On November 10, the first year of the Han Dynasty, two major events occurred.

The first thing, the head of the Han Protector God Sect and the eldest daughter of Yanzhou Thorn Shi Luan Yi was full moon, and his great-ancestor Luan Tao was very excited, and he took over the entire Qifeng Pavilion, and invited all relatives and friends of the Luan clan and the powerful people of the court to come to celebrate, and the flowing water seat was placed for three days.

Second, the Church of Our Lady of Notre Dame began its savings and credit business.

As soon as the Notre Dame Communion was issued, the Notre Dame Bill, which was widely welcomed by the people of the diocese. On the first day, 3 million coupons were sold out. In other words, it absorbed 3 million deposits. In the following days, the voucher became popular all the way.

Many businessmen in the diocese used to keep their money at home. Hundreds of thousands of millions of materials are enough to occupy several large houses. Now that the church has a savings business, it can help them manage their money, and they want to put it in the church. They pulled carts to send boxes of hard currency into the church, exchanged them for a pile of holy coupons, and began to try to use holy coupons instead of copper coins to trade.

Don't be unaware, be startled when you use it. Local chambers of commerce in Qingzhou, Yanzhou, and Jinan jointly recognized the holy vouchers. A piece of paper can be exchanged for a large cart of cloth and fuel...... Very convenient.

Subsequently, more than 100,000 people in the diocese who were engaged in the construction of canals and the digging of rivers received their first salaries before the new year. It's just that unlike the previous months, the salaries paid to them this month are no longer hard copper plates, but soft paper. They also said that these papers were New Year's goods rewarded on the construction site, and they thanked them and said: "Thank you, the foreman, I still want to reward the little ones with New Year's paintings!" ”

The foreman rolled his eyes and told them that this was called a holy coupon, not a New Year's painting. It's their salary for half a year.

Minfu was in a hurry, "Huh? That's all the salary? What about the money? ”

The foreman advised them not to be in a hurry and listened to him slowly. He told the people that the papers that had been handed out to them were the holy coupons that had just been issued by the church. This thing is more convenient than copper plates, which can be directly used as money, and can also be exchanged for real copper plates at the church where the county is located in his hometown.

"You think this thing can be used for money?" One glance at the stamps of the church, the people will be skeptical.

The foreman said, "If you don't believe it, you can try it." If you can't spend it as money, you can always ask me for it. ”

As soon as I heard this, sure enough, a man went to try it. His house was nearby, and he happened to be short of grain, so he found a grain store, took out a 100-piece receipt and handed it over, saying that he wanted to buy a stone of grain.

Originally, he was still skeptical, worried that other stores would not accept it, but he never thought that his worries were completely unnecessary. The store not only accepted it, but also asked him for a string of coppers, counting no more than 60 pieces. The shopkeeper told him that the price of grain today was 40 pieces per stone, and that he had just given him a ticket of 100 pieces, and that 60 copper coins were the change he had given him. After the transaction was completed, the guy in the store apologized and told him that he should have found him the holy coupons, but the 50 and 10 receipts in the store were all used up, so he could only find such a large string of copper, which caused him trouble, and I hope to forgive him.

"Ah, you can really spend it now!"

After returning to the construction site, the man told the workers the truth about buying food with the coupons today, and the workers were not suspicious. On the contrary, I felt that the voucher was convenient, and I used to have to carry a large burden of money when I went home, and it was very inconvenient to spend it when I brought it home. Now the Holy Ticket has solved all these problems. "Our Lady blesses, the Master is wise."

"Ah...... Heaven's Gate! When we get back, we'll just exchange all our savings for holy vouchers! ”

"Great idea!"

Through the mouths of the hundreds of thousands of people in the diocese, more and more ordinary people have also exchanged their savings for holy vouchers.

The transaction of holy vouchers became normalized, the church's treasury became more and more abundant, and Luan Yi also became wealthy.

He has the funds to carry out the next strategic deployment.

In fact, as early as mid-October, Luan Yi made a move. He first asked the detailed work of S.H.I.E.L.D. to spread the news in Xuzhou, saying: Natural disasters have been occurring in Qingzhou for many years, and this year there has been a major drought, and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land have not been harvested. Qingzhou Thorn Shi Lu Bu complained to Luan Yi and asked for food for disaster relief. Luan Yi knew that the situation was urgent, and immediately agreed, and was ready to buy a batch of 5 million stone grain and grass from the southern Xuzhou area in the shortest possible time at a high price of 200 wen per stone.

"200 per stone? Hearing this price, the squires and rich men in Xuzhou were all shocked. You must know that the market price of grain per stone near Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Jinan, and Yangzhou on the east coast of the Han Dynasty is between 40 and 60 yuan, and 100 yuan is already a high price, but Luan Yi has offered a purchase price of 200 yuan, which is simply sky-high, "Luan Ziqi is crazy, right?" ”

Luan Yi is crazy or not, they don't know, but what they know is...... The brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Fang are absolutely crazy.

Since the day they got the news, the Mi brothers began to buy grain and grass on a large scale, 40 Wen and one stone - buy; 60 When there is a stone, there is still as much as you want; 80 Wen Yishi - "Load it all up for me!" ”； The price has risen to 100 Wen and is still fully charged.

"Drink!" What's going on! The rich squires of Xuzhou fidgeted, they knew that the Mi family had some friendship with Luan Yi, and now the Mi family was crazy about stockpiling grain, didn't they say...... Is it true that Luan Yi bought grain at a sky-high price?

