Allure calculated the price of food in her heart, compared with last year, it has not fallen, and there is even a possibility of rising, and the little bit she is in Tun is estimated not enough for her to make money for a house.

"No matter what, I advise you to have a snack, after all, this is not a trivial matter, just take the silver, the little I have is not enough to buy a house, poor."

Lu Xiaowan smacked, she would still be short of money, Allure could be regarded as the most outstanding girl in the capital here back then, not to mention that silver is a treasure in the world, it can't be easily looked at by her, but now she actually says that she lacks silver.

"Are you short of silver? I heard that you are the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan. ”

"Have you ever seen the daughter of a wealthy merchant given as a gift?"

There was embarrassment in the air, and Lu Xiaowan felt that she shouldn't speak for the first time, so she closed her mouth and made a sealing motion, and then drank her water quietly.

"Don't be so cautious, for me, the past things have been forgotten, but you promised me not to forget, after the matter is completed, I will have ten thousand taels of silver, prepare a place for me outside the customs, and there will be people in the shop, anyway, the old lady will be happy in the past."

Last year's grain seeds were promoted, and she didn't understand how there could be a sharp rise in grain, and this year, the wind and rain in the south and southeast of the country were smooth, and the climate around the capital was also stable.

"Someone has raised the price of grain, didn't you give a batch of seeds last year?" Lu Xiaowan thought that after surviving the spring ploughing, the disaster would be alleviated, but she didn't expect it to continue to the next year and affect the autumn harvest.

She has seen those rice on the road in the capital, and the yield will not be bad, and the Jiangnan side has always been seeded, and last year she also sent some people who can farm to the past, how did it become like this this year.

"The price of grain in Jiangnan is not like this." She muttered for a long time, Allure didn't reply to her words, and was still looking for something in her heart to say, after all, Xue Muyan's matter was what needed to be solved.

Thinking that Lu Xiaowan was going to investigate secretly, "Allure, you go and find out who is secretly stockpiling food,"

She doesn't believe that the price of food will rise, because there is a shortage of food this year, after all, last year's disaster was much more serious, and her own people also secretly hoarded some food, and the price is considered a normal level.

Allure wanted to remind her that Xue Muyan would no longer be the Xue Muyan of the year when he became the emperor, swallowed the words to his mouth, and walked out of the door full of concern.

And Xue Muyan over there reviewed the folds, saying that the emperor's funeral should be held in a big way, after all, this year is a special situation, and there is not enough foundation to make the border unstable, and Xue Muyan himself thinks that it should be simpler, and the silver in the treasury is so little.

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is here." When the eunuch saw Ning Guifei coming, he was very happy in his heart, he was finally able to escape, and it was too tiring to accompany Xue Muyan here.

Ning Guifei walked in and watched him all the time, feeling sorry for him and sending some light supplements, after all, His Majesty's funeral has not ended, "The child is tired these days, right?" ”

"Mother, I'm not very tired, but the prince hasn't been able to find me, I'm worried, and those old things in the court have been arguing with me." He opened his eyes tiredly, barely trying to make himself look a little lighter.

Ning Guifei has been accompanying the emperor, how could she not know that Xue Muyan has been enduring it all along, she stepped forward and ordered someone to bring soup, and asked someone to find a eunuch who can massage to come over for a massage.

"There are things in the palace and the court every day, and the subordinates can't be idle, since Your Majesty is busy, they have to follow suit, and the mourning family sees that you didn't go to the emperor to guard it today, so I came to remind you."

Xue Muyan nodded, he naturally knew that His Majesty couldn't do this, but those people were too insidious, desperately searching with the money from the treasury, and refused to take out a penny.

"Mother."

"It's not the concubine, it's the concubine, the mourning family is no longer Ning Guifei, Your Majesty is gone, the mourning family is the concubine, you shouldn't call yourself me, it's not appropriate, Lord Ning will come over soon, don't worry."

He didn't feel that he needed Ning Hao's help much, on the contrary, this time those people moved things that shouldn't be moved, looking at them, they were going to spend it all the time with themselves, if they didn't guess wrong, they should have been competing with themselves in the next few days.

"Father's funeral will have to wait a few days, and when Si Tianjian is ready, the next things can be arranged." The emperor's tomb has been built, and Si Tianjian and the Ministry of Rites have not arranged the following regulations for a long time, and he is not easy to intervene.

Concubine Ning sneered in her heart, the people in the Ministry of Rites really don't have any rules at all, Your Majesty has stopped his spirit so far, relying on Xue Muyan who was not in the palace before, and he didn't understand the royal funeral, so he secretly did such a move. "It's okay, your father has me on his side, and the mourning family over there in the Ministry of Rites will let people ask."

Shameless thing, she hasn't done it for a long time, she just thinks that His Majesty has just died, and doing it in the palace will not be conducive to His Majesty's blessings, and it is really not good for her to be direct when the officials are staring at Xue Muyan.

