"Your Majesty! Something bad has happened. That Lin Fan actually bought a lot of food in Xi'an City and squandered my Ming Dynasty's money wantonly!"
"Your Majesty, you must investigate this matter strictly. Lin Fan maliciously raised the price of food by a full double! This! Who is this? This is!"
"Your Majesty, you must make the decision for us on this matter. Now the price of food purchased in the capital is double what it was before!"
"Haha! It's not doubled now. I asked people to buy food last night, and the price tripled. That's it, anyone can buy it if they want!"
"Your Majesty, if this continues, the city of Beijing will be in chaos!"
When the officials saw Chongzhen, they all spoke impatiently.
This was the first time that Emperor Chongzhen saw officials so active. When he went to court before, these people had to think about the memorial for a long time before they dared to send it to him.
"Ahem! My dear friends, please speak slowly and one by one. There must be some hidden secret in this matter of food. Lin Fan may have no choice but to do so!"
Emperor Chongzhen coughed twice and said.
When the officials heard that Chongzhen actually said this, weren't they obviously trying to protect Lin Fan?
Now Lin Fan held 130,000 troops and horses, and he was squandering money so much that the capital was almost in a food shortage.
"Your Majesty, it's up to me to speak on this matter."
Ni Yuanlu, the Minister of Household Affairs, said in a deep voice.
"Yes! Mr. Ni is the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, so it would be better for him to talk about this matter!"
All the officials said.
Ni Yuanlu thought for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, because Lin Fan purchased grain at a high price in Xi'an City, it not only led to grain shortages in the capital, but also in many places in Henan and Shandong!"
"Nowadays, people in Henan and Shandong are hungry. According to the news I got, the bark of the trees on the mountains has been eaten away!"
"That's not all. The victims have now gone to the capital and Xi'an. If we don't find a way to appease the victims, there will be big trouble!"
After Ni Yuanlu said this, the officials all said, "Yes, Your Majesty, there is going to be a big trouble!"
this……
Emperor Chongzhen frowned when he heard what Ni Yuanlu said. Chongzhen also heard about Lin Fan's high price purchase of grain. However, he considered that the money was confiscated by Lin Fan himself and was not used from the palace's money.
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Chongzhen didn't think much about it. He originally thought that Lin Fan would only buy a few hundred thousand taels of grain, enough to feed the tiger and leopard riders. Who would have thought that he would buy five million taels of grain in one purchase!
"My dear friends, the city of Xi'an has just been recaptured. Lin Fan should comfort the victims of Xi'an. This may be a helpless act!"
Chongzhen said in a deep voice.
He himself didn't believe this, and all the officials didn't believe it even more.
Li Jiantai, Secretary of the Ministry of War, stood up and said: "Your Majesty, it is better to call Lin Fan back to ask about this matter. Nowadays, there are food shortages everywhere. There are more and more victims in our Ming Dynasty. By then, the number of rebels will also increase."
More and more!"
"That's not all. Now Zhang Xianzhong is eager to ask for food from us. Looking at this situation, if we don't give it, he will lead his people to withdraw from Shanhaiguan!"
"If he leaves Shanhaiguan, then Jiannu will have to enter the customs..."
"I am incompetent. Because there is no food, we have recruited more than 5,000 soldiers in so many days. We haven't even started training yet, so we have to worry about food!"
Woohoo...
Li Jiantai started crying as he spoke. The reason for his crying was not that he was incompetent, but because he felt aggrieved!
As the Secretary of the Ministry of War, he failed to recruit troops. So far, there were only 5,000 troops. It took Lin Fan two or three days to gather 30,000 troops!
When all the officials saw Li Jiantai crying, they all started crying too. Emperor Chongzhen sighed and said: "My dear friends, please don't worry. I will issue an imperial edict to ask Lin Fan to bring food and food."
Tiger and leopard ride back to Beijing, no matter what, our capital city of the Ming Dynasty cannot be in chaos!"
Chongzhen thought in his heart that when Lin Fan comes back, he will first confirm his identity as the prince, so that all officials will know that he is my son.
Then, this kid is destined to become the heir of the Ming Dynasty, and he must help me wholeheartedly. In this way, everything in the Ming Dynasty will be stable.
Just when Chongzhen was thinking this, Lin Fan had already started his next plan.
"Sir, all our money has been spent! It's all spent! Oh, old man, I feel like my life has no meaning!"
"Sir, I can't eat anything right now. Please, please get me some money quickly!"
Sun Buer gnawed on the fat and tender chicken legs on the table, drank a few sips of wine from time to time, and then cried and complained to Lin Fan. Zhang Liang couldn't stand it anymore, so he threw two taels of silver to Sun Buer.
"Woo! It's not enough! This is not enough! Old man, I was born to care about money. If I don't have a few million taels, I might as well be dead, old man!"
Sun Buer cried and stuffed the money into his breast pocket.
Chiliu!
He took a sip of wine, took a sip of chicken drumsticks, and continued to cry.
"Sir, Grandpa Sun is right. We have no money. Now you are asking the merchants in Xi'an City to buy grain in large quantities. What will you do if you can't get the money by then?"
Zhang Liang said in a deep voice.
This is what he doesn't understand the most. Since the money has been exchanged for food, it should be stopped. This food is enough for the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the people of Xi'an City to eat for two years.
Lin Fan looked at Zhang Liang and said: "Do you know there is a saying in this world?
It’s said that money can make all the difference. If you don’t spend your money now, it will be too late in a few years!”
"There is already a food shortage in Henan and Shandong. Those merchants haven't reacted yet. When I gather another 10 million taels of food from here, the food in these two places will basically be empty."
"At this time, I have food, and I am willing to distribute it to the people in these two places. Who do they listen to?
Tell me, are they willing to join the army and become my subordinates?"
hiss!
Hearing what Lin Fan said, Zhang Liang couldn't help but take a breath of air and said: "Sir, this move of yours is too cruel, but this will starve many people to death!"
"So we have to hurry up. Within seven days at most, I will start delivering food there. In seven days, most people can survive it. As for those who don't have food in the first place, even if I don't do this
, they can’t hold it back either.”
This world is like this, the weak eat the strong and the strong survive. Whenever there is a change in this world, great sacrifices are bound to be required.