The Tyrant's Cannon Fodder Queen[Transmigration Book]

The two hurried back to the house and reported the situation to the prince.

"It's these profiteers who set us up!" Eunuch Liu kept wiping the sweat from his forehead and neck with a handkerchief, and said to the prince in a sharp voice: "The batch of grain that His Highness mobilized will not only be used for lending and relief to the disaster-stricken counties in Shanxi, but also Half of it is a surplus, which is enough to turn over a new warehouse for a year. Besides you, who else would suddenly mobilize so much food? It must be a fake show orchestrated by those profiteers!"

"What's even more ridiculous is that they said that the Beijing merchants are willing to pay a price of seven hundred pennies a stone for middle-level grain, which is more expensive than the market price. Whoever has more money will be hot!"

"They want to hit us hard?" The prince looked at Xue Yao.

"In my opinion, this matter may not have been made up by Zhejiang merchants." Xue Yao nodded and replied: "According to the previous assumption, someone leaked the news that His Royal Highness is urgently collecting grain, even if Zhejiang merchants have the guts to fish One sum, that should have been prepared early, and bought grain from Jinling City at a low price in batches.

But the actual situation is that overnight, regardless of the cost, Zhejiang merchants purchased a large amount of grain from their counterparts in Jinling City. If it was just to drive up grain prices, the risk would be too great. "

The prince narrowed his eyes slightly: "You mean, there are indeed so-called Beijing merchants who rushed to negotiate business with them before me, so that they can raise food everywhere regardless of cost?"

"That's exactly what it means." Xue Yao analyzed: "I heard from the shopkeeper of the grain store today that the grain collection price of Jingshang is 690 Wen a stone, which is the only price that can make Zhejiang merchants pay 590 Wen at all costs. The price is sky-high, and the grain is adjusted from the hands of the peers. Without such confidence, these Zhejiang merchants would not dare to take such a big risk."

Eunuch Liu didn't take it seriously, and frowned, retorting: "Is there anything these profiteers can't do for profit? Which fool is willing to spend 690 renminbi to collect a large amount of grain? These grain merchants in Zhejiang ganged up together and emptied out all the grain in Jinling City Yes, just to let us pay a sky-high price higher than 690 Wen to grab this batch of food from the Beijing merchants they arranged!"

Xue Yao ignored him, still looking at the prince.

The prince asked Xue Yao: "Is there any other evidence that can prove that there is such a Beijing merchant who came to Zhejiang to collect grain at a sky-high price before us."

It was still the crown prince who was able to ask the point, and Xue Yao immediately replied: "It's the attitude of the shopkeeper of the grain store, the attitude of him discussing business with us-he didn't put on airs, he didn't tantalize his appetite, he was neither humble nor overbearing, and his demeanor was calm. This is not a A profiteer with a lot of goods in his hands and doing everything possible to lure people into his trap will perform well."

"This just shows that he is a profiteer among profiteers." Eunuch Liu objected, "He can deceive you, but he cannot deceive our family!"

Xue Yao cupped his hands and said to the prince: "The matter is of great importance. I can't convince the public based on my personal judgment. I hope His Highness will condescend to go to the food store to inquire in person."

"Okay, let's assume that there really is such a Beijing merchant who is willing to pay a higher price than the retail sale price and collect a large amount of grain." The prince said: "Aren't Zhejiang grain merchants afraid that things will go wrong and there will be fraud? You just said The Beijing merchants only paid a deposit, and the grain merchants in Zhejiang are not worried about the other party changing their minds? Could it be that the Beijing merchants were sent by the Jinling grain merchants to trick them into Jinling to collect grain at high prices?"

Xue Yao answered honestly: "I have no way of guessing this, but judging from the awe that the shopkeeper has for Beijing merchants, the other party may also be a person of status. Maybe there is something behind them, so that these Zhejiang merchants have a bottom line."

The prince was lost in thought.

Eunuch Liu reminded in a low voice: "It's better for us to stand still and waste him first. No matter what kind of Beijing businessman he is, no matter how powerful he is, he can't just afford a million taels of silver."

"The problem is that we can't afford it now." The prince let out a deep breath: "If it's half a month later, most of the farmers in the disaster-stricken counties will borrow money from landlords and wealthy businessmen, and the trial effect of the new law will be negligible."

Eunuch Liu said nervously: "How about, in the name of disaster relief from the imperial court, we ask Zhejiang merchants to drop other businesses and sell rice and grain to us at a small profit."

"Do you want the new law to be a laughing stock?" One of the prince's advisers stepped forward to argue: "During the trial period of the new law, we have to prove to the emperor that we don't need to exert pressure in the name of the court, nor hinder the free trade of the people. The advantages of convenient transportation, small profits and high profits can benefit the people and at the same time fill the national treasury.”

The prince fell into deep thought.

The people in the hall immediately held their breath and waited for the order.

