After the conversation between Tian Wei and Wuyanji, the largest merchant in Guanzhong, Wuyan, and the largest grain merchant in Guanzhong, Changling Tian, reached an agreement on 'not interfering in the grain business in Guanzhong' in Changlingyi, where Emperor Liu Bang of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty Taizu Gao.

The largest money merchant and grain merchant in Guanzhong decided not to interfere in this matter, which undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on the hearts of the rest of the businessmen.

——Such a lucrative business, the Wuyan clan and the Changlingtian clan avoided it?

There's nothing unknown about this······

With this in mind, the businessmen, after thinking about it briefly, each found their own backer.

In the eyes of these backers, this deal is undoubtedly a little too attractive.

"A hundred dollars a stone?"

"See clearly?"

"Is it really a hundred dollars a stone?"

···

"One Hundred Dollars and One Stone ······"

"Since Emperor Taizong Xiaowen three years ago, the price of grain in Guanzhong has never exceeded seventy yuan a stone?"

"Even 'parity grain' has to be sold for 100 yuan a stone, then when the spring starts next year, the price of grain in Guanzhong will ······."

"Hiss ······"

After the official letter of the Prime Minister's Mansion was issued, Shang Guanli did not know how many princes and nobles of the family issued a similar exclamation.

After determining that the official letter of the Prime Minister's Office, which was led by Liu Sheng and had complete seals and seals, clearly stated that 'open Taicang and sell grain at a low price of 100 yuan per stone', the reaction of the princely group went to the two extremes of Weijing.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the country, and grain is the foundation of the people;"

"The price of grain is related to the stability of the temple and the community, and it is also related to whether we, the descendants of the fathers and heroes, can continue to be noble."

"Hmmm······"

"My generation and the Zongmiao Society share honor and disgrace, life and death."

"This money, you can't make it!"

"-Not only can I not make money, but I have to think of another way to find some food to transport to Guanzhong······"

Among the hundreds of meritorious marquis in Shangguanli, there are five or six smart people who, with such ideas, sent their cronies and even their heirs to Kanto, trying to transport grain from their own Chehou feudal country to Chang'an.

Only these five or six smart people clearly recognize themselves and their close ties with Liu Hansheji.

Although more than half of the remaining princes and nobles decided not to get involved in this matter, their motives were obviously not as noble as those five or six 'smart people'.

"This incident is related to whether Gongzi Sheng can be established as a prince, the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, I am afraid that no one will be allowed to destroy Gongzi's victory."

"Although the profit of this grain is really exciting······"

"Tsk, that's it~"

"It should be for the future prince to express his closeness."

"Lest I be reckoned with again in the future······

This is the mainstream idea of the princely group.

It is not very noble, nor is it despicable, it is just to protect itself and the clan, and make such a conservative decision.

But as the old saying goes: no matter how elite the group is, there will always be a few idiots mixed in.

What's more, today, the surviving fathers of the Han family are basically all the children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren of the founding fathers;

These gentlemen, who were born with a golden key and have never worried about their livelihood, only suffer from the fact that there is no more interesting way to entertain, no more money to indulge in extravagant pleasures, and disdain for their children and grandchildren, of course, they will not think too deeply.

This is especially true for those princes who already control a certain merchant and make money for themselves······

"Hey!"

"Stabilize grain prices, but I don't even know how to wait until the spring of next year to open a warehouse to sell parity grain?"

"If you want me to say, this son wins, I am afraid that it is to occupy the reputation of 'loyalty and filial piety', so he was elected by His Majesty as the crown prince."

"Anyway, if we don't make it, someone will always make this money, so why not?"

···

"But if this happens, Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will be thunderous and angry, right?"

"-What's there to be afraid of?"

"-The law does not hold the public accountable!"

"-Let's all earn this money together, is it possible for Your Majesty to pull dozens of our princes out of the East City?"

···

"Besides, this is the stupidity of that son, and he made us cheap for nothing!"

"Our fathers and ancestors are all founding fathers!"

"After we heroes, don't we even have the power to buy and sell grain?"

"Wherever this is said, we will take care of it!"

···

"But Gongzi Sheng, is he going to be the prince in the future?"

"If it's this time, I'll offend Gongzi Sheng······

"-Hey!"

"-With this incident, his son wins, and he still wants to be the prince?"

"-Don't talk about being a prince, it's hard to say whether you can save your life or not!"

···

"Your Majesty's ······"

"—Your Majesty too!"

