And what Yu Tianlu couldn't understand was that the grain in other places was one or two pieces of silver per load, why did he really only sell it for 700 yuan, and the businessman had always been profit-seeking, if he also sold one or two pieces of silver, wouldn't he earn more money, so Yu Tianlu said the doubts in his heart face to face

Li Yang just wanted to open his mouth to explain the reason, when there was a sound of footsteps going upstairs downstairs, "Several guest officers' clothes are upstairs, I will take you to see" and then the guy led two customers to the second floor to choose clothes, Li Yang saw that this was not the place to speak, so he made a gesture to Lei Qi and Yu Tianlu, "Two shopkeepers, I have some food in this backyard, I can take you to see the goods"

Lei Qi understood my intention: Yes, we have to see the goods first, and we are negotiating with him

After going downstairs, Li Yang did not forget to explain to his buddy, he took the two of them to the backyard to see the goods, and when he was about to enter the backyard, out of politeness, he let Lei Qi and Yu Tianlu walk in front, and he used his spare light to quickly glance at the backyard when the door was closed, and confirmed that no one followed him, so he closed the door with confidence

From the moment he saw me, Lei Qi noticed that I had been carrying something wrapped in paper in my hand, and the oil had seeped into the surface of the paper: what are you carrying in your hand, as soon as I saw you, I saw you carrying it

Li Yang let out a silly smile and hurriedly put the things in his hand on the table, and then he untied the rope tied to it and lifted the paper, and a steaming roast chicken appeared in front of the three of them: General, this is a well-known roast chicken in Taizhou City, in order to eat this roast chicken, I went to order it yesterday morning, and the general doesn't believe you can taste it

Lei Qi stretched out his hand and broke off a chicken thigh: So it's quite timely for me to come

When Li Yang wanted to invite Yu Tianlu to eat, he really didn't know what to call him, so he looked at Lei Qi: The general is

Lei Qi: Let me introduce you to this is Lord Zuo Yushiyu

Li Yang bowed to Yu Tianlu: The grass people have seen Lord Yu

Lei Qi broke off a chicken thigh and handed it to Yu Tianlu: Come to Lord Yu, you can also taste it, it tastes good

Yu Tianlu took the chicken leg: No need to be polite, you haven't answered my question just now

Li Yang: There is a principle for adults and grass people to do business, I don't let me let me earn a penny more money, I don't want to earn more money, businessmen pursue profits, which is understandable, but I think businessmen should also make contributions to the country

Yu Tianlu nodded with relief after hearing this: Then can you tell me how you have so much food in your hands

Thunder Rider: Yes, I also want to know where you got so much food

Li Yang: I have a friend who is a merchant from the south, and he brought the grain from the south

As soon as Yu Tianlu and Lei Qi heard that the southern merchants had not terminated the grain trade with Zhejiang, then how could there be southern merchants who transported grain to Taizhou, and if they wanted to find out the ins and outs of the whole thing, they had to ask the southern merchant: Then where is this friend of yours now

Li Yang thought to himself, can I tell you, if you meet and negotiate the business, then what else is there to me: Go back to my lord, my friend, and he is in the south

Yu Tianlu sighed lightly: In this way, this official is still thinking about asking him about something

Li Yang: If you have any questions, ask me the same

Yu Tianlu: I want to ask him if he knows why Nanguo suddenly terminated the grain trade with Zhejiang, and it was because Nanguo terminated the grain trade that the grain price in Zhejiang skyrocketed

Li Yang: My Excellency, Nanguo did not terminate the grain trade with Zhejiang, and the reason why Nanguo's grain could not be transported was due to the closure of customs

As soon as Yu Tianlu and Lei Qi heard the closure, they asked in unison: What kind of closure did you say in detail?

Li Yang: Your Excellency, you live in the northern part of Zhejiang, the capital of the country, and the border has been sealed for more than half a year, don't you know?

