The rush to buy continues in Beijing, and more and more people flock to the rice shops, and now a large group of people have also gathered in front of the Huimin rice store.

"Why is the price going up again?"

The customer who had just come to the door of the rice store saw the new sign inserted on the rice pile and had the same mental activity as Li He, and immediately asked dumbfounded.

Xiao Er changed his previous exquisite service attitude, and said very arrogantly: "There is not much rice left in our store, if you want to buy it, hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to buy it in the future!" ”

This is a truth, their own rice shop has been from the suburbs of the city to buy rice, and the warehouse has a lot of rice, so there is no worry about no rice to sell.

It's just that this year, the rice mill on the outskirts of the city was contracted, and although a batch of rice was purchased from Shandong, their own rice storage was bought by rice merchants one after another, intensifying the rush to buy these days, so there is indeed not much surplus grain left.

If they continue to sell at this rate, no matter how reluctant they are to sell this rice shop, they will only be able to hold on for two more days at most, and I am afraid that there will be no rice to sell in the future.

"I know you're opening a store to make money, but you can't go overboard! Just now I passed by here it was still 60 yuan, and now it has risen to 70 yuan, which is really outrageous, right? Li He pointed to the price sign above, but accused loudly.

"Yes, it's outrageous!"

"I remember that in the morning you were still fifty cents!"

"How can you rise so much, change it back!"

……

The people in front of the door, under the leadership of Li He, were also excited.

But without waiting for Xiao Er to respond, a fat man ran over from the west and panted with two fingers: "Hurry up...... Give it to me...... Give me...... Three hundred pounds! ”

Yes?

Three hundred pounds?

The people who were asking to change the price back heard that this fat man had such a large purchase volume, especially just now that the fat man deliberately glanced at the price sign, looking at the person in disbelief.

Cough!

Shopkeeper Liu, who was drinking tea inside, moved slightly, and immediately coughed heavily.

When it comes to business sense, he thinks he is not much worse than his peers. Although he didn't understand why the price of this wave of rice had risen so wildly, judging from all indications, it seemed that there was room for the price to rise.

Combined with all kinds of strange phenomena since the beginning of spring this year, there must be a big promoter behind this wave of market.

After Xiao Er got the instructions of the shopkeeper Liu, he seemed righteous and awe-inspiring and refused to the fat man: "Our shopkeeper has already explained, we can't let the neighbors go hungry, and everyone can only buy a maximum of thirty catties at a time!" ”

"Okay, that's fast...... Give me thirty pounds! The fat man didn't dwell too much, and urged very happily.

Since the price has risen to 70 yuan, 30 catties is 2,100 yuan. Although the current copper coins are quite depreciated, seeing the large string of copper coins that the fat man took out can be said to be outrageous.

"This brother, why did you buy so much?" Faced with this fat man who was so eager to buy rice, someone immediately asked curiously.

"The rice shop on the next street has no rice to sell, and the one at the east end of the street has risen to seventy-five yuan!" After receiving the rice bag, the fat man revealed that he was in a good mood.

"I want twenty pounds!"

"I want thirty pounds!"

"We all need thirty pounds!"

……

As soon as the words fell, a group of customers who were still watching immediately pounced on Xiao Er, who was counting the money, but they waved the banknotes in their hands and said frantically.

Human nature is like this, just now I was thinking about jointly asking for a reduction in the original price, but now I am squeezing my head and competing to buy rice.

"I ...... I want twenty pounds too! ”

Li He saw the crowd of people buying frantically in front of him, and he had to accept the fact that the price of rice suddenly rose from 60 yuan to 70 yuan, so he had to join the rush to buy.

Unlike others, now that his rice jar has bottomed out, even if the price doubles, he will only be forced to buy high-priced rice.

As for the loss of five cents per catty because of the exchange of tickets, I can only accept this sad fact. Who made him greedy just now, obviously he had a rice ticket to exchange for rice, but he chose this unreliable silver money.

At this moment, this rush to buy is like a plague, staged in front of various rice shops in the capital.

"Why did the price of rice rise so high?"

"Hell knows, go buy rice!"

"Let's go, if you don't buy it, you won't be able to buy it!"

……

Although many people do not understand why the price of rice has suddenly skyrocketed, it is no longer the time to think about these things, and the priority is to stock up on large quantities of food.

In fact, this panic was largely not a real shortage of food, but due to panic in the capital, which was the same situation as many panic buying waves in later generations.

