Chapter 4120: no problem

Li You squinted at Zhuge Liang, and he also understood why Jian Yong sent Guo Kai back to Chang'an, and what could best relieve the tiredness of the young man's heart, of course, the envy of his peers.

Guo Kai is already a typical example of a young and successful person who has become famous and successful. Although he laughs at himself that he sleeps later than a dog, wakes up earlier than a chicken, and works hard every day, he can say in his conscience that Guo Kai already belongs to the group standing on the top of the world. one of the people.

More importantly, this unfortunate child may need to stand until he sinks into the ground before he can come down from the peak position.

"Are today's young people so useless?" Li You muttered.

Li You said this to Zhuge Liang. The most resistant young man Li You has ever seen for so many years is Zhuge Liang. This is really durable and excellent.

Zhuge Liang did not reply after listening to it. Although he also felt that Guo Kai was a little weak and could not stand the hard work, he still preferred Jian Yong's proposal. After all, this is Jian Yong's right and left hand, and the other party's protection must be better than his own. .

"Then wait for the accurate information from Qingxu's side to arrive, transcribe a detailed content and send it to Zichuan, and Zichuan himself will determine how to proceed in the next stage. I will send someone to pick it up from Guo Shengzhi's side. As for Qingxu's arrival in Chang'an Let's watch the logistics node here." Zhuge Liang thought about it and said, and finally decided to be conservative. .

In fact, Zhuge Liang is not quite sure about these two things. The price of Qingxu food involves Chen Xi's previous plan, and the layout of logistics nodes also involves the next plan, so this thing is still to be solved by Chen Xi himself.

Although Zhuge Liang felt that the official grain harvest was unlimited, he then expanded Yanzhou Agri-Food, increased supporting facilities for the grain industry, absorbed the agricultural population, digested grain output, increased the output of various non-staple foods, lengthened the industrial link, and increased consumption. , can solve the problem to a great extent.

More importantly, this solution provides jobs, consumes grain output, and benefits the people. Coupled with this low-end non-staple food processing, it can penetrate into the village level, just to improve the original Chen Xi second. A local industry in the five-year plan.

As for the shortcomings, I think it is the problem of logistics and transportation, but Qingxu, as the starting place of Liu Bei, the supporting facilities are not the best, but they are definitely better than many places. In addition, after such construction, there is a demand in itself, and it is promoted. Faster than anywhere else.

From a certain point of view, this is also a kind of linkage.

Of course, these things were smothered by Zhuge Liang after two circles in Zhuge Liang's mind. In Zhuge Liang's view, this kind of thing is still up to Chen Xi to determine it himself. After Chen Xi gives a reply, look at his own. Whether you think right or not, you don't need to be in a hurry.

After Zhuge Liang and others finalized these, the two letter eagles were released by Zhuge Liang to the Ganges River and the Indian Ocean to notify Chen Xi and Zhou Yu respectively.

When Xinying arrived at Chen Xi's side, Liu Bei and Chen Xi were about to reach the Ganges River. To be precise, they had arrived at the place where the Wenga Dynasty used to be, that is, Bengal in later generations. If you go a little further, you can take a boat. Now, when we got here, we were actually very close to where Guan Yu and the others were.

Because when you arrive at the Ganges port, you can travel by boat, and the speed will be much faster in an instant.

"What happened in the back?" Liu Bei asked strangely as he watched Chen Xi dismantle the letter. At this time, there should be nothing serious in the back, right? Shouldn't Chen Xi have already dealt with everything before departure?

Besides, isn't Chang'an still in charge of Wenru, Zijing, Fengxiao, and Confucius? How could there be work that needs to be handled by Chen Xi so quickly.

Chen Xi opened the letter, looked at it, and fell into contemplation. Although he knew for a long time that this day was only a matter of time, he did not expect it to come so quickly.

"What happened?" Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi's contemplative look, and asked again, "Could it be that some of your work was not done when you were running away, and now that the pot has been thrown over, it is impossible to catch you back to work. ?"

Chen Xi's liver hurt a little at Liu Bei's words, and he gave Liu Bei an angry look. I'm dignified that Chen Xi is so unreliable, so I explained succinctly: "Qingxu's food price is seventy cents."

