With a good strategy, the prince immediately had the confidence to listen to Murong Chong's advice, write to Emperor Mingzong to plead his case, and personally go to Shangyu to deal with the flood and punish corrupt officials.

Shen Di then admonished the crown prince again: "Your Highness, now that the price of grain in Bian'an City has skyrocketed, and most of the grain is in the hands of the Lin family, if you can invite Prince Rong ......."

Shen Di deliberately didn't finish his words, but everyone understood the meaning of the words.

Murong Chong sneered in his heart, and really let Lin Ruo guess it, and sure enough, someone began to play with the Lin family's idea of grain and grass. Everyone's eyes were on the prince, but all eyes were on him.

The prince looked at Murong Chong with a reluctant look, knowing that his stubborn fourth brother was still unhappy about the marriage, and the people had just sent a clever plan to control the water, could it be that he had to ask the Lin family to offer food with a thick face?

How do you open your mouth? Could it be that King Rong should go to the Lin Mansion and say that for the sake of the emperor's marriage, please ask the Lin family to help! It's ridiculous! Not to mention that ordinary people's families, poor and poor, how disgraceful it is to live on his wife's dowry, King Rong has not yet married someone into the door, so let such a prince with great military achievements go down to ask the princess to give rice and grain for emergency, whether his brain was caught by the door or kicked by a donkey!

The prince immediately glared at Shen Di fiercely, this Yue family was not able to raise food and was impeached, not to mention, he dared to give himself such a bad idea in front of King Rong!

"Ridiculous! In the dignified Eastern Lu country, does it have to rely on a merchant to donate food in order to go to disaster relief? Don't be afraid of jokes when you say it! Don't be a squire of your household! Besides, now is the death ceremony of the county lord Shude and the county lord Minrou, and you want your father to make an order to ...... Min Tie Lin Qian back from the Temple of Mercy and Grace to ask for food? ”

When it comes to the matter of the lord of Shude, whoever touches it is unlucky!

Shen Di was scolded with a split head and a face, but he also knew that he had lost his words, and he stopped speaking after admitting his guilt. The other courtiers shook their heads as well.

The crown prince threw up his sleeves and left the East Palace and went straight to the imperial study, followed by Murong Chong, leaving the East Palace and preparing to return to the house. I didn't want to, but I met King Ning halfway.

"Fourth brother, I haven't seen you for a long time! Let's go for a walk and go drinking with my brother! King Ning smiled and crooked, directly dragged Murong Chong's hand, and pulled him out.

Murong Chong rarely drank alcohol, but at the moment he was a little bored in his heart, so he rode straight to the wine shop by King Ning.

King Ning is the most uninhibited, piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, hops, everything. Especially wine, as long as it can get into his eyes, it must be a rare wine, not to be missed. Although it is a small wine shop in the middle of nowhere, there are only a few small tables under the green rattan trellis. Xiaoman has passed, and there is a sense of summer at the beginning, and the green shade makes people feel a lot brighter.

The aroma of wine wafted, and a young woman in a hairpin cloth skirt came with a wine jug in one hand and two stoneware bowls in the other, and put things on the table.

The wine was slowly poured into the sea bowl, and King Ning gathered the edge of the bowl, took a deep breath of the wine, and praised: "Miss Hu, the wine you brew is the most mellow, my mouth has been raised by you, and I want to panic if I don't drink it for a day!" You agree to go to my house to make wine! ”

Miss Hu took a sip of her mercilessly: "If you want to drink it, drink it well, otherwise, I will let Wangcai take you out!" ”

King Ning sighed: "Miss Hu, women can't be so rude, they have to be ......."

Seeing that Miss Hu rolled up her sleeves and looked at this posture, she knew that she was preparing to summon her vicious dog, King Ning hurriedly stopped: "Don't don't, I won't say it, come, fourth brother, drink, drink!" ”

A bowl of wine went down, slurped, praised a few more times, and urged Murong Chong to drink this bowl and not to live up to this Qiong Yao wine.

