Because there is oil, grain and money, thanks to Liu Yan, in a short period of time, the Jiashen Association really did not notice the rise in local food prices.
The rations for 5,000 soldiers are not much, and Xu Xiongyuan has not felt the pressure yet.
He secretly lusted after the mines in the hands of the local tyrants, especially the gold mines that were shining with gold, and wanted to grab them just like that. But, he really took Liu Yan's words to heart. Even if there are natural dangers in Jingnan, if the local tyrants unite, and the surrounding garrison troops are dispatched, his 5,000 soldiers will not be enough.
Xu Xiongyuan could only temporarily hold back his eagerness and wait patiently for news from the capital, but in the process of waiting, Liu Yan gradually got his liking.
However, Zhao Zhou faintly felt something was wrong. He asked Liu Yan from time to time, "Is the imperial court's anti-corruption activities really strong?"
Liu Yan snorted coldly, and said with hatred and anger: "On the surface it looks like anti-corruption, but it's not using power to force people! The people above speak, the people below are perfunctory, and in the end only catch some scapegoats, that's enough!"
Those corrupt officials in Daheng are just so perfunctory!
Liu Yan was genuinely angry. Zhao Zhou saw his appearance in Zhao Zhou's eyes, and Zhao Zhou was too embarrassed to continue asking. He just thought that it might be because the area of Jinghu Lake was too chaotic, or that the anti-corruption officers hadn't arrived yet, or It's just that the local officials have been perfunctory, so there is no major movement.
Although it was reasonable to think so, he still had a bad premonition. His right eyelid kept twitching, but he didn't know what would happen.
A few days later, the man sent out to assassinate the emperor returned.
These people were very embarrassed. As soon as they returned to the Jiashen Club, they fell to the ground exhausted. Xu Xiongyuan was so anxious that he couldn't do it on the surface. He stood next to the assassin and urged, "How is it, did the assassination succeed? That dog emperor is dead. No? Why are you the only ones left?"
The leader of the assassin took a breath, and after he came over, he laughed loudly: "That dog emperor was shot by us, hahahaha! I'm afraid he will die soon!"
Xu Xiongyuan was overjoyed, patted the assassin's leader on the shoulder and laughed up to the sky: "Good job, God will help me, Xu, too!"
Xu Xiongyuan sneered, this time, I am afraid that the court can no longer control the villain army. The gold mine is robbed, and who can do anything to him
He asked the servants to quickly help the person to rest, ordered the person to cook a good meal, and planned to have a lively celebration.
At the banquet, everyone enjoyed the wine. After a few glasses of wine, Zhao Zhou heard the words of two doormen not far away complaining that they could not afford food at home today.
Zhao Zhou frowned, and Liu Yan, who was sitting beside him, glanced at him, raised his sleeves and poured himself a glass of wine, and asked with concern, "Why is Brother Zhao so worried?"
Zhao Zhou sighed, "Brother Liu, I don't know, the food you brought back in the past few days is about to run out. Once the military pay is gone, the soldiers will panic. I sent someone to buy rice a few days ago. Only then did I know that the price of rice grains in the city has actually risen."
Liu Yan flashed a smile, and asked without changing his face, "How much has it gone up?"
Zhao Zhou said: "It rose to 30% of the original."
Liu Yan immediately shook his head amusedly, "Brother Zhao, if you don't do these kinds of business in your family, you shouldn't know that this price increase is within the normal range."
Zhao Zhou questioned: "This has risen by 30%, is this still normal?"
"Naturally," Liu Yan nodded and thought for a while, "The news of the amount of ore in Jinghu Lake should have been spread recently, and these people who came from Jiangnan to open grain shops inevitably thought that the entire Jinghu Lake area had made a lot of money. For businessmen, it is instinct to seek profit.”
Zhao Zhou sighed and felt uneasy, "I hope so."
When Liu Yan came to the Jiashen Meeting, there were two hundred new recruits from the Supervision Office with him.
There is a shortage of people in the Holy Spirit, so the people in the Supervision Department have studied very hard. As time went on, the Supervision Office became larger and larger in secret, and people like Sun Xiaoshan walked out of the Supervision Office and used their feet to travel across the entire Daheng country on behalf of the saint.
Along with the Supervision Office were 500 elite soldiers of Dongling Guards, and they obeyed the Supervision Office's command at any time. These five hundred people are all powerful people, one can block ten, and all of them are fierce men.
The leader of the Supervision Department is named Jiang Jin.
Jiangjin brought people to Jiangnan, and first interrupted the news chain between Jingnan and Jiangnan, in case the news of Jiangnan leaked out and alerted Jingnan in advance.
After doing this, Jiang Jin began to buy food in Jiangnan in accordance with the order of the saint.
The granary in the south of the Yangtze River has long been cleared by Gu Yuanbai, and the merchants in the major grain shops have also closed the grain shops. These people are the people Gu Yuanbai buried in the south of the Yangtze River in the past. After they closed the grain shop, the last grain in the shop was secretly transported to the Supervision Office.
