In the middle of the night, the carriage drove slowly out of the Tianning Imperial Capital. Han Yunxi was exhausted these days and originally planned to take a nap, but who knew, as soon as the carriage arrived in the suburbs, Long Feiye ordered to go southwest.
The famine in Tianning this time is mainly caused by three major disaster areas, all of which are in the central part. The imperial capital is in the north, so they should have gone all the way to the south. Why did Long Feiye turn southwest
Han Yunxi wondered, "Your Highness, is there an ambush ahead?"
Although the news of Long Feiye's injury was kept very tight, he still had to be wary of the man in black spreading it out! There are many people in Yunkong Continent who want Long Feiye's life, so they must be more careful along the way.
"Take you somewhere."
Long Feiye lazily leaned on the high pillow, relaxed, squinting his eyes and taking a nap, he didn't look like a seriously injured person at all, and he didn't seem to worry about such a difficult thing as disaster relief.
At this time, where is he taking her
Han Yunxi guessed that it must be related to disaster relief, but she couldn't figure out the specifics even though she was thinking hard.
She lay on the edge of the window sill and looked at the night outside curiously. She had never walked this road.
Han Yunxi was so tired that she fell asleep just watching.
However, when she woke up the next day, the carriage was still going. Long Feiye had already woken up, and was reading several sealed letters in his right hand.
Han Yunxi leaned over to his side and tugged at his sleeves, "Your Highness, where are we going? Just tell me!"
Long Feiye didn't even raise his eyes, and ignored him.
"Your Highness, just say it."
"Your Highness, just tell me, I can't guess. It looks like we have a long way to go."
Han Yunxi was relentless, and Long Feiye, who always didn't like to be disturbed when reading the secret letter, had no temper at all, and showed Han Yunxi the secret letter casually.
These three secret letters are all about one thing, the uncle's house is eager to get rid of the food.
In three days, the uncle's mansion had to hand over one million yuan in cash to the household department. These days, the uncle's mansion had been anxious to sell the grain in their hands and exchange it for cash. However, not a single grain has been sold yet.
It's not that no one buys food, but that the asking price of the uncle's house is too high.
The National Uncle's Mansion embezzled these grains, and originally waited to raise the price of the grains before selling them. This time, they were forced to sell them in advance. The shrewd and money-greeding Uncle Guo must try to raise the price of the grains as high as possible. Mentioning.
Furthermore, the uncle's mansion urgently needs a large sum of money now! How can it be enough if it is not sold at a good price
The Uncle Guo's Mansion needs to hand over 2.4 million in cash to the Ministry of Households, and 1.2 million was paid a few days ago.
Some of the 1,200,000 cash paid in advance were the prince's betrothal gift for marrying Mu Liuyue, some were the inventory of the uncle's house, and some were usury borrowed by the uncle's house.
Of course, the assets of the Uncle Guo's Mansion are more than one or two million, but Uncle Guo is too smart, and has been exchanging cash for land, and the collections are waiting for price increases. The cash in the mansion is really not much.
If you take an antique casually, or take out a piece of land, it will be worth hundreds of thousands, and some even a small million. It's just that these things are not cash, and these things can't be auctioned or pawned casually. Once they are sold, the face of the uncle's mansion will also be sold.
Even among the Royalists, there are quite a few rich masters, but the Uncle Guo’s Mansion is the richest among them, and it is a great backer of the Royalist Party.
Therefore, the only way for the uncle's mansion is to go to the black market to borrow usury loans. On the condition of paying high interest, they must get cash immediately and require strict confidentiality.
Although it is impossible to find accurate data, it can be roughly estimated that the usury principal and interest to be repaid by the uncle's mansion, plus the money that will continue to be handed over to the household department, add up to about two million.
Under such circumstances, if the grain of the Uncle Guo's Mansion is not sold at a high price, let alone making a profit, it will be difficult to achieve a balance of payments.
These news, of course, are unknown to ordinary people, even the aristocratic circle in the imperial capital, who is used to eating the emperor's food, may not be aware of it. On the contrary, the merchants who traveled all over the world and weighed pennies and pennies had very sharp ears, and they could hear every little trouble.
Everything that happened at Concubine Yi's birthday banquet charity sale and disaster relief has already been spread, and the businessmen with a keen sense of smell naturally sensed business opportunities. They had long expected that the uncle's mansion would sell grain.
Do not get up early without profit, do business without adultery!
At this time, no one is willing to be a good person to help the uncle's house. Everyone will just take advantage of the fire and rob and lower the price tacitly.
The secret letter made it very clear that someone announced in the black market in Tianning that 30,000 tans of rice would be sold, and that the man behind such a large sale during the famine must be the Uncle Guo’s Mansion. Everyone could guess, but there was no proof.
It is true that the corruption of the uncle's mansion is known to everyone, but no one can find any evidence, so it cannot be confirmed, and it has always been a rumor.
After reading the three sealed letters, Han Yunxi also roughly understood the situation.
She smiled and said, "Your Highness is planning to sell food for disaster relief, and arrest corrupt officials to eliminate harm for the people?"
