After entering the former Bianliang City of Tokyo and the current Kaifeng Mansion City with the crowd, Lu Zhen can clearly feel that this ancient city is no longer the world-class big city depicted in "Tokyo Menghualu" and "Qingming Riverside Map". Although the overall framework of the city is still there, the nobility and prosperity have long been gone, and some are just ordinary market life.

Even the people who came and went in the street market, with a little sadness on their faces, hurriedly walked with confusion and uncertainty about their future life. This made Lu Jin, who saw all this, couldn't help but feel a little lost, after all, as a former liberal arts student, he still longed for the prosperity of the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, but unfortunately all this has been dispersed with the changes of history.

But when he thought about it, he was relieved. After all, it is now the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty has long been an annihilation in the long river of history, and today's Beijing and the cities in the south of the Yangtze River are not under the prosperity of Tokyo in the past, not to mention, the city almost suffered a catastrophe last year, and it is reasonable to present this situation at this time.

While looking around, a clangling gong attracted everyone's attention, and everyone followed the prestige, and saw that many people were gathering under a list posted high, and there were people in the crowd who were explaining loudly, even if there was a distance away, the words still clearly reached Lu Jin's ears:

“…… The prefect has ordered that in order to prevent any more unscrupulous criminals from deliberately hoarding grain and seeking high prices, the government will ban all grain trading for three days for two months. As long as there are those who dare to resist the order, they will not be tolerated. Let's go to the grain stores to buy grain, I'm afraid it's too late! ”

After saying these words, the crowd was in an uproar, some questioned, some asked, but the people who preached the list did not mean to explain at all, just read the content of the book according to the script, and then reduced it to the meaning of the prefect.

Seeing that it was completely useless to argue and oppose, the people woke up from a dream, quickly turned away from the crowd, and hurried to the grain shop not far behind. After a while, there was a long queue in front of the grain store, which was not frequented by many customers, and it was overcrowded......

Seeing this scene, Yao Gan and the others obviously showed an incredible look, and it took a while for someone to say to Lu Zhen in the car: "My lord, I'm afraid this matter has a lot to do with the fact that our people were taken down by the government before?" ”

Lu Zhen nodded approvingly: "It shouldn't be wrong." But I didn't expect that the prefect of Kaifeng would have such a big courage to dare to ban the sale of grain. Once the matter is poked out, I am afraid that his official will come to an end. ”

"Governor, what should we do next? Did you go to the government office to inquire? Yao Gan asked again.

Lu Zhen pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Don't worry, since it's all here, you should fight steadily." Moreover, we are at the right time, so we can just take advantage of the fact that everyone is buying food in large quantities and also rush to buy some food for backup? In this case, first find a place to stay, and then you will go separately to the various grain stores in the city and buy as much as you can. ”

Everyone agreed, and then escorted Lu Jin's carriage to continue to go inside, and after finding the tooth shop, he first rented a house in the city as a merchant.

When all this was done, it was almost dark, and it was obviously impossible to go out to buy food today, so they rested for a while, and planned to wait until the next morning, and then go their separate ways.

Lu Jin, on the other hand, fell into deep thought in his bedroom. He always felt that the things in front of him were a bit absurd, and the actions of the Kaifeng prefect were too unscrupulous, after all, this was not a remote area such as the southwest and northwest, and the emperor was far away, so he could let him come nonsense. In this Central Plains region, not far from the capital, once someone really makes a big fuss, can he still cover it and get out?

An official who can become the prefect of a big city like Kaifeng will never do such a thing on a whim, and if he dares to do so, he must have some kind of dependence, or some kind of purpose. It's just that he can't see through what it is for a while.

"Only by waiting for tomorrow to inquire outside, and then going to the government office for a little temptation, can we gain something." Lu Jin's heart was full of thoughts, and he had secretly made up his mind.

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In Kaifeng City tonight, countless people are destined to be difficult to rest.

Those people are busy buying food into their homes, in case the government does what it says, and then their families will go hungry. The people in the grain shops were busy selling their grain stocks, and from time to time quietly raising the price of grain according to demand.

Originally, the price of grain in this city was far higher than usual because of last year's flood and the current spring famine, and it was almost 40 wen a bucket. Now that there is such a trouble, the price of grain has reached an unprecedented level of fifty wen and one dou, which is something that I never even dreamed of in the past.

