"Master, it's just the two of us in the store now, what are you asking Lord Liu to help you buy so much rice? When the time comes, we won't be able to finish eating when we leave the Imperial City! Xiaofeng asked puzzled.

He knows very well that his master can have everything now, all by thinking of danger in times of peace, but is he thinking too much about it now.

He firmly believes that the current emperor is definitely not a faint king.

It won't be long before the merchants who left the Imperial City will return, and everything will go in a good direction.

The Imperial City will return to its former prosperity and prosperity.

Tang Mian was not ready to answer the doubts in his heart.

She got up and left the empty hall to feed the chickens.

One day half a month later, an incident caused a sensation throughout the world.

The emperor was seriously injured when he encountered an assassin on the way to hunt, and Prime Minister Xu acted as the prisoner of the country, blocking the entire imperial city and preventing anyone from entering.

After receiving the news, Liu Qinluo was so shocked that he couldn't do it.

He didn't expect Mian's hunch to be so accurate, and in less than half a day after the news came out, the price of rice and noodles on the market had tripled.

He regretted a little that he didn't listen to Mian and used all the 200,000 taels of silver to buy rice, noodles and dry goods, and at the same time he was glad that the last batch of grain had been delivered to his own granary yesterday.

Within a few days of this incident, the price of rice and noodles increased fivefold.

Many people couldn't buy rice and noodles, so Liu Qinluo took the opportunity to sell a warehouse of grain, and then didn't touch the rest.

Within a few days, a group of people rushed to the rice store to grab grain, causing the last few rice shops in the imperial city to close one after another.

Tang Mian received news from Zhao Yu that he had bought enough grain as early as two months before the autumn began, and had asked Zhongyitang to help transport and take care of it. His side was very safe, and no one dared to rob it, so she was a lot more relieved.

"Master, don't you know, if the emperor doesn't get up again. The people of the Imperial City couldn't survive, and it wasn't so serious when there was a famine before. Xiaofeng's unintentional words revealed a lot of worries.

Tang Mian hurriedly interrupted him, now that the person who assassinated the emperor can't be caught, this kid dares to talk about the emperor's affairs, and he really doesn't want to live.

"I was wrong, master, don't be angry......"

"Boss, what did Xiaofeng do to make you angry again." Qiao Sheng probed into the courtyard, and only found the two of them alive all the way to now, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange, there were more than 30 mouths, why were they the only ones left.

"Qiao Sheng! You're back. "Xiaofeng and Qiao Sheng have a good time on weekdays, and the two have endless words to talk about as soon as they meet. Tang Mian didn't want to interject, but there were some things she had to make clear to Qiao Sheng.

After entering the house, Qiao Sheng sat down and found that Tang Mian had been silent.

"Boss, I didn't help with the matter of the officials, I hope you don't mind."

"Qiao Sheng! Xiaofeng and I will leave after the court clears us, and I have filled the warehouse with grain, bacon, sausages, and vegetables, and you will remember to eat it when the time comes...... And after we left, you looked at the academy and ......"

Along the way, Qiao Sheng felt extremely guilty.

He could have rushed back when the mouth and mouth had an accident, but he didn't dare to come back for fear of going against the holy will.

Now that the owner is also ready to leave, if he could have intervened in this case, everyone probably wouldn't have left.

"Qiao Sheng, the case of the Ministry of Officials has nothing to do with you, don't think about it too much, we left just now that the Imperial City is not a place to do business, you stay alone and pay more attention, you must not give too much rice and noodles to eat."

Tang Mian said this, and suddenly realized what kind of person Qiao Sheng was, "If you really want to share it with others, you must keep the rations you eat, at least the amount that can survive a year." ”

Seeing that the more the owner talked about it, the more outrageous it became, Qiao Sheng didn't take it seriously.

At present, the emperor is sober, but his body is still very weak, or it will not be long before the city gate will be reopened, and then the grain from other places will enter the imperial city, and the price will tend to stabilize, which is not as exaggerated as the owner said.

At this moment, Tang Mian wanted to tell him that the city gate would continue to be blocked for half a year, but because the emperor ordered to contain the merchants' donation of money, merchants from all over the country did not dare to buy grain during the autumn harvest some time ago.

The farmers can only store it at home, during this time there is a lot of rain in the north, the drought in the south is over, natural disasters meet people and goods, the old rice in various places is not enough for the local people to eat, where can it be transported to the people of the imperial city.

It won't be long before the state treasury will lose most of the money for the purchase of grain.

The emperor wants to force businessmen to donate silver, and at that time, there will be businessmen in various places who drag their families to hang themselves, which is known as the "Shunde Business Change" in history.

Only then did the emperor clearly realize that he could not force the merchants, and then the prime minister would put forward a proposal to sell officials, and then more than ten years of rebellion broke out, and the problem would be even more serious......

All of the above were all experienced by Tang Mian at the beginning.

Once again, she was more apprehensive than the identity of the person who had already experienced it.

In her previous life, the Shen family's assets were so little, and thanks to the fact that she planned to change a batch of rice noodles at that time, she bought some and saved them, so that she could survive the most difficult half a year.

Now she has arranged all this for Qiao Sheng, just hoping that this kid will not go hungry after they leave.

"Boss, you ...... Rest assured! I won't be hungry for my own, but I've been locking down the gates lately, so how do you get out? He asked.

Tang Mian shook her head, she remembered that during the blockade of the city gate in her previous life, there were still businessmen who secretly escaped from the imperial city by sending money, and among them was a boss surnamed You.

The surname "Yu" is not common at all.

After she entered the Chamber of Commerce, she had used some means to list all the merchants with the surname You, and there were currently two families with the surname You who left the imperial city to go to other places.

The rest of the family lived at the end of the east street, and the family sold alcohol.

He asked the people of Zhongyitang to help keep an eye on him, and if he noticed anything wrong with him, he would come and inform her.

On this day, Tang Mian was lying on a rocking chair basking in the sun, and when he was about to fall asleep, Xiaofeng entered the house with a letter from Zhongyi Hall.

When he opened the letter, Tang Mian immediately asked Xiaofeng to change his clothes, put the burden on his back, and wait until the third watch, they will follow out, and when the time comes, the people of Zhongyi Hall will help them lead the guards away, and they can run with a cup of tea before and after.

"Master, do you want to inform Qiao Sheng?" Xiaofeng was still a little reluctant to leave, after all, Qiao Sheng was the first friend he met in Koukouxiang, and there was only a three-year-old gap between them, and he had long regarded Qiao Sheng as a friend.

"No, I told Qiao Sheng, don't talk back after leaving, and wait for the city gate to open again, and then come to us. I'll write to you when it's early in the morning. Tang Mian knew very well that continuing to stay in the Imperial City would only bring endless trouble, and there was nothing worth remembering here anyway.

She didn't want to come back again.

"But master, once we are found out like this, will we be labeled as murderers?"

Tang Mian shook his head, they were not the only ones in the imperial city who fled.

Now that the emperor is still injured and taking care of himself, how can he take care of their affairs.