Because there is money in oil and grain, thanks to Liu Yan's blessing, within a short period of time, A Shen will really did not find the local grain prices rise.
The rations of five thousand soldiers were not much, and Xu Xiong Yuan did not feel the pressure at the moment.
He secretly coveted the mines in the hands of the local strongmen, especially the gold mines that glittered with gold, and wanted to grab them just like that. But right, in the end, he put those words Liu Yan said in his heart, even if Jinghu South has heavenly dangers, but if the local magnates unite together, plus the neighboring garrisons out, his five thousand soldiers are not enough to look at.
Xu Xiongyuan can only temporarily hold down the mood of stupidity, patiently waiting for the news to come from the capital, and in the process of waiting, Liu Yan in turn gradually got his favorite.
Zhao Zhou, however, vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and he asked Liu Yan from time to time, "Is the court's anti-corruption campaign really strong?"
Liu Yan snorted coldly, and said with hatred and anger: "On the surface it looks like anti-corruption, but it is still not a messy use of power to force people! The people above speak, the people below perfunctory, and in the end only catch some scapegoats, that's enough!"
That's how those corrupt officials in Daheng perfunctorily dealt with His Majesty!
Liu Yan real anger, his this look in the eyes of Zhao Zhou, Zhao Zhou is embarrassed to continue to ask, only thinking that it may be because of the Jinghu South this is too chaotic, either anti-corruption personnel have not yet arrived, or the local officials have been perfunctory up, so it did not make any big noise.
Although it was reasonable to think so, he still had some bad feeling about it, his right eyelid kept jumping, he just didn't know what kind of thing would happen.
After a few more days, the man sent to assassinate the Emperor returned.
These people were in a sorry state, once they returned to the A-Shen Society, they collapsed on the ground in exhaustion, Xu Xiongyuan was so anxious that he couldn't do any more superficial work, and stood next to the assassins and urged, "How was it, was the assassination successful? Did the dog emperor die? How come you guys are the only ones left?"
The assassin leader gasped for breath and slowed down before he laughed loudly, "That dog emperor was shot by us, hahahaha! I'm afraid it's going to die soon!"
Xu Xiongyuan was overjoyed, patting the assassin leader's shoulder and laughing up to the sky, "Well done, the heavens have helped me, Xu!"
Xu Xiongyuan laughed coldly, this time, I am afraid that the court can no longer control the anti-faction army. The gold mine is robbed, who can do anything about it?
He told the servants to hurry up and help the person to rest, and ordered the people to cook a good meal, intending to make a lively celebration.
At the banquet, the people were drinking and talking. After a few cups of wine, Zhao Zhou heard the words of two gatekeepers not far away complaining about not being able to afford food at home today.
Zhao Zhou's brow was furrowed, Liu Yan, who was sitting beside him, glanced at him, lifted his sleeve and leisurely poured himself a glass of wine and water, and said with concern, "Why does brother Zhao have a worried look on his face?"
Zhao Zhou sighed, ''Brother Liu doesn't know that the food that was recently brought back by you is going to run out in the next few days. Once the military pay is gone, the soldiers will panic. I sent someone to acquire rice and grain the other day, but this is how I realized that the price of rice and grain in the city has actually increased."
Liu Yan flashed a smile and asked with an unchanged face, "How much has it gone up?"
Zhao Zhou said, "It went up to thirty percent of the original."
Liu Yan suddenly shook his head in general amusement, "Brother Zhao, you don't do these camps at home, you should not know that this price increase is within the normal range."
Zhao Zhou questioned, "This has gone up thirty percent, is this still within normal?"
"Naturally," Liu Yan nodded, pondered for a while, "the recent news of the abundance of ores in Jinghu South should have been spread, and it is inevitable that these people who came from Jiangnan to open grain stores thought that the entire Jinghu South had earned a large sum of money. Businessmen, profit-seeking is instinctive."
Zhao Zhou sighed, jittery, "I hope so."
When Liu Yan came to the A-Shen Society, along with him, there were two hundred newcomers from the Supervision Department.
The saint lacked people to use, so the people of the Office of Supervision learned to work very hard. As time lengthened, the Office of Supervision in the dark office is getting bigger and bigger, one by one the same Sun Xiaoshan like people out of the Office of Supervision, with feet for the saint to step on the whole of the country of the Great Heng.
Along with the Ombudsman's Office were five hundred elite soldiers of the Dongling Guards, who were at the command of the Ombudsman's Office at all times. These five hundred men were all formidable people, one could block ten, and each was a fierce man.
The leader in the Ombudsman's Office is named Etsu.
Jiang Jin brought people to Jiangnan, first breaking the news chain between Jinghu South and Jiangnan, in case the news from Jiangnan leaked out to alarm Jinghu South in advance.
When this was done, Jiang Jin began to buy grain in a big way in Jiangnan, as ordered by His Holiness.
Jiangnan's granary has long been sent by Gu Yuanbai to clear away, and the merchants in the major grain stores have also closed their stores, these people are exactly the people Gu Yuanbai buried in Jiangnan in the past. And after they closed the grain store, the last grain in the store was also secretly transported to the monitoring office.
