This King Zhou is not stupid

"They are all waiting outside the store, and they can open at any time."

"Okay, hehehe, it's time to teach the grain stores in Chuzhou City a good lesson today. Not all commodities are suitable for price increases."

Chapter 370: On the Influence of Prices on Society

The behavior of E Ming, the daughter of E Chongyu, is not a big crime, but immoral.

Using the father's position and family network to increase food prices will naturally benefit the class sandwiched between the big nobles and the common people. The result is that the small nobles benefit more, the big nobles benefit less, and the common people suffer.

Where did they think the little nobles came from! ! !Is it all dependent on other nobles? !

Once there is a conflict between the common people and the aristocratic class, when the common people become the aristocratic class, there will be a rift between the nobles, and finally it will evolve into a struggle between the pro-noble faction and the people-friendly faction.

The middle class is divided, and the bottom class is alienated. Good guy, both Tang and Ming have gone through this way. After a long time, this Yin Shang may be a pill.

Di Xin didn't do anything, so he had to bear the infamy of "doing nothing, harming the people and the country".

"Killing chickens and taking eggs is short-sighted. If you think you can cash out like modern industries, you will find someone to take over. Yes, there is no harm if there is no comparison. Therefore, a uniform increase in prices will make the people's grievances nowhere to vent, but this does not mean that the people have no grievances. Once this resentment erupts, it will be 'a prince, a general, I would rather have a kind'."

Di Xin admired that little girl, and at this timeline, he was thinking of making money.

"Then, it's time to teach you a lesson."

Dixin's grain store opened.

The high-quality wheat and rice began to be sold, all of which were stored in the Chaoge State Treasury, which was enough for Di Xin to disrupt the market in Chuzhou City.

"Hey, today's grain store prices are still so... Huh?"

The people passing by looked at the prices at the Dixin Grain Store one by one suspiciously, doubting their own eyes.

Looking at the prices at the nearby grain store, the obvious price difference made their eyes straight.

"Great price."

When some people were still wondering, some aunts had already rushed into the store, and it was better to act than to be moved.

With a light hand in the rice bag, the experienced people can tell instantly that the rice grains are plump and white in color. This is good rice, not a shoddy peddler.

It is normal for them to think so. After all, there was a rise in food prices before and a sudden drop in food prices later. They will inevitably feel that there is something wrong with the food.

"My guest, there is absolutely no problem with these grains."

"Whether it's good rice or not, give me ten, no, twenty catties!"

The aunt stretched out her hand and it was twenty catties. Even if it was all broken rice, the price was still better than the price of broken rice clearly marked on the side, and after a quick look, the rice was indeed fine.

"Ok."

The clerks quickly helped the aunt to pack the rice, only then did they realize that these clerks were not human, and humans would not grow six hands.

Twenty catties of rice were packed, and the aunt took it away with one hand. Only then did the people outside the grain shop realize it.

They rushed into the grain store one by one, but the human cultivator who had just patrolled the entrance of the grain store coughed, and those people stopped immediately, and lined up one by one to slowly enter the grain store.

Even so, there was still a long queue outside the grain store.

"This means that the water flows downhill. It's a pity that my 'flood outlet' is small. Otherwise, other grain stores will really suffer."

In fact, Dixin still has opportunities for other grain stores. As long as they lower the price, even if it is lowered to a little higher than Dixin's price, some people will consider the long queue time and go to other grain stores to buy. .

However, it depends on whether they have the courage to lower the price.

They can also choose to insist on not lowering prices like the capitalists, and Di Xin is not afraid of them, anyway, he is not in a loss-making business.

"However, it's not good for grain and oil shops to become a family business. It is easy to generate monopoly... It was because of this reason that the grain and oil stores were not set up as part of the imperial court. The oil and water are too big, even if it is my current price. It’s not a small profit, I’m afraid that some people will not be able to withstand the temptation.”

The consumption of grain and oil is very large, especially grain. In this era where pasta and rice are the staple foods, the consumption of grain is ridiculously large, several orders of magnitude larger than the consumption of salt.

