The young general rushed to Tianfu with more than a hundred soldiers, Tian Shao was furious when he saw this, but he saw the crowd outside the door, and he didn't dare to stop him for a while, so he let them in.

Two quarters of an hour later, the young general came to report: "Report to Lord Taishou!" No suspect was found in Tianfu, but... ”

Gongsun Du frowned and asked, "But what! Just speak up! Is there anything else that Ben Taishou can't see? ”

"That's right! Speak up! The people around him also started to complain.

The young general hesitated for a moment and said: "However, two huge grain cellars were found in Tian Shao's Mansion, and his subordinates wanted to go in and search, but they were stopped by the Tian Mansion family!" ”

When Tian Shao heard this, his heart was cold, and he was annoyed and angry: "Gongsun Du, you deceive people too much!" ”

Gongsun Du said disdainfully: "Ben Taishou has repeatedly begged you, the landlords, to open a warehouse to stabilize the price of grain, but you just won't!" Every time, you refuse to contribute on the grounds that the harvest is poor, and now what else do you have to say? I have deceived people too much, and I think you have deceived the people too much! ”

"That's right! Bastard! It's too much of a deception! ”

"Too much deception!"

"Taishou-sama! Open his warehouse and put grain! ”

"Raid his house!"

"Destroy his three clans!" (Han law, the three clans are the father party, the mother party, and the wife party, collectively known as the three clans, which are more ruthless than the nine clans in the Ming Dynasty)

Seeing this, Tian Shao shouted: "Close the door!" Then he ran into the house without looking back.

Angry, the people rushed forward and smashed the door, but to no avail.

Tian Shao's scolding voice came from the mansion: "Gongsun Du, I know that all this was planned by you!" If you deceive too much! I'm not a bully! It's a big deal, and the net will be broken! Half of the food in the city is with me, and if I burn it, you can follow the people of the city to drink the northwest wind. ”

When Gongsun Du heard this, he was a little hesitant in his heart, weighing how to deal with it, and he was worried that they would die and the net would be broken, and if he dealt with it lightly, the people would not do it! Although public opinion is available, it is also a double-edged sword! Don't let yourself deal with it at your own discretion, make mistakes!

If I knew this, I wouldn't have made trouble today if I listened to that stinky boy's advice, my face has been torn, and I can't get any benefits!

Thinking of this, Gongsun Du sighed secretly and said, "Tian Shao, as long as you promise to start releasing grain at a low price tomorrow, and promise that similar incidents will not happen again in the future!" I will persuade the people to go back, what do you think? ”

"Taishou-sama! Take us in, and if he dares to burn food, we will kill his whole family!" It's a big deal, in the future, the people of the whole city will tighten their belts and follow you through thick and thin! ”

"That's right! Anyway, we're used to being poor and hungry, so we can just eat one meal a day! Kill it! Kill his whole family! These dogs, if you don't hurt them, they won't have a long memory! ”

When Tian Shao in the mansion heard this, he immediately panicked, this group of mobs! It's just a bunch of crazy people, and their threats don't work? The family members around him also panicked, and there are eggs under the nest?

Tian Shao looked at the subordinates around him, suddenly lost his mind, thought for a moment, and shouted outside the mansion: "Gongsun Du, I promise you the conditions, you quickly persuade these people to retreat, otherwise the fish will die and the net will be broken!" ”

When Gongsun Du heard this, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it was not bad, but he had a headache again, this group of people was too crazy, how to persuade them without losing their prestige?

Gongsun Du pondered for a moment and said loudly: "Folks, let's calm down first, since Tian Shao has softened and agreed to release grain at a low price, don't make trouble, don't forget, even if you barely survive this year, but what about next year?" And the year after? Wuhuan has been committing crimes every year, we have to make long-term plans! You can't act impulsively for the sake of the moment!

My Gongsun Du swears here, to ensure that there will be no more crazy rise in food prices in Xiangping in the future, if someone dares to hoard Juqi and raise prices, the first one will not let him go! I'm going to tear him to pieces! Destroy the three tribes! If this oath is violated, people and gods will be outraged! Come to a sticky end! ”

The people around gradually calmed down, Gongsun is right, he is used to being hungry and poor, but who doesn't want to be full? There are still wives and children at home, and old fathers and mothers are waiting for themselves to buy food and go back to eat, it doesn't matter if they are hungry, they can't starve their relatives!

I don't know who took the lead, but some people among the people shouted: "Long live Lord Gongsun!" Banzai! The surrounding crowd shouted with the mountain, which made Gongsun Du very embarrassed, although he was very useful in his heart, but can this long live scream? If it is spread to the imperial court, it will definitely cause trouble for itself.

The vigorous Xiangping grain war, and finally Tian Shao's soft temporary stop, did not evolve into a bad situation of fish dying and the net broken, but because Liao Pingyuan delayed spring plowing for two consecutive years, all the stored grain added up was barely enough for the people of the whole county to eat! Moreover, in the land of Liaodong, there are still tens of thousands of people in the Central Plains who flee every year, the population has increased sharply, and there is still a shortage of food.

