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In a large capital city, news spreads very fast during the day.
Just when people started talking about Miaoweilou again and actively started queuing up, the officials from the Imperial Palace¡¯s Yamen also began to mobilize on a large scale.
Miao Yan, the governor of the Imperial Palace, who had been watching all morning, finally couldn't bear it any longer.
He had all the top twenty grain merchants in the Gyeonggi region invited to his government office. ¡ª¡ªPrince Li¡¯s Mansion is one of the twenty largest grain merchants in the Gyeonggi region, but it is not ranked among the top one hundred in the country.
Miao Yan looked down at the group of people sitting silently drinking tea with a cold face. Anyone could see the anger in his eyes.
But these people are not that scared.
The reason is simple. It is their right to sell or not to sell things, and there is no such thing as speculation.
Even Miao Heizi, who was the most cunning, did not dare to kill them directly or confiscate all the food.
This goes against Taizu¡¯s ancestral system and the Kang Dynasty¡¯s historical support for merchants.
To put it bluntly, at least half of the taxes in the Kang Dynasty came from businessmen - although most businessmen evaded taxes to some extent, they still paid more than those poor people.
"If there is a barbaric plunder, the merchants may not be willing to pay a penny of tax in the future."
It is.
¡°Anyway, you¡¯re going to come and grab me when I get bigger, so I might as well hide it from the beginning and leave some foundation for myself.
They guessed it right.
Miao Yan really has nothing to do with them now.
But Miao Yan was not without ideas.
He coughed slightly and said, "Everyone in charge, I think you already know the news that the locust plague has gone straight to the Gyeonggi area, right?"
"Reporting to your lord, we have heard about it." A chubby middle-aged man sighed, "The people are really suffering!"
His name is Nao Jiang, and his ancestors have been in the rice business for three generations. "Zhengyu Rice Village" ranks third in the Gyeonggi region.
"However, the reputation of Zhengyu Rice Village is not very good. Sometimes it is mixed with some wheat bran or something, or the scale is always not enough, or the quality of the rice is a bit old.
But the advantage is that their prices are cheap. When others sell them for eighteen cents a liter, Zhengyu Rice Shop only sells them for sixteen cents. Most of the shops are located within a radius of thirty miles outside the city. The people there are more price-conscious. So business is pretty good.
" Miao Yan doesn't believe it at all when people like this lament the hardships of ordinary people's lives.
But at this time, he happened to follow these words, "It is precisely because the life of the common people is very difficult, so you, the rich businessmen and heroes, should help each other at this time just like what Prince Yu's Mansion is doing now, What do you think?"
After all, Miao Yan is not a tactful person, and he has no skills in speaking. He just wants money from the beginning, which seems a bit stiff.
Hearing this, a tall and thin old man smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you know, Mr. Miao? How much salary and food does Prince Yu's palace have every year? The prince's salary is double and the prince's salary is three. The food alone is nineteen thousand dan!"
¡°Even if they throw out these 20,000 tons of food in one year, there will be new ones put into storage next year. What about us? If we don't make a small profit by doing business, the whole family and the thousands of workers under us will have to drink the northwest wind! "
This old man¡¯s name is Zhan Jiasan, and his family has been making grain for generations. The ¡°Zhan Ji Grain Store¡± is the first in the Gyeonggi region. It is said that there are millions of kilograms of grain in the warehouse at any time, and he is very powerful.
Think about it, there are people with a million stones of grain in the warehouse, and they are still crying about poverty. Can Miao Yan be happy?
He snorted coldly: "Mr. Zhan, did you see what was said on the banner of Miaowei Building in Prince Yu's Mansion today? 'Don't do good deeds because they are small, and don't do evil because they are small.' Even if you make a small contribution, it will be a big deal." Okay, but if you don¡¯t make any contribution at all, it would be a bit outrageous to be a fellow villager in your hometown, right?¡±
As he spoke, Miao Yan's eyes flashed sharply, and an evil aura emerged spontaneously.
Even though Zhan Jiasan was almost sixty years old and was used to seeing strong winds and waves, he couldn't help but feel nervous at this time.
Everyone has seen Miao Heizi¡¯s methods. He even dared to burn the younger brother of the crown prince¡¯s favorite concubine to death. Is there anyone else that he wouldn¡¯t dare to touch?
A strong man sitting in front of him on the other side laughed and said sincerely: "Master Miao is so right. Although I, Zheng Laosan, come from a rough background, I also know what it means to be a family, a country, and a world Let¡¯s do this, our Dayun CompanyThe three thousand kilograms of the ?? family is only 360,000 kilograms, and the twenty-four kilograms are only 7.2 million kilograms. Even if the other small grain shops are included, the amount is less than 10 million kilograms.
There are more than three million people in the Imperial Capital, but at least two million of them are not engaged in farming, so they must eat bought food every day.
If there is a disaster, those farmers will also have nothing to eat.
Calculating, 10 million kilograms a day is just enough for everyone to eat, just enough for those restaurants and breakfast shops to do business, and there will be no inventory at all.
If it is less than this number, panic will continue to increase, causing unimaginable consequences.
¡°But this group of profit-seeking businessmen are not even satisfied with the price of thirty cents per liter and refuse to sell it. It¡¯s really unreasonable!
He really wanted to call people over and behead all these people in public.
I am really not suitable for negotiating with others!
Miao Taisheng, who had always been feared by others, felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart at this time.
Dealing with these businessmen is ten times more difficult than dealing with those villains!
Withdrawing his thoughts, Miao Yan stared at them word by word and said: "Two thousand dan a day, the price is forty cents per liter, and each person is limited to three liters. If anyone disagrees, you can leave now."
Everyone just pretended not to hear Miao Yan¡¯s last words.
Walk?
As soon as you walk out the door, I'm afraid the embroidered clothes guard will come.
From the fact that Miao Yan was a bit out of sorts at this time, everyone understood that this might be his bottom line.
The top five grain merchants looked at each other and nodded silently.
"Since the adults have said so, what else can we do?" Luo Jiang looked pitiful and spoke on behalf of everyone: "The only way is to destroy the family and rescue the people!"
Destroying the family to provide relief?
Are you worthy?
Miao Yan clenched the armrests of the chair and said with a cold face: "Then starting from this afternoon, please start opening the store! Don't worry, the patrol officers from the Imperial Palace Patrol Yamen will follow you from the moment you leave the warehouse and will help maintain order. of."
Maintain order?
Are you here to supervise us?
Everyone sneered in their hearts, saying that you, the governor, really don¡¯t know what it means to be as separated as a mountain!
But on the surface they are still respectful.
But before exiting, Shen Ruhu asked one more question: "Sir, we are supporting the imperial court, so can the commercial tax be exempted?"
"roll!!"
Miao Yan couldn¡¯t bear it any longer and stood up directly, ¡°Get out of here right now! Don¡¯t fall into my hands in the future!!¡±
It¡¯s quite scary for Miao Heizi to get angry.
Shen Ruhu smiled sarcastically and ran away quickly.
As the grain merchants withdrew, they still had some regrets and dissatisfaction in their hearts.
We have done so much for the imperial court, yet we are not exempting or deducting commercial taxes. How stingy!
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