When the night outside the window became more and more quiet and charming, Mrs. Zhang, who had been there for a long time, finally returned with a smile on her face.

Guo Jia opened his eyes, which had been closed for a long time, and looked at Mrs. Zhang with a smile, but he did not take the initiative to speak.

"The concubine has been gone for a long time, and the two of you have been waiting for a long time." Mrs. Zhang smiled and apologized.

Guo Jia and Chen Zhi are both smart people, so naturally they won't ask Mrs. Zhang what to deal with, they just say irrelevant.

Mrs. Zhang glanced at the two of them with her beautiful eyes, and asked rather strangely, "Don't you two want to know what happened to Concubine Lu Dao?" ”

Guo Jia smiled indifferently when he heard this: "That's Madame's family matter, I'm an outsider, how can I ask more questions?" If Madame doesn't want to say it, who can force Madame to say it? Just like Miss Zhen Mi's marriage, isn't Mrs. having the final say? You have to be willing to do it, do you still want to force others? If that's the case, even if it's a prince, it's no different from a robber, although 'those who steal the hook are punished, and those who steal the country are princes', there have been ancient times, but I, Guo Jia, still disdain it. ”

Mrs. Zhang obviously didn't expect that Guo Jia would suddenly bring the topic to Zhen Mi's lifelong event, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Guo Jia was taking this opportunity to show Xu Ji's basic position towards the Zhen family, that is, he would never mention the marriage in this extraordinary period, let alone coerce the Zhen family with this.

Guo Jia's behavior of taking the lead in breaking the deadlock and taking a step back in Mrs. Zhang's eyes is really very sincere, and Mrs. Zhang, who has always been like a stone, can not help but soften it a little. There was a hint of gratitude in his eyes.

Although Chen Zhi on the side was sitting upright, he was already smiling in his heart.

And saw Mrs. Zhang's grateful look. Guo Jia is also very satisfied, and the current result is the effect he wants. And Guo Jia also accepted it when he saw that it was good, and no longer mentioned it, but changed the conversation and said: "But I listened to Madame's question just now." Guo Jia felt that he could get some clues from his wife's mouth. If that's the case, Madame won't sell it, just tell me how about the two of you? ”

Guo Jia knew in his heart that if this Mrs. Zhang took the initiative to provoke her to leave in a hurry after she came back, it meant that Yuan Shao's actions were very big, so big that even the Zhen family, which was covering the sky in Jizhou, had no way to cover it up. That's why there are these words, and this is also expected by Guo Jia, which is originally a reasonable thing.

Of course, Mrs. Zhang understood the meaning of Guo Jia's words. In fact, she was going to tell Guo Jia and Chen Dao about this, but she originally wanted to sell it to Guo Jia, but she didn't expect Guo Jia to see through her intentions again, and after these three times, a feeling of inferiority to the other party rose from the bottom of this lady's heart. Knowing that it would not be beneficial for Guo Jia to play tricks, he nodded and exclaimed: "Mr. Guo is as wise as the sea, and the concubine has learned it." ”

After saying this, Mrs. Zhang paused and continued: "There is indeed nothing to hide in this matter, just now the concubine and dog Zhen Yan brought news from all over my Jizhou. Since this morning, some people in various counties have begun to buy grain on a large scale, and now the price of grain in Jizhou has risen again and again, and the price is already prohibitive for ordinary people. I can't bear it anymore. ”

Although Mrs. Zhang's words were understated, Guo Jia's face changed when she heard this. And the reason why Guo Jia is like this is also because he lamented that Yuan Shao was so generous, and he would use such a vicious method. Once the price of food in Jizhou soared. The Zhen family's monopoly on Jizhou's grain will no longer exist, and it will make Jizhou panic. It is definitely a very big blow to the prestige of the Zhen family.

It is true that the Zhen family is a big family, but it is undeniable that the prestige of the Zhen family is more manifested in wealth. It is very different from Yuan Shao, a family that monopolizes scripture, even if Yuan Shao is at the end of his life, it is not difficult to make a comeback with his prestige, and there are his supporters everywhere, but the Zhen family is different, once it suffers a catastrophic blow, it is even more difficult to resurrect, and it is almost a situation where there will never be a turnover.

In the face of Yuan Shao's food war, Zhen obviously has only two choices, one is to ignore the soaring prices and let it develop, which will make Zhen converge to an astronomical amount of huge wealth in the short term, but the consequences of this are extremely serious, because it indicates that a large-scale civil uprising will break out in Jizhou, and the natural disasters for many years have made the people live on the edge of life and death.

