Su You shook his head, smiled and said, "I heard that the price will increase tomorrow, so how much should it rise?" ”

Xiao Er didn't think that Su You would care about this, so he had to smile and say, "It's not much, it's just from ten to twelve." ”

Su You nodded, he didn't expect that the matter of refugees would be implemented, and the price of food would rise, so he had to ask, "How do you know that the price will rise?" ”

Xiao Er listened to Su You's question, but he was a little impatient, and said in his heart Look at the person you are wearing like a dog, why does a bowl of noodles cost an extra two pennies to be like this? But when he entered the door, he didn't want to offend Su You, so he had to smile perfunctorily: "I'm sorry guest officer, it's just that the meal is too busy, I'll come to share it with you when I'm done."

Before Xiao Er finished speaking, Wang Shichong had already slapped the knife in his hand on the table, and Su You grabbed a handful of silver beans from the money bag and put them into an empty bowl.

Of course, Xiao Er could see what Su You and Wang Shichong meant, and under this coercion and temptation, he had no choice but to say truthfully, "This is actually a trade secret, and I don't tell him about ordinary people." ”

Xiao Er said and began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks in front of Su You, he obviously did this to get the silver beans in his hand, Su You could see his careful thoughts, and he had to let him, originally the handful of silver beans was to buy news from him.

"Our boss went to the grain store this morning to buy goods, and I heard the shopkeeper say that the purchase price of rice and noodles has risen by 30%!" Xiao Er put away the handful of silver beans and said in a low voice, and after a pause, he said in a weaker voice, "And listening to them, it must still rise sharply." If the son doesn't have any food at home, he should hurry up and buy some while it's not outrageous, maybe he won't be able to buy it in two days. ”

Su You nodded, indicating that he understood.

Xiao Er sighed and said, "Thank you for the reward from the son, the villain should hurry up and exchange it for food." Xiao Er shook his head and left.

Xia Ziwei looked at Su You's unkind face, and couldn't help but ask with concern, "Sir, are you okay?" ”

Su You shook his head, silently lowered his head to eat noodles, everyone saw that Su You didn't speak, so they naturally hurried to eat noodles, and the eight people at the two tables of them were like a group of starving ghosts reincarnated, which made the surrounding diners look sideways.

"Haven't you ever seen steamed cakes?" Wang Shichong slapped the saber and shouted, which suppressed their curiosity.

After Su You finished eating the noodles, he found that everyone had finished eating, and immediately checked out and left.

When he arrived at the wharf, Su You didn't have the heart to see how the wharf was repaired, nor did he have the heart to check the house that was originally planned to be the city's official residence and his own residence, but just said lightly, "Three days later, let's move here." ”

Wang Shichong wanted to persuade Su You from the consideration of safety, but after looking at Su You's face, he finally gave up, so he couldn't help but answer "yes".

Su You didn't care about Wang Shichong's attitude, he only stopped at the newly built wharf for a while and then walked to the shop on the wharf, and saw from a distance that the people were lined up outside a grain store, and the pretense of "price increase by three percent" hanging at the door of the store was so dazzling.

The people in line are noisy, but don't you buy it? If they can't buy food, they can only fall into the ranks of refugees, but they can't accept such a result in any case.

The guests in line scolded fiercely, and finally a fifty or sixty-year-old shopkeeper stood up and hugged everyone, "Grandfathers, ancestors, you go to Yuhang, Wuzhou to inquire, how much has the price of rice risen now?" If it weren't for the fear of smashing the signboard, we would have closed down a long time ago, and now we are selling at this price, we have already to pay for the freight, and the more we sell, the more we will lose."

"Nonsense, who will do the loss-making business!" Everyone shook their heads in disbelief.

"Why do you have to lose money?" The old man shook his head, so he had to cry from the bottom of his heart, "You have to make money if you lose money!" We are all villagers in the township, we should get through the difficulties together, we must sell the food, sell it at a loss, pull it down at a loss, and never let the villagers poke the backbone! ”

Although his speech was performative, the effect was immediate, and the anger of the crowd gradually subsided, after all, the grain stores did not hoard, and the price increase was also a last resort.

"When is that going to be a head?" Someone asked out loud, saying such things often means forbearance.

Su You listened to him with great interest, and couldn't help but nodded, this shop is good.

Someone in the queue seemed to recognize Su You, and even more than a dozen people came up and complained, "Envoy Jingluo, what do you say this is called, can you still live this day?" ”

"Grain rises by 30% a day, and it will rise tomorrow, can the envoy tell us what to do?"

"I heard that the government is going to start a big project in Baoyang Lake, is this true? Is a day's salary enough to buy a pound of food?"

All kinds of questions, to name a few, made Su You blush for a while, and he didn't know how to answer.

"If you don't make decisions for the people, it's better to go home and plant sweet potatoes!" - Who said that? Didn't you always appreciate this before? But now that I have just arrived in Yangzhou, there has been an economic crisis in Yangzhou, what an irony!

