The Mid-Autumn Festival, which began in the Tang Dynasty and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, is a thing of the past. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Song people don't like to engage in other heavy spirits, but the humanistic atmosphere is the strongest, no matter what festival, the Song people are always the most active in the festival.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, of course, it is called late autumn, and at this moment the grasshoppers are not jumping much, and all the breath between heaven and earth is lurking, not restless. According to superstition, this autumn queen kills the least amount of resentment, and it is not easy to be haunted by powerful ghosts, so the registered death row prisoner named Song Jiang on death row is about to be beheaded.

In view of this situation, Shi Wengong has secretly gone south. It should be possible to reach Jiangzhou in a few days.

It was Gao Fangping who went to the secret letter to summon the old history. He is not Gao Fangping's subordinate, but this is very simple in terms of procedures, after Gao Fangping sent a letter, Shi Wengong asked Shi Wenbin to ask for leave and leave alone.

After Gao Fangping was cut off from the Yongle Army, Shi Wengong's department belonged to Shi Wenbin, who was the main general of the Yongle Army.

Earlier, Gao Fangping had a secret order to Shi Wengong, asking him to closely monitor the movements of Shuibo, and for this reason, Shi Wengong also had a confrontation with Shuibo's small group of stragglers. However, there has been no news from Shuibo recently, and it is uncertain whether Chao Gai and others left Shuibo and went south to rescue Song Jiang.

Gao Fangping analyzed that there may be a Yongle Army in Jeju that is closely monitored, so Chao Gai and others landed from Yunzhou and left Shuibo. may be on the way, and the plan to rescue Song Jiang will be implemented.

Gao Fangping was not sure about this, but it did not affect the preparation for this. The reason is that Dai Zong has disappeared and cannot be seen in Jiangzhou, Gao Fangping has reason to suspect that after being expelled, Dai Zong's calf is really muddy, and he is going to Liangshan to drink wine and eat meat, and there is a high probability that he will go to Shuibo to report the news and study the details of rescuing Song Jiang.

Chao Gai is a person who talks about righteousness, but Wu Yong is not easy to say. However, for the sake of their "legitimacy of the Gathering Hall", and in order to serve as the banner of Tianxingdao, it is very likely that Wu Yong can only support the proposal to rescue Song Jiang, otherwise there may be a state of centrifugation in the existing leaders of the cottage. Again, this is a political issue, and politics is always everywhere.

At the same time, Yang Zhi had already taken Gao Fangping's documents to the north and went to Beijing to mobilize food.

Arrange for the cronies in Beijing to organize people and horses to buy grain near Gyeonggi, work in different times day and night, produce compound feed, and then begin to organize the transportation of Jiangzhou south.

The current Jiangnan East Road Disaster Relief Center is in Jiangzhou, and food is the lifeline before winter comes, and we must win this Jiangnan grain defense war at all costs.

For the time being, this can only be done first, and the imperial court may not be able to count on it. In view of the system problems, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a sound "reserve law", so in Zhang Shuye's hands, the surplus grain available was actually relatively limited. The days in the northwest are still not good, and after Zong Ze judged that the battle of Song and Xia might start again, the imperial court must prepare for this to a certain extent.

There is surplus grain in the north, but if the household department takes the lead in organizing the transportation of grain from the north to Jiangzhou, limited by the transportation capacity of this era, as well as the inefficiency, laziness, and corruption of the bureaucracy, the price will be too great, and the cost price paid by the imperial court may be higher than that of the black-hearted grain in the south of the Yangtze River.

So Uncle Zhang has already said to Gao Fangping: The imperial court no longer has the ability to manage your Jiangnan East Road, and the old man pushes you to the Jiangdong transfer envoy position, so that you can do the "impossible task", do not shirk, and swear to resist the food crisis in Jiangnan this time.

No matter what the reason is, although the flood was not caused by Gao Fangping, history has never been gentle, and heroes are judged by success or failure, and these are what Gao Fangping is facing.

If this battle is lost, all of Gao Fangping's previous victories will be in vain, and as many people starve to death, his prestige will be gone.

So inevitably, this time Gao Fangping went to the capital and went into battle as a "fallen master", vowing to pay money to win this food defense war. Economically, Gao Fangping will lose money, but politically it is vital interests, damn this is the correct use of political funds, and other uses are actually not just.

This is a political and economic preparation.

Relying only on authority and threatening those officials to reach a compromise with their dog-legged grain merchants is not enough insurance, Gao Fangping does not fully trust those sharks, and if the form is not right, they still have a chance to turn back.

However, while suppressing them through power, and at the same time using economic means to organize grain from the capital to the south, it is a double insurance. In terms of momentum, it is possible to suppress them, and once it forms a form in which Gao Fangping can unilaterally bear the food crisis without them, some businessmen who have too much grain backlog within the grain merchants in Jiangnan will waver in their stance and may begin to secretly release grain.

At that time, the opening was a stampede effect, and the defeat was like a mountain. Yes, there are no surprises in the capital market, just this virtue, a thing, when everyone thinks it is worth so much, it is not sold, it is worth so much on the books. Once the format changes, none of these trend investors are stupid, and they all want others to take over and they retreat.

