After the divorce, the salted fish beauty took the script of the villain

As Fang Chuning said, the food in Zhongzhou is indeed under the control of the state government. There is little food in circulation in the market, but it is not all. Xie Jue raised a batch of food in Zhongzhou. Although it is a drop in the bucket, it is better than nothing.The river transportation has been closed, Xie Jue ordered people to go overland to Yancheng, and then transported from Yancheng to the outside of Jiaozhou City.He turned into a rich businessman and bought almost all the grain in the six cities of Zhongzhou. Because of the limited quantity, he didn't attract the attention of others. He just thought it was a rich businessman in Yancheng who was preparing grain for the winter.

Xie Jue stayed at Fang Chuning's mansion, Fang Chuning didn't ask him how long he was going to stay, he went to the barracks during the day after his rest and returned to the mansion at sunset, very punctual.

Several generals in the barracks noticed that General Fang was smiling recently, and that he was very popular. Although the generals in Zhongzhou would not confide in him, they had never rejected him, and their relationship was fairly close.Everyone was joking about whether Fang Chuning had just begun to fall in love and was hiding in the golden house in the mansion.Fang Chuning was 21 years old. Most of the men of the Yanyang clan talked about marriage at this age, married wives and had children.

Fang Chuning has the reputation of restraining his wife, and it has been spread from Kyoto to Zhongzhou. If one fiancée dies, or if, by coincidence, three fiancees die, then it may be that he restrains his wife. Although his status is noble, it saves trouble. No one of his daughters wants to marry him, even if he looks like Pan An, it is in vain, after all, life is more important.

The generals have also been to the mansion, they entered the courtyard three times in a clear and cold manner, they have no female relatives, they don't like to drink flowers and wine on weekdays, they are not good at women, everyone else thinks that the only son of Marshal Fang's family doesn't come in, it's hard to please , now smiling like a spring breeze, that fox's face is full of spring, and others will inevitably have guesses.

Several young generals were drinking and chatting in the army, they were all gossiping about whether Fang Chuning was hiding in the golden house in the mansion, so they rushed home before sunset.

"I want to hide my charm." Fang Chuning shook the bone fan lightly, coquettishly, "It's a pity... I can't afford it."

"What kind of beautiful Jiao'e, even Mr. Fang can't afford it."

Fang Chuning smiled but said nothing, blinked and said, "Gold is precious."

Others saw him smiling like a vixen, so they didn't want to ask, after all, they didn't want to inquire about the female family in his room, they just smiled ambiguously and drank three rounds.

Fang Chuning asked, "The steward in my mansion said that we can't buy food these days, how many times does the state government release food?"

"I heard from my father that it will be the twelfth lunar month. Recently, rich merchants in Yancheng are buying grain. The food in the city is in a hurry. My father just issued a notice that the residents in the city buy grain on a household basis. If you want to buy in Yancheng, you can only buy it directly from the state government. The price is three times higher than the market price." Chen Gui, the son of Zhongzhou Prefecture, is also in the army, and the news is relatively well-informed.

"Wealthy merchants are not allowed to hoard in all the cities of Zhongzhou?" Fang Chuning asked, "The state government stores so much grain just to drain the people's money in winter?"

"No, no..." Chen Gui said, "The state government sells it to the common people, and the price remains the same. If the rich merchants from Yancheng will increase the price three times and sell it to Yancheng, who knows if it will be supplied to Ningzhou iron cavalry? They are already short of food and silver, so of course we have to squeeze them dry.”

This is almost a tip!

Fang Chuning was thoughtful, what can Tingfeng do?They can’t produce grain, and if they want food, they have to spend more money. If there is a snowstorm this winter, the price of grain will skyrocket, and even if they have money, they may not be able to buy it. Last year, the grain in Kyoto increased fivefold.

"Your family is short of food?" Chen Gui asked.

"That's right, it's very lacking." Fang Chuning said with a smile, "I'm not familiar with the place where I was born, and I have raised hundreds of people in my family, so there is no shortage."

Chen Gui lowered his voice and said secretly, "If you are short of food, you can ask the shopkeeper Wen of the Su Family Commercial Bank to buy it. Now in the city, only the Su Family Commercial Bank has surplus food. When my father ordered the commercial bank to hand over the food, the Su Family Commercial Bank only paid They collected two thousand shi, and they piled up the surplus grain in the granary."