"Retire, call Xu Liang and Zhang Qing to see Gu." After the prince finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the coffee table to sit down.

After Xue Yao went out, he thought that Xu and Zhang were the prince's first-class guards, the kind of masters and masters.

The summoning of these two people should be some kind of task such as secret investigation and torture.

The prince may want to find out the true identity of the so-called "Beijing merchant".

In the palace school grounds.

The fifth prince practiced with the fencing instructor for dozens of rounds, and his arms and the outside of his thighs were all swollen by the rattan in the instructor's hand, but the long sword in his hand never touched the instructor's leather armor.

The fifth prince was so tired that he could barely lift his arms, so he turned around and copied the seventh prince who was playing chess in the tea shed and shouted: "Old Seven, you have made some moves."

"No." The Seventh Prince never gave Fifth Brother face.

"Hey!" The fifth prince turned around and walked over angrily, admonishing his younger brother: "Your boy knows how to be lazy all day long, and you don't understand the joy of martial arts at all. Look at your brother and me, sweating like rain, fighting against Coach Li for dozens of rounds, no matter what! Winning or losing is simply extremely fun!"

The Seventh Prince laughed lightly: "I didn't see brother win, but I saw brother being beaten unilaterally all the time."

"Nonsense!" The fifth prince refused to accept it: "You have been staring at the chessboard, when did you watch us compete with swords?"

The seventh prince dropped a sunspot: "Listen."

"Can you hear who is winning and who is losing?"

"The sound of a rattan being whipped is different from the sound of a sword touching leather." The Seventh Prince sat here for half an hour, only to hear Fifth Brother being whipped, and was really ashamed to watch the battle, so he could only ask the eunuch to bring the chessboard.

The fifth prince blushed suddenly.

Lao Qi, this little chubby boy, always frightened his older brother from time to time.

Unlike other children, Lao Qi often appears to be more stupid and unreasonable than children of the same age, but he will show unique insights in certain special matters.

In order to regain his dignity as an elder brother, the fifth prince explained eagerly: "Coach Li is a general after all. In terms of strength and reaction speed, although I can be slightly better than him, my experience is far behind him. To be able to be predicted by him requires more actual combat accumulation. Look at you again. You never participate in practice. Every time your elder brother inspects, you just cram. .”

"The roast leg of lamb is almost ready." The dishes ordered by the Seventh Prince were about to be served, training was impossible.

"Eat after training!" The Fifth Prince grabbed the Seventh Prince's wrist without saying a word.

The Seventh Prince looked up at Fifth Brother, immediately pursed his mouth, bent over and covered his lower abdomen: "It hurts!"

"The imperial doctor doesn't give you any plasters, so pretend! You still want to pretend to be sick for the rest of your life because of this injury?" The fifth prince was anxious to let the seventh brother taste the strength of the coach, so as to save face, and dragged his younger brother to the practice ground without any explanation. pull.

So, after three months, Coach Li confronted the Seventh Prince again.

Instructor Li has a headache for this little prince, because unlike the fifth prince, the seventh prince "just does it with real knives and guns", this chubby seventh prince likes to "play dirty".

To be specific, the Seventh Prince doesn't like to fight head-on. He always dodges around, wears out people's patience, and plays cards out of common sense.

And don't look at the seventh prince who looks quite white and tender, but his body is surprisingly light. He is the most agile fat man that Coach Li has ever met in his life!

So before this move, Coach Li greeted first——

"Your Highness, let's do the sword competition seriously. On the battlefield, there are arrows and chaotic knives wielded by the enemy everywhere. There is not such a big place for you to dodge around, so you can't be opportunistic."

The Seventh Prince narrowed his shallow pupils, stared at the instructor with a half-smile, and said, "If you can dodge your sword, you can also dodge the arrows and machetes."

Instructor Li was obviously very dissatisfied with the little prince's arrogance. Due to his status, he couldn't pour cold water on him, so he could only retort: ​​"Your Highness is a majestic man, why do you always prefer to retreat to advance?"

The Seventh Prince smiled with sharp teeth, lowered his head and squinted at his sword, and replied in a low voice, "It's very interesting that you look like you are throwing yourself into a trap."

"What did you say?" The instructor didn't hear clearly.

The Seventh Prince suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Let the horse come here, this time I won't hide, Your Highness's roast leg of lamb must not be cold."

Coach Li heard this sentence clearly, and his fighting spirit as a general was also stimulated, and he shouted, "Look at the trick!"

The instructor shook the cane and attacked the Seventh Prince!

The Seventh Prince twitched slightly at the tip of his left ear, and a pair of shallow glazed pupils showed some doubts.

Facing the coach's attack at close range, the feeling became clearer.

The air around the coach is surging.

After recovering from his lower abdomen injury, the Seventh Prince found that his surroundings were different.

When he concentrates on one place, everything around him seems to slow down.

