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Chapter 797 Collapse (2)

The next day, just as dawn, a long queue of Shen's grain shops in the four cities of Suizhou was once again lined up in front of several grain shops in the four cities of Suizhou. Especially the one located in the south of the city, before dawn, people who came out of their homes were blocked in front of the closed store, which resulted in the shopkeepers who wanted to open the store early in the morning and were blocked outside. After much persuasion, they squeezed and hit the store for a while before they could get to the store.

Although yesterday's publicity was not very good because it was a little late, and only yelled in the main streets of the city for a while, the effect was immediate. Even when it was dark, there were still people walking around the streets and passing this good news to their relatives and friends.

Because these days, with the increase in grain prices, everyone has suffered enough and worried. In addition, the good reputation of the Shen Family Dashan Family has made the people of the whole city willing to believe their publicity and believe that since they have said it, they will definitely do it.

Today, as the door opened, the shopkeeper had not even said anything. Huh, dozens of people surrounded him, and they rushed in and rushed in to buy, almost knocking down shopkeeper Xu. He was so scared that he quickly said hello: "Everyone, fellow villagers, guests, please be careful not to be impatient... We can understand your mood, but everything has to be done according to the rules!

"Don't worry, my master is a Suizhou native, so he naturally has to do his best for everyone. He must not let those foreign profiteers collude with local profiteers and rob the money and industries of our Suizhou villagers, and make everyone unable to even have enough food... Today, the food in our store must be enough, and it only costs fifteen cents!"

As soon as these words were said, the people who had calmed down because of his words were suddenly boiling again. Fifteen cents were cheaper than before. Even in ordinary years, when the green and yellow are not in response, such food prices may occur, but now there is a shortage of food.

Then compare the price of fifty dollars called by other grain merchants, which is really in the sky and the earth, and the contrast is clear. In an instant, there were loud shouts and gratitude sounds. If there weren’t too many people, I’d be afraid that someone would have to kneel down.

Manager Xu finally controlled the scene again, and then took out the two rules: "These two rules are still the ones. Each person can only buy five kilograms of grain every day, and we only collect copper coins. But don't worry, when this rush is over, we will still open the supply and the grain supply is enough!"

With such a cheap grain price, what else do you have to say? For a moment, they took out the few left coins to buy them, and they had to rely on several friends to maintain order to make the situation better.

Everything that followed returned to its original shape. Everyone lined up in a fairly orderly line, buying grains with containers and bags. When it was true that it could buy five kilograms of good grain in just 15 cents, and when they saw the cylinders and bags of rice and grain in the counter, everyone was completely relieved.

From the morning to noon, the shopkeepers and shopkeepers almost didn't rest much, but they actually sold thousands of kilograms of grain. This was just one shop. Other shops also had the same business. After experiencing the high-priced grain a few days ago, this time it broke out completely. Some even bought it once and went home to put down the grain and come back again.

The grain shop did not care about anything, which proved that the Shen family's food this time was indeed sufficient, and it was definitely not what some people thought, but just the surplus before.

When such a bag of food was sent to Liangyuan with a bag of food, Hu Guanjue, Cai brothers, and other merchants were deeply confused.

"How is it possible... where did they get the food? That's not hundreds or thousands of kilograms of grain. Judging from their attitude, I'm afraid there will be hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain this time..."

"It's not right. Our people have been watching the city all the time, and we haven't seen him buy food from other places."

"What are you thinking? Our Huguang is the key place to produce grain. We have always only taken out food. How can we buy grain from other places?"

"Then where did their food come from? Did it be that I deliberately hid it before? Just to let us relax our vigilance, and then take it out in one go?"

"This is impossible! Even though the Shen family is rich, they cannot save so much food. They are not grain merchants..."

For a moment, various questions and guesses kept popping up and being rejected. All the merchants were panicked. Finally, everyone looked at Hu Guanjue and others in the lead. Only they could deal with this change.

"Investigate, you must first find out where their food comes from!" Cai Zhiyi suddenly gritted his teeth, and his eyes quickly swept across the faces of many people in front of him. "I suspect that some of us sold them to them! Otherwise, how could they get so much food for no reason?"

