Just when Zhuang Shaoyou was entangled in Cai Yong's matter, his subordinates reported that the fleet in southern Liaoning had arrived! Zhuang Shaoyou was suddenly overjoyed, put aside the unhappiness just now, and took everyone to check.

Three poles on the day, the south wharf of the city is busy, another fleet arrived in Luoyang, two four-masted warships, although the cargo capacity is much smaller, but the matter is urgent, the speed of the four-masted merchant ships is too slow, in order to hurry, can only use the warship to transport goods, under the acceleration of the human oars, from the Xiangping North Wharf in Liaodong to the South Wharf of Luoyang City, it took only three days, it can be described as fast!

The medical saint Zhang Zhongjing also rushed to hear the news, the doctor's parents' hearts, looking at the sick refugees, dying silently due to lack of medicinal materials, Zhang Zhongjing was also heartbroken, although he wanted to scold his mother, but there was no one to scold, Zhuang Shaoyou had done his best, those magnates in the city, including the emperor and queen mother of the imperial court, no one was as attentive as Zhuang Shaoyou, if there was no him, Luoyang would not know how many people would die!

Since the day before yesterday, the plague has begun to spread, and the number of patients who have been quarantined has reached tens of thousands. Fortunately, this batch of medicinal materials was delivered today, which just solved the urgent need.

Zhou Tian personally handled it, handed over the list directly to Zhang Zhongjing, and then according to Zhang Zhongjing's instructions, began to move the goods, boxes of medicinal materials were moved off the ship, distributed to various medical stations, everyone was busy for a long time, and at noon, the entire south of the city was full of medicinal fragrance.

Those refugees were in high spirits when they heard this, and now they are saved! The gratitude to Zhuang Shaoyou is also beyond words. If you can send pennants, there must be two kinds of indispensable: the best in the world! Regenerate Parents!

Zhang Zhongjing, who has lost a lot of weight these days, saw that everything was handled properly, and said to Zhuang Shaoyou happily:

"General, this batch of medicines is in excellent condition, and the medicinal effect is very sufficient, far exceeding Zhongjing's expectations, Zhongjing has thanked the general on behalf of these hundreds of thousands of people!"

Saying that, Zhang Zhongjing gave Zhuang Shaoyou a deep look, Zhuang Shaoyou hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhang Zhongjing up, and said:

"Doctor Zhongjing is polite, this is the general's duty! As the saying goes, Maxima often has it but Bole doesn't have it, if there is no medical skill of Dr. Zhongjing, General Ben has these medicinal materials and is useless! ”

Zhang Zhongjing sighed: "The world has to be a general!" All the people are blessed by the general! The general has accumulated yin and virtue, and he will definitely be able to bless the sky! ”

With this batch of high-grade medicinal materials from Liaodong, coupled with the prescriptions personally debugged by Zhang Zhongjing, the plague in the south of the city was quickly and effectively contained, and there was no sign of spreading out of control, but even so, this epidemic still took the lives of tens of thousands of people! It's terrifying!

The number of refugees in the land of Luoyang reached one million, and tens of thousands of people died after this plague, and as many as 700,000 refugees gathered in the south of the city! There are very few people who die of illness, and the refugees know this well and are grateful to Zhuang Shaoyou.

According to the information provided by the intelligence department, the floodwaters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River have receded, but countless villages and fertile fields have been submerged. What about these homeless refugees?

Originally, Zhuang Shaoyou wanted to repeat his old tricks and recruit soldiers among the refugees, which was a rare opportunity! It's just that as soon as the plague broke out, Zhuang Shaoyou quickly stopped this thought, but how to deal with this batch of refugees is indeed a headache! If the food is distributed and sent home, it will be difficult to escape death in the end, but if it is transported to southern Liaoning, the number of one is too large, and if the other brings plague to southern Liaoning, the consequences will be serious!

There's no good way to do it for the time being, so let's just let them stay here for a while and talk about it in a few days!

Soon, the news of the subsidence of the flood spread among the refugees, and one after another refugees began to return to their hometowns, Zhuang Shaoyou gave them seven days of rations, anyway, there were not many, they were willing to go, and it was not reluctant, let it be fate!

