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Li Hailong was planning to file a memorial to accuse Gu Shaoyu of death, but when he saw him, he remained extremely respectful.

"I remember that you were a Jinshi in the fifteenth year. Your ancestral home is Jinghe County, Chang'an. You have four brothers, two of whom serve in the Wei family army. You and Wei Anlu are brothers-in-law. You served in Zizhou for seven years, and the Zizhou treasury was in deficit for five years."

Gu Shaoyu glanced at Li Hailong indifferently and said, "If it weren't for the solid foundation laid by the previous one, you would have lost money for seven years. I want to ask you, where did all the food and silver go?"

It was a very cold day and Li Hailong was sweating all of a sudden.

All the contempt for Gu Shaoyu along the way disappeared.

"I am incompetent, the fields in Zizhou are barren, and natural disasters continue. I, I..." Li Hailong couldn't continue.

Xie Yu chuckled and said, "I have worked in the Ministry of Revenue for several years, so I have some understanding of Zizhou. The fields in Zizhou are fertile and most suitable for farming. Before you came, Zizhou had always been one of the granaries of Daqian. After you came, it suffered losses every year."

County Magistrate Qin raised his eyelids slightly several times, secretly looking at Li Hailong's sharp-nosed and monkey-faced face, and then at Gu Shaoyu and Xie Yu's elegant and majestic faces, and thought to himself: It turns out that good-looking men are not easy to mess with!

As soon as Li Hailong arrived, Gu Shaoyu pressed on him step by step. Li Hailong was so scared that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

Gu Shaoyu was not here to provide disaster relief. He was clearly sent by His Majesty to settle accounts with him.

"Think carefully, where has the food gone over the years? Write it down in detail. When I am satisfied, you can go home!"

Gu Shaoyu was too lazy to talk to him any more, so he asked Nanxing to take him to a solitary cell and keep an eye on him. No one was allowed to get close to him, and no one was allowed to leak any information.

The people he brought with him were controlled and locked up as soon as they entered the yamen.

After Li Hailong entered the county government office, he cut off all contact with the outside world.

Five days later, the news spread throughout the country: the price of grain in Zizhou had risen to more than three hundred coins, and was heading straight for four hundred and five hundred coins.

Magistrate Qin was extremely anxious. He would walk around the streets every day, enduring the crying and cursing of the people, as if he had lost his parents.

The streets suddenly became extremely busy, with large numbers of grain trucks coming to Baiyang County every day.

There was an endless stream of carriages and horses entering the city gate, and all the grain merchants were smiling and looking excited.

Looking at the depressed local people, who were starving to death and didn't even have the energy to cry for their dead relatives, County Magistrate Qin's heart was about to explode with anger.

There were people sent by Lord Gu at all intersections. Grain carts were only allowed to come in and not go out. If they wanted to go out, they had to pay silver at the rate of 300 coins per dou.

County Magistrate Qin was extremely angry. If this continued, the people of Baiyang County would be the first to rebel!

He immediately wrote a memorial and submitted it to the court.

"Gu Ge Lao is truly a great traitor and a great evil..."

After he asked the post station to send the memorial out at full speed, he waited for the court's reply every day.

Gu Shaoyu knew that he was handing over a memorial and did not stop him.

He only ordered Ling Xun and Xie Yu to station troops locally and asked the chief steward to dispatch 500 soldiers. They captured a local tyrant overnight. The man was called Ding Fengqi and was in his thirties.

Ding Fengqi was originally just the son of a local squire. After passing the imperial examination, he stopped making any progress. A few years ago, he met a nobleman in Beijing and later became richer and richer.

No one knew how he got to know the powerful people in Beijing, but he bought shops, opened horse farms, and built mansions. He was so domineering that even Li Hailong didn't dare to offend him.

Ling Xun and Xie Yu, holding the imperial edict, led people to suddenly capture Ding Fengqi, and raided his house in a lightning speed.

Ding Fengqi immediately sent someone to contact Li Hailong, but failed to get through, and the message he sent to Li Hailong fell on deaf ears.

Hongying asked Xie Yu: "Master Xie, are these people being taken to the provincial prison or the Baiyang County prison?"

Xie Yu: "This man is guilty of a murder and must be executed immediately."

