Time is like water, and in the blink of an eye, Li Hao has been in Huixian County for more than three months. Thanks to his unremitting efforts, the floods in Huixian County have finally been completely remediated, and the people's houses have been repaired.

Seeing that the disaster has been calmed down, Li Hao is about to return to Chang'an to return to Li Shimin.

But he waited for a long time, and the counterattack of the Li and Cui families had not yet come.

The eve of a storm has always been the quietest, and the quieter it is, the more uneasy Li Hao becomes.

"Young master, I have a friend asking to see you!" Wan'er pushed the door and walked into Li Hao's room, and behind her was a person Li Hao was very familiar with.

"How did you get back here?" Seeing the person coming, Li Hao couldn't help frowning.

"I have already found out the situation around Hongzhou, and the stakes are very high, I feel that I must convey it to you personally!" The mysterious man lifted his hood, and it turned out to be Lu Yuchang, an ally of Li Hao among the five surnames and seven hopes.

"Let's talk about it!" Li Hao got up and pulled him to the desk.

Lu Yuchang took out an account book from his arms and handed it to Li Hao: "This is the details of the grain sales in the surrounding counties and counties of Hongzhou in the past two months, you can take a closer look." ”

Li Hao opened the account book and gradually frowned.

According to the information in the ledger, in the past two months, a mysterious force has quietly bought all the grain from all the counties around Hongzhou. Today, the surrounding counties have only enough food to survive the winter for their own people. It's hard to sell it to others.

Li Hao was so vigilant that he immediately saw the clue, and couldn't help but slam his fist on the desk.

"What a plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle! I've been paying attention to Hongzhou, but I didn't expect them to do anything about it! ”

"Fortunately, you were vigilant and let me check it out as soon as possible. Otherwise, we would have been kept in the dark until now. Don't worry, the grain reserves in Huixian County can last for at least a month, and we can deal with it early. ”

"Deal with the!" Li Hao smiled bitterly: "The imperial court transported materials from Chang'an, which was time-consuming and scrapped, to help Hui County, in order to let the surrounding areas of Hui County help Hongzhou in winter. Now that the price of grain has been fixed by us, no one will be willing to pay a huge freight to send grain to Hongzhou in a further place, so they will only lose money! ”

Limiting the price of grain is Li Hao's means to curb those profiteers from making a fortune, but he didn't expect this system to be used by the enemy, which in turn hurt himself. This is the first time Li Hao has encountered such a difficult opponent.

"You can't give up easily!" Lu Yuchang said a little anxiously: "You are the minister of the Qincha to deal with the floods, if your jurisdiction is not well governed, someone in the court will take the opportunity to attack you." The five surnames and seven wang major families have been staring at you! ”

Li Hao frowned and pondered, but he didn't come up with any good solution for a long time. He spread his hands: "I can't do anything more, didn't you keep telling me that we have allies?" He also said that he would come to help in times of crisis, and now that we are in crisis, what about others? ”

Lu Yuchang was stunned for a moment, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "This ...... This ally is gifted and amazingly talented. Never in the company of the weak, she regards this trip to Hongzhou as a test for you, if you can pass the test, you can become an ally with her! ”

Li Hao looked surprised, and almost said: What the hell are you teasing me to squirt.

"You can't blame her, this person has a big secret and must hide her identity at all times, but don't worry, she said that once it comes to a critical moment, she will show up and settle everything when we encounter unsolvable trouble, even if we can't form an alliance this time, we can get through it safely!"

"You're so naïve!" Li Hao shook his head helplessly: "Okay, Hongzhou has a lot of eyeliner, it's too dangerous for you to stay here, hurry back to Chang'an, remember our plan, whether you can have the strength to resist the Lu family depends on this situation!" ”

"It's the prince, Yuchang will live up to the prince's trust!"

After Lu Yuchang left, Li Hao fell into deep thought. Now that the situation seems to be very good, it has actually reached a desperate situation, and there are undercurrents surging under the seemingly calm water. In a month at most, the food crisis will re-envelop the people of Hongzhou.

Although Lu Yuchang did not find out who the person who bought the grain without permission was, he could guess this matter with his toes. will do things with food, and with such financial resources, out of the Li Cui family, I can't think of others.

However, even the two families of the five surnames and seven hopes, if they want to buy such a large amount of food in a period of time, they must have gone all out, they want to fight Li Hao to the death!

But thinking about it from another angle, if Li Hao successfully cracked their trick and successfully survived the difficulties, the food that was bought with so much money would be stranded in their hands. Even if the Li Cui family has strong financial resources, they can't withstand such losses.

In other words, at the moment when Li Hao was pushed to the front of the cliff, the Li and Cui families were also standing on the edge of the cliff, and any mistake might break to pieces.

"If I were them......" Li Hao fell into deep thought.

He connected the various events that had happened during this time, thought about it anew, and inadvertently, an unbelievable thought floated through his mind.

"No, if that's the case, wouldn't even my coping methods be taken into account, and if so, this ally would be a little too scary!" Li Hao smiled bitterly and called the black egg in.

Li Hao whispered something in Heidan's ear and gave him an order.

After hearing this, the black egg had a serious expression and immediately took action.

Li Hao lay back on the chair, closed his eyes with his hands on the pillow.

He had never been one to rely on others, and everything that Lu Yuchang had promised as an ally was a joke in his eyes. If you want to defeat the enemy, you must be safer on your own, and you must find a way to nip the food crisis in the bud.

"Well, if it does fall to the worst, I will lose a lot of money, I hope my guess is correct!" Li Hao muttered to himself, and began to think about how to make up for the loss.

Fighting with the sky and fighting with people, the fun is endless, Li Hao enjoys this process very much.

January passed like flowing water, and as Li Hao and the others guessed, the food crisis began to erupt.

It was not until this moment that the imperial court discovered that the grain from the counties around Hongzhou had been quietly bought, and their original plan to transport grain from the surrounding areas to help Hongzhou had gone bankrupt from the beginning.

In Huixian County, there is less and less grain sold in major grain stores. But fortunately, the people are not so sharp, and they can't detect the crisis for a while.

Cui Baitai and Li Ziyin sat opposite each other, their eyes full of excitement.

After months of raising and spending countless funds, it is finally time to harvest.

"Nu Zhuge , when are we going to start doing it!"

Li Ziyin took a deep breath: "Now that the surplus grain in Huixian County has not been exhausted, we have to wait for the people to realize the food shortage before taking action, so that it can be reasonable, we have been waiting for so long, we can't go wrong at the most critical moment, be patient!" ”

"I can't wait to see Li Hao's failed expression!" Cui Baitai's face was distorted, and there was excitement and ecstasy.