Gu Yuanbai drove the remnants of Lu Feng intentionally to the south of Jinghu Lake and Jiangnan, and how could he not do something to prevent it?
When he drove the rebels here, he had made many preparations for this scene today.
After that, I don't know when the voice of "Gangnam is running out of food" started to resound in Gangnam.
When this voice first sounded many people contrasted scoffed, what is the south of the river? The prosperous land of fish and rice! How could such a place not have food?
But as more and more people said it, the unbelievers began to hesitate.
They half-heartedly went into the grain store to take a look, but they really found that there was not much grain left in the store.
Even many, many grain stores have closed.
The people of Gangnam were stunned.
After regaining their senses, under the inexplicable panic, they rushed into the only remaining grain store with their money and desperately tried to rob the grain in the store. As more people robbed, the panic of running out of food grew. At the end of the day, the owners of the grain stores became paranoid, and they closed their doors, unwilling to sell any more grain.
After this situation grew stronger in Gangnam, another rumor began to ring out.
There's a plague in the provinces.
As soon as this rumor spread, and then when they saw that there was no grain in the grain store, everyone immediately panicked. Regardless of those who had previously believed or not, there was fear in their hearts at this time. Under the plague, the people's thirst for grain increased. They had to run to the government, but the officials in the government even fled with the grain long ago!
The people used brute force to open the granary, but only saw the granary full of sparse grain particles, and nothing else.
Jiangnan was so prosperous that the people of Jiangnan had gotten used to using currency to buy all kinds of things. They had never thought of the day when they would run out of food, and when that day really came, they realized that the prosperity of Jiangnan turned out to be so fragile.
The fields were still growing, the people's homes only had stocks of food that hadn't been eaten last time, and the only people who could have more than enough food were the local magnates.
At this time, let alone transporting grain to Jinghu South again, Jiangnan local grain is not enough.
It was only half a month later that the people of Jinghu South heard the news coming from Jiangnan.
Jiangnan is out of food.
The people of Jinghu Nan looked at each other in disbelief.
They reacted with the same disbelief that Jiangnan had when he first heard the news.
But after that it was up to them to disbelieve.
Jiangnan are out of food, after confirming this matter, the people of the whole Jinghunan panicked, Jinghunan neighboring provinces, the only province that can provide food for them is the big province Jiangnan, now Jiangnan is out of food, what else can they do?
The people of Jinghu South were in deep trepidation.
They took the money from the sale of the mine and went to the grain store to buy grain. But no grain is no grain, so what's the use of having more money?
In the blink of an eye, Jinghu South and Jiangnan were surprisingly poor with only money left.
Ningyuan County.
People with status in the A-Shen Association were gathered together, many of them looked panicked, talking about the same question, "General, what if we run out of food?"
Xu Xiongyuan's face did not look good either as he asked the group of military advisors, "Do you gentlemen have any brilliant ideas?"
All the military advisors were worried, Zhao Zhou's heart was beating sharply and his eyelids were jumping, "How could this grain suddenly be gone?"
Xu Xiongyuan's patience diminished and he impatiently said, "Mr. Zhao ah, now that this matter has happened, there is no need to pursue what is going on, the most important thing today is how to go about getting food! Soldiers cannot go without food, without pay there will be defections and chaos."
Zhao Zhou wanted to say something, but he finally shut his mouth.
Liu Yan gave him a soothing glance, pondered for a long time, and said, "General, nowadays Jinghu South is spreading the news of a plague in the provinces everywhere, and even such a small place as Ningyuan County is doubly panicked, and even though we don't know whether it's true or false, the people have already believed in it, and nowadays, they can't buy any grain, and no one is willing to come out to sell it."
Xu Xiongyuan: "This general knows."
Liu Yan sighed and lowered his voice, "It just so happens that our people also sent someone to injure the Emperor, now that the outside world is in chaos, isn't it time for us to step up?"
Xu Xiongyuan was stunned at his words, and then he was so excited that his veins bulged. His tanned face leapt to action, clearly having his heart moved.
Liu Yan continued in a low voice, "Jinghu South is so chaotic, I think Jiangnan is also the same. In such a situation, we ......"
"It's time for us to step up," exclaimed a military advisor, "the people are in such a panic, yet the magnates are still sitting still, General, I'm sure the grain is with the magnates!"
Xu Xiongyun instantly remembered the gold mine that the Chen family had dug out half a month ago.
Once the greedy thoughts came out, they couldn't be suppressed any longer.
Zhao Zhou's thoughts can not help but follow Liu Yan's walk, now regardless of the outside plague is true or false, but Jinghu South and Jiangnan two places must be chaotic.
The emperor is also in danger now, like this opportunity, who does not come forward who is stupid ah!
If we could take both Jinghu South and Jiangnan in one fell swoop, one would have the heavenly dangers, and the whole Jiangnan strip as a backing for the army's pay, plus once the Emperor was dead--
Zhao Zhou stood up abruptly and excitedly held Xu Xiong Yuan's hand, "General, this is exactly our chance to make a comeback."
The bravado in Xu Xiongyuan's heart rose, and he said with a surging heart, "What you say, sir, is what I mean!"