Chapter 103 prepares to close the net

Qingzhou, Li Ji Grain Stack.

"I want one stone, no sorghum, no rice, anything."

"I want two liters, oh no, three liters, yes, three liters of rice"

"I want it too, I want it too, I want it to ......"

As soon as Li Lizhong spoke, there was a noise at the door.

Dozens of men carrying coarse cloth bags, holding copper coins or silver horns in their hands, shouted urgently.

"Take your time, take your time, don't rush, we have food"

The second shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his head, and instructed the young man to open the window for selling grain, and brought out the weighing guy to prepare to sell grain.

Outside the crowd, there were many people shouting wantonly, "Come and buy food, Li Ji is about to run out of food, and if you don't buy it, you won't be able to buy it."

“…… Out of food, out of food"

Several people waved the rice bags in their hands and stood in the crowd fanning the flames and shouting.

Many people who were running slowly, who had just come to the street, heard this, and hurriedly quickened their pace, almost rushing up like crazy robbing, "Buy grain, I want to buy grain"

"Don't squeeze, squeeze what"

"Buy food, give me food quickly"

More than a dozen hands holding copper coins squeezed into the small window at the same time, and some people were even more impatient to rush to the store.

The people who successfully bought the food in the front of the queue looked at the posture of the people behind them, and then looked at the food they were carrying, and suddenly felt that they had bought less, so they ran back and continued to line up.

After a while, the long queue came to the end, and at a glance, it was densely packed with people's heads.

Li Ji's young men were sweating and carrying food out, but there were too many people rushing to buy them, and some of them had not even untied the sacks, so they were even bought by others.

"Shopkeeper, it's not a way to go on like this," the second shopkeeper tiptoed to look at the long queue outside, and couldn't help beating the drum in his heart, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said uneasily, "You see, almost the people of the whole city have been stirred up, and the long queue outside can't be seen, but our food is limited, and the warehouse is about to be empty."

"......" Li Lizhong gritted his teeth, looking at the crowd outside quietly, his eyes fell on the half-grown children who were jumping up and down, "Have you seen those children, their behavior is very strange, from the time we opened the door to the present, they have been shouting outside, but they have not come in to buy food, it is obvious that they are making trouble against the sect." ”

"Well, the shopkeeper is right, but, but the current situation is that even if we know that they are here to make trouble, we can't do anything to them," compared to those who deliberately made trouble, the second shopkeeper is more concerned about their business, "The shopkeeper, didn't the owner say that there was grain delivered today?" When will it arrive? We're running out of food in our storeroom. ”

"Grain?" Li Lizhong smiled bitterly, the owner only said that there was grain delivered today, but he did not tell how much grain was transported and when it would arrive, what he himself could not be sure of, how to tell his subordinates.

"The shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper, it's not good," the two people were talking, and the young man behind him ran panting, "The granary is empty"

"What? Isn't there still more than a hundred stones of grain, why is it empty now? ”

When Li Lizhong heard this, he was taken aback.

Looking at the growing crowd outside, he really couldn't imagine what kind of radical actions the people outside would have when the news of his own grain depot was empty.

Er, it's not going to overturn their Li Ji grain store, right?

Thinking of more than ten years ago, it was also a year of famine, when people were crazy for food, and the grain stacks and grain shops in the city were looted and smashed.

Now, history repeats itself, but the last time it was a natural disaster, this time it is **.

"Hey, what's the matter, why don't you weigh the grain?"

"There really won't be no food, right? I've been waiting for more than an hour? ”

"Oh my God, Li Ji has run out of food, is there going to be a famine again this year?"

The young man who carried the grain out hesitated slightly, and the people outside who were stretching out their arms to buy the grain became anxious.

Outside the crowd, the young men who had been very active saw this, and became even more arrogant, almost jumping to their feet and shouting, "Oh my God, Li Ji is no longer selling grain, they are going to hoard Juqi, guard the grain and wait for the price to rise."

"Profiteers and profiteers, Li Ji They obviously have food, but they refuse to sell it, they want to suck our blood"

"Sell grain, sell grain quickly"

“……”

I have to say that these people found by the Zheng family are quite strategic, first using the Li family's food to shout at everyone, and then sending many people to pretend to be civilians to buy grain on a large scale, and after buying out Li Ji's grain, they released the false news that 'Li Ji deliberately stockpiles grain'.

In this way, the people who have been waiting in line for a long time can not have fire in their hearts.

It is estimated that at this time, if someone raises his arms and waves, people who are in panic and anger will really do something drastic.

Sure enough, the crowd who were still honestly queuing up immediately became commotion when they heard the news.

Those young men, seeing this scene, suddenly shouted, "Don't believe the profiteers, let's rush in and rob his mother."

"Rush, grab food"

Several people shouted and screamed, mingling in the crowd and making a reckless noise.

