Chapter 740: Harvest of Happy Waves
Fang Zhi followed Taishi Ci to Lelang, and Taishi Ci went to welcome the bride. Fang Zhi naturally went to inspect. This time, because Taishi Zhaorong was pregnant, he had to stay at home to guard the house. Xiaoning was left to take care of Taishi Zhaorong, and Zhen Jiang and Xiangxiang were followed by Fang Zhi.
Zhen Jiang was not only accompanying her husband to play, but also went to Lelang to arrange the purchase of grain and taxes. This year, Lelang was in good weather and achieved the second bumper year after Lelang's development. The summer harvest exceeded 40 million stones. In addition to allowing Lelang's grain and horse materials to be self-sufficient, she can also provide a large amount of food and grass to Liaodong and Fengning. Lelang's strategic function has basically been realized.
Fang Zhi and Xiangxiang accompanied Taishi Ci to visit Guoyuan. Originally, Guoyuan wanted to come to see his lord first, but Fang Zhi refused to let him say that it was not in line with the rules of wedding reception. So Guoyuan had to wait for the lord to visit at home as a guest. Of course, he was still very happy with Fang Zhi's approach.
Unfortunately, Fang Zhi did not meet Guoyuan's sister because he had to avoid it according to the rules.
Fang Zhi had a long conversation with Guoyuan. Taishici was still with him at first, but in the end he was always absent-minded. Guoyuan simply asked Xiangxiang to take Taishici to the backyard and let the two of them talk through the door.
Guoyuan was knowledgeable, humble and studious, Fang Zhi had a wide range of knowledge and was at a high position to obtain a lot of information. The two had a very good conversation. It was not until the lights were ten, Fang Zhi pulled Taishi Ci, who was unwilling to leave.
When he returned to his residence, Zhen Jiang had not come back yet. It was not until the food was ready that Zhen Jiang came back under Zhen Xiang's escort. It seemed that he had been busy all day!
"Haha, the good wife is suffering!"
Zhen Jiang smiled and held Fang Zhi's hand tightly. The only two of them were indoors. Zhen Jiang was naturally very relaxed. He gently leaned his head on Fang Zhi's shoulder and whispered: "Let me eat again later, I have no appetite now."
"Why are you so tired? If that's the case, you'd better find someone to share the burden!"
Zhen Jiang smiled sweetly, rubbed her head against Fang Zhi's shoulder, found the most comfortable position, and sighed with satisfaction: "No, I haven't come for a long time, so it's tiring to check the accounts, so there's no hard work after going down."
Fang Zhi stretched his face and touched Zhen Jiang's forehead with his cheek. The two of them touched each other's skin and conveyed their body temperature.
"Well, you can't do it yourself. You can't be tired of yourself. There is no end to the things in the world, let alone think that you can only do it yourself."
"Well, I'm not a child, I know! Where is Xiangxiang?"
"I stayed at Zini's house and said I wanted to talk to Zini's sister."
"Hehe, she is familiar with it."
"Haha, that's not the case. By the way, today I saw aliens on the street using the sign of purchasing grain, and the purchase price is very high!"
"Are you worried about the impact on our storage plan? Don't worry, this will not happen. You don't know how high your reputation is in Lelang. Although the purchase price of the government is also on the market, it will never be higher than that of the scattered buyers. However, local farmers and families will choose to sell grain to the government."
When Zhen Jiang said this, he felt full of pride. No matter what his husband did, at least, let the millions of people in Lelang live and work in peace and their lives gradually become stable and prosperous. This can be seen from the number of Jiangnan lacquerware sold by the Zhen Family Store in the four cities of Lelang. If the family of ordinary people has no money, who would buy these expensive supplies!
"Haha, there are such good things? So, being a bad person to be your husband is already extraordinary and saint!"
"Hehe, just talk nonsense!"
"But what I want to say is not this. What I want to say is the price. Why is the price of grain so high? Can Paner tell me, has the trend of grain prices in the past two years?"
Zhen Jiang didn't have to think about it. Grain prices are the barometer of the Han economy, and the hardest hard currency. Zhen Jiang could almost recite all the changes in grain prices in the Han Dynasty over the past two years.
"In the past two years, the price of grain has been rising, but the problem of rising more and less. However, we have control over the price of grain and restrict the outflow of bulk grain. If necessary, we will also place residents at a fair price, and call on everyone to leave enough food."
"Aren't you afraid that the aristocratic races will sell their own food at a high price and buy your food?"
"This is a specific provision. The allocated indicators of the aristocratic races are very low, and once discovered, there will be severe penalties. Under the high reporting and reward system, this kind of thing will basically not happen."
