my brother-in-law is the prince

Chapter 333

Qunru Pavilion is already in chaos.

Many people were dumbfounded.

All of a sudden, the slightest bit of elegance disappeared without a trace.

Almost everyone flocked to the corridor.

These Confucian Pavilions were originally built on higher ground.

Overlooking from here, all the river views can be described as unobstructed.

But the more it is because of the unobstructed view, the more frightening it is.

Because the people standing here, they can't see this.

"This... this... this is a trick to hide Chen Cang! I have seen this kind of trick a lot!"

Someone shouted.

The rest of the people also seemed to say: "Yes, yes, there are so many grain ships, it's just a joke. It's impossible."

"It seems... someone is in a hurry! Haha... hurry up, hurry up."

Many people started to laugh.

Zhang Taigong was in a daze, and he laughed too, thinking... Maybe it was really just a new trick, a means to lower the price of food, who knows what is in those boats.

But... Although he thought so, Zhang Taigong felt inexplicably anxious deep in his heart.

You know, his wealth and life are all on food.

Apart from other things, the most terrifying thing is the debt. The debt is actually not much, but only 2 taels of silver.

For people like Zhang Taigong, as long as they operate well for a few years, raising these money is just a small problem.

But the real problem is... Once the capital chain is broken, and no money can be found to plug the hole, something big will happen.

The so-called big family business is actually meaningless. Even a gentry, if the liquidity is cut off, even if you have an estate worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, you may die suddenly for a mere tens of thousands of taels of silver.

This is no joke.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Li..." Zhang Taigong began to look for people everywhere, and when Li Xiucai hurried forward, he frowned and muttered in a low voice: "Go, go and see, what is the price of food now."

"Yes, the students will go here."

The rest of the people are also calling for friends, or ordering their own servants, or asking other people.

Although everyone has explained these grain ships, but the explanation is one thing, and the rise and fall of grain prices is another.

"This must be a trick of the thief, just to make me mess up. Don't panic, gentlemen. Once you panic, if you sell it cheap immediately, you will fall into the trick of the thief. We... as long as you don't sell it, whoever I can't do anything about it, all the food in Nanzhili is in our hands..."

Someone yelled hysterically.

Everyone said loudly: "Of course, don't let the thief succeed."

"It is impossible for Taiping Mansion to have so much food."

"I heard people say that Hu Gong went to Taiping Mansion and wept, lamenting how difficult the people's livelihood is and the suffering of the people."

In the Confucian Pavilion.

Zhu Di and others sat upright, motionless.

Only Hu Guang, who was standing not far from Zhu Di, was trembling... He couldn't understand why he was crying.

But what people say is serious, they have noses and eyes!

Hu Guang sighed, and glanced at Yang Rong who was beside him.

Yang Rong smiled at him, which made Hu Guang's eyes even hotter.

He suddenly had a feeling...maybe...could it be possible that Mr. Yang is really right?
No one cares about poetry and songs anymore.

Many people are like headless chickens.

In this chaotic moment, suddenly, someone ran over panting and shouted: "It's terrible, it's terrible, the price of grain has plummeted, the price of grain has plummeted... It's back to five taels of silver, back to five taels of silver!" gone."

Many people are dumbfounded.

Five taels of silver?

That was the price four or five days ago!This time, it fell a lot.

"Heh..." That Zhou Juren was full of anger at this time, he shouted, and said with a sarcasm: "These tricks can't fool us, five taels of silver, I still make a lot of money, my The food is bought at an average price of three taels of silver, so keep calm...it will be fine..."

When he said this, everyone suddenly agreed.

But after saying this, Zhou Juren pulled the bookboy he had brought aside and ordered in a low voice: "Quick, hurry up, go back and tell my son to sell the grain immediately, five liang of silver per stone, as much as you can. "

After hearing this, the book boy ran away as if flying.

Zhou Juren immediately yelled again: "I think the grain boat is designed to deceive people. Only when the price of grain falls, some people can solve their food shortage problem. If not, the court will blame me. This thief is There is no place to die..."

Everyone applauded again: "Brother Zhou has great insight."

Zhang Taigong also applauded, but he was still a little flustered.

He wanted to discuss with Li Xiucai and explain some things, but he found that Li Xiucai had already gone to see the price. As for the entourage he brought, he was still outside. When he went out to search, he found that he hadn't stayed where he was, presumably he knew He didn't walk that fast, so he sneaked away and wandered the streets.

He didn't know anything about Qixia, so he didn't dare to turn around rashly, so he had to go back to Qunru Pavilion.

The crowd was noisy, and they were still encouraging each other. Occasionally, there were a few people who didn't know what happened and were just confused.

Zhu Di was sitting in the corner with a stern expression, what he saw in front of him was really ugly.

