After reading the secret letter, everyone immediately felt that what was said in it was a bit ridiculous, and they didn't dare to say it.

Wei Ma Zhou, the youngest young man, was excited and excited after reading Sun Xiangfu's handwriting.

"Your Majesty, Sun Xia's pastoral work is also in Qianqiu."

Ma Zhou's voice broke the silence in the imperial study, and only he dared to believe that what Sun Xiangfu said in the letter was true.

"Does King Bin think that what is written in Sun Zhengming's secret letter is true?" Li Shimin looked at Ma Zhoudao unexpectedly.

"Exactly, although the yield of eight stone valleys per mu sounds a little appalling, since Sun Xiamu dares to say that at least eight stone valleys per mu, he must have a certain certainty, has Your Majesty forgotten the courgette and white stacks? Listening to those Hu merchants in the Western Regions, our courgettes and white stacks in Chang'an are better than their ones in the Western Regions. ”

As soon as Ma Zhou's words came out, Li Shimin and several ministers were stunned.

Sun Xiangfu sent a letter saying that Feng Ang's side was ready to send troops to quell the rebellion, and the imperial court could let Zhang Gongjin go to Hongzhou and Zhang Liang to Changsha to prepare for the grain dumping, and after they were ready to take place, the imperial court could announce to the whole world that it had introduced a kind of high-quality rice with a yield of more than eight stones per mu, and the trial planting was successful, and the Tang Dynasty would no longer be short of grain and rice in the future, and use this news to help Zhang Gongjin and Zhang Liang crush the price of grain in the hands of the sons of the family.

"Yes or no, I sent Wei Shuhuan and Li Gongyan to Lingnan to see that all aspects of the manpower should be mobilized, and I will bother Zhuqing to issue the decree!"

Although it was a little unbelievable, there was a look of expectation in everyone's eyes, and the affairs in Lingnan had been in trouble for several months, and it was finally time to see the real chapter.

In recent months, he not only transported the 600,000 stone grain produced by the Wang family here, but also used various means to collect a large part of the grain of the local small family in Hongzhou, plus the Fan Yang Lu family transported, he had a total of 1.2 million stone grain in his hands, which made him feel that the world was in my hands.

"Second young master, the warships of the imperial navy have turned into the Yangtze River, there are hundreds of them, and in a few days, they will be able to reach Hongzhou."

A servant ran into the Hundred Flowers Pavilion in a hurry and reported to Wang Haoyu.

"Well, don't be surprised, it's only a matter of time before the border fights, let the grain guards be cautious, or it won't be long before we can sell grain."

Although Wang Hao is two years younger than Wang Lin, he acts relatively calmly and never publicly, even if he scrapes off more than half of the grain in Hongzhou City, he has never appeared in public once. If it weren't for Sun Xiangfu's ability to cure potbelly, make some tribes turn against him, arrest his subordinates, and use more advanced interrogation methods to pry open the mouths of those die-hard loyalists, no one would know everything about his plan, of course, at this time, Wang Hao didn't know that his plan had been exposed.

The main reason for his defeat is that he has a pig-like teammate, or rather, his eldest brother Wang Lin is not his teammate at all.

Wang Lin, who suddenly appeared in Yangzhou, seemed a little inexplicable, he instigated Wu Yuanqing to do something to Sun Xiangfu, but he didn't think about it at all, and he withdrew after he finished it, and there was no follow-up action, so in fact, he was deliberately warning Sun Xiangfu.

Compared with fighting with an inconsequential person, the position of the head of the Taiyuan Wang family is ten thousand times more important to Wang Lin, and the result is very good, Sun Xiangfu sensed that something was wrong and hurried to Lingnan, thus stabilizing the situation in Lingnan and exposing Wang Hao's plan.

If Wang Hao mobilized such a large amount of resources from the family, but finally failed, then Wang Hao must have lost points in the eyes of those old guys in the Wang clan elders, this is what Wang Lin wants to see.

"Come on, inform the grain stores that the price of grain will be increased by 30% today, and in the future, the price will be increased by 30% every day." After Wang Hao gave orders to his subordinates, he hurriedly wrote to Cui Ji in Changsha, the Cui Zhao brothers and Zheng Peiyu in Quanzhou.

In Lingnan, dozens of large ships loaded with grain and hundreds of empty ships set off from the dock, and these grains were recently pulled by the Lingnan fleet with the Happiness to and fro, and their purpose was Quanzhou.

The imperial court ate the grain of Hongzhou and Changsha, and the land of Quanzhou was handed over to the closer Lingnan, of course, it is not that Lingnan lacks these grains, but let them transport the grain to Chang'an after they finish it nearby.

Five days later, Zhang Gongjin's fleet finally arrived outside Hongzhou City, at this time the grain prices of the major grain shops in Hongzhou City have been sold to the usual amount, you know, now it is about to be the summer harvest season, and the grain price in Hongzhou is not as good as Guanzhong, there is no shortage of grain here, in the absence of major floods, Hongzhou's rice rarely exceeds five hundred yuan per stone, and now, the price of one stone of rice has gone to the consistent five, up more than three times.

The arrival of the army has increased the atmosphere of war in the Hongzhou area, since there is going to be a war, the people can understand the high price of grain, but those who were bought at a fair price before the local farmers in Hongzhou regretted it, and they had long heard that the border was in trouble, but they never thought that the imperial court would come out of such a big battle to clean up, Zhang Gongjin brought more than 100 warships, and the transport of civilian ships reached 1,000.

The same scene also appeared at the Changsha and Quanzhou docks, but the first thing they did when the fleet came to a halt stunned all the people who were shrouded in the suspicion of war.

