Chapter 1071 What is he planning?
Within an hour, the steward rushed in to report.

"My lord! The villain just had someone come to report that the corner gate of the mansion is now surrounded by people." The steward's heart was beating like thunder, and his face was full of sorrow.

"What's going on? What are they going to do?" Ju Haoming asked in surprise, but the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger.

"They're all buying rice!" the manager gritted his teeth and said.

Ju Haoming suddenly stood up from his chair, "I can't wait any longer!"

After thinking for a while, he stood behind the desk again and picked up his pen.

For a while, there was a lot of excitement in front of the Yajiao Gate of Yingnan Prefecture. Some people were carrying rice bags, some were carrying dustpans, and a long queue formed in front of the gate.

"Everyone line up, don't be crowded, one household is limited to two catties of brown rice."

A yamen servant yelled in front of the corner gate of the mansion, scooped up half a liter of brown rice, and put the rice into the man's cloth bag.

A yamen servant next to him was holding the household registration files in his hand, and was checking each household before registering them in the register.

"Come on, ten coins!" The yamen servant stretched out his hand, took ten copper coins from a commoner, glanced at them roughly, and threw them into the wooden box behind him.

Gu Chengyu looked at the scene here from a distance, and when he saw a few people in the crowd who were poking their heads, and no one was buying rice tools, his eyebrows were raised, hurry up!
Soon!
"My lord, how long will we have to do this?" Ming Mo looked at the long line of people, his hair was turning gray with worry.

Looking at the adult next to him, his eyebrows and eyes are still curved, and he is in a good mood.He couldn't help but feel the veins throbbing violently on his head, why isn't your lord in a hurry?

"At least five more days!" Gu Chengyu stretched out three fingers and shook the folding fan in his hand.

Ming Mo suddenly wept, "The grain depot must be half empty?"

Gu Chengyu nodded emphatically, "Well! Anyway, they are all old sesame seeds and rotten millet, so we have done a good deed."

Then, Gu Chengyu flicked his sleeves in a good mood, sleepy!Go to sleep!

Ming Mo's face was full of helplessness, doing good deeds?Is this a good thing?Maybe it's going to be decapitated!
Looking at the back of his lord going away, Ming Mo could only sigh, and patted his head.Fortunately, my head is growing strong on my shoulders!
"Master, it's not good!"

A follower rushed to the outer study, Xia Mingqun was having a good conversation with a luxuriously dressed gentleman.Xia Mingqun's complexion couldn't help but darken when he saw that the attendants were not only rampaging, but also bluffing.

"Why are you yelling, didn't you see that the old man has a distinguished guest? Why are you so unruly?"

Xia Mingqun stared at the attendants who had already run into the study, and shouted loudly.

This group of people who don't understand the rules, he is discussing business at the moment, so it's unreasonable to barge in like this.

The attendant was taken aback by his master's violent drinking, and when he saw that there were still distinguished guests in the study, he couldn't help but secretly cursed.

Didn't the master himself say that as long as there is news about the imperial envoy, he will report it to him immediately?

He also said that there is no need to report, and no matter when, it must be reported immediately.

The attendant felt wronged in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.

"What's the matter?" Xia Mingqun suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a deep voice.

"My lord! There are a lot of people surrounded in front of the government office, and they are all buying rice!"

"Buy rice? What kind of rice? Where did you get the rice?" Xia Mingqun froze for a moment, then frowned.

He just returned home today, and he still doesn't know about Gu Chengyu's previous actions.

"My lord! The imperial envoy brought a lot of grain from other state capitals. Not only did he pay the victims in advance, but he also sold their grain. Even the people in the city went to the corner gate of the government office to buy rice. The imperial envoy My lord has said that from today onwards, the common people can buy rice at the corner gate of the government office, but the purchase is limited to one catty per household."

"What? How much does he sell for a catty?" Xia Mingqun's eyes widened and he gasped heavily.

"Ten words!" The attendant said a number that shocked and despaired Xia Mingqun.

"Ten texts?" Xia Mingqun gritted his teeth and asked back in disbelief.

"Is it Guzi?" He asked resolutely, then stared closely at his followers, hoping to hear the answer he wanted to hear from him.

"It's brown rice!"

"Crazy, it's crazy! Isn't Shiwen going to die?" Xia Mingqun felt that Gu Chengyu was a lunatic, what was he trying to do?
Is it just for political achievements?But Gu Chengyu has just been promoted not long ago, even if the disaster relief is perfect, it is impossible to be promoted in a short period of time, why should he be so exhausted?
Among all the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, there are very few serious officials. Who doesn't know how to be a human being and stay on the front line so that we can meet each other in the future?Protecting one's life wisely has always been something that officials often do, why does Gu Chengyu have to be different?

Could it be that Gu Chengyu intends to completely offend their Xia family?wait and see!Gu Chengyu, Liang Zijie has grown up this time.

Nowadays, it costs [-] cents a liter to harvest rice, but Gu Chengyu still sells unhusked brown rice for only [-] cents.

He didn't believe that the price of rice grains in other nearby state capitals hadn't increased. Could it be that Gu Chengyu was losing money and making money?No, Gu Chengyu didn't lose money!
Because he took the money donated by their merchants and squandered it wantonly.

What's hateful is that their Xia family actually returned more than half of the money.In other words, Gu Chengyu took the money from the Xia family to add trouble to their Xia family.

Another man in the house also had a very ugly face when he heard this, "Clan Chief Xia, what is your plan for this millet? Do you want it or not? If you don't have this plan, I will sell it to someone else."

This person was a little anxious, afraid that Xia Mingqun would go back on his word and don't want those grains.

This is five thousand stones!For these grains, he traveled a lot of places to gather so much.

Fearing that Xia Mingqun would regret not wanting it, the man was very anxious.

Xia Mingqun turned around and glanced at the man, he hesitated in his heart.

Gu Chengyu sold the price of grain so cheaply, if he bought the millet at the price just mentioned, wouldn't he lose everything?
After all, Gu Chengyu's brown rice only sells for ten cents a catty, if he sells it expensively, who will buy his grain.

But if he doesn't sell it more expensively, he will lose money.It's a shame that the price of the millet he collected was much higher than before, so how much money would he have to pay?He collected [-] shi.

When Xia Mingqun thought of this, his heart suddenly became flustered.

Seeing that Xia Mingqun was obviously hesitant, the man changed his mind, and then said, "Patriarch Xia, I thought Mr. Gu's behavior was very suspicious! You see, they will only go to the nearby state capitals, but those state capitals can buy Is there so much cheap food? If you buy too much, won’t the price go up?”

Xia Mingqun couldn't help but nodded when he heard the words, it was indeed the reason.A businessman makes a lot of money, who cares if you sell it to disaster victims?They just want to make money.

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