When the year was not good and the grain harvest was not good, the merchants would follow the example of their ancestor Lü Buwei and make grain prices rise within a reasonable range by hoarding goods and monopolizing the market.

At this time, it is Shaofu who carries out macroeconomic regulation and control of the market.

In other words, it is the Shaofu Qing who is jealous of the extremely high grain prices and wants to quickly take out some of the inventory and sell it, so that the grain price will drop in the next year and then buy it back to make up for it.

If you fall inside and out, it's a huge amount of income!

This money, of course, is not for Shaofuzhong's private pockets, but for Shaofuqing's political achievements - there are tens of millions of dollars out of nothing, can the emperor be happy?

In the final analysis, Shaofuqing never needs to be afraid of the three princes and nine ministers, courtiers and nobles, as the emperor's housekeeper + financial advisor, Shaofuqing only needs to be responsible for the emperor.

The emperor was satisfied, and Shaofuqing could not move; The emperor was not happy, no matter how much background he had, it was impossible for him to sit in the position of Shaofu for a long time.

The price of grain in Chang'an is indeed a bit ridiculously high now - it has risen from 85 yuan at this time last year to 300 yuan a stone yesterday!

Today, the grain market is on sale, and I don't know how much it can rise!

What Chen Ping said is indeed the truth: if the imperial court lets it go, then the price of grain will definitely not fall, but will only soar all the way to the price of gold!

- Don't drink human blood only with the capital of later generations in the future; The greed in the genes of the pre-century businessman is also endless!

The current situation of Shaofu is a bit special compared with previous years: all kinds of materials are piled up, but there is hardly a penny!

Chen Ping's proposal to control grain prices in the Shuowang Dynasty was for two purposes.

Either Liu Hong will be forced to allow Shaofu to sell the stored grain, and then buy it at a low price in the spring of next year, so that the amount of money saved by Shaofu will increase and the status of Shaofu will be enhanced.

That's still good!

What Liu Hong is really worried about is that Chen Ping will let the grain stocks in Shaofu disappear for no reason, thus forcing Liu Hong to move the grain stocks in the major granaries in Guanzhong!

The four warehouses in Guanzhong have a perennial grain storage of more than 5 million stones, which has been the case since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and the amount of grain stored has never decreased.

Of course, this is not because the Han family is financially wealthy and can pile up as much as five million stone of grain in the warehouse, even if it is put into spoilage and thrown away.

It is because every grain stored in the Guanzhong grain warehouse is related to the stability of the world!

Just imagine, if the princes and kings in the eastern part of the Kanto region who were separated from Chang'an and had long been dissatisfied with Chang'an heard that the Chang'an regime had no food in their hands, how would they react?

As long as it is not Liu Chan and the like, he will inevitably beat the drum and beat the generals and raise troops to clear the king's side!

You must know that the grain stored in Guanzhong is not just the Dinghai Divine Needle in the hearts of the people in Guanzhong! At the same time, it is also an important strategic reserve for the army to maintain combat effectiveness!

There is no army, no food, and the situation is even more terrible than no army!

If Chen Ping really had this plan, it would undoubtedly be an unprecedented disaster for Liu Hong.

The soldiers were waiting to be fed and waiting for the military rations to be issued by the imperial court, but they were only waiting for the news that 'Your Majesty has sold the grain in the Guanzhong, and there is no way to send military rations', how will they react?

I'm afraid that those who are willing to throw down their weapons and pick on them can be regarded as loyal ministers of the Liu family!

There is a high probability that what will happen is that Liu Hong's status in the hearts of the soldiers collapsed, and the endless resentment towards Liu Hong was immediately ignited!

If at that time, there is another 'loyal and righteous man' with food and persuading the soldiers to 'be better than the anti-fucking dog emperor', Liu Hong can surrender sharply, and then expect his luck to burst out, and God will favor him and let him cross the second time.

In order to prevent Chen Ping from choosing the second option, Liu Hong hurriedly spoke, and the first strike was strong.