"Is there really such a thing?"

"It's absolutely true. My father intends to confiscate by force. Firstly, he is afraid that the commercial company will transport grain to Yancheng, and secondly, he also wants to give Su's commercial company a prestige. The Zhenbeihou's mansion is gone, and their backer has also fallen. A commoner merchant, Why are you fighting against the state government? It’s too ignorant." Chen Gui snorted and said, "I heard that Mr. Su's life in Jiangnan is not easy, and the Su family business will be confiscated sooner or later."

Fang Chuning's heart skipped a beat. The Su family firm spread all over Yanyang, and its headquarters are in Jiangnan, Twelve States, and Kyoto.There is also a branch in Zhongzhou, and the relationship between the shopkeeper and the state government is very harmonious.Over the years, the firm has relied on the Zhenbeihou Mansion as its backer, and has developed smoothly. Now that the Zhenbeihou Mansion has collapsed, the good days of the Su family firm should have come to an end.

The strange thing is that the Su family's firm is still standing in the capital. This is a weather vane. If the imperial court did not attack the Su family, the state capitals would not dare to act rashly.

Once Emperor Yuanhui took action against the Su family business, the Su family's business houses in various places in Yanyang would have a hard time.

Fang Chuning knew why Emperor Yuan Hui bypassed the Su family.

Because of Feng Shu!

But others don't know that Jiangnan's Marshal Fang has stabilized the situation, and the merchants are united. The state government wants to plunder the Su family's property, but the Jiangnan garrison does not agree.

But in Zhongzhou, it's different!

When Fang Chuning returned home, Xie Jue was writing a letter. When he saw Fang Chuning coming in, he pulled a blank page and covered the letter. Fang Chuning was standing at the door, without any intention of prying, and calmly told Su's business about the surplus food. he.

"The state government may want to rob the Su family's granary." Fang Chuning said, "If you want the grain in the granary, you have to move it as soon as possible. Since the state government wants to rob the granary, it may be difficult for the Su family business to gain a foothold in the twelve states." .”

After all, they are merchants in white clothes. Without the Zhenbeihou Mansion, the state government and the garrison will attack them sooner or later.

"I know that from the beginning of July, the commercial firm only paid two thousand shi because the granary only had two thousand shi. After Zhixu and I rebelled against the capital, we had already guessed that the Su family's business in Zhongzhou would not be able to keep. Feng Yu had already written a letter to Zhongzhou The shopkeeper arranged for the transfer of the family property, the granary has long been empty, and [-]% of Zhongzhou's property has been transferred."

Fearing that they would scare the snake away, they secretly kept their positions and kept half of their property.

"You can see through the fire." Fang Chuning thought, one step counts as ten steps, he really wasted his worries.

"Not really. The Su family firm will definitely be implicated if the Zhenbeihou's mansion collapses. We need to make plans early." Xie Jue never expected that Emperor Yuan Hui would have a few months of respite, which would be enough for him to help the firm relocate. industry.

"People from the commercial firm have to leave the city as soon as possible in these two days. If the state government knows that the granary is empty, it will kill them as an example and will not let them go." Fang Chuning's heart sank slightly.

"I know, we are already making arrangements for them to leave the city." Xie Jue looked at Fang Chuning, "Why did you tell me these things?"

"Shouldn't I say it?"

Xie Jue nodded, "From your standpoint, you shouldn't say it."

"What's my position?" Fang Chuning stood leaning against the door, crossing his chest lazily, looking carefree and bohemian, his smiling eyebrows beguiling people under the lamp, "Tingfeng, what position do you want me to stand on?"

Xie Jue pressed his finger on the letter paper, and pressed it lightly, as if to make a fingerprint, "It's whatever position you want to be on, and my hope is not important."

Fang Chuning didn't like Xie Jue's aggressive attitude, but he had nothing to do with Xie Tingfeng, he always compromised unconditionally, Fang Chuning lowered his head and smiled, "Tingfeng, it's really hard to hear your sincere words. "

He turned and left, Xie Jue looked at Fang Chuning's lonely back through the open window, and closed his eyes fiercely.

Perhaps, he shouldn't have come to Zhongzhou.