Liu Bei didn't react when he heard the words, he was silent for a while, maybe he had thought clearly, and immediately showed a look of anger, "Dare to tamper with the official grain price? Life is too short, you have to take shortcuts!"

"Uh, Duke Xuande, you misunderstood." Chen Xi said embarrassedly, "The official grain price is 150 cents, but the common people buy and sell it for 70 cents. Because the grain output is too high, the grain price falls on its own and can be maintained at 70 cents. Ten wen, or because the government routinely accepts half of the food every year."

"Wait a minute, I'll ask a few Qingxu people." Liu Bei left quickly, Chen Xi glanced at it, and didn't say anything. It's better to let Liu Bei ask in person.

Liu Bei quickly reached the position of Hua Chen and others. At this time, Hua Chen was bragging with Ni Yuan, Jiang Gong, and Ni Ying, and Zhang Du and Chen Hong were next to him.

The group of people saw that Liu Bei was about to get up, but the moment he got up, Yang Tuo was staggered, and then the group almost fell to the ground.

"What's the situation?" Liu Bei frowned at the group of Hua Chen, then looked at Yang Tuo, and then set his eyes on the group of Ni Ying.

Yang Tuo is really strong, and even his talent has indeed reached a certain extreme, but to control Hua Chen, Sun Liang, and Ni Ying, what a joke!

When it comes to heads-up, it is not easy to seize the opportunity to control it. This group of people is a typical example of the basic quality. It is difficult to completely control an opponent who is stronger than itself. If you force it, you will even be beaten affected by power.

Therefore, Liu Bei didn't understand how the group of Hua Chen could be controlled by Yang Tuo.

"Brother Yang and we are playing the wooden man." Yu Mang, worthy of being a super senior centurion, gave a direct answer in a hurry.

In fact, a few of them kidnapped Yang Tuo and let Yang Tuo use the linkage to control them to walk, so that they could brag at night and sleepwalk during the day, who let Yang Tuo control a group of Qingyan veterans at that time, and then turned back to Qingyan's The boss came and decisively kidnapped Yang Tuo.

Yang Tuo said that his skills are not as good as others, okay, you brag and fart at night, and I will chase the corpse during the day.

If he really wanted to go heads-up, Yang Tuo might still have beaten a few of them, but he couldn't stand the unreasonable guys on the opposite side and swarmed them. After all, half of this group were old yellow turbans. A group will never let each other single out one.

Therefore, even if Yang Tuo is very brave, he can't solve any problems, not to mention that he is in the first place, so he has been helping this group of people drive the corpses every day recently.

Liu Bei glanced suspiciously at Yumang, but didn't ask any further questions. Wasn't it just playing? The fight between Jiang Wei and Jiang Guang was just like that. Forget it, don't bother.

"What is the price of food in Qingzhou recently?" Liu Bei asked casually.

Brilliance didn't know why, "One hundred and fifty cents a stone, the official price has always been the same over the years, it hasn't changed, it has always been one hundred and fifty cents a stone."

"Really?" Liu Bei raised his eyebrows, "What is the price of the folks?"

Sun Liang, Ni Ying and others scratched their heads, "Prices of the private sector are falling every year. This year's summer grains cost more than seventy cents per stone."

"Lu Kuan, what about the food prices in Xuzhou?" Liu Bei saw Lu Kuan not far away, and immediately asked Lu Kuan, "Official and private."

"The official one-hundred-five, and the private sector was in the seventies when I came here. We basically sell grain to the official. If we want to buy it, we can just buy some in the market. In fact, the grain is the same, all new grain." Lu Kuan explained that he really didn't think there was a problem.

"Don't you think there is a problem?" Liu Bei asked while looking at the group of people.

"No." Ni Ying and the others looked at each other, is there any problem?

"Have you not considered why the grain price in the market is seventy?" Liu Bei asked.

A group of people looked at each other in dismay, this kind of sand sculpture problem, I really didn't think about it.

"Then don't you feel a loss when you sell grain?" Liu Bei asked strangely, "Officially 150, 70 in the market, don't you feel distressed when you sell grain?"