Gu Yuanbai deliberately rushed Lu Feng's remnants to Jingnan and Jiangnan, so why didn't he take some precautions
When he drove the rebel army here, he had already made a lot of preparations for today's scene.
After that, I don't know when it started, the voice of "Jiangnan is out of food" began to sound in Jiangnan.
When this voice first sounded, many people sneered, what is Jiangnan? A prosperous land of fish and rice! How can there be no food in such a place
But as more and more people spoke, the unbelievers began to hesitate.
They dubiously walked into the grain store to take a look, but they really found that the grain store was running out of food.
Even many grain shops have closed.
The people in Jiangnan were stunned.
After recovering, under inexplicable panic, they rushed into the only remaining grain shop with money, desperately trying to grab the grain in the grain shop. There are more people robbing, and the panic of running out of food is getting bigger and bigger. In the end, the owners of the grain shop became suspicious, they closed the door and were unwilling to sell grain.
After this situation became more and more serious in Jiangnan, another rumor began to sound again.
There is a plague in the provinces.
As soon as this rumor came out, everyone panicked as soon as they saw that there was no grain in the grain shop. Regardless of whether people believed it or not, they were all afraid at this time. Under the plague, the people's thirst for food increased. They had no choice but to run to the government, but the officials in the government had already fled with food!
The people used brute force to open the granary, but only saw sparse grain grains in the granary, and nothing else.
Jiangnan is so prosperous, and the people of Jiangnan are used to buying various things with currency. They never thought that there would be a day without food, but when this day really came, they realized that the prosperity of Jiangnan was so fragile.
The food in the fields is still growing, and the people's homes only have the food that they haven't eaten last time, and the only people who can have enough food are the local tyrants.
At this time, let alone transporting grain to Jingnan, the local grain in Jiangnan is not enough.
Half a month later, the people of Jingnan heard the news from Jiangnan.
Jiangnan is out of food.
People in Jing Hunan looked at each other.
They were the same as Jiangnan's reaction when they first heard the news, they didn't believe it.
But then they couldn't help but believe it.
Jiangnan is out of food. After confirming this, the people of Jinghu Lake panic. The only province around Jinghu that can provide food for them is Jiangnan, a big province. Now that Jiangnan is out of food, what can they do?
The people of Jingnan fell into deep panic.
They took the money from selling mines and went to the grain shop to buy grain. But no food is no food, what is the use of more money
In the blink of an eye, Jingnan and Jiangnan were so poor that only money was left.
Ningyuan County.
All the members of the Jiashen Society gathered together, and many of them were flustered, and they all said the same question, "General, what should we do if we run out of food?"
Xu Xiongyuan's expression was also not good-looking. He asked the group of military advisers, "What tricks do you gentlemen have?"
The strategists frowned, Zhao Zhou's heart jumped, and his eyelids kept jumping, "How come this food is suddenly gone?"
Xu Xiongyuan's patience diminished and he said impatiently, "Mr. Zhao, since this incident has already happened, there is no need to investigate what happened. The most important thing now is how to get food! To eat, without pay, there will be defections and chaos."
Zhao Zhou hesitated to speak, but finally closed his mouth.
Liu Yan gave him a soothing look, pondered for a long time, and said, "General, now there are rumors of plague in other provinces in Jingnan, and even a small place like Ningyuan County is panicked. I already believed it, and now I can’t buy food, and no one is willing to come out and sell it.”
Xu Xiongyuan: "This general knows."
Liu Yan sighed and said in a low voice, "It just so happened that our people also sent someone to hurt the emperor, and now there is chaos outside, isn't it time for us to get ahead?"
Xu Xiongyuan was startled when he heard the words, and then his veins bulged with excitement. His dark face was eager to try, and it was obvious that his heart had been moved.
Liu Yan continued in a low voice: "Jingnan is so chaotic, so must Jiangnan. Under such circumstances, we..."
"It's time for us to get ahead," a military advisor said excitedly. "The people are so panicked, but those tyrants can still sit still. General, the food must be there!"
Xu Xiongyun instantly remembered the gold mine that the Chen family dug up half a month ago.
As soon as the greedy thoughts come out, they can no longer be suppressed.
Zhao Zhou's thoughts couldn't help but follow Liu Yan's. Now, regardless of whether the plague outside is true or not, there must be chaos in Jingnan and Jiangnan.
The emperor is also at stake now. With such an opportunity, whoever does not come out is stupid!
If we can take both Jingnan and Jiangnan in one fell swoop, one would have natural dangers, two would have the entire Jiangnan area as the back of military salaries, plus the death of the emperor—
Zhao Zhou stood up abruptly and held Xu Xiongyuan's hand excitedly, "General, this is our chance to recover."
The arrogance in Xu Xiongyuan's heart suddenly rose, and he said with a surging heart: "What Mr. said is what I mean!"