Anyone who goes to Dingkou to register in Yunzhou will be issued a grain stamp that can buy one stone of grain on credit, and then go to the designated rice store to collect it. Among the households living in Yunzhou, there are almost no women in the family, so food and clothing in the first month are naturally not a problem. If you don't go hungry, there is a need for people to do things everywhere in Yunzhou City, so as long as you are hardworking and willing to do things, most of them have found a way to make a living.

However, as more and more people poured in, the price of rice gradually began to rise. Except for the one-stone rice purchased on credit by the new naturalist, the price of rice sold in the market has risen from 25 yuan per bucket of rice to 40 yuan per bucket of rice, and there is even a trend of increase. In this case, although the migrants divided their fields as soon as they arrived in Yunzhou, there were many ways to make money, whether it was building a house or buying things, it could be postponed, but they could not eat without food.

However, the policy of several rice banks is without exception, the daily purchase limit is one bucket, never more sales, and even from the initial ten days of a price to three or five days of a price and then to two or three days of a price, it will be from the bucket rice 40 Wen to the bucket rice 50 Wen sky-high price. In the face of this situation, the queue in front of the rice store to buy rice is getting longer and longer, and the Yunzhou Governor's Office has also sent people to inquire. But in this case, almost all the shopkeepers of Mi Xing called out to hit the sky. Some said that the money on the road had risen beyond measure, some said that the area around Taiyuan Mansion was full of high food prices, and some complained that they could not receive food

To add insult to injury, at this juncture, the Wu Ji Rice Shop, which had always been responsible for collecting food stamps from the government and then distributing rice to migrant households who had just arrived in Yunzhou, suddenly hung up a war-free card, closed the door, and the angry people smashed the rice shop in a hurry and rushed in to rob it, but they turned over the houses and warehouses on all sides, but people were greatly disappointed.

Except for some furniture that is not worth a few dollars, there is nothing left in the rice shop, not to mention soft, not even a grain of rice

A young man who had just instigated others to smash the wall couldn't help but grit his teeth and scolded: "The rumors before were good, when we arrived in Yunzhou, there was a house and land, but the land was wasteland, and the house only had a homestead, and only this stone of rice that was originally used to settle down can still make people have some hope, and now that even this rice shop is closed, is it possible that we want to starve to death?" ”

"That's right, what has the price of rice outside become now, sixty yuan for rice, and ten yuan for less than two days"

"If this continues, we will only have to drink the northwest wind, my monthly salary is only 900 yuan, and there are three children below, which is not enough to eat."

"Go to the Governor's Mansion of Yunzhou, go to the Governor's Mansion and ask for an understanding, Du Changshi deceived us to Yunzhou like this, is it possible that we will not be able to be cattle and horses?"

Although this rice shop was smashed just now, the troublemakers were gradually incited in the gossip shouting, and a group of people flocked to the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion, which had just been rebuilt and had a little rudimentary form. Suddenly, the guards who heard the news guarded the gate as if they were facing a great enemy, but they couldn't stand the more and more people who heard the news on both sides, and the noise and shouting of Zuihou were everywhere, almost tearing down the not very solid roof of the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion.

When Du Shiyi saw Wang Han and Cui Hao rushing in in in a hurry, as well as Wang Lingran who followed closely in the study, she couldn't help laughing.

"You can still laugh?" Wang Han was simply so angry by Du Shiyi's heartlessness and lungs, "Even Emperor Taizong took the sentence that water can carry a boat and can overturn a boat as a proverb and remember it every day, how can you not do it?" Also, how can that rice store say that it will be closed, and there is no warning at all? Didn't you say foolproof? ”

"Wang Liu, you ask so many questions at once, how can I answer?" Du Shiyi still didn't move, and the smile on her face deepened.

"This is not a joke, there are more than 100 people around outside, and once the lack of food in the city becomes a panic, I am afraid that there will be more and more people who come here to make trouble" Even Cui Hao, who has never been serious, can't help frowning at this moment, "If you continue to gather like this, maybe there will be trouble." ”

Wang Lingran does not have a deep friendship with Du Shiyi like Wang Han and Cui Hao, but he is thinking about another most critical issue. Seeing that Du Shiyi smiled and didn't answer, he suddenly asked: "I haven't seen your lord for a few days, dare to ask Du Changshi, where is your lord now?" ”

"Brother Zhongqing is still sharp-eyed, your lord has not been in Yunzhou for several days, and by the way, he also abducted my lady."

