Before Li Xun came to Henan, he had a very bad impression of Liu Yibo. In Li Xun's opinion, this is a tyrant businessman who took advantage of natural disasters and man-made disasters to hoard food and grass, buy low and sell high, raise prices, and disrupt people and country. He is simply a complete bastard. He should be killed and damned.

However, after visiting some places in Henan, Li Xun was surprised to find that Liu Yibo was actually a great philanthropist and had a very good reputation in Henan. He was spread all over the grain shops in Henan Province. The grain price may still be high in the eyes of many people, but in terms of the overall price of Henan, it is the lowest, with a dou of rice worth only 200 cents. Compared with those who often dou of rice worth 500 cents, one tael of silver is indeed very cheap.

Liu Yibo is undoubtedly very successful in business. After decades of hard work, he has grown his business step by step and finally became the most powerful rich in Henan. His ups and downs and legends of his life are talked about by many people. As for being a human being, he is also very successful in supporting the elderly, building academies, and studying for the poor for free. He is highly praised and respected by the people in the local area.

Li Xun specially summoned Liu Yibo three days ago, and the two had a deep conversation.

Liu Yibo told Li Xun that he started out as a businessman and became famous for his business. He has been doing business for decades. His business has reached its current scale, which is not only about grain transactions, but also many other more profitable transactions. Because of this, he never hoarded grain or merged land, because in Liu Yibo's view, the money earned by business is already very huge and there is no need at all.

Liu Yibo was very frank with Li Xun. He told Li Xun that the reason why the food prices in Henan Road remained high was that in the sixth year of Chengping, natural disasters and grain shortages began to break out in Henan. In order to stabilize grain prices, the court forced the market to intervene in the market and ordered the major grain merchants in Henan to sell no more than 100 mu of rice. The consequences of doing so not only did not calm down and reduce the grain prices, but instead resulted in the price loss. Grain merchants were unprofitable and simply refused to sell. The market was short of grain, and you could not buy it even if you had money. What price control would be discussed?

Liu Yibo pointed out a clear way for Li Xun, that is, abolish price control and completely relax. Once price control is relaxed, major grain merchants will take out the grain in their hands to sell it. At the beginning, the price may be relatively expensive. For example, if you buy it for 500 yuan in rice, you will first buy it for tens of thousands of yuan. In order to make money, other grain merchants will definitely lower the price, and then you will buy it for this cycle. If the major grains continue to make money, they will definitely lower the price one after another. In the end, the price of grain does not require you to do anything, and will slowly drop it.

Liu Yibo did some calculations for Li Xun, and took him as an example. He bought grain from various places. For cheaper ones, such as the Jiangnan region, the rice was only ten cents, and the rice was a little more expensive, such as the Lingnan region, and even the Southeastern countries such as Zhanpo, the rice was no more than thirty cents.

Liu Yibo had reached an agreement with Wang Shaoqun earlier, with a limit of 200 rice. We will sell you as much as you want to buy. The purchase price is 10 cents and 200 cents are sold. It seems that the price has been reduced a lot, but it is still a few dozen times the profit, and it is still a huge profit. Liu Yibo brought this to other grain merchants in Henan and immediately received the approval of everyone. The entire grain merchant group in Henan is willing to trade at this price.

Li Xun asked about this. Wang Shaoqun had 700,000 taels of silver. He calculated based on 200 meter of rice. He could only buy 350,000 dan grains, but still could not completely solve the disaster in Henan. In response, Liu Yibo laughed and said, "Only with competition, there will be fairness, and there will be low-quality goods. As for the same sentence, you can let go of the materials first. With the circulation of materials, there will be room for change. There are hundreds of grain merchants in Henan Road. You can't just put everyone's grain at once.

All the food is bought. If you buy the grain of several of the merchants first, the others will have to wait in line behind. Wang Shaoqun only has a little money in his hand, so it is impossible to take all of it into consideration. In order to make money and to be able to jump into the line, he has only one way, which is to reduce the price. The purchase price is only ten or thirty cents. Even if I lower the price a little and sell you for 100 cents, I will still have a few times the profit, and I will still make a lot of money.

Liu Yibo finally told Li Xun that this matter was going to be done. He was willing to secretly take out 300,000 dan grains and sell them all to Li Xun for 30 cents of rice. It would be fine on credit. It was his little intention for the many disaster victims in Henan.

After hearing what Liu Yibo said, Li Xun suddenly realized that it was like controlling a river. You just thought about blocking it, but the harm will be even greater in the future. Only unblocking is the best way. The court issued an order, which seemed to control the price of grain in Henan Road, but in fact it completely blocked the entire grain market. There was no large amount of grain circulation in the market, and you could not buy food even if you had money, so what else to talk about?

The conversation between Li Xun and Liu Yibo also made Li Xun understand more. Although Liu Yibo did not mention it, Li Xun had already thought that the reason why the food crisis in Henan Province was getting worse and worse was not because of their grain merchants. As merchants, it was normal for them to raise prices during natural disasters, but they would never ask for prices everywhere, which would force both sides to death. Especially for the sake of good intentions like Liu Yibo, they would not just sit back and watch countless people starve to death. The deep reason was that local wealthy families and officials, both hands, levies and greed, forced Liu Yibo and other merchants to follow them and ignore the lives of the people at all. The intentions of these people are the most hateful.

Chen Peng said: "Xie Zhicheng not only killed Liu Yibo, but also confiscated his home and all his property. Liu Yibo's sons may bring people to cause trouble today."

Li Xun asked, "In what name did Xie Zhicheng kill Liu Yibo?"

"Transport bandits, win over people's hearts, and make ill-gotten plans."

Chen Peng explained.

Three days ago, after Li Xun talked with Liu Yibo, Li Xun told Liu Yibo that he hoped that you grain merchants could give alms to the people with kindness and do their best for the people of the world. Liu Yibo immediately expressed his willingness to donate 100,000 dan grain to Li Xun. After taking out 100,000 dan grain to provide disaster relief to the people, Li Xun was very happy at the time and praised Liu Yibo's righteous deeds.

Who would have thought that yesterday, within the scope of Liu Yibo's charity and disaster relief, hundreds of victims gathered to fight because of trivial matters. The matter was not too big, and a few people died. However, Caozhou Governor Xie Zhicheng made a big deal and classified this matter as a riot in the intention of gathering the crowd. He pressed Liu Yibo on the head. The sentence was made that day, and he killed Liu Yibo in the evening. The next day, he ordered people to start queuing Liu Yibo's home and industries in various places.
Chapter completed!