But more people choose to stay, their families have nothing, relying on a few acres of thin fields to survive, this time the flood is so big, the crops in the field must be all gone! If you go back, you will starve to death, at least you won't starve to death if you stay here, don't leave, resolutely don't leave!

But staying here like this is not a long-term solution, so some of the refugees want to go to the city to find a job to support their families, but how do they know that the people in the city are now miserable, and the price of food has skyrocketed, which has exceeded 5,000 yuan per hour! Five thousand dollars is half a pound of gold! It's a matter of human life! Ordinary people can't make so much money in a year!

Not to mention ordinary people, even those big families are under pressure and have begun to lay off employees! In the past, they were proud of their wives and concubines and thousands of domestic slaves, but now they are forced to clean up the population that they can't use at home due to food pressure. The work they do can't cover their food money, so why support them?

As a result, countless slaves were driven out of the house, most of these people were sold to large families as slaves and maids from childhood, and their social status was extremely low, similar to that of merchants, and they were helpless, merchants at least had money, but they had nothing!

After falling into the streets, most of them became beggars, and some martial arts families formed gangs and went out of the city to the mountains to become bandits! And those desperate maidservants can only sell themselves in the green building and live a life of forced smiles.

The first batch of people who were kicked out were better, and they soon found a way to live, and later they didn't even accept people in the Qinglou! Unless it's a great look, never be! For a time, the spring of the prostitutes in Luoyang City has arrived! With a large number of clean and beautiful newcomers entering the industry, in the context of the overall decline of Luoyang's business community, the Qinglou industry is thriving and rising against the trend!

Later, many people who could not get along in the city simply left the city to become refugees, threw themselves into the refugee camps, and began to live on alms.

The refugees outside the city envy the prosperous life of the people in the city, and the large number of unemployed homeless people in the city envy the refugees outside the city who can eat without work! It's really a great wonder in the world!

As the situation in the city deteriorates more and more, Zhuang Shaoyou has to start to face up, the businessmen are rich and unkind, take the opportunity to hoard Juqi, food prices skyrocket, and, under the unbearable, there have been several incidents of smashing and looting in the city, several large households have been wiped out, family savings have been robbed and emptied, and the remaining large households can no longer sit still, and want to seek protection, but the emperor is in the West Garden, and he can't manage the affairs of the city at all, so Yuan Shao and Zhuang Shaoyou have ushered in a large number of large businessmen and ask them to strengthen the security of Luoyang.

At first, Yuan Shao didn't bother to pay attention to it at all, Lao Tzu was too busy with major affairs, who had time to take care of you? Love is not dead!

And Zhuang Shaoyou's side let Ronghua and Zhou Tian make their position clear to them:

In the south of the city, Zhuang Shaoyou will maintain law and order, but ask merchants to open warehouses and release grain to stabilize prices! Otherwise, the safety of their personal and property is not guaranteed!

Those big households were forced to be helpless, and 10,000 reluctantly began to follow the order, while Zhuang Shaoyou effectively implemented the obligation to maintain law and order, and Lejin sent additional patrols to ensure their safety.

For a time, many large households in the city began to look for real estate in the south of the city, and wanted to move to the south of the city, and the land price was not cheap in the south of the city skyrocketed, and many small families sold their houses in order to raise money to buy food, and many large families would rather live in a small house and be low-key! Be sure to keep a low profile!

After this happened, Yuan Shao also realized the seriousness of the problem, and when he said it, he would protect the interests of the big businessmen, and there was no need for them to open warehouses and release grain, as long as they lived in their own sphere of influence with peace of mind! And it also sent more people to patrol the city.

Those big families forgot their righteousness and immediately threw themselves back into Yuan Shao's arms, but there were still a small number of people with some political vision who chose to stay in the south of the city and abide by Zhuang Shaoyou's instructions, because compared to Yuan Shao, they were more optimistic about Zhuang Shaoyou, although the conditions were harsh, but they were more secure, once Yuan Shao fell, they would regret it!

And Zhuang Shaoyou did not intend to entangle with Yuan Shao in this matter, because he was determined to solve the root cause of the turmoil in Luoyang, food!

