As soon as he entered the industry, he did this kind of thing similar to a stupid hat, and the grain merchants in Jiangnan looked at the owner of the new grain bank with the same eyes as fools at the beginning.

Isn't it, there is a lot of silver that does not make money, so you have to reduce the price.

The local grain merchants did not rush to get angry after scolding a fool, in this time of famine, they have food in their hands but do not worry about anything, this shortage of grain will not be alleviated until at least next autumn harvest, before that, even more grain is not too much.

This newcomer doesn't know the rules, so let him do it, with the situation that the people are now flocking to buy grain, even if there is more grain, I'm afraid it won't last long, and when the grain is sold out, see how he can gain a foothold.

Local grain traders really took the new counterpart as a joke.

But the subsequent development of this matter made the eyes of these local grain merchants who were waiting to see the joke almost not fall out.

It is said that the people take food as the sky, and those who can do the food business, which one is it, either their own strength is enough or they have found a backer with enough strength behind them, and the cake is so big, and one person will be gone.

This suddenly appeared a person who no one knew, and it was no wonder that the veteran grain merchants did not believe that this new counterpart had much grain to sell in this way.

But in the newly opened grain store, it seems that there is an endless amount of grain.

The people are also frightened by the current grain price, and seeing that the grain price will not be lowered for a while, they finally have relatively cheap grain, so they naturally have to seize the opportunity to buy it.

As a result, the newly opened grain store was not cut off from morning to night, but it closed at night, and there were still a bunch of people at the door shouting that they had not bought food.

People who have experienced famine are already panicking about starvation, and it is inevitable that people will react in this way.

Then, one day, two days, the time passed in the other grain stores guessing when the grain of the new grain bank would be exhausted, but after half a month, people's food was not less, and the slogan to the outside world was not to rob, the grain was enough.

In this way, the other grain stores have also changed from sitting and waiting to watch jokes to mutter, but don't they think that people are a dragon crossing the river, but in the turn out they are more local snakes than them?

Then, these veteran grain stores were a little anxious.

They are in business, although they have been hoarding this large amount of grain before, and they have the meaning of sitting on the ground and hoarding it, but in the end, their grain is also going to be sold, if they can't sell it, what is the use of setting the price high? Do you really want to smash these grains in your hands and wait for the new grain to come out next year and reduce the price?

Besides, the grain in their hands was harvested before the famine, and even if the price of grain was five taels, it would be ten times the profit for them.

Thinking about it this way, one grain store couldn't sit still, and lowered the price of grain to five taels on a par with the new grain store.

With a grain store to reduce prices, even if the rest want to stretch it again, they can't stretch it to the end, so the rest of the grain stores have also lowered grain prices one after another.

But what no one expected was that when the grain prices of all the grain banks were adjusted to five taels, the new grain stores that didn't know where they came from actually lowered the price again, this time directly to four taels, but the owners of several other grain banks who followed the price reduction were so angry that they almost didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood.

If they can catch the proprietor of the new grain store, they will definitely grab someone's shoulder and ask a good question, where did this mallet come out?

The price has been lowered once, this time the rest of the grain stores are full of strength can no longer let people lead the nose, several owners also deliberately bumped heads, and finally agreed that they must be with the river dragon force to the end, unless the grain of the new grain bank can meet the chewing of all the people in such a large area as Jiangnan, otherwise they can always wait until the day when the grain price is raised again, they believe that that day will not be too far away.

However, before they could reach that day, they waited for an edict from the imperial court.

The meaning of the imperial court is also simple, the imperial court has no surplus grain to deal with the crisis caused by the grain, but there is a lot of grain stored in the people's grain line, at this important moment related to the country, as the people of the Dawu Dynasty, the grain merchants should naturally make their own contributions to the stability of the Dawu Dynasty.

What contribution?

To put it bluntly, it is to let the grain merchants take out the grain in their hands first for emergency.

This move of the imperial court really made the grain merchants vomit a mouthful of blood, for the merchants, silver is life, and now every grain of grain is real money, let them contribute the grain, isn't that their life?

