Chapter 999: Attend the Sword Master's Birthday Banquet
At seven o'clock in the morning on December 10, 1176, Yan Tielong, who was dressed in an aristocratic dress, waited for his fiancée who was still changing clothes, you must know that today is the birthday of the Sword Saint, so Yan Tielong and they prepared earlier.
Three minutes later, a white feather mink aristocratic scarf skirt appeared in front of Yan Tielong, and at the same time, Arya turned around and asked how her fiancé was?
Yan Tielong asked his fiancée, and he subconsciously responded: "Good-looking!"
When she heard her fiancé's compliment, she was satisfied, but she always felt that something was missing, so she went back to her room to change her clothes.
Then Arya changed into more than a dozen aristocratic ladies' clothes, but she was a little dissatisfied with each one, and Tongtong changed from being satisfied with Yan Tielong's praise every time she was just satisfied.
The reason why Arya was dissatisfied with Yan Tielong was because she did feel that her fiancé's praise was sincere at the beginning, but later she felt that her fiancé's praise was perfunctory to her.
And for his fiancée from being happy just now to being dissatisfied, Yan Tielong was very confused in his heart, in Yan Tielong's eyes, his fiancée was the most beautiful no matter what clothes she wore, after all, in the eyes of his lover, all his praise was sincere.
In fact, Arya will have a little illusion that her fiancé will praise her reproduction later, and that is because she is not confident in her heart, and there are many reasons why she is not confident.
The time soon reached nine o'clock, and Yan Tielong couldn't be late for the Sword Master's birthday banquet, which made Arya choose her favorite light blue gauze noble fur brocade dress, and then enter the luxurious carriage that had been prepared for a long time and set off.
Soon Yan Tielong and their luxury carriage came to the hundred-story trial arena, and there was an inner market the size of ten football schools next to it.
You must know that the inner market the size of ten football is the most profitable market in the area of the 100-story trial arena, after all, the market sells almost all kinds of goods, and even pickled sea fish.
The domestic market is the most profitable during this period, after all, the end of the year is approaching.
Of course, the stalls in the inner market are now cleaned up and transformed into large-scale banquets in half a month, after all, there are a large number of guests at the Sword Saint's birthday banquet every year, and ordinary venues can't accept it at all.
After the Juggernaut's birthday party is over, the venue will be restored to its original state within a week or even earlier, after all, a day later will lose a lot of benefits.
For the arrival of Yan Tielong and Arya, the waiter was very enthusiastic after seeing the invitation, after all, those who can receive the invitation are big people, but it is not something that he can provoke as a small waiter.
Qiang Ran is still half an hour away from the banquet, but the banquet is already crowded, and everyone is smiling and talking.
Of course, there are also some guests who eat the food brought by the waiter without expression, and these people are obviously not sociable, after all, it is impossible for a sociable person to enjoy food alone.
Just as Yan Tielong took his fiancée to find an acquaintance, they suddenly heard: "Leader, what are you looking for?"
Hearing a very familiar voice, Yan Tielong turned his body, and they saw Princess Long Lias wearing a red rose Goethe-style cardigan dress, and he was amazed.
After all, the temperament of the princess is more mature than when she first wore a rose Goethe cardigan skirt, and the various elite men around her staring at Princess Longlias can already explain the problem.
Seeing that her fiancé had been staring at Princess Long Lias, Lion Elia was jealous and secretly stepped on her fiancé, and then wanted to salute Princess Long Lias, after all, Princess Long Lias was her monarch.
Princess Long Lias hurriedly stopped Arya from saluting, in her words, this is a foreign country, not a domestic country, so there is no need for so much etiquette, and then Princess Long Lias was very enthusiastic and took Arya's hand to the side to talk about topics of interest to girls.
Just when Yan Tielong was embarrassed, he heard it again: "Commander, why didn't you see Elia?"
Hearing the voice, Yan Tielong turned his body again, and he saw Leopis with a happy face of White Allysie, after all, this is White Alyssie's mother's house, if Leopis brings other women, something will happen.
Yan Tielong directly asked Leopis about the food crisis in Shougett City, and worried that there was really no problem if Leos was not in Shougett City?
In the face of Yan Tielong's worries, Leopis directly said that they had begun to close the net the day before yesterday, and it had been cleaned up today, even if he was not there, there would be no problem, and said that it would be thanks to Yan Tielong's help to go once, otherwise there would be a large number of spies hidden;
It turned out that since the day of the 8th, when Yan Tielong went to Xiaoyuyu Town to protect Prince Long Rui Ed, Leopis used the principle that Yan Tielong left behind may be spy information and would rather kill by mistake than let it go, and at the same time changed the original five official grain sales areas to two.