Unexpectedly, Long Feiye shook his head, "No, this king is also going to sell grain."
This…
Han Yunxi was very surprised. Is Long Feiye joking? In this situation of food shortage, he went to sell food
Although it is said that he has a lot of food in his manor in the south of the Yangtze River, he has donated a lot during this time. Where can he find food to sell
Even if he has food, if he sells it, it will only increase the arrogance of those profiteers who fry the food. If such a vicious circle continues, it will be the most detrimental to disaster relief.
You must know that profiteers stir up rice, and the ultimate goal is to sell it, in order to get money from the imperial court for disaster relief.
"Uncle Guo still has three days left, I want him to sell grain at a lower price tomorrow!" Long Feiye said coldly.
As soon as these words came out, Han Yunxi suddenly realized.
She couldn't help feeling emotional, "Your Highness, it turns out that you are the most treacherous!"
"treacherous"
It was the first time someone dared to scold him like this in front of Long Feiye, but instead of being angry, he asked with great interest, "You understand?"
Compared to the ladies and daughters of famous families in this era, Han Yunxi really knows too much.
Of course she understands!
With all the merchants suppressing the price of the uncle's house, Long Feiye stepped in and announced the news of the sale of grain, which would undoubtedly cause the price of grain in the uncle's mansion to continue to fall.
In three days, the Uncle Guo's Mansion will have to hand over the cash to the household department. Even if Uncle Guo doesn't want to sell it at a low price, he will have to sell it at a low price.
The wise follow the trend, and the capable build momentum. Long Feiye's move is to build momentum. Presumably, the black market's grain market will soon change!
Of course, these are secondary. For Long Feiye, there is only one ultimate goal for doing so much, and that is to find evidence of corruption in the uncle's mansion.
Only when the uncle's mansion really started to sell grain and start trading, would he have a chance to find witnesses and evidence.
Otherwise, everything is still just rumors and speculation.
Hearing Han Yunxi's explanation, Long Feiye was quite surprised. He had to explain a lot of Tang Li to Tang Li to understand these important relationships, but Han Yunxi understood everything he said!
Even now, he still feels that he underestimated this woman.
Long Feiye was silent, but nodded while listening, which was the greatest affirmation of Han Yunxi.
As soon as Han Yunxi finished explaining, she immediately struck while the iron was hot, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, I have a guess, I don't know if it's right."
"Let's talk." Long Feiye said calmly.
Han Yunxi snickered, leaned closer and whispered, "Your Highness, I guess you're just going to spread the news to bluff, and you won't sell a single grain of food in your hand."
As soon as these words came out, Long Feiye burst out laughing. While laughing, he pouted Han Yunxi's chin, and reminded with a sinister face, "Han Yunxi, being too smart is not a good thing."
However, Han Yunxi was not afraid of him, she took his hand and slowly lowered it, and said seriously, "Your Highness, I told you that you are not allowed to use your right hand! It will affect the wound!"
On the way back to King Qin's Mansion from You Pavilion, she almost quarreled with him, but finally compromised, and only allowed him to use his left hand, the right hand was absolutely unusable.
Although they were talking about business, she still kept an eye on his movements and his injuries.
Looking at Han Yunxi's serious face, Long Feiye suddenly had a very caring feeling, and he answered her "yes" out of nowhere.
Long Feiye wanted to take Han Yunxi to the black market.
The black market, as the name suggests, is a secret trading market.
Because of the transaction of some things that the imperial court does not approve of circulation, or whose price is much higher than the normal market price, and some informal means of money transactions, such as usury, such as money laundering, it is called "black".
There are two big black markets in Tianning, one is based in the southwest of Tianning Imperial Capital, called Tianyu Black Market; the other is located at the Santu battlefield at the junction of Tianning, Xizhou, and Beili, called Santu Black Market. Among them, the three-way black market is not only the largest in Tianning, but also the largest in Yunkong Continent.
Many major cases affecting the economy of Yunkong Continent all came from the three-way black market.
If it weren't for the time constraints, the Uncle Guo's House would probably not choose the Tianyu black market, but would choose the Santu black market, because the Santu black market is far away from the border, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the faction network in the black market is huge and complicated. Producing evidence is not so easy.
It was precisely this time that time was running short, which gave Long Feiye an excellent opportunity.
At noon that day, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi arrived at the Tianyu black market.
The stronghold of Tianyu Black Market is a secret underground world, the entrance is hidden in the barren hills.
Both Long Feiye and Han Yunxi put on tight masks, and as soon as they got to the barren hills, Long Feiye held Han Yunxi's hand tightly and never let go.
They stopped in front of a black wordless stele that was as tall as a person. Although it was broad daylight and the sun was in the sky, the wordless stele looked particularly gloomy and cold.
"This is the entrance." Long Feiye whispered.
Han Yunxi had heard of this black market, but she didn't expect it to be so secretive. She was curious when she saw Long Feiye randomly kicking three times on the wordless stele.
Behind the stele, a dark cave entrance slowly opened, and soon a hunchbacked old man carrying a lantern came out.
"You kicked the door, are you tired of working?" The old man reprimanded angrily, and slowly raised his head...