Xu Qing knocked on the door and walked in. Looking at Long Bing'er who was still busy in front of the case, he said, "It's getting so late, why don't you go to bed?"
Long Bing'er said, "Now that the price of food in the city is soaring, how can I sleep?"
Now Long Bing'er's rebels are desperately trying to store military rations in order to fight against the future Zhao army siege. Now, grain merchants from all over the country have taken notice of this and have joined forces to raise the price of grain in Shuzhou City.
The most important thing is that it is really difficult to take action against these grain merchants.
Even if Shuzhou is short of grain, merchants cannot directly confiscate their food. If they do, who would dare to do business with Shuzhou?
And this is not in line with the law. There is no provision that the grain will be confiscated for the purpose of collecting goods. The most is just a fine of silver, but the money is naturally not painful to these grain merchants and will not affect them at all.
their interests.
This is also where Long Binger has a headache.
They can neither open warehouses to release grain nor stabilize grain prices, nor can they do anything to these grain merchants. It is really a headache.
The officials in Shuzhou City didn't have any ideas about this, so they had to leave it to Long Bing'er. Obviously, Long Bing'er didn't have any good countermeasures.
Xu Qing helped Long Bing'er up and said, "Go to bed, I will figure this out."
Long Bing'er shook his head and said, "It's not just these. Because of this matter, I have accumulated a few memorials that I haven't had time to review. Even if you can solve the problem of food prices, I will finish reviewing these memorials before going to bed."
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Xu Qing said, "Don't worry, I'm still here. You go to bed and I'll review the remaining memorials."
Seeing that Long Bing'er still looked unmoved, Xu Qing said again, "What? Does Bing'er want to carry you to the bed for her husband to sleep?"
Long Bing'er snorted softly and said, "I don't need you to hug me!"
Xu Qing pushed Long Bing'er and said, "If you don't need it, go back to bed quickly."
Long Bing'er learned: "At least I can review the memorials together with you, which will make it faster."
Xu Qing waved his hand and said, "I know how long you work every day these days. You must not lose four hours of sleep every day. Now it's time for you to sleep."
After saying that, he sat down in Long Bing'er's seat and read the memorial. Regarding the handling of memorials, Xu Qing was more skilled than Long Bing'er after all.
Long Bing'er couldn't resist Xu Qing, so she had to go back to bed and lie down, but she couldn't fall asleep at all. All she could think of was Xu Qing's figure who was still busy in front of the case.
Long Binger, who couldn't sleep, bent her knees and sat on the bed, hugging her legs, looking at the blurry figure behind the screen, her heart was complicated and sweet.
Xu Qing had nothing to do all day long except to grasp the overall situation. He couldn't be busy for several days. He either ate the grapes fed by Su Qian or the rabbits fed by Xiao Ruxue. Compared to Long Bing'er who was busy every day, he
It can be said that it is much easier.
Of course it is acceptable to work hard today.
But of course it’s not okay for Long Bing’er to work so hard every day.
After Xu Qing finished handling the matter, he neatly stacked the memorials aside, and then quietly walked behind the screen to see how Long Bing'er was sleeping.
Who knew that Long Bing'er wasn't sleeping at all, just hugging her knees and looking at Xu Qing in a daze.
Xu Qing and Long Bing'er looked at each other and said, "If I had known you couldn't sleep, I would have taken these memorials and reviewed them."
Long Bing'er stretched out her hand and patted the place next to her: "It's getting so late, you..."
Xu Qing said: "Then it seems that we have to let Her Majesty the Queen take her in for one night."
After saying that, Xu Qing sat over with an honest face and said, "Can you sleep now?"
Seeing Xu Qing sitting over, Long Bing'er nodded and said, "I'll take off my socks..."
Xu Qing said: "Do you want my help?"
Long Bing'er suddenly blushed and shrank her feet into the quilt: "I don't want it!"
Xu Qing didn't force it, he just said, "Then I'll blow out the lamp by the way."
By the time Xu Qing got in, the bed was already warmed by Long Bing'er.
Long Bing'er rested on Xu Qing's arm and looked at Xu Qing and asked: "How do you plan to solve the food price problem?"
Xu Qing said: "The mountain man has his own clever plan. Go to sleep and you will know tomorrow."
Long Bing'er had no choice but to listen to Xu Qing and start to sleep. Long Bing'er fell asleep quickly because she was indeed tired enough. During the sleep process, Long Bing'er even tightened the arm on Xu Qing's waist unconsciously.
, his head almost went into Xu Qing’s arms.
Xu Qing patted Long Bing'er's back gently. Although Long Bing'er looked heroic and like a woman, Xu Qing actually knew that there was actually a little woman living in Long Bing'er's heart.
Show off your girlishness.
Just like now, Xue'er is not as happy as she is hugging her so tightly...
Then Xu Qing discovered something was wrong. When he patted Long Bing'er's back to coax her to sleep, he seemed to have accidentally untied the bellyband tied behind Long Bing'er's back...
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Not surprisingly, Long Bing'er still had to cover herself with the quilt and look for her bellyband before she could get up the next day.
Now that Long Bing'er had something important to do, Xu Qing naturally didn't bother her too much. Instead, he got up and prepared breakfast together with Su Qian. After everyone finished breakfast, Xu Qing started to deal with the issue of food prices.
After Xu Qing finished eating, he came to the government office. Huo Wenshi hurried up and said, "Strategist, strategist!"
Xu Qing patted Huo Wenshi on the shoulder and said, "Don't panic. After all, you are also the governor of a state. How can you behave like this?"
Huo Wenshi said anxiously: "Can I not be anxious? Nowadays, the common people are complaining about the soaring price of food! Every day, the local officials are unable to process the documents submitted to them, and half of them are about food."
Xu Qing looked at Huo Wenshi and asked, "How many people are starving to death because of lack of food now?"
"Ah this?" Huo Wenshi was suddenly stunned when he heard Xu Qing's words. Although everyone was complaining about the soaring price of food, there was indeed no news about anyone's family starving to death due to lack of food.
Xu Qing looked at Huo Wenshi and said: "It's not that the people don't have food in their hands now, but that they don't have much food. Once the war starts, they may not be able to buy food for several months. That's why the people are so panicked.
However, these grain dealers took this opportunity to spread the word and amplify the panic in the hearts of the people, so there is no need to worry about starving to death in a short period of time. Shuzhou is known as the land of abundance, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, how can it be so easy to be short of food?"
Huo Wenshi said: "But the war will start sooner or later. If the people don't have enough food in their hands, won't they still suffer?"
Xu Qing said: "So before the war breaks out, I will post the list now and say that the military ration reserves are insufficient and we still need to purchase large quantities."
Huo Wenshi was stunned when he heard Xu Qing's words: "What? Military advisor, you don't know that if you do this, the price of food will continue to rise! And it will rise sharply!"