"Your Majesty, the Duke of Wei and other nobles knelt outside and apologized for their crimes."

On this day, Wang Chengen reported to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao smiled.

He had already guessed the purpose of these nobles.

It is now the second half of the fourth year of the Apocalypse.

As a batch of grain borrowed from Japan returned to Ningbo in November this year with the ocean currents, the food controlled by the imperial court was enough to push the food prices several times lower than now.

When Zhu Youxiao planned to continue to reduce the price and break the lowest price in the middle of the Wanli period, he did not expect that these nobles would give in so quickly.

"It's snowing outside?"

Zhu Youxiao asked Han at this time.

Han Yu was even more afraid to speak casually because he really couldn't figure out what the emperor would hate him because of what he said, and affirmed him because of what he said. Now that he saw the emperor asking him on his own initiative, he replied carefully: "Go back to Your Majesty, yes."

"Then it should be very cold outside."

Zhu Youxiao continued to ask.

"Back to your Majesty, yes."

Han Du continued to reply.

Zhu Youxiao did not ask any more, but lay on the couch and squinted his eyes and fell asleep.

Wang Chengen did not continue to ask whether the nobles would come in. He walked to Zhu Youxiao tactfully and added a layer of bedding to Zhu Youxiao.

At this time, the Nanjing nobles kneeling outside were indeed trembling with coldness, but they did not dare to leave. After all, the only thing they could count on now was that His Majesty the Emperor could give up his hands and let them go.

"Sell plum blossom cake! Just made plum blossom cake! Cheap and delicious! Just three cents!"

At this time, the shouts of selling pastries on the street outside came.

As grain prices continue to fall, vendors selling pastries on the streets began to become active. After all, buying rice and making pastries can no longer cost much. Therefore, even on such snowy days, you can start to hear the shouts of hawking.

"Give me three cages! The children at home like to eat, so they might as well buy more for only nine cents. Now this rice cake is really cheap."

At this time, the voice of a customer also reached the ears of the Nanjing nobles inside.

When the Nanjing nobles heard this conversation, they felt even more distressed because they knew that the plum blossom cake was so cheap now because the food price was cheaper.

Zhu Youxiao intended to let these Nanjing nobles who were ignorant before become cold outside, so he opened his eyes after he slept for a while and said, "Let them come in! Xiong Tingbi, you can see them and do as arranged in advance."

"I obey the order!"

Xiong Tingbi replied.

Zhu Youxiao did not intend to meet these Nanjing nobles in person.

As an emperor, he is so cold. After all, not everyone can see him real person.

The Nanjing nobles had lost the opportunity to face the emperor since they first met him but failed to seize the opportunity.

Next, these Nanjing nobles who were almost frozen into ice met the cabinet minister Xiong Tingbi.

Xiong Tingbi naturally had a bad attitude towards these Nanjing nobles.

He is already a bad temper and is not as easy to talk like Han Du.

Therefore, when Xiong Tingbi saw these Nanjing nobles, he said with a straight face: "You guys are so embarrassed to come and see Your Majesty!"

Xu Hongji and other Nanjing nobles were unable to bear the slightest face when they heard Xiong Tingbi talk like this when he saw them.

Gu Mingjiao pursed his lips and cried: "We really have nothing to do! Please tell Your Majesty, please help Your Majesty, please save us. If the price of grain falls, we really can't survive!"

"Yes, if the grain price falls, it will hurt farmers. We are also worried about the people!"

Zhu Guobi echoed.

Xu Hongji also said, "We are guilty, but we are also bewitched by the traitor Dou Ding. This person has been captured by us. I also asked the elders to tell Your Majesty that you can understand clearly and see that your ancestors have made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and forgive me for their crimes!"

Xiong Tingbi smiled coldly and said, "Now you know how to ask Your Majesty? When His Majesty asked you to put grain on the market, how did you deal with Your Majesty? Only a little grain was given, but he said that there were too many people in his family and not much surplus grain."

"Since there is no surplus grain, what does the decline in grain prices have to do with the masters? Even if the price of grain is as low as weeds, it is just for one's own consumption. What do you do? It can be seen that you were deceiving the king in the past! You must have a lot of food, right?"

