Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

The next morning, Cui Mao, who was happily eating flax cakes for breakfast, suddenly got the news that grain prices had been suppressed, and almost spit out his mouth full of cake crumbs.

The food dropped from 35 yuan a bucket to [-] yuan a bucket. Such a big gap almost didn't scare him to death, and then immediately called all the people from the other six families to his home.

It wasn't just Cui Mao who panicked in the same way, but also the heads of the other six families.

The drop in food prices means that their dream of making a fortune has come to nothing, and they will even owe a lot of money.

"It's dropped, and it's dropped by another five cents, and now it's below thirty cents."

"It was all the retail investors who sold grain first, and they were the first to start lowering prices. Now the price of grain can no longer be raised."

"There is more and more food in Chang'an. If the price is not reduced, no one will care about it!"

The crowd quarreled.

When they reacted, the development of the matter and the price of food were no longer under their control, and became determined only by the market.

The food crisis in Chang'an caused by the earth dragon turning over, the drought and the locust plague was disintegrated in this way.

At this price, even the imperial court can buy a large amount of grain, so there will be enough grain for disaster relief in the future severe drought in Shandong.

"According to our investigation, the person who first lowered the price yesterday was a grain merchant named Fang Yucheng." Li Chengen said.

"We also found out that before the price cut, Wei Zheng seemed to have visited Fang's shop!" Wang Yuanhua added.

They glanced at each other. In this way, the price cut was artificially caused, and someone deliberately pushed it behind.

Who is Wei Zheng?Officials of the court.

Then the person behind the manipulation of the price, isn't it the imperial court?

When did the people of the imperial court have such a terrible method!

"I don't think it's all the means of the court."

Lu Yulin said: "Brother Cui, do you remember that when we were in Wannian County that day, the merchant who sold grain for Li Yi'an was Fang Yucheng?"

Mentioning this point, Cui Mao finally remembered, and couldn't help shaking: "That is to say, the man behind the scenes may be Li Yi'an?"

Lu Yulin nodded and said, "It's possible, this person's ability is by no means simple."

"If it's really this person, then he's a bit scary!"

Zheng Quan said: "Can you see that the sudden increase in food prices to [-] yuan a bucket is also a trace of someone deliberately driving up the price behind it? It is precisely because the price of food is getting higher and higher that all retail investors see that their interests have also reached the highest point." , will bring a large amount of hoarded food to the market, even including us."

"However, there is more and more grain, the price is too high, but it cannot be sold, and ordinary people can't even afford it. What should we do? As long as one person lowers the price, other grain merchants will also lower the price, and finally lead to the current situation .”

After hearing his analysis, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

If Li Yi'an is really the one behind the plan, how terrifying is he?

"My son, damn it!"

Cui Mao's eyes flashed with fierce killing intent.

"For the current plan, we must prevent food prices from continuing to fall, otherwise we will lose a lot."

Li Yongfeng said.

"It can't be stopped now, it's the trend of the times, if it is pushed up, it will only be counterproductive!"

Wang Yuanhua shook his head.

"Since the imperial court won't let us have a good time, we won't let them, and we can't raise the price, so we let the people below mess up the water."

"That's right, let's start with that merchant surnamed Fang, I'm going to smash his shop."

"I'll go back and arrange people to disturb the whole of Chang'an, it's a big deal!"

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Now in Chang'an's East and West Market, more and more people come to buy food, and the price of food is being pushed down lower and lower.

In the afternoon of that day, the price of grain fell back to [-] cents a bucket. This was already the lowest price of grain during the disaster.

If the price is too low to be profitable, grain merchants may take back the grain and wait for the next price increase.

Therefore, the imperial court has been regulating the price, neither too high nor too low, and it is a balance.

However, when the price of grain had just returned to below [-] yuan, a group of troublemakers suddenly appeared in the busy market, wanting to disrupt all grain transactions, and making a scene everywhere.

As soon as these people appeared, a group of city guards came out from behind, as if they were sure that someone would cause trouble, and they all arrested them.

Then, all the city guards quickly walked around the market, and when they saw someone who was going to make trouble, they beat them up first, then tied them up and took them away without even thinking about it.

In Fang's shop.

Fang Yucheng wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. If he hadn't been prepared, his shop would really be smashed.

He knew that Wu Xing Qi Wang would not let go of the first person to lower the price.

"Treasurer Fang, follow me into the palace."

Before Fang Yucheng could slow down, Wei Zheng hurried over and pulled him towards the imperial city.

Go to the palace!

As a merchant, with his status and status, he also has the opportunity to enter the palace to face the saint?

As long as he thought of this, Fang Yucheng was extremely excited, and then became nervous again.

When he came to the Ganlu Hall, Fang Yucheng saw all the ministers present, and felt the pressure directly on his shoulders.

"See Your Majesty!"

Wei Zheng shouted as soon as he stood firm, and then said: "Successful, Mr.'s plan, a perfect success, the current grain price is around ten yuan, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs buys a large amount of grain. Ordinary people with spare money can also Buying grain, poor people, can be relieved by the imperial court, everything is within our control.”

Hearing this, Li Shimin's clenched fist finally loosened slowly.

All the ministers breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good to be successful, it's good to be successful.

"Sir, you saved millions of people in Datang!"

Li Shimin sighed with emotion, and continued: "Shopkeeper Fang also contributed a lot."

Fang Yucheng was so nervous that he bent his waist even more when he heard that he was responsible for it. He wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

Li Shimin likes to see him so reserved, this is an honest man, he laughed and said: "Master Fang, a few days ago, the master gave me a strategy, you can see if it can be realized."

The strategy of destroying the Turks with wool has already been copied on paper, and he reads it almost every day. Even in his dreams, he wants to destroy the great trouble of this family and country.

Immediately, a warrior picked up the strategy and sent it to Fang Yucheng.

Fang Yucheng only watched half of it, his body trembled and his hands trembled a little.

Awesome, sir is really amazing!

He has been in business for so many years, and he never thought that he could use the means of merchants to such an extreme that he could even destroy a country.

If the husband is willing to be more high-profile, Fang Yucheng can conclude that within ten years, the title of Shang Sheng will have nothing to do with Tao Zhugong.

The statues and portraits enshrined by merchants of later generations may also belong to Mr.