As soon as Shopkeeper Song said this, the two of them thought about it for a while and nodded, feeling that it made sense.
Although the military has a large number of people and consumes huge amounts of food and grass, it depends on who it is compared with. If compared with all the people in Shuzhou, what is the military's loss?
The bulk of it is still in the hands of these common people.
Although the people are now cursing more and lamenting that the price of food has soared and they cannot afford it. The sales of food these days are not optimistic. Few people buy food at high prices, but they, the food dealers, know that this is only a temporary situation.
That’s all.
Now that these people still have surplus food in their hands, they can naturally continue to wait and see.
Those farmers are okay and basically don't need to buy additional grain, but the people in these counties and cities are different. They don't do farming. Even if they save grain, how much can they save?
Once the food reserves are exhausted, their chance will come.
Perhaps there is no need to wait until the grain reserves are exhausted. As long as some time passes, they spread the news that the Zhao army has been assembled and may attack at any time. They, the grain merchants, will withdraw with the grain.
These people will soon start to panic, and then there will be no need to worry about selling food!
These grain merchants have been in business for more than ten years, so they are familiar with such things.
Some have the ability to make people take the money out of their pockets!
What we are afraid of now is not sales, what we are afraid of now is not enough food stored!
These people are now making wishful thinking.
After Xu Qing and Long Bing'er returned home, Su Qian had already prepared the meal.
Now that both of them have things to do, she is free and has plenty of time to cook.
Now Su Ye spends half of the day competing with Xiao Ruxue in martial arts, and then reads story books and plays chess.
To say that among everyone, the ones who live the most comfortable life are definitely the two of them.
Xu Qing and others are working, while the two of them are enjoying themselves.
Long Bing'er looked at Xu Qing, still a little worried and said, "Will food prices really come down? Today's food prices have increased by another 30%."
Before Xu Qing opened her mouth, Su Qian said: "Bing'er just keep your heart in your heart. When has your husband ever done something that you are not sure about? My husband is the dean of the National Business Academy. When it comes to business, there are few people in the world who are capable.
He must be quite confident in doing so."
Xiao Ruxue also echoed: "That's right! My husband is very powerful! Sister Bing'er, just keep your heart in your belly."
Seeing Su Qian and Xiao Ruxue talking like this, Xu Qing couldn't say anything else.
Xu Qing has been in business for many years. Even if he is unreliable, he is definitely more reliable than himself. What else can he feel uneasy about?
Thinking of this, Long Bing'er's thoughts gradually became clearer.
Xu Qing looked at Long Bing'er and said, "Bing'er still doesn't trust me enough."
Long Bing'er said: "After all, we are the common people of a state, so there is no room for error in this matter."
Xu Qing said: "Don't worry, there won't be any problem. If I really screw up, I won't have any complaints even if the three of you squeeze me dry."
Then Xu Qing really started to be squeezed out of his labor force. After dinner, the three of them fought against each other, and Xu Qing went to wash the dishes.
Who told him to talk nonsense while eating?
No shame at all.
Were they attracted to such a thing in the first place?
For several days in a row, food prices have continued to rise.
The Chu State is still arguing with the Zhao State envoy.
In Honglu Temple at this time
Lu Heng came to Chu State again as an envoy, but this time he was not here to negotiate, he was here to protest.
The minister of Honglu Temple warmly received him.
Lu Heng sat at the table and watched as the Honglu Temple Minister began to argue: "Your country's military exercises have made our Zhao court feel deeply uneasy, and we hope that your country will stop such despicable provocations!"
The Minister of Honglu Temple looked at Lu Hengdao: "Our country has made it very clear that the Yangtze River is our border, which means that the Yangtze River is actually shared by us. There is an agreement in the original agreement that does not allow our country of Chu to
Did the imperial court hold a military drill on the Yangtze River? Besides, we can also perform military drills as the imperial court of the State of Zhao. Are we not going to let you have military drills?"
Lu Hengdao said: "Our Zhao court is about to go to Shuzhou, so how can we think of holding military exercises on the Yangtze River?"
The Minister of Honglu Temple spread his hands for no reason and said, "Look, look, you can't delay our military drill just because you can't do it now, right? What? Only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps?"
Lu Heng: "You are using strong words to make excuses!"
Minister of Honglu Temple: "I am stating the facts!"
Lu Heng said: "Then your water explosion also injured our Zhao Guo spy soldier, what do you say?"
The minister of Honglu Temple said: "Explanation? Before we conducted the water battle, we had already informed your country, right? And the boundary had been demarcated, right? Don't say it was unforeseen, right? But when it came to the war,
What was the result of the day of the exercise? You insisted on going to the place where the military exercise was held. Can you blame us?"
Lu Heng gritted his teeth and said: "Your water explosion is coming to the door of our Zhao country!"
Minister of Honglu Temple: "Have we arrived? Since we haven't arrived, aren't you just preparing for a rainy day? Did our army fire at your army? Was there any active conflict? On the contrary, your people directly broke into our army's military exercise.
Among them, it disrupted our army’s plan.”
Lu Heng clenched his fists and said, "If you tell me this, is it possible that our Zhao State was at fault in this matter?"
The Minister of Honglu Temple said matter-of-factly, "That's right! Can the fault still lie with our country of Chu?"
Lu Heng; "You are slandering!"
Minister of Honglu Temple: "Slander? You did not listen to the advice and drove your boat into the explosion range of our military's water warfare firearms. This disrupted the overall arrangement of our military's military exercise and forced the entire navy to stop the military exercise. You
Do you know how much food, salary and silver are consumed every day by gathering the army? Now, just to take care of your army's emotions, we have to stop the military exercise and come to this table to negotiate with your country. Who knows that your country will bite back!
Don’t your country think your appearance is too ugly?”
At this time, Lu Heng felt that his little heart could no longer bear this person's venomous tongue: "You...you..."
The Minister of Honglu Temple snorted coldly and said, "You? What are you! Could it be that I am not telling the truth? Didn't I inform you in advance? In short, the money and food lost due to the military exercise being forced to stop must be compensated by your country! Otherwise!
If so, our country will definitely not give up! We will also make a strong protest to your country and tell the world! Let the people of the world uphold justice for our country, Chu!"
In this negotiation, the Honglu Temple Minister spoke plausibly. At this time, he had a deep understanding of why His Highness the King of Han was so shameless when he was the envoy. Now he finally understands that shameless negotiations are really good!
If he hadn't known the inside story, he would have thought that Zhao Guo had really done something wrong.
As the old saying goes: Those who have wronged you know better than you how wronged you are.