Chapter 765 The problem of regulation
When the boat arrived in Guangzhou Bay, Sun Xiangfu felt at home.
What surprised him was that Li Tai actually greeted him on the pier. Normally, he would not leave Chang'an as a deputy prime minister.
"Teacher, you have worked hard all the way." Li Tai, who was getting fatter and fatter, actually bowed down to salute Sun Xiangfu when he saw Sun Xiangfu stepping off the boat, which surprised Sun Xiangfu.
"You are the prince, and you have the official position of deputy prime minister. You are still above me, so you don't need to pay me such a big gift." Sun Xiangfu helped Li Tai, who had some difficulty standing up straight, and said.
After Li Tai raised his head, he smiled and said, "No matter where you are, you will always be your student. When you see you, you should do the teacher's salute. Teacher, please get in the car. I'm already in the mansion in the city." Prepare a sumptuous banquet."
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu glanced at Li Tai's body and said, "The banquet, we can just eat, you'd better eat less and exercise more."
Li Tai in history did not live long. Even after Li Zhi ascended the throne, he was given preferential treatment, but he died after only two or three years. He was only 32 years old when he died. It has something to do with a physique of more than 200 kilograms.
"What Master Sun taught is, but, hey! My body is like this now! Even if I don't eat anything, I will try my best to grow meat. Daoist Sun said that it is a disease of spleen deficiency. I took a lot of medicine, but it has no effect. , from now on, I'm afraid it can only be like this." Li Tai said helplessly.
To say that more than ten years ago, he still had some ideas about the position of the prince, but now, he only wants to do more things for this country, so as to save his wife and children a good life.
Because, knowing more and more about medical knowledge, he knows that he may not be able to survive his brothers, and even his father Li Shimin, so what's the point of fighting for those things!
Sun Xiangfu followed Li Tai into a big car parked at the crossing of the pier. It is not known whether this car is the third or fourth generation of the car factory. It uses a steam engine and is made like a bus. Similarly, the interior has the same decoration as the guest room. Presumably, the shuttle bus in Chang'an is also made of the same frame, but the interior decoration is different.
After sitting in the car, Sun Xiangfu thought of the previous question, and said, "Are you here for business in Lingnan?"
Hearing this, Li Tai's eyes dodged for a while, and he also aimed at Sun Jing and Sun Feng who were also in the carriage, and then said in a somewhat unnatural tone, "Yes, it's business, but the main thing is to pick you up. By the way, I want to ask you something."
"Why is there such a hurry? I will arrive in Chang'an in a few days, and you came here to ask?" Sun Xiangfu looked at Li Taidao suspiciously.
Li Tai's eyeballs rolled around, and he didn't know what he was thinking. In the end, he seemed to think of something to say, and said, "There is something urgent, late, and I'm afraid that something unexpected will happen. So, my father sent me to ask you."
"Then you can speak directly! If I have a way here, you may be able to notify His Majesty sooner by passing the letter." Seeing what Li Tai said, Sun Xiangfu straightened his face.
Li Tai said what he thought of, "It's like this, since the Byzantine Empire and the Great Food Empire were taken down by us, the people of the world know that from now on, the days of war will be gone forever up.
Therefore, our Tang Dynasty no longer needs so much grain or strategic materials. Now everyone is selling the grain in their hands, causing the price to fall again and again, and it has already fallen below the protective price set by the court more than ten years ago. However, there are still a lot of grains on the market that are competing to sell. If this situation continues, the income of the farmers who are farming may be greatly reduced, which will not be able to meet their daily consumption. "
"The cessation of the war will allow more people to recuperate. With our current grain production, it is more than enough to feed everyone. The price of grain will indeed drop. This needs to be changed through some macro-control after statistics.
You should know that grain can be transformed into many other commodities, and if its price falls, the prices of these things transformed from it will also drop.
First of all, people can raise more chickens, ducks and livestock with less cost, and introduce more meat with better taste and higher price to the market. Then, as there are more meat in the market, its price will increase. It will also fall, and the related products of these chickens, ducks and livestock will also start to fall as a whole. The prices of drinks and snacks, which use grain as the main raw material, will even drop sharply. This is like a biological chain cycle. , will affect all levels.
