Transmigrated into the book to become the villain prince, the son of the plane to destroy

Anyone can feel that Jiaozhou is not very peaceful these days.

The most intuitive feeling is that with the soaring price of grain, Doumi has been sold for more than 200 renminbi, and many people in Jiaozhou have no money to buy rice for cooking.

In fact, the rise in food prices began in the first half of the year. The overwhelming locust plague ravaged Jiaozhou, causing a large number of crops in the entire Jiaozhou to reduce production, and even failed to harvest. Immediately, it caused panic among the people, and they flocked to grab the food on the market. Caused the first spike in food prices.

Then came the Jiaozhi rebellion triggered by the locust plague. The governor Li Rui died in battle. The rebels invaded Lingnan and massacred the Han people. The people of Jiaozhou, especially the Han people, were panicked. The rise in food prices.

Originally Qi Wang Xiao Jie was appointed as the governor of Jiaozhou. Everyone thought that the situation in Jiaozhou was about to settle down, but the chieftain of Yue people set off a new round of rebellion. Caused food prices to continue to skyrocket.

It stands to reason that with the extinguishment of the locust plague and the suppression of the Jiaozhi Rebellion and the Tusi Rebellion, the food prices in Jiaozhou should gradually come down and slowly return to a normal level, but I don’t know where the news spread, saying that Jiaozhou’s The government's food stocks are about to run out, and it is even unable to support the [-] Jiaozhou army. The Jiaozhou army will mutiny sooner or later without food to eat, and Jiaozhou will be in chaos.

As soon as this rumor came out, the people of Jiaozhou fell into panic for a while, rushing to the streets to scramble for food, and the price of food ushered in a sharp rise again, almost at the rate of tens of dollars a day, and yesterday it exceeded [-] doumi money.

The strange thing is that although the price of grain has risen sharply, there is no grain to buy in the market. Every rice store has a sold out sign, claiming that their grain has been sold out, which further confirms the fact that Jiaozhou Rumors of food shortages have made the people even more panicked, and there have been more than a dozen incidents of food looting sporadically.

The increase in food prices has also led to the increase in other prices. The high prices have caused complaints and rumors among the people in Jiaozhou. The dissatisfaction with the government has also accumulated and intensified. The entire Jiaozhou seems to be on the verge of imminent turmoil.

Chang Shi Fu Kuang stood outside the gate of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion with a sad face, waiting for Xiao Jie to be received.

Now that the situation in Jiaozhou is so critical, Fu Kuang, who is a long-time historian, is naturally worried. Now that rumors are spreading and everyone is in danger, if the government doesn't take a measure to deal with it, there will be big troubles.

Just when he was leaving the house, a riot broke out in the East City. A large group of Yue people ransacked a rice shop in a street, robbed a large amount of food, and spread to other nearby shops. A large amount of property was robbed by these Yue people Let’s go, dozens of shopkeepers and clerks were injured. Fortunately, no one has been killed so far. Those Yue people were also besieged by officers and soldiers in Dongshi, waiting for Xiao Jie to deal with.

While Fu Kuang was still anxiously pacing back and forth on the steps in front of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Xiao Jie in military uniform was already walking towards the gate surrounded by a large group of soldiers.

Seeing Xiao Jie dressed up like this and the murderous soldiers behind him, Fu Kuang was also slightly startled, thinking that His Highness would not plan to use force to suppress the rioting Yue people. This would only further intensify the conflict, and would only Cause more trouble.

Xiao Jie also saw Fu Kuang standing at the door. There was no surprise on his face, and he seemed to have guessed his intentions. Without talking nonsense, he directly said in a deep voice: "Fu Changshi came just in time, and you should also listen to the affairs of Fangshi. Said, you go with me to deal with."

Fu Kuang didn't evade, and nodded heavily. He also made up his mind. If King Qi really planned to use force to suppress it, he must try his best to dissuade him, so as not to further intensify the conflict between the two sides, and avoid causing greater chaos.

When Xiao Jie and his party arrived at Dongshi, [-] officers and soldiers with shields had already surrounded Dongshi, all of them staring coldly at Fangshi, preventing anyone in Dongshi from rushing out to break through.

On the contrary, the Yue people in Fangshi all looked fearful, and only dared to confront the officers and soldiers with sticks from a long distance away, and no one dared to step forward.

When an officer dressed as a school lieutenant saw Xiao Jie, he immediately rushed to Xiao Jie and reported loudly: "His Royal Highness, I have ordered all the rioters to be surrounded in Fangshi, None escaped."

Xiao Jie nodded slightly: "Understood, you have worked hard."

Fu Kuang was secretly startled, no wonder the officers and soldiers acted so quickly, they had already been ordered by the King of Qi, so could it be that the King of Qi had already prepared for this?

Looking at Xiao Jie's calm and composed expression, Fu Kuang felt even more that everything was under Xiao Jie's prediction and control.

At this time, many officials in the city also rushed to Dongshi one after another. Although the riots in Dongshi were not within the scope of duties of many officials, but such a big incident happened in Panyu City. It's unreasonable, but I still have to come to the scene to show my face, so that I can give an explanation to the court in the future.

Xiao Jie seemed to have been waiting for them to appear a long time ago, his eyes swept over the officials who rushed over, his expression was a little unpredictable, and he saw that these officials had no reason to panic.

