Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 877: Changan Food Price!

"What news~?"

Li Zexuan originally thought that this matter had ended, but he didn't expect that there seemed to be something happening again with this stubborn tooth. Today this is really a twists and turns!

Pu Ya suddenly glanced cautiously in the direction of the door, and Li Zexuan waved his hand: "In fact, if you have something to say, no one will eavesdrop outside the door!"

With his current skill, if someone is eavesdropping nearby, it is absolutely impossible to hide his perception. But the sudden attitude of Pu Ya just shows that what I want to say next is absolutely extraordinary.

Only then did Yatu speak: "I wonder if Lord Hou is surprised, why do our envoys suddenly come to the academy to watch the military training show today?"

Li Zexuan narrowed his eyes, folded his hands on his chest, leaned back on the back of the chair, and said: "The messenger has something to say, please speak directly!"

The other two messengers' complexions changed drastically at this moment. They gritted their teeth and said: "The first person who proposed to come to the academy was Alonashun, the prime minister of the Jieri Dynasty. I understand why, but in the first two days, Cui Siqing often interviewed A Luo Dashun alone, so..."

Speaking of this, Puya suddenly closed his mouth and stopped speaking, because anyone should be able to guess the following.

Li Zexuan's face was calm, a cold light flashed in his eyes, Cui Family, this is really like a maggot with bones! Previously, they sent people to assassinate themselves and failed. Instead, the people they sent have been shorted by themselves. Unexpectedly, these people will not stop. Now they come to secretly engage in small actions. It is really disgusting!

"Well, Benhou knows! Benhou has never heard of the previous words, neither of you are allowed to pass it out~!"

Li Zexuan turned his head to look at the two envoys of Piao and Funan, and said solemnly.

He has to settle the Cui family's account by himself, and he doesn't want to be extravagant.

"Yes, I will understand, I will never pass it out~!"

The two quickly agreed.

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"Master, why haven't we sold the rent we collected this year?"

At noon that day, Li Zexuan had just returned from the academy, but Xiaohe in the courtyard ran over, asking like this.

Li Zexuan became very curious and asked: "What? Xiaohe also started to care about major events in the mansion~?"

The rent collected by the Li family this year was not intended to be sold, and not only would not be sold. Li Zexuan had also bought a lot of grain from other villagers before. Everything was done to deal with next year’s locust plague. The so-called family has surplus food, and I don't panic. Although he knows that there will be a locust plague next year, he himself has never seen a locust plague since he was a child. God knows what the specific situation will look like by then. It is always good to be more prepared.

Of course, very few people know about the locust plague, Xiaohe definitely doesn't know, otherwise this girl wouldn't ask like that.

Xiaohe, who is not afraid of the sky and the earth, was taken aback by Li Zexuan's casual words. She waved her hand quickly:

"No, no, no, master, I... I didn’t mean that! I just heard that the food prices in Chang’an have fallen sharply recently when I was helping the young lady go shopping in the West Market, and there is a continuing downward trend. , I just remembered that our food has not been sold yet~!"

Tian, ​​I’m sorry, she’s just a maid, no one is qualified to care about the important affairs of the house. This is a mistress with a smaller mind. After hearing these words, she will surely expel her from the house!

"The price of food dropped sharply~?"

Li Zexuan didn't have as many messy thoughts as Xiaohe. He frowned and asked aloud: "The food prices in Chang'an City are now so high? Why are the food prices suddenly dropping?"

Xiaohe breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "Master, now you can buy a bucket of rice for two cents. The reason why it is so cheap is said to be because the private merchant ships did not bring them back when the court fleet returned a while ago. Those merchants who had little grain were eager to get rid of their hands, so they lowered the price of grain. They wanted to sell the grain shops that appeared in Chang'an City as soon as possible. The grain silos were basically full!"

Previously, Li Er decided to let the court organize a fleet to lead private merchant ships to trade in Southeast Asia. The main purpose was to obtain a large amount of food to deal with the large locust plague next year.

The more than five hundred official ships of the imperial court were all filled with grain when they came back. Regarding private merchant ships, Li Er has no hard and fast rules, but each family must have at least two special ships to load grain. As a result, as soon as the fleet reached the shore, the private merchants were anxious to sell the food on board. This thing is worthless, and it will only rot in their hands.

Two cents and one bucket of rice?

Nima, a bucket of rice is more than twelve kilograms. Li Zexuan suddenly felt like a violent thing. Those grain merchants are really a waste. How can they sell food so cheaply?

"Well, it's okay, I know! Xiaohe, you don't have to continue to struggle, Master, I don't sell those food, naturally there is my reason, you can go to your business!"

Li Zexuan lamented the cheapness of Datang's food prices, but on the other hand, he was quickly analyzing the impact of the sharp drop in food prices on Datang.

In modern times, foreign food has always been cheaper than domestic food, and a large amount of food flows into China from abroad every year. This will inevitably cause domestic food prices to fluctuate.

As the saying goes, cheap grain hurts farmers, and the common people hope that while the grain they grow has a good harvest, they can sell it at a good price.

In order to protect farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain, the state can only do so by purchasing farmers’ grain, and most of the grain purchased by the state does not flow into the market. Farmers think that selling their grain is in line with Market requirements, in fact, the state finally put it away. Although the method will bury many hidden dangers and cannot solve the problem in essence, it is also a good way to stabilize food prices.

But in this era, is it really necessary to stabilize food prices?

At this time, the food in Datang~IndoMTL.com~ is mainly concentrated in the hands of the landlords. After the people pay the rent, most of the food left in their hands is only enough for their own family to survive. If someone sells the food, if he persuades Li Er to stabilize the price of the food, the landlords are the cheap ones!

Ahem, although he is also a landlord now...

In view of these, instead of stabilizing food prices, he might as well take this opportunity to buy more food and save it for next year's fight against the locust plague!

Just do it when he thinks of it. After Li Zexuan sent Xiaohe away, he directly fought back to Chang'an and found Wang Zhong, the housekeeper.

"Uncle Wang, you will help me contact several other members of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce in the past two days and tell them that I want to buy a large amount of food, and let them help~! At the same time, I will also let someone build at the foot of Yunshan recently. Large granary~!"

Li Zexuan found Wang Zhong in the front yard of the Li Mansion, and directly explained the matter.

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