Ying Tian, Imperial Palace.
"If there's anything, report. If there's nothing, withdraw."
"I have a memorial to make," said Leng Qian, the Imperial Censor.”
"Report." Zhu Yuanzhang had a restless personality and paced back and forth on the dragon steps.
"I impeach the Hangzhou magistrate, Wu Zhong. A few days ago, Hangzhou suffered a flood, the people suffered bad luck, the able-bodied men were filled in the ravines, the people lost their jobs, thieves swarmed.”
"But he encouraged those wealthy merchants and dignitaries to build dragon boats, renovate their homes, and stay on the pleasure boats every night.”
"Still... They actually raised the price of grain in the name of the government!”
"The people can't eat anything to begin with. If he raises the grain price again, wouldn't he want all the disaster victims to starve to death?”
"Such behavior, without any sense of shame or compassion, is truly the behavior of a beast.”
"Your Majesty, please investigate."
"Bring me the book." Zhu Yuanzhang was angry.
He had just transferred grain from Suzhou, and then he had tried his best to get people to transfer the grain used for the northern expedition from Yangzhou just so that they would not starve to death.
But he…
"You traitor! Evil thief!"
Zhu Yunwen added fuel to the fire." Imperial Grandfather, Hangzhou is flooded. He doesn't want to serve his country. Instead, he is nostalgic for the fireworks. It can be seen that he doesn't care about the people.”
"Raising the grain price might be to resell all the grain that Imperial Grandfather transferred.”
"Such a thief is Cai Jing and Qin Hui. He should be executed on the spot!”
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed coldly." This treacherous official is like a leek, cut off one after another.”
"There are always people who think that we can't see anything when the sky is high and the emperor is far away!”
"Humph! Remember, even if you escape to the outer vassals, we will force the other countries to hand you over.”
'We won't show mercy to corrupt officials!!'
"Imperial Grandfather, please calm down." Zhu Yunhao suddenly stepped forward.”
"Hmm?" Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned. He was in a fit of anger. Logically speaking, Zhu Yunhao would not have bumped into him now.
Unless he was very confident.
"You want to plead for this treacherous official? Is he your subordinate?"
"Royal grandfather, I just want to tell second brother a fact.”Zhu Yunhao looked at Zhu Yunwen," If someone went to Hangzhou to sell food now, others would only laugh at him for being a fool.”
"Third brother, what do you mean?”
"Second brother, do you know how much the grain price is normally?”
Zhu Yunwen was stunned and stammered for a long time.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him deeply." There is a lot of grain in the sky. It is three hundred wen per stone.”
" The north needs to send food through the canal, which costs 400 to 500 wen.'
"I was afraid of the flood in Hangzhou, so I paid more attention to it.”
"I'm afraid Imperial Grandfather doesn't know that the current grain price in Hangzhou is two hundred wen per stone.”
'Second Brother is making wild guesses without any basis. He even said that the Hangzhou magistrate sold the grain. Aren't you afraid that he will wrongly accuse and kill a good person?'
"When have I ever played the game of baseless rumors when impeaching others?”
Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand." After the flood, the grain price should have skyrocketed. Why did it plummet instead?”
"Imperial Grandfather, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to explain myself clearly, so I personally wrote a letter asking the Hangzhou Prefecture Magistrate to send someone over.”
"He's right outside the door!"
Originally, the person who should know the most was the magistrate himself, but he could not leave the city walls for no reason. It was a great taboo to return to the capital because of a letter from Zhu Yunshi.
Therefore, it was safer to call a subordinate over.
It could be said that the advisor could do whatever he wanted in Hangzhou, but after coming to the Imperial Palace, he realized the power of Zhu Yuanzhang. The majestic imperial power that was constantly enveloping the sky made him tremble with fear.
"This commoner greets the emperor!"
"Long live our emperor!"
"Tell us, why is the grain price in Hangzhou so low? Also, why was the Hangzhou magistrate indulging in the pleasure boat every day?”
"Replying to the emperor." The advisor's eyebrows danced as he talked about this."Originally, the flood in Hangzhou was so serious that Lord Prefect was powerless.”
"However, the angel later brought a book. Lord Prefect just had to read it aloud and immediately made this decision.”
"I tried to persuade him again and again, because in the eyes of ordinary people, this is the path to death.”
"However, Lord Prefect insisted on his own opinion. He went around with those rich merchants who were preparing to hoard goods, persuading them that their ships were a little old and that they should take the opportunity to renovate them.”
"After all, there are disaster victims outside the city. The wages are the lowest now.”
