After Mr. Rice Bucket's confession, a household member surnamed Chen was bribed by the Jin merchants, and inadvertently told the Jin merchants about Caoyun, and received a reward of several hundred taels.

The Jin merchants of the Eight Great Families had colluded with Jiannu to secretly transmit information, so they passed this important information to the Qing army without hesitation.

When the information was transmitted, the eight major Jin merchants began to purchase grain on a large scale in the grain shops in the capital, because they knew that after the Qing army cut off millions of stone of grain, there would be a shortage of grain in the capital, and the price would inevitably skyrocket.

The grain has been hoarded by them, the food shortage in the capital, and the food outside is not easy to come in, the price of grain is naturally set by themselves, and the time will not make a lot of money, this is the so-called national disaster!

"I didn't expect Wen Tiren, this old thing, to be incompetent, his eyes were vicious, and he saw through the secrets at a glance that day." Zhu Cihong really admires Wen Tiren's political sense at this moment.

Everything was clear, and Zhu Cihong began to prepare for action.

On this day, in the original martial law of the Beijing Division, the gates of Yongding Gate and Chaoyang Gate were wide open, and thousands of carriages transporting grain continued to drive from the new city to the capital, and more than 10,000 troops of the Yongwei Battalion and the new battalion were dispatched to protect the grain trucks along the way.

Thousands of grain trucks crowded several main streets in the capital, such a shocking scene made the whole city boil again, and the eight major Jin merchants still used the old routine, saying that these were actually sand, not grain.

However, what made them slap in the face was that when the sergeants transporting the grain unloaded the grain from the car in front of many people, they "accidentally" cut the grain bags many times, and suddenly the white rice was spilled.

Seeing this, the people of the capital completely believed that these sacks piled up into a small mountain were filled with grain!

On the same day, the crown prince issued an edict, saying that the Zhangjia grain shop was an honest merchant of the Ming Dynasty, and this batch of grain was sold by all the grain shops in the capital of the Zhangjia grain shop, and the grain price remained unchanged.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong also personally inscribed a plaque of 'Zhangjia Grain Shop' and gave it to Zhangjia Grain Shop.

These people can be regarded as relieved, and they all rushed to tell each other, and the panicked city of Beijing quickly stabilized, and people no longer rushed to buy.

Zhu Cihong, in his capacity as the crown prince, issued an edict that the government would organize the grain merchants in the capital to set up a grain merchant association to standardize and rectify the grain shops in the capital and avoid vicious competition and arbitrary price hikes.

Zhang Dabiao undoubtedly sat on the position of president of the grain merchants association, and some of the Hui merchants he contacted in advance gave priority to join the association, and other grain merchants also joined one after another, and only eight Jin merchants refused to join.

Zhang Dabiao, president of the Grain Merchants Association, took the lead in opening all his grain depots and continued to sell them on a large scale at the previous low prices.

Seeing this, the grain merchants of other third parties were a little hesitant and looked at the Jin merchants one after another.

Several Jin merchants wanted to take the opportunity to buy the grain of the Hui merchants at a low price, but they were stared at by the Jinyi guard, and Li Tingbiao even secretly made it bad, let the people organize the people to besiege the grain stores of the Jin merchants, and secretly set fire to the grain depots of several Jin merchants.

Seeing this, the third-party grain merchants could only sell it, and the imperial court intervened in organizing the association, except for the unlucky things of the Jin merchants, few people objected, and if they objected, they were afraid that the grain depot at home would not be guaranteed.

Seeing that the price of grain was gradually declining, the eight major Jin merchants suddenly became anxious, and threw money everywhere to find beggars to spread rumors, but after looking for a long time, there was not a single beggar in the capital!!

Since Zhu Cihong has mastered all the circumstances and has also seen the methods of the Eight Great Jin Merchants once, this time he pressed all the grain and grass seized from Liangxiang, so naturally he did not allow accidents.

He had already issued an order for the people of Shuntianfu and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to imprison all the beggars in the capital, and in the name of sweeping away the evil and evil, he carried out a major cleanup of all the gangsters in the capital.

Zhu Cihong is a little regretful, the Huangming Times is being printed, and it will be officially released in a few days, if it can be published now, he doesn't need to make such a big effort, just spray these dogs and traitors to death in the newspaper!

