Chapter 625 The Grain Merchant Who Cheered Up Again
"But Princess Xiangcheng, I have mentioned it to Your Majesty many times!"
Xiao Yu looked indignant.
"Shi Wen, according to the family relationship, Xiao Rui is An Lan's cousin. How can the seniority be messed up!"
Li Yuan said helplessly, "And I remember that Erlang has never promised you, right?"
Xiao Yu's face turned anxious, "Your Majesty did not agree to my promise, but His Majesty also did not object clearly. And my Xiao Rui is also a talented person, and the future Song Guogong has an extraordinary status. Why can't he be compared to that man whose parents have both died, and who seems to have been killed by Hedong?
The boy kicked out by the Xue family?"
"Duke Guo Song doesn't know that Xue Rengui is Xuan Ba's disciple!"
On the side, Li Shimin said.
"His Majesty?"
At this time, Xiao Yu saw Li Shimin standing aside, his face was startled, and he wanted to stand up and salute with a struggle.
"Cousin, please don't do this. At home, don't show up to others like this!"
Li Shimin said quickly.
"Your Majesty, I feel bitter in my heart!"
When Xiao Yu heard this, he stopped struggling, tears flashed in his eyes, and he said with aggrieved face.
"well!"
Seeing this, Li Shimin also looked helpless.
"At this time, Xiao Rui was indeed a little wronged! However, fortunately, Xiao Rui was smart and did not block Xue Rengui at the entrance of Lijiazhuang!"
"Why does Your Majesty speak like this?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yu was stunned.
"Cousin uncle, has he forgotten Xuanba's temperament? If Xuanba sees someone bullying his disciple in this way, Xuanba's temper will burst out. Who can stop him?"
Li Shimin said.
"this……"
Suddenly, panic flashed in Xiao Yu's eyes, and he opened his mouth and murmured a few words.
After that, he never talked about Princess Xiangcheng again.
"However, those bastards Cheng Chusi and Li Chongyi have gone too far! And the boys from the Lu family are also uneasy and have good intentions..."
Just when the whole city of Chang'an was paying attention to the affairs of Song Guogong.
Once again, a piece of news came from Qingzhou.
The Prince of Hejian County, along with the Tang navy, returned from the Japanese country to collect taxes.
He also brought back a fleet of food worth millions of dan!
Now, the entire grain merchants in Chang'an City were panicking!
"Why did you bring back one million dan of grain from Japan?"
"That's right. How could the Japanese country, which is such an undeveloped land, be able to produce so much food?"
"Everyone, I seem to have heard those Japanese envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty say that there seem to be more than four million people in the Japanese country!"
"What, more than four million people?"
"The population of Japan is so large?"
"So, then our Tang Dynasty only sent 20,000 troops, but we could collect taxes in the Japanese territory?"
In the main hall, all the grain merchants looked surprised.
They had no doubts about the population of Japan.
"Ahem~"
Above, an old man coughed hard twice. When everyone in the main hall looked at him, he said, "Everyone, the matter we are discussing now is about food!"
"What Mr. Lu said makes sense. The most important thing for us now is food!"
After this, everyone in the main hall came to their senses, and their expressions suddenly changed.
"Two hundred thousand dan! I transported 200,000 dan of grain to the east of the river. Now that the prince of Hejian County has the one million dan of grain, I will definitely suffer a big loss!"
"Hey, Brother Li, you only transported 200,000 dan, but I prepared 400,000 dan of grain for Hedong Road, and all of it was charged at a high price. Plus the freight, I'm at a huge loss!"
"My Wang family has prepared three hundred thousand stones..."
"I have two hundred thousand stones of food..."
While all the grain merchants were talking, they suddenly discovered something and couldn't help but look at each other subconsciously.
After a long while, a grain man said slowly: "So, the grains in our hands now add up to three million dan?"
"It really is!"
A merchant also stared and said.
"Do you know where the Tang Dynasty is short of food now?"
All the grain merchants also reacted and asked quickly.
"Except for the major floods in Henan and Hedong, no city is short of food!" a grain merchant said with a frustrated look.
"No city is short of food, hahaha, no city is short of food..."
"Erlang of the Li family is really talented. In just a few years, he has already saved so much food for the Tang Dynasty. Even if it suffered such a huge flood, there was not even a single family among the tens of thousands of people in the entire Tang Dynasty.
Lack of food!”
"But if this is the case, what should we do if we have recovered so much food at a high price?"
As he said this, the grain merchants began to gnash their teeth.
With so much food, plus shipping costs and management losses, they would lose money if they couldn't sell it.
But if the price is reduced, they will still have to pay heavy losses!
"Everyone, we are all losing money anyway, how about we hold all this food in our hands and sell it slowly! I don't believe it. Although the people have just harvested in the autumn, they may not be short of food, but by next year, their homes will still be empty.
There is so much food!"
"Exactly, with so much food stored in our hands, I don't believe how long the food in the people's homes can last. Rather than waiting in vain and losing money, I might as well wait for them to run out of food and beg me.
Waiting to sell food!”
Hearing this, all the grain merchants nodded subconsciously.
Isn't it that they put in so much effort just to make a lot of money on top of food?
But in the current situation, not only will you not make any money from selling, you will also suffer huge losses.
It is better to stock up or even continue to recycle food.
They don’t believe that those people can never be short of food!
"There is some truth in this statement, but don't forget the salt incident a few years ago!"
"this……"
When it comes to salt, all the foodies can't help but be startled, and their expressions change slightly.
"So what? King Jin donated the art of making salt to Your Majesty. We don't believe it. How can King Jin donate the art of making food to Your Majesty?"
"Hahaha, no matter what Brother Wang said, how can salt be compared with grain?"
"If food can be produced out of thin air, then why are there so many farmers working hard in the fields every day?"
"So, then we will continue to purchase grain?"
"receive!"
"I have never heard of a time when a grain merchant could lose money!"
"Exactly, I don't believe it either. With so much food in our hands, how can we still lose money?"
With that said, the grain merchants began to cheer up again.
After another serious discussion, the grain merchants dispersed with confidence on their faces.
…
"These grain merchants are still buying grain on a large scale?"
In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin looked surprised.
"Your Majesty, their movements this time are much more cautious than before!"
On the side, Changsun Wuji reported the report with a slight smile on his face.
"What do these people want to do?"
Li Shimin looked angry.
These few times, all the news about the lack of food in Guanzhong and Hedong in Henan and Hedong came from Li Shimin's handwriting.
He did not expect that these news not only did not make those grain merchants restrain themselves, but they actually continued to purchase grain!
"Your Majesty, according to the news, the grains hoarded by these grain merchants are at least more than three million dan! If they start selling on a large scale now, not only will they not be able to sell it, they will even have to pay a huge sum of money!"
Changsun Wuji could understand why those grain merchants continued to purchase grain.
"In this way, their actions in the past few days are obviously to take back all the excess food in the hands of the people. Wait until next year, when the people have no food in their hands, they will sell it at a high price, thus making huge profits!"