Although the people outside the city can be self-sufficient, other handicraftsmen in the city who do not make a living by farming still have to buy food for food.

Moreover, the price of food prices will directly affect the population growth rate of the entire country. If you can't even eat enough, who would want to have children.

"So, I'm sorry, little sister E Ming, in order to prevent the 'nobles' from affecting the development of the Shang Dynasty, I will spend all my money on the interests of the 'nobles'."

On the other side, E Ming was also shocked after hearing the report from his subordinates.

"Who is so bold! How dare you go against Miss Ben?!" The teacup fell to the ground, and E Ming was furious.

She is one of E Chongyu's daughters, and E Chongyu has many heirs, but E Ming is the youngest, only twenty-nine years old.

If it was an ordinary woman, she would have been married at this age, but E Ming is still single, which shows that E Chongyu loves her very much.

"Miss Hui, I'm still investigating, but according to the Ministry of Human Resources, it's from Chao Ge." The servant replied.

"Chaoge..."

E Mingxiu frowned. The merchants from Chaoge were indeed capable of transporting grain to Chuzhou City while ensuring profits. Since the main road from Chaoge to Chuzhou City was opened, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River bridges brought food to Chuzhou City. The convenience of Chaoge Road to Chuzhou has greatly reduced the freight rate.

Originally a seven-day schedule, now it takes only one day to travel day and night.

"So what about taking advantage of low prices to gain temporary benefits? I don't believe you can last forever for such small profits."

"But Miss..." The servant said with a grim expression, "Now half of the people in Chuzhou City are willing to travel half of the city to buy grain from them, and they are not willing to buy in our grain store."

"Hmph, let me ask you, how long can food be stored?"

"One to three years."

"Then what are you afraid of? Three years! I don't believe that he can maintain this price for three years. As long as he sees enough customers, he will definitely increase the price to earn more profits. This is a businessman."

The merchants here are those who do business, not the merchants of Yin Shang~~

E Ming calmed down and continued: "And don't forget, we have flying boats and monks exclusively for our Nanbohou family. He is no match for us in terms of buying low and selling high from other places."

"This...Miss, regarding this matter, the master said to temporarily suspend your management rights over the monks and the flying boat. In addition, most of the monks are from ordinary people. You have made some monks dissatisfied with this."

E Ming was really stunned at this time.

She stood up abruptly and reprimanded the servant loudly.

"Why didn't you say it earlier?!"

"The master said, 'You have provoked someone who shouldn't be provoked. The people of Chuzhou City have just come out of their hard days, so don't look for trouble.'"

"Is it the dignitaries of Chaoge? With the power of my father, I should not be afraid of a few people. Is it an important minister in the court?"

Several people appeared in E Ming's mind.

Huang Feihu, Bigan, Yang Ren and others may all be the forces behind the grain store.

That's really hard to do, but should we sell it at a lower price now?

The current food price is the best price that the common people can afford after she has considered it for a long time. She is not willing to see the huge profit in the middle run away.

Chapter 370: I, Di Xin, help my son find a girlfriend!

On the first day, E Ming felt nothing, and still did not lower the price.

The next day, E Ming still thought that the owner of the grain store would raise the price sooner or later.

On the third day, E Ming waited unhurriedly.

until...

A month later.

Finally, the owner of the grain store couldn't help but open his mouth to E Ming.

"Miss, please forgive us, we still have to open the door to do business, and sooner or later the food will fall into our hands!"

"Yes, miss, look how good the business of that store is. We really can't stand the pain of seeing other people's voices are good, but we can only watch. Let's lower the price."

"No!" E Ming patted the table.

"I will bear your losses, but you must follow my plan. Once you lower the price, others will also lower their prices!"

E Ming didn't know how capricious her words were at this time, even Di Xin didn't dare to say that she was bearing the loss of others.

As long as he says this, the treasury will be emptied by these businessmen tomorrow, because the concept of 'loss' is very vague, how do you know that the businessman is a 'loss'?

Maybe he still makes money, but he makes less than others, and then counts the less part into the 'loss'.

