After entering December, Chang'an also had a heavy snowfall, and the entire city was covered in snow, turning into a snow-capped world.

In the past few months, Chang'an's business has become very chaotic, small money is overflowing, flooding the Chang'an market, buying a large number of materials, Zhu Zhu finally woke up, ordered a strict ban on the circulation of small money, for a while, merchants and people complained bitterly, they have a lot of small money in their hands.

Considering that the people of Chang'an had no money to buy rice, Zhu Jun ordered to open up an opening, allowing the people to buy rice with a small amount of money, but each person could only buy one bucket of rice, and the people rushed to each rice shop, and the whole family went into battle together, resulting in the price of rice in Chang'an skyrocketing, and in just two days, the price of rice rose from 50 wen per bucket to 500 wen per bucket.

But even so, the people of Chang'an don't care, as long as they can use up the small money in their hands, they can only accept the price of rice rising to the sky.

The explosion of rice prices led to an overall rise in prices in Chang'an, the shortage of materials, the flood of copper coins, and the evil consequences of Chang'an being shorted by various feudal towns gradually appeared.

A large number of impoverished low-level people fled Chang'an, and many people helped the old and the young to go to Bashu and defect to the Tang Dynasty.

The prosperity of Chang'an, which Zhu Jun carefully maintained, was finally punctured, and the prosperity gradually drifted away from Chang'an.

In the Taiwei Mansion, every guard and maid is trembling, and recently Zhu Jun has a very big temper, and if he makes a slight mistake, he will be angrily reprimanded, beaten violently, and even lose his life.

In the study, Zhu Jun paced back and forth with his hands in his hands, and the anger on his face was unquenchable, "There is no need to try again, all the family property will be confiscated, and the whole family will be killed!" ”

Just a few months ago, a major case broke out in Chang'an, and the grain stock of Guangtong Warehouse was fraudulent, and the original grain stock of 7 million stone was sharply reduced to more than 3 million stone.

The cause is a coincidence, many people in Chang'an complained that there was too much moldy grain, Zhu Zhu sent his nephew Zhu Sui to Guangtong Cang to inspect, Zhu Sui accidentally found that a sack full of grain was gnawed by a rat with a big hole, which spilled out not wheat or rice, but chaff husk, Zhu Sui even checked more than a dozen bags are like this, he realized that the problem was serious, and immediately rushed back to Chang'an to report to Zhu Zhu.

Zhu Zhu was shocked, and personally led 5,000 cavalry to Guangtong Cang to investigate, and found that a large number of grain bags were full of fake grain, some were dead branches and rotten grass, some were chaff husks, and even a lot of them were filled with sand.

Zhu Zhu ordered the torture of all the officials of Guangtongcang, and gradually dug up a nest case, from Liu Qinghong, a household servant, to Cheng Maqi, Guangtongcang, and from Zhang You, a general of Tongguan to Li Wuqi, a general of Pujin Guan, more than 20 officials and generals colluded with each other to secretly sell about half of Guangtongcang's grain to Tianyue and Li Na of Ziqing in Hebei Province in nearly two years, totaling 3.8 million stones, and each person made a profit ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Guangtongcang is the lifeblood of Zhu Jun, and it is the foundation for his hegemony, and now the foundation has been dug up in half, so how can he not be like thunder.

The case has been investigated, a total of 28 officials involved in the case, as many as hundreds of petty officials and low-level generals involved in the case, Zhu Zhu threw the Dali Temple report to the ground, and ordered all the people involved in the case to be beheaded by their families.

Yuan Xiu and Yao Lingyan persuaded: "If all of them are beheaded, there will be thousands of people killed, the impact is too great, it will cause panic in the government and the opposition, and it is recommended that the entire family of twenty-eight officials be beheaded, and the rest of the officials and generals will be killed." ”

Zhu Jun said heavily: "If you don't kill them, it will be difficult to calm the anger in my heart." ”

Strategist Liu Sigu persuaded: "The stolen grain is mainly old rice for many years, and it is not good to make military food for soldiers, and the confiscated property can also offset the loss of food, just to replenish the army, although this matter is hateful, but the loss is not as serious as imagined, and the humble position also thinks that it is important to stabilize the situation, and now the flood of small money has made people panic, and if so many people are killed, the situation will get out of control. ”

Liu Sigu's persuasion made Zhu Jun's heart feel a little more comfortable, and he nodded, "Okay!" Just take your advice and kill them severely! ”

"Captain wise!" The three of them praised together.

Zhu Jun waved his hand, "I want to know now, should our original plan be changed?" ”

Yuan Xiu hesitated and said: "The original plan of the humble suggestion remains unchanged, and after the beginning of spring next year, the army will attack Xiangyang. ”

"What about Hexi?"

Zhu Jun said again: "It is impossible for me to launch a large-scale battle on two fronts!" ”

Yuan Xiu and Yao Lingyan looked at Liu Sigu together, the plan to deal with Hexi was planned by him, and this question should be answered by him.

