Two months ago, the Royal Palace.

Wang Xuanjing said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, even if you personally make an order, those people will not sell grain cheaply, and if you forcibly issue an edict, you will also be criticized, and in the end, if you want to save the people, you have to kill people." ”

"Why is that?" Li Shimin was a little puzzled: "Aren't they afraid of death?" ”

"When the stakes are big enough, they will even sell the swords that killed them to others, the stakes have blinded them, they can't see those crises." Wang Xuanjing said lightly.

This kind of thing has been played out countless times in history.

Li Shimin was silent for a moment, and then said, "What method is Wang Qing going to use to solve it?" ”

"If it's a commercial matter, then use a commercial way to solve it." Wang Xuanjing said with a smile: "These people dare to do this, one is to rely on the strength of the crowd and their status as nobles, and the other is to rely on the fact that they have enough food in their hands. ”

"After having identity and food, and encountering a disaster year, they can rely on the money and food in their hands to exploit and oppress the people, and the people are naturally not opponents."

"If the imperial court wants to intervene, one is to use more food, and the other is to kill people."

"It is not advisable to kill people, and it is better not to use them until it is absolutely necessary."

"So the best way is to use grain, as long as we have enough food in our hands, the imperial court can seize the initiative, and even force them to bankrupt." Wang Xuanjing said with a smile.

"A bucket of food is enough to feed a family for five days, and if you save some, you can eat it for seven or eight days. They will naturally desperately raise the price of grain, they will reduce sales, and if the imperial court starts to sell grain at this time, they will naturally buy desperately in order to raise the price of grain. ”

"The imperial court only needs to keep releasing grain, and those who will desperately buy it in order to make money, or even borrow money to buy it, but with the increasing cost of their input, the more they can't give up, because there is still hope for winning if they persist, but if they give up, these inputs are basically all lost."

"You must know that the price of grain at this time is not dozens of Wen, but thousands of Wen, or even more, how many family valves can withstand this kind of toss?"

Wang Xuanjing briefly explained the matter, Li Shimin was very smart, and immediately understood the operation, the most important of which is to have enough food.

As for the grain, Li Shimin transported a lot of grain through Caoyun, plus Wang Xuanjing asked Huai'an Wang to transport the grain from overseas, and these aristocratic families in Guanzhong could not collect it at all.

After listening to this, Li Shimin understood what the consequences of doing this would be, if it was really according to what Wang Xuanjing said, then the family gate valve in Guanzhong and even Hebei would inevitably suffer heavy losses in this time.

The consequences of Wang Xuanjing's approach were even more harmful to those gate valve families than the rolling heads killed by Li Shimin.

It is even very likely that these gate valve families will collapse.

And under this operation, the credibility of the court and his prestige as the emperor have been greatly improved, and the people will only think that he is benevolent, even those family lords who have been miserable can only recognize him, and can only call him Shengming.

Li Shimin praised again and again: "Wang Qing is really a talent of a certain country, with Qing here, I don't have to worry about it!" ”

When the news of the great drought in the north came in May, Li Shimin's eyes flashed with fierceness, and he asked in a deep voice: "How much grain has been transported from Jiangnan?" ”

"There are already 500,000 stones transported to Luoyang, but only 100,000 stones have been transported to Chang'an."

"The imperial court can't transport the grain, those people must have gotten the news as soon as possible, and they must be going to do it." Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

There are more than 200,000 people in Chang'an City, and they need at least 500,000 stone of grain, plus the surrounding people, they need at least one million stone of grain.

Of course, this is not so much at once, but two or three months.

"I will issue an edict again, persuade those gate lords, if you listen to persuasion, it is naturally the best, if you don't listen, then it should be so!" Li Shimin said.

Wang Xuanjing returned to Chang'an with Li Shimin's edict, and he sold the grain from the imperial court to the people in the form of purchase restrictions. But he didn't sell a grain of rice to the rest of the grain.

These restricted grains need to be registered by buyers to prevent people from running out of food at home.

The scorching sun scorched the earth, and the insects in Chang'an City began to perform their own operations.

Wang Xuanjing arranged manpower in Chang'an City and other surrounding places, so that they could report the price of grain at any time. Soon the news came.

The grain price in Chang'an City was the first to break through to a thousand dollars of rice, and the price of grain has not stopped, and it is still soaring.

The people arranged by Wang Xuanjing found that many grain merchants gathered in Changle Fang, the highest and most expensive restaurant in Chang'an City, where merchants, noble and wealthy families, and family lords had already begun to join forces with a tacit understanding to continuously raise grain prices.

Originally, the grain sold by some small grain merchants, thousands of dollars, was eaten by them, and there was almost no food in the market in the entire Chang'an City.

These people have gone crazy, and the price of food has increased tenfold in less than a month, and it will continue to rise.

Wang Xuanjing knows very well that this is the joint efforts of those big businessmen, heroes, nobles, and families, after all, the Guantian Juntian system implemented by Wang Xuanjing and the imperial examination system promoted by Li Shimin have made them unhappy, and now they naturally want to take revenge.

I don't know when, in Guanzhong, there was already a gust of wind that was dissatisfied with the imperial court, and now this gust of wind is about to take the opportunity to break out.

Wang Xuanjing recorded today's grain prices and the imperial court stocks, and then sent fast horses to Luoyang in the form of a song.

When Li Shimin saw Song Shu, he was shocked by the current grain price in Chang'an City, fighting thousands of dollars, and the grain price in the last years of the Sui Dynasty was nothing more than that.

"Ten times the profit, lawless!" A cold light flashed in Li Shimin's eyes. Although he was already mentally prepared, he never expected that these people would dare to raise the price of food so high.

Li Shimin looked out the window at the scorching sun and sneered: "Such a big sun, what a godsend!" ”

"Hehe, since that's the case, then don't blame me!"

Li Shimin issued an edict again and asked Wang Xuanjing to act cheaply.

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui next to him glanced at each other, and then said, "Your Majesty, do you want to issue an edict to let those wealthy families open warehouses and release grain?" ”

"Your Majesty, in my opinion, you should issue an edict to quarrel and destroy the door!" Duan Zhixuan next to him said coldly.

Li Shimin shook his head and said, "No, these things will be left to Wang Qing." ”

He had now seen the miserable fate of those worms.

(End of chapter)