At this moment, Yelu Huage wanted to kill someone, and his body couldn't help but stand up!

"Mean, you are so mean!" Yelu Huage was furious, "When the old man went to Xijing, the price of grain in the market was only 600 Wen and one stone, and it was only a little more than a month, and he could buy 1 million stones, why was there only 200,000 stone left?" What is the rationale for this? ”

The old guy had a beard, his temples were bloodshot, and he was about to explode.

Wu Shicheng still had an angry expression.

"Lord Yelu, I must correct a few mistakes from you, we buy and sell grain according to the market price, and the market price in Xijing is so high now! And the transportation of grain from Xijing is by our railway, so the freight is only one-third, if you let you transport, you need to use manpower and animal power, more than this price, why, you don't think that the Great Song Dynasty can help you transport grain for nothing, right? Also, let you pay a deposit of 200,000 yuan, that is considering your country's ability to pay, your financial resources are too weak, without a deposit, you can not afford to buy grain in vain, we will not bear huge losses! ”

Wu Shicheng concluded: "In any case, these things are just normal business dealings, and there is really no need to talk too much, so as not to hurt the feelings of both parties...... All in all, the food is here, and if you take out the money, there will be food, and if you can't take it out, there will be none. ”

After Wu Shicheng finished speaking, he got up and left, and when he arrived at the door, he added, "I said, this is a normal business behavior, and our Great Song Dynasty is also a civilized country!" Hahaha...... Hahaha......"

Wu Shicheng left with a wild laugh.

He has reason to laugh, in the first 20 years of his life, the Khitan fought grass valley every year, asked for New Year's coins every year, Chen soldiers bordered, and threatened with war at every turn, so it can be said that all the bad things have been done.

In the face of the fierce Liao State, in addition to sending money, the Great Song Dynasty also fought on the basis of reason...... Every time he goes on an envoy, he is extremely tragic, and he can retreat without insulting the prestige of the country, even if he is a capable minister!

After all these years, the Great Song Dynasty finally had overwhelming power, and to recover Youzhou, it was still necessary to use the power of the whole country and issue bonds in order to win the war.

Now the Great Song Dynasty doesn't even want to use soldiers, just use food as a weapon, and can toss the former enemy to death.

A bad breath has finally come out!

Refreshing!

Wu Shicheng was happy enough, and immediately reported the situation to Wang Ning'an, and just after he left, Yelu Huage was completely stupid, he understood that he had fallen into the trap, and it was bamboo sticks everywhere, which were directly penetrated, and it was extremely miserable.

He racked his brains, but couldn't find a way to crack it.

First cut off trade...... This will definitely not work, the Great Song Dynasty has already swept up so many cattle and sheep in the Khitan, and they are purchased at a price much higher than that of the Khitan country, if they are not allowed to trade, the domestic tribes will rise up to make trouble, and this will also annoy the Great Song Dynasty and go to war directly.

Speaking of war, Yelu Huage took this trip, and he never thought about fighting with the Great Song Dynasty again, the gap between the two sides was too big.

If you can't fight, you can't break it, so you can only continue to do business, but the price of grain in the Great Song Dynasty has skyrocketed, and the money in their hands is simply not enough to fill the holes, and there is not enough food, so the country still has to be chaotic.

And it's not that it's been cornered, and the Khitan won't bow its head and buy grain from the old rival!

In the past few years, the Khitan has really worked too hard.

When you lost Youzhou, the Khitan was greatly injured, and later the Wa Kingdom entered Kou Goryeo, and the Khitan also intervened. It was a very long war, and over the past few years, the accumulated family wealth of the Liao State was consumed by almost ...... The most important thing is that they supported the Jurchens to fight against the Bohai State and the Wa State.

Although countless Jurchens were killed and wounded in the battle, they also took the opportunity to have a powerful army, and more importantly, they finally learned to fight on a large scale with thousands of people.

It is worth mentioning that a few years ago, the little fart boy was sent to Bohai after finishing Yan Yingge, he rectified the Jurchen tribes in Bohai, and at the same time learned the art of war and martial arts with Di Qing, and his power rose rapidly.

As the descendant of the Wanyan family, Wanyan Yingge played the banner of revenge for the family, and there were more than 8,000 people in his hands, and the old people of the Wanyan Department in the past were also ready to respond and rebel together.

In addition, what made the Khitan even more depressed was that the former minions of the vassal state Goryeo actually fought back. They thought that the Khitan had decayed, and they were too busy to take care of themselves, and they continued to take what they wanted in the land of Goryeo.

The king of Goryeo mobilized his men and horses to expel the 3,000 Khitan troops stationed in Goryeo and pushed his troops to the Yalu River.

Yelu Hongji judged that this winter, there would be a great rebellion in the Jurchen tribe, and Goryeo would continue to infest, and he would have to get food to deal with the civil strife.

Let Yelu Huage come over, hoping to use his eloquence to persuade the Great Song Dynasty not to embarrass the Khitan, otherwise in a few years, they will have to face a more fierce Jurchen Ministry!

