Farmer’s Little Girl

   Chapter 3315

Bai Shanbian smiled slightly and asked: "At this time, a large number of old grains are being sold. It is indeed possible to lower the price of new grains. But the world is interconnected. Longzhou's grains are not inaccessible, and other grain merchants come in. The price of food that is suppressed by dumping Chen grain to the people is only temporary. Why should the local grain merchants choose the worst path?"

  The scribes were taken aback for a moment, and then they were silent for a while and said, "Perhaps drinking poison to quench thirst?"

   "No matter what it is, the people who are farming will be injured anyway." Another scribe sighed: "Alas, it is the farmers who hurt the grain harvest, and the farmers who are hurt by the grain harvest."

"Xiongtai is too pessimistic," Bai Shan said with a smile: "A bumper harvest is much better than a poor harvest. Although each bucket of grain is sold less than before, the harvest per household has increased, and it was impossible to be full before. People who can only eat porridge can now eat white rice. Everything is going in a good direction, so why be pessimistic?"

   Zhou Man nodded, "Moreover, low food prices also have the advantage of low prices. Ordinary people can spend less money to eat their food, and the remaining money can be used for other purposes, such as medical treatment, reading, tasting food..."

   "That's right, but now the grain shops are holding down prices, farmers still suffer..."

  Bai Shan nodded, “This is true. You can suggest that the governor's office and the county government buy grain and stabilize prices.”

  Three scribes: "...I and others are light-hearted, I'm afraid the monarch will not adopt it."

  Bai Shan looked at them up and down, and asked, "Are you a student from a government school or a county school?"

  "We are students from the prefectural school."

  Bai Shan smiled and said, “That’s easy. Both the government and county school students have the right to advise the governor and the county magistrate.”

  There is this rule, but there are not many that really do it. The three scribes glanced at each other and didn't say anything.

  Bai Shan only gave a suggestion, and it depends on them how to do it.

  After eating and buying some small things, the group went back to the inn where they were staying. The child was already sleepy. Bai Shan and the others handed the child to the next person to wash, and they found a table in the lobby below to sit down.

  "Low food prices are fine, but low food prices are not good." Yin or turned his head and asked Bai Shan, "Are you not going to take care of this?"

  Bai Shan said: "I will ask the Ministry of Households to order a warehouse to buy grain in various places to stabilize prices."

He paused and said: "Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, grain silos have been purchased to stabilize prices, but not many new ones have been built. Now that the treasury is full and the grain is high, more granaries can be built, which will not only stabilize prices, but also Respond to disasters."

  Yin or said: “Actually, I’ve been thinking all the way, why do we have to get on board when we get to Qizhou? It is said that Chang’an has Weishui and the rivers are connected. Since the Jialing River can pass, why can’t the Weishui?”

  Bai Shan raised his eyebrows, "You mean Caoyun?"

   Yin or nodded, "If the water transport can be smooth, then the price of food in various places will be more stable, and the probability of things like Longzhou will be even smaller."

Bai Erlang said: "I have seen when I was in the Imperial Academy. The water transportation in this dynasty was basically inherited from the previous dynasty, but except for the waterway of the Grand Canal, water transportation in other waterways was basically stagnant. No one manages the rivers and waterways. Blocked, the water transport will not open at all."

"Then open it," Zhou Man said: "Water is everywhere. I have a dense water network in Dajin. If water transportation is prosperous and connect the whole Dajin with rivers, then in the future we will go to other places. Wouldn't it be like It’s the same from Qizhou to Yongzhou, three to five hundred miles a day?"

  Bai Shan thoughtfully, "In a place where the water is deep and rapid, it is possible to go a long way."

   "Yeah, yeah, then we can go to the distant place for a longer vacation." You can take the opportunity to dig a little more.

   "Then this booklet needs to be written carefully, is it the last one or two?"

   Baijiro: "Such a big thing, can't you write a booklet, right?"

  Bai Shan frowned, “I’m afraid it’s too eye-catching even if I have two folds, and I’m on vacation at this time.”

  He looked at Shirajiro.

  Zhou Man and Yin may also look at Bai Erlang.

   Bai Erlang slowly moved behind Mingda, Mingda moved away, and said to him: "You should also contribute to my great promotion."

   "...then which one shall I write?"

   "Caoyun that letter," Bai Shan said: "Didn't you see the relevant records in the Imperial Academy?"

   "But I just looked through it when I was looking for information for my colleagues, and I can't remember much."

   "It's okay, you first have a rough idea. The specific discussion and implementation must be led by the Ministry of Engineering," Bai Shan said: "I didn't say let you take charge, it just let you start."

  Bai Jiro breathed a sigh of relief, but after a moment of silence, he said: "But I haven't written a book for a long time, how can I write such a big thing?"

   Zhou Man said: "Let Bai Shan give you a reference."

  Shirajiro can only be driven to the shelves by ducks.

  The next day they went back to Mianzhou from Longzhou, not far away, they could get there in one day, stayed in Mianzhou for one night, and then went back to Qili Village.

  In one day, Bai Shan had written all the discounts for purchasing grain and stabilizing prices, and Bai Erlang made a start.

Bai Shan felt that he didn’t have the energy and time to write when he returned to Qili Village, so he could only hold people in the carriage and discuss with him in depth, and asked him to write down the main points and then said: "When I get home and start writing overnight, it will take about an hour. Finished writing."

  Shirajiro nodded repeatedly, but the actual situation is that this is impossible.

The Bai family asked Jia Ding to go home in advance to inform them, so as soon as the group arrived at the entrance of the village, the Bai family and Tuesday Lang Weilang led the people in the village to come up. When the carriage stopped, the people in the carriage had not yet got off. Everyone knelt on the ground, but their necks stretched out long and raised their faces and asked, "Where is the princess, where is the princess, what does the princess look like?"

  The villagers suddenly knelt down. Master Bai couldn't react, his knees bend, and he hesitated between kneeling and not kneeling.

  Bai Erlang has jumped out of the car, rushed forward to stop him, and pulled the village chief and others by the way, "Don't kneel, don't kneel, the princess doesn't pay attention to these false gifts."

  Mingda helped the maid’s hand to get out of the car, and hurriedly raised his hand and said: "No gift, please hurry up."

  Everyone got up and saw the princess in amazement, "This is the princess, she looks so handsome."

   "It's so white, it's as white as Man Bao from the old Zhou family, but a little thinner, not as round and beautiful as Man Bao."

   "I think the princess looks better, like a fairy."

   Zhou Man and Bai Shan took the child down, and came forward, "Big Brother Village Chief, why are you all stuck here?"

   "Oh, this is full of treasures!"

   "It's Man Bao, he's all this old?"

  "This is the little young master of the Bai family. He has grown up and is more handsome!"

   "The last time I saw them, they were still young, and they were just married. Ten years have passed since this blink of an eye. Isn't it big?"

   "Man Bao, where is your father?"

  The villagers crowded around. Everyone had a lot of questions. Zhou Man made his voice dumb, not knowing who answered first.

  (End of this chapter)