In less than half a month, the people of Suzhou City seem to have come to all the things they have never experienced in their lives.

First, there was a shortage of food, food prices soared, and then the imperial court restricted sales, and even the Xu family was raided. A century-old family, the reputation was ruined.

When the Xu family was raided, a large number of letters exchanged with maritime merchants were copied, as well as the account books of the Xu family's smuggling.

This is not Zhang Ke's false accusation, let alone a rumor, but real evidence of the crime.

The Xu family controlled a large number of mulberry fields, and at first they only sold raw silk, and later developed into silk weaving. The silk of Suzhou is definitely the top industrial product of this era, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Westerners, they are fascinated by the smooth and gorgeous silk.

Due to the cumbersome and slow procedures of the Municipal Shipping Division, and the fact that they were extorted by officials of the imperial court, many large coastal households secretly contacted Western merchants on their own, and even mastered the merchant fleet and directly engaged in smuggling.

Xu Zhongliang relied on the smuggling business to get huge benefits for the Xu family, so that he won the favor of the family and mastered most of the business dealings.

Now that Xu Zhongliang and the account books have fallen into Zhang Ke's hands, this is the fish and meat delivered to his eyes, if he doesn't take a few bites, I'm really sorry for the resentment these days.

"Xu Zhongliang, Benjue doesn't ask you what you ♂ did in Suzhou, just because of your overseas smuggling, Benjue will convict you of a crime of being a convict, right? At that time, not only Suzhou, but even the ancestral house of the Xu family in Huating can be raided together, and all the men of your family will be sent to Liaodong for mining, as for the women, the thin skin and tender meat will be distributed to the subordinates of the lord. Although they are reckless men, they still know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, and they will treat them well! ”

The devil believes it!

Xu Zhongliang's eyes couldn't help but appear in front of his eyes, where Aunt Qifang was taken to Liaodong and distributed to a group of vulgar men with unshaven beards... That picture is simply so beautiful that I can't imagine it!

Not only his wife and concubine, but also his own daughter, I thought of this. The whole person is not good. But what can I do if people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat!

"Pingliaogong, the villain is guilty, but the matter in Suzhou is small and he doesn't dare to shirk, but the small one is indeed just a small shrimp, just following others to wave the flag and shout. Please give the Xu family a way to live, the little one will kowtow to you! ”

The door of his head thumped to the ground, and in the blink of an eye, it was a blinding dark red.

Zhang Ke sneered: "Xu Zhongliang, if you were really the mastermind behind the scenes, Benjue would have killed you a long time ago." Why bother talking nonsense with you! ”

There is a door!

Xu Zhongliang straightened up violently and said loudly: "Grandpa Guo, from now on, the little one will be your lackey, let the little one do whatever he wants, there is no other word!" ”

"Hehehe, there are many people who want to be a dog for Benjue, and you are not qualified enough!" Zhang Ke said contemptuously.

Suddenly, Xu Zhongliang's face turned red, ashamed and ashamed. I can't wait to get into the cracks in the ground.

The person had to bow his head under the low eaves, and in a blink of an eye, he regained his expression again, and said respectfully: "Grandpa Guo, the little one is not worthy of being a dog for you right now." But the small ones must work hard to be qualified to be a dog as soon as possible! ”

As soon as these words came out, the prestige of the century-old family disappeared, and these were originally false names. Nothing is more important than living.

"Okay, it's good to have this awareness."

Zhang Ke said with a smile: "You immediately repair a book for Huating's own family, and let them take out 100,000 stone of grain to atone for their sins." Benjue will spare you for the time being. ”

100,000 stones, you heard that right!

Xu Zhongliang's eyes widened, he was not in pain, but joy!

For others, 100,000 stones is not a small amount, but for the Xu family, it is simply a drizzle, not worth mentioning, and it can be taken out in minutes.

Xu Zhongliang even suspected that Zhang Ke had made a mistake, and stared at it dumbfounded.

"What? Don't want to take it out? ”

"Think, think, the little one will write a letter."

His subordinates took Xu Zhongliang away, and only Fang Chongwen was left in the room, his brows were tightly locked, and he peeked at Zhang Ke from time to time.

"Don't you think you want too little?"

"I dare to guess that Grandpa Guo must have another purpose in doing this."

Zhang Ke smiled: "Okay, just tell me, what is the purpose of Benjue?" ”

Fang Chongwen reasoned his mind and asked tentatively: "Grandpa Guo, I think you don't want to end the food crisis in Suzhou so quickly, on the contrary, you want to stretch the battle line." Is it to pull out more cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, and then catch them all! ”

"Hahahaha!" After Zhang Ke listened, he looked up to the sky and laughed, full of appreciation.

"You're right, I've given dozens of orders these days, Tang Bi and Shen Yue are in charge of Liaodong, Deng Wentong and Liu Xiwei are in the capital and Tianjin, Xu Zhi and Zhu Qingbin are in Shandong, and Wu Boyan and Li Dan are in Jinzhou. A contingency dispatch system has been set up, and all parties have worked together to raise and transport food supplies. If Benjue wants to, within half a month, at least 500,000 stone of grain can be transported, and the crisis in Suzhou can be solved in an instant! ”

Zhang Ke smiled confidently, he did have this confidence. After years of war tests, Liaodong is the place with the strongest mobilization ability in the entire Ming Dynasty, plus the fleet of Li Dan and Bao Shiqing and others, Liaodong, even North Korea, and Japan can be transported over anytime and anywhere.

Therefore, when the big households in Jiangnan launched a grain offensive, they only had one month, and as long as it dragged out, Zhang Ke could easily crush them.

In the face of warlords with a complete system and strong mobilization capabilities, not to mention a century-old family, a thousand-year-old family, even a 10,000-year-old turtle is just a paper tiger.

For the first time, Fang Chongwen felt the strong self-confidence of this grandfather, and the big families in Jiangnan chose to be his enemy, which was absolutely blind.

"Grandpa Guo, you have enough chips in your hands, but you want to raid the Xu family and let them give out food, do you want to create the illusion that you are exhausted, and induce the big families to give more money and invest more strength?"

"That's right!"

Zhang Ke said with a smile: "In the first ten days, we dealt with it passively, and the next thing is to watch them play monkey show!" You immediately arrange the manpower, not only in Suzhou, but everywhere you have to watch carefully, and make the actions of the big households clear. ”

"Yes!"

……

The food crisis entered the fifteenth day, and two good news came in a row, the first was that the Xu family of Huating donated 100,000 stone of grain to the imperial court to stabilize prices, and the first batch of grain has been shipped to Suzhou. The second is that Xu Zhi, the governor of Shandong, transferred 80,000 stone of grain from the treasury and sent it south from the canal to Suzhou.

These two good news reached Suzhou, and the price of grain fell in response, from eight taels and one stone, to six taels and five stones, and the people, who were originally eager to buy grain, also waited and watched, wanting to see if the price of grain would continue to fall.

However, at the moment when the situation was improving, even more fatal news came, and the grain price of Songjiang Prefecture near Suzhou skyrocketed to five taels and one stone, and then the grain prices in Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, and Hangzhou also began to skyrocket.

And this round of price increases is not only grain, silk and cotton yarn also followed the price increase, high-quality silk broke through the 20 taels of silver mark, and then the price of salt, the price of tea, pots and pans, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, everything used in all things have increased in price, and the price is three things a day, more and more shops have hung out sold out brands.

Bigger storms are just beginning. (To be continued......) R752