Chapter 368: I didn't go to the disaster area
In the middle of the night, the carriage slowly drove out of the Tianning Imperial Capital, Han Yunxi was tired these days, and originally planned to sleep, but who knows, as soon as the carriage arrived at the suburbs, Long Feiye ordered to go southwest.
There are three main disaster areas in Tianning's famine this time, all of which are in the central part of the country. The imperial capital is in the north, and they should go all the way to the south. Why did Long Feiye turn southwest?
Han Yunxi wondered, "Your Highness, is there an ambush ahead?" ”
Although the news of Long Feiye's injury is very tightly guarded, you have to beware of the man in black spreading it! There are many people in the Cloud Sky Continent who want Long Feiye's life, and they must be careful and careful along the way.
"Take you somewhere."
Long Feiye was lazy and lazy on the high pillow, relaxing and relaxing, squinting and resting, not at all like a seriously injured person, and he didn't seem to be at ease with such a difficult thing as disaster relief.
At this time, where is he going to take her?
Han Yunxi guessed that it must be related to disaster relief, but she couldn't think of the specifics even if she wanted to.
She lay on the edge of the windowsill, looking curiously at the night outside, this road, she really hadn't walked this road.
Han Yunxi was so tired that she fell asleep when she looked at it.
However, when she woke up the next day, the carriage was still going, and Long Feiye had already woken up, reading a few secret letters in his right hand.
Han Yunxi leaned over to him and tugged at his sleeve, "Your Highness, where are we going?" Sue me! ”
Long Feiye didn't raise his eyes and ignored him.
"Your Highness, just say it."
"Your Highness, just say it, I can't guess. We still have to go a long way. ”
Han Yunxi didn't give up, Long Feiye, who had always disliked to disturb when reading the secret letter, didn't have a temper at all, and casually showed the secret letter to Han Yunxi.
These three secret letters are all about one thing, and the uncle's mansion is anxious to get rid of the food.
In three days, the Uncle Mansion will have to hand over more than one million dollars in cash to the Ministry of Households, and these days the Uncle Mansion has been in a hurry to sell the grain in its hands and exchange it for cash. However, not a single grain has been sold.
It's not that no one buys the grain, but that the asking price of the uncle's mansion is too high.
The uncle's mansion embezzled these grains in the first place to wait for the grain price to be raised before selling it again, but this time he was forced to sell it in advance, and the shrewd and greedy uncle Guo must have raised the grain price as high as possible.
Moreover, Uncle Guo's Mansion is now in urgent need of a large amount of money! If you don't sell it at a good price, how can you use it?
Uncle Guo's Mansion needs to hand over 2.4 million yuan in cash to the household department, and 1.2 million yuan was paid a few days ago.
Some of the 1.2 million cash paid in advance was the dowry of the prince to marry Mu Liuyue, some of the inventory of the national uncle's mansion, and some of the usury borrowed by the national uncle's mansion.
Of course, the assets of Uncle Guo's Mansion are more than these two million, but Uncle Guo is too fine, and he has always exchanged cash for land, and collectibles are waiting to increase in price, and there is really not much cash in the house.
If you take an antique casually, or take a piece of land out of it, it is worth hundreds of thousands, and some even small millions. It's just that these things are not cash, and these things can't be taken out for auction or discarded casually, once they are taken out and sold, the face of Uncle Guo's Mansion will also be sold.
Among the royalist henchmen, there are many rich masters, but Uncle Guo's Mansion is the richest among them, and it is the big backer of the Royalist Party.
Therefore, the only way for the national uncle's mansion is to go to the black market to borrow usury, and on the condition of paying high interest, he wants to get the cash immediately, and he is required to keep it strictly confidential.
Although it is impossible to find out the exact number, it can be roughly estimated that the principal and interest of the usury to be repaid by the uncle's mansion, plus the money to be handed over to the household department, add up to about two million.
In this case, if the grain of the National Uncle's Mansion is not sold at a high price, let alone making a profit, it will be difficult to break even.
These news are unknown to ordinary people, and even the aristocratic circle in the imperial capital who is pampered and accustomed to eating imperial food may not be known. On the contrary, the businessmen who traveled from south to north, but their ears were very smart, and they could hear the slightest breeze.
The news of what happened at the Yi Taifei Birthday Banquet Charity Sale for Disaster Relief had already spread, and the businessmen with a keen sense of smell had already smelled the business opportunity, and they had long expected that the Uncle Guo's Mansion would sell food.
No profit, no early rising, no treacherous business!
At this time, no one wants to be a good man to help the uncle's mansion, everyone will only take advantage of the fire to rob and reduce the price very tacitly.
The secret letter made it very clear that someone had released a message in the Tianning black market that 30,000 quintals of rice would be sold, and the master behind such a large sale in the famine years must be the Uncle Guofu, everyone could guess, but there was no evidence.
For example, the corruption of Uncle Guo's Mansion is also known to everyone, but no one can catch evidence, so it cannot be confirmed, and it has always been a rumor.
After reading the three secret letters, Han Yunxi also roughly understood the situation.
She smiled, "Your Highness is planning to sell grain for disaster relief, and by the way, arrest corrupt officials to eliminate harm for the people?" ”
Who knows, Long Feiye shook his head, "No, this king is also going to sell grain." ”
This......