Xiong Tingbi sternly and continued to ask.

Xu Hongji and other Nanjing nobles didn't know how to answer, so they just lowered their heads.

"You should be executed for all the crimes of deceiving the king!"

Xiong Tingbi continued to say hatefully.

Gu Mingjiao hurriedly defended: "We are just confused for a moment. Please give us a good word to you before His Majesty! Please give us a way out for our ancestors!"

"Yes! Our ancestors of Tang can be considered to have shed blood and sweated for the Ming Dynasty!"

The Marquis of Lingbi and Tang He followed Tang Xingzuo at this time agreed.

Other Nanjing nobles also said this, just to show their ancestors’ merits, hoping that the Emperor of Ming Dynasty would give them a way out for their ancestors’ sake.

Xiong Tingbi said, "Precisely because you are the descendants of merit, your ancestors have built such a peaceful world for the Ming Dynasty and the people of the world, or guarded such a peaceful world, and Your Majesty is not a truly ruthless and righteous monarch. Therefore, your Majesty has said that you can remember your crimes of deceiving Your Majesty first and not deal with you to see your future performance."

Gu Mingjiao smiled first and said, "Your Majesty is not as good as yours. Your Majesty is truly the most benevolent king in the ages!"

Zhu Guobi also agreed: "Yes! After all, it's Your Majesty, and his mind makes me feel very ashamed."

These nobles were all happy because of this, thinking that because the ancestors of these people were nobles who had made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and Your Majesty was not happy that the hearts of those who made contributions in the world were still not planned to punish them too much.

But at this time, Xiong Tingbi said, "Don't be too happy too early. Although Your Majesty remembers your sins first, it doesn't mean you will wipe your ass! You have to bear the things you do yourself. Of course, the price of grain is related to the livelihood of the people in the world, and Your Majesty will not let it fall. Therefore, Your Majesty has already approved that the Grain Industry Bureau can purchase private surplus grain at a price of 500 cents per stone. You can get the month before getting close to the water and let the Grain Industry Bureau buy the grain you have."

"Ah! Five hundred folks per stone?!"

Gu Mingjiao opened his mouth wide after hearing this.

"It's lower than the current market price, so why don't you lose money?"

Zhu Guobi said.

Xu Hongji fell silent and thought to himself: "This is simply putting a deception! Although it looks good, it is not really about saving the nobles of me, but about taking the opportunity to copy our bottom!"

"Five hundred min per stone, the cost of grain production is not only this price. What is the difference between this and giving it to the court for free!"

"To be precise, what's the difference between this and a house search!"

Tang Xingzuo and other nobles also thought to themselves indignation.

"It's already good. After a while, the market price will drop to a slurry of money, or even three or four hundred slurry per stone. As long as your Majesty is willing, any price is possible, because the imperial court now has food, do you understand? Of course, you can not buy it, you can burn it directly. Don't you like to burn your own food?"

Xiong Tingbi said with a glance at these nobles.

Then, Xiong Tingbi asked Xu Hongji: "Yes, Duke of Wei!"

Xu Hongji's heart was cut like a knife, but he still smiled awkwardly, and then gritted his teeth and said, "I would like to ask the old master for advice. If we are willing to sell the newly collected grain this year for 500 cigarettes of grain, I wonder who should we look for? Where are the people from the Grain Industry Bureau?"

Xu Hongji had to agree, because it would be better to sell it at a price of 500 min per stone now than to lose the price of grain to 300 min or 400 min or even unable to sell it in the future.

Seeing this, other Nanjing nobles expressed their willingness, even though they were very reluctant.

Xiong Tingbi said: "At that time, the servants will send people from the Grain Industry Bureau to collect them. At that time, it will not only be from the Grain Industry Bureau, but also the government army, because if you cannot repay the loan from the Ming Bank, you will need to repay the mortgage."

“Borrow loan?”

Gu Mingjiao was shocked after hearing this.

Zhu Guobi shook his head first: "No, no, no, no, I can't really take away my farmland just because I can't pay back the loan now!"
Chapter completed!