In May, after the drought in the north, the locust plague in Jingzhao Mansion on the south bank of Weishui was affected by the locust plague in the most month, and the crops in the fields were eaten up, and the imperial court at this time focused on the Yongxing military road against the Western Xia, although it was also sent to Jingzhao Mansion for a large number of food relief, but the relief of a drop in the bucket could not meet the needs of the victims at all, the imperial court disaster relief food shortage, many grain merchants in Jingzhao Mansion joined hands to raise prices, in just two months, the grain prices of Jingzhao Mansion increased tenfold, and the soaring food prices led to the rapid expansion of prices in Jingzhao Mansion, Regional inflation began to appear in Gyeongzhao Province due to the severe drought and locust plague, and there is a tendency to spread along the road. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info\qΒ5。 \

Zhao Lei and his entourage of more than 300 people, with more than a dozen carriages, crossed the Weishui ferry port and arrived at the post station outside the city of Jingzhaofu.

Since crossing Weishui, Zhao Lei felt that something was wrong, the pedestrians coming and going on the official road, all of them were dirty and tattered, with a vegetable, no matter how they looked, they didn't want ordinary pedestrians, and most of them were dragging their families with their mouths, as if they were begging for food.

Zhao Lei asked Ou Xifan to store the things in the post station, and took Xiao Ruoruo, Su Xun, Pang Bai and more than a dozen guards to the official road at the entrance of the post station to stop a group of poor passers-by heading east.

"This old lady, where are you going?" Zhao Lei stopped a family of six, two young couples, a little boy and an old woman, and asked the old man.

Seeing that Zhao Lei was followed by more than a dozen big men wearing iron armor and holding sharp blades, and the purple official robe that Zhao Lei didn't have time to change on, the old man trembled at Zhao Lei in shock and horror and said, "My lord! We are going to Bianjing. ”

"Are you the people of Jingzhao Mansion? Why go to Bianjing? Zhao Lei looked at the old man's frightened appearance, waved his hand to keep the guards away, and then asked the old man in a very kind and soft voice.

Seeing the guards leave and Zhao Lei's face was kind, the old man calmed down a lot, and hurriedly replied to Zhao Lei: "My lord! We are the people of Nanzhou, Jingzhao Prefecture. My eldest son works in a workshop in Bianjing, and this time we went to join him. ”

"Along the way, I saw a lot of people going in the direction of Bianjing, all of them to join relatives and friends? What happened to Jingzhao Mansion? Zhao Lei looked at the eastbound poor people who kept appearing on the official road, and asked the old man suspiciously.

"It's hard to put into words! In the spring, the Yongxing military road was in drought, and the Jingzhao Mansion did not have much impact on the Weishui, but the imperial court collected the official warehouse of the Jingzhao Mansion to save grain to relieve the people of Yan'an Mansion, and in May, the Yongxing Military Road became the source of the locust plague, and the locusts that flew south overwhelmingly ate the crops near the Jingzhao Mansion, and there was no harvest after half a year. Originally, the imperial court sent a lot of relief grain, plus the money and grain stored in our family, it should not be a problem to support the autumn harvest next year, no one could have thought that the Tubo people hit Qinzhou again, and robbed the west of Qinzhou, as a result, Qinzhou was short of grain, Yan'an Mansion was also short of grain, and the grain merchants of Jingzhao Mansion raised the price of grain, and now the grain price on the ground of Jingzhao Mansion has grown to a bucket of 750 Wen, and as soon as the price of grain rises, the money and grain in our family will not be able to support the autumn harvest. It just so happened that the child was working in Bianjing, and the price of grain in Bianjing did not rise. So we sold the grain and went to Bianjing with the money. When the old man heard Zhao Lei's inquiry, he didn't hide it, and told Zhao Lei about Jingzhao Mansion in 1510.

"One bucket of seven hundred and fifty wen!" Su Xun exclaimed in shock.

Not to mention Su Xun, Pang Bai and Xiao Ruoruo's faces changed dramatically, and Zhao Lei's face turned blue with anger.

One tael of silver in the Great Song Dynasty is equal to consistent money, and the consistent money is seven hundred and seventy Wen, which means that the grain in Jingzhao Mansion has risen to one tael of silver and one bucket, and the price of grain in Bianjing. One bucket is only fifty yuan, and one or two pieces of silver is at least fifteen buckets, maybe I will give you two buckets! Carefully calculated, the price of grain in Jingzhao Mansion has increased fifteen times. If it is grain transported from Jiangnan, it is estimated that twenty wen can buy a bucket and sell it for seven hundred and fifty wen. Nearly forty times the huge profit!

After sending away the old man's family of six, Zhao Lei's face when he returned to the post station was ugly, he never thought that the officials of Jingzhao Mansion were incompetent to such a point, and the price of grain had risen fifteen times, which was already a serious matter that endangered the society of the Great Song Dynasty.

"My lord! Let's hurry back to Bianjing and visit the Beijing Zhao Prefect's Mansion. Ou Xifan cautiously came up with an idea beside Zhao Lei and said, he understood Zhao Lei's hatred for those profiteers, when he was in Yan'an Mansion, Zhao Lei was a soldier who forced those profiteers to reduce their prices, and among the few traitors who refused to sell food, blood flowed like a river, all the men in the family were killed by Zhao Lei, all the women were filled into official prostitutes, and the family property was confiscated, which was worse than death, but this is always Jingzhao Mansion, not the Yan'an Mansion that Zhao Lei knows, and Zhao Lei is now stepping down from the position of Yongxing Military Road Jie Du Envoy and Yan'an Prefect, Now only General Pingbei is left from the third rank, even if he wants to take care of the affairs of Jingzhao Mansion, he is not qualified to meddle! Looking at the excited Zhao Lei, Ou Xifan tried to defuse his anger and said.

