Chapter 589： come out

  Qi Haoran wanted to borrow some money to prepare for emergencies, but in fact, Mu Yangling did not spend much to open this grain shop.

Because she has her own Zhuangzi.

In addition to buying a shop, she can sell all the grain she sells from the village. As for the corn seeds, the cost is not too big. She only gives 2,000 taels to the caravan going north.

They will continue to transport large quantities of corn seeds to the south.

And Uncle Liu Ting also wrote a letter to tell her the good news. Their upland rice seeds have finally made progress. This year, the Mu family's Zhuangzi has begun to plant in places with little water and drought. It seems to be growing well so far. He will send some The seeds are down and let her do experimental cultivation in the south.

If Upland No. 1 succeeds in the Northland, then the grain output in the North will increase by at least half in the future. Individually speaking, this increase is not large, but if it is summed up in the entire Northland, one can imagine its impact.

The northern land is vast and sparsely populated. If the food production is stable, the price of food will definitely fall, so Mu Yangling plans to transport the food from the Mu family to the south, and the harvest of the dozens of hectares they rented is enough for her. The grain shop is exhausted.

Not everyone would like Mu Yangling to intervene in the grain shop business. Not long after Mu Yangling's caravan set off, everyone knew that Mu Yangling wanted to sell the corn seeds from the north to the south, and those families that monopolized corn moved in succession. stand up.

Half of the courtiers and Qi Xiuyuan complained, feeling that Mu Yangling competed with the people for profit, surrendered his status, and lost the face of the royal family, and hoped that Qi Xiuyuan could let Qi Haoran restrain her for one or two.

In private, someone found Zhu Liang and others, and expressed their willingness to bring Mu Yangling to get rich together, and only hoped that Mu Yangling would not open a grain shop.

This move not only annoyed Mu Yangling, but also annoyed Qi Xiuyuan.

He did not expect that there would be so many court officials objecting to him.

The corn seed in the north was promoted by Qi Xiuyuan. No one knows the yield and the meaning of people's livelihood better than him. Just as Emperor Sejong said, if this thing is well planted, there will be no famine in the famine years.

Yes, before the corn seeds from the north could not flow to the south, it was his hands and feet, but at that time he was the general of Xiying, Qi Xiuyuan, and he was fighting the idea of ​​rebellion, but now he is the emperor of Daqi, and Mu Yangling wants The seeds were shipped to the south with his consent. They thought he would be as stupid as Emperor Jingyan and let the gentry control the seeds, but let the people suffer from disasters and famines instead?

Qi Xiuyuan was furious and wanted to take the initiative to dispatch the seeds, but Rong Xuan hurriedly stopped him: "General, this is inappropriate, so you will be facing the southern gentry who are holding the seeds, and there will be chaos. Arling's plan."

Rong Xuan said: "Isn't Ah Ling just trying to get the reputation of the grain shop out of this matter? It's better for the general to help her, and she can temporarily avoid the edge of those gentry."

Seeing that Qi Xiuyuan's face was still ugly, he knew that he was angry for the selfishness of the officials, so he whispered: "General, the top and bottom are effective, most of these officials are left over from the previous dynasty, Emperor Jingyan only thinks about himself, and the officials below will naturally follow suit. , wait for you to take the throne and then hold the imperial examinations, re-appoint a group of officials, and replace them slowly."

Now Qi Xiuyuan has not yet ascended the throne, and his position is not very stable, so he has to be patient.

Qi Xiuyuan put away the anger on his face and said, "Let the people along the road pay more attention to ensure the safety of the Arling caravan," Qi Xiuyuan snorted coldly, "I want to see who dares to reach out."

Rong Xuan said with a smile: "Don't worry, General, Haoran has already given orders."

Qi Xiuyuan nodded with satisfaction. A Ling was stubborn and hot-tempered. He had always been soft-hearted and not hard-hearted, and he was always grateful for the suffering of the people.

As for the courtroom, Qi Xiuyuan was not worried at all. He stood on Mu Yangling's side. Needless to say, his younger brother was a wife and slave.

All the soldiers and soldiers who came from the North were very respectful to Mu Yangling, and those civil officials were simply overthinking their ability to shake Mu Yangling's status.

Qi Xiuyuan planned to leave this matter temporarily to deal with other matters, but Qi Haoran rushed into the palace in a rage.

Qi Xiuyuan planned to support Mu Yangling secretly and leave it alone in the open, but Qi Haoran did not want his wife to be wronged, so Mu Yangling was attacked and wiped out in the morning, and he ran into the palace in the afternoon.

Qi Xiuyuan was about to appease him when he heard Qi Haoran's first words: "Brother, aren't you going to attack the aristocratic clan and strip them of money? Leave this to me, and the Lord will take him there himself."

"Nonsense," Qi Xiuyuan said with a sullen face, "I have handed over this matter to Jiang Ze, you don't need to take care of it."

"When will Jiang Ze start?"

Qi Xiuyuan looked at him suspiciously, "What do you want to do?"

"If you don't do anything, I plan to bite them and see if they dare to stare at A-Ling. What's wrong with A-Ling opening a grain shop? Their grain shop has monopolized the entire Jiangnan, and the price of grain is like riding a horse. Going up, why, isn't my family A Ling feeling sorry for the people and lowering the price of food?"

Qi Xiuyuan rubbed his forehead with a headache and said, "Don't worry, we are still sitting here, no one can bully your wife."

Qi Haoran saw that his elder brother was reluctant to tell him the specific time, bit his lip, and left like a wind.

Rong Xuan worried, "Haoran won't cause trouble, right?"

Qi Xiuyuan was very relieved, "He has grown up a lot in the past two years, and he will do things in a proper manner."

Qi Haoran, who worked in a reasonable manner, went straight to Zhang Cheng's house and asked him about the Lumi he wanted to save. Qi Haoran said: "Master Zhang, anyway, you have to sell the Lumi you can't finish to the grain shop, so it's better to sell it to your wife. Go to the grain store, we will give you the same price, and in the future, the guy in the Lumidu store will come to collect it, how about it?”

The Great Zhou Dynasty gave officials three salaries, one was silver, and the proportion was small, one was Lumi, and the other was Lutian. A high-ranking official like Zhang Cheng, the Minister of the Household, received a small amount of silver, but There are a lot of Lutian and Lumi, plus the food in the village, so don’t hoard too much food.

Not every official chooses to open a grain shop. Most of them sell the excess to grain shops, and Lumi is a must. Don’t ask why, will they eat the grain issued by the government?

The whole is for sale at low-grade or medium-grade rice.

Generally speaking, such families have a grain shop that they cooperate with regularly, and the Zhang family is no exception, so Zhang Cheng was a little crazy when he faced Qi Haoran's request.

But he was blocked when he came back for lunch, and he had to go to the palace in a while, and a lot of things were left to him.

Zhang Cheng knew that many people now object to Mu Yangling's leaking corn seeds to the poor. In this regard, Zhang Cheng scoffed at those people's actions.

He is also a member of Monopoly Seeds, but he is not stupid. He also knows that behind Mu Yangling is the future emperor, and this is not Emperor Jingyan. You can listen to them fooling around. Qi Xiuyuan obviously wants to make some achievements, then He will not let this situation go on, so he knows that the corn planting situation in the south will be the same as that in the north, and the poor people will become the main force.