"Everyone's quiet, everyone's quiet"

Li Lizhong saw that the scene was about to be uncontrollable, so he hurriedly stood on the high platform for weighing grain, and shouted loudly, "Li Ji has been operating in Qingzhou for more than ten years, whether we are profiteers or not, everyone understands in their hearts, don't be used by a few people with ulterior motives——"

"Phew, if you're not a profiteer, then sell grain."

"That's it, what to pretend, it's obvious that you Li Ji took advantage of the famine, and estimated that he was hoarding food with the intention of raising prices."

"Hehe, this little brother, it's not right for you to say this, our Li Ji's grain has always been 300 wen per stone, when has the price ever increased? I see that you have been here for so long, why have you only been shouting outside, but you have never come in to buy food? Say, who the hell are you sending to deliberately incite the big guys to make trouble? Kindness? ”

As he spoke, a few guys ran out of the store and ran straight to the half-grown children who were the most cheerful.

"Oh, the profiteers are arresting, everyone be careful"

"Hmph, you said you weren't a profiteer, so sell grain, let's wait."

Seeing that someone was coming to catch them, the children were not in a hurry, and they shouted to themselves while dodging in the crowd.

"Alas, Li Ji really seems to have no food, let's go to Zheng Ji to buy it"

Everyone is not stupid, and when they hear the words of both sides, they know that there must be something wrong with them.

It's just that they are all ordinary people, and any conflict between the two major grain merchants has nothing to do with them. All they want is to buy food and not go hungry anymore, and that's enough.

Anyway, it's not a real famine now, the Li family has no food, isn't there still the Zheng family, it's more expensive, it's better than starving.

"That's right, let's go, one bucket of seventy-two wen is seventy-two wen, hurry up and line up, save the Zheng family's grain and sell out later"

Hearing the words of the people around him, the people who had originally gathered in front of Li Ji's door began to rush towards the opposite door.

However, what they didn't expect was that they had just lined up in front of Zheng Ji's door, when they saw a young man coming out of it, the young man was holding a sign in his hand, he first took off the sign at the door, and then replaced it with a new one.

After everyone saw the handwriting on the sign, it exploded with a bang.

"Oh my God, eighty wen per bucket"

"God, this—this doesn't let people live"

In response to everyone's wails and exclamations, Zheng Ji's guys did not react, and put on a posture of whether they love to buy or not.

"Shopkeeper, they're too poisonous."

The second shopkeeper blushed, looking at the triumphant appearance of the guys on the other side, and hated it.

"Alas......"

What about poison, people didn't force you to buy it? Who made them remember the food?

Li Lizhong sighed faintly, turned around and walked into the store.

At this moment, the young man outside the door suddenly cheered.

"Shopkeeper, the owner has brought us grain."

"What? The grain is coming? ”

When Li Lizhong heard the voice, he jumped out of the door with a pout, and looked at the street in disbelief.

"Look, isn't that carriage carrying the banner of our Li Ji."

The young man stood in the street, pointing to a convoy in the distance and shouting excitedly.

"Flag?" Li Lizhong stood on tiptoe, put his right hand on his eyebrows, and looked around, sure enough, on the carriage at the beginning, there was a flag with red characters on an apricot yellow background, and the word 'Li Ji' was written on the flag in Haiwan-sized characters.

"What, the Li family has come to eat? How can it be? ”

The shopkeeper Zheng who was leisurely watching the play with a teapot on the opposite side also listened to the sound outside, he stood up suspiciously, slowly paced to the door, and looked at Li Lizhong's line of sight.

"Let's let let's let go, let's let let's let, our new grain in Li Ji has arrived"

Under the gaze of everyone, the carriage convoy slowly approached, and the leading carriage driver raised his whip and shouted loudly as he drove the carriage.

"New grain? This little brother, are you saying that Li Ji Grain Warehouse has brought new grain? ”

The people in line heard the coachman's words and asked in confusion.

Belch? Doesn't it mean that this year's harvest is poor, the summer grain output is reduced, and there is almost no new grain?

Why does Li Ji still have new food?

"That's right, our Li Ji has transferred grain from all over the country, it is worth tens of thousands of stones, all of which are new grain this year, hehe, there are sorghum, rice, and wheat."

When the coachman heard this, he smiled proudly, pointed to the full carriage behind him with the whip in his hand, and said loudly, "My cart is full of rice, and when it is put into storage, everyone will be able to eat good rice."

As he spoke, the carriage drove through the crowd and finally stopped at the door of Li Kee.

"Shopkeeper Li, the owner said that these grains are collected at a very low price, so you can sell them at the original price. In addition, there are still 2,000 stone of grain parked on the Qingzhou wharf, you quickly arrange for the guys to move the goods, and I will continue to transport grain at the wharf later. ”

"Oh, okay"

As soon as Li Lizhong saw that the food was coming, he also came to the momentum, and he was busy directing the young men to come over to carry the grain.

I don't know if it was careless or deliberate, but when the coachman helped the young man carry the grain down, the sack fell to the ground, and the bag was cut by the stones on the ground, and the white rice flowed to the ground