Yu Tianlu: Nonsense: When did Zheguo issue a customs closure order, how come this official has never heard of it

Li Yang: My lord, whether you believe it or not, what I said is the truth, I heard my friend say that there are two kinds of customs closure in the northern border, the first is the dead pass, as long as it is a convoy transporting grain, it will not be allowed to pass the customs, and the second is that the convoy transporting grain can be released into the customs but have to pay 30% of the tariff, and the grain merchants will not come to Zhejiang to sell grain if they can't make money

Yu Tianlu and Yang Gan and the general Lei Qi all felt that the sudden surge in food prices this time was too strange, before Yu Tianlu and Yang Gan had always thought that the problem was on the side of the southern merchants, if the problem was really to him, the problem was in the military department and the northern border pass, and the purchase of military food was still the responsibility of the military department, thinking of this, Yu Tianlu did not dare to think that it was 800,000 taels of silver, is it crazy for the military department to win people

Lei Qi raised his head and laughed: Lord Yu didn't expect that we were in the right place, and you have to check this matter after returning to China

Yu Tianlu: General, even if you don't talk about the lower officials, you must find out about this matter

Lei Qi: If you don't have enough men, I can lend you the Dragon Eagle for a while

Yu Tianlu: Thank you for the kindness of the general, the Imperial Investigation Division has enough manpower to deal with this matter

Lei Qi looked at me: You honestly tell me how much food you kid has in his hands now

Li Yang solemnly raised two fingers: General Hui Caomin now has 2 million quintals of grain in his hands

2 million quintals, which is comparable to the amount of grain sold to Zhejiang every year by Nanguo, which adds 3 points of credibility to what Yu Tianlu said just now, I can't imagine that someone can sit on this role for personal gain, it is really lawless

Li Yang: General, do you really want to buy 1 million quintals of grain?

Lei Qi: Why, I look like I'm kidding you?

Li Yang: The general, the grass people, gave you 680 taels of money and 1 million taels of silver for each load, a total of 680,000 taels of silver

Lei Qi: You kid really have so much food in his hands, or is it fake, you have to let me and Lord Yu see the goods first

I was calculated by Lei Cai a few times before, and this time I also learned: I can't take you to see the general's goods, if you take you to and then lead the troops to copy my grain depot, then I won't lose a lot of money, if the general and Lord Yu are not at ease, how much grain can I transport, you can pay me how much, let's give me a hug

Seeing Li Yang standing in front of him in a serious manner, Lei Qi couldn't get angry and couldn't laugh and couldn't laugh, so he could only keep a straight face: With me, the general is almost like a robber in your eyes, right, since beating your kid and becoming a military businessman, I found that you have lost money, you look at the difference between your eyebrows and those profiteers

Li Yang took a deep breath helplessly: What the general taught was

Lei Qi: I think it's 550 yuan per load of food, and as you said, you will be paid as much as you want

Li Yang: The general's 550 yuan can't even match the capital, I have to hire a ship to hire someone to load and unload these grains from the south, and then hire a car to send them to the place, general, you also know that a carriage can only pull 10 quintals of grain, just to send these 1 million quintals of grain, I have to hire 100,000 carriages and ox carts, which will cost money, so the general, I will give you at most 20 cents cheaper per load

Lei Qi: Just 550 dollars

Li Yang: The general's price is really not good, and I hope you understand the difficulties of the grass people, if you think the grass people are expensive, you might as well go elsewhere to see

Lei Qi: I can buy 1 million quintals at this time, if you miss this business, you are not afraid that this grain will rot in your hands

Li Yang: There is nothing to be afraid of the grass people when they return to the general, if they really sell the grass people and return these grains to the south

Lei Qi took a long breath, sat up straight, put his hands on the table, and stared at Li Yang with his eyes, while Li Yang half-bowed and looked at Lei Qi with his eyes, one was sure of the other party, and the other had no choice, and the two of them were in a stalemate for a while

At this time, Yu Tianlu started a round: General, I think it's not easy for him to be busy, let's give him a middle price of 600 yuan, he's not bad, he didn't follow the price of food, and we can't let honest people suffer

Lei Qi had a gloomy face: Unexpectedly, Lord Yu opened his mouth, so can you sell it for 600 yuan, you almost got it, don't go too far

Li Yang sighed: The two of them have said this and that, but the general grass people have something I want to ask you for

Lei Qima glanced at me: Tell me something

Li Yang: When the general was transporting grain, could you say hello to Lord Sun, and transfer the cavalry of the state government to help transport grain, so that the grass people would pay a little less

Lei Qi: It's inconvenient for me to come forward, so I'll ask you to say hello to Yuan Wu

Yu Tianlu: Okay, I'll do it

Lei Qi: When the matter is done, then let's go back to China and resume our lives

Before leaving, Lei Qi patted his hand on the shoulder: You kid steal fun

As soon as they left the Alan business, the two of them rushed to Yufeng City, the capital of the country, and the next morning, as soon as they returned to China, they came to the palace to return to the king of Zhejiang, Lei Tai, and Yu Tianlu told the reason for the sudden termination of the grain trade by the merchants of the southern country and the skyrocketing price of grain, and the ins and outs of the whole thing in the purchase of military rations at the military department

