Grain prices in the northern section of the canal began to rise steadily, at first only for rice and wheat, and later even for coarse grains, and the price of grain in Tianjin rose rapidly from 1 tael or 2 taels to 2 taels and 1 stone.

Baoding and other places are more expensive, although the Jingshi has grain to stabilize the grain price, but the population of the Beijing division is also large, after the panic of grain prices, the people changed the habit of buying only three or five days of grain before, and began to desperately buy grain at home, at least for a month, the price of grain in Beijing also began to rise, grain merchants in various places have been reluctant to sell, waiting for the grain to rise further.

There are also a lot of rumors along the Jiangnan and the canal, saying that the Liukou crisscross Huguang, and this year's Huguang will definitely have a bad harvest, and there are also Liukou who are going south to Zhili, which has also triggered a trend of grain storage in Jiangnan and other places.

A sudden grain shortage swept along the canal, every household was stockpiling grain, and there was less and less grain from the south to the north.

Similar to the price of grain is the price of cotton cloth, which was also purchased in large quantities north of Linqing, and the Denglai cotton cloth that swept the native cloth at the beginning of the year disappeared, making the price of cotton cloth nearly double.

Guanning area because of transportation difficulties and the concentration of Liao, the price has always been more expensive than Tianjin and Tongzhou, now the price of grain in the interior has risen, Guanning's grain prices have also begun to soar, Guanning army has a supply of non-ferrous metals every year, each soldier per month five buckets, but the quarters are paid, and the loss on the road is also counted, there are not many people who really go to Guanning, and many of them have to rely on the color to buy.

When grain prices first began to rise, Wu Xiang and others were still happily selling their camps to make money, but later they found out that something was wrong, and the grain merchants in Guanning stopped selling grain one after another, and the big trading companies with backgrounds such as the Sihai Trading Company were still desperately buying, further raising the price of grain and cotton cloth in Guanning.

The price of grain in Guanning soon reached four taels and one stone, and it was still rapidly approaching five taels. At this time, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang were dumbfounded, and went to the Beijing division again and again for help, at this time, the Beijing division also rose to two or five dollars, and the merchants with various backgrounds rushed to stock up, and the household department urgently transferred the state capitals to the south to retain, but the south also had a certain amount of rise, and it would not be able to quench the hunger and thirst of the north for a while and a half.

Due to the slow transmission of information, the south has not been able to know the specific price in the north, and merchants often sell it at a high price in Linqing. Turning around and going to the south to pull goods, the turnaround time is faster, and you can also earn a lot of silver, and the most persevering is to Tianjin. No new goods can be obtained in places like Tongzhou, and the price of grain in the north is under the coaxing of various families. Still soaring.

Chen Xin was also surprised when he got the latest summary table in Dengzhou, which had exceeded his expectations, and the economic war against Guanning, Mongolia and Jiannu had choked the people of Beijing.

After reading it, Chen Xin handed it to Liu Minyou, "Look at the effect of our economic warfare, Wang Erya's rumors are more effective than silver, and there are all rumors in Jingshi." Many people thought that Jiannu was really coming, and at this time, there were 500,000 taels of new tickets in Jingshi Qianzhuang, most of which were redeemed in Jinan or Dengzhou. Many of them are still Beijing officials, this is what they are afraid of, and they think that we are safe in Dengzhou. ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said, "We should have thought that the grain transported north by the canal every year is only a few million stones. We invested 2 million taels in a month, and Tianjin alone reached 800,000. Almost all the grain that can be bought has been bought, and with the coaxing of Wen Tiren and others' grain stores, other small grain merchants have also closed their doors and are reluctant to sell, and grain prices are bound to rise. It's just that I didn't count the spontaneous hoarding of the people, which exacerbated the rise of Cheng Dù. If this is too powerful, let's put the grain, so as not to starve to death the people of Jingshi. ”

"That's not good, you can't stop when it's already started, Jiannu's endurance is much lower than that of Jingshi, and the endurance of the Guanning army is also stronger than that of Jiannu, so it will stop after the autumn harvest according to the original plan."

