In fact, the first problem to arise was the price of food. It started before the war started and has been going on for a long time. It is even more serious now!

Grain prices have been rising one after another and have doubled several times. Prices have jumped straight up, one price per day!

This caused serious panic among the people.

Food is the foundation of human life and no one can live without it. Who can afford it when the price is so high?

This caused a chain reaction, and the prices of equivalent substitutes for food, vegetables, fruits, meat and other related items also began to skyrocket!

The price of one stone of grain is almost two hundred taels.

A coupon with a denomination of one tael can only buy one green onion!

Yes!

This is no exaggeration!

You can see in the market that when people buy things, they use money in piles, or in large denominations.

After you pay and leave, no one will give you change because the change is useless.

One tael of coupons can't buy anything.

Exaggerated, outrageous.

With the increase in living costs, people's lives have become more and more difficult, and other general consumption has decreased significantly, including clothing, housing, daily necessities, and entertainment consumption such as visiting brothels and drinking herbal tea.

In other words, money is no longer circulating!

You must know that Wei State is a commercial country. It was already quite prosperous in terms of commerce and trade, but now it has stagnated!

Something went wrong!

Prices are skyrocketing and money is worthless.

Everything has fallen into chaos, the normal rhythm of life has been disrupted, and it is getting worse!

The Prime Minister of Wei State, Song Taiping, and many other officials reported various situations with a stack of notes. Ji Chuan frowned deeply as he listened.

How long has it been since the war started? Why is this happening?

As for that?

Detailed military budgets have never been done to this extent before.

Food is indeed tight, but it has also been reserved. There is enough food in the market to ensure normal operations. Although the people will not be rich, they will not go hungry...

Why have food prices risen like this?

"Is there someone who is hoarding food? Seeing the huge amount of food needed for the war, he is manipulating the price of food behind the scenes to make a lot of money from the war!"

This was Himekawa's subconscious thought.

"No."

Song Taiping said: "Before the war started, we conducted strict investigations according to your order and even arrested a number of people. There are absolutely no more of them now."

"How could that happen?"

Himekawa was puzzled.

After experiencing the Battle of Changjiang and the plague, he wanted to take advantage of this period of peace to return to Beijing to recuperate. How could he encounter such a bad thing?

"Your Majesty, this must be resolved!"

Deng Er, Minister of Household Affairs of the State of Wei, said: "Food prices are too high and people cannot afford to buy food. There have been refugees in our country. The war is raging ahead. We cannot have problems in the country!"

"The current root cause is that food prices are rising every day. The only way to solve this problem is to stabilize food prices!"

"How do you think it should be stable?"

Himekawa stared closely at the Minister of Revenue.

You are not talking nonsense. Who doesn’t know that we need to stabilize food prices?

"To stabilize grain prices, we should put grain into the market."

Deng Er said: "I have a large Wei grain farm. I used to collect food from the people before the war. Now I should sell it at a fair price to alleviate the price of food."

"Is there any surplus grain for sale?"

"have!"

Deng Er stammered: "It's just...the remaining food is for war."

"What do you mean?"

Himekawa said coldly: "You mean to release war food for civilian use?"

"I……"

"As I said before, anyone who dares to disturb the morale of the army will be killed without mercy!"

Deng Er knelt down directly.

"I'm scared, but I don't mean this!"

"Give you a chance and think of another way. If military supplies are stopped at this time, where will you leave hundreds of thousands of troops?"

Things have priorities.

Of course Himekawa can understand clearly, the most important thing now is the war!

His cold words blocked the mouths of many people.

How can this be remonstrated?

"Damn Liang Guo!"

Himekawa cursed suddenly.

If it wasn't to provide military supplies for the Liang State, why would the Wei State be in such a predicament?

Before the war started, he used the Great Wei Treasure Coupon to buy back grain from the private sector at a high price. This is why he said before that he would pool the power of the whole country!

He bought back all the grain stored by the people!

It's nothing more than providing, but the key point is that there are no results. The army has stopped attacking for almost two months, and there is no progress and results.

But they still need to eat every day. Eating less is not enough. The soldiers must ensure their physical strength.

The business was lost.

I invested so much and got no return...

Now the people cannot afford to buy food.

Can't afford it?

Ji Chuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "The people can't afford to buy food. It's not that there is no food in the market. It's because there is little money. Then can't the imperial court just give money to the people?"

This logic is perfect.

Song Taiping always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know how to refute it.

Now he is a little confused.

Food prices have risen sharply, and money has become worthless.

It costs one or two silver to buy a green onion.

In the past, one tael of silver was enough for an ordinary family of four to live for a year.

This contrast is strong enough.

But he doesn't know what the problem is?

Is it the rising food prices caused by the lack of value for money, or other problems caused by the shortage of food during the war?

He was confused, but he also knew that the money could no longer be issued.

Because the money is indeed worthless, there is no point in sending it out.

"Your Majesty, it's useless to give a few dozen taels at the current price."

He actually wanted to say it didn't make sense, but he didn't think it was appropriate.

But I didn’t want to remind him of Himekawa!

"How can I be a stingy person? Since the small amount given is useless, then I should give out more, just a hundred or two thousand taels!"

"A hundred taels? A thousand taels?"

The officials were shocked.

Deng Er, the Minister of Household Affairs, asked cautiously: "Is it based on the salary of each household?"

"Of course not."

Deng Er breathed a sigh of relief.

“It’s paid per person!”

Himekawa said: "That is, according to the hair of each person, how much money will be paid to the number of people!"
To be continued...