"I'm young and don't know about state affairs, if I use the grain stored in the Shaofu to stabilize the price of grain, does the prime minister think it's feasible?"

Seeing Chen Ping slowly raise his head, revealing a triumphant look, Liu Hong's heart suddenly sank, and his indifferent face couldn't help but become solemn.

I saw Chen Ping get up straight, and preached along Liu Hongdi's words: "Your Majesty has not asked about national affairs, and I don't know the stakes..."

Listening to Chen Ping's preaching, Liu Hong was completely sour, and couldn't help but be secretly annoyed.

Chen Ping smiled lightly, and then said: "Your Majesty needs to know that the grain in the Shaofu today is less than 150,000 stones..."

Really!

Chen Ping really didn't have a good heart!

Liu Hong now, he doesn't even have a chance to say 'discuss it in the future' with the mud!

But if Liu Hong says something like 'I'll talk about it later', then this news will inevitably spread throughout Chang'an before noon!

The people of Chang'an, who were already tormented by the high price of food, pinned their hopes on Liu Hong to appear to save them, learned that their monarch had this attitude, and they would immediately vote with their feet!

And the people's heart is the most important one of Liu Hong's only few chips, and it is also the most important thing that cannot be lost as an emperor.

Liu Hong's only choice is to immediately come up with a solution, whether it is stealing or robbing, it must be that the price of grain will be reduced visibly in the short term.

Otherwise, in the minds of the people of Guanzhong, Liu Hong will become an emperor who 'disregards the life and death of the people for his own selfish interests', and become a tyrant like Shang!

It really came to that point, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo started to abolish Liu Hong again, but it was 'conforming to the mandate of heaven' and 'conforming to the will of the people'...

Frowning, Liu Hong tried his best to suppress the anger in his tone: "150,000 stones? ”

"Didn't I remember wrong? The grain I 'rewarded' the meritorious officials of the court would not be less than 500,000 stones, right? ”

Saying that, Liu Hongqiang pretended to look at Chen Ping confidently - don't want to cheat, buddy still has an account book in his hand!

Unexpectedly, Chen Ping just smiled slightly, bowed down again and said: "Your Majesty's reward, the princes of the court and the central government have no shame to accept it, and they all thank you and return it to Your Majesty..."

Seeing that Liu Hong was about to speak again, Chen Ping slowly lowered his head and said softly: "However, Your Majesty has rewarded a lot of grain, and the noble courtiers are unable to transport it, so according to the price of the grain at the time, the money equivalent to the rice and grain will be returned to Your Majesty..."

After listening to Zhou Bo, Liu Hong suddenly smiled, but the anger in his eyes only increased.

With these stupid worms, even if they return the money they took from Shaofu, they don't forget to bite off a piece of meat!

Oh, pay back the price of food···

The price of grain in Chang'an five days ago was only half of what it is now!

Pay Liu Hong back according to the price of grain at that time, and then sell the grain taken from Shaofu now, or even a few days later, when the price of grain is higher?

Oh, is it really Liu Hong the emperor of charity?

What made Liu Hong even more angry was that even if he got the 200,000 yuan, a large part of it was this stupid worm who wanted to offset the grain he moved from Shaofu, it was far from the amount of money taken away from Shaofu!

On the detail book held by Liu Hong alone, Shaofu lost at least 650,000 copper coins!

And the actual return may not even be 150,000...

Glancing at the noble ministers in the hall with malice, Liu Hong's brows furrowed tightly, and he fell into sorrow.

- At this time, he really didn't have the time and energy to pluck the feathers with these geese, and he didn't even want his life for money.

If the grain price in Chang'an cannot be lowered, Liu Hong is very likely to lose all the opportunities to turn around.

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PS: Today's first update, the second chapter is later.

I haven't slept all night, I can't hold it anymore, so I wake up and revise it before releasing it.

The update progress is on track, and the normal update time should be restored from the 3rd.