Gong Ping and others were among the first batch of people who refused to sell rice to the prefect's mansion.
Now they just want to beat themselves to death!
The mentality of the rice merchants became more and more anxious as time went by.
Liang Xiao was determined to only offer twenty cents per stone, and they also understood the pros and cons.
If you sell it to him, you can still stop the loss.
Not selling it to him? He is not short of this food at all.
Nowadays, transporting food to the desert is even more difficult than reaching the sky.
First of all, Yanzhou closed the city, and only they, the rice merchants, couldn't get out!
After a long time, Duguyan took a step forward and said sadly: "Marquis Lanling, can't you really be more generous?"
Liang Xiao glanced at Dugu Yan and said, "When you teamed up to create a food shortage and forced the prefect's mansion to increase prices, why didn't you think of opening up for the people of Yanzhou?"
Duguyan suddenly lost all hope and slumped on the ground, murmuring: "Duguneng, I will leave my food to you..."
Dugu Neng, who was accompanying him, nodded repeatedly and asked knowingly, "What does Uncle Yan mean by this?"
Duguyan glanced at Liang Xiao in despair and burst into tears: "Prefect of Yanzhou, I won't give you a way to survive!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duguyan, who was sitting paralyzed, suddenly jumped up from the ground!
Liang Xiao's eyes flashed, and he held the hilt of the sword at his waist with one hand.
Unexpectedly, Duguyan stood up and bumped into a stone pillar nearby.
Under everyone's shocked gaze, Duguyan's brain mixed with blood flowed down from the pillar, and Duguyan's body also fell to the ground.
"Dugu Yan committed suicide!!"
The rice merchants were frightened and inexplicable.
Everyone in the Dugu family, headed by Dugu Deng, screamed and wailed in great grief.
Liang Xiao immediately asked someone to collect Duguyan's body and clean up the scene.
"Marquis Lanling, please open your eyes a bit?" Gong Ping took the opportunity to plead.
Liang Xiao glanced at him coldly and said word by word: "Twenty Wen!"
The rice merchants' breath froze and they looked at Liang Xiao with resentment in their eyes.
Dugu Yan even committed suicide, but he is still so hard-hearted!
"If you don't want to sell it, please take it back."
Liang Xiao's cold and ruthless expulsion order made everyone feel like they were falling into an ice cave.
After a moment, Gong Ping raised his hand with a grimace: "I sell..."
In an instant, Gong Ping became the object of resentment among all rice merchants.
"Gong Ping! Your food has been kept locally and you will lose the least, so of course you are willing to sell it!!" Dugu Neng feigned anger.
Gong Ping said helplessly: "What can we do if we don't sell it? The people of Yanzhou have free rations, how can they buy ours?"
The rice merchants were speechless.
After a while, several rice merchants who had previously refused the price of 60 cents expressed their willingness to sell rice to the prefectural governor at 20 cents per stone.
The rice merchant alliance finally collapsed at this moment, and everyone rushed to request to sign a contract with the prefect's mansion to sell rice at a price of twenty cents per stone.
Liang Xiao just looked gloomily and signed an agreement with everyone, agreeing to pay after arranging for someone to check and accept it tomorrow.
Two million stones of grain will soon be put into the prefecture's treasury.
These are the grains produced in Yanzhou, but they were transported here and there by rice merchants from aristocratic families, and now they have returned to Yanzhou.
After seeing off the rice merchants, Qin Baili said worriedly: "Marquis Lanling, that Dugu Yan died in the lobby, I'm afraid that Dugu Chen at Yanzhou Academy will make a big fuss again..."
Liang Xiao sneered and said: "It doesn't matter, calm down everyone, I want to see what kind of storm they can stir up."
Everyone nodded silently.
Thousand pointing fingers, head bowed as a willing ox.
This sentence that Liang Xiao mentioned to Zhuge Hui was later recorded by the record officer around Zhuge Hui through Zhuge Hui's narration, and spread from the Prime Minister's Mansion.
