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"As soon as I saw the city gate open this morning, I saw the cavalry rushing into the Assassin's Mansion, I'm afraid I will inform you of this, right?"

The Jinyiwei who deliberately spread rumors made a displeased look, and at this time, the members of the Jinyiwei hidden in the restaurant also helped, and unconsciously, the people had been guided by public opinion.

That is, the Son of Heaven is going to attack Jizhou, and when the war comes, they will not be able to farm, and Yuan Shao will also collect grain, so take advantage of the fact that the price reduction is not high now, hoard grain, and buy grain for emergencies!

Unconsciously, the originally full restaurant left one after another. Looking outside, there were many more people at the door of a grain store.

No one wants to tell anyone the news, because the more people buy food, the higher the price of food will increase when demand exceeds supply. And with the spread of public opinion, even if the price of grain increases, more and more people will buy grain, and even if they have money, they will not be able to buy grain.

And once it gets to this point, public resentment will erupt and unrest will occur.

In addition to a few drunks, the hotel owner also came out to catch up with guests: "Several, my restaurant will not entertain you today."

A few drunks scolded and left, and the boss joined in the buying of food. Food is also needed to make wine, and if there is no food, there will be no wine, so he is also prepared to stock up on more food.

The situation of the restaurant is just a microcosm of Yecheng, and there are Jinyiwei in other places to create rumors and grasp public opinion. The first rumor is quite terrifying, Jin Yiwei only made a guide, and after half a day, there was an endless stream of people who went to buy food.

In Yecheng, there is a huge long queue at the entrance of the major grain shops.

The shop guy didn't know why, now that the harvest has just begun, the grain can't be sold, although the harvest is not good, but at the beginning of the harvest, every household still has some surplus grain. But now in this scene, the price of grain has reached 500 stones, and there are still people who come to buy grain, are they crazy?

But in their opinion, this is a good thing, the price of food is so expensive, there are still people to buy it, they just have money to earn. There was an endless stream of people buying grain at the door of the various grain shops in Yecheng, and when they stayed until ten in the evening, the stored grain of the grain stores was almost sold.

"I'm sorry, it's getting late today, so come back tomorrow." In front of a shop, the guy said loudly. The people who had been queuing for a long time but couldn't buy food were unhappy, but when night came, it was not okay not to leave.

That night, Xun You, who was in Yecheng, secretly summoned several leaders of the Jinyi Guard, and inquired about the situation, and the Jinyi Guard, who was the leader, replied: "In just one day, in the first half of the day, our Jinyi Wei created rumors, and in the afternoon, the people at the door of each grain store lined up to buy grain, and they didn't leave until the evening."

Xun You nodded and said, "Very good, there is no need to make rumors in Yecheng tomorrow, you go to other counties to make rumors."

"Only create rumors for half a day, what if the people don't buy food tomorrow?"

"The people are the best impetus for rumors, you go to other cities, and order all the Jinyi guards in Jizhou to take action, what I want is that there is no grain to sell in the entire Jizhou!"

"No!" A group of brocade guards gave up their hands to receive the order.

On the second day, the people of the entire Yecheng gathered at the door of the grain store early in the morning, and when the store opened, they saw the guy holding a wooden sign to replace the wooden sign that stood at the door yesterday. The wooden sign marked the price of grain, 800 yuan with one stone!

"Yesterday it was only 500 yuan, why is it 800 yuan today?"

"You are obviously taking the opportunity to blackmail, and the price of grain has risen by sixty percent overnight!"

The guy was embarrassed and angry by the condemnation of the people around him, and couldn't help but scold: "If you love to buy it, if you don't buy it, don't blame me if you can't buy it when you have money."

Obviously, the guy at this grain store also knew about the rumors, so he had nothing to fear.

"You sell it so expensive, I won't buy it, and there is more than one grain store in Yecheng." Some people who disliked the high price of grain walked away and went to other grain stores to buy them.

"Hmph, our family sells it cheaply, and other families are even more expensive! You just have to go, and it will be more expensive when you come back. The guy sneered. But there are still some people who left, but most of them did not, probably because they knew that the prices elsewhere had risen, and they were more expensive than the grain shops here.

Although 800 stone was expensive, none of these people gave up, and they lined up to buy food.

And the people who are too expensive go to other grain shops to take a look, and the prices are clearly marked one by one, and the lowest is 600 stones, and some are even as high as 1,000 stones. The man didn't lie, and the people were too embarrassed to go back, so they found a cheap grain shop and lined up.

In one day, the price of grain skyrocketed, and many grain stores ran out of grain, so they used the family's stockpile. The price also rose again and again, and the price rose to an average price of 1,000 koku in a single day.

In addition to Yecheng, other cities in Jizhou, due to the rumors of Jinyiwei, the people also went to buy grain, and the various chambers of commerce were also the majority, and they wanted to use the financial resources of the chamber of commerce to buy Jizhou's grain.