Congratulations, you have found another way to quickly cheat the treasury.

So Di Xin would never say that. Of course, he has never been stingy about the economic and life support for scientific and technological development talents. After all, those people really have no way to make money without research.

Because of E Ming's words, the confidence of the owner of the grain store stabilized for a while.

But E Ming looked at the daily expenses, and cold sweat began to flow from his forehead.

"This payout, damn it..."

E Ming's current situation is typical of 'some people laugh, some people cry'.

On the other hand, Di Xin continued his business in a calm manner, checking the sound of the grain store from time to time. The person he was looking for was absolutely loyal to the royal family.

Recently, the price of grain in Chuzhou City has increased, so the price of stored grain outside Chuzhou City has also increased. However, the price of grain has risen, but no one is buying it, so that farmers outside Chuzhou City cannot sell grain.

It will take several months for the new grain to mature. Although the common people are not panicking, they are vaguely uneasy.

E Ming has also been persisting.

But her pressure was also increasing, and the people of Chuzhou City would rather buy dozens of catties at a time than go to the nearby grain store one step away because of Di Xin's outlet.

On the one hand, there are few birds and birds, and on the other hand, the family is full of enthusiasm.

The gap was so obvious that the Ministry of Human Resources had to deliberately arrange manpower to maintain order, and Di Xin didn't make any arrangements. This scene also made Di Xin very pleased.

"The interior of the human department is still very stable. The most feared thing is that there will be problems in the human department. If I can manage the human department well, I can't do it anyway. Wen Zhongniu 13!"

"Ah!" Wen Zhong sneezed.

"It's strange, does Jinxian catch a cold? It's really strange."

"E Ming hasn't given up yet. That's right. After all, it's Nanbohou's family, so it's hard to get rid of it." Di Xin also knew how rich the four great princes' families were.

It can't be said that it is richer than Chaoge, but it must have the wealth of a small country.

"It doesn't matter, if you dare to resist me, you dare to deceive me. I will see if you can resist or I will deceive you, and I will open a store for you."

Dixin opened a second store just like that. The location of this store is a coincidence. It is in another half of the city away from the first store. Just these two stores completely caused the food price in Chuzhou City to collapse.

The owners of some small grain stores finally ignored E Ming and lowered the price of grain.

The 'monopoly' dam created by Eming was finally washed away by the big demand market.

With the price cut, Dixin's profit also decreased due to the decrease in sales volume, but he didn't care, he was here to guide the market, even if he lost money.

"Why is this..." E Ming looked at the servant's report, and at this moment, even she was strong, she also collapsed.

The family lost money but still failed to stop the drop in food prices. Obviously, Eming was ready to buy all the food around Chuzhou City at a low price and then sell it at a high price to completely monopolize the price of food.

Obviously, the previous salt price could do this.

But now she is very glad that she didn't do that, otherwise she would suffer even more.

"Miss, the price of food in the whole city has dropped now, even a little lower than the previous price in Chuzhou City, but the profit can still be maintained."

"What about the two stores?"

"It was resold by the boss to other people. The price of grain has indeed increased, but it is the same as that of other grain stores."

E Mingfu was sitting on the bed, the owner of the grain shop was not out for profit, but purely wanted to confuse the grain price market in Chuzhou City.

Yin merchants do not have express delivery business, so they buy items in one city. It is possible for E Ming to monopolize the price of grain in one city, but Di Xin's intervention made them collapse.

And Di Xin also noticed some problems in the Yin Shang market economy.

"Well, it's okay if the price is not uniform. Considering the transportation cost, there is no problem, but if the gap is too large, there will be a problem. Let me think about it, who is suitable for this task..."

Di Xin thought for a while, then dialed another number.

"Hello, father?" Yin Jiao was working in the hospital, and was still surprised when he received his father's communication.

"Jiaoer, what are you doing?"

"Well, practice medicine to save people."

"Come back to Gu! Studying medicine can't save the world, Gu will teach you how to trade."

"???"

Yin Jiao's mind was a little confused.