Three prices a day!

At the end of the summer of the sixteenth year of Yongli, the price of grain that had fallen because the Ming army recovered the Beijing division was like a monkey, with a price in the morning, a price in the middle, and another price in the evening. Even a stone henge rice was sold for a high price of 4 taels in the city, and the people in the city were all suffering from the high price of grain.

Since the Yongle Emperor moved the capital to Beijing, the Beijing division relied on Jiangnan grain, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the reason why it did not last long to wave the army south, the root cause is precisely because there is no food in Beijing, not only ordinary people are starving, even the Eight Banners are about to run out of food.

And for the Chu army, since the granary in Luoyang was burned, the supply of this army food suddenly became tense, although a lot of grain was found in the Qizhuang, but because the autumn grain was not harvested, even in the Qizhuang there is not much grain in stock, compared to the hundreds of thousands of stone grain collected, in addition to the 200,000 Chu army in the capital, there are hundreds of thousands of Jingshi people who need to fill their mouths. In contrast, the confiscated food is just a drop in the bucket.

If there is no food in the army, the soldiers will be in chaos, and if there is no food in the city, the people will rebel!

Everyone understands this truth, but the problem is that there is no food in the city! The reason why there is no grain is because the grain in the south of the Yangtze River has long been cut off, and the grain levy in the north is not enough to meet the demand. If this food cannot be supplied, there will naturally be no food to distribute.

Why didn't the food come?

"His surname is really poisonous!"

After learning that Zhu Mingzhong had refused to see the envoy again, Li Ziyuan shouted sharply.

"At the beginning, it was his surname Zhu who instigated the Lonely Northern Expedition, and now the Lonely Northern Expedition has succeeded, and now he is good, and he has cut off the lonely grain route all of a sudden, isn't he afraid of the accusations of the world?"

It's no wonder that Li Ziyuan is so angry, during this period of time, he has a headache with grain all day long, and his only hope is to transport grain from Huguang to Jingshi through the Grand Canal, but the Grand Canal is under the control of the Huai Domain, and the grain in Wuchang wants to cross the Grand Canal, without the permission of the Huai Domain, let alone crossing the river, even the boats transporting grain can't solve it. However, his request was unceremoniously rejected by Huai Fan.

"King, it's not that the Huai Domain won't let us use the canal, their statement is that there are no ships, and the current ships have been requisitioned, so ......"

"It's an excuse!"

Li Ziyuan immediately shouted loudly.

"How can Jiangbei not have a boat! They used sea ships for the Northern Expedition! ”

"There are indeed boats!"

nodded, but did not explain to the other party, but said directly.

"Although it is well known that the Northern Expedition of the Huai Domain does not need to use Cao boats at all, but the people of the world do not know, they only see the Northern Expedition of the Huai Domain by sea, and only see that the Huai Domain now uses boats, and the King of Huai also keeps saying that at most three months, can he pull out the boat to transport grain?"

"Three months!"

Li Ziyuan, who was furious, immediately shouted.

"Three months later, the autumn grain will already be in storage, and there will be some Wuchang grain to transport from there!"

The reason why Li Ziyuan said this is because the population of the capital is now hundreds of thousands less than in the past, and with the grain of Beizhili and Shanxi, it can barely maintain the food demand in the city, although it is still insufficient, but at least it will not be stuck in the neck like now.

Now it is not only the neck that is stuck, but even his people's heart, his military heart, without food, the army's heart will be chaotic and scattered, and Zhu Mingzhong just hit his life gate with one move, at least until the autumn harvest, before the autumn grain is transported to the Beijing Division, the capital will fall into chaos because of the lack of food.

"Kill four or two with one stone, he has a good idea! When the price of this grain rises to ten taels or twenty taels, the people in this city will have only one way to eat! ”

"The king, it won't be like this, these days, there are no people in the city who have spread it, if the people in Beijing are interested in going to Liaodong, not only can they be sent to Liaodong for travel expenses and rations, but also when they get to the place, they will also give them a settlement fee, those who stay in the city can give them a house, and those who are willing to farm can be given land, in short, in a word, they are recruiting."

"Isn't that the case, because there is no one in Liaodong, so he cut off the grain in the capital, and then deceived the people in the capital to Liaodong!"

