When the city of Shenyang was full of white flags and every household set up a mourning hall to cry and cry, Jinan was in a completely different atmosphere. Every day, there are thousands of lonely men and women married here, and the whole Jinan is full of joy all day long.

All this has also diluted the trauma of the war.

Life has to go on.

Seven things to get up early to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea.

More often than not, though, the first thing is food.

"According to the instructions of the prince, each pair of newcomers receive a stone of rice and grain, and a stone of rice and grain to deal with, which should be enough for them to maintain their livelihood for two months, and now the ice in the canal has begun to melt, and then wait for ten days and a half a month, it is estimated that there will be grain merchants to start selling grain, but this year is different from the past, these days the officials ordered people to go out to investigate, according to the news reported by the spies, this time the Jiannu entered the Kou along the canal all the way south, and none of the towns and villages within three or two hundred miles on both sides of the canal were spared, most of the villages were burned, and the people were killedExcept for a few lucky ones who escaped, most of the people were killed. ”

Jiannu!

Even if he was mentally prepared, when he heard Chen Changgeng's words, Zhu Guoqiang couldn't help but feel a little indignant, and even his expression became a little excited.

"Therefore, this year's rice grain may be far more expensive than in previous years, although the prince has cashed in the reward to the big guy, but the lower officials feel that when the canal is opened, it is inevitable that there will be profiteers who will take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, and when the time comes, I am afraid that the people will suffer ......."

"Those profiteers, do they really think ......?"

Originally, I wanted to say that there is no royal law?

But when the words came to his lips, Zhu Guoqiang still smiled helplessly. I'm afraid that there is really no royal law that can cure those profiteers, if they can cure them, how can Daming end up in that step?

"In this regard, I am afraid that the prince is also helpless, after all, the law of the imperial court makes the prince neither meddle in the place, nor do anything to the profiteers, unless he ......"

Lowering his voice, Chen Changgeng said.

"Unless the prince has more grain in his hand than the profiteer, as long as he has millions of stone grain in his hand, as soon as the profiteer makes a move, he will immediately release grain to stabilize the price of grain, so that the profiteers will naturally have no tricks......"

"I know ......"

Zhu Guoqiang pursed his lips and mobilized materials to stabilize prices, but anyone who knew anything about controlling the soaring prices in Shanghai in the early days of New China knew this method. Merely......

"I'm afraid there isn't that much food in the house now."

"It's true that there isn't so much food anymore, after all, for more than a month, the soldiers and civilians in the city have eaten all the grain stored in the palace, if it weren't for the fact that the prince paid more than 100,000 stone grain, it is estimated that the food would have been exhausted long ago."

Counting it, that Yue Tuo is really his own "transport captain".

Not only weapons, silver, and manpower were brought in, but even clothes and food were brought by this "captain." It's just that the number is too small!

While sighing secretly in his heart, suddenly, Zhu Guoqiang's brows jumped sharply, and he wondered.

"That's not right!"

"What?"

"Chief Chen, how much grain did you say we seized?"

"That's about 200,000 stones."

"You said that Jiannu burned and looted all the way, and we got so many clothes, but why is there so little food?"

Shi Ziye's question made Chen Changgeng stunned, and he also nodded and said.

"It is also said that logically speaking, even if the poorest people spend the winter, in addition to the winter rations, there will be grain seeds, even if every household is small, there should be a few stones of grain, as for the rich man in the countryside, there are often thousands of stones of grain in the family, so that they can be sold at a good price when the next year is not harvested, can these grains be set on fire by Jiannu?"

"Didn't burn!"

As if remembering something, Zhu Guoqiang hurriedly walked to the bookshelf and took out a stack of papers, flipped through it for a while before saying.

"You see, this is the confession of the rescued people, and it reads, "The captives put all the food on the carts, and if they didn't obey, they would be cut ......and killed."

Looking up at Chen Changgeng, Zhu Guoqiang's eyes flashed, and then he groaned.

"I think I pretty much know what the grain is!"

"The prince knows?"

The words of the prince made Chen Changgeng puzzled.

"And where did all this food go?"

"In the hands of someone else!"

Zhu Guoqiang sneered, he naturally thought of a "legend of the late Ming Dynasty", a "legend" about the collusion of Jin merchants with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It is not known whether this "legend" is a "legend" or not, but it is certain that the Qing army's entry into the Kou is inseparable from those families, so how could they work in vain?

"Chief Chen, what about the spies who went to investigate? Tell them to come over, I have something to ask them! ”

Soon Zhu Guoqiang got the news he wanted to know from the spies,

"You're saying that not all the villages were burned down, did you?"

"Back to the master, it is inevitable that there will be some fish that show their nets, after all, even if the Jiannu is just a sieve, some villages will be let go because the official army is too close or some other reason."

"How many villages like this are there?"

"As far as I know, there are almost a dozen villages in every place that have escaped the catastrophe."

"So do we have any near Jinan?"

The answer is naturally yes, and after getting the answer, Zhu Guoqiang went straight to the city tower and once again used the drone to conduct "aerial reconnaissance" on the village mentioned by the spies.

Not to mention, it's really convenient to scout with drones!

Compared with the beginning, after several experiences of using drones for reconnaissance, Zhu Guoqiang seems to have mastered the skills of reconnaissance and can already judge whether he needs to go over from some details.

"There is almost no need to go through this area, such a village is "leaked" because of the terrain, surrounded by several rivers, although the river is frozen, but the bridge has been destroyed, so the Qing army did not pass, but, you look at these villages, they are intact is a little strange, logically speaking, the villages next to them have been burned, how can this be ...... Hey! ”

Suddenly, Zhu Guoqiang, who was talking to himself, stared at the video screen and wondered.

"This Zhuangzi seems a little strange to look at?"

Zhuangzi looks not an ordinary village, it is a walled Zhuangzi, looking a bit like a rich family's big courtyard, logically speaking, there must be a lot of people walking around in such a courtyard, but from the picture, Zhuangzi is quiet, there seems to be no one.

"Fly Low ......"

The courtyard in the video has become clearer, and through the high-definition video, it can be clearly seen that there are very few people walking around in this yard where there should be maids and servants walking.

"There are only people on the corner of the courtyard wall...... What's over here? Make the picture a little bigger......"

As soon as the picture was enlarged, a fierce color flashed in Zhu Guoqiang's eyes, and his gaze became cold.

"Found it!"