Early the next morning, in front of the temporary rice line opposite the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion, a large number of people were already around. In addition to the few familiar faces that appeared yesterday, there are also many people who heard the rumors that the government does not have so much food at all, so they came to inquire about the rumors. Seeing that the sun was getting higher and higher, but the door panel had not yet been removed, some people in the crowd couldn't help but make a loud noise. In particular, those people sent by the grain merchants are even more instigating and clamoring to do everything, in their words, what grain is transported from Shuozhou, it is simply to fool people

"Look at it, the price of grain in this Yunzhou City will rise to one hundred wen one bucket sooner or later."

As soon as the words fell, a cold voice came from behind the crowd: "Who said that the price of grain would rise to 100 wen?" Come on, go down the door panel, open a warehouse to sell rice, today's rice price is fifty-three Wen"

Although the price of grain has only dropped by two cents compared with yesterday, but just now the crowd was still talking about the fact that the government is really at a loss, and the price of rice is bound to be expensive. I saw that as soon as the people waved their hands, a few healthy soldiers came over and quickly took down the door panel to open the shop, and the other end set up a bucket for measuring rice, and bags of rice were neatly transported out of the governor's mansion. Seeing this scene, someone couldn't help but raise the food stamps in his hand and came up, and he received two large bags of rice in a moment, and when he opened it, he saw that it was Huang Cancan's corn, and the man was overjoyed

"Du Changshi really didn't lie to us"

With the people who are really waiting for the rice to go to the pot, you buy five liters of rice back, and the rest of the people look at me, and finally all of them rush to the rice line, some want one stone, and some Yu Crisp shouts for two stones, seeing that there are people questioning inside, they all bite the word, the Tao is afraid that the price of rice will continue to rise, so they want to hoard at home. Hearing this kind of rhetoric, Guo Quan laughed and turned around and went back to the Governor's Mansion without looking back, and suddenly stopped without taking a few steps, and said unhurriedly: "Buy it, fifty-three Wen today, and fifty-two Wen tomorrow, as long as you have money, you want as much as you want."

"How much do you really want?"

When Liang Xiaoshan got the news, he couldn't believe his ears. Not only him, but Wang An, who thought that he had figured out all the circumstances clearly in Shuozhou, also had a trace of indescribable unease. However, the two of them glanced at each other, and Wang An finally gritted his teeth at the same time and said, "Even if he not only brought two hundred stones of grain this time, he can't afford to toss for two days." Just grind with him and see who can fight whom."

The arrow had to be sent on the string, not to mention that he had already offended Du Shiyi by pulling other grain merchants to raise the price of grain, so Liang Xiaoshan naturally had no other choice. So, under his instruction, on this day, the two hundred stones of grain released by the temporary rice store in front of the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion were almost all wrapped up by him, except for some households and other grain merchants who ate a few stones scatteredly. However, the next day, when Mi Xing opened the door again at the third pole of the day, he hung out the signboard of today's rice price of 52 Wen on time, which was exactly the same as Guo Quan's prediction yesterday, and in desperation, he could only grit his teeth and eat it all again with his own strength.

Although the price of rice remained unchanged for the next two or three days, when it fell to a bucket of fifty-one wen, two hundred stone would be supplied every day. For ordinary people, seeing that the price of rice has dropped from 60 wen to more than 50 wen, although some people rush to buy it, most of the people who have rice in the pot at home are all waiting for the price of rice to fall again. The unbelievable Liang Xiaoshan even personally opened the package by bag to check that it was indeed corn, not some inferior goods mixed with sand, pinching his fingers and calculating the fact that he had received nearly 1,000 stone of grain at a high price, he finally couldn't sit still.

"It's time like this, of course it's time to continue fighting" Wang An himself was already up and down in his heart, but he had to comfort Liang Xiaoshan under the brand of Wang Maozhong, "This has been opened and sold for a thousand stones one after another, even if Du Shijiu has a rich daughter-in-law, then he has to buy rice, not to mention, with the support of General Wang, don't be afraid of expenses and see if he still has rice to sell tomorrow."

"That's what Brother Wang said." Liang Xiaoshan smiled reluctantly, and only begged all the gods and Buddhas in his heart. He has saved some money over the years, but he can't stand this kind of competition, and he earned it a few days ago because of the high price of rice

Countless pairs of eyes were watching to see if there was rice to sell after the government had been selling for five days, and early the next morning, the rice shop in front of the governor's mansion opened very firmly at three poles on the sun, but the signboard was that the price of rice was 50 wen today. Although it was only a small drop of a penny, the news spread for a while, and the people all over the city rushed to tell each other.

The government has plenty of food, and the price of food is really going to fall

The people were overjoyed, but the grain merchants were in mourning for a while. However, Liang Xiaoshan no longer had the heart to pay attention to his allies. When he came to Yunzhou this time, he didn't bring too much cash, and he bought food all in cash before, and he was already a little unbearable. So, when Wang An volunteered to go back to Shuozhou to deposit cash for him, he could only agree to it.