"--It's really a fuss about the price of grain in Guanzhong being 8,000 yuan a stone, and the people are cannibalistic, and Your Majesty can still take care of his son-in-law?"

"-It's good to keep the throne······"

···

Conversations like this appeared almost at the same time in dozens of princely mansions in Shangguanli.

After thinking about it again, some people choose to retreat directly, and some people decide to wait and see;

Naturally, there were also those who decided to act immediately.

Someone acted, which naturally meant that the womb was too much, and Liu Sheng, who had been prepared for a long time, waited for his first 'distinguished guest'.

It's just that the identity of this distinguished guest is really a bit unexpected by Liu Sheng······

·

"Wuyang Hou, don't come to harm, right?"

The side hall of the palace, the reception hall.

Looking at the middle-aged nobleman in front of him who was richly dressed, his steps were vain, and his face was full of greed, Liu Sheng only smiled and got up and bowed his hand.

Seeing Liu Sheng so polite, the nobleman also stepped forward with a smile and saluted Liu Sheng and Dou Pengzu's cousin and nephew respectively.

After the guest of honor was seated, the nobleman raised his head with a smile and only looked directly at Liu Sheng.

"Thank you for your concern."

"I heard that this year, the matter of stabilizing the price of grain in Guanzhong, Your Majesty handed it over to Gongzi to handle;"

"The minister came to the door in person, and wanted to see if there was anything wrong with the son, who could help······"

With a simple and polite sentence, the nobleman went straight to the point, which was a vague explanation of the intention.

In the main seat, hearing the words of the nobleman, Liu Sheng lowered his head with a light smile and fell into a short period of thought.

The man in front of him is the fifth of the eighteen meritorious marquis of the founding of the Han Dynasty, and even in later generations, he also enjoys the famous meritorious marquis of the founding father-the son of Fan Xu, the Marquis of Wuyang: a native of Fan City.

Not to mention the future generations, even in today's Han family, when they hear the three words 'Wuyang Hou', everyone in the world gives a thumbs up and praises: big husband, big hero!

But Liu Sheng never expected that the first person to 'capture' this trap he deliberately set was Fan Xu's son······

"Alas~"

"Tiger Father and Dog Son, ······"

In his heart, he was silent for three seconds for the famous Wuyang Hou Fan Xu, and Liu Sheng looked up at the guest Fan Shi people with an approachable and gentle smile.

And the first sentence that Liu Sheng said made the people of Fan City completely forget the draft that had been typed earlier.

"Wuyang Hou, you don't have to see the outside like this~"

"Think back then, Junhou's father, Wuyang Wuhou, and my great-grandfather, Emperor Gao, were intimate and talked about everything?"

"If you really want to calculate it, I am still the younger generation of the prince."

"When you see your juniors, why should you be so polite and so outside?"

The extremely natural ridicule caused the people of Fan City to be slightly stunned, and before they could speak, they saw Liu Sheng with an easy-going smile.

"Junhou, you're here to buy food, right?"

"It's a matter of course!"

"How much?!"

The cordial tone for no reason also caused the people of Fan City to laugh stiffly, but when they saw Liu Sheng's side, Liu Pengzu, the seventh son of the emperor, had already lifted the pen, and it was already a posture of recording the number.

Everything in front of him made a certain nerve deep in the genes of Fan Shi people instinctively want to be a little guarded;

But in front of this huge benefit at their fingertips, the people of Wuyang Houfan City can no longer take care of other ······

"Uh······"

"Childe thinks, minister, how much can you buy?"

Tentatively asked, but saw Liu Sheng shaking his head with an easy-going smile.

"Look at what the prince said······"

"—of course, you can buy as much as you want."

"If the prince is really willing to share my worries and buy all the 20 million stone grain in Taicang, I will be happy to save trouble."

"Just one point: the prince has to pay cash to buy grain?"

The smiling words also caused the people of Fan City to laugh stiffly, and they seemed to bow their heads crampedly, but they also secretly made calculations in their hearts.

A stone of grain costs 100 yuan, you can buy it, save it for a winter, and when it comes to the spring of the next year, you can sell it for thousands of dollars, or even thousands of dollars······

No matter how bad it is, it can always be sold for hundreds of dollars, and it is nearly ten times the profit when it changes hands······

As the first distinguished guest Liu Sheng received in the palace, when the people of Fan City came, they had already made up most of their minds;

At this moment, thinking of this tenfold benefit, the people of Fanshi who had already seen countless money and gold rolling in, they no longer hesitated.

smiled shyly, and whispered a number that was another Liu Sheng, and he couldn't help but be a little shocked.

