After rebirth, I ran wild in the heart of His Highness the Prince

Qin Zhongwan stirred the porridge in the wooden bowl. The rice grains in it were clearly distinguishable and he could almost count them.

After serving porridge in the morning and lunch for several consecutive days, Qin Zhongwan had already begun to suspect that she had come with the Royal Forest Army, and Qin Zhongwan also knew the food and grass they escorted.

After all, there are more and more refugees in the camp. Hundreds of people eat it in a day, and the food is just a drop in the bucket.

Presumably, there is not much food now, otherwise Gu Siyuan would not be so stingy, and there is no other way.

Thinking of this, Qin Zhongwan put down the wooden bowl, stood up quickly, changed his clothes, washed his exposed skin, and went to Gu Siyuan's tent.

In the tent, Gu Siyuan frowned as he stared at the letter sent from Kyoto.

The abundant food in Kyoto has long been sent to Jiangnan with the previous disaster relief teams. Now, there is no surplus food in the city. Even if there is, the price has skyrocketed.

Emperor Long Yan was furious and ordered a crackdown on the grain merchants who were raising prices on the ground, but the grain merchants all united.

After preparing a set of words, he closed the shop directly, saying that there was no food to sell.

In fact, they are privately driving up the price of food. It is a troubled year. The world is huge and the food is the largest. The people are reluctant to wear it or use it. But only when it comes to food, they can't bear it but have to eat it.

The shop doors were closed, but in fact, everyone was selling rice and grains that were several times the price in private.

They were hiding very deep. The floods in the south of the Yangtze River made the emperor very tired, so he sent two princes in succession. These grain merchants may have been fixated on the floods, and the court had no time to take care of them and could not punish them, so they became more and more unscrupulous.

The imperial court wanted to buy grain, but all of them said they had no grain. The grain in the official warehouses had been shipped to Jiangnan one after another. The disaster-stricken area was not just Xu County. After several waves of deliveries, the official warehouses were already empty.

Wang Xie in Kyoto saw clearly the turmoil in the city and was even more amazed at Qin Zhongwan's precautions.

At first, she asked people to buy grain and store it in a suburban house. Wang Xie didn't ask, but he was still a little strange in his heart.

Nowadays, a stone of rice is hard to come by, and Qin Zhongwan usually has a bad heart, so he sells the rice stored in the house. Wang Xie made a rough calculation, and found that a few hundred taels of silver would not be a problem.

Xu County camp.

"There is no food left in the warehouse. What does the court say?"

Qin Zhongwan went straight to the point without mincing words. When Gu Siyuan saw this, he pinched his painful eyebrows with a headache.

"These things have nothing to do with the second lady."

Gu Siyuan allowed Qin Zhongwan to stay in Jiangnan, which was the result of his patience.

Gu Siyuan looked complicated, "You know, worrying too much is not a good thing."

Unfortunately, Qin Zhongwan knew about it, but had no feelings about it. She pointed out with her bare hands, "Since my daughter has come to the disaster area, she eats and lives with the victims and is the same person. How can there be any distinction between three, six, nine, etc.?"

When she came to Gu Siyuan's camp, she went to wash up and put on clean clothes, and the disguise on her face was washed away.

His face was bare, but his eyes were exceptionally bright.

"My daughter will not have enough to eat tomorrow. Is it possible that I still can't ask?"

Qin Zhongwan was slightly joking, which made Gu Siyuan helpless.

At this point, even if he wanted to hide it, he couldn't.

"Food is in short supply, and there has been no movement in Kyoto. Trying to transfer food from the surrounding areas is sky-high."

Qin Zhongwan nodded thoughtfully. She had already guessed that those damned grain merchants only had money in their eyes and were obsessed with profit. How could they look down on the people who were squeezed to death by them?

To them, the common people are just ants.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Zhongwan cannot remain indifferent and sit idly by.

Her tone was calm, "The imperial court will not watch the famine spread. Your Highness, you and I will wait for the good news."

Gu Siyuan was suspicious at first, how could Qin Zhongwan be so confident?

Before he could ask any more questions, Qin Zhongwan had already turned around and left.

In the Wang family, the boy opened the door and said, "Who is it? You are here to visit so late at night, and the master has already gone to bed."

"I am from the Prime Minister's Mansion, please inform your master."

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"Mother Lan?"

Wang Xie put on a robe hastily and walked out of the inner room.

He recognized the person at a glance. When Zhang Yu went to check for pulse, Granny Lan was always by Qin Zhongwan's side, and she could be regarded as Qin Zhongwan's confidant.

When Aunt Lan came to the door, Wang Xie did not dare to relax, "Aunt Lan, I don't know if you are here this time, but what is the mission of the second lady?"

"Mr. Wang is a smart man, he knows everything right."

"I'm just here to convey a message for the young lady."

It was late at night, Wang Xie saw off Nanny Lan and returned to the bed. Zhang Yu was also awakened by the movement just now.

"It's so late at night, why is Nanny Lan here?"

Wang thanked him for a while before replying: "Second Miss, you are really willing to give up. She is a person who cares about the people."

The next day, Wang Xie took the initiative to go to the place where the government purchased grain. He wrote down the grain in his private house and sold it to the court at a very low price.

Even the people in the government were surprised that the food was not profitable at all!