Dongye Xuanji's expression changed, and he immediately ran to find his beloved daughter Dongye Luoyue, and met the guard who was rushing to report.
"Sir, the lady suddenly ran away from the back wall just now. When we chased her out, she was gone!"
Higashino Xuanji almost had a myocardial infarction!
"Get it back for me! Go to Duanmu's house to find it!"
Dongye Hongji quickly sent someone to apologize to Liang Xiao in advance.
Dongye Xuanji was uneasy and said: "Brother, Liang Xiao's methods are actually a bit vicious... But he is fighting fire with fire, right?"
Dongye Hongji nodded and said: "The current situation in Yanzhou cannot be changed except by strong men. Listen to dad's advice and never offend this person, otherwise the Dongye clan will be in disaster!"
Prefect's Mansion.
"Marquis Lanling, my husband is worried that the young lady will join the ranks of condemning you again, but her position does not represent the Higashino clan..."
Liang Xiao looked at the servant of the Dongye family who was about to cry without tears, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, I already understand the sincerity of the Dongye family and will not express my anger."
Yanzhou, inside the Duanmu family's mansion.
Duanmuyan held Dongye Luoyue's hand tightly, with tears in her eyes.
"You can stay at my house these days. Justice comes from the heart. Although we are women, we still have the backbone of scholars!"
Dongye Luoyue said seriously: "I just want to prove that I have more integrity and ability than that bitch Dongye Luoxi!"
Duanmuyan's heart trembled as she thought of the former most beautiful woman in Yanzhou, the eldest daughter of the Higashino family.
Dongye Luoxi's talent and appearance are firmly ahead of the two of them.
However, her biological mother committed a serious crime, and she was also implicated and disappeared...
"It's so disappointing to mention her! She must have become some farmer's concubine now, or some gentry's wanton maid." Duanmu Yan curled her lips.
In the military camp in northern Hebei, Long Wushuang was accompanying his wife and children. Suddenly there was an urgent report of a dead soldier outside.
"Young Marshal! The Taoist Priest and the others are looking for you if they have something urgent to do!"
Back in the hall, Long Wushuang fell into silence after reading the Yanzhou information.
"Young Marshal still sees far! The Taoist priest said that in a while, the price of rice will definitely be lower than sixty cents per stone. Based on this calculation, we are making a normal profit..." The generals were still frightened.
The Jibei Army relied entirely on Long Wushuang's wealth, so they strongly opposed selling grain to Liang Xiao at a price of sixty cents per stone.
Taoist Master Shifang said in a deep voice: "The food shortage in Yanzhou will be solved, but Dugu Chen is a vicious person and must have a poisonous plan. Let's wait and see what happens."
In Yanzhou City, rice merchants from other places came into the city one after another.
These rice merchants had already set out when they heard that the price of grain in Yanzhou had risen to one hundred yuan and one stone.
"What? Rice costs twenty coins and one stone?!"
The rice merchants who were originally full of expectations were all shocked.
For twenty coins and one stone, they could lose everything!
But among these rice merchants, there was a rice merchant who asked to see Liang Xiao.
"Lin Ping of the Guanlong family, on the orders of my young master Lin Shi, asked to see the Marquis of Lanling!"
Liang Xiao immediately met with rice merchant Lin Ping, who got straight to the point.
"Marquis Lanling, my young master anticipated that there might be a grain shortage in Yanzhou, so he arranged in advance to purchase grain from me, totaling one hundred thousand shi, and then on behalf of the Guanlong tribes, he sold it to Marquis Lanling for fifty cents per dan..."
Liang Xiao looked at Lin Ping who looked embarrassed and was secretly shocked.
If Lin Shi can still make arrangements for Yanzhou after returning to Guanlong from the capital, shouldn't he have to make arrangements at least two months in advance?
He seemed to have expected that he would come to Yanzhou.
Fortunately, Lin Shi didn't release the news, so Lin Ping's visit could be regarded as a sign of goodwill.
What makes Lin Ping uncomfortable now is that they came to Yanzhou with good intentions, but Liang Xiao lowered the price of food to twenty cents per stone, so they would definitely lose money.
"Young Master Lin is interested. We will purchase these grains at a price of sixty cents per stone. Please convey your gratitude to me when you return."
Liang Xiao said and gave Lin Ping a hundred taels of silver note.
Lin Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief and thanked him repeatedly.
After Qin Xun sent Lin Ping away, he came back and praised Liang Xiao: "This Young Master Lin is indeed not simple. If he can be loyal to the court wholeheartedly in the future, he will definitely be a minister of Fu Bi."