And Yang Rong stood calmly, looking like he was watching a good show.

Many times, once you think about it, you find that your interests are not closely related to theirs. At this time, people will understand. This kind of staying out of things and seeing people crazy, not to mention...it's really interesting.

Hu Guang, Xia Yuanji and others were quite depressed.

They actually knew the truth, and watching these people encourage each other made them feel a little bit sad.

Jin Zhong squeezed his beard, shook his head, and muttered: "Oh, no wonder, no wonder."

Zhu Di glanced at Jin Zhong: "No wonder what?"

Jin Zhong said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, when I entered this pavilion, I saw the poems posted on the wall, as well as the running script of many people, and the ink treasures left by them. After a brief look, I found that the words written in this running script In the words, there are all ominous omens, I am afraid... there will be a bloody disaster, and I am in the attic where the poems are posted, I just feel like a light is on my back, and there are murderous intentions everywhere."

After all, Jin Zhong was born in word testing, and he has not forgotten his roots.

Zhu Di had a cold face at first, but he couldn't help laughing at this moment: "Don't be fooled, you will be wise after the fact."

Jin Zhong made fun of himself.

Hu Guang's ears were sharp, but he listened. He quietly went to Jin Zhong's side, and said in a low voice, "Jin Gong... Are you accurate?"

Jin Zhong said solemnly: "Having been in this business for twenty years, it is considered exhaustive."

Hu Guangdao: "Why don't you test it for me?"

Jin Zhong smiled and said, "I'll see what you write."

Hu Guang looked at Zhu Di pitifully.

Zhu Di only felt that the place was noisy, but he didn't expect that the minister who followed him had another problem, but he just lowered his head and sipped his tea without nodding or objecting.

There are pens, inks, papers and inkstones everywhere here, Hu Guang thought for a while, then pondered for a moment, wrote a large character, and handed it to Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong looked at the word on it, but it was a big word for 'grain'.

Jin Zhong said indifferently: "The left side is rice, and the right side is good. , sad in your heart?"

Hu Guang was surprised and said, "Ah... yes, yes, what else?"

Jin Zhongdao: "You are not in agreement with what you say now. What you think in your heart does not match what you do. This is the key to Mi and Liang. Hey... Life is alive, and at your age, you still have to Confused..."

When he said this, Hu Guang said: "Jin Gong, your calculations are really accurate, I want to ask..."

"Ask what? About marriage, or about the future?"

Hu Guang thought for a while and said, "Ask about life."

Jin Zhong gave him a serious look, and then said: "Actually, people live in this world, and it is impossible to do it all together. In fact, you are Qu Yuan's life, and you can't pay for your ambition. But... don't panic , Judging from your words, you have a gentle temperament, you are loyal, and you are good at submitting to hardships, so although Doctor Qu suffers from sorrow, you will never jump into the river to get righteousness like him."

"In my opinion, you will be able to go smoothly in this life after all. The current sorrow is just a small setback. It doesn't matter. Go home and have a good sleep. After a few months, when you look back, you will find... Most things in the world are like this, so you can be happy."

Hu Guang seemed to be caught by what Jin Zhong said all of a sudden, and seeing Zhu Di and Xia Yuanji, they all listened with their ears open.

He blushed, didn't say whether the calculation was accurate or not, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes."

So I took back the words I wrote, and felt a little ashamed. The scholars over there were still making noise, but Hu Guang didn't care about them. Instead, he quietly went to Yang Rong's side and whispered: The words are really accurate."

Yang Rong only glanced at him sideways, and said, "Even Zhang Anshi can figure out what you're thinking in your heart, so you still need to test the characters?"

Hu Guang became a little anxious, and couldn't help whispering: "Zhang Anshi? Just him? I don't believe it!"

At this moment, Li Xiucai stumbled in and rushed in: "Grandfather... Grandfather..."

Everyone's attention fell on Li Xiucai.

"It's not good, grandpa... four taels of silver... four taels of silver, just a few sticks of incense, and it's only four taels of silver..." Li Xiucai shouted.

Everyone in the attic looked miserable, and some people shouted: "At the beginning... I bought this food for four taels, it's over..."

Others are okay, someone bought it at a low price.

But now, he was also at a loss.

Zhang Taigong's body was trembling, his eyes were wide open, the pupils in his eyes were constricted, and he said tremblingly: "Quick, sell, sell..."

"It can't be sold, it can't be sold. Many merchants there said that the price is low because...many people are secretly selling it, so the price will only get lower and lower. The best way...the best way...is ...that is, everyone joins hands to protect the price..."

Everyone hesitated, and some people were already anxious, and shouted: "Yes! Join hands to insure the price, there must be someone...someone..."

at this time……

From the attic, someone came down slowly.

