Su Yunsheng showed a hideous expression on his face, and said ruthlessly: "Even if I can't let the General's Mansion hurt my muscles and bones, I have to get the recipe for making sugar!" ”

Su He just glared at his eldest son with deep eyes, although he died of a son, but this time the Su family did not take advantage of it, Xu Junze's wife was not an idle person, her daughter was planted in her hands several times, Su Yunsheng wanted to get the recipe for making sugar from her, I am afraid it would be difficult to succeed.

But Su Yunsheng doesn't think so, officials have official ways, business has business ways, he has his own way to force the Xu family to be soft, and soon he found Bai Zhanyang, the head of the Bai family of the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, he is the father of Bai Xiaogongzi, he is not only a wine merchant but also the largest grain merchant in the dark.

Immediately after that, many people found that the price of grain began to rise day by day, although a pound will rise by a penny, but ten days is ten cents, for the rich this may not have a big impact, but for the poor people, the rise in grain is a little scary.

In winter, it is not easy to make a living, and there is no surplus food at home, and the days are becoming more and more difficult, and the cold winter has not yet come, but the people of the Jin Dynasty have already felt that the days are more chilling than the cold winter wax moon.

Emperor Zhao You learned of this situation and immediately took corresponding measures, although there were granaries in various parts of the imperial court, but they could not fight against the entire grain market, and even the rise in grain caused panic among the people, and some turmoil began to appear in various places, and many granaries were robbed.

At this time, the imperial court also began to increase its efforts to buy grain from grain merchants, but these big grain merchants traded at the daily market price as if they had discussed, but the grain price was raised by them, and they had the final say.

"The imperial court bought grain from those grain merchants at a high price, and then sold it to the people at a low price, and all the silver lost by the state went into the hands of those black-hearted grain merchants!" On this day, Lei Yingying came to see Lin Shuran, and when the two chatted, they talked about the recent food problem, because of the lack of manpower in the household department, Emperor Zhao You temporarily transferred Du Sheng to the household department, and now he is mainly responsible for the purchase of grain.

Lin Shuran also knew that the recent boiling in the capital was about the problem of food, and seeing that the coldest time of winter was coming, if the food problem was not solved, this man-made disaster would be more terrible than a natural disaster.

"The food problem has been a big problem since ancient times, the lifeblood of a country, and this lifeblood must not be held in the hands of a certain person or a group of people with bad intentions, otherwise sooner or later there will be problems." Lin Shuran said worriedly.

It is said that the people take food as the sky, and the people of the world are most concerned about the word "food and clothing", which is also the basic survival needs of a person.

"If this continues, I think it must be chaotic, and I will arrest all those black-hearted grain merchants!" Lei Yingying said angrily.

"Killing chickens and monkeys is not ineffective at all, but you have to find the most critical 'chicken'!" Lin Shuran remembered the wine merchant Bai family that Zhao Mu told her last time, and the person behind this who wantonly manipulated food prices was afraid that it was inseparable from the Bai family.

"What kind of chicken, what a monkey, sister, I don't understand what you say, but I heard my husband say that the wine merchant Bai family has two big granaries in the capital, if they are willing to take out the grain in these two granaries, the grain price in the capital can remain stable!" Lei Yingying said to Lin Shuran.

"Really? Isn't there a way for the imperial court to let the Bai family temporarily take out the grain in the granary? Lin Shuran felt that there was always a way for the Bai family to loosen their mouths.

But Lei Yingying told Lin Shuran that the head of the Bai family said that the grain was used by the Bai family to make wine, and they had already signed cooperation documents with others, if they couldn't get the wine out as scheduled, they would have to compensate a lot of silver, and the emperor couldn't rob other people's things clearly, but if they bought it with silver, the court couldn't take out so much silver for a while.

However, what Lin Shuran thought was that it was not that Emperor Zhao You couldn't take out the silver to buy grain, but that he was unhappy in his heart, the Ninety-Five Emperor actually wanted to spend silver to buy grain from a businessman, which was really ridiculous and too absurd, he couldn't let himself, the emperor, be reduced to a joke, let alone the Jin Dynasty.

Lei Yingying and Lin Shuran were talking, Xu Minghan came to see Lin Shuran, the business of the sugar shop during this time can be said to be red and purple, yesterday he just signed a cooperation document with several big merchants in Southeast County, and he will open a sugar workshop in Southeast County before the year.

"Your mother and son have something to discuss, so I'll leave first!" Lei Yingying got up very brightly, Lin Shuran wanted to keep her for dinner, but she said that she would go to Prince Alcohol's Mansion for a trip, I heard that Chen Jiayu has been very majestic in Prince Alcohol's Mansion these days, and she punished Mama Qiu next to Princess Alcohol, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fought more fiercely than before.

As soon as Lei Yingying left, Xu Minghan took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to Lin Shuran, Lin Shuran took it, then looked at him and asked, "What is this?" ”

"My mother will know after she sees it!" Xu Minghan didn't explain much about this, but just asked Lin Shuran to read the booklet first.

Lin Shuran turned the page by page and looked at it, her brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, the look in her eyes was becoming more and more cautious and serious, and she was also full of doubts. What is said above may be judged to be true or false? ”

"Don't worry, the things recorded in this booklet are true, there has always been a hidden gang in the rivers and lakes, as long as you can afford the price, they can help you find out the news you want, this is a booklet specially collected by someone about what the Bai family of wine merchants have done over the years." Xu Minghan said.

Lin Shuran was surprised how Xu Minghan suddenly went to check on the Bai family, so he asked, "What do you want to explain when you give me this booklet?" None of the records on this are good things about the Bai family, do you want to ask me if I want to hand it over to the government? Or are you going to use this to blackmail the Bai family? ”

Xu Minghan shook his head, and then said: "Mother, someone asked me to transfer this booklet to you, and that person said that this booklet alone is afraid that it will not be able to threaten the Bai family, and it will not completely defeat the Bai family, he hopes to join forces with you to deal with the Bai family, and then hold the Bai family's granaries in his hands." ”

"Brother Han, you tell me the truth, when have you met the little prince of Yaowang's Mansion?" Lin Shuran only heard Xu Minghan say this, and he had already determined who gave him the booklet, the little prince Zhao Mu wanted to deal with the Bai family, why bother to pull himself up, and use Xu Minghan!

(End of chapter)