as a small amount of tea, rice, oil and salt and other daily necessities. Ten years after not wanting to open the market, the appetite of the people of the Northern Desert was raised, they ate salt and had the strength to work, drank the greasy and greasy food in the tea, and their bodies were stronger, and there were also witch doctors who came to Da Zhou to learn medical skills, their population birth rate was increasing, and the mortality rate was declining, and the younger generation began to be restless in their hearts, wanting to get more materials and better woodland and pastures in the south. Zuihou, in the twentieth year of Chengping, finally broke out a big war.

In that battle, Da Zhou lost five cities at the beginning!

Although Zuihou Da Zhou regained the lost territory, he also paid a heavy price! It is said that the treasury was tightened after that war. During the war, more than 100,000 adult strong men were killed or wounded, and the corpses were all over the field. The people are gone, the land is barren, the economy has shrunk, and the Great Zhou has not fully recovered until now, which is not as good as the early years of Chengping!

After this battle, Emperor Xiaozong was furious, hated the ambition of the wolf son of the Northern Desert, and learned that it was a mutual market, so he ordered his descendants to prohibit mutual trading with other countries! This is the anger of even other bordering countries.

As long as anyone who has read this history knows, some old people still remember the disaster of the war, and Dundun taught his descendants to stay away from the Northern Desert people! Even if you see a particularly strong man on the street, if you have more curly hair, you will be looked down upon, and the merchants will not dare to sell anything to them, so that those men have to carry the household registration certificate of the road guide, otherwise there will be no good fruit to eat.

Knowing the emperor's scruples, Shen Yifei blinked and said, "The minister will find a time to leave the palace and visit his grandfather." ”

Gao Sheng smiled.

What an empathetic and lovely guy.

On the second day, Shen Yifei left the palace in a low-key manner, but Chen Zixiu came again.