"He even went deep into the temple and persuaded the temple to renovate the Buddha's golden body.”
"This commoner felt that he would soon be beheaded by the Emperor, so he wanted to resign and leave. However, he never expected that Lord Prefect's original intention was to use a new method to make the wealthy merchants take out money from their pockets so that the refugees outside the city would have a job and not cause trouble.”
"This will solve the dilemma."
"After this commoner discovered it, he was so impressed that he prostrated himself on the ground!”
"The merchant also noticed it and was dissatisfied. The Prefect Lord told them that he would force the grain in Hangzhou to be sold at a price of 1,000 wen per stone, and they would be able to earn back all their losses.”
"The rich merchant was very happy. He felt that he was about to make a fortune, so he worked even harder to renovate! There were not enough disaster victims outside the city.”
"The next day, Lord Prefect issued a notice stating that the grain price was 1,000 wen per stone.”
"I was almost scared to death back then. I felt that Lord Prefect's nine clans were in danger and tried my best to persuade him.”
"But who knew that the next day, the price of grain began to plummet. 900 wen, 800 wen, all the way to 150 wen!”
"Later, it slowly rose to 200!”
"Although I don't understand the matter, I only feel that Lord Prefect has unfathomable abilities!”
"The current impeachment in the court only knows the appearance and not the good intentions of Daren. I hope that the emperor will understand.”
The advisor knelt on the ground, and the sound of a pin dropping could be heard in the Hall of Heaven's Tribute.
On the surface, the things that this magistrate had done were not much. However, the actual effect was…
Food prices plummeted, and the refugees had jobs. The flood was over.
Why was this so?
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't understand." Pai 'er, why do you think the grain price plummeted?？”
"I think it should be related to two reasons.”
'Merchants are after profits. A stone of grain costs 1,000 copper coins, and the profit is already more than three times. Therefore, merchants from all over the world would try their best to transport grain to Hangzhou, afraid that they would not be able to eat a mouthful of fat meat.'
Zhu Yunhao took out a memorial." Kuai Xiang reported that some sections of the cement road leading to Hangzhou were crushed.”
" The cement is extremely strong. If it can be crushed, the vehicle must be carrying something several times heavier!'
"This can be used as proof."
" Secondly, Magistrate Ying Tian has reported that many grain merchants are frantically sending grain to the south. Ying Tian's grain prices are starting to fluctuate.
"All the merchants are sending grain to Hangzhou. In addition, when the local big hoarders see an opportunity, they will also open their warehouses to release grain.”
" Hangzhou will definitely produce several times more food. I can't even sell it for 1,000 wen! Some merchants began to lower their prices…'
" This way, everyone will lower their prices! The price was pushed down like an avalanche.'
"This magistrate has quite the business mind.”
Most people were confused. Zhu Yunhao knew that they might not understand the technical terms, so he said,""Let's say that Imperial Grandfather wants to buy a steamed bun with a hundred strings of notes.”
"When the merchants selling steamed buns know about this, they will definitely swarm over and place countless steamed buns in front of Imperial Grandfather.”
"You definitely can't sell it for 100 strings of coins. A businessman says that I'm selling it to you for 99 strings of coins! The other one said I was ninety-eight."
" This way, the price will continue to fall until it falls to the original price of steamed buns!'
"But there's a cost to sending steamed buns from other places. If we take them back, they might turn cold and not be sold.”
"So they want to make a small loss and continue to lower the price until they sell the steamed buns!”
" Hangzhou is such a situation."
Zhu Yuanzhang finally understood." So this means that not only did this magistrate not abuse the people, but he is also a talent!"”
"We almost blamed him wrongly just now.”
"Pass down the decree. After the Hangzhou flood, let him enter the capital to meet the emperor. We want to add him to the Zhejiang government!”
"Let him display his talent better.”
"But Pin 'er, be careful next time. This example will never happen! Because I wouldn't spend 100 strings to buy a steamed bun.”
"I heard that Song Renzong's dragon robe was torn and that sewing a patch would cost five taels of silver? Hmph, I'm not that kind of ignorant emperor!”
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had found another talent. He paced excitedly on the dragon steps.”
"I remember you said that he was helpless at the beginning. It was only because the angel sent a book over that he came up with a good idea?”
"Yes!"
"What book is that? Quickly tell us!"
"Let me think." The advisor knelt on the ground and thought hard."I think it's called…"
"The Book of Agricultural Administration?"
(Today should be the sixth day too, 13,000 per day)
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