After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food, a table of seafood was also swept away by Liu Jin, Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao, and at the same time, there were several empty jars next to them, and the four of them were already slightly drunk.

"Stinky boy, now that the price of grain in the capital has risen to the sky, Your Majesty is also in a hurry, what should I do next?"

Zhou Jing was already a little drunk, sat very close to Liu Jin, patted Liu Jin on the shoulder and asked.

"It's very simple, that is, we continue to transport sea fish to the capital, we sell it for a penny a catty, this meat sells for a penny a catty, do you want to lower the price of this grain?"

Liu Jin smiled, the ancients didn't deceive me, and sure enough, after a few drinks on the wine table, this feeling was different, and now they all call themselves stinky boys.

However, these people are all old foxes, whether they are pretending or not, Liu Jin is not sure, so he has been secretly vigilant in his heart, and he also thinks twice before acting.

"As long as we stabilize the price of grain in the area of Beijing, Tianjin, Yongping Mansion in Beizhili, and the northwest of Shanxi, there will be no problem with this famine."

"Among them, the capital is naturally the top priority, because there are millions of people in the capital, and eating and drinking every day is a big problem, and once there is a problem here, it will be a big deal."

"As for Yongping Mansion and Shanxi, you only need to transport the grain in your hand, use the previous disaster relief method, support it with porridge and water, and support it until the grain arrives in the south."

"At that time, the price of this grain will naturally come down, and when the autumn comes, when the spring wheat harvest is abundant, the price of this grain will return to the previous price."

Although Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao were already slightly drunk, they all listened carefully, and they had already heard Liu Jin's analysis of this famine earlier, and knew that they should be treated differently.

Now when I heard it, it was immediately clearer, and I understood that the core and key point now is the capital, as long as the capital is not chaotic and the price of food can be lowered, everything will naturally be easy to say.

"Haha, I see, all this is already in your plan."

Li Dongyang thought carefully, and then quickly couldn't help laughing.

He now understands that Liu Jin is playing a big game of chess, and he has calculated everything a long time ago, coming to Tianjin to build ships, go to sea to fish, go to North Korea to do business, buy grain by the way, and build a cement road to the capital.

There are only more than 100 kilometers between Beijing and Tianjin, and these tens of thousands of victims came to build the road at the same time, and it will not take long to build a spacious cement road.

With this cement road, the exchange between Beijing and Tianjin has become extremely convenient and fast, and the special carriage made by Xishan Coal Industry can continuously transport the sea fish and rice from North Korea from Tianjin.

Every step is calculated clearly, one ring after another, seamless, which makes people have to admire.

Liu Jin smiled when he heard this, to be honest, all this was indeed planned by Liu Jin a long time ago, and since he deduced that someone was deliberately targeting him, Liu Jin has been thinking hard about countermeasures.

They also thought of a strategy to repay the other in the other way, since they want to rely on the food in their hands to target themselves, they also want to let them suffer a big loss in the food.

During this time, Liu Jin has been asking his student Tong Yuan to pay attention to the price of food from the south.

There was a famine in the three northern provinces, but in fact, there was no need for the imperial court to order the transfer of grain, and the grain merchants themselves knew that the grain would be transported to the north.

Because this usually a few pennies a pound of grain can be sold for several times the price in times of famine, sometimes even more than ten times the price, and the profit in this can be imagined.

So sometimes the famine is not terrible, the terrible is that there is a human disaster, or that kind of large-scale, large-scale famine, like this famine in the three northern provinces, or just this very serious situation in the north is not too terrible, and the grain merchants who smell the news will continue to transport the grain over and make a lot of money.

Originally, these grain merchants brought grain over, and the price would rise, and a few times higher would be considered a normal operation, plus official disaster relief or something, and the famine would soon pass.

But this time, they played a big game of chess, united many grain merchants, ate all the grain transported from the south, and at the same time tried to get away the grain in the hands of the government.

Naturally, it is impossible for the grain from the south to be as cheap as before, and if these people want to eat the grain from the south, the price will naturally be several times more expensive than in the past, and because they eat all the grain from the south, they can form a controlling advantage, and the silver will continue to flow out like flowing water.

Of course, their original abacus was very good, as long as the price of grain rose, they would not only be able to make a lot of money by famine, but also be able to eat the Xishan Coal Industry, the glass factory, etc. into their stomachs, and they could achieve their goal of finally controlling the imperial power, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

Liu Jin knew very well that during this period of time, these people had spent at least a few million taels of silver in order to eat the grain coming from the south, and it could be said that they had already smashed their blood into it.

Originally, their plan was also seamless, because they firmly controlled the grain, and at the same time they had their spokesmen in the court, and the grain requisitioned by the grain merchants in this famine era was said to have no credit, and the court used silver to buy grain.

There is food in this hand, and there is someone to help speak, and everything seems to be under control.

But Liu Jin's side also used grain as a breakthrough point, went to sea to fish, went to North Korea to buy grain, as long as there was enough food in their hands to make people full, their plan would naturally be self-defeating.

The eyes of the people behind the plots were still limited to Daming, and they didn't expect Liu Jin to fish from the sea, and they definitely didn't expect that this ocean would be so rich, with a few boats, they could catch millions of catties of sea fish back in one day.

I didn't expect that I could go to North Korea to buy grain, go to North Korea by sea, and it only takes half a month to go back and forth, and I can transport back 5 million catties of rice at a time, which is enough to last for a long time.

"Now it's time to fight back, the core point is the capital, as long as the price of grain in the capital drops, the food in their hands will be worthless, and they will also sell food frantically, the more they compete to sell food, the faster the price of this grain will fall, and soon this famine will pass."

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Liu Jin's face.