And once this happens, with the current situation in Jizhou, Han Fu alone will not be able to extinguish the peasant uprising. At that time, Zhen's position will force them to come forward, and the final result will still be a big blow to Zhen.

Guo Jia sneered in his heart, because at this time he had completely figured out Yuan Shao's plan, and in his heart he had clearly outlined the direction of the entire development of the situation: together with the civil uprising, Han Fu was powerless to exterminate it, and he would definitely ask the civil and military officials in Jizhou, and at that time, Xin Ping and Fu Zhu and others took the opportunity to unite the Jizhou officials who were already inclined to Yuan Shao to jointly play a joint performance, and tried to ensure that Yuan Shao sent troops to suppress the civil rebellion, and Han Fu would of course agree to this suggestion in desperation.

In this way, Yuan Shao will naturally be able to enter Jizhou without a single soldier, and at that time, of course, he will clean up the Zhen family as much as he wants. And by that time, Zhen will hardly have any ability to resist.

Of course, the Zhen family also has another choice, they can stabilize the price of grain in Jizhou, so as to calm the people's hearts, but since there will be such a thing as raising the price of grain, it means that Yuan Shao has strong economic strength to support, otherwise how dare he buy grain so aggressively? If the Zhen family continues to maintain the price of grain, then Yuan Shao will continue to swallow a large amount of grain and empty the grain reserves of the Zhen family, so that the monopoly position of the Zhen family in grain will also be completely shaken, and the family's strength will be greatly hit by this, and Yuan Shao, who has grain in his hand, can also control Jizhou, and can raise the price of grain in Jizhou again. Although it will be slower to do so, it is still a matter of time before Yuan Shao becomes the ruler of Jizhou. It can be said that Yuan Shao's move is extremely beautiful now. It is almost certain that Jizhou is already half in his hands.

As for the source of the large sum of money in Yuan Shao's hands, of course, it is obvious. The Yuan family itself is strong, not to mention the secret financial support of those families in Jizhou who have taken refuge in Yuan Shao, and it is not impossible to use a large amount of money to squeeze out the Zhen family in a short period of time. It's no wonder that Yuan Shao is so confident about Jizhou, it turns out that he has such a poisonous plan!

It's just that the people of Jizhou are the only ones who suffer.

But the most ironic thing for Guo Jia is that when Yuan Benchu entered Jizhou, the people of Jizhou would still be grateful to Yuan Shao, because Yuan Shao, who has grain in his hand, can definitely open a warehouse and release grain and invite people to buy people's hearts. It's just that who knows that in fact, these grains were originally from Jizhou?

This bloodless strategy is truly brilliant. Guo Jia even had to praise it. Although standing on the opposite side of Yuan Shao, Guo Jia still admires this scheming person very much, and this strategist will definitely be his Guo Jia's good opponent! .

However, Guo Jia is also very impressed with Mrs. Zhang, this woman can not change her face in the face of such a crisis, and she really has the style of Taishan collapsing in front and not changing her face. It's just that Guo Jia is very curious about what this lady Zhang can do to deal with the current crisis.

As if seeing Guo Jia's doubts, Mrs. Zhang said indifferently: "Mr. Guo must be strange that such a big thing has happened, can I still sit still?" ”

Guo Jia nodded, and was about to speak. But I heard Zhen Mi's sweet and dreamy voice coming from the door of the hall: "Mother." ”

Mrs. Zhang and Guo Jiachen went to the three of them to follow the prestige, but saw that Zhen Mi had already floated like a fairy.

Maybe it was because he was originally at home, but because he didn't have time to dress up and came in a hurry because he heard the news of the soaring food prices in Jizhou, Zhen Mi turned very casually at this time, and a white light veil covered the ice muscle and jade bones. The bottom of the trousers is open, and the hair is draped behind the head, but it is loosely pulled into a lazy bun. Looking in the hazy moonlight, it doesn't look like Luo Shen singing back on the jade water. It's like the sweet appearance of Roselle's sweet dream.

Guo Jia couldn't help but feel amazed again.

When Zhen Mi sat next to Mrs. Zhang, it was even more unbearable. The same beautiful appearance, but with a completely different spiritual temperament, one seems to be a spotless fairy, and the other is a witch who turns all beings upside down, which really makes men all over the world crazy.

