If there was no grain store to help the people, Zhu Youxiao really wouldn't dare to levy a grain retail tax, and he could imagine it with his ass, and those grain merchants would definitely pass on the cost to the people.

However, it is different with Jimin Grain Bank, as long as Jimin Grain Bank can ensure food supply, it can maintain stable grain prices. The fundamental purpose of imposing the grain retail tax is to squeeze out those grain merchants from the market, so as to achieve the goal of monopolizing the market.

As long as he monopolized the market supply of grain and maintained grain production, Zhu Youxiao would be able to control the stability of grain prices and make profits.

When the scale is small, the profit may not be very impressive. However, as long as the scale is large, the profit is extremely considerable. Moreover, if you have food in hand, you will be able to provide relief to the victims, and you will not force the people to rebel.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao only collects the grain retail tax in the places that can be taken care of by the grain bank to help the people, and in the places that cannot be taken care of, he will let it go first; if he really catches all the places, those places that cannot be taken care of will lose the ability to regulate the grain market, and when the time comes, the grain in the hands of the peasants will not be able to be sold, but there will be problems.

Daming Royal Bank has now collected more than 10 million taels of funds, but grain is a bulk commodity, and it is not something that can be sold in a while and a half, and the backlog of capital recovery is a bit strong, so Jimin Grain Bank only has energy monopoly in the area of the three provinces for the time being.

Cao Jinyu is undoubtedly the busiest, with grain dispatch in various places and the entry and exit of funds, and there can be no problems in every link. Fortunately, he has recruited a lot of experienced treasurers, and has begun to train a group of apprentices.

In order to ensure an adequate supply of grain, the Jimin Grain Bank opened a grain purchase price of 0.8 taels of silver and one stone during the summer harvest period, basically sweeping away the commercial grain produced in the Gyeonggi area. Many peasants and landlords have sold their grain to the Jimin Grain Bank, and it is indeed not easy to have such a price during the summer harvest.

The reason why grain prices were so low during the summer harvest in the past was mainly due to the impact of the grain discount in the closing government.

First, during the period when the government was discounting grain, many grain banks used the funds in their hands to buy the government's grain, and there was no such urgent demand for grain in the hands of peasants and landlords. Another is that even grain merchants who cannot buy grain at a discounted price are much less competitive if they offer higher prices to buy grain from peasants and landlords at this time.

Another is that some peasants are in urgent need of money, and they may still owe a lot of debt to the landlords! At this time, price alliances are formed, and grain merchants will always receive a part of the grain.

Therefore, the large fluctuation of grain prices, in fact, is a big factor in the government's depreciation of grain.

This year, the grain in the north was swept away by the Jimin grain store, leaving only some relatively remote states and counties that did not care, which made other grain stores not prepare in advance. When it was time to buy the discounted grain, he was suddenly caught off guard by the Jimin Grain Bank. By the time they began to buy grain from farmers and landlords, the grain in and around the Gyeonggi region had been swept away by the Jimin Grain Store.

At this time, the grain merchants who reacted had to buy grain from the peasants and landlords at higher prices.

In various parts of the north, because the government has been arranged to discount grain, the local grain purchase prices have risen markedly, and the peasants and landlords have benefited.

However, only the Gyeonggi region has seen a significant increase in purchase prices. The emergence of Jimin Grain Bank broke their price alliance.

The real profiteering of the grain business lies in the low price of grain. If those grain merchants can buy low-priced grain, even if the retail tax of 2 yuan per stone of grain is levied and the retail price is maintained at 1.5 taels, there is still money to be made, but it is not so profitable.

The real windfall profits are waiting for the emergence of a disaster year. When the year of disaster comes, food will multiply and rise exponentially.

Cao Jinyu studied the grain business very thoroughly, and he was used to the means of obtaining huge profits, but Cao Jinyu understood better that the emperor did not want the grain business to be too profitable. What the emperor wanted was to stabilize the price of grain, and Jimin Grain Bank could make money, but every qiē was based on the premise of stabilizing the price of grain.

After the summer harvest was done, Cao Jinyu immediately entered the palace to report the operation to the emperor and handed over a satisfactory report card to Zhu Youxiao.

