"My lord, we are the students who signed up for the exam yesterday, a total of 1,300, we first selected those who have bad reviews and bad morals, and eliminated about 500 people, and the remaining 800 people, we took the exam yesterday, because I know that you are busy, and I didn't inform you, you can finish the marking tomorrow, and your lord, you see how many people you want."

"It's okay, here, you Lord Liu has full authority to deal with it, as for how many we want, we need thirty initially, and you can also register those who are excellent and have not entered, and don't be so troublesome when you need them in the future, just come and ask for people directly, I don't know what questions Lord Liu has," I am very curious about what kind of problems this Liu County Order came out of to take the exam, so I wanted to ask

"My lord, because there are too many candidates, we have two exams in the morning and afternoon, so I only have two questions, the first question is: try to discuss the foundation of the country, the second question is: taxes and people's livelihood, people's livelihood and money and food, the adult question is not very difficult, mainly to investigate the students' understanding of taxes, money and food, and the country, I have not copied the sage's book, but I have my own problem, I don't know if the adults are satisfied."

"Yes, Lord Liu, we are not looking for officials, nor are we looking for nerds, we are looking for people who can do practical things, and they will work under you in the future, you have to teach them well, whether they can become talents depends on you, Lord Liu."

"Don't worry, adults, I will definitely teach them well, and tomorrow when the results are available, I will send the list to the adults and let the adults decide"

"Okay, Lord Liu, you don't have to go in person, just let Sui Jian's 'Chun' send me back, as for the future arrangements, I will let him tell you, you don't have to work too hard, take care of your body, I'll go first" I see that they are too busy here, I don't doubt Liu County's ability to work, so I left quickly, forget it, if I have to ask everything, I am not tired to death, and find a few capable assistants to do things in the future

Took the four of them out of the country, and told a few eunuchs that we should go home, I will go back to rest, and I will go to Yi'chun Courtyard to find Wang Qiang at night, and I will not sleep all night, and my 'spirit' is obviously not good

When I got home, Lao Liu was waiting for me in the living room to see me come in, and gave me a look, and I knew that Lao Liu had something to do, so he said: "Brother Liu, I have something to do with you later."

Lao Liu followed me to the study in the backyard, and I asked, "What's going on, Brother Liu, is there anything new?"

"My lord, just now I went out to buy things for the three creeper brothers, many merchants have stopped selling, and finally ran a long way to buy it back, and I heard them say that they are dissatisfied with the taxes of the imperial court and are ready to strike the market, now what should we do, so many people eat horses and chew, do we also have to prepare some food and vegetables and other things?"

"Brother Liu, who did you listen to say that how many shops outside are still open?"

"Adults sell clothes, bedding, and silk, and these are okay, but I am afraid that if the grain store closes the 'door', we will be in trouble."

"How much food do we have at home, which can last a few days," I didn't expect them to launch so quickly, it seems that we all underestimated these characters, and we thought that they would send it in a few days, but I didn't expect it to start now

"My lord, we have food and vegetables that can last for three days at home, and we eat them on the same day and buy them on the same day, so we don't have any inventory."

"That's it, Brother Liu, you go to the street to buy things now, especially vegetables and 'meat', if you can buy more, buy more, no matter how much silver, I estimate that I won't be able to buy silver tomorrow."

"Okay, young master, I'll do it right away, but I still think of one thing, if we have food now, we will definitely make a lot of money by selling it in a few days, but unfortunately we don't."

Lao Liu's words made my heart move, these grain merchants' warehouses are outside the city, if you don't sell grain, you will definitely hoard it, if you send someone to Leiyun Village, let the old man Wang bring people to grab a few, it is estimated that this grain is not sold unreliable, this is not a good way, as long as there is no shortage of food in the capital, this strike will have no practical significance, what clothes, bedding will be sold in a few days, it is not the same, but this thing must be done near the capital, must be approved by the emperor, if the movement is big, it will not be conducive to the future development of Leiyun Village

But I can't say anything about Leiyun Village, I can only give the emperor an idea, let the officers and soldiers pretend to be bandits to rob, and then we Leiyun Village muddy waters 'touch' the fish and rob a family, I decided to continue to enter the palace, and now I can't take a break, I don't want to let this strike make trouble, and the trouble will also affect the opening of my royal silver number

I said to Lao Liu: "Brother Liu, when you go out to buy vegetables, by the way, inquire how many grain merchants there are in our capital, the larger ones are smaller, and the ones in front of me will be handed over, and I will go into the palace to let them prepare a sedan chair."

