The landlords returned home in high spirits, ready to pack up their money and run away at any time, but within two hours they received news one after another.

"The Yanzhou government also issued a notice: Recently, the Beihu cavalry raided Yanzhou, and Yanzhou implemented a lockdown and curfew, and then ...... The price of food has been lowered to 20 cents and one stone! ”

"Impossible!"

Duanmu Xian, who was the first to return home, jumped up in shock before his buttocks were hot.

On behalf of the Duanmu family, he sold all 500,000 mu of fertile land to Liang Xiao on the front foot, and the price of rice on the back foot will be lowered?

"There isn't much grain left in Yanzhou, why did he lower the price of rice to twenty wen??"

Outside of Taishoufu, everyone couldn't believe the price.

Especially the rice merchant Gong Ping, who is preparing to make a lot of money.

They hoarded Juqi a while ago and rejected Liang Xiao's purchase price of 60 Wen, just waiting for the price of grain to skyrocket, and they could earn several times the profit.

When the price of grain was 150 wen and one stone, the people of the whole city relied on the government to distribute rations, and no one bought their rice for the time being.

But they believe that unless the imperial court transports grain, even if the whole Yanzhou is frugal, it will definitely not be able to hold on for three months.

400,000 stone plain grain only.

A family of five consumes at least one and a half stones of raw grain a month.

There are about 100,000 households in Yanzhou.

And Liang Xiao still has 10,000 Liang Jiajun and 5,000 alternates under his name, and he is also a big food eater.

Food is limited, which means that if the army in other regions wants to transfer troops here, they need to bring more food and grass of their own, or they will not transfer troops at all.

The food on hand in Liang Xiao is absolutely unable to support Yanzhou for three months, or even two months!

This is a fact that even the Higashino clan does not deny.

"Wait! He said he was going to lock down the city?? ”

Duanmu Xian's gaze fell on the notice, and he was angry.

He has been in officialdom, and of course he knows the ins and outs of it.

Liang Xiao is in charge of Yanzhou, once the city is closed, it will be a problem for them to want to go out, let alone bring rice out......

Duguchen, who was inciting scholars to protest in the academy, was also shocked when he heard the news.

What does he mean by that? Want to keep all the rice merchants in Yanzhou? ”

For the first time in his life, Duguchen felt his scalp tingle.

He instantly understood Liang Xiao's intentions.

"This son is so vicious......

The rice merchant of the Dugu family, who spent more than 80 wen on each stone of rice, waited for the soaring grain prices in Yanzhou, took advantage of the weakness, completely crushed the economy of Yanzhou, and created a tragedy in which the people were not able to make a living and their children were eaten.

Since then, Beihu has gone south, and the northern border is in an emergency, and even with Yanzhou as the starting point, it is not impossible for the whole territory to be lost!

In this way, several of them can put pressure on the empress, fight Liang Xiao and Zhuge Hui, and return to power.

After all, their purchase of grain is legal and reasonable, and Duan Yunyi can't do anything about them.

Zhuge Hui, who is more than an old man, doesn't have so much mental strength to deal with them.

And now, Liang Xiao has used methods that are extremely scoundrel in their eyes.

The same can be legal and reasonable, high-sounding......

Duanmu Yan in Duguchen's arms also became anxious: "Brother Dugu, what should we do?" Can you spend it with him? ”

Hearing this, Duguchen said with a gloomy face: "Naturally, I want to spend time with him, see how long he can last!" I don't believe that the imperial court will send grain from all over the capital at any cost, and the cost is already more than two hundred and fifty wen one stone! ”

Duanmu Yan gritted his teeth and said: "Then we must gather all the rice merchants, insist together, never sell at a lower price, and the price of grain will be at least one hundred and fifty Wen and one stone, and my father will be satisfied!" ”

Duguchen summoned many rice merchants who entered the city overnight to discuss the matter.

"Twenty cents and one stone? Liang Xiao deceived us into bringing food back to Yanzhou, and he deceived people too much! ”

These rice merchants were furious and selectively ignored it, and they maliciously swept away the surplus grain in Yanzhou.

