Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 1061 The first of the 24 heroes in Lingyan Pavilion
The first sixty-fourth chapter of Lingyan Pavilion 24 heroes

It was early morning the next day when Li Xiuning received the news that Duke Du had been captured.

After interrogation, Du Gong also confessed truthfully, but he was just a man. Du Gong's name was Du Jingtong, and he was the son of Cao Canjun, a former soldier of the Qin Dynasty, and Du Yan, a scholar of Hongwen Museum.

At the beginning, Chen Ying did not ask Du Jingtong to blame because he insisted that the disaster would not be as good as his family. Who knew that he escaped from the Central Plains at the end of the seventh year of Wude, and after a narrow escape, he arrived in Fusang Datang and was appointed as Zhongshu by Li Shimin. Sheren was granted the title of Duke of Dongyang County.

This assassination incident was led by Du Jingtong who sneaked into the Central Plains.

Li Xiuning was very angry, and the consequences were serious.

And then someone is going to have bad luck.

First of all, at the behest of Li Xiuning, the Zuomin Ministry of the court announced this year's grain production and Changping warehouse stock.As a result, due to the Goguryeo War of the imperial court, the stock in the Changping warehouse decreased, and it was necessary to replenish the grain in the Changping warehouse.

As soon as the news was announced, grain prices in Guanzhong rose accordingly. Immediately afterwards, the imperial court issued a new policy. Due to the sharp decrease in the stock of grain in official warehouses, it was necessary to strengthen the control over the sales of rice, paddy, flour, potatoes, and sweet potato starch. Reduce food outflow.

The people all over the world agreed with this move, because the imperial court was at war with Goguryeo. Hearing that Xue Yantuo, who was a soldier in Yudu, rebelled, it was an inevitable fact to send more troops to Anbei Dadu Protectorate to quell the rebellion. I don't know what the harvest will be like next year. In this era, it basically depends on whether God will reward the food.It's better to hide the stored food well to deal with the possible famine year.

At this time, the Guanzhong grain companies canceled the original grain delivery one after another, and would rather pay a huge liquidated damages than carry out physical delivery.

Guanzhong is actually the most industrialized area in Datang apart from Anxi. Datang's production capacity of 5000 million jin of steel, as well as the production capacity of one million sets of armor and weapons, are all concentrated in Guanzhong, not to mention there are 30 According to incomplete statistics, the population in Guanzhong who needs to buy food for food has exceeded 200 million.

Calculated based on the price of three liters of rice per person per day, this figure will be about 800 million shi. Adding in the grain that needs to be replenished in the Changping warehouse, it is estimated that the food shortage will be 500 million shi or even more.

The entire Guanzhong suddenly panicked, especially the common people, immediately took out their savings and snapped up food, and the price of food skyrocketed.The major grain shops are not fools either. Seeing the momentum, they knew that the opportunity had come. They all said that the grain had been sold out and closed their doors.

Then, the familiar routine came: the panic-stricken people took their savings and begged their grandparents to tell their grandmothers to buy some grain, but most of the grain shops are closed and the price is changing all the time, teaching you how to be a man every minute !
Soon, desperate ordinary people found that their monthly income was not enough to buy a bag of brown rice.

In just over ten days, the food crisis swept across major cities in Guanzhong. More and more people were short of food, and fewer and fewer grain shops were still open.

I managed to buy a little grain, but it was moldy, and at least [-]% of the sand had seeped through it, so I couldn’t eat it unless I sifted it. The grain like this is still priceless, and it’s popular, but you have to talk to the grain merchants about it. Directly throw out a sentence: "Love to buy, buy, don't buy!"

Not even a place to reason.

The price of salt and oil also soared, and even the price of potato noodles, which has always been known for its low price, has risen to five hundred and one stone. Needless to say, the price of rice and wheat is like a mad dog, flying up and biting people.

The grain merchants in Guanzhong have just recovered from the last battle of grain famine in Guanzhong. Seeing such a good opportunity, they fueled the flames, trying every means to create panic, drive up grain prices, and at the same time do everything possible to find grain sources, no matter how high the price is. As long as there is food on the line.