"The courtier's family is poor, and he can't take out too much money······"

"But since you can help Childe, then the minister, let's buy two million stones······"

Like a shy bride, she said the words 'just buy two million stones', and the people of Fan City did not forget to raise their heads slightly.

Looking at Liu Sheng's gaze, he was even more inexplicably a little guilty!

But what the people of Fan City don't know is that this guilt will not make Liu Sheng a few months later feel the same guilt towards Fan City······

"Hmm~"

"Two million stones, ah······"

Subconsciously repeated the subscription amount of the Fan City people, and turned his head sideways with a shocked face, and looked at his cousin Dou Pengzu next to him and his brother Liu Pengzu not far away.

Not surprisingly, from the eyes of his cousin and brother, Liu Sheng also saw the same astonishment as himself.

Two million stones!

A native of Wuyang Houfan City is about to eat two million stone of grain when he opens his mouth!

What is the concept?

——According to the food ration of two stone per person per month for the soldiers in the army, the two million stone of grain for the people of Wuyang Houfan City is enough for 100,000 troops to fight abroad for nearly a year!

At the beginning of this year, during the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the Chang'an court sent a total of more than 400,000 troops to Wuguan, Xingyang, Zhao, Qi and other places;

These more than 400,000 people spent more than half a year to quell the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and the food consumed was only two or three million stone grain!

"At the beginning of this year, when the princes and nobles of Chang'an were about to go out to quell the rebellion, they were all crying poor and borrowing debts at every turn?"

"When the co-author encounters state affairs, he is so poor that he has to borrow usury;"

"When you encounter a private matter, you can buy two million stone of grain at will?"

"Hey;"

"It is worthy of being the Marquis of Wuyang, who has 5,000 households in the food town······"

After a while, Liu Sheng was the first to recover from his astonishment;

If he slandered his stomach, he hurriedly returned to his previous gentle smile that was approachable and harmless to humans and animals.

"Wuyanghou is willing to buy it, so naturally I can't ask for it."

"It's just~"

"These two million stone grain, as a price, is there enough 20,000 yuan?"

"——20,000 yuan, that is, the internal money of the Shaofu, I am afraid it will take a few days to count and transfer;"

"Junhou today, I'm afraid I didn't bring enough money, right?"

The tone was indifferent, but there were some provocative words, which only provoked the people of Fan City to shake their heads with a light smile.

"Childe doesn't have to worry."

"Before I came, the minister had already carefully read the official letter sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion no less than ten times."

"The minister also knows that if you don't take out the money, the son, you won't sell food to the minister······"

Whispering this, the Fan Shiren turned sideways with a smile.

Liu Sheng, Liu Pengzu, and Dou Pengzu's uncle and nephew in the hall followed the eyes of the people of Fan City, and saw that outside the previously empty hall, wooden boxes had been piled up one by one, and they were stuffed to the brim.

The servants went in and out of the side door no less than a hundred times, and finally the hundreds of wooden boxes full of copper coins were neatly stacked in the open space outside the side hall.

Then, more than a dozen wooden boxes, which were significantly smaller, but also heavier, were moved into the palace by the servants one after another.

"If you only talk about copper coins, the minister can only take out these five million;"

"But come to think of it, Gongzi shouldn't refuse his ministers and buy grain with gold?"

Gentle, and inexplicably with some proud voices, the three uncles and nephews withdrew their eyes from the wooden boxes.

Seeing the east seat of the side hall, the people of Fan City smiled shyly again, and then stood up and pointed to the dozen or so smaller wooden boxes behind him.

"Here, there are five million copper coins and three thousand gold gold."

"Come to think of it, it should be enough for the ministers to buy these two million stone grain, right?"

A word came out with a chuckle, which caused the three uncles and nephews to be startled, and each of them cast their horrified eyes on the fat faces of the people of Fan City, who always had a faint smile and flashed greedily from time to time.

Five million copper coins······

Three thousand gold ······

After a long period of stunned, the eyes of Dou Pengzu and Liu Pengzu fell on Liu Sheng.

——This time, Liu Sheng was ordered by the Son of Heaven to preside over the stabilization of grain prices in Guanzhong this year and next year;

From Tianzi Qi, Liu Sheng got a budget of 'one million yuan' for employees, and from his grandmother, the Empress Dowager Dou, he got a start-up capital of 1,000 gold.

