"It's a good idea to buy the food in the court directly! In this way, the court will either increase the grain tax to cause chaos in the world, or let the price of grain in Jiangnan continue to rise, and Jiangnan rebelled first. Anyway, the only man didn't want to let us go, so everyone should stop living! Let the world get chaos first!"

Xu Hongji nodded and said.

"The vassal kings of all countries think so. Sooner or later, the court will not let them go. Now it is the land of Zhangzhang. Who knows what new policy will be next? This time, you must use grain and silver to make the court fall a big hit in Jiangnan. Either the world is in chaos or change the leader to end the current situation."

Dou Ding said again, "Then the vassal kings were willing to let the princes come forward to bring money to do this with them. In the princess as the manager of Henghe Grain Store, they would contact more merchants to buy grain for them. They could also pay dividends from Henghe Grain Store like the official business of the court. The same thing, but I don't know how much money they can provide."

"Since there are five million taels of silver from the vassal kings, Xu will also pay three million taels of silver, and he will be able to share more at that time. Anyway, if you hold silver coins and silver now, it is better to hold grain! It is better to exchange it for the dividend share of the grain shop."

Xu Hongjidao.

Zhu Guobi also said, "I will pay one million taels of silver."

For a moment, these Nanjing nobles all invested in Henghe Grain Shop.

Therefore, not long after, more scholars and citizens came to buy grain in the entire Yingtianfu market to comprehensive stores and government-controlled grain shops.

"The current rice price in the comprehensive store is fifteen silver dollars per dou. After you buy it, you can sell it to our Henghe Grain Store for seventeen silver dollars per dou. We will buy as much as you buy it. Do you understand?"

Therefore, the people of the Ganges grain shop later relied on their wealth and wealth to organize the scholars to buy more grains and repurchase the grain provided by the court at a higher price.

At the same time, Duke of Wei, Hou Funing and other Nanjing nobles also mobilized their slaves and tenants to buy grain with silver dollars.

For a time, a large amount of food from the court flowed out.

"Even if the purchase limit is now changed to one household that can not purchase more than ten stones per day, there are still a large number of scholars and citizens pulling a cart to use lam to lam the amount of ten stones. We previously limited twenty stones because some families have a large population or those who open restaurants need so much food, but it is not that every household needs so much rice every day. From the perspective of me, this must be someone who is secretly making trouble and spilling money to many scholars and citizens, asking the scholars to buy the rice. I asked the people from the Dongchang to check and found that it was a business called Henghe Grain Store that was interfering, playing with the way of purchasing grain and rice sold by scholars and citizens at a higher price. I sent people from the Dongchang to catch it, but I only caught a few offline. The specific owner of the Henghe Grain Store has not been found out yet, but it can be clear that the Henghe Grain Store is very rich, and ordinary employees in charge of collecting grain can bring tens of thousands of taels of silver or tens of thousands of silver coins under it."

Wei Zhongxian reported this situation to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao laughed after hearing this: "This is they fighting with me, so there is no need to check it out. Now, since so much reserved grain is transported to Jiangnan, it is better to change the method to deal with them. This method is just right to nationalize all their money! The East Factory first installs one eye and closes the other, and first focus on the blockade news, so that they don't know how much grain the imperial court has hoarded in the Jiangnan area. In addition, find out how much money they have prepared to buy my food."

"I obey the order!"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Then, Zhu Youxiao looked at Xiong Tingbi and Han Yu and said, "But it is difficult to be sure that these people are really rich and can compete with the country. Some of them are bought with high-priced grain from me. Since this is the case, I have to take out enough grain to sell. Therefore, the imperial court has not transported enough grain in China. I have to continue to borrow grain from abroad to sell it, and pass the orders to Chen Yourong, so that he can immediately lead the Denglai Navy and take the latest warships to Seoul, North Korea, and shoot a few shots first, without waiting for Yuan Chonghuan to disappear. For the interest, be sure to borrow enough grain based on the original three million stones of food and food. In addition, Chen Xinmen, the Naval Division of the Komwei Town, who had been in the water for a long time, led the soft sailing ships of the "Qi Jiguang" to Edo and Ryukyu, Japan! When the Henghe Grain Shop ends the purchase of grain, the imperial navy will end the task of borrowing grain from foreign countries! The imperial court's task is to be a big grain merchant and provide this Henghe Grain Shop with enough grain to fry them."

Zhu Youxiao laughed as he said that.

