In recent years, Zhang Mai's foreign expansion, in addition to following military principles, he also followed business principles, and adopted the principle of exchange for wealth and power in the country. Anyone who is beneficial to the development of the Tang army will give up resources or material resources to help him make a fortune. This is how the major families represented by the Zheng family and the Nai family developed. The interaction between warriors and merchants, and the combination of military and business, are also one of the important reasons why the Tang army in Tiance was able to rise rapidly in the past few years.

However, the Tiance Army's policy has another unwritten principle, that is, the principle of "betting before the war", that is, those who can give financial supporters in a very difficult situation before the victory or defeat can only give rewards after the Tiance Army wins, and usually return resources that are much greater than their efforts as compensation. As for those who hesitate before the war and refuse to bet on the victory of the Tiance Army, and wait until the victory is over and join in the fun, it will be more difficult to get a share of the pie after the war to make huge profits.

In this Beiting War, the Tiance regime not only put all their efforts into the national treasury, but almost all the close families that were closest to the Tiance regime also contributed considerable manpower and material resources. The Zheng family was in military supplies, the Nai family was in logistics, and the Luo family was in meat and livestock. They almost all suffered losses regardless of cost. In addition, there were the Zhang family in Shazhou, the Song family, the Wu family in Ganzhou, the Sun family in Liangzhou, and even Murong Guiying's Murong family, Cao Yuanshen's Cao family, and Kang Long's Kang family were also rich and powerful at critical moments. Because their combination with the Tiance regime was already quite close, they would not have a good life if the Battle of Beiting lost. Although Murong Guiying and Kang Long had taken a wrong treasure several times, they still had this vision. It was precisely because even people with different political views that could temporarily let go of their prejudices during the war that the war could go smoothly.

But when the war ended, these families were all owed a lot of debts. Although it is expected that the Tiance regime would give them the transfer of resources and property resources, at this stage, there is a big difficulty, and like the Kurashima controlled by Zheng Wei, faced the problem of tight monetary roots. At this time, the financial advantages of those families that did not suffer major losses during the war appeared!

At this stage, everyone in the world knows that the advantages of these wealth-loving clans will be very short-lived. Once the Zheng, Nai, Luo, Zhang and other families are relieved, their potential will inevitably increase their property ten times and hundreds of times with the resource advantages they have gained. These alienated families will soon be marginalized or even annexed.

But in this special period, if Zheng Wei wants to stabilize the food price, he has to ask these alienated families for help. At present, only these families have the ability to do this. Of course, it is necessary to pay the price to make these families pay. The current Tiance regime has empty treasury. Although the army has built up thousands of miles of new land, these places are empty and have not produced much. It is a time when the land price is low, and the Tiance regime has empty treasury, so the initiative of the domestic economy has temporarily fallen into the hands of these alienated families. If Zheng Wei sells these mountains, forest pastures, mineral gardens, and the properties that these alienated families can get, are afraid that they will not be under the families that have made significant contributions during the war, or even have it.

Therefore, this grain price incident is not only a sequelae of the Battle of Beiting, but also a large-scale business war involving two different commercial forces in Tiance. Even if this battle is not in the grain price incident, it will also be triggered in another field.

Today, Zheng Wei went home specifically not to have a meal to talk about family matters, but to explore his own family and see if these close businesses still have enough strength to restore this situation. However, from Zheng Ji's answer, he already knew that the answer was no.

"The Marshal will not agree to this matter!" Zheng Wei said: "Although the Marshal entrusts all the government power to me before the Western Expedition, this matter is obviously contrary to his intentions."

Zheng Ji said: "This matter is ultimately a matter of money and grain. The treasury is empty now. If you can't afford to pay money and grain to balance the price of grain, then you can only discuss it with them."

"Add to discuss with them, that is to bow to them." Zheng Wei said: "It's okay to bow your head, but under such circumstances, the conditions they offer must be harsh. It is estimated that half of the benefits of newly acquired ranch mines will fall into their hands! When the generals fought to the death in front of the battle, these people did not make any effort. After the battle was settled, they used the post-war disaster to collect the results. The military must have an opinion after knowing it!"

The soldiers of the Tiance Army fought bravely to fight the enemy, and even fought for their lives for the country. But if they suddenly found that the land they had bleed and fought for the war fell into the hands of a group of merchants who were full of energy and had no meritoriousness after the war, how could they accept it? Although Zheng Wei was not a soldier, he also followed from Lingxi and could understand the feelings of the soldiers and generals. He knew that if this matter was done, it would cause an uproar in Tiance. Zhang Maiyuan was thousands of miles away in the west, but Yang Dingguo would not agree!