But even so, the owners of many grain stores still don't see the slightest smile, but sigh there. Because this grain trade is not a one-time deal, they have ordered a large amount of grain from other places before, but it has not yet arrived. If the government decrees that they will not be able to sell grain for the next two months, or even longer, they will have to store a lot of grain in their hands. And food can't last long, and if something goes wrong, it will be a miserable loss.

So don't look at the business in the next few days, but the people in the grain store are still full of sadness, just like ordinary people.

As for the government, the situation is not much better. From the prefect's house down, everyone looked worried, because this fact was so unpopular. Everyone knows that such a chaotic life will offend the people a lot. Now that everyone is busy purchasing food, they may not be able to spare the energy to trouble the government. But what about two or three days later?

Even after two or three days, they endured it, and the problem still couldn't be solved. Two long months is enough to make people feel tormented. No one can guarantee that the people in the city will not run to the government to make trouble because they suddenly can't eat one day, or even go to the capital to complain.

And what makes people feel even more helpless is that this matter is obviously not what they and the government officials meant, it was completely instructed by the Zhou Wangfu, and this black pot was too wronged. But who said that the government has long been controlled by others, and now it can only take one step at a time.

Different from the sorrow and confusion of other people in the city, at this time in the Zhou Palace, those who started the work were celebrating each other, when they heard that the people in the city were rushing to go to the grain store to buy food urgently, and when some people quarreled or even fought because of a first-come, first-served issue, many people present burst into laughter.

Looking at the current Zhou King Zhu Ziyun, who has a bit of celebrity style, he laughed so much that he couldn't even hold the wine glass steadily, and half a glass of wine was sprinkled on his clothes in a trembling moment. However, he didn't take it seriously, but said: "These grass people are really short-sighted people, and this news alone scares them like this." ”

Actually, this is also reasonable. In the noble capacity of the prince, it is natural to issue a full stop order to let ordinary grass people get busy. The chief steward Zhu Zhe immediately flattered him. Subsequently, several other henchmen also agreed, and sycophants suddenly filled the entire side hall.

This made our Zhou Wang Ye laugh more and more, only the face of a man dressed as a civil official not far in front of him was constantly changing. Finally, after enduring it for a long time, he couldn't bear it anymore and opened his mouth and said, "Lord Wang, the minister thinks that what you did was really inappropriate. This Kaifeng is not only your fiefdom, but also the territory of my Ming Dynasty, once something really goes wrong, the court will not ignore it, when the time comes, if the prefect of Bao can't stand the pressure to report the truth, the prince wants to get out of the fear is also a little difficult. I also hope that the prince will think twice and take back his fate! With that, he also stood up and solemnly bowed to King Zhou.

When he opened his mouth, everyone who was still laughing was suffocated, and King Zhou's face quickly turned cold: "Gao Changshi, are you saying that this king is at fault?" ”

"The minister doesn't dare, but the prince is likely to make himself passive by doing this, and the minister, as the court's assistant to the prince's long history, naturally has the responsibility to persuade him." The man named Gao Gong replied without being arrogant or humble. Compared with other stewards, his identity in this long history is much more noble, in the fief of the king of Zhou, he is equivalent to the prime minister in the previous court, and he is really above ten thousand people under one person.

Therefore, even those stewards who have won the trust of King Zhou, even if they are dissatisfied with his words, they dare not be too presumptuous, so they can only look at him hatefully: "Gao Changshi, your words are too alarmist, how can our prince completely ignore the life and death of the people under his rule?" ”

"Then ...... you" Gao Gong was a little puzzled and was about to ask again, but was interrupted by King Zhou's wave of his hand: "Do you think this king will be so stupid that I can't sell grain for a few months?" You're wrong, this king is just trying to fish out some of the little guys! ”

Seeing that Gao Gong still looked ignorant, Zhu Zhe explained: "Gao Changshi should have heard of someone buying grain in my Kaifeng and trying to transport it to Xingze County before, right?" As far as we can see, there should be another mastermind behind these people, and they must also have accomplices in my Kaifeng. It's just that these guys just refused to confess, and they were put in the government cell, so we had to use tricks to induce those people to show up automatically. And this plan is designed for them. Now, Gao Changshi, you should understand the prince's good intentions, right? ”

Gao Gong was more and more shocked when he said this, and only after a while did he sigh and retreat. There are some things that there is no turning back, I just hope that the prince will not regret the decision he made in the future......