The wool comes from the sheep, how much money they spent when buying the goods, and those poor ghosts have to pay back double when buying grain, what are they afraid of?
Two months later, it's time to turn the corner.

The price of food has risen to ten guan silver a stone, and the people in Guanzhong are about to jump into the river.At this price, they can't even afford it!The profiteers felt that it was almost done, and with an order, the major grain stores opened, and the food supply was finally restored, but the people in Jiangnan were already desperate. Even if the food supply was restored, they would not be able to afford it!
However, after the grain market reopened, the situation was a bit weird.Datang Anxi Railway Transportation Corporation announced a new transportation fee system. In order to deal with the old grain in Anxi over the years, all merchants who transported grain to Guanzhong will be subsidized with three coins per stone of grain, which will be deducted from the transportation fee.

In this way, the cost of transporting grain from Anxi to Chang'an is only a pitiful [-] Wen per stone, which is almost equivalent to giving away for nothing.

The key point is that Anxi has too much accumulated grain, even if he tries his best to make wine, the price is still around ten cents per bucket.

Originally, transportation costs restricted the circulation of grain, but now that this barrier has been eliminated, merchants began to transport grain to Guanzhong after hearing the news.However, the transportation capacity of the train is amazing. Even if half of it is used to load other goods, each car can still transport up to ten thousand stones of grain.The cost of this [-] shi of grain, plus transportation costs, is only [-] guan. Compared with the price of [-] guan per shi in Guanzhong, you can earn [-] to [-] times by changing hands.

As Marx said in Das Kapital, capitalists can take risks for 50.00% profits, and dare to trample on any law in the world for [-]% profits.With a profit of [-]%, they dared to risk hanging.

But now, under the stimulation of [-] to [-] times the profit of the grain, the merchants completely ignored the warnings of the aristocratic family, and they moved on hearing the news, desperately transporting the grain from Anxi to Guanzhong.

As the full load of grain was transported to the railway station in Anhuafang, Chang'an City, the price of grain in Guanzhong plummeted.

For the sharp drop in grain prices, the people in Guanzhong are in favor of it. After all, no one knows how the grain harvest will be in the coming year. Anyway, the grain price is low, so they can take the opportunity to buy some and save it.

The grain merchants in Guanzhong are actually the nobles of Guanlong and the powerful families of the world. Only they own countless lands and a large amount of grain. As the price of grain plummeted, they also became anxious.

Seeing that there is plenty of rain today, a bumper harvest is inevitable, and they have already accumulated enough grain. If Anxi grains are allowed to occupy the Guanzhong grain market, what awaits them will be a dead end.

At the most critical moment, a huge news came.After three months of bloody battle, Li Shiji, the general of Andong and the chief protector of the Protectorate of Andong, conquered the city of Pyongyang, captured Gao Jianwu and more than [-] princes and nobles, and surrendered the whole country of Goguryeo.

According to Chen Ying's previous proposal, Li Shiji established the four towns of Andong Duhufu, directly merging Goguryeo into Datang.

This turmoil has not yet calmed the people in Guanzhong, but another tsunami-like news came again. Songtsen Gampo led more than [-] people at the foot of Namcuo Mountain to take an oath against the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, due to the loud roar of the rebels, an avalanche was caused. More than [-] rebels were buried alive at the foot of Namcuo Mountain without spending a single soldier from the Tang Dynasty. It came out, but all turned into ice sculptures.

As the weather got warmer, in order to prevent Li Jiancheng from getting angry, the soldiers of the Anxi Protectorate only had to make Songtsen Gampo into bacon and transport it back to Chang'an.

As for the most fatal blow to the grain merchants in Guanzhong, Bazhuo's more than [-] troops attacked Yinshan, preparing to reach the Guanzhong bandits along the Yinshan trail.

Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia who was originally unknown in the Tang Dynasty, led [-] Tang soldiers and set up an ambush on Yinshan Mountain. After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, Bazhuo led [-] rebels, more than [-] were killed, and more than [-] surrendered. As for where did the other ten thousand people go?

