On the afternoon of February 2, 3013 in the Tang calendar, in the Xiande Hall of the Cangyu City Palace, Su Yi pouted and said to Wang Chengliang and Zhang Qihui: "Liu Yongcheng, the naval minister of the Purple Moon Empire, just sent me a telegram, he did reveal the situation of our independent fleet to the four fleet commanders of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, it seems that the reason why the strength of our independent fleet will be exposed should be the problem of those four fleet commanders. ”

Zhang Qihui nodded and said: "The news should have been revealed from the four fleet commanders of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire, after all, within our independent fleet, people who can know the specific data are loyal to the marshal, marshal, don't need to investigate deeply, who revealed it?" ”

Su Yi hesitated for a moment and said: "After all, the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire is about to be reorganized, and the four fleet commanders of the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire have all chosen to serve in the garrison fleet, so don't make any extraneous branches for the time being, anyway, the future Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, as well as the Royal Navy of the Purple Moon Empire after the reorganization, the strength will always surface, otherwise I won't tell Liu Yongcheng." ”

Wang Chengliang then said to Su Yi: "Marshal, since the enthronement ceremony is scheduled for July 1, then his subordinates and Qihui are ready to return to the fleet first, and then return to Cangyu City in June. ”

Su Yi nodded and said, "That's fine, the two of you just used the time of the past few months to form the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire and the Royal Navy of the new Purple Moon Empire." ”

Wang Chengliang and Zhang Qihui had just left the Xiande Palace, and Xu Haoming had entered the Xiande Hall again.

After Xu Haoming saw Su Yi, he immediately said with a happy face: "Dashuai, since we put 160 million tons of rice, 15 million tons of flour and 100 million tons of canned meat into various provinces at one time, now the grain prices in various provinces have begun to drop sharply, and many businessmen who took the opportunity to hoard grain can no longer stand it, and they have also begun to sell grain at a lower price. ”

The change of dynasties, there will inevitably be some chaos, before the original Cangyu Empire in the provinces, there were a lot of grain merchants and rich merchants hoarding grain, and even some nobles secretly participated in this matter, resulting in the price of grain in various provinces all the way skyrocketing, many people can't even afford to buy food.

Faced with this situation, Su Yi did not choose to solve it by force and seize the grain hoarded by those grain merchants and wealthy merchants, but directly took out 160 million tons of rice, 15 million tons of flour and 100 billion cans of canned meat, and used all transportation capacity to transport them to all towns and cities in various provinces as soon as possible, and sold them to the people at low prices, 100 billion cans of canned meat is 100 million tons.

Even if the population of the original Cangyu Empire reached 1.8 billion, the rice, flour and canned meat that Su Yi took out were enough for 1.8 billion people to eat for seven or eight months, which made the price of grain fall rapidly, making many grain merchants, wealthy merchants and nobles who hoarded grain lose a lot of money.

Su Yi smiled slightly, "After all, we have just captured the entire Cangyu Empire, so it is better to be stable, and I can also earn a little pocket money." ”

Xu Haoming said excitedly: "Dashuai, this is not a little pocket money, according to the unified selling price we give, every catty of rice and every catty of flour is bought for two cents, and a can of canned meat is sold for two cents, then 160 million tons of rice and 15 million tons of flour can be sold for 7 billion silver dollars, and 100 million tons of canned meat can be sold for 20 billion silver dollars. What's more, in order to suppress those profiteers who hoard grain, we also sold a lot of rice at a high price, and the final income may exceed 35 billion silver dollars! ”

The smile on Su Yi's face became even brighter, "Yes, yes, it seems that this business can continue." ”

"Dashuai, that ...... There's no problem with the supply, right? ”

"Although it is impossible to take out so much at once, it is absolutely no problem to provide 19 million tons of rice, 19 million tons of flour and 39 billion cans of canned meat every month, and maybe more can be provided in the future."

Now Su Yi can buy 20 million tons of rice, 20 million tons of flour and 40 billion cans of canned meat from the system mall every month, except for leaving some of them for the army and increasing reserves, most of the remaining can be sold by Su Yi.

"Ahem - Dashuai, at present, the rice, flour and canned meat in various places have been enough to sell for a long time, and if it continues to hit the market like this, it will hurt the farmers." When Xu Haoming heard that Su Yi could take out 19 million tons of rice, 19 million tons of flour and 39 billion cans of canned meat to sell every month, he was immediately frightened enough, but Xu Haoming consciously did not ask about the origin of these rice, flour and canned meat.

