February 12, Flower Dynasty Festival.

The price of grain finally rose from 15 to 20 per stone.

Five days is like fifty years, and no one will have a good time in these five days.

The people of Yangzhou City look at the daily high grain prices, as if they are living in hell, they think all day long whether to buy grain, how much grain to buy, or simply sell their property and leave Yangzhou with money.

The officials of Yangzhou City, that is, Su You, Mai Tiezhu and others, also endured suffering, refusing the people's requests to see them again and again, and asking themselves again and again whether such a plan would work.

The owner of the shop was also having a hard time, Xiao Wei withstood the pressure to recover some grain from the Yuan clan at a high price, and sold more grain coupons with the grain that Su You got back from Baekje.

The people of the Yuan clan seem to have seen the light of day, because the price of grain has finally risen to the price they have in mind.

Before nightfall, Yuan Shangwu and dozens of his retinue made one last inspection of the dozens of granaries that had been secretly built, and the grain hoarded in those granaries was as much as 200,000 stones.

Yuan Shangwu was obviously overjoyed by such a result, and immediately waved his hand, "Tomorrow we will start selling a large amount of grain in our hands, and we will go at the price of 20 guan per stone!" ”

His men immediately showed a relaxed smile, and the pressure they were under during these days was not easy, for fear that the grain would return to its original price in the morning, and the grain in their hands would only rot in the barn.

On the sixth day, the best moment of decisive battle finally arrived as the night left.

The first news came out that the grain shop under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou Qianzhuang had set a price of 20 yuan per stone, and each person was limited to purchase

I don't know who saw the notice at the gate of the county government first, and then shouted: "The price of grain today is the same as per stone!" And buy as much as you want, there is no limit to the quantity! ”

The people around him thought he had gone crazy, and then he came up in disbelief, and more people went crazy.

The grain has dropped from twenty per stone to one stone, and there is no limit!

The news spread throughout the city in just half an hour.

First the people who heard the news couldn't believe it, and then the people of the Yuan Trading Company were collectively dumbfounded, thinking that the government was just wishful thinking.

Who is willing to sell the consistent price of each stone?

Although the consistent price seems to have risen several times for the three hundred Wen before the Lantern Festival, it was only twenty times yesterday?

Obviously, it was impossible for the people of the Yuan trading company to sell the rice they had collected at a high price, so they immediately closed the store.

"Let's go, let's go buy rice!" I don't know who shouted, and the crowd immediately left the city and headed straight for the docks.

As soon as they left the city gate, the common people felt that today was a little different, because Mai Tiezhu and Zhao Xin were once again fully armed with the more than 1,000 soldiers, Yangzhou City strengthened its defense at this time, and there were many times more soldiers with armor on the dock than usual.

Su You also greeted the crowd under the arch guard of three hundred guards.

Facing the surging crowd, Su You was inevitably a little afraid of being stepped on.

Wang Shichong is obviously not a good stubble, and immediately raised his way and shouted, "Those who want to buy rice are all lined up, come one by one, and yours are indispensable!" ”

Su You also shouted, "Grain, there is a lot, now there are fifty boats of grain on the dock, these grains are sold for every stone today, and the price will be reduced tomorrow, only for five hundred Wen!" ”

Su You's price reduction strategy was obviously to prevent the Yuan clan's people from taking the opportunity to sell grain and grain coupons, and if the price reduction continued to decrease, the coupons in their hands would depreciate, and the grain would no longer be cared for.

Listening to Su You's words, a cheer erupted in the crowd, but more people chose to be skeptical.

Zhao Xin also came over at this time and shouted, "Everyone, if you don't believe it, you can send a hundred representatives into the dock, and this official will let you see the grain on the ship."

One hundred representatives of the people were quickly elected, and they were led by Zhao Xin on the dock, and then they were divided into fifty groups, and they went on the ship in groups of two to see if there was really food on the ship, whether there was really so much food.

The rest of the queue quieted down, since the price would be reduced tomorrow, why should they rush to buy it at the moment?

One hundred people quickly got out of the wharf, and then spread the news: the envoy did not deceive people, the grain on the wharf was enough for one million stones, and the people of Yangzhou City could not eat it all in a year!

Naturally, there are also people who buy food, and they finally realize the desire to buy as they please, and then they regret it a little.

Since the price will drop tomorrow, why buy so much?

More people obviously have this mentality, originally came to the dock to buy grain, but now they can only disperse with trepidation.

At the same time, Yuan Shangwu also realized the seriousness of the situation, and after listening to the report of his subordinates, he couldn't help but roar, "Why? Why? How did the price of food suddenly return to 20 days ago? Where did they get their courage? Where did he get the food? ”

The shopkeeper shook his head vigorously.

"Don't go check it out yet!" Yuan Shangwu shouted hoarsely.

"Yes." The shopkeeper answered and fled.

