Chapter 333: Killing the Heart

The Qunru Pavilion was already a mess.

Many people were flabbergasted.

At that moment, literally every ounce of elegance vanished into thin air.

Almost everyone, flocked to the cloisters.

This Qunru Pavilion, which was originally built on higher ground.

From here, all the views of the river can be described as unobstructed.

But the more so because of the unobstructed view, the more frightening it is.

Because the people who are standing here, they can’t see this.

“This …… this …… is a secret trick! I’ve seen many such tricks before!”

Someone let out a big whoop.

The rest of the people, it seems, also said, “Right, right, right, where are there so many grain ships, it’s just a joke. It’s simply not possible.”

“Looks like …… someone is in a hurry! Haha …… good to be in a hurry, good to be in a hurry.”

Many people began to laugh.

Zhang Taigong s brain is dizzy, he also smiled along with him, thinking …… that it may still be really just a new trick, a means to reduce the price of food, and ghosts know what is loaded in those ships.

But …… although he thinks so, deep inside Zhang Taigong, he inexplicably has a few indescribable anxieties.

You know, he’s got his life on the line with the grain.

Other things aside, the most frightening thing is still the arrears, which are actually not much, but only a mere 20,000 taels of silver.

A family like Zhang Taigong’s, as long as they run their business properly for a few years, raising this silver is but a minor problem.

But the real problem lies …… in the fact that once this capital chain is broken, it is impossible to find silver to plug this hole, but it is going to be a big deal.

The so-called big family, in fact, is meaningless, even if the squire, if the liquidity of a break, even if you have a hundred thousand million worth of industry, may be a few tens of thousands of taels of silver because of the district direct violent death.

It’s no joking matter.

“Mr. Li, Mr. Li ……” Zhang Taigong began to look around for someone, and when Li Xiucai rushed forward, he frowned and muttered in a low voice: “Go, go and see, how much is the price of grain now.”

“Yes, the student will go.”

The rest of them were calling for friends, or ordering their own boys, or asking for others.

The explanation has been given to these grain ships, but the explanation is one thing, and the rise and fall of grain prices is another.

“This must be the plot and trick of the thieves, is to make us disorganize ourselves. Gentlemen, do not panic, once panicked, if immediately sold cheap, in this thief’s trick. We …… as long as not sell, no one can not how, this South Zhili grain, all manipulated in our hands ……”

Someone shouted hysterically.

The crowd boomed, “Naturally, we must not let the thieves succeed.”

“There is no way the Taiping Province has this much grain.”

“I heard people say that Hu Gong made a trip to Taipingfu and they all cried, sighing at the difficulties of the people’s livelihood and the suffering of the people.”

In the Court of the Group of Scholars.

Zhu and the others sat upright and motionless.

Only Hu Guang, who stood not far from Zhu Di, trembled …… with fear and trembling He could not understand how he cried.

But people are talking a lot about it, and they have a nose for it!

Hu Guang sighed and glanced at Yang Rong on the side.

Yang Rong smiled slightly at him, which made Hu Guang feel even hotter.

He had a steep feeling …… might …… could it be possible that perhaps Lord Yang was really right?

No one cares about poetry and song anymore.

Many people are like headless flies.

Just at this chaotic time, suddenly, someone panted and ran, exclaiming, “It is not good, it is not good, the price of grain plummeted, the price of grain plummeted …… back to five taels of silver, back to five taels of silver.”

Many were confused.

Five taels of silver?

That was the price four or five days ago! That’s a lot of drop.

“Heh ……” that week lifter at this time in full of gas, he bellowed, with a sneer color: “These means, is not to deceive me and so on, five two silver, we still earn big, my food, is the average price of three two silver to buy The, calm down …… will be no obstacle ……”

When he said this, the crowd boomed yes.

Just after saying this, Zhou Ju Ren was the one who pulled and dragged the scribe he brought to the side, and commanded in a low voice: “Quickly, quickly, go back and tell my son to sell the grain at once, five taels of silver per stone, and as much as you can get out of it.”

