Collecting Duan Wenyang under his command, Wei Shuo took the opportunity to completely disrupt and mix the 5,000 Xianbei cavalry he brought with the original 4,000 Youzhou cavalry and the 3,000 cavalry he brought from Liaodong, so that Wei Shuo had a total of four cavalry. After firmly holding the military power of Jicheng in his own hands, Wei Shuo began to implement the Juntian Decree and the Slave Release Decree in Yan State and Shanggu Counties.

The family is not stupid, and naturally knows how unfavorable the two conditions put forward by Wei Shuo are to the family, but now that the military power is all in the hands of Wei Shuo, and the Kou family and the Liu family of the three major families in Youzhou have fallen to Wei Shuo, so that the small and medium-sized families in Jicheng dare to openly oppose Wei Shuo.

But the small and medium-sized families were not willing to bow to Wei Shuo, they decided to show Wei Shuo the strength of the family, and it was best to let Wei Shuo retreat from the difficulties, take the initiative to compromise with them, and strive for more benefits for themselves.

In view of the hardships of the people during Wang Jun's reign in Youzhou, as soon as Wei Shuo occupied Jicheng, he put improving people's livelihood in the first place. In particular, we have spared no effort to stabilize prices. With the help of the Liu family and the Kou family, at least the price of grain in the two counties of Yan and Shanggu has fallen to less than 1,000 yuan per stone.

Although this price cannot be compared with the price of 220 yuan per stone in Liaodong, it has been greatly reduced compared with the previous price of up to 10,000 yuan per stone. In order to control the outflow of grain from the territory, Wei Shuo deployed a large number of government soldiers and militia soldiers to carry out patrol tasks at the border.

Walking on the streets of Jicheng, Wei Shuo found that it was much more lively than Xiangping, and there was a bustling flow of people everywhere. With the stabilization of food prices, the lives of ordinary people in Jicheng have suddenly become much easier.

However, after all, Wang Jun has done too much, and the ordinary people of Youzhou may not be as rich as the people of Liaodong, and there are many ragged homeless people lying on the streets of Jicheng.

Wei Shuo had been paying attention to military-related issues before, and he had not had time to inspect the people's livelihood in Jicheng. Today, I found out that there were only a limited number of streets in Jicheng. Other alleys were littered with debris and garbage, and the poor people in ragged clothes slept next to the garbage.

Looking at so many ragged people in the city, Wei Shuo sighed and said to Liu Han and Han Shou who were following him: "Look at these poor people. This is all Wang Jun's sin! Hum! It's really hateful to think about Wang Jun. Seriously, if it weren't for Shi Le who caught Wang Pengzu first, Wei would have settled this account with him in the future. ”

"My lord, it's useless to say anything more. But you don't have to worry too much, with the price of food dropping, the living burden of the people of Jicheng has been greatly reduced, and with the renovation of Jicheng, emergency repair of water conservancy and other projects, the people of Jicheng will have an extra income, and their lives will only get better and better. ”

"In fact, these are all false, and the key is that the policy of the Juntian Decree and the Slave Liberation Decree must be implemented as soon as possible. This is the key for us to win the hearts and minds of the people and gain a firm foothold in Youzhou. Do you understand? ”

"No!"

However, Wei Shuo also knew that Jicheng was not built in a day, and if he wanted to restore the barren and disaster-ridden Youzhou as soon as possible, it would definitely take a lot of effort and more time to govern.

At this moment, someone on the street suddenly shouted: "The price of grain in the grain store has risen in the front, everyone hurry up and take a look!" ”

Hula! The street, which had been slightly crowded, suddenly became empty, and a large crowd of people swarmed towards the grain store in front of it.

"Mr. Takeko, what's going on? How can food prices suddenly rise? Is your family playing tricks? ”

I saw a sudden increase in food prices. Wei Shuo's first reaction was that the family was making trouble behind his back, after all, only the family had the ability, strength and motivation to control local food prices.