Lei Tai did not get angry after learning about the whole thing, but asked Yu Tianlu not to be alarmed and secretly investigate this matter, and the more important thing at the moment is to first raise the military rations that are urgently needed by the various prefectures and border passes as soon as possible: Is the businessman you saw in Taizhou reliable this time

Lei Qi: Brother Wang, don't worry, this person is absolutely reliable, Master Yu and I have already negotiated with him about the price of 1 million quintals of grain, 600 yuan per quintal

Lei Tai: Brother, don't you want to buy 800,000 quintals of military rations later, why did it become 1 million quintals again?

Lei Qi: Brother Wang, there is not much military ration at the southern border pass, so I took the opportunity to order more with him

Yu Tianlu: The prince's move can be described as killing two birds with one stone

Lei Tai: Lord Yu, then tell me how to kill two birds with one stone

Yu Tianlu: When I went to Taizhou to buy a military ration, my wishful thinking of purchasing military rations for personal gain came to naught, and this is one of them, and the second is that the money that was originally used to purchase 800,000 quintals of military rations can now be purchased for 1 million quintals, and the remaining 200,000 taels of silver remain

As soon as he heard that there was still money left, this made Lei Tai, who had been depressed for several days, feel much better: Then who do you think should be entrusted with the errand of buying military rations

Lei Qi gave Tianlu a look, and Yu Tianlu immediately understood, "The prince turned out that the merchant was in Taizhou, and the prefect of Taizhou thought that the prefect of Taizhou was the most suitable candidate."

Lei Tai slapped his hands on his legs and stood up from the throne: It's better than your lord, then draw up a will for this king, so that the Taizhou prefect can buy these 100 loads of military rations as soon as possible

Bow on the Heavenly Road: The Minister's Decree

After everything is done, Lei Cai is also ready to leave to return to the state camp, Lei Tai originally wanted to stay in the palace for a few more days, and the two brothers could catch up with the old days, but the border was busy, and the army could not be without a handsome, Lei Tai had to send Lei Cai out of the palace with reluctance, and as soon as the will to buy military food came to Sun Yuanwu, he immediately organized 4,000 carriages in the city to transport military food to the national capital, and Li Yang also used more than 2,000 ox carts and carriages to cooperate with the government to transport military food

In the past two days, Jia Ze, the squire of the Ministry of War, Xu Kai, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Wu Cheng, the waiter of the Criminal Department, Ji Fang, the waiter of the Ministry of Officials, Wen'an, and several people are still waiting for the will of the military rations, it is said that the silver of the various provinces has been sent to the national capital, and the order should be issued immediately, but the king of Zhejiang, Lei Tai, has not issued an order for a long time, and several ministers are still wondering about this matter, until the Taizhou Mansion sent the military rations to the national capital, and a few people knew that the king of Zhejiang handed over the errand of purchasing military rations to Sun Yuanwu, Seeing that the fat that was about to reach the mouth was indeed in someone else's bowl, this made Jia Ze and the others feel distressed about it

That night, Wen An invited several adults and Qian Yiping, the shopkeeper of the Fuhong Chamber of Commerce, to his house, and when he talked about it, several people were all holding back the fire in their stomachs, and it took more than half a year to set up the bureau to be stirred up like this, and who could be willing, and a few people could only drink alcohol to vent the anger in their hearts

Wu Cheng picked up the wine glass on the table and drank it down, and then viciously put the cup on the table: too aggrieved

Jia Ze: It's already like this, it's useless for you to be aggrieved

Wu Cheng: I don't understand why the king suddenly handed over the errand of military rations to the Taizhou prefect

Ji Fang: Do you know how much the military rations sent by Taizhou cost?

Jia Ze: Isn't the price of grain in Zhejiang now one tael of silver per load?

