As mentioned last time, due to the secret trading houses of the Mi family such as Longxingxing, the grain prices of Wei have remained high, and the grain price stabilization measures of Wei are the same as those of the "national N" housing price control measures in later generations, and the more the grain prices are regulated, the higher the grain prices.

For example, they originally thought that the price of grain rose due to the large amount of profiteers hoarding Juqi and causing the market to exceed supply, so the imperial court sold a large amount of grain from the national reserve warehouse at a low price, hoping to make those profiteers who hoarded Juqi suffer a big loss.

As a result, they were bought as much as they threw away, and food prices remained high. They originally thought that no profiteer's capital could be so abundant as a country's grain reserves, and as soon as the country's reserve warehouse came out of the grain at a low price, those profiteers who hoarded a large amount of grain would definitely not be able to withstand it, and they would also sell their stored grain at a reduced price.

But they never expected that it was not private profiteers who were fighting against their national grain reserves, but another country, and a country with more funds than Wei. As a result, a large number of national grain reserves thrown out by Wei were transformed into Shu reserves.

Not only did Wei not stabilize grain prices, but also lost a large amount of grain reserves in vain, so that even the military rations were not enough.

For another example, the Wei court felt that those profiteers hoarded Juqi was really hateful, that was to disregard the life and death of the people, disregard for the interests of the country, these people really deserved to be killed. Merchants have a very low status in feudal society, "Shinong Industry and Commerce", and merchants are ranked last, so people with low status are naturally the objects of those who want to kill if they want to confiscate their property and cut wool.

As a result, the government confiscated the homes of some of the suspected profiteers they believed were hoarders, in an attempt to search for the grain they had hoarded for national use.

However, to their disappointment, many large merchants did not have a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, as they thought, and did not have a large amount of hoarded grain.

The reason is very simple, the secret trading house of Mijia Control always smuggles a large amount of grain back to Shu as soon as possible. Most of the gold and silver treasures were used to buy strategic materials such as grain and iron tools, so there were few cases of hoarding at home.

Some of the so-called profiteers confiscated by the Wei State have nothing to do with the Shu State, they are real Wei businessmen, and some of them are the secret business names of the Mi family, but the Mi family is operated in the form of backdoor, and the government comes to raid the house, and what is caught is only the agent supported by the Mi family, and it has not hurt the root of the Mi family's business.

What's more, the government often can't find real evidence when they raid their homes, and in this case, as long as the Mi family pays some more money to check the government, most of these agents will still be released. Although the loss of a small amount of wealth is unavoidable, it doesn't matter, with the Mi family's business methods, you can quickly earn back ten or a hundred times the Wei State.

After trying this kind of thing a few times, the Wei court had no choice but to watch the domestic grain prices rise day by day.

There may be some smart officials who are in the know, but these people have been put in place by the Longxing Commercial Bank and have been silenced by huge bribes.

Although Longxing Commercial Bank has the background of Shu State#Jing, the "CIA" will not have much to do with them in normal times, which is also because they are afraid that when the "CIA" is targeted by the Wei court, they will be affected.

But today is different, this time the emperor explained that the things to be done are too important, all the Shu people lurking in the territory of Wei have been released, and at any cost, all the resources have been used, and they have vowed to do this matter well.

As a result, the resources of Long Xing Xing were also used. Time back to this day, "Xuxian Wharf" moored a longxing ship of thousands of materials, a line of coolies dressed in red clothes, carrying a sack on their shoulders, carrying goods from the ship. One by one, these coolies lined up in a line, and if you look down from the heights, this team is full of ants carrying food back to the nest.

The coolie team made its way to a warehouse not far from the docks. Under the command of some merchant houses, the coolies unloaded the sacks from their shoulders and stacked them in the designated position in the warehouse, and then went out to the door of the warehouse, took a bamboo stick from a man who looked like a foreman, pinned it to his waist, and continued to walk to the side of the ship, and got on the boat to carry a sack.

This bamboo stick is marked, and after they carry the sack, they calculate the salary according to the number of these bamboo sticks around their waists, so they must keep it and not lose a single one.

These coolies went back and forth between the ship and the warehouse, and no one noticed that out of the bilge of the ship came thirty sturdy men, dressed in the same clothes as the other coolies, with red fruits, carrying a hemp bag on their shoulders, with knotted muscles on their bodies and arms, and their skin tanned by the sun.

The men came out of the bilge with sacks on their shoulders and quickly blended into the long ranks of coolies, whose arrival did not attract anyone's attention because of their rugged appearance, which was indistinguishable from the other coolies.

When these people arrived at the warehouse, they did not continue to enter the warehouse, but stopped and waited. At the door, there was a person dressed like a small guy who had not moved much today, and when he saw this group of people stopped at the door of the warehouse, he saw a red sweat towel wrapped around his neck, and his eyes lit up, and he immediately walked over quickly and said to the man with the red sweat scarf: "What are you carrying?"

Generally, coolies will wear a sweat towel around their necks to wipe sweat, most of those sweat towels are white or blue-black, and most of them will be a little black due to long-term use. Like this man, there is no one who uses a red sweat scarf.

This man's sweat towel was knotted in front to prevent it from falling, and it looked like he was wearing a red scarf. However, although this sweat towel is red, it is not the kind of bright red, but a faint red that is washed a little white, so it is not conspicuous in the crowd, and if it is not a caring person, it is not even possible to find any difference between him and others.

This man wearing a red scarf is the captain of the thirty-person special forces sent by Liu Hou, this person is called Guo Changsheng, when Liu Bei led 100,000 people and was chased and killed by Cao Cao all the way south, this guy was one of the 100,000 people, but he was still a little kid who didn't know anything at the time.

These 100,000 people were grateful to Liu Bei, and many of them later joined the Shu army and followed Liu Bei to fight the world. This Guo Changsheng also joined the Shu Army when he grew up, and because of his ancestral martial arts, he quickly stood out in the army and was selected into the first special unit.

He was also very good in the special forces, and he was appointed as the captain of the action team in this operation, responsible for directing the operation to "rescue" Sima Yi's family.

That red scarf is one of the codes for the connection between the special forces and the people of the "CIA" in Xudu. Of course, Guo Changsheng is the only one who wears a red scarf, and if all 30 people wear a red scarf in unison, it is for fear that others will not know the rhythm of their gang.

In fact, only the captain needs to connect with the "CIA" people, and the other team members only need to follow the captain, so the other team members are the same as ordinary coolies, and they also use white or blue-black sweat towels.

The red scarf was only the first joint code, in order to make it easier for the "CIA" personnel dressed as a small guy to recognize Guo Changsheng from the crowd, and then he had to continue to question to further confirm the joint code.

P.S. was on a business trip today and wrote a thousand words on my mobile phone on the high-speed train.