At that time, the entire Jiangnan East Road will be full of dark clouds and "selling", and the food crisis will naturally be solved. It's certain that you won't have enough to eat, and it's certain that the price will still be expensive, but if you survive this winter, next year will be the time for the Jedi to fight back.

In ancient times, there was a systemic food crisis, not a crisis of food itself, but a crisis of transportation capacity.

It's not that there is really no food, but in ancient times, there were no railways, and the shipping capacity was very limited, so there was almost no ability to transfuse blood to the affected areas on a large scale when needed.

If the external grain cannot be transported, then as the internal grain in the affected areas becomes less and less, there will be more and more cases of children and daughters starving to death, and then the tenfold price of grain is just the beginning.

In ancient times, taking the land route was to fight, especially in the year of disaster, the existence of half-people and half-bandits all over the mountains and fields, and most of the ordinary people who were not human would also become a group of people who grabbed food in the year of the disaster. Coupled with the government's inefficiency and inaction, it has become a luxury to deliver grain over a large area.

Even if the factors of public security are not considered, it is difficult to truly form large-scale transportation due to the labor productivity and transportation capacity of ancient times.

In fact, the biggest cost of transporting materials to a place is not the goods themselves, but all the losses on the way, for example, it takes dozens of days to travel from Jiangzhou to the capital, and the transportation team of one ton of grain, in the case of the lack of horses in the Great Song Dynasty, needs to invest six ox carts, at least a dozen manpower. The original transport vehicle runs long distances with heavy loads, and it is very troublesome to repair wear and tear.

In addition, the cost of the accompanying bodyguards and guards, the food and silver money consumed on the road of the people's livestock, the exploitation of the tolerances of various checkpoints, and the sucking of blood at all levels, the cost of transporting a ton of grain worth 17 yuan may be as high as 30 or 40 yuan.

So this is the worst and best era, and godfathers like Lu Junyi, who have the ability to sell goods, can make a lot of money even if they are not illegal. will not be robbed, it is his Lu Junyi's productivity and competitiveness.

It is based on these factors that after the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, when there was no real food crisis, those grain merchants put up three times the price of one stone of rice, which was three times that of usual.

This is a stone to ask for directions, and it is also the cost price of grain merchants from other places.

Theoretically, even if the price of food is tripled, not many people will really starve to death. Why did Gao Fangping say at the time that tripling was just the beginning and not the end?

Because the current triple grain price is just a means for the local chamber of commerce alliance in Jiangnan to exclude outsiders and block external grain merchants from entering Jiangnan. Merchants are profit-seeking, for example, the grain merchants in Tokyo see that Jiangnan is only three times the price of grain, and they have no profit to bring in, so they will not plan in advance.

And as soon as the outside profiteers are not ready to compete, this will form a trend, which will lead to less and less grain in Jiangnan, and eventually at some point it will begin to explode ten or even twenty times.

When there is really 20 times the price of grain, it is actually the moment when the big profiteers run away and the rest are trapped. The external grain merchants who had not prepared earlier were not fools and did not dare to enter the market at that time. At that time, except for being killed by a hungry mob, he didn't come to make money at all, and that was called a pick-up man.

This process was a cycle in ancient times, and it was an endless cycle, almost unsolvable. To a certain extent, the Ming Dynasty can also be regarded as dying in this "cycle".

Later generations said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Building roads represents trade, and trade means breaking the monopoly environment of local profiteers.

As for the monopoly environment of Jiangnan East Road, Gao Fangping has been dealing with it. Relying on the 23rd generation of bearing casting transport vehicles that are now available, it can save capacity and reduce transportation costs to the greatest extent. In addition, Gao Fangping can transport grain without being exploited by officials everywhere and robbed by bandits. Therefore, after preliminary calculations, Gao Fangping's team may control the grain transported to Jiangzhou at a price between 1.8 and 1.9 times the usual price.

And this is only the price of capital protection, if Gao Fangping is more extreme, in order to earn fame and lose a little, maintain the price of 1.7 times the usual, and it is not rice but full nutritional feed. As a result, the strategy announced by Gao Fangping at the meeting was basically formed: food prices should be allowed to be slightly higher than usual, but not to be mad.

In the future, with the spread of the Jiangnan Industrial Base, the bearings are becoming more and more mature, the governance environment is getting better and better, the industrial technology is improved, and the tonnage of shipping is increasing. All this is fully dredging the blood vessels of the Great Song Dynasty, and there will be fewer and fewer incidents of monopoly profits, and the price of grain at two and a half times may still be there before the steam engine revolution, but the price of grain at ten times will definitely become history.

Then the above situation is in the Great Song Dynasty.

If you want to ask what kind of living conditions were human beings on other continents during this period? After washing and sleeping, he is basically not a person, and he is waiting to die one by one when something happens. Because in the world of those savages, there is no government in this year that talks about "political correctness" like the Great Song Dynasty.

Yes, the Great Song is rotten, corrupt, and inefficient. But at least the government still regards not starving people as political correctness, which can indeed alleviate the contradiction to a certain extent. This is also the reason why the Great Song Dynasty lived for 300 years, and there was still no national peasant uprising when the country died.