Sure enough, Yang Hong's words just came out of his mouth.Immediately, all the patriarchs of the aristocratic families present burst into laughter.

"Don't Cao Zhoumu feel that deceiving people is too much? This is not a concession. This is clearly a threat and intimidation."

"Then what are your plans?"

"It's very simple, Xu Renzhi Xu." Li Fen walked slowly in front of Yang Hong with extremely calm eyes.

"Xu Renzhi Xu, it's impossible, it's absolutely impossible!" Yang Hong's face changed drastically, his eyes widened, as if he saw something incredible.

"Yang Zong, we are not discussing with you. This is the bottom line of all our aristocratic families. It is very simple to ask us to give food, as long as Cao Anmin agrees to let the children of our aristocratic family become officials."

Looking at the world today, no matter how powerful the princes are, they have to succumb to the joint pressure of the family.I am afraid that only Xuzhou is in the hands of Cao Anmin.

"My lord will definitely not agree to this kind of thing. Others are easy to talk about."

Li Ping was already agitated, seeing Yang Hong being so cowardly.He was even more arrogant, pointing at Yang Hong and said, "Have you figured it out? It's not us who are begging you, but you are begging us. You bring a message to Cao Anmin. If you don't agree with Xu Renzhi Xu, this Xuzhou will never be considered." Have a peaceful day."

"Yes, absolutely impossible!" Many patriarchs shouted in unison, and they seemed to have seen Cao Anmin compromise in their eyes, and they were half-surprised that they succeeded.

"This..." Yang Hong sat there dejectedly, like a defeated rooster, at a loss for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

Seeing Yang Hong's appearance like this, Li Fen felt relieved.

Yang Hongnai was Cao Anmin's first envoy.He has gone on missions many times and never failed. Cai Mao, Sun Ce and others were all played by him.Now that it has become like this, it can be seen that Cao Anmin really has no way to deal with them.

Killing can solve the problem for a while, but Cao Anmin would never dare to become an enemy of the world's aristocratic families.

"Mr. Yang, I hope you will go back and tell Lord Zhou Mu about this matter. In fact, our request is very simple. I hope Master Zhou will consider it for the sake of the people of Xuzhou. Please agree!"

Before Yang Hong could speak, he was already pushed out by the heads of several aristocratic families, and he tripped over a threshold stone while walking, and fell like a dog eating shit.

"Haha..." Inside the house, the heads of many aristocratic families also burst out laughing when they saw this.

Cao Anmin used such a person as his envoy, which shows that this person's ability is not as terrifying as in the legend.

Sooner or later, Xuzhou will still belong to their family.

Yang Hong looked back at the heads of the aristocratic families in the room, shook his head helplessly, and walked out with brisk steps, not as calm as when he came here before.

After Yang Hong left, Li Fen coughed lightly, looked at the patriarchs of these aristocratic families around and said softly: "Cao Anmin has shown weakness, we must not relax our vigilance, success is in sight, I hope everyone can twist into a rope and fight against them in the end."

Tian Guang and Xu Jing looked at Li Fen and nodded, Tian Guang then asked: "I think waiting is not enough, we must exert enough pressure. Patriarchs, the purchase of grain and grass must not stop. I believe Cao Anmin has reached the limit , as long as we hold on to this final moment, we will definitely be able to completely defeat him."

Although many Patriarchs have already exchanged most of their gold and silver for food, but their heritage is there after all, it is not difficult to grit their teeth and persist.

On the carriage, Yang Hong looked carefully at the situation outside through the curtain of the carriage, and he let out a sigh of relief when he saw no one following him.

"Master, there is some dirt on your face!" The maid at the side hastily wiped the dust off Yang Hong's face with a handkerchief.

In the past, Yang Hong might have liked power, but after so many things happened.He also understands that power is like clouds in the sky, they are beautiful, but you will never be able to grasp them.

man!It's better to have fun in time.Because of this, since coming to Xuzhou, apart from handling the government affairs in his own hands, Yang Hong has been indulging in wine and sex all day long.

