After Li Jin and several wealthy merchants in the city had eaten and drunk enough, they began to call each other brothers.

The wealthy businessmen are naturally sensible, knowing that Li Jin is in difficulty now, they are ready to help, but they are just a little stingy, and they don't want to donate much food.

They are willing to donate, which is already very face-saving for Li Jin.

And Li Jin's next sentence surprised everyone:

"This official intends to raise the price of grain in the county, if there is a disaster today, food is life."

"What's the most valuable thing in the world? Is there anything more valuable than life? ”

"In that case, isn't it natural to let those mud legs have more money?"

"What do you think?"

These wealthy businessmen couldn't believe their ears at first, there is such a good thing in this world?

It's just unbelievable.

You must know that disaster years are often the most profitable time for these businessmen and landlords.

After all, in normal times, people produce and sell their own products, so what do you need there? This led to the early Ming Dynasty, which was a society with a small peasant economic model.

If a merchant wants to do business, he must do the business of high-ranking officials and nobles, these people have money, they are willing to spend money, and naturally money is the best to earn.

However, what dignitaries can there be in Hepu County?

Therefore, the real identity of these people in front of Li Jin is just a landlord and an old man, and he usually does business, but it is only superficial.

In fact, they are all rural landlords, who belong to countless lands, and live by renting land, even in disaster years, they can't starve these big landlords.

Most of the grain shops in the city are supported by these people.

And what they like the most is precisely the disaster year.

Because the value of the grain in their hands will increase exponentially in the year of disaster, and the value of the land in the hands of the people will quickly depreciate.

They will be able to take advantage of the abundant grain in their hands to take advantage of the danger of others to exchange land in the hands of the people, which is land annexation, and the landlord will become a bigger landlord.

These landlords will not stop until all the nearby yeoman farmers have become tenants of their own homes.

Now in Hepu, the price of grain has doubled, and the price of one tael of silver and two stones of grain has now become the price of one tael of silver and one stone of grain.

Originally, these large landowners were already very satisfied and were preparing to start shipping in large quantities.

But now the prefect in front of him is also a corrupt official, and he plans to make a lot of money, so the matter becomes even more interesting.

"Dare to ask my lord, how much do you want to raise the price of food?"

One of the wealthy businessmen couldn't help but ask.

Li Jin stretched out three fingers and said directly:

"Three taels of silver and one stone of grain, you can save your life by relying on three taels of silver, this price is not expensive, right?"

"After all, it's too cost-effective to buy a life for three taels of silver, don't you say?"

The wealthy businessmen hurriedly agreed:

"Yes, yes! That's exactly what the adults say. ”

"I just don't know when the price will start to rise?"

"Half a month later."

Li Jin said for a while, and then said:

"When all the grain in the treasury is sold, then these mud legs will have to buy high-priced grain."

"I warn you, these days, if any of you dare to sell the grain, don't blame the official for not informing you in advance."

"When the time comes, I will be arrested and put in prison by this official, don't blame this official for being unkind."

"Blocking people's wealth is like killing your parents, if you stand in my way, then I will dispose of you together, understand?"

"Understand, villain understands, adults rest assured, as long as adults don't ship, we will never ship!"

The wealthy businessmen smiled one by one, and felt that when they met such a prefect who brought everyone to make a fortune together, it was really because they had accumulated too many virtues and done good deeds in their previous lives, so they would meet such a one.

And everyone didn't notice that Li Jin's eyes showed an inexplicable look.