"This is impossible!" As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately objected, and he didn't care about the identity gap between the two sides. "You have always been to take care of our food. In addition, a lot of the food has been replaced with the fields. How could you take out so much for the Shen family?"

And this sentence made the people present change their color at the same time: "The fields... are those villagers outside the city willing to exchange the fields for our food?"

This sentence brings people a panic silence, and no one can say it, or dare not say that terrible answer.

But if no one says it, it won’t happen, because at this moment, another noise sounded outside, and then the front several servants rushed in in panic and arrived in front of the door and said anxiously: “My masters, there were suddenly many people coming from the outside, saying that they wanted to get their contract back, and they said that they would no longer do business with us…”

What is coming, finally comes.

Originally, these unscrupulous merchants took advantage of the fire to rob the whole city and forced ordinary people to use the land to exchange for food to survive. The price was no different from robbery.

Now, as the news of the Shen family selling affordable grain spread, and as many people bought 15 cents per liter of affordable grain, the villagers who were forced to sell the land they depended on for their living naturally repent. Moreover, compared with the two, it became more and more greedy and hated by these merchants, so they could no longer hold back and came directly to cancel the previous transaction.

It was also at this time that the noise outside became stronger and more intense, and some insults could even pass through several courtyards and enter the hall. This changed the expressions on the faces of the merchants. In addition to being angry, there were also some worries, fearing that the people would become angry and hurt themselves when they broke in.

Seeing this, Cai Zhiyi knew that if he didn't stand up and resist the pressure at this time, the whole situation would be completely out of control. He immediately stood up and said, "I'll talk to them. Can a group of mud legs still go against us?" He said that, and walked out.

Hu Guanjue and Cai Zhili looked at each other, and after hesitating, they followed closely and followed them out. The two of them were already one, so they naturally had to advance and retreat together. The others, after hesitating, had to find a clear answer to the meeting.

"You alleged businessmen have lie to us before, but now we have seen through your conspiracy. Return Tian Qi to us!"

"Return the Tianqi quickly. That's the family that my Chen family has saved with hard work. You must not rob it like this... If you refuse to give it to me, I will fight you!"

"We have not established any documents in the government, so the transaction is impossible to count. If they refuse, then they will go to the government to sue them!"

Amid the screams, Cai Zhiyi and others finally walked out of the door, and then they saw hundreds of angry villagers gathered in front of the door. When they saw them coming out, everyone's shouting louder and more urgently: "Return our Tianqi back..."

"Everyone, please listen to me!" Cai Zhiyi felt a little weak at this moment, but at this time, he could only grit his teeth and shout loudly, and wink at the entourage who brought the sticks. The people quickly waved the sticks and walked forward a few steps, whispering: "Everything is honest!"

The deterrent power of this moment was quite large, which immediately made the people take two steps back and cried out.

Cai Zhiyi hurriedly seized the opportunity and said, "You are cheating. We both had signed the contract before, but now we have gone back on our word. This is not what the business is doing. Moreover, your land deeds have been handed over to us long ago, so how can we go back on our word? Also, you are just worried about how to survive if you don't have land in the future. In fact, there is no need to worry about such a thing. Your land is yours, we just need some rent and taxes..."

"It's simply nonsense! That's our land, you deceived it with lies! We won't be fooled again!" Someone among the people suddenly shouted loudly, and then suddenly another stone was thrown out, hitting a servant's forehead, scaring the others to hide back quickly, and the situation suddenly became even more chaotic.

Their retreat made the people more confident. With a roar, they kept moving forward, and Dayouzhen rushed into Liangyuan and robbed their land contract. Just when the situation was about to get out of control, and the merchants and servants didn't know what to do, a team of officers and soldiers were rumbling on the streets behind, accompanied by a shout from the leading officer: "Who dares to be arrogant and disrupt my Suizhou laws! Those who dare to mess around will take them all!"

The soldiers came forward decisively, and the sticks and sheathed swords were waving, pounding against the civilians, making them cry and screaming, and they hurriedly dodged to the side, no longer as aggressive as before. Seeing this, many merchants who were about to retreat into the garden were relieved, and quickly stepped forward to thank them, and shouted: "Thank you, all the soldiers, for helping us, and ask the soldiers to make decisions for the small merchants, such as us...."
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