493 When the people heard this, they were immediately shocked and shouted, "Boss Chen, Boss Chen..."
A group of people rushed over directly. Xiaohu immediately led the disciples of the Fishing Gang to stop them. The scene was very chaotic for a while.
Chen Jie left the scene under the protection of the disciples of the fishing gang, his back looking a little embarrassed.
Seeing Chen Jie fleeing in panic, Yelu and the others were all laughing in their hearts, thinking, Chen Jiusi, aren't you pretending to be cool? Aren't you trying to save people from suffering? This time it's good.
Yelu and his group just watched the excitement, and Zhao Ya followed directly.
When Yelu saw that there was no more excitement to watch, he said, "Disperse, disperse, let's disperse too, there is no more excitement to watch."
After saying that, Zhou Peng and others followed Yelu and left.
At this time, Han He, who was watching all this not far away, said to Peng Yingyu, who was wearing a bamboo hat beside him, "Your Excellency, do you still think Chen Jiusi can save the people of Mianshui?"
Peng Yingyu asked, "Can't I?"
Han He said: "I have seen this kind of scene, and it is definitely happening all over the country. In the end, the hungry people in Mianshui will start eating tree bark and grass roots, and Guanyin soil. When these are gone, they will start to flee from famine and become refugees."
"If the disease spreads from one county to another, it will soon lead to a civil uprising in the entire Hubei region. This is a good time for us to revolt."
"And it's not just Mianshui County that's been hit by the disaster this year. Several prefectures in Huguang Road have also suffered from disasters of varying degrees. It's said that the Holy Church will send an elder to Hubei Road to preside over this uprising."
Han He talked about the Zoroastrianism's latest action plan, which was, yes, an uprising.
This time, the flood of the Mianshui River was not just affecting Mianshui County, but also radiated to a large area of Hubei Road. In other words, there was too much rain in Hubei Road this year, which led to the flood of the Mianshui River.
This is a chain reaction.
Not only was the Mianshui River affected, but other places along Hubei Road were also affected one after another, although the worst-hit area was the Mianshui County.
However, officials in other counties did nothing. In addition, due to the war in the north, grain was withdrawn on a large scale by the imperial court, making the local disaster resistance very weak.
Although the disaster situation is not obvious in many places now, intelligence from the Zoroastrianism shows that disasters will soon hit Hubei Province one after another. If the imperial court fails to handle it properly, it is likely to lead to a chain reaction.
These originally minor natural disasters turned into civil unrest.
This caused chaos in the entire Hubei Road. At this time, the Zoroastrianism directly sent an elder to Hubei Road to see if they could incite a civil uprising and support the war in the north.
This is a big chess game of Zoroastrianism, and the Mian River is just a small link in it.
Peng Yingyu heard this and said, "Send an elder to Hubei? Haha, Hubei is such an important place, one elder may not be enough, right?"
After hearing this, Han He said, "Your Excellency is right. If things go smoothly in Hubei, or if there are any obstacles, my master will probably come to Hubei in person."
Peng Yingyu nodded slightly: "Han girl, come and take care of it, it's almost done."
In fact, the fact that the Zoroastrianism sent an elder to Hubei showed that it attached great importance to Hubei. After all, the main forces of the Zoroastrianism were fighting desperately with the imperial court in the north.
Therefore, it is not easy to transfer an elder.
The organizational structure of Zoroastrianism is: one leader, two venerables, four Dharma kings, and under the Dharma kings are twelve elders.
Therefore, the strength of the elders is also very strong.
The weakest one should be at Changhong Realm, while the stronger elders should be at Rulong Realm.
For example, the two elders, Dragon and Tiger, among the twelve elders, are both powerful warriors in the dragon realm. Back then, Han Miaozhen also stood out from the twelve elders and was promoted to the Dharma King.
That is to say, this time the uprising in Hubei Road will most likely be led by a strong man in the Changhong Realm.
And it is in the early stage. If it is in the later stage, the court will dispatch more masters, and may even send someone at the level of King of Dharma to preside over the uprising.
Of course, the premise is that Hubei Road will become chaotic.
At present, the place in Hubei Province that is most likely to be in chaos is Mianshui County. As long as a large number of refugees appear in Mianshui County due to food shortage and famine, Zoroastrianism will take advantage of the situation and sneak in.
Therefore, at that time, Mianshui County was also a very important place in the eyes of Zoroastrianism. If things went wrong, this place would become the starting point of the Hubei Uprising.
Chen Jie left the scene. After the people reacted, they all ran to Antai Grain Store in Baihutang, Xicheng District to buy food. For a while, Antai Grain Store was surrounded by people.
At this time, Chen Jie also left the scene.
Xiaohu looked at Chen Jie and said, "Boss, it's obvious that the fire in the East Warehouse was set by someone. I'll take my brothers to investigate and see which bastard dared to burn our Fishermen's warehouse. If I catch him, I'll definitely skin him alive."
After hearing this, Chen Jie looked at Xiao Hu and said, "Hey, no need to go. Zhou Chu did it."
"Ah, Lao Zhou, he..."
Xiao Hu was shocked when he heard this, and Chen Jie said, "I asked him to burn it."
Xiao Hu was confused, so Chen Jie said, "Alright, stop asking so many questions. Send someone to search the entire city for clues right away, and make a big splash."
After hearing this, Xiaohu asked, "Boss, what do you mean?"
Chen Jie said: "Haha, such a big thing has happened. If we don't investigate, it will be ok. Well, in two days, we can find Zhou Chu in two days."
