Raise food prices!

Wen Xianggong came up with another clever plan, Wang Ningan took a breath, "If I'm not mistaken, brother, you just got a batch of grain, and at this time to raise the price of grain, do you want to make a profit?" ”

"You!"

Wen Yanbo was so angry that his old face turned purple, "Wang Ning'an, you can't always look at the old man like that, the old man is bent on seeking the country, and he never cares about that little profit, if you slander the old man again, believe it or not, the old man will pick on him immediately?" ”

Our Wen Xianggong is full of momentum, but Wang Ningan was unmoved, "That's fine, Brother Kuanfu is old, you just go back to Beijing to rest, anyway, there is no shortage of talents, Song Zhen, Song Qi, there are many people, by the way, there are Jia Zhang, and Wang Shao, anyone can provoke the courage, if not, I will invite the old lady to come over!" ”

Wen Yanbo's face turned black in an instant, please don't love Jia Changchao, let that old man interfere, is there still a chance for me to make a fortune? Wen Yanbo can be regarded as having seen through it, he has no handle to blackmail Wang Ningan now, he knew that this was the case, why send a few bandits and bandits to kill these old bastards of the Qiying Society!

Wen Yanbo hated the root of his teeth, and he had no choice but to talk to him.

Now the Western Xia commander of Liangzhou and Ganzhou is called Wei Minglangyu, he is Li Yuanhao's brother, because of the discord with the Liang brothers and sisters, he was sent to Liangzhou, in fact, he was exiled.

It is precisely because of this that Wei Minglang was blessed by misfortune, did not fight with the Song army, and kept his troops, and because of the loss of Hengshan, he has now almost become an independent kingdom, and Li Liangzuo can't do anything to him.

Wei Minglang is actually very talented and assertive.

He wanted to keep Ganzhou and Liangzhou, but the biggest problem was that there was not enough food, so he had to purchase everywhere, acquiescing to the Hu merchants in the Western Regions to come to purchase materials, and opening the Silk Road in disguise, just because he wanted to exchange for food.

Wen Yanbo took a-for-tat confrontation and came up with an idea, originally Lanzhou had the lowest grain price, and grain flowed from Lanzhou to Liangzhou, if the grain price in Lanzhou was increased several times, it would become profitable to traffic grain from Liangzhou.

In that way, the grain in Liangzhou can be squeezed dry, and if there is no food, there will be no green and yellow, and the Western Xia soldiers and horses will collapse without a fight.

After Wang Ningan listened, he also had to nod, "The idea is good, but can Wei Minglang meet it so easily?" ”

Wen Yanbo smiled, "If Liangzhou and Ganzhou are both famous and have the final say, it's really difficult to do!" The implication is that the Tangut people are divided, and there is naturally room for interference.

"It's okay, I'll bother Brother Kuanfu, but ...... Don't be too ruthless, make people angry, I won't wipe your ass! ”

Wang Ningan flicked his sleeves and turned to leave, no matter how good Lao Wen said, it couldn't change the essence of his taking the opportunity to make money! Let's see, if Liangzhou is not chaotic, and Lanzhou is chaotic first, Wang Ningan will definitely not let Wen Yanbo go!

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The weather is getting warmer day by day, and more and more gold diggers are gathering in Lanzhou from all over the country.

The third uncle and the two apprentices ordered three bowls of soup cakes, and were eating them with their heads bored, and they only swallowed half of them, and then there was a fight next to them...... The two sides of the fight are not ordinary people, on one side are the children of the Shi family, and on the other side are Wei Mu Yueneng's godson, a strong dragon from Xijing, a cunning snake, because of a few stakes that tied the horse, it was fought, and soon someone bled out.

The third uncle was accustomed to it, squatted in the corner of the wall, swallowed all the soup cakes, and came out against the corner.

"Wait!"

The shopkeeper calmly stopped them and stretched out his hand to gesture.

The third uncle immediately smiled and took out 100 coppers from his arms.

"Take it, the more is a reward!"

"Phew!" Xiao Er took a sip fiercely, "Tell you, the price has risen!" ”

The third uncle's smile was a little stiff, but he didn't dare to refute, so he had to take out more than a dozen coppers, "That's enough!" ”

"Enough? It's only enough for one bowl! ”

Xiao Er sneered, "Let me tell you, the price of grain has risen, and in the future, I will not accept copper, but silver!" ”

Now, if you dare to set up a stall to sell noodles, you can't run it at all if you don't have a point, this little second is not a vegetarian, the three masters and apprentices looked at each other, and March Flower chuckled, "Little second brother, isn't it money, it's nothing." ”

He walked over and made a gesture to take out the money, Xiao Er twisted his face and put on a cool pose, wanting to take the money.

Who knew that March Flower took out a cold dagger, instantly pierced Xiao Er's soft underbelly, and locked Xiao Er's neck with the other hand, preventing him from calling out.

Zhang Daaxe jumped over, kept Xiao Er's thigh, which was still moving, and threw it into the middle of the fighting crowd.

The third uncle shouted at the top of his voice: "Oh no, someone is killed, someone is killed!" ”

As he spoke, he ran away with his two apprentices, which was faster than a rabbit.

After coming out for a long time, seeing that no one had caught up, the couple was panting and soaked with sweat.

Zhang Daaxe said, "Master, what's the matter?" Food prices are getting more expensive every day? If this continues, our money will not even be enough to eat noodles, let alone live in a hotel. ”

The third uncle gasped and said, "Silly boy, I haven't understood it yet!" The food is about to rise sharply, why did Wei Mu Yue's people fight with the Shi family? It is because of the uneven distribution of the spoils of grain sales...... I see that there will be more and more chaos in the future. ”

"So, what then?"