"Young master, if you don't rest, how can you be so tired, but you haven't slept all night, can your body eat?" asked me with concern

"I can't rest now, this is a new situation, I have to report it to the emperor in time, Brother Liu, don't worry, I'm fine"

After sending Lao Liu away, I was thinking about how to take advantage of this opportunity to make a big profit, and to smash the 'yin' plot of this boycott, and not to let the emperor and Chen Jiu see the 'fault'

I also changed out of official clothes, put on civilian clothes, and came to the front yard, the eunuchs did not put the sedan chair in the sedan room, so they did not pack up, and we ran directly to the palace, and when we arrived at the Donghua 'gate', the 'guards' and the Shence army on duty saw that I was here again, and after registering a series of procedures, I went to the Qianqing Palace under the leadership of the eunuchs

When he arrived at the Qianqing Palace, the emperor saw him and entered the main hall, and Chen Jiu also knelt down in front of the emperor's dragon case, and then the emperor asked: "Lan Yunjie, why did he come back after just a few hours?"

"The emperor and the ministers have made a major discovery, just now the minister's housekeeper went to buy things and found that many merchants have begun to strike the market and not sell things, and Weichen felt that the situation was serious, so he immediately entered the palace to inform the emperor to deal with it as soon as possible."

"No, didn't you and Lord Zhang say that they didn't start so quickly, why did you start now, Chen Jiu, didn't you arrange it over there?"

"The emperor's servants have been arranged, and they haven't replied yet, the capital is so big, we only have a few hundred people in Dongchang, and there are so many people who can take care of them, so I arranged for them to only focus on the key points, and they can't take care of those small ones."

"How did this matter come so quickly, Lan Yunjie, you said that if the capital strikes, the people can hold out for a few days," the emperor asked me again

"If the emperor strikes the capital, I think it will last for five days at most, but my teacher didn't give the emperor an idea just now?"

"Lord Zhang said a few countermeasures, but this thing came too quickly, we weren't ready, didn't expect them to be too fast, you see if there is any good way to suppress this matter."

"The emperor can tell me a few countermeasures from my teacher, and only then can Weichen say my countermeasures," I just want to know what kind of strategy Zhang Juzheng told the emperor, see if there is any duplication of mine

"Lord Zhang came up with three countermeasures, the first Lord Zhang said that we are not afraid of the market, the main thing is to control the grain, those other merchants don't matter, the main thing is to make the residents of the capital hungry, it is a big deal, for this Lord Zhang said that we can transfer grain from the official warehouse to have a government monopoly, but now Lord Zhang has just left to go to the household department to investigate, and now there is still a lot of grain in the official warehouse that can withstand a few days."

"The second is to divide and disintegrate, those big merchants can also let Dongchang arrest a few people who take the lead, and casually press a crime, it is best to involve the Lan family's rebellion and leave, so that the following will see that the imperial court will not give in, and it will also receive good results."

"The third is that Dongchang will seize the leader as soon as possible and find out the owner behind them, and it will also solve this strike crisis, Lan Yunjie, how about your teacher?"

"Your Majesty, my teacher, these are golden 'jade' good words and good strategies, but now it's too late, so Wei Chen hurriedly entered the palace to inform the emperor, the emperor must be fast, and they can't spread outside the capital, "I just want to 'force' the emperor to be anxious, or he won't use my strategy."

"Then what to do, Lan Yunjie, tell me if you have a good plan to deal with it?"

"The emperor's ministers have a plan, which is similar to the teacher's second one, that is, it is a bit vicious and contrary to the way of the saint, I am afraid that the emperor will be unhappy when he hears it."

"It's okay, in extraordinary times, use extraordinary strategies to talk to those Diao people about the way of saints, they don't have me, how can I treat them as my own people, Lan Yunjie, you boldly say it, I forgive you for your innocence."

"Good long live the lord, then Weichen said, the emperor also knows that my master also said that food is the top priority this time, so we start with grain, there are only a handful of big grain merchants in the capital, if they respond to the call for a strike, then Weichen thought of a strategy, let's first investigate the warehouses of several large grain merchants to see which one strikes, we let people change into bandit or hungry clothes to rob them, rob one, if it doesn't work, we will grab the second one to see if they can calm down."

"Will this cause a big 'chaos' in the hearts of the people in the capital, if the 'wave' reaches the city, it will be troublesome," the emperor hesitated for a while and said

"Your Majesty, in extraordinary times, use this method, Your Majesty, you can arrange the guards of the capital in advance, and transfer the Beijing army to the city, and it will not be long before the people are full, who will make trouble, we will go to grab their food while putting grain in the city, I think it will be fine."