The book boy heard this and flew away.

Zhou Ju Ren then shouted: “I see that grain ship, is to block people’s ears, only the price of grain fell, certain people can solve their lack of food problem, if not, I am afraid that the court blame, this thief is dead without a burial place ……”

The crowd all shouted again, “Brother Zhou is so insightful.”

Zhang Taigong followed suit, but he was still a little panicked in his heart.

He wanted to find that Li Xiucai discussion, account for some things, but found that Li Xiucai has gone to look at the price, as for him to bring his entourage, but still outside, go out to look for, but found that there is no guard in place, I think it is known that he did not go so quickly, so sneak off to the street to hang out.

He has no knowledge of Qixia, so he naturally did not dare to go around blindly, so he had to go back to the Qunjiu Pavilion.

The crowd was in an uproar, still encouraging each other, and the occasional few people, who had no idea what was going on, were just confused.

Zhu sat in the corner, his face cold, what he saw in front of him was really ugly.

And Yang Rong stood tersely, looking like he was watching a good show.

Many times, once you think about it, you realize that their interests and their interests are not closely related, and this time the person is also through, this kind of stay out of the situation, the eyes to see people crazy look, not to mention …… really quite interesting.

Hu Guang and Xia Yuan Ji, among others, were quite frustrated.

They actually knew the truth, and watching these people encourage each other made them feel like rabbits dying.

Jin Zhong pinched his beard, shook his head, and muttered, “Gee, gee, no wonder, no wonder.”

Zhu glanced at Jin Zhong, “Hard to blame for what?”

Jin Zhong said in a low voice: “Your Majesty, when I entered this pavilion, I saw the poems posted on the walls, and many people’s lines of writing, they left their ink treasures, I took a brief look at it, but I found that, among the words written in the lines of writing, none of them is not an omen of great evil, I’m afraid that …… there will be a bloodbath, and I’ve been in a pavilion where the poems are posted. Full of poetry in the attic, only feel like awn in the back, all around is a killing machine.”

Jin Zhong, after all, came from a word-measuring background, and he didn’t forget his roots.

Zhu Di had a cold face, but at this point he couldn’t help but lose his smile, “You’re less confused, hindsight is 20/20.”

Jin Zhong made a fool of himself.

Instead, Hu Guang ears sharp, but listened to go, he quietly to the side of Jin Zhong, whispered: “Jin Gong …… you counted accurate?”

Jin Zhong said in a serious manner, “Twenty years in this business, counting nothing.”

Hu Guang said, “Why don’t you give me a test?”

Jin Zhong smiled and said, “Write a word for me to read.”

Hu Guang, however, looked at Zhu Di pitifully.

Zhu Di only felt that this place is noisy, but did not expect that the accompanying ministers, another branch, but only lowered his head and sipped his tea, did not nod, did not oppose.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstones here are everywhere, Hu Guang thought about it, so he contemplated for a moment, wrote a big word and gave it to Jin Zhong.

Jin Zhong looked at the writing on it, but it was a big ‘grain’ character.

Jin Zhong said lightly, “On the left is rice, on the right is Liang, rice, profit, Liang, that is, conscience. It can be seen that this word grain is profit on one side and benevolence and conscience on the other. Duke Hu, are you encountering something difficult right now, and are you sad in your heart?”

Hu Guang said with a surprised face, “Ah …… right right right, what else?”

Jin Zhong said, “You are now of one mind and one mouth, and what you think in your heart and what you do cannot fit together. This is the key to the rice and Liang. Hey …… life in the world, to your age, and still have to heart and mouth ……”

When he said this, Hu Guang said, “Jin Gong, you really calculate too accurate, I want to ask …… a question.”

“Ask what? Ask about the marriage, or the future?”

Hu Guang thought for a moment and said, “Ask about life.”

