It's almost half noon.
Accompanied by the last team of government officials returning from abroad.
In the past, all the grain and grass presented by the noble families and powerful country gentry had stated their return dates.
"Two hundred thousand stones."
South of Juyang City, in the county government hall.
Sun Daohua calmed down for a moment, murmured something in a low voice and then stood up from the imperial chair.
Then he walked straight towards the lobby with four square steps without hesitation.
"Lu Juncheng."
Not long after, Sun Daohua walked to the platform and shouted with a red face.
County Chancellor Lu Yansheng, who was silently sorting out the amount of grain and grass and other matters at the side of the County Cheng Hall, heard this and hurriedly put down the accounts in his hands and walked out of the County Cheng Hall quickly.
"Governor Sun."
Lu Yansheng came to the platform and bowed respectfully.
"How is the accounting going?"
Sun Daohua calmed down for a moment, then asked loudly.
"Go back to the county guard and ask."
"Everything can be sorted in half a cup of tea at most."
Lu Yansheng lowered his head slightly and answered.
"good."
"That's it."
"After half a cup of tea, it was time for Lu Juncheng to personally take the people on a trip."
Sun Daohua nodded slightly, then chuckled.
"startled."
"I wonder where the county governor will go if he needs to go down?"
Lu Yansheng was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head again and asked.
"After finishing the work, Lu Juncheng will make a notice."
"After the book is completed, just look for the official seal."
"After using the seal, Lu Juncheng will go there in person."
"Tell the whole city about the low-price grain sale at the south gate tomorrow."
Sun Daohua chuckled pointedly.
"startled."
"Yes, I will take care of it now."
Lu Yansheng was stunned for several breaths after hearing this.
After a few breaths, Lu Yansheng saluted Sun Daohua with excitement on his face.
See this.
The smile on Sun Daohua's face grew stronger.
After patting Lu Yansheng on the shoulder several times.
Sun Daohua turned around and walked towards the lobby with square steps again.
Wait until the sound of Sun Daohua's footsteps completely disappeared behind the platform.
Lu Yansheng straightened up with excitement.
Conquer the grain of powerful families to equalize the price of grain.
This is a feat of turning the tide when it is falling and supporting the building when it is about to collapse.
How could he not understand that Lu Yansheng was able to serve as an official and a county magistrate?
However, what he never expected was that Sun Daohua was willing to share the credit with him.
Even if it was only a small part, Lu Yansheng was already satisfied.
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...
It's almost time.
When the sun is drying.
Lu Yansheng, whose face was glowing, took a car and rushed to the south gate in person.
And the people who travel with him.
In addition to more than a hundred government officials.
There are also several groups of civilians that are growing along the way.
And when Lu Yansheng arrived at the South City Gate and got out of the carriage.
The people who followed behind him were already crowded one after another, and they could not see the edge at a glance.
"Ahem."
"Post a notice!"
Lu Yansheng, whose face was glowing red, coughed several times and then gave an order loudly.
"yes."
The officer next to him agreed upon hearing this, and then walked quickly towards the city wall.
at the same time.
Lu Yan calmly walked towards the front of the carriage with square steps.
"I am the county magistrate, Lu Yansheng!"
"Fellows and fellows, please be silent!"
When the government officials posted the notice, Lu Yansheng had already climbed onto the carriage's shaft with the help of someone beside him.
After a while, the noise at the south city gate gradually disappeared.
Lu Yansheng stood on the carriage seat and couldn't help but feel very satisfied when he saw this.
"Dear fellow citizens!"
"Governor Sun has an order!"
"Starting from tomorrow, food will be sold at a low price at the south city gate."
"Everyone from Yan Land can come and buy grain with their household registration deed!"
"If you are not a citizen of Yan, you must find at least three people as guarantees before you can purchase food!"
"If you don't have a household registration! You need to find at least three neighbors as guarantees! Register first! You can only buy food after registering!"
"This food sale is at a low price! Each person in each family can buy three days of food rations. After three days, the food rations are used up before you can buy more food!"
Lu Yansheng stood on the carriage seat, his face glowing red and talking loudly.
"Lu Juncheng!"
"Can you buy more at once?"
"Small ones...small ones have big appetites..."
Just as Lu Yansheng finished speaking, the slightly burly middle-aged man at the front scratched his head and asked sheepishly.
Hear this.
Lu Yansheng chuckled and waved his hand, signaling other people to stop making noise.
Wait until the surrounding noise subsides.
Lu Yansheng said loudly: "I know what everyone is worried about."
"Aren't you just afraid that after three days of rations are used up, the county government will have no food?"
As soon as he said this, the slightly burly middle-aged man's face turned red instantly, and he scratched his head in utter embarrassment.
"I also ask all fellow villagers to eat with confidence!"
"I can't say that the food that the county government has brought in this time can feed everyone for a whole year!"
