When Li Su initially found out the list of big players who sold grain, money and broth, the adverse reactions caused by these guys' actions have also appeared in various places. Fortunately, Li Su's counterattack and sale were able to keep up quickly.

On July 22, it was also the seventh day after the government officially started collecting autumn taxes. Early in the morning, some small abnormalities and commotions occurred in Pi County and surrounding Du'an County and Jiangyuan County.

It turns out that when the townships and fellow villagers went to the countryside to promote the taxation policy, they had to post notices, indicating that from now on, the households and households in the county's autumn tax should pay money, brocade or service, and they cannot be replaced by grain.

This is not considered a breach of trust in the government, because the rent and medicinal regulation method originally stipulates that there is a limit on paying grain in each place. First come first, if the person in front pays the grain and stuffs the official warehouse, the person in the future will no longer be able to use grain to transfer it.

Of course, it does not mean that people are not allowed to pay grain at all. At least the "rental" part should be collected. Therefore, if the people insist on paying the rented part, the government must collect it. This is like the future generations that must ensure that the RMB can be used, which is a reflection of the government's credit. It is just that grain is not allowed to be replaced by the part that should have been money and labor.

The official warehouses in Pi County and other places did not post notices when the warehouse was broken down, but instead kept some surplus grain in advance. It was considered that there were not many excess warehouses and it was not enough for the people to replace them, so they posted them in advance.

At the beginning, the poor people did not take this law seriously, simply because they did not expect that the big households would be so active in paying taxes, and they squeezed out the indicators of paying food at the beginning.

In previous years, according to the customary laws of the Han Dynasty, it was normal for autumn taxes to be collected in one and a half months. No matter how fast it was, it could still calculate the achievements of local officials, which was a manifestation of "excellent governance achievements". In Yizhou, taxes can be paid every year starting from July 15th, and it is enough to pay them by the end of August.

Since Huan Ling, people have been living in poverty, and many people have delayed their lives. They have forced their children to pay taxes only after they have no choice. The tax collection period of one and a half months this year has only passed the first sixth, and the food has been collected, which has never happened in history.

"Master, why don't you collect food? I've agreed that the new law will ask us to choose which one you can pay for? You can't. Now a stone of rice is only sold for more than 200 yuan, a narrow brocade of 1 zhang and 320 yuan, and a wide brocade of 3 zhang and 3 50 yuan.

If we change it to Jin, we will have to pay several more. Pi County is still the fief of the Right General. How can the Right General exploit his own people? It is not a big deal to spread it out!"

After some poor people discovered the problem, they started to clamor around the tax booth.

The tax collectors of the township should of course declare the policy: "Don't panic, don't panic. The right general will calm prices and try to buy grain, but the national law cannot be abolished. After the new law was passed in April, he repeatedly preached in various counties and townships, requiring every pavilion chief to be familiar with the new law and preached to the people under his rule. There are only a few items in total. More than three months have passed, so you can't say you don't know!

The reason why there are many people who pay the grain and the share is occupied is because smart people see that the grain price is cheap this year and the grain is cost-effective, so everyone will choose to pay the grain, so they rush to pay the tax, and those who pay the tax first have a choice. Although there is a reason for this, the biggest problem is that you delay yourself and are not active in paying the tax. You must know that after the implementation of the rent and mediocre law, the more active the tax payer, the more you take advantage of it."

The seriousness of the law still needs to be maintained, so Li Su will not come forward to save the market in order to appease the people and prevent the people from going through this education.

After giving a stick and a date, it is also beneficial to enlightening people's wisdom, allowing people to have more business thinking, keep their trustworthy awareness, and not delaying their work.

Maybe all people will pay taxes next year and they will compete for this "priority right".

Because it was entirely the government's rule, the people who caused trouble argued several times, and there was no way. At this time, the tax collectors and township assistants began to announce according to the requirements of the county magistrate:

"Don't worry, the Mi family is now 230 coins per stone. Although you were delayed in paying taxes this year, the court also said that no matter how much rice is, it is often not enough to close the warehouse. Even if the new warehouse is built or the labor service and military service families are paid more food and pay, they will not sit idly by and watch the grain and rice cannot be stored in the warehouse.

If the rice price really falls to 200 coins per stone, the king will support the purchase of unlimited amounts to prevent the low grain from hurting the farmers. There is still a price difference of 30 coins now. Those who pay taxes early will get better sooner, and those who have broth on hand should not hide it. The earlier you pay taxes, the more cost-effective it is. If you have money to pay money, you will pay broth. In addition, the price of broth will also be flat. As for how much it will rise again and then flatter it will be hard to say, anyway, you will not lose if you pay taxes early!"

