I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country

Because of oil, food and money, thanks to Liu Yan, within a short period of time, Jiashenhui really didn't notice the increase in local food prices.

The rations of 5000 soldiers are not too much, and Xu Xiongyuan has not felt the pressure yet.

He was secretly greedy for the mines in the hands of the local tyrants, especially the gold mines that were shining with gold, and he really wanted to grab them just like that.But, after all, he took what Liu Yan said into his heart. Even if the Jingnan Lake has natural dangers, if the local tyrants unite and the surrounding garrison is dispatched, his [-] soldiers will not be enough.

Xu Xiongyuan could only temporarily hold back his eagerness to move, and patiently waited for the news from the capital, but during this waiting process, Liu Yan gradually gained his favor.

However, Zhao Zhou faintly felt that something was wrong, and he asked Liu Yan from time to time, "Is the imperial court's anti-corruption activities really strong?"

Liu Yan snorted coldly, and said with hatred and anger: "On the surface, it looks like anti-corruption, but it's not using power to force people! The people above talk, and the people below are perfunctory. In the end, we only catch some scapegoats, and that's enough!"

Those corrupt officials in Daheng are just perfunctory in this way!

Liu Yan was genuinely angry. In Zhao Zhou's eyes, Zhao Zhou was too embarrassed to continue asking. He only thought that it might be because Jingnan Lake was too chaotic. Either the anti-corruption personnel hadn't arrived yet, or It's just that the local officials have been perfunctory, so there hasn't been any big commotion.

Although it was reasonable to think so, he still had some bad premonitions. His right eyelid kept twitching, but he didn't know what was going to happen.

A few days later, the person sent to assassinate the emperor returned.

These people were in such a panic that they fell to the ground exhausted as soon as they returned to the Jiashenhui. Xu Xiongyuan was so impatient that he couldn't do his superficial skills. He stood beside the assassin and urged, "How is the assassination successful? The dog emperor is dead." No? Why are there only a few of you left?"

The leader of the assassin took a breath, and after recovering, he laughed loudly: "The dog emperor was shot by us, hahahaha! I'm afraid he will die soon!"

Xu Xiongyuan was overjoyed, patted the assassin leader on the shoulder and laughed loudly: "Well done, God help me Xu!"

Xu Xiongyuan sneered endlessly, now, the court may no longer be able to control the villain army.If the gold mine is robbed, who can do anything to him?

He asked his servants to quickly help him to rest, ordered him to prepare a good meal, and planned to have a lively celebration.

At the banquet, everyone chatted happily with wine.After a few glasses of wine, Zhao Zhou heard two diners not far away complaining that they couldn't afford food at home today.

Zhao Zhou frowned. Liu Yan, who was sitting beside him, glanced at him, raised his sleeve and poured himself a glass of wine, and asked with concern, "Brother Zhao, why is his face worried?"

Zhao Zhou sighed, "Brother Liu, I don't know, the grain you brought back is almost used up in the past few days. Once the military salary is gone, the soldiers will panic. I sent people to buy rice grain a few days ago, but Only then did I know that the price of rice in the city has increased."

Liu Yan flashed a smile, and asked without changing his face: "How much has it increased?"

Zhao Zhou said: "It has increased to [-]% of the original price."

Liu Yan suddenly shook his head in a funny way, "Brother Zhao, if you don't do these kinds of jobs in your family, you probably don't know that the price increase is within the normal range."

Zhao Zhou asked: "This has already increased by [-]%. Is this still normal?"

"Naturally," Liu Yan nodded, thinking for a while, "Recently the news about the amount of ore in Jingnan Lake should have been spread, and these people who came from Jiangnan to open grain shops inevitably thought that the entire Jingnan Lake had made a lot of money. .Businessmen, profit-seeking is instinct."

Zhao Zhou sighed, uneasy, "I hope so."

When Liu Yan came to Jiashenhui, there were [-] new recruits from the Supervision Office with him.

The sage is in short supply, so the people in the supervision office are studying very hard.As time went on, the Supervision Office became bigger and bigger in secret, and people like Sun Xiaoshan walked out of the Supervision Office one by one, and used their feet to cover the entire territory of Daheng on behalf of the Holy One.

Together with the Supervision Office, there are 500 elite soldiers of Dongling Guard, who obey the command of the Supervision Office at any time.These [-] people are all powerful people, one can block ten, and all of them are fierce men.

The leader of the Supervision Office is named Jiang Jin.

Jiang Jin brought people to Jiangnan, and first interrupted the news chain between Jingnan and Jiangnan, so as to prevent Jiangnan's news from leaking out and alarming Jingnan in advance.

After finishing this work, Jiang Jin began to purchase grain in Jiangnan in accordance with the order of the Holy Majesty.

The granary in the south of the Yangtze River has already been cleared by Gu Yuanbai, and the merchants in the major grain stores have also closed the grain stores. These people are the people who Gu Yuanbai buried in the south of the Yangtze River in the past.And after they closed the grain store, the last grain in the store was secretly transported to the supervision office.

