When the refugees were transferred outside the city, the crisis in Luoyang in the capital gradually began to shift, from the refugees crisis to the food price crisis. Because the Changping warehouse was robbed, the price of grain was once again pushed up to 700 yuan for rice, which is seven yuan. This is definitely a price that will cause great chaos in the capital. The latest chapter of the Temple.

A family of five requires at least five dou of rice per month, so it costs 35 yuan to buy rice. Most lower-level families in Beijing only earn seven or eight yuan a month, so they can only buy one dou of rice for a few days.

The crisis caused by high grain prices may even exceed the crisis of refugees. Local governments have a deep understanding of this.

Late at night, Jingzhao Shaoyin and Luoyang County Magistrate both came to visit Yang Yuanqing to discuss solutions to the grain price crisis.

The room was brightly lit, and Cui Bosu said worriedly: "General, we actually face two very difficult problems. First of all, we often close the position and get robbed. How can we report to the emperor?"

"I have already written a memorial to report to the emperor for the Changping position. I will only send it out this morning. It will probably take a few days before the emperor can receive it. But now I want to know, can't the Changping position be replenished?"

County Magistrate Wang Shunzhi smiled bitterly, "Only after selling the rice in the long term can you apply for supplementary supplements. In the case of granary robbery, we all think that the emperor cannot agree so readily. At least he has to give the emperor an explanation. Even if the emperor agrees, and there are approvals from various temples, these dozens of seals will be blocked at the earliest. Now our most urgent problem is that time cannot be delayed. There is no rice sold everywhere in the capital today, and Ba is full of complaints. Now the county government still has thousands of people asking me to solve the problem of buying rice. General, if there is no rice sold tomorrow, I am afraid that the public will be resentful."

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps behind his back and said, "Tomorrow may not be too late. I will raise funds from the rich, and maybe I can help Chang settle the position for him."

Wang Shunzhi shook his head, "If those rich people were willing to give out their food last time, they were all stingy. It would be great if they could raise 50,000 stones. They had to supply refugees and could settle their positions again, which was a drop in the bucket. It was useless. The problem now is that the huge capital city had no rice to sell, which caused a lot of panic among millions of people in the capital. This was even more heartbreaking than selling rice at a high price. (")"

Yang Yuanqing glanced at Cui Bosu, and saw that he wanted to stop talking, and said, "Cui Shaoyin, just say whatever you have."

Cui Bosu sighed slightly, "In fact, there is no shortage of rice in the capital. I visited several rice merchants this afternoon. They all used the excuse of being robbed in Fengcheng City and said that their grain had been slaughtered. Actually, I know that each of the five rice merchants in the capital has at least tens of thousands of stones of rice. On the one hand, they are hoarding goods and waiting for higher prices, and on the other hand, they are also in trouble."

"What's the difficulty?" Yang Wudu asked in confusion.

"Do you know, the two largest rice merchants in the Sui Dynasty, Yao Ji Mixing and Zhang Sheng Ji Mixing, who are their backgrounds?"

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "I don't know, you said that."

Cui Boqi smiled and said, "The background of these two rice shops is the same family, Dugu family."

"Chang'an Dugu family?"

Cui Bosu nodded, "In fact, it is the rice shop of the Dugu family. Two major housekeepers, one surnamed Yao and the other surnamed Zhang, were ordered to open these two rice shops. The scale was so large that they had controlled 70% of the grain supply in Chang'an and Luoyang. And the emperor also knew that he had agreed."

Of course, Yang Yuanqing knew the wealth owned by the Guanlong nobles. Among the Guanlong nobles, Dugu and Wu were the most. Wu clan itself was the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, so there was no need to say much about the wealth they had. The Dugu clan was known as the God of Wealth in the Great Sui Dynasty. As early as before the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Dugu Xin, the leader of the eight pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, gathered a staggering wealth for his family. It was precisely with the financial support of the Dugu clan that Yang Jian quickly gathered troops to defeat Yuchi Jiong who opposed him after usurping the throne. It was also the powerful backstage support of the Dugu clan that Queen Dugu dominated the harem and had great political power.

Cui Bosu said that the two largest rice shops in the Sui Dynasty were the background of the Dugu family. Yang Wuqing was not surprised at all. If it were not for this, how could Li Yuan, the grandson of the Dugu family, gain a throne?

Yang Yuanqing already understood a little in his heart. I'm afraid that it was because he was ordered to stabilize the situation in the capital that the Dugu family would wear small shoes for himself later. (")

The situation in the capital became complicated again. Not only was he an open fight with the King of Qi, but also the secret fight between him and the Guanlong nobles. As early as the fourth year of Renshou, the death of Dugu Zheng and Wuzhou had already destined to be irreconcilable between him and the Guanlong nobles. Now, the death of Yuan Shangying was added.

Yang Yuanqing suddenly thought of a question: Will the Guanlong nobles secretly help the King of Qi? If the King of Qi gets the help of the Guanlong nobles, then things will not be so simple. Invisibly, Yang Yuanqing's heart was pressed against another camel.

"Let's do it! I'll go to several major grain dealers to talk. I'll put pressure on them and force them to make concessions. If it's still useless, in two days, the grain transported from my manor will arrive one after another. I'll sell rice. There's always a way. How can a living person be suffocated to death by urine?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled, stood up and said, "I'll go find Yao Ji Mixing now."

Cui Bosu also stood up and said, "I'll go with the general!"

Wang Shunzhi was worried about the situation in the county government and hurriedly left. Yang Yuanqing got on Cui Bosu's carriage and walked towards Sishunfang under the escort of hundreds of soldiers.

