"It's gone, it's all sold, let's go to the next one!"

The shopkeeper of the grain store shouted loudly, but the people in front of him could not move, and more people gathered. There were fewer and fewer places to sell grain in the city, and the grain shops closed one after another.

Every time one is closed, the panic increases by one point, and the people are frantically searching in the city, and the soles of their shoes are missing, but the food is getting scarcer and less, and even if there is food, the price is the same for a while, and it flies into the sky!

"Grandpa Qiyuguo, this morning, two more grain stores in the city were closed, and the price of grain has risen from about three taels to five taels. Approaching noon, the highest asking price reached six taels, and I am afraid that it will rise in the afternoon! ”

Fang Chongwen said, beads of sweat on his forehead kept rolling down.

The madness in the market completely frightened this little Xiucai who was not deeply involved in the world, in fact, the people were fine at first, but they bought more food than usual, but when they heard that the price of food had risen, more and more people ran out, even if there was no shortage of food at home, they were also thinking about buying more spare.

This is human nature, but these people are the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

The more people rush to buy, the faster the shops close, and when everyone flocks to the remaining shops, all the people are mobilized. They ran home, like flies without a head, and flocked to the shops.

Like the chain reaction of an atomic bomb, it expanded rapidly from the initial nucleus to the city, like a plague. The crazy flow of people, rushing everywhere, looking at the momentum, it is even crazier than on the battlefield. One by one, they grabbed food with red eyes, and they were simply unstoppable.

"How long can the grain shops in the city last?" Zhang Ke's voice was still calm and calm, but his little finger was trembling, obviously the economic war was more nervous and panicked than the battlefield of real swords and guns.

"Return, if you return to your grandfather, I'm afraid I won't be able to last the night!"

"Alas!" Zhang Ke let out a long sigh, it could have lasted three or five days, but the blind rush of the people made the food urgent in advance, and as soon as the battle began, it fell to the downside, and Zhang Ke had a sense of powerlessness for the first time.

At this moment, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, and he looked up suddenly, and it was Bao Shiqing who came.

"Grandpa Guo, it's a humble courtesy!"

"Hurry up." Zhang Ke hurriedly said: "How is the matter of purchasing grain?" ”

"This ......" Bao Shiqing said with a bitter face: "I am incompetent, I have found more than a dozen large households, only one is willing to sell five hundred stone of grain, and the rest are not willing to sell even if they are lowly and have an extra twenty percent of the price." ”

"It's all expected!" Zhang Ke looked up to the sky and sighed: "If a big family dares to fight the idea of grain, they must have bought all the grain in advance, how could they leave it for us!" ”

Bao Shiqing was annoyed for a while, he wanted to show himself well in front of Zhang Ke and get the favor of Grandpa Guo, but it was not good for him to be a teacher. In the final analysis, in the eyes of the big families in Jiangnan, he is a dirt bun, and he is not as prestigious as the old big families.

"Grandpa Guo, I got 5,000 stone of grain from the warehouse at home, I'm going to set off, it's not good around Suzhou, I go to Zhenjiang, Yingtian, Anqing, Huizhou, I don't believe it, I hold silver in my hand, and I can't exchange it for food!"

Bao Shiqing turned around to leave, but Zhang Ke grabbed him.

"Shiqing, it's still that sentence, what we can think of, the other party must have thought of it, fight for favors, relationships, and silver with them, we are not opponents, just send someone to go, don't give too much hope."

Bao Shiqing was really anxious, and said: "Grandpa Guo, do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, even if you have a little hope, you must do your best, otherwise hundreds of thousands of people will have no food, and they will rebel!" ”

Zhang Ke had a calm face, rolled his eyes, and said: "Benjue is not so easy to admit defeat, you listen to my arrangement, collect all the shops, and officially sell grain tomorrow morning!" ”

……

The news has no legs and no wings, but it spreads faster than anything else. In one night, almost all the people in Suzhou heard that there was no food in the grain store!

From the initial suspicion, to the later all of them heard the news, took out all the silver hidden at home, took rice bags, and went to line up before dawn.

When the big guy arrived at the front of the grain store, he was surprised to find that someone had already surrounded the door with a roll of cover.

The first rays of the morning sun shone over the land, and those who had waited all night moved their stiff fingers and watched with their eyes in sight. In front of him is the largest Kyushu grain store in Suzhou, the owner is the largest grain merchant in Suzhou, others have no grain, he should always have it here! Whether it's good or bad, even if it's miscellaneous grains, you can buy a little!

In everyone's expectation, a small crack opened in the door of the grain store, and a wooden sign stretched out from inside, clearly written in two big characters: Sold out!

"Ahh Kyushu is out of food, isn't this going to starve to death! ”

Some people simply sat on the ground and wept bitterly, while others beat their chests, first scolding the grain merchants and then the court. When people are desperate, they are very bold and dare to say anything.

"Does the big guy know why the food is gone?"

"How do we know, if you know, just say it, don't be like an old girl!"

"Hmph, sue you, isn't the imperial court taxed! One stone of grain is more expensive than ever, and other grain merchants would rather sell it to other places than sell it to our Suzhou! ”

The people were so frightened that they panicked, "How can you live without food!" ”

"Want to live? It's easy, go to the yamen, let them stop the tax, and the big guy will have something to eat! ”

……

This statement spread rapidly among the people, and more and more people turned their anger at the imperial court.

