Chapter 575 Behead All

On weekdays, a dou of rice costs only a dozen wen, but it has tripled now, which is really too much.

The clerk of the grain store glanced at him and said shockingly, "Get out if you can't afford it! Fifty wen is just the price today, and it will increase to a hundred wen tomorrow. That's the current market price!"

What?

A hundred wen...

Jiang Fengnian was shocked and angry.

When the people behind heard about the price increase, they all rushed forward like crazy.

"Then I want ten dou!"

"Weigh a stone for me!"

Jiang Fengnian clenched his fist and wanted to go forward to argue. How can you raise the price like this? Is there no law?

The old woman next to him kindly advised him, "Hey, forget it, young man. Now that the war has started, people's hearts are evil and they all want to take advantage of the opportunity to make money. Once we lose the war again, food will definitely be in short supply. While the price is not the most expensive now, buy some if you can."

Jiang Fengnian thought it was abominable, but he couldn't bear the loss, so he had to go home first.

After listening to this, Feng frowned, "Is it because the grain merchants can't sit still when the war starts, and want to make a fortune from the national disaster?"

Although this matter is irritating,

it is not uncommon.

Whenever there is a war, the people are always afraid of defeat, and they run out to store grain out of anxiety. The grain merchants behind them take the opportunity to raise the price and make a fortune.

"This world is really bad. The poor are sucked away by the rich." Jiang Fenghu spat.

When Xiao Nuobao heard this, his eyebrows wrinkled into twists, and he was about to go to the palace to tell his father.

We can't let this trend of making money from national disasters continue!

At this time, the people's sentiments were faster than the short legs of the little fat girl, and they had already been spread to Longxuan Palace.

"What, in just one day, the price of grain has tripled?" His eyes darkened and his big hands slammed heavily on the table.

Wu Que was very unhappy, hugging the calico cat and said angrily, "It's more than three times. I heard that tomorrow, they will raise it to one hundred coins. It's simply rampant."

"All the grain stores in the capital are closed now. Only the two stores on East Street are selling. People are running to buy. Just now, I went to buy salted meat for Sanhua and Fatty Ju, and saw a stampede there." Wu Que drooped his fat face. "

Now, men, women, and children on the street are saying that we only sent 20,000 firearms troops this time, and Wala has 50,000 people. They also said that we might be defeated, so they are more anxious to stock up on food." Ali replied at this time.

Mu Yihan frowned.

The people have experienced too many hard times and were incited for a while. It's no wonder they are like that.

But those who spread rumors behind the scenes, disrupted the morale of the army, and even wanted to eat human blood buns are too hateful!

Mu Yihan's eyes were as dark as ink, "This time, the intelligence about Wala was only discussed in the court, and it was never allowed to spread to the people. We know that the other side has 50,000 people, and our firearms battalion has only 20,000. It can be seen that there is a traitor in the court. In order to make money, the news was deliberately leaked!"

"The soldiers put their heads on the waistbands of their pants and risked their lives to fight the enemy, but they dared to sing bad news behind their backs, just to fatten their own pockets. Such people simply deserve to be killed!" Ali was a little unfair.

As for the person behind the scenes, it is not difficult to find out.

Just start from the two grain stores on East Street and check the boss behind them.

Soon, the black-armored soldiers surrounded the place and took away two owners, many shopkeepers and employees on the street.

After some questioning, it was shocking that eight court officials headed by Pei Lao were found, and all of them held important positions!

Among them, Pei Lao, the Minister of Rites, Zhang family, the Minister of Taichang Temple, and Zhou family, the Minister of Honglu Temple, benefited the most.

These court officials controlled hundreds of manors and most of the grain sources in the capital. All rice shops, big and small, had dealings with them and dared not offend them.

When they heard that the war was about to start, they forcibly bought all the grain reserves of other grain shops.

The two rice shops on East Street happened to be opened by Pei Lao's relatives.

So they brought all the food they monopolized here, raised the price, and hoped to make a fortune.

After Mu Yihan got the list, although he was mentally prepared, he still didn't expect so many people to be involved.

He clenched the white paper, his brows knitted together, and he was surging with anger like a dark cloud.

"It turned out to be them!"

"It would be fine if it was a waste like Zhou Chuncai, but even an old man in the court like Mr. Pei is like this..." He said halfway, his tone full of disappointment and sadness, and he threw the list down heavily.

Ali hesitated a little, stepped forward and said, "It's really difficult to deal with so many important officials at once. Should we warn them first and let them restrain themselves?"

Mu Yihan looked gloomy.

"The higher the position, the more they should not do such a thing that harms the country. The emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people, let alone them?"

"Warnings can never ease their hatred. This time, all those who profit from the national disaster will be thrown into prison!" Mu Yihan's tone left no room for doubt.

Originally, when Pei Lao and others learned that they were being investigated, they hurried to destroy the evidence, thinking that no matter how angry the national teacher was, he would not punish all of them. At that time, they could just push out a few scapegoats and get away with it.

Unexpectedly, Mu Yihan was so swift and violent that he wanted to put them in prison at the same time.

He also wanted to choose a day for execution!

When this happened, the mansions of these eight people were in chaos.

First, it was the Zhang family of the Minister of the Ministry of Rites.

When the concubines of the Zhang family saw that they were going to arrest people, they acted quickly. They immediately packed up their tricks and tried to escape through the dog hole. Master Zhang was so angry that he pushed away the black-armored soldiers and chased them with his shoes off.

As for the Minister of Rites, Mr. Pei, he could not bear it even more.

When he heard that he was going to be beheaded, his eyes went black and he passed out. When the black-armored soldiers went to arrest people, they did not make any mistakes and directly dragged him out and put him in shackles.

The most exaggerated thing was that Mr. Pei’s young daughter-in-law actually cried and threw herself on Mr. Pei, shouting, "Father-in-law, you can't be in trouble. Our child... No, my child hasn't been born yet. You promised to give me two hundred thousand taels when he is born. My money can't go away!"

Mrs. Pei was furious. She rushed out of the house, picked up her walking stick and hit him, "You little bitch, I've seen that you two are not good enough, and you still want two hundred thousand taels? Bah, unless I die first!"

She stopped the black-armored army again and slapped the still unconscious Mr. Pei twice.

"Wait a minute, sir. I have wanted to give you these slaps for a long time. If I don't do it today, I'm afraid I won't have the chance in the future."

In front of everyone, Mrs. Pei was filled

with grief and anger. "You are an old pervert. You love to do adultery. You have made all our sons turn against you. When your grandchildren see you, they don't know whether to call you grandfather or father. You deserve this fate today!" Her tears were full of hatred.

It was the New Year, and the Black Armored Army had an extra job to do,

which was already troublesome. As a result, after hearing such a big gossip, several big masters immediately pricked up their ears and became more motivated to do their job! After

eating a lot of gossip about the Pei family, they could let go of their fists and feet when they went to other people's houses to arrest people.

The families of officials involved were all crying and begging.

Some even wanted to eat meat.

"It's just a price increase, we didn't force the people to buy it, if they buy less meat, they can afford our food, right?" Mrs. Zhou cried with tears in her eyes.

"Yes, the things are ours, we have the final say on how much they want to sell, and you blame us if they can't afford it? Why should they be beheaded for this?" Some women in the back house wanted to yell at the Black Armored Army.

The Black Armored Army was annoyed by the yelling, so they simply arrested them and threw them into the prison to eat rotten rice for a few days, to see if they would say such inhumane words when they were hungry!