Therefore, the income of farmers has decreased, and their expenditure will actually decrease somewhat. But to a certain extent, the income of farmers may be lower than that of other classes in this process. How to formulate the profit level of each industry so that each The interests of the class, to maintain a balance, is the macro-control.
What kind of ratio is appropriate specifically requires statistical data to analyze the relationship between output and supply..."
"Teacher, wait a minute. I don't quite understand these things. Is this a new theory of yours?" Li Tai said with dizzy eyes.
Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "Not really, in fact, this is an enhanced version of the imperial government's previous regulations on what crops the common people can grow and how much wine they can brew in a year.
What the country needs, increase output on the demand side.
What the country has excess, cuts excess output.
When the supply and demand are balanced, all prices will stabilize. Before the Byzantine Empire, before the war with the Persians, their population and output have always been stable, and their prices have also been stable for hundreds of years. This is the reason .
The problem now is that the common people know that there is a lot of grain in the market, and they can’t sell it for money. They may swarm to plant other crops next year. A certain reserve must be made, and there must be some rigid management regulations for the cultivation of farmland. Each place must have statistics and long-term development plans for how many grain fields must be planted according to the population. "
Using this simpler way to explain, Li Tai immediately understood that the market is as big as Datang, and it is difficult for any hoarding to affect the price of the entire country. The price fluctuations are generally due to the imbalance between supply and demand in the market. As a result, the people who grow grain, a few years ago, because the imperial court wanted to export a large amount of grain to the Western Regions, they sold the grain at a high price and made money. Now, after the war is over, the local people start to produce their own grain, and their grain is backlogged in their hands On the other hand, it is normal to suffer some losses.
Even in later generations, prices will continue to fluctuate according to the relationship between supply and demand. Some people planted a large area of cotton just in time for a good cotton harvest, but they couldn’t sell it at a good price, or just in time for a big cotton shortage and price increases. In the beginning of the year, a lot of cotton was planted and sold at a good price, which is normal.
In the Jinghu area where Sun Xiangfu’s later generations lived, many farmers changed the unprofitable rice fields into lotus seed fields. At the beginning, few people planted them, and the lotus seeds they planted could sell for more than ten yuan a catty. Farmers made a fortune.
But later, people in the whole area flocked to plant lotus seeds, and some even planted hundreds of thousands of acres of paddy fields. As a result, the output was too large, the market demand was saturated, no one wanted the things they planted, and the price kept falling, which caused them to grow lotus seeds. Losing money, this is a common thing.
But now, the whole world is unified, and there are no uncertain external factors. As long as the country counts the planting area, output, and market demand of all crops, and makes a certain plan, it will be able to keep the price of goods for a long time. The domestic market is stable, unless there is a huge natural disaster that messes up the supply and demand relationship in the market.
Seeing that Li Tai entered a state of contemplation after listening to his words, Sun Xiangfu stopped talking to him. It is so difficult to get statistics in such a big country. Even in later generations, with the assistance of computers, many professionals It may not be possible to calculate global data in this area in a short period of time. Therefore, we can only use a small place to roughly measure the approximate level of the whole country, and it is good to ensure that there are not too many.
Soon, the carriage arrived at the Palace of the King of Yue in Guangzhou. Now, Li Tai has been renamed the King of Yue by Li Shimin. This mansion was actually rebuilt on the site of the palace that Feng An had built for Li Shimin.
Now, Guangzhou City is already the southern capital, and the scale of the palace is not so small. In addition to various luxurious accommodation areas, there is also a super-large government affairs hall, even if it is not smaller than the Taiji Palace back then. During Li Shimin's winter, Maybe I will go south by boat and stay for ten days and a half months to get in touch with the people in Lingnan. Anyway, now that there are steamships, the travel is relatively fast.
Ah Yue greeted Sun Xiangfu at the gate of the palace. She is still pregnant with a child, and beside her, there are a son and a daughter. The eldest son is six or seven years old, and the youngest daughter is three or four years old. She is a bit fat Dudu, like Li Tai.
