Chapter 466: Inflation (Page 1/1)

In just over 20 days, the price of grain in the Xia Dynasty skyrocketed to a terrifying price, under the impetus of people with good intentions, the grain became less and less, the price was getting higher and higher, the grain price of the entire Xia Dynasty had been overturned, and the grain farms that were originally open day and night all put away the grain and no longer sold grain to the outside world.

Just when everyone was smashing pots and selling iron to buy grain, people suddenly found that in addition to grain, cloth, animal skins, copper, iron, steel, aluminum, coal, wood, herbs, animal tendons, linoleum, salt, ...... The price of other items has also suddenly soared a lot, and in addition to these, many items have also increased in price, but not as significantly as the price increase of the above-mentioned items.

At this time, the people of the Xia Dynasty can be said to have fallen into the danger of inflation, a bag of salt originally only needed three copper coins, but at this moment even if it costs a hundred copper coins, it may not be able to buy, originally a copper coin can buy back a pack of bone-setting medicine, but at this moment the price of bone-setting medicine has risen to eighty copper coins, not only that, but even the kerosene for daily lighting is dozens of times more expensive than before.

In the words of the common people, the money at this time is no longer called money, and there is no difference between scrap copper and rotten iron, at present, copper coins are no longer useful, buying white noodles can be denominated in silver coins, and what is worse is that the price has risen, but the income of the people has not risen, many people have begun to smash the pot and sell iron in order to fill their stomachs, and even more have reached the point of bankruptcy.

Although the yamen in various localities tried their best to suppress it, the wind direction of rising prices was not extinguished, but on the contrary there was a tendency to become more and more intense; originally it was only the people's struggle to raise grain, but after rounds of crazy rise in grain prices, it was difficult for the army to prepare military rations, not only military rations, but also materials for forging weapons and making military supplies, and even if they could buy some, the prices were ridiculously high.

After perceiving this anomaly, the imperial court faction and the second prince's faction began to negotiate with the crown prince Xia Yuanji, hoping that he would stop requisitioning military rations and materials, and the three parties would join forces to lower prices, but he didn't expect Xia Yuanjian to ignore the proposal of the imperial court and the second prince at all, and directly beheaded the envoy, he openly refused to cooperate with the imperial court and the second prince, and still went his own way to recruit military rations and war materials.

Xia Yuanyu's side didn't work, Xia Yuanyou and Xia Yuanwen found the Shen family again, and asked the trading building to immediately stop hoarding food and war materials, and feed back the food and materials that had been hoarded to the people at normal market prices, as long as the trading building was willing to cooperate, the crisis of food shortage and inflation could be resolved by half, but I didn't expect the Shen family to refuse the two factions and refuse to cooperate.

Xia Yuanjian and the trading building's reaction greatly exceeded the expectations of the imperial court and Xia Yuanwen, it is understandable that Xia Yuanjian refused to cooperate, after all, the other party belonged to different camps at this time, and Xia Yuanwen and Xia Yuanlan had been under house arrest before, and the beams between the two sides had already been concluded, so it was normal for Xia Yuanjian to refuse to cooperate, but the trading building actually dared to refuse the imperial court and Xia Yuanwen, which was a bit abnormal.

Although he was angry that Xia Yuanyu had made a mess of the situation, Xia Yuanyu had outstanding achievements at this time, his troops were strong and strong, and his power was strong and huge, so the court and Xia Yuanyou did not dare to provoke Xia Yuanyu for the time being, but the trading building was different, seeing that the Shen family was so ignorant, Xia Yuanyou and Xia Yuanwen ordered to confiscate the assets of the trading building in the territory and close the trading building industry in each territory.

After the Shen family saw the actions of the imperial court and Xia Yuanwen, they also had bitter words in their hearts, and when they were thinking about how to explain to the imperial court and Xia Yuanwen, suddenly, Tian Ying Zhixiu sent a handwritten letter from Zhongyuan Sakurako, and after seeing the content on it, the patriarch of the Shen family sighed, and then he called the descendants of the family and announced a shocking instruction to them.

In the afternoon of the same day, the trading building issued an announcement to the public, saying that in view of the inflation of the whole country in the Xia Dynasty, the prices of all kinds of materials soared, so the trading building no longer settles the price of items in jade coins, gold coins, silver coins, copper coins and other currencies, but exchanges pearls for goods, a pearl is equivalent to a gold coin, and all items sold or purchased from the trading building can only be used as a currency in circulation.

Just after the notice of the trading building was read out, Xia Yuanjian followed up with a decree, all the people living in the territory under his jurisdiction can also use pearls as the currency in circulation, the price is equal to the price announced in the trading building, the same is a gold coin is equivalent to a pearl, however, Xia Yuanji's decree is more gentle, not as rigid as the trading building.

Although the imperial court and Xia Yuanwen closed and confiscated the trading building in the territory, there were still half of the trading buildings in the Xia Dynasty, and the trading buildings in these places were still open for business, and a large number of people went to the trading buildings to buy or sell goods every day, because of the regulations of the trading buildings, the people had to exchange the currency in their hands for pearls, and then consume from the trading buildings.

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"Don't you want to mix in the Xia Dynasty in this trading building? actually followed Xia Yuanjian to mess around. After scolding secretly, Ling Xia muttered with a puzzled expression: "Strange? How did this Xia Yuanwei hook up with the trading building? It stands to reason that a transcendent force like the trading building should not intervene in military wars, but the Shen family just intervened, and they also stood in Xia Yuanji's camp, is it really strange? ”

On the way to the march, Ling Xia had already explored all of this, during which he also personally went to check the places along the way, after reading it, he showed a solemn expression on his face, and then, Ling Xia wrote a personal letter to Xia Yuanyou in the imperial capital and Xia Yuanwen in the Western Theater, asking the two to resolutely resist the exchange of currency for pearls, otherwise it will cause a catastrophe.

After passing the handwritten letter, Ling Xia ordered the army to continue to hurry, just when Ling Xia's army was halfway to the Western Theater, suddenly Gu Xiuyuan came to report, saying that Xia Yuanwen asked to see, originally Ling Xia didn't plan to meet Xia Yuanwen, but he didn't expect him to find it himself, after hearing the report, Ling Xia hurriedly went out to greet him in person, he didn't let the army stop, and still let the soldiers march.

Found a wood, Ling Xia and Xia Yuanwen stood by the woods to talk, it turned out that after Xia Yuanwen received Ling Xia's handwritten letter, he couldn't wait to meet Ling Xia, but when he learned that Ling Xia's army had been in a state of rapid marching, he knew that Ling Xia had no intention of stopping, so he personally rode a horse to wait on the road that Ling Xia had to march.

After a few pleasantries, Xia Yuanwen asked Ling Xia for advice on how to get through the current difficulties, although he seized a lot of grain when he raided the property of the trading building, but once Long Jiuzhong and Qiu Luobei led their troops back to defense, those grains would be enough to support about a month at most, and then there would be no food, and now that the price of food has skyrocketed, he can't buy food to raise the soldiers, so he asked Ling Xia for advice.

After listening to Xia Yuanwen's words, Ling Xia sighed and shook his head, he told Xia Yuanwen that food is only a superficial difficulty, as long as you find a way, you can prepare food after all, the real crisis at the moment is the currency for pearls launched by the trading building, but unfortunately, everyone is attracted by food at the moment, and they are not aware of the hidden dangers caused by currency for pearls.

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