Chapter 251 Six Rites
Originally, the price of grain was not so high, and at the current price of grain, after deducting the cost, they can make more than ten times as much money.
So if you make less than ten or twenty dollars, they really don't care. Anyway, the big head is still there, and those small profits don't need it.
It's like if you sell something and you make a hundred bucks, and someone bargains with you and cuts twenty, and you think, hey. Anyway, the big head is still there, so let's sell it.
At this time, these owners are all in such a mentality, and the price reduction is not to attract popularity, as long as there are more people who come to buy, there is still more money.
Besides, the ordinary people don't know, can these children of the family with status know? By this time, there was already an increase in the amount of grain piled up in the city. If anyone is slow to shoot, maybe the food will be smashed into their hands.
This situation is not to say that it cannot be sold, but it has to be sold to other places, so that the loss and consumption on the road is a lot of silver taels, which is not cost-effective. So it's better to make small profits and quick sales in this city, and shoot them all at once.
It's always so strange, and when you have the first time, the second time becomes natural. After the second time, the third, fourth, and fifth will become more and more natural.
It's okay if the price is not reduced, everyone has this bottom line, so no one is willing to open this head, and no one is willing to open this head. When one person crosses this line, the people behind will follow one after another.
No, just the family began to reduce the price, and the people behind it looked wrong, you all lowered the price, what am I still doing? Let's drop!
Okay, this drop, there is no negotiation, in order to be able to do more business, you drop five Wen, I will reduce Eight Wen. If you descend eight texts, I will descend ten texts. Everyone is like a competition, this price is an hour, and an hour is down.
When Li Xie wandered around the street and saw this scene, he knew that the price of grain in the back was no longer artificially controllable. This kind of price war will only stop when everyone else has fallen, and only one company is left dominant.
And food is not something that can be controlled only by one family. Therefore, it is foreseeable that the price of grain in Luotianfu will not be high for more than half a year.
And I am afraid that after this price war, there will be a lot of grain merchants who are unwilling to ship grain here to buy it.
In one day, the grain fell by more than 150 yuan, and then the next day the situation did not improve at all, and as Li Xie estimated, the price continued to fall. By the time four days had passed, the price of food had dropped to the point where it could no longer be lowered.
Because if it goes down any longer, it will be a loss-making transaction, but even with such a low price of grain, it is still not very sellable. Some people from some families have begun to take risks and transport grain out to be sold outside.
In this way, not only will a lot of grain be lost on the road, but also the manpower and material resources for transportation will be a big expense. And if you estimate all of this, after paying for it, you can't be sure that the food will reach its destination safely.
Chivalrous martial arts are not a joke, now a large number of people outside are short of food, and a large number of people are hungry. Many people who have a little bit of craftsmanship in their hands have begun to take risks and do some illegal things.
One by one, the family is huge, but the most powerful in the world is always the people. A small family, which is dying, can gather as many people as possible to protect this food.
How can the enemy go too long and the road is long, and the people along the road are eyeing each other. But there is no way, the price of food here is too low for them to bear, so there will always be people who take the risk and try it.
When Lee started doing things, he never thought of himself as a good person. Therefore, he also arranged a lot of laying hands in this, and hundreds of secret guards were arranged at the gate of Guangguang City.
These people don't have to do anything, they just keep an eye on the trucks carrying food that go out. Observe the direction they are traveling, record them, and report them......
The people of the family really couldn't get down the steps this time, and before the price of grain began to fall, these people cut off their heads and forced him in front of Li Zhanji. Now that the grain has fallen again and again, it has become the freezing point of the current price, and their persecution is naturally self-defeating.
Then one of those persecutors counted as one, but they had no face to stay in front of Li Zhanji. The people who come forward to do these things are all patriarchs in the family. After all, if it was only Li Zhanji's subordinate officials, it would be unreasonable to persecute him like this.
It's also easy to be pinched by him, so the people who come forward are the patriarch of a family, or these people who are under one person in the family and above ten thousand people, and are highly respected.
Most of them work for the family at home, and they are in charge of the overall direction of the family, and they will not become officials. In other words, they are all free, so they have a lot of places to go.
After making such a fuss and making a shameless fuss, they quickly withdrew. All of a sudden, half of the nobles in this Luotian Mansion were missing, and many of the big mansions that stood were also moved empty.
In the face of this situation, Li Zhanji not only did not worry that his capital's economy would not be able to develop economically. On the contrary, he laughs every day.
As soon as the patriarchs of those families left Luotian Mansion, Li Zhanji felt that the sky was blue and the water was clear. There are fewer words to refute in the court, and there are no more people who block yourself.
Taking advantage of this good momentum, Li Zhanji directly issued a holy decree:
As the only concubine born to the queen, Li Xie is intelligent, sensitive and studious, gentle and filial, and has made Li Xie the king. Yidong Desert Road, Lu 3,000.
