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With Li Jingruo's strong support, even Liu Rukang was 1 unhappy. The next day, the Jiazhou government still released an official document to collect grain at a high price. All kinds of rice and rice were harvested, and the price was almost dozens of times the grain price in previous years. .

Before, Liu Rukang was still holding on to the price of [-]c a catty of white flour and [-]c a stone of rice, but when the new official document came out, it was ten times higher than the price offered by the old official document on grain collection that had just been withdrawn. !There was an uproar among the people!

The official document also allows merchants to sell grain at their own prices without any restrictions, so for a while, the price of grain among the people has been raised to an extremely high position. Was called five taels of silver a stone.

While Gao Zhanming was trying to alleviate the famine, Li Jingruo was not idle.Jiazhou has been infested by rogues and bandits all the time, and the people are struggling to make a living, making it difficult to make a living.In order to crack down on bandits and bandits, Li Jingruo issued an order, with a limit of [-] days, and catching bandits within [-] days can be punished.

There used to be several factions of rogues and bandits in Shu, the most famous being the Hammer Gang and the Shovel Gang. These two gangs have been established for decades. Since the locust plague started in Jiazhou last year, these two gangs have grown rapidly. It was difficult to wipe it out even after sending troops twice.

These helpers are independent of each other. In addition to robbing the common people, they will also rob each other. They have been competing for battles before.Coupled with Gao Zhanming's ability to deal with disasters, some bandits who had no choice but to become bandits had already planned to return to their hometowns, but because they were guilty of crimes and feared that they would not end well, they were stuck.Li Jingruo's New Deal undoubtedly exacerbated the struggle among these rogue bandits—as long as he catches other bandits, he can be exonerated!

Some people betrayed their accomplices in order to get rid of crimes, and some people were afraid of being betrayed by their accomplices even though they did not want to become obedient citizens again. For a while, the bandits were suspicious of each other and even killed each other, and their power weakened rapidly.In less than half a month, the biggest bandit dens in Jiazhou were dismantled, the heads of the Shovel Gang and the Hammer Gang were sent to the government, and the rest of the bandits died or scattered.The government quelled the rampant banditry in Jiazhou without a single soldier or a penny.

After Gao Zhanming learned about it, he praised Li Jingruo and said, "Brother Li is ruthless, I admire you."

Li Jingruo said: "Brother Gao has never been more merciful than I am to each other. I will wait to see how Brother Gao can show his talents."

Li Jingruo, as the governor, governs the five prefectures.As soon as Jiazhou's official document came out, Li Jingruo immediately asked several other prefectures under his command to publish official documents, saying that Jiazhou was short of grain, and the prefect of Jiazhou collected grain at a high price, encouraging merchants to sell grain.The news spread immediately, and merchants from all over the country came to vend and sell grain.Li Jingruo opened the door of convenience again, and all traders who brought grain would be released, issued a business license, and reduced the business tax.

Not long after, Jiazhou City was crowded with grain merchants who heard the news.

Seeing that the action of exchanging locusts for food had depleted the food reserves of Jiazhou government, Liu Rukang couldn't help urging Gao Zhanming: "When do you plan to collect the food? The government is almost out of food!"

Gao Zhanming said: "Well, the locust plague is over, and the official document on catching locusts for food can also be withdrawn."

Liu Rukang said: "Even if the official documents are withdrawn, so what? The surplus food in Jiazhou Prefecture is not enough to pay the officials, let alone disaster relief!"

Gao Zhanming said: "I only said that the government will collect grain at a high price. Did I say that it is really going to be collected?"

Liu Rukang was shocked: "Why do you post official documents if you don't collect the grain?"

Gao Zhanming laughed and said: "180 Wen a catty of white flour, five taels of silver a stone of bran rice, if you really collect grain at this price, wouldn't others think the Jiazhou prefect is a fool?"

Liu Rukang was dumbfounded.I am not a fool, but you are a fool!Didn't you let you release the official document on high-priced grain collection?

Liu Rukang said angrily: "What the hell are you planning? It's so mysterious that even I can't tell?"

Gao Zhanming shrugged: "Master Taishou is straightforward, if I tell you, wouldn't the whole world know about it?"

Liu Rukang's jaw barely dropped.Is Gao Zhanming scolding him for his big mouth? !Simply... simply... simply knows him too well!

Gao Zhanming said with a smile: "I don't have any evil ideas, it's just that everyone knows Jiazhou's plight, so they generously donate money and come to help, the prefect must remember to reward those who are righteous, and can't let them go easily. "

Generosity?who?Those traders who hoard grain and speculate on prices?Liu Rukang is simply baffled.However, seeing Gao Zhanming's confident appearance, Liu Rukang had no choice but to go back with a tight chest.

After a few days, something that surprised Liu Rukang happened.