Even the fluttering wings of flying insects are slow.

The Seventh Prince could feel the airflow caused by the vibration of the wings, and through the changes in the airflow, he could easily judge the trajectory of the flying insects.

No need to see with eyes.

At this moment, staring at the coach with all his attention, the Seventh Prince could feel the invisible air flow around him——

The cane pierced towards his left shoulder, but the airflow from the instructor's wrist and ankle was hitting in the opposite direction.

It was a false move, he planned to attack the right side.

The instructor made a feint, and with a twist of his wrist, he attacked the prince's right shoulder.

Unexpectedly, the unresponsive little prince did not dodge to the right, but dodged to the left, as if he had seen his move in advance.

how can that be!

Just as the coach was about to close, the right hand holding the vine suddenly sank, the wrist was grabbed by the little prince, and he pulled it forward with astonishing strength!

"boom--"

Suddenly, he was slapped heavily on his right shoulder with a heavy palm, and the coach turned over and fell to the ground. When he regained his senses, he looked up and saw his cane being held upside down in his hand.

Slowly raising his head along the vine, the Seventh Prince lowered his head and stared at him expressionlessly.

"Mister is slower than before." The Seventh Prince was a little disappointed.

Coach Li: "..."

Obviously it's you kid who didn't follow the routine!

With the dignity of a general, Coach Li wants to do it all over again.

However, the Seventh Prince had already smelled the aroma of roasted leg of lamb, returned the cane, and rushed away from the training ground.

The fifth prince's heart was simply broken.

I don't know if the instructor took advantage of Concubine Xi, and would release water every time he faced Lao Qi.

In the past, it was at least like an eagle catching a chick, chasing after a while before releasing the water, but today the instructor was knocked down by Lao Qi with one move!

Where does this make his fifth brother's dignity go!

Turning around to look at the chubby seventh brother——

The Seventh Prince took out the dagger from his pocket and started cutting the leg of the lamb.

that dagger...

"Isn't this the dagger that elder brother gave us?" The fifth prince was furious: "How can you cut lamb with this dagger!"

While cutting mutton, the seventh prince raised his eyes to look at Fifth Brother: "I still use it to cut beef."

"Beef is no good!" The fifth prince pointed at the dagger angrily: "This is the long knife used by the soldiers in front to cut the Japanese pirate leader. After the blade was rolled, it was divided and recast. The seven daggers divided into seven, how can they be used to cut lamb? Its The blade represents the majesty of Qi's cavalry, and its tip is sending out a majestic warning to the Japanese pirates invading along the coast!"

The Seventh Prince glanced at the dagger, and asked in surprise: "It can speak human language?"

"That's not what it means!" The fifth prince snatched the dagger, picked up the katsura towel on the table, and carefully wiped off the oil stains on the knife: "Brother gave us this dagger, entrusting his love for us."

"Who will give a dagger to someone he likes?" The Seventh Prince began to tear the mutton with his bare hands.

"What's wrong with the dagger?" The Fifth Prince cast a dissatisfied glance at his younger brother: "Otherwise, what do you want to give?"

The Seventh Prince smiled with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and said softly, "Rabbit."

He smiled proudly at Fifth Brother: "Master took out a pure white rabbit. It's timid and can't run fast. Yaoyao likes it."

The fifth prince blinked, remembered something, and asked, "You mean that silly white rabbit that Ah Yao sent to the dining room?"

The Seventh Prince stopped tearing the mutton, the smile on his face disappeared, and slowly, in shock, he raised his eyes to the Fifth Prince!

"What... what's wrong?" The fifth prince suddenly felt a strong murderous aura.

**

It has been two days, and the prince still told everyone to stand still.

The sixth prince knew that his brother was in serious trouble, so he asked the second prince to tell good and bad fortune all day long, and when the Zhejiang merchants would lower their prices.

The second prince said that it would not work if it was too much, and the sixth prince could only go to Xue Yao for a chat to relieve anxiety.

The two chatted about the autumn hunt before leaving Beijing.

The sixth prince said: "Before I left, my seventh brother gave me a gray rabbit. I asked my aunt to help me keep it healthy. I don't know if I have gained weight now."

Xue Yao's heart skipped a beat, and he probed guiltyly: "The rabbit that His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince gave you? You... haven't you roasted it and eaten it?"

"How can you eat the rabbit from the seventh brother!" The sixth prince retorted seriously: "That was the seventh brother's wish. He only gave rabbits to those close to him, and he didn't even receive the second brother. If I ate the rabbit from the younger brother, I would What kind of brother!"

Xue Yao's face turned pale: "..."

Didn't the little fat cub dig out the rabbit for food?

[Warning: The sense of security of land diving is reduced by 5. 】

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Xue Yao: Brother Prince, help me fly pigeons to pass the letter to the imperial dining room and save the lives of me and the rabbit