Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 453 Nine Princes

Sitting on the chair, Xie Jue let out a slight scoff when he heard the words of his subordinates, and when he heard the sound of the door, he immediately got up from the chair and pulled the door open.

Tanshou hugged Su Yue over, then took her hand to look at her nails, and said heartbroken: "The door is open for you, just come here, let Xiao Tang push the door for you."

But Su Yue didn't look at him, she just stared at the guard who sent the letter and said, "You said, the Ninth Prince? Are you sure it's the Ninth Prince?"

"It's the Ninth Prince." The guard nodded in response.

Xie Jue frowned slightly, held her hand, led her to a chair and sat down, and said in a deep voice, "Be more careful, let's start from the beginning."

"On March [-]th, a fast horse came to Beijing, saying that the Ninth Prince had raised a large amount of food and was about to enter Beijing." The guard stood in front of him, and said calmly: "At that time, there was an uproar in the capital. There was the Ninth Prince, but those people thought he was already dead, and at that time some officials came out to question him, saying that it was probably someone who took the opportunity to make trouble, under the pretense of the Ninth Prince's name, to commit crimes."

Xie Jue snorted coldly, and motioned to the guard to continue.

As soon as this incident happened, Ma Xiao sent a letter to inform him that day (Su Yue was nervously making tea at the time, so she didn't know), and it also mentioned that some people didn't believe it, but he was vigilant at that time.

After Su Yue reminded Shuzhou of the matter last year, he sent people to Shuzhou to investigate.

The emperor's ninth son, Jun Jiuyi, was indeed fostered in Shuzhou, and was taken care of by the governor of Shuzhou, Haosheng. However, he was weak and lived in a mansion outside the campus in Chengdu. He seldom showed his face outside. There are very few people in the Ninth Prince.

His people were able to find out, but they discovered it when they checked the governor of Shuzhou.

Because, the daughter of the governor of Shuzhou, Rong Shizi's fiancée, will go to a big mansion every two days.

His people arrested the servants in the governor's mansion, and used hypnotism to ask that girl, she went to that mansion to meet a nobleman, and that nobleman is the ninth prince of the current emperor.

It's just that the big mansion was heavily guarded and there were expert hidden guards, so his men couldn't sneak in. After waiting for more than a month, when Miss Governor picked up someone from the big mansion, he spied on the Ninth Prince.

According to the letter from the newspaper, the Ninth Prince had a beautiful face, but his body was indeed very weak. Even getting on and off the carriage was carried by a thick eunuch, and he was out of breath after walking two steps.

Moreover, he couldn't go out at all, and the guards inside and outside seemed to obey the governor a lot.

According to his subordinates, it looked like he was under house arrest by the governor.

But when he saw those messages, he felt a sense of disobedience.

It was just that there were many things to do at that time, so this matter was temporarily put aside, and it was just for people to stare at it.

It is said that for such a big event as raising food, the people watching over there will definitely have news, but his people did not send any news, but they rushed to Beijing!

With such a shortage of food in the capital, those people made such a big announcement that if the Ninth Prince did not have food to enter the capital, then it would be a big deal.

However, if the Ninth Prince has this million dans of food, his people don't know...

"At that time, the emperor said in the court hall that there are indeed nine princes who have been praying for the world from the eminent monks in Shuzhou because of their poor health." The guard continued: "Those officials dare not speak nonsense anymore, they just spread rumors in private. And the price of food, after being depressed for two days, has risen crazily again."

The corners of Xie Jue's lips grew colder, and he said coldly, "Who are raising the price of food?"

"Mainly four grain stores." The guard said: "Most of the other grain stores in the capital are out of grain. Except for Liu Qi and ours, there are only six stores that still have grain. The one who is driving up the price of grain is the eldest prince. His maternal ancestral family, the family behind him is Hai Shilang of the Ministry of Industry, the family is Xu Zhengqing of Honglu Temple, and there is another family..."

The guard paused and said, "It belongs to Tong Guan."

Xie Jue nodded slightly and said, "Continue."

"When they drove up the price of grain, Liu Qi sent someone over to say, let's not move, the price of grain will not increase, but we must limit the purchase every day to prevent someone from taking the opportunity to cause chaos." The guard said.

"It's a smart one." Xie Jue pursed his lower lip and snorted.

Since the Ninth Prince is real and not stupid, naturally there will be a secret letter to the emperor, and the emperor will discuss it with Liu Qi, so Liu Qi handed over such a letter.

This non-increasing price is to earn a good reputation (you see that if everything else is increasing, we don’t increase it for the sake of the people), and the purchase limit is to prevent the four companies from running over to buy at a low price and sell it at a high price.

"After we and Liu Qi's store restricted purchases, we didn't sell much food every day, and they were all robbed as soon as we opened the door." There was a trace of pity on the guard's face: "People who have no food can only go to those four stores. Buy, those four families raised the price of grain to one hundred cents a liter within a day, and many families lost their wealth because of it."

"Liu Qi didn't collect any evidence?" Xie Jue asked with a faint smile.

In the letter on March [-]th, if the food for the Ninth Princes arrived in the capital only ten days ago, that means the four companies had half a month to raise their prices.

At this time, if his people can find out, I don't believe Liu Qi can't find out.

"Commander Che said that when our people are investigating, there is another group of people investigating." The guard replied.

"Well, let's go on." Xie Jue nodded.

"When the food price was skyrocketing, some people also suggested that the Ninth Prince's food is coming soon, so why buy those expensive rice." The guard said: "Then someone came out and said that the Ninth Prince must be trying to gain fame, or what else? I only heard that there is no sign of the grain, even though this is the prince, but if he deceives everyone at this time, it would be really a shame."

"The eldest prince's people said it?" Xie Jue's smile faded.

He somewhat understood why the Ninth Prince had to publicize the arrival of the food half a month in advance.

"Yes, the people under Commander Ma have already found out that they were all spread by people from the grand prince's ancestral family." Seeing that Xie Jue had no other questions, the guard continued: "Rumors abounded in the capital at that time, and many other people had passed If you don’t go down, there are people buying and selling children everywhere.”

"Then, the food team of the Ninth Prince arrived in the capital." Su Yue interjected in a cold voice.

"Yes." The guard replied: "The Ninth Prince's food team entered the suburbs of Beijing on April [-]rd. The first team, with a total of [-] dans of grain, entered the capital on the morning of the [-]th. Liu Qi, afterward, Liu Qi’s grain store opened, and the grain price was flattened at twenty cents a liter.”

"He was transported from Shuzhou to Ezhou by the Yangtze River, and then landed from Ezhou to the capital by land." Xie Jue's voice was also a little cold.

Careless.

He only thought that coming from Shuzhou, it must be the most convenient way to go along the Yangtze River to Zhenjiang, and then up the canal.

So Jiang Liu and the others were dropped there for surveillance.

Unexpectedly, the Ninth Prince chose Ezhou.

From Ezhou to the capital, there happened to be a road along the side of the Dabie Mountains, all the way was plain, and the grain team could travel very fast.

It's just that such a large grain team has many people and vehicles, but the local officials didn't report to Cai Bingfeng?

From the looks of it, he really underestimated the Ninth Prince.

(End of this chapter)