Listening to Lu Shizhi's vague 'explanation', looking at Lu Shizhi's dodging gaze, and the vague fear on his face, Liu Ying couldn't help but take a deep breath and let out a long sigh leisurely.

Liu Ying finally knew why the people had to endure selling low and buying high, and they had to sell the grain in their hands to those grain merchants who ate people and did not spit out bones.

- The peasants, who have no money left in their hands, have no extra money to build a granary to store grain!

Even if it is only a granary that can store grain of one or two hundred stones, the size of a room is no bigger, the people are not able to build it!

In order to prevent the grain from becoming moldy and smelly in their own hands, the people could only sell the grain they had obtained from their hard work to those grain merchants who owned granaries at the price of cabbage, and after a few months, they bought back the grain that they had sold at a low price at a high price as a ration for their families······

In this way, the grain and rice in Guanzhong flowed into Guandong from Hangu Pass and Wuguan, but the people in Guanzhong did not have enough food to eat, which was inevitable.

For example, in the autumn, a man harvests 240 stone of grain and rice from his own acre, of which 16 stone is paid in agricultural tax, and the remaining 224 stone is left.

A family of five can eat about 30 stone of grain in one winter, and it is slightly easier to store food in winter.

So the man left twenty-four stone of grain as the ration for the five members of the family to survive the winter; The remaining 200 stone was sold to the grain merchant at a price of 1,500 yuan per stone, and he got 300,000 yuan.

300,000 yuan sounds like a lot, but in fact, in the spring and summer of the following year, the 300,000 yuan was left intact, but it could only buy back more than 100 stone of grain.

After such a whole year, before the autumn harvest of the following year, this peasant who has worked hard to support the livelihood of his family of five will find that the 300,000 yuan he earned from selling grain last year is no longer a penny; The 200 stone of grain sold to the grain merchant was only exchanged for 120 or 30 stone, which was used as food rations for the family.

Where did the remaining seventy-eighty stone grain go?

-- It was easily obtained by the grain merchants as 'profits', and then the grain merchants spent manpower and financial resources to send them to Kanto and sold them at several times the price······

"Whew~"

Slightly suffocating and exhaling a breath of turbidity, when Liu Ying looked at Lu Shi again, there was no longer the slightest relaxation on his face.

"Uncle is in the feudal country, can he already build a warehouse to save the tax from the feudal country?"

Seeing Lu Shizhi nodding his head with shame, Liu Ying's heart completely sank to the bottom.

"Hey ······"

"Yes······"

"In addition to the meritorious Hou Guixun, now in the Han family, who still has the financial resources to build a granary?"

With a secret scolding, Liu Ying's face was filled with a helpless bitter smile.

The answer is already obvious.

-- The 'grain merchants' who monopolized the grain market in Guanzhong and continued to exploit the toiling people were precisely those who were the heroes and nobles of tens of thousands of peasants who were in charge of the court and the country!

It is these dignified and meritorious heroes who have made contributions to the founding of the country who are buying low and selling high, combining power and money, monopolizing Guanzhong, and even the world's grain market!

With the huge power and financial resources of these founding fathers, granaries large enough to hold tens of millions of stones have risen from the ground.

Then, the grain purchased at a low price was sent to the granary by the servants of these meritorious and noble families, and a few months later, it was moved out untouched.

In such a year, the granary is still the empty granary; But the pockets of the meritorious lords and nobles are no longer the empty pockets······

"Uncle Fang just said, the autumn harvest of the previous year, Guanzhong rice stone thousand eight hundred yuan; At the beginning of spring last year, Fang Zhishi was 2,400 yuan? ”

Seeing that Liu Ying's face was solemn and her tone was full of seriousness, Lu Shizhi only felt that the eight-inch square face couldn't be lifted at all.

"Then ······"

lowered her head and whispered, which suddenly provoked Liu Ying to stand up from the soft couch suddenly!

"From the autumn and August of the previous year to the spring and March of last year, it was full July, and the price of grain could not rise by 600 yuan!"

"However, since the autumn harvest last year, but in more than February, the price of grain has risen by more than 300 yuan, and today it is rising by 50 yuan!"

"In this way, until the beginning of spring and February, the price of grain in Guanzhong will not exceed 5,000 yuan in rice and stone?"

Hearing Liu Ying's reprimand, Lu Shizhi couldn't help but sink his heart.

- Yes!

Today, the price of grain is 1,800 dollars per stone!

This is still early winter, and the people still have winter food in their hands, and it is basically the season for everyone to buy food!

If it really rises at 50 yuan a day, in another two months, isn't it just like Liu Ying said, and each stone of grain will be sold for 5,000 yuan?

Two months later, it was only spring in February······

In spring and February, the price of grain is more than 5,000 yuan per stone, and then in summer, April, and summer, and May······

At this moment, Lu Shizhi didn't care about the rise in food prices at all, how much money he could make himself!

——In the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, 8,000 yuan and a stone of rice, and the people and children cannibalized!

Now, Liu Bang, the son of heaven, is leading the army outside, and Guanzhong is watched by Liu Ying, the prince of the prison country!

If there is really a sharp rise in food prices, which leads to the cannibalism of the people, not to mention Liu Ying's storage position, Lu Pheasant's future order, and the foundation of Liu Han Sheji, they will all be turbulent!

"Mi Jia, a grain merchant in the Guanguan today, who is the leader?!!"

Hearing that Liu Ying suddenly asked, Lu Shizhi also bowed his hand with a solemn face.

