Although Huanyuan's return to Chu caused a lot of waves in the Taoist school of Chu, Huanyuan was only named the crown prince by the king of Chu, and Huanyuan was dedicated to writing classics, so this matter did not make big waves in the court.

As for the flour plan, it was dispatched by Ling Yin Jingli in the bureau, and Chen Zhen was in charge of intelligence, and the fight was carried out in an orderly manner.

Beginning in June, the purchase price of wheat and rice in various parts of Chu began to rise, and quickly surpassed the price of corn.

In July, the price of wheat was half as expensive as corn.

The news spread quickly and became known in various countries, and the price of wheat and rice began to rise in various countries.

At the beginning of August, the value of wheat and rice had already doubled.

In the face of this anomaly, it immediately aroused the vigilance of all countries.

Originally, when the price of wheat began to rise, countries could only strengthen control when they did not understand the intentions of the country, and various checkpoints restricted the departure of wheat from the country.

By August, all the countries thought that Chu was crazy.

Even so, various countries still sent spies to Chu to find out.

What did the Chu State want so much wheat and rice for, to make flour?

To say this is to insult IQ, just the wheat given by Wei to Chu is enough for the people of Chu for more than ten years, not to mention others.

As a result, the roads from various countries to Chu were suddenly full of pedestrians, either to do business or to visit and travel.

Huai Nanyong County, Chu State.

A group of people looked at the corn that was about to be harvested and smiled with relief.

One of them smiled and said, "Sir, it seems that this year is another bumper harvest." ”

Xu Xing, who looked like an old farmer in the crowd, nodded approvingly, his face full of satisfaction.

Since the fall of Teng, many people of Teng have become people who have fallen to the country, and after being sacked overnight, they have changed from Teng people to Song people.

Xu Xing's reputation was outside, and Song Jun knew each other very well and did not harass this group, and even King Song planned to ask Xu Xing to go out of the mountain to help, but Xu Xing refused.

Although Xu Xing did not recognize Teng Wengong very much, he felt the kindness of Teng Wengong and was unwilling to be a subject of the Song king, so he left the Song Kingdom with his disciples.

Originally, Xu Xing's group planned to go west to Qin.

Because today's countries, although they all attach importance to agricultural production, only the Qin State has adopted the doctrine of the peasants.

Many of the contents of the Qin state's farming and warfare system were the ideas of the peasants, and the corpses of the sages of the peasants were once the disciples of the Shang Dynasty, and later became the teachers of the Shang Dynasty, so the Shang Dynasty adopted many peasant views when designing the Qin law.

Therefore, Xu Xing thinks that in today's world, if there is a country that can accept his own ideas, then it must be the Qin State.

Just when Xu Xing made a detour to Chu and planned to go to Qin by water, he got the news that Chu would send land duty-free in Huainan.

Many people who did not want to become the people of the Qin State, such as the Chen Xiang brothers, a pair of Confucian children of the original Chu State, were full of evil feelings towards the Qin State.

After getting this news, he persuaded Xu Xing to stay in Huainan first to wait and see, after all, most of his group of people were from the Chu State, since the Chu State not only gave land but also tax exemption, why did he rush all the way to the Qin State to farm!

So, the group came to Huainan and was then placed in Yongxian.

On the way back from the field, one of them suddenly said, "Sir, after the harvest of all this corn we have planted, what should we plant next?" ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked expectant, waiting for Xu Xing's reply.

Xu Xing asked, "What do you think of Maimi?" ”

Chen Xiang replied: "It's hard to eat, it's hard to grow. ”

Chen Xing added: "But the flour is good. ”

"Yes, corn is delicious and easy to grow, and everyone in the world loves to eat corn, so corn is the most expensive in the world. But now one pound of wheat is worth two pounds of corn, what do you think is the reason for this? ”

One of the followers opened his mouth and said, "That's because the King of Chu is crazy." ”

Chen Xiang refuted: "The king of Chu is crazy, are all the ministers of the Chu State crazy?" ”

After a pause, Chen said to Xu Xing: "Sir, this matter is not known to the students, but as far as the students know, the price of wheat and rice in various parts of the Chu country has been fixed at sixty-four yuan, and the price of the entire Chu country is at this price, which is about to catch up with the price of high-grade corn during the famine year." ”

Chen Xing added again: "And now the grain prices of the entire Chu State are also unified, and they are controlled by the grain stores set up by the Chu State in various places, and it is obvious that there is a problem with Maimi." ”

Xu Xing nodded and said: "The same kind of rice and the same price, this is the right way, I have been away from the Chu State for many years, and I don't want the King of Chu to change really much." ”

Chen Xiang said with emotion: "I heard that Qu Yuan was changing the law in the Chu State, and I didn't think that Qu Yuan would be expelled for a long time, I thought that the Chu State had returned to the previous Chu State, but I didn't expect that the King of Chu had changed after all." ”

Song Jingdao: "Although the king of Chu has changed, but the taxes of Chu are still so heavy, it is okay to be tax-free now, once the tax-free time has passed, we still have to bear a heavy burden." ”

Chen Xiang sighed: "That's right, but in this world, which country's taxes are not heavy, Qin's taxes are heavier than Chu's, and Qiyan of the Three Jin Dynasty is slightly lighter than Qin and Chu's. ”

Hearing Chen Xiang mention Teng Guo, everyone was silent for a while.

Seeing this, Xu Xing said, "Since wheat is so expensive now, let's grow wheat in winter." ”

Chen Xiang hesitated when he heard this: "Sir, it's true that wheat is very expensive now, but now that the people have wheat in their hands, the price of wheat has been pulled to the current price by Chu State." The price of wheat is too fake now, because everyone doesn't have wheat in their hands. Even if the price of wheat purchased by Chu State increases tenfold now, it still can't receive wheat rice, which means that Chu State has raised the price of wheat and rice tenfold without spending a penny. ”

"The students are worried that the Chu State will backtrack, and after we plant a large amount of wheat and rice, the next year's wheat will be harvested, and then the Chu State will greatly reduce the purchase price of wheat and rice, and at that time, I am afraid that the wheat we grow will not be eaten by ourselves, and then we will not be able to sell it, and it will rot in our hands, and it will only delay a winter in vain."

"Yes, yes, sir, that's right, this year's corn harvest is good, and we don't have to pay taxes, we can have a lot of corn left this time, and we can't eat all the corn, not to mention the unpalatable wheat, there are really some dangers in planting wheat."

Many of Xu Xing's disciples discussed.

Everyone is worried that they have worked hard for more than half a year, and then these blessings are meaningless.

Xu Xing said disapprerovingly: "The state of Chu is a big country, and although the king of Chu has shirked his responsibilities many times since he ascended the throne, the king of Chu is not such a brutal faint king. What you are worried about is not unreasonable, if there is a bumper harvest of wheat next year, then the price of wheat will definitely drop, as for how much, it depends on how dark the heart of the king of Chu is. ”

"If the price of wheat really falls to the price of less than 20 yuan last year, then we will feed it to the dogs."