When the people heard this, they saw that the government was willing to support the government and ensured that they would not lose a lot of money, so they recognized it. Many people here did not have any copper coins or Shu brocade at all, but saw that the food was cheap now and wanted to pay the food, but they only paid the money if they really couldn't pay it.

The government's operations have stabilized the situation for two or three days. All the more flexible people paid taxes, but some of them are particularly sarcastic and think they have suffered losses. So wait a little longer and are still consuming.

Li Su's attitude also tempted the rich businessmen from all over the country to believe that the government is just painting big cakes. In fact, there are not so many Shu brocades that can be sold to stabilize the price of money, brocades and raise the price of grain.

That night, at the home of He Zong, a wealthy family in Pi County, his housekeeper reported Li Su's cowardice to the head of the family. He Zong did not hesitate and immediately notified his accomplices from neighboring counties, as well as several wealthy families in Mianzhu, Guanghan and Nan'an.

Starting the next day, Li Su had gradually released Kuanbian Shujin on the market, and the price was relatively high, because everyone also knew that Kuanbian Shujin had an actual premium when reselling Kuanbian Shujin to other places, and the value was 100% or 200% more than the same area of ​​Naanbian. Therefore, those big stockholders purchased goods at a price of 1,200 yuan per zhang.

Although it is a bit distressing to spend a lot of money, everyone feels that the selling pressure of this plate can withstand it.

In addition, if the money goes to the market, it will also make it easier for people to pay taxes. Therefore, they have to continue selling grain to collect money, exchange it for money, and create a general shortage of money.

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Three days later, on July 25, when the rice price fell to 200 coins per stone, Li Su finally took action as he said he would do it.

Twenty-three and twenty-four days, he also started selling brocade one after another, but the volume was not that large. The key was that it was sold in the name and channels of private merchants, and it was not announced that the "national team entered the market to rescue the market."

On the 25th, it was obvious that the national team had rescued the market.

Early that morning, the Hanzhong King's Palace in Chengdu officially issued a royal order: In view of the unprecedented bumper harvest in Yizhou this year (in fact, it was because the landlords and tyrants sold all the stored grains, and the bumper harvest was also good, but it was not that obvious), the grain was low and the farmers were hurt. The Hanzhong King was compassionate with the suffering of the people, sold Shu brocade, and took out the copper coins of the treasury to buy grain to save the market, so that the people who sold grain and paid taxes could have enough money/pay the tax.

Within one day, the surrounding counties and Jianwei and Guanghan also issued the same order. All the grain transport fleets of the government and the fleets of major merchants also worked hard to transport the newly received grain out.

Because it is really impossible to save, it cannot be piled up in the open air, as it will rot and waste. So the main destinations are just a few categories:

First of all, we encourage military households and handicraft households who do not farm to collect grain while the grain prices are cheap, especially the army that eats the government and imperial grain, to work hard in the corvee labor camp in the Leshanyan in Nan'an, and those who can pay more food and rice should try to use grain and rice.

If you can't finish it, you can also give the soldiers and hard labor. Guan Yu stayed in Nan'an to repair water conservancy. Now everyone eats five meals a day. In addition to three main meals, there are two snacks. They just ask them to work more and speed up the progress of the project.

The steel mills, wrought iron shops, and the salt farms in Zigong. The official blacksmiths and salt pricks were originally the official ones who were responsible for food and accommodation, and the food and treatment was temporarily improved.

If the grain is really difficult to deal with, hire more boatmen to take the Minjiang River-Yangtze River-Jialing River, and transport it thousands of miles to the Xiguan Post in Hanzhong, and hoard it as grain for the Northern Expedition.

Because "there is too much food to be eaten or put down" only happened in the Chengdu Plain, there was no grain ventilated in Jingnan and Hanzhong under Liu Bei's rule. It was originally just because "even if the grain in Chengdu was transported to Hanzhong by water, it could only transport one stone with two and a half stones, and the loss of the road was as high as 60%", so I was not willing to transport it.

But since this year it was a liquidated stock, it would be transported away slightly and digested a batch.

Finally, there are many more. Li Su also suggested that, under the premise of keeping technology confidential, use it to make sake according to the original brewing of "Zhongshan Winter Brewing". Moreover, use the steamer that was just invented in the past two years to distil a batch of relatively high levels, and can produce thirty or forty degrees of white wine.