Ji Fang: But there are indeed people in Taizhou who only sell 600 wen yuan a load, which is 400 wen yuan cheaper than the grain on the market

Wen An: A businessman in the Ji Metropolitan District, even if he sells it for 600 yuan, how much grain can he have

Ji Fang: Lord Wen, don't underestimate this businessman, he sold 1 million loads of military rations to the national capital at once

Jia Ze turned pale with fright when he heard this: Then will the grain price we reported before cause the king to be suspicious

Ji Fang: After all, this is the price on the market

Jia Zede's hand trembled slightly, picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine to calm himself down, while Qian Yiping cried and complained to several adults with a sad face: The grain in the hands of several adults was grown by themselves, but the villain pressed all the belongings in order to raise the price of grain to one or two taels of silver per load, and this time the villain lost all his money

Wen An: As long as a few of us are still there, you will benefit from the money shopkeeper

Qian Yiping: I don't know how to get through this hurdle in front of Lord Wen

Wen An: Do you think that this is the end of the matter of purchasing military rations, don't you wonder where the grain in the hands of the businessman in Taizhou came from, if you want to say that it is normal to have tens of thousands of quintals of grain in your hand, but as soon as someone makes a move, it is 1 million quintals, 1 million quintals of grain, how thick the family business is, the money shopkeeper is you, will you have such food?

Qian Yiping: Of course not, wait for the no, Zhejiang's grain has been monopolized by me, so where did he get so much food

Wen An: You've just thought about it

Wu Cheng: Then let's send someone to Taizhou to check and see what's okay

Wen An: Ladies and gentlemen, I have already sent Shaoqing Zhang Wenzheng to Taizhou, his family happens to live in Taizhou City, and it is convenient to investigate

When Zhang Wenzheng returned to Taizhou City, he inquired and learned that the 1 million loads of military food were sold by Li Yang to the national capital, Zhang Wenzheng thought that this was an opportunity to take revenge on Li Yang, so he quickly returned to the national capital, and told Wen An all the news he heard truthfully, and said that Li Yang made a lot of money by purchasing military food this time, which made Wen An even more curious about where the military food in Li Yang's hand came from, but when he asked Zhang Wenzheng, Zhang Wenzheng told him that no one knew where the military food came from

So Wen An sent people to Alan County to let Geng Qing and Gan Hui, the eyeliners in the militia group, investigate this matter, but it was impossible for 2 million loads of grain to enter and leave Alan County without knowing it, and when carrying the grain, the militia villagers also acted as the main force, and soon Geng Qing and Gan Hui, who were the leaders of the militia group, told Wen'an the origin of the grain

When Wen An learned that the grain in Li Yang's hands was transported from the sea from the south, the next morning, he united several ministers to make an excerpt together, saying that Li Yang, the shopkeeper of the business in Alan County, Taizhou, colluded with foreign businessmen to traffic illicit grain in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, and made huge profits by evading tariffs and monopolizing grain, causing the price of grain in Zhejiang to rise sharply, and the people were miserable

Seeing this, Lei Tai pretended to faint for a while, and several guards hurriedly helped him to the apse to rest, and the eunuch who was waiting for him shouted softly to the ministers: Ministers, the prince is unwell, so let's disperse today

The court meeting had to end early, and when the ministers were gone, Lei Tai asked the guards to hurry up and chase Yu Tianlu back, and told him not to alarm the other ministers, as soon as Yu Tianlu entered the apse, he saw Lei Tai lying on the kang chair, and he threw the fold casually, "Lord Yu, the unscrupulous merchant mentioned on this fold should be the merchant who you and Lei Qi bought military rations."

Yu Tianlu: Returning to the prince is just this excerpt, which reverses black and white

Lei Tai: I don't think the evasion of customs duties is necessarily chasing after the wind, Lord Yu is buying military rations, you and Lei Qi are going to talk about it, what do you think should be done about it

Yu Tianlu: I actually heard that my lord and they jointly signed an excerpt, and the minister thought that let them check it, and the facts would prove everything

Leitai: Well, let's do that

Sold 1 million quintals of grain, to celebrate, so Li Yang in the manor feast, the main people who came to the banquet were Xiang Yong and Alan Chamber of Commerce, during this time they were busy and suffered a lot, Li Song also invited a troupe from Taizhou City to cheer everyone up, and so on as soon as the gongs and drums sounded, the famous horn appeared, she looked more delicate, wearing a cloth armor, with an iron sword hanging on her waist, and walked to the front of the stage, the people present knew that today's horn was Wudan, she sang while waving the iron sword in her hand, She focused on hitting two weapons, an intersection of the action also followed, first turned over several heels, and then turned around and chopped, the content of the play is a couple of wedding days, the husband received an order to go to the front line with the army to fight the enemy, and then the army was defeated by the enemy, her husband also became a prisoner, when she knew about it, after the army rushed to the front line to save the story of the husband, the people present listened to it and cheered in unison, when everyone was quiet in this joy, a group of uninvited guests did come outside the manor