Liang Xiao said: "We will discuss the matter of the Guanlong nobles later. When the time is right, as long as we give them enough sincerity, they will naturally submit to the imperial court, but we cannot let them be in charge of the Guanlong military for generations."
"When will the time be mature?" Qin Baili asked.
Liang Xiao said: "When I defeat Beihu's army going south for the first time, I will prove to the world that the strength of the Zhou army is not what it used to be."
While everyone was looking forward to it, they couldn't help but worry.
I'm afraid it will take a long, long time...
The Lin family, representing the Guanlong nobles, unknowingly supported Liang Xiao with 100,000 shi of food.
The people of Yanzhou received the grain rations provided by the government at designated places every day.
On average, each household can receive about three to four pounds per day.
The people were therefore grateful to Liang Xiao, even though the government repeatedly emphasized that the rationing was only temporary and would end when food prices returned to the normal range.
Liang Xiao did not clearly explain to the people when food prices would drop.
The food he has on hand is enough to support Yanzhou until the autumn harvest!
But he hoped that more of this food could be saved for military ration supply in case of emergencies.
The story of rice merchant Lin Ping selling grain spread like wildfire.
Other rice merchants discovered that Lin Ping was delivering grain to the prefect's mansion and intending to leave Yanzhou, so they came to inquire about the news.
Lin Ping said solemnly: "Marquis Lanling still has a lot of surplus food on hand, definitely more than 500,000 dan. Lin will sell it first as a token of respect and say goodbye!"
After saying that, Lin Ping ignored the aristocratic rice merchants behind him who were scolding him. Under the protection of his guards, he got into the carriage and drove away.
In the afternoon, when the Prefect's Mansion issued another announcement, the streets were filled with a large number of grain trucks.
"I would like to inform the people of the city: The remaining 1.5 million shi of grain in the government treasury is more than enough to support Yanzhou's autumn harvest. You don't need to buy grain at high prices, just receive the daily rations!"
The news quickly spread throughout the city through the newspapers of the day, and the whole city was filled with praise.
"One and a half million shi? Government ration? How is that possible!!"
When Dugu Chen received the news, he was the first to express disbelief.
Duanmuyan frowned and said, "Could he have filled it with a pile of sand and covered it with a layer of grain, or simply passed it off as a shoddy one?"
Duanmu Xian said in a trembling voice: "Our people went to see the grain carts, and the grains on them were all real... The people in the prefecture were afraid that the people would not believe it, so they even used tools to look over each cart, just to prove that the grain carts were real. The food above is all real!!”
"How much food and grass are there in total?" Dugu Chen asked anxiously.
"After estimation, it is at least 1.3 million stones!" Duanmu Xian lamented.
Dugu Chen felt his eyes go dark and his eyes turned cold: "I still have a plan!"
After several other foreign rice merchants learned about the grain hoarding in the Prefecture, they couldn't sit still at all and came to Liang Xiao for negotiation.
If they don't negotiate, their food will have to stay in Yanzhou, and the consumption of humans and animals will also be a huge expense.
They couldn't bear it if it took two months, let alone until the autumn harvest.
After experiencing this man-made food shortage, the imperial court will definitely send people to purchase and store grain in various parts of Youzhou. Even if Yanzhou has a bad harvest this year, the imperial court can also mobilize grain from other states and counties.
However, they cannot afford the food price of twenty coins and one stone!
After Liang Xiao summoned these non-aristocratic rice merchants, he also gave his own quotation.
"You all have a total of 1.1 million shi of food on hand. I have calculated the cost for you. Twenty renmin and one shi are all lost, but fifty ren and one shi are profitable. After all, your food is shipped from other places. Fifty Wen and one shi are profitable. Wen Yishi, the Prefect's Mansion will collect everything it needs! You only have one chance to consider it, if you are as stubborn as those rice merchants from aristocratic families, you will bear the consequences!"
Looking at the unwilling rice merchants, Liang Xiao showed a smile on his face.
Once the grain from this group of rice merchants flowed into Yanzhou's treasury, Yanzhou was completely at ease!
"I would like to remind everyone that there are more rice merchants from other places who are transporting grain to Yanzhou. By then, you will be scrambling to lower the price. I am afraid that the price of rice will drop to less than 20 yuan. After all, the people and government of Yanzhou cannot afford so much. Grain, you can either spend money to transport the grain to other places for sale, or let it rot in Yanzhou City."
"You all know how to choose."