When he was still a nobody, he was able to face the difficulties faced by students from aristocratic families in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Now he has no reason to back down.
Completely different from Liang Xiao's calmness, Jiang Fuxue, Mu Qinxue and Gongsun Yue became increasingly worried when they heard that Dugu Yan was killed in a crash in the lobby of the Prefect's Mansion.
Liang Xiao told them not to stand up for him at that time, as he had his own sense of discretion.
But this is Yanzhou, not the capital.
There is no empress, no prime minister.
Duguyan's body was sent to Yanzhou Academy, and the white cloth covering it was dyed red.
The scholars in Yanzhou Academy were alarmed and came out to watch.
Dugu Chen lay on his body and cried bitterly, his lamentations continued, and he coughed several times.
"I heard it was because Liang Xiao was holding on to the rice price of 20 cents and refused to raise the price. Duguyan really couldn't accept it and decided to die..." Duanmuyan said with tears.
Seeing Dugu Chen's grief, everyone couldn't help but have red eyes.
"A rice merchant can fight against the powerful with his own life. What do we, the scholars, do for a living!"
Listening to Dugu Chen's wailing, Dongye Luoyue couldn't help but burst into tears: "How could this Liang Xiao be so cruel and ruthless! Twenty coins and one stone, are they planning to force all the rice merchants to death! They collect grain, and they have no credit but also suffering. Lao, we can’t let them live!”
At this moment, the anger of everyone in the academy completely erupted.
Dugu Chen wiped his tears with his sleeves and gritted his teeth and said: "Tomorrow morning we will go outside the prefect's house to denounce Liang Xiao! I don't believe it, he can still kill all my Yanzhou students!!"
Everyone raised their arms and shouted: "Condemn!!"
The well-informed knights also heard about Dugu Yan and were nervous.
"The Marquis of Lanling did not raise the price because of Dugu Yan's death. He still insisted on the purchase price of twenty cents. I am afraid that the Dugu family will use this as an excuse to increase their efforts to incite the students of Yanzhou..."
Xiahou Liuyuan murmured to himself.
Xiahou Qingyi's eyes were also full of worry.
Of course they can understand Liang Xiao's ruthlessness.
If he hadn't solved the problem, Yanzhou would have been starved to death sooner or later.
By then, tens of millions of people will have died.
Yanzhou is the northern barrier of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If the Beihu people take the opportunity to go south and cause Yanzhou to fall... then life will be doomed.
However, this group of students from aristocratic families in Yanzhou can always find the moral high ground.
"Chief, let's go take a look tomorrow? Maybe we can help!" Xiahou Liuyuan suggested.
Xiahou Qingyi nodded repeatedly, this was exactly what she wanted.
The knight who reported the news said awkwardly: "Lan Linghou specially sent someone to remind him that there is no need to support him at that time. He has already thought of how to deal with it."
Everyone was stunned, just helpless.
He may have underestimated the influence of this group of scholars in Yanzhou.
The enemy is angry and relatives and friends are worried. At this moment, Liang Xiao is visiting the weapons supervisor at night.
Pu Yuan followed Liang Xiao to Yanzhou and is now the nominal head craftsman of the Ordnance Supervision.
The general person in charge of the Ordnance Supervision is Dong Yuan, Captain of the Xuan Guard.
In a workshop of the Arms Supervisor, the fire was booming and craftsmen were still forging weapons.
In the furnace on the other side, there are workers responsible for making iron.
Some of these accompanying personnel were personnel from the capital's military weapons inspection. When they came to Yanzhou, Duan Yunyi promised them double their salaries and exempted them from the head tax and the land tax within fifty acres.
Now they are working in shifts, in addition to repaying Huang En and Liang Xiao for their support, there is another reason.
According to the value and specifications of the weapons, every time a certain number of weapons are produced, workers and guards like them will receive a certain "commission" as a reward.
This has never been the case before.
There is no way, Marquis Lanling gave too much.
