The clerk was annoyed: "Get out! If you can't afford it, don't act like a fool here!"
Three kilograms of rice for ten pennies was a month ago. How can these refugees face the northwest and open their mouths to fill their bellies? Only the nobles in Tianshui City don't know the price of rice. Do these mud-legged people deserve it?
His attention was focused on these two people, and unexpectedly another homeless man sneaked into the back of the store, holding a cloth bag and scooping rice quietly.
He scooped up a small half of the bag. A customer in front of him let out a scream. The waiter noticed this and turned around and shouted: "What are you doing? Put it down!"
The refugees clutched their bags tightly and ran out.
"Stop, don't run!"
When the refugees heard this, they greased their feet and ran faster.
The two refugees who were standing in front of the shop also dispersed in a hurry.
If you can't buy food, you can only steal it. He Lingchuan shook his head. When food prices rise, the first ones affected will definitely be the refugees. They have no savings and are the weakest in preventing and resisting risks.
After returning, he ordered Yongquan Villa to purchase grain and vegetables in batches.
It's time to stock up.
Under his intentional control, the branch of Yangshan Chamber of Commerce in Tianshui City has always been in a state of "under construction". Normally, it is normal for a trading company to open a storefront in the capital and prepare for several months, not to mention that He Lingchuan himself is dedicated to his business.
Carrying out a big project for Yaoting and even delaying the opening of his own sub-rudder is public and forgetting private interests, which is a good talk.
Therefore, Yanbo, the Yangshan man in charge of local affairs, was transferred to Yongquan Villa by the big boss to serve as the temporary manager. His Yangshan people were stationed in the Villa at the same time.
Yan Bo was one of the top disciples brought out by Ding Zuodong. He was very efficient in everything he did. After arriving at Yongquan Villa, he managed the place in perfect order within a few days.
In addition to Wan Qifeng and other benefactors in the villa, there are also nearly a thousand men and horses under Zhao Song. These people eat horse chews and consume a lot of grain and vegetables every day.
In fact, Yongquan Villa had some in stock, but Yan Bo was busy until the evening before following the car back.
Rice, flour, oil and various easy-to-store tuber vegetables are transported into the villa one after another and stored in the cool cellar, which is enough to feed the entire villa for a month.
Ice charms were also posted in the cellar, and the temperature was carefully controlled.
As for fruits, there are plenty of them at Yongquan Villa, and they are picked right now and don’t have to stay overnight.
At this time, the nine hundred palace guards came in handy, because the number of thieves and refugees who coveted Yongquan Villa began to increase. Even the workers of the eastward expansion project wanted to climb over the wall and steal some food in their spare time. The guards circled around
We patrolled the villa and actually caught dozens of them. They didn't send them to the police. They just grabbed the whip and whipped them until their faces were covered in blood. They cried like ghosts and howled like wolves before they were thrown out of the villa.
The first thing Yan Bo said when he entered the door was:
"My boss, the price of food has increased again."
"What's going on?" He Lingchuan put down the information in his hand, "Is there still a shortage of food in the capital?"
"Seven or eight days ago, the villages and towns outside were a little nervous. However, the major grain stores still had stocks, and the surrounding farms also supplied grain to Tianshui City. It was a little more relaxed." Yan Bo said, "In such a large capital, there are hundreds of people.
With a population of 10,000, the amount of food consumed every day is staggering. We cannot survive for long just by hoarding."
"At least we can still buy food now." He Lingchuan said with a smile, "It's not serious."
Yan Bo said sternly: "Today's batch of grain and vegetables, I went to several chambers of commerce to buy it separately, and put your signature on it. They said that they had already received the news that the price of grain was about to rise sharply, and they were all working hard.
response."
He Lingchuan stroked his chin: "Oh? The news was released first? This is a brilliant move."
He also knows how to manage expectations... Could this be a lesson learned from him?
"Some grain merchants have begun to hold back their grain and are reluctant to sell it. It seems that if there is a grain shortage, it will come sooner than expected."
Yan Bo also started his own business, so he knew very well what hoarding meant. If businessmen predict that food prices will rise sharply, they must stock up in advance, and then ordinary people will panic buying, which will make the already tight food shortage in the market even worse.
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"Store some tomorrow to be prepared." The tide is approaching, and He Lingchuan wants to sit and watch the ebb and flow, "By the way, I need to buy more spices too."
"yes!"
…
Yan Bo had just left when a big owl flew outside, fluttered on the window sill, and called out in a characteristic sad tone: "A letter has arrived, an urgent letter has arrived from the west!"
Ling Guang's scalp tightened when he heard it, and he quickly jumped over: "Give it to me."
The owl spit something into its hand:
A fat mouse.
"Hey!" Lingguang shook her hand and shook the mouse to the owl's feet.
Before the mouse landed, the owl stretched out its beak to catch it and swallowed it in one gulp: "Sorry, I spit it out by mistake."
It stretched its neck again and spit out a small metal tube: "This, this is it."
Lingguang gave it a bottle of elixir as reward, and pointed back: "There is a rat plague in the Taoyuan behind us, and there are litters of newborn rat cubs by the lake. Are you interested? We will treat you for free.
"
"Yes, that's great!" You can eat these tender snacks with a squeak, and it's free! The owl's eyes lit up, and it fluttered towards the back of the study.
Lingguang handed the small tube to He Lingchuan, who took out a note and looked at it twice.
The smile on his face disappeared immediately.
"Lie Cao!" The soul-capturing mirror in his arms also saw it, and his voice rose three times, "Bai Ziqi is here!"
How many Baidu envoys are there in Lingxu City?
Only one is famous.
He Lingchuan had expected that Tiangong would send people to track down Emperor Jiuyou, but he did not expect that the person coming would be Bai Ziqi.
"This is not fun, why is he here?" Jingjing took a chance, "Maybe he came to Golden Plains for other business, and he didn't come just for you."
"A person like Bai Ziqi will not do trivial errands." There were only a few words on the note, but He Lingchuan read it very carefully. "He inquired about the Black Armored Army and the Rebel Army in the tavern, and hired a guide to go to Shihoutou and Liuzhou.
Ping, the direction is very clear, those two places are the places where Emperor Jiuyou made his first public appearance. So——"
He concluded: "He came to see me."
"Uh!" The mirror felt his scalp numb.
If it had a scalp.
"We do things cleanly, and it's hard for others to trace us, but that's not necessarily the case for Bai Ziqi." He Lingchuan rubbed his eyes. The sleepiness that had just appeared was driven away by the news, but his eyes were still sore and astringent.
, "They hired a guide to set out on the road ten days ago, and I don't know where they are now."
No matter how smooth the information channel he built in the Golden Flash Plains, it can't avoid interference from "human" factors. Ah Hao didn't read the Haolin Society's information for half a month, and he missed such important information!
"What should I do now? What are you going to do? Has he already arrived in Yao Kingdom?" Jing Jing was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. "If he went to check Shi Zhoutou and Liuping from the beginning, he would have arrived in Yao Kingdom."
From now on, you will definitely not miss any clues about Xiaotaoshan Villa!"