A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 667: Blooming flowers and blazing fire cooking oil
Although the previous imperial court had a lot of money and food on hand, it was used in many places. Compared with those wealthy families and nobles, it had no advantage at all.

Many times, the imperial court provides 200,000 shi of food to disaster victims. Due to the transportation losses along the way, coupled with the corruption of some officials, it would be good if only half of it falls on the people.

In fact, even if all were distributed, facing hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, such a small amount of food would be just a drop in the bucket.

Wang Xuanjing used more than two million stones of grain and grass this time. In addition, the court still had 200,000 stones. If they were all smashed, it would be enough for the people of Guanzhong to eat for a year. Wang Xuanjing still felt that it was not enough, so he kept transporting grain here.

This time it is not just to clean up those noble and wealthy families, but also to promote new money.

After Wang Xuanjing opened the sale of grain, he ordered that Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao should be used to purchase grain, and other old money needed to be exchanged for new money first.

Each person is limited to buying one dou per day, and the price is seventy cents. If you want to buy more grain, it starts with a thousand stone, and the price is seven hundred to one thousand cents per dou.

Wang Xuanjing set this threshold just to deceive those rich people.

How can ordinary people have money to buy food beyond the purchase limit? These grains are prepared for those rich and powerful families.

The Prime Minister is kind and does not cheat the poor.

Wang Xuanjing said calmly: "Because they can't see the crisis. In their eyes, those grains are just mountains of gold."

"They have never thought that there is anything so cheap in the world. There are things you can do and money you can make, but if you want to make money that is related to people's livelihood, they don't know the importance."

"They have done this kind of thing a lot in the past. In their hearts, the dead people are not even as good as a dog like their own. They are willing to feed dogs meat instead of giving a meal to those people."

Those wealthy families felt that the imperial court had released all the grain at one time, and then it would be their turn to raise the price of grain. If these wealthy families stop monopolizing food at this time and follow the imperial court in distributing food, although they will suffer some losses at this time, they will never go bankrupt.

"In their eyes, dogs can still entertain them when they are full, but what good does it do them if the people are full?"

After Wang Xuanjing lent out the Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao, he began to put out grain the next day.

After all, the people in Guanzhong and Hebei are waiting for grain releases.

"Third brother, why can't those people see clearly such an obvious plan? Since the imperial court has opened up its mouth to sell grain, it is naturally because it has grain in its hands. Why do they want to bet that the imperial court has no grain in its hands?"

"Third brother, will there be food tomorrow?" Wang Xuanhe asked with a smile.

Wang Xuanjing saw clearly that they deliberately kept the people from having enough to eat in order to make the people have to rely on them.

Wang Xuanjing looked at the news reported below. Those wealthy families were still celebrating in Changlefang. They even felt that they had won. After all, they had taken away all the food from the imperial court.

Because the drought is getting worse and worse, when the food is gone, people will eat bark and grass roots. After eating the bark and grass roots, they will eat Guanyin soil. If they eat Guanyin soil, they will die of flatulence.

On the first day, 200,000 shi of grain were released. Because of the large quantity, each dou of grain was traded at a price of 500 wen, and more than 100,000 guan of Kaiyuan Tongbao were obtained.

Wang Xuanjing said with a smile: "The grain market will continue to be stocked tomorrow, and a few more grain stocking points will be added to allow people to buy food nearby. At least 200,000 shi will be stocked tomorrow!"

"Don't they want to eat? Then let them eat as much as they can!"

"Next, we will continue to put 200,000 shi the day after tomorrow. If it is not enough, then put 300,000 or 400,000 shi. The next batch of food for the family is about to arrive, so we will keep letting it go until they can't eat anymore!" A flash of fierceness flashed in Wang Xuanjing's eyes. One stone and ten buckets of grain, two hundred thousand stone, is two million buckets and twenty-four million kilograms.

"Putting down so much food won't scare them away!" Wang Xuanhe said.

"No, they will only think that this is the last food in the hands of the imperial court. They will feel that as long as they hold on, the imperial court will eventually be defeated!"

"In the end, they control a large amount of food and can impose conditions on the court and His Majesty at will."

In fact, the wealthy and noble families now have hoarded a large amount of food. Except for some, most of them buy it at high prices and monopolize it. After all, their fields were also affected by drought, and their original food supply was only the grain harvested last year.

More grain in hand was bought from other grain merchants.

The price of the grain in their hands will not be lower than 70 cents per dou. They must maintain the price of the grain and cannot be lower than the purchase price.

Wang Xuanjing How much does this food cost? Although the food was transported from overseas and the journey was long, Wang's sailing on the water was smooth sailing with the wind flag in hand, and he traveled thousands of miles with each passing day.

The climate in some overseas places is very suitable for grain growth. Even if a bucket of grain is transported to Chang'an, the cost is only 20 yuan, and the maximum is only 25 yuan.

Now it is sold at the price of 500 yen or even 700 yen per bucket, and those people actually eat them all.

Wang Xuanjing can already imagine that they will go bankrupt in a few days.

"I'm afraid that there is still a lot of people drinking and drinking in Changle Square now."

Wang Xuanjing's prediction was not bad. Changlefang is now a gentle town where people enjoy luxury and beauty. In their opinion, they made a lot of money today.

The surrounding warblers, swallows, and soft jade allowed them to enjoy as much as they wanted.

"The imperial court should not be able to get any more food tomorrow. Even if there is still more, it won't be much. Let's put in more effort and buy all the food. Then it will be up to us!"

Yu Shuheng and Zhao Qian laughed, and the other heads of the Guanlong nobles also laughed.

The next day, it was just dawn, and there was already a long line of grain transport teams waiting outside the city gate. The soldiers guarding the gate did not dare to slack off and quickly opened the city gate. Then those long convoys entered the city and started selling food. grain.

When they heard that the imperial court had delivered a large amount of food, these people began to buy food on a large scale again.

A large number of nobles and nobles began to borrow money to buy grain. The copper coins prepared by Wang Xuanjing were loaned out like water, leaving behind a lot of mortgage IOUs.

These people mortgaged their land, fields, etc.

Once again, the 200,000 shi of food provided by the court were wiped out, and on the third day, 300,000 shi of food were directly added.

On the fourth day, the court once again released grain. These nobles and nobles had no choice but to retreat. They bought about one million shi of grain at high prices.

If food prices collapse, their fate can be imagined.

(End of this chapter)