Liu Sigu coughed and said: "In fact, our plan has been half successful, nearly 700,000 displaced people have been driven to Hexi, which is enough to crush the economy of Hexi, the Yellow River is frozen, it is no longer a natural hazard, no one can stop 700,000 hungry and cold displaced people from pouring into the Hexi Corridor, the Hexi army is slightly driven away, facing the riot of 700,000 displaced people, under the threat of hunger and severe cold, these 700,000 people can do anything, I estimate that now the counties in Hexi are burning, killing and looting everywhere, and the Hexi Corridor run by Guo Song will completely collapse." .......”

Zhu Jun narrowed his eyes, Liu Sigu's description made him feel very comfortable, and the frustration just now was swept away.

"And then?" Zhu Jun asked again.

"I want to say that there is no need to fight on two fronts at all, and when the 700,000 displaced people toss the Hexi Corridor to the end, that is, when we enter Hexi to harvest, we only need 5,000 people to enter Hexi to clean up the mess, which is called a soldier who surrenders without a fight, although it is a little vicious, but it kills two birds with one stone, which not only solves the pressure of the displaced people on Guanzhong, but also solves the threat of the Hexi army to us."

Yuan Xiu and Yao Lingyan glanced at each other, both of them were secretly frightened, this Liu Sigu was too vicious, and he actually thought of such a poisonous plan to use the homeless people to destroy the Jiedu Mansion in Hexi.

Zhu Jun laughed, "This plan is to call the locusts into Hexi, and if he Guo Song has a thousand skills, he will be eaten by 700,000 locusts, which is too fucking happy." ”

Zhang Guangsheng, who had been silent, felt a little unbearable in his heart, so he changed the topic and said: "Taiwei, let's talk about the battle of Xiangyang again!" I am a little puzzled, why don't you attack Hanzhong, but hit Xiangyang? ”

Zhu Jun smiled and said to Liu Sigu: "Sir, explain it to the general!" ”

Liu Sigu explained with a smile: "I suggest that the lord attack Xiangyang, mainly to cut off the Yangtze River water transportation, without the Jiangnan to transport money and grain, Li Shi will not be able to support it for a few years, there will be civil strife, and at the same time cut off the supply from Xiangyang, the Central Plains and the Southern Tang army is also difficult to support, unless they implement the military tun, but they don't seem to have this action, Liu Qia and Li Baozhen's army can only break through to the southeast, and ask Yangzhou for money and food, and the first fierce war will inevitably break out, it is best to fight a defeat and create conditions for our eastward expansion." ”

The crowd applauded and exclaimed, "What a brilliant plan!" ”

Zhu Jun added with a smile: "The Battle of Xiangyang was supposed to be implemented in the autumn, but I was worried that Guo Song would attack us from behind, hoping to pull out the stinger in Guo Song's back first, just because we were short of food and could no longer feed the displaced people, Mr. Liu thought of expelling 700,000 displaced people to Hexi, although there were a lot of deaths on the road, but at least more than 600,000, which was enough to crush Guo Song, and without spending a single soldier, he solved the worries of my back, Mr. Liu is the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang of this king!" ”

Liu Sigu was proud in his heart, and lightly stroked the scorched goat's whiskers and smiled: "It's just a small skill of carving insects, and the captain has won the award!" ”

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While Chang'an's business was in recession, a new shop selling sheepskins and cloth opened in the West Market.

This shop was originally called Cui Ji Cai Silk Shop, mainly engaged in cloth, is one of the three major cloth merchants in Chang'an, the proprietor of this shop is actually Princess Gao, the husband of Princess Gao Guo is called Cui Sheng, so it is called Cui Ji Cai Silk Shop.

Princess Gao Guo's family withdrew to Chengdu, and the shop was confiscated and auctioned off by Zhu Zhu, and Li An bought it through favors, and now it has reopened and changed its name to An Kee Sheepskin Cloth Shop.

Needless to say, this sheepskin cloth shop is the first intelligence point set up by Tiance Lou in Chang'an.

Although the proprietor is still Li An, he has actually secretly transferred it to Tiance Building, and the dozen or so guys and shopkeepers inside are all from Tiance Building.

The shopkeeper's surname is Zheng, he was transferred from the internal guard, Tiance Lou really can't find a suitable person to serve as the shopkeeper, there are many such talents in the internal guard, more than 30 people in the shopkeeper Zheng, Chang'an people, a kind face, always smiling.

This Anji sheepskin cloth shop is not only an intelligence point, but also undertakes the task of transporting cloth to Hexi, Hexi does not produce cloth, the demand for cloth is relatively large, and 200,000 pieces of cloth are purchased from all over the country every year, which is the largest import goods in Hexi.

Winter sheepskins are very easy to sell, especially the old sheepskins that are more than five years old, one piece costs ten dollars, and ordinary sheepskins also cost two or three dollars, of course, it was not so expensive before, but now the price is rising, and everything is expensive.

Today is the opening of the auspicious, in a lively gong and drum, Zheng shopkeeper fists to the surrounding people said: "Today is the opening of the small shop, for this reason, the store specially took out 3,000 sheepskins for special sales, each sheepskin only 500 yuan, do not charge small money and new money, only collect old money, each person is limited to two pieces." ”

Although it is more criticized to only charge old money, it is only 500 yuan per ticket, which is the price ten years ago! Only about 20% of the current market.

The news spread quickly, and hundreds of people rushed from all around to join the rush to buy sheepskins.