In Xianyang Pavilion, when Ying Zhan started to talk about the countermeasures to the food shortage in Wei, the First Emperor immediately perked up and listened attentively.
Because the problem in Wei was more serious than Yan.
If it was not handled well, it would cause a lot of trouble.
Therefore, after seeing Ying Zhan's plan to relieve the snow disaster in Yan with a few words, the First Emperor couldn't help but look forward to what Ying Zhan would do to deal with the food shortage in Wei.
"The prefectures and counties of Wei are mainly Hanoi Prefecture, Dong Prefecture, and Dang Prefecture.
Just like the Land of Han, they lived in the world.
To the north is Zhao and Qi, and to the south is Korea and Chu.
If chaos arose among the starving people in Wei, it would easily spread to Zhao, Qi, Han, and Chu.
But at the same time, this was also the advantage of the Land of Wei!
If they could gather food from the surrounding Zhao, Qi, Han, Chu and other counties, not only would it be faster than gathering food from Guanzhong, but they would also be able to gather more food!”
Ying Zhan's words made the First Emperor hold his forehead and sigh helplessly.""Marquis of Xianyang, you might not know this, but the world has just been pacified. In the past few years, the flames of war have spread, and the various prefectures and counties have no surplus grain.
On the contrary, the granary in Guanzhong barely had some savings.
Even if His Majesty wanted to transfer grain from the counties of Qi, Chu, Han, and Zhao, there was no grain in the official warehouse.
Even the commoners of the various places did not have much food. It was just slightly better than the land of Wei.
They couldn't snatch food from the mouths of the people of other counties to relieve the three counties of Wei, right?
That way, even if the land of Wei did not fall into chaos, the other counties would fall into chaos.”
Ying Zhan smiled." No, in these places, the official granaries and the commoners do not have surplus grain. However, those old nobles and powerful families of the six dynasties definitely have grain in their hands. Moreover, it is a large amount of surplus grain!"”
Winning the battle was not a lie. After all, in this era, the powerful nobles easily spent a lot of money and had thousands of servants and hanger-ons!
There were even many powerful nobles who had their own private guards!
If they did not have enough money and food to support them, how could the nobles afford to keep so many servants and guards?
If it wasn't for this situation, the descendants of the six dynasties wouldn't have swept through the old lands of the six dynasties so quickly and quickly established their own armed forces during the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
This was because even though Great Qin was stronger than the six countries, it could not completely destroy all of the six countries 'forces.
Although the Six Nations were destroyed, the old families of the Six Nations still had a lot of wealth.
After all, if Great Qin destroyed a country, it would wipe out all of the nobles and powerful people in that country. Even now, Great Qin might not be able to unify the world. If Great Qin did not give the six countries 'Royal Families a way out, the various countries' nobles would definitely resist until they died.
Back then, the Qi Kingdom would never surrender without a fight.
Even after the First Emperor proclaimed himself emperor, in order to prevent the old families of the six countries from rebelling, he moved 120,000 wealthy families to enrich Xianyang.
However, there were still a large number of nobles and powerful people in the six dynasties. The wealth and food in their hands were not far from being comparable to a country's wealth!
"So, you plan to let those old nobles of the Six Nations transfer the grain?
That was impossible. Those nobles were greedy beyond measure. In the past, when they were in charge of a country, they did not have any pity for their own people. They only knew how to exploit.
Now, it was harder for them to take out food to save the land of Wei than to kill them!”
The First Emperor understood the meaning of winning the battle. His target was the aristocrats.
However, the First Emperor shook his head, thinking that with the temperament of those nobles, it was impossible for them to do so.
This was also human nature. They only cared about their own interests.
Not to mention the old nobles of the six countries, even Great Qin's nobles and Ministers would not take out their own assets to save the land of Wei.
"Let me tell Marquis Tong Wu a story.”
Ying Zhan smiled slightly. He wasn't deliberately showing off the number of suspense words. Instead, he was using the method of storytelling to offer advice. As evidence for a strategy, it was a normal operation in this era.
