"We ...... We are from Whitehorse, and you have no right to arrest me...... No right to ......"

"This is West Chu City, not White Horse City!" Lu Sheng sneered.

"I ...... I ......" The shopkeeper's face was as pale as paper, and he finally compromised to Lu Sheng, "This lord, I will return the money to you...... Can I give it all?"

"It's late! Seal up this rice shop, take it away, and ask if there are any other chain industries, and seal them together!"

The next day, when the people of Xichu City rushed to the door of the store with the prepared silver, what they saw was the seal on the door. The speed of Xuantian Mansion was surprisingly fast, and it was only one day, and it had already been sealed.

This also gives a clear warning to those grain stores who are about to move, as long as you dare to cross the grain restriction order, Xuantian Mansion will give a merciless blow.

"Bang-" White Horse Mansion, Li Chengzhu angrily smashed the teacup in his hand to pieces.

"Lu Sheng, you really dare to tear your face with me...... ...... the people who dared to touch me"

"Brother Li, isn't this obvious? Lu Sheng has always been arrogant, and there are rumors about this in Wuzhou, this person is extremely ignorant of current affairs. But behind such a person is unfathomable, and even the emperor seems to be investigating the background behind him. ”

"Bring Li Shan back......" Li Chengzhu shouted with a gloomy face.

"Brother Li, I think it's better not to! A Li Shan is just insignificant in White Horse City, it's not cost-effective to hate Lu Sheng for such a person, right?"

"Brother Dongfang, he Lu Sheng sealed our twelve shops, this is slapping us in the face! You just forget it? Forget it, you are still afraid that Lu Sheng doesn't intend to offend him? Brother Dongfang, this is not your style, right?"

"Lu Sheng is just Lu Sheng, but behind Lu Sheng is the emperor. We violated the food restriction order and lost money in the first place. If we don't make a gesture that has nothing to do with us, it will leave a bad impression in the emperor's heart.

Brother Li can write a letter to inform Lu Sheng that although Li Shan is a native of White Horse City, everything he does is behind Brother Li's back, and White Horse City abides by the laws and regulations of Chuzhou and will never violate laws and disciplines. ”

Among them, Li Chengzhu can naturally think clearly. Just now he was just angry, if he really wanted to calm down, he would not stumble on Chuzhou when the eyes of the court were staring at Chuzhou.

After pondering for a long time, Li Chengzhu could only sit back in his chair dejectedly, "However, I still can't swallow this breath." What kind of thing is he Lu Sheng, in terms of heritage, he is only less than five years old, and in terms of title, he is just an ......"

"But people have the right, and the saints are thick!" said the Dongfang family master with a disdainful sneer.

"From the day we were confined in Chuzhou, we have been yesterday's yellow flowers. Without power, what's the use of having a virtual city? The city is the prison where we are held. ”

"Don't be so pessimistic, Eastern City Lord, we just haven't come yet. If the northern Xiongnu suddenly detains our border, the only person the imperial court can think of is the White Horse in White Horse City. Li Chengzhu raised his head and shouted proudly.

"Brother Li's tone is going to come out, and our money must also be earned. But you can't do it with other people's swords and guns like this, you have to pay attention to methods. ”

"Brother Dongfang has a good idea again?" Li Chengzhu suddenly turned his anger into joy and asked excitedly.

"My people heard a piece of news, and they learned from the grain merchants in the eight states that the way the Taishou Mansion bought grain from them this time was not to buy and sell on cash, but to buy and sell on credit.

They first transported the grain, and then sent it to the granaries of various prefectures for accounting, and then Chuzhou repaid the loan in installments every year after the crisis in Chuzhou passed. ”

"Is it like this?" Li Chengzhu asked in surprise, "These merchants from the eight states are so happy? If they can't afford to pay or default in the future, won't they suffer heavy losses?"

"Lord Li doesn't know, first, Lu Sheng's prestige in Wuzhou is still higher than that of Chuzhou. The two states of Wuzhou and Jeju have been in the same spirit since ancient times, and as long as Wuzhou is willing to do something, Jeju will always follow up.

Second, the economic development of Chuzhou in recent years has been seen by the nineteen states of Dayu. If it weren't for the locust plague this time, who would dare to say that Chuzhou would not have come from behind to surpass Wuji and Jizhou? Even if there was a locust plague, Chuzhou would have been able to survive in an orderly manner, and its industrial base would still be intact, so they were not afraid that Chuzhou would not be able to repay the money. ”

"What do I say......" Li Chengzhu squinted his eyes and tapped his knees, "Watching them transport grain to Chuzhou in carloads, with the current price of grain, where does Chuzhou get so much money......"

"Merchants are all profit-seeking, and credit is naturally not as good as cash settlement. The major grain merchants in Chuzhou have decided to join forces to intercept grain. Isn't this our chance?"

"Looting food, is it too big?"

"Brother Mo, is it interception, not hijacking! I have already calculated, the scope of grain purchase in Chuzhou is only the eight surrounding states, Wuzhou, Jeju, Qinzhou, Shuzhou, and the land of the two rivers in the Central Plains.

The grain that can be taken out by these eight states is at most 10,000 stones, of which Wuzhou and Jeju can account for 40%. If Chuzhou wants to survive this crisis, it will need at least 10,000 stones. One less point for them, one more point for us.

The three major grain merchants have already approached the grain merchants in Wuji and Jizhou, and if they are willing to buy grain at double the price, the grain merchants in the two states are willing to unilaterally tear up the agreement with Chuzhou and resell the grain to the three grain merchants.

