The prince is five and a half years old, and he is reclaiming land and becoming a group favorite.

Gu Yuzhi scratched his head, always feeling that Guard Qi was a little strange, but after much thought, he couldn't figure out what was wrong with Guard Qi.

Guard Qi wiped his face, not daring to be clever again. He seized this opportunity and stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, all the merchants of the Mobei Merchant Gang have successfully signed a contract with the Huizhou Grain Bank. From now on, we, Mobei Merchant Group, will All the northern state capitals no longer need to buy food at high prices."

He stretched out a finger and gestured: "Shopkeeper Mu and the others have calculated that because of the support of Huizhou Grain Bank, the price of grain in Mobei should be reduced by 10%."

Gu Yuzhi, a professor with shopkeeper Wen, naturally knows how rare it is for food prices to drop by 10%.

His little mouth opened slightly, with a face full of disbelief. After a while, he blinked his big eyes and said, "Wei Wei Qi, Wei Wei Qi, is the price of food you mentioned the price of all food?"

If it's 10%, then people can save a lot of money when buying grain!

Guard Qi nodded and said: "This is the average grain price. For example, the price of some high-yielding grains has dropped by more than 10%. For example, the price of refined grains does not fluctuate very much."

That’s awesome too!

Gu Yuzhi's face was filled with joy, and then he frowned: "But, no matter how few people there are in Mobei, there are still many, many people. Can Huizhou Grain Bank provide us with so much food?"

He had heard Shopkeeper Wen say before that several state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River were under the control of Brother Chu. There were so many grain stores in those states supplying Li Ji Trading Company, so Li Ji Trading Company was asked to sell other goods to them. The grain industry was suppressed.

If the Huizhou Grain Store can no longer supply supplies one day, then the people in Mobei will be without food!

When he thought of this, Gu Yuzhi's whole face wrinkled up and he clenched his fists tightly. This was not going to work.

Teacher Shu once said, no one has it as much as I have it.

Therefore, Xinliang still needs to speed up the pace of land reclamation, and strive to not only achieve self-sufficiency in Xinliang this year, but also provide a little support to other state capitals.

He was just setting a small goal for himself when he heard the guard Qi chuckle and say: "Your Highness, have you forgotten Governor He?"

Gu Yuzhi scratched his head and asked in confusion: "What does this have to do with Governor He?"

Guard Qi chuckled and pretended not to say anything. He just kept asking Gu Yuzhi to think about it again. Gu Yuzhi stomped his feet and snorted anxiously.

Xie Changshi thought for a moment, then his heart moved, and he said softly: "But why did the governor find the grain store in Lingnan?"

Guard Qi was happily watching His Highness pestering him, when suddenly he heard someone mentioning Lingnan next to him. His smile froze on his face, and he slowly turned his head to look at Xie Changshi in disbelief.

"Xie Changshi, you..."

Xie Changshi sighed deeply. He finally knew why His Highness ignored the guards before!

With such a mean look, he didn't want to pay attention to him.

As expected, Gu Yuzhi's attention was quickly attracted by Xie Changshi's word "Lingnan".

He jumped up suddenly: "Yes, yes. The food in Lingnan is also harvested twice a year."

Teacher Shu said that Lingnan is as sparsely populated as Mobei because there are more insects and ants, but the soil and climate there are more suitable for planting than Mobei. The grain is basically harvested twice a year, and there are even three crops a year. !

Three crops a year!

For the same piece of land, the grain output in Lingnan can be more than three or four times that of Mobei!

Gu Yuzhi pursed his lips and expressed that he was really envious! Xie Changshi nodded and said: "Your Highness is right. If there weren't too many insects and ants in Lingnan, the title of the national granary in the Jiangnan area would have been given to Lingnan."

Gu Yuzhi's big eyes rolled, and he covered his mouth and smiled secretly: "I should suggest to the emperor that all those who committed crimes should be exiled to Lingnan, so that they can open up wasteland and grow food..."

Governor He has pulled the strings. Doesn't the increase in grain production in Lingnan mean that Mobei can buy a little more grain?

If Mobei stores more food, the chances of the people going hungry will be smaller...

Gu Yuzhi straightened his body, and the more he thought about it, the more he realized that this idea was really good: "Anyway, the iron mine here in Mobei has collapsed..."

He suddenly closed his mouth, furrowed his eyebrows, and shook his head like a rattle: "No, no, Xin Liang is still short of people. We should tell the emperor to exile those who are implicated to Xin Liang."

After a few years of cultivating wasteland in Xinliang, you can become a citizen of Xinliang after your service is over!

Xie Changshi couldn't help but shake his head when he saw him smiling and frowning.

Guard Qi, who was left out in the cold again, looked back and forth between Xie Changshi and Gu Yuzhi, and muttered: "These people who can read are so smart."

All of His Highness's attention was immediately taken away.

He hasn't finished talking yet!

Guard Qi felt aggrieved and hurriedly said before Xie Changshi could speak: "Your Highness, Your Highness, Xie Changshi is right. Governor He has connected with the grain stores in Lingnan, and there are more than one!"

"We have signed a contract with them and agreed to purchase grain once a month."

In addition, Xinliang now has a total of six state capitals in Mobei. There is currently no shortage of food in the state capitals from Changzhou to the north, but the situation in the other state capitals is a bit bad.

Fortunately, this trip to buy food in Jinzhou was particularly smooth, which greatly solved the food shortage situation in several other state capitals.

Thinking of this, Guard Qi no longer cared about competing with Xie Changshi for favor, and looked seriously: "Your Highness, when I came back, I took a detour into Qingzhou. The situation in Qingzhou is as what Magistrate Huang said, and the people are in dire straits."

Speaking of Qingzhou, Gu Yuzhi's little face also fell: "Tell me, tell me what is going on in Qingzhou!"

"Winter is already difficult. The people of Gyeongju barely have any clothes on. Most of their houses have collapsed, so they can only huddle together for warmth. If Huang Yanzhang had not been replaced as the prefect this winter, I am afraid that many people in Gyeongju would have died."

Not only is food prices high in Gyeongju, the former governor of Gyeongju also secretly increased various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, forcing people to sell their property in order to survive. Later, some people even sold their sons and daughters.

It’s not like there are no ordinary people who want to escape, but how can ordinary people defeat the prefect of a state...

What's more, the wealthy businessmen in Gyeongju colluded with the prefect and even offered rewards for reporting.

Let the people supervise each other. As long as someone around them expresses the idea of ​​leaving, if they report it, they will get a bag of coarse grains.

For a period of time, internal reporting in Gyeongju became common. In order to survive, the people did not care whether their decades-old neighbors wanted to leave. They reported directly. The prefect would not check it anyway!

Gu Yuzhi's face turned pale, as if he was listening to an opera, and he couldn't react for a long time.

He never thought that such a thing would actually happen to him!