This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 35 Strange Spring Grain Prices

Li Jinglong opened the second letter of fate, and saw that it said: In March, the siege of Xuzhou could not be solved, Yanni forced Suzhou, and all the soldiers and horses arrived, and the turning point should be in mid-April.

Li Jinglong was a little surprised. He just couldn't fight, but he still knew the current military situation clearly.Seeing a few words on the paper, Li Jinglong could directly imagine the corresponding battlefield situation.

The strength of the Yan army can conquer Xuzhou. Wang Daoren said that the siege of Xuzhou cannot be solved, and the Yan army will entangle in Suzhou. If this is the case, it means that Xuzhou will close the city and defend, and the Yan army will bypass Xuzhou and continue southward.Li Jinglong thought for a while, and found that Zhu Di's current purpose was to go south and go straight to the capital in order to wipe out the court's legal system in one fell swoop. It is indeed very possible to abandon Xuzhou.

Looking at the arrival of all the soldiers and horses, and the time when the situation changed in mid-April, Li Jinglong calculated a little, and soon found that if the time was set in mid-April, then at this time, the two armies of Ping An and He Fu in the hands of the imperial court happened to be at the same time. Can rush to the vicinity of Suzhou.

After further calculation, Li Jinglong found that Xu Zuhui from Shandong should be able to arrive at that time, and the approximate location was probably also in Suzhou.

Li Jinglong's eyes brightened.

If it is true as the fate paper said, then the chaos in the world in mid-April will indeed usher in a huge turning point.And this turning point scene, he can almost imagine it.

But how did the Taoist priest know this?
As a well-known family who has read through the classics, Li Jinglong doesn't believe in divination. He thinks that fortune tellers will write some ambiguous answers in order to make up for his mistakes in divination. He spoke clearly, as if he had no doubt that he would make a mistake.There are only two possibilities for this, one is that he really believes that he can guess correctly, and the other is that this person is so bold that he dared to bet the price of offending the Duke for his blind guess.

A daring Taoist... Li Jinglong frowned, which reminded him of another religious figure.

That mastermind under Zhu Di, the demon monk, the biggest culprit of the Jingnan Rebellion——Yao Guangxiao.

Perhaps this person is in the name of fortune-telling, but he is actually analyzing the trend of the world with his own genius.If so, it should not be underestimated.

After thinking about it, Li Jinglong was also a little uncertain.

He asked Zhou Fu: "What is the origin of this kingly man?"

Zhou Fu replied: "It seems that he is from the two lakes, but he just came to Shengyun Temple to place an order more than ten days ago. I don't know the details."

Seeing Li Jinglong's expression, Zhou Fu hurriedly said, "If the father-in-law is suspicious, why don't you find someone to interrogate him."

Li Jinglong frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, "If he is really capable, he must not be treated like this."

He decided to check the Taoist priest first.

"Lift it higher, lift it higher... Lift it higher, you can't even see my face!"

In Shengyun Temple, Wang Dongzheng changed into a clean Taoist robe and was about to go out.

Liu Bao, who was holding a mirror at the side, kept adjusting the position of the mirror under his orders, and asked, "My Lord, are we going to the Jichang Grain Shop just like this?"

Liu Bao's tone completely lost the distrust of the previous two days, and instead had a hint of admiration.

Wang Dong finally moved the mirror to a comfortable position, looked at his outfit, and nodded with satisfaction.Yes, still handsome.

"How else do you want to go?"

Liu Bao held up the mirror and replied, "What I mean is, Master, do you want us to bring more people?"

"Bring who?"

After Liu Bao thought about it for a while, he really realized that taking out these few heads of garlic in the Shengyun Temple, I am afraid that their Taoist temple has no foundation.

Liu Bao nodded and quickly replied: "Guanzhu, what you said is that it is better not to bring it. It is better not to bring it."

Liu Bao's tone was full of reverence, and he already had a dog-legged temperament.

Such a change was not because he was overwhelmed by Wang Dong, but because of the news he had received from the capital in the past few days.

It has been 7 days since they signed the agreement with Jichang Grain Shop, and more and more battle reports are coming back from the Xuzhou front.

To everyone's surprise, the Yan army did not smash the Xuzhou city defense in Xuzhou, but after the victory in Xuzhou, facing the Xuzhou city that could not be defended, the Yan army resolutely gave up, turned south, and went straight to Suzhou .In the face of Suzhou's persistence, the Yan army gave up again after several victories, continued southward, and rushed to the Wohe River.

Faced with the resistance from the southern states, the Yan army seemed to have no intention of invading the state and plundering the state. Instead, they continued to go south until they closed the city.

During this period, they encountered the pursuit of the troops led by the general Ping An. After the Yan army also used ambushes to block Ping An, the large troops continued to move south.

The situation presented by the entire army on the battlefield is that no matter what you block in front of me, I just go south and run fast all the way.

This is also a good thing for the people in Jiangnan, because there was no major battle, so the Yan army's invasion of the place was not so strong.

And Yan Jun's southward strategy also brought about a subsidiary consequence, that is, the food supply of the entire Zhili did not experience huge fluctuations when Yan Jun went south.

After all, the premise of huge fluctuations in food supply during the war is that the two sides have been fighting for a long time. On the one hand, the frontline soldiers need a lot of food, and on the other hand, the agricultural production around the battlefield cannot be carried out normally, resulting in local food shortages. Absorb a large amount of stored grain on the market.

But Yan Jun's current situation is to fight and run all the way, just like rushing to do errands, it is enough to grab something to eat by himself.As for the confrontation between the two armies, I laughed to death, I didn't want to confront at all.

It is completely different from the continuous wars and disasters in the north of the Huaihe River since the Battle of Jingnan. The Yan army did not fight a few fierce confrontation wars after entering Zhili.They didn't even encircle the resisting state capitals along the way. For example, Ping'an's army went south, and after chasing Zhili, they were able to set up camp in Suzhou, which had just been attacked by the Yan army, to obtain supplies.People in Suzhou said that the Yan army came, but they didn't grab anything. Our food supply is completely fine.

As for Xuzhou, as the necessary passage for the Yan army to go north and retreat, the Yan army surrounded it, but that place is too far away from the core of Zhili. Zhili said that they could not send food if they wanted to. The road is not maintained by transporting grain from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, but from Shandong to the south, and it has nothing to do with the people of Zhili.

What is even more unexpected is that this year's spring grain harvest has been bumper...

Finally, when the spring famine came, the people were surprised to find that the Yan army made a lot of noise when they went south this time. However, despite the battle between the imperial court and Yan Ni, they could still buy food normally.

For a moment, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The only big ones are those grain merchants who made up their minds that after the war in Zhili, the price of grain will take off, so they started hoarding grain long before the arrival of the spring famine. Now everyone realizes that the grain price in Zhili this spring has a high probability It will not soar. Under the pressure of inventory, some grain merchants began to secretly sell their stored grain, hoping to exchange some working capital.

Under the influence of market sentiment, the initial few rice sales quickly turned into a small sell-off, and then a strange scene appeared again. When the Yan army went south to Zhili to fight, the whole spring of Zhili Food prices actually started to drop.

The agreement signed between Wang Dong and Jichang Grain Shop at that time was to send a thousand shi of grain in April, and each shi of grain was priced at three cents and seven cents. At this time, the price of spring wheat in the capital market was only one stone, three cents and five cents, and Looking at it this way, it will definitely fall in the short term.

And Liu Bao's little brain turned around and he realized that when the price of spring grain dropped, Wang Dong's short contracts would be worth a lot!
(End of this chapter)