People's fear is fun for ordinary people chatting in the market, but Li Er will not take this phenomenon as fun.
The emperor's duty is no greater than etiquette, and this etiquette is used to calm people's hearts.
When the results of this investigation came out, Li Er naturally became suspicious immediately——
Why did the price of medicinal materials suddenly soar?
Everyone has clearly written the script about this medicinal material, so it is impossible for it to rise sharply. It must rise slightly and gradually - of course it is impossible not to rise.
So why does it have to rise gradually and not rise sharply? This is because slowing down the rise can help people prepare, so that many patients at home will not suddenly have to stop taking medicine.
The second reason is that if the price rises slowly, it will attract various peddlers to buy medicinal materials everywhere, so that the price of medicinal materials can be controlled.
When it comes to things like people's livelihood, we need to pay attention to the details as much as possible. We should work as hard as possible to the extent we can.
This time the Imperial Army matter required medicinal materials. Although it was impossible for Li Er not to do it, he was as careful as possible - adopting the ideas of Wei Zheng and others and proceeding step by step. It was also for this reason.
Oh, now you are telling me that the price of medicinal materials has skyrocketed overnight?
If you say there is no problem in this, only a ghost would believe it!
And since there is a problem, we can only investigate, but...
Soon, Li Er discovered that there was no way to investigate this matter.
The price of medicinal materials has skyrocketed, of course not because the medicinal materials suddenly turned into gold, but because someone bought them in large quantities.
Of course, it was already there, Li Er.
But the problem is that after searching and searching, there is always only a small amount of information on this matter - basically no big fish have been found, they are just those who follow the trend and buy and hoard medicinal materials.
Of course Li Er will not sit idly by and ignore things like hoarding medicinal materials. You are hoarding all the medicinal materials. If you make such money, Li Er will be damned if he doesn't treat you to a colorful meal.
But there are just a few small fish and shrimps, and these small businessmen, or even salesmen, are simply not in a position to cause this wave of skyrocketing prices of medicinal materials!
So what exactly is the problem...
After another investigation, Li Er finally found the problem this time.
These medicinal materials were taken away by people in the black market, and these merchants were half businessmen and half gangsters, so it was basically impossible to trace them.
And even though Li Er spent a lot of effort to investigate, even so, he couldn't find any information from these second-hand dealers in the black market. He only knew that some mysterious buyers paid high prices for medicinal materials.
And the scale of the acquisition is not small at all!
It can even be said to be very huge.
The reason for this phenomenon is still questionable.
Because not only are the names and origins of these mysterious buyers a complete mystery, but the scale of their acquisitions also varies in size.
If you want to speculate on the origins of the people behind this from the generosity of the move, you can't do it!
Of course, the scale of these things is very large. If we directly assume that there is a mastermind behind this incident, it should probably come from some aristocratic family. The specific origin is to be determined, but it is easy to investigate once the scope is locked - it can set off such a big event.
Those who are in the wind and waves are probably not an ordinary wealthy family.
But the problem is that there is no certainty that someone is behind this matter——
To put it more clearly, it is impossible to determine whether there is someone behind this incident, because the price of medicinal materials has increased...
This kind of thing itself may also cause a wave of drug hoarding.
If a large-scale investigation is launched rashly... I'm afraid that this incident itself will trigger a large-scale drug hoarding trend, and by then, who knows what will happen.
As a result, things become confusing.
Things cannot be left unchecked, but there is no way to investigate.
As the prices of various medicinal materials gradually increased, and even the prices of half-medicine and half-food ingredients like licorice began to skyrocket, Li Er's worries became more and more intense.
If this trend continues and intensifies, I don’t know what will happen by then - the whole country will panic and China will be boiling!
Seeking medical advice is something that all people care about, and the skyrocketing price of medicinal materials will definitely have far-reaching consequences.
But faced with this situation, Li Er, Wei Zheng and others were helpless until...
…
One month later!
Wang Jing, Pei Ji, and everyone were gathering and chatting in Su's flower hall in Hangzhou.
The drug hoarding plan had been started for a while, but this day was the time for everyone to gather at a drinking party to celebrate the results.
Of course...the results are not complete. These medicinal materials have not been turned into gold and silver, nor have the land been purchased from gold and silver.
But these medicinal materials are more intoxicating than gold, silver and land!
The reason is simple: prices are skyrocketing.
It’s not a small rise, it’s not a medium rise, it’s a sharp rise!
What is meant by skyrocketing is that during the month when I started stocking up on medicinal materials, prices took off immediately.
The medicinal materials that originally cost one tael for twenty coins turned into nearly one hundred coins.
What a concept, it means five times!
Five times in one month, are you kidding me? Not even modern stock and futures traders can achieve such outrageous returns.
This is still an average increase. It would be even more interesting if the ones that clear away heat and detoxify are extraordinary. Like the original ones that cost one tael for twenty cents, they go straight to two or three hundred cents——
After Wang Jing, Pei Ji and others started the hoarding business, they also started to speculate——
It can't be compared with modern people's hype, but ancient people also knew how to hype.
Not to mention anything else, if any powerful family wants to raise an army in troubled times, they will find a Taoist priest to come out and watch the stars at night, saying that so and so is the son of destiny who will come out to calm the troubled times, and then follow up with all kinds of lies...
In short, the ancients also knew this, and when it came to hoarding medicine, Wang Jing, Pei Ji and the others naturally had a lot to do.
Anyway, after a short while, the five surnames, Qiwang, Hands and Eyes Tongtian, had already stocked up on a handful of medicinal materials. You can imagine how much these people can do in a month.
And after they were stocked up, Wang Jing, Pei Ji...
Start spreading the news!
Li Er, you want to use troops in the South China Sea. And because there are demons in the South China Sea, your Majesty needs medicinal materials to treat the diseases of the natives in the South China Sea. After all, there is no royal land in the world...
In short, all versions are made up.
Although none of them became the mainstream opinion, the matter itself soon spread, that is, Li Er needed medicinal materials.
And since His Majesty needs a large amount of medicinal materials, then...
Naturally, the prices of medicinal materials among the people are crazy and bullish.
Now, good guys, not only Wang Jing and Pei Ji, but also pharmacies and medical clinics from all over the country have joined the queue to hoard the medicinal materials just in case the price of these medicinal materials soars further!
You can imagine the price of this series of moves, it is outrageous, outrageous!
For this reason, how could Wang Jing and the others not celebrate.
The price of the assets in hand has skyrocketed, what a huge profit!