16th September in the lunar calendar, 17th October in the solar calendar.
It drizzled for half an hour in the morning in Luoyang, and the temperature dropped to -10 degrees Celsius.
By noon, the temperature had returned to 23 or 24 degrees Celsius.
The train continued to run, bringing the people from the capital office to Luoyang.
Other supplies were sent to Luoyang by Chang 'an, including pigs that were so hungry that they had to be raised in Luoyang. When they got on the train, they had to excrete first. Otherwise …
Luoyang's grain products had increased by 0.2% in the past few days. Originally, a thousand people could eat their fill with the same amount of money, but now, two of them had to starve.
The Li Family Zhuangzi on the mountain said that it would increase by 0.1% at most. If it exceeded this amount, the wholesalers would have to reconsider.
The commoners did not increase the price of grain, but how would the retail price increase by 0.2% be handled?
How would they take out two plates of rice out of a thousand plates?
The retailers would bear the loss of 0.2%. The Ministry of Revenue bought a bunch of soap from the Li Family Zhuangzi and gave it to the retailers as a subsidy.
When the Li Family Zhuangzi's words were released, the wholesalers directly increased the price by 0.1% and did not move.
The 0.3% you mentioned, I will stop here.
The commoners who sold poultry and eggs got a bargain. The price did not increase, and the profits from eggs increased.
Originally, they could not sell them. There were too many fresh eggs, so they could only marinate them into salted and mutated eggs.
The price of salted and mutated eggs was lower than that of fresh eggs, so they were shipped out in batches.
As the population increased from all over, the locals did not need to sell other eggs. They directly sold fresh eggs, saving time and materials for marinating.
The eggs that were made into dried chicken, dried duck, and dried goose were still sold fresh.
The newly arrived commoners registered first and were directly arranged to stay outside Luoyang Palace.
Some houses had already been built. When the commoners arrived, they lived there first and immediately helped to build other houses.
It was located north of Luoyang Palace, an area dozens of miles away from the Yellow River. The Li Family Zhuangzi bought the land.
In addition, the land south of Luoyang Palace was bought by the Li Family Zhuangzi.
It was time to eat on the mountain again. Only at this time could everyone gather together and talk.
Li Yi actually wanted to hide in his courtyard to eat and not come out. Once he came out, all kinds of things would happen.
Then, he was dragged out of the restaurant by Bi Goo, who had just washed his teeth. He looked like he had nothing left to live for.
"Old Bi, take it easy, don't stretch your muscles and bones. There's no problem with your teeth, so you don't need to get a new one. "
Li Yi was afraid that he would knock Bi Goo down, so he followed him.
"What does it have to do with Ya? It's price control. "
Bi Goo loosened his grip slightly and brought Li Yi to sit in the middle of the group.
Everyone was waiting for Li Yi because they had questions to ask.
Princess Yongmu was there. She had prepared a meal for Li Yi and placed a plate on the table.
Li Yi looked at Xiaolan, who was standing behind Princess Yongmu. "Bring out the dishes! Do you think you'll be full just standing there? "
Xiao Lan nodded and lowered her head to get the tray.
"She wouldn't go when I told her to." Princess Yongmu muttered.
Li Yi picked up his chopsticks and didn't pick up anything as he looked at everyone.
Everyone picked up their chopsticks and similarly didn't eat. Su Yi was the first to speak, "The capital's price control is a few percent. Why did it become a few thousandths in Luoyang?"
"The capital's price control is the range, while Luoyang's price control is the rules.
With the increase of the foreign population, the price of local goods should increase, especially food.
Earlier this year, it was mentioned that Luoyang was coming, and the grain merchants around Luoyang had long stocked up on food.
If I don't allow them to increase the price, let's see who dares to go against the wind?
Once they understand the rules and settle the foreign population, the price will be allowed to fluctuate like the capital's. "
Li Yi made his intentions clear. He had come to suppress the local powers. After all, who had the final say in the Tang dynasty?
Rather than being gentle and waiting for others to cause trouble, it was better to suppress them directly.
Waiting for trouble before making a move was a political move. He wanted to kill people to establish his authority.
When trouble arose, the common people would suffer. Li Yi had the common people in his eyes and wasn't willing to do that.
He wasn't prepared to uproot the large clans. Those with more capital proved that they were capable, so he could use them.
"Brother Yi, you're truly magnanimous." Li Longji understood everything.
"Xiao Yi, those who hoard food will suffer losses. The purchase price of large quantities of food is high, and there will be losses in storage. There will also be expenses to hire people."
Lu Huaishen reminded Li Yi. If you suppress them like this, others will lose money and will be resentful.
"In the past, the poultry feathers in Henan were basically used as fertilizer and feather dusters.
The capital's feathers are used to make down jackets, while Henan needs a large number of workshops.
If anyone wants to invest, the workshops will be given out.
There will be rough processing, deep processing, raw materials acquisition, etc.
An industrial chain will be formed, but loans are not allowed. Those with less capital will be excluded. "
Li Yi turned around to give benefits. The large clans and merchants had to play a role.
"Why can't we borrow money?" Liu Youqiu had already drunk a mouthful of soup and asked.
Li Yi took a deep breath. Before he could say anything, Bi Goo interrupted, "It's easy to have the risk of triangular debt. If we blindly expand the scale of production, we will not be able to repay the upstream suppliers. And the upstream suppliers …"
Bi Goo explained the situation of the triangular debt. He knew that Li Yi was going to say that Liu Youqiu should read books.
Liu Youqiu sighed. There were too many books. He couldn't read them all.
Song Jing understood this very well. "Instead of forming a triangular debt and then dealing with it, it's better to solve the problem directly from the root."
Su Yi echoed, "When investing in unfamiliar industries, try to adapt, familiarize, and master as much as possible. Then, adjust the scale of production."
Zhang Jiuling nodded. "It involves the borrower's interest recovery cycle and method, as well as the borrower's capital return cycle and method."
"Therefore, we should focus on stability. We should not have a debt-based business model. Let's eat! "Li Longji concluded.
Li Yi was in a good mood. The future of the Tang dynasty was promising.
Look at these ministers. The bank had not opened yet, but they were already thinking about the problems that might arise in the future.
Before the financial activities were officially launched, the law should be perfected first.
At that moment, if a smart person wanted to exploit loopholes, he would suddenly find that all the loopholes had been blocked. Everything that he didn't think of was blocked.
He ate in peace. From time to time, he would interact with Princess Yongmu and feed her a mouthful of food.
… …
The newly arrived people were eating stew. It was too tiring to cook with a big pot of rice.
Duck and chicken stew were stewed. Children were given boiled eggs.
There were less vegetables in the stew and more soup. Fortunately, the soup was thick enough. Chicken oil and duck oil were stewed in.
The staple food was long-grain rice cooked in a big stove. Wherever long-grain rice was cooked, the Li Family Zhuangzi would send people to buy rice crust.
They exchanged long-grain rice for it in a one-to-one exchange.
The children ate eggs in small bites. Unlike Li Yi's children who didn't like to eat yolks, eggs were good things for the people of the Tang dynasty.
The newly arrived people had free meals for the first three days. After that, they had to pay.
Usually, on the first day, they would register, find a place to settle down, rest, and be tired from traveling.
On the second day, they would see what work they could do and go home to think about it.
On the third day, they would start work and get paid on the same day.
On the fourth day, they would start to pay for their meals. However, it was not expensive. Overall, the food provided to the foreigners before the New Year was at cost price plus 10% profit.
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