Chapter 184: Grain
There are ingredients in the medicine to calm the nerves and help sleep, and not long after Zhao Tiannan took the medicine, he felt that his eyelids became heavy, and he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Gonggong Lin stayed next to him until Zhao Tiannan fell asleep.
Still with that humble and loyal smile, Gonggong Lin tucked the corner of the quilt for Zhao Tiannan, and looked at Zhao Tiannan's eyes, no matter how he looked at it, he sincerely hoped that Zhao Tiannan would get better.
Gonggong Lin really hopes that Zhao Tiannan will be good.
He hoped that Zhao Tiannan could live well.
If he just died like this, how could he watch how his cherished qiē disappeared little by little?
If he doesn't live well, how can he see with his own eyes how the queen's life will be in the future?
Thinking of such a scene, Gonggong Lin smiled again and muttered in a low voice: "Your Majesty, you must be good." ”
Look, he's a loyal minion, isn't he?
Counting this great martial arts up and down, I am afraid that no one can hope that Zhao Tiannan can live well more than him.
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The news of Zhao Tiannan's stroke was well hidden, except for the limited number of people, no one knew about the concubines in the palace, let alone the courtiers outside, but the court did not mess up because of this.
And within a few days after the regency of Old Man Han, he did a big thing, and his prestige rose in the eyes of the courtiers and the people.
If you want to say that the most important thing in today's Dawu Dynasty is to solve those refugees who are fleeing the famine.
These refugees are all in exile from their hometowns in order to survive, and wherever they go, they bring many safety risks to the local area, and the local people naturally complain about this.
But in the end, these refugees are just trying to survive, and it is difficult to survive by the kindness of others, but if they stay in their hometown where everyone can't eat, won't they just wait to starve to death?
You can't rush it, but if you don't rush it, it's not the same thing to let these refugees stay, and the imperial court has not been able to come up with any feasible way before, and this matter has dragged on day by day.
Old Man Han first took this matter.
Because of the famine in Jiangnan and other places, grain prices have risen all the way since the autumn harvest, and even the grain prices in Beijing, which is not actually short of grain, have risen to more than five times the usual price, and in Jiangnan and other places where grain production has been greatly reduced due to drought, it has risen to more than 10 times the normal price.
With such a high price of grain, except for those large families who have farms and farms, ordinary people can last for a few silver in their hands?
The first thing Mr. Han did was to stabilize food prices.
The price of grain is also very simple, as long as there is enough grain, as soon as there is more grain, the price of grain will naturally drop, but who doesn't know that the most lacking thing in the Dawu Dynasty is food now?
When Old Man Han first raised this point at the court meeting, although the hundred officials did not raise objections because of his prestige, but the real situation is that no one is optimistic, not to mention anything else, just say that this grain, in the current shortage of grain, who can come up with so much grain enough to bring down the price of grain at once?
Besides, if there is really so much grain, don't people know that taking advantage of the current exaggerated grain price to loot some more silver, they will take it out for nothing for the court to do good deeds?
In the midst of the disapproval, Old Man Han really did it.
Not long after Old Man Han made this decision, a new grain store was opened in Jiangnan.
To be able to get involved in the grain business at this time of disaster and famine, if no one makes up their minds and no one believes it, the local grain merchants in Jiangnan have sent many people to investigate.
Although the grain store is a newcomer, there are a lot of means, and those who come to visit in a serious way are not lazy, but if they stumble behind their backs, they are found to be unlucky in the end.
After coming down a few times, I realized that this new colleague was not easy to mess with, and no one dared to have any crooked ideas anymore, and then rumors about this grain store gradually spread.
It is said that the owner behind this grain store is a big family in the capital, and they are neither short of silver nor background, and they are really not afraid of people coming to the door to find trouble.
Knowing this, the local merchants in the grain business in Jiangnan also stopped.
In their minds, with the current situation, they don't have to worry about selling food in their hands, even if they have an extra peer, they may not necessarily make a little less money.
But what everyone didn't expect was that this new grain store was involved in the grain business in Jiangnan, not to make money at all!
It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, and in the past, someone had to say that a businessman did not do business to make money, and someone dared to scrape it with one ear, isn't this a stupid thing to say?
But since the opening of this new grain store, no one has said that this is a stupid thing or not.
The Dawu Dynasty has been in good weather these years, so the price of grain is basically stable at five coins of silver and one stone, and now the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River has soared all the way to six or seven taels, which is a sky-high price, so the people are still rushing to buy grain, and there has never been a break at the door of the grain store.
Originally, I knew that a new grain store was opened, and the people were also happy in their hearts, and if this more one was opened, the price of grain would have to go down, even if it was only a little bit lower for the people, it would be good for the people, but after this new grain store listed the price of grain that day, the people were shocked.
Not because the price is too high, but because it is too low!
The grain price in Jiangnan is now close to seven taels, and if the grain price of this grain store drops to six taels or even six taels and five dollars, the people will be satisfied, but they didn't expect that on the first day of opening, the price of the grain store was five taels, which was more than one or two lower than the psychological price of the people!
After the initial shock, the people were almost crazy with joy, and without saying a word, they flocked to the grain store without saying a word.
According to a family of four, if you eat it together with coarse grains, one stone of grain can almost be eaten by a family for three months, and this stone of grain will be less than one or two pieces of silver.
With such a good thing, the people naturally only hate themselves for their short legs.
The grain of this new grain store is sold so cheaply, who knows if it will be able to win if it is late, of course, you have to buy enough of your own grain before the news spreads, and after the autumn harvest, you will have to save some food for the winter?
Therefore, less than half an hour after the grain store opened, the street where it was located was crowded with people who came to buy grain. (To be continued.) )