The king behind the empress

Chapter 240

Because of Qian Shaoyuan's influence, the grain merchants didn't have the intention to sell the grain at a low price, and they got into the carriages one after another, preparing to transport the grain out of the city.

Meanwhile, Mo Zizai, Zhou Qi, and Tang Weilu were sitting on the top floor of Baixiang Building at this time. The two of them sat by the window of the private room and looked down upon them.

Looking at the continuous grain delivery convoy, Mo Zizai looked slightly cold, "I will not eat the toast, but I will be fined."

He had already asked Song Hui to send a message to these grain merchants, saying that he could collect the grain at a fair price. Although they would not make money, at least they would not lose money.

After all, I have money in my hands now, so there is no need to cheat these grain merchants to death for this little thing. If this is the case, it will not be easy to cheat other merchants later.

In the end, I didn't expect these people to be so stubborn. They would rather lose money to transport the grain back to the original county than sell the grain to him.

"Since you want to lose money, I'll let you pay enough."

Mo Zizai turned his head and said to Zhou Qi: "Inform Song Hui, tell him that all grains that leave the warehouse will not be allowed to enter the warehouse again."

"Then tell Chen Ying and Xue Wanche that when these grain merchants are stopped from leaving the city, they will be stared at to death. Those who buy and sell will close their shops, and those who deal with them will be fined huge sums of money. Those who dare to damage the grain will be dealt with on the spot. .”

Mo Zizai said with a sense of coldness, "I don't even care about their national calamity, but they have served it. I want to see how long they can carry it."

"When they have no place to store or sell their food, if they want to give me the food again, then it's not me who gives them money, but they give me money."

"This subordinate understands, this subordinate will inform them now."

Zhou Qi glanced at the food team below, and couldn't help showing a sympathetic look, but what does this have to do with him, and as Mo Zizai said, these people are here to make money for the country, so dealing with such people is nothing. No matter how harsh the means are.

……

Shopkeeper Wu of the grain store was the fastest, so he led the grain team to the city gate first, but when he was about to leave the city, he was stopped by the city gate guards.

"What's on the car?"

The leading city gate officer tilted his head and glanced at the food team behind him. Although he already guessed in his heart that there must be food behind, he still asked a question knowingly.

"Master, this is filled with food."

Although shopkeeper Wu has a background, he can ignore this little city gate official, but as a businessman, one thing is worse than one thing. After hearing the question, he still said with a smile on his face: "The market in Beijing is not very good now. Okay, so I'm going to ship the grain back to sell."

"Oh, food."

The city gate officer deliberately elongated his voice, and then pretended to be regretful and said: "If it is food, then you can't leave the city."

Hearing what the city gate officer said, shopkeeper Wu thought that the city gate officer wanted to see the size of their grain team and wanted to play some autumn wind, so he couldn't help but look a little ugly, but he didn't get angry, but waved his hands and asked his servants to bring five ingots The silver, reached out and handed it to the city gate officer.

"Your Excellency has worked hard guarding the city gate. This is for you brothers to drink. I hope you can hold your hands high."

"Drinker?"

The city gate official was not polite either, he just reached out and took the silver, "It's a full catty, 50 taels, the shopkeeper's hand is really generous."

After playing with it for a while, the city gate officer handed the silver to the guards behind, "Since the shopkeeper's kindness is hard to refuse, then I will not be polite. I thank the shopkeeper on behalf of my brothers."

"Your Excellency is welcome."

Seeing that the city gate officer accepted the money, shopkeeper Wu could not help showing a smile on his face, as long as the problem can be solved with money, it is not a problem, "Then I will go there first, and come to the capital another day, I will definitely invite you Ladies and gentlemen, drink."

"In the past? That won't work."

What shopkeeper Wu didn't expect was that after he said he was going to pass, the city gate officer shook his head like a rattle, "The capital is short of food now, and there is a strict order from above that not a single grain of food is allowed to be released."

"So people can go out, but food can't go out."

"This……"

Hearing what the city gate officer said, shopkeeper Wu couldn't help being anxious, "You have already collected the money just now..."

"Ok?"

Before shopkeeper Wu could finish speaking, the city gate officer suddenly interrupted him with a snort. He stared at shopkeeper Wu coldly and said, "Didn't you reward the brothers just now?"

"Why, could it be that the money just now was for bribing the official?"

Speaking of which, the city gate official looked at shopkeeper Wu with some playfulness on his expression, "Shopkeeper, you have to think carefully, the minimum penalty for bribing officials is fifty rods, I think with your small body, let alone five It's ten, you can't even handle twenty, right?"

"you……"

Hearing what the city gate officer said, Shopkeeper Wu's angry expression couldn't help but froze for a moment. He gave the city gate officer a hard look, and instead of mentioning money, he threatened, "Master Cao, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, has a relationship with this old man." Mo Ni, the old man advises you not to make mistakes!"

"What does it say?"

The city gate officer saw that shopkeeper Wu had revealed the backstage, and immediately put away his haughty face, put on a false smile and said: "The shopkeeper has something to do with it, why don't you let me go so far?" , Mr. Cao is such a big figure, the lower officials can't afford to offend him."

Looking at the arrogant appearance of the city gate official, shopkeeper Wu's eyes revealed a trace of disdain, but before he could speak, he heard the city gate official continue to say: "But the lower officials are also lower. Order to die, if the food is released today, then I won’t be able to keep my head tomorrow.”

"Why don't you look at this? You go to Master Cao and let Master Cao talk to us, Master Xue. As long as Master Xue asks to let you go, the next official will let you go without saying a word."

Seeing that the city gate officials still insisted not to let him go, Shopkeeper Wu suddenly became furious, "How dare you, Xue Wanche is just a mere head of the Tianjing Guard, how dare you say that Master Cao should go to see him!"

"Let me tell you, today you have to let go if you want to, and you have to let go if you don't want to."

Hearing what shopkeeper Wu said, the city gate officer put away the fake smile on his face, looked at shopkeeper Wu coldly and said, "For the sake of the 50 taels of silver, I might as well tell you."

"The order not to allow grain to go out of the city is an order given by King Zizai himself to Master Xue. Don't say that you and Master Cao are inseparable. Even if Master Cao himself came, he would never want to take out a grain of grain."

"King of freedom?"

Hearing Mo Zizai's name, Shopkeeper Wu's face turned pale. He was stunned for a moment, and then murmured: "What a ruthless method, he is forcing us to sell grain to him!"

Thinking of this, shopkeeper Wu is a little bit downhearted, people don't fight with officials, he is a businessman, and now he is being targeted by Mo Zizai, so what if he has some backers.

"Come on, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, don't they just want food, I just sell it to him."

After finishing speaking, shopkeeper Wu didn't bother with the city gate officer anymore, and directly directed the convoy to return the same way.

Looking at the shopkeeper Wu going away, the city gate officer's subordinates were a little puzzled and said, "Head, is it appropriate to not do things after collecting money?"

"Of course it's appropriate. It's not that we can't collect money by guarding the city gate, but we need to keep our eyes open to know who can and cannot take money from anyone."

As he said that, the city gate officer looked back at the young soldier, shook his head and said, "Of course, if you don't have enough experience, don't learn, just guard your city gate honestly."

"After all, this kind of money is hot. If one accidentally misses it, it will kill someone."

　Thank you Ye Chennan for the 200 starting coins, thank you very much!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)