Just as the saying goes, ashes return to ashes, and dust returns to dust, they are like spring mud, taking care of the grass in the Yinshan grassland.

To make matters worse, the imperial court announced a fatal news at this time.It turned out that the head of the newly established audit department was an old official with old eyesight. Because he misread the figures when making statistics, he missed the 600 million shi of grain in Changping warehouse.

The imperial court must resolutely deal with such dereliction of duty officials and will never tolerate them. This official was dismissed and investigated, and even Bibu doctor Xu Jingzong was fined [-] catties of copper because of statistical errors.

Five hundred catties of copper coins sounds like a lot, but in fact it is not much.The usual money is about seven catties, so five hundred catties is more than 70 pennies. I am afraid that a high-class prostitute in the north of Chang'an City will pay more than this price.

The price of food plummeted, and the common people waited and watched instead, hoping to buy cheaper food.The people in Guanzhong were a false alarm, and they didn't say anything except to spare as much money as possible to buy more food.The grain merchants in Guanzhong... No, to be precise, the aristocratic families in Guanzhong also didn't say anything. They were all vomiting blood, so they couldn't speak!
This food chaos lasted only two months, but it caused the Guanzhong aristocratic clan and grain merchants to lose more than 2000 million yuan in money and grain. The common people are certainly terrified by the crazy grain prices, and the wealthy businessmen who lost their pants in the hoarding Howling loudly, now it's their turn to try to reason but they can't find the ground.

On the banks of the Weishui River, from time to time, you can see a few well-dressed rich men in silk and satin crying and laughing at the riverside. When they see the surging river, they close their eyes and jump directly into it.

They are all crazy!
There is no way not to be crazy. During the two-month-long food chaos, those guys who have always been used to making money in the country and earning black-hearted money first became rich overnight, and then the wealth disappeared overnight, and they owed a lot of money Debts, wives and children, family bankruptcy, how can these guys who love money like their lives bear such a blow!
When they learned that they were completely fish in the game, especially when they bought the grain frantically in the second month, the price was all at [-] to [-] yuan, and finally the price of grain fell back to [-] cents per bucket.

A stone of grain has a net loss of six or seven. It’s strange that they don’t vomit blood. Many unscrupulous grain merchants and stock speculators immediately went crazy. hanged himself, the tragedies of family ruin and death happened frequently, and a few corpses floated from time to time in the beautiful Weishui River, and one or two corpses dangled on the trees by the river like grouse hanging under the eaves , by adding a bit of horror atmosphere!

"thump……"

Someone jumped into the river again, but the person sitting on the deck of the black-covered boat in the Weishui River didn't even lift their heads.

Guo Luo pushed Zhou Qing beside him and said, "How old is it today?"

"Not many, only 31!"

Zhou Qing spat at the wealthy businessman who fell into the river, and angrily cursed, "It's what you deserve!"

Looking at Chen Ying who was sleeping soundly on the deck.

Guo Luo made a silent gesture.

This war without gunpowder smoke, from beginning to end, was actually the mastermind behind Chen Ying.

At this moment, another black-covered boat slowly approached.

Wei Zheng jumped over from the awning boat.

Chen Ying still seemed unconscious.

This time, Chen Ying was really scared.He was in a coma for three consecutive days and three nights. Thanks to Sun Simiao's blood transfusion, Chen Ying was brought back to life.

However, Chen Ying's body seemed to be weakened. He was very afraid of the cold, and he didn't like the stove, but liked to bask in the sun.

Only by living and breathing in the sun can Chen Ying feel like a human being.

Wei Zheng cupped his hands towards Chen Ying, and sat in the cabin as if no one else was there, pouring himself a drink of vinegar and celery on the table.

Wei Zheng smiled and said, "General, when will you be willing to return to court?"

Chen Ying finally made a move: "I am alive, so many people feel uneasy, it is better to let me die!"

"The food war made them feel the problem!" Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "They stopped in time later. According to their greedy temperament, ten guan per stone is not the peak at all. There are many examples like Dou Mi Wan Qian in Guanzhong. Second-rate!"

Chen Ying got up and looked at Wei Zheng and said, "Your real opponent is here!"

"Who?"