Hongying executed it without hesitation.

The soldiers of the Du Zongguan hesitated for a moment, but Hongying and her men had already killed Ding Fengqi's entire family.

"Load all the grain in the granary onto the trucks and take it to the county government office. Send the horses to the governor's office." Xie Yu ordered, "The grain must be transported into the county town in broad daylight, and shout along the way that the court has allocated relief grain."

Ding Fengqi's granary did have a lot of grain, but Ling Xun and Xie Yu still ordered the soldiers to fill hundreds of bags of sand and soil in rice bags in the fields overnight.

From the next day, a large number of rice and grain carts entered Baiyang County.

Along the way, big gongs clanged and people shouted, "The court has allocated enough rice to feed the people until the summer harvest."

The endless line of rice carts was like a downpour after a long drought, which was extremely exciting.

The grain carts started entering the city in the morning and continued transporting grain until the sun set and night fell.

County Magistrate Qin didn't know what Gu Shaoyu wanted to do, but he was extremely happy. The government had transferred so much grain, could he release it?

He happily touched the rice bags, but his heart sank as he did so: on each cart of grain, the top bags contained grain, while the bottom bags were filled with sand and soil!

Is this a trick?

Gu Shaoyu said to him, "Go and post a notice tomorrow morning. The government will open its warehouses to sell rice tomorrow. The price is 100 coins."

"What?" County Magistrate Qin felt like there was something wrong with his ears.

"The elder said that the government will sell rice tomorrow for 100 coins." Ling Xun said with a smile, "You heard it right."

Oh, it’s not four hundred wen, not three hundred wen, but one hundred wen!

The next day, the county government posted a notice that the price of rice was one hundred coins.

The whole city is boiling!

The people are happy. The price has dropped to one hundred wen in one go. Lord Gu must have found a way!

The five major grain traders were also excited and held an emergency meeting.

Bai Jia: "What does this mean? Why did the government take the lead in lowering the price so much all at once?"

Liu Jia: "Do you still need to ask? They allocated so much grain yesterday, saying it would be enough to last until the summer harvest!"

Wei Family: "Don't be fooled! This is Gu Shaoyu's conspiracy. There must be sand and gravel in those rice bags. Where did so much food come from?"

Wu Family: "That's right, he is trying to trick us into lowering the price. If he doesn't lower the price, we will never lower the price!"

Wei Shuyun and Shen Su had already written letters to the capital, reporting the skyrocketing rice prices after Gu Shaoyu arrived here.

However, Wei Shuyun, Shen Su and Jin Feng were all eager to take credit and did not mention the clause in the contract that "it must not be less than three hundred coins". They just thought that Gu Shaoyu did not understand the market and was lazy and did not know the difference between grains.

Moreover, between the lines, they were all about how capable he was. The common people were scolding Gu Shaoyu and they only needed a little provocation to raise the banner of uprising.

It was because they were too eager to take credit that this letter killed Wei Jingzhong's chance to make the right judgment.

The government's rice price was reduced from one hundred coins to five coins per day.

In just five days, the price of rice dropped to eighty wen per dou.

Moreover, there are soldiers guarding the rice purchasing site. They first check the household registration certificate before purchasing the food. Each household is limited to purchasing three kilograms of rice per day.

The five major grain merchants were unable to absorb the government's disaster relief grain at a low price.

The five major grain merchants could no longer sit still. Wei Shuyun, Shen Su and Jin Feng were also a little panicked. They sat together to analyze the decision. What should they do next?

Everyone analyzed that it was impossible for the government to provide so much grain for disaster relief.

Crops such as winter wheat have all been frozen to death. If things go wrong, the harvest will be completely lost. There is no hope of a harvest before June.

There was a shortage of new grain. The imperial court could not allocate so much grain, and the government could not hold on until the new grain arrived.

So, the five major grain traders made a decision: wait!

But they can afford to wait, but those foreign grain merchants who want to make a fortune and even some speculative people cannot. Every day is a cost, and the losses will be even greater if they pull it back.

Sell ​​it immediately on the spot to cut losses. If you sell it for 80 cents, you can still make a small profit. If you delay any longer, you will suffer a huge loss.

On the sixth day of opening the warehouse to sell grain, grain traders from other places all made their moves.