On the wharf of Hongzhou, Zhang Gong, who was wearing light armor, ordered people to post notices inside and outside the state city, the content of the notices is not complicated, Yue Guogong has pacified the civil strife in Lingnan, there will be no war in the surrounding areas of Hongzhou, and the imperial army will soon set off to return to Chang'an, in addition, the imperial court has introduced rice with a yield of eight stones per mu, and the people of the world can go to the government to buy grain next year, and we will no longer lack food in the Tang Dynasty, so the large amount of grain carried by the south this time, the navy does not plan to bring it back, deal with it on the spot, and fight rice for thirty dollars, Those who want to come to the dock to get food can buy as much as they want.

"Boom."

When this notice was read out by the first literate person, the whole Hongzhou city was almost earthquake, and the people rushed to tell each other, the rice yield of eight stones per mu, and the rice was thirty yuan, which was three or four percent lower than the usual grain price, and these two news were greater blessings to the people in the city than the war had passed.

In the same situation, there were also Changsha City and Quanzhou City, Cui Ji, Cui Zhao and Zheng Peiyu who were sitting in the city were all blinded like Wang Hao.

"Conspiracy, this is a conspiracy, this is a ploy against our and other families this time, how can the war be stopped, how can there be grain with a yield of eight stones per mu, this is impossible to ······"

Even Wang Hao, who has a very calm personality, was angry at the moment, and rushed to the city to read the notice, and when he saw the seal of the official mansion on the notice, Wang Hao's face was like ashes.

Even the emperor didn't dare to deceive the people like this, so let's just say that the imperial court really mastered a new grain species with a yield of up to eight stones per mu, but it came out at this time, which really made people unprepared!

On the wharf, Zhang Gong asked the soldiers and the people to put the mountain of grain bags on the deck, as long as there are people to buy food, it will not be short-lived, and persuade the people to buy more, only three hundred wen and one stone, cheap! It is much more cost-effective for the sailors to bring money back than to bring food back. You know, it's not easy to sail against the current on a boat full of grain.

However, after the initial rush of some people who were really short of food, the grain could not be sold.

The war that was said to be good cannot be fought, and now that the summer grain is about to be harvested, and the people are not short of food at all, why spend money to buy it?

Since the notice came out, Wang Hao's several grain shops have not sold a pound of grain, and no one even looks at their grain stores, and there is still a price of one hundred and fifty yuan of dou rice here!

When Wang Hao, who lost his soul, passed by a grain store purchased by himself, he pulled out the price card inserted in the grain bag and fell to the ground hard, he knew that he was afraid that he would fail this time, and he would also make the family suffer a lot of losses.

"Change the price, and our grain will also sell for 300 yuan and one stone."

In less than half an hour, all the grain shops in Hongzhou City changed their price cards, 30 wen for rice, 300 wen for one stone, which was equivalent to the price of grain sold by the officers and soldiers on the wharf.

However, after seeing them reduce the price, Zhang Gongjin smiled slightly, asked the soldiers to divide into dozens of teams, beat gongs and drums, and announced to the city that the food of the navy army was sold for 200 yuan and one stone, and if you want to buy it as soon as possible, there are still hundreds of thousands of stone of grain on the ship!

This news soon spread to the whole city, Wang Hao naturally did not know, now, what he wanted to do most was to vomit blood, you know, in addition to the 600,000 stone grain he brought and the 400,000 stone grain of the Lu family, there are also 200,000 stone of grain He bought it from the local big family in Hongzhou for 400 yuan a stone, if he sold it at the price of grain from the imperial court, he would not only lose manpower and material resources, but also lose 40,000 yuan of capital.

"Come on, send me to the dock and invite Zou Guogong Baihua Pavilion to the banquet."

In less than half an hour, Wang Hao got Zhang Gongjin's reply, he was busy with military affairs and did not come, and the servant who was responsible for inviting Zhang Gongjin also told Wang Hao that the price of grain on the dock had dropped again, fifteen yuan for rice, and only one hundred and fifty yuan for one stone, even so, there were still very few people who bought it, and Zhang Gongjin was worried on the wharf.

"He dares to sell it for one hundred and fifty dollars per stone? Prepare the car, I personally went to the dock. Wang Hao's face was miserable, and at this moment he realized how much the grain with a yield of eight stones per mu had changed the Tang Dynasty, and I was afraid that their family would no longer be able to use grain to control a large number of people to become their serfs.

The same thing was almost all staged in Changsha and Quanzhou, the war was over, the summer grain harvest in the south was imminent, and the local people who were not short of grain were in a wait-and-see state in the face of historically low prices of grain, and the price war on the first day was fought, and the price of grain fell to less than 20 yuan of rice, even so, no one had bought it.

Wang Hao's identity as the son-in-law of the Wang family in Taiyuan still has some effect, even if Zhang Gongjin pretends to be busy with official business, he also met him at the bow of the ship full of grain.

After saluting, Wang Hao arched his hand and said, "Can Gong Zou take a step to speak?" ”

As soon as Zhang Gongjin raised his hand when he heard this, many soldiers on the deck withdrew.

"I wonder how far Zou Gong wants to reduce the price of this grain?" Waiting for everyone to retreat, Wang Hao asked straight to the point.

"Your Majesty has a will, the grain dispatched by the southern expedition does not need to be transported back to Chang'an, and it can be sold on the spot, and if it can't be sold, you can build a warehouse and hoard it, and sell it slowly, but on this hot day, the old man doesn't want his soldiers to build any warehouse, so it is naturally better to sell it out." Zhang Gongjin was very relaxed.