In the city of Nanjing, Chu Party officials traveled among various large households and borrowed more than 30,000 stone of grain in one day.

This number seems to be very large, but for the entire Nanzhili, it is obviously not enough, and it can only be a drop in the bucket.

In fact, China has always been a relational society, and the gentry in Jiangnan do not have much friendship with the Chu Party, and among them, even if most of them do not approve of the practices of Xie Sanbin and others, it is not easy to tear their faces with them, after all, they are acquaintances and township parties.

In the face of Ququ's more than 30,000 stone of grain, the Chu party officials were still a little discouraged, Chen Bangyan and the others met and watched the grain in storage, and couldn't help complaining: "I am a scholar, begging grandpa to sue grandma, only so much." ”

Fang Fengnian also said: "I showed my face and found some old ones to borrow, but they didn't want to give me face, so I borrowed some more or less." ”

The others are also very angry, and there is a sense of anger growing in their hearts.

Fortunately, Wang Yan gave Qian Qianyi the official title of the imperial envoy of the second rank and the right capital, and asked him, the leader of the south of the Yangtze River, to come forward, and the situation of borrowing grain improved.

With the support of some of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, although the price of grain in Nanjing is still soaring, there is still some surplus grain in the hands of the government, and the grain at a low price is always sold, which can still stabilize the people's hearts.

It's just that Jinyiwei's investigation has never been fruitless, and he has also lost a secret agent, so that Wang Yan has never had an effective countermeasure, so he can only passively wait for Huguang grain to come, which makes Wang Yan very annoyed.

This situation lasted until the twentieth day, when the date given by Wang Yan to Li Suiqiu was about to pass, and when the rice and grain in the official warehouse were used up, and the borrowed rice and grain were almost used, the entire Nanjing court seemed to be a little impatient, and the restless atmosphere spread inside and outside Nanjing.

The next day, a group of Chu Party officials looked at the river in the north of Nanjing early in the morning, but there was still no trace of the grain ship, and their hearts became even more anxious.

At present, although the food in Nanjing is barely supported, several disaster-relief counties are about to run out of cooking, and in some places hungry people have already begun to make trouble, and there have been casualties among officials and hungry people.

In the afternoon, Wang Yan got the report and went to the north city of Nanjing, Liu Shun was so angry that he brought up the old matter, and said angrily to Wang Yan: "Your Highness, it's really not good, I think I still copied the group of bitches raised, and their death is better than a riot of hungry people." ”

Wang Yan didn't deny it this time, but said: "You can't do this unless you have to!" ”

Everyone was silent for a while, seeing the sun setting in the west, at this moment, Wang Yan looked west, only to see a fleet of ships, mighty from the west.

Chen Bangyan and the others saw Wang Yan's strange expression, followed his gaze, and immediately saw big ships covering the river.

Liu Shun saw that the lantern of the Huguangbu political envoy was hanging on the boat, and the flag of the Wude firm, he punched the wall with an excited fist, and laughed: "Your Highness, our ship and food are here." ”

Wang Yan also breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, what he can rely on in the future, one is to spread the difference between loyalty to the world and loyalty to the emperor, and the other is the law, so he will not break the law of the Ming Dynasty unless he has to.

As soon as the food arrived, Wang Yan said to everyone: "Let's go, go to the dock and have a look!" ”

When the group descended the city wall, they went to the dock, and they all wanted to see the rice grain on the ship with their own eyes.

There was such a big movement on the river, and the people of Nanjing City naturally knew that the food had arrived, and their hearts immediately settled down.

When the fleet reached the dock, countless coolies had already surrounded it, ready to unload the cargo, but the fleet did not dock, and a large ship came in the middle of the ring.

This made Wang Yan frown slightly, and many officials on the side were also a little puzzled.

At this time, the boat got off the board, and a person walked down, it was Li Suiqiu.

Wang Yan waited for him to salute, and then said urgently: "Why are you here now?" ”

"When I went south from Huguang, I passed through Chizhou Mansion and Taiping Mansion along the way, and saw that the grain stocks of the two mansions had been exhausted, so I stopped and unloaded a batch of grain, so I delayed for some time, and I ask Your Highness for forgiveness!" Li Suiqiu hurriedly pleaded guilty.

Wang Yan hurriedly held him up with one hand, "It's okay to avoid being transported back to Nanjing after being transported, which saves a lot of manpower." ”

Wang Yan paused and asked, "How much grain is there now?" ”

Li Suiqiu looked left and right, and whispered: "Your Highness, most of the ships are empty, only 80,000 stones. ”

Eighty thousand stones? Everyone's faces changed, and Wang Yan couldn't help but become angry, "Eighty thousand stones? How much grain did you put down in Chizhou and Taiping? ”

Li Suiqiu didn't explain, but leaned up and whispered: "Your Highness, go to the boat and explain again." ”

Wang Yan was a little puzzled when he saw this, and he didn't know what he wanted to do, but Li Suiqiu followed him for four years, was in charge of logistics, and never made any mistakes, and Wang Yan still trusted him very much.

At that moment, he ordered everyone to stay, and only let Chen Bangyan and other four or five Chu Party cadres get on the boat with Li Suiqiu.

Everyone went up from the board and entered the cabin, Wang Yan was suddenly stunned, only to see that there were no less than 20 people gathered inside, except for Chen Yonghua, although the rest of the people Wang Yan couldn't name, but they were all familiar, most of them were merchants from Guangnan.

"What is this?" Wang Yan, Chen Bangyan and others were all stunned.

"I'm here to make a fortune with His Highness!" More than 20 people in the cabin saluted Wang Yan.

When Wang Yan got on the boat, among the coolies on the dock, someone quietly left.

The man returned to the city, walked for a long time through the side streets, and finally came to the back door of a large house, and he looked around vigilantly before knocking.

The door opened in the middle of the crack, and a head stuck out, and after a few words of conversation with him, he dodged in.

He was led through the backyard, only to see small bridges and flowing water, carved beams and painted buildings, and winding paths. He walked down the corridor, through a long hall, through a hall, and finally into a small hall.

After a while, a person walked out, it was Long Ping in a brocade robe waiting for Zhang Gongri, he walked into the small hall like the wind, and asked anxiously as he walked: "What's the situation on the other side of the dock?" ”

The man hurriedly replied: "Back to the Hou Ye, there are more than 20 grain ships when they arrive, but I don't know why, they didn't dock to unload grain!" ”

Zhang Gongri frowned and said, "If you continue to investigate, you must find out how much grain has been transported." ”

"Yes, little leader!"

"Give him ten taels of silver." Zhang Gongri immediately waved his hand and asked him to go back, and then instructed the butler: "You go and give Ben Hou a horse, Ben Hou must go out of the city immediately." ”

After a short time, the coolie came out of the back door of the Longping Houfu again, holding a silver ingot in his hand, and his face was full of joy as he went.

He walked down a small road, and was about to take the silver into his arms, and turned into an alley, but he happened to collide with a man. He was about to scold, but when he looked up, he saw that it was the flying fish suit, the embroidered spring knife, and the brocade guard who stared at him with a cold face.

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