There are three grain merchants in Licheng, and the largest grain merchant is surnamed Mi Mingshuo, who is a distant relative of Xuzhou who is engaged in Mi Zhu. When he saw Tai Shi Ci leading thousands of remnants into the city, he contacted two other grain merchants to raise the price of grain, and sold some moldy grain to Tai Shi Ci at a price twice the market price.

Soon saw Lu Bu's soldiers and horses camped outside the city, and Tai Shici had been holding his troops still, Mi Shuo had a bad idea. On the one hand, he sent people out of the city to contact Lu Bu, and was willing to act as an internal response for the other party; At the same time, he informed the other two grain merchants that they were no longer allowed to sell grain and grass to Tai Shici's soldiers and horses.

If the generals staying in the city were other generals, if they encountered Mi Shuo and the others' actions, they might have already set up troops to grab food. But Tai Shici was an upright person, and he thought that after his soldiers and horses entered the city, he really bought all the grain in the grain merchant's warehouse, which led to a shortage of food in the army. If it weren't for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei coming to help in time, I'm afraid that even if Lu Bu didn't attack the city, his soldiers and horses would have fled on a large scale sooner or later.

When the two grain merchants in the city learned that Han Zhan's army had come to Licheng, they were afraid that the other party would settle accounts with them after the autumn, so they hurriedly came to Mi Shuo to discuss strategies. Although Mi Shuo was also worried that he would cause endless trouble to himself after the defeat, considering that he was Mi Zhu's distant relative, maybe Han Zhan would look at Mi Zhu's face and open up to himself.

It was precisely because of this consideration that when he saw the two grain merchants running to his house in a panic, he pretended to be calm and told them: "Don't worry, if the Jizhou army wants to gain a foothold in Xuzhou, it may not be able to offend the local rich merchants and heroes in Xuzhou, otherwise where will they go to raise money and grain?" ”

Mi Shuo's words were equivalent to giving the two grain merchants a reassurance, they thought: No matter what, this is the territory of Xuzhou, and Mi Shuo is a relative of Mi Zhu, the Jizhou army came from afar, and if you want to gain a firm foothold here, you must be inseparable from yourself. Thinking of this, the hearts of the two grain merchants hanging in their throats were put back in their stomachs.

However, they soon became happy and sad, and just as the three of them were in Mi Shuo's living room, pushing cups and changing lamps, they suddenly heard the sound of banging on the door outside the door. When Mi Shuo heard this voice, he couldn't help frowning, called his housekeeper, and ordered unhappily: "Butler, go over and see, who is so ignorant of the rules and knocking on the door outside, affecting me and my two brothers to drink?" ”

The butler agreed, and was about to go over to see what was going on. Before he could walk out of the parlor, the door was kicked open, and a group of wolf-like soldiers rushed in from the outside. "Er... What do you do? The butler was startled when he saw the soldiers who broke in, but he still had the courage to ask with trepidation: "To... So far? ”

As soon as he had finished his words, he rushed to a sharp pain in his body, and five or six soldiers turned their spears upside down, and whipped the butler with the shaft of their spears, and beat him to a ghostly howl.

Chen Zhi brought these soldiers to arrest the grain merchants, and he was going to go to the homes of the other two grain merchants first, but someone reported that the two grain merchants had come to Mi Shuo's mansion, so Chen Zhi divided his soldiers into three teams and went to three places to arrest them, and he led his troops to surround Mi Mansion, and then broke down the door to arrest people.

Mi Shuo first heard his butler screaming outside, and then a group of soldiers, led by a general, broke directly into the meeting room. Mi Shuo didn't know who was coming, so he hurriedly stood up and arched his hand towards Chen Zhi and said, "This general, I don't know whose subordinate you are, what are you doing here?" ”

Chen Zhi was too lazy to talk nonsense with Mi Shuo, turned his head and ordered the soldiers who followed him: "Take them all down to me, and don't let anyone in the house go." The soldiers agreed, stepped forward to take down Mi Shuo and the others, and then broke into the backyard, drove the family members and subordinates in Mi Mansion out of their rooms and gathered them in one place. After doing all this, the soldiers began to raid the property of Mifu.

The homes of three grain merchants in the city were raided by the Jizhou army, which was not a trivial matter, and it soon alarmed the people in the city. However, these three grain merchants are not good people, and they usually do a lot of shoddy things when they sell grain, but because they have backers behind them, the people dare not speak out. Today, when I saw someone raiding the grain merchant's home, I couldn't help but secretly exclaim.

Not long after, literate people saw the notice posted by Wang Hun to reassure the people, and when they learned that the Jizhou army would distribute the money and grain confiscated from the grain merchants to the people of the city tomorrow, they couldn't help but thunder with joy.

Han Zhan ordered the grain merchants in the city to be raided, although he said that it was for Liwei, but he didn't know what kind of reaction it would cause, and he was still uneasy in his heart. Chen Zhi came back and reported to him that the three grain merchants had been taken and were all imprisoned. Without waiting for Han Zhan to say anything, a noisy voice suddenly came from outside the county office.

Hearing this voice, Han Zhan's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he thought that he had ordered Chen Zhi to arrest three grain merchants, which aroused the anger of the people, and the people in the city went outside to petition him. He just wanted to send someone out to see what was going on, when a team leader guarding the gate hurriedly walked in, came to Han Zhan and knelt down on one knee, and reported: "Lord Qi, there are people gathered outside the county office. ”

Hearing the team leader say this, Han Zhan hurriedly asked, "Do you know that the people are gathered outside the county office, what is the matter?" ”

"When the people heard that they were going to be given money and food tomorrow, they came here to thank the lord."

After figuring out the people's intentions, Han Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, he waved his hand at the team leader, asked the other party to retreat, turned his head and said to Chen Zhi: "Uncle Zhi, tomorrow when Wang Taishou distributes money and food to the people, you will also lead the troops to assist." ”

"Subordinates obey."

Guo Jia hesitated for a moment, and then asked Han Zhan tentatively: "Lord, my subordinates want to ask, how do you plan to deal with these grain merchants and their families?" ”

Han Zhan understood the purpose of Guo Jia's question, according to Chen Dao's report, the family members, domestic servants, and maids of the three grain merchants added up to almost five hundred people, and if he killed so many people in one go, I am afraid that Han Zhan would be charged with indiscriminate killing. After thinking for a long time, he said to Guo Jia: "The three grain merchants led by Mi Shuo must be killed without leaving any ground. As for their families, let's hold them first, and when we leave Leigh, it's not too late to release them. ”

Guo Jia saw that Han Zhan only punished Mi Shuo and the three people, and did not implicate the family members and subordinates of the three people, so he did not raise any objections to his approach, but diverted the topic and said to him: "Lord, as far as Jia knows, there is a thief who has fallen into the grass near Mount Tai, surnamed Zang Mingba, with high characters and excellent martial arts, and the lord can send someone to recruit him." ”