Jin Zhong looked at him with a profound face, and then said: “In fact, people ah live in the world, it is not possible to a cluster and on, in fact, you are Qu Yuan’s life, the great ambition is difficult to pay. But …… you also do not panic, from your word, you have a mild temperament, loyal, good at going against the grain, so although there is the sorrows of Qu Daifu, but will never be like him to jump into the river for righteousness.”

“In my opinion, you in this life, after all, can still be smooth. The present sorrows are just small ups and downs, it doesn’t matter, go home and have a good sleep, after several months, you will turn back, and you will realize that …… the things in the world are generally like this, and you will be able to be pleasant.”

Hu Guang seems to be all of a sudden, by Jin Zhong said something, and see Zhu Di and Xia Yuan Ji several people, are supporting the ears side listening to the appearance.

He blushed, and without saying whether the math was accurate or not, he busily snapped, “Yes, yes, yes.”

So he snatched back the words he had written, feeling a little ashamed. The readers over there were still making a fuss, but Hu Guang didn’t bother to care about them, but quietly went to Yang Rong’s side and muttered in a low voice, “Jin Gong measured the words, and it was really very accurate.”

Yang Rong only glanced at him obliquely and said, “What you have in mind, even Zhang Anshi can figure it out, and you still need to measure words to figure it out?”

Hu Guang was a bit anxious and couldn’t help but whisper, “Zhang Anshi? Just him? I don’t believe it!”

Just at this moment, that Li Xiucai is stumbling rushed in, “Taigong …… Taigong ……”

Everyone’s attention then fell on this Li Xiucai.

“Not good, Taigong …… four two silver …… four two silver, just a few incense sticks, four two silver …… “Li Xiucai exclaimed.

This attic in the crowd, a face miserable, someone is even blurted out: “At first …… this grain, I am four two to buy, finished ……”

Others are ok with someone buying at a low price.

But now, it was at a loss.

Zhang Taigong’s body trembled, he opened his eyes wide, the pupils of his eyes contracted, and he shivered and said, “Quickly, sell, sell …… ”

“Can’t sell, can’t sell, many merchants there said, the price is low, just because …… many people secretly in the sale, so the price will only get lower and lower, the best way …… the best way …… is …… is for everyone to join forces to keep the price ……”

The crowd hesitated, and some people were already in a hurry, exclaiming, “Right! Join forces to guarantee the price, this must be someone …… someone ……”

At this time ……

Since this attic above, but someone walks down slowly.

“Hahahahahaha …… How’s the poetry …… How’s the uproar.”

The crowd went to see it.

However, he saw a man with a slender figure, dressed in a python robe, walking down from the top floor in a slow pace.

It turned out …… that Zhang Anshi was actually upstairs from them.

Zhang Anshi was wearing a python robe, he was young and tall, and with his handsome face, he looked outstanding.

With dozens of guards carefully arching around them, there was another group of guards that appeared in all corners of this building.

After Zhang Anshi laughed, he was actually a bit shocked to see Zhu Di.

Obviously did not expect that Zhu Di would personally come to this Qunru Pavilion.

He’s in on this bookworm’s fun, too?

Zhu, however, shook his head slightly at him.

Their tacit understanding is not the first day of the matter, Zhang Anshi since the understanding, so the eyes turn, look natural, and smiled broadly: “All of you, all of you …… this poetry …… can be written? I Zhang Anshi is the most love talent, seek sage like thirst, early hope, want to glance at the public’s great talent.”

Upon hearing that it was Zhang Anshi, these hundreds of people instantly quieted down.

On weekdays, everyone didn’t miss out on scolding Zhang Anshi, with more than a few vicious words.

However, in front of Zhang Anshi, these people did not dare anyone to spit out any bad words.

It s just …… that the eyes, more or less, carry a little bit of cynicism.

“This …… is actually a poetry meeting sponsored by the Duke of Wei?” Someone reacted with an exclamation of surprise.

Zhang Anshi said: “can not say so, what is called my sponsorship, this is clearly my favorite disciple, a scholar Gu Xingzu sponsorship.”