"If you have such a big belly, don't come out and get tired. Does such a big Wei Palace still need you, a pregnant woman, to come out and do the work of welcoming guests?" Yue lifted herself up and smiled.
At this time, she, who had already given birth to two children, had a lot of maternal brilliance on her face, and when Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, there was a burst of light from Sun Jing, Sun Feng, and Sun Xun. laugh.
Sun Xiangfu turned his head and looked at them in surprise, and then, Li Tai, who felt very shameless, insisted on taking a few steps faster with his thick legs, and rushed into the living room of the palace, because he knew that Sun Jing and the others were going to say What.
"Father, His Royal Highness the King of Yue, in order to marry Sister A Yue, he promised her that he would never allow his side concubine to marry a concubine in this life, so ah! This Palace of the King Yue has only Sister A Yue as the hostess."
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was taken aback for a moment, and seeing Ah Yue's embarrassed expression, he pointed at Sun Jing and said, "Look at you, you have no rules or distance, Ah Yue is now Princess Yue, so you can't bark."
Hearing what he said, Ah Yue quit. Back then, she studied singing and dancing under Yu Xiuer's school, but she lived in the Sun's residence for several years and watched Sun Jing's children grow up. Of course, at that time, Ah Yue is not very old, so she should be regarded as growing up with their children, so she usually doesn't see outsiders at all.
She walked slowly into the room with her hands on her waist, and said, "I heard they called me Sister Ayue, but I was happy, but ah! I asked Li Tai to make such a promise, not because I was kind. Jealousy, I can't tolerate other women, look at his body, if there are more women, I'm afraid..."
Ah Yue didn't go on. Sun Jing and Sun Feng, who were married and had children, understood it, but Sun Xun and Sun Ang, who were not married, didn't understand it very well. They looked at Ah Yue with a look of inquiry, waiting for her to continue. As they continued to talk, their father, Sun Xiangfu, snapped their fingers on each of them, and a group of people laughed and entered the living room of the Yue Palace.
(End of this chapter)
When the boat arrived in Guangzhou Bay, Sun Xiangfu felt at home.
What surprised him was that Li Tai actually greeted him on the pier. Normally, he would not leave Chang'an as a deputy prime minister.
"Teacher, you have worked hard all the way." Li Tai, who was getting fatter and fatter, actually bowed down to salute Sun Xiangfu when he saw Sun Xiangfu stepping off the boat, which surprised Sun Xiangfu.
"You are the prince, and you have the official position of deputy prime minister. You are still above me, so you don't need to pay me such a big gift." Sun Xiangfu helped Li Tai, who had some difficulty standing up straight, and said.
After Li Tai raised his head, he smiled and said, "No matter where you are, you will always be your student. When you see you, you should do the teacher's salute. Teacher, please get in the car. I'm already in the mansion in the city." Prepare a sumptuous banquet."
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu glanced at Li Tai's body and said, "The banquet, we can just eat, you'd better eat less and exercise more."
Li Tai in history did not live long. Even after Li Zhi ascended the throne, he was given preferential treatment, but he died after only two or three years. He was only 32 years old when he died. It has something to do with a physique of more than 200 kilograms.
"What Master Sun taught is, but, hey! My body is like this now! Even if I don't eat anything, I will try my best to grow meat. Daoist Sun said that it is a disease of spleen deficiency. I took a lot of medicine, but it has no effect. , from now on, I'm afraid it can only be like this." Li Tai said helplessly.
To say that more than ten years ago, he still had some ideas about the position of the prince, but now, he only wants to do more things for this country, so as to save his wife and children a good life.
Because, knowing more and more about medical knowledge, he knows that he may not be able to survive his brothers, and even his father Li Shimin, so what's the point of fighting for those things!
Sun Xiangfu followed Li Tai into a big car parked at the crossing of the pier. It is not known whether this car is the third or fourth generation of the car factory. It uses a steam engine and is made like a bus. Similarly, the interior has the same decoration as the guest room. Presumably, the shuttle bus in Chang'an is also made of the same frame, but the interior decoration is different.