"Hahahaha...how's the poetry...how noisy."

Everyone went to see it.

But I saw a slender man wearing a python robe, slowly walking down from the top floor.

It turned out... Zhang Anshi was actually upstairs from them.

Zhang Anshi was wearing a python robe. He was young, tall and tall, coupled with his handsome face, he looked outstanding.

Dozens of guards guarded him cautiously, and another team of guards appeared in every corner of the building.

After Zhang Anshi laughed, he was a little shocked to see Zhu Di.

Obviously, he did not expect that Zhu Di would come to this group of Confucian Pavilions in person.

He joins in the bustle of the scholars?
Zhu Di shook his head slightly at him.

The tacit understanding between the two of them is not the first day. Zhang Anshi knew it, so he turned his eyes, looked natural, and laughed again: "Everyone, everyone... have these poems... been written? My Zhang Anshi is the most It is the love of talents, the thirst for talents, long-awaited, and the desire to see all the great talents."

Hearing that it was Zhang Anshi, the hundreds of people immediately fell silent.

On weekdays, everyone scolded Zhang Anshi a lot, with many vicious words.

But in front of Zhang Anshi, these people did not dare anyone to spit out any evil words.

It's just... Those eyes, more or less, were full of jealousy.

"This...is actually a poetry meeting sponsored by Duke Wei?" Someone reacted and exclaimed.

Zhang Anshi said: "Can't you say that, what do you mean I sponsored it? It's obviously sponsored by my beloved apprentice, a first-class Jinshi Gu Xingzu."

"Huh? Why don't you write poems anymore? Come, come, come, you don't have to be polite, I'm just passing by here, so don't pay attention to me."

But everyone still stood where they were, without responding.

Only those pairs of eyes, with endless hatred.

Zhang Taigong even wanted to leave immediately.

Many people don't want to stay here, and they all want to leave.

At this time, Zhang Anshi was calm and relaxed, as if he was taking a walk in the garden. Suddenly, with his hands behind his back, he turned around and asked Zhu Jin who was behind him: "Zhu Jin...how much is the food price now?"

At this moment... everyone really couldn't move.

Everyone seemed to have nails on their feet, motionless.

Zhu Jin smiled and said: "Now? It's hard to say. If there are no accidents, it should be almost three taels of silver."

three two...

Although they don't know if it's true or not, many people realize that...it might be...true.

Many people are already worried. To be honest...this time...too much has been involved.

At first many people bought grain, but only bought a little bit, but later, seeing that the price had risen too much, they began to regret buying less.

As a result, the courage became bigger and bigger, and the scale of the purchase began to get bigger and bigger.

They could have comforted themselves that buying these grains was an attack on the Taiping Mansion, and it was a righteous cause, but in fact... it was nothing more than a desire to fill up.

After Zhu Jin finished speaking, Zhang Anshi frowned and said, "How much grain can be transported into the warehouse from each county today?"

"Grandpa, there should be 100 million shi. The next 200 million shi, I'm afraid it will take half a month to be transported into the warehouse one after another."

One million stones... 100 million stones to follow.

This number is already the limit of everyone's imagination.

Everyone listened to the conversation between Zhang Anshi and Zhu Jin, and some people kept telling themselves that this was just a lie...it was just a trick they played, and they couldn't fool me. Three million stone grains...where did they get it? ?

After Zhang Anshi heard this, he smiled: "This is public grain and cannot be moved. Half of it has to be handed over to the imperial court, the grain of each county... How is the purchase situation of our government government?"

Zhu Jin said again: "All the counties let the grain stations collect, and the nine counties have a bumper harvest. In order to have a stable grain price, the grain stations in all places buy grain at a price of 70 ren, no matter how the grain price rises or falls, this is the case. .Now the market price is ridiculously high, and there are not many people willing to sell grain to grain stations, so they only charge about [-] shi."

Cheap grain hurts the farmers, and expensive rice hurts the people. In order to solve this situation, the grain station is of great use. Zhang Anshi formulated a decree for the government to purchase grain uniformly.

In other words, no matter how much the grain price is, the grain station will buy it at one price. If the price of grain has fallen below [-] yuan, the grain station will still pay [-] yuan per stone, and the price of grain outside is soaring. Quotes.

Of course, if farmers want to sell grain to merchants, there is no problem, as long as you are willing to sell, the grain station does not care.

But in fact, even so, there are still many farmers who are willing to sell their grain to grain stations.On the one hand, the grain station is innocent, and the price is constant.

On the other hand, if you want to sell to others, transportation is a big problem, and small farmers are already at a disadvantage when facing merchants. Even if the price of bulk grains soars, the purchase price of merchants will never be the market price.