What is deliberate, what is exhaustive. Now Li Ziyuan finally saw from Zhu Mingzhong what is deliberate and what is exhaustive. "Everyone in the world says that he Zhu Mingzhong is the No. 1 loyal minister in the world, hum, you see, what Gu said is not bad, he Li Ziyuan is the number one traitor in the world, and he is loyal like a traitor! A traitor like him, who can do this, I'm afraid it's rare in ancient times! "Maybe it's to excuse himself, maybe it's to show that he betrayed Zhu Mingzhong at the beginning, because of that person, not because of him Li Ziyuan, so as long as he has the opportunity, he will use such words to justify himself, in fact, the reason why he did this, one of the most fundamental reasons is that when facing Zhu Mingzhong, he always has no confidence, and even feels that the dwarf is inferior, the reason why this is so is precisely because of his weak heart, precisely because he knows that the world will never forget his three rebellions, in the eyes of the world, He, King Li Chu, is just a slave with three surnames. King of Chu...... Even if he is the king of Chu, Li Ziyuan still does not have that kind of self-confidence, his background determines his lack of self-confidence, and in order to cover up this lack of self-confidence, he will never let go of any opportunity to defend himself. But how can he defend himself? There is only one way, which is to constantly belittle others, and it seems that only by belittling others can you elevate yourself. But even so, he still feels that others don't believe him, so he will inevitably add fuel to the fire. "Hmph, that Zhu Mingzhong, when he was still in Jiangyin, he made a military system there, he was a military system there, and it was clearly to stand on his own, that is, Zheng Chenggong believed in him, otherwise, if he changed the military system, not to mention anything else, he could cut off his head just because he changed the military system without permission, this Zhu Mingzhong is basically Sima Zhao in this world!" Some of the king's words fell into Qian Qianyi's ears, he just nodded with a smile, and then echoed. "Not only is it a military system, in Jiangbei, is there less official system he has changed? The magistrate in Jiangbei can neither try the case nor raise the sentence, so how can he be a parent? Also, he has not held a county examination in Jiangbei so far, and at the same time, he has taken the fame of the imperial examination under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, isn't their fame not earned by ten years of hard work? Sima Zhao ......" snorted coldly, and Qian Qianyi said mockingly. "He can't wear it yet!" He can't wear it yet! This may be Zhu Mingzhong's "admiration", he is far from being able to talk about Sima Zhao, at least he does not have Sima Zhao's scheming. Regarding the teacher's words, Li Ziyuan just nodded sullenly, Sima Zhao ...... He really lifted him up a bit, but he didn't mind saying this, "Sima Zhao, he doesn't have the guts, but he, Cao Cao, is definitely going to make it!" "Didn't Cao Cao just coerce the Son of Heaven back then? Now Zhu Mingzhong is the same. "The king, therefore, now we need Zhang Cangshui to come forward, please return the court to the Beijing division, so that it can not only cut off one of its arms, separate the relationship between the two, but also make it fall into a dilemma, after Cangshui comes forward, and then the Zheng family responds in a letter, Yichen estimates, Li Dingguo will also support the imperial court and return to the Beijing division, at this time, the king will come forward to express his support, so, how dare he risk the world's disapproval to detain the imperial court in ten thousand years?" "What if he did?" As soon as Li Ziyuan's words fell, Qian Qianyi laughed and laughed. "If he really does this, then it will naturally be the princes of the Eighteenth Road, Zhu Dong Zhuo, even if he Zhu Ming is loyal to Zhang Cangshui and Li Dingguo, no matter how great his kindness is, the two will never be disobedient to him, Cangshui is a loyal minister, Li Dingguo is also a Gengchen, the two will never be rebellious, as for Min Zheng ......" With a sneer on his face, Qian Qianyi glanced south, and now he is a little glad that it was the right time to leave Nanjing. Min Zheng is now the young lord of the reign, although his domain is a fierce general, but the lord is less to bully, plus there is a sea dragon king next to him to watch the tiger, this Min Zheng can be said to be full of internal troubles, they have shown favor to me, that is, they want to form an alliance with me, so, how can they help the rebellion? "In Qian Qianyi's words, there is a thief on the left and a thief on the right, it seems that for him, Zhu Minglu is a thief, it is a rebellion, in fact, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that he will do everything possible to help his good students to achieve his goals." What the teacher said is very true, Cangshui, King Jin and Zhu Mingzhong are just personal favors, how can the two of them be people who abolish the public because of private interests, this emperor, whether he wants to pay it or not, he has to hand it over, this court ...... In any case, he has to return to the Beijing Division, if he doesn't pay it back, he has the heart of not being subordinate, and when the time comes, Lone will definitely lead the world's elite soldiers to fight! After saying these words proudly, Li Ziyuan's brows suddenly furrowed again. Teacher, what should I do with this food now? You can't go a day without food in the army! "The previous words are all in the future, and food is the most important thing today." Buy! After spitting out this word, Qian Qianyi looked at Li Ziyuan and said. Now, grain is more important than silver, and the king only has to put a price on Shandong, as long as they transport the grain to the boundary of Hejian Mansion, one stone of grain will be increased by 50% according to the market price of Texas, and then it will be transported from Hejian Mansion to Beijing by water! There will be brave men under the heavy reward, and when the time comes, there will definitely be merchants willing to sell grain to the river, even if it is not good, if you want to buy hundreds of thousands of stone grain, there should be no problem. Qian Qianyi's suggestion made Li Ziyuan nod and sigh. I'm afraid it can only be like this, fortunately, there is not much to copy on the side of Qizhuang, and it is not bad for the millions of taels of silver......" Just when his words fell, Xu Yuncheng's laughter came from outside the door, and it could be heard from his laughter, he seemed to be very happy today, just listening to him laughing as he walked, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw him shouting with some excitement. "King! King! Xu Yuncheng, whose face was full of red light, bowed to the king and said. Congratulations to the King, congratulations to the King"