In the world before Yun Chu, his school had long written these things clearly and clearly in the textbooks.

The various historical lessons of how to work hard, how to shake off poverty and become rich, and even how to establish a new regime from scratch and how to improve this new regime are all clearly written and clear-cut.

Yun Chu is not a stupid college student who has just come out of school and still has a clear look in his eyes. ’

On the contrary, before coming to Datang, he had already become a scheming basic official in rapid social changes and social practice.

In many cases, if you can manage a village well, you can manage a township well, and if you can manage a street well, you will basically be able to take up the post of district head, and if an official can manage a county well, he will basically be able to take up most of the posts in the country.

Therefore, managing a Tang Dynasty Chang'an City is nothing to Yun Chu, a person who is about to be qualified for Baili Hou.

What is the essence of the state?

It's management.

What are the elements that make up a nation?

It's prisons, police and the military.

What is the biggest contradiction between the state and the people?

It is the contradiction between the people who want to live recklessly and want to live in an orderly manner.

Therefore, when the Cui clan wanted to live a reckless life, but they wanted to maintain basic order, it would be strange if Yun Chu did not use his own management methods.

Just when Master Liu and Cui's competition over grain was in full swing, the lending interest rate in Chang'an City was falling sharply.

In the past, when borrowing money, the interest rate of doubling the year was basically the money that could only be released in a benevolent place.

Now, even the most greedy of the temples have lowered their lending rates to fifty percent per annum.

This is obviously due to the fact that they have more money in their hands.

The first to feel the impact was naturally Yu Xiurong, the head of the Yun family, because the Zhike monks of the Great Ci'en Temple no longer absorbed the Yun family's huge amount of cash income from the big canteen.

This also shows that the Great Mercy and Grace Temple has no way to make a profit from the Yun family's massive copper coins.

In other words, these monks who opened banks have already smelled the danger of an imminent financial crisis.

I heard the monk say that the Great Ci'en Temple has been fine over the years, because it has invested a huge amount of money in the Buddha Kingdom of the Western Regions, and the copper coins in his hands have entered the market earlier and have been exchanged for various materials into the Western Regions.

As for the incense soup kitchens of other temples, they are unlucky.

To be honest, this phenomenon was not expected by Yun Chu, he used to always classify monks and wealthy families together, and felt that their group of people united to manipulate copper coins to suck the blood of the people.

Now it seems that the wealthy families have no intention of letting go of the monks this time.

After discussing with Wen Rou and Di Renjie, there were many people in Chang'an City who wanted to borrow money from the temple, but their interest was suppressed very low, and finally suppressed to 30% of the annual interest.

After these merchants got the money, the first thing they did was to spend the money, not in Chang'an, but to buy a large amount of grain and various materials at high prices from the big landlords in Guanzhong.

No matter how high the price they spend now, they will earn it in the future, and anyway, the copper coins are borrowed from the monk's temple.

When Yun Chu ate steamed buns at the Hu family's steamed bun restaurant in the morning and checked out, he found that the Hu family's steamed buns were expensive, and they came out with two more dollars than usual.

Moreover, the buns are smaller than the buns sold before, not to mention the mouth-watering oily meat filling inside, which has also become much smaller.

In the past, it took three bites to eat a bun, but now, there is no need, one bite is too much, and two bites are not enough.

Seeing that Lao Hu, the owner of the black-hearted Lao Hu Bun Shop, was beaten by the diners, Yun Chu left the bun shop very satisfied.

After the price of grain rose, all the prices in Chang'an City rose accordingly.

The only thing that does not rise is the cheap grain store in the various markets, everyone wants to buy cheap grain, but unfortunately, the grain here is distributed by the head of the house himself, a family of several people, how much food a day can not hide from the head of the house, want to buy more, there is no possibility.

So, Yun Chu saw the coarse grain of millet again on his own dining table.

Looking at the huge millet buns, Yun Chu knocked on the table with chopsticks and said, "Our family shouldn't be enough, right?" ”

Yu Xiurong held up a millet bun bigger than her face and said, "This is to remind my husband that this thing is the staple food on the table of the people of Chang'an."

Now that the price of food is so expensive, many people have resumed the habit of eating dry meals twice a day and drinking gruel in their leisure time. ”

Yun Chu nodded to indicate that he understood, and seeing that Li Si refused to eat the millet steamed bun, he broke half of the millet steamed bun into her rice plate and said, "Eat well." ”

Li Si cried and lost his temper and said, "Pull your throat." ”

Naha, who was holding a large piece of millet steamed bun and gnawing on it, raised her hand and slapped Li Si on the back of the head, so Li Si honestly picked up the steamed bun and gnawed it. ”

As for Yun Jin, the two Yun Jin brothers and sisters have always been eye-catching, and before Naha could set her eyes on their plates, the two little ones picked up the millet buns and gnawed them very devotedly.