King Qing, Li Xuezhong and Li Xiaolin are both two-word kings, Li Baichuan is very favored and has been crowned a Yongwang, but he has no real name, only such a title, no fief, and no real power in his hands. Only the hundreds of people in his palace can be mobilized, and they are dead, plus the hundreds of people in his mother's princess's mansion! Shilu eats even more of his old book, all from his mother. Although there are many, it is estimated that there are 5,000 stones, but none of them are appreciated by Li Zhanji.
So although the title is good, there is not much difference between having it and not having it.
As soon as this holy decree was issued, Li Xiaolin and Li Xuezhong were both relieved, why?
Because Li Xie has a fief, but the two of them don't. Although the absence of a fief is not a good thing, it at least shows that Li Zhanji has no intention of letting the two of them go, right?
Li Xie has a fief, which means in disguise that he will not stay in this Luotian Mansion for a long time. Because the prince also has a saying, this is the prince who has no ability to snatch the supreme position, and the above is afraid that he will die for no reason, so he gives a consolation prize: there is a piece of land, glory and wealth are not a problem, but there is absolutely no way to go further.
As for saying that the fiefdom given is a place as big as a road, there is nothing to say, the East Wilderness Road has been desolate since ancient times, and there is no food where even food can be grown, so the land is bigger, it's useless anyway.
In fact, this holy decree is particularly interesting, Chen Pingqing and a few others who are optimistic about Li Xie, or know Li Zhanji's intentions, can see at a glance that this is the protection of Li Xie, this is Mingli telling others that this person will leave after a while, and there is no need to worry about this Luo Tianfu and him.
At the same time, he also told others that once this person arrived at the Eastern Wilderness Road, he would be a soil emperor, and it was useless to care about it in the Luotian Mansion, but it was impossible to care about it in the Eastern Wilderness Road.
So this is also a clear way to tell others, don't fight with Li Xie, because in the end, you won't be able to eat the fox and cause a fuss.
But for those who don't know Li Zhanji's plans, or are not optimistic about Li Xie, Li Zhanji's holy decree is also telling them:
This person is my son, and although he does not have the supreme position, he cannot tolerate being bullied by others. The psychological status quo of an old father.
After all, Li Zhanji is the most powerful person in the country on the surface, so no matter who knows the information of this holy decree, after encountering Li Xie, he must give him such a five-point color.
"I didn't think he understood my mind." When Li Xie received this holy decree, he thought so in his heart. As for the information revealed in this holy decree, he may not be able to do the emperor's information, he really doesn't care at all.
What's so good about being an emperor?
All day long, except for work is work, I can't even get out of that city wall. On the surface, he is the ultimate ruler in this country, and he is a figure with absolute power, but behind the scenes, he is really a poor person.
Perhaps for those who are greedy for power, this sacrifice is nothing. It's freedom, as long as you can sit on that supreme position, it doesn't matter if you can't get out of that imperial city for the rest of your life, anyway, the imperial city is big enough, there are enough women in it, if you are greedy, you can even have enough fun projects.
But for Lee Seop, the life he pursues is definitely not like this. In his vision, there is an important point in his future life that cannot be erased, that is, freedom.
Perhaps for the sake of this freedom, it may be necessary to have enough power, but it is absolutely not possible to do the last thing and the power is only to serve the freedom you want, and you must not lose your freedom for the sake of power.
Of course, Li Xie didn't know that Li Zhanji had already thought about himself, so when Li Xie received this holy decree, he was full of joy. I couldn't help but ask the eunuch who was preaching the decree:
"Dare to ask my father-in-law, when can I do it?"
"This ...... How does this villain know? "In this Luo Tianfu, who is not running around for fame, fortune and power? Who in the palace doesn't fight to the death for a little power?
Li Xie's posture of can't wait to leave is the first time this little eunuch has seen it. So he was full of confusion! Is there really such a person in this world?
"Did you say that in front of me on purpose? Do you want me to reach the ears of the Holy One? The messenger thought so, but Li Xie directly opened his mouth and ordered the expulsion:
"Is there anything else you have to do? Since there's nothing to do, you can go back first. "This is asking people, it is directly asking and answering.
And the original honorific title is no longer called, and it is directly replaced by you. Li Xie is not such an impolite person, it's just that this Yiwang Mansion is a mess now. Li Xieri's handling of these trivial things annoys him with a headache.
This housekeeper acts on weekdays, and I am really the number one in the world, and it doesn't matter if anyone talks. For example, the day before yesterday, Li Xie was in the right mood to walk in the garden.
Because the girls in the house have no one to discipline them all year round, they often go to the garden to play after they are busy with the things at hand.
Li Xie was strolling around, and saw a group of maids playing happily among the flowers. are all in the prime of life, and the overflowing youth is wantonly swaying.
