The places where the contradiction between man and land is most prominent are not necessarily the highest grain prices, and the places with the lowest grain prices are not necessarily the places where the land per capita is the largest. The main factor that determines food prices is not the per capita land area, but the level of productivity per unit of agricultural labor force and the relationship between supply and demand. In later generations, the United States had high productivity, so the price was low, and the demand was less than the supply, so it had to export a large amount, otherwise it would hurt the peasants. The highest price of grain is still in Bianjing, because the consumption power here is the highest, and the demand is far greater than the supply, so it is necessary to transport grain from Jianghuai to Beijing thousands of miles away. Li Ji took a fancy to several of the most important consumer markets in the Great Song Empire, so he decided to build a logistics warehouse in the surrounding satellite cities of Wujing.

The five major commercial grain bases established in the plan can provide food to meet the needs of 50 million people every year. The surplus grain can impact all the big landlords and local protectionists who refuse to follow the Chenji group. Cheap grain will make the backward marginal areas rich because of losses, such as the hilly areas in the southeast where there are many people and little land, as well as the slash-and-burn Kuizhou Road and the Yongxing Military Road, where soil erosion is serious. If more land can be forced or enticed to grow cash crops such as cotton and sugar cane, capital can flow smoothly into industry and expand reproduction, instead of continuing to maintain simple reproduction in agriculture.

With the support of a huge amount of grain, the Chenji Group can become a grain price controller far more than the political axe of the Great Song Empire. Just like Rothschild said: as long as I can control the currency issuance of a country, I don't care who makes the law, and Li Kee also said something similar: 'As long as we can control the pricing power of commodities, I don't care who is the emperor, in an agricultural society, the biggest commodity is grain, grain is currency, grain is mobility, food is power.' ’

On the cold food festival of the fifth year of Yuanyou, Li Ji and other otaku who stayed in the base camp of Chenji Academy in Gongxian County also rarely went out for dinner, and they traveled along the street in front of the academy to mix in the men and women who traveled out of the city, and the long-lost youthful atmosphere made the otaku feel their long-term suppressed impulse. Teenagers and men who are full of flowers and branches finally relax during the holiday, and naturally they confess their strange tricks, get acquainted with each other, play games, and major restaurants and restaurants are overcrowded. More than 50 large and small catering service shops opened on the four-mile-long avenue outside the main entrance of Chenji Academy are crowded.

Chenji Satellite City, which has no city walls, is the largest subordinate town in Gong County, but all kinds of data contributed account for most of Gong County, and the economic output value, population flow, civilization index, and infrastructure level all exceed those of Gong County. Thanks to the blueprint of the university town that crosses the public planning, this Chenji town is pollution-free, and all kinds of industries are service industries and research institutions that surround the school. The surrounding farmland is a test field, the surrounding factories are high-tech factories for food and experimental new technologies without much pollution, 50% of the population is Chenji Group employees and teachers and students and their families, and the rest are small workshop owners and service personnel who serve teachers and students. Only a small number of students and teachers who have advanced to the senior grades, as well as senior staff of the group, know the cross-generation, which helps them a lot to blend in with the crowd.

After the completion of the full set of construction, the public bidding attracted special snacks and time-honored brands from all over the world, and then the Pinjin Cave opened in Bianjing is also a copy of everything here. The special snacks of Tiannan and Haibei are all on this street. Every day, businesses that have worked hard to get qualified move into this street, and every day there are businesses that lose their qualifications to move out of this street. The qualification is the praise table hanging on the wall of each house, and the last elimination system is used to squeeze out the one with the lowest praise every month. Every month, a secret officer randomly distributes unforgeable five-pointed stars to people who enter the street, and as long as they are satisfied, customers can leave small five-pointed stars, and the store can put them on the praise meter to attract customers. The distribution of 5,000 small pentagrams every month is always a few fewer in the evaluation of the praise of the recovery, and most of the customers deliberately do not leave time to forget, or wait for the next time to give it again, or someone collects it.

Li Ji and the others went to a sauce duck shop with a lot of stars to buy food with the crowd, but they met an old acquaintance who gave them a headache, Wang Qihai, the second brother of Wang Qishan, a large landowner in the Jiangdong region, ---- Wang Qihai. One of the top wholesale and imported grain merchants in Jiangdong has learned dozens of modern business techniques since he sent his son to a commercial school in Jiangning Prefecture, and his business has expanded five or six times in the next year under Chenji's loan and assistance strategy. He made up his mind to send all his children and nephews to the School of Economics and Management in the base camp of Chenji Academy for further study, and asked to see Li Ji and the deans and vice presidents of various departments in charge no less than fifty or sixty times. Through the selflessness of the public that has been erected with great difficulty, the rules of fair and open enrollment and recruitment examinations will be as meaningless as wiping paper.

Wang Qihai, who was in front of him, immediately realized that this was an opportunity to convince Li Ji.

"You don't have to open your mouth, for the fiftieth time, I refuse to beckon your unsuccessful sons and nephews to enter the School of Economics and Management, and with their grades, they can't even memorize the simple ninety-nine tables and still want to learn economics and management? Three or four of your fifty or sixty juniors can get in, and I think the rest should study for a few more years and talk about the low-level courses we offered! If you get entangled any more, don't even think about your children and nephews who can go in. ”

Li Ji was familiar with Wang Qihai's refusal. Looking at Wang Qihai's pitiful face, he suddenly remembered one of his plans: "But if you are in a hurry to let your nephews and nephews learn real skills in front of others, I also have a way not to break the rules." ”

"Please teach me!" After listening to the words that made him go to hell and go to heaven, Wang Qihai still hadn't fully reacted.

"I have an audit class, only three people can be added to each major, and I don't have academic certificates, but I have learned the same skills as those students who are admitted, and the classes are all in the same room, but I don't have all the benefits of normal students, I can't live on campus, I can't get scholarships, I can't ask for leave, I can't enjoy the benefits of free medical treatment and travel. Except for classes, they can't stay on campus for the rest of the time, and there is no dormitory to live in, so they can only live outside the campus. And the tuition fee is ten times more expensive. Don't know if you agree? Wang Qihai nodded straight after listening.

"Agree to agree, what's not to agree with. It's not like my family doesn't have a bite to eat, and asking for that piece of paper can't make my family a penny more. No matter how much you spend, as long as you learn the real skills, you can earn it back in a year. ”

"It seems that you are a master, so sensible. I have one more way to go faster, I don't know if you are interested? Li Ji asked.

"Yes, as long as the adults say it, I will definitely be interested!"

"That is, only textbooks and all textbooks will be distributed, so that they can be self-taught, and they will learn and work at the same time, and the use of theory will actually immediately improve the family's earning power! This can greatly improve the efficiency of your family to seize business opportunities and make profits! You can choose the one that is most beneficial to your family and your nephew. Let me get to the bottom first, the price of meat in Jiangdong will fall, and the price of cotton will rise. You go back and get ready. After hearing this, Wang Qihai thanked him and said goodbye.

"Why haven't I heard that the price of meat in the Jiangdong region is going to fall and the price of cotton is going to rise? Do you want to open the altar again? Do you make a big move like the last time you collected and stored copper coins, gold and silver? Liu Jiao looked at Li Ji curiously and begged for an answer.

"You'll know in a few days, don't ask now, we're out to play, why talk about work?"