"But at least everyone can eat with confidence until this autumn harvest!"
Lu Yansheng calmed down for a moment, then spoke loudly again.
As soon as this statement came out.
The southern gate of Juyang City, which was originally relatively calm, suddenly became boiling.
The noisy sound soared into the sky.
However.
Just as the south gate of Juyang City was boiling.
Suddenly, dozens of people in the crowd left the south gate of Juyang City one after another with extremely ugly expressions.
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...
It's not too late.
In the south of Juyang City, Zuixianju Inn.
Class A villa, in the guest reception hall.
Pan Yongliang and Fan Yuanyu sat on the Grand Master's chair, one as host and one as guest.
But no one spoke first.
For a moment, the huge reception hall was as quiet as a ghost.
One of these two people is the head of the Pan family, the first aristocratic family in Yanmen County.
One of them was the head of the Fan family, the first aristocratic family in that generation.
The two people who were supposed to be indifferent to emotion and anger now frequently looked at the open door.
The anxiety and panic in his eyes were almost beyond words.
I do not know how long it has been.
Suddenly, a figure wearing the clothes of a Pan family servant appeared in their anxious eyes.
At this time, the figure was walking quickly towards the open reception hall.
See this.
Pan Yongliang and Fan Yuanyu immediately stood up from the imperial chair.
Xu Shi realized that this move too compromised his dignity.
Halfway through Fang's rise, Pan Yongliang and Fan Yuanyu sat down on the Taishi chair again, one behind the other.
Not long after, the figure walked quickly to the front door of the welcoming hall.
"Little Pan Hu, I'd like to meet you, Master Fan."
The servant Pan Hu stood in front of the door, bowed his hands deeply and said.
"Come forward."
Pan Yongliang calmed down for a moment, then said in a deep voice.
"yes."
Pan Hu agreed, then quickly stepped forward and entered the reception hall of the other courtyard.
"How's the investigation going?"
When Pan Hu came forward, Pan Yongliang asked again in a deep voice.
"Ask the master."
"The amount of food has been found out."
"Xun, Zhao, Sun, Niu, Gongsun and other dozens of families."
"This time, the total amount of food received is 200,000 dan."
"As for why you need to pay for food..."
"Xun, Zhao, Sun, Niu, Gongsun and other dozens of families."
"Everyone keeps it secret, no one talks about it."
"However, my subordinates have found some clues from the people in the city."
"Some people say that this matter may be related to the fact that during the heavy rain in January, a group of powerful people from aristocratic families blocked the south gate to drain water into the canal."
"But what's going on here is unknown."
When Pan Hu heard this, he bowed his hands deeply and then revealed all the information he had discovered.
The words are over.
The huge study room in the other courtyard fell into deathly silence again.
I do not know how long it has been.
Pan Yongliang waved his hands slightly and said, "Step back."
Pan Hu, who had been standing there for an unknown amount of time, quickly raised his hands and saluted, saying, "Yes."
After Pan Hu's figure completely disappeared outside the open door of the guest hall.
Pan Yongliang turned his head and looked at Fan Yuanyu beside him.
"This time Sun Daohua raised a total of 200,000 shi of food."
"We...we are in trouble."
Pan Yongliang's face was bitter and his voice was slightly hoarse.
"It's troublesome."
Fan Yuanyu nodded with an extremely ugly expression upon hearing this.
As the saying goes: "Things are rare and valuable."
This time the price of grain in Yandi soared to seven taels and six qian per stone.
The fundamental reason was that there was a great disaster in Yan and the government had no food.
But now, Sun Daohua has raised two hundred thousand shi of food from the wealthy families in Shanggu County.
He also threatened to sell grain at a fair price tomorrow.
Once all the 200,000 shi of grain flow into the market.
It will inevitably cause a fatal blow to today's food prices.
Until then.
The Pan and Fan families spent countless manpower and material resources to transport the food.
Its value is destined to plummet.
Thinking about this.
Once again, he fell into the huge study room which was completely silent, and the atmosphere of depression suddenly became thicker and more oppressive.
I do not know how long it has been.
Fan Yuanyu, who had lowered his head in deep thought, suddenly raised his head.
"Isn't this thief Sun Daohua trying to sell grain at a fair price tomorrow?"
"Even if the county government is fully staffed."
"Even if it recruits hundreds more scholars."
"It takes less than ten days and half a month to sell out two hundred thousand shi of food."
"You and I might as well lend a helping hand to this thief Sun Daohua."
Fan Yuanyu said in a deep voice with a slightly ferocious expression.
"What?!"
"Give a helping hand to Sun Daohua?"
Pan Yongliang looked at Fan Yuanyu with surprise when he heard this.
"Yes! Help him!"
"Isn't he going to sell food at a fair price?"
"In that case, why don't you and I help it be sold out as soon as possible?"
Fan Yuanyu said every word with a ferocious expression and gritted teeth.
