"How are you doing when you agree on the protection price for food purchases?"

The first thing Wang Xiao did when he made new money was to protect the agricultural products of the Han people in the upcoming autumn harvest.

The peasants in ancient China were too hard.

When the land was underpaid, they could only grit their teeth and borrow money from landlords and big merchants to buy high-priced food to keep the whole family alive.

There is interest on borrowing money, and the interest rate is extremely high.

When you can't pay back the money, you can only use your own land to pay off the debt.

When the land is sold out, it will be sold to children and daughters.

But even in a good harvest year, it will be unlucky.

Because those big merchants who collect grain will tightly lower the price, purchase grain at extremely low prices, and then sell it at a high price in the famine year.

Farmers not only need food, they also need oil, salt, sauce, tea, cloth, medicine, etc., which require money to buy. So even if the price is suppressed, they can only grit their teeth and sell it.

This is what is called "harmfulness in a good year".

When the farmers have nothing left and are about to starve to death, it is time to rise up.

The reason for all this is that farmers do not have the right to set prices, and they can only make as much money as they say.

Wang Xiao was determined to completely change this cannibalism.

That is, the court and the emperor come forward to set the minimum and maximum purchase prices to ensure the farmers' power to survive!

Farmers need money in their daily lives, but under the price of those grain merchants, the grain cannot be sold at the price.

On the surface, this is the so-called economic activity. But in fact, Wang Xiao knew very well that this was digging the corner of the man.

After digging for a hundred or two years, when almost all the Han people lost their land and couldn't survive, the Han Dynasty was over.

In order to deal with those grain merchants, Wang Xiao did not use a knife to them, but directly used a cauldron to remove the firewood from the price.

Of course, the thing Wang Xiao made did not come from advanced technology in later generations.

In fact, as early as the Warring States Period, Li Kui of Wei had already used the "Peaceful Break Theory", which was to ensure the stability of grain prices and to ensure the basic life of farmers.

"Reply to Your Majesty." Zhu Maichen said in admiration, "Although Sang Hongyang is young, he is extremely talented. All matters are formulated in detail, and all matters are prepared very well."

Sang Hongyang was Xiaozhu's minister of life and was finally killed by Huo Guang.

Although his official position is not very high, his ability is extremely outstanding, especially in terms of economy.

Economic policies such as calculating the money, chasing the money, salt and iron, both lost, evenly, currency reform, wine and other calculating policies were all taken by him.

It can be said that the foundation for Xiaozhu to maintain a high-intensity war for a long time is that Sang Hongyang can get money for him.

In history, he entered the palace to serve as the minister at the age of thirteen, which is the emperor's secretary. The reason is that he is good at math.

Because he was too young, although Sang Hongyang was the one who did things, the apparent leader was Zhu Maichen.

Wang Xiao looked through the accurate plan written by Sang Hongyang and expressed his satisfaction with it.

The wisdom of the ancients was actually not much worse than that of modern people. People had known how to deal with things like grain-scared food and farmers.

It’s just that some people are obsessed with profit and cannot continue to implement it.

Putting down the copy, Wang Xiao spoke out and asked, “Does anyone say anything about 'competing for profit with the people'?”

The word "competing for profit with the people often appeared in ancient China.

On the surface, it seems to be standing on the moral high ground and pleading for the people as noble as pleading for the people. But the things behind it are extremely dirty.

The people here are not ordinary people, but wealthy big merchants such as grain merchants, salt merchants, wine merchants, etc.

The big turbans used high-sounding words to pull out the original official goods for those big merchants to privately operate. The ruling of protection of farmers' interests allowed grain merchants to exploit the people unscrupulously.

Naturally, those big businessmen will also try their best to repay these big headscarves.

It can even be said that since Confucianism came to power, many big headscarves have come from big merchant families, or have been sponsored from childhood to the court.

Under the banner of pleading for the people, big businesses and big headscarves combine to help each other, and they force the real people to a dead end and a dead end like vampires.

The final result is clearly written in the history book, and you will know it by just browsing it through.

After the peasant uprising who could not survive, the big merchants and big headscarves shook their heads and became people from the new dynasty, and then they revolved around.

Even if it is an invasion of alien races, it will not delay their wealth. Just kneel down.

So Wang Xiao had already made up his mind to ask for help from anyone who dared to come forward and ask for help from the people. He immediately arrested him and sent him to the mine to start a mine.

“Of course there is.”

Zhu Maichen took out another list and handed it to Wang Xiao, which read the names of many people, "mainly some grain merchants, and some are."

After Wang Xiao carefully read the list, he threw the list back and said, "Leave it to Zhang Tang to check carefully. If there is any problem, it will be directly sent to the Shaofu Mine."