"No, no, no. The subordinates definitely didn't make trouble out of it. ”

Seeing that Wei Shuo's face had changed, Liu Han hurriedly shook his head and cleared himself, and he explained with a sweaty face: "Lord, you just lend the three guts to you, and I don't dare to engage in conspiracy behind your back!" ”

Wei Shuo naturally trusted Liu Han to be innocent, but he didn't believe in other families. He raised his hand to stop the excited Liu Han and said, "Mr. Wuzi, Wei Mou has never doubted your meaning, the price of grain in Jicheng was reduced to a thousand yuan per stone thanks to the help of the Liu family. But I don't trust other families, didn't I always put you in charge of negotiating with them? How did the talks go? Are they not happy with the conditions I have proposed? ”

Liu Han's face stiffened and said: "The humble position has the trust of the lord. Excuse me. ”

Wei Shuo shook his head and sighed: "If you don't do it, you won't die, it seems that the family won't hit the south wall and won't look back!" Do they really think that Lao Tzu will not dare to kill? ”

Listening to Wei Shuo's murderous emotion, Han Shou was nothing, but Liu Han felt a chill all over his body, and couldn't help but feel a little bad for the prospects of those stubborn families.

Due to the sudden rise in grain prices in Jicheng, more and more people crowded into grain stores to buy grain, and many people begged bitterly that those grain merchants could not lower the price of grain.

"What the hell is going on? A few days ago, the grain was still a thousand dollars a stone, why did it suddenly rise to 20,000 yuan today? ”

"Who knows? Alas, it hasn't been a good day for two days, but the price of food has risen again, and it seems that Cheng Xing doesn't want us to live a stable life! ”

"That's it, that's it, I knew it was like this, and I bought more food a few days ago."

"You still want to buy more food? It's simply impossible! You forgot that Lord Wei has a rule that those who buy more than five stones must report to the Thorn Mansion. ”

"The government doesn't have good things, if it weren't for this broken rule, we wouldn't be so passive today!"

"Are you embarrassed to blame Lord Wei? If it weren't for Lord Wei, would you be able to buy grain for a thousand dollars and a stone? If it weren't for the purchase restriction policy issued by Lord Wei, do you think that the grain would be bought by us and other ordinary people? ”

"You are right to say this, if you want to blame Master Wei, it is all the fault of the damn grain merchant!"

Food is a very important material in ancient and modern times, even if the emperor or nobles have to eat. Fluctuations in food prices have a huge impact on people's lives, and rising food prices mean that the cost of living will increase dramatically, and poor families are likely to go hungry as a result.

When Wei Shuo learned that the price of grain had risen to 20,000 yuan per stone, his eyes were full of cold light, and this time he was really moved to kill. The people of Youzhou were already suffering enough under Wang Jun's fraud, but they didn't expect the family to go up and step on it.

"My lord, what are we going to do next? Liaodong's grain stocks are not rich in the first place, and even if all of them are transferred, it is impossible to suppress the grain prices in Jicheng. Unless we spend a huge amount of money to buy a large amount of grain from Jiangdong and Xuzhou and transport it to Youzhou as soon as possible, it will be possible to keep grain prices down. ”

"Humph! Not to mention that we don't have money to buy food, even if we have money, it's too late. Youzhou is thousands of miles away from Jiangdong, and it takes at least half a month to go back and forth, and when the grain is transported to Jicheng, the daylilies are cold! ”

"Then how does the lord plan to deal with the situation in front of him?"

"It was no longer possible to keep food prices down by normal means, so I decided to use some drastic measures."

"Radical ...... Drastic means? Liu Han's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he seemed to think of something terrible.

Wei Shuoli ignored Liu Han, and only instructed Han Shoudao: "Go and inform Liu Yao and Duan Wenyang, let them transfer 3,000 soldiers from the camp outside the city into the city, and at the same time let Lu Chang and Nengchen lead troops to block the four gates of Jicheng and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving." In addition, let the guards investigate all the grain stores in the city, and then present them to me, and I will pay a hundred times the price for whichever one is involved. ”

With a large number of soldiers taking to the streets to enforce martial law, coupled with the closed city gates, some families felt a certain sense of foreboding. However, most of the family didn't think that Wei Shuo really dared to do anything to them, after all, attacking the family meant that Wei Shuo's reputation would be ruined.

It's a pity that they all underestimated Wei Shuo's courage, and when night fell, with the cooperation of the Liu family, the guards finally investigated the family in Jicheng clearly. After getting the evidence, Wei Shuo immediately ordered to go door-to-door to arrest the family members who committed the crime.

It wasn't until the moment when the swords and guns were added that the families woke up one after another, and it turned out that Wei Shuo really wanted to kill. At this moment, all the families who participated in disrupting food prices regretted it, and they never thought that Wei Shuo would dare to attack the family anyway.

In this era of the family, anyone who slaughters the family will inevitably be resisted and resisted by other families, and even such people are often labeled as tyrannical. (To be continued.) )