"On the family: In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, by the order of His Majesty, I moved from Linzi to the Tian clan of Changling!"

"The Changling Tian clan is the heir of the late Qi royal family; In the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Qi Wang Tian committed suicide, and the Tian clan of the Qi royal clan moved into Changling, which was convenient for the construction of granaries around Changling, so as to sell and sell grain to the people for profit! ”

"In the eighth year of the Han Dynasty, the court captain Ji Hou Gong did not harm the book, after the death of the Qi royal family, Fang Xing business, His Majesty immediately summoned the Prime Minister's Mansion and degraded the Changling Tian clan into business······"

After speaking, Lu Shizhi bowed his head and looked at Liu Ying with a grim face.

"At home, but you can command!"

"Where the family says, even if the minister goes to the soup, he will not give up!!"

Looking at Lu Shizhi for a moment, he changed from the previous look of being weak to the current appearance of being more anxious than himself, Liu Ying's heart couldn't help but warm a little.

But looking at the grim look between Lu Shizhi's eyebrows, Liu Ying finally held back the anger in his chest, and looked at his mother Lu Pheasant, who looked relaxed and comfortable behind him.

"The price of grain in Guanzhong may be boiling, but the queen mother seems to have no worries?"

But when he saw Lu Pheasant hearing this, he only smiled meaninglessly, patted his side, and motioned for Liu Ying to sit down.

"Queen Mother······

"Sit down~"

The voice was not harsh, but it was full of undoubted heaviness, which finally made Liu Ying sit down uneasily.

"Lord, do not raise up teachers out of anger; General, do not hold on to the war. ”

"If you are angry, you will be anxious; If you are in a hurry, you will be covered; Cover, it will not pass. ”

"Close your eyes and breathe, calm your mind, and then speak."

Listening to Lu Pheasant's gentle, but undoubtedly irresistible guidance, Liu Ying involuntarily closed her eyes, put her hands on her thighs, and took a deep breath.

Slowly exhaled out, took a deep breath, and repeated several times, Liu Ying felt a little knot in his chest.

When Liu Ying slowly opened her eyes and looked sideways at Lu Pheasant again, she saw that Lu Pheasant's face was full of such a loving smile again.

"Hmm."

"Tell me, what should be done about the price of food or the boiling matter?"

Looking at Lu Pheasant's extremely indifferent and confident eyes, Liu Ying's heart, which was still a little restless, finally calmed down completely.

After that, it didn't seem that Liu Ying was expressing his worries, but it seemed that he ran out of Liu Ying's mouth.

"This lunar month is approaching, and most people do not buy grain in the market, even if it rises slightly, it will not hurt."

"And now, the rice stone is only 18,000 yuan, not yet the old age, and the most expensive stone of grain is 3,000 yuan."

"The son is responsible for supervising the country, and the king of Zhao is also here, and the idea of his father and emperor Yi Chu has not disappeared, and the princes and officials in the court are uncertain."

"At this delicate moment, it is better to be quiet than to move; Children should concentrate on repairing canals and other things, but when the people's grievances do not boil, they should not incite them. ”

As if being manipulated, Liu Ying added with some uncertainty: "And the Changling Tian clan is the queen of the Qi royal family, so the Qi Wang Tian Heng blames himself for his own death, and then treats the Tian clan harshly, I am afraid it is also inappropriate?" ”

Seeing Liu Ying in a moment, he adjusted from the uncontrollable anger he had before, and Lu Pheasant was already a little happy.

Hearing that Liu Ying almost didn't have any emotion this time, and it was almost completely out of an objective point of view, Lu Pheasant finally smiled lovingly and gently touched the back of Liu Ying's head.

"Tian's family, this household has been registered as a businessman, so it doesn't hurt to kill it."

"If the name is not right, then the words are not good, You Wu'er is not yet the prince, and it is not appropriate to show his murderous nature."

"When the price of food is boiling and the public opinion in Guanzhong is boiling, my son will bring the people's aspirations and eliminate harm for the country, and then we can ······"

Listening to Lu Pheasant's extremely gentle words, Liu Ying's expression on her face finally calmed down.

The pair of tightly locked sword eyebrows were finally slowly conveyed.

Seeing that Liu Ying thought for a moment, she finally smiled lightly, turned sideways, and looked at Lu Shizhi, who was still full of grimness.

"The matter of buying grain will be put aside for the time being."

"The nephew had agreed with Xiao Xiang the day before yesterday: The grain needed by the officials and slaves of the Shaofu will be allocated 70,000 stone by the treasury in advance."

"I got 70,000 stones of grain and rice, and I used it until the beginning of spring in February."

"The Remainder ······"

As she spoke, Liu Ying turned her head slightly and smiled quietly at her mother Lu Pheasant.

"For the rest, we'll talk about it then?"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, and seeing Lu Pheasant's nod with a smile, Lu Shizhi had doubts, but he finally gave up his hand to Liu Ying.

"Minister, take the order."

After the salute, the Xuanshu Hall fell into a brief silence.

When Liu Ying came back from her thoughts, she saw that Lu Shizhi's expression was still with a trace of worry.

was about to ask, but Lu Shizhi looked at Lu Pheasant and Liu Ying's mother and son hesitantly, and finally gave Liu Ying a little bow.

"At home."

"Yesterday, when the minister heard that Xiao Xiang had an order from his family, he went to the treasury in person to transfer the grain used by the Shaofu."

"There are many officials in the DPRK and China, and the family is superior to Xiao Xiang'······"

"Too harsh?"