Today is the fifth day of martial law in Kaifeng Prefecture. Liu Zhu was surprised to find that some rice shops had stopped their daily supply of grain and rice and sold high-priced rice in limited quantities every day. People in Kaifeng Prefecture were panic.

Liu Zhu was very surprised. Even if the Qingzhou City was repeatedly plundered by him, the grain reserves in the city could last for more than a week. Why is the food supply in Kaifeng Prefecture so weak? Is there anyone making trouble? After a careful and careful investigation, Liu Zhu got an answer that made him laugh and cry: This answer is very simple, because there are many people in Kaifeng Prefecture! []

As one of the large cities with a large population in China and even the world at that time, Kaifeng Prefecture had tens of thousands of migrant populations every day. When the court announced martial law, many outsiders in Kaifeng Prefecture were forced to stay in the city, and the food and clothing cost of these people was not a small amount. Coupled with the daily consumption of Kaifeng Prefecture citizens, the inventory in grain stores fell sharply.

And to make things worse, now that the new grain is about to be on the market, the grain store has already sold out the old rice and is sending people out to buy grain, but the store has not prepared much stored grain at all. The more people buy, the less grain stored in the grain store will be, and the higher the price of grain will be, the less people can afford to buy grain! In the case of a city lockdown, this is an irreparable vicious cycle!

Many powerful people in the city began to hoard food when they saw business opportunities, causing the prices of food and grass to soar. Liu Zhu found that the list of these powerful people actually had the names of Li Hongjian and others! These are the relatives of the empress dowager. How dare Liu Zhu investigate and punish him?!

Now that the emperor has just killed the powerful ministers and has regained their power, if the lives of the people are even more difficult, it will be a great shame for the emperor who is determined to leave his name in history! Moreover, this will even make people question the legitimacy of the emperor's killing of powerful ministers, which is simply unacceptable to the arrogant emperor!

The emperor immediately questioned Liu Zhu, but Liu Zhu thought about it again and again and could only make suggestions to go out to buy grain. Anyway, it is the autumn harvest now, and there is food in the farmland outside the city. As long as people are allowed to go out to buy grain and people outside the city are allowed to enter the city to sell grain, the dilemma will be easily solved.

But the emperor was still a little hesitant. In the past few days, the search for Qingwang has captured many fish that missed the net. The best friends left by Yang Bin and others have been eliminated. Moreover, according to Zhao Kuangyin, if internal and external traffic is insisted on closure, the chaos in Kaifeng Prefecture will have no place to hide in ten days. However, judging from the situation reported by Liu Zhu, if there are ten days, Kaifeng Prefecture will have starving signs everywhere, and the reputation he left in history in the future will be terrible. Will he be allowed to leave the city? The emperor fell into hesitation.

Liu Zhu is a greedy and stingy person, but even such a person will inevitably maintain his reputation once he lives in a high place in the court. Moreover, even the incompetent Hou Yi did not starve to death when he was the prefect of Kaifeng. If he starved to death under his own rule, he would be criticized by the censors as a waste who was inferior to Hou Yi! How could Liu Zhu, who also regarded himself very highly, be willing to do so?!

Seeing that the emperor was a little moved, Liu Zhu hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, as long as you strictly check at the city gate, set up several checkpoints, order soldiers and yamen runners to hold portraits and follow the map, you will definitely be able to catch all the traitors in one go!"

Seeing that Liu Chengyou was still hesitant, Liu Zhu guessed that the emperor was because Guo Wei's children were not found for a long time. He was afraid that Guo Wei would rebel after they took the opportunity to escape, so he said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, although Guo Wei's children were not captured, Guo Wei's wife Chai had been captured alive, and his concubine, his eldest son and young daughter were also shot to death. The encirclement and suppression of the Guo Mansion has achieved initial results. Five days have passed, and his Majesty's secret envoy has taken action, and he might be on the way to escort Guo Wei's head back to the court. Even if Guo Wei's children can escape from Kaifeng Mansion and lose their father's help, what can they do? It would be good if they could barely survive!"

Liu Chengyou was not worried about this. He was now in his first position to take over the power of the court. Even if Guo Wei rebelled in Yedu, how could he be invincible if he had a corner of the country? What's more, his secret envoy was about to arrive in Yedu. Even if someone went out of the city to report the news, it would be too late to believe it.

Liu Chengyou nodded and said loudly: "You're very reasonable, okay, set up more checkpoints and open the city to let go. Zhao Kuangyin has been busy searching for rebellion recently. You two of you work together sincerely and will surely be able to achieve success!"

Liu Zhu quickly accepted the order, but he was a little dissatisfied with the emperor's order: I, Liu Zhunou, are also the former governor of the Lu Army and the prefect of Kaifeng. This is a second-rank official. Now I am not inappropriate to cooperate with the fifth-rank official Zhao Kuangyin who was promoted. So Liu Zhu ordered the minor official to notify Zhao Kuangyin, and then ordered the yamen runners to set up checkpoints at the city gate and open the city gate.

In fact, when Liu Zhu took office, he was very careful in searching the rebels. The first batch of people who left the city had a permanent job and a guarantor as a guarantor. The yamen runners repeatedly compared portraits, fearing that someone would take the opportunity to escape.

After receiving the news, Zhao Kuangyin was immediately anxious and hurried into the palace to ask for a meeting, but was severely criticized by Liu Chengyou. Five days have passed, but he has not captured all the traitors. He is really incompetent! This is also the emperor's mind, so that Zhao Kuangyin will not be arrogant because of his favor. Zhao Kuangyin had to kowtow to apologize. After leaving the palace, he immediately arranged people to go to the city gate for investigation.

Wang Zhengzhong quickly got the news. He immediately contacted several old relationships who had helped to secretly leave the city. Although most of them failed, they also found some available clues. Hard work pays off. With money, people can make the devil push. Under the temptation of a lot of money, someone finally provided a safe way to leave the city.

This man was actually a low-level general in the infantry of the guards. He was proficient in eating, drinking, gambling, and swords, spears, swords and halberds. He was only able to take the position of commander of the battalion because he had learned Li Hongyi's path. However, he was incompetent and could not catch the eyes of Zhao Hongyin and his son, and was always rejected. Now that Zhao Hongyin, Zhao Kuangyin and others were about to make a fortune, this man felt that his future was even more bleak, and he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​making a lot of money, so he took the risk of agreeing to Wang Zhengzhong's request.
Chapter completed!