Fortunately for them, Luan Yi needs 5 million stone grain and grass this time, such a large amount of grain is not at all complete with the Mi family's family background, according to the news, the Mi family has only purchased 500,000 stone grain and grass until now, and the family's assets have been exhausted, and they began to borrow money from everywhere. In this way, it also means that other powerful people can also get a big share of the big deal.

In order to win huge profits, of course, no one in Xuzhou will lend their private wealth to the Mi Zhu Mi Fang brothers, they took out all the assets they can use, and desperately purchased grain and grass everywhere like the Mi family. Xuzhou's grain and grass were almost collected, and the trade was also expanded to Henan, Jing, and Yang. For a time, the supply of grain and grass in various places exceeded demand, and the price of grain increased wildly. In just one month, the price of grain in Xuzhou has risen from the initial 40 wen per stone to 120 wen per stone in one go.

There is a saying in the Han Dynasty: The price of a stone will be punished if it is a hundred dollars. This means that the three-digit price of grain is very high for the people, and they cannot afford to buy such expensive grain according to the income of the people, which will cause great resentment among the people, and they will direct their anger at their parents and officials, and vigorously condemn the immorality of the politicians.

This proverb has been used until the first year of the Holy Yuan and is still tried and tested. Just like the family in Xuzhou is now facing such a problem, people around the country saw the price of grain stone rise to 120 Wen, and heard that in just one month, more than 300 people starved to death on the streets, plus food as a guarantee product of human survival, its price rose, and other things followed, vegetables, melons and fruits, clothes, firewood...... Daily necessities...... Follow the multiplicity and flip up.

Instigated by the local lurking believers of the Church of Our Lady and the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the people of Xuzhou immediately fell into a panic.

Overnight, the streets and alleys of Xuzhou counties were plastered with leaflets about Liu Bei's immorality, which caused the price of grain to rise and the people could not live. "The big-eared thief is unkind! Give me back my rations! ”

"If you don't kill Liu Bei, how can the people survive!"

"Liu Da'er is ashamed to be the lord of a state!"

There are pictures and words, and there are many tricks. Public discontent is growing, and there are even small-scale riots in various places. Fortunately, Yu Ban and Xu Huang were brave and rebelled everywhere, and used bloody violence to press down the rebellion.

Liu Bei worked diligently for nearly a year, and the reputation of benevolence and virtue that he had finally accumulated was washed into the dung pit by public resentment overnight. In a hurry, he hurriedly summoned Chen Gui and Chen Deng to ask for advice.

Immediately, according to Chen Deng's words, he first strictly controlled the curfew, arrested the people who posted leaflets at night, and arrested the mastermind behind the scenes. In fact, of course they knew that this matter must be Luan Yi's ghost, just take the pieces of talent paper and printed leaflets, no one else can print it except Luan Yi. The reason why the main envoy is still to be tracked down is mainly to destroy Luan Yi's fine work den in Xuzhou.

As a result, after working for a few days, a lot of people were arrested for posting leaflets, and there were 43 people. But no matter how they were tortured, they refused to confess. Even if there is a confession, it means that there is a one-line connection within the Church of Our Lady, and he is just a small minion, and it is impossible to know where the patriarch of the diocese of Xuzhou is hiding. Even his immediate boss is just a small boss, with more than 40 minions under his command, and the top is eight feet away from the patriarch, so it is impossible to know.

Chen Deng was unwilling, so he sent someone to arrest the little boss according to the clues. But when he found the little boss's house, the little boss had already packed his luggage and ran, Xuzhou is so big, and there are people to shelter, where to find it! I had to give up.

At the same time as Chen Deng arrested the sticker, Liu Bei began to invite the squires and wealthy people from all over the country to talk, and asked them to open a warehouse as soon as possible to release grain to stabilize prices.

In order to store grain, the squires and rich people from all over the country were eager to move out of their families, and some even used the coffin book, and bought all the grain, and some of the grain only had a purchase price of more than 100 yuan, in order to make a lot of money from Luan Yi's price of 200 wen per stone! Now Liu Bei is letting them throw out their brains to stabilize prices?

How to sell? 200 Wen Yi Shi? It's definitely impossible, to stabilize food prices! We have to bring the price of grain in Xuzhou back to 40 Wen. This is tantamount to letting the squires and rich men do the business at a loss.

Out of the protection of their own interests, the squires and wealthy men naturally did not want to listen to Liu Bei, and lied in unison, they had no food in their hands at all, and they could not sell grain to stabilize prices.

When Liu Bei heard this, he was furious and scolded the squire for being rich and making it difficult for the country to make money. Killed three wealthy businessmen on the spot. frightened the rest of the squires and wealthy merchants, and had to promise to obey Liu Xuzhou's wishes, and go back to immediately open a warehouse to release grain.

Liu Bei was satisfied and sent the squires and rich families home. It's just that to his surprise, the squire Fujia changed his mind as soon as he returned home with resentment, and felt that if he really lowered the grain to 40 Wen as Liu Bei said, he would have to go bankrupt.

However, if he didn't do what Liu Bei said, he was afraid of losing his life. After thinking about it, the squire rich Jia in Xuzhou decided to do what Liu Bei said, but also had reservations. Only a part of the grain and grass was thrown away to balance the price, and the rest was left in the warehouse and sold to Luan Yi to win back the loss.

As a result, the price of grain in Xuzhou began to rebound slowly, and finally stagnated at the price of 80 Wen.

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