It's this million dollars and a thousand gold, and Liu Sheng also used to pick and search - except for less than 200 gold for Dou's five cousins/uncles, the rest of the money was all locked in the warehouse!

In the Wuchu Rebellion at the beginning of the year, even the two heroes who put down the rebellion, the captain Zhou Yafu and the general Dou Ying, were just rewarded with a bounty.

As a result, the people of Fan City made a move, which was 5 million copper coins and 3,000 gold gold······

Hiss~~~

Phew~~~~~······

Take a deep breath secretly, and try to use the smallest sound to slowly exhale this breath;

After calming down again, Liu Sheng once again got up from his seat with the harmless smile of the human and animal.

Only a moment later, the face that was still slightly stunned was already full of wry smiles.

"Prince, I'm afraid I won't be able to get my wish······"

"-oh?"

"——Childe sells grain, doesn't he collect gold?"

The people of Fan City asked in surprise, but Liu Sheng only shook his head with a wry smile.

"Gold, of course it's received."

"It's just the three thousand gold of the prince, I'm afraid, I can't buy two million stone of grain······"

As he spoke, Liu Sheng turned sideways slightly, grabbed a roll of bamboo slips from the case, and handed it to the people of Fan City not far away.

"This time the opening of Taicang and the sale of parity grain have long had a charter;"

"The details and details of the case have also been presented to the father, and the father's permission has been obtained."

"——One stone of grain and rice, and a hundred copper coins."

"As for gold, one gold is worth ten thousand copper coins, and one hundred stones of grain and rice."

···

"Therefore, the five million copper coins of the prince are only enough to buy fifty thousand stone of grain;"

"The remaining 3,000 gold is only enough to buy 300,000 stones."

"Combined, it's a total of 350,000 stones, not 2 million stones."

said this casually, and gently handed the bamboo slip in his hand to the Fan Shiren, and Liu Sheng turned around with a smile.

Walk back to the top seat, sit down, grab the bowl and take a sip.

Then, Liu Shengcai raised his head with a smile and looked at the center of the hall, with a stunned face from Wuyang Hou Fan City.

"Junhou, do you want to go back and think about it?"

"After all, it's not a trivial matter like buying a chicken or a piece of cloth······

In his thoughts, Liu Sheng's humble and inexplicable rebellious words came from his ears, which only caused the people of Fan City to frown!

After a while, I saw that the people of Fan City secretly gritted their teeth, and then their faces sank slightly.

"No need!"

"350,000 stones, just 350,000 stones!"

"Childe, do you want to count the money and gold?"

There was a slight part of the words, but it only provoked Liu Shengwen to shake his head with a smile, and waved his hand to his brother Liu Pengzu beside him.

"Brother, write it down."

"Wuyang Hou, give five million copper coins, three thousand gold gold, and buy 350,000 stones of Taicang grain."

He said this softly, and watched Liu Pengzu write down the accounts, Liu Shengcai smiled and raised his head.

"You don't have to count it."

"-If you want to come to the prince, you won't do such pickled things that insult your ancestors and ruin the prestige of your father's ancestors."

···

"I've written down this account."

"But the grain, I'm afraid, will have to wait until the spring of next year to move out of Taicang and deliver it to the prince."

"-After all, in addition to the princes, there will be many people who buy grain from Taicang."

"Every time someone buys grain, they open a Taicang, which is really too troublesome;"

"If you want to come to the prince, even if you get rice and grain today, there is no suitable granary to store it?"

said indifferently, and finally made the disgruntled look on the faces of the people of Fan City retreat slightly.

The urn angrily dropped the sentence 'I also have this intention', and then gave his hands perfunctorily, and immediately put his hands behind his back and strode towards the side door.

When the figure of the Fan City people disappeared outside the side door, Liu Pengzu and Dou Pengzu's uncle and nephew scattered their strange eyes to Liu Sheng, who was sitting on the main seat.

But the next sentence that came out of Liu Sheng's mouth made the uncle and nephew laugh dumbly······

"Ahem······"

"What's that, Xia Finch~"

"Go;"

"Order the copper coins and gold cakes sent by Wuyang Hou carefully."

"The human heart is unpredictable······"

'Ahem, ahem, ahem, ······'

Well~~ The third more, I thought about it for a while, and I had to mess up my work and rest after writing.

It's still two shifts today.

Tomorrow is also two watches, and it will be considered a rest.

The day after tomorrow, starting on December 1st, and then three more watches.

(End of chapter)