And now, the price of grain given by Chuzhou is three taels and one stone, which is seventy percent higher, so we can only eat the grain of the two places at the price of six taels. ”

"So expensive?" the Dongfang City Lord's voice landed, and the rest of Li Chengzhu immediately exclaimed.

"This time is different from the past, if it weren't for the grain restriction order, Brother Li might have imagined how much the price of grain in Chuzhou has increased now? I'm afraid it's more than ten times, right? This is still expensive?" As he spoke, the Dongfang City Lord slowly stood up and came to the map hanging on the wall of the conference hall.

"Our four cities all started with military exploits, and we are already familiar with the art of war. And is the current situation in Chuzhou exactly the same as the battle between the two armies? The only difference is that the troops have been exchanged for food.

Whoever has more soldiers in his hands will have the initiative. And the key to victory or defeat lies in the food restriction order. If most of the grain is in our hands, then the grain restriction order in Chuzhou must be withdrawn if it is not withdrawn. What is triple the price of food? We can earn ten times as much. ”

"Brother Dongfang is worthy of being our think tank, and he has analyzed the situation in Chuzhou so thoroughly and clearly. With your analogy, isn't that just the case? With the grain merchants of Chuzhou alone, they are naturally powerless to fight with Lu Shenghe Xingzhi, but if you want to add our four independent cities, it is worthy of a battle! Brother Dongfang, you say, how should we act?"

"Mobilize a large amount of funds to grab grain with Chuzhou, and we must swallow at least 30 million stone of grain faster than them in the shortest time"

There is a kind of pit, called a routine. There is a kind of digging called digging a hole in someone else's pit.

The analysis of the four main cities is very accurate, and the business strategy is also very clever. However, they didn't know that they had fallen into Lu Sheng's wireless pit from the beginning. No matter how you dig a pit, you can only bury yourself.

Time flies, and it has been more than ten days since the locust plague occurred. And for Chuzhou, the real pressure is just beginning now. When the previous locust plague first broke out, the people had about 10 days of surplus food in their homes. But now, the surplus food has been eaten, and the people are going to go hungry.

Even if fifty percent of the people were able to rely on locusts to satisfy their hunger before, but now, after the frenzied hunting and killing of the people of Chuzhou and the killing of martial arts people in batches, the number of locusts has dropped sharply by ninety.

Locusts are scarce, and they can no longer be caught so casually. In the hearts of the people, they began to feel uneasy again, and they began to panic.

Among the 36 prefectures, only 20% of the population lives in the city, and the rest of the huge population lives in the countryside outside the city.

If you can't catch locusts, you can't satisfy your hunger and you can't go to the government to exchange for food. So what to do? The people began to assemble and began to think about the county seat.

When I arrived at the county seat, I found that porridge sheds had been built outside the city walls of the county seat. Although the soup soup has not yet started, it can be seen that when the people really have nothing to eat, the court will give soup to relieve the disaster.

The people were relieved, returned home with peace of mind, and began to frantically exterminate the locusts again. The locusts will not be extinguished for a day, and the difficulties of Chuzhou will not be solved for a day.

The people outside the city kept to themselves, but at some point, the people inside the city began to spread gossip. I don't know where to start, a piece of news swept through the world like a hurricane.

"In fact, the government has run out of grain, and before the locust plague broke out, there were corrupt officials who sold nearly half of the official grain in Chuzhou. At present, the grain sold in the official warehouse is purchased from other places at a high price. ”

"The price of grain is about to rise, and the grain merchants from other places have already sold the grain to the grain merchants in Chuzhou, and the official warehouse is empty......

"The locust plague has passed, but Chuzhou is still under ban, and the imperial court intends to let Chuzhou fend for itself......"

All kinds of rumors swept through the thirty-six cities of Chuzhou like mudslides. Driven by people with good intentions, the people of Bai Zefu suddenly gathered and rushed to the local granary.

The only thing that breaks the rumors is the facts. Instigated by rumors, the people organized to see if the granary of the government was really empty?

"What?" the director of the Xuantian Mansion Branch of Bai Ze Mansion stood up violently, "Thousands of people flocked to the granary, why did they not come to report until now, why didn't they stop it in advance?"

"Head, the subordinates are incompetent, and they didn't even notice it at first, and if it weren't for the brothers stationed in the granary to summon us back, we wouldn't have known it. This is a deliberate attempt to conceal it from us. ”

"Someone is hiding it, it's not good, someone is stirring up trouble, the brothers who stayed behind, all assemble—"

"Open the door, open the door, we're going to check the granary......"

"Open the door...... Is the granary empty...... Is there any food ...... the imperial court?"

"Are you really being resold by corrupt officials and corrupt officials? We want the truth ......?"

The people gathered at the door of the granary and shouted, and the three Xuantian guards stood in front of the crowd to dissuade the people from calming down.

"Don't come forward, go back, the relief food of the imperial court is guaranteed to be enough, everyone calm down, don't be instigated by people with intentions......"

But Xuan Tianwei's voice was so powerless in the hustle and bustle of tens of thousands of people. Except for the few who were able to hear it recently, no one else could hear it at all.

"What should I do, Deputy Commander, why don't you go out and disperse them?" asked one of the city guards as he turned to the commander beside him.

"Isn't Xuan Tianwei persuading? Why do we need to do more? Anyway, the ugly words have already been said in front, and those who dare to break into the granary will be punished and killed for plotting rebellion. ”

"Really, are they ...... They are all unarmed......"

Before he could finish speaking, the city defense army couldn't talk anymore. The Commander's sword was already on his neck.

Feeling the sharpness of the blade, the city defense army swallowed with a grunt.

"I don't want to hear this kind of questioning a second time. ”

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