Mochou Lake."
Your Majesty, as of yesterday, there have been five rice shops that have been smashed in the entire Yingtianfu, and 16 rice shops have taken the initiative to close their doors, and the price of grain has risen to 20 yuan a bucket of silver coins, but there is still a great shortage of grain in the market."
Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yingtian, reported to Zhu Youxiao."
The patrol battalion has been arresting, smashing, looting, and burning rice shops, as well as stealing and robbing grain and rice and other criminals are increasing day by day, and now the prison is overcrowded, but the law and order is still deteriorating, and many people have lost their reverence for the morality of the royal law because they urgently need food and rice, and they have become restless, in addition, the number of suicides has also increased, and there are those who have thrown their families into the river because they can't bear this situation."
Zhou Yuji also reported to Zhu Youxiao on the security situation in Yingtianfu.He had to admit that it was much more laborious to maintain internal political peace than to fight a war, although he was dealing with some unarmed Diao people, but the real culprit who caused Diao Min to appear was behind the scenes, even if he had a knife, he couldn't cut it, and even if he knew who was doing it, he was helpless.Because of this, Zhou Yuji's teeth were clenched very tightly after the report, and he had to forcibly suppress this anger that could not be vented."
Because of the sharp rise in grain prices, the merchants who borrowed silver coins from the Daming Bank had to use the borrowed silver coins to buy grain, and the imperial court spent a huge amount of fifteen million yuan in silver coins to help the people of Jiangnan to resume work and production.
According to His Majesty's holy will, it is intended to transfer the silver hair copied from the hands of salt merchants and rebellious gentry to the hands of ordinary people, so as to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in Jiangnan and stimulate the scale of consumption and trading in Jiangnan; But now things backfired, and the silver not only did not flow into the hands of ordinary people, but was more and more concentrated in the hands of a smaller number of people, that is, to those wealthy families who occupied tens of thousands of hectares or even hundreds of thousands of hectares. ”Li Zhizao also had to twist his eyebrows and report the situation truthfully.Because the Ming Dynasty cleared Nanzhili last year, there is very detailed data information on the distribution of Tianfu fields, and Li Zhizao dared to say that the local nobles, namely Nanjing Xungui, controlled most of the fields in Yingtianfu."
What about the East Factory, how is the grain sales of the East Factory's firms, and in addition, how is the public opinion surveyed recently?"
Zhu Youxiao sat up straight, looked at the ministers in front of him who were frowning one by one, and only asked this question.Wei Zhongxian therefore stood up: "Back to the emperor, the cheap grain sold by the merchants in the East Factory has been sold out, and even a few businesses in the East Factory have been smashed because they have no grain to sell, and the investigation of the East Factory found that the people of Yingtianfu have recently begun to increase their resentment against the government, especially the patrol battalion, from the previous love of the patrol camp to punish the traitor and eliminate the evil, so that Jiangnan is more peaceful, and now many people feel that the patrol camp is just the minions of the government, and they only know how to arrest them, the common people who can't live, but they are indifferent to the big food households. ”Zhu Youxiao nodded accordingly: "It seems that the reason for all this is that the fields in this area are too concentrated in the hands of the noble and wealthy families, and now because of the large amount of silver coins flowing into the market, the price of silver has fallen, and the price of grain has risen. ”"Your Majesty!
It is really hateful that these noble and wealthy families only know how to hoard grain for profit, ignoring the edicts of the imperial court, and even ignoring the safety of the community, but their fields are all in their hands, and their grain is also their own grain, and they do not sell it themselves, and it is difficult for us to say that they are hoarding grain, after all, they do not buy grain and hoard it on a large scale. ”Xiong Tingbi said.Zhu Youxiao looked at Han Yi: "Han Aiqing, you summon these nobles for me, as well as the big clans that occupy a lot of land in Yingtianfu, and persuade them to take the initiative to put grain in the market, or you can lend grain to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can use it to stabilize the price of grain, and if they find a reason to shirk, come back and tell me." ”"Obey the order!"
Han Yi replied.......
"Hahaha!
Just yesterday, the price of a bucket of rice rose by five silver dollars compared with the day before yesterday, and the 20,000 stone grain newly harvested by Benhou this autumn has now risen by another 100,000 silver dollars!
This is a fucking cost-effective one compared to opening a green building!
”At this time, Funing Hou said to Xu Hongji and Gu Mingjiao and other nobles."
Isn't it, food is worth more than silver these days!
I have already spread the word that not a single stone of grain in the house will be sold to the grain merchants below, and that all the people in the house will buy grain to eat in the future, so that the price of grain will rise more fiercely, and the richer we will be!
”Gu Mingjiao laughed."
It's just that what to do with the old grain that is about to become moldy, if you don't sell it, it will spoil, this grain is not silver after all, and it can't be stored for a long time."
Zhu Guobi asked.Xu Hongji sneered and said, "Then burn it!"
I'd rather burn it than go to the market, burn the farmland!
”"The imperial court issued an edict asking us wealthy families to prohibit grain hoarding, what is the use of this edict, if I don't sell my own grain, is it considered to be hoarding grain, hehe!"
Zhu Guobi laughed at the mention of the recent edict prohibiting grain hoarding issued by Zhu Youxiao."
Naturally, it's not counted, the princes' own grain, not to mention not selling, even if it is burned, it can't hinder the king's law, and the edict of the imperial court can only intimidate the grain merchants below, who cares about this in the real big households, but it's just waste paper!
At this time, it is obviously unwise to take out the grain and sell it, and then hold the silver coins of the imperial court in your hands, but if you do this, the imperial court will take away our private property bloodlessly by issuing silver coins. ”Doorman Dou Ding spoke."
That's right, it's just a matter of starving some mustard pariahs, or another riot!
At that time, we don't need to do anything, the court will help us pacify those chaotic people, and if a group of untouchables die, the price of grain may stabilize at the highest price, and then we will sell grain for profit. ”Xu Hongji said with a smile."
Father!
Mochou Lake came, saying that Han Ge was ordered to see the nobles of Nanjing and the eunuchs of Yingtianfu. ”Xu Wenjue came over at this time and reported to Xu Hongji, who was talking.Xu Hongji nodded after hearing this, and said with a smile: "It seems that the imperial court is coming to beg us!"
”Zhu Guobi immediately stood up excitedly and said, "I don't know how to ask for it!"
Why, didn't they know that they directly sent troops to raid our home?!
”"How do you copy it, saying that we don't sell our own food, so we are guilty?
What is the use of His Majesty's royal law, we are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and our family wealth must also be protected by the royal law!
”Gu Mingjiao also stood up and replied with a smile.Not long after, these Nanjing nobles and the great eunuchs in the Yingtianfu area all arrived in a warm pavilion in Mochou Lake.