The grain merchants would definitely not be able to do such a loss, and they even firmly formed a group to unanimously resist the imperial court's edict.

This edict requiring grain merchants to issue grain was issued by Old Man Han.

After all, since the establishment of the Dawu Dynasty, the status of businessmen has been infinitely higher than that of the previous dynasty, and once the status is high, it is inevitable that there will be some problems with it, and if you really want to forcibly snatch the silver from their pockets, you have to worry about not making a big mess from time to time.

But Old Man Han is different, compared to Zhao Tiannan, Old Man Han is obviously more decisive.

According to Old Man Han, the Dawu Dynasty has been really good for businessmen in the past 20 years, and these businessmen have enjoyed the good policies given by the Dawu Dynasty, and of course they should also contribute to the difficulties of the Dawu Dynasty.

Because the famine occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, the grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were of course the first to be requisitioned.

The grain merchants decided to hold the group firmly, and the old man Han had already directly sent troops to Jiangnan, and while the troops were in the city, he sent the officials who could speak carefully to lobby carefully.

Old man Han did not plan to let the grain merchants contribute the grain for free, but proposed to let these grain merchants lend grain to the imperial court, and after the autumn harvest next year, the imperial court has tax grain, and then return the grain to the grain merchants, of course, in order to make up for the loss of grain merchants to donate grain, Old Man Han also gave these grain merchants sweetness, such as tax exemption for the next three years, and the grain merchants will be responsible for transporting grain by the imperial court within three years.

Although these sweeteners are still not as much as the profits from using grain for huge profits during the famine years, in fact, the grain merchants only made less money.

Almost as soon as the imperial court's edict came, the newly opened grain store was the first to respond, and without saying a word, all the surplus grain was handed over to the imperial court.

With such an anomaly, the grain merchants in Jiangnan could only helplessly scold their pig teammates.

But as the saying goes, the arm can't twist the thigh, and the grain merchants agreed after a few days of silence.

What if you don't agree, the officers and soldiers are waiting outside the door, and if they agree, they will only lend out the grain for a year, and then the grain will still be there, and they will still be tax-free and there will be no need to worry about the delivery of grain in the next few years, if they don't agree......

Can you really fight with the imperial court?

Everyone knows that it is the old man Han who is temporarily regent, and no one doubts that the old man Han has the decision to attack those hard bones.

The grain merchants in Jiangnan had no choice but to nod their heads and honestly hand over their grain.

Don't think that you can hide the amount of your own grain, when someone from the court came to the door, they brought a booklet, which clearly recorded the amount of grain in each grain store, and almost thought that they were not thieves.

It was only at this time that the veteran grain merchants in Jiangnan discovered another fact that made them so angry that they almost vomited blood.

The newly opened grain store was the most active in responding to the call of the imperial court, but they had almost sold out the grain in their hands at that time, and the grain handed in was not even a fraction of a fraction compared to those old grain stores, which could make the owners of other grain stores vomit.

The grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River took the lead, and even if the grain merchants in other parts of the Dawu Dynasty were reluctant, they could only respond to the call.

As a result, the shortage of food in the imperial court was alleviated.

The imperial court has food, and the next step is naturally to open a warehouse for disaster relief, and with the imperial court coming forward, those refugees who are fleeing the famine naturally see vitality.

In this era, if you can stay in your hometown and have a way to live, how many people are willing to leave your hometown and beg outside?

So then there was another wave of refugees returning to their hometowns.

Food prices have fallen, refugees have returned to their homes, and the problems that have plagued people everywhere for months seem to have been solved overnight.

As soon as he made a move, he did such a big thing beautifully, in the hearts of the officials and the people of the imperial court, the old man Han was naturally prestigious, and I heard that many of the refugees in Jiangnan and other places who had a way to survive returned to their hometowns set up an immortal tablet for the old man Han at home, and three pillars of incense were offered in the morning and evening.

There are even more bold people, and they even murmur secretly in their hearts, isn't the old man Han acting more disciplined than the emperor in the palace.

Taking advantage of this matter, whether it is the DPRK or the people, the prestige of Old Man Han is unmatched.

