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Luo Yun narrowed his eyes slightly, "Do people in Qixing Building know my identity?"

"They shouldn't know, otherwise, they wouldn't dare to accept this deal, right?" Yu Ze speculated.

"Whether they know it or not, I don't want to hear their names again in the future." Luo Yun said.

Yuze's pupils shrank, "What does the host mean?"

"Tell Su Jue what I said, and he will know what to do." After a pause, a bloodthirsty smile rose from the corner of Su Jue's mouth.

"It's impolite to come and go. Since brothers Zhu Chen and Zhu Xu have given me such a generous gift, it would be too polite if I didn't express it at all."

Hearing this, Yuze shuddered, and asked tentatively: "Lord, you don't mean to send someone to assassinate them, do you?"

"What, are you afraid?"

Yes, my feet are weak from fear.Yuze slandered in his heart, but said on his mouth: "They are always princes. If they are killed, I am afraid they will be furious. Although we are the number one killer organization in Jianghu, we are not capable of going against the entire imperial court." .”

No matter how powerful a gang is, it can only be crushed in front of the state machine, just like the Tianxian sect before.Even if it has the best weapon in the world, when the imperial court wants to ban it, it will only happen overnight.

"When did I say that I was going to assassinate them?" If he really wanted to kill people, he would have screwed Zhu Xu's head off long ago in the Ming Palace, so why would it be his turn to send someone to hunt them down?

Hearing this, Yuze breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "What does the landlord mean?"

"They are too idle to send people to trouble us. If that's the case, let them stop being so idle."

Afterwards, after Yu Ze conveyed Luo Yun's meaning to Su Jue, Su Jue decisively kept the two brothers Zhu Chen completely busy in the next period of time, and there was no free moment.

For example, a few days later, there was a lot of rumors about the various evil deeds that the prince committed when he was still favored in teahouses and restaurants.Because of the seriousness of the rumors and the fact that Zhu Xu was behind the scenes, Emperor Jing was furious when he learned about it, and asked the people of Dali Temple to investigate thoroughly. After the evidence was solid, the prince was directly demoted from the previous house arrest to a commoner.

It didn't take long for Zhu Xu to be happy, and his criminal evidence was exposed one by one, including the evidence provided by Zhu Chen.If his mother and concubine hadn't pleaded for him in front of Emperor Jing, and Emperor Jing was still a little jealous of the family behind Ming Concubine, his fate would definitely be no different from Zhu Chen's.

Although the title was not taken away, Emperor Jing took this opportunity to take back most of the power in Zhu Xu's hands, and at the same time promoted several other sons to the position, allowing them to sit on an equal footing with Zhu Xu and check and balance each other.However, these are things to come.

On this day, the army arrived at a small town three hundred kilometers away from Chongzhou.

The grain and grass were consumed on the way, but the supply from the imperial court was delayed. Ouyang Chen knew that Zhu Xu must be behind the trip. Seeing that the grain and grass were almost exhausted, he went to the town to buy grain out of his own pocket.

Luo Yun walked with the army for many days, and also wanted to buy some daily necessities in the town, so Ouyang Chen took him to the town together.

"Didn't I tell you to go buy food, why did you come back so soon?"

Not long after Ouyang Chen and Luo Yun sat down in the restaurant, Xu Ruochen came back with the soldiers responsible for buying food.

Xu Ruochen said angrily, "Don't talk about it, the price of rice here is [-]% higher than in the capital, and the silver taels we brought are not enough to buy much grain."

Ouyang Chen and Luo Yun looked at each other, exchanged glances, then let Xu Ruochen approach him, and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Okay, I'll do it now." Xu Ruochen reached out and took a few big bags from the table, and then left with a few soldiers.

"If those grain merchants don't buy it, how do you plan to solve the problem of grain and grass?"

Although Luo Yun couldn't quite hear what Ouyang Chen told Xu Ruochen just now, he could guess a little bit.

Ouyang Chen should have asked Xu Ruochen to go to the county magistrate here first, and ask the other party to discuss with the grain merchants to see if they can reduce the grain price so that they can gather enough food and grass.However, Luo Yun didn't think those grain merchants would easily cooperate.

It's not that those grain merchants dared not to reduce the price of grain, but they were afraid that they would sell some old rice as new rice to them, or they would use some tricks to hinder their grain purchase plan.

Facts have proved that Luo Yun is quite prescient.

Two hours later, Xu Ruochen brought back a cart of rice, but when he untied the bag to check the rice inside, he found that half of it was old rice.

"What's going on?" Ouyang Chen's tone was full of wind and rain.

Xu Ruochen also said angrily: "General, according to your order, I went to the county magistrate here and asked him to help buy grain from the rice merchant. Originally, everything was fine, but when the rice merchant heard that it was the grain we wanted, they didn't dare If I don't give it, I just cry poorly, so I said that I didn't want them for nothing.

After that, we agreed to buy the grain at half the current price.However, when loading the trucks, they said that there was not enough rice in stock, so they could only give half of the new rice and half of the old rice.Originally, I refused to accept it, but the magistrate spoke for the group of rice merchants, assured that they really had no food left, and said that if they gave it to us, the common people here would starve or something..."

Hearing that Xu Ruochen talked vividly about the process of buying grain, Ouyang Chen's face was as dark as water.

"You send these grains back to the camp first."

"Understood." Looking at the expressions of Ouyang Chen and the two of them, it was clear that they must have some plans, Xu Ruochen didn't ask any further questions, and brought a few soldiers back to the barracks to deliver food.

"What do you think about this matter?" Ouyang Chen asked when there were only two of them.

Luo Yun casually broke the meat bun into two halves with his hands, and handed one half to Ouyang Chen.

"It's clear that the magistrate here colluded with the rice merchants and refused to sell us the grain. If I guessed correctly, the magistrate here is either from the prince's side or everyone from Zhu Xu." Otherwise, how could Will you dare to play such tricks after knowing their origins?

"Since we are polite to buy food from them and they don't appreciate it, then we have no choice but to force it." After finishing speaking, he even teased Ouyang Chen with his eyes, as if asking what do you say?

Ouyang Chen pursed his lips and smiled, "Brother Yun is right."

Luo Yun was a little surprised, "You agreed?" People who thought that Ouyang Chen was so principled would not agree with his method.

"Extreme means are used in extraordinary times. Besides, do you think I'm the kind of person who can't be flexible and sticks to the rules?"

Under normal circumstances, Ouyang Chen is a person who pays attention to rules, but he will not stick to the rules when he needs to be flexible. Otherwise, how could he become one of Zhu Xu's most capable assistants back then?

After that, the two discussed how to get food from those profiteers.

Two hours later, the two were standing outside a granary.

"After my inquiries, this warehouse is the private granary of the local magistrate, and it is full of food that he usually scavenged good people and corrupted. Even if we really looted all the food in it, he would not dare to pursue it with us in a big way. return."