Chapter 33: Pure Fear
Everyone listened to Li Xie's words, and then began to slowly retreat, Li Xie had a bad reputation, and a lot of people scolded him to death. But no one will deny what he said, because every word Lee Xie has said so far has been fulfilled.
After the crowd of onlookers retreated, Li Xie pulled Sun Yunkun and walked back to the city, and whispered to Sun Yunkun as he walked:
"Tomorrow, when you transport grain, transport it to the warehouse in Chengdong. Only one bag of grain was placed in each cart, and the rest was loaded with mud, and the dart flag of the southern dart was planted, and the person who carried the grain was forbidden to talk to anyone. ”
"Yes!" Although I don't know what Li Xie is going to do, after experiencing the last incident and the government's grain requisition, Sun Yunkun's attitude towards Li Xie has obviously changed.
Those flattering words are obviously much less, but the attitude is more respectful. Besides, these things are not difficult things to do, so Sun Yunkun agreed with his mouth.
So early the next morning, before dawn. Sun Yunkun sent people to find a mountain outside the city, and sent more than 700 people to dig up the mud for an hour.
It had already been packed at dawn and began to be transported to the city, and when this long procession entered from the west of the city and passed through most of Luotianfu to the east of the city, it was already past noon.
It can be said that in just one day, everyone in Luotianfu knew that the imperial court did not know where to transport a large amount of grain. The panic of the people has been greatly alleviated.
At the same time, Li Xie also met the major grain merchants in Luotian Mansion in a restaurant in Xicheng. Under the leadership of Liu Bao, the head of the household department, these grain merchants were of course very humble on the surface.
After all, the current society is a farmer and a businessman, and the status is very different, even if these businessmen have a family behind them, but if they offend the household servant, those families will not hesitate to hand them over to calm Liu Bao's dissatisfaction.
This is a common phenomenon in this society now, no matter how much money this businessman brings to this family, no matter how many hearts these families have bought with this money, and how many difficulties they have spent with this money.
These merchants who brought them this money have always been the lowest in the family, which is the sorrow of those who are born in this era to do business.
After briefly introducing each other, Li Xie saw that everyone was seated, but he didn't sit down, but just stood like this, and took over the conversation directly:
"That time I brought the big guy, it was also a rehash of the old words, or for the matter of requisitioning grain, I don't know if you have changed your mind after so many days."
"Back to Master Li, the harvest is not good in various places now, and we really don't have any food reserves this year, even if you kill us, we can't call it out!"
When Liu Bao introduced Li Xie, he only briefly mentioned Li Xie, without mentioning his identity and status, but since Li Xie came with Liu Bao, the household servant, everyone took him as an official as a matter of course.
At this time, the person who took Li Xie's words was the shopkeeper Sun who had just been introduced by Liu Bao, and he was the leading grain merchant in Luotian Mansion at this time. From the fact that Shopkeeper Sun stood up and spoke alone, and no one else said anything, it can be seen that among all the people called this time, this person is the first to look forward.
After listening to the words of the shopkeeper Sun, Li Xie propped his hands on the table, leaned forward, and slowly stated in his voice from low to high:
"It's almost noon when you came, and I'm sure you've heard the latest news about food. Do you really think that my Celestial Empire is tens of thousands of miles away, and there is no food to adjust? I'm going to put it here today, I don't have to ask for your food. ”
Speaking of which, luck is inside, and as soon as the compelling momentum in his body came out, his hand slapped on the table with a snap, and his voice was full of anger:
"It's just that now is a special period, and my emperor Shengming feels that in this special period, food should be distributed uniformly to avoid causing unnecessary panic, that's all.
I'll put the words here now, the price of Liu Bao, the head of the household, when he talked to you at the beginning, is 30%, do you like to sell it? Don't say that when you can't sell a grain of food, you can say that our emperor is competing with the people for profit. ”
After Li Xie said this, he kicked away the one who belonged to him next to him, didn't give them a chance to speak at all, and turned around and left.
When he walked to the door, one foot had already stepped out of the door, but Li Xie seemed to remember something again, and leaned sideways slightly:
"What I say only works until the sun sets tomorrow. After tomorrow, even if you beg, you see if I want you a grain of rice. Lord Liu, this is the case, we still need to get down to business. ”
Liu Bao also knew that there was food entering the city this morning, but he also knew that it was Li Xie's transfer back from Xicheng. Because of this matter, late at night last night, someone had already reported it in the household department.
Of course, the person who did this was Sun Yunkun, you must know that whether it is transporting grain from the government warehouse or transporting grain into the warehouse, it is a very serious matter, if there is no unified reporting and retention, even the emperor's relatives will not be able to do it.
It is precisely because of knowing that Liu Bao knows more clearly how thoroughly Li Xie's empty city plan is.
But now he has no better way, and he can only let it go and see how things develop, after all, Liu Bao can't jump out and dismantle Li Xie's platform now, right?
After Li Xie and the others left, the people in the room immediately exploded, after all, if what Li Xie said was the truth, it was really possible that they would not be able to sell a single grain of food.
Shopkeeper Sun is also sitting in a daze, compared to other people's doubts, Shopkeeper Sun is at least eighty percent sure that the matter of transferring grain from other places is fake.
Because when he heard the news in the morning, he also went to see the excitement. It was precisely because he went to see it that he had such a big grasp. Because he saw a familiar person from the grain team, Sun Yunkun, although the two had no contact, they had heard it because they were from the same village.
Sun Yunkun's scientific expedition did not go well, and he found an errand at the gate of the city today, and he was in charge, and he was in charge of more than a dozen people.
Since Sun Yunkun was already on an errand at this gate, why did he appear in the team that transported grain from other places to Luotianfu.
In addition, Shopkeeper Sun has not seen any storms and waves in business for many years, and he doesn't believe that the government will be so kind to collect grain from them and send it to the people for free.
So seeing everyone making such a fuss, Shopkeeper Sun felt that it was time to stabilize these people first. After all, if it is not stopped, more than half of the people sitting here will definitely give food to the government.