Chapter 299: Embarking on the Holy Path
In a sense, Wang Lin's monopoly plan for Guanzhong grain cannot be seen until the last moment.
However, Lingnan took advantage of the fleet that came from the spring flood to end the market monopoly war ahead of schedule, and the galleons that exceeded 10,000 stones alone drove to the Weishui wharf at one time, and as for the ships of several thousand stones, they couldn't be counted at all, and on the wharf, there were constantly workers up and down to carry grain, which were all milled white rice.
The families who were holding the grain panicked, the imperial court did not have a plan to purchase a grain of grain on the market, the grain in their hands, but it was hoarded before the start of the drought, and it belonged to the old grain of the previous year, but there was no disaster in Guanzhong this year, after the harvest, the grain in their hands will be old, I am afraid that it can only be fed to the livestock.
Suddenly, in response to Wang Lin, the small and medium-sized families who had hoarded a large amount of grain in various places began to scold, and the object of the abuse was Wang Lin, who had long disappeared in Chang'an.
The price must be reduced, and the price must be reduced, otherwise, these grains will be smashed in their hands.
However, the people are too lazy to look at the rice in the grain store, because, even if the price is reduced, the people still have no money to buy rice, and most people have to wait for the relief of the imperial court, even if they have a little money, they will not spend this unjust money, because the imperial court has brought so much grain to help the people, there is a free cheap, who doesn't like to take advantage of it!
Then, the people of Datang finally saw what a panic fall is.
The price of grain in Chang'an dropped from three yuan and one stone to three hundred wen and one stone in one day, a tenfold drop.
It's a pity that even this price, which has made the family lose to their grandmother's family, is still unpopular.
Taiji Palace, in the imperial study, Li Shimin was in a good mood, and gave Sun Xiangfugatt the will to enter the Lord of the National Pillar, and directly asked Ma Zhou to draw it up, his plan was too beautiful, so beautiful that Li Shimin was not appreciative.
Lingnan did not send enough grain to Chang'an for millions of people in Guanzhong to eat for a few months, they just sent hundreds of thousands of stone grain, and the grain on the ships on the dock was actually the one million yuan that Sun Xiangfu secretly asked Wei Zheng to bring back to Chang'an last year, and the grain in Wang Hao's hand, plus the hundreds of thousands of stone grain sent by Lingnan, was actually only more than one million stones.
For the three or four million people in Guanzhong, these grains are enough to drink gruel for two months at most, after all, if they are distributed to everyone, they may be less than 50 catties of grain, and they will last for two months, and each person cannot eat more than one pound of grain per day, and now there are about four months before May and June, and the time for the fields to be harvested.
So, Sun Xiangfu thought of this plan, taking advantage of the arrival of the first batch of grain in Lingnan, and loaded all the grain that Li Shimin secretly bought from Wang Hao last year, as well as the grain hoarded in Xingfu Village, onto the ship overnight, forming a momentum of the fleet blocking the dock to unload grain, causing panic among those large grain farmers.
Sun Xiangfu, who was a futures trader, became a hero in Li Shimin's heart, because, with this plan, Guanzhong will be completely eliminated due to the impact of the drought, and the price of grain of 300 wen and one stone is already low compared with the normal years in the past, and the imperial court now has the money to purchase grain calmly and help all the people.
Because, with the addition of the 3.5 million guan that Cui bought from 7 percent of the shares in Weinan New Town, Li Shimin can now embezzle as much as 7.7 million guan in cash, and 1 million guan to purchase grain is enough for all ordinary people to last until the summer grain harvest.
However, Sun Xiangfu believes that the price of grain of 300 wen and one stone is still too high, especially when the grain in the hands of those people is old grain, there is at least one or two times the decline that can be operated, and after the grain falls, I am afraid it will be difficult to rise again, because there will be a bumper harvest in Guanzhong this year, and it is two rounds of bumper harvest, so it is better to put it in place at one time, so that the grain of Datang will enter the low-price mode from now on, so that the people can start planting cash crops earlier.
For Sun Xiangfu's suggestion, Li Shimin now attaches great importance to it, did not disturb him to continue to preside over spring ploughing, convened the ministers in the court and the imperial study to hold a meeting, study and calculate the future situation, according to the new situation, to formulate some corresponding decrees and regulations, so far, the Tang Dynasty court, really have some momentum to do the government affairs work in front.
The price of grain in Chang'an did not stabilize in the next few days, and fell by more than half again, to the price of one hundred and twenty wen and one stone, which is basically one penny and one catty, and twelve yuan of rice, although it is higher than the four coins of rice in the four years of Zhenguan in history, but Li Shimin has begun to let people buy a small amount, after all, he is at ease when the grain is in his own hands.
Sun Xiangfu gave Li Shimin a strategy, and then he didn't care, his main job is to teach everyone to farm, the nutrition bowl has appeared in Datang for three years, the people are no longer strangers to it, in the long greenhouses around Happy Village, all kinds of melons, cotton seedlings began to grow in the shed, every day Sun Xiangfu has to say to these seedlings, to his own farmers, or to the familiar farmers who came to listen to the lecture for an hour or two, and his mouth is dry.
And the children of the peasant family and the skilled farmers who have listened to Sun Xiangfu's lectures will go to the masses again to explain to the big guys the matters that need to be paid attention to in taking care of these things.
After talking about planting seedlings, and then talking about transplantation, after talking about transplantation, and then talking about seedling treatment, pollination treatment, insect pest treatment, etc., etc., I don't know that there are thousands of farmers who come to Xingfu to listen to Sun Xiangfu's lectures every day, and through the mouths of these thousands of people, Sun Xiangfu's agricultural knowledge has been passed on to hundreds of thousands, millions of people in Guanzhong.