"It will take ten days to go back to Bianjing, Shen

Someone came to issue an order to investigate, and some of them took more than ten days, and when the results were obtained, one was done, and at that time, God knows what would happen. Zhao Lei said coldly with an ugly face.

"Let the post station send eight hundred miles to expedite the fold, please deal with this matter, it will take less than two days to go to Bianjing here, and it will take two days to come back, at most five days, the adults will have a reason to interfere in this matter, we can prepare for it in these five days, and wait for five days after a thunderous blow, so that those profiteers will pay." Su Xun knew that Ou Xifan's proposal would not be adopted by Zhao Lei, so he said his idea after a while.

"That's a good idea, I'll go write a note immediately, Brother Mingyun, you send someone to Jingzhao Mansion to go around, and investigate the names of those profiteers and the forces behind them, hehe, don't those profiteers like to make money very much! I'm going to let them lose nothing this time. Zhao Lei sneered, turned around and went to the study to write a recital.

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After the official Zhao Zhen learned about the matter of Jingzhao Mansion, the reaction time was a little faster than Zhao Lei expected, and it only took four days to run a round trip between Jingzhao Mansion and Bianjing day and night, bringing the secret decree of the official Zhao Zhen.

"So fast!" After learning that the envoy had returned, Su Xun hurried over and asked Zhao Lei, who was looking at the secret decree, in surprise.

"Not bad! It's so fast, the official family has made up their minds to rectify those profiteers this time, my twists and turns have not been approved by the three provinces and six ministries, and directly let the official family refrigerate, the official family let me have full authority to deal with the affairs of Jingzhao Mansion, no matter which official is involved, I will never tolerate it, and no one in the court knows what I am doing here, and no one even knows about the things ordered by the official family, it seems that some of them have played this time. Zhao Lei said to Su Xun and the others with a look of surprise.

"What are you going to do?" The gloomy Pang Bai looked at Zhao Lei excitedly and asked.

"How? There will be a good show to watch, Xi Fan, you take the secret decree of the official family to find the Jingzhao Mansion Soldier and Horse Defense Envoy, and let him rest for a day today, and don't go out of the barracks no matter what. Pombai, you ask the soldiers to prepare their armor and horses, and the grenades are also ready, and the bigger the battle, the better, Brother Mingyun, you will give me the list of those profiteers in Jingzhao Mansion, and give them a lesson today that they can never forget. Zhao Lei said to Su Xun and the others with a sinister smile.

After a period of chaos at the Jingzhao Mansion Chengdong Station, Zhao Lei's more than 300 personal soldiers had already lined up in formation, wearing iron armor, holding spears, bows and arrows behind their backs, pinning a few grenades to their waists, riding on war horses, and under the leadership of Zhao Lei and Xiao Ruoruo and others, they rode their horses and whips towards Jingzhao Mansion.

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Jingzhaofu South Street is a famous grain street, Jingzhaofu eighty percent of the grain merchant stores are located here, in the deep alleys on both sides of the street, the tall granary is faintly seen, enough to hoard millions of stone grain in the South Street granary, is the most famous building in Jingzhaofu South Street.

Chen's grain shop is the largest grain shop in Jingzhao Mansion, as the largest landlord in Jingzhao Mansion, the Chen family not only has a lot of grain in stock, but also has a very shallow relationship with the grain merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, and can mobilize millions of stone grain in the south of the Yangtze River at any time, and is the leader in the grain merchants of Jingzhao Mansion.

Although the price of grain in Jingzhao Mansion soared, but the grain merchants did not make much money, after all, the famine only began for a few months, the people's families did not finish the grain storage, and the relief of the imperial court is still ongoing, but wait another month, and wait for the people of Jingzhao Mansion to eat the grain in their homes, in order to fill their stomachs, they must buy the high-priced grain of the grain store, and then the opportunity for the grain merchants to make money will come.

Thinking of the exchange of cheap food for a pile of gold, Chen Chong, the big shopkeeper of the Chen family's grain store, became excited in his heart, and looked up at the pedestrians coming and going outside the store.

Who? Just when Chen Chong was excited, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed towards Chen's grain store with a fierce look, and the pedestrians on the road heard the sound of horses' hooves and hid faster than rats.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is the business trip to the shop?" Chen Chong was just the shopkeeper of the grain store, and he couldn't afford to provoke these elite cavalrymen riding war horses, so he bowed and asked respectfully to a few soldiers who got off the war horses.

"This is our lordship, Pingbei General Zhao Lei Zhao." At this time, Pang Bai showed the talent of a despicable and wicked person, with a proud face, and said to Chen Chong, the shopkeeper of the grain store, with a domineering expression.

"General Pingbei, Mr. Zhao Lei and Lord Zhao, I have admired the name for a long time!" Chen Chong heard Zhao Lei's name, his legs immediately began to tremble, as a grain merchant, how could he not know the misery of those grain merchants in Yan'an Mansion, yesterday he was still making fun of those grain merchants in Yan'an Mansion for being unlucky, and he actually met Zhao Lei, an iron-blooded star, but he didn't expect to meet it today, Chen Chong, who was frightened in his heart, said to Zhao Lei with a little trembling words.

Zhao Lei looked at Chen Chong with a frightened face, and his heart was full of happiness, what a wonderful feeling it was to be a wicked person to be feared!

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