In May of Kangding, after drought in the north, the locust plague was caused by the most disaster-stricken period of Jingzhao Prefecture on the south bank of the Wei River. The crops in the fields were eaten up. The court then focused on the Yongxing Army Road, which was against the Xixia. Although it was also sent to Jingzhao Prefecture to rescue a large number of food and disaster relief, the relief of the drop in the bucket could not meet the needs of the victims at all. The court had a shortage of food for disaster relief, and many grain merchants in Jingzhao Prefecture jointly raised prices. In just two months, the grain prices in Jingzhao Prefecture increased tenfold. The soaring grain prices led to a sharp expansion of Jingzhao Prefecture. Regional inflation began to appear in Jingzhao Prefecture due to severe drought and locust plague, and there was a trend of affecting the road.

Zhao Lei and his party had more than 300 people, with more than a dozen carriages, crossed the Weishui Ferry and arrived at the inn outside Jingzhao Prefecture City.

After passing the Wei River, Zhao Lei felt something was wrong. The pedestrians coming and going on the official road were all dirty and torn clothes and looked dirty. No matter how you look at them, they didn't want ordinary pedestrians. Most of them were family members, like victims begging for food.

Zhao Lei asked Qu Xifan to deposit the east and into the post station, and brought Xiao Ruoruo, Su Xun, Pang Bai and more than a dozen guards to the official road at the entrance to stop a group of poor passers-by traveling east.

"This old lady, where are you going?" Zhao Lei stopped the sixth family, two young couples, a little boy and an old woman, and asked the old man.

Looking at Zhao Lei following a dozen big men wearing iron armor and holding sharp blades, and the purple official robe that Zhao Lei had not had time to change, the old man trembled with shock and fear, "Sir! We are going to Bianjing."

"Are you people of Jingzhao Prefecture? Why do you want to go to Bianjing?" Zhao Lei looked at the old man's horrified look and waved his hand to keep the guard away, and then asked the old man in a very kind and soft voice.

Seeing the guard leaving and Zhao Lei looked kind, the old man calmed down a lot, and quickly replied to Zhao Lei: "Sir! We are people from Nanzhou, Jingzhao Prefecture. My eldest son works in the Bianjing workshop. This time we went to join him."

"Along the way, I saw many people heading towards Bianjing, all of whom went to join relatives and friends? What happened to Jingzhao Mansion?" Zhao Lei looked at the poor families who kept appearing on the official road and asked the old man in confusion.

"It's hard to describe it! The Yongxing Army Road in the spring was severely drought. Jingzhao Prefecture relied on the Wei River without much influence. However, the court collected the official warehouse of Jingzhao Prefecture's grain storage to help the people of Yan'an Prefecture. In May, Yongxing Army Road became the source of locust plague. The locusts flying south ate all the crops near Jingzhao Prefecture. After half a year of busyness, they had no harvest. Originally, the court sent a lot of relief grain, plus the money and grain stored in our family, it should not be a problem to support the autumn harvest next year. No one could have thought that the Tubo people fought Qin again.

The state robbed everything west of Qinzhou. As a result, Qinzhou was short of food and Yan'an Prefecture was also short of food. The grain merchants in Jingzhao Prefecture raised the price of food. Now the price of grain on the ground of Jingzhao Prefecture has grown to 750 cents. Once the grain price rises, the money and grain in our family will not be able to support the autumn harvest. It just so happened that the child was working in Bianjing, and the price of grain in Bianjing did not rise. So we sold the grain and took the money to Bianjing." The old man did not hide it when he heard Zhao Lei's inquiry, and told Zhao Lei all the way.

"A dou 750 ci!" Su Xun exclaimed in shock.

Not to mention Su Xun, even Pang Bai and Xiao Ruoruo's face changed drastically, while Zhao Lei's face turned blue with anger.

One tael of silver in the Song Dynasty is equal to one tael of money, and one tael of money is 770 cents, which means that the grain in Jingzhao Prefecture has increased to one tael of silver and one dou of silver, while the price of land and grain in Bianjing is only fifty cents per bull, and one tael of silver is at least fifteen dou, and maybe you will be given two dou! Carefully, the price of grain in Jingzhao Prefecture has increased fifteen times. If it is grain transported from Jiangnan, it is estimated that one dou can be bought for twenty cents and sold for seven hundred and fifty cents. It is nearly forty times the huge profit!

After seeing off the elderly family of six, Zhao Lei, who returned to the post station, looked ugly. He never expected that the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture were so incompetent that the price of grain rose fifteen times, which was a serious matter that endangered the Song Dynasty. If you are not careful, you may cause great disasters, such as the rebellion of the disaster victims who cannot survive. Not all the victims have relatives and friends to surrender.

"Sir! Let's go back to Bianjing and participate in the Jingzhao Prefecture." Qu Xifan said with careful advice beside Zhao Lei. He understood Zhao Lei's hatred for those profiteers. When he was in Yan'an Prefecture, Zhao Lei was overwhelmed by the army to force those profiteers to lower prices. Among the several profiteers who refused to sell food, blood flowed into a river. All the men were killed by Zhao Lei, and all the women's land was filled with official prostitutes. The family property was confiscated, which was worse than death. However, this place was Jingzhao Prefecture, not the Yan'an Prefecture, which was not Zhao Lei's master. Besides, Zhao Lei has now stepped down as the governor of Yongxing Junlu and Yan'an Prefecture. Now only the General of Pingbei is left to be a third-rank rank. Even if he wants to take charge of Jingzhao Prefecture, he is not qualified to intervene! Looking at Zhao Lei excited, Qu Xifan tried hard to resolve his anger and said.