After hearing this, Xiong Tingbi and Han Yu suddenly realized it. For a moment, they both bowed and praised him, "Your Majesty's wise!"

...

North Korea, Seoul.

Yuan Chonghuan has been in North Korea for a long time.

The Korean king has always been willing to provide only 500,000 stones of grain to help Liao on the grounds that the national treasury is empty.

Yuan Chonghuan naturally refused, after all, his mission was three million stones.

In addition, in the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse, North Korea experienced a civil strife in history, "Inzu Anyway".

So, Yuan Chonghuan stayed in North Korea and did not go back.

After the civil strife in North Korea ended, Yuan Chonghuan continued to ask the King of Korea for three million stones of food to help Liao.

Although the new King of Korea, Li Yu, was willing to give up his throne as soon as possible to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty, he only agreed to pay one million stones of grain.

Yuan Chonghuan naturally refused, so he had to continue to stay in Seoul and threatened that the North Korean king would ignore the prestige of the Celestial Empire. The Celestial Empire would send troops to attack the coup in the next period, and the North Korean king would come to ask him for it.

At the beginning, the King of Korea and the officials from all over the North Koreans believed it, so they were a little nervous and tentatively increased the grain of Liao to two million stones. At the same time, they also sent people to the Ming Dynasty to inquire. After inquiring, they learned that the Ming Dynasty had no intention of attacking North Korea, so they gradually stopped believing Yuan Chonghuan's words.

Yuan Chonghuan did not expect that his big talk would not convince the North Koreans, and he could only continue to stay in North Korea in embarrassment.

But what Yuan Chonghuan did not expect was that when he stayed in North Korea until the beginning of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Navy's official army really appeared in Jianghua Bay.

...

North Korean King Lee Nai felt anxious.

"What did you say? The Ming Navy has appeared in Incheon and bombarded Incheon, and has just landed in Incheon?"

At this time, Li Wang asked his training general (equivalent to the commander of the Imperial Guard) Li Xingli in shock.

Li Xingli hurriedly replied: "I dare not deceive Your Highness. The Ming Navy has indeed landed in Incheon. Their warships are large and many, covering the sky and the sun. Their artillery is huge. One shot can collapse our city walls! We cannot compete with the Ming Navy."

Jin Yuze, the head of the government (equivalent to Prime Minister), said: "Now I can only ask Yuan Gong, the minister of the Celestial Dynasty, to enter the palace, ask him to find a way to contact the Celestial Dynasty navy, and ask him to clarify the purpose. As long as it is not for Li Hui, everything can be discussed."

Lee Hui is the King of Gwanghae, North Korea, and the King of North Korea, Lee Yoon successfully usurped the throne from him.

Therefore, Li Yu was most worried that Li Hui would receive support from the Ming Dynasty to restore the situation, so he hurriedly adopted Jin Liu's advice.

Soon, Yuan Chonghuan was invited into the palace and learned of the news that the Ming Navy came to pay tribute.

Yuan Chonghuan was very happy because of this. It is said that a powerful military is the basis for mastering absolute voice in diplomatic negotiations. Yuan Chonghuan is the same now. Because the Ming Navy landed in Incheon, he was also much more confident: "I have said long ago that if you delay any further, my emperor would send a navy to attack. If you don't listen, you will regret it now?"

"Don't let Yuan quit, it's not that we delayed, but that the three million stones of grain are really difficult to prepare. Now we have only collected them all. We are willing to take out three million stones of grain. I wonder if Mr. Yuan can advise us to go back?"

Li Nei personally explained with apologies and asked with some anxiety.

Seeing that Li Yu was so readily, Yuan Chonghuan immediately agreed to go to Incheon to meet the Ming Navy for Li Yu.

As soon as he saw Chen Yourong, the general of the Ming Dynasty Denglai Navy Division who came to North Korea under the order, Yuan Chonghuan received an imperial edict from Zhu Youxiao.

"What? Now Your Majesty not only wants North Korea to take out three million stones of grain, but also borrow 30% of the food tax from the court's treasury?"

Yuan Chonghuan was shocked when he found out and couldn't help but confirm with Chen Yourong.

"That's what the imperial edict says. In addition, there is an oral edict. If Mr. Yuan cannot do it, he will bring back three million stones of grain. From the last one, he will directly capture Seoul and borrow the grain by force."

Chen Yourong replied.

Yuan Chonghuan thought about it and quickly made up his mind: "It can be done! It's easy to do it, I will go to see the King of Korea!"
Chapter completed!