Of course, the elite class led by Li Jin, the Marquis of Xiangyang, relied on their own capital advantages to hoard grain, which did cause the supply of rice grain in the capital to drop sharply, and this panic could easily lead to a soaring price of rice.

"We've run out of rice in our store, come back tomorrow morning if you need it!"

Finally, it was Li He's turn to buy rice, but it turned out that Xiao Er suddenly showed a new brand, and he actually wanted to stop selling rice.

"None? What should I do? ”

"What else can I do, come back tomorrow!"

"It's not the price tomorrow, maybe you still can't buy it!"

……

When the people saw that the rice had run out, or that Shopkeeper Liu was not ready to continue to sell at a "low price", they could only swallow the bitter fruit silently.

"How so?"

When Li He heard this, he knew that he had made the wrong choice today.

If he was still the young master Kuo, or the new head of the family who had just inherited the family business, he naturally didn't need to sell the rice tickets in his hand for a small profit, but he was already impoverished.

It seemed that he had earned 10% just now, but he lost 10% instead. But this matter is not over yet, and now Shopkeeper Liu is using it as an excuse to run out, and no one knows what Shopkeeper Liu will do tomorrow.

On the other hand, the rice ticket in the royal rice shop is now sufficient, not only do you not need to worry about the price increase, but you can also generously exchange it for a full amount of polished rice.

After figuring out this, he immediately ran back to find the young man with a mole between his eyebrows, but the young man had already sold the rice ticket in his hand at a high price.

At the end of July, the "rice shortage" in the capital became more serious.

Although Beizhili organized the people to exterminate locusts, at most they could reduce and recover a little loss, and it was impossible to avoid the result of this year's autumn grain failure.

As for the blockage of the canal, the problem is more complicated than expected, and the Yellow River is an untamable water beast, which is even more capricious in the summer.

The governor of the river, Yamen, wanted to re-route the Yellow River in the direction it was diverted, but after the flood water swelled, it went in a different direction.

The more the governor of the river, Yamen, wanted to dredge the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as soon as possible, and the more he wanted to borrow an appropriate amount of Yellow River water from the Yellow River, the more likely it was to make mistakes in his busyness.

In fact, we can't blame the river governor yamen for this matter, the control of the Yellow River and the dredging of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal were originally two extremely difficult things, but now they are required to do a good job in the river governor's yamen.

It's just that no matter what the reason, because the grain and goods from the south cannot go north, and this year's autumn grain harvest in the north is a foregone conclusion, so that the price of rice in the capital has easily broken through the Baiwen mark.

As for the rice tickets that can be easily exchanged from the royal rice shop to the polished rice, some shrewd people found that they were profitable, but they started to become second-hand sellers one after another, and the price of rice tickets naturally rose.

Nourishing the heart hall, sandalwood curling.

"Shame on Your Majesty, please punish Your Majesty!" Wearing a first-class official uniform, Li Si, the head of the household, came to the hall and knelt down respectfully.

He is a native of Guangzhou, Guangdong, because of his youth, diligence and studiousness, coupled with talent and intelligence, he has already been named on the gold list in his early twenties, and he was first appointed as the head of the household department in Nanjing.

Although he had no backers in the court, with his talent for arithmetic, coupled with his diligence and steadiness, it took him thirty years to finally climb to the position of Tobe Shangshu.

Now that he has met Mingjun Hongzhi, he has made his household secretary like a fish in water, and he has kept the household department in good order over the years, which has made the empire thriving.

But he didn't admit that he finally had an accident, and now he may not be able to protect his life.

Zhu Youzhi condescendingly took care of Li Si, who was kneeling on the ground, but put down the music in his hand: "How can you ...... Can disappoint me so much! ”

"The sin of the minister deserves death!" Li Si already knew the content of the song, and confessed his guilt with self-reproach.

Zhu Youji's eyes flashed with a touch of disappointment, but in the end, he still remembered the feelings of the monarch and ministers: "Since the matter has spread, I can't protect you!" After you have completed the rice ticket promotion plan, submit it to the "New Regulations of Hongzhi Finance", and then resign! ”

The rice ticket promotion plan is actually a plan that has been formulated a long time ago.

Grain, this is the greatest wealth of the agrarian society, not the dead things of silver, and the social wealth of China should not be swept away by silver.

Due to the fact that the imperial court cleared the acres of land throughout the country, a large amount of grain originally held by the big landlords was slowly flowing into the hands of the Ming court.