"Guess what?"

"Fang's plan to end it?" Wei Zheng suddenly realized, "Du Ruhui, he's back?"

Chen Yingdao: "Of course, he is the only one with such determination!"

Wei Zheng's eyes flickered with excitement and said: "Interesting, really interesting! Only by having a good fight with him can this life be worthwhile!"

Chen Yingdao: "That's your business, pass a message to His Majesty for me!"

"If you don't pass it on, you have to say it yourself!"

"It's better not to meet again!" Chen Ying said with a wry smile, "I didn't expect him to be so fragile and turn gray overnight!"

"It's not because of you!"

Wei Zheng said angrily: "The prince is only nineteen years old, and you still need to take care of him!"

"Okay, don't try it!" Chen Yingdao: "I will be the Minister Gu Ming, you will rest assured?"

Wei Zheng smiled awkwardly and said, "Your Majesty had a dream yesterday!"

"Oh!" Chen Ying replied.

Wei Zhengdao: "Your Majesty had a very strange dream. In the dream, Your Majesty saw a very strange scene. At Xuanwu Gate, he dreamed that he was ambush and was shot to death by Li Shimin with a bow. Cheng Zhijie swung a knife and chopped off his body. The first level..."

"You don't really believe it, do you?" Chen Ying was already in a cold sweat.

Li Jiancheng's dream is the most real thing in history.

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Fang Xuanling told me about the plan of Tiance Mansion..."

Chen Ying said coldly: "Seven years have passed, is it still important?"

"Very important!" Wei Zheng looked directly at Chen Yingdao with sharp eyes: "The Tiance Mansion was worried that I would disrupt the situation, saw through their schemes, and ordered Ling Jing to trick me out, so I became a spectator at the Xuanwu Gate, and you became the winner." Backhand, Fang Xuanling said that there are some things that Yu Chigong doesn't know at all, the highest rank in Donggong in Tiance Mansion is Yuchi Gong, how do you know Li Shimin's detailed plan, and counteract all his plans?"

Chen Yingdao: "Is there any point in saying this now?"

Wei Zheng said, "You really can predict the future?"

Chen Yingdao: "What do you think? If you ask Li Shiji, ask Li Ji, and see if the two of them can figure out Li Shimin's plan, is it difficult?"

Wei Zheng was speechless.

Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense with me, tell me why you came!"

Wei Zheng said solemnly: "Your Majesty is going to follow the example of the 28 generals in Yuntai, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and build Lingyan Pavilion, and set up Lingyan Pavilion with 24 heroes!"

Chen Yingdao: "And then?"

Wei Zheng went on to say: "You are the first of the 24 meritorious officials in Lingyan Pavilion, and you are the king of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, and Chen Qian will inherit the title!"

Chen Ying continued: "And then?"

Wei Zhengdao: "Your Majesty, we are planning to change the system of the Tang Dynasty's [-]th-class Lords, and make General Sima the first class."

Chen Ying's expression was still indifferent: "You know, I don't care about these things. Now we still have a fierce battle to fight. Li Shimin's temptation is over, and the real thing begins. Take out the imperial decree!"

Wei Zheng took out an imperial decree from his bosom, unfolded it, and found that there was not a single word on it.However, this imperial decree was signed by Yuxi, Shangshu, Zhongshu, and the three provinces under the door, all of which were incomplete, which meant that no matter what Chen Ying wrote in this imperial decree, it was a legal imperial decree.

Chen Ying picked up the pen, and it was done immediately.

Looking at the imperial edict written by Chen Ying, Wei Zheng was extremely surprised.

Li Jiancheng successively bestowed two blank edicts to Chen Ying.

However, these two imperial decrees, Chen Ying, were all to reward his subordinates. This imperial decree was only awarded to a small captain named Xue Rengui as the general of the town army.

Wei Zheng became puzzled, could this Xue Rengui also be Chen Ying's illegitimate son?

Of course, Chen Ying did not explain.

Chen Yingdao: "Let the navy gather in Qu County!"

"Where are you taking the sailor?"

"Fuso!"

PS: Ask for support for the last time!
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(End of this chapter)