Who knew that the Great Song Dynasty didn't take the Khitan seriously at all, but just sent Su Zhe to deal with it, and it didn't use any spitting, as long as it costs money, you can buy food, Yelu Huage still thinks it's a good thing!

But where did he know, it was actually a trap!

"Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent, and he is ashamed of his trust!" Yelu Huage lamented for a long time, he knew that there was no room for things to turn around, no matter whether he advanced or retreated, the Khitan had encountered a catastrophe!

For the whole night, Yelu Huage did not sleep, he wrote down the situation in detail, sealed it with fire paint, sent someone to Yelu Hongji, and at the same time handed over the money he brought to Wu Shicheng in exchange for food.

After these two things were done, he straightened his clothes, and chose to hang himself in the pavilion in Youzhou!

……

"Alas, I didn't think about anything, he was forced to die!"

After Wang Ningan got the news, he shook his head, "In this way, tell the Youzhou side, prepare 2,000 stone of grain, escort Yelu Huage's body back, and tell Yelu Hongji that we also have difficulties in the Great Song Dynasty, and the rise in grain prices is a market behavior, and we are helpless...... In this way, in order to show the friendship of neighbors, we will find a way to provide food at a 10% discount, and as for the freight, it can also be discounted by 5%. ”

Wang Ning'an's statement simply made several people present have a stomachache, and if they were Yelu Hongji, they would be angry to death!

You're here to beg for food!

"Hahahaha, in my eyes, Yelu Hongji is still a flower child!" Wang Ningan smiled, and then returned to seriousness.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the price of food has risen so much, and our burden is not light! There are a few measures that must be implemented! ”

Everyone in the government hall nodded together.

First of all, the first is to separate the internal and external markets.

The futures market should be linked to international grain prices, and the domestic market should be regulated by the imperial court.

Han Zongwu, the head of the household, said: "First of all, the grain self-sufficiency rate of my Great Song Dynasty is more than ninety percent in a good year, and even if it is a famine year, there are more than eighty percent...... So our food deficit is not big...... The real reason for the sharp rise in food prices is that some people maliciously speculate, coupled with hoarding, and driving up prices! After we divide the land, the people in the rural areas can basically meet their food needs, and even sell their grain on the market...... So, let's focus on helping the middle and lower classes of the city. ”

Speaking of this, the food stamps that Wang Ningan talked about before are about to come out.

In several cities where the price of grain is too high, the people can apply to the imperial court for food stamps according to their income, and those who get the food stamps can buy the basic rations of the whole family at a price of 300 wen and one stone, one stone per capita a year, and at the same time can also get some cheap green salt...... Although this series of policies does not dare to take care of everyone, it has basically resolved most of the people's grievances.

Anyway, no matter how food prices rise, it has nothing to do with them.

Wang Ningan launched a more powerful one.

"Over the years, especially last year, there have been people who threaten the imperial court with Cao Yun and have ill intentions...... Food is far more important than salt, tea, copper, and iron, and the management of grain is not as good as these materials, which is really ridiculous! We want to set up a grain distribution company that is responsible to the imperial court, and its responsibility is to maintain the food security and price stability of the Great Song Dynasty! ”

Wang Ning'an made a final decision, and the grain company came into being, and the first promotion fell into the hands of Lu Tao.

He came from a small family and knew the people's hardships very well, so Lü Tao immediately proposed to set up special large-scale farms in some places where the land was fertile to serve as the granary of the imperial court. Wang Ningan immediately agreed, and allocated 10 million yuan as a start-up capital, the first batch of farms in Hetao, Northwest, Lingnan, Jiaozhi and other places, the next step, to operate overseas, there is more fertile land, you can be classified into the grain company.

Lu Tao is a very capable person, and in the days to come, the grain company will become a super behemoth with 300 million acres of arable land.

It not only provides grain, but also cotton, sugar, oilseeds, meat, and thousands of products, all of which have played the role of the anchor of the sea in many crises.

It can be seen from Wang Ningan's series of measures that in fact, the skyrocketing price of grain is not a good thing for the Great Song Dynasty...... But whoever makes Wang Ningan have more cards in his hand, he can easily cut the internal and external markets and pass on the pressure of soaring food prices.

How to say it, it is like the eye of the storm of a typhoon, without wind and rain, safe and sound, but outside it is a mess of chicken feathers...... Before anything could happen to the Khitan, some of the more fragile countries fell one after another...... First of all, the Wa Kingdom, because the price of grain in the Great Song Dynasty skyrocketed, the eldest young master of the dog tooth desperately bought grain from the Wa State at a high price and sold it back to the country, the result was that there was a crack in the alliance against the Fujiwara clan, and many princes accused the Ping clan of being incompetent in coping with it, and the Ping clan reprimanded these people for secretly selling grain, regardless of everyone's life or death......

A chaotic war caused by food first appeared in the Wa Kingdom, and the war spread, and there was hardly a place where it was not fought...... Dogtooth flew up happily, it's good to fight, if you don't fight, where will someone build a road for my father!

"Tell the country, double the slave ships!" Dogtooth laughed presumptuously......