In addition, during the period of clearing the fields and acres of land in the country, many large landowners were forced to recover rice grain, so now a large amount of grain is actually controlled by the Ming court.

Now that the imperial court has a large amount of rice and grain, it has a natural bargaining power, and it can naturally despise or even ignore the silver.

Just like the Middle East in later generations, they taught the world a good lesson. Since they have the largest reserves of oil, under the guidance of the United States, in the end, even gold will not be able to do so, and countries around the world can only trade with dollars.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said, "Whoever controls oil controls all countries; Whoever controls the grain controls the human race; Whoever controls the currency controls the global economy. ”

Now that the grain is here in the Ming Dynasty, then it is completely possible to fight a good battle with silver, so as to completely shake the monetary status that should not belong to silver.

In fact, the people of Xiangcheng Hou and his gang did not know that the reason why the capital was so prone to a rush to buy grain this time was mainly because a large amount of grain in the north had been controlled by the imperial court.

"Thanksgiving!" Li Si already knew that this was already a good result, and said in frustration.

Zhu Youzhu thought of Li Si's various things over the years, and also said with kindness: "After you become a prince, your eldest son will enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate as a search officer." Since your second son wants to do business, now he will repair a book and let him transport rice to the north by sea, he must be able to make a lot of money, and in the future, Luzon will also be given a mining right to open up! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Si didn't expect Zhu Youji to be so kind to him, and at this time, he couldn't help but tears rolled in his eyes.

Zhu Youzhu looked at Li Si, who had really worked hard over the years, and said with emotion: "Li Qing, we have been a monarch for four years, and you have to do a lot of financial work for me. Although you have made mistakes now, you should take care of your body, and I hope that the monarch and the ministers will be reunited in a few years! ”

"Command!" Li Si's tears couldn't help falling, and he seemed to be genuine.

If he had a choice, he would definitely educate his son well, manage his house slaves, and create a good family style.

It's just that now everything is irreparable, and he is about to leave this thriving court, and he is also far away from this century-old monarch.

Zhu Youzhu sighed and gently raised his hand to let Li Si retreat.

Liu Jin saw Li Si leaving, and finally couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, after the previous supreme meeting, you said that there was a fight in the imperial court. Now that Li Shangshu has been impeached by empirical evidence at this time, this thing is also too coincidental, and the slave thinks that someone is trying to bring down Li Shangshu so that he can help his own people! ”

Huang Yuben, president of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, was the head of the Cantonese businessmen in the capital, and after being rectified by the imperial court, he finally chose to return to Guangdong to engage in the financial industry.

Although he was able to operate legally at first, after tasting the windfall profits of usury, he eventually chose to return to his old business and make huge profits through usury.

It's just that the East Window incident happened, although He Qiaoxin was found to help him wash away, but it became one of the factors for He Qiaoxin's downfall.

Originally, Huang Yu was going to be punished, but Li Si was finally implicated, and his second son actually used Li Si's identity to help Huang Yu escape to the sea.

Now this old matter has been stabbed by the Guangdong Imperial History, and there is evidence and confession, plus Li Si also accepted gifts from Huang Yu's family, so this matter is almost an iron case.

"Whether it's a court battle or not, it can only be dealt with like this now!" Zhu Youzhu looked at the recital evidence that had been conclusive, but his attitude was firm and authentic.

In fact, he knew that this was caused by the battle of the imperial court, and someone must have deliberately targeted him, the head of the household. It's just that he can't cover up without a bottom line because of his preference, otherwise there will only be courtiers like Yan Song.

Although he never expected his courtiers to be honest and capable, he would not allow him to be a traitor, Li Si chose to shield the criminal Huang Yu, and he could only endure the pain of cutting his love.

Liu Jin nodded understandingly, and said with great admiration: "Your Majesty is wise!" ”

On 1 August, the Ministry of Household Affairs officially promulgated the "New Regulations on Hongzhi Finance."

In view of the continuous rise in the price of rice in the capital, and now the grain of the royal rice store is sufficient, so the cloth ticket can be exchanged for rice tickets at the royal bank, and a cloth ticket can be exchanged for 80 catties of polished rice.

"I'm not mistaken, how is that possible?"

"If this discount is followed, the price of rice will not rise at all!"

"I said earlier that the royal family has people in their hearts, how can they watch us eat high-priced rice, woo woo......"

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When the people in the capital saw the latest notice and learned that the cloth tickets in their hands could be exchanged for rice tickets, they were immediately moved and cried directly. (End of chapter)