(Yesterday I went to the website to read a book review, and I said that everything I said was rubbish, and I won't say anything about what I wrote rubbish, after all, my writing is really not good.) But there is another guy who sprays me to write blindly, there is no braised pork in the Ming Dynasty and what to write, I really don't know what to say when I see such readers, don't come to read historical texts at such a level, okay, your IQ can also look at the happy gray wolf or hydrocephalus son! History is really not for you, this world is too dangerous, go home quickly! ）

Seeing that Xu Bengao was angry, Master Zhou didn't dare to delay, and said directly: "Master Xu, I mean to support Tong Yangjia and play against Ma Mingyuan!" ”

Xu Bengao heard Master Zhou say this and asked hesitantly, "Support Tong Yangjia?" Although he was not from Huguang, he followed the emperor early, can he help us? ”

"This Master Xu, please rest assured, Tong Yangjia supports the King of Chu, and Ma Mingyuan has never dealt with each other, so he will definitely be able to help us. What's more, we represent the vast gentry of Southern Zhili and Northern Zhejiang, can the King of Chu leave our support if he wants to compete for the position of the crown prince? ”

Xu Bengao was a little afraid when he heard that he was going to be involved in the battle for the country again, although the Donglin Party won the battle for the country of the Wanli Dynasty in the end, but it was also extremely risky, and this kind of thing was still not mixed up.

"This... It's a national dispute again, so it's not good for us to get involved, right? ”

"Master Xu, there is really no other way but this, since we can only sit and wait for death, why not fight back, maybe we can succeed this time?"

Master Zhou saw Xu Bengao hesitate, and thought for a while that it was better to tell him the truth.

"Master Xu, do you know who came up with this idea?"

"You say, that's the one?"

"It was Qian Shouzhi who found me and said that Tong Yangjia entrusted him to want to contact us, and he also told me the news of the apportionment!"

"Oh? That's it! Xu Bengao's head turned rapidly, thinking about the gains and losses of this matter.

After a long while, Xu Bengao sighed and said, "Since Tong Ge has this request, then let's help him!" ”

Master Zhou was relieved when he heard Xu Bengao's promise, and Tong Yangjia had promised him that as long as he could convince Xu Bengao, he would give his son a background. Now that the big thing has been accomplished, it seems that his son can also come out to be an official!

After Xu Bengao made up his mind, he stood up and said: "Everyone, since you have decided to support Tong Ge Lao, let's go back and organize the gentry, and mention the matter of the apportionment into the mu, so that all the officials in our family will know the news!" ”

Master Zhou hurriedly said on the side: "What about the Huguang grain merchants in the Jingshi?" Can't you back down? He is inextricably linked with several major grain merchants in Nanjing, and although his immediate family members were not implicated in this case, he has suffered great losses in property.

"We must not back down, now we are grain merchants, if we don't fight back, the next step is silk, and the next step is land. Everyone go back and gather their subordinates, don't transport grain to Jingshi anymore, I see how long those Huguang guys can hold out without our supplies! ”

Xu Bengao's strategy is very vicious, now potatoes and corn have not become the staple food of the Chinese, most people are still not used to eating, so the potatoes and corn transported by the Huguang people are only eight dollars of silver per stone, and no one buys them, but the rice has risen to three taels of silver and one stone.

After the matter was discussed, the big landlords in the house said goodbye and left, Xu Bengao took out a pen and paper after seeing that there was no one in the house, wrote a letter and called his son.

"Third child, you put down everything in your hands, go to Guilin, and hand over this letter to Zhang Tongchang!"

Zhang Tongchang is the great-grandson of Zhang Juzheng, a powerful minister in the Wanli period, and Zhang Juzheng was a student of Xu Jie, so Zhang Tongchang has some connections with the Xu family.

