"What? Three catties of food for free? ”

The people squatting in the corner were excited, after all, in the days when the flood occurred, except for the palace and some nobles' mansions, they were all flooded.

Food, etc., were all destroyed, and these days they are all supported by the disaster relief porridge issued by the imperial court.

But there are so many people suffering, two bowls of porridge a day and two nests, and they can't eat enough at all!

"King Jing is really a good man, I want to go and get food!"

"I'm going too!"

"It's only 3,000 catties, three catties per person, that's only a thousand people at most, no, I have to run faster, otherwise it's too late!"

For a while, the people in the entire capital, whether old or young, all crowded into King Jing's mansion like a swarm.

On the road that is about to enter the gate of King Jing's Mansion, there are guards of the palace guarding here early on.

"Three queues! Arrive at the collection location and report your name and home address, if anyone dares to cut in line, there will be no mercy! ”

The guard's voice fell to the ground, and he drew his long sword.

Looking at the sword blade that was glowing with cold light, the common people were afraid, and there were still some people who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to cut forward, but they were frightened back to their original positions.

Because King Jing's Mansion was prepared in advance, the people received the food in an orderly manner.

It was only an hour before and after, and the 3,000 catties of grain were completely distributed.

There were still many people who had not received it, and the guards appeased them.

"You haven't received food today, don't wait any longer, there is no food in the palace now, the prince has gone to buy food, and the food is on the way back to Beijing, everyone will come here tomorrow morning and clock to line up, and King Jing's Mansion will continue to distribute 3,000 catties of food."

Although they were a little reluctant, after hearing that there would be food distribution tomorrow, everyone cheered and thanked.

For a while, the whole Kyoto was telling about Gu Junjing's goodness.

And King Jing's free food distribution was also like the wind, blowing all over Kyoto.

In the palace, after Emperor Xiaoming woke up, he heard these things and said tremblingly.

"Wolves, wolf ambitions ......"

He Yuan picked up a bowl of medicine: "Your Majesty, it's time to drink medicine." ”

The Eighth Prince laughed when he heard the news.

"It's still the emperor's uncle's righteousness, with the emperor's uncle sharing the pressure of the homeless people eating food for us, life will eventually get better and better."

The fifth prince bowed his head, "The eighth brother is right. ”

In Kyoto City, the eldest prince also decided to put grain in front of his mansion after inquiring about Concubine De's intentions.

As for Gu Yuxiao......

After knowing that King Jing had started to distribute food in front of the gate, the corners of his lips hooked up a mocking smile.

"Lone knows that Gu Junjing has a desire for that throne."

Yong'an Shizi opened this door and asked in a chic manner.

"What is the Night King going to do?"

Gu Yuxiao evoked a cruel smile, "Didn't you say that the grain purchased by King Jing's Mansion had already arrived near Kyoto?" There is only one way into the city, and you will send people to guard the gates of Kyoto tonight, and if you encounter a convoy escorting food, you will kill all the people directly, and then take the food away by the way. Without food, I see how he can buy the hearts of the people! At that time, he will definitely panic, and we will send individuals to sell grain at a high price at this time, for the sake of the reputation of King Jing's Mansion, Gu Junjing will definitely buy it at a high price at all costs. ”

As soon as this plan came out, Gu Yuxiao asked people to implement it quickly.

Sure enough.

At three o'clock in the morning, there was indeed a train formation at the ten miles of the Kyoto Castle Gate.

Because the flood water had just receded, and there was mud everywhere.

The wagons loaded with grain were particularly heavy, and everyone was very tired from escorting.

Seeing that he was about to arrive in Kyoto, suddenly a bunch of assassins fell from the sky.

The two sides began to fight.

"Ahh

"Brothers, we can't fight because we don't have the physical strength, so retreat!"

There was a "bang", and a smoke and fog bomb exploded.

After the smoke cleared, the assassins sent by Gu Yuxiao saw that there were no more dart bureau personnel escorting food on the road.

"Pull the cart away!"

In order to prevent the arrival of reinforcements from those people, Commander Lin, the main person in charge of this operation, did not dare to delay and immediately let people push the cart away.

Soon, they hid their grain in their warehouses.

Inside King Jing's Mansion.

Because of the loss of grain, Gu Junjing sent Ruifeng around to inquire about the price of grain.

However, because of the fires in the major granaries in the city, there are not many shops selling grain in the city now.

The Su family and the Shen family, who have grain shops, do not have much inventory, and there are no 3,000 catties of grain.

Ruifeng sighed and walked back towards the palace in despair.

"Could it be that the prince's reputation is really going to be ruined? It is a trivial matter that I was punished by the prince for not completing the task, and it is a big thing for the prince to lose the hearts of the people. What am I going to do? ”

Just when Ruifeng was at a loss, there was suddenly an additional figure in front of him.

The person who came had a mustache and looked at him meaningfully.

"This little brother, but what's the difficulty?"

Ruifeng waved his hand: "Don't get in my way, no one in this world can help me." ”

"Not necessarily."

The bearded man grabbed Ruifeng and invited him to his grain store.

"I observed that you asked a lot of grain merchants in the neighborhood, but you want to buy grain?"

"Yes."

Ruifeng admitted, looking at the man with a little excited eyes: "This brother, you are selling grain?" Do you have more than 3,000 catties of food at home? ”

Seeing Ruifeng's excited face, the bearded man knew that the fish had been hooked.

So, he warmly invited Ruifeng into his backyard, "Childe, there are not only 3,000 catties of grain in my grain store, but more than 10,000 catties of grain." ”

Ruifeng hurriedly grabbed the man's hand: "Thank you so much, I don't know what the shopkeeper is called?" What is the price of food? ”

"Your surname is Huang, everyone calls me Huang Shopkeeper. As for the price of this grain......"

Shopkeeper Huang looked around and smiled: "Little boy, you also know that not long ago, the major granaries in Kyoto were burned, but our store, the Shen family and the Su family were not burned. If it was just burned by fire, it caught up with the flood, and everyone was displaced, relying on the meager ...... of the court every day."

Ruifeng saw that the yellow shopkeeper had too much foreshadowing, and interrupted a little anxiously.

"Shopkeeper Huang, I understand what you mean. You just need to say how much your family's food is, as long as it's not too high, our master is willing to buy it all. ”

Shopkeeper Huang couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.

It seems that this Gu Junjing panicked in order to stabilize the people's hearts.

Since this is the case, then he will slaughter Gu Junjing ruthlessly, so that Gu Yuxiao can "make contributions"!

"Don't worry, my family's food won't be too expensive, it's just a hundred taels of silver a bucket."

A bucket weighs about seven catties, and an average of one catty of grain costs fifteen taels of silver!

If it is 3,000 catties of grain, it will cost about 44,000 taels of silver.

In the past, the price of grain was about 130 wen a catty, and the most expensive in special times was only 300 wen a catty, but now it is 50 times more!

Ruifeng hurriedly waved his hand, "One hundred taels of silver is too expensive!" Don't want it, don't want it. ”

How can the fish delivered to the door have a reason for him to run away?

The shopkeeper immediately stepped forward and grabbed the person: "Don't panic, son, doing business is for you to negotiate the price back and forth, you say, how much silver can you get a bucket of rice?" ”