After tossing and turning like this for a few days, the chaos in the capital was gradually calmed down, and the price of grain returned to the previous price, even Zhu Cihong didn't expect it to be so soon.

Recently, in the capital, people expressed their admiration for the crown prince after tea and dinner.

When Emperor Chongzhen learned about it, he was very excited, and praised Zhu Cihong for his intelligence and shared his father's worries.

The ministers such as the head of the household department and the Hou Sui were even more amazed by the crown prince, and some ministers of the court and the central government began to slowly move closer to him when they saw that the crown prince was so powerful, so as to confuse themselves with the dragon's work.

Zhu Cihong knew that this matter was far from being resolved, and the hundreds of thousands of stone grain transported from Xincheng would not last long, after all, the population of Jingshi was nearly one million.

The crisis in Gyeonggi is not over yet, and the grain routes entering Beijing will be intercepted by the Qing army at any time, and only by thoroughly rushing the Qing army can the crisis of the Gyeongshi be restored.

Every time the Qing army entered the customs, it plundered for a month or two, and at most ten months, and this time the Qing army intercepted millions of stones to transport grain, and the logistics replenishment was more worry-free.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong immediately asked Teng Xiang to send out the whole battalion at night to reconnoiter all the movements of the Qing army in Gyeonggi, especially the Qing army in Tianjin, and asked it to cooperate with Zhang Fengyi's army to recapture the grain and grass of the Qing army and cut off its logistics.

The military operation was full of variables, Zhu Cihong was not optimistic about Zhang Fengyi, so he began to make preparations, he first set his eyes on the grain storage of the eight Jin merchants in the capital.

The grain of himself and the Hui merchants is not enough, and the grain of the Jin merchants is a mess, they have purchased so much grain before, and they were originally going to make a fortune in the country, but they did not expect to be yellowed by the Hui merchants.

Isn't it a waste to save so much food and not need it? Waste is shame! Comrade Zhu Cihong has always been frugal and hated this shameful behavior, so he decided to confiscate the grain depot of the eight major Jin merchants in the capital and donate money for the country!

Zhu Cihong began to calculate this group of Jin merchants, and he deliberately took the time to talk with Emperor Lao Tzu, and told him about the collusion between the eight Jin merchants and Jiannu.

According to Zhu Cihong's meaning, he publicized the traitorous behavior of the eight Jin merchants, and then took this opportunity to copy all the grain depots of the eight Jin merchants in the capital, and then marched into Shanxi, killing the eight traitor families without leaving a single piece of armor.

Chongzhen's face was ugly after hearing this, he never expected that these businessmen would actually collaborate with the enemy and betray the country! It is no wonder that the economic blockade imposed by the Ming Dynasty on Jiannu over the years has not worked.

At the same time, Chongzhen hesitated, he knew a little about the power of the Jin merchants, and if he wanted to do something against them, if it didn't get right, I was afraid that it would provoke the rebellion of the landlords and merchant classes of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the impact would be immeasurable.

After thinking for a long time, Emperor Chongzhen said: Why don't we secretly kill these traitors! As he spoke, he gestured with his hand to his neck.

Zhu Cihong was speechless, what the hell is this called? The emperor also taught the crown prince to carry out assassination!

Zhu Cihong shook his head like a rattle, and he couldn't even say it, that's not my style.

Zhu Cihong saw Chongzhen's strange eyes looking at him, so he had to admit it, explaining that in fact, he was worried that he would kill people and the grain would not fall into the treasury.

What Zhu Cihong wants is not only the heads of the traitors, but also the money and food in their hands, and use these grains to completely quell the food shortage in Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Zhu Cihong again, and found that he seriously underestimated himself as a prince, and he was more monkey than himself at a young age?

The two of them tinkered for a long time, and Chongzhen insisted on not agreeing to eradicate the Eight Great Jin Merchants at this time, on the grounds that the risk was too great, and no one knew how strong their power was in Shanxi.

Zhu Cihong thought about it, even Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, was from the Wang family of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, and the commanders of the soldiers and horses in various towns in Shanxi, guerrilla generals and other officers did not know how many were from the Eight Great Families, so they really couldn't be too impulsive.

When Zhu Cihong promised to copy out a million stone of grain, Chongzhen hesitated, and the two discussed it again, and finally finalized the result: to end the power of the eight Jin merchants in the capital, control the situation in the capital, and not involve the Shanxi Jin merchants, and not too many court officials.