What a hundred women's flowers.
Li Xie didn't say that he had any thoughts about them, but it was rare to see such a lively picture, so he wanted to watch it for a while, so he hid in the corner very secretly.
And it just so happened that at this time, the housekeeper had something to find Li Xie, and after seeing this scene, he immediately opened his mouth to scold.
Li Xie rarely used his identity as the master to say a good thing: "It's okay, anyway, their work is done, and they like to play here, so let them play." ”
"Yes!" In front of Li Xie, he replied respectfully.
Li Xie turned around and didn't take two steps, and the housekeeper scolded these frightens from behind: "Don't you want to live one by one?" What is this place? And you, if you don't have a leader, you will be fined half of each. If there is a next time, just leave. ”
Li Xie listened, his face darkened at that time, what does this mean? It doesn't work for me to talk, does it? Is this still not my palace?
Li Xie especially wanted to turn around and go back now to beat up this housekeeper, but he held his own identity, and it was shameless to go back now, so he gave up. Such a thing as ruining Li Xie's face is only one of them.
Li Xie asked people to investigate, and found that although this housekeeper ate and lived in the palace, he kept two little mistresses outside. And those two little mistresses, every day is a waste of money! After some inquiry, he didn't find out that he had other sources of money, so where did this money come from? It's nothing more than greed from the palace.
But when people investigated the accounts of the palace, they found nothing.
Sometimes, Li Xie really wants to drive this housekeeper out directly, and it's a hundred. It doesn't matter what others say, anyway, it's your own life, how others like to say it, how to say it.
But unfortunately, Cao Ying ran to the palace twice in three days. This is also understandable, the two are now in the stage of falling in love, and it is like seeing each other for a day.
Li Xie couldn't go out of the city to see Cao Ying, so she went into the city to see him. Cao Ying doesn't care about a woman's reserve or anything, she is originally very decisive, in modern terms, that is a female man, although there is still a woman's shyness, but it will definitely not be manifested in the matter of whether to come to see him at home.
As soon as Cao Ying came, she was always able to arouse the little softness in Li Xie's heart. They were all ruthless to kick the housekeeper out, but they couldn't go back.
Although Cao Ying is not a woman as gentle as water, the weakness hidden in the softness that is not easy to be discovered can always touch Li Xie's heartstrings. This may be the so-called one thing to one thing.
The holy decree of marriage has arrived at Cao Ying's house, but when the marriage will be completed, the holy decree is not written. Li Xie is now scratching his heart and thinking about being able to marry Cao Ying as soon as possible.
So when there was no progress on the affairs of the family, Li Xie couldn't help but hit the idea to this. Aren't you, the housekeeper, doing things without leakage?
Okay, I'll find a hostess to come back, I look at you every day, I see what tricks you can play.
With this thought, of course, Li Xie went directly to his old man.
"Although marriage is just a matter of one sentence, after all, it is a person who will live with you for the rest of his life, and this normal etiquette still has to be walked."
Li Zhanji also feels that his son is about the same age, how old is the second and fourth older than Li Xie? The son will go to rob the daughter-in-law. So Li Xie is in a hurry, and Li Zhanji is completely understandable.
However, Cao Ying will be the queen candidate in the future after all, and some etiquette that should be taken still has to be walked, so that it will be cherished and will not be criticized in the future.
"It's okay, just as soon as possible." Li Xie had no opinion on this, because Li Xie knew that these things might be insignificant to him, and he could even ignore them, but maybe they were very important things for Cao Ying.
After all, most of the women here can only marry once in their lives, and if they don't follow these etiquettes, they may make her haunted for the rest of her life.
"Then I'll let people start preparing, and I believe that it can be done in a month at most." It's definitely a quick fix.
Ordinary people marry a daughter in a family, and it takes at least a year from the sixth ceremony to the time the daughter goes out. Being able to complete all these rituals in a month is really the speed of light.
There is Li Zhanji, the emperor's father, Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Naji, Nazheng, the date of announcement and personal welcome, except for the last personal welcome to go out by himself, the others do not need to be ignored by Li Xie at all.
Li Xie also believes that with the emperor Li Zhanji there, everything will be very simple. In fact, it is precisely because of this that this daughter-in-law was recognized by the emperor, and the holy decree of marriage has already reached the woman's family.
When asking for names, the people who do these things only ask about family affairs very simply, and no one even investigates them in detail, even if they pass.
As for the previous lottery, it is even more of a problem. Li Zhanji is the emperor, who dares to disobey him? At least on the surface, no one dares. Li Zhanji said that Cao Ying of the Cao family wants to marry my son, so she has to marry.
When the power reaches his level, the opinion of the woman's family is not important at all, you have to agree with it, and you have to agree with it if you don't agree.
The process went smoothly one after another, but the unexpected came quietly at this time.