Xue Muyan sighed, "Concubine Ning still don't go, the people in the Ministry of Rites still know some rules, and if you do it, you will definitely be persuaded by the ministers, since this is the case, let them make trouble, and it will be stable in a few days, Your Majesty's funeral ceremony I also secretly put some of my own people, and it won't be too big." ”

Carefully persuaded, Concubine Ning's face was not much better, she knew that if she didn't beat it, the people in the palace and the Ministry of Rites would not do anything.

"Your Majesty still drinks some soup, the mourning family heard that Miss Lu's whereabouts have been found, and you can take it into the palace when the funeral is over, and you are not young anymore, it's time to have a child." She is like a qualified mother, but she didn't start according to Xue Muyan's wishes, Lu Xiaowan couldn't become the queen of the Zhou Dynasty.

The same is true of the conversation between mother and son, he is a little cold in his heart, he smiled faintly, and did not answer her words, because it is impossible for his wife to be a concubine in the palace and be suppressed by the queen in the future.

"Mother, Xiaowan is the queen of Da Zhou, I plan to take her into the palace when I ascend the throne, and there will be no shortage of children after the wedding, so you should not have other thoughts in the future."

After speaking, I took some twists and turns and continued to look, and when I saw the grain price column, I compared the price of the grain I purchased last year, and the increase was really a bit large.

"Let Lord Chu enter the palace, and the concubine will go back first."

He didn't want to be there with his mother, and the matter of food prices was also extremely important, "If you have any thoughts about Xiao Wan, take it as soon as possible, I won't let go." ”

After Concubine Ning turned around, she forcibly endured the words that came to her mouth, and after going out, she knew that Lu Xiaowan had to get rid of her before she left, and she could only be at peace in the harem, otherwise according to Xue Muyan's character, she could really be only one person in her life.

Chu Tianming entered the palace in the middle of the night, and when he was walking on the road, Gonggong Yang did not walk in front, sitting there alone, as if he had waited for a long time, and the loneliness on his face could not be concealed.

"Lord Chu, Your Majesty summoned you in the middle of the night to have an urgent matter, and the old slave has something to say before the adult enters the palace."

There seems to be no friendship between them, and the little intersection is also when the emperor was alive, there must be something wrong with coming to see him late at night, Chu Tianming didn't want to talk a little.

"Father-in-law, what is the matter with Your Majesty wanting to see me late at night?"

"This year, the price of grain has risen again, who has raised the price of grain in a year of good weather, if you don't know about the meeting, don't speak, it seems that Your Majesty wants to check, if it is worse than someone who shouldn't be, blood and rain are indispensable."

For the sake of the price of grain, everything makes sense, Your Majesty knows the price of grain last year, and the price reported this year is much worse, so he will naturally know that the household department Shangshu will bear it himself, and he will find himself if something happens.

"Thank you father-in-law for reminding me, I have sent someone to investigate the rise in food prices, no matter who secretly does this evil thing that is not conducive to the society, I will not let it go, if Your Majesty wants to hold me accountable, I will bear the brunt."

Yang Gonggong wanted such a sentence, the gang in the palace, the dog secretly didn't know how many things he had hidden, and the price of food was also inadvertently reported by the waiter of the household department.

"Then my lord, let's go, tomorrow morning there will be all kinds of disputes in the court, don't refute Your Majesty's opinion like today."

The two of them knew that Xue Muyan was not the first emperor, and he was not so wary of the relationship between the courtiers, and the relationship between them was much better.

Entering the main hall, Xue Muyan was still criticizing the folds, and saw Chu Tianming walking in.

"Lord Chu is very busy, is there something about it, didn't you tell me?"

Chu Tianming smiled awkwardly, he knew that the emperor would not spare himself easily, and knelt down to explain the surrounding grain prices and the situation of entering the market one by one.

That night's fire was secondary, and the grain they burned in secret, as well as the looted fields, were the fundamental reasons for this year's grain prices, and Haoqiang followed to raise the price.

"Haoqiang raised the price, I forgot about them, Xiaowan gave some news, secretly found some ways to swallow part of the grain, and the money came out of the treasury."

The bandits in the bandit mountain are finally going to come in handy, they can't buy it openly, and it's understandable to steal some secretly, Chu Tianming thought that he wanted to take some silver out of the treasury.

"Your Majesty, I heard that there is not much silver left in the treasury, and if it is allocated, the treasury will probably be."

"Who said it would cost a lot of money, and I mean that the grain can't be shipped? It's all out, why do you have to give money? ”

Chu Tianming finally understood, the prince's grain was robbed, and His Majesty should follow suit, and the powerful took the opportunity to raise the price, and in the end, their grain was snatched by His Majesty again, such a trick is also appropriate.

"Can't the officers and soldiers rob it directly?"

"Don't worry, let the news out, let them grab it, and then say that someone in Jiangnan is secretly collecting grain, and you will do it again."