Zheng Ji frowned and said, "You don't agree, what are you going to do?"

Zheng Wei remained silent, and he really had no choice.

Zheng Wanda asked Zheng Ji in the air: "Our family is in Gaochang, how much food is left to store?"

Zheng Ji reported a number, including how much rice, how much coarse grains, how much wheat, etc. Zheng Wei calculated that it was enough for about 20,000 people to eat for four months. It was a bit surprising - this number was much less than he expected!

It turned out that after the Battle of Beiting, Guo Wei followed the westward expedition and Zhang Mai went westward. Both major operations also required military rations. Therefore, the military had already overdrawn food from the people of Gaochang before Yang Yi. Zheng Wei knew some of these things, but he did not know that the Zheng family's grain was pumped so seriously.

Zheng Wanda said: "I don't know how many people eat when they retreat from Beiting to Gaochang. I guess there are at least 70,000 to 80,000. We will open the warehouse and first distribute grain to those who go south to eat. Even if the money is lent to the country, we will pay it back when the treasury has money. This will last for a month, first ensure the supply of the army and help the country stabilize the morale of the army."

When Zheng Ji heard this, he looked embarrassed and sighed: "Dad, do you really want to destroy your family and help the country?"

Grain can also be used as hard currency in special periods, especially wheat. In many places in the Western Regions, it is not about silver (at this time, silver has not become a common settlement method), it is not about money, but about how many bags of wheat is worth. Now the Zheng family’s treasury is empty, and the last batch of current assets is this batch of stored grain, which is also the last capital of the Zheng family. If the family is thrown into it, the Zheng family is afraid that even the ratio of workers who maintain the workshop will become a problem. What is most afraid of when doing business is to break the chain of funds. If the operation is not good, the huge family business may collapse.

Zheng Wanda's eyes dimmed, as if thinking of the past, and said, "***, don't forget that our Zheng family started in the Mercantile Mansion. The money from the start was originally military capital. It really means investing all the property in it. That's just a kind of "repayment"!"

Zheng Ji said: "But even if we do this, it will only last for a month and cannot reverse the overall situation. Moreover, the soldiers, militia, fortification soldiers, prisoners, slaves, and family members who go south to eat are all human beings. If they are human beings, they have to make their own calculations. If we send the food, it will be difficult for them to turn around and sell it to grain dealers, which will make them lose money. As long as the profit is at the same time, the ban will become waste paper, and no matter how much food is, it will fill this bottomless pit. I am afraid that we will break our home but still cannot change the overall trend."

Zheng Wanda pondered and said, "Then let me do this first. If you ask the third brother to write an IOU, you will sell our stored grain to the military and enter the military warehouse. Then let the third brother discuss with the military and give an order. Before the autumn harvest, all the people who eat will go to the military camp to have a meal. If there are still people who dare to steal food and takeout, they will have their own military ***. In this case, no matter what the situation outside, the morale among the generals will be stabilized first." He said to Zheng Wei again: "Three brothers, it is already the limit to do this at home. It depends on your own."

Zheng Wei didn't sleep at home that night, so he took the numbers he got from Zheng Ji and went back. Zheng Ji jokingly said before he left: "Third brother, sometimes I really don't know whether your family is here or there." Zheng Wei knew that his brother was a little bit blamed for the sake of the official family, but Zheng Ji just complained, and the next day he was still anxious to send someone to Gaochang to hand over the affairs.

After the people sent by Zheng Ji set off, he wrote a *** to Zheng Wei and asked his family to send it. Zheng Wei opened it and saw it, "Those who eat by storing grain (pronounced as feed) are to treat the symptoms and cannot cure the root cause."

Zheng Wei knew that Zheng Ji meant that it was best to use inventory as a level leverage to regulate prices. However, to stabilize prices with economic power, the government's own inventory must be sufficient, and the batch of inventory contributed by the Zheng family was still not enough.

However, the Zheng family's attack finally solved the urgent problem for the Tiance Tang army. After Yang Dingguo found out, he praised Zheng Wanda and said, "I just thought he was an iron rooster. I didn't expect that he would pull out a few hairs by himself this time!" The Anxiwu people had been entangled with the Corporate House for a hundred years. Although Yang Dingguo praised, his tone was still a bit mocking.

As for those vendors who took advantage of the chaos to make money from the national crisis, Yang Dingguo was even more rude. After listening to Zheng Wei's analysis, the old man from Tiance became popular on the spot and said in front of Guo Fen and others: "In fact, why should you be so polite to these people! I have a way!"
Chapter completed!