Runaway Mengfei is not easy to mess with

Chapter 419 Price Increase ([-])

Xu Mengchen was promoted to be the inspector of the household department, and was directly assigned to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Compared with the positions of several ministers in the household department, he had more real power, and he also had the function of supervising and assisting the secretary of the household department.

Xu Mengchen was not there, he went out to do things for the victims.

As soon as Xilinglan arrived, Shangshu and the servants all greeted the princess. Xilinglan explained the fact that the price of rice in Kyoto had been raised so ridiculously, and asked Shangshu and the servant to quickly come up with a plan.

"Isn't that good? Merchants have always been free to buy and sell, and the pricing is up to them. They buy and sell, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. The court has never interfered with these things..." a servant said in a low voice.

Xi Linglan's face turned cold, "Take this person, ransack his house, and see how much he was bribed!"

The two guards took the servant down without hesitation.

Shangshu didn't dare to be negligent, so he thought about it and drafted a copy in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs, restricting the adjustment of the price of rice in Kyoto, and the unified selling price of any commercial firm should not exceed 200 yuan per catty, and the prince's seal was stamped by Xilinglan.

Issue it.

After the order was issued, within an hour, when Xilinglan returned to the Prince's Mansion, merchants came to the mansion to give gifts and rice to show their favor.

Xiling Lanji summoned them, she went to look for them earlier, but couldn't find any of them, she was very frightened, now they all came to the door as soon as the order was issued.

There are a total of seven major grain stores in Kyoto, and the owners and shopkeepers in charge of each grain store are all standing in a row.

Xiling Lan found out that there was a Dayan Grain Store in the capital, and upon asking, it turned out to be one of the branches of the Yanshui Country Dayan Commercial Bank. The Dayan Commercial Bank is really a huge business organization, and there are branches of him in all seven countries. There are all kinds of business.

The grain store, the cloth store, the medicine store, and even the bank accounts of the Seven Kingdoms.

In the end, Xiling Lan bought a batch of rice from the seven major grain stores in the name of the imperial court. Of course, the price was much cheaper than the market price of 200 Wen, but the quantity was not much after all.

A drop in the bucket, the flow of commerce is the kingly way.

Even if the goods are available, you need money to buy them. When the treasury was handed over to Chu Tianmu, there was not much money left, and it was difficult for a smart woman to cook without rice.

As soon as the people from the food store left, Xilinglan asked Tangyuan to go down and take stock of the things in the Prince's Mansion. Clean out all the unnecessary, infrequently used, luxury items, etc., and sell them off.

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It has been three or four days since the Xiling army successfully ambushed the [-] cavalry of the Yuan family's rebels.

Along the way, the marching speed was not fast, and the infantry of the Yuan family's rebel army could not catch up with them, so all the soldiers sent were cavalry, and the number was quite a few, ten thousand or ten thousand came, and they would never be fooled by their false surrender If they meet them, they will fight directly. When dragging them, let the infantry behind come quickly. Therefore, the Xiling Army had no choice but to enter into a bitter battle.

At first, the planned direction was to take a three-day journey to Yuncheng, Yunzhou. Not to mention supplies, it would be fine to let the soldiers have a mouthful of porridge. As a result, the rebels of the Yuan family bit too hard, and the schedule on the road was reduced. , After walking for three or four days, I still haven't arrived at Yuncheng.

Xiling sent troops to look out, and when the [-] infantry of the Yuan family's rebels were less than five miles away from them, Xiling Yingjie had no choice but to let the Xiling army lie in ambush at a place of thirty mile on the map. This place is a mountain depression, and the terrain is quite favorable, but there are many poisonous things in the trees, and there are many poisonous snakes and insects.

(End of this chapter)