Chapter 472: No talks will be made when garlic price increases (Part 2)

"This year, the county is fine. In winter, according to the village, each village has a boiler room, and every family uses heating. The village with a small population is asked to move out and build a large house outside.

In winter, off-season vegetables are not as popular as before. The main reason is that more and more people can grow them now. The major tax payers are still in the docks. The river channel has expanded to both sides. The shrimp and fish fry I have specially found are placed in the middle to raise them. The net is stuck every other section of the road. I started raising them last year and will get a harvest this year.

Before the Chinese New Year, two pavilions were crushed by heavy snow. The person in charge of the maintenance was arrested. It was so hanged but it was not crushed to death. This matter was never tolerated. The children in the school drank soy milk for 45 days in a row due to inconvenience in the road. The day before yesterday, they returned to fresh milk. The roasted chicken and duck sold in your farm have become the signboard of the county and paid a lot of taxes last year.

It was snowing heavily last year, and this year's Kaihua probably had some impact. I was worried that the water would be washed ashore at the turn of the river, so I sent someone to reinforce it. The poultry farm has done the work of blocking and preventing diseases. There are more than 450,000 chickens and ducks..."

County Magistrate Lu followed Zhang Xiaobao and reported to Zhang Xiaobao as many people as possible. Zhang Xiaobao also occasionally asked a few questions. Whenever he asked, County Magistrate Lu must have a smooth answer.

The group of people who followed the Turks were surprised and envious as they listened to it. Que Teqin had heard Mojilian's introduction to Sanshui County. It was almost unreliable at that time. It was so amazing. How could a county develop better than the previous state?

Now that I have heard and witnessed it, I realized that Mojilian has said less. I was even more envious of the detailed data introduction of County Magistrate Lu. If there were such a capable person in his clan, why would he be so dead by the Great Tangka a few years ago?

Zhang Xiaobao was quite satisfied with the hearing and praised the county magistrate Lu, which was considered to recognize his position as the county magistrate, otherwise he would take it down immediately with just one sentence.

Xiao Bei also served as the county magistrate, and was in the same journey as the county magistrate Lu, nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work in County Lu, you are better than when I was in Jian'an County."

"I dare not take it, but I dare not take it. It is all supported by people in the county. If a decision in the county is made that is beneficial to the county, a small number of people would rather suffer losses than firmly support it.

For example, in the autumn of last year, the medicinal materials were missing, so I planned to choose a place with fertile land in the county to grow medicine. At that time, Lianghetan Village was selected. There were two rivers passing by, and the land was strong. This proposal just came out. There was 115 households and 720 people in the entire village, and there was no more complaint. The village was moved within three days. Without their efforts, there would be no today in Sanshui County."

County Magistrate Lu quickly was modest. Although Xiao Bei was not old, he dared not underestimate him.

"Is it okay in water transportation?" Zhang Xiaobao asked casually.

"It's similar to the past, but the number of lunch boxes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait has been sold less. Since the canned food, many people from other places don't like to eat box lunches in the county style, so they bring their own cans. This year, I plan to recruit some chefs from other places and expand the service station a little so that everyone can find the food they like."

County Magistrate Lu answered immediately without hesitation.

"What about salt and oil?" Zhang Xiaobao was not as surprised as Mojilian and others, who was as surprised that County Magistrate Lu was familiar with the affairs of the county. For him, it was very common for him to know these things, but it was not common for him to be a county magistrate in Sanshui County. He must have the ability to be a county magistrate. He asked about daily necessities again.

"The price of salt has dropped slightly, mainly because there are more places to dry salt, and the manufacturing of ships is more advanced. The profit of selling salt remains unchanged. The volume increases by 20%, and the price drops by 20%. In terms of oil, the prices of soybean oil and rapeseed oil have increased slightly.

One is that more livestock are raised, and more meat oil is also there, making locals prefer to eat meat oil. The other is that places south of the Yellow River like to eat vegetarian oil, and most of them are transported and sold there, and taxes are increasing."

"It's better to eat vegetarian oil as much as possible. When you go back and write a notice, you say that eating too much meat oil is not good for your health. It's not good. You should say that meat oil can be made of wax and leave more part of it. Try to sell it to areas with less meat oil to reduce the price of vegetarian oil."

