It turns out that having more food is also a headache.

The people are anxious to clear the warehouse and wait for the new grain to enter the warehouse, so most of the grain left in the house will only be kept for a month or two, and the rest will be cleared.

And since the government has stopped the grain merchants from outside, they can't stop buying grain because the official warehouse is insufficient, otherwise there will definitely be a fall out below.

This has also caused the current situation, the transportation capacity is insufficient, the speed of collecting grain below is very fast, and a batch of grain in the official warehouse has not been transported away, and a new batch of grain has been delivered.

"No, Governor, the land consumption is too great, and the transportation capacity is insufficient, ten trucks of grain are transported to Chang'an, and it is good to have two cars left." Cao Yu shook his head violently, but if there is a little choice, no one will choose land transportation.

That's not transporting food, it's trying to consume it.

"Then expand the official warehouse!" Ma Zhou scratched his head and could only take the last resort.

The official warehouse is not easy to build, and there are too many events to consider, such as the most basic, rainproof, moisture-proof, rat-proof, but also to keep it dry and ventilated.

The granary is no better than others, and if you are not careful, the grain in the entire warehouse may be damaged, and the loss will be even more.

The setting of official warehouses in various places is also designed according to the size of the population, and a huge official warehouse will never be set up for no reason, and the financial resources consumed by the official warehouse are by no means imaginable to ordinary people.

Cao Yu pursed his mouth, but finally nodded: "This can only be done, but the governor, the lower officials still think that you should write a letter to the imperial court to see if you can transfer some ships from other places, or another batch of immigrants?" ”

"These have been done for a long time, but there are not so many ships to transport at the moment, as for the ...... of immigrants" Ma Zhou looked up at the south and continued: "Now that Guanzhong, Central Plains and other places have also been settled, various policies to benefit the people have been implemented, and there are not many people who are willing to come to the north." ”

Many times, people are such a strange thing, the same thing, put in different times, will make two completely different choices.

With Li Yuanji's entry into Chang'an, Zhenzhou has lost so much attraction to the people, because the center of gravity cannot always be in the north.

The people's lives are basically guaranteed, who is willing to go thousands of miles to Zhenzhou? Although it is possible to make a fortune if you go there.

Ma Zhou was very helpless, all the officials were helpless, and even Li Yuanji could only express his helplessness about this.

……

There are many scenes that are completely different from Zhenbei, and because of the different circumstances of each one, it causes this difference.

During this period, the price of grain in the north of the town was declining, because the people were anxious to clear their warehouses to make room for new grain.

But in Guanzhong, this time is just the time when the price of grain rises.

Last year's grain was almost consumed, and there was still about a month before the new grain, so people could not go hungry, and the people gradually had money in their hands.

When the harvest is not good, it happens to be a good time for grain merchants to make a lot of money.

"Yesterday it was 300 yuan, why is it 320 yuan today?" Huang Dachun scratched his head in annoyance, his face full of embarrassment and helplessness.

Yesterday I went to work in the city, and when I left, I deliberately looked at the price of grain, and the food at home was gone, because I was busy with work, neglected to take care of the land, and continued disasters, so this year's output was not very good overall.

So today, I took out my savings for a long time, and planned to buy them first and go home for emergencies.

Although the price of grain for 300 yuan is already sky-high, compared with last year's grain price, it has more than doubled at this time, although the wage is still so little.

The grain merchant sat at the counter and looked at the street outside the store, not in a hurry at all.

There is no reason to be in a hurry at all, it is cost-effective to buy early, if you don't buy it today, it will rise by ten dollars tomorrow, this profit is enough to make them feel painful, in their opinion, this is not much different from no profit.

However, grain merchants also found some anomalies.

For example, there are fewer and fewer people wandering around the door today, not many.

This makes many grain merchants a little confused, but they don't take it too seriously, food, a safe and profitable business!

"Three hundred and twenty dollars? Bah! The dog's businessman, Lao Tzu just takes the money to feed the dog, and doesn't buy your grain, so keep it in the warehouse to get moldy. Someone came here to take a look, and found that there was three hundred and twenty coins hanging at the door, and immediately scolded angrily with disdain.

"This old brother, no matter how high the price of food is, you have to buy it, otherwise what will you eat at home?" Huang Dachun helplessly pulled the person next to him, he knew the urine nature of those grain merchants, and he angered them to immediately raise the price, and he didn't give you a chance to explain at all.

"Go around elsewhere, Lao Tzu has worked hard for a year, and in the end, he can't buy three shakes of grain, so it's a big deal to save some food, and Lao Tzu won't buy it." The man rebuked indignantly.

This is a very unfair era, but compared to the present, the previous pattern is even more unfair, and the people have no opportunity to make money, so they cannot afford to buy food at all.

And the main customers of grain merchants are not them, so for these retail investors who can't buy much, there are not many grain merchants who really care.