“Hmm? Why isn’t everyone composing poems anymore? Come, come, come, there’s no need to be polite, I’m just passing through, so you don’t have to care about me.”

But all of them, still standing still, did not answer.

There was only that pair of eyes with endless hatred.

Zhang Taigong even hated wanting to pull his legs out and leave.

Many people don’t want to hang around either and are tempted to leave.

At this time, Zhang Anshi is calm and relaxed, as if strolling idly, suddenly, with his back, turned toward the Zhu Jin behind him and commanded, “Zhu Jin ah …… now the geometry of the price of grain?”

This time …… everyone just really can t move a step.

Every single one of them, as if they had nails in their feet, didn’t move at all.

Zhu Jin smiled and said, “Now? It’s hard to say, it should almost fall to three taels of silver if nothing unexpected happens.”

Three taels ……

Although they don’t know if it’s true or not, many people realize …… this could …… be true.

Many people are already worried, to be honest …… this time …… hitching in too much.

At first, many people buy food, but also just a little bit, but later, see the price rose too much, they began to regret that they bought less.

So the boldness of this grew, and the size of this purchase, began to grow.

They can comfort themselves, purchase these grain, this is to fight the Taipingfu, is the great righteousness, but in fact …… all are just a desire to fill the gully.

After Zhu Jin said that, Zhang Anshi frowned and said, “How much grain from each county can be transported into the warehouse today?”

“Your Excellency, there should be one million stones. I’m afraid it will take half a month for the latter two million stones to be shipped into the warehouse.”

One million stones …… and two million more on the back end.

This number is as far as anyone can imagine.

The crowd listened to the conversation between Zhang Anshi and Zhu Jin, and some people kept telling themselves, This is just a lie …… It s just a trick they played, they can t fool me, before and after three million stones of grain …… Where do they get it from?

Zhang Anshi heard, but laughed: “This is public grain, can not be moved. Half of it, are to be surrendered to the court, the counties of the grain …… how about the acquisition of our government offices?”

Zhu Jin added, “All counties are letting the grain stations be collecting, and all nine counties are harvesting abundantly, and in order to have a stable grain price, the grain stations everywhere are purchasing grain at 800 wen, no matter how much the price of grain rises or falls. Now that the market price is ridiculously high, not many people are willing to sell grain to the grain stations, and only about 700,000 stones have been collected.”

In order to solve this situation, grain stations were put to great use, and Zhang Anshi formulated a decree for the government to unify the purchase of grain.

That is to say, no matter how much the price of grain, the grain station to a price to buy, if the price of grain has fallen to below 800 wen, the grain station also still pay a stone 800 wen, and outside the high price of grain, but also still this market.

Of course, if a farmer wants to sell his grain to a merchant, there is no problem, as long as you are willing to sell, the grain station does not care.

But in reality, even so, there are still many farmers who are willing to sell their grain to grain stations. On the one hand, it is that the grain stations are fair and square, and the price is constant.

On the other hand, you want to sell to others, transportation is a big problem, and small farmers in the face of merchants, is already in a weak position, even if the bulk of the grain prices have soared, the merchants of the purchase price, but never the market price.

Upon hearing that the surplus grain received alone is 700,000 stone …… here, the people are all confused.

Of course, there was no one who believed Zhang Anshi, in their opinion, Zhang Anshi was putting up a false front.

But listen to this time, Zhang Anshi lightly said, “Seven hundred thousand stones …… this will be very good, now the price of bulk grain prices are so high, then hurry to sell all of them, I will quote a price, two taels of silver a stone, as many as there are people to collect, we will sell as many.”

As if surprised, Zhu Jin suddenly exclaimed, “Seven hundred thousand stones were sold?”

“All for sale?”

“What if the price goes below two silver pieces?”

Zhang Anshi said, “One or two pieces of silver are also sold, not to mention one or two pieces of silver, even if it’s 800 wen, it’ll be sold as usual! Now, there is a lot of grain in Taiping Province, as long as someone is willing to buy it, higher than 800 wen, sell as much as you can!”