Of course, this is only brewed under the special circumstances of this game this year. It is not brewed for pleasure or mass selling. At most, it is to reserve some disinfected alcohol during the Northern Expedition next year. Li Su must strictly keep confidential technology and only process it in a few places at a designated location to avoid being exposed and waste too much food.

Now in this chaotic world, Jingyi has emerged, and others are starving to death everywhere. You must strictly control the use of grain to brew liquor. In special circumstances, you can only brew it if you cannot store grain.

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With the national team rescuing the market, the powerful rapists finally couldn't sit still.

Chen Jian, the chief of the Chen family, who was in Jianwei, invited several accomplices including He Zong of Pi County to ask whether his information was wrong:

"Why did the imperial court have so much money and Jin save the market? Mr. He, your information will not be wrong, right? Our Chen family is known as the richest man, and has already taken out more than half of the warehouse grain. Our family bought tens of thousands of pieces of Qianjin. Why haven't they bought the government's inventory yet?"

The Chen Jian’s land is located in the Jade Road, Zigong and other places, and the Jade Road is the transport hub at the intersection of the Minjiang River and the Yangtze River, so Chen Jian has watched hundreds of grain ships sailing towards Jiangzhou these days, saying that he would go to the Jialing River to transfer to Hanzhong again.

There were also a large number of grain trucks, escorted by Wang Lian, the "Salt and Iron Commander" and sent to some newly built mysterious workshops (actually to brew white wine).

Therefore, the rich man of Jianwei is the most able to deeply understand the government's ability to arrange and dispatch, and they are also the most worried.

Faced with their accusations, He Zong, who was closest to the Chengdu center, certainly felt very innocent: "How could I betray you? I also did it with you. It can only be said that Li Su has too many goods beyond our expectations. According to the previously estimated production capacity, there shouldn't be so many brilliant things on the market.

But we can no longer look back. Now we give up. The money we lost when we sold food at the price was in vain! If we don’t, the rice price this year will still be able to hold on. We sold it from 26 to 200. The average shipment is only 200 yuan per stone. How can we stop selling it? We agreed before that, we have to purchase goods in proportion to our family. You are the last wealthy family of Shu Confucianism. You must bear it. You promised it at the beginning."

The reason why He Zong said this was because before the incident, Chen Jian patted his chest and reassured everyone, saying that the Chen family had absolutely enough food, and that he could squeeze out all the tenants and serfs under his control, and that the inventory of millions of stones could be squeezed out. After all, his family had a population of 70,000 to 80,000 people. Each person had been plundering for many years, and there were still more than ten stones, but if they really wanted to mobilize to that level, the noise was too big, and the plundering of tenants and slaughtered was too ruthless, so the food rations this year may not be enough.

The landlord's family can't sell the food for the next year, so they don't keep the food for the next year. That will happen to something big. What if it is difficult to get back in the end, and people will starve to death when the young and young people are not in charge in the coming year?

However, since I had to carry this flag at the beginning, I had to pay the price. Pang Le of Zhuti, Zhao Wei, Shen Mi of Ba County and others also emphasized that Chen Jian should take on the responsibility of the leader of the alliance.

Just when he was at a loss, Gong Yang, the largest landlord from Mianzhu from Guanghan, came out to give Chen Jian a lot of advice: "Class Chief Chen, if you are worried about selling too much grain and the government is really capable of raising so much money, you can transport all the grain for the Northern Expedition. If you don't accept your own tribe next year, you will have no food to eat... I just encountered a way here."

Chen Jian was furious and waved his hand to signal him to say quickly.

Gong Yang bowed and said, "That's right... Before, because Wenshan County was relatively poor, we didn't contact the rich families in Wenshan to join forces, and we were afraid of leaking the secrets. But just recently, I guess there were a few smart people in Wenshan who saw the clues and were willing to work with us. They also had a large sum of food to use. I wonder if you would like to meet."

Chen Jian: "Who? Who wants to cooperate with us?"

Gong Yang: "Yang Hong, the magistrate of Du'an County, is familiar with it. The Yang family was originally in Liu Yan's time, and the ranking was still before your Chen family. However, the Yang family was not as good as your cousin Chen's family, and the situation was not as good as your cousin Chen's family. When Liu Bei came, the zodiac was down, and only the other branch Yang Hong was left."

Chen Jian was a little alert: "Why did you bring such a person in? It is true that Yang Hong was excluded by Liu Bei, but in April, he opposed the new law and proposed amendment opinions and was accepted by Liu Bei. Wasn't he just awarded the position of county magistrate? He was not a spy!"