"It will take ten days to go back to Bianjing.

Someone came to issue an imperial examination, and it would take more than ten days to find the result. One more time. By then, God knows what will happen." Zhao Lei said coldly with an ugly face.

"Let the post station send 800 miles of urgent memorials, please ask the adults to deal with this matter. It will be less than two days after going to Bianjing here, and it will only take two days to come back. At most, the adults will have reason to interfere in this matter for five days. We can prepare for these five days, and wait for a thunder strike in five days to make the profiteer pay the price." Su Xun knew that Qu Xifan's proposal would not be adopted by Zhao Lei, so he pondered for a while and said his idea.

"This idea is good. I'll write the memorial immediately. Brother Mingyun, please send someone to Jingzhao Mansion to investigate the names and forces behind the unscrupulous merchants. Hehe, don't those unscrupulous merchants like to make money? I'll let them lose everything this time." Zhao Lei sneered and turned to the study to write the memorial.

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After the official Zhao Zhen learned about the Jingzhao Mansion, the reaction time was a little faster than Zhao Lei had expected. It took only four days to speed up the horses and horses ran back and forth between Jingzhao Mansion and Bianjing day and night, bringing the secret order of the official Zhao Zhen.

"So fast!" After learning that the postman was back, Su Xun hurried over and asked Zhao Lei, who was looking at the secret order in surprise.

"That's right! It's so fast. The government has made up its mind to rectify the profiteers this time. My memorial was not approved by the three provinces and six ministries and was directly refrigerated. The government asked me to fully handle the matters of Jingzhao Prefecture. No matter which official involved, I will never tolerate it. Moreover, no one in the court knew what I was doing here, and no one even knew what the government issued an order. It seems that some of them were playing this time." Zhao Lei said to Su Xun and others with a look of surprise.

"What are you going to do?" Pang Bai, who was gloomy, looked at Zhao Lei with excitement and asked.

"How to do it? There will be a good show. Xifan, you take the official secret order to find the military defense envoy of Jingzhao Mansion, and let him rest for a day today and don't leave the military camp no matter what. Pang Bai, you ask the soldiers to prepare their armor and horses, and also prepare their grenades. The bigger the formation, the better. Brother Mingyun, give me the list of those profiteers in Jingzhao Mansion, and give them a lesson that they will never forget today." Zhao Lei said to Su Xun and others with a sinister smile.

After a chaotic situation at the East Post Station of Jingzhao Prefecture, more than 300 Zhao Lei's personal soldiers had already formed a formation, wearing iron armor, holding spears, crossbows and arrows behind him, holding several grenades on his waist, rode a war horse, and led by Zhao Lei, Xiao Ruoru and others, he rode his horse and whipped towards Jingzhao Prefecture.

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Jingzhao Funan Street is a famous grain street. 80% of the grain shops in Jingzhaofu are located here. In the deep alleys on both sides of the street, tall granaries are vaguely visible. The South Street granaries, which can store millions of stones of grain, are the most famous building on Jingzhao Funan Street.

Chenjia Grain Shop is the largest grain shop in Jingzhao Prefecture. As the most important landlord of Jingzhao Prefecture, the Chen family not only has a lot of grain storage, but also has a very small relationship with grain merchants in Jiangnan. They can mobilize millions of stones of grain in Jiangnan at any time. They are the leader among grain merchants in Jingzhao Prefecture.

Although the grain prices in Jingzhao Prefecture soared, grain merchants did not make much money. After all, the famine had only begun for a few months, and the people's homes had not eaten up the grain storage at home, and the court's relief was still in progress. However, after waiting for another month, after the people in Jingzhao Prefecture had eaten up the grain storage, in order to fill their stomachs, they had to buy high-priced grain from the grain shop. Then the opportunity for grain merchants to make money would come.

Thinking of the cheap grain being exchanged for a pile of gold, Chen Chong, the shopkeeper of Chen Jialiang Shop, was excited and looked up at the pedestrians passing outside the store, so cute.

Who? Just when Chen Chong was excited, a team of cavalry suddenly appeared and rushed towards Chen Jialiangpu in a fierce manner. The pedestrians on the road heard the sound of horse hooves and hid faster than mice. The originally prosperous and unrecognizable figure that disappeared suddenly was hard to see.

"Dear soldiers, what business do you do when you come to the shop?" Chen Chong was just the shopkeeper of the grain shop and could not afford these elite cavalry riding horses, so he asked respectfully to the soldiers who had set up war horses.

"This is our Lord, General Zhao Lei and Zhao of Pingbei." Pang Bai showed the talent of a despicable and evil man at this time, and said to Chen Chong, the storekeeper of the grain shop with an arrogant look on his face and domineering expression.

"General Pingbei, Mr. Zhao Lei, Mr. Zhao, I have long been honored with great reputation!" Chen Chong's legs began to tremble when he heard Zhao Lei's name. As a grain merchant, why didn't he know the misery of those grain merchants in Yan'an Prefecture? He was making fun of the grain merchants in Yan'an Prefecture yesterday and actually met Zhao Lei, the iron-blooded evil star. He didn't expect to meet him today. Chen Chong, who was frightened in his heart, said to Zhao Lei with some trembling words.

Zhao Lei looked at Chen Chong with a terrified look on his face, and his heart was filled with pleasure. It was so wonderful to be afraid of evil people!
Chapter completed!