Jimin Grain is expected to earn about 1 million taels by passing through guò official grain discounting and completing official orders. However, the official order is not a swarm, many of these grains are still in hand, and they will be delivered slowly after the imperial court approves, and it will take half a year to a year.

In addition, there are 2 million stone of official grain left, which is stored in warehouses all over Zài.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen thought that if you want to stabilize the price of grain in various parts of the north, it is better to base it on these two million stone of grain, and if the price of grain rises in a certain place, it will be transported to that place to stabilize the price of grain. Although these grain storage sites are a little remote, they are cheaper and can still save money even if they are transported long distances and then sold at a reasonable price. Cao Jinyu said to Zhu Youxiaojian.

"Aiqing has such an idea, I am very pleased." Zhu Youxiao was really pleased, Cao Jinyu could be so conscious, not like the Donglin Party to get into the eyes of money, which naturally made him very happy.

This time, the Jimin Grain Bank did a very good job, and the on-site liquidation of the field endowment and grain conversion not only recovered a large part of the loss of agricultural taxes of the imperial court, but also made it impossible for local officials to eat the scales, and also made the local land endowment clear, so that it would not be intercepted by local officials.

This may be the year when the magistrates of the northern states and counties feel the most worried, how many land taxes have been collected in the past, they can still conceal some of them, or even directly intercept them, so they will drag it first. If the court does not urge, they will not give it. The imperial court was in a hurry, so it slowly handed over a part, and then a part, constantly challenging the limit of the court's patience.

This year, the Jimin Grain Bank purchased the discounted grain, and the amount of agricultural tax levied by the local government was clearly counted.

However, it is not yet time for the local government to pay the land tax to the imperial court, and many officials are still unclear. But this list has been reported by Jinyiwei, and the next thing is to see which SB dares to withhold taxes.

"So be it! I will let the Jinyi guard keep an eye on the prices in various places, and then use the post station to pass it on, whether you can make money or not, it's up to you. Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said, the flow of information is not developed in these years, and if the official hits this time difference, it will obviously be able to make huge profits.

Historically, the Rothschild consortium has relied heavily on a fast intelligence system that can communicate faster than others, and then ship goods from other places to areas where a certain commodity is lacking.

The imperial court obviously had this condition, because the imperial court had a post station.

Cao Jinyu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, Cao Jinyu, who has been in the trafficking business for a long time, has an extremely deep understanding of information. Knowing the news of the market one step ahead of others means great benefits.

If the price of a commodity rises in a certain place, if you can know the news as soon as possible, you can quickly transfer a batch of goods to the past. If the price of a certain commodity in a certain place is low, you can also rush over to eat it and then sell it to a place with a high price.

As long as there is a fast intelligence system, this is a sure profit, and the benefits are huge.

Obviously, no one's news will be faster than the imperial court, and the imperial court has a post station that can deliver the news, and if necessary, it can even be expedited for eight hundred miles.

This business intelligence system is also needed by Zhu Youxiao, making money is secondary, and the most useful thing for him is disaster relief and calming down food prices.

If you want not to be hoarded by those black-hearted grain merchants, you must have the ability to respond quickly.

After Cao Jinyu left, Zhu Youxiao immediately explained the problem of the intelligence system, and divided the area, so that Jinyiwei and Dongchang were each responsible for the collection and aggregation of commercial intelligence in a northern area, and then handed over to Cao Jinyu to operate. The profits from the operation are still the same as those of the grain bank, which is divided into eighty-two.

Less than two days after Cao Jinyu finished reporting on the development of the grain bank, Cao Jinyu reported another news that the granary of the Jimin grain store in Tianjin was burned down in the middle of the night, and about 30,000 stone of flour was burned, and the loss reached 45,000 taels of silver.

"There are really people who are not afraid of death." Zhu Youxiao sighed, don't think about it, it must have been done by the grain merchants in Tianjin. Unable to compete head-on with Jimin Food, he began to use violence. But the state is the biggest institution of violence!

"Someone came, the Beijing camp immediately dispatched a battalion to Tianjin, and cooperated with Jinyiwei to raid the grain stores in Tianjin." Zhu Youxiao didn't have to think about anything, and directly gave the order.

If you dare to burn my grain, then I can only fight violence with violence.

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