Gong Ping, who was among the first batch of people who refused to sell rice to the Taishou Mansion, was also among them.

Now they just want to beat themselves to death at the time!

The mentality of the rice merchants became more and more anxious with the passage of time.

Liang Xiao was already determined to only offer a price of 20 wen per stone, and they also understood the stakes.

Sell it to him, and you can also have a stop loss.

Don't sell to him? He was not short of this food at all.

Now it is even more difficult to transport grain to the desert than to ascend to the sky.

First of all, Yanzhou is closed, and only their group of rice merchants can't get out!

After a long time, Dugu Yan stepped forward and said in a mournful voice: "Marquis Lanling, can't you really open the net?" ”

Liang Xiao glanced at Dugu Yan and said, "When you and the others joined forces to create a food shortage and forced the Taishou Mansion to raise prices, why didn't you think about opening up a network for the people of Yanzhou?" ”

Dugu Yan suddenly lost all his thoughts, sat down on the ground, and muttered: "Dugu Neng, my food will be handed over to you to be responsible......

Dugu Neng, who was accompanying him, nodded again and again, and asked knowingly: "What does Uncle Yan mean by this?" ”

Duguyan glanced at Liang Xiao in despair, and tears rained down: "Yanzhou is too guarded, don't give me a way to live!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Dugu Yan, who was paralyzed, suddenly jumped up from the ground!

Liang Xiao's eyes lit up, and he pressed the hilt of the sword on his waist with one hand.

Unexpectedly, Duguyan got up and hit the stone pillar on the side.

Under the shocked gaze of everyone, Duguyan's brain was mixed with blood and water, and it flowed down from the pillar, and Duguyan's body fell to the ground.

"Dugu Yan committed suicide!!"

The rice merchants were terrified.

The people of the Dugu family, led by Dugu Neng, wailed and mourned even more.

Liang Xiao immediately asked someone to collect Duguyan's body and clean up the scene.

"Marquis Lanling, open the net, right?" Gong Ping took the opportunity to plead.

Liang Xiao glanced at him coldly, and said word by word: "Twenty Wen!" ”

The rice merchants breathed for a while, and looked at Liang Xiao with resentment in their eyes.

Duguyan committed suicide, he is still so hard-hearted!

"If you don't sell it, please go back."

Liang Xiao's cold and ruthless eviction order made everyone feel like falling into an ice cave.

After a while, Gong Ping raised his hand with a bitter face: "I sell ......"

In an instant, Gong Ping became the object of resentment of all rice merchants.

"Gong Ping! Your grain has been kept locally, with the least loss, and of course you are willing to sell it!! Dugu Neng feigned anger.

Gong Ping said helplessly: "What can you do if you don't sell it?" The people of Yanzhou have free rations, how can they buy ours? ”

The rice merchants were speechless.

After a while, several rice merchants who had previously rejected the price of 60 wen expressed their willingness to sell rice to the Taishou Mansion at a price of 20 wen per stone.

The alliance of rice merchants finally collapsed at this moment, and everyone rushed to ask for a contract with the Taishou Mansion to sell rice at a price of 20 wen per stone.

Liang Xiao just had a gloomy face, and signed an agreement with everyone, agreeing that he would be able to pay after arranging someone to accept it tomorrow.

Two million stone of grain will soon be included in the treasury of the Taishou Mansion.

These were originally the grains produced in Yanzhou, but they were transported by the rice merchants of the family, and now they have returned to Yanzhou.

After sending away the rice merchants, Qin Baili said worriedly: "Marquis Lanling, that Dugu Yan died in the lobby, I am afraid that Dugu Chen from Yanzhou Academy will make a big fuss again......

Liang Xiao sneered: "It's okay, you guys are calm, I want to see what wind and waves they can set off." ”

Everyone nodded silently.

Heng Mei coldly pointed at Qianfu, bowing his head and being willing to be a son of a cow.