"Here."

After saying this, Wang Xiao began to ask for details. "It is the autumn harvest coming. This is the first time this dynasty has implemented the protection price for grain purchases. What is the price you set?"

"After everyone discussed it, they thought that 180 chunks per hu of money were more appropriate."

One hu is ten tumblers, and the same is one stone.

Hu is the capacity unit, and stone is the mass unit.

Wang Xiao ignored the price and asked calmly, "What is the market grain price around Chang'an City now?"

"The corn in various grain stores should be about 240 yuan." After Zhu Maichen finished speaking, he explained, "This is because the autumn harvest is approaching, so the price is relatively high. When the autumn harvest comes, the price will also drop accordingly."

“This price is not right.”

Wang Xiao simply shook his head, "Price is related to the basic lives of the people in the world, and it cannot be concluded easily. Wait for this matter before talking about it."

"Here."

After Zhu Maichen left, Wang Xiao thought about it for a while and simply got up and went to the martial arts venue.

There was basically no such place in the palaces of later dynasties. Even if there were, it was just pretending.

But in the Han Dynasty, especially in the early Han Dynasty, the martial arts field was the real martial arts field.

When Wang Xiao came here, he saw many men from the Yulin Army and the Huben Army sweating on the martial arts field.

The mission of these men is to kill enemies on the battlefield, so they will come here to hone their martial arts skills when they have time.

When people around him saw Wang Xiao coming, they saluted him one after another.

Wang Xiao waved his hand to signal them to continue, his eyes searching among the crowd, and then he landed on a small figure.

Huo Qubing, who is already at the entrance age, is actually not young.

But there are tall and strong warriors around him, so he looks a little thin.

However, Wang Xiao believes that Huo Qubing will definitely be the best among the people ten years later.

Because at this time, Huo Qubing was not only rich in nutrition, but also learned martial arts from Wang Xiao since he was a child, which is a real body-building.

Wang Xiao walked over and came to Huo Qubing, who was holding a wooden sword in his hand, slashing at the wooden stake one by one.

Huo Qubing, who was fully focused, did not notice Wang Xiao's arrival, and was still doing his own training meticulously.

While chopping the wooden stakes, he muttered the words "Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine Hundred and Nine

After doing a thousand identical chopping wooden stakes, Huo Qubing raised his hand and wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with his sleeve. When he was about to drink water, he saw that everyone around him stood there and looked behind him.

He was shocked and turned around quickly.

"His Majesty."

"Call the master."

Wang Xiao nodded, stepped forward and picked up Huo Qubing's wooden sword and looked at it.

The wooden sword is basically in a state of scrapping, and the sword's body is full of traces left after the chopping.

"Let's go."

Putting down the wooden sword, Wang Xiao called Huo Qubing to wash and change his clothes.

"Your Majesty." Huo Qubing asked in confusion, "Today's training is not over yet."

"It's okay, I'll give you a day off today. I'll take you around the streets and buy something."

After all, Huo Qubing is still a child, so he is naturally still playful in his character.

Although he was very persevering, those who studied literature in the morning and practiced martial arts in the afternoon never slacked off. But Wang Xiao said that he still couldn't find him to take him out for fun.

He quickly took a shower, changed into new clothes, and came out. The energetic Huo Qubing rode his pony and followed Wang Xiao and the others all the way out of Weiyang Palace.

Of course, Wang Xiao could not be alone when he went out. Even if he said it was okay, the soldiers responsible for his safety would not agree.

So there were as many as hundreds of people coming out this time. Fortunately, the soldiers of the armor only wore inner armor at Wang Xiao's request, and the outside was full of ordinary clothes.

In addition to the military officers and the Central Secretariat, Wang Xiao also brought out the charity who was studying the prescription given by Wang Xiao.

"Last night you said where your brother was doing things?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, my brother works in Changling City."

"Then go to Changling County."

There were no houses in Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. If Wang Xiao wanted to see the price level of the people, he would naturally have to leave the city.

In addition to living in villages, the people around Chang'an City are the prosperous commercial gathering places.

Changling is the cemetery of Emperor Gaodi Liu Bang. Next to this cemetery is a wealthy family that migrated from all over the Guandong area.

This kind of migration is compulsive, in order not to give these local big and powerful people the opportunity and time to become bigger and stronger.

This is true for Emperor Wen’s Baling and Emperor Jing’s Yangling.

Near the tombs, there are wealthy families and powerful people who will migrate from all over the country every once in a while.

After these families sold their ancestral homes in their hometowns, they were all very rich. Therefore, the towns near the cemetery were extremely prosperous.
Chapter completed!