As the grain merchants all fled from the state and all the grain was transferred, rumors in the city intensified.

Although the official warehouse has been put with grain, the people are still uneasy. The natives naturally knew how many official warehouses there were in the city and how much grain was stored, enough for the whole city to eat for a few days.

It is because they know that the people feel uneasy.

The official warehouse is only enough for the people of the city to eat for more than 20 days, so what about after more than 20 days?

This kind of panic, which seems to be the countdown to life, unconsciously spreads throughout the city.

The first to be hit was the more than 10 grain shops set up by the Assassin Mansion in the city, which sold grain at a reasonable price according to Li Qinzai's orders, and the people flocked to it, and there were long queues outside each grain store.

There was a rush to buy in the grain stores in the city, and the people took out their life savings, and some even borrowed money, pawned it, and waited outside the grain stores day and night after getting the money.

Within a few days, the sales of grain increased greatly, and almost every ordinary person bought grain in bankruptcy, and more than 10 grain stores kept replenishing their stocks every day, and grain was still in short supply.

Then there were rumors, and the rumors released out of nowhere magnified this year's drought infinitely.

Various versions of the rumors have painted colorful legends that the outside of the city has been full of starvation, thousands of miles of red land, and the peasant households in the four counties under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou have already left their homeland with their families and are fleeing towards Bingzhou.

Once tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of the displaced people come to the outside of the city, the Assassin's Mansion will have to take care of the livelihood of the displaced people, and the grain in the official warehouse will definitely stop selling and instead provide relief to the displaced people.

Therefore, the grain in the official warehouse could not last for twenty days, and the people in the city could only watch the homeless people eat up the grain that originally belonged to them.

And if the new Li Tingshi can't quickly fill the grain in the short term, the grain in the official warehouse can't feed the displaced people, and if the grain runs out and the displaced people have no rice to cook, then it will inevitably lead to a popular uprising.

The rebellion of the people means attacking cities and plundering land, killing people and setting fires.

The people in the city of Bingzhou will be regarded as enemies by the displaced people, and they will be killed indiscriminately.

I have to say that the people who spread rumors are well versed in human nature, and these rumors are fabricated with reasonable grounds and are very close to the facts.

Such a convincing rumor, the people naturally believed it.

And so the atmosphere of panic spread like a plague throughout the city.

Early in the morning, don't drive Wang Shifu rushed to the Assassin's Mansion to report that there were stampedes in the grain stores in the city one after another, which had injured more than 30 people.

There are too many people queuing up to buy food, and under the crowd gathering, it is easy for stampedes to occur.

In addition, there was chaos in the city's public order, and a few bandits had mixed in from nowhere, taking advantage of the people's grain purchase and gathering, deliberately picking quarrels and provoking troubles, provoking contradictions, and then brawls and even armed fights.

Not only that, but several wealthy families in the city were also broken into by bandits, robbed a lot of money and left.

In short, the city has begun to fall into chaos.

Wang Shifu said with a bitter face: "Li Tingshi, in the final analysis, it's all about food, we have to find a way to solve it quickly, if we let the situation develop, before the grain stock in the state is exhausted, the city will be in chaos first." ”

Li Qinzai's eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "Those bandits...... Have you ever got it? ”

Wang Shifu shook his head: "The security of Bingzhou City has always been good, and the lower officials have been driving in Bingzhou for many years, and they have never seen bandits dare to rob in the city, which is very unusual." ”

Li Qinzai smiled: "It happened that bandits appeared in the city when people were panicking, do you believe it was a coincidence?" ”

Wang Shifu looked stunned and said, "Li Tingshi suspects that it is...... The gang of grain merchants who fled the city? ”

"Or else? In the era of the Tang Dynasty, there are only dozens of cases sentenced by the Criminal Department every year, and how can the bandits mix up in the world when the people live and work in peace and contentment? ”

Wang Shifu said with a bitter face: "No matter what the source is, the bandits are no longer important, Li Tingshi, the most important thing now is to appease the people." ”

Li Qinzai thought for a while and said, "You transferred all the servants of the Assassin's Mansion to the grain shop to maintain order, and in addition, there are more than 100 of my Li family's subordinates, all of whom are transferred to help." ”

Wang Shifu hesitated: "Order is a trivial matter, and food ......"

Li Qinzai smiled: "Don't drive for a few more days, someone will send food." ”

Wang Shifu's eyes lit up: "Li Tingshi has already made arrangements?" ”

Li Qinzai said: "No, but I plan to ask the monks to do a Dharma ceremony, pray that God will give me food, as long as I am pious, I think God will definitely receive a text message from me, and I will respond to my requests......"

Wang Shifu: ???

"Li Tingshi, you ...... Earnest? ”

Li Qinzai laughed, pushed him with his hand, and said, "Go and get busy, I'll leave the food matter to me." ”

Seeing that Wang Shifu hesitated to leave, Li Qinzai smiled in the independent atrium.

After a long time, Li Qinzai suddenly said, "Ah Si." ”

Liu Asi appeared in response.

Li Qinzai pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Send twenty or thirty subordinates, disguised as merchants, to go to the cities around Bingzhou, and let the word go out in those cities......"

"Let's just say that the grain storage in the city of Bingzhou is urgent, and the Thorn Shi is anxious about it, so he collects grain from the grain merchants in the neighboring cities at a high price, and as long as they are willing, the Thorn Shi buys it at 40 wen per liter of millet in the name of the government."

Liu Asi was stunned and exclaimed: "Forty Wen? per liter? Wu Shaolang, you ...... Are you sick? ”

"Think it's too high?" Li Qinzai said with a smile: "At the beginning, the grain merchants in Bingzhou sold 30 wen per liter, but I beat the board hard, and now I buy 40 wen per liter, do you think I am crazy to slap my face?" ”

Liu Asi was stunned for a moment, and said cautiously: "Although it is a little disrespectful, but ...... That's exactly what the villain means. ”

"You and I have different brain capacities, and I don't know how to explain it to you, do what I say, I have my own plans."

Liu Asi had no choice but to be.

Li Qinzai said again: "Find a few other subordinates to disguise themselves as grain merchants from other places, transfer more than a dozen truckloads of grain from the official warehouse, quietly go out of the city in the dark, and then enter the city during the day, and then you come forward to buy those dozen truckloads of grain at a price of 40 wen per liter on behalf of the government......

Liu Asi was shocked again: "Fifth Shaolang, what's the reason for this?" ”

"Have you ever heard the allusion of 'a thousand dollars buy horse bones'? I always have to make an appearance and show it to some well-intentioned people in the city before I will believe that what I say is true. Remember that money and food must be traded openly in public, so that some people can witness it with their own eyes. ”

Liu Ah Si's brain was buzzing, and with his IQ, he really couldn't figure out the intention of Wu Shaolang's operation.

The grain belongs to the official warehouse, the money belongs to one's own, and the left hand is reversed to the right hand, which is equivalent to being the head of the wrong, and spending a lot of money to buy the grain in the official warehouse.

Not to mention the public news that grain merchants from other places would transport grain to the state and buy their grain at a high price of 40 yuan......

Could it be that the official army was used to rob all the grain from other grain merchants? That's a big problem.

Liu Asi suddenly felt deeply powerless, he really couldn't keep up with the way of thinking of the children of the powerful, and it seemed that he couldn't expect to cross classes in his life.

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