There is no way to do this, there has never been fine grain in the cheap grain distributed in the market, and some only have millet, sorghum, and all kinds of beans, and even millet, because that thing can boil rice oil, which belongs to fine grain.

That is, millet, sorghum, and beans are cheap, and Yun Chu has the confidence to fight-for-tat in this struggle.

It may be that Cui Mian is too arrogant, and he always thinks that as long as he controls the wheat, rice, and millet, he can choke Yun Chu's throat.

What he didn't know was that a few years ago, the main food on the table of the people of Chang'an City was these coarse grains.

Even before the outbreak of the food war, coarse grains have always been the main role on the people's table.

People who want to eat good things can also buy wheat, rice, and millet, but they are more expensive, and if they can afford it, they can eat good things, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Even if Cui Mian knew this, he didn't care, just the wheat, rice, and millet stored in Chang'an and Wannian counties were enough for him to be busy for a while.

Sometimes, Yun Chu couldn't understand Cui Mian's behavior, and when the price of grain rose so rapidly, he still had the face to ask Master Liu, wanting to buy the No. 2 courtyard on Suzaku Street for 30,000 yuan.

Of course, he was sternly rejected by Master Liu.

So, Cui Mian once again invested all the money to buy the yard into the purchase of grain.

He did it very smartly, the grain was purchased in a scattered manner, and the purpose of buying grain was also very clear, mainly because Shandong and Hebei were hit by disasters, and they needed a lot of food to save the people in those two places.

The government has investigated, and the two places have indeed suffered disasters, and the people are indeed hungry...... Therefore, the crime of hoarding Juqi is not on their heads.

The more grain Cui Mian receives in Chang'an, the disaster situation in Hebei and Shandong is gradually improving.

This is a long-term war, Yun Chu did not plan to divide the victory and defeat in a short period of time, he cared more about the construction of Chang'an City than food.

And the rest of the things have been rising as well as the price of the people's manpower, and since I heard that the laborers in Chang'an City can earn a hundred dollars a day, the people near Chang'an have taken advantage of the slack time to pour into the city, ready to endure hardships for a while, and make a good profit.

Unfortunately, their wish will be frustrated, for a hundred dollars can buy as much grain as thirty dollars a day.

Therefore, the money they earned in Chang'an is destined to be spent in Chang'an, after all, Chang'an rice is expensive, and it is not easy to live.

Although the construction of Chang'an City is still in full swing, the smiles on the faces of the people are gradually decreasing.

An economic disaster has deprived the smiles on the faces of Chang'an people.

Chang'an City, which has no smiling face, is the same as the ghost domain.

The news of Chang'an's lack of food reached the ears of Li Hong, who was in Luoyang, and he wrote a long letter to Yun Chu.

Told Yun Chu that his subordinate official Lou Shide was cultivating land in Longyou, although because of the short time, he had not grown a lot of grain, but Lou Shide seemed to have anticipated the shortage of grain in Chang'an, and used the prince's relationship to collect a lot of grain in Longyou.

If Yun Chu needed it, he would order Lou Shide to transport grain into Chang'an City to relieve his urgent needs.

In the early morning, Yun Chu deliberately went to a large cafeteria, where only a few diners would eat with the bustling crowd in the past.

Glancing at the prices of various foods on the brand, Yun Chu immediately understood why there were so few customers.

A bowl of copper coins for a bowl of rice, at such a price, to be honest, he didn't want to come.

"Brother, I have a lot of money." Naha took Yun Chu's hand, feeling that her brother had been very haggard lately.

"Your copper coins have been almost spent by Li Hong."

"I still have a lot of jade, a lot of gold coins, gold sand, and gold nuggets."

"Those are all good things, don't move, keep them."

"I heard that the price of the yak that Xu Jingye sold to his brother has increased?"

"Well, yes, it's more than doubled."

"Why does everyone have to bully my brother? Including emperors, empresses, crown princes...... Everyone is bullying my brother, even Master Xuanzang refuses to help you.

Otherwise, let's leave Chang'an and go back to the Western Regions. ”

Yun Chu looked at Naha and smiled, "What are you doing back to the Western Regions?" ”

"My brother is the king of the Buddha country, we will fight against them, and with my brother here, I don't believe they dare to send someone to death."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Don't even want Li Hong?" ”

"Don't do it!" Naha put it bluntly.

Yun Chu raised his hand and touched Naha's head, his heart was really comfortable, this stupid girl was willing to turn his face with people all over the world for him.

"Letting you live in pain is not what I, as an elder brother, want to see, let you get the happiness you should have in your life, is all the meaning of my existence as an elder brother.

Don't worry, it's a trivial matter, and the difficulties will pass sooner or later. ”

Chapter I

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