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Yu Anran, who was on the side, saw two people go up to the ox, and first advised Commander Huang: "Lin Futai and I have almost lost all our hair these days to raise food and fodder for you Xuanwu Guard, but the situation in the city is... I understand, everything else is easy, but food is hard to get."
snort!
Commander Huang let out a disdainful snort.
Yu Anran turned around and looked at Lin Kaiyang who was sitting on the seat, and said: "Xuanwuwei's life is indeed difficult. Please see if you can get some money out of the mansion to help Xuanwuwei."
"It's fine if you have money, but the worst thing you can do is use it to buy food." Commander Huang knew that he might not be able to get food, so he retreated and chose to buy money as the next best option.
Although the price of food in the city is high, as long as you have money, you can buy food.
Lin Kaiyang glanced at Commander Huang and said: "Forget it, let's take out a sum of money from the government office to buy food for Xuanwu Wei, so that Xuanwu Wei can survive the crisis of food shortage first."
At this moment, the expression on Commander Huang's face softened a lot.
"I'll get the money." Yu Anran stood up and prepared to walk out.
At this time, Commander Huang said: "Yu Tongpan, would you like me to bring someone over to help you get it?"
"No need, General Huang just waits here for the cashier." Yu Anran confessed and walked out of the room.
Only Lin Kaiyang and Commander Huang were left in the room.
Lin Kaiyang said: "The prefect's Yamen will not ignore you and Xuanwuwei. This money has been prepared for you a long time ago. The reason why it has not been given to Xuanwuwei is because I and Judge Yu Tong want to help you get food." , but since you are here to urge me, I will first give you the money to buy food."
"I don't want to bother the government department again and again. The army is about to run out of food, so I have no choice but to do so. I hope the government department won't take the blame." Commander Huang was quite satisfied with getting the money, and his tone became much warmer.
Lin Kaiyang said: "It's no wonder you did everything. This time I took the money and bought food as soon as possible to take it back. Anyone can be hungry, even the officer can be hungry, but the defenders in the city cannot be hungry, because They also have to guard Kaifeng City."
"Don't worry, Futai, I will definitely lead people to guard the north gate." Commander Huang assured.
Xuanwuwei was stationed at the gate to the north of Kaifeng City.
Lin Kaiyang nodded and said, "With your words, I can safely hand over the North City Gate to you."
The two of them chatted for a while, and Commander Huang also took the opportunity to take a few sips of hot tea.
Yu Anran, who had left not long ago, walked in with a cloth bag in his hand.
The handbag was placed on the table by him, making a crisp sound when it collided.
Commander Huang looked behind Yu Anran, then outside the door, and finally turned back and said, "Where is the money? Didn't Yu Tongpan bring it with him?"
With the current price of food in the city, a large sum of money is needed to meet Xuanwuwei's demand for food and grass. Such a large amount of money is simply beyond the reach of one person.
"Bring it over." Yu Anran replied with a smile.
"Where is it?" Commander Huang looked out the door again, thinking that he didn't see it just now.
Yu Anran opened the cloth bag he placed on the table with his hand, revealing a piece of silver inside. He pointed with his hand and said, "The silver is all here. General Huang, take it back!"
Only then did Commander Huang notice that the cloth bag on the table contained silver.
"It's not easy for the prefect's Yamen to collect this money. General Huang quickly took the money and sold it for grain to bring back to stabilize the morale of the army." Lin Kaiyang said.
Commander Huang reached out and grabbed the cloth bag containing silver on the table, weighed it, his face suddenly sank, and he said coldly: "I'm afraid there isn't even a hundred taels of silver here!"
"No more, no less, exactly one hundred taels." Yu Anran said.
Wow!
Commander Huang shook the bag, poured out all the money inside, and said with a cold face: "With such a small amount of money, you can't even buy twenty shi of food, and you are using it to send away beggars!"
The price of grain in the city has been driven up by grain merchants to more than eighty taels and almost ninety two per stone of grain and rice. Even if one hundred taels of silver are exchanged for grain, they can only buy eleven or two stone of grain. This is just a drop in the bucket for the entire Xuanwuwei.
"General Huang, calm down." Yu Anran hurriedly persuaded, "It's not that I don't want to give Xuanwuwei more money to buy grain, but I really don't have any money, so I have to scrape together these one hundred taels of silver. No matter how much more it is, I can't get enough money." He can't come out, otherwise General Huang will take the money to solve his immediate needs first, and then send it to Xuanwuwei after the government office collects the money."
"No need." Commander Huang said with a gloomy face, "Since you are unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust."
After saying that, he left without looking back.
"General Huang, please don't mess around. If you have anything to say, please speak up." Yu Anran shouted towards Commander Huang's back.
Commander Huang left the room without looking back.
After the person walked away, Yu Anran turned around and said to Lin Kaiyang: "I'm afraid I was really impatient this time. At that time, I said I would give him more silver, but one hundred silver was really a little less."
"Based on the current price of food in the city, how much do you think is too much?" Lin Kaiyang asked in return.
Yu Anran's mouth squirmed a few times, and finally he sighed and said: "Yes, the price of food in the city is so high, even a few hundred taels of silver will be a drop in the bucket for Xuanwu Wei."
"With the current price of grain, when the last bit of grain in the granary is sold, you can just wait to share the money. It's a pity that the grain in the Yun Family Grain Shop, if we can get it, resell it again, we can get another share It's a lot of money, but it's a pity that it's all cheap for Chen Yongfu, the killer." Lin Kaiyang sighed lightly.
In his opinion, everything confiscated from the Yun family has been handed over to his prefect's Yamen for unified management.
Yu Anran said: "Don't worry about the things in Chen Yongfu's hands. What I'm worried about now is that nothing happens to Xuanwuwei. You saw the attitude of the commander of Xuanwuwei when he left just now. Maybe something will happen." of."
"Don't worry, at most he just goes to get grain from the people. If he was really capable, he would have followed Chen Yongfu's example and dealt with the grain merchants in the city." Lin Kaiyang said with disapproval.
Yu Anran pursed his lips and said, "I hope he only attacks the common people."
On the other side, Commander Huang walked out of the magistrate's office with a dark face, got on his horse, and returned directly to the temporary camp of Xuanwuwei with his soldiers.
"How are you, Commander? Have you asked them for food and grass from Linfutai this time?" Cheng Tongzhi, who had been waiting for news, saw someone coming back and poured a cup of tea with his own hands and handed it over.
Commander Huang walked directly past Cheng Tongzhi, sat down on his seat, and said angrily: "Forget it, these turtles don't take us seriously at all."
