Hao Ren returned to his handsome mansion (palace), took a hot bath, changed into a loose silk robe, and finally felt a little cool, the irritability in his heart disappeared, and in the company of the concubine Cui Sleeve, he came to the living room again, and several ministers who were busy with Hao Ren's affairs came to the living room to talk to Hao Ren. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Your Majesty!" Luzhou Taishou Roben left the table and hugged his fist and said: "The epidemic of rice disease may be difficult to completely curb for a while, and now the price of rice in Luzhou has increased tenfold, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will provoke a popular uprising, how to stabilize food prices is a matter that needs to be solved urgently!" ”

The people could have bought 10 buckets of grain at a price of food, but now they can only buy 1 bucket of rice, and there is no market for it, and today it is this price, but tomorrow it will rise a lot, and the grain bank will hoard the grain and hold it and not buy it, and wait for the price of grain to continue to rise.

The people who are ready to buy rice with money are as anxious as a house on fire, and if they can't buy rice today, the price will continue to rise tomorrow, and the less food they can exchange for with the money in their hands.

"Who is manipulating the price of rice?" Hao Ren took a sip of tea and asked lightly.

"It was a few merchants of the Hulagu Khanate, hoarding grain and manipulating the price of rice. I have sent people to negotiate with him several times to let him sell grain to the people, and these black-hearted businessmen, unless His Majesty has the will to do business freely, they are legally in business. The minister is afraid that he will use violent means to create an excuse for the Hulegu people to exclude other people, and he is afraid that he will violate His Majesty's national policy of 'trade under the world', so the minister has no good way to deal with it for the time being, how to deal with it, and ask His Majesty to show me! Robben said helplessly.

"These black-hearted merchants!" The privy envoy Zhang Poyu drove back to Beijing with him, and said angrily: "'If you are not of my race, their hearts will be different', we should confiscate their family property and drive them back to their hometown with their bare butts, there is no need to take them in the land of my Great Song Dynasty." I miss my Great Song Dynasty, Wufu Minfeng, without them, we live the same! The minister asked to send troops to seal up the grain store, so that the soldiers could not take care of those black-hearted merchants first, and if they did not sell grain at a reasonable price, I would click him with a knife! ”

"Broken!" Hao Ren scolded: "You are now a privy envoy, no longer a robber who robs houses, you have to think about what you say and do!" The equality of all beings was our proposition when we waited for the army, and now that we have just won half of the country, have we forgotten our original goal? To expel these Hulegu merchants, do you also have to expel the Tushan brothers, the Yu family's sons and nephews, Yu Que Weng's son-in-law, and the Yang family of Feishanman? There are many better ways to solve the problem than violence, and there are many better ways to solve the problem than violence. ”

Hao Ren did not treat Zhang Poyu as an outsider, and he hated iron and steel, so the criticism would be so profound.

And Hao Renhe has changed a lot before. Don't hit the head or kick the fart/stock, let alone smash the brothers with the back of the knife, for such criticism, Zhang Poyu has long been immune to himself.

"Hey, hey!" Zhang Poyu scratched his head and said with a hippie smile: "Although my method is simpler, it really doesn't take it into consideration, but I'm also for the good of our big Song and for the good of the boss, isn't it?" ”

Hao Ren took the appearance of a hippie smiling face like a broken prisoner, and there was really no way. After all, he has been following him for too long, and he has always laughed and played like this, Zhang Poyu was in the Anqing Zhen Army, and even on the battlefield, with a serious face, not like this at all, in front of Hao Ren, it was like this.

When the two of them were alone in private, there was no difference between an emperor and a privy envoy, and they did not become much calmer because they were several years older.

"It's obviously wrong, but you dare to quibble!" Hao Ren feigned anger, picked up the bronze paperweight on the desk, and pretended to beat Zhang Po.

Zhang Poyu knew that Hao Ren was not angry, nor did he really want to beat him, but he covered his head exaggeratedly and laughed: "Don't slap your face!" Don't slap your face! I was wrong boss! ”

Robben and Cui Sleeve both wanted to laugh, but Hao Ren and Zhang Poyu's status was almost as high as in the Great Song Dynasty, and the two could only twist their faces to the side, pursed their lips and wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to laugh, and their appearance was even more funny.

"It's okay to read more!" Hao Ren was also amused by Zhang Poyu's funny, put down the paperweight, but saw Luo Ben and Cui Sleeve Er snickering, Hao Ren felt that he was out of character, so he sat upright, coughed dryly, and said:

"Lord Luo, you did the right thing! The Hülegü businessmen are really hateful, regardless of the life and death and stability of Baixin, and raise prices, we cannot use violent means to solve the problem, which will have great side effects. Since the Hulegu merchants hoarded goods, we used the means of the merchants to make them bankrupt and lose all their money! ”

"What is Your Majesty's plan?" Robben Road.

"Since they claim to be businessmen, it is not our ability to defeat them by other means, so we will use the means of businessmen to let them remember for a long time, and by the way, we will also teach them when our Chinese 'honest business!' Hao Ren said.

"Your Majesty, what should the minister do?" Robben Road.

"You go and communicate with those few Hülegü merchants, although they can't sell rice at a low price, we can count ourselves as benevolent!" Hao Ren said.

"Command!" Robben clenched his fists and retired.

"Your Majesty!" Chen Da, the head of the guard, came in and reported: "Mr. Shen Wansan has arrived!" ”

"Oh? So fast! "Hao Ren just sent someone to Pingjiang to invite Shen Wansan in the morning, and Shen Wansan arrived in the afternoon, could it be that Shen Wansan also has Liu Bowen's prediction means?

"Please!"

"Grass people Shen Wansan, knock to see Your Majesty!" Shen Wansan's hair is white, he is dressed in silk, and he has to bow when he enters the door.

"The old gentleman came so quickly! Hurry up and excuse me, give me a seat! Hao Ren complimented with a smile.

"The grain harvest is not good this summer, and the grass people deduce that Your Majesty may requisition the Shen family's fleet to go overseas to transport grain, and they have already set off a few days early without waiting for the messenger to report!" Shen Wansan leaned over to take the fragrant tea that the guard had lowered and explained.

Shen Wansan is worthy of being a shrewd businessman, good at seizing business opportunities, he deduced from the lack of grain harvest, he deduced that there is a big business to do, and he took Hao Ren's background in the business road, since he wants to have equal interests, otherwise the movement is big, Hao Ren will never sit idly by, maybe the Shen family will lose all their money.

What's even more shrewd is that he calculated the date of Hao Ren's return, but rushed Hao Ren back to Luzhou, and he arrived after he was busy with his next business.

"Lord Shen Wang, the ambassador of Oriental Commerce, has not yet returned from Fusang, and I am ready to send someone to Fusang to inform Lord Shen Wang that the returning fleet is mainly to transport grain to fight against the upcoming food shortage!" Hao Ren said.

"Although it is the season of high storm at this time, the sea ships in the Southern Song Dynasty have been extended in all directions, and my family has a good navigator master, this matter is not difficult, and the grass people are willing to accept this life!" Shen Wansan said.

"I have one more thing to discuss with the old gentleman. I plan to organize another fleet to go to the South Seas, I wonder how feasible this is? Hao Ren said. (To be continued.) )