Those Mu Kui heard that Xiangxiang and Liu Ranzhu actually took the initiative to discount, and they were still lamenting in their hearts, they are really outgoing girls, how can they use the interests of the clan to please their lovers?

Fortunately, in order to please the two Tho Mu, the prince insisted on giving them a high price......

Ma Jun sighed secretly, these toast leaders are really white-eyed, and they actually treat the prince as a love brain. As everyone knows, the conditions proposed by the prince today have been carefully considered in advance.

There are two kinds of roads to be built in Yunnan, one is built by the government, and the other is built by the Tusi. The former kind of grain is 100 stone per mile, and there is nothing wrong with it. Although the latter can be prostituted for nothing, let them repair it for free. But if they really wait for them to slowly cultivate themselves, they still don't know how to cultivate until the Year of the Monkey.

The road needs to be unobstructed, and as long as there is a delay in the construction period, the whole road is useless. Zhu Zhen contracted all the projects to Tusi in sections, and the biggest problem was here, and it was almost foreseeable that the whole could not be completed due to the delay of some sections.

Shuidong and Shuixi are used to overcome difficulties and help get through the killer feature of delaying the section, and the value of their work will be extremely high at that time, and the prince will give them a hundred stones in one mile, which is not much at all.

As the prince said, as long as the roads in Yunnan are completed as soon as possible, it is worth spending any money.

Moreover, in this way, the water east and west are firmly tied to the imperial court, and they can gradually be sinicized, which is very important for the stability of the entire Qiandi.

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In fact, Ma Jun has a few, but he only knows one and doesn't know the other.

Obviously, Yunnan produces copper, why does Zhu Zhen pay for it with grain, instead of copper money?

Because he wanted to find a new way to sell the grain in Huguang and Jiangxi.

What happened to the food stamp crisis that erupted last spring? Isn't it that with the weaving and dyeing bureau's farms in Huguang and Jiangxi on the right track, people's expectations of grain prices in Jiangnan have been completely changed. Everyone believes that with the development of large-scale planting in Jiangxi Lake, the situation of grain shortage in Jiangnan will be gone forever.

Naturally, no one will hoard Juqi anymore, but the big farmers have sold their grain stocks, and this time it has come and gone, and the grain price has been beaten from two to the same.

As a result, the grain stamps based on grain also depreciated sharply, causing the people of Jiangnan to complain, and finally Zhu Zhen had to return to Japan urgently, announcing that since a year later, in addition to exchanging grain stamps for grain at face value, they could also exchange them for cash according to the standard of one stone grain stamp to two taels of silver, which stabilized this uproar.

At that time, Zhu Zhen agreed with the people on the grounds that he needed to prepare cash, and the date of redemption agreed with the people was one year later, that is, in June this year.

However, it is already October, and the expected run on the big investors has not appeared. In the past three months, the total has only been able to redeem more than 2 million taels of silver, which is completely trivial.

The reason why the people in Jiangnan are not in a hurry to cash in on the food stamps in their hands is also very simple - it is because the price of grain has risen again.

A major event occurred in the second half of last year, that is, the imperial court regained Yunnan in the south, and Boss Zhu waved a shot and shifted the main direction of attack from Liangguang to Huguang.

According to the rules of the Ming army's nearby supply, Huguang and nearby Jiangxi became the main force to provide grain and grass for the southern army. At that time, no one knew how long the battle would take, so it was necessary to hoard as much grain and grass as possible, so Boss Zhu, at the suggestion of a certain prince, temporarily banned the export of grain from Huguang and Jiangxi.

As a result, the people of Jiangnan talked about the autumn grain in Huguang and Jiangxi for almost a year, but they were stunned that not a single grain was transported to Jiangnan.

It's a lot of fun.

Because of the previous low-price selling, the entire Jiangnan people are in a state of food shortage. The big households and grain merchants had no more grain in their warehouses, so they began to urgently buy grain everywhere, and the price of grain began to rise one by one.

Fortunately, in order to stabilize grain prices, the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau opened its doors to collect grain, and there was enough grain in the warehouse to open the warehouse to sell grain at the right time, so there was no food shortage. However, the rise in grain prices is obviously beneficial to the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, so the pace of their grain release is not fast, so that the market is always in a slightly tight state. This has also been the norm in Jiangnan for the past few hundred years.

So a year later, the price of grain also returned to the normal state of hundreds of years, and it became two or two stones again. Moreover, the common people are chasing the rise and killing the fall, and when they see the grain price entering the rising range, they are not in a hurry to exchange the grain stamps into cash.

What Zhu Zhen wanted was this effect, he only had 30 million taels of reserve silver in his hand, which was not enough to deal with a large-scale run. After a few years, Japan's silver mines were successfully put into production and production capacity climbed, and he had enough cash in his hands, so he was not afraid of a run at all. At that time, even if the people do not run, he will take the initiative to let the transitional currency, which has too obvious defects, withdraw from the stage of history.

But even then, Zhu Zhen would not let the price of grain in Jiangnan be lower than 221 stones. Otherwise, Huguang and Jiangxi will be too much of a loss. The old six kinds of grain are not for the benefit of Jiangnan. After several years of development, Jiangnan is rich enough, and it is time for the first rich to drive the latter to become rich.

Zhu Zhen is not an emperor, so he can't use tools such as taxes, so he can only achieve this by letting the people of Jiangnan eat high-priced grain all the time.

But he can't always ban the export of grain through an administrative order, and he has to find more sales for grain in Jiangxi and Huguang. For this reason, he scolded and sold grain to Kyushu...... Although Kyushu is already a political secretary of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no legal problem in selling them grain, many people still can't accept it emotionally.

In order to be less scolded, Zhu Zhen is now engaged in entrepot trade through Goryeo, first selling grain to Goryeo, and then letting his 'good son' resell it to Kyushu. Let Li Chenggui earn a vote in vain, although this fee is paid by Kyushu......

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But a single Kyushu, even if Goryeo is added, can't eat 20% of the commercial grain in Huguangjiang and Jiangxi. Zhu Zhen also needs to find new sales channels for grain from the two provinces.

Yungui is the best place to go.

Selling grain to Yungui will not only not be harmed, but also close to each other. The grain from Huguang, Jiangxi can be directly transported to Yuanzhou, and then directly sent to Guizhou City along the newly built post road in Shuidong and Shuixi.

After that, wherever the road is repaired, the grain can be transported there, so that all Yungui can eat rice from Huguangjiangxi. In this way, Yunnan and Guizhou will not be short of grain, the peasants in Huguang and Jiangxi will be rich, the grain prices in Jiangnan will also be stable, and everyone will have a better tomorrow.

The only problem is that the natives of Yungui are not only short of food, they are also poor. Counting on money from them is simply a dream.

Zhu Zhen knew this very well, so from the beginning, he did not expect to collect taxes from the Tusi people, but let them contribute. Whether it is asking them to build roads, maintain roads, or act as postmen at the future post station, it is all out of this consideration.

And the government won't let them work in vain, and will give them food. This will undoubtedly greatly enhance the government's control over the Tusi.

So the grain was actually bought by the government, and where did the government's money come from? Of course, it's Yunnan copper!

Now a perfect closed loop has been formed, and after a circle, won't the economy go up?

(End of chapter)