After sitting in the car, Sun Xiangfu thought of the previous question, and said, "Are you here for business in Lingnan?"
Hearing this, Li Tai's eyes dodged for a while, and he also aimed at Sun Jing and Sun Feng who were also in the carriage, and then said in a somewhat unnatural tone, "Yes, it's business, but the main thing is to pick you up. By the way, I want to ask you something."
"Why is there such a hurry? I will arrive in Chang'an in a few days, and you came here to ask?" Sun Xiangfu looked at Li Taidao suspiciously.
Li Tai's eyeballs rolled around, and he didn't know what he was thinking. In the end, he seemed to think of something to say, and said, "There is something urgent, late, and I'm afraid that something unexpected will happen. So, my father sent me to ask you."
"Then you can speak directly! If I have a way here, you may be able to notify His Majesty sooner by passing the letter." Seeing what Li Tai said, Sun Xiangfu straightened his face.
Li Tai said what he thought of, "It's like this, since the Byzantine Empire and the Great Food Empire were taken down by us, the people of the world know that from now on, the days of war will be gone forever up.
Therefore, our Tang Dynasty no longer needs so much grain or strategic materials. Now everyone is selling the grain in their hands, causing the price to fall again and again, and it has already fallen below the protective price set by the court more than ten years ago. However, there are still a lot of grains on the market that are competing to sell. If this situation continues, the income of the farmers who are farming may be greatly reduced, which will not be able to meet their daily consumption. "
"The cessation of the war will allow more people to recuperate. With our current grain production, it is more than enough to feed everyone. The price of grain will indeed drop. This needs to be changed through some macro-control after statistics.
You should know that grain can be transformed into many other commodities, and if its price falls, the prices of these things transformed from it will also drop.
First of all, people can raise more chickens, ducks and livestock with less cost, and introduce more meat with better taste and higher price to the market. Then, as there are more meat in the market, its price will increase. It will also fall, and the related products of these chickens, ducks and livestock will also start to fall as a whole. The prices of drinks and snacks, which use grain as the main raw material, will even drop sharply. This is like a biological chain cycle. , will affect all levels.
Therefore, the income of farmers has decreased, and their expenditure will actually decrease somewhat. But to a certain extent, the income of farmers may be lower than that of other classes in this process. How to formulate the profit level of each industry so that each The interests of the class, to maintain a balance, is the macro-control.
What kind of ratio is appropriate specifically requires statistical data to analyze the relationship between output and supply..."
"Teacher, wait a minute. I don't quite understand these things. Is this a new theory of yours?" Li Tai said with dizzy eyes.
Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "Not really, in fact, this is an enhanced version of the imperial government's previous regulations on what crops the common people can grow and how much wine they can brew in a year.
What the country needs, increase output on the demand side.
What the country has excess, cuts excess output.
When the supply and demand are balanced, all prices will stabilize. Before the Byzantine Empire, before the war with the Persians, their population and output have always been stable, and their prices have also been stable for hundreds of years. This is the reason .
The problem now is that the common people know that there is a lot of grain in the market, and they can’t sell it for money. They may swarm to plant other crops next year. A certain reserve must be made, and there must be some rigid management regulations for the cultivation of farmland. Each place must have statistics and long-term development plans for how many grain fields must be planted according to the population. "
Using this simpler way to explain, Li Tai immediately understood that the market is as big as Datang, and it is difficult for any hoarding to affect the price of the entire country. The price fluctuations are generally due to the imbalance between supply and demand in the market. As a result, the people who grow grain, a few years ago, because the imperial court wanted to export a large amount of grain to the Western Regions, they sold the grain at a high price and made money. Now, after the war is over, the local people start to produce their own grain, and their grain is backlogged in their hands On the other hand, it is normal to suffer some losses.
Even in later generations, prices will continue to fluctuate according to the relationship between supply and demand. Some people planted a large area of cotton just in time for a good cotton harvest, but they couldn’t sell it at a good price, or just in time for a big cotton shortage and price increases. In the beginning of the year, a lot of cotton was planted and sold at a good price, which is normal.
