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Chapter 356 News
In the city of Hanjing, after a short break, every square city ushered in a wave of panic buying.Daily necessities ranging from food to straw paper have become hard currency in people's eyes.As far as civilians are concerned, material shortages are more terrifying than defeat, and famine is especially frightening.

At this time, most of the people who can still sell things in the market are well-dressed and powerful people.They sold surplus supplies from the army, or relief supplies from government coffers, and countless people risked their lives in order to get much more money than usual.Especially those elites from other tribes, their loyalty to the royal family seems to be far less than their loyalty to gold. At this time of crisis, most people think about how to avoid disaster at a later time.

The wartime underground economy, which was supposed to be contained, became more and more violent due to the inaction of the upper echelons of the Northern Han Dynasty.Hankyung is the most urbanized city in North Han. The city was closed for more than a month, enough for mice to find no food.

In an underground market in the center of the city, two Kazakhs wearing towels were welcomed by people.In times of high prices, their goods are always a quarter cheaper than others, and they have a wide range of goods.If you trade gold, you can even buy some meat, cheese or even fine wine.

In addition, the most powerful thing about the two Kazakhs is that in addition to cash transactions, they are willing to lend to certain people with good credit at high interest rates-the so-called good credit people are usually four people in the court. Officials above rank, or nobles with duties, only they can get the reception of 3 times the interest.Although high interest rates are so expensive, in these precarious times, few people care about how much they have to pay back 10 days later.Some people even secretly thought that when the Northern Han Dynasty ceased to exist, the money would naturally not have to be repaid.

However, two, three, and four days passed, and the Northern Han Dynasty still existed, but the debts piled up. Those gentlemen with good credit who borrowed money not only faced the problem of repaying the debts, but also often needed Buy new merchandise.

Under such circumstances, the Kazakhs supported by certain princes began to lobby in the mansions of the nobles.

Needless to say, these Kazakhs were internal agents prepared by the Ministry of War of the Great Xia long ago.

In fact, as early as 20 years ago, Daxia had been secretly cooperating with certain tribes in the Northern Han Dynasty.Many of the tribal successors of those years had successfully seized the central power. They were not necessarily prepared to be puppet troops for the Xia Dynasty, but they did not do little to obtain some benefits by selling other insufficient benefits.

Now that the Northern Han Dynasty is about to fall apart, not to mention the nobles, even the nobles of the royal family are divided, and these Kazakhs are more active in their actions.

After receiving the request from the Ministry of War, they did not hesitate to take out the materials they had saved and sell them in the market. Once they got debts, they would exchange them for news or generous interest.

In fact, for them, this is a business that is sure to make money. Before Hanjing City is broken, they can sell grain as expensive as pearls, and the debt they get is far more than usury. Friends, they can still make their money back, and maybe even make a lot more.

Even during the daily defense change, in the Kazakh defense area, occasionally there will be a whole box of food, most of which are dehydrated food, and occasionally there are condiments such as salt and sugar.

In return, the Ministry of War of the Great Xia can receive a steady stream of intelligence.

But only a small part of it is useful.

However, Han Wei is a very eloquent person who can describe simple things in interesting and full language.He reported his work to Cheng Jinzhou once a day. No matter how little the results were, it sounded like a big deal, and on the seventh day, he finally made substantial progress—"It is said that at the beginning, the materials were delivered to the Fengqian Port, and after it was transported to Hanjing, the warehouses where it was stored belonged to the royal family."

On the 15th, the scope was further narrowed down, and the insiders even found a list, which was the entry and exit voucher of the warehouse. Based on it, it was possible to determine who had been to the warehouse.

At this time, the endurance of the Great Xia generals had also reached its limit.The whole army waited helplessly for the battle to be completed, and then to go home for the New Year, but Cheng Jinzhou only allowed them to carry out a small-scale attack, and the purpose was only to preserve the tactical advantage. Many generals kept sending requests, and what they got was also Constant rejection.

Cheng Jinzhou looked at the list narrowed down to 10 people, nodded silently, and finally ordered: "Han Wei, go and call the main generals for a meeting."

The military judge left happily.Xiao Cheng grabbed the koala on his shoulder, threw him the list and said, "Look, who do you think looks like a border crosser?"

Yisu was bored and twisted in his hands unwillingly: "When I get stronger, you will dare to catch me again."

"The astrologists refine hundreds of kilograms of materials into several kilograms, and then hand them over to you for use, and finally add a few hundred grams to your body. How long will it take for you to become stronger?"

De'an's chemical-inclined star warlocks are still continuously refining various compounds.On the one hand, this can exercise their abilities, and on the other hand, it is also to find a reason to give subsidies, so that the chemical astromancers don’t know what to study—if they don’t care about it, according to the tendency of the astromancers, they will probably spend their energy on it. Considering the relationship between mathematics and chemistry, as far as Cheng Jinzhou's experience is concerned, he has never had sufficient experiments and data records, so if he concentrates on the two far-fetched, the efficiency will not be very high.

Yisu grunted and looked at the list.In terms of his life and goals, spending dozens or hundreds of years is nothing, unlike many impatient gentlemen who always take a year or two too seriously.

"I don't have any impression of the names in it." After a long time, Yisu gave such an answer.

Cheng Jinzhou nonchalantly pointed to the "Society" column above and said, "The most suspicious ones now are Prince Fangzheng and the warehouse manager. As far as their identities are concerned, it seems that they don't need to come and go to such a small place..."

"Fangzheng seems to go to that warehouse every month for half a year, why guess him?" Yisu asked strangely: "In contrast, I think not only the warehouse manager is suspected, but also the chief eunuch of the royal family. , he may save a large sum of money, and after making the first batch of purchases, he can always make some money."

"Fangzheng may be used to going to the warehouse, so the materials are also placed in the warehouse after purchase." Cheng Jinzhou said halfway, feeling that it didn't make sense, and then said: "How could the person who crossed the border be an eunuch... Wait..."

Yisu praised: "That's right, border crossers can use any identity to hide themselves, even eunuchs."

Cheng Jinzhou's face was embarrassed, and he said cowardly: "I originally thought that people who crossed the border could be fake eunuchs, and maybe they would be happier..."

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(End of this chapter)