Chapter 19 Food shortage
"Doctor Xiang, the situation of the Song Kingdom, I may have said it too thoroughly, but, on the surface, you should know very well, whether the Song Kingdom is in the process of being harvested one after another!" Kong Qiu looked at Xiang Xu and asked.
For a while, all eyes looked at Xiang Xu.
Xiang Xu frowned and looked at Kong Qiu, and was silent for a while: "Kong Qiu, if there is something, why can't you discuss it with me alone?" ”
"Kong Qiu knows that Doctor Xiang is a person, he has done his best for the Song Kingdom, and he is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, but this matter involves the monarch of the Song Kingdom, I told you, are you willing to believe it, even at this moment, are you willing to believe it?" Kong Qiu said solemnly.
Believe? Believe that King Song is a big devil? How could Xiang Xu believe that, after all, this matter involved the number of qi, if the king of Song fell and was replaced by others, his number of qi would not change? No one will know about the entire Shangqiu?
"Kong Qiu, whether I believe it or not, but, you shouldn't arrest these descendants with surnames, why are they innocent?" Xiang Xu looked at the nobles behind Kong Qiu.
"Kongqiu, you have the ability to let us go!" The nobles shouted anxiously.
"Are you threatening us with these descendants? Want to use them, let's throw a rat bogey? Kongqiu, you are wrong, they can't threaten us, my son is also among them, my son is dead, I can have another one, but, the national body is destroyed by you, that is a catastrophe! Xiang Xu looked coldly at Kong Qiu.
Obviously, Kong Qiu can't threaten himself with these noble sons.
"Kongqiu, didn't we just block your door? You, you want to threaten your father with us, too? You dream! What kind of sage are you with such energy! Childe Zuo suddenly shouted angrily.
Kong Qiu ignored the nobles, but looked at Xiang Xudao; "Doctor Xiang, you are wrong!"
"Wrong?" Xiang Xu frowned.
"I detained this group of sons surnamed Guigongzi, yes, it was to let you wait for the rat to be jealous, but it was also to give them a great creation!" Kong Qiu said in a deep voice.
"Great creation? Oh, I would like to hear about it! Xiang Xuan said in a deep voice.
"Song Kingdom, the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, just around the corner, no one believes it, even if the ancestors appear, you don't believe it? If you don't believe it, then you can only force your noblemen to believe it! After the disaster of the Song Kingdom, you will be grateful to this group of noble sons! Kongqiu said calmly.
"You, ha, hahahaha, Kong Qiu, you have taken a group of noble sons hostage, and you want to use them to force the major families of the Song Kingdom to listen to you? He even said such a reason! Xiang Xu glared at Kongqiu.
"Doctor Xiang, do you dare to announce the disaster situation of the Song Kingdom to the public, so that everyone can see, I, Kongqiu, am alarmist!" Kong Qiu said coldly.
"You!" Xiang Xu glared.
"The king has an order, my lords, enter the palace to meet you! Discuss the demon slayer! Suddenly, the immortal who had gone to report the news before returned again.
"Into the palace?" The officials' expressions moved.
Kong Qiu's reckless behavior in the ancestral temple has already caused a headache for many officials and major patriarchs, and now the scene, because in the land of the ancestral temple, one by one does not know what to do.
At this moment, King Song summoned him, and naturally wanted to enter the palace to meet him.
"Everyone, listen up, King Song in the palace, occupy the magpie's nest for the big demon dove, you are willing to believe in my Kongqiu, willing to believe in the ancestral temple, believe in the ancestors, stay, discuss the rescue of the Song Kingdom, and discuss the destruction of the great demon!" Kongqiu said.
For a while, outside the ancestral temple, the faces of countless officials were ugly.
"Hmph, Kongqiu, you're crazy, let me believe in you, dream!"
"Go, go, go, go back to the palace and resume your life!"
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Suddenly, some officials angrily rebuked Kongqiu.
"Kongqiu, you are so self-mistaken, I can't save you!" Xiang Xu sighed.
The king of Song summoned his ministers, and he must have dealt with Kong Qiu. This time, to persuade the ministers, I am afraid that in the ancestral temple, they will also go all out.
"Doctor Xiang, I don't know what this big demon is, but, it must be to let the Song Kingdom destroy the country and exterminate the species, if the famine has started today, you are in charge of the people's livelihood, if you can, please be sure to thoroughly check the grain geometry of the major families, if there is really no harvest, then what should be done!" Kong Qiu said in a deep voice.
Shrink your pupils.
"Summoned to the doctor, the king, let's quickly enter the palace to restore our lives! Ignore the madman Kongqiu. An official urged.
Xiang Xu suddenly covered his chest: "Ladies and gentlemen, my chest hurts, I am hurt by Kong Qiu's anger, the palace is not going to go, I bother you to confess to the king for me, I want to go back to the house to recuperate immediately!" ”
Xiang Xu suddenly lost his strength and fell down.