Zhang Xiaobao was afraid that more people would eat meat oil, and more people would suffer from cardiovascular diseases. He wanted to propose it in the county, but he was worried that because of his own words, vegetarian oil would have a market and the price would be pushed to a higher level, so he could only detour.

County Magistrate Lu nodded repeatedly, "Okay, I've written it down. Let's talk about it. After the beginning of spring this year, the price of garlic has increased a lot, and it has doubled as usual. Should I find a good place to plant more and more?"

"Has the garlic risen? How did it rise? Did I ask if it rose once or it rose slightly?" Wang Juan, who had not spoken aside, suddenly asked.

Zhang Xiaobao also wanted to know that he understood that people like to eat garlic at this time. Many people first asked if there was garlic when they went to a restaurant. If there was, they would go in and eat it. Without turning around, they would leave. They said that garlic and meat were chewed together. He didn't think so, but he just knew that eating sausages would taste good.

County Magistrate Lu thought about it and replied: "The price rose twice. The first time was just after the Chinese New Year, the price rose by 30%. The price rose by a few days ago. The price rose by twice the original level. It was said that the place with a lot of garlic was bought by a large merchant, and it was probably going to rise.

The people in Sanshui County are still relatively stable and there is no rush to buy. I heard that garlic in other places has increased even more violently. As long as garlic comes out, it will be sold out immediately. I don’t know what happened. I always feel that someone is doing this on purpose, but can’t figure out a solution.”

Zhang Xiaobao nodded, "Mr. Lu is here to go and watch as he walks, so I won't bother Lu."

County Magistrate Lu obediently gave up to the side. After Zhang Xiaobao and his party walked away, they raised their sleeves and wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and said to the yamen runners who were following him: "I'm so scared. Thanks to my never relaxing, the young master of the Zhang family is really amazing. Even a lot of data errors can be found. If you really spend the data at will, he will definitely find out the problem. It feels like he has never left the county."

The yamen runners also looked admiring, and they still acted as yamen runners and became the new captain Song Yang smiled and said, "Sir, Mr. Zhang is naturally extraordinary. You must know that Sanshui County was able to transform from Zhongxian to Shangxian. Many people say that it was promoted by Mr. Zhang. At that time, he even promoted eight hands, and there was no expert in his family. Sanshui County was the foundation of their family, so how could he not be dedicated? People say he is a little god."

Wang Juan didn't know that someone was circulating her and Zhang Xiaobao behind his back. At this time, he lowered his head and thought about things. Until the road ahead suddenly widened and the sound of running water came, he found a small river. He woke up and asked Zhang Xiaobao: "Is anyone deliberately making garlic high the price?"

"It's probably." Zhang Xiaobao replied.

"What should I do? What I fear most is this kind of thing. Even if I have a solution, the real leader will run away. Only some people who follow the frying will be in trouble. At that time, the garlic has turned at least three times. Should I give up the next order? Anyone who stocks up on the garlic will be arrested?"

Wang Juan thought of her that time, from a hundred years ago to the time when she and Zhang Xiaobao came over, and there was no good idea about such things, and she was worried.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, "Why should I catch people? Garlic is not a must-have for life, unlike grain, oil and salt. I know that you remember the past, and at that time, you knew in your heart that the big heads were all the elders who were officials in Beijing or had been officials. Not to mention stir-frying garlic, even if it was stir-frying something more important, who could do what they could do?"

"I don't talk about the things at that time, I just talk about the fact that there are many people who love to eat garlic, so why isn't it necessary to taste it? Today they fry garlic, and if you don't stop them, they will fry something else tomorrow. Even if they make up their minds to deal with it in the end, many people will suffer losses. No, I will write a letter to Beijing and tell Li Longji."

Wang Juan seemed very anxious. She understood that this was not just a matter of the price of garlic. If she didn't handle it well, it would reduce the people's trust in the court. She wanted to get into the car and write a letter as she said something.

Zhang Xiaobao reached out and grabbed it and said, "Do you really want to use administrative orders to solve economic problems? Didn't you say that unless you have to, otherwise you won't do this. The administrative orders are easy to use, but there are many disadvantages, which will make the other party feel that the court is incompetent and continue to find loopholes to attack.

Although political economy is a kind of science that is united, it cannot be used like this. If buying garlic is also a hoarding thing, then what to buy ginger? What to buy onion? How to position it? Are you not afraid of ordering it, and local officials take this opportunity to get the benefits as they wish?

