On July 15 of the twentieth year of Hongwei, in the atmosphere of increasing panic, Changxing City finally came with a great news, that is, the twelve official warehouses of Changxing City, such as Taicang, Ancang, and Youcang, finally announced the opening of warehouses to release grain to ease prices.

These twelve official warehouses are the lifeblood of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the grain stored in any one official warehouse is dozens of times more than the sum of all the grain sold these days.

According to the current prices, if you want to cover all the grain in a granary, you have to pay at least a staggering two billion taels of silver, and both the King of Liao and Tudor think that no one can come up with so much money.

And even if so much money can be made, the government clearly stipulates that these grains will be sold to the people at a reasonable price, and merchants are not allowed to hoard them.

In the eyes of the Liaowang Group, under such a double insurance, Xu Rui must have no choice but to surrender obediently.

Yet they underestimate the power of money.

The grain was only opened to the public, and Xu Rui immediately ordered people to collect grain from the people at a higher price.

Although there is money outside, it is impossible to buy grain, but Xu Rui's bid is too terrible, ten times higher than the extremely high price of grain outside, a small bag of rice can be sold for thousands of taels of high price, in the past, an ordinary family could not earn so much money in a lifetime.

What's more, in recent years, the economy of the Great Wei Dynasty has been improving, and the credibility of the government is very high, and the King of Liao, in order to invite the hearts of the people to ease the price of grain as soon as possible, has already announced that he will continue to open warehouses and release grain, and every person can buy any amount of grain.

In this way, the people can easily get food, and as long as they change hands, they can become rich people who never dared to think of before, and everyone has an account in their hearts, and how many people will miss this kind of good thing of falling money from the sky?

In this way, on the first day of opening the warehouse and releasing grain, Xu Rui not only bought grain, but also spent six billion taels to cover all the grain.

On the 16th, with a large number of over-issued silver tickets entering the market, the over-issuance rate of silver tickets has exceeded 10,000%.

A silver ticket of 100,000 taels could not even buy a box of matches, and a smaller silver ticket was even more than a thousand times cheaper than a blank paper that was not printed as a silver ticket.

The lowest priced goods in Changxing City have also risen by more than a thousand times, and astronomical silver bills of an astronomical denomination of 1 million taels or 10 million taels have begun to be issued, and the entire monetary system is facing collapse.

There was a "crackling" sound in the palace of the King of Liao, and the King of Liao, who was furious, smashed almost everything he could get, and the study was in a mess.

Ye Shi and Tong Fang's faces were pale, standing in the corner trembling, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Du Ruo sat on the side, his face was like ashes, his gray goatee trembled, and he seemed to be so angry that he didn't have the strength to speak.

"It turned out that he printed the silver ticket himself, Xu Rui dared to corrupt my Great Wei Guoben so much!"

The King of Liao smashed down an inkstone that had been broken into three pieces, and still roared angrily.

"I want to join him, and he will bring disaster to the country and the people!"

The King of Liao seemed to have grasped the life-saving straw, pulled over a blank notebook, picked up the smashed pen from the ground, and prepared to write a notebook to impeach Xu Rui.

"It's useless!"

At this moment, Du Ruo suddenly said faintly: "The old man has been impeaching Xu Rui for the past few days, especially after finally understanding why Xu Rui has so much money today, he immediately mobilized all the officials to impeach Xu Rui together, but all the twists and turns were left by the saint. ”

"Isn't my father clearly biased towards Xu Rui, is he really old and mediocre to such a point that he wants to watch Xu Rui drag down Dawei Shengsheng?!"

The King of Liao was suddenly furious, slapping the table and roaring angrily.

"Lord Prudence!"

When Du Ruoyan heard this, he immediately got up and grabbed King Liao's wrist and warned him not to let the trouble come out of his mouth.

King Liao was also impulsive, and he was pulled by Du Ruoyi and immediately calmed down.

"Du Qing, the matter has come to this, we must not wait for failure, you must find a way!"

The King of Liao took Du Ruo's hand and begged.

Du Ruo opened his mouth and was about to speak, when a subordinate suddenly rushed in from outside the study, handed over an official document to Du Ruo, and then quickly left.

If he was slightly startled, he opened the official document and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed greatly.

Seeing this, King Liao's heart was cold, and he hurriedly asked, "Du Qing, what happened?" ”

Du Ruo handed the letter to the King of Liao, and said tremblingly: "The copy of the official document handed over to me by the master from the cabinet trustee, just now, the Holy Majesty ordered the establishment of the National Audit Office to thoroughly check the accounts of the Ministry of Households. ”

"National Audit Office?"

The King of Liao doesn't know anything about the economy, so how can he understand this obscure term?

Du Ruo said bitterly: "It's a group of account rooms, come to check the accounts of the household department!" ”

King Liao frowned and said, "What can a group of account offices do?" ”

Du Ruo stomped his feet and said, "Lord Wang, you are confused, have you forgotten whose people these accounts are?" ”

King Liao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his face changed: "University, eight out of ten out of ten in the current account room are graduated from Xu Rui's university!" ”

Du Ruo nodded and said: "Exactly, Xu Rui called these people accountants, and what other auditors, they are all Xu Rui's people, Xu Rui is here to check the more than 100 million taels of silver lent to Ye Shi by the household department!" ”

"Ahh

King Liao's face turned pale, and he put his butt on the chair, and his head was in a trance.