This downturn is like a signal, and many officials are suddenly unable to enter the palace for various reasons.
"This ......!" The officials were shocked.
"Kong Qiu, Le Xi has offended a lot before, Le Xi is willing to believe in Kong Qiu Daxian!" Le Xi suddenly stepped forward and saluted Kongqiu.
"What? Lexi, you dare to betray the king! ”
"Lexi, you are a family member, and you are also my surname, you follow Kong Qiu to mess around, you will be exterminated!"
"Lexi, you are looking for death!"
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A number of people came.
Le Xi shook his head: "What Confucius said, the grains in the Song Kingdom are not harvested, it is not a lie, the land of my Le family is like this, not only that, now the ancestors have manifested, I am the descendants of the ancestors, how can I not believe it?" ”
"You!" A group of officials glared.
For a time, in the land of the ancestral temple, the officials were suddenly divided into three factions, one faction believed in the King of Song and was ready to deal with Kong Qiu. One faction is like Xiang Xu, pretending to be sick and going home, and no one will help. In the last faction, only the Lexi family is willing to believe in Kongqiu.
"Thank you!" Kong Qiu bowed solemnly to Lexi.
"The person who should be thanked is me, Kong Qiu Daxian, I don't know, what can I do for the Song Kingdom now? Did the ancestors express it? Lexi said solemnly.
"Yes, mobilize your family, all grain seeds!" Kong Qiu said solemnly.
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The ancestral temple shook, causing Shangqiu to fall into this turmoil in an instant.
Countless officials went to the palace and met the great demon in the hands of Kong Qiu, the King of Song.
King Song sat on the throne with a gloomy face.
"What a famous Kongqiu, he wants to steal the country!" King Song said coldly.
"King, now that Kong Qiu has detained my and other sons-in-law, and even the prince is in his hands, we don't dare to act rashly!" An official said.
"Don't dare to move?" King Song's eyes widened.
"I, we're ......!" The officials bowed their heads.
Still, some officials are eager to try.
"Confucius thief, mess with my ancestral temple, damage my dynasty, and want to deal with the king, and the minister is willing to share the worries of the king!" A soldier said.
"Good! Then order all the soldiers and horses and take down Kongqiu! King Song was overjoyed.
"Yes!" The soldier said excitedly.
"Ladies and gentlemen, cooperate with him and take down Kong Qiu as soon as possible!" King Song said in a deep voice.
"Yes!" The officials nodded.
After sending off the officials, King Song stood in the main hall and looked in the direction of the ancestral temple with a frown.
"Kongqiu, how did he find out?" King Song said with an ugly face.
"Whew!"
Suddenly, a black gas appeared out of thin air around King Song.
"Victory Nine Heavens Senior!" King Song immediately saluted at the black qi.
"You're exposed?" The voice of Shengjiutian came from the black air.
"I, I, I've hidden it very well, even the living habits of the former Song King, even all the small details, even the attitude of handling government affairs, it's the same, I, I didn't expect it, just because I didn't go to see Kongqiu, the result was ......!" King Song said bitterly.
"Can Kong Qiu see the power of Qi Numbers? Your demonic qi has been mixed with the power of the great array of qi and has been exposed! Sheng Jiutian's voice was gloomy.
"So that's it? After all, Kong Qiu knows my details, and the last time I was in Qufu Que, I was suppressed by him, and I ...... meet him! King Song said worriedly.
"If you don't see it, it's gone, now that the Song Kingdom has become a game, the autumn harvest will pass, if you stabilize it for a while, I won't believe it, King Zhou You, Bao Xi can't come out, hide, it's useful to hide in the Song Kingdom?" Sheng Jiutian said in a cold voice.
"Yes!" King Song said in a low voice.
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Xiang Fu Shang.
Xiang pretended to be sick and went home and called his housekeeper.
"How much food is left at home?" Xiang Xu looked at the butler.
"Huh? Master......! ”
"How much grain do you have left?" Xiang Xu said in a deep voice.
"The food in the family is barely enough for me to eat everyone in the Xiangfu Mansion, including the family army, for half a year!" The butler said.
"So little?" Xiang Xu's eyes glared.
"Yes, the old slave thought to himself, the new grain will come out soon, and there is no need to store the old grain, and now, outside, the grain market is excellent, and the grain is several times the price of previous years, and the old slave is the master, selling the grain in exchange for a large amount of money, and making several times the money in the house!" The butler immediately said proudly.
"Confused!" Xiang Xu glared.
"Huh?"
"In disaster years, food is the most precious money, and the money you exchange is dung in disaster years!" Xiang Xu glared.
"Huh? Me, I'm ............! The butler trembled.
