A great man of the Northern Song Dynasty

Zhang Fangping said: "Your Majesty, Ouyang Xiu read Su Shi's article last year and only said that he should avoid the road and let him get out of the way. Recently, I saw Shen An fighting fiercely with those grain merchants. The young man was calm. I couldn't help but think of Su Shi."

Zhao Zhen sighed: "The Great Song Dynasty has a large number of talents. This is a great blessing for the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also a great blessing for me."

"Shen An."

"I'm here."

Zhao Zhen seemed to be in a very good mood and asked: "Have those businessmen given in?"

Shen An said: "A few surrendered, and some were lucky."

"Then how do we end it?"

Zhao Zhen asked happily.

Fu Bi said cautiously: "Your Majesty, I am afraid that all those merchants will sell out at once, and the price of food will be too low..."

It is not a good thing for food prices to be too high or too low. Everyone knows this truth.

Wen Yanbo lowered his head slightly. The Prime Minister's dignity prevented him from expressing his opinion on the matter.

"Shen An."

Zhao Zhen casually asked Shen An to ask questions.

Shen An explained: "Your Majesty, businessmen are seeking profit, so I conclude that they will not and do not dare to sell large amounts of grain to suppress grain prices. This would be a sign of self-indulgence from Your Majesty."

Zhao Zhen nodded, with a more stern look in his eyes.

If those businessmen really want to do this, then they don't take Song Dynasty and him as the emperor seriously, so why are they so polite?

"Your Majesty, those merchants have a lot of grain in their hands. I suggest recycling the new grain in their hands." Shen An finally gave his suggestion.

Huh!

What a great idea!

Even Wen Yanbo couldn't help but nodded slightly in approval.

Everyone just fell into a blind spot in thinking, and they only thought about recycling old grain. After Shen An was reminded, he remembered the benefits of doing this.

Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "They have too much food in their hands, so naturally they can't turn it over. So let's do it. But I don't want to bother the two masters. Shen An, please go there."

Shen An laughed and said, "Your Majesty, I should have taken a rest today."

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "You are lazy, go quickly."

Xiao Qing's face suddenly turned red.

He didn't have to come today, but on the one hand, Zhao Yunliang wanted news, and on the other hand, he was unwilling to do so, so he came to see the limelight.

As soon as Shen An left, he became a little nervous. Should he follow? This is the court, not a place where you just leave.

But if he doesn't leave, what will he do here today?

The emperor said that they could take turns for three days and one day, but he did not say that it was necessary. This was a loophole, just like Shen An, who had been in the palace for three consecutive days since the day before yesterday.

But Shen An has some errands. What do you, Xiao Qing, have?

Xiao Qing was a little embarrassed to sit on the wax, but Shen An came out of the palace with a group of people in high spirits.

Deng Shitao's dozen or so guards followed closely behind him. He took a few steps forward and said, "Shen Daizhao, why do I feel that you walk like..."

"Like what?"

Deng Shitao was the little leader of the palace guards. Shen An also got close to the person who worked around Zhao Zhen.

"Why are you like waiting in the office?"

"Are you talking about a dandy?"

"Yes, that's what it means!"

Both of them deliberately wanted to have a good relationship with each other, and it didn't take long for them to become familiar with each other.

When the group arrived at the place where grain was sold, the carts were all gone. A woman was driving a group of chickens to forage for fallen rice in the open space, and she was very happy.

Shen An stood on the edge, and the woman glanced at the guards behind him, but she was not afraid at all.

It didn't take long for the businessmen to arrive.

"I've met Shen Daizhao."

These people were pale and looked pitiful.

But Shen An knew that these pities were just a disguise. If you really thought they were little white rabbits, people would laugh to death behind your back.

"Are you convinced?"

Shen An stood with his hands behind his hands and asked calmly.

"Clothes."

The businessmen bowed their heads.

"Louder, are you convinced?"

"Clothes!"

The merchants' shouts startled the chickens, and the woman glared at them.

Shen An narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the chickens, then asked: "Do you dare to do it next time?"

"The villain dare not."

Shen An smiled slightly and said: "Sell Chen Liang on your own. The court doesn't care about it, even if you sell it for ten cents a dou."

"Thank you Shen Daizhao."

Shen An looked compassionate and sighed: "But you have too much grain in your hands. I'm worried that you will have difficulty in turning around. So, bring out all the new grain. Chaozhong bought it. The price... is thirty-five cents, but have opinions?"

"It's too low. The current market price is forty cents."

A businessman said angrily, and then someone started complaining.

"You can't do it for thirty-five cents! You'll lose all your money."

"Um!"

Shen An's eyes swept over the people who were talking. After the voices disappeared, he said: "Clear rewards and punishments are the way to the prosperity of the Song Dynasty. Manipulating food prices and everything you do is enough to make you exile. Could it be that you feel that the official Is my family too generous and thinking too much?"

"I don't dare! I don't dare!"

Shen An sneered and said: "The grain ship will arrive in Beijing tomorrow. Anyone who dares to sell grain will be asking for death. If you think you can save so much grain, please do so."

The businessmen stood there with their heads bowed. Someone raised his head and said, "Shen Taizhao, can't you be accommodating?"

Shen An shook his head, and then said: "You can't make all the money, but you have to have the life to spend it. Therefore, there is no way for blessings and misfortunes, you can only bring it to yourself."

He turned and mounted his horse and rode away, as if the merchants had been granted amnesty.

Although new grain was looted, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.net could at least use the difficulty of transportation to delay the situation for a while.

Escaped!

When they discovered that the guards had not left, they were a little dumbfounded.

Deng Shitao shouted: "All will be delivered within half a day, otherwise we will take them all!"

A group of businessmen were stunned. Someone said: "I knew he wouldn't let us go so easily. He threatened and lured us... After losing such a big sum, how will we live in the future?"

Someone wailed: "He sold all the old grain to us, but collected new grain at a low price to fill the warehouse, and still made a profit by switching hands. How can this business be done like this?"

Bianliang City was very busy today. Large convoys kept going back and forth between the grain merchants' warehouses and the official warehouses. The children followed them all the way and watched them carry grain in.

How could the DPRK and China buy grain from grain merchants?

Before this doubt dissipated, the grain merchants began to sell old grain at a price of thirty cash.

"Don't crowd, there are a lot of them! There are really a lot of them!"

But who wouldn’t be crowded?

Although I am from Bianliang, the opportunity for such a big price reduction is extremely rare. It would be a fool not to take advantage of the opportunity to buy more and save it.

And there’s nothing wrong with old food, except that it tastes slightly worse and makes you hungrier after eating it.

So people flocked to the city, and the city was full of people carrying food bags. Some families even went out with their whole families, adults and children carrying food.

"It is said that many people are borrowing money to buy food."

When a businessman heard the news, his body shook a little, and then he said sadly and angrily: "Oh my god! Are we going to kill them all!"

Several grain merchants in Bianliang City fell down that day. It is said that one of them was so angry that he would become a fool even if he could be saved.