Mrs. Zhang first glanced at Guo Jia and Chen Dao, who were a little dazed, and said secretly in her heart: This is normal, otherwise I would wonder if these two people are men after all, thinking of this, the self-esteem of the woman who was tortured by Guo Jia's coldness rose a little, and said to Zhen Mi: "Mi'er, have you ever had dinner, by the way, what are you doing here?" ”

When he looked at Zhen Mi and shook his head to indicate that he hadn't eaten yet, he immediately smiled and said: "Look at my memory, I actually forgot that the two gentlemen haven't had dinner either, and the concubine is confused, which is really against hospitality." ”

In fact, Guo Jia and Chen Zhi have eaten a lot of food in the Hero Building, but they haven't digested it yet, where can they eat, and now they feel in danger because of the crisis in front of Zhen's eyes, how can they be in the mood to eat? was about to politely decline, but Mrs. Zhang smiled coquettishly: "The concubine has not eaten, so the two gentlemen should be the concubines, right?" ”

Can Guo Jia and Chen Zhi still say no? The host's family asked for it, and as a guest, he naturally had to comply.

Zhen Mi looked at the two of them unwillingly, and with a smile in her eyes, she pretended to be disdainful of Guo Jia and the others: "Is it so rare?" How many people want to have a meal with my mother but can't get it, they are really born in the midst of blessings and don't know what to say. ”

After all, Chen Zhi is a martial artist, and his words are not good and he is relatively quiet, and his face is red when he is said, but Guo Jia is full of indifference and says: "Yes, yes, not to mention that there is our first beauty in Jizhou, Miss Zhen Mi, to accompany us, we simply don't know how to lift, and we are even more tired that Miss Zhen is so angry, it is simply a great accusation that is too much to write." ”

Zhen Mi looked at Guo Jia's hateful appearance, glared at Guo Jia fiercely, turned her head to look at Mrs. Zhang, who was smiling and watching the excitement on the side, and said coquettishly: "Mother, this stinky boy is bullying her daughter, and her mother wants to be the master of her daughter." My daughter is angry now and will hold him responsible. ”

Mrs. Zhang lovingly stroked Zhen Mi's hair, which seemed to be bullied on the surface, but her eyes were full of naughtiness, and smiled: "Mi'er, don't mess around." Mr. Guo is kidding you. ”

Guo Jia laughed at it. I don't have a penny relationship with this Zhen Mi now, but this Zhen Mi is clamoring to be responsible for herself. If these words are spread and heard by the men in Jizhou, they are afraid that they will not be able to escape if they are trapped in the camp to protect themselves. I'm afraid Chen Liu won't be able to go back at that time.

Mrs. Zhang obviously knew her daughter's naughty nature, and she no longer paid attention to Zhen Mi and asked someone to come in to prepare wine and food.

After a while, a table of fresh and elegant delicacies from the mountains and seas was placed on the table, and the dishes and presentation methods were unique, completely different from the nouveau riche dishes in the Hero Building.

The four of them then began to eat, Mrs. Zhang and Zhen Mi obviously lived a very regular life, they didn't say a word when they ate, and they ate carefully and slowly, which made Chen Zhi's general very embarrassed when he gobbled up his meal. But he wasn't hungry anyway, so he simply put down the dishes and chopsticks and just drank.

Guo Jia tasted some of every dish.

Zhen Mi is small and has a small amount of food, and she finished eating in just a while, looking at Guo Jia's appearance and teasing: "I didn't expect Mr. Guo Jia to be really a woman, and he is so light when he eats." ”

Guo Jia was in no mood to pay attention to her, and smiled, Zhen Mi, who had the upper hand, was very proud. was about to speak, but he heard Mrs. Zhang, who had already finished eating at this time, say: "Mi'er, there is no outsider here, just say what you have to say." Hehe. It's just that I didn't expect you and the two gentlemen to be so familiar. Unconsciously, that kind of trick to entrap people was once again used.

When Zhen Mi heard this, her face was straight, and the demeanor of the little girl disappeared immediately. restored the appearance of the little adult, and the two of them were judged before.

Guo Jia and Chen were no longer surprised by Zhen Mi's ever-changing changes at this time. It's just that the spirit is lifted, and I know that the Tao is about to get to the point.

Zhen Mi said solemnly to Mrs. Zhang: "Mother." The child thinks that the price of food cannot be raised, and the so-called 'the husband is not guilty, but he is guilty', if he does this, it will definitely be the end of the trouble. ”

Mrs. Zhang sighed lightly: "Do you think that your mother doesn't know this? When did Wei Niang say that she was going to raise the price of food? Besides, even if the grain maintains its original price, the blow to my Zhen family is as huge, have you ever thought about it? ”

Zhen Mi was stunned for a moment, obviously not thinking of this section before, and at this time, when she heard her mother's words, she began to think deeply about the consequences of doing so.