Liu Minyou hesitated and said: "This Guan Ning army is ...... colored"

"Their family members don't have it, five buckets a month is only sixty catties, only enough for the soldiers to eat themselves, in order to make the soldiers dare not escape, the Guan Ning army put their families and soldiers in the same city, plus those military household slaves who will gate, the food of the court is far from enough, don't look at the small place in Liaoxi, but the population is quite a lot. You can change the plan slightly, and after the highest price is reached in July, they will start to put grain in Guanning, only according to the point that they have enough to eat, so that the silver will be earned first, and they will not have any excess to sell to Jiannu, and by the end of August, the price of grain will be suppressed and those merchants will be cleaned up, and the military salary in Guanning will be calculated, and I am afraid that half of it will be given to us this year. ”

"In fact, if Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou are willing to buy grain at a high price in Tianjin and Ningyuan, and then sell it, they can also stabilize the price of Guanning, and the two of them will not be less than two million in silver."

Chen Xinyi said: "Are they willing to do it, besides, they don't have money, the total number will never be more than ours, at most, it will be delayed for a while, and they will not be able to resist it in the end." ”

"Karaqin also had a severe drought last year and this year, and it was even worse than Henan, and they couldn't support it by eating cattle and sheep, so they had to buy grain from Guanning, and Liaodong was also in the same drought, and this year the smuggling channel between Zhangjiakou and Denglai was cut off, and it was up to him to see what he could do to support people."

Chen Xin said with a smile: "Not only Karaqin, but also Tumut, those captives are returned, the price of our horses is reduced to ten taels, and Tang Hongchang in Zhangjiakou is a character, not to mention the difference in the price of our horses, but also to help raise the price of grain, that is, to ask for a long-term term." As long as we drag Jiannu in Liaodong and don't let them go out to grab money, then Huang Taiji will be dragged to death. ”

Liu Minyou blinked and looked at Chen Xin, "Even if this drags Huang Taiji to death, there are many people in the north who are dragged to death, and we still have to fight the military economy together." ”

"It's okay, then Zhu Guobin hasn't already started."

"What's your name?"

"It's not famous, it's just a summer offensive, let Huang Taiji consume more food, let's drag him to death this time." ……

In Fuzhou City, an endless stream of cavalry left the city from the north Zhenhai Gate and headed for Gaizhou. Since the Battle of Lushun last year, Huang Taiji has contracted his defense, and no one here in Fuzhou is willing to defend, so Huang Taiji only left a small number of vests in Zhenghuang Banner to be used as an outpost.

During Jiannu's attack on Xuanda, Zhu Guobin launched a diversionary attack along the Fuzhou line and easily recovered Fuzhou, and all the post stations and military forts south of Yulinpu were abandoned by Houjin, and its main force retracted to Gaizhou City and Yulinpu. Yulinpu is only fifteen miles away from Gaizhou, from Yulinpu to Fuzhou, along the way there are pot head shop, pot shop, Xiongyue post, cloth shop, Xin'an shop, fifty village post station, Yongning Jian, Nanxian shop, Mengjiachuan shop, Mota shop, eight shops eleven post stations and military forts. The interval between each other varies from ten miles to twenty miles, and Yulinpu is one hundred and eighty miles away from Fuzhou.

These forts were restored by the Later Jin soldiers in the previous two years and used as a relay station for logistics during the Battle of Lushun, and then demolished by the Later Jin and turned into ruins, and when the Houjin withdrew, they also polluted the local water source by placing rotting rats and other animal carcasses in the wells. Prevent Dengzhou Town from quickly pursuing Gaizhou.

The Dengzhou cavalry entered Fuzhou in February, and an improvised wharf was built at the Niangniang Palace in the south, just as it was during the Battle of Fuzhou. It can be replenished along the Shahe River (Fuzhou River). The Dengzhou infantry did not enter the mountainous area, but only established a base in the mountainous area, where a thousand headquarters of the fourth battalion and a mountain infantry company were fortified layer by layer, which could effectively cover the retreat of the cavalry.