The Hundred Schools of Philosophy and the advisors were the same.
Tomoko's suspicion of his neighbor, self-deceiving and other allusions all originated from this…
Therefore, even though the First Emperor could not wait to know how to win the war and make those nobles bleed, he still had to sit down and listen to the story…
"One day, the North Wind and the Sun were arguing endlessly about who was more capable.
At this moment, a pedestrian suddenly passed by them. Bei Feng and Sun both decided that whoever could make the pedestrian take off his clothes would be the winner.
The north wind started to blow fiercely, trying to blow off the clothes of the passersby.
The passersby felt cold and wrapped their clothes tightly around themselves.
Seeing this, the northern wind blew even harder, causing the pedestrians to shiver from the cold and put on more clothes.
The north wind was so tired that it could not make the pedestrians take off their clothes, so it gave way to the sun.
The sun shone its warm rays on the pedestrians, who took off their extra clothes.
The sun continued to shine brighter, and the pedestrians began to sweat profusely. Gradually, they could not stand it anymore. They took off all their clothes and ran to the river to bathe naked.
The wind and the sun were like two methods.
If he used the wind to forcefully take the grain from the hands of the despots, it would only arouse their resistance and hide the grain even more tightly.
If he used the sun's methods to stimulate those powerful people and make them take the initiative to send food to the land of Wei, would the counties of the land of Wei still be short of food?”
After the story of Ying Zhan was finished, the First Emperor suddenly realized something, and his eyes lit up."So, you have the means of the sun?”
Ying Zhan nodded and smiled.
I have an open plan!
First, let His Majesty issue an edict to the few county governors of the Land of Wei to temporarily increase the grain price of the Land of Wei by 100 times to 3,000 coins per stone!
He also allocated some gold to be sent to the land of Wei and placed outside the County Governor's Manor. Anyone who came to sell grain would be charged at the price of 3,000 coins per stone.
In this way, those powerful nobles and wealthy merchants who had grain would see a hundredfold profit and would rush forward to escort the grain to the land of Wei.
Even Great Qin's nobles would rush to sell their grain to the Wei Territory.
Even if some caravans were fast in the early stages, as long as they could bring in food and provide timely relief to the people of Wei, paying a hundred times the price was nothing.
As such, in less than half a month, the supply of food in the Land of Wei would exceed the demand due to the large influx of food from other places.
At this time, he would let the county governors of the Land of Wei stop purchasing food in the name of having collected enough food for disaster relief.
Those nobles and tyrants would be roasted over the fire because of this!
They had worked so hard to bring the food here, thinking of making a big profit, but they could not sell it.
Not only did they not earn anything, but they also lost the loss and transportation costs along the way.
If he were to pull it back the same way, it would only double the loss.
At this time, the local governor would step in and purchase the grain at the normal price of 30 coins per stone.
This price would allow some people to neither make a loss nor a profit, or make a small profit. In order to avoid losses on the way back, they would definitely sell it for 30 yuan.
This way, it would be enough to ensure that there was enough food for the counties in the Land of Wei.
As for the others, because the journey was longer, the shipping costs and losses were higher, and they were selling at a loss of 30 coins per stone!
However, if he didn't sell it and pulled it back, he would lose even more.
Therefore, he could only choose to sell it at a loss!
After doing this, not only would Great Qin be able to resolve the food shortage in the three prefectures of Wei, but it would also be able to obtain a large amount of food to replenish its treasury.
Most importantly, it could also cause the aristocrats to suffer losses, weaken their strength, and reduce the threat to the Empire!
Even if they had more money to sell the food, the food was in Great Qin's hands, and they could not buy it even if they had money!
As for the money they earned, there were plenty of ways to earn it back from them in the future!
This plan was the same as Guan Zhong's plan to destroy the country. It was an unsolvable plot.
Even if there were smart people who could see it, they could not stop the greed of the vast majority of people!”
After Ying Zhan finished his plan of killing three birds with one stone, the First Emperor was already intoxicated by it. His face was filled with amazement and excitement…
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