For the official sale of grain in Shougett City from the original ten places to five, and finally to two, those grain merchants and ordinary people in Shougett City thought that the official food was out of food, so the grain merchants were originally dozens of times the price of grain was raised several times.
The grain merchants' increase in grain by several times directly caused huge dissatisfaction among the people, after all, the highest price of grain at that time was not much longer than that of the Zhandes Kingdom surrounded by coalition forces.
Leopis noticed that the grain merchant had died, and he immediately sensed that the opportunity had come, so he sent soldiers everywhere to announce that their royal family had purchased a large amount of grain from outside, and that it had now arrived, and that the people should not panic.
Leopis then opened a hundred places to sell grain, not only wheat and fruit, but even seafood, and most importantly, cheaper than before the snowstorm.
At first, the people didn't believe it, after all, many people still believed in the previous spies who advertised that the royal family and grain merchants would unite to make money.
However, when the people personally bought grain and coal, they immediately believed that the royal family and the grain merchants were in a gang, which directly led them to support Leopis even more.
And when the grain merchants learned that the royal family had lowered the price of grain, they didn't believe it at first, after all, they were watching at every intersection in Shougett City, and they didn't see any grain caravans at all, they thought that the royal family wanted to use the last grain and wanted them to follow the price to release grain.
However, soon those grain merchants knew that they were wrong, it turned out that Leopis had already transferred the food that Yan Tielong had gotten outside the city, so the grain was continuously transported into the city in the form of horse-drawn carts.
When the grain merchants saw a large amount of food being brought into the city, they still thought that the royal family had lied to them, after all, the wagons carrying grain were covered with cloth.
It's just that when the grain wagons arrived, and the official grain sales base was unveiled, the grain cloth was revealed, and the people and grain merchants were very surprised.
Knowing that the royal family really had a large amount of grain shipped, those grain merchants realized that it was not good, so some grain merchants directly began to reduce prices, but the people hated those grain merchants very much, even if the grain merchants' grain prices were lower than those of the royal family, the people were unwilling to sell.
The grain merchants knew that something was wrong, but soon some of them said that they were spending a lot of money to buy large quantities of grain from the royal family and sell it at a high price.
However, the royal family sold grain with a limit of three catties of grain per person per day, which also blocked the grain merchants from wanting to buy a large amount of grain from the royal family.
Then the grain merchants thought that the price of grain in Shougett City could no longer be sold at a high price, and they were ready to transport grain to other kingdoms to reduce their losses.
However, the number of soldiers at the various intersections increased considerably, and the guards told everyone that now Leopis had ordered an investigation into the corruption of the No. 2 and No. 3 granaries, so now the grain could only enter and not be able to get out, which made it impossible for the grain merchants to transport the grain out at all.
Seeing that the grain could not be transported, many grain merchants already understood that Prince Leopis would not let them go, so they formed two factions, one of which was the surrender faction, they were just grain merchants who simply raised the price of grain, so they thought that Leopis could confiscate their grain and wealth at most and save a small life.
The other faction was involved in the corruption of the No. 1 and No. 2 and No. 3 granary incidents, so they didn't think about surrendering at all, but wanted to create chaos and escape.
But it's a pity that now all the grain merchants are being monitored, and even the people are involved, after all, these grain merchants have raised the price of grain to sky-high prices, which has made the people hate it, which also leads to those grain merchants who want to escape without even a chance.
And Prince Leopis only confiscated half of the grain merchants who surrendered to a fairly clean foundation, and gave the grain merchants thirty lashes as punishment.
The reason why Prince Leopis did not confiscate all the wealth of the surrendered grain merchants was because Prince Leopis was worried that the disposal of all the grain merchants would affect the overall commerce of Shougett City.
The grain merchants who were punished by Prince Leo Pine were indeed very distressed that half of the grain had been confiscated, after all, these grain merchants also paid a lot of price for monopolizing the price of grain in Shougut City.
But those who were punished had clever people, who saw this as their chance, and they would swallow up the industries of their down-and-out business rivals and start to grow and become richer, but of course these are all for later.
In the end, Leopis told Yan Tielong that the rest of Shougett City's job was to find out how many people were involved in embezzling the granary and burning it.