"What's the news~?"

Li Zexuan originally thought that this matter had been over, but he didn't expect that there seemed to be something wrong with this servant's tooth protrusion, and today it was really a twist and turn!

The servant cautiously glanced in the direction of the door, Li Zexuan waved his hand and said, "In fact, if you have something to say, no one will eavesdrop outside the door!" ”

With his current skills, if someone was eavesdropping nearby, it would be absolutely impossible to hide his perception. But the gesture of the servant tooth protrusion shows that what is about to be said next is absolutely extraordinary.

Only then did the servant suddenly speak: "I don't know if there is any wonder in the heart of the Hou Ye, why did our envoys suddenly come to the academy today to watch the military training performance?" ”

Li Zexuan's eyes narrowed, he clasped his hands on his chest, leaned back on the back of the chair, and said, "If the envoy has something to say, please speak directly!" ”

The other two envoys all changed their faces at the moment, gritted their teeth, and said: "The first person to propose to come to the academy is the minister of the Ring Sun Dynasty, Alonashun, although I don't understand the reason, but two days ago, Cui Siqing often interviewed Alo Dashun alone, so ......."

At this point, the servant tooth protrusion was silent, because anyone should be able to guess what was going on.

Li Zexuan's face was calm, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, Cui family, this is really like a maggot with bones! Previously, they sent people to assassinate themselves without success, but the people they sent were shortened by themselves, but I didn't expect these people to stop, and now they are secretly making small moves, which is really disgusting!

"Well, Ben Hou knows! Ben Hou should have never heard of these words before, and the two of you are not allowed to spread them~! ”

Li Zexuan turned his head to look at the two envoys of the Bi Kingdom and the Funan Kingdom, and said in a deep voice.

He has to settle the accounts of the Cui family himself, and he doesn't want to make any extraneous branches.

"Yes, yes, I will wait for me to understand, and I will definitely not spread it~!"

The two hurriedly agreed.

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"Young master, why hasn't the rent we collected this year been sold?"

At noon on this day, Li Zexuan had just come back from the academy, but Xiaohe in the courtyard ran over and asked.

Li Zexuan's curiosity rose and asked, "What?" Xiaohe also began to care about the big things in the house~? ”

The rent collected by the Li family this year was not intended to be sold, not only would it not be sold, Li Zexuan had also bought a lot of grain from other Zhuangzi before, all for the purpose of dealing with the big locust plague next year, as the so-called family has surplus grain, he did not panic, although he knew that there would be a locust plague next year, but he himself had never seen a locust plague since he was a child, God knows what the specific situation will be like at that time, and it is always good to be more prepared.

Of course, very few people know about the locust plague, and Xiaohe definitely doesn't know, otherwise this girl wouldn't have asked like this.

Xiaohe, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, was taken aback by Li Zexuan's casual words, and she hurriedly waved her hand and said:

"No, no, no, young master, I... That was not what I meant! I just helped the young lady go to the West Market to buy things today, and I heard that the price of grain in Chang'an has dropped sharply recently, and there is a trend of continuing to decline, so I remembered that our family's grain has not been sold yet~! ”

God is pitiful, she is just a maid, where is she qualified to care about the big things in the house, this is a change of heart and a relatively small housewife, after hearing this, she will be expelled from the house!

"Food prices have plummeted~?"

Li Zexuan didn't have as many messy and strange thoughts as Xiaohe, he frowned slightly, and asked out loud: "What is the current grain price in Chang'an City?" Why is there a sudden drop in food prices? ”

Xiaohe breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "Young master, now you can buy a bucket of rice for two pennies, the reason why it is so cheap is said to be because when the imperial court fleet returned a while ago, the private merchant ships also brought back a lot of grain, and those merchants were eager to get rid of it, so they lowered the price of grain, and wanted to sell the major grain shops in Chang'an City as soon as possible, and the granaries were basically full!" ”

Previously, Li Er decided to let the imperial court organize a fleet and lead private merchant ships to trade in the South Seas, the main purpose was to exchange for a large amount of grain to deal with the locust plague next year.

The more than 500 official ships of the imperial court were all loaded with grain when they returned, and Li Er did not have hard and fast rules for civilian merchant ships, but each family must have at least two special ships for loading grain. In this way, as soon as the fleet docked, those private merchants were in a hurry to sell the grain on the ship, which was worthless, and would only rot in their hands.

Two pennies and a bucket of rice?

Nima, a bucket of rice is more than twelve catties, Li Zexuan suddenly had a feeling of being ruined, those grain merchants are really wasteful, how can they sell grain so cheaply?

"Well, okay, I got it! Xiaohe, you don't have to continue to struggle, young master, I don't sell those grains, naturally I have a reason, you go and get busy with yours! ”

Li Zexuan sighed in his heart that Datang's grain prices were cheap, but on the other hand, he was quickly analyzing what impact the sharp drop in grain prices would have on Datang.

In modern times, foreign grain has always been cheaper than domestic grain, and a large amount of grain flows into China from abroad every year, which is bound to cause domestic grain price fluctuations.

As the saying goes, grain is cheap and hurts farmers, and many kinds of grain are planted by ordinary people who hope that the grain they grow can be sold at a good price while having a good harvest.

In order to protect the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain, the only thing the state can do is to buy the peasants' grain, and most of the grain purchased by the state does not flow into the market, and the peasants think that the grain they sell meets the requirements of the market, but in fact the state finally collects it. Although the method will bury many hidden dangers and cannot solve the problem in essence, it is also a good way to stabilize food prices.

But is it really necessary to stabilize food prices in this era in which he lives?

At this time, the grain in Datang is mainly concentrated in the hands of the landlords, after the people pay the rent, most of the remaining grain in their hands is only enough for their own family's survival needs, and few of them take out the grain to sell, if they persuade Li Er to stabilize the price of grain, this kind of cheap is still those landlords!

Ahem, although he is now a landlord himself.....

In view of this, instead of stabilizing food prices, he should take this opportunity to buy more grain and save it for next year's locust plague!

Just do it when you think of it, after Li Zexuan sent Xiaohe away, he directly drove back to Chang'an to find the housekeeper Wang Zhong.

"Uncle Wang, you go and help me contact a few other members of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce in the past two days, tell them that I want to buy a lot of grain, and let them help~! At the same time, recently I will also ask people to build a large granary at the foot of Yunshan~! ”

Li Zexuan found Wang Zhong in the front yard of the Li Mansion and explained directly to the point.

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