Therefore, starting from the tenth day of September, the grain market in the whole city began to reduce prices in an all-round way, but it was also 50% higher than the grain price in previous years, coarse grain 10 wen a liter, fine grain 12 wen a liter, the people can accept it, after all, it is much lower than the original 40 or 50 wen a liter.

Zhuang Shaoyou rebuilt the two burned grain shops, and expanded several times, and used the Mojia design of the grain meter to sell grain, above the grain shop is a huge grain funnel, as long as the guy manipulates the button of the mechanism, he can accurately spit out the liters purchased by the people, the efficiency of selling grain has been greatly improved, the time for the people to queue up has been shortened a lot, coupled with the previous good reputation, so the people are willing to buy grain from Zhuang Ji grain shop.

Zhuang Shaoyou set the price of grain like other merchants, fluctuating with them and competing fairly, but the business of Zhuang Ji Grain Store is obviously much better, and there is also an exclusive special Nanyang specialty - corn, which is good and cheap, very sweet, and extremely cheap, so it is very popular with the people.

In the Taishou Mansion of Xiangping City, Gongsun Du and Zhuang Shaoyou sat opposite each other.

"Less travel! Thanks to your help this time! Or it's really troublesome! ”

"Hehe, it's a trivial matter! Uncle Gongsun is a great kindness to me Zhuang Shaoyou! Less travel within the sense of five! This sentence is not polite, but sincere, Gongsun Du has helped him too much, although the development of Yuqi is very fast, but it is inseparable from the full support of all parties, for example, Gongsun Du, for example, the Mo family, and the subordinates who follow Zhuang Shaoyou with all their hearts.

If there is no Gongsun Duzhao, then Zhuang Shaoyou is an out-and-out thief, living in fear all day long, how can he have the heart to develop with peace of mind? Maybe you'll be beaten away and run away to an overseas island!

If there is no Mo family, it will be even more terrifying, it is simply a night back to before the liberation, whether it is shipbuilding, or the magic weapons of the Mo family, or the art of farming, as well as forging, etc., it can be said that the core part of the Mo family is all supported by the Mo family.

Zhuang Shaoyou sighed in his heart, but Gongsun Du said with relief: "If I listen to you this time, I will definitely be able to be more complete, what you said is right, either don't do it, or do it, now it's always a heart disease!" ”

"Hehe, Uncle Gongsun is too worried, uncle can go to Goguryeo in the east, Wuhuan Xianbei in the west, Wen Taowu is naturally superior, Tian Shao is just a clown jumping off the beam, even if Shaoyou doesn't help, uncle can settle him!"

"Less travel! I heard that you have harvested a lot of grain there this year, but how much is that? Can you reveal one or two? There is already a shortage of food in the hinterland of Liaodong! Moreover, the population of Liaodong is increasing, from 220,000 the year before to 290,000 now, an increase of more than 70,000 in two years, and the pressure on food is getting bigger and bigger! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou smiled and said: "This year's grain harvest is not bad, the spring wheat has been harvested 1.745 million hu, and the summer grain is just 1.2 million hu of corn!" ”

"What!? So much? That's it? You're not angry with me, are you? How can you, with a maximum of 30,000 people, produce so much food? Spring and summer grains can feed more than 200,000 people! ”

"Almost!"

"Stinky boy, why didn't you say it earlier, it caused me to worry about it here! Okay now, you sold 170,000 Hu coarse and fine grain to Tian Shao this time, and transported 250,000 Hu coarse and fine grain, there are still a lot of them in the warehouse, right? Then uncle, I will order another 300,000 coarse grains! It will be more than enough to last until next autumn harvest! ”

"Uncle, the reason why those corns are cheap is because the yield per mu is twice as high as that of wheat, and the yield per mu of wheat is about five hundreds, and the yield of corn per mu is higher than ten hundreds, so the price is cheap, but that thing is delicious at first, but after a long time, it will get tired, and it will not get tired of eating wheat! That's why we all feed our horses with corn! ”

"It's a terrible thing! It doesn't matter if he's good or not! As long as you can eat it! When you're dying of hunger, you'll pick and choose? More than 10 acres per mu? It's horrible! How about planting near Xiangping next year? If this is the case, there is no need to worry about Wuhuan coming to delay spring ploughing, because by May, Wuhuan will definitely return! ”

"Nephew will do his best!"

Zhuang Shaoyou unloaded more than 200,000 grains on the ship and stored them in the official warehouse of Liaodong County designated by Gongsun Du for separate storage, and there was no problem in safety, so Zhuang Shaoyou told his subordinates to take care of the grain shop and returned to the grain store by boat.

In this Xiangping grain war, Zhou Tian in the first wave made the most money, selling grain to Tian Shao at a high price, getting 1,000 catties of gold and 2 million money, and selling grain in the grain market for 3 million; And the second wave of Zhuang Shaoyou sold a day's grain in Xiangping, sold 20,000 grains, and got 1.8 million yuan, of which 800,000 was used to expand the grain shop and the grain store operation, so he only got 1 million money, and the remaining 230,000 Hu various coarse and fine grains can get about 12 million yuan, which is 80% more than the purchase cost!