Jiang Shengwei suddenly realized.

It turned out that the masked man had already made a plan, he was just a pawn in the masked man's hands, and the development of the situation and the reaction of the grain merchant were all under his control.

Since he has cards in his hand, there's not much to say.

"Xiaosheng will wait for your news."

After saluting, the masked man left first, and after he walked away, Jiang Shengwei walked straight out of the longevity workshop and walked towards his hiding fear.

Behind Jiang Shengwei, he quietly followed the two shadow people.

Inside the Royal Palace.

Li Xueyan was stewing soup for His Majesty in the garden with several attendants, just when there was news coming into the palace, after he opened the note, his eyes became a little strange, and he left the palace in a hurry without waiting for the soup to be stewed, and walked towards the Ganlu Hall with a few palace maids.

The sedan chair is not conducive to the spread of the concept of equality for everyone, and has been banned by Qin Huaidao.

When he arrived at the Ganlu Palace, he saw that Qin Huaidao was still working hard for the Yellow River flood, and Fang Xuanling of the Ministry of State and Duan Lun of the Ministry of Industry reported to His Majesty in the palace on the progress of various affairs in recent days.

"Your Majesty, recently Chang'an City and surrounding states and counties levied 3,000 quintals of grain, it was the beginning of summer, it was the time of lack of grain, the people and merchants did not have much surplus grain in their hands, and the minister expanded the scope of collection and collected as much grain as possible." Fang Xuanling said.

Seeing that Fang Lao finished his report, Duan Lun also reported: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry has made more than 100 trucks of flood control and water control materials, with more than 10,000 sacks, and it has been transported to the Yellow River in accordance with His Majesty's requirements. ”

These news did not have any relaxing effect on Qin Huaidao's tense mentality, because these quantities were far from enough for the entire Yellow River: "Fang Lao, I transferred the garrison of Jinyiwei and Luo Wu to you to be in charge of grain collection, in case of a disaster, I want every people to have food to eat, but there is one point, you can't forcibly collect, let alone go into the house to rob it, collect it at a high price, and don't compete with the people for profit." ”

"As for Duan Lun, if you recruit more craftsmen, women can also hold up half the sky, we must actively encourage women, girls and children to join this preparation, as for the salary, there can be two options, one is to give more work, the other is to work more and get more, you can count by piece, those who do more, it is also appropriate to earn more."

"No."

The two of them received the order and slowly retreated.

Seeing that Qin Huaidao was still solemn, Xue Yan stepped forward to gently knead his head and comforted him: "Your Majesty, don't worry too much, in the final analysis, the catastrophe of the Yellow River is only the words of the river worker Feng Jizhang and the Lanzhou Mansion, I remember that there is also a message from the state government that the local embankment is very strong, there is no worry about dam failure, and the flood will not happen at all in the future, right?" ”

Qin Huaidao smiled, and there were some things to say to her, and she might not be able to understand them.

But after thinking about it carefully, her words are not unreasonable, but once the Yellow River floods, it will affect more than just one state and one government, if the precautions are not good, the entire downstream coastal state roads will be flooded, and the people involved may reach tens of millions, and he can't do it if he doesn't worry about it.

It's just that on the bright side, I don't want these ladies to worry too much.

He put away a bunch of folds and squeezed a smile from his tired face and said: "Indeed, I am too worried about the Yellow River, and I haven't been to your palace to see you for a long time. ”

"It's all a family, thank you." Li Xueyan was embarrassed, and then explained her intention: "Do you remember Jiang Shengwei, the son of the Jiang family who made trouble in the imperial examination?" News came from the Tianyan Intelligence Network, saying that he conspired to gather many grain merchants yesterday with unknown intentions, but it was a pity that the people of Tianyan could not blend in with the grain merchants, otherwise they would know what they said. ”

Qin Huaidao smiled, he grabbed Li Xueyan's hand that was pinching his head, and gently pulled it, Li Xueyan sat on his lap, and her whole body was nestled in his arms.

His eyes were soft, his hand gently scraped her nose, and his words were reproachful and implied distress: "Look at it, you still say that I am not busy with these things?" There are some things you don't have to grasp too closely, just let Li Jingren of the Military Intelligence Department handle it. ”

Li Xueyan said: "How can it be the same? What Your Majesty tells the concubines to do, the concubines will definitely do a good job, not to mention that the military intelligence department in charge of my younger brother should focus on military intelligence, and the news of the people and officials in various places should be handed over to Tianyan. ”

Thinking of what happened just now, Li Xueyan got rid of Qin Huaidao's embrace again, and said with a straight face: "Regarding the change in the grain merchants, the concubine suspects that Jiang Shengwei may have some schemes, although he can't afford to turn over any storms, but if there is chaos when the Yellow River flood occurs, it will bring a lot of trouble to Your Majesty, how should Your Majesty deal with it?" ”

Qin Huaidao thought for a moment and said: "These grain merchants are also ordinary people, and the reckless punishment is not conducive to the development of the Han Dynasty, so I ordered people to buy them with silver money to see if they can ask for some news." ”

Li Xueyan nodded secretly, she also meant this, but because she was a grain merchant, the matter might involve the flooding of the Yellow River, so she came to discuss with Qin Huaidao.

Night.

A person with a celestial eye quietly came to the residence of several grain merchants and knocked on their door.

According to the practice of their grain merchants, they would save a lot of old grain over the years to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations, but there was a war against Li Tai before, and when the situation in the whole world was uncontrollable, it was impossible for them to buy a large amount of grain.

If you hoard too much, it is easy to be targeted, or forced by the imperial court, or robbed by displaced people, if you are unlucky enough to meet a rebel or mob who is short of food, it is common for a family to lose their lives.

As a result, the Han Dynasty was founded, and it was not easy to wait until the political situation was stable, and when they saw that the summer grain was collected, they originally planned to take advantage of this year's harvest to levy more, but now it is good, the imperial court levied grain at a high price, and it seems that it is not intended to be left to them at all, how can he not be annoyed?

He didn't want to deal with people outside the door, but he didn't want the other party to be unrelenting and knocking.

"It's coming, it's coming, why are you in such a hurry, rushing to your life?" Wang opened the door while complaining, and when he opened the door, he found several strangers standing there who he didn't know at all.

"Grain merchant Wang, right, the personnel in the Lower Dali Temple, if you have something important to ask, please come into the house and talk about it." The personnel of Dali Temple are the hidden identities of Tianyan's actions in Chang'an.

"Dali Temple?" When Wang was thinking that he didn't seem to have anything to do with Dali Temple, he was politely invited into the house after being closed by several people, leaving the two of them to look at the wind.

Wang was shocked: "You, what do you want to do?" ”

The person who reported himself as a member of Dali Temple before said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you don't need to worry, we are not evildoers, we just want to do business with you for a thousand taels of silver." ”