Wang Bodang, Wang Shichong and others saw that these people who bought grain had rules, and they were always one or two feet away from Su You, so they were not easy to move; It's just that the road is blocked by them, and it's really difficult.

Su You couldn't, so he had to open his mouth and respond, "Everyone! The contemptible person is the envoy of the southeast economy, and the imperial court also knows the crisis that Yangzhou is currently experiencing, you can rest assured, the imperial court attaches great importance to this matter; I also arrived in Yangzhou yesterday, but I believe that food prices will fall within 10 days! ”

God knows how casual Su You said this, many of the officials in the court obviously knew about Yangzhou's situation, but what about Yang Guang?

It is said that Yang Guang is now preparing for a trip to the Hetao area in March, and he can't say that he will repair the Fenyang Palace, does he really have the heart to care about this southern matter?

Of course, the reason why Yang Guang ignored the south was also because he believed in his own ability too much; But judging from the current situation, he seems to have failed his hopes, and things were messed up before they even started!

At this time, the common people were obviously simple, and with Su You's persuasion of a few words, they were relieved.

Yes, it's just ten days, how much food can their family eat in ten days?

"In this case, we won't buy grain for now, so that their grain stores will lose less!" I don't know who shouted so high-sounding first, and everyone immediately echoed it.

Obviously, these people are not unable to open the pot at home, but they want to buy more hoarding, some of them are for grain reserves, and some of them want to sit on the ground and raise the price.

Just like the farce of going to the supermarket to grab salt in a certain year in later generations, Su You didn't know whether to praise them for their cleverness? or to belittle them; Anyway, it is precisely because there are so many such people that things come inexplicably.

In the same way, the more people like this, the faster things will settle down.

No, they coaxed together, and there were no more people left in the long queue of more than ten zhang just now.

Su You knew that this was the Xiao family's trading company, so he immediately walked in, and the old shopkeeper who had just spoken immediately received Su You, "Envoy Jinglu, why are you here in person?" ”

Su You nodded and asked with a smile, "Is your host here?" ”

The old shopkeeper also nodded, "Yes, he originally went to the post house in the morning to find out to you?" I just waited for more than an hour and didn't wait for you. ”

Su You immediately put his mind at ease, no matter whether things work out or not, it is already the best result not to avoid himself, not to mention that he went to visit him in the morning? Su You originally came up for the share of the Xiao family's trading company to donate an extra 500 stone of grain, and it seems that his expectations are not wrong.

"Where is he?"

"Here he is." The old shopkeeper pointed to the main house in the backyard as he walked and said with a smile.

As if hearing Su You's conversation with the old shopkeeper, Xiao Wei, the main shareholder of the Xiao family, opened the door and saluted Su You, "Xiao Wei of the Xiao family business company pays a visit to the envoy. ”

"No need to be polite, I'm here to ask for help, did you guess?" Su You hurriedly made a gesture of support, and then followed him into the house, and Wang Bodang, Wang Shichong and others stayed outside the house.

"They informed me last night, there is no way, I can only follow the price increase, and the current trend is like this; If I am indifferent, I am afraid that they will be squeezed out of Yangzhou," Xiao Wei first explained today's sudden price increase.

Su You nodded and said with a smile, "I understand, the most important thing now is to mobilize grain from all over the country to Yangzhou, as long as the grain is enough, the price will always come down."

Xiao Wei nodded, he obviously agreed with Su You's point of view, but he still asked carefully, "You always have to plan for the worst in everything, what if the food transferred from outside can't arrive, or it can't arrive for a while?" ”

"Price increase!" Su You's eyes were firm, and after saying these two words, he added, "Be steady, don't mess up, we will also increase the purchase price!" Whoever wants to speculate and make this ill-gotten gain, when the time comes, they will not be able to eat and go around! ”

"What do you mean?" Xiao Wei said thoughtfully, "It's like a cow has crossed the river, if you pull the tail of the cow, you can't pull it back, only if you take the nose of the cow, the cow will follow." ”

Su You nodded approvingly, "Xiao Dong's family is really extraordinary!" Now we will calculate and buy enough time to mobilize the grain, so that they can jump first, and when the grain arrives, it will be time to settle the accounts after the autumn. ”

"The general has the demeanor of the general, and the command is determined!" Xiao Wei praised sincerely.

"Don't rush to bring me a top hat, or talk about the problem of the volume, what are you going to do?" Su You shook his head.

"As long as food prices remain high, people will neither use grain to buy grain nor buy new coupons." Xiao Wei replied as a matter of course.

"Impossible!" Su You categorically denied it, and said with a smile, "It is human nature to chase up and down, and the vast majority of people will only stare at whether the current price is up or down, but they will turn a blind eye to the risks that have accumulated; As long as the price of food rises, there will be people who will spend their money to buy food-related coupons. ”

"And do we still issue tickets?" Xiao Wei was even more puzzled.

"Of course." Su You nodded, smiling like a fox.