"You mean to unite all the foreign families to go to the south gate to buy food?"
Pan Yongliang pondered for a few breaths and then asked.
Pan Yongliang didn't know how many people the other foreign families brought this time.
But for his family alone, the number of clerks and civilians escorting grain and grass to Yan was as high as more than 2,000.
The Fan family is adjacent to Dai County and Shanggu County.
The Pan family transported more than 100,000 shi of grain and grass.
The corresponding number of clerks is naturally much larger.
A rough estimate is that there are at least 3,000 people.
and
Other aristocratic families from other places who arrived in Yan by land brought with them a large number of clerks.
If all these people are united.
It will definitely consume the food raised by Sun Daohua.
It's too late, but it's soon.
In just a few breaths, Pan Yongliang understood what Fan Yuanyu said.
"This plan works!"
"You and I should contact the other families as soon as possible."
"In addition, you can also try to contact the local aristocratic families in Yandi."
"I don't know why these local aristocratic families pay money to Sun Daohua."
"But I don't believe that these local aristocratic families are willing to pay for the food."
Without waiting for Fan Yuanyu to say anything, Pan Yongliang calmed down for a moment and then spoke eloquently.
"What Master Pan said is only one of them."
Fan Yuanyu shook his head slightly when he heard this.
"oh?"
"If Master Fan has any clever ideas, you might as well tell them."
"Although your two families are not in the same county."
"But both your family and I serve the prince."
"We are allies in the same trench."
Pan Yongliang couldn't help but be slightly startled when he heard this, and then spoke to clarify.
"What Patriarch Pan said is absolutely true."
"You and I are allies in the same trench."
"This time when the grain arrives at Yan, your family and I will both be prosperous and devastated."
Fan Yuanyu paused for a moment, then spoke in agreement without hesitation.
"That's it."
"Master Fan might as well tell you everything he has planned."
Pan Yongliang urged again.
"good."
Fan Yuanyu nodded slightly.
Then he expressed what he had in mind.
His plan can be divided into two steps.
First, as Pan Yongliang said before.
Unite a group of foreign aristocratic families and businessmen.
He broke his entourage into pieces and dispersed them into the ranks of the people in Juyang City.
Thus he purchased grain from Sun Daohua.
When Sun Daohua ran out of food.
Then you can make a lot of money.
Secondly, in everything we do not worry about scarcity but inequality.
Two hundred thousand shi of food can certainly ensure that Juyang City will not have food problems in a short period of time.
This can also be used to force some small and medium-sized merchants from aristocratic families to lower prices for the food in their hands.
But don’t forget.
Juyang City was not the only city that suffered this disaster.
And he, Sun Daohua, was not the governor of Juyang City.
How will the people in other cities react when they hear about this?
Two hundred thousand shi of food seems like a lot.
But for the entire Shanggu County.
But it is nothing more than a drop in the bucket.
Wait for the near future.
People from several cities gathered outside Juyang City.
By that time, the trouble would not be with the Pan and Fan families and a group of merchants from foreign aristocratic families.
But he is Sun Daohua.
After a while.
In the study room of the first-class annex of Zuixianju Inn.
After hearing this, Pan Yongliang lowered his eyelids and meditated quietly for more than a hundred breaths.
After more than a hundred breaths.
Pan Yongliang raised his eyelids and looked at Fan Yuanyu with burning eyes.
"wonderful!"
"Wonderful!"
"This plan is really a perfect plan!"
"Don't worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality!"
"As soon as this plan comes out."
"Sun Daohua sells grain to other people in the city."
"Then 200,000 shi of food will flow out quickly like a torrential river!"
"At that time, Sun Daohua will be unable to get off the tiger, and we can take the opportunity to make a fortune."
"If Sun Daohua doesn't sell food to other people in the city."
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I just need to do a little work! "
"It will definitely set off a shocking civil uprising!"
"At that time, Sun Daohua will most likely kneel down and beg me to wait for the grain to be sold at a "low price." "
"Hahaha! I really want to see that day sooner!"
Pan Yongliang kept exclaiming.
The last word.
His face was already flushed with excitement.
It’s not that his concentration is insufficient.
In fact, the downturn today was too violent.
"You and I split up!"
"Try to make that thief Sun Daohua kneel down and beg for mercy as soon as possible."
Fan Yuanyu chuckled sinisterly, then picked up the already cold tea beside him and signaled.
"Hahaha!"
"good!"
Pan Yongliang laughed loudly, then picked up the tea cup and touched it gently.
Then he raised his head and drank it all.
A cup of ice-cold tea fell into his mouth and was as delicious as strong wine.
The tea cup was put into the case.
Pan Yongliang and Fan Yuanyu looked at each other and laughed several times.
Then he got up and walked towards the guest hall.
However, just when the two were about to reach the threshold.
A figure suddenly came from outside in a hurry.