Xu Laosan took the letter and hid it closely, and asked, "Father, we haven't been in touch with the Zhang family for more than ten years, can Zhang Tongchang see me?" ”

"Don't worry about this, Zhang Tongchang will definitely be able to see you after seeing the letter, if he doesn't want to see you, you will go to his teacher Qu Shiyun!"

Xu Bengao saw his son retreat, and sighed in his heart: I thought I was on the right side this time, but I didn't think that this Shenwu Emperor was even more ruthless, and he actually wanted the life of our gentry, since this is the case, don't blame the old man!

After returning home, Master Zhou of Ying Tianfu passed the news to Tong Yangjia, Tong Yangjia was very happy after seeing the letter, with the help of these gentry in Nanzhili, he would definitely be able to defeat Ma Mingyuan.

In fact, the news of the appending into the mu was released by Tong Yangjia, and he got the help of Jinyiwei to steal a copy of the paving into the mu in Ma Mingyuan's study, and then released the news to force the world's scholars to oppose Ma Mingyuan.

On the first day of October in the second year of Shenwu, thanks to the fact that the gentry around Nanjing were not transporting grain to Nanjing, the price of grain in the city had risen to three silver dollars and one stone, which was four taels or five dollars of silver.

There was a long queue in front of the Nancheng Fugui Rice Shop, waiting for the rice store to open the door to buy rice.

I didn't know that before I could open the door, I saw a guy from the rice shop come out and post a new rice price on the sign at the door, and someone who knew how to read shouted: "Why? Wasn't it still four taels or five dollars a stone yesterday, but why did it rise to six taels of silver today? ”

When the surrounding citizens who bought rice heard this, they shouted: "What? The price has risen again? One stone and six taels, isn't that six dollars for a bucket? Still won't let us live? ”

"What about the shopkeeper? Let the shopkeeper come out, why is the price increase for no reason? ”

The guy in the rice shop saw the excitement of the crowd and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, we can't help it, the grain farmers around the Jingshi don't transport rice to the city, everyone thinks that rice is expensive, but eating some sweet potatoes and sweet wheat is only one tael of silver and one stone!" ”

"What? Sweet potatoes have also gone up in price? Wasn't it still eight dollars a few days ago? ”

"I eat too much sweet potatoes, and I don't feel hungry! Lao Tzu can't eat enough, how can he have the strength to work and make money? ”

The more the citizens who couldn't buy rice talked, the more angry they became, and some people began to pick up the soil on the ground and throw them at the guy, who was optimistic that the man would not suffer the loss in front of him, so he quickly blocked the door and shouted that it was not open today!

Who knew that this kind of action aroused the atmosphere of the citizens, and at the same time, under the impetus of the well-intentioned people, these red-eyed citizens rushed into the rice shop and began to smash and rob.

Half an hour later, when the inspection department of the street patrol arrived, the rioting crowd dispersed, but the man and the shopkeeper of the rice store were beaten to death.

Jin Yiwei was responsible for the stability of the street, and he dared to conceal such a big incident, and soon the news reached the emperor Zhu Hongsan in the palace.

Seeing Jinyiwei's intelligence, Zhu Hongsanyi frowned, he was busy with the expedition of the Japanese Kingdom in the past few days, and he didn't pay much attention to domestic affairs, how could he have thought that such a big thing would happen now.

"Qian Lide, you will report the price of rice for this half month!"

Qian Lide had already prepared, and he heard that the emperor was going to hurry up and present it with both hands.

Zhu Hongsanyi saw that the price of rice had doubled in less than half a month, and this was okay. You must know that there are more than 800,000 people in Nanjing, plus the floating population outside the city, a total of more than 1.2 million, and it is no joke to riot.

"Come, preach the message! Order the six divisions and seven divisions outside the city to enter the city and suppress! The Jinyi guards patrolling the streets have increased their manpower, and as long as there are lawbreakers who take the opportunity to make trouble, they will be immediately imprisoned! ”

After Li Chengen received the order, he sent people out of the city to deliver the order, and Zhu Hongsan sat on the dragon chair and rubbed his forehead.