Grain merchants gathered in Jiazhou city, and the merchants who came from other places also knew that Jiazhou government could not eat so much grain, and they had no way to communicate with the government, so in order to clear the goods and go home for the New Year, they started Reduce the price and pay for food by yourself.

Gao Zhanming is a businessman, he deeply understands the truth that rare things are valuable.A businessman is not afraid of anything, but he is afraid of comparing goods and comparing prices.For commodities that are monopolized by the imperial court or local gentry, because there is no price comparison and bidding, the price will only go up all the way, while the prices of goods that can be sold by the people are often more stable.The reason why the grain price in Jiazhou City has been raised to sky-high prices is precisely because of the shortage of food in the locust plague in Jiazhou. All the stored grain was hoarded by some wealthy gentry. Price.And as soon as his new order came out, merchants from all over the country transported grain into Jiazhou, and grain was no longer scarce, and the price naturally went down.

What made Liu Rukang finally figure out Gao Zhanming's intention was that the price of grain sold by grain merchants among the people was lower than the price of grain purchased by the government.

For a long time, the price of grain collected by the government is often cheaper than that of the private sector.If the merchants have enough goods in their hands, they can only earn some silver when they sell them to the common people, but they can earn favors from the government if they sell them to the government, and they can get convenience from the government when they do business in the future.So when Gao Zhanming bought a catty of white noodles for 180 Wen, the price of white noodles was immediately raised to two to three hundred Wen a catty.But the sky-high price is only temporary. In just one month, the price of white noodles has dropped several times. The folks only sell it for [-] yuan a catty, which is less than half of the government's price.

A few days later, Liu Rukang came to Gao Zhanming and Li Jingruo in person.

After this incident, Liu Rukang's attitude towards Gao Zhanming and Li Jingruo was different from before.Li Jingruo suppressed the bandits and Gao Zhanming collected the grain. The two things were done neatly and solved the two biggest problems of Jiazhou Mansion for a long time.From this point of view, I am afraid that the playboys are not Li Jingruo and Gao Zhanming, but himself.

When Liu Rukang visited Gao Zhanming's mansion, Gao Zhanming and Li Jingruo were playing chess in the yard.When Liu Rukang saw the two of them, he hurriedly rushed up: "Gao Juansi, Li Dudu, brilliant move, amazing!"

Li Jingruo stared at the chessboard and didn't look at him at all: "Prefect Liu praises you."

Gao Zhanming smiled, and said, "Prefect Liu personally visited, why?"

Liu Rukang wiped off his hot sweat when he came here, and said: "I have been annoyed by people for the past two days, a bunch of merchants rushed to visit me, and when I first went out, I was blocked by several groups of people. They begged me to collect their food. Judge Gao, guess how much they charge?"

Gao Zhanming laid down a chess piece unhurriedly: "How much?"

Liu Rukang slapped: "One stone of white rice, five taels of silver! One stone of bran rice, two taels of silver! Hahaha!"

Gao Zhanming asked him, "Has the prefect answered?"

Liu Rukang shook his head: "Not yet, I want to agree, but I still plan to ask you first."

Gao Zhanming smiled and said, "Master Taishou is impatient now? Didn't your lord accept white flour at fifteen cents a catty before? Now this price is much higher than the price set by your lord that day."

Liu Rukang laughed and said: "It's about the same, it's about the same, at least let them earn a lot of money. Besides, I sent people to watch the market price for several days, and it's almost the same amount, and there's nothing to reduce it."

The merchants selling grain in Jiazhou saw that the official document had been released for two months, and the government hadn’t confiscated even a catty of rice. Looking at the grand scene in the market, they also knew that they had been fooled.The merchants and gentry did not want to suffer a big loss like this, so they united to control the price of grain, and bought all the grain that was too low in price, so as to stabilize the price of grain and prevent it from falling again.Therefore, although the price of food has dropped a lot, it is still about five times that of previous years because of the countermeasures of those merchants.

Li Jingruo made a move, took a sip of tea leisurely, and just listened silently.

Gao Zhanming said: "Could it be that the eunuch feels sorry for them? Those grain merchants who gather in Jiazhou are not good people, they all come here for huge profits and disasters for the country. If not, the price of grain will not be too high." It took two months before it came down. Merchants rely on their own hard work and wisdom to make profits. In my eyes, they are not inferior to scholars and peasants. , merchants have always been despised. In my opinion, it’s time to teach them a lesson.”

Liu Rukang was surprised: "What else can you do?"

Gao Zhanming smiled slightly: "If someone secretly swallowed the goods and continued to raise the price, the current price would not be so high. In my opinion, just as the prefect said, it would be enough for them to earn a car fee. Anyone who has that too Greedy..." He lightly dropped a piece on the chessboard, "Since they dare to continue to swallow the goods, then I will let them eat it all!"