In the carriage, Cui Bosu smiled slightly at Yang Yuanqing and said, "Please rest assured General Yang, the nobles of Guanlong will never support the King of Qi."

Yang Yuanqing was a little surprised. Cui Bosu seemed not to show his own thoughts, but he felt even more clearly in his heart.

"Why?"

"Because there is a scandal involved, the princess of Qi who died the previous year was Wei, the daughter of the Wei family of Jingzhao. She had a sister who married the eldest son of Wushou, Yuan Shangwu, but this sister had an affair with the King of Qi. She had been having sex with the King of Qi for several years and gave birth to a daughter for the King of Qi. The scandal was homeless, but because of the identity of the King of Qi, she didn't say anything. Wujia was the two leaders of the Guanlong nobles. How could they help the King of Qi again?"

"What if Wuwu bet on the King of Qi because of the guilt of King of Qi?"

Cui Bosu laughed, "The problem is that King Qi is not guilty at all. When Wushou passed his fifty birthday, he sent someone to take his concubine out and took her to Mangshan for a few days before returning. Wushi was one of the top wealthy families in the Sui Dynasty. Can they accept this shame? It is really not to be hiding General Yang. This time, the King of Qi was not able to deal with the chaos in the capital. The Guanlong nobles were in charge of the elbows behind the scenes. The Six-Standard Mansion of the East Palace, and more than half of the Yingyanglang Generals were children of the Guanlong nobles. They were indifferent and disobedient and refused to work hard for the King of Qi. If it weren't for the general with Shangfang sword, if Zhou Zhong had not tried his best to help the general, the general would have encountered such problems."

Yang Yuanqing nodded secretly. Today was the second day he controlled the army. If An Bosu hadn't told him this, he would have been kept in the dark. Of course, Zhou Zhong would have told him sooner or later.

"Why did Cui Shaoyin help me so much?" Yang Yuanqing asked in confusion.

Cui Bosu smiled, "The reason is very simple, because the general is the son-in-law of the Pei family, and the Cui family and Wenxi Pei family of Qinghe have been married for generations. They have prospered and lost, and of course I have to help the general."

Yang Yuanqing remembered that Yang Zhao told him that among the major northern aristocratic tribes in the Sui Dynasty, they were actually divided into two groups, one was the Yang family of Hongnong, the Wei family of Jingzhao and the Zheng family of Xingyang, the other was the Pei family of Wenxi, the Cui family of Qinghe and the Wang family of Taiyuan. For example, Minqiu's mother was the Wang family of Taiyuan, but the northern aristocratic tribes also married the nobles of Guanlong, so the complexity of the clan forces cannot be explained clearly in just one or two sentences.

Sishunfang is close to Fengdu City. In the northeast corner of Sishunfang, there is a mansion covering an area of ​​about ten acres. This is the mansion of Yao Ji Mixing, the owner of Yao Huan. Yao Huan's father Yao Zhong was once the steward of Dugu Mansion, and his grandfather Yao Shun was Dugu Xin's book boy. It was this relationship of three generations of slaves that the Dugu family invested and ordered Yao Zhong to establish Yao Ji Mixing in the tenth year of Kaihuang, and allowed the Yao family to build a mansion, and gave 10% of the rice shop members of the Yao family.

This single member alone made the Yao family a wealthy in the Great Sui Dynasty. For more than ten years, the Yao family has been loyal to the Dugu family and made the Yaoji rice shop the largest rice shop in the Great Sui Dynasty, occupying 50% of the market share of two or five percent of the capital. It can be said that the dining table in every household in Luoyang is related to the Dugu family.

At this time, in the guest room of Yaofugui, Yao Huan, the owner of the mama Ji Mixing, was receiving a distinguished guest. The guest was Dugu Luo's eldest grandson Dugu Qi. The Dugu family was currently under the jurisdiction of Dugu Luo's younger brother Dugu Zhen. Dugu Zhen was appointed as the Jin Zi Guanglu Dafu and Wangcheng Hou. Although the official title is high, he is a free position and can take charge of family affairs.

Dugu Qi's father Dugu Hong is currently the prefect of Liang County and is also a local official. Dugu Qi is under 30 years old this year. He is very smart and capable and assists his uncle in managing family affairs.

Today, he was entrusted by the head of the family, Dugu Zhen, to arrange the steps for Yao Ji Mixing in the future.

"The head of the family said it very clearly. The five rice shops are not allowed to open before the emperor returns to Beijing. No matter what pressure Yang Yuanqing puts on you, you will not pay attention to it. In short, just one sentence, Yang Yuanqing cannot successfully control the situation in the capital."

Yao Huannian is about forty years old. She is short, fat and chubby. She is kind and honest on the surface, but she is actually cunning.

He said a little worriedly: "I have talked with the other four mixing companies today. Zhang Shengji must have no problem, but the other three companies are very worried that Yang Yuanqing will use violent coercion, especially afraid that the mansion will be attacked by the army at night. Everyone's idea is not to refuse and sell it a little bit. It will not solve the problem, nor will Yang Yuanqing catch the handle. I wonder what the young master thinks?"

This is actually Yao Huan’s own concern, he just expressed it through other people’s words.

Dugu Qi also understood that Yang Yuanqing's methods were ruthless and he might really do this. Then the Dugu family would be in a dilemma. He thought for a while and said, "Okay! Be perfunctory first, but how much to sell, how to sell it? I'll ask the head of the family before making a decision."

As soon as he finished speaking, a family member reported urgently outside the door: "Master, Yang Yuanqing is here, just outside the house."

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Chapter completed!