Zhu Jin said, “Understood, the male master …… Xiao’s this will let people go to hang the order.”

Zhang Anshi said, smilingly walked to a place not far away from Zhu Di, settled down, and looked at the crowd of readers.

These people, on the other hand, were all jaw-dropped and dumbfounded.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, said with an easygoing smile, “Come on, keep making poems, we are all elegant people, how can we not have poems in this situation?”

Many people’s faces had gone suddenly pale.

Because they saw that, indeed, there was one person who, after getting Zhu Jin’s command, ran off at a fast pace.

Just at this moment, but a boy rushed in violently, exclaiming, “Master, master, it’s not good ……”

But that week lifer called out to sell food boy.

This little boy like a dead mother, with a few cries, exclaimed: “Master, the market price, simply can not be sold, can not find a buyer. Now it is two taels of silver, no one is willing to buy. The young master said, even one or two silver …… pieces no one is willing to purchase grain. Young master also said, there are uncountable grain …… on the pier, can not even count it, many of the foot force, have gone to move grain generation into the warehouse, everyone has seen with their own eyes, is the real grain, and are all new rice ……”

This little boy’s every word, as if with infinite power, like a sharp blade, are in the heart of the people who have executed the place, so that the pain is about to gasp for air.

Then associated with Zhang Anshi eight hundred money dared to sell, almost everyone …… violently felt a black eye.

But then heard the boy said: “Taipingfu …… Taipingfu big ripe …… harvest …… big harvest … …The news is already out, is the cabinet university scholar Yang Rong, and the cabinet university scholar Hu Guang, personally investigated the results. This two males, yesterday face the saint, is to report this happy news …… Yang Rong on the Taiping House praised, even Hu Guang also said so …… young master is personally heard people say …… young master said, we The family s grain …… may be a little later, and it will not even be sold for 800 Wen. Master …… Young Master is now anxious and mad ……”

That week lifter …… only felt that his eyes were full of stars.

His body was light and shaky, eight hundred words ……

It is even 800 Wen …… to be unsold.

There is still a lot of grain on the market and what will it mean once no one buys it and everyone dumps it together?

Meaning …… this grain will just continue to pile up in your own barn, and the cost of storage, and the cost of buying it in the first place, stack up together ……

Yes, by the way …… there are money changers.

Blood money!

This is really just an overnight netting of the entire home.

“Hu Guang also said so, Hu Guang this thief …… shall not die!” Someone gritted his teeth and cursed.

Hu Guang: “……”

Unbeknownst to everyone, it is acceptable for people to accept that Zhang Anshi is their undying enemy, so no matter how much of a deadly fight they have with Zhang Anshi, and what tactics Zhang Anshi employs, they will at best only swear at him in private.

As for Yang Rong, Yang Rong, this person …… usually does not have any upright image to penetrate the hearts of the people, so …… it will not be a surprise to everyone if he does such a thing.

But Hu Guang is obviously different for them, Hu Guang nowadays can be considered as belonging to the traitors in everyone’s eyes, which is most hateful.

Consequently, some people howled, some people beat their chests and stumbled, and some people raged with indignation, “I hate that I can’t eat the flesh of Hu Guang alive.”

Someone hurriedly yelled, “Sell food …… Sell food ……”

Hearing this, Zhang Taigong first froze for a moment as his entire body was unable to accept it, and then, as if he had gone mad, trembling slightly, he raised his steps to rush out of the Qunru Pavilion. Who knows, before even crossing the threshold.

Snap ……

With a loud bang, from the sky, a man suddenly fell.

Immediately after …… it was as if the meat was puree and fell in front of his eyes.

A good end of a person, in a moment, has been completely different, placed in front of Zhang Taigong, only left a mass of long ago does not seem to be the human form of the corpse.

Zhang Taigong opened his eyes wide and struggled to recognize the bloody scene in front of him, and he finally recognized it, which is exactly Zhou Lifeng ……

It’s Mr. Chow!

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