If Li Chunfeng saw this scene in Guanzhong at this moment, he would definitely say that Sun Zhengming had already begun to embark on the path of a sage, and in terms of the current scale of his teaching, it had surpassed that of Confucius when he was alive.
Sun Xiangfu's lectures are very distinctive, never quoting scriptures, and there is not even one of them, all of them are in the vernacular, and most of the time, they point to the real thing, so the people who listen to his lectures, even if they don't know big words, can understand a rough idea, if they are not greedy, they learn the planting essentials of one or two crops a day, there is no problem at all.
In late February, the weather has been warm, large-scale seedlings began to transplant to the field planting, transport nutrients and seedlings of the carriage and horses, can be seen everywhere on the highway, if the road system is not closed to complete the construction, Sun Xiangfu does not dare to concentrate on the cultivation of seedlings.
And these wide cement roads, at this time also became the economic lifeline of Guanzhong, Li Shimin urgently introduced a traffic law, driving along the road, must drive on the right, this is also the world's first traffic law.
In the breeding greenhouse concentration area of Xingfu Village, Yu Fang and several people led a cadre of clerks to constantly write documents for seedling loans with household registration.
Sun Xiaomei and some girls in Happy Village have not stopped counting the price, and most of the people can't count how many seedlings they need in their fields, and they don't know how much they need to pay to buy these seedlings.
But these children can give accurate answers, only need farmers to report the number of acres of their own fields, what crops are suitable for planting, these children will soon give a set of numbers, the people are more convinced of these numbers, because they borrowed seedlings to go back, according to the requirements of the planting of the people, basically are exactly the same, people only need to rely on the household registration, take the strip they opened, press the handprint on the strip of the loan, you can go to the shed to receive seedlings with the strip.
Moreover, after borrowing the seedlings, they don't have to worry about not being able to transport these seedlings to their own fields, because Xingfu Village has already prepared many carriages, and there are wooden lattices specially installed on the cars that can hold a large number of these nutrient bowl seedlings, and one cart can pull thousands of nutrient bowls, all of which are free, but if you use them, you need to line up according to the distance and deploy them uniformly.
Since the people in the village were released to do sowing and seedling guidance, Sun Xiangfu invited Li Chengqian and his prince Liurate to help maintain the order, and they would notify the counties one by one, and the people of each village would come to collect the seedlings, and inform the people as much as possible that they must do a good job in the initial work of checking and replenishing the seedlings.
Melon seedlings planted in a nutrient bowl, one less, at least one melon will be less in summer, one less cotton, may be less than dozens of cotton peaches, damaged in the seedling stage, you can immediately replant, don't underestimate one or two melons and dozens of cotton peaches, the value of these cash crops is still very high, and there are enough seedlings in Happy Village for the people to replant, as long as they are planted in accordance with the regulations, they do not need to add money.
After learning that Sun Xiangfu was a little too busy here, Li Shimin mobilized all his forces to support him, with the army's carriages and horses, and Qingzhuang to help transport and organize, everything became smoother.
In March, the fragrance of peach blossoms wafted throughout Guanzhong, why is there so much peach blossom fragrance? Because the thousands of peach trees planted by Sun Xiangfu for the Forestry Department will bloom and bear fruit this year.
Zhao Muchun from the Forestry Department came to Happy Village early in the morning to report the good news to Sun Xiangfu, but was beaten by Sun Xiangfu's head and face.
"You're happy when you bloom? Do you know how much economic benefit can be generated by peach blossoms alone? Also, you thought that the peach tree will bear fruit this year, have you ever thought about what will happen after the fruit is hung? This is a forest of thousands of peachies, and the peaches will ripen together when the time comes, do you think that the people of Chang'an alone can eat them all? When the time comes, will all those peaches rot on the tree? ”
The thinking of the ancients was like this, old-fashioned, lagging behind. At present, only Li Shimin and a few bigwigs of the imperial court, ordinary people, who realize that they want to do the work in front, are rarely like Sun Xiangfu, who think about things so long-term, this is not one or two peach trees, the fruit is ripe, pick it and eat it.
This can be thousands of peach trees, at least hundreds of thousands of peach trees, even if it is the first year of fruit, the output of peaches is an incalculable number, and Sun Xiangfu has previously guided the planting of fields in various places, roughly seen these peach trees, due to the good selection of the land, the planting method is scientific, the growth is good, the peaches in Guanzhong, even in later generations, are very famous, not to mention in the fertile land, the ecological environment is better now.
Zhao Muchun was frightened by Sun Xiangfu's number of drops, and now, he is the only one left of the original few pastoral supervisors of the Animal Husbandry Supervision Bureau, and the others are all removed because of their ability, is it their turn this year?
"Poof."
Zhao Muchun knelt straight on the ground, and the voice made Sun Xiangfu feel a little sour, but he was on the concrete floor! It's enough to choke him if he can stand up later.
The next moment, something that made Sun Xiangfu even more sore came out, and Zhao Muchun took his bare forehead and was about to knock it on the concrete floor of his house.
"Stop, stop, what's the matter with you, just talk about things, don't do this, I'm afraid of losing my life!"
"I beg Governor Sun to look at the little affection in the past, give advice and guidance to the work of my Forestry Department, and be grateful······
Saying that, Zhao Muchun's tears flowed out, and it was also thanks to his great and happy personality that he made a special trip to Happy Village to report the good news, otherwise, when the peaches were about to ripen, he would think of this problem, and the matter would be big.