Han Yunxi was very surprised, Long Feiye was joking? In this shortage of food, he went to sell grain?
Although he said that he had a lot of food hoarding in his manor in Jiangnan, he had donated a lot during this time, where did he go to find grain to sell!
Even if he has grain, if he sells it, it will only boost the arrogance of those profiteers who speculate in grain, and if this vicious circle continues, it will be most detrimental to disaster relief.
You must know that the ultimate purpose of profiteers to fry grain is to sell it, in order to get the silver from the imperial court for disaster relief.
"Uncle Guo still has three days, and this king wants him to sell grain at a lower price tomorrow!" Long Feiye said coldly.
As soon as these words came out, Han Yunxi suddenly realized.
She couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Your Highness, it turns out that you are the most treacherous!" ”
"Treacherous"?
It was the first time that someone dared to scold him like this in front of Long Feiye, but instead of being angry, he asked with interest, "You understand?" ”
Compared with the ladies and daughters of famous families in this era, Han Yunxi knows too much.
Of course she does!
In the case that the merchants were lowering the price of the Uncle Mansion, Long Feiye made another kick and released the news of selling grain, which will undoubtedly make the price of grain in the Uncle's Mansion continue to fall.
In three days, Uncle Guo's Mansion will have to pay cash to the household department, and Uncle Guo will have to sell it cheaply even if he doesn't want to sell it cheaply.
The wise man takes advantage of the trend, the capable person builds momentum, Long Feiye's move is to build momentum, presumably the black market grain market will soon change the sky!
Of course, these are all secondary, for Long Feiye, there is only one ultimate purpose for doing so much, and that is to find out the evidence of corruption in the Uncle Mansion.
Only when Uncle Guo's Mansion really began to sell grain and start trading, did he have a chance to find witnesses and evidence.
Otherwise, a qiē is still just rumors, speculations.
After listening to Han Yunxi's explanation, Long Feiye was quite surprised, these are powerful relationships, he has to explain a lot of Tang Li to Tang Li to understand, Han Yunxi listened to him and understood everything!
Even now, he still feels that he has underestimated this woman.
Long Fei was silent, but nodding his head while listening was the greatest affirmation of Han Yunxi.
As soon as Han Yunxi finished explaining, he immediately struck while the iron was hot and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, the concubine has a guess, I don't know if it's right." ”
"Say it." Long Feiye said lightly.
Han Yunxi snickered, leaned in and whispered, "Your Highness, the concubine guesses that you are just going to bluff the news, and not a single grain of grain in your hand will be sold." ”
As soon as these words came out, Long Feiye laughed, and while laughing, he pouted Han Yunxi's chin and reminded with an evil face, "Han Yunxi, it's not a good thing to be too smart. ”
However, Han Yunxi was not afraid of him, took his hand and slowly put it down, and said seriously, "Your Highness, I told you, you are not allowed to use your right hand!" It's going to pull the wound! ”
On the way back to King Qin's Mansion from Youge, she almost quarreled with him, and finally had no choice but to compromise and only allowed him to use his left hand, which was absolutely unusable.
Although she was talking about business, she still kept an eye on his movements and his injuries.
Looking at Han Yunxi's more serious little face, Long Feiye suddenly had a very intimate feeling, he actually responded to her with a "good" word.
Long Feiye wants to take Han Yunxi to the black market.
The black market, as the name suggests, is a secret trading market.
Because of the transaction of some things that were not approved by the imperial court for circulation, or whose price was much higher than the normal market price, as well as some informal means of money exchanges, such as usury, such as money laundering, it was named "black".
There are two big black markets in Tianning, one is located in the southwest of the imperial capital of Tianning, called the Tianyu Black Market; Another Santu battlefield located at the junction of Tianning, Western Zhou and Beili is called the Santu Black Market. Among them, the three-way black market is not only the largest in Tianning, but also the largest in the Cloud Sky Continent.
Many of the big cases that affect the economy of the Cloud Sky Continent are all from the Santu black market.
If it weren't for the urgency of time, presumably Uncle Guo's Mansion would not choose the Tianyu Black Market, but would choose the Santu Black Market, because the Santu Black Market is far away from the border, the Tiangao Emperor is far away, and the network of factions in the Black Market is huge and complex, and it is not so easy to find out the evidence.
It was precisely this time that the time was tight that gave Long Feiye an excellent opportunity.
At noon on this day, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi arrived at the Tianyu Black Market.
The stronghold of the Skyware Black Market is a secret underground world with an entrance hidden in a barren mountain.
Long Feiye and Han Yunxi both wore strict masks, and as soon as they went to the barren mountain, Long Feiye held Han Yunxi's hand tightly and never let go.
They stopped in front of a black wordless tablet more than one person high, although it was broad daylight and the sun was in the sky, but this wordless tablet looked particularly gloomy and cold.
"This is the entrance." Long Feiye whispered.
Han Yunxi had heard of this black market, but she didn't expect it to be so secretive, she was curious, only to see Long Feiye kicking three times on the wordless tablet at will.
Behind the stele, a bottomless entrance to the cave slowly opened, and soon a hunchbacked old man with a lantern came out.
"Are you tired of kicking the door?" The old man reprimanded angrily and slowly raised his head......