Zhen Mi is a child after all, and she can see a thing or two about the things in front of her, and the things that are a little more long-term are not something she can see through.

Guo Jia looked at Mrs. Zhang and couldn't help but ask, "Is there a third way for Madame to do?" Because Mrs. Zhang in front of her was too calm, which made Guo Jia a little curious and couldn't suppress it.

Mrs. Zhang looked at Guo Jia with a smile and said, "Originally, the concubine was not at all sure, but with Mr. Guo Jia here, why should the concubine be afraid?" Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this, he obviously didn't expect Mrs. Zhang to give this answer.

However, Guo Jia was amused in her heart when she heard this, this Mrs. Zhang is really good at employing people, and she actually wants to be a cheap military advisor who advises the Zhen family, and she can think of it.

But having said that, Guo Jia knows better that he actually has no other choice, because the current crisis has reached the point where he can directly subvert the upper rule of Jizhou, and it is more related to Xu Ji's future external strategy.

But the problem is that the current crisis is indeed too troublesome, if you want to rely on Zhen's strength alone to solve this problem, it is absolutely not enough, in peacetime, Guo Jiada can use the huge manpower and material resources of the shadow to continuously transport food from Xuzhou and other places to Jizhou, and use the absolute amount of food to make Yuan Shao suffer a dark loss, but now don't even think about it, the surrounding states of Jizhou are now in flames, and the grain cannot be transported at all, and the most important thing is that far water cannot quench the thirst of the near.

Guo Jia thought of Koji Yi, who was about to leave soon, and then thought that Koji was going to Qinghe County, and immediately rejected this idea. Don't have food delivered, no matter how cheap this two-headed snake is, it will really outweigh the losses.

What should I do? Guo Jia only felt nerve-wracking for a while.

At this time, Zhen Mi was looking at Guo Jia, with a curious face, from the first meeting, Zhen Mi knew that the young man in front of him had amazing wisdom, but to what extent it would be is not something she could know, in Zhen Mi's heart, the smartest person in the world is the one under Han Fu who is engaged in frustration, although this person is old-fashioned, wooden in appearance, and is not false to the Zhen family that everyone is after, but Zhen Mi knows that Lu Dao has amazing wisdom under the ordinary appearance, which is admirable.

However, Guo Jia in front of him is more like the unfathomable sea than Fu Zhu, and he doesn't know what countermeasures he will have, which brings extremely fresh excitement to Zhen Mi, who is curious by nature, so he can't help but always want to tease Guo Jia to talk, and want to understand what Guo Jia is thinking in his head.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the relationship between men and women, don't say that Zhen Mi is only a ten-year-old girl, just say that she has been with her mother since she was a child, although she doesn't understand her mother's attitude towards men, but she has learned back the principle of keeping a certain distance from all men, although she is naïve on the outside, in fact, she is cold and abnormal in her heart, and she rarely gets emotional about people and things, but more of a rational analysis, once she understands the mystery, she will immediately lose interest.

So for Guo Jia, Zhen Mi is just just curious.

Mrs. Zhang is full of confidence in Guo Jia, otherwise how could Guo Jia be appointed as an envoy by the court?

And Chen Zhi's confidence is much more than that of Mrs. Zhang, in his eyes, there are only a few people in the world who can be compared with Guo Jia, but in this Yecheng, there is no now, so Chen Zhi does not have the slightest worry at all.

Suddenly, Guo Jia suddenly raised his head and looked at Mrs. Zhang with a pair of sharp eyes, which was full of smiles, obviously having a countermeasure.

Seeing that the other three were in high spirits, Mrs. Zhang's eyes were full of inquiry.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Madam, you might as well keep the grain at its original price and sell it." ”

Mrs. Zhang frowned: "But ......"

Guo Jia interrupted what Mrs. Zhang originally wanted to say: "Madam, what do you say if the grain that Yuan Shaoxin bought so hard suddenly disappears?" ”

The three of them were stunned when they heard this, obviously not understanding what Guo Jia was talking about. Yuan Shao's grain disappeared? How is this possible?

Guo Jia stretched out his hand and patted Chen Zhi's broad shoulder, glanced at Chen Zhi with deep meaning in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Zhi, this matter will be left to you!" ”

Chen Zhi obviously didn't, comprehended Guo Jia's meaning, pointed to his nose, and said suspiciously: "Me? ”

Guo Jia saw Chen Zhi with a blank look on his face, and said with a smile: "Yes! We pretend to be robbers and rob the grain! (To be continued......)