Chapter 165: Suppressing Food Prices

Wu Zhengdao, who has been staying in Hong Kong and waiting for Li Mengshi's arrival, can be said to have thought about it day and night for nearly a month, and finally looked forward to the arrival of the beautiful woman. Li Mengshi, a former flight attendant www.biquge.info the pen %fun %Ge, has grown from a weak and delicate woman to a wild woman since she became the president of Chang'an Bank in Australia.

Of course, this is in the eyes of others, in Wu Zhengdao's opinion, she has not changed much at all, but her identity and career have changed, and she is more suitable for environmental development, not a woman's paper.

Wu Zhengdao didn't do anything early in the morning, waited at the dock, knowing that the Spanish merchant ships were docking, Li Mengshi walked down, and his constricted brows stretched slightly. Along the way, he was still more worried about his girlfriend's safety, after all, the performance of the sailboat could not be compared with the Perfect.

Anything can happen on the sea, and one careless ship can sink and all of them die.

Naturally, Li Mengshi was accompanied by several staff members and some bodyguards from Chang'an Bank, after all, they were all women, and it was not okay to be protected without one.

"It's been a hard journey, Mengshi, give me the box," Wu Zhengdao reached out and took his girlfriend's suitcase, and then took her into the carriage, as for the others, they also rode in the rest of the carriages in the direction of the governor's palace.

What is the situation here, is the price of food still rising?

As soon as Li Mengshi opened her mouth, she did not directly ask Wu Zhengdao for warmth, but asked about the main content of the work.

The main task of this visit to Hong Kong is to suppress grain prices and bring the grain prices of Daming back to their normal point, after all, it is not convenient to import grain from Annan and other places.

"The price is still continuing, and these grain merchants are not completely targeting us, and it has a lot to do with the increasing number of displaced people, who see the opportunity so they raise the price."

How about the rice purchases of Annam and Siam, and whether a food price war can be waged against it.

In fact, it is not that the grain merchants do not know that there is no rice in these two places, but that it is more troublesome to transport, so they will increase the price.

Long before Li Mengshi set off, she asked Wu Zhengdao to start preparations, if you want to suppress grain prices, you must first have a large amount of grain, grain is necessary, only the continuous influx of grain into the market, can grain merchants put down prices.

At present, they have not received any news, so they will keep raising prices, and in the past, Hong Kong's grain was purchased from them, so they will not doubt that the Australians will have so much food.

Of course, during this period, the seven ships docked at the Hong Kong dock disappeared, and Wu Zhengdao knew where these ships went, and naturally those merchants would not think that they would transport grain, and went to Annam and Siam to transport grain to Daming.

Both of these places produce grain, and once Luzon is developed, it will be difficult for the price of grain to rise in the future, because after all, if there is more production, grain will not be worth much.

In view of the continuous rise in grain prices in Liangguang, Shen Youlong also expressed concern, so after Wu Zhengdao proposed that he could help him stabilize grain prices, he expressed great interest, but he needed not to come forward to help those grain merchants, and Wu Zhengdao also assured that this was definitely a formal means.

When the car arrived at the Governor's Palace, Zhou Yang was already waiting outside the door, and he welcomed their arrival, after all, the more Australian officials came, the more they would identify with themselves when they saw the achievements they had made.

"Welcome, warmly welcome the arrival of the leaders, I said sister-in-law, when will you and Lao Wu get married."

Li Mengshi looked at Wu Zhengdao in a daze, waiting for him to speak.

"Soon, soon, you kid welcome."

As Zhou Yang and others entered the Governor's Palace, Li Mengshi then asked to take out the relevant data price survey report.

This work attitude is a bit sideways to Zhou Yang and others, this is not the obvious style of a strong woman.

However, since people are not ready to work without resting, Zhou Yang and Yang Yuzhou can't forcibly persuade them, so they can only politely say a few words that are not in a hurry or anything, and rest first.

Of course, Li Mengshi naturally knows to be sympathetic to her subordinates, and she looks at the data report by herself, but asks others to rest first and discuss it tomorrow.

While she was reading the report, Zhou Yangran arranged some snacks to come over, and then Yang Yuzhou introduced some information.

"At present, the grain price of Liangguang is the highest among all the identities of the entire Ming Dynasty, with the rise of grain prices in Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Lianghu have risen, but the price is not so high, compared with before, it is also nearly three times."

Three times the price, which is already quite expensive for ordinary people, and some local officials have not made some effective measures to stop it, which is the main reason for the increase.

It can't be said that some officials don't stop it, but they can't control it at all, and it involves the interests of the gentry class behind, so they can't control it.

In addition, in troubled times, who knows what will happen, the gentry are quite influential in the local area, and they think more about how to protect themselves.

Relatively speaking, the Liangguang region is relatively stable, so Shen Youlong also wants to use the power of Australians to suppress food prices.

"I think the news can be released, so the news that we have transported a lot of grain has spread throughout Liangguang, and the rice on those ships can also be unloaded directly, and it is best to let them see that we are transporting rice, and two ships will enter the port every day for a week."

According to the original plan, Li Mengshi discussed with Wu Zhengdao and others, let the ship constantly unload the grain during the day, and then load them out of the dock at night, and enter the port during the day, and so on, giving them a false impression that Hong Kong has a lot of grain.

But the premise is to ensure that the secrets in the granary are not discovered, it depends on Zhou Billy, he is engaged in intelligence work, whether others can discover the secrets requires his people to grasp the information in advance and make corresponding preparations.

"Leave this to me, I guarantee that the news will spread throughout the two small counties within three days, and the grain merchants will definitely wait and see when they hear the news, and then they will send people to investigate, and when they really find out that we have grain, it is estimated that they will panic."

"Well, that's what we want, at the moment they are hoarding grain, and once the price of the grain they buy at a high price is lower than the price they buy, they will go bankrupt, so we just want to use this to let them know that hoarding grain is a wrong decision, okay, let's discuss this today." Li Mengshi put the data report on the coffee table, and then proposed.

(To be continued.) )