"Ah, boss, what does this mean?"
Chen Jie said: "Just go and do it."
Xiaohu clasped his fists and said, "Yes, I'll do it right away."
After doing all this, Zhao Ya rushed in and said, "Chen Jiusi, the food is burned, what should we do now?"
Seeing Zhao Ya like this, Chen Jie smiled and said, "Princess, don't worry, she's not feverish, she's not feverish."
"No fever?"
Zhao Ya was stunned. Chen Jie signaled her, and Zhao Ya immediately said to Ah Da and others who were following behind her, "You go out and keep watch."
Then Zhao Ya looked at Chen Jie and said, "Chen Jiusi, what are you doing? What do you mean by not burning?"
After hearing this, Chen Jie said, "I meant that the grains were all fine and not burned."
"No fever, so you are outside?"
"acting."
Zhao Ya looked at Chen Jie in bewilderment and asked, "Acting? Who are you acting for?"
Chen explained: "Big fish."
Zhao Ya looked at Chen Jie in bewilderment and asked, "Big fish, what big fish?"
Chen Jie smiled and said, "Haha, Princess, have a cup of tea and be patient."
"If we want to save the Mian River, the little food we have is not enough. We must bring in a large amount of food."
Zhao Ya asked, "So?"
"Where can we get a large amount of grain? There are two groups of people. One is the imperial court. The imperial court has official warehouses, but the grain in the official warehouses is either transferred to the north or used to maintain stability. So even with your status as a princess, you can only borrow 30,000 shi, which is not enough to solve the crisis of the Mian River."
Zhao Ya nodded slightly when she heard that and took a sip of the tea that Chen Jie poured.
"Yes, that's right."
"So I set my sights on the second group of people who had food."
Zhao Ya narrowed her eyes and said, "A gentry in the city, no, a big grain merchant!"
Zhao Ya mentioned a term: big grain merchant!
That's right, they are the big grain merchants. These people are very powerful and have connections everywhere. Even the imperial court has little way to deal with them.
Because they had paid off the higher-ups and had the court's permission to resell grain, the local officials did not dare to use force against them.
And their favorite thing to do is to make money from national disasters.
Moreover, they are very sensitive to news. As long as a disaster is about to happen somewhere, they can sense it immediately, and then immediately start investigating the situation, mobilize the resources at hand, and then sweep away the wealth of the people in that place.
During these days, Chen Jie had been observing and discovered the spies sent by these people to Mianshui.
These people were very secretive. If Chen Jie hadn't sent people to keep an eye on them early in the morning, it would have been difficult to find them. They would pretend to be ordinary people and record the daily grain sales of the grain shops to determine the market.
Then the public will send people to investigate and finally summarize the information for these big grain traders.
Chen Jie's purpose this time was to attract these big grain merchants into Mianshui, and Chen Jie had already received news that the grain of these big grain merchants had even been transported to Hubei, so they were ready to make a fortune.
Now waiting for the market trend!
The biggest wind direction of the Mian River is Chen Jiusi.
So Chen Jiusi directly burned down his own granary, so that these big grain merchants would think that there was no grain in the Mian River and that the opportunity to make a fortune had come.
Only in this way can they transport grain into the Mian River, thus completely solving the problem of food shortage in the Mian River.
This is Chen Jie's trick of "luring someone into a trap".
Zhao Ya heard this and said, "Even if you want to attract these big grain merchants, you don't have to make such a fuss. Can't you just say that there is no grain at the beginning?"
Chen Jie shook his head and said, "My Lord, do you think these big grain merchants are fools? If they don't know the bottom of the Mian River, how dare they join in?"
"We don't have that much time to deal with them now. We can only show our trump card first, and then destroy it to gain their trust. As long as they transport the grain to the Mian River, we can control them. Before that, we can only lie!"
Zhao Ya nodded slightly after hearing this and said, "I see. No wonder you want to put on such a show. But even if these grain merchants come, we can't use force to take their grain. They are all imperial merchants. If they are unwilling to sell, we can't rob them openly!"
Chen Jie laughed and said, "Rob? Don't worry, princess. We won't rob them. If they come, I have another plan to make them sell the grain obediently."
After hearing this, Zhao Ya asked, "Chen Jiusi, are you so confident?"
Chen Jie said: "Haha, my strategy is not aimed at one person. Since I have laid out the plan, I will naturally have a way to end it."
"What's the solution?"
Zhao Ya asked curiously. Chen Jie said, "Princess, you will know when the time comes. It won't work if I tell you now."
Zhao Ya pouted when she heard that: "Humph, who wants to hear that?"
When Chen Jie saw Zhao Ya like this, he just smiled and said nothing.
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Zuixian Tower. Yelu and his group came back and were now sitting in Zuixian Tower.
Zhou Peng looked at Yelu and said, "Sir, do you think the food of the fishing gang has really been burned?"
Yelu said: "The East Warehouse is their largest warehouse, and I have investigated other fishing gang warehouses, and they don't have any grain stored."
After hearing this, Tang Wannian on the side said, "Sir, do you think his Antai grain store has any grain in stock?"
Yelu said: "That place is very small, it can't hold much, but we should also explore it. Zhou Peng, you send two people, like this, like this..."
"Yes, sir, I understand."
Zhou Peng immediately arranged for his men to leave, and then Yelu looked at Tang Wannian, who looked very happy, and said, "Tang County Magistrate, you seem very happy that Chen Jiusi's granary was burned. Do you have grain to sell as well?"
Tang Wannian immediately stood up and said, "Ah, sir, I, I didn't!"