"Where is Sicang Chen Si?" Xiao Jie's eyes finally fell on Sicang Chen Si.

Chen Si panicked for no reason, but even if Xiao Jie called him to lend his courage, he didn't dare to pretend not to hear, so he had to bite the bullet and stepped forward, bowed his hands and said, "Your official is here!"

Xiao Jie looked at him calmly, and smiled slightly: "Chen Sicang, God has the virtue of being good at life, and I don't want to kill him until the last moment. Therefore, I would like to trouble you to go in, talk to these mobs, and persuade them They are captured without a fight, and Gu can deal with them lightly."

Chen Si's face turned pale in an instant. Now that the two sides are so tense, if he is asked to go in to persuade him to surrender, isn't it just to ask him to go in and die?

The other officials present also showed their unbearable expressions, secretly wondering how this Chen Si had offended the King of Qi and wanted to put him to death like this.

Seeing that Chen Sichi neither acted nor responded, Xiao Jie did not get angry, but the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he said lightly: "Why, Chen Sicang wants to disobey orders?"

Chen Si looked at Xiao Jie, gritted his teeth, and said decisively: "Your Highness, this matter is so dangerous, please forgive me for not following orders."

Xiao Jie seemed to have expected Chen Si to say something like this, looked at Chen Si quietly, and said with a sneer: "In that case, a few days ago, Chen Sicang sent people in the city to spread rumors that the Jiaozhou government treasury had no food, and the Jiaozhou army When the mutiny was imminent, why didn't I think about the danger of today."

As soon as this remark came out, the officials present were in an uproar, and they all turned their attention to Chen Si. After all, Xiao Jie's accusation was not serious, and they all wanted to hear how Chen Si defended.

Chen Si's complexion became paler, and although he was also worried about whether Xiao Jie had any evidence, he knew the seriousness of the matter, and he would never admit it, so he could only grit his teeth and deny it: "Your Highness has learned from you, Your Majesty As an official of the imperial court, it is absolutely impossible to break the law knowingly and spread rumors indiscriminately."

Xiao Jie had known for a long time that he would not admit it readily, smiled coldly, and clapped his hands lightly, and then several officers and soldiers escorted out a person, who was Chen Si's housekeeper.

As soon as Chen Si saw his butler, his head buzzed instantly, knowing that everything could not be concealed. It was he who sent his butler to buy off the beggars and hooligans in Panyu City, and spread the news that there was no food in the treasury. The panic of the people in the city, in order to prevent Xiao Jie from finding out about him, he even asked his butler to go back to the countryside to avoid the limelight for a while, but he did not expect the butler to fall into Xiao Jie's hands so quickly.

Chen Si still had the last glimmer of hope in his heart, so he avoided the seriousness and said lightly: "Your Highness forgives the crime, it is because the lower officials have no way to control them, even if the news of the food shortage in the treasury leaked out, it would be a big mistake."

Xiao Jie ignored Chen Si, just cast his eyes on the steward, and said indifferently: "Why is Chen Sicang's statement different from yours, could it be that you are lying to me?"

The housekeeper seemed to be very afraid of Xiao Jie, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Xiao Jie, but kept shaking his head and said: "No, Chen Sicang is lying, obviously he sent a villain to deliberately spread the news of the lack of food in the treasury in the city, Wanting to create a commotion among the people in the city is not good for His Highness..."

"Shut up! How dare you spout blood and slander this official!" Seeing that the housekeeper sold himself so thoroughly, Chen Si was startled and angry, and rushed forward to fight the housekeeper, but was stopped by Xiao Jie's personal soldiers.

Xiao Jie ordered someone to put the steward under custody, then looked at Chen Si calmly, and said calmly, "It's hard to tell which of the two of you is true and which is false, but the rumors are indeed spreading from you, Chen Sicang. Well, today's riots were also caused by you, Chen Sicang, as long as Chen Sicang can persuade the mobs in Dongshi to surrender, I can forget all the past."

Chen Si fell to the ground in an instant, his eyes were dull and his expression was hopeless.

The other officials also looked at Chen Si with complicated eyes, and then looked at the calm Xiao Jie, feeling an inexplicable chill in their hearts. His Royal Highness Qi was so cruel at such a young age. Take Chen Si to die.

"Your Highness, the mob is brutal. Mr. Chen is just a civil servant with no strength to restrain a chicken. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to take risks alone." Chang Shi Fu Kuang couldn't bear it. Although he and Chen Si didn't have a deep friendship, they were colleagues after all. , he also wanted to try to see if he could save Chen Siyi's life.

Chen Si glanced at Fu Kuang gratefully, then looked at Xiao Jie with hope.

Xiao Jie's expression was half a smile but not a smile: "This matter happened because of Chen Sicang, if Chen Sicang is unwilling to take the risk, then go in and talk to these mobs by yourself."

"This matter is dangerous. Your Highness has a body of gold, and you must not be in danger."

Fu Kuang couldn't help being shocked when he heard this, what a joke, if the prince Xiao Jie died at the hands of the mob, I'm afraid none of the officials present would survive.

All the officials also persuaded Xiao Jie one after another, and some officials who had a good relationship with Chen Si swallowed their pleading words abruptly.

Xiao Jie turned his attention back to Chen Si, and his meaning was very clear, there must be someone going in to persuade the mob to surrender, either him or Chen Si.