The king behind the empress

Chapter 210 I'm Going to Jiangnan

Above the court hall, when the discussions among the officials were at their most intense, Mo Zizai walked in from the back of the main hall unsteadily.

After seeing Mo Zizai, the originally bustling hall suddenly seemed to press the pause button. Everyone stopped and looked at Mo Zizai.

Mo Zizai found a chair, sat on it and adjusted his posture, looked at the quiet officials, and said, "Continue talking."

"You talk about you, this king will come and see, you can just pretend that this king doesn't exist."

"Hehe~"

Hearing Mo Zizai's words, everyone sneered in their hearts. The blood on the floor of the main hall has not been wiped clean. When you don't exist, I'm afraid it's because you are impatient.

But since Mo Zizai said so, the other ministers are not good at saying anything. Qian Min, who was speaking just now, saw that the others were silent, so he stood up and continued: "Your Majesty, there are rumors in the capital, and the people have taken to the streets to grab food. In just two days, food prices tripled."

"and……"

Speaking of this, Qian Min glanced at Mo Zizai, seeing that he didn't respond, and then continued: "And the most important thing is that all the major grain stores have been sealed up, and there are not many small grain shops at all. in stock."

"If they wait until their inventory is exhausted, it may cause trouble."

"What does Mr. Qian Ge mean by the incident?"

Hearing what Qian Min said, Yang Weishang asked back.

It's just that what makes Mo Zizai feel strange is that Yang Weishang had re-learned martial arts because of the accelerator. Although it couldn't make him younger, it could make him more energetic and healthier. .

But now Mo Zizai looked at it, Yang Weishang seemed to be older than a few days ago, not only did not feel full of energy, but even more sluggish than before.

Mo Zizai thought about it for a while, and then he figured it out, this old guy is pretending to be old.

But I have to say that they pretended to be quite similar, and they are really a family drama.

After Qian Min heard Yang Weishang's question, he said directly: "I am worried that they will attack the grain industry, and even lead to civil uprisings. It will be bad if they cause chaos in the capital."

"You don't have to worry about this, Mr. Qian Ge."

Mo Zizai took the words, and said indifferently: "This king has ordered the Habayashi Army to garrison the capital, and the capital cannot be messed up."

Hearing that Mo Zizai said that the Habayashi Army had already been stationed, Qian Min was slightly taken aback, but there was no surprise. The Habayashi Army is the most important force in the capital, and he expected them to be stationed, but he just didn't expect it Mo Zizi moved so fast.

However, even if the Habayashi Army is stationed, he had considered the issue of the Habayashi Army when he was preparing this plan.

"The garrison of the Habayashi Army can indeed solve the emergency, but the problem that the people in the capital have no food to buy cannot be solved by the Habayashi Army."

Qian Min looked at Mo Zizai and said, "If the capital is short of food for a long time, even with the Habayashi Army stationed there, it may be difficult to suppress all the people."

Mo Zizai looked at Qian Min, and said calmly: "Then according to Qian Ge's opinion, how should this matter be resolved?"

"The most important thing about this rumor in the capital is that there is not enough food in the grain store, so the common people believe it to be true."

Qian Min looked at Mo Zizai, and directly stated his ultimate goal, "As long as the supply of food can be opened, then this rumor will naturally be self-defeating."

"So the next official dared to ask the prince, can you unseal the sealed grain store and sell the grain in the grain store?"

"Oh, now that the price of grain has risen so high, I want to sell grain too."

Mo Zizai sighed pretentiously, "But the rumors circulating in the capital are not rumors. There is indeed no food in the capital. There is actually no food in the food store that was sealed up by the king."

"Those goddamn grain merchants only know how to sell grain, but don't know how to buy grain. After I sealed up the grain stores, I found out that there was not even a grain of grain in those grain stores, so I am also worried."

"I don't know which bastard leaked the real news, let me know, I must find him to settle the score."

Looking at Mo Zizai, who was talking nonsense with open eyes, and still accusing Sang and Huai, Qian Min's face was livid, and he didn't even have a grain of grain. He was taken for a fool. How much grain those grain merchants have, can he, the secretary of the household department, not know?

But now Mo Zizai said no, even if he knew how much grain stock the grain merchant had, it was useless. How could he dare to stand up and confront Mo Zizai?

It would be wrong to ask him to sprinkle blood on the Golden Temple or something later.

But it doesn't matter if Mo Zizai doesn't produce food, his plan is a conspiracy. If Mo Zizai supplies food, the three counties cannot be rescued. If Mo Zizai doesn't produce food, the capital will be in chaos. All in their own favor.

Thinking of this, Qian Min changed into a sad face, "If this is the case, there is nothing I can do about it."

"Can't I buy some food from other places? My Zhou Dynasty is rich and vast, so we can't all be short of food, right?"

"The price of grain in the capital is so expensive now, I think there should be many grain merchants willing to come to the capital to sell grain, right?"

Mo Zizai looked at Qian Min and pretended to be curious and said, "For example, Jiangnan, the land of fish and rice, must have no shortage of food for the grain merchants there? If you go by water, you can get there in three days, so it's not easy to let the grain merchants in Jiangnan come to the capital to sell grain. Is it okay?"

"My lord doesn't know something, it's not that simple to adjust the food."

Hearing that Mo Zizai wanted to transfer grain from the south of the Yangtze River, Qian Min directly blocked the road, "For one thing, grain merchants usually supply local food, and grain is not easy to store, so it's just like the grain stores in the capital. , the grain stores in the south of the Yangtze River will not store too much grain."

"Secondly, it's because the waterway is easy to travel, but they have to pay a lot of taxes along the way, plus the loss during transportation, even if the price of grain in the capital has doubled now, they will still lose money when they come to the capital to sell grain, and the gain outweighs the loss .”

"So it won't work for the grain merchants from the south of the Yangtze River to come to the capital to sell grain."

Mo Zizai was talking nonsense with his eyes open, and Qian Min was also talking nonsense with his eyes open, and he gave a lot of reasons. Anyway, the food in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be transported to the capital. If anyone thinks his reasons are nonsense, you can transport them yourself.

With those aristocratic families in Jiangnan, if you can transport a grain of grain from Jiangnan, then I will lose.

"Oh, so that's what it is."

Although he knew that Qian Min was talking nonsense, Mo Zizai didn't expose him, but said with some regret: "I didn't expect that there would be so much knowledge in just a simple transportation of food. It seems that if you don't go out, you are short-sighted. "

Qian Min was a little proud when he heard the words, and when he was about to say something, he heard Mo Zizai continue to say: "Then if this is the case, then I will go to the south of the Yangtze River after my wedding with His Majesty."

"Go and see the beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, gain knowledge and broaden your horizons by the way, so as not to make any jokes out of ignorance in the future."

(End of this chapter)