This sentence that Liang Xiao mentioned to Zhuge Hui at the beginning was later recorded by the recorder around Zhuge Hui through Zhuge Hui's narration and spread from the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When he was still a nobody, he was still able to face the difficulties of the students of the family in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and now there is no reason to retreat.

is completely different from Liang Xiao's calmness, Jiang Fuxue, Mu Qinxue, and Gongsun Yue heard that Dugu Yan died in the lobby of Taishou Mansion, and they became more and more worried.

Liang Xiao told them not to stand up for him at that time, he had his own measure.

But this is Yanzhou, not the capital.

There is no empress, no prime minister.

Duguyan's body was sent to Yanzhou Academy, and the white cloth covered with it had been dyed red.

The scholars of Yanzhou Academy were shocked and came out to watch.

Duguchen cried bitterly, wailing endlessly, coughing several times.

"I heard that it was because Liang Xiao was biting the price of 20 wen and did not agree to raise the price, Dugu Yan really couldn't accept it, and he would ...... with death," Duanmu Yan said with tears.

Everyone saw Duguchen grief-stricken, and their eyes couldn't help but redden.

"A rice merchant can still use his life to fight against power, what do my generation of scholars do!"

Dongye Luoyue listened to Duguchen's wail, and couldn't help but cry like rain: "How can this Liang Xiao be so cruel and ruthless!" Twenty wen and one stone, is this planning to force all rice merchants to death! They collect food, and if they have no merit and hard work, they can't let them live! ”

At this moment, the anger of everyone in the academy completely exploded.

Duguchen waved his sleeves and wiped his tears, gritted his teeth and said, "Tomorrow morning, let's go to the Taishou Mansion to denounce Liang Xiao!" I don't believe it, he can still kill all my Yanzhou students!! ”

Everyone raised their arms and shouted: "Condemn!" ”

The well-informed knights also heard about Dugu Yan and were nervous.

"The Marquis of Lanling did not raise the price because of Dugu Yan's death, and still insisted on the purchase price of twenty Wen, but I am afraid that the Dugu family will use this as an excuse to increase efforts to incite Yanzhou ......students."

Xiahou Liukite muttered to himself.

Xiahou Qingyi's eyes were also full of worry.

Liang Xiao's ruthlessness, of course they can understand.

If he hadn't solved the matter, Yanzhou would have starved to death sooner or later.

By then, thousands of people will have died.

Yanzhou is the northern barrier of the Great Zhou, if the Beihu people take the opportunity to go south, it will lead to the fall of Yanzhou...... It was destined to be a misery.

However, this group of students from Yanzhou can always find the moral high ground.

"Chief, shall we go and see it tomorrow? Maybe we can help! Xiahou Liukite proposed.

Xiahou Qingyi nodded again and again, this was exactly what she wanted.

The chivalrous man who reported the news said embarrassedly: "The Marquis of Lanling specially sent someone to tell him that there is no need to support him at that time, he has already figured out how to deal with it." ”

Everyone was stunned, but helpless.

He may have underestimated the influence of this group of scholars in Yanzhou.

The enemy was angry, relatives and friends were worried, but at this moment, Liang Xiao was visiting the ordnance prison at night.

Pu Yuan came to Yanzhou with Liang Xiao, and is now the nominal chief of craftsmen in the Ordnance Prison.

The person in charge of the ordnance supervision is Dong Yuan, the captain of the Xuan Guard.

In a workshop of the Ordnance Superintendent, the fire is blazing, and the craftsmen are still forging weapons.

On the other side of the furnace, there are also workers in charge of ironmaking.

Some of these entourage personnel were personnel from the capital's ordnance superintendent, and when they came to Yanzhou, Duan Yunyi promised to give them double the amount of money and exempt the whole family from the head tax and the land tax within 50 mu.

Now they are changing shifts to catch up with work, in addition to repaying Huangen and Liang Xiao for their support, there is another reason.

According to the value and specifications of the weapons, for every certain number of weapons produced, as a reward, they, the workers and guards, can get a certain "commission".

This has never been the case before.

There is no way, the Marquis of Lanling gave too much.