Zhen Jiang said with some serene satisfaction that this system is also a masterpiece of Zhen Jiang and Li Xueyin.
Fang Zhi nodded. The most important thing is the supervision and punishment measures behind it. As long as these two measures can be implemented in place, there is no need to worry about someone maliciously purchasing food.
"So, there is no fluctuation in the price of food at all?"
"Yes! After years of war, it's not surprising that food prices have been rising, right?"
Fang Zhi frowned slightly: "No, it's very strange! Pan'er, the war has indeed not stopped, but now you have to pay attention to the scale of the war and the area it affects, as well as the time of the war, etc. Everyone is trying to avoid the war affecting their own grain planting and harvest. At the same time, the development of Jingnan and Jiaozhou, the development and stability of Lelang and Liaodong, Fengning, the relative stability of Bingzhou and Xiliang, the stability of Jiangdong, etc., should have a positive impact on grain output. If we can count the changes in grain output of the entire Han Dynasty, it can prove my opinion."
Zhen Jiang straightened his waist strangely and turned his head to look at Fang Zhi's slightly serious expression.
"My husband means that food prices should rise or fall?"
"Yes, there should be up and down fluctuations, but now it is indeed a one-sided increase, and there is a problem here."
"Then what's going to go wrong, or everyone is hoarding!"
"Of course everyone will hoard, but there will be a limit on hoarding, and the stored grain will become moldy and depleted, so it is impossible to hoard too much. In general, there is still a problem with the price of grain!"
Fang Zhi said with great certainty that although Fang Zhi could not calculate the grain output of the entire Han Dynasty, the current grain prices are so high, and the enthusiasm for growing grain will rise unprecedentedly, even including a large number of Yi people participating in grain cultivation. Fang Zhi has discovered this in the market. If Yi people can make money from a large amount of food, then where does this money come from? Doesn’t the intelligence brain know that this will cause inflation?
Also, how to balance the exchange of currency with real world? If all players in the game make a lot of money, then someone must have invested a lot of real currency into the game, otherwise the exchange system will collapse immediately.
From this we can see that the continued rise in grain prices is caused by the external world, that is, the real world, but there is no evidence for this local chronicle, and Zhen Jiang could not find the possibility of this kind of input rise.
Zhen Jiang's brows also frowned. She didn't know why her husband firmly believed that the trend of grain prices was unreasonable, nor did she know why her husband proposed this. Zhen Jiang felt that the current economic operation is basically healthy, and people's lives were not seriously affected by the rise in grain prices year by year. On the contrary, as a region where grain is self-sufficient and even slightly exported, the people of Miyun and others benefited from it.
In particular, the rise in grain prices has led to the price of war horses, ships, war equipment and other materials rising, so Miyun earned huge benefits throughout the process of grain growth.
"Husband, even if the food price rises abnormally, we have basically benefited a lot from the process of food increase. Is it necessary to mind this matter?"
"Haha, Pan'er, you ignore the reasons behind it, and there may be major changes hidden. If we are not able to prepare for this change, once a sudden change occurs, we may fall into a desperate situation. Therefore, whether this matter is good or not good for us, we must figure out the reasons behind this that affects the entire Han Dynasty. Also, I also want to know where these foods have gone? This is also very important!"
Fang Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light flashed across his eyes. Zhen Jiang looked at his husband with great power, his eyes full of love and obsession, but what his husband said seemed to be very important. Zhen Jiang blushed slightly and blinked and said, "Then I'll write a letter to ask Sister Xueyin to come over, or she will have a deeper view."
"Haha, I was just about to do this. Maybe only Xue Yin can find the answer to this matter."
Zhen Jiang felt a little sad, but then she was shocked: "Husband, are you saying that the price of grain being manipulated by Yiren? The grain has been bought away by Yiren? What do they want to do?"
"Haha, don't worry, things are not that simple. Their purpose is not to purchase and reserve grain, and I'm afraid it's not to earn the difference in grain. Perhaps they have a bigger purpose to achieve it by controlling the price of grain!"
Fang Zhi comforted Zhen Jiang with a smile, but it seemed that this sentence had basically no comfort effect.
"Ah!!? That's amazing. You must figure it out. I don't like being led by the nose!"
Zhen Jiang, who has always been very confident in business, felt that he was injured, and he unknowingly fell into traps or conspiracy, and even had acts of fueling the fire. Zhen Jiang didn't like this kind of thing.
"No hurry, please write a letter to Xueyin come as soon as possible. We will have dinner first. If you are hungry, you can eat first! Haha."
Chapter completed!