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Chapter 393 Food Crisis

That night, I went to see Mao Haifeng silently.

Tiezhu arranged it in a remote hotel, which made Mao Haifeng who came here specially unhappy.

Chen Si frowned and explained to him: "Now there is trouble in opening a port, so I have to act quietly."

"What trouble?" Mao Haifeng jumped up and said, "Do you want to change your mind?"

"Of course not, Your Majesty's words are so good, how can you change your mind?" Chen shook his head and said, "It's something we have left behind." He said in a deep tone: "The silk worth millions of dollars in the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau was robbed by the Japanese pirates, which made the court very angry. If it cannot be recovered, they will not agree to trade with each other again." This is not a fool. Conservative censors are indeed making a fuss about this matter.

This time, Mao Haifeng did not volunteer, but scratched his head and said, "It is unlikely that the goods will come back."

"Who?" asked silently.

"That's it..." Mao Haifeng said: "It's okay to tell you, it was done by the Japanese pirate Xin Wulang." Now Mr. Mao has thought he has left the low-level fun and has drawn a clear line with the Japanese pirates.

"I think it's a real Japanese name?"

"Well, it's a defeated daming. He led his subordinates to flee to the sea and started traveling with us." Mao Haifeng said contemptuously: "But these people are good at fighting, but they are not good at using their brains. If they hadn't colluded with Xu Hai, I would have killed them."

"Xu Hai..." Chen whispered softly.

"Yes, it's Monk Xu," Mao Haifeng said with a look of fear: "That guy is cruel and ruthless in war. I don't dare to offend him easily." He said with apologies: "So I can't get involved in Xin Wulang's affairs, but I can ask him to help you get it back with my godfather."

"Did he listen to the old ship owner?" Chen Silent asked softly.

"Of course." Mao Haifeng said proudly: "When my godfather and Xu Qianxue were still chanting scriptures in the temple." This guy's logic was strange, and he didn't know what was the inevitable connection between his answer and the silent question.

However, silent did not have much hope, because he believed that Xu Hai with Xin Goro's help would probably be able to suppress You: "Zhengawa, you must be responsible for speaking. It is not easy for you to feel a random feeling to mix up everyone's drinking."

Gui Youguang smiled bitterly in his heart and said indignantly: "Sir, I am sorry for the crime, but the situation is indeed extremely dangerous now. Our Suzhou City is facing an unprecedented catastrophe. At that time, prices soar and money depreciates. The people can't afford anything. The merchants will lose money as they sell. Except for a few people who have gained their own pockets, everything will become penniless!"

"Is it a warning?" said silently: "Do you have evidence?"

"Yes!" Gui Youguang slapped his hands, and two yamen runners came in from outside with a blackboard. He got up and walked to the blackboard, pointed to the curve above and said: "This is the rice price change table in Changshu from the twelfth lunar month last year to today. Each point above represents the price of the day. The higher the point, the higher the price, and vice versa."

Following his point, everyone saw a curve that was rising slowly at the beginning and rising sharply at the end. He heard Gui Youguang say in a deep voice: "From the twelfth lunar month to the beginning of March, the rice price only rose from one liang to Xiu 26 in three months, with an increase of less than 50%. But after entering March, in just 16 days, it rose from one liang to seven to two liang and six! The increase exceeded 60%!" As he said that, his eyes were too long to look at everyone, and he said in a deep voice: "Our grain merchants in Suzhou City all look to Changshu every morning and every morning, and they will return once in Taicang. Today is 16, and they will come back at the latest of eighteen or nineteen. Do you know what it will bring to Suzhou City?"

No one answered, but fear had been written on everyone's faces.

"It's the price of rice from one liang to two liang! "Gui Youguang slapped the blackboard heavily and looked at everyone with a glaring eyes and said, "When the rumors are flying everywhere, all kinds of prices are rising, the people are panicked and are rushing to buy everything on the market, but because the prices are soaring, it's better to buy things with coupons. The purchase of materials will become a rush to buy various coupons. You rich men who have a lot of tickets purchased at low prices can start the price on the ground and reap the benefits of fishermen without any effort!" Gui Youguang asked loudly: "But have you ever thought about it, the people have become paupers, and merchants are forced to go bankrupt. Who else can admit that you hold those tickets? It's hard to wipe the p-share stocks!"

Only then did everyone realize that Lord Mansion was holding a Hongmen banquet!

But what Gui Youguang said is indeed very reasonable. What if the situation is uncontrollable, the people make trouble, the shops go bankrupt, and the tickets become waste paper? The people who were originally still alive finally couldn't sit still and whispered to each other.

He looked at Gui Youguang in silence and gasped for breath, and gave him a look of praise. It should be said that in addition to being a little artificial and overly exaggerated, he performed very well.
Chapter completed!
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