In the Jinghu area where Sun Xiangfu’s later generations lived, many farmers changed the unprofitable rice fields into lotus seed fields. At the beginning, few people planted them, and the lotus seeds they planted could sell for more than ten yuan a catty. Farmers made a fortune.
But later, people in the whole area flocked to plant lotus seeds, and some even planted hundreds of thousands of acres of paddy fields. As a result, the output was too large, the market demand was saturated, no one wanted the things they planted, and the price kept falling, which caused them to grow lotus seeds. Losing money, this is a common thing.
But now, the whole world is unified, and there are no uncertain external factors. As long as the country counts the planting area, output, and market demand of all crops, and makes a certain plan, it will be able to keep the price of goods for a long time. The domestic market is stable, unless there is a huge natural disaster that messes up the supply and demand relationship in the market.
Seeing that Li Tai entered a state of contemplation after listening to his words, Sun Xiangfu stopped talking to him. It is so difficult to get statistics in such a big country. Even in later generations, with the assistance of computers, many professionals It may not be possible to calculate global data in this area in a short period of time. Therefore, we can only use a small place to roughly measure the approximate level of the whole country, and it is good to ensure that there are not too many.
Soon, the carriage arrived at the Palace of the King of Yue in Guangzhou. Now, Li Tai has been renamed the King of Yue by Li Shimin. This mansion was actually rebuilt on the site of the palace that Feng An had built for Li Shimin.
Now, Guangzhou City is already the southern capital, and the scale of the palace is not so small. In addition to various luxurious accommodation areas, there is also a super-large government affairs hall, even if it is not smaller than the Taiji Palace back then. During Li Shimin's winter, Maybe I will go south by boat and stay for ten days and a half months to get in touch with the people in Lingnan. Anyway, now that there are steamships, the travel is relatively fast.
Ah Yue greeted Sun Xiangfu at the gate of the palace. She is still pregnant with a child, and beside her, there are a son and a daughter. The eldest son is six or seven years old, and the youngest daughter is three or four years old. She is a bit fat Dudu, like Li Tai.
"If you have such a big belly, don't come out and get tired. Does such a big Wei Palace still need you, a pregnant woman, to come out and do the work of welcoming guests?" Yue lifted herself up and smiled.
At this time, she, who had already given birth to two children, had a lot of maternal brilliance on her face, and when Sun Xiangfu finished speaking, there was a burst of light from Sun Jing, Sun Feng, and Sun Xun. laugh.
Sun Xiangfu turned his head and looked at them in surprise, and then, Li Tai, who felt very shameless, insisted on taking a few steps faster with his thick legs, and rushed into the living room of the palace, because he knew that Sun Jing and the others were going to say What.
"Father, His Royal Highness the King of Yue, in order to marry Sister A Yue, he promised her that he would never allow his side concubine to marry a concubine in this life, so ah! This Palace of the King Yue has only Sister A Yue as the hostess."
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was taken aback for a moment, and seeing Ah Yue's embarrassed expression, he pointed at Sun Jing and said, "Look at you, you have no rules or distance, Ah Yue is now Princess Yue, so you can't bark."
Hearing what he said, Ah Yue quit. Back then, she studied singing and dancing under Yu Xiuer's school, but she lived in the Sun's residence for several years and watched Sun Jing's children grow up. Of course, at that time, Ah Yue is not very old, so she should be regarded as growing up with their children, so she usually doesn't see outsiders at all.
She walked slowly into the room with her hands on her waist, and said, "I heard they called me Sister Ayue, but I was happy, but ah! I asked Li Tai to make such a promise, not because I was kind. Jealousy, I can't tolerate other women, look at his body, if there are more women, I'm afraid..."
Ah Yue didn't go on. Sun Jing and Sun Feng, who were married and had children, understood it, but Sun Xun and Sun Ang, who were not married, didn't understand it very well. They looked at Ah Yue with a look of inquiry, waiting for her to continue. As they continued to talk, their father, Sun Xiangfu, snapped their fingers on each of them, and a group of people laughed and entered the living room of the Yue Palace.
(End of this chapter)