From Jinzhou to Xiuyan, it is also a mountainous area. The other thousand headquarters of the expansion of the fourth battalion were deployed in this direction, many defense facilities were established in Jinzhou, and the wasteland was being opened up and built everywhere south of Nanguan, and more than 50,000 tunhu were transported from Denglai, and the color of the entire Dengzhou town was transported here, and the army in Denglai relied on the 60,000 stone grain collected from the tunbao, and the rest could only be bought.

Although Liaonan is a loss for the time being. But there is also an incomparable advantage of Denglai, which is completely a blank area under the rule of the imperial court, and Dengzhou Town has established a complete grassroots organization, without any other forces getting in the way.

During the Battle of Lushun, the soldiers who came to aid Dengzhou retreated one after another. Only one thousand headquarters of the first battalion remained in the brigade to help, and the original Lushun garrison was also transferred to Jinzhou, and a large number of auxiliaries who had experienced the battle of Lushun became a reserve source for the expansion of the Liaonan Brigade, and the entire Jinzhou Isthmus was lined with forts. From Nanguan to Lushun is a solid depth, with the increase of tunhu. The town of Dengzhou is becoming more and more stable in southern Liaoning.

May was the beginning of the Dengzhou summer offensive, and the purpose of Chen Xin's offensive was just to drag down Huang Taiji, just to cooperate with the economic war, and by the way, he had to nod his head and deal with the imperial court, which seemed to be the end of Liaonan.

Zhu Guobin was stationed in Fuzhou City with cavalry, had completed a raid on Yulinpu, and established an advance base in Xiongyueyi, Houjin immediately transferred 3,000 cavalry from Haizhou and Gaizhou, and drove Zhu Guobin's cavalry back, Xiong Yueyi's forward base was also abandoned, and the Houjin soldiers also stopped in the face of a desolate area of 180 miles, and the lessons of the Battle of Lushun were vivid, and they did not dare to continue to go deep into southern Liaoning. Neither side has any intention of fighting a decisive battle in the South Fourth Guard now.

The sailor transferred seven bird boats to the north, carrying the special service team to go ashore at any time to reconnoiter and sabotage, attracting the attention of Jiannu, the Fuzhou cavalry will attack again, Zhu Guobin got the news from the special service team, the Houjin cavalry in Yulinpu has been evacuated, and he needs to go to fight again, so that the Houjin soldiers can be repeatedly mobilized and transferred, consuming their money, food and labor.

"The attack on Gaizhou is very important, Jiannu does not have the courage to come to southern Liaonan again, last month Dongjiang Town also raided the dangerous mountains north of Jiuliancheng, Kuandian and other six forts, in addition to Liaoxi no offensive, Denglai siege to fight Jiannu has become a trend, to drag Jiannu in Liaodong, Gaizhou is an important place, after Gaizhou terrain is open, let's go to a hundred cavalry, Jiannu to three hundred to encircle. Haizhou behind it is the main road from Liaozhong to western Liaoxi and Karaqin, which is the place where the Liao is to be restored, and it is also the place where Jiannu boils salt......

Zhu Guobin was assigning tasks to Tan Shen and other officers in the city tower, and a staff officer came up from the city and whispered a few words to Zhu Guobin, Zhu Guobin's face changed slightly, and after a while, he whispered to the staff officer: "Write an urgent report immediately, go to Niangniang Palace and take a boat directly to Denglai, and tell Lord Chen about this." ”

After Tan Shen saw the staff officer leave, he couldn't help but be curious and didn't ask, all the officers were speculating, but they couldn't ask about what the Shangguan didn't say, Zhu Guobin glanced at them and smiled: "It's not a big deal, yesterday I caught a blue flag sentry horse, and the interrogation came out and said that the Derge class suddenly fell ill and died, Mang Gurtai's sister Mang Guji was also arrested, and the current blue flag owner has become...... Hauge. In the future, we will focus on the flag, I'm afraid we will add positive blue. ”