When he was in the inn, Li Junxian assigned Wang Liaoyuan a task to ensure that he was responsible for maintaining public security in the city and preventing civil strife in the city from being dissatisfied with the closure of the city gates. However, not long after Wang Liaoyuan returned to the government office from the inn, he received such bad news - the grain shops in Taiyuan City were completely out of food!

It’s not that grain merchants take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, but that they have no food directly!

Is this so great?

As a parent official, Wang Liaoyuan knew the importance of food to the people more than anyone else. He said that "food is the most important thing for the people". If the news of Taiyuan's lack of food continues to ferment, Wang Liaoyuan believes that it will be a big chaos in Taiyuan City in not long before!

By then, countless people will inevitably rush to the city gate and want to go out of the city to buy food!

Even if Li Junxian did not assign him a task, as the governor of Bingzhou, Wang Liaoyuan had to do his best to solve the current problem in Taiyuan City!

"Subordinate to obey the order!"

In the back office of the governor's office, the middle-aged scholar named Wu bowed to his order. He knew that the matter was urgent, so he grounded it on the spot and wrote a notice. After the matter was finished, Wang Liaoyuan saw that the content of the notice was correct, so he stamped his seal. He handed the notice to Captain Feng and ordered in a deep voice:

"Captain Feng, I asked you to arrange for someone to print this notice immediately, and then post it on the brother Minfang in the city, and integrate all the runners of the government and county yamen to strengthen patrols in the city, and strictly prevent someone from taking the opportunity to make trouble! If there is not enough manpower, report it immediately, and I will go to Fang Zhanjun to borrow troops!"

Captain Feng clasped his fists and said, "Yes! I obey the order!"

After saying that, Captain Feng took the notice from Wang Liaoyuan, then turned around and left in a hurry!

In the yamen, Wang Liaoyuan frowned and looked at the direction of Captain Feng leaving silently. He always felt that something was wrong in his heart, because since the world was peaceful, there had never been a shortage of food in Taiyuan City. Although the four gates of Taiyuan City were blocked in the past two days, not to mention two days, even if Taiyuan City was blocked for ten days and half a month, the surplus grains in the city's major grain stores were enough to consume hundreds of thousands of people in the city. But now the major grain stores in the city suddenly had no food, which made Wang Liaoyuan feel a little strange after calming down!

Could it be that someone is making trouble in secret?

Wang Liaoyuan couldn't help but ask in his heart.

"Does the governor think today's incident is a bit weird?"

The middle-aged scholar named Wu saw Wang Liaoyuan frowning and pondering. His eyes flashed slightly. After a moment, he asked tentatively.

"This is indeed a bit strange!"

Hearing the sound, Wang Liaoyuan came to his senses instantly. He nodded, then turned his head and asked, "Mr. Wu, what did you see?"

The scholar surnamed Wu shook his head and said, "Even the governor can't see it, how can Wu see it? But Wu feels that Taiyuan City has only blocked the city gate for two days. When the city is peaceful today, there will be no war in the Tang Dynasty. The grain shops in the city should not have no grain storage, and the people in the city should not be rushing to buy food! There must be some hidden information in this! Perhaps someone is secretly manipulating all this!"

"Someone is secretly manipulating it? Who is it? Could it be the grain store merchants in the city?"

Hearing this, Wang Liaoyuan's eyes condensed and he couldn't help but interrupt.

The literati surnamed Wu thought for a moment, shook his head and said:

"It shouldn't be that today the major grain stores in the city only had food shortages, and no grain merchants took the opportunity to raise the price of grain. This shows that what happened today was suddenly happening, and many grain merchants did not expect it, and they did not make profits from it, so they should not be the mastermind behind the scenes!"

"Mr. Wu's words are reasonable! But if that happens, who will be the mastermind behind the scenes?"

When Wang Liaoyuan heard this, he couldn't help but nodded thoughtfully and then said.

The literati surnamed Wu bowed and said, "The subordinates believe that the most urgent task is not to find the mastermind behind the scenes, but to stabilize the hearts of the people. Although the governor issued a notice to the people of the city, it was just a piece of empty words for the people. If they didn't really see the food, they would never feel at ease!"

Wang Liaoyuan pursed his lips, was silent for a moment, and asked, "How much grain is left in the official warehouse in the city? If the official warehouse is not stored enough, I'm afraid that people can only send out of the city to purchase!"

In this era, every county town had an official warehouse, and the food it stored was mainly to meet the needs of time. As a northern city, Taiyuan City often took on the important task of supporting food and supplies for the frontiers during war. Therefore, Taiyuan City not only had official warehouses, but also its scale was not small!

"Sir, there is still more than 20,000 stones of surplus grain in the official warehouse in the city. Even if the city is closed for another half a month, the people in the city will not be short of food! However, although the food problem is easy to solve, there is a shortage of vegetables in the city!"

The literati surnamed Wu replied worriedly.

The meat and vegetable supply in Taiyuan City generally come from villages outside the city. After all, there are not many vegetable fields and there are not many poultry and game in the city. But now the gates of Taiyuan City are closed, and people inside cannot go out, and people outside cannot come in, so there are big problems with the meat and vegetable supply in the city, and there will be shortage soon!

Wang Liaoyuan frowned and said, "The situation is special now. First solve the problem of people's food and stabilize the people's hearts! You immediately hold this official warrant and transfer 10,000 stones of grain from the official warehouse and sell it to major grain stores in the city, so that they can sell it to the people at a fair price. They must not raise the price at will, otherwise they will be severely punished!"

Now there is neither natural disaster nor famine. Therefore, even if the government opens warehouses and releases grain, it is not reasonable to distribute all the grain in the official warehouse to the people for free, because the grain in the official warehouse also has a cost!

The most convenient and safest choice is to sell the grain in the official warehouse to the grain shop in the city and let them sell it to the people in the city. After all, it is to trade business. In this case, it is not convenient for the government to personally participate in selling grain to the people, otherwise it will definitely be deemed!

As for the shortage of vegetables mentioned by the scholar Wu, Wang Liaoyuan didn't care much. Now that Li Tai was arrested and the city gates of Taiyuan were blocked, the situation was already very serious. Compared with the war years at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it would be great that the people could have food to eat and not starve to death!

"Sir, wise! I will do it now!"

When the scholar surnamed Wu heard this, his eyes lit up. He exclaimed and then hurriedly bowed and left!

"Ten thousand stones of food should be able to stabilize the people's hearts! But who is the person who manipulated behind the scenes? What is the purpose? How will they deal with it after I release ten thousand stones of food?"

After the scholar surnamed Wu left, Wang Liaoyuan still frowned deeply and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

He felt that this matter would not be that simple, and he always had a vague premonition in his heart!
Chapter completed!