Murong Chong picked up the thick bowl and took a sip, only to feel that the wine was on his lips and throat, and a mellow fragrance spread from the tip of his tongue, penetrating his brain and entering his five intestines, and it was indeed the best in the wine! Immediately drank all the wine in the sea bowl: "Good wine! ”

When King Ning saw that he knew the goods, he laughed loudly and poured him a bowl full of sea. The two brothers raised their bowls and drank under the green rattan trellis, chatting happily until the proprietress came out to catch up.

With the strength of the wine, King Ning scolded at Miss Hu with a smile: "One day, I will definitely let you come to my house to make wine!" ”

After a few dog barks, King Ning pulled Murong Chong and ran away. After a long time, the brothers looked at each other, looked at each other's embarrassed appearances, and laughed out loud.

On the twenty-ninth day of April, the Oiran bid rose to 520 stone of grain; Compared with this, it is only 10,000 taels of silver, which is more than one and a half stars cheaper than last year's bidding!

By the first day of the fifth month, the bidding had doubled again, soaring to 1,041 stone of grain, which was not an unaffordable price for the wealthy gentry.

Bidders no longer come to bid with grain by stone, but use the food stamps issued by major grain stores as bidding vouchers. One is because of the huge amount of grain and the inconvenience of transportation; Second, the grain in Bian'an City and its vicinity has long been bought out, except for the grain hoarded by the Lin family's grain store, which can only be counted on long-distance transportation; The three Shangyu displaced people gradually poured into Bian'an City, and it is strange that they are transporting grain at this moment and not being robbed.

As a result, bidding has become a battle for money. The price of this stone grain set by the Donglu Imperial Court was 15 taels, and the selling price was 20 to 25 taels, which was measured by the finished grain. Together, the bidding for wind and snow has doubled to about forty taels per stone, and it continues to rise.

But even so, this price is several times lower than last year's bidding.

The merchants who bid all discussed with Yun Niang, and directly converted the bidding into silver. As soon as the news was released, the grain merchants in Bian'an City gave gifts to Yun Niang, begging Yun Niang not to let go.

These days, the small grain shops are basically bought by the big grain shops and closed down; The big grain shops were then bought by the bigger grain lords, because their food stamps were common to the whole country, and their shopkeepers were also figures with heads and faces, which really made these grain lords taste the sweetness - if they want to eat those small shops on weekdays, where is it so easy!

According to Lin Ruo's instructions, the steward of Fenghuaxue took Qiao from the grain lords for a while, and accepted a gift of 100,000 taels of gold, and then agreed to them, and continued to use the food stamps as the evidence of bidding.

The grain lords were overjoyed, and smiled from ear to ear every day at the money that poured into their pockets like flowing water, not knowing that in the near future, the food stamps they had issued would become their amulets.

On the second day of the fifth month, thousands of displaced people poured into Bian'an City. Emperor Mingzong ordered Jingzhao Mansion Yin to lead the officials to assist Shen Di, the head of the household department, to set up eight soup kitchens at the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest to relieve and settle the victims.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the number of displaced people in Bian'an City increased several times, and the city's public security was worrying. The grain and grass raised by the household department to be transported to Shangyu were robbed by the displaced people on the way, and the imperial court opened the Huimin Warehouse for disaster relief, but there were more and more displaced people, and the grain in the Huimin Warehouse was only enough to deal with about three days.

On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, when a group of officials such as Hubu Shangshu and Jingzhao Mansion Yin were anxiously dealing with the homeless people rushing to grab food, a good news fell from the sky: the Lin family set up 64 porridge shops on the outskirts of Bian'an. At the same time, the Lin family also set up 16 free clinics near the porridge shop and Ci'en Temple to provide free medical treatment for the homeless.

Hearing this news, the displaced people who had originally gathered at the four gates of Bian'an City, southeast, northwest, and northwest dispersed.

After Shen Di discussed with the officials, Lord Yin Ying of Jingzhao Mansion led people to continue to give porridge at the gate of the city, and then sent people to the Lin family's soup kitchen for reinforcements, Shen Di and the remaining two adults returned to the palace to meet Emperor Mingzong to report the situation.