The Yanzhou garrison received Liang Xiao's order, and although the guards were puzzled, they still obeyed the military order and blocked the whole county.

Even the first batch of Liang Jiajun sent 1,000 people to patrol around, strictly prohibiting the evacuation of rice merchants.

But no rice merchants evacuated......

In the courtyard of Taishou Mansion, Liang Xiao was telling Jiang Fuxue, Mu Qinxue, and Gongsun Yue the story of "Fengshen Bang", and he couldn't help but laugh when he received Lei Hong's report.

"I seem to have overestimated the determination of this group of rice merchants, and if they evacuate Yanzhou, the round-trip freight will be another expense, and the cost will rise to 100 yuan and one stone!"

Gongsun Yue hurriedly reminded: "My family's grain has been sold to you, but you promised me that you will not expose my family's ......"

Liang Xiao nodded solemnly.

He already knew that Gongsun Yue raised food first, and Duan Yunyi arranged it later.

If it weren't for Duan Yunyi's arrangement, Gongsun Yue would have gone to raise two or three hundred thousand stones at most and would have stopped.

Gongsun Yue supported the Taishou Mansion with one million stone of grain, if those great families knew, it would be enough to make them hate it.

Mu Qinxue saw that Liang Xiao was happy and relaxed, and she couldn't help but feel good.

He has been laying out for so long, it seems that it is time to close the net?

Those family rice merchants deserve it!

"The reason why they withdrew the grain from Yanzhou is that they don't want the people of Yanzhou to know that there is still a lot of grain in Yanzhou, and their hearts can be punished. It's a pity that they did everything they could, and they didn't expect their brother to think further than them. Jiang Fuxue said in one word.

Gongsun Yue's heart can only be happy.

Fortunately, the "clansman" reminded her early that Yanzhou should be laid out with grain.

Otherwise, she would never have thought of it.

Seventy wen and one stone of grain is really not expensive, and the price in Youzhou is relatively low.

In a poor harvest year, it is not uncommon for grain prices to cost more than 100 yuan per stone.

These grains will be thrown into a tug-of-war between Liang Xiao and this group of rice merchants to see who can't hold on first.

Even if the rice merchant collapsed first, the grain she sold to Liang Xiao could be stored as military rations, foolproof.

But businessmen can't afford to be early.

"Rice merchants outside Yanzhou recently learned that the price of rice in Yanzhou has skyrocketed, and they must be on their way to bring grain to Yanzhou. At that time, you don't even need to lower the price, in order to be able to sell the grain quickly, they will compete to reduce the price......" Gongsun Yue silently looked at Liang Xiao, who was telling a story, with complicated eyes.

Liang Xiao also took the opportunity to annex millions of acres of farmland owned by large and small landlords in Yanzhou......

Most of those rice merchants, landlords, and scholars of the academy were from those great families.

Once these families found out, each family was pitted by Liang Xiao for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver......

"Recently, Duguchen's gang has been slandering you in the academy, don't you care?"

Liang Xiao stopped and said with a smile: "Don't you know what 'catch them all' means?" ”

The three girls were stunned: What "bad idea" is this guy thinking......

Liang Xiao continued: "Under my Liang Xiao's rule, the pen dominates the right to speak, and I will play if I want to play, and their set will not be useful to me!" As for those landlords, they are the moths of the Great Zhou, and they are almost harmful to the Great Zhou, so what if I kill them? ”

Mu Qinxue raised her eyebrows.

"You can distribute newspapers, but they can only copy some content by hand and spread it around, which is far less efficient than you."

"And my brother solved the famine and law and order problems for the people, and the people naturally believe in my brother more~" Jiang Fuxue couldn't help but be proud.

Liang Xiao smiled mysteriously: "It's not just famine and public security issues, Your Majesty and I have purchased these millions of acres of farmland, which is the key to my coming to Yanzhou." In a few months, those great families will lose all their influence in Yanzhou! ”