The third uncle thought about it and said ruthlessly: "We can't wait, there are two roads to the Western Regions, and it is most convenient to take the Hexi Corridor, but now the day of opening up is far away, and people from all walks of life are coming, no one is good at stubble, and our master and apprentice will be a stepping stone for others if they don't get it right." I decided to go to Qingtang and go through the Longyou Duhufu, and I can also enter the Western Regions, and maybe I can enter the Western Regions before these people! ”

The three masters and apprentices pondered for a while, and then they did.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark, they left Lanzhou together and went straight to the direction of Xuzhou, preparing to go to Huangzhou and Qingtang and enter the Western Regions.

Most people don't have the decisive ability of the third uncle, and they still stay in Lanzhou, waiting for the moment when the road is opened.

If people drink water and know that in just ten days, the price of grain has tripled, and the Xiliang Wangfu has ordered that all grain stores will be confiscated and sold every day will be limited, and a person can only buy 3 catties of grain at most, and if you buy grain at a time, you need to wait for five days before you can have a second chance to buy grain.

In other words, on average, there is not even a pound of grain per day!

What are you kidding, these men who come to pan for gold can eat a cow!

What can you do with such a small amount of food?

Everyone is complaining, there is no way, the palace also explained, first, to raise military rations, attack Liangzhou as soon as possible, and open the way for everyone.

Second, because of the influx of people and insufficient reserves, we can only try our best to mobilize food from all directions.

Wen Xianggong even cut down more than 20 profiteers who raised prices in one go, and their heads were hung outside the palace, and there was no doubt about the determination of the imperial court.

There is a grudge in his heart, but it is not good to blame the court.

Living people don't suffocate to death with urine, and there is not so much food in the formal way, so the black market came into being, and it is expanding rapidly. Even many Jiangmen who were relegated to Lanzhou joined in, selling grain and making a lot of profits.

It's just that they don't have enough food in their hands, so they have to contact merchants from all over the country and ask them to help get food, and naturally, Hu merchants in the Western Regions have become the best choice.

The gang of people who opened the door made a condition, as long as they could get food, one stone of grain for one silk, and ten stones of grain for a hundred pieces of porcelain! How much grain was shipped, how much tea was given!

It's too arrogant, isn't it?

People really didn't lie, for example, the boy of the Yang family took 100 stone of tea and exchanged it for 100 stone of grain!

It was a sensation for everyone!

Of course, on the black market, the price of food has increased 20 times!

Exchanging tea for grain, exchanging grain for all kinds of jewelry, cattle, sheep and horses, and even real estate and land, you can also make several times the huge profits...... Finally, Hu Shang believed everything in front of them, of course they would not run back to their hometown to get grain, they knew that there was grain around!

Never underestimate a businessman's ability to drill into business.

In the past, there were people in Ganzhou and Liangzhou who bought grain from the Great Song Dynasty, and the same channel remained the same, so it was changed to transport grain from these two places to Lanzhou.

In fact, there's nothing money can't do.

Sure enough, there was constantly grain being transported over, whether it was good or bad, it was all received here, and the eyes of the Hu merchants were red, and they worked hard to carry grain in exchange for valuable goods, counting the money happily, and they didn't care at all, their actions had shaken the foundation of Western Xia rule.

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"Brother Kuanfu, I didn't see it, I love to learn."

Wang Ningan saw that Wen Yanbo's plan worked, and couldn't help but come over to take a look, and found that Lao Wen was holding a book in his hand, reading it constantly, and when he got closer, it was actually "Pipe".

Wang Ningan was very surprised, "I said Brother Kuanfu, do you have to change to the teacher?" ”

Wen Yanbo was reluctant to give up, put down the book, and sighed: "Guan Zhong is in harmony, and his achievements cover the world, he can be called an ancient sage, and the old man's strategy this time is also learned from Guan Zizhi!" ”

When he said this, Wang Ningan didn't want to raise the bar.

For example, Guan Zhong once encouraged the monarchs and ministers of Qi to take the lead in wearing the vegetarian produced by Lu State, but as a result, the price of Lu Min was speculated, and the Lu people scrambled to weave it, and even the crops were not planted.

Then Guan Zhong suddenly stopped trade, and the people of Lu were hungry with piles of Lu Min, so they had to borrow grain from Qi State, and they surrendered to the feet of Qi State.

Guan Zhong also used similar methods to level the Chu State, the Dai State, and the Hengshan State!

Guan Zhong's deeds are known to the world, and even Master Confucius does not dare to deny it...... But the problem is that Guan Zhong's practice inevitably does not conform to the rules of Confucianism, and Meng Fuzi despises Guan Zhong very much.

Later generations of Confucianists, those who belittled Guan Zhong, there were also many people, and it became more and more obvious, and even classified Guan Zhong into the villain.

Wen Yanbo suddenly held Guan Zhong so high, which is really a little puzzling.

Seeing that Wang Ningan was surprised, Wen Yanbo seemed more sincere.

"Erlang, the drunkard has been studying the Bamboo Book Chronicle, in a vain attempt to restore the rule of the three generations and reconstruct the Confucian system...... But if you want the old man to say, he is begging for fish from the wood! Kong Meng is just two useless old decays, how can they compare to Guan Zhong's exploits...... If you want to truly strengthen the country and enrich the people, you must also learn to pipe. ”

Wen Yanbo said solemnly: "The old man is going to set up an academy, so he respects Guan Zi as the ancestor, is Erlang willing to help me?" ”