"No." Everyone replied in unison.

"Understood." Liu Bei nodded, then left, leaving behind a group of people staring at each other, not understanding what was going on.

"The captain came to ask what happened to the food price?" Ni Ying asked strangely.

"I don't know." Hua Chen shook his head and said, "Is there a problem with food prices?"

"No problem." Shen Quan scratched his head and said, a group of people were very puzzled about this.

For these people, the price of food is really no problem. What's wrong with seventy cents a stone? I bought it at this price, and sold it at the same price. The official one hundred and fifty cents is the official grain receipt. Welfare, the market price of more than seventy cents is no problem.

After all, these people who have suffered hardships have taboos about high food prices, but they have no special understanding of low food prices. Food prices are low, and they can buy food at any time. Isn't that just enough to eat? As for those who don't have money, the village exchanges grain for vegetables and fruits. Isn't that normal operation? As long as there is no shortage of food, one can live without money.

In fact, even in the next two thousand years, the merchants who brought watermelons to the village to sell melons in the summer would accept food to pay the bill...

Therefore, these people really don't think that there is any problem with the low food price. After all, in the countryside, the price of food is low. When bartering, the prices of other things will also be lowered.

When I exchange a pound of wheat for a pound of watermelon, I care how much watermelon and wheat in your field? It doesn't matter, just ask directly, if you change a pound for a pound, you can't change it.

Most of the people in the village exchanged directly, and even most of the time, it is difficult to tell whether this kind of barter made a profit or a loss, but basically both parties are satisfied.

Therefore, after Liu Bei asked these big leaders, he went to ask some veterans, and finally determined that Qingxu's food price was just like this, and these people really didn't think there was a problem with this.

Of course, some veterans living in the city will think that the official supply and marketing cooperative's annual supply of 150 cents per pound of grain is a hole in their brains. Money, save a lot of money or something.

"In short, this is the situation. The people of Qingxu should all know about this situation, but except for the people living in the city who think that the food from the supply and marketing cooperatives is more expensive than the food in the countryside, no one else thinks there is a problem." Liu Bei found a large group of people. After confirming, let Chen Xi know.

To be honest, after the question, Liu Bei was actually stunned. He didn't know whether to raise the price or lower it. The rural area was eager to raise the price of food to 150, but those living in the city needed to eat. Seventy-odd cents and a stone of new grain went to the countryside to buy it.

What is this, Liu Bei is already stunned, he can't understand the current price situation at all.

"No problem at all, I'm just collecting grain to level the grain price. No problem, I won't take half of the grain. I'm afraid the price of Qingxu's grain will drop to forty or fifty cents. There are only special products, and now that there are those products that need money to enter the countryside, the price of food as an important component must have a comprehensive price." Chen Xi said as a matter of course.

In theory, it is difficult for this to happen in a feudal agricultural society, because there are too few circulating materials, and ordinary rural people basically do not need to buy any messy things, so most of the time they rely on food to exchange their needs. Therefore, low food prices will only be more beneficial to the people than high food prices.

Because normally, in the small peasant economy of the feudal agricultural society, men farming and women weaving are enough to solve most problems. The main consideration of a family at this time is actually the problem of food and clothing, and other consumption is very little. .

More importantly, these small amounts of consumption can actually be solved locally by repurchasing food. Therefore, for a feudal society, although a bumper harvest of food may cause low-cost grains to hurt farmers, the low-yield excess of the agricultural society will result. Low risk resistance, more food output will only be better than less food output, and whether it hurts is a matter of money, not life.

It can be said that in the feudal era, considering such troubles is already a luxury happiness.

However, when Chen Xi learned about the nature of his spiritual talent, he realized early on that this day would come. To be honest, it was not until now that Chen Xi felt that it was reasonable.

It's just that this time is embarrassing. Chen Xi arranged other things on the front foot, and the back foot was exposed by Zhuge Liang and others. If Chen Xi wants to deal with it, he needs to wait until he comes back next year. After all, it is not the food price that needs to be moved, but the The exchange method between money, grain and materials.

"Is there any solution?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.