Qi Yan first lowered his head slightly, then looked up at Yang Feng and said with shame: "What the adults taught me is that I had a humble duty before, so I asked him to punish me."

"Punishment?"

Yang Feng snorted coldly: "Why do I punish you? Is it useful? What you need to do now is to fight off such a bad trend, half a month... I will give you half a month. If you can't change this situation in half a month, I will let capable people replace you. Do you understand?"

Qi Yan's face immediately turned dark. The position of tutor seemed inconspicuous, but in fact it was equivalent to the military judge of the entire Qianhu Institute. He was also the third person besides Yang Feng and Geng Bingyi. If Yang Feng was fooled by him, his old face would be lost.

Qi Yanhuo stood up and said with a cold face: "Don't worry, sir, I will lead the military households to patrol day and night, and will never let those evil people ruin the hard-earned good situation in our thousand households."

"It's good that you know!" Yang Feng nodded: "There are more refugees in our Qianhu District. Although the labor force has increased, the problem will follow. Especially for public security issues, Qi Shufu, you must remember that in the future, whenever you encounter stealing or robbery, your tutor will be arrested immediately once you find out. At the very least, you can beat a board or expel it from our Qianhu District. If there are stubborn people, you will be beheaded immediately and you must not tolerate it. Do you understand?"

Qi Yan stood up and shouted: "I understand!"

"Just understand!" Yang Feng's face eased a little, and then said: "As the saying goes, use heavy dictates in troubled times, otherwise it will not be enough to intimidate those villains. Geng's Qianhu, most of the spring farming has passed, but the matter of land reclamation cannot be stopped. I decided to organize all the family members and refugees except the soldiers into Zhuang Ding, craftsmen and Min Zhuang who are responsible for public security. Zhuang Ding is responsible for farming, producing, raising chickens and ducks, and craftsmen are responsible for building various military supplies such as armor, weapons, etc. In addition to production, Min Zhuang is also responsible for maintaining the public security of Qianhu Ding and shocking those villains. And I will leave this matter to you to take charge. I hope you can do this after I come back. Can you do it well?"

Geng Bingyi was shocked after hearing this: "Sir, are you going out again?"

"Yes!" Yang Feng nodded: "We have recruited too many refugees these days, and the food is probably not enough. I am going to go out for a while to prepare some food."

"There is not enough food." Geng Bingyi asked in confusion: "Sir, can't we buy it in Nanjing? Why do you have to go out to purchase food in person?"

"Nanjing?"

Yang Feng snorted coldly and whispered to Li Ge who was silent on the side, "You ask Li Limu."

Geng Bingyi looked at Li Ge and asked in confusion: "Li Limu, what's going on?"

A bitter smile appeared on Li Ge's face and said helplessly: "There are too many refugees in these days. The food that was originally enough for us to eat for four or five months has been consumed. At present, the remaining food is only enough for us to eat for one month. Two days ago, I took people to Nanjing to buy grain by the order of a thousand households. The grain merchants in Nanjing have raised the price of grain in unison, and they actually asked us for five taels of silver per stone."

"Five taels of silver!"

Everyone exclaimed in surprise. Chu Maoguang, who was so angry, almost jumped up, and his dark face turned purple. "Li Limu, are you in the frame of us? In the past years, when the situation was not good, not to mention one stone of grain and five taels of silver, even seven taels of silver were available. But that was all during the famine, but I didn't hear that there was a major famine here. At the beginning of the year, our food was only one tael of five coins. How dare he ask for five taels of silver? Did they think our silver fell from the sky?"

"Why didn't I say that?" Li Ge also took a deep breath: "At first, I thought there was another famine, but I asked quietly that others were still only one or five cents of silver when buying grain, but the price of five cents of silver was for our thousand households. I went to talk to the shopkeepers, and the shopkeepers even said in unison that it was because we bought a lot of grain, for fear that it would cause the price of grain to fluctuate, so I sold it to us at this price. If we don't like it, just don't buy it, and I came back in anger."

"Bang!"

Chu Maoguang, who was impatient, punched the table, and pounded the originally solid jujube wood table. He bit his teeth and said, "That's a thief, those profiteers are really unwilling to sell grain to us at such a price. Do they really think that our thousand households are willing to bully? Lao Cao, do you dare to take my brothers to the city with me and smash all the grain shops raised by those bitches?"

"I'm afraid of you, I'll go with you!" Cao Yingmao also stood up and a trace of evil spirit appeared on his face.

"Sit down for me!"

Geng Bingyi, who was standing beside him, suddenly shouted, pointed at the two impatient young men and cursed: "You are all 100 households, why don't you even have any brains? Do you really think those grain merchants will not make money with money? The things are obvious now. Since those grain merchants dare to be so confident and fearless to deal with us, they are naturally instructed by someone, and their status is not low. They clearly don't want to sell food to us. Don't you understand?"

Cao Yingmao and Chu Maoguang looked at each other, then looked at Yang Feng, who was sitting aside with a calm face and silent voice, and then sat down reluctantly.

Chu Maoguang said with some dissatisfaction: "Are you wrong about these killers? These people are dealing with us sincerely. Can we still bear it?"

Yang Feng glanced at the two of them and said, "No need to talk about this matter anymore. I already know who is behind the scenes. But now we don't need to have a conflict with them. The most urgent task is to buy a batch of grain to make up for the loss during this period. This matter can only be handled by me personally. But you don't have to worry. This official will be able to come back if he goes there quickly, and then he will be asked to come back if he is slow. During the period when I come back, the matter of Qianhu Office will be presided over by Deputy Qianhu. In addition, the soldiers of our Qianhu Office have been selected. You must also train the soldiers in the next days. Do you understand?"

"Crash!" Everyone stood up and shouted in unison: "Abide by the orders of lord!"

"Um!"
Chapter completed!