Hearing that the surplus grain received alone is 70 shi... the people here are all dumbfounded.

Of course, no one believed Zhang Anshi. In their view, Zhang Anshi was casting doubts.

But at this time, Zhang Anshi said briskly: "70 shi... that's very good. Now that the price of bulk grain is so high, then sell them all quickly. I will quote a price, two taels of silver for one shi, how much is it?" We will sell as much as people accept.”

Zhu Jinxiang suddenly exclaimed in surprise: "Sell all 70 shi?"

"Sell them all?"

"What if the price falls below two taels of silver?"

Zhang Anshi said: "One tael of silver is also sold, not to mention one tael of silver, even if it is [-] Wen, it will be sold as usual! Now Taiping Mansion has a lot of food, as long as someone is willing to buy it, sell as much as you can if it is higher than [-] Wen! "

Zhu Jin said: "Understood, my lord... I'll let someone place the order."

As Zhang Anshi said, he walked to a place not far from Zhu Di with a smile, sat down, and looked at the scholars.

These people are all dumbfounded and stunned.

Zhang Anshi said with an easy-going smile: "Come on, continue to write poems, we are all elegant people, how can there be no poems in this situation?"

Many people's faces were suddenly pale.

Because they saw that there was indeed a person who ran away quickly after receiving Zhu Jin's order.

At this moment, a servant suddenly rushed in and shouted: "Master, master, it's not good..."

It was the boy called by Juren to sell grain that week.

The young fellow looked like he was mourning his concubine, and with a bit of a crying voice, he shouted: "Master, the market price can't be sold at all, and no buyer can be found. Now it is two taels of silver, and no one is willing to buy it. The young master said , even a tael of silver...no one is willing to buy grain. The young master also said that there are countless grains...on the wharf, the number is uncountable, and many feet are used to move the grain and put it in the warehouse. Everyone I saw it with my own eyes, it’s real food, and it’s all new rice…”

Every word of this boy seems to have infinite power, like a sharp knife, on the heart of the person who killed here, it is so painful that I can hardly breathe.

Thinking of Zhang Anshi daring to sell it for [-] yuan, almost everyone... suddenly felt dark in front of them.

But I heard the young man say: "Taiping Mansion... Taiping Mansion is a big ripe... a bumper harvest... a big bumper harvest... the news has already spread, it is Yang Rong, a cabinet scholar, and Hu Guang, a cabinet scholar, personally investigated it The result of this. The second gentleman met the saint yesterday to report the good news... Yang Rong was full of praise for the Taiping Mansion, and even Hu Guang said the same... The young master heard it with his own ears... The young master said, our family It may be a little later, and you won't even be able to sell [-] Wen. Master...Young Master is going crazy right now..."

That Zhou Juren... only felt that his eyes were full of stars.

His body is light and fluffy, wobbly, eight hundred words...

It's actually [-] words... and it can't be sold.

There is still a lot of grain on the market. If no one buys it and everyone sells it, what will it mean?
It means... this food can only be piled up in the barn of my own family, and the storage cost, as well as the original purchase cost, add up together...

Yes, yes... and Qianzhuang.

Blood lost!
This is really overnight, emptying out the whole house.

"Hu Guang also said the same thing, this thief Hu Guang...will die a terrible death!" Someone cursed through gritted teeth.

Hu Guang: "..."

As everyone knows, everyone can accept that Zhang Anshi is his sworn enemy, so no matter how he fights to the death with Zhang Anshi, what methods Zhang Anshi uses, at most, he just curses in private.

As for Yang Rong, Yang Rong... usually doesn't have an image of integrity that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so... no one will be surprised that he did such a thing.

But Hu Guang is obviously different to them. In everyone's eyes, Hu Guang can be said to be a traitor and the most hateful.

Therefore, some people howled, some beat their breasts and fell their feet, and some cursed angrily: "I wish I could eat Hu Guang's flesh alive."

Someone hurriedly shouted: "Sell grain... sell grain..."

After Zhang Taigong heard this, he was stunned for a moment unacceptably, and then he seemed to be crazy, trembling slightly, and moved to rush out of Qunru Pavilion.Who knows, the threshold has not yet been crossed.

Snapped……

With a loud noise, a person suddenly fell from the sky.

Immediately afterwards...it fell in front of his eyes like muddy meat.

A well-behaved person is completely changed in an instant, and what is left in front of Zhang Taigong is only a corpse that has long been out of human shape.

Zhang Taigong opened his eyes wide, trying hard to recognize the bloody scene in front of him, he finally recognized it, this is Zhou Juren...

It's Zhou Juren!
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Chapter 2 is delivered, students, although Tiger admits that he is a gambler, but still wants to say: ask for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)