Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

The Lu family and the Cui family had no choice but to send over all the grain that Li Yian extorted.

However, there is no need to wait until tomorrow. All the people who lined up in Wannian County to buy food have all dispersed at this time. They know how powerful the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs are, and they cannot survive.

But if they don't buy food, what can they eat?The only way is to wait for the imperial court to provide disaster relief, but there are not many imperial courts who can help them. In the end, they have to spend a lot of money to buy food from the family, or ask the family to release food.

All of them went back to Li Yi'an's courtyard, Li Shimin was still there, Cheng Yaojin and Changsun Wuji didn't leave, the four evils in Chang'an seemed to have changed, I don't know how good they are.

Fang Yucheng saw a bunch of important people here, even His Majesty, and felt his breathing became short of breath, and he became more determined to follow Li Yi'an.

"Sir, you should have known my identity a long time ago. You didn't want to disclose it before. Today, I don't want to disclose it, but I have to!" Li Shimin felt helpless. If he continued to associate with Mr. Li as Mr. Li, he would Much easier.

"If you say it's broken, it's broken, it's not a big problem."

Li Yi'an didn't care, poured tea for them leisurely, and continued: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for saving your life today, otherwise, I really wouldn't be able to get out. What I didn't expect is that Your Majesty found the place where I used to buy food so quickly. Merchant."

Li Shimin explained: "In Chang'an City, the rich merchants who can sell a large amount of grain to the husband are probably people with five surnames and seven Wangs. I know them well. It is not difficult to find them, but... what should I do tomorrow?"

The Cui family and the Lu family uttered harsh words not to sell food to Li Yi'an, which is not difficult to do with their background and strength.

Now that all the people in Wannian County have left, I am afraid that no one will dare to approach Wannian County tomorrow.

"The food here, I will keep enough for myself, and you can move all the rest back. It is of little use to me."

Li Yi'an was generous once in a while, since it can't be sold, keeping it at home will not only take up space, but also easily attract mice, so it's better to use it to do good deeds.

"Sir, it's true that you gave all the food to me...Really? On behalf of all the people in Datang, I thank you for your generosity!"

Li Shimin got up immediately, and bowed his hands, not knowing how excited he was.

When other ministers saw Li Shimin doing this, they also stood up and handed over.

For such a huge amount of food, give it as soon as you say it, without hesitation, even Pei Ju is not so courageous.

"However, there are a lot of people in Chang'an. Now the entire Gyeonggi Province is affected by the disaster, the locusts are fierce, and the drought in Hebei has not been completely resolved. The husband also calculated that Shandong will also be drought in the future."

Li Shimin immediately frowned again: "Food is like a bottomless pit, it can't be filled!"

It can be predicted that in summer, if the temperature is higher and there is no rain, the drought in Shandong will be more severe, and the price of food will be higher by then.

Even if the aristocratic family brought out grain, the price at that time could not be afforded by the imperial court.

"Actually, it's not difficult to solve this matter!"

Li Yi'an said: "The grain I gave to His Majesty, don't be in a hurry to use it for disaster relief. What we need to do now is to raise the price of grain, desperately, the higher the better."

Raise food prices?

Li Shimin was stunned. He wondered if he had heard it wrong. The price of food is already high enough. If it is higher, more and more people will starve to death.

Even if the price is high, the court will not live long.

Usually to this extent, peasant uprisings break out.

"Sir, what is the meaning of raising food prices now?"

Du Ruhui felt that Li Yi'an would not say such things for no reason.

"Duke asked a good question."

Li Yi'an analyzed and said: "If Chang'an is compared to a market, it is a circle of merchants, then in Chang'an, there are three major merchant giants, the first is the imperial court, the second is the five surnames Qiwang and the grain merchants controlled by it, and the third is the Do you understand the grain retail investors in Chang'an City?"

They listened carefully, and nodded with a vague understanding.

Li Yi'an felt that it would be difficult for them to explain just saying this, so he picked up a wooden stick, drew a long line on the ground, and continued: "This is called a lever. On the left are grain retail investors, and on the right are five surnames and seven lookers."

"Then under the lever, there is another fulcrum, which is the imperial court."

"If the fulcrum of the imperial court favors retail investors in Chang'an at this time, what will happen?"

Li Yi'an looked at the crowd as he spoke.

It was the first time for them to come into contact with this kind of statement. It seemed very special, but it was beyond their cognition. They all shook their heads to express their incomprehension.

"If the imperial court favors the retail investors in Chang'an, then the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs will also move closer to the retail investors."

At this time, Pei Ju in the crowd said slowly: "This result will cause the price of grain to skyrocket. Once the price of grain rises, retail investors will definitely sell a large amount of grain when they see that there is a profit to be made. As a result, there will be more grain on the market." , Mister should mean that, right?"

"What Mr. Pei wants to say is exactly what I want to say."

Li Yi'an nodded to him, and smiled slightly. He really deserved to be Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and Pei Ju's economic acumen was pretty good.

"However, the price of grain is skyrocketing. Even if they sell a large amount of grain, even if the amount of grain on the market suddenly increases by dozens of times, they still cannot afford it!" Changsun Wuji asked puzzled.

Everyone nodded and looked at Li Yi'an, waiting for his answer.

"There will be a sudden increase in the amount of food on the market, and there will be market redundancy, that is, excess and unnecessary parts."

Li Yi'an continued: "At this time, if you want to sell grain, you can only lower the price. If there is a merchant who lowers the price, the rest will be lowered one after another. The price will be lower and lower on the premise of profit."

"All merchants, including Wuxing Qiwang, intend to wait for the price to be sold, and wait until the price of grain reaches its peak before selling it. This will immediately lead to market saturation and redundancy. After the peak, it will fall."

With a wave of his hand, the wooden stick drew a parabola on the ground, and then pointed it at the highest point, saying: "This is the highest point. It reaches the maximum bearing capacity of the market, and then it will fall. This thrust is a comparison-style price reduction. What is the final result, I don’t need to go into details, you all know it, right?”

After Li Yi'an finished speaking, the venue suddenly fell silent, only the sound of everyone's breathing remained.

Li Shimin and the others stared at the parabola drawn by Li Yi'an.

It turns out that Mr. has already calculated those aristocratic families and merchants to death. He has been waiting for them to jump in from the very beginning, and even today's incident is also in the calculation. In the end, what awaits the aristocratic family is not the high food price and profit. Instead, prices quickly returned to normal levels.

When food prices fell in comparison, the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs tried to control it, but they couldn't.

Not only ordinary people can buy grain, but even the imperial court can raise funds as soon as possible to buy a large amount of grain.

Sir, this method is unprecedented, wonderful!

"Actually, I haven't finished yet."

Seeing that they were silent, Li Yi'an continued to add.

There are still, they all pricked up their ears.