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In less than an hour, the steward hurried in to report it.

"Sir! The villain just now had someone come to report, and the front of the Yajiao Gate is now surrounded by the people. The steward's heart was beating like thunder, and his face was full of sorrow.

"What's going on? What are they going to do? Ju Haoming asked with a little surprise, but the ominous premonition in his heart became stronger and stronger.

"They're all buying rice!" The steward gritted his teeth and said.

Ju Haoming stood up from his chair suddenly, "I can't wait!" ”

He thought for a moment, stood behind the bookcase again, and picked up his pen.

For a while, it was very lively in front of the Yajiao Gate of Yingnanfu Mansion, some people were holding rice bags, some people were holding dustpans, and there was a long queue in front of the door.

"Everyone is lined up, don't crowd, one household is limited to two catties of brown rice."

A servant shouted in front of the door of the office, scooped up half a liter of brown rice, and put it into the man's cloth bag.

A servant next to him was holding a household registration file, checking it one by one, and then registering it in the register.

"Come on, Shiwen!" The official stretched out his hand, took ten copper plates from the hands of one of the people, glanced at them roughly, and threw them into the wooden box behind him.

Gu Chengyu looked at the scene from afar, and when he saw a few people in the crowd who were probing their brains and didn't have rice buying tools, his eyebrows were raised, it's almost there!

It's almost there!

"My lord, how long will it take us to do this?" Mingmo looked at the long line of people, and her hair was almost gray.

Looking at the adults next to him, he was still bent and in a good mood. He couldn't help but have a bruise in his head, why wasn't the adult in a hurry at all?

"At least five days!" Gu Chengyu stretched out three fingers and shook the folding fan in his hand.

Mingmo suddenly cried with a sad face, "The granary can't be half empty?" ”

Gu Chengyu nodded emphatically, "Hmm! Anyway, it's all stale sesame seeds, and we've done a good thing. ”

Then, Gu Chengyu flicked his sleeves in a good mood, sleepy! Go to sleep!

Mingmo's face is full of helplessness, do good deeds? Is this a good deed? If you don't know what, you're going to be killed!

Looking at the distant back of his adult, Mingmo had to sigh and touch his head. Luckily, my head is sturdy on my shoulders!

"Master, it's not good!"

An entourage rushed to the outer study, and Xia Mingqun was chatting happily with a richly dressed old man. Seeing that the entourage was not only rampage, but also babbling, Xia Mingqun's face couldn't help but sink.

"What are you yelling about, don't you see that the old man has a distinguished guest? How can you be so unruly? ”

Xia Mingqun glared at the entourage who had already run to the study and scolded loudly.

These people who don't understand the rules, he is talking about business at this moment, and he actually broke in like this, it is simply unreasonable.

The entourage was taken aback by his master's heavy drinking, and when he saw that there were still distinguished guests in the study, he couldn't help but curse secretly.

Didn't the old man himself say that as long as there was news about Lord Qincha, he would report it to him as soon as possible?

It was also said that there was no need to report it, and that it must be reported immediately at any time.

The entourage was aggrieved, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.

"What's the matter?" Xia Mingqun suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a deep voice.

"Sir! There were a lot of people around in front of the ya, and they were all buying rice and grain! ”

"Buy rice grain? What rice grains to buy? Where does the rice come from? Xia Mingqun's expression froze, and then he frowned.

He only returned home today, and he didn't know about Gu Chengyu's previous actions.

"My lord! Lord Nachincha brought a lot of grain from other state capitals, and not only did he advance the wages of the victims, but he also sold them food. Even the people in the city went to the corner gate of the government to buy rice. Lord Qincha said that from today on, the people can go to the corner gate of the government to buy rice, but each household is limited to one catty. ”

"What? How much does he sell for a pound? Xia Mingqun's eyes widened, panting.

"Shiwen!" The attendant said a number that shocked and made Xia Mingqun desperate.

"Shiwen?" Xia Mingqun gritted his teeth and asked in disbelief.

"Is it millet?" He asked relentlessly, then stared at his attendant, hoping to hear the answer he wanted to hear.

"It's brown rice!"

"Crazy, just crazy! Isn't Shiwen going to die? "Xia Mingqun thinks Gu Chengyu is simply a madman, what is he trying to do?

Is it just for the sake of political performance? But Gu Chengyu has just been promoted, even if the disaster relief is perfect, it is impossible to be promoted in a short period of time, why do you have to worry so hard?

There are hundreds of civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty, and there are very few officials who are more serious, who doesn't know how to be a man and leave a line, and it will be good to meet in the future? Mingzhe self-preservation has always been something that those officials often do, why does Gu Chengyu have to be different?

Could it be that Gu Chengyu planned to completely offend their Xia family? Wait and see! Gu Chengyu, this time the beam is bigger.

Nowadays, even if it costs 30 wen a liter to harvest rice, Gu Chengyu's brown rice is still shelled, and it only sells for 10 wen.

He didn't believe that the price of rice and grain in other nearby state capitals had not risen, could it be that Gu Chengyu was losing money and making money? No, Gu Chengyu didn't lose anything!

for he took the money that their merchants had given and squandered it.

What is hateful is that their Xia clan actually paid out more than half of the silver. In other words, Gu Chengyu took the silver from the Xia family to block their Xia family.

The other man in the room also had a very ugly face when he heard this, "Patriarch Xia, what are you going to do with this grain?" To do it or not to do it? If you don't have that intention, I'll sell it to someone else. ”

This person was a little anxious in his heart, and he was afraid that Xia Mingqun would regret it and not want those grains.

That's 5,000 koku! He also ran a lot of places for these grains, and only then did he get so much.

lest Xia Mingqun regret it, the man was worried in his heart.

Xia Mingqun turned around and glanced at the man, and suddenly hesitated in his heart.

Gu Chengyu sold the grain at such a cheap price, if he bought the grain at the price he just said, wouldn't he lose all his money?

After all, Gu Chengyu's brown rice is only sold for ten yuan a catty, if he sells it expensive, who will buy his grain.

But if he doesn't sell it more expensively, he will lose his capital. It's a pity that the price of the grain he collected before was much more expensive than before, so how much silver did he have to pay? He received twenty thousand stones.

When Xia Mingqun thought of this, his heart suddenly panicked.

Seeing that Xia Mingqun was obviously hesitating, this man changed his mind, and then said, "Patriarch Xia, I thought that this Lord Gu's actions were very suspicious!" You see, they're only going to the nearby state capitals, but can those state capitals buy so much cheap grain? If you buy more, will the price still go up? ”

Xia Mingqun couldn't help but nod when he heard this, it was indeed this reason. Merchants are profitable, who cares if you sell to the victims? They just want to make money.