"Hahaha, Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke, why are you looking down on Liaodong, but when you get to Jiangnan, it is the dragon that wants to coil, and the tiger who wants to lie down!"

Ye Yongxin shook his fan proudly in the cold weather, just to pull this strength.

Sitting in the private room on the third floor, looking at the grain store opposite, looking at the black crowd, he couldn't help but be ecstatic.

"What a bullshit celebrity, he will be defeated in our hands in one day, and what face will he claim to win a hundred battles in the future!" Ye Yongxin was watching, and suddenly found that the chaotic people suddenly turned their heads and ran towards the east, and the huge crowd disappeared in a blink of an eye, as if they had not saved it.

"W-what's going on?"

His subordinates hurriedly ran up and said to Ye Yongxin: "Young master, the government has posted a notice, saying that the government has opened a long liquidation position to supply food, and those mud legs have run away. ”

Long Close!

Ye Yongxin frowned at first, and then sneered slightly. Although Jiangnan is rich, but the war in Liaodong has multiplied, and the stocks in Suzhou and Hangzhou have long been empty.

"Let's go, follow me and see!"

Ye Yongxin took his servants all the way to Hongrui Silk Village in the east of the city, which has just been in business for two years and is already the largest silk village in Suzhou. Not only business satin, but also Songjiang fine cloth, woolen and other categories, rich varieties, fair prices, highly respected by the people.

Nowadays, there is no silk in the wide storefront, and there are all two-meter-filled cabinets in front of everyone. The soldiers shouted vigorously as the people lined up.

"Damn, it's Bao Shiqing again!" Of course, Ye Yongxin knew that Hongrui Silk Village was the property of the Bao family, so he gritted his teeth and sighed: "It seems that the Bao family wants to run to the dark with Zhang Ke, let's see!" ”

As soon as he turned around and saw the house slave, Ye Yongxin glared at him and scolded: "What are you doing standing stupidly, don't go to the queue, ask the master well, how to sell food!" ”

"Oh!"

The house slave agreed, followed the people and lined up, and it took a quarter of an hour for him to barely get to him.

"Hehe, sir, buy grain for the little one."

"Well, how much do you want to buy?"

"Naturally, the more the better, come first with ten stones!"

The official on the opposite side sneered, pointed to the wooden sign hanging on it, and said with a smile: "See clearly, each person is limited to ten days of food for a family, and the maximum amount cannot exceed one stone, if you want to buy ten stones, you can also ...... it."

"Official, what should I do then?"

"Hehe, do you see, there are one hundred and forty pounds of flail on the side of the wall, specifically to deal with hoarders, how about it, do you want to try it?"

"No, I don't want to!"

The house slaves were so frightened that they turned around and ran, forgetting to buy food. The people behind were disdainful, and hurriedly took out two taels of silver, exchanged them for a stone of grain, and went home happily.

Panic is often unreasonable, and in the future generations, there will be aunts who will make empty salt! The best way is to provide a large amount of food, stabilize prices, and solve everything easily.

But at present, Zhang Ke only has 20,000 stone of grain in his hand, and some more have been shipped over one after another, but there is no 30,000 stone in total, and he can't cope with the surging wave of purchases.

The only way is to delay and wait for change, and engage in purchase restriction orders. A family can only buy food for 10 days, and they have to register and have to buy it again after 10 days.

But even so, in one day, all the grain sales outlets in the city sold a total of more than 6,000 stones.

Waiting until late at night to gather the number jù in front of him, Mao Yilu almost fainted.

"Grandpa Guo, this is over, our food will last for five days at most. Looking at the current meaning, as long as the grain sales point is closed, the people will immediately rebel! At that time, I really don't know what to do in the face of hundreds of thousands of hungry people! ”

Mao Yilu beat his chest with a pause.

Zhang Ke looked at the sky and said with a wry smile: "I don't know what to do!" ”

Mao Yilu suddenly couldn't stop crying, and hurriedly grabbed Zhang Ke's arm: "Grandpa Guo, if you can't help it, there is only one way to die!" ”

"So we can't let that day happen!" Zhang Ke suddenly smiled and said: "Benjue still has 50,000 stone of military ration in his hand, so I will transfer 15,000 stone first." In addition, half of the grain sales point will be closed tomorrow, and the rest will have to be carefully checked for procedures, so that it can be dragged as long as possible! ”

……

Just when Zhang Ke and the others were discussing countermeasures, in a secret garden in the city, more than a dozen representatives of large households gathered together again, this time they were smiling, not to mention how proud.

Ye Yongxin smiled proudly: "I went to see it today, Zhang Ke really has some means, and he actually restricts each family from buying a maximum of one stone, otherwise I don't think he can survive today." ”

The noble man sitting in the middle sneered: "It's just a dying struggle, the old man has already mobilized manpower, and he will go to line up to buy food tomorrow." Strive to buy out all the food in Zhang Ke's hands! ”

Ye Yongxin said with a smile: "Gao Gong Mingjian, but we still have to vigorously buy the grain in the surrounding areas, and even Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, we must turn Suzhou into a dead city, so that Zhang Ke can fold here!" ”R1152