Huang Zu was a little uneasy after he came to rent a ship from the Kuai family, and he sent out two waves of people, these two waves of people did not do any investigation work, but only searched, first, to find a merchant who had returned from the Central Plains; Second, look for people who have returned from Changsha.

Although Jiangxia is not big, these two waves of people Huang Zu have been found, and there are still many people, a total of seven.

Huang Zu asked people to call these people to the hall of his Taishou Mansion, and then watched quietly.

"You are here today, no donations, no food, my ancestors have some questions, I would like to ask you to solve your doubts."

Huang Zu squinted at one of them and asked, "Shopkeeper Zhao, shopkeeper Qu, dare to ask how the situation is in the Central Plains?" ”

When the two merchants heard that Ancestor Huang had given them a reassuring pill, they spoke: "It's a mess, and the smoke is everywhere. ”

"Taishou, we are going to Youzhou, that Gongsun Chan has almost collapsed under Yuan Shao's iron hooves, and he has been defeated in successive battles, and Yuan Shao has the momentum to occupy Youzhou."

"We went to Yangzhou, Yuan Shu's soldiers pressed the border, almost occupied the entire territory of Yangzhou, and his subordinates were rampant like robbers, robbing grain, robbing strong men, and robbing anything that could be robbed, saying that the general wanted to send troops to attack Jiangdong, and the people were miserable."

Huang Zu nodded: "What about Chang'an?" ”

One of the travelers said: "Taishou, the villain went to Chang'an to visit relatives, just in time for Dong Zhuo to enter the city, thousands of frames, foot soldiers grounded in the sky, on the day of entering the city, by the four city gates at the same time, this is a full morning." ”

"Then Dong Zhuo occupied the palace, and began to loot the people's fat and ointment, he asked for food, delicacies, silk and satin, and ......"

Huang Zu finally heard what he was interested in: "Is it a levy, is it a robbery?" ”

The traveler pondered for a moment and gave a completely different answer: "Buy." ”

"Buy?!"

Cao Min felt that it might be Dong Zhuo who was carrying the Han Emperor and saying that this was the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, and it was really inconvenient to snatch it, after all, he had to continue to live in Chang'an, which was ...... However, the grass people heard that Dong Zhuo was not short of money, and he had robbed thousands of carts from Luoyang, and now Chang'an City was full of merchants, or buying Dong Zhuojun's private property or selling the materials Dong Zhuojun needed, which was very lively. ”

Huang Zu asked again: "How about prices?" ”

"Soaring, rising at a rate into the sky."

"What's the main one?"

"Grain, salt, salt has risen to 8,001 stones, and grain is a price a day, which is impossible to estimate."

"Does this Dong Zhuo have something to restrain in a big way?"

The traveler thought for a long time before suddenly saying, "Yes! ”

"Dong Zhuo's Li Suzheng recruited blacksmiths in the whole city, saying that he wanted to build the weapons used by the Changsha army in Bishui Pass, which seemed to be called hooks and sickles, and also forcibly purchased a large number of iron weapons and occupied the surrounding iron mines."

"Anything else?"

The traveler shook his head, "There really isn't much to pay attention to other than that. ”

Huang Zu reminded not so deliberately: "Have you ever heard that Dong Zhuo was extravagant and used 15,000 yuan to buy Shu Jin, which caused a sensation in the world?" ”

Fifteen thousand?

The traveler thought for a moment and said: "Shu brocade is a valuable thing, it costs 10,000 yuan to get out of Shu, and now the Central Plains war, the journey is not smooth, too guarded, even if Dong Zhuo buys Shu brocade with 15,000 yuan, this price is not expensive." The salt is 8,000 stones, don't you think? ”

"Do you know if Nanzhong stone has risen in Chang'an?"

"In the current situation of the world, Nanzhong stone cannot be transported to Chang'an at all, what does it matter if it rises or not, besides, who still has the heart to build a mansion now, then Dong Zhuo entered Chang'an just to occupy the old court."

Huang Zu no longer asked the travelers, turned to a few merchants and asked, "What about you?" Have you ever heard that someone tossed Shu brocade to Chang'an? ”

The two shopkeepers arched their hands and said, "Taishou, this is absolutely impossible." ”

"Youzhou is bitterly cold, and the only thing the scholars can rank is the Gongsun family, and they have no leisure time to deal with Yuan Shao, so how can they have time to toss in Chang'an."

"Yangzhou doesn't either."

"Then there is always wood in Youzhou, right?"

"Taishou, there are also wood in Yangzhou, but it can't be transported."

Huang Zu smiled.

For example, if there is a mess today, almost all states and counties are fighting, but the Jingzhou merchants who ended the war are going crazy and tossing Shu brocade, if you have the intention......

"Let's all go down."

At the moment when everyone withdrew from the room, Huang Zu suddenly shouted: "Xingba! ”

Gan Ning stood up: "Big brother." ”

"Catch!"

"Arrest the business travelers with Changsha accents and Xiangyang accents to Lao Tzu quietly, and then beat them to the death, you must break their mouths!"

"No!"

Gan Ning walked out of the hall, and at this time, only Huang Zu was left in the hall.

Originally, he wanted to get involved in the Shu brocade business with the Kuai family, but this guy is used to being a thief, and what he is best at in this life is counter-reconnaissance. When he was young, he took his brothers across the river, all relying on his cleverness to evade the government's pursuit, which created Huang Zu's prestige, and now, the more he thinks about it, the more unreliable he becomes.

If someone swarms to the Central Plains and Chang'an to toss food, he will not be suspicious, but in these war years, who cares whether he is wearing rags or Shu brocade?

No matter how extravagant Dong Zhuo is, he won't be stupid enough to be qualified, right? When I first arrived in Chang'an, I didn't collect food, but first collected clothes at a high price, and left this pile of things in the warehouse for the soldiers to boil and eat?

He was suspicious, and his greed was instantly suppressed.

After a while, Gan Ning returned with bloodied hands, and said fiercely at Huang Zu at the corners of his mouth: "Big brother, that kid has said everything." ”

"How?"

"I arrested three groups of people, the first batch was a businessman who followed the trend in Jiangxia, and these people just felt that it was profitable and followed the acquisition of Shu Jin; The second batch, the traveling merchants from all over the country who came to Jiangxia, people were wait-and-see, and they received one or two low-priced Shu brocades every day. Only this third batch is all business travelers from Xiangyang, Yicheng, and Changsha, and they also have bodyguards, all from the Cai family, the Ma family, and the Kuai family. ”

"After I arrested these people for interrogation, I learned that all the people who are buying and selling back and forth in Yicheng are their own people, and this group of people is divided into two groups, one group pretends to be a traveling merchant to sell Shu brocade, and the other group pretends to be a businessman to buy, and they are just playing on the street. I said that these days, the ships looted on the rivers are all Shu brocade, and it turns out that they are the source of goods they transported to Jiangxia! ”

Huang Zu snorted coldly: "This is luring me into the game, as long as Lao Tzu moves his mind, then Jiangxia City will completely collapse!" ”

"Su Fei."

Su Feisheng blushed and arched his hand: "Big brother." ”

"Close the gates, no one is allowed to enter or leave!"

"No!"

"Gan Ning!"

"Arrest me, and arrest everything that has anything to do with it; Anyone who has anything to do with this matter and dares to resist will be slaughtered by Lao Tzu! ”

"No!"