After Xiao Ruxun finished taking care of those troublesome things, it was already dusk, and the heavy snow still didn't stop.

The temperature plummeted, wearing winter clothes wrapped in robes but still could feel the cold, the sky was getting darker and darker, and it was not far from nightfall, Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the soldiers to collect firewood and prepare for the night camp.

There is really a lot of food left by the Beiyu, Xiao Ruxun has probably calculated, enough for tens of thousands of refugees in Taiyuan City who have lost their houses to eat two or three meals of porridge, first get through tonight and tomorrow morning, and then think of other ways.

As for those gold and silver treasures, Xiao Ruxun also knew very well that their owners should be gone, and Liu Yong could prove this.

"I see, you are a survivor of the Liu family, a big family in the city."

Xiao Ruxun called Liu Yong to his side and talked to him alone, Liu Yong also knew that he couldn't hide his identity, after all, his conversation was really different from ordinary people, he didn't even change his clothes, it was easy to be known that he was a person who had read books, there were definitely not many people in Daming, and he could only tell him.

"When the villain went out to drink with his friends, the Beilu broke into the city, the villain's whole family was killed by the Beiyu, the ancestral business of the house was burned, and now only some distant relatives are still in the south, the villain is the family, once the family is finished, the distant relatives can't stand the means of the rest of the big merchants, and the Liu family is finished."

Liu Yong honestly explained.

Xiao Ruxun stretched out his hand and picked up the firewood pile, making the fire burn more vigorously.

"You are really a catastrophe and do not die, there will be a blessing, incite the people to surround the official army, meet others but it is a rebellion, you have to kill you and then quickly, fortunately you met the governor, and the governor understood the whole thing before coming, Liu Yong, for you, this is a blessing in misfortune."

Liu Yong smiled miserably.

"The Admiral laughed, what luck is there for those whose families are ruined? It's just a life that can be saved, but right now, I don't know how long this life can live, even if the admiral doesn't kill me, I will be starved to death, frozen to death, or beaten to death by someone in the future. ”

Xiao Ruxun knocked on the bag of rice grain next to him with the wooden stick in his hand.

In recent years, the harvest in the north is generally not good, people are generally short of grain, and the number of people who come to my Myanmar from Shanxi every year is not a few, and everyone cries to me that the land at home cannot produce grain, so I can only sell it cheaply and then come to Myanmar to survive.

I don't believe that the land is divided into the rich and the poor, and that the land of the poor cannot be filled with grain, but the land of the rich can be filled with grain, and there is no reason for this, but I am sure of one thing, it is impossible for a poor family to have more than two years of grain storage.

At most, they are only a few dozen acres of thin fields, and it is already laborious to feed a family, and they have to save food every year to survive, and the annual grain except for seeds and grains cannot be left for the next year, so they can only rely on the sky to eat.

Grain that is more than five years old can only appear in the rich households, and it is also the kind of big family that wantonly hoards grain, Liu Yong, you tell the governor, do you Jin merchants like to hoard grain very much? Do you particularly like the enemy? ”

"Rivals?"

Liu Yong's eyes widened, and he was shocked: "Admiral Mingjian, although we and other big families have the habit of hoarding food, it is also to avoid untimely needs, how can they be enemies?" Moreover, the enemy will not let the northern captives defeat the entire Taiyuan and wipe out my entire clan, how is this possible? ”

"Could that be your family's nemesis? You Jin merchants often go to the grassland to trade salt and iron with the Beiyu, and it is also very easy to get in touch with them, and when you meet competitors who can't look at it, you will spend money to ask the Beiyu to enter the customs to help you clean up your competitors, this practice should not be uncommon, right? ”

Liu Yong chuckled in his heart.

He has not operated specifically, but similar to such things, in the competition between the large merchants of Jin did not rarely appear, in the early years quite fierce, in recent years, in order to gain a firm foothold due to more and more giant households, began to pursue formal management, but also in order to establish their position is not shaken.

Therefore, the giants have united to formulate many rules for competition between Jin businessmen, and also formulated a strategy of going out, so it is very rare for local Jin businessmen to compete with each other, and they are basically competing with outsiders in other places, otherwise they will not make the merchants of the whole country hate the Jin businessmen.

If you really want to say that it is a capital enemy, it is not the Jin Shang's doing, it may be the Jin Shang's sworn enemy.

"Admiral, the development of the Jin Merchants has so far, many rules have been established, and the competition between each other for shares must also be in accordance with the rules, whoever violates the rules, then will face the blow of the entire Jin Merchants, it is impossible for anyone to risk the disapproval of the world and the whole Shanxi to go against it, that is to find death!"

Xiao Ruxun understood what he meant.

"Do you want to say that it is your Jin Shang's sworn enemy who is leading this northward captive southward journey? Is it Liaodong, or Shandong, or Jiangnan? ”

"It's all possible, Admiral, they haven't been dissatisfied with my Jin Merchants for a day or two, and they complain that we are competing with them, so they use these dirty means to attack us, Admiral, you have to be aware of everything!"

Xiao Ruxun laughed as if she had heard some joke.

Liu Yong looked at Xiao Ruxun who was laughing with some surprise.

"Admiral, you ......"

"Don't care, don't care, Ben Du just heard something very funny, you Jin merchant gang against the imperial court, and do salt and iron business with the northern captives, Zhengda Guangming violated the ban of the imperial court, and made these money from the children and grandchildren, and he was embarrassed to say that other business gang methods were dirty, hahaha, it's really funny!"

Liu Yong was suddenly choked speechless.

"Liu Yong, you better think about it! This matter will definitely not be done by the merchants in other places, they can't get such a huge amount of old wheat, there must be someone who uses the grain to help the north to go south, thinking about cleaning up the portal or grabbing the share, don't tell me that your Jin merchants are monolithic, that is impossible. ”

Liu Yong's face turned pale.

"Tell Ben Du everything you know, your family has been ruined, without Ben Du's protection, you won't live tomorrow morning, think about it, the Liu family no longer exists, if you want to live, what should you do?"

Xiao Ruxun dealt a further psychological blow to him.

Liu Yong thought about it, and finally sighed.

"Admiral, unless there is a traitor who informs and betrays us, the Beiyu will definitely not be able to find our grain cave, and they will not be able to find so much grain, these grains can only be in the grain cave, but those who know the specific location of the grain cave are not more than ten people in the entire family."

"Grain Cave?"

Xiao Ruxun frowned.

"Yes, the admiral may not know, but the local officials, but all those of some grade know, this is actually an open secret, many people know the existence of the grain cave, but do not know the specific location, in order to cope with the needs of the time, the ancestors in Shanxi and Datong mountains choose a good ventilation place to dig holes, or choose natural caves, the surplus grain accumulated every year into it and seal it.

The effectiveness of these grain storage holes is very good, generally can store grain for more than ten years, wheat is easy to store, so the ancestors did this to leave a little savings for future generations, but later some people found that they could tighten the grain on the market by hoarding grain, and then manipulate the price of grain.

Not only in the year of the famine, but even from the peasants with a very low price to get their land, but also convenient to do business with the Beiyu, so the custom of hiding grain into the hole has also been handed down, but all the big households with land in Shanxi, there is no one who does not store grain, and no one does not use the grain cave. ”