Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

"Wei Zheng, let someone contact Fang Yucheng now and ask him to lower the price first."

Li Shimin continued to issue orders, with excitement and anticipation in his eyes, as if he was about to accomplish a great feat.

Whether it can be successful, whether the people in Hebei and other places can have enough to eat, it all depends on this time.

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Wei Zheng rushed to Chang'an West Market immediately.

"Wei..."

Fang Yucheng saw him coming, and was about to say hello, but Wei Zheng interrupted him directly: "Price down, first down five yuan, and then make a big publicity about the price reduction of our food here!"

Fang Yucheng is also an experienced businessman, he knew what to do as soon as he heard it, and immediately ordered people to go down to work.

In less than half an hour, the news that the price of food in Fang's shop had dropped by [-] yuan began to spread, and people who bought food came to ask the price immediately.

When the first person successfully bought a bucket of grain at a price of [-] yuan cheaper, the others became restless.

This scene quickly spread to other grain merchants. Anyway, there are more and more grains now, and high-priced grains are everywhere in Chang'an City.

If their price has no advantage, the grain will not be sold. Although the grain price is equal to market regulations, they secretly lowered the price by a few pennies, and there is no loss for their own interests.

Ever since Fang Yucheng started, other grain merchants were jealous and began to follow suit on a large scale. Seeing that the price reduction was really effective, many grain merchants even started to compare.

In just one afternoon, the price of food fell by [-] yuan. During this period of time, the price of food, which had been soaring, almost collapsed.

If it wasn't for the approaching evening, when the square gates and city gates were about to be closed, this downward trend had no intention of stopping.

"Mr.'s method is really amazing!"

Wei Zheng saw that the final grain price had dropped below 35 yuan.

Although it is still very expensive, compared with fifty yuan, it is much cheaper.

Once the food is saturated, the price will definitely be suppressed, and there is no market redundancy and economic leverage. Wei Zheng has to admire Mr. Wang's knowledge in various aspects and his miraculous methods.

"That's not all. According to my business experience, the decline will be even worse tomorrow."

Fang Yucheng said excitedly: "As soon as the West Market opens tomorrow, our Fang family's grain price will first drop below [-] yuan, and we will ask Wei Shilang to take care of it then."

They are the first to lower prices, destroying the overall interests of the grain merchants, cutting off people's money, such as killing their parents, it is normal to worry about retaliation.

What they destroy is still the interests of the five surnames and seven hopefuls, so we must guard against it.

On the day of the price cut, everything was chaotic. Maybe no one could find out the source, but the next day, it would be easy to find out Fang Yucheng.

"I'll go back and tell Your Majesty that tomorrow I will arrange guards to patrol the area continuously, and whoever dares to touch Shopkeeper Fang will die!"

Wei Zheng nodded in agreement, and then rushed to announce the good news to His Majesty before the gate of the imperial city was closed.

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Chapter 74 The Wrath of the Family

The next morning, Cui Mao, who was happily eating flax cakes for breakfast, suddenly got the news that grain prices had been suppressed, and almost spit out his mouth full of cake crumbs.

The food dropped from 35 yuan a bucket to [-] yuan a bucket. Such a big gap almost didn't scare him to death, and then immediately called all the people from the other six families to his home.

It wasn't just Cui Mao who panicked in the same way, but also the heads of the other six families.

The drop in food prices means that their dream of making a fortune has come to nothing, and they will even owe a lot of money.

"It's dropped, and it's dropped by another five cents, and now it's below thirty cents."

"It was all the retail investors who sold grain first, and they were the first to start lowering prices. Now the price of grain can no longer be raised."

"There is more and more food in Chang'an. If the price is not reduced, no one will care about it!"

The crowd quarreled.

When they reacted, the development of the matter and the price of food were no longer under their control, and became determined only by the market.

The food crisis in Chang'an caused by the earth dragon turning over, the drought and the locust plague was disintegrated in this way.

At this price, even the imperial court can buy a large amount of grain, so there will be enough grain for disaster relief in the future severe drought in Shandong.

"According to our investigation, the person who first lowered the price yesterday was a grain merchant named Fang Yucheng." Li Chengen said.

"We also found out that before the price cut, Wei Zheng seemed to have visited Fang's shop!" Wang Yuanhua added.

They glanced at each other. In this way, the price cut was artificially caused, and someone deliberately pushed it behind.

Who is Wei Zheng?Officials of the court.

Then the person behind the manipulation of the price, isn't it the imperial court?

When did the people of the imperial court have such a terrible method!

"I don't think it's all the means of the court."

Lu Yulin said: "Brother Cui, do you remember that when we were in Wannian County that day, the merchant who sold grain for Li Yi'an was Fang Yucheng?"

Mentioning this point, Cui Mao finally remembered, and couldn't help shaking: "That is to say, the man behind the scenes may be Li Yi'an?"

Lu Yulin nodded and said, "It's possible, this person's ability is by no means simple."

"If it's really this person, then he's a bit scary!"

Zheng Quan said: "Can you see that the sudden increase in food prices to [-] yuan a bucket is also a trace of someone deliberately driving up the price behind it? It is precisely because the price of food is getting higher and higher that all retail investors see that their interests have also reached the highest point." , will bring a large amount of hoarded food to the market, even including us."

"However, there is more and more grain, the price is too high, but it cannot be sold, and ordinary people can't even afford it. What should we do? As long as one person lowers the price, other grain merchants will also lower the price, and finally lead to the current situation .”

After hearing his analysis, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

If Li Yi'an is really the one behind the plan, how terrifying is he?

"My son, damn it!"

Cui Mao's eyes flashed with fierce killing intent.

"For the current plan, we must prevent food prices from continuing to fall, otherwise we will lose a lot."

Li Yongfeng said.

"It can't be stopped now, it's the trend of the times, if it is pushed up, it will only be counterproductive!"

Wang Yuanhua shook his head.

"Since the imperial court won't let us have a good time, we won't let them, and we can't raise the price, so we let the people below mess up the water."