Zhen Qian really didn't dare to imagine that if he didn't have the dual protection of his official body and family, and became a homesteader with a drop of sweat and eight petals, he would probably have been eaten by the officials a long time ago, and there would not even be bones left.

Recalling the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty in the past, Xiaoyi still hides thousands of rooms. The rice is fat and the corn is white, and the public and private warehouses are abundant.

The Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion was indeed a rare prosperous era in the feudal dynasty, each bucket of rice was only about 10 Wen, the two Beijing Dou Rice was only 20 Wen (Chang'an and Luoyang), the flour was 30 Wen, the silk horse was more than 200 Wen, the grain cloth was abundant, the roads were smooth, the prices were low, the travel was safe, and the business was flourishing.

The weight of a bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty is about 6.25 kilograms now, and a tael of silver in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to 42 grams now, according to the price of silver in the modern international market, 42 * 6 = 252 yuan, a tael of silver in the Tang Dynasty is calculated in a thousand yuan, a text is roughly equivalent to 0.25 yuan, ten yuan is 2.5 yuan, buy 6.25 kilograms of rice, 0.4 yuan can buy 1 kilogram of rice, it is simply cheap!

If a person with a monthly income of 3,000 yuan travels to the Tang Dynasty and can buy 7,500 kilograms of rice with his salary, these grains are pulled back to modern times, according to 5 yuan per kilogram, which is equivalent to 37,500 yuan, which has increased more than ten times, and it is difficult not to get rich.

Of course, there is a small problem with such calculations, that is, the income of ordinary Chinese people?

But don't forget, the Anshi Rebellion is about to break out soon!

The price of grain in the Tang Dynasty has been up and down, and the "New Tang Book" volume 51 "Food and Goods Chronicles" says: "Zhenguan Chu...... A horse of silk, a bucket of rice". That is to say, in the early years of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan, a piece of silk could be exchanged for a bucket of rice. It shows that rice was still very expensive at that time.

Sima Guang's "Zizhi Tongjian" volume 193 said: "It is the year (four years of Zhenguan) when the world is great, and the diaspora returns to the hometown, and the rice bucket is only three or four dollars." That is to say, in the four years of Taizong's Zhenguan, the world has had a bumper harvest, and the people who have been displaced to other places have returned to their hometowns, and the price of a bucket of rice is only three or four yuan.

"New Tang Book" volume 79 "Wei Zheng Biography" also says: "The emperor (Taizong) ascended the throne for four years...... Mi bucket three money". In the first year of Yongchun of Tang Gaozong, due to many political, military, economic and other reasons of the Tang Dynasty, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, the price of rice suddenly soared a hundred times compared with the Zhenguan period of Taizong, and there was even a tragic phenomenon of cannibalism!

As recorded in volume 203 of the "Zizhi Tongjian": "Shangyi Guanzhong is hungry, rice fights three hundred, and the eastern capital will be fortunate." "Guanzhong first water, then drought locusts, then epidemics, rice bucket 400. Between the two capitals, the dead pillowed each other on the road, and people cannibalized each other". By the time of Tang Zhongzong, although the price of rice was dozens of times more expensive than that of Zhenguan, it was still much better than the year when Gaozong encountered famine: "Zizhi Tongjian" volume 209 recorded: "It is the year (Jinglong three years) Guanzhong hunger, rice fighting a hundred yuan."

By the time of Tang Xuanzong's "Kaiyuan Dynasty", prices had fallen a lot: volume 212 of the "Zizhi Tongjian" said: "It is the year (the thirteenth year of Kaiyuan) in the eastern capital of doumi fifteen yuan." In the Tianbao period, the price was even cheaper: "New Tang Book" volume 51 "Food and Goods Journal": "It was the time (Tianbao five years) the sea was rich, the price of rice buckets was thirteen, Qingqi was only three dollars, and a silk horse was two hundred." "Qingqijian" refers to the price of rice in Qingzhou and Qizhou in Shandong at that time, indicating that the price difference between regions is still relatively large, with several times the price difference.

It's a pity that the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty didn't last long, because Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty indulged in wine in the later period, ignored the government and politics, reused traitorous ministers, and allowed local festivals to do mischief, which finally led to the "Anshi Rebellion". Since then, the Tang Dynasty, which was once glorious in the world, has begun to go downhill, and prices have soared. Look at the following record: "Old Tang Book" volume 114 "Lu Ling Biography" says: "Ling collects the remnants and protects Nanyang County." Surrounded by thieves. …… The puppet generals (military) ordered them to attack equally, and they could not be overcome for many months. …… Eat all in the spiritual city, boil the cowhide bands and eat them. Rice is poured to forty or fifty thousand, and there is no price of rice." In the city besieged by the Anshi rebel army, the price of rice rose to forty or fifty thousand dou, and there was no market. In other words, even if you take forty or fifty taels of silver, you can't buy a bucket of rice. This price has increased by 10,000 times compared to the Zhenguan period! Compared with the Kaiyuan period, it has also risen by more than 2,600 times.

It's a difference between heaven and earth! The official price records after the Anshi Rebellion were: in 766 AD, a bucket of rice was 830 wen, and a horse of silk was 3,500 wen; In 780 AD, a bucket of rice was 200 wen, and a horse of silk was 3,500 wen; Around 820 A.D., a bucket of rice was 50 wen, and a horse of silk was 800 wen. After that, the price of rice basically hovered around 1,000 yuan.

It is equivalent to buying a kilogram of rice for the current 40 yuan, which is of course very expensive. Such a price level is already a difficult situation for the people, which just shows that the Tang Dynasty is dying step by step.

In any case, the prices in the Tang Dynasty were low and stable, the products were abundant, the prices were cheap, and everything seemed so wonderful and harmonious.

It is against this background that a storm that shakes the foundation of the Tang Dynasty is ......brewing.

Of course, Zhen Qian, who was prophetic, was not idle, and secretly actively planned to save his life, and a cart of grain was quietly transported into Sendai Village and hidden in the depths of the mountains.

No matter what time it is, deliberate hoarding of grain is a felony, Zhen Qian has his own grain store restaurant near Hengzhou as a cover, and all this will naturally not be discovered.

Grain stores, restaurants, grain and oil processing factories are the best cover, the land annexation in the Tang Dynasty also provided a protective umbrella for Zhen Qian, thousands of acres of land can produce tens of thousands of stones of grain a year, Zhen Qian is like a hard-working groundhog, constantly carrying grain to the cave.

Of course, all this was carried out under planned premeditation, and because the price of grain was too low before the Anshi Rebellion, few grain banks were willing to hoard grain, which also provided convenience for Zhen Qian's plan.

Despite this, Zhen Qian's covert purchase of a large amount of grain still caused fluctuations in local grain prices, and he had to transport grain from the surrounding grain producing areas to Luquan County to replenish it.

In the Tang Dynasty, the yield per mu of land was not high, the output of the superior fields was around two stones, and the output of the inferior fields was not even one stone, and the average yield per mu was a little more, so it was often said that the peasants could not survive by collecting three or five buckets more (one stone is equal to ten buckets, and one stone is equal to one hundred and twenty catties, and the yield is scary to be low today), and the three or five buckets here are already quite high, and it is not an exaggeration in the drama, it is true.