Yuyao Mazhu, Chen family compound.

Chen Qifan hurriedly walked into the living room and said to Chen Dasan and more than a dozen grain merchants: "Dad, and all the seniors, things have been arranged, I have found more than 100,000 villagers from Cicheng, Chaiqiao, Gulin and other towns, and I will go into the city to buy grain in batches, and I can buy at least more than 5 million catties of corn every day!" ”

Chen Dasan pondered for a moment and said, "Too slow, still too slow, at this rate, it will take at least eighty days to buy out the 200,000 tons of corn of King Zhong Yan!" ”

Chen Qifan said: "Dad, don't worry, this is just the first batch of villagers. ”

After a pause, Chen Qifan said again: "In a few days, I will also mobilize the villagers of Yuyao, Cixi, Zhenhai, and Fenghua counties to go to Yinjiang to buy grain, and at most half a month, let his 200,000 tons of corn grains from King Zhong Yan be gone!" ”

The shopkeeper said: "However, what if King Zhong Hades finds out that someone is behind him and is instigating him to restrict purchases?" ”

"King Zhong Yan knows that there are people behind these villagers, that's for sure." Chen Qifan said, "But he may not dare to restrict purchases, if he really dares, let's mobilize relations to create public opinion, saying that he doesn't care about the lives and deaths of the people in other counties, from the current point of view, King Zhong Yan is still quite obedient, and he should not dare to mess around." ”

"Got it, you go down and get busy first." Chen Da Sandao.

Chen Qifan confessed his guilt and turned around and left the living room.

However, after less than a moment, Chen Qifan turned back again.

"What's wrong?" Chen Dasan asked, "Boss, is there something wrong?" ”

Chen Qifan said: "I just received a tip-off that it was King Zhong Yan who raised the price of corn. ”

"That's to be expected." Chen Dasan waved for a moment, and then asked, "How much has it risen?" ”

Chen Qifan said: "It has risen from the original one and a half pounds to five points!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Dasan's right hand holding the dry tobacco pipe slammed suddenly.

More than a dozen grain merchants such as Shopkeeper Wang also looked at each other, and they rose tenfold as soon as they rose?

King Zhong Yan is more ruthless than them, and they still doubled at the beginning.

……

At the same time, in the city hall.

Zhao Xingjiu said: "Xiao Zhong, your rise has increased tenfold, will it be too much?" ”

Xiao Xianen and the other three people next to him also nodded in unison, this price increase is indeed a bit large.

After a pause, Zhao Xingjiu said again: "Aren't you afraid, hundreds of thousands of fathers and elders in Yinjiang are scolding you behind your back?" ”

"It's like they haven't scolded me before?" Zhong Yi smiled, and then said, "If you are scolded for this kind of thing, you will get used to it next to each other, hehehe." ”

After a slight pause, he added, "But this time, I'm sure they won't scold me behind my back." ”

"I believe that." Xiao Xianen rarely agreed with Zhong Yi once, and then said, "This time, most of the 300,000 fathers and elders in Yinjiang have already bought enough food, and now no matter how much the price of corn rises, it has nothing to do with them, at least it has nothing to do with them in three or five months, not to mention, even if the price of corn rises to five cents per catty, compared with the previous price of rice, it has only doubled, and it is still within the tolerance range of Yinjiang's fathers, so at most they complain." ”

Zhong Yi continued: "But for those unscrupulous grain merchants, it means that they have to pay more than ten times the cost to be able to eat the 200,000 tons of corn in our hands!" ”

……

Shanghai, Mei Agency.

Hikojiro Suga walked into Inuyoken's office and said, "Inukai-kun, I'm in trouble. ”

"Suga-kun, what's wrong?" Inuyangjian put down the Asahi Shimbun in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Say it slowly." ”

Suga Hikojiro tilted his head slightly, and said: "There was news from Yinjiang just now, saying that Zhong Yi, a bastard, has increased the sales price of corn tenfold!" ”

"Baga Yalu, the price has increased tenfold?!" "How can this be?" He wasn't afraid that the people of Yinjiang would scold him behind his back? And hasn't this guy always prided himself on loving the common people? He even didn't let his officers and soldiers levy the people's rations, why did they go against the norm this time and began to openly exploit the people? ”

"The people of China have always been so hypocritical." Hikojiro Suga said, "However, Inukai-kun, Zhong Yi has increased the price of corn tenfold in one fell swoop, but it has invisibly brought us a big problem, and the five million yen we prepared before is probably far from enough." ”

"It's a real nuisance." Inuyang Ken frowned and said, "Your Excellency Osa has made it very clear, just eight million yen, this economic war can be fought if it can be fought, and if it can't be fought, stop the loss in time!" Therefore, it is impossible to expect the Mei organ to allocate funds to us again, so we can only find another way! ”

"Find another way?" Hikojiro Suga said, "What else can I do?" ”

Inu Yangjian said: "In fact, there is still a way, but it is a little troublesome to operate." ”

"Oh, really?" Suga Hikojiro's eyes lit up for a moment, and he asked urgently, "What way?" ”

"Two ways!" There was a cold light flashing in Dog Yangjian's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "First, let Niu Jianhu and Tang Jianping find a way to transfer the rice seeds from the Zhejiang Provincial Food Bureau!" ”

"Mix the grain seeds?" Hikojiro Suga's mind was far from being a dog, and he didn't react for a while, and asked blankly, "Replace the full grain with the deflated grain?" This is likely to cause a large-scale reduction in rice production in Zhejiang Province, but the deflated grain seeds are easy to find, right? ”

"Swap it to a deflated husk seed, and of course you will be discovered." "But if you change it to fried plump grains, can the people of China easily notice the abnormality?" ”

"Fried grains?!" Hikojiro Suga suddenly gasped.

If this is the case, the rice harvest in Zhejiang Province will be extinct next year!

"That's just one of them!" Dog Yangjian paused, and then said, "Second, isn't Zhong Yi too much food now?" It is too much to feed 300,000 people in Yinjiang for nothing, and it is not far to eat in a year, so why don't we find more people to help him eat? 300,000 people are not enough, what about a million? One million is not enough, is three million enough? ”

Suga Hikojiro's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he said, "Inukai-kun, do you mean to drive all the more than three million refugees stranded in the French Concession and the Public Concession to Yinjiang?" ”

"Yes!" Inuyang Jian smiled yin, and then said, "In the past year, the nearly four million refugees who have poured into the French Concession and the Public Concession have put a lot of pressure on the concession authorities, and even the empire has also suffered a lot of pressure, so if the nearly four million refugees from the concession can be led to Yinjiang, the situation in the entire Yinjiang will fall into extreme chaos in an instant, and Zhong Yi's 200,000 tons of corn will barely last for a few months." ”