Chapter 1571: The Great Wind is Rising

The waiter was annoyed: "Get out! If you can't afford it, don't babble here!" Ten coins for two jin of rice was an old calendar from a month ago. Do these mud-legged people usually open their mouths to the northwest to be full? The nobles in Tianshui City don't know the price of rice, do these mud-legged people deserve it? His attention was all on these two people, and he didn't guard against another refugee sneaking into the back of the shop, taking a cloth bag and quietly scooping rice.

He scooped a small bag, and there was a loud shout from the front, and the waiter discovered it, turning back and shouting: "What are you doing, put it down!"

The refugee tightened the bag and ran out.

"Stop running!"

When the refugee heard it, he wiped oil on his feet and ran faster.

The two refugees who were originally standing in front of the shop also scattered.

Can't buy grain, then you can only steal it, He Lingchuan shook his head. Grain price increases, the first to be affected must be refugees. They have no savings and the weakest ability to resist risks.

After returning, he ordered the Yongquan Shanzhuang to purchase grain and vegetables in batches.

It's time to hoard goods.

Under his intentional control, the Yangshan Chamber of Commerce branch in Tianshui City has always been in a state of "under preparation." Normally, it is normal for a chamber of commerce to save a facade in the capital and open for business, and it takes several months of preparation. He Lingchuan himself is dedicated to doing big projects for the Yao court, and even his own branch is delayed in opening, which is public and forgetting private, and it is a good story.

So Yan Bo, who is responsible for local affairs, was transferred to Yongquan Shanzhuang by the big boss to act as a temporary general manager, and the Yangshan people under his command entered the villa at the same time.

Yan Bo is one of the high disciples brought out by Ding Zuodong. He handles things neatly. After coming to Yongquan Shanzhuang, he managed the place in an orderly manner in just a few days.

Besides Wanqifeng and other Yangshan people in the villa, there are nearly a thousand people under Zhao Song. This eating horse chewing consumes a lot of grain every day.

In fact, Yongquan Shanzhuang has stock, but Yan Bo was also busy until the evening before returning with the car.

Rice, flour, oil, and various tuber vegetables that are easy to store were transported into the villa one car after another, all stored in the cool cellar, enough for the whole villa to eat for a month.

The cellar also added cold ice talismans and carefully controlled the temperature.

As for fruits, there are plenty in Yongquan Shanzhuang, picked fresh and not overnight.

At this time, the nine hundred palace guards came in handy, because the thieves and refugees coveting Yongquan Shanzhuang began to increase, and even the laborers of the eastward expansion project wanted to climb over the wall to steal something to eat in their spare time. The guards patrolled around the villa and caught dozens of them in a real way. They didn't send them to the government, but picked up the leather whip and whipped them, straight until the little thieves were full of blood and ghosts and wolves, and then threw them out of the villa.

And Yan Bo's first sentence when he entered the door was:

"Boss, grain has risen in price again."

He Lingchuan put down the information in his hand, "What's going on? Can the capital still lack grain?"

"Seven or eight days ago, the surrounding towns were a bit nervous, but the major grain shops had stock, and the surrounding farms also supplied grain to Tianshui City, which was a bit more gentle." Yan Bo said, "Such a large capital, with a population of over a million, the grain consumed every day is an astonishing number. Relying on hoarding, it won't last long."

"At least you can still buy grain now." He Lingchuan smiled, "Not serious."

Yan Bo said sternly: "I bought this batch of grain and vegetables today by looking for several chambers of commerce separately, and I used your signboard. They said that they had received the news that grain prices were about to rise sharply, and they were all trying to respond."

He Lingchuan stroked his chin: "Oh? The wind was released first? This move is brilliant."

Knowing how to manage expectations... This is not stealing from him, right?

"Some grain merchants began to hoard grain and refuse to sell. Judging from the current situation, if there is really a grain shortage, it will come earlier than expected."

Yan Bo himself started out in business, so he knew very well what hoarding for speculation meant. If merchants anticipated a sharp rise in grain prices, they would definitely hoard goods in advance, and then the ordinary commoners would scramble to buy, which would make the already tight grain supply on the market even scarcer.

"Hoard some more tomorrow, just in case." The tide is coming, He Lingchuan wants to sit and watch the tide rise and fall, "By the way, buy more spices."

"Yes!"

Yan Bo had just left, and a big owl flew to the outside, flapping and landing on the windowsill, calling with a unique and miserable tone: "Letter, urgent letter from the west!"

Lingguang felt his scalp tighten when he heard it, and hurriedly jumped over: "Give it to me."

The owl spat something at his hand with a puff:

A fat mouse.

"Hey!" Lingguang shook his hand and shook the mouse to the owl's feet.

Before the mouse landed, the owl caught it and swallowed it in one gulp: "Sorry, spat the wrong one."

It stretched its neck again and spat out a small metal tube: "This, it's this."

Lingguang gave it a bottle of elixir as a reward and pointed to the back: "There is a mouse plague in the peach orchard behind us, and there are nests of newborn mouse cubs by the lake. Are you interested? Free treat."

"Yes, very interested!" Tender little snacks, one squeak for one, and it's a free treat! The owl's eyes glowed, and it flew toward the back of the study.

Lingguang handed the small tube to He Lingchuan, who took out a note and looked at it twice.

The smile on his face disappeared immediately.

"Damn it!" The Soul-Sucking Mirror in his arms also saw it, and his voice was three degrees higher, "Bai Ziqi is here!"

How many Metropolitan Envoy Bais are there in Lingxu City? The famous one is just one.

He Lingchuan had long expected that the Heavenly Palace would send people to track the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds, but he didn't expect that the visitor would be Bai Ziqi.

"This is not fun, why did he come?" The mirror held a fluke, "Maybe he came to the Glittering Gold Plain for other official business, not specifically for you."

"A figure like Bai Ziqi will not handle idle errands." He Lingchuan looked at the words on the note very carefully, "He inquired about the Black Armored Army and the righteous army in the tavern, and hired a guide to go to Shizhoutou and Liuping. The direction is very clear. Those two places are the places where the Great Emperor of the Nine Netherworlds first appeared publicly. So—"

He summarized: "He is here to find me."

"Uh!" The mirror felt his scalp numb.

If it had a scalp.

"We do things cleanly, and it is difficult for others to trace us, but Bai Ziqi is not necessarily." He Lingchuan rubbed his eyes. The sleepiness that had just risen was driven away by this news, but his eyes were still sour and astringent, "They hired a guide and set off more than ten days ago. I don't know where they are now."

No matter how smooth the information channels he built on the Glittering Gold Plain are, he cannot avoid the interference of "human" factors. A Hao didn't look at the Haolin Society's data for half a month, and he missed such a major message!

"What to do now, what are you going to do! Will he have arrived in the Yao Nation?" The mirror was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, "If he went to check Shizhoutou and Liuping from the beginning, after arriving in the Yao Nation, he would definitely not miss the clues of Xiaotao Shanzhuang!" ===== CHAPTER 1572 =====