But as soon as Wang An left, he could only face an even more terrible situation alone. Every day, the price of grain drops by a penny, albeit only a penny, from fifty, forty-nine, forty-eight...... As the days passed, the grain he hoarded in his hands could not be sold at the original high price of sixty wen a bucket, and at the same time, the originally solid alliance had gradually collapsed.

In the face of the government's seemingly endless source of food supply, although there are still two or three that can endure it, they still hang on to the high price of 60 wen a bucket before, but the others finally can't bear the pressure and carefully lower their own grain prices. However, seeing that the government has grain to sell, and it is getting cheaper and cheaper day by day, who will take care of those black-hearted grain merchants? I don't even know which impulsive reckless man actually quietly poured red paint on the doors of several grain merchants in the dark night, and when Liang Xiaoshan saw the bloody color in the early morning, he was almost so angry that he fell down and fainted

Because most of the allies were unwilling to collect grain at a high price, Liang Xiaoshan could only rely on the financial support of his family, and Wang An went back to Shuozhou to raise cash, and it was now difficult for him to buy out the grain released by the government every day, so he could only watch the rice store close from the first hour or two, and now it has been operating until the night curfew. Now that someone is making a ghost in front of his door, how can he not be so angry that he smokes?

"Evening ...... Send someone on duty at night If I catch that damn guy, I'll be beaten to death

Liang Xiaoshan didn't care whether this was a crime or not, and after giving a vicious order, he brushed his sleeves away. However, he visited the grain merchants of the alliance at the beginning, but all he received were ambiguous replies. Some cried poor, some cried aggrieved, and some simply turned their faces and didn't recognize people, scolding them because he had tired them, all in all, they got nothing. When he dragged his tired body back to his rice shop, a servant came forward in fear.

"The owner, the owner...... Oh no."

"What's going on again," Liang Xiaoshan asked in a stern voice.

"A notice was posted in front of the official mansion, saying that what is sold in the rice shop today is the former war reserve grain of the princess's mansion, and there are 8,000 stones, so that the people in Yunzhou City can only relax......

"Eight Thousand Stones"

Liang Xiaoshan's scalp was numb when he heard it, and it was only at this time that he suddenly realized that Princess Gu'an had lived in Yunzhou City in the north of the lonely hanging for several years as a weak woman, and she was recruiting homeless people to flee from households, and she was also organizing guards, so she always had to prevent all kinds of accidents. Then, it is simply too normal to save thousands of stones of grain as war food

Almost immediately, he called the servant to lead the way to the grain depot, and when he opened the rice he had harvested in the past two days and found that it was indeed stale grain, he gritted his teeth.

After being deceived, he knew that Shuozhou really wouldn't let Guo Quan transport so much grain, it turned out that he was using the old grain that Princess Gu'an had hoarded earlier, but the hateful thing was that he spent so much money for these old grains that were difficult to import for war preparation

"Du Jiujiu, don't be too happy, you shouldn't have taken out your hole cards early in order to appease the people," he scolded viciously, and then asked the servant beside him, "Wang An hasn't come back yet?" ”

"Yes, Wang Lang hasn't come back yet, Shuozhou to Yunzhou comes and goes, plus the cash needs to be escorted, it takes a lot of time on the way......"

"Then I'll borrow it" Liang Xiaoshan took a deep breath and said categorically, "In a month, fifty percent of the profits are not profitable, so I don't believe that no one is not tempted."

In the face of the huge income from selling grain at a high price in the past few days, Wang Han and Cui Hao were all surprised and happy, and even Guo Quan, who arrived in Yunzhou at the beginning of the grain shipment and was greatly annoyed because he did not buy the expected grain, was also overjoyed. At this time, the three of them watched Du Shiyi guide Chen Baoer to play Go hand in hand, all of them were watching casually while pointing nonsense. At this moment, Chibi hurriedly entered the study and said in a loud voice: "Changshi, you have joined the army, and you have just received the news that someone outside wants to buy 6,000 stone of grain at once at the price of 45 wen and a bucket of rice. ”

"Oh? Such a big deal? Du Shiyi took a picture of the sunspot without raising his head, Ou Jian Chen Bao'er immediately started the long test with a bitter face, and as soon as he looked up and saw Wang Han, Cui Hao and Guo Quan's different faces, he said lightly, "Sell it to him." ”

"What?" Cui Hao immediately shouted, "Junli, you are crazy, unless it is the government, how can anyone buy thousands of stones of grain, this alone is enough to convict him of conspiracy."

Even Wang Han and Guo Quan, who don't like to bully the small, have been choked by the arrogance of the other party in the past few days, and they immediately nodded in agreement. Seeing that they clearly expressed their position, Du Shiyi said with a smile: "Since we want to fight, we have to win so that people have nothing to say before my sister left, this batch of old grain was still stored three years ago, and it has been piled up in the cellar for so long, and it can be sold at a high price to make room for it, how can there be such a cost-effective thing?" Sell it to him, just one sentence, cash out the grain"