The previous 200,000 Hu coarse grain, plus the 400,000 Hu grain transported from southern Liaoning for the second time, in addition to consumption, there are 560,000 Hu, and the businessman's incompetence made Zhuang Shaoyou realize that he had to rely on himself for everything!

Do it yourself! So, overnight, ten new grain stores were opened in the entire south of the city, called: Rongji Grain Shop. Of course, everyone knows that this is opened by Zhuang Shaoyou, but he just borrowed the name of Luoyang giant merchant Ronghua, Ronghua naturally supports it with 10,000 yuan, but he does not dare to consider the issue of naming fees, it is Rong's honor to do things for the general, this is the original words.

On the issue of grain pricing, Zhuang Shaoyou and his subordinates discussed carefully, Zhou Tian and Ronghua offered suggestions one after another, and finally decided that it would cost 100 yuan per liter of coarse grain! One hundred and fifty dollars of fine grain!

One Hu = 50 liters, which is equivalent to 500 yuan per Hu of coarse grain, and 750 yuan of fine grain, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the existing grain price in the city, and the price before the rise in grain prices is basically the same, which can be described as an amazing move!

However, the price of collecting grain in the southern part of Qiuliao is less than 300 yuan, which is one reversal and one positive, but it is twice as bad! Still profiteering! It's not that Zhuang Shaoyou wants to make this money, but that the price of grain in Luoyang is not low! In the capital, the high point of consumption is understandable! As long as we have a clear conscience! What's more, we are doing a good deed, why should we be ashamed?

Zhuang Shaoyou is not moving, and a move must be a thunderous momentum! We must make a ruthless move to resolutely bring down the grain price in Luoyang!

Sure enough, as soon as this move came out, Luoyang was a sensation, and it instantly spread to every corner of the streets and alleys of Luoyang, and the people in the city gathered in groups, and the whole family went into battle, with all the savings and baskets of the family, to buy food in the south of the city!

At first, Yuan Shao wanted to send someone to stop it, but after being killed by dozens of angry people, he finally didn't dare to make another time, ants can not be dignified, but they want to live and eat! Whoever doesn't let them eat will play with whom!

Yuan Shao's reputation was also damaged a lot because of this, so Yuan Shao also hurried to remedy, the Yuan family is also in business, but the businessman is a cheap business, Yuan Shao has always disdained to ask, and he directly stretched out his hand when spending money, Yuan Shao was the father of Yuan Feng, but since he was a child, he was passed on to Yuan Feng's brother Yuan Cheng to continue the incense, and Yuan Cheng died early, Yuan Shao is the head of the family in the distant lineage, and he has a lot of money!

Now Yuan Shao has paid rare attention to a family business, opened the granary of the Yuan family in Luoyang, and also started to do the same, opened a total of six grain shops in the north of the city, east of the city, in the middle of the city, and in the west of the city, and the grain price was set at one hundred and twenty yuan a liter of coarse grain, which was two percent more expensive than Zhuang Shaoyou, but Yuan Shao's sphere of influence was large, and he basically inherited He Jin's territory, and the most famous gold market in Luoyang was in his hands.

Yuan Shao felt that he had suffered a loss, of course he would not be cheap to those merchants, and he also began to force the merchants in the jurisdiction to open warehouses and release grain, and set the price of grain, which was absolutely not allowed to exceed one hundred and fifty yuan a liter! Moreover, according to the different strengths of each family, the minimum amount of grain per day was stipulated, and people were also sent to publicize it, compiling children's songs, praising Yuan Shao's merits, and being determined to steal the limelight with Zhuang Shaoyou!

In the face of Yuan Shao's all-round combination of punches, Zhuang Shaoyou was too lazy to pay attention: It is better to be willing to put grain, the purpose of General Ben is to stabilize the price of grain, so naturally he will not demolish your Yuan Benchu's platform!

Ronghua and Zhou Tian are also very calm, just let Yuan Shao be arrogant this time, the big thing is important, the general is not to make a reputation, but to stabilize the price of grain, it is far from enough to rely on himself, otherwise Yuan Shao's small body dares to play business war with the general? Guaranteed that he won't know how to die!