Gong Yang thought about the benefits that Yang Hong gave him when he begged him to "bring his brothers to get a vote" the day before yesterday. He felt warm and continued to say a few good words to Yang Hong:

"He wouldn't be grateful to Liu Bei - put his heart in mind, Chief Chen, your Chen family is not worse than Liu Yan's time at the hands of Liu Bei? But don't you still want to oppose this new law for the long-term benefit. What's more, Yang Hong was beaten by Liu Bei and gave a little date. If Liu Yan was still there, their Yang family would not only have a county magistrate! It's also a county magistrate in Qingcheng Mountain. Let him tell you in person, just think about it."

Chen Jian thought about it and it made some sense: Why can't Yang Hong be so ungrateful? Even if Yang Hong joins forces with them, Yang Hong's character in this matter is still much more conscientious than Chen Jian.

People who have no moral integrity are always more likely to believe that others are also greedy and have no moral integrity.

"Since that's the case, bring him in. The rest of you will retreat first, and I will explore Yang Hong's bottom."

Zhuti and his fellow travelers from Ba County quietly retreated to the back hall, and Yang Hong was quickly brought in.

Chen Jian looked up and down, instead of asking about the motivation first, he asked about the specific operation: "Mr. Yang, please sit down, I won't say too much. Brother, I'm just a little tight and a little short of food recently. I wonder if there is any way for Brother Yang to solve it?"

Chen Jian’s plan is: I don’t say what this grain is going to do, we just say I’m short of food. You can handle it and then talk about it, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

Yang Hong was a little uncomfortable. He was polite with him for a long time and had a condom relationship, and then suddenly said: "This year's harvest is so good and the food prices are sluggish. Will Brother Chen's family still lack food? It's really incredible. Please help me solve my doubts."

Chen Jian made a few words, then avoided the question and asked: "Isn't this a good person in the school exam? If it can't be solved, there is nothing else to say. Don't worry about how I lack food."

How else can I shortage food? Of course, it is because I hold a lot of money but can't go out to flower ceremonies for the time being.

Yang Hong didn't think about it: "That's not easy? But if you lack food or money, you can give me money, brocade, salt and iron, all, I'll buy you grain."

Chen Jian's face turned dark: Isn't this nonsense? If you sell Jin or give money to you, what if you are Li Su's spy and Jin appears in the market again, wouldn't we be so angry that we vomit blood?

But I couldn't say this, Chen Jian could only bite him to death and said, "Brother, I don't have money or broth. You don't know how expensive the broth is this year, and you don't know who bought it. There is some salt and iron."

The reason why Chen Jian said this is because salt and iron cannot be used for people to pay taxes, so it cannot destroy their blocking effect on the renting and mediocre adjustment method.

Yang Hong: "That depends on how much salt and iron you have, and how much food I have for you."

Chen Jian: "Too young! Brother, if you want to follow us, for the sake of my Mianzhu Lou family and the He family in Pi County, we will have hundreds of thousands of stones of grain on credit, so we will bring you one!"

If Yang Hong really gave him hundreds of thousands of stones in vain, there was no need to doubt Yang Hong's sincerity, and the world would not do this.

Yang Hong smiled: "Brother Chen, you think too much of your Chen family's face. Our Yang family was once a major scholar of Shu Confucianism, and they also had a lot of food to store. If you rely on your face, you have to borrow so much. It's so whimsical.

You can also ask for food, and use the land deed to pay for it - do you have no grain and have land deeds? During the famine, people are young and yellow, and they don’t need to borrow food. Do you also ask them to mortgage the land? If they can’t pay back the famine for many years, they will merge the land acres of people. We are all veterans."

Yang Hong's words reminded Chen Jian that he seemed to be able to do this. Of course, Yang Hong said so ruthlessly and concisely, he didn't have to mortgage the farm for her to borrow grain, but he could also find other big players who were not originally from the alliance to come in and work together and mortgage them together.

Chen Jiansi thought about it: "If we want us to mortgage the farm to you, it's okay, but you have to show sincerity and do it like us first..."

Yang Hong: "What should I do?"

Chen Jian: "That's it..."

Yang Hong really followed his plan, showing his sincerity to "hoard and hype with Chen Jian, He Zong and others". He personally sold a lot of grain at a low price and bought a lot of Shu brocade.

After gradually gaining the trust of Chen Jian and others, Chen Jian and others' ideas became lively.

As the investment increases and the bets grow, once they do not bet, they will definitely not be able to afford it. The grain storage chips on hand are getting smaller and smaller, and the rich and rich friends who can borrow grain for free are gradually not enough. They finally remembered Yang Hong's idea and began to mortgage the land and increase leverage.
To be continued...