I don't want to be a saint

Chapter 200 I am a handsome young man, what bad thoughts can I have?
There is a way to quell food prices!
And not just one.

The simplest and most effective way is to strictly stop the court and kill a few disobedient ones to make a warning to others.

Food prices will soon subside.

However, this is far from realistic.

In this year, those who can become big grain merchants either have big backers behind them, or they are simply those big backers.

In short, someone in the family is an official in the court, and he is still a high-ranking official.

As a result, they were the first opponents when the imperial court issued a decree to quell food prices.

No one can touch their pastries.

As for the second method, that is to wait for a good harvest.

Right now is the time for the harvest of rice in the south, and in a few days, the wheat in the north will also be harvested.

Once a large number of new grains are on the market, grain prices will soon subside.

But that doesn't seem very realistic either.

Because disasters are everywhere, it is profitable to hoard grain at high prices, let alone be afraid that it will not be sold, and then it will be thrown into the hands.

Ever since, there is an incentive to hoard grain at high prices.

And as long as those grain merchants collect grain at a high price, those people who make a living by farming will not care if there is a severe drought on Kuizhou Road!
It's not that they are short-sighted, but that they don't have such high patriotism.This country does not treat them highly, so why should they be patriotic?
In this way, the benefits in front of you are the most real.

Take Jinghu North Road as an example, many big grain merchants have been waiting here for a long time, just waiting for you to harvest the rice!
If these two methods are not feasible, the only thing to do is to wait for the court to allocate food for disaster relief.

However, the problem came again.When to allocate food?Where should we allocate food?How much should I dial?

These are all prevarications.

After all, those ministers of Zhengshitang are not here, but in the capital thousands of miles away.

They don't know how severe the drought is here.

Pei Xidao knows all these things better than him.But this is also the source of sorrow, the more you know, the more powerless you will feel.

But at this time, hearing that Guo Yi had other solutions, he couldn't help but feel agitated and wanted to blurt out the question.

But in the end, it stopped again.This monkey-like boy in front of him can have two pitfalls in one sentence!
He hesitated for a while, but he still couldn't help the curiosity and kindness in his heart.

He is a good man and a good officer.

Seeing his constipated expression, Guo Yi couldn't help being speechless.

I'm still just a kid!
A handsome boy with no hair at all, what bad thoughts could he have?

Standing aside, Pei Ruyu didn't know what the two of them were delusional about, so she couldn't wait to urge her: "If you have any solution, just tell me! Why are you hesitating?"

But Pei Xidao heaved a sigh of relief when he heard him ask for himself.My eldest son is a little muddled, but this time it is rare to cooperate.

Seeing this, Guo Yi smiled ripplingly, afraid that you might not be hooked.So, without hesitation, he opened his mouth and said: "The method is actually very simple. The Jingbei Road was severely drought, and the imperial court reduced or exempted [-]% of the spring tax according to the law.

However, let's pretend that there is no reduction.

And the people below don't know.Then let's pretend to be confused and levy spring taxes on those lands with good harvests.

In this way, no matter how rich and powerful those grain merchants are, they cannot intervene.

After all, we are taxed according to the law.

After the spring tax is collected, it will be taken to Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road in exchange for the hemp silk in their hands at a fair price.

Moreover, after the spring tax is collected, we can subsidize them with some money, which is the drought subsidy issued by the imperial court. "

This plan is brilliant!

As smart as Pei Xidao, he couldn't help applauding him!

The legal collection of spring tax can bypass the link of grain merchants and prevent them from taking advantage of it.

Moreover, without the grain merchants earning the price difference, they can sell to the disaster-stricken people on Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road at a low price.

As expected of Guo Erlang, who is famous in Jinghu.

This time, even Pei Ruyu couldn't help admiring, this kid, it's okay!

I can!

He was originally dissatisfied, Guo Yi, who was famous throughout Jinghu, was actually a boy with no hair yet...

He can also go to him.

But now, he thought he couldn't think of such a wonderful and bold and crazy strategy.

Thinking of madness, he suddenly frowned, and blurted out: "However, once those grain merchants fail to receive grain, they will definitely report to the court. At that time, it will be the crime of deceiving the emperor! The crime is unforgivable!"

The crime of bullying the king!

Isn't it the crime of deceiving the king!
Give the imperial court an excerpt, mentioning the severe drought on Jinghu North Road, and ask the imperial court to reduce or exempt [-]% of the spring tax according to the law.But most of your areas don't have severe drought at all!

This is not bullying, what is it?
Others just cheat food and drink, at most they cheat marriage and cheat money, but you are so lucky that you dare to cheat the Holy Majesty!

Courage is so big that there is no limit!

After finishing speaking, he looked at his father with a strange look, which means that once the matter is revealed, father, you will be one of the masterminds!

Decapitation is not enough, exile is certain...

Seeing his expression, Pei Xidao couldn't help wanting to kick him, things that you idiot can think of, but Guo Erlang, the monkey spirit, can't think of them?
But at this moment, it's not the time to argue with him, and he doesn't have the heart to argue with such a fool.Then he turned his head to look at Guo Yi, and asked after deliberation: "Are you planning to make up with salt?"

Guo Yi shook his head directly and said, "No! I just wanted to lie!"

Ok!

I think highly of you!

After a high look, it was a wrong payment after all!

Moreover, you are quite self-aware, knowing that it is a lie!

"You can't learn well at such a young age! You're just thinking of some crooked ways!" Mr. Pei couldn't help but sternly scolded.

You're still doing crooked ways, so don't use them if you have the skills!
Guo Yi couldn't help curling his lips.

If you come up with an idea and still get scolded, you can't deal with it!
Crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, unloading mills and killing donkeys, rabbits killing dogs, talking about people like you...

And Pei Xidao reprimanded Gui, but he was thinking about the feasibility of the scheme in his heart.For now, that's pretty much the only way to go.

All other roads are blocked, so don't even think about it.It is even more difficult to get those grain merchants to calm down the price of grain than to kill them!
To cut short a fortune is like killing one's parents!

But after thinking about it, he felt that it would be a good way to make up for it with salt.

And Guo Yi, after being reminded by him, also thought of this.He told the truth just now, he just wanted to deceive.

Pull Pei Xidao into the water, and carry it together when something goes wrong.But people, don't want to play with them!

Everyone is now a political adviser and deputy prime minister.Why risk yourself?
What else can I get?
Positive phase?

Just a few more years!

But now, if they don't play with them, they can only think about the future.It seems to be a feasible method to make up for the spring tax with salt.

But the problem is, there is not much salt...

"I originally wanted to cheat, and didn't think about making up for it with salt. Therefore, all the salt produced in the past was sold, and there was not much stock!

How do you say this? "

(End of this chapter)