Su Yi nodded and said: "Indeed, as you said, you can't impact the market too much, so for the time being, sell out the previous 160 million tons of rice, 15 million tons of flour and 100 billion cans of canned meat, and then study it!" ”

Then Su Yi said to Xu Haoming: "Now that we have financial money, let's build those factories as soon as possible, and strive to build the Tang Empire into an industrialized power as soon as possible." ”

Xu Haoming patted his chest and said: "Dashuai, rest assured, with the large number of machinery and equipment you provide, as long as the funds and personnel are in place, thousands of new factories can be built soon." ”

In Huzhou City, the capital of Ruyang Province of the former Cangyu Empire, in a magnificent compound, Liu Dao, the hereditary duke of the former Cangyu Empire, yelled at his eldest son Liu Kan with anger on his face: "You rebel, you dare to go behind my back to hoard grain and raise the price of grain, do you want to kill our family?" Although the hereditary title of our Liu family is still there, but now it is not as good as before, the two hereditary provinces of our Liu family and hundreds of thousands of troops have been handed over to the Su family, once the Su family army wants to clean up our Liu family because of your hoarding of grain and raising the price of food, our Liu family does not even have the ability to resist at all, and because of this matter, the Su family has been cleaned up, and no one will stand up and speak for our Liu family! ”

Liu Kan, who was kneeling on the ground, looked ashamed at this time, and standing beside Liu Kan, Liu Wei's other sons, although they were all expressionless, could see the schadenfreude in their eyes.

Liu Kan, as the first heir to the next hereditary duke, usually suppresses several younger brothers who are qualified to inherit.

"Father, it's all because his son was blinded by hatred and interests for a while, the son originally just wanted to make some trouble for that Su Yi and earn a little money, without thinking too much about the consequences, and asked his father to punish him."

Duke Liu Dao looked at his eldest son kneeling on the ground, and sighed helplessly, Duke Liu Dao understood the eldest son Liu Kan's hatred of Su Yi very well, after all, Liu Kan would inherit the title of hereditary duke in the future, but when Liu Kan became a hereditary duke, the Liu family had already lost the hereditary fiefdom of Ruyang Province and Zeshan Province, as well as all the troops of the Liu family, leaving only the false name of a hereditary duke.

Duke Liu Dao said in a deep voice: "Get up! You have to remember this lesson, fortunately, Su Yi did not use force to solve the crisis of rising food prices in the country, otherwise our Liu family would have been miserable by you! ”

Although Duke Liu Dao had already asked Liu Kan to stand up, Liu Kan did not stand up immediately, but said with a trembling voice: "Father, I didn't expect Su Yi to raise so much rice, flour and canned meat this time to settle the price of grain, I ...... I...... I've lost a lot this time. ”

Duke Liu Dao frowned, and suddenly had a very bad feeling in his heart, you must know that since he handed over the territory and army to the Su family, Duke Liu Dao basically didn't take care of things, and he handed over almost all the affairs of the Duke's Mansion to his eldest son Liu Kan to take care of.

Today, it was the eldest son Liu Kan who took the initiative to come to Duke Liu Dao to admit his mistake, and Duke Liu Dao learned that his eldest son secretly participated in the hoarding of grain and raising the price of grain behind his back.

"How much did you lose?" Duke Liu Dao asked in a deep voice.

Liu Kan said tremblingly: "Father, at present...... Probably lost...... Lost 600 million silver dollars. ”

When Duke Liu Dao heard this, he stepped forward angrily and kicked at his eldest son Liu Kan, "You loser, our Liu family has a golden mountain, and it is not enough for you to be such a loser!" Say - how can you lose so much? ”

After Liu Kan was kicked down, he quickly got up again and continued to kneel on the ground, and then said in a wailing voice: "Father, in order to be able to hoard a large amount of grain, I asked people to buy all kinds of grain in Ruyang Province, Zeshan Province and several surrounding provinces, such as rice, I asked people to buy almost two million tons, because the timing of the purchase was a little late, and the purchase price was higher, on average about one dime per catty, but in the final stage of Su Jiajun's shot, rice has risen to one dime and four cents per catty. ”

After a pause, Liu Kan continued: "If there is no Su Jiajun to sell grain, I will definitely be able to make a lot of money this time, but unfortunately after Su Jiajun sold grain, the price of rice quickly fell back to two cents per catty, just on rice, I lost more than 300 million silver dollars, plus several grains were affected by the price reduction of rice, and finally the price plummeted, all of them were calculated, this time I lost a total of almost 600 million silver dollars, please punish my father, woo-"

In the end, Liu Kan, who was in his thirties, couldn't help crying bitterly, this time for the Liu family, it was definitely a nerve-wracking.

Although Su Yi promised that the hereditary nobles could keep the family's own property, in the determination of the family property, it must be the Su family army who has the final say, and in the end, the Liu family, which owns two provinces and hundreds of thousands of troops, only kept a property worth about 1.2 billion silver dollars.

This time, in order to hoard grain, Liu Kanke mortgaged a lot of high-quality properties to the bank, because he lost too much money, and many of the mortgaged properties of the Liu family were no longer able to redeem them.

Duke Liu Dao seemed to have suddenly aged a lot, "Liu Kan, you don't have to worry about the family's business in the future." ”