And on the day these refugees left for the south, Shi Yuan also quickly received the news. But what he knew was that it was because Nanqing's troops retreated to Yangzhou that these refugees were forced to come south.

"I didn't expect Beiqing's speed to be so fast, it seems that we have to act in advance!" In the Lin Mansion, Shi Yuan sighed heartily after listening to what Shen Wei said.

These days, he has been busy with the affairs in Jinling City, whether it is the Baiye Academy, or the workshops and factories outside the city, as well as the rules and regulations in the city...... He needs to work hard, and it can be said that he is very busy. After all, Jinling City is the foundation, and he wants to wait for everything in Jinling City to be stable, and then plan to use troops to the north...... But now, it seems that he doesn't have such a chance.

When tens of thousands of refugees in Yangzhou came, they wanted to start dealing with it again, but it was too late. Therefore, it is necessary to stop the refugees in Yangzhou halfway before they arrive. After all, these refugees are complex, and if they come outside Jinling City, what kind of chaos will happen...... It's hard to say.

In addition, Shen Wei was holding a secret letter in her hand at this time. A secret letter written to her, or rather to Shi Yuan, a few days ago by the emperor of Beiqing.

The content of the letter is not complicated, although it is written in Daqing's words, but Brother Shi can also understand it, and to sum it up, it is just one sentence: Those who know the times are Junjie!

The master of Beiqing seems to be much more domineering than the master of Nanqing, and he did not promise Shi Yuan any high-ranking officials and lords in his letter. I just hope that Shi Yuan can harass the Nanqing military camp from the rear, if not...... regard Beiqing as an enemy, and bear the consequences.

"And this letter...... What should we do? Hearing Shi Yuan's tone that he was about to make a move, Shen Wei opened his mouth to ask.

Brother Shi pondered for a moment, nodded at Shen Wei and said, "Reply!" Just say...... We will attack Yangzhou City from behind! ”

I thought that Shi Yuan Bacheng would not pay attention to this emperor of Beiqing, so now that he said this, Shen Wei couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. But in the end, he nodded and didn't ask more.

There was still Baihua standing next to Shen Wei, since the last time Shi Yuan called the two of them together to talk, he often used various excuses to call the two of them these days. The relationship between the two is also a lot more relaxed now, although they still don't take care of each other very well, but they won't fight as soon as they meet.

After Brother Shi said to Shen Wei, he didn't stop, so he continued: "Now there is one thing that must trouble the two of you, this time the refugees in Yangzhou City are in turmoil, there must be people from the Qinglian Sect who are hindering them, and these refugees are the key to our actions now...... Therefore, it is necessary to trouble the two of you to find a way. ”

After hearing Shi Yuan's words, the two quickly understood what he meant. He is going to send someone to go undercover among the refugees and find out the people in the Qinglian Sect. But if this matter is usual, it is not a difficult thing, but the bad thing is ...... It's too much time now.

At this time, most of the time has passed, and even if the number of refugees is large, five days is enough to gather outside Jinling City. If you do it by then, it's too late!

"Actually...... I've arranged people before. But now there is still no news, and it is a little difficult to find out who is behind the scenes in just a few days! After a brief silence, Baihua replied.

In fact, Shi Yuan has also made them do a lot of things these days, but they are all trivial things. Now there is such a very important thing for her to do, but it is a little difficult...... That's why the two were silent for so long.

After hearing Baihua's words, Brother Shi smiled slightly, "It's a little difficult to completely find out the people behind this Qinglian Sect, but if you ...... What about Mo Lingtian's name? ”

After Mo Lingtian was kicked out of Jinling before, he must have been in contact with people among the refugees. Now this group of refugees is coming straight to Jinling, and nine times out of ten they are supported by Mo Lingtian...... But even so, they didn't know much about the current situation in Jinling City. If someone stood up at this time and said that he was Mo Lingtian's undercover agent left in Jinling City...... The other party must be anxious to know the current situation in Jinling City.

After listening to Shi Yuan's words, Baihua soon knew what he meant. Although she didn't care about these things anymore these days, she didn't do less of this kind of thing before!

"I'm going to open the gates of the city today, and then there will be a lot of people going out of the city, and the time will ...... Play it by ear! ”

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Since Jinling City opened the city gate for half a day some time ago, it has once again closed the city gate. In fact, this is nothing for the people in the city, anyway, they chose to stay at that time, just to survive. Whether the gates are open or not is not a big problem for most people.

But just when the people in the city were talking about the recent events in the city, thinking about what this Shi Yuan was going to do. But a notice was posted again in the city...... The ban on Jinling was lifted, and the city gates were opened.

When they saw this notice, no one wanted to believe it. Although these people did not leave the city, there are always scattered people who come to Jinling these days. For these people, Shi Yuan didn't feel embarrassed, and most of them would open the city to let them in. Therefore, these people in the city are relatively clear about the situation outside the city.

It stands to reason that judging from the current situation outside Jinling City, it is not suitable to open the city gate. But now Shi Yuan has people put up notices to tell them that it is safe outside the city and they can come and go freely...... No matter how you look at this, it's a little suspicious. However, this suspicion was soon dispelled by another rumor in the city - the city was running out of food!

It was the height of summer, and most of the southern part of the Yangtze River was damaged by flooding last year, and there was not much harvest at all. Fortunately, in the rich land of Jiangnan before, most of the official warehouses and grain stores in the city had a lot of grain storage, which barely allowed large-scale turmoil to occur in Jiangnan. But now, Jinling City is closed and locked, and there is the Qinglian Sect in the south, and there is no need to say much in the north. In this case, the surplus grain in Jinling City has become fixed!

And the number of people in Jinling City has not decreased, and even increased a lot compared to before.

These days, in order to avoid the phenomenon of sky-high food prices in the city, Shi Yuan has used very powerful means! With the assets of Guo and Lin, they bought all the grain stores and rice warehouses in the city. Price control, from ordinary people to inns and restaurants, are all limited purchases......

(End of chapter)