Gu Yuanbai deliberately drove the remnants of Lu Feng to Jingnan and Jiangnan, so why didn't he take some precautions?

When he drove the rebel army here, he had already made many preparations for today's scene.

After that, I don't know when it started, the voice of "there is no food in the south of the Yangtze River" began to sound in the south of the Yangtze River.

When this voice first sounded, many people sneered at it. Where is Jiangnan?The prosperous land of fish and rice!How could there be no food in such a place?

But as more and more people said it, those who didn't believe it began to hesitate.

They dubiously walked into the grain store to have a look, but they really found that there was not much grain in the grain store.

Even many grain shops are closed.

The people in Jiangnan were stunned.

After regaining consciousness, in an inexplicable panic, they took the money and rushed into the only remaining grain shop, desperately grabbing the grain in the grain shop.There are more people looting, and the panic of running out of food is getting bigger and bigger.In the end, the owners of the grain shop became suspicious, and they closed their doors, unwilling to sell any more grain.

After this situation intensified in Jiangnan, another rumor began to sound again.

There is a plague in the provinces.

As soon as the rumor spread, and seeing the lack of grain in the grain shop, everyone panicked.No matter who believed it or not before, they are all afraid at this moment.Under the plague, the people's thirst for food increased.They had no choice but to run to the government, but the officials in the government had already fled with food!

The people used brute force to open the granary, but they saw nothing but scattered grains of grain in the granary.

Jiangnan is so prosperous, and the people in Jiangnan are used to buying all kinds of things with money.They never thought that there would be a day without food, and when this day really came, they discovered that the prosperity of Jiangnan was so fragile.

The grain in the fields is still growing, and the people's homes only have unfinished grain from last time, and the only people who can have enough grain are the local tyrants.

At this time, let alone transporting grain to the south of Jingnan, the local grain in Jiangnan is not enough.

Half a month later, the people in Jingnan heard the news from Jiangnan.

There is no food in Jiangnan.

The people in Jingnan Lake looked at each other in blank dismay.

They had the same reaction as Jiangnan when he first heard the news, they didn't believe it.

But then they couldn't help but not believe it.

There is no food in Jiangnan. After confirming this, the people in the whole of Jingnan became panicked. The only provinces around the south of Jingnan that can provide food for them is the large province of Jiangnan. Now that Jiangnan has no food, what are they going to do? ?

The people in Jingnan Lake fell into deep panic.

They took the money from selling mines and went to the grain shop to buy grain.But if there is no food, there is no food. What is the use of having more money?

In a blink of an eye, Jingnan and Jiangnan were so poor that only money was left.

Ningyuan County.

All the dignified people in the Jiashenhui gathered together, many of them looked flustered, and they all asked the same question, "General, what should we do if we run out of food?"

Xu Xiongyuan's complexion was also not good-looking, he asked the group of military advisers, "Do you gentlemen have any clever plans?"

All the military advisers were frowning, Zhao Zhou's heart was beating fast, and his eyelids were also twitching, "Why is this food suddenly gone?"

Xu Xiongyuan's patience diminished, and he said impatiently: "Mr. Zhao, since this incident has already happened, there is no need to investigate what happened. The most important thing now is how to get food! Soldiers have to Eat, without pay there will be defection and chaos."

Zhao Zhou hesitated to speak, but finally shut up.

Liu Yan glanced at him comfortingly, pondered for a while, and said: "General, news of plagues in other provinces is spreading everywhere in Jingnan, and even a small place like Ningyuan County is in panic. Although we don't know whether it is true or not, the common people I have already believed it, now I can’t buy grain, and no one is willing to come out to sell grain.”

Xu Xiongyuan: "This general knows."

Liu Yan sighed, and said in a low voice: "It just so happens that our people also sent someone to hurt the emperor. Now that there is chaos outside, isn't it time for us to stand out?"

Xu Xiongyuan was startled when he heard the words, and then his veins bulged out of excitement.His dark face was eager to try, and it was obvious that his heart had already moved.

Liu Yan continued in a low voice: "Jingnan is so chaotic, it must be the same in Jiangnan. Under such circumstances, we..."

"It's time for us to stand out," a military adviser said excitedly, "The people are so panicked, but those tyrants can still sit still. General, the food must be in the tyrants' place!"

Xu Xiongyun instantly remembered the gold mine dug by the Chen family half a month ago.

Once the greedy thoughts came out, I couldn't suppress them anymore.

Zhao Zhou couldn't help but follow Liu Yan's thoughts. No matter whether the plague outside is true or not, Jingnan and Jiangnan must be in chaos.

The emperor is also in danger now. With such an opportunity, whoever does not come out is stupid!

If both Jingnan and Jiangnan can be taken in one fell swoop, there will be natural dangers, and the entire Jiangnan area as a military backing, plus the death of the emperor——

Zhao Zhou stood up abruptly, and excitedly held Xu Xiongyuan's hand, "General, this is our chance to recover."

The arrogance in Xu Xiongyuan's heart suddenly rose, and he said with a surge of emotion: "What Mr. said is what I mean!"