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Cheng Li Postscript 5

Corn, millet, rice, wheat, were all grains. nv

Qingyun has developed to this day, corn, millet, rice almost everywhere planted.

Since rice occupied 90% of the fields, the amount of millet and millet grown became more and more scarce. Of course, this was not a problem as well. Eating rice was no different from eating yellow rice or millet.

But now, the Greencloud Kingdom was in need of food.

When he could not ask for more, and had to search for more, Rong Jindong set his gaze on the two subordinate small nations outside of Qingyun West.

Greencloud Nation was addicted to growing rice, but the neighboring small countries didn't have a new rice formula. Thus, what they grew was still the original corn, millet, and rice, whereas the Western Lands didn't experience any drought.

At first, Rong Jindong wanted to use the imperial government's name to borrow food from Ning Country and Ping Country in the west. However, before the imperial edict could be issued, it was opposed by both the Chinese and foreign alliance.

In this round of opposition, even Fifth Prince Rong Fei was involved, all the way up and down, only Seventh Prince was neutral, but Seventh Prince's neutrality, was not much different from her opposition.

was very surprised by this situation, but the reason given by the court official was also very reasonable.

It was something that had never happened since ancient times. If the imperial government were to really lick its face and ask the subordinate states for food, then in the future, would the status quo for the Greencloud Kingdom be maintained? Was Qing Yun trying to become the laughingstock of the Subordinate Countries?

Even Rong Fei, who had always been especially supportive of Rong Jindong, was not willing to give in this time.

The opposition from the court and the country left Rong Jindong with no choice but to stop thinking about borrowing food. If he did not stop, the censor's history would end up hanging in his hall.

Other than the Western Sea, there were also many foreign merchants who traveled all over the countries with grain in their hands. Because of the Central Plains' praise, the foreign merchants did not have a lot of corn, millet and rice, but they did have a lot of wheat in their hands. Some small foreign countries even had people who specialized in growing wheat.

Wheat flour is also full of food, if can buy wheat flour from the merchant, Dingzhou's difficulties, can be saved.

However, when the merchants heard that the imperial government was short of food, they immediately opened their mouths and demanded a price ten times higher than the market price after contacting the Ministry of Revenue.

He knew he was at a disadvantage, but to save the people like fighting the fire, he still had to buy.

At first, the court official was not convinced and decided to show Fan Shang some respect.

However, these people were not from Greencloud Country. The fact that Greencloud Country allowed the trade of these people to pass was based on the fact that they had a win-win situation. If they tried to suppress these people, Greencloud Country would first be discredited, and similarly, they would be criticized by other Subordinate Countries.

The court officials who thought that they had "more face than the heavens" had no choice but to advise the emperor. Let's do it this way, we're not without money, aren't we? Didn't the princes donate a large amount of silver to us?

Rong Jindong returned from the imperial court and locked herself up in Shang Qing Hall for five whole hours. When she came out, she ordered Fifth Prince Rong Fei to take care of the matter of buying food personally.

Things were already set as such, but at the same time, Rong Jindong ordered the Jing zhao Yin to bring the criminal, Zhong Ziyu, into the forbidden palace.

Rong Jindong asked Zhong Ziyu just one question: "Do you know the art of disguise?"

After receiving a definite answer, Rong Jindong did not use Zhong Ziyu in a hurry, she only arranged for him to be here first.

After all, Zhong Ziyu was a felon, and did not want to do things using a prisoner until she almost died.

At the beginning of this year, the imperial government allocated relief funds to Jiangnan to buy rice. In the third month or so, Jiangnan had run out of rice, and they bought grain from merchants, but now, Dingzhou was filled with starving corpses and their families were dying every day.

The reason for this was that they initially thought that the drought in Dingzhou would abate in April and May, but in reality, the drought in Dingzhou this year …

He continued. There was no relief at all.

Dingzhou has no harvest for a year, so the imperial government must continue to help.

At the same time, the other merchants who had also discovered this situation suddenly suggested that the price of wheat would rise another five times.

Perhaps they had searched all the grain available in the Zhou Dynasty, including the Pingguo and the Ningguo. However, these grains could not solve the crisis in Dingzhou, and even if they were to spend five times the price to buy wheat flour, it would only be enough for the victims to eat an extra steamed bun the size of a baby's fist.

Right now, the only place with food was the neighboring countries.

However, the court objected to this. They wanted to buy food in the name of the court, and the censor was going to hang himself.

Unable to bear it any longer, Rong Jindong decided to kill them first and play afterwards. He did not plan to do it as a matter of the imperial government, so he arranged for her own people to contact the Subordinate Country.

At the same time, he had also activated Zhong Ziyu. It was because he did not trust Zhong Ziyu enough, he had Zhong Ziyu help him make a human skin mask for his trusted aides to use.

However, the Subordinate Country is not stupid, who doesn't know that there is a lack of grain in the Greencloud Country, and all of you are willing to buy grain from them at a high price, and then resell it to them to make a profit. Although all of you look like people from our country, the moment you hear the accent and look at the clothes, you can tell that they are spies from the Greencloud Country.

As a result, the Subordinate Country began to sell it. Buying one stone of its grain for ten taels of silver, you traitors of the Proclamation of Azure Sky. If you want thirty taels of silver, you can buy it if you have the money.

In truth, if he had used the authority of the country to borrow grain from the other countries, then the cost would have been less than one tael of silver. But now, it was a full thirty times more expensive.

After that, without any other choice, Rong Jindong transferred Zhong Ziyu to Ping Guo.

Zhong Ziyu had done her best, relying on her superb disguise techniques, her silver tongue shining with flowers and her exquisite features. Now that she had already tricked the high officials of the Ping Guo and Ning Country princes, they were willing to offer him food for a long time, at a price of two taels per stone.

Compared to before, this was way too cheap, so it could be considered a normal price.

Now that Zhong Ziyu had brought the emissary back to Greencloud Kingdom, the news of the drought spread wildly throughout the capital, making the envoy realize that he had been tricked. Could it be that he had come looking for them to buy food from them instead of buying food from the Greencloud Food Merchant and borrowing money from the victims of the natural disaster, and that they were actually from the Greencloud Imperial Palace?

Now, Zhong Ziyu had already been suspected by the envoy, so she decided to go all out, and set up a plan. She would consolidate the trust of the envoy, and complete the food transaction as soon as possible, but this plan might bring about his life, which was why Rong Jindong had invited Li to help him. Actually, if Liu Wei was in the capital, Rong Jindong had already sought out his master, and the Fifth Prince was not in favour of buying food with the other nations.

Unfortunately, his master was not in the capital, so Rong Jindong had no choice but to seek help from Xiaoli, who had just returned to the capital.

Xiaoli was willing to help, but this was actually within Rong Jindong's expectations. This was because Xiaoli's temperament and thoughts were deeply rooted in her master's legacy, but if she wanted to execute the plan without any mistakes, Xiaoli had proposed to meet Zhong Ziyu once, but at this time, she wanted to let Zhong Ziyu rashly leave the Ambassador's sight. It was very possible that the plan that Zhong Ziyu had carried out for the past two months would end up with a failure.

Rong Jindong was in a difficult position.

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