"Thirty wen a pound?"

"Oh my God, the hearts of these grain merchants are dark!"

Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao hadn't spoken yet, and Sun Xin on the side couldn't help but call out when he heard the price.

He was born at the bottom and knew too well what this price meant, you must know that in this era, hard work may not be able to earn 30 yuan a day, and the regular workers in Xishan Coal Industry are only more than 100 yuan a day, and they can earn 2 taels of silver in a month, which is considered a high income in this era.

Ordinary people go out to work, and the general salary is about forty or fifty yuan, and sometimes when they encounter a lot of pressure on money, there may not be thirty yuan.

Especially in the off-season or in the case of a famine like the present, many times it is for others to do things for nothing, as long as there is something to eat.

Now the price of this grain has risen to 30 wen a catty, which means that after a day of hard work, you can only get less than two catties of grain, not to mention two catties of grain to feed a family, it is very difficult to feed a labor force, in the era of lack of meat, after hard physical labor, if you eat with an open belly, you can eat a catty of rice at a meal.

"It's really dark!"

Liu Jin also nodded solemnly.

Although Liu Jin feels that he is also very dark, but compared with these grain merchants, he seems to be a little too tender, and his black is only for the rich, everyone is willing to do it, even though the price of glass products is high, but the people who bought it experienced a new enjoyment.

As for these grain merchants, the price of this grain has risen several times by taking advantage of the famine, and the grain is the most important thing in this time of famine, and if the grain price can be kept stable, the natural disaster can be relatively easy to pass.

However, since ancient times, this natural disaster will inevitably be accompanied by man-made disasters.

Taking advantage of the famine, deliberately hoarding grain and raising grain prices has almost been a common practice for grain merchants since ancient times.

Black-hearted grain merchants have many ways to get rich, such as mixing sand and soil in grain, weighing half a catty and eight taels, filling new grain with old grain, etc., all kinds of means, all kinds of methods, all kinds of things, but these are all routine operations.

The real time to get rich overnight is like now, taking advantage of the famine, deliberately living in grain, uniting to raise the price of grain, often a famine, these grains one by one make a lot of money.

After all, at any time, filling the stomach is the most important thing, when there is no food, even if you have a lot of money, gold, silver and jewelry are useless, and gold and silver cannot be eaten after all.

"Thirty wen a pound, is it very high?"

Zhu Hou on the side looked at Sun Xin, then at Liu Jin, then at Tong Yuan, thought about it and touched his nose and said.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the price of thirty wen a pound of grain has reached a sky-high price, you must know that it is usually only a few pennies a catty."

Tong Yuan hurriedly replied.

"It's usually only a pound?"

Zhu Houzhao's two little eyes were a little puzzled, he grew up in the deep palace since he was a child, naturally he had no worries about food and clothing, and he never cared about the price of this food.

"Your Highness, if you want to know whether the price of this grain is high, you may be able to go to the grain shops in the city to take a look for yourself, and you will be able to understand."

Liu Jin looked at Zhu Houzhao, this prince doesn't even know the price of grain, and when he becomes an emperor in the future, won't he be like Emperor Jin Hui, and there will be a joke of 'why not eat minced meat'.

"We are now recruiting thousands of people, and the daily consumption of food will be tens of thousands of catties, which is not possible without food, we have to buy and eat thirty pounds, at most we will spend more silver."

Then Liu Jin turned his head to look at the construction area of the cement workshop, where thousands of people were busy in full swing, and a huge building complex could already see some prototypes.

If you don't have food, you don't have food, and no one will work for you, so even if the price of food rises, you still have to buy and eat.

"Teacher, the key now is that these grain merchants are already stockpiling goods and are reluctant to sell them on a large scale, I asked several stores, and they gave me the same reply, they will not sell us grain in large quantities."

"They are sure that the famine will continue, and the winter wheat planted last year is almost out of harvest because of the cold winter, which means that in the next few months, before the spring wheat is on the market, their grain can be hoisted and sold."

When Tong Yuan heard this, he also shook his head and said.

"Hmph~Hmph!"

At this time, Zhu Houzhao on the side couldn't help but snort coldly: "They dare not sell grain to us, see if I don't smash their grain shop." ”

"Even if you hoard and raise the price of grain, there is still grain that is not sold."

"Liu Jin, you go back and take people to arrest all the grain merchants in Tianjin, I will repair them one by one, and beat them until they kneel down and send the grain over."

"Yes."

When Liu Jin heard this, he couldn't help but become excited, and seemed to like he liked to do such a thing, so he hurriedly replied.

"I think this matter is not as simple as we imagined, these grain merchants know that we have His Royal Highness the Crown Prince here, and they know that it is the property of His Royal Highness the Prince, they raised the price in the famine era, and now they have even begun to restrict our sales, I guess someone wants to deliberately target us."

"Maybe someone saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince made some money in the ancient and modern building in the capital, and his eyes were red, so now is the opportunity to deliberately want to cut meat from us."

Liu Jin frowned and pondered carefully, he always felt that there was a smell of conspiracy in it, and when he thought about it carefully, he always felt that something was unusual.

"In this way, Tong Yuan, you immediately send people to the capital, the south, and Shandong to buy grain, and see if you can buy grain, if you can't buy grain, or if the price of grain is very expensive, I can conclude that there must be a conspiracy."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin also instructed Tong Yuan, since he couldn't buy food in Tianjin, he could go to other places to buy food, but if someone deliberately targeted the prince and himself, it would inevitably make Liu Jin unable to buy food.

"Someone deliberately targeted me?"

"Eye-catching the buying and selling of our ancient and modern buildings?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, not only did he not have the slightest fear, but the whole person became excited and happy.

"Good, good, I'm interested in it all of a sudden, I just want to see who's behind this."

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is just a guess on my part, the matter has not been confirmed, so I can't draw conclusions yet, but the sale of ancient and modern buildings in our capital has indeed made countless people blush, and it is possible that someone will deliberately target us with the opportunity."

Liu Jin didn't understand this Zhu Houzhao a little, but after thinking about it, the other party was the identity of the prince, so he was relieved, he was the crown prince, the only son of Emperor Hongzhi, which means that no matter what, he is invincible.

But he is different, although he is mixed with the prince, this prince can be fine, and the people who do things with the prince have died miserably many times since ancient times.

So this is also the reason why Liu Jin guessed in the direction of the conspiracy, because it was related to his own worth and life, and he had to deal with it carefully.

"Your Highness, I think that no matter whether there is a conspiracy or not, we should prepare as soon as possible and find a way to raise food, of course, if there is a conspiracy in this, we should also find a way to let the other party learn a painful lesson and let them know that we are not easy to mess with."

After thinking about it, Liu Jin already had a way to deal with it in his heart, and he also said to Zhu Houzhao.

"Lao Liu, you have a lot of ideas, let's talk about it, what is a good way?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately narrowed his eyes, and the listless appearance just now disappeared all of a sudden.

"The solution is very simple, of course, this economic war is solved by the economy!"

Liu Jin smiled and said very confidently.