Of course, it doesn't mean that Old Man Han can win the unanimous support of hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China, who hasn't grown a few eyes in the officialdom for decades, Old Man Han obviously has such an effective disaster relief method, and he didn't see him put it forward when the emperor was worried about it before, could it be that this is the idea?

But these words can only be put in their hearts, at most, three or two people with the same idea get together and muttered a few secretly, who called the old man Han in the middle of the court now received the holy decree to temporarily regent the court?

And the old man Han, who was like a god in the hearts of the people, was discussing the implementation of the plan with Han Ling and Feng Zhige in the study of the Han Mansion at this time.

That's right, the idea of forcibly borrowing grain from grain merchants was originally proposed by Feng Zhige first, and then completed by Old Man Han.

In fact, the food that Feng Zhige is holding in her hand now is completely enough for the Dawu Dynasty to survive this difficulty, but her food is also exchanged for Feng Yixuan's profits over the years, and it is naturally impossible to let her take it out for disaster relief free of charge, and the food in her hand has to be kept for other purposes, so she thought of such a trick of borrowing grain.

Facts have proved that Feng Zhige's idea is undoubtedly excellent, basically she didn't use the food in her hands, and the imperial court just exempted the tax for three years, and let the idle officers and soldiers take on the escort task for three years, didn't they also get through this famine?

Old Man Han looked at Feng Zhige's young face with a smile, he was both proud and proud, his Su Su had been exceptionally smart since he was born, and he was no worse than the best man in the world.

If Susu is a man......

Talent, courage, strategy, and prestige in the hearts of the soldiers in the army far surpassed Zhao Tiannan, and there would be nothing to do with Zhao Tiannan in the world back then.

Thinking of what Zhao Tiannan did at the beginning, Old Man Han's eyes couldn't help but glow coldly, before Su Su came back, he couldn't find out what happened in the palace back then, and Su Su deliberately didn't mention this issue after he recognized him, and he didn't know about the situation until recently.

It's all because he looked away at the beginning, but he didn't expect Zhao Tiannan to be such a wolf-hearted thing.

However, Old Man Han is also quite satisfied with Zhao Tiannan's current fate, and has the same opinion as Gonggong Lin, Old Man Han also thinks that letting Zhao Tiannan live well and watch how his world falls into the hands of others step by step is the biggest torture for him.

Thinking of this, Old Man Han paused slightly.

Looking at Feng Zhige, he said, "Su Su, the question of the candidate, my father and your brother have already decided. ”

When Feng Zhige heard this, a figure appeared in his mind, "Ji Qi? ”

Old Man Han and Han Ling both bowed slightly.

Although there are several sons of the Han family in this generation, they are all good, but compared to the requirements of the old man Han and Han Ling, they are always a little less courageous, only Han Jiji, although he is the youngest of the men in this generation, has always been a hanger, but during this time, under the careful guidance of the old man Han, he also found that Han Jiqi is a good man with courage and resourcefulness, which can be regarded as meeting his expectations.

Just like Zhao Tiannan has always been guarded against, the Han family has been inherited for hundreds of years, and more than 20 years ago encountered such a great opportunity, if the Han family had no ambition at all, it was naturally impossible, but Zhao Tiannan's prestige in the army back then was not low, and the only Han Su who could overpower him on this was his daughter.

So the old man Han at that time also took a step back, the Han family couldn't sit on that chair, but at least the person who sat on that chair in the future would have the blood of the Han family, so he was willing to think about it.

Unexpectedly, Han Su, the long-awaited queen, died in the palace before she had time to officially get married, and this blow was almost fatal for the Han family at that time.

Fortunately, more than 20 years later, Su Suneng returned again, and the Han family also ushered in such a great opportunity.

Thinking of this, Old Man Han sighed slightly, and then smiled with emotion: "Susu, my father is already old, this world will definitely be young, Ji Ji is young in the end, and I can only let you, an aunt, watch from the sidelines in the future." ”

Feng Zhige remembered that Han Ji Ji always showed a treacherous look when he looked at him, and he also smiled meaninglessly. (To be continued.) )