"Lord, you don't have to worry too much, the old minister has been in the household business all his life, and it may not be so easy to find out the handle, not to mention that Xu Rui himself has depreciated the silver ticket so much, in the past, 100 million taels of silver ticket was indeed a lot of money, but now, there may be a surplus of mahogany furniture from the old man's house, and it is very easy to plug the hole."

Seeing that King Liao was afraid, Du Ruo sneered and comforted.

When the King of Liao heard this, he immediately recovered, gritted his teeth and said: "We were all played by Xu Rui, fortunately, I listened to Du Qing at the beginning, and I didn't continue to take money from the household, and now it seems that Xu Rui planned to lead us by the nose from the beginning, and the real killing move is here!" ”

Du Ruo nodded: "It's not a way to go on like this, we must not be so passive all the time, fortunately, Xu Rui made a stupid move this time, which made the people's resentment boil, and the old minister just mobilized Shilin's friends to expose him for ignoring the national economy and people's livelihood, and wantonly printing silver tickets to make money!" ”

King Liao nodded and said: "That's right, Xu Rui is so reckless, but he doesn't know that the scholar has the right to speak, once this ugly thing is exposed, his heroic image will immediately collapse completely, and then his father will have to pressure him to calm down the matter!" ”

As he was talking, there was a sudden noise outside, as if countless people were gathering together to make noise.

"What's going on?"

King Liao frowned and asked loudly.

At this time, the old butler hurriedly rushed in, and said with a frightened face: "Lord Wang, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good, there are a large number of mobs outside to storm the palace, saying that they want to clear the king's side and get rid of the traitorous ministers!" ”

"Presumptuous! Dare to run to the palace to clear the king's side, this is the opposite! ”

When the King of Liao heard this, the anger he had just suppressed suddenly came out again, and the old butler was frightened and retreated.

"Slow, what Qingjun's side, what happened?"

Du Ruo stopped the old butler and asked with a frown.

The old housekeeper wanted to cry without tears, so he took out a piece of "Changxing Daily" and handed it to Du Ruodao tremblingly: "The old slave doesn't dare to say it, so please ask Lord Shangshu to read it yourself." ”

Seeing this, the King of Liao rushed forward in one step, and when he first grabbed the "Changxing Daily" and opened it, he was immediately angry, slapped it on the table, gritted his teeth and said: "Shameless!" Xu Rui, you shameless villain! ”

Du Ruo picked up "Changxing Daily" and took a look, only to see a huge headline on the front page with the title "A certain prince disregards the national economy and people's livelihood, crazy hoarding and strange - on the story behind the soaring prices in Changxing"

This is a special edition launched by the "Changxing Daily", which used nearly ten pages to put all the responsibility for the wanton purchase of grain and the price hike on the Liao king.

The real culprit of this matter, Xu Rui, and the Ministry of Commerce led by him are portrayed as "Wei Guangzheng" who works silently and is ready to save the city.

The article said that there is a nose and an eye, and even a lot of specious evidence is used, the King of Liao's own ass is not clean, so that those evidence that is both true and false is particularly credible, even the ministers of the court and the central government may not be able to distinguish, it is obviously carefully prepared by the masters.

And although the article does not name names, just the sentence "The boss behind this matter ranks seventh in the family" can make people identify the culprit at a glance as King Liao.

Du Ruo's face turned pale after reading the article, and he muttered: "Changxing Daily has a wide influence among the people, and the people have been panicking and full of resentment in the past few days.

In this way, the people will have preconceived ideas that the prince is the culprit of this matter, and everyone in the world knows that the civil official group is tied to the prince, no matter how we expose the truth, it will be seen as a quibble to shirk responsibility! ”

As he spoke, Du Ruo sighed, sat down abruptly, and said with emotion: "Is Xu Rui really a god?" Otherwise, why would he be one step ahead of me every time? The old man has been in the office for decades, and it is the first time he has experienced such a feeling of powerlessness. ”

The King of Liao was pulled back to reality by this emotion, and said angrily: "This is slander, what a bold man, he dares to openly slander the prison country!" Someone, send someone to copy the newspaper, and arrest the editor-in-chief for questioning! ”

The old housekeeper said with a sad face when he heard this: "Lord Qiqi, the newspaper has been copied by the Criminal Department, and the editor-in-chief has also been arrested by the Criminal Department, accused of tax evasion and tax evasion......"

"What? Tax evasion?! ”

The King of Liao gritted his teeth when he heard this, and exclaimed in surprise.

Du Ruo said with a wry smile: "The criminal department under King Yu nominally arrested people and copied the newspaper, but in fact, it was the first step to protect people, this is another trick, Lord Wang, we lost, lost to Xu Rui." ”

"Didn't lose! This king hasn't lost yet! ”

King Liao's face was flushed, and he said angrily: "There is still a glimmer of hope, right now the prices of Changxing City are soaring, and the people are not happy, this mess was made by Xu Rui, he can deceive the world, but he can't deceive his father!"

If he can't clean up this mess, even if he wins the business war, his father will not let him go!

It's easy to destroy, but it's hard to recover, and this time I'm going to see how he ends! ”

When Du Ruo heard this, he suddenly felt reasonable, and a burst of hope ignited in his heart, but when he thought that his opponent was the unfathomable champion Hou, for some reason, this hope became shaky.