Du Shiyi smiled slightly, and saw that the three most powerful subordinate officials at the moment were all stunned, and he said with a smile: "There is food, not only Hedong Road, but Hebei Province is also close at hand. ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Han suddenly shook his head into a rattle: "Don't think that I, Wang Liu, don't know the major events in the world, this Hebei has suffered from floods for several years, and the parents and officials in various states can't even feed their own people, where can I put rice out of the country?" That's not starving your own stomach to fund others, how can there be such a fool in the world

Cui Hao and Wang Lingran thought so, and just as they were about to echo, Chen Bao'er's voice came from outside: "Du Shi, Du Shi, Guo Shishu, Guo Shishu carried a large amount of grain into Yunzhou City"

Hearing such news, and seeing Chen Bao'er rushing in, Du Shiyi stood up and calmly said to Wang Han and the others: "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived, please follow me to the door of the Governor's Mansion, so as to appease people's hearts."

In front of the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion, the commotion of the crowd gradually quieted down after witnessing the arrival of grain trucks. When Du Shiyi came out with Wang Han, Cui Hao, Wang Lingran and Chen Baoer, the crowd was already silent. Seeing that the young Governor Yun glanced at them, many of them lowered their heads weakly, and even breathed a little lighter. Although Du Shiyi has not been in office for a long time, the heads of those horse thieves hanging at the four gates of Yunzhou City, as well as the horse thieves who were beheaded every once in a while a few days ago to show the public as a threat, still add a touch of bloody cruelty to Du Shiyi's name.

"Yunzhou City's current reclamation has just begun, if you want to produce, at least you have to wait until next year, the original arable land is insufficient, so most of the food is supplied from outside, this is certainly a fact, but this is not a reason for you to smash the rice shop" Du Shiyi suddenly raised his voice, and a prestige that he had cultivated for many years arose.

Under such pressure, some people did not dare to speak up, but some people refuted with courage: "But the rice store that distributed the food for the family was closed, and the food stamps received became a piece of waste paper

"Oh, it turned out to be for the price of rice" Du Shiyi bowed his head slightly, and then pointed to the heavy grain lanes, "Then you should all see it now, the grain truck from Shuozhou is already here, Guo joined the army and stayed in Shuozhou for a long time before he took office, one is to pick up the households who have migrated to Yunzhou, and the other is responsible for the allocation of grain." If there are food stamps that have not been cashed, they can be cashed out immediately and bring the grain back, and if the rest want to buy rice, starting in the afternoon, a warehouse of rice will be opened opposite the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion, and it will be sold for 55 dollars of rice for the time being."

"What?"

There was a commotion in the crowd all of a sudden, and immediately after, someone couldn't help but ask: "The price of weishenme rice is still so expensive"

"Since all the rice shops in Yunzhou City have raised the price of rice to 60 yuan a bucket for various reasons, if the rice transported from Shuozhou this time is still sold according to the previous 25 yuan per bucket, the rice store will take the opportunity to collect it at a low price, and then resell it when the government runs out of grain, will the so-called grain shortage in Yunzhou be spread again?"

Du Shiyi's words made the man speechless, and then he said with a pleasant face: "Shuozhou's grain will continue to be delivered, so if you urgently need it, you can buy a bucket of emergency first, and then the next batch of grain will come back in a few days, and the price of rice will fall in response." Since profiteers are profit-seeking and plan to make Yunzhou's grain of rice like gold, if you push up the price of rice because you are gullible and believe people's words, wouldn't you be fooled by others? ”

His well-founded rhetoric made the crowd calm again, and in the face of this scene, Du Shiyi said loudly: "As for the previous smashing of Wu Jimi, it was the family that closed the door and slipped away without telling it, and betrayed the contract with the government, and it was wrong first, so it was not reckless."

With the government's guarantee that the past will not be investigated, as a cart of grain was sent to the temporary shop opposite the governor's mansion, a big rice-shaped signboard was hung out in a short time, and immediately someone took the food stamps that he was angry at before and could not be cashed, and sure enough, he got a heavy stone of rice. For a while, the others rushed away when they saw this, and the scene of being surrounded in front of the Governor's Mansion immediately changed.

It was only at this time that Guo Quanfang, who had been blocked by people before, stepped forward quickly, and after arching his hand in front of Du Shiyi, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Finally, I have not dishonored my mission."

Wang Han was also relieved, and said with palpitations in his chest: "Brother Guo, fortunately you came in time, otherwise something big would have happened."

Guo Quan saw that Cui Hao also nodded, and Wang Lingran was thoughtful, he smiled bitterly and said vaguely: "Don't stand outside, go inside, I still have something important to report to Du Changshi." ”

However, when he returned to the study, the first sentence Guo Quan said made most people, including Chen Baoer, dumbfounded.

"This time I said that it was a thousand stones of grain, but in fact it was only two hundred stones, and the rest of the grain trucks were just gravel."