The woman in front of him was not a maid, but the tenth concubine he was going to take in.

"Yan'er, how was the master's performance just now?" Yang Hong closed his eyes tightly, not as nervous and hesitant as before.

"Master's performance is naturally flawless. If I hadn't known in advance, I'm afraid I would have been tricked by the master."

Yang Hong nodded slightly, thinking secretly in his heart, once this incident is over, Cao Anmin will definitely reward him with many good things again, what should he want?

Chapter 177 The Insane Family

With the cooperation of many tyrants, the price of food has skyrocketed several times in a row almost overnight.

By the third day after Yang Hong left the Li Mansion, the price of a stone of rice had risen to [-] yuan.

In less than half a month, food prices in Xuzhou almost tripled.Not to mention the common people, even the businessmen from the surrounding Yanqing and Qingzhou states were dumbfounded.

It's a pity that these two states strictly ordered the sale of grain and ironware, otherwise these merchants would definitely transport a large amount of grain and grass to Xuzhou and earn a high price difference.

With powerful purchases in large quantities, it is becoming more and more difficult to purchase grain and grass on the market.

On the first day of September, the major families purchased less than five hundred shi of grain a day.

On the third day of September, there were less than two hundred stones.

In order to put pressure on Cao Anmin, the major families not only purchased grain, but also began to exchange fields for grain on a large scale.

What is the field, it is the lifeblood of the people.Many ordinary people have been farming all their lives, but they can't get an acre of land.Seeing that the land can be obtained now, one by one can't wait to exchange all the grain and rice in their hands for land.

This change completely broke the previous balance. In Xuzhou, which was supposed to be a bumper harvest year, the food in the hands of the people was not as good as [-]% of previous years.

The food at home is not enough, not enough to survive until next autumn, the purchase price rises, and the selling price also rises accordingly.Seeing the continuous skyrocketing of food prices, the people fell into panic.

Many aristocratic families also took this opportunity to change direction again and put up signs that they were willing to sell grain at a reduced price, but the price was to let the people sign a contract of sale and sell them all the land and personal freedom.Many freedmen suddenly became tenants of the aristocratic family.

After turning around, more than half of the grain in the hands of the farmers was still missing, and they even mortgaged all the land and their own freedom at once.

The power of a small grain of rice is really not small.

Under the vigorous promotion and planning of these aristocratic families, Xuzhou was suddenly clouded and extremely turbulent.

It stands to reason that this is an extremely absurd thing, and no commoner would be willing.But this era is like this.As long as they can survive, anyone will grit their teeth and persevere.

Of course, some people would rather die than become tenant farmers.In the face of dignity and survival, they would rather choose dignity.

Han Chen, an ordinary farmer in a village in Huaiyin, Kong Wu is powerful. In addition to farming, he is also very good at bow hunting. He can be said to be a well-known hunter around.

The largest family in Guangling was originally the Chen family, but it was because of Cao Anmin's troubles at the beginning.The vitality of the Chen family was severely injured, causing many small families to pop up, and a group of demons danced wildly for a while.

Within Huaiyin, the largest family is the Liu family.

The Huaiyin Liu Clan was originally a branch of the Liu Clan of the East China Sea, but after the war between the heroes, the Liu Clan who were entrusted to the Han Dynasty also fell.

Either become a hero like Liu Yan and Liu Biao;

Although Liu Jin is a descendant of the royal family, his generation has actually existed in name only.

The aristocratic family united against Cao Anmin, and Liu Jin naturally joined in.It's just that his Liu family's family background is too shallow to be compared with Li's Tian family and Xu's family. Hoarding food and grass can only be done intentionally and powerlessly.But seizing civilian land, especially defrauding farmland, is easy for him to learn.

Relying on his own knowledge, he continued to spread rumors in Huaiyin, asking the people to exchange good land for food, so as to expand their tenants.

In just a few days, the number of tenant farmers under his command has more than doubled.

There were land sellers, but there were also a large number who were unwilling to sell land, and Han Chen was one of them.

After all, Han Chen was still a loyal supporter of Cao Anmin.

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