After the tea, another dogleg brought the latest news to Yuan Shangwu, "This will have been ascertained, some people have found that three grain ships have entered the dock every day in the past seven days, but the Xiao family trading company has unloaded one shipload of grain for sale at a time, and early in the morning of a few years, there are fifty grain ships coming from the south side of the canal, and the origin of these grains has not yet been ascertained." ”

"Fifty boats? So they don't have a million stone of grain? Yuan Shangwu shook his head vigorously, and shouted at the dog's leg again, "Didn't you let you lay a net at both ends of the canal?" For the past few days, it was enough to have three boats a day, how could you let them come in fifty boats at once? ”

This dog-legged man couldn't answer Yuan Shangwu, just kneeling tremblingly, his teeth chattering, and his body was like sifting chaff.

When Yuan Shangwu was about to torture this dog leg who could say that he couldn't do it, a man covered in blood hurriedly entered the courtyard, and as soon as he saw Yuan Shangwu, he cried, "Big boy, the villain is ashamed of the Yuan family!" ”

Yuan Shangwu saw the person in front of him clearly, and asked with some disbelief, "Liu Neng!" What happened to you? What the hell is going on? ”

"We set up an ambush on the canal according to Gongzi's order, and in the morning we discovered an unknown force entering Yangzhou, and they had fifty or sixty boats."

Yuan Shangwu immediately interrupted angrily, "I know! It's Su You's people! ”

Liu Neng nodded and sighed, "It turns out that the eldest prince has known for a long time, but the villain seems to have seen a general who leads the team, and it seems to be Zhang Zhenzhou." ”

"Zhang Zhenzhou? I didn't expect Su You's connections to be as weak as I imagined, I bought Yuhang's county guard, but I ignored him, it is really like water, it seems to be clear, but in fact, it is unpredictable. Those officials who promised us must also be anti-water" Perhaps influenced by Liu Neng's emotions, Yuan Shangwu also sighed.

"Liu Neng is incompetent, he failed to bring his brothers back" Liu Neng immediately pleaded guilty.

"They didn't finish my arrangement, what about coming back, do they have this face?" Yuan Shangwu said indifferently.

Liu Neng's heart was cold, he felt something about Yuan Shangwu's oligopoly, but where did he think that at this moment, he would abandon the lives of fifty people as a shoe, and see it as a mustard?

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs; The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs.

Are the superiors so ruthless?

Yuan Shangwu looked at Liu Neng in a daze, and couldn't help asking, "You say, what should we do now?" ”

Liu Neng smiled lightly, is Yuan Shangwu dizzy at the moment? I even asked about myself.

Liu Neng shook his head, but the doorman beside Yuan Shangwu asked tentatively, "Otherwise, let's throw it away as soon as possible, taking advantage of the fact that every stone is consistent now, there is still a profit to be made by selling the grain harvested in the early stage." ”

Yuan Shangwu finally made up his mind and said to Liu Neng, "You said well, quickly pass the order, 800 wen per stone, and sell it in unlimited quantities!" ”

Liu Neng couldn't, so he limped down to give the order.

But now is an extraordinary time, and grain is not something you want to sell, you can sell if you want to.

"Price reduction! Price! Eight hundred wen and one stone of grain, pick and choose, come and buy it."

The shopkeepers of the Yuan clan all walked to the door of the grain shop, shouting vigorously to greet the passing crowd, but those people in a hurry just glanced at them with disdain, and thought without misfortune in their hearts, "There is endless grain at the wharf, and it will be reduced to five hundred wen tomorrow, and now it is embarrassing to sell it for eight hundred?" ”

The shopkeeper's shouting is also faceless, and then think about the scene yesterday when the people cried and shouted for 20 yuan and one stone to buy food

The food was cheapened all of a sudden, and the shopkeeper became a dog who ignored it.

Yuan Shangwu looked at those disdainful eyes, ruthlessly, and ordered, "Price reduction, five hundred wen." ”

So the shopkeepers of several grain shops began to shout new lines again, and the government's notice was also posted in due course, "Tomorrow's grain price is not 500 wen per stone, but 200 wen!" ”

This is the normal price before the Lantern Festival.

After reading this proclamation, the common people raised the city and cheered, and unanimously called Mai Tiezhu and Su You the great masters of the blue sky.

Su You could only sigh that the common people were really forgetful, and they didn't seem to remember that they had squeezed their wallets out in the last ten days

When Yuan Shangwu heard the news of the official announcement, he spurted out a mouthful of old blood with a "poof".

"It's over, it's really bloodless, how much money did the Yuan family smash into this time? 20 million? Thirty million? When Yuan Shangwu wiped the blood on the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, he was full of regret.

"Why do you want to hold on to twenty? How did you get the price of 20 pieces? What if there was a massive sell-off yesterday? ”

But there is no regret medicine in this world, and if you lose, you lose