And in Yecheng's Thorn History Mansion, Yuan Shao looked at the letter sent by the Luoyang Imperial Court with an iron face, Yuan Shao's hand holding the letter trembled, and his angry beard couldn't stop beating: "Crazy, Liu Wei is crazy, this kid is so arrogant." Soon after Yuan Shu was killed, would I fail to open the knife in Jizhou? When my Yuan family is weak and can be bullied? He has been recuperating for less than a year, where will he get the money, food, and grass to compete with me? ”

"My lord, I think this is a good thing!" Several strategists laughed.

"It's a good thing, tell me what a good thing it is!" Yuan Shao put down the letter and asked.

Xu You said: "Liu Wei has only been recuperating for a year, and the soldiers are tired of war, and there is news that he has also set up the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, and greatly promoted farming. He suddenly decided to attack Jizhou, and he must have been arrogant and arrogant after defeating Yuan Shu. But his rear is unstable, although there are many soldiers and horses in Jizhou, he has to guard against foreign races, and Luoyang soldiers and horses are only 40,000, and his soldiers can only be counted as 50,000 or 60,000. Let him attack Jizhou, can he attack it in a short time? ”

"Haha, what Ziyuan said is reasonable, he Liu Wei is young and invincible, and he does have some skills. But he's still too young now, and seeing that he's arrogant now, I don't have to worry about it. Yuan Shao laughed when he heard this.

"What the lord said is that the Son of Heaven is still too young, and he has been singing and advancing without losing a single defeat. Now that he is inflated, it is the opportunity of the lord to take advantage of his arrogant psychology to take the opportunity to thwart him! Guo Tu suggested.

"He came from afar, and the rear was unstable, and the lord only had to send troops to garrison him, so that he would be defeated without a fight. When the time comes, if he is defeated, he will have to spend several years re-consolidating the rear, and the lord can take the opportunity to dominate Qingxu and expand his strength! ”

Since Yuan Shao was defeated in Yanzhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou successively, the strategists under Yuan Shu have reined in slightly, and they dare not fight openly and secretly, after all, if Yuan Shao is defeated, they will also suffer.

Xu Yu got up, and a group of strategists expressed their opinions one after another, the general meaning was to judge Liu Bian's arrogance and lack of eyes, so that Yuan Shao seized the opportunity to defeat Liu Biao in one fell swoop.

Yuan Shao was also very happy, it was rare for the strategists to have no differences of opinion, and he didn't have to worry about who to listen to. He also had an idea in his heart, and ordered: "Order Zhang He to lead 20,000 troops to guard the well neck pass, and let Yan Liang lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to the Muye area, and stick to the standby." The Han army is treacherous and cannot go into battle, our army only needs to hold on, and after a while, his rear will be chaotic, and at that time our army will take advantage of the situation to pursue! ”

Yuan Shao is rarely wise, and the orders he put down are all correct, if Liu Wei is really in a hurry to attack Jizhou, in the face of Yuan Shao's strategy, there may really be no way at all. It's just that he thought wrong about Liu Bian's thoughts, Liu Bian was not arrogant, and he didn't want to attack Jizhou immediately.

At this moment, the judge hurriedly walked in, Yuan Shao saw that the judge was anxious, and said unhappily: "What's wrong with the hurry of the south, I called you to discuss the matter, why are you late?"

"My lord, the price of grain in the city is extremely high, and the people are scrambling to buy food, so weird." The judge hurriedly said.

"This year's harvest is not good, and there is news that Liu Wei is going to attack Jizhou, and the people buy some grain in case of accidents, it's normal, what's weird!" Yuan Shao said disdainfully.

Indeed, when the Yellow Turban Rebellion swept Jizhou, this situation also occurred, and the price of grain once rose to several thousand stones. It can be said that it is very unstable, in this era, no one deliberately manipulates it from time to time, and it is normal for Yuan Shao not to take it to heart.

And Liu Wei attracted Yuan Shao's attention at the cost of mobilizing troops and asked Jizhou to let go of the monitoring of the market. Yuan Shao didn't bother to manage these little things that he didn't care about.

"But the lord ......"

"Zhengnan, don't care about these little things, you are losing a big because of a small thing, and now Liu Wei is arrogant and wants to attack my Jizhou, this is my Jizhou's opportunity, once I defeat Liu Wei, my Jizhou will inevitably take advantage of the situation. You are a Jizhou family, and there are many things for you to do! Yuan Shao waved and interrupted without waiting for the trial to finish.

"No!" The judge nodded, but it is normal for food prices to increase, and it is normal to suppress food prices. Now I have to deal with Liu Wei, and I really don't have time to care about those little things.

If no one pushes it, it is indeed a trivial matter, but now the four major chambers of commerce have taken the lead in frantically purchasing grain and grass, once Yuan Shao does not care, Jizhou will fall into chaos in a few days.

However, because Liu Wei deliberately bluffed, he attracted Yuan Shao's attention and ignored the changes in the Jizhou market, and a storm was quietly brewing in Jizhou. After brewing enough energy, it will definitely sweep Jizhou.

For three days in a row, the entire Jizhou was caught in rumors, and the people flocked to the grain stores to buy grain in the county capitals of the county. The price of grain in Jizhou also rose three times a day, and after a few days, the price of grain rose to several thousand stones.