"Qian Lide, why has the price of rice risen so much? It's only October, isn't the autumn grain just harvested? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I heard from the market that because of the cold weather this year, the grain output is not high, and the bloody battle between the imperial army and the Qing army in Nanzhili last year, many farmers in various prefectures and counties have fled, so there is a lot of arable land in the spring of this year, resulting in a decrease in grain production!"

Zhu Hongsan looked at the crown prince Zhu Hai standing next to him and asked, "Prince, what do you say about this matter?" ”

Zhu Hai had just been released from the Zongren Mansion, and the month of detention had made him more and more calm, and now when he heard his father ask him, he quickly bowed down and replied: "Father, the son thinks that it can be taken in two steps, the first step is to increase the number of porridge factories outside the city, and at the same time add half of the sweet potatoes and sweet wheat to the porridge, so that half of the grain can be saved; The second step is to ask my father to quickly issue an order to transfer grain from Guangdong, Luzon and other places into Beijing! ”

Hearing Zhu Hai's clear answer to himself, Zhu Hongsan felt very relieved that the prince was finally able to take charge on his own. However, the prince said it very well, but he still didn't understand the situation.

Zhu Hongsan picked up a letter on the table and said: "Prince, you don't know, this is a recital from Luzon, now there is no grain in Luzon and Annan, and it is almost the same in Guangdong, after all, there are still tens of millions of displaced people in Guangdong, and their food is only self-sufficient." ”

Zhu Hai thought for a moment and then said, "Father, can you borrow some food from the gentry of Nanzhili?" ”

Borrowing food? I can't figure out that this food crisis is because those stinky old nine are doing things behind their backs!

"Prince, this time the matter will be left to you and Ying Tianfu! Half a month ago, Zhao Guoliang of the Wa Kingdom just brought back 500,000 stone of rice, which should be able to cope for a few days, you will sell these rice at half of the market price to stabilize the price of rice in the city, and I will find a way to do the rest! ”

Zhu Hai was overjoyed when he heard his father say this, this was the first time he had run an errand independently. Zhu Hai hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, saying that he would successfully complete the task assigned by his father, and then happily went out to find Ma Jingyuan from Ying Tianfu.

Seeing Zhu Hai go out, Zhu Hongsan asked Qian Lide, who was kneeling on the ground: "Qian Fatty, you go and investigate, is this incident whether Nan Zhili's stinky old nine are doing something!" "Zhu Hongsan doesn't believe that things can be so coincidental, but Nanzhili is short of food? There must be someone in this who is causing trouble.

Seeing Qian Lide get up and leave, Zhu Hongsan continued: "Wait a minute, there's more!" Is there nothing going on on in Guangxi's Gui Wang's side? Zhu Hongsan was afraid that at this time, Zhu Youlang would come to fish in troubled waters again, and it would be troublesome.

"Back to Your Majesty, everything is normal in Guangxi, King Gui's attention is in Sichuan, according to Guangxi's secret agent report, Ding Kuichu is organizing a large army to prepare to fight in Sichuan!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded, that's it! When he completed the internal integration, he poured out his hand to clean up Zhu Youlang.

"What is the movement of the Manchus in the north?"

"There is nothing in Yangzhou, Hong Chengchou has gathered fifty or sixty thousand troops to entrench in Huai'an, but these stragglers are all afraid of our army, so there should be nothing wrong. Hanyang's side was still the same as before, and Wu Sangui's side sent a team of several hundred people to sneak around Wuchang from time to time to harass them, but they were defeated every time. The spies in Hanyang City said that there was no major transfer of the 200,000 Qing troops in the city! ”

Hearing Qian Lide say this, Zhu Hongsan was relieved, there was nothing to do around, and he just took this opportunity to solve these nasty gentry in Nanzhili.