"Half a year? I am dignified to the house, the largest household of grain and grain in the Song Kingdom, and I used to eat grain for three years, but now the grain is only enough to eat for half a year? What about other people's ......? Xiang Xu suddenly stirred.
"Master, the autumn harvest is coming, there is no need to worry about it, master!" The butler was puzzled.
"What if, Song Guo has no harvest this year?" Xiang Xu said in a deep voice.
"Huh? This, this, how is this possible! The butler exclaimed.
"Money? Money? Quickly, worship at home, immediately mobilize all the money in the clan, immediately go to the neighboring countries around the neighborhood, buy food, quickly, buy as much as you want! Xiang Xu commanded.
"Yes!" The butler replied.
The Song country is in a famine, no one knows more than Xiang Xu, the news of the lack of harvest has come from all over the country, Xiang Xu originally just wanted to suppress it, until this moment Kong Qiu said, the entire Song country will have no harvest, although 10,000 voices in his heart say that it is impossible, but, what if?
Xiang Xu didn't dare to imagine what kind of scene it would be like when there was no food in the whole country next.
Xiangfu, but the largest grain household in the Song Kingdom! As a result, you can't survive for half a year? How terrible is this!
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The Land of the Ancestral Temple.
"Boom!"
A big battle came outside the ancestral temple, some soldiers wanted to kill Kong Qiu to make meritorious contributions, and some soldiers guarded Kong Qiu, and those eldest sons were detained by Kong Qiu's family army, and they couldn't do their work.
As a result, Kong Qiu has lived in the ancestral temple for half a month, and no army can rush inside.
During this period, the strange thing is that the King of Song never confronted Kongqiu.
During this period, the price of grain in Shangqiu became higher and higher! An uneasy atmosphere began to spread in Shangqiu.
When the people thought of Kong Qiu's words, they were also more and more uneasy at this moment, every day, the grain stores on the streets were full of people, more and more people, and the price of grain was getting higher and higher.
Under the preparation of Lexi, he respectfully bowed to Kong Qiu: "Qi Kong Qiu Daxian, the food of my Le family is only enough to eat for three months, I have left a month's food, and the remaining two months' food will be sent as food seeds, please Daxian dispose of it!" ”
Lexi raised food, which also caused a commotion among the clan, and at this moment, the Lexi clan was horrified to find that now the grain in the Song Kingdom is so small, and the lack is pitiful.
And this little food in the clan, take most of it to Kongqiu?
If it weren't for Lexi's suppression with the power of the patriarch, it would not have been possible to raise so much.
"Lord Le, thank you this time, if the Song Kingdom survives the difficulties, all the people of the Song Kingdom will remember your great kindness!" Kong Qiu said solemnly.
"As long as Song Guo gets through the difficulties, he will be happy!" Lexi said solemnly.
Kongqiu nodded.
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Xiang Fu Shang.
A group of immortals came to pay their respects.
Xiang Xu's face was extremely ugly: "Say it again!" ”
"Patriarch, we went to the nearby countries, but, for some reason, the countries seem to have a tacit understanding that they are not allowed to give food to my Song country! We just bought a little bit piecemeal! An immortal smiled bitterly.
"Bastard, unified and tacit, not allowed to sell grain to my Song Kingdom? That's impossible! Xiang Xu exclaimed.
Xiang Xu couldn't believe this, you know, even Zhou Tianzi couldn't get the kings of various countries to order that they were not allowed to give grain to the Song Kingdom, what's wrong?
"I don't believe it, quickly, continue to buy grain from countries farther away, from the Central Plains, from outside the Central Plains, how much there is, how much to buy!" Xiang Xu said anxiously.
"Patriarch, outside the Central Plains, there are constant wars, and they are even more concerned about food, I'm afraid it's a little difficult!" An immortal smiled bitterly.
"No matter how difficult it is, buy it for me, I will write a letter immediately, you send it to the kings of all countries, after the alliance of the soldiers, the countries will accept my feelings, now, ask them to sell some food, why can't it!" Xiang Xu was anxious.
And at this moment, it is not only Xiang Xu who is anxious.
It's been more than half a month.
The officials who confronted Confucius in the ancestral temple that day went home one after another, checked the grain, and after checking it, they were all shocked.
One by one, the patriarchs were frightened, and they closed their grain stores one after another, and their families were not enough to eat, and they still had to sell grain to make money? Don't want to die?
For a time, there were fewer and fewer grain stores in Shangqiu, more and more expensive, and the panic was getting bigger and bigger.
Not only Shangqiu, but all the cities of the Song Kingdom are like this, as if they were fine yesterday, but today they suddenly become food shortages everywhere.
In the past, Xiang Xu deliberately suppressed the news, and officials from all over the country naturally suppressed it for the sake of political achievements, but at this moment, it seemed that he couldn't suppress it, and for a while, the grain shortage in the Song Kingdom became chaotic.
The destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, just around the corner?