Chapter 3315 Excerpts

Bai Shan smiled slightly and asked, "At this time, a large number of old grains are sold, and it is indeed possible to take advantage of the situation to lower the price of new grains, but the world is interconnected, and it is not impossible for Longzhou's grain to go out, and other grain merchants also come in. The price of grain that is suppressed by dumping old grain to the people is only temporary, why should the local grain merchants choose the worst path?"

The scribes were stunned for a moment, then silently said, "Perhaps drinking poison to quench thirst?"

"No matter what it is, in this way, the people who are farming are the ones who are hurt." Another scribe sighed, "Alas, it is the farmers who are hurt when the crops fail, and it is the farmers who are hurt when the crops are harvested."

"Xiongtai is too pessimistic," Bai Shan said with a smile: "A bumper harvest is much better than a poor harvest. Although the money sold for each bucket of grain is less than before, the amount of grain harvested by each household has increased, and I couldn't eat enough before. People who can only eat porridge can now eat white rice, and everything is going in a good direction, so why be pessimistic?”

Zhou Man nodded, "Also, low food prices also have the advantage of low food prices. Ordinary people can spend less money to feed their stomachs, and the remaining money can be used for other purposes, such as medical treatment, reading, tasting food..."

"That's right, but now that the grain shops are pushing down prices, farmers still suffer."

Bai Shan nodded, "That's right, you can suggest that the prefect's office and the county government buy food to keep prices down."

The three scribes: "...I and the others are soft-spoken, I'm afraid they won't accept it."

Bai Shan looked them up and down and asked, "Are you students from the prefectural school or the county school?"

"We are students of Fuxue."

Bai Shan smiled and said, "That's easy. Students from both the prefectural and county schools have the right to advise the governor and the county magistrate."

There is this rule, but few actually do it. The three scribes looked at each other and said nothing.

Bai Shan is only giving a suggestion, it is up to them how to do it.

After eating and buying some small things, the group returned to the inn where they stayed. The child was already sleepy. Bai Shan and the others handed the child over to the servants to take him down to wash. They found a table in the lobby below and sat down.

"Low price of food is fine, but cheap food is not good." Yin He turned his head and asked Bai Shan, "Aren't you going to take care of this?"

Bai Shandao: "I will ask the Ministry of Households to order the establishment of warehouses in various places to purchase grain at the meeting, so as to stabilize prices."

He paused and said, "Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, grain silos in various places have purchased grain to keep prices down, but not many new ones are built. Now that the treasury is full and grain yields are high, we can build more grain silos, which can not only stabilize prices, but also Cope with disaster."

Yin He said: "Actually, I was thinking along the way, why do we have to arrive at Qizhou to get on the boat? It is said that Chang'an has the Wei River, and the rivers are connected. Since the Jialing River can pass through, why can't the Wei River?"

Bai Shan raised his eyebrows, "You mean Caoyun?"

Yin Or nodded, "If the water transport can be smooth, then the price of food in various places will be more stable, and the probability of something like Longzhou happening will be smaller."

Bai Erlang said: "I saw when I was in the Hanlin Academy that the water transportation of this dynasty basically inherited the previous dynasty, but except for the waterway of the Grand Canal, the waterway transportation of other waterways is basically stagnant. No one manages the river channels, waterways. If it is blocked, the waterway will not open at all.”

"Then open it," Zhou Man said: "Water is everywhere, and my Dajin water network is densely covered. If water transport flourishes and connects the whole Dajin with river channels, then we will go to other places in the future, won't we be able to be like From Qizhou to Yongzhou, three to five hundred miles a day?"

Bai Shan thought thoughtfully, "Where the water is deep and fast, it is possible to travel thousands of miles in a day."

"Yeah, yeah, then when we have a longer vacation, we can still go to play in the distance." We can take the opportunity to dig a little something.

"Then this book has to be well written, is it the last one or two?"

Bai Erlang: "Such a big thing, you can't write it down in one book, right?"

Bai Shan frowned, "I'm afraid it will be too conspicuous for me to put together two essays, and I'm on vacation right now."

He looked at Shiro Jiro.

Zhou Man and Yin Or also looked at Bai Erlang.

Bai Erlang slowly moved behind Mingda, Mingda moved away, and said to him, "You should also make a contribution to my great Jin."

"...Then which one should I write?"

"Caoyun," Bai Shan said, "Didn't you see the relevant records in the Hanlin Academy?"

"But I just read it when I was looking for information for my colleagues, and I can't remember how much."

"It's alright, you can give a rough first. The specific discussion and implementation will definitely be led by the Ministry of Industry," Bai Shan said.

Bai Erlang breathed a sigh of relief, but after being silent for a while, he said, "But I haven't written a book for a long time. How can I write such a big thing?"

Zhou Mandao: "Let Bai Shan give you a reference."

Bai Erlang can only be driven to the shelves.

The next day they returned from Longzhou to Mianzhou, which was not far away, and could arrive in one day. After staying in Mianzhou overnight, they returned to Qili Village.

In one day, Bai Shan wrote down the book on purchasing grain and stabilizing prices, and Bai Erlang made a start.

Bai Shan felt that he didn't have the energy or time to write when he returned to Qili Village, so he could only detain people in the carriage and have an in-depth discussion with him, ask him to write down the main points, and then say: "When I get home and start writing overnight, it will take about an hour. Finished writing."

Bai Erlang nodded again and again, but the reality was that this was impossible.

The Bai family asked the family members to go home to inform them in advance, so as soon as the group arrived at the entrance of the village, Master Bai's family and Zhou Lang and Zhou Lang led the people from the village to answer them. Everyone knelt on the ground, but their necks were stretched out, and they raised their faces and asked, "Where's the princess, where's the princess, what does the princess look like?"

The villagers knelt down suddenly, and Master Bai couldn't react, his knees bent, hesitating between kneeling and not kneeling.

Bai Erlang had already jumped out of the car, quickly ran forward to stop it, and pulled the village chief and others by the way, "Don't kneel, don't kneel, the princess doesn't pay attention to these polite manners."

Mingda helped the palace maid's hand to get out of the car, and hurriedly raised his hand and said, "No gift, everyone, please get up."

Only then did everyone get up and see the princess with a look of amazement, "This is the princess, she looks really handsome."

"It's so white, it's as white as Man Bao from the old Zhou family, but a little thinner, not as round and beautiful as Man Bao."

"I think princesses are prettier, like fairies."

Zhou Man and Bai Shan took the child down and stepped forward, "Village Chief, why are you all stuck here?"

"Oh, this is full treasure!"

"It's Man Bao, he's grown so big?"

"This is the young master of the Bai family. He has also grown up and is more handsome!"

"The last time I saw them, they were still young. They just got engaged. Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, isn't it big?"

"Man Bao, where is your father?"

The villagers crowded around, everyone had a lot of questions, and Zhou Man was hoarse, not knowing who to answer first.