I tell you this, if I were a businessman, if you gave the order, if it was to crack down on garlic hoarding, I would immediately change it to something else. If you directly talked about cracking down on hoarding, then local officials might be arrested by merchants. Merchants will inevitably have inventory when doing business. Is it considered hoarding?"

"What about the interview? Find them together to discuss, scare them, and give them benefits, so that they don't be so greedy." Wang Juan thought of another way.

"They want to make a million yuan. After you meet up, even if they scare them, they will make less money. They will not speak out and endure it. When the garlic comes down next year, they will not collect garlic and try hard to lower the price. Every line has rules. Who dares to reach out to collect it casually? What should people who grow garlic then do? Such things will rebound.

Then do you come to the conversation again? Don’t you feel embarrassed? People ask you, what does it mean? It’s not okay to sell high or low, so how good is it to send officials to do business? What price does your court say is what price, and what consequences do you think will be?"

Zhang Xiaobao analyzed Wang Juan and asked back.

Wang Juan held back his anger and thought, "It will become a pure planned economy. At that time, those who farm are not motivated and there will be problems in business. After all, people who have good economic development usually do not become officials. Those who can become officials need to put more energy into the officialdom, which is even more chaotic at that time.

Just like without us coming, there would be a salt tax in the Tang Dynasty, which would make the price of salt more and more high. What should we do? Should we cooperate with our business?"

"It is best to solve economic problems by using economic means. I cooperate with them? I asked them to have a conversation? I gave them a face. Isn't it just that the price of garlic increases? I asked them to raise the price, and I will try to investigate them back. Whoever wins the lead will make them unable to move forward in the future."

Zhang Xiaobao scoffed at such a compromise and said contemptuously.

Wang Juan smiled and hugged Zhang Xiaobao's arm. "I knew Xiaobao, you have a solution. If you just happened, you will come up with a trick to deal with it. I'll tell you how to do it immediately."

"No hurry, let's go to the county town to rest. I won't let them have a good time. Let's confirm it first. If the situation is not as we said, the solution I came up with is useless."

"Why isn't it? There was no news that there was a major disaster in which garlic produced. The sudden price change was so large that there was no ghost. Should I collect garlic from other places and transport it to sell it?"

"It's not OK to collect garlic from wherever you want. As long as you collect it, the price will inevitably increase in that place. Do you think that steaming eggplant and mixing with sauce is better than just stir-frying?"

"Each has its own flavor, what does it have to do with eggplant?"

"It's okay. Today I'm going to steam eggplant. When there are too many potatoes in the future, steam them as well. Mix them together and eat them. Just drool when you think about it."

"What's the solution?"

"Let's talk about it when you go back."

Zhang Xiaobao and his party walked towards the county town of Sanshui County, until the night of the lights, and they didn't reach the county town. They had just arrived at the river connecting to the capital.

Because the people of Sanshui County are rich, every family lives in a second-story house, and the demand for other aspects is also high. Countless street lights are set up on both sides of the river. The entire Tang Dynasty, in addition to Luzhou and Beijing, is also Sanshui County.

The light of the street light is not very stable, it is light and dark. When the hydroelectric generator placed next to the river turns quickly, the street light will light up. If it turns slowly, it will naturally become dark.

Even so, Que Teqin and others were scared. Looking at the caravans walking on the shore with street lights in the night, watching the people who couldn't sleep came over with shrimp cages to catch shrimps. More than 70 people thought they were no longer in the mortal world.

"This is what I said about the street lights I saw in the capital at that time." Mo Jilian's eyes walked down the river, and was fascinated by the gorgeous colors on both sides of the river, and introduced the same stupid Que Teqin.

"I wonder if my tribe can have the same thing? There is light. I think it's because the wolf dare not attack the sheep pen easily at night, right?" Que Teqin was envious, and at the same time knew the gap between his clan and the people of the Tang Dynasty. In his tribe, it seems more luxurious to light the lights when using oil lamps.

How comfortable it would be to not sleep at night in summer? I would have gone out for a walk? Well, just like what is happening in the pavilion not far away now.

Mojilian also saw the pavilion, which contained a few children. They didn't bother to be cold and ate in the pavilion that was airtight on all sides. A gust of wind blew from there, and the smell of fried food and barbecue floated down. He sighed and said, "Don't think too much, my tribe is gone."
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