The opening of the façade is just to show the presence of the family.

"It's still sold for three hundred and twenty dollars? Shopkeeper, I wish you a prosperous business, we are poor ghosts, so we won't come to support your façade. Someone passed by, looked at it, smiled sarcastically, and continued: "I said big guy, what are you doing here?" It's good to walk around the city more if it's okay. ”

"What's the benefit?" Huang Dachun was stunned, why does this thing look so like it came to smash the field?

"The benefits are dropped!" The goods showed a cheap expression, and from behind him revealed a grain bag, which contained almost two catties of grain. He pretended to be B and said: "Chang Ping put grain in the warehouse, two hundred dollars are shaken, and I have a brother who is helping over there, saying that although the grain in the warehouse is not full, we are not short of food here at all." This year is a bumper harvest in Zhenzhou, and there is no storage in the warehouses with a lot of grain, and all the ships have been transferred to transport grain inside, and even so, the grain on the dock is still piled up. ”

"Really? I've never seen a mountain of grain! Huang Dachun felt a little incredulous, the grain was piled up, how shocking was that? Although it sounds very enjoyable, it always feels a little unreliable.

Zhenzhou is so far away, even if there is too much food to eat, it is considered benevolence and righteousness to sell it for 300 yuan, what is the purpose of selling it for 200 yuan?

"Hey, I said, why are you so untrustworthy? What about trust between people? Where did it go? The goods were amused by Huang Dachun's words, but he didn't care, patted his chest proudly, and continued: "Since you don't believe it, then I'm giving you inside information, do you know why I don't buy too much food?" It's because ......"

"Speak ......"

At the critical moment, the goods were actually sold, which caused a group of people around them to itch their teeth with hatred, and they couldn't wait to come forward and beat them up.

"E......" seemed to realize that he was about to cause public anger, and the people who were farther away had even slipped away quietly, and hurriedly spoke: "My brother told me that 200 yuan is just the current price, and there will be a steady stream of grain being shipped later, and the price of grain may be lower in the future, but whether the price is low or not, the above has decreed that the maximum price of grain this year shall not exceed 200 yuan." ”

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"Big brother, the court is trying to kill us." Zheng Shanqi pounded the table with an annoyed face, his teeth itching with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.

At first, he didn't believe the rumors outside, but as the news spread more and more, more and more people came to report to him, and he had to believe it.

Hurriedly sent someone to Changping to take a look, where the queue was very long, and the speed of putting grain was very fast, the price was indeed two hundred yuan, and the purchase was limited, with household registration, each household could buy no more than five shakes of grain per month.

This news slammed down like a thunderbolt from the sky, and the frightened Zheng Shanqi hurriedly looked for a relationship to inquire about some inside information, and found out that this was indeed the case, and it was an order from the emperor himself.

Although they had known about the bumper harvest in Zhenzhou for a long time and had made sufficient preparations, otherwise this year's grain would not have been sold for only 300 yuan.

What I didn't expect was that the imperial court refused to let them earn even three hundred dollars.

"Let's reduce the price, it is the same as the regular closing price, there is no limit to the quantity, everyone can buy it at will." Zheng Shanguo shook his head, sighed in his heart, and commanded.

"Big brother, we don't have much profit for two hundred dollars." Zheng Shanqi was a little dissatisfied, and couldn't understand why the eldest brother was so weak.

Even if the emperor is strong, we ...... Well, there's really nothing to be done about it now.

"I've been in contact with him for so long since I sent you to Zhenbei, don't you know who he is?" Zheng Shanguo rolled his eyes at Zheng Shanqi, and continued: "We know the situation in Zhenzhou better than anyone else, it is nonsense to say that we can feed the entire Tang Dynasty, but there is also more than one million stone of surplus grain there, if all of them are transported over, do you think the grain in our hands can still be sold?" He's giving us an ultimatum. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Shanguo shook his head again and said: "Go all out to clear the warehouse, no one knows when he will reduce the price, but it is estimated that it is unlikely this year, if it is not cleared this year, let alone make money next year, it is good not to lose what you earned this year." ”

When the price of grain is too low, the position is closed to collect grain with all its might, and when the price of grain is too high, the position is closed at a low price, forcing grain merchants to reduce prices.

This is a kind of protection system for grain prices by the imperial court, but for grain merchants, it is a sharp blade to cut off their wealth.

Zheng Shanguo had expected this for a long time, so when he chose to cooperate, he decided to give up the Zheng family's traditional project, so now this result is actually normal.

As far as Li Yuanji is concerned, he has done everything he should do, whether he is benevolent or not, he did give the family the opportunity to make money and clear the warehouse, and now that Zhenzhou has a bumper grain harvest, why should Li Yuanji look at their faces?

Start with Caoyun? The fleet has been confiscated, what to do?