Although the fleet led by Qin Xiedao has left at Mingzhou Wharf, there are still many people on the Wharf.

"The boss, it seems that this time it was really a false alarm. Unexpectedly, the court arranged such an unreliable person to provide disaster relief.

The food we stockpiled in our warehouse seems to have room for appreciation.”

No matter what era it is, once a famine occurs, there will always be some merchants who are hoarding behind the scenes.

The Tang Dynasty was naturally no exception.

The person who spoke was Zhu Zhengfeng, the butler of the Zhu family in Mingzhou, and next to him was Zhu Hongping, the current head of the Zhu family.

The Zhu family is located in Jiangnan Road, but it is a wealthy family that has lasted for hundreds of years.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Zhu family was a large clan in Jiangnan.

Although after hundreds of years of development, the Zhu family fell a little in the early Tang Dynasty.

But a lean camel is bigger than a horse.

The already declining Zhu family is also the leading wealthy family in Mingzhou.

Such a wealthy family naturally cannot have no food in stock at home.

However, the relationship between the Zhu family and the Xie family and the Chen family in Jiangnan is very complicated. It can be said that you have me and I have you.

As a child of the Xie family, Xie Jin did not dare to take tough measures against the Zhu family.

"A few days ago, I heard that the court had arranged personnel to provide disaster relief, and I was thinking about whether to quickly sell all the food in the warehouse.

Fortunately, we had some understanding of the situation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs before and knew that no matter who came to provide disaster relief, it was unlikely that we would come with a large amount of food.

As long as there is not enough food, the disaster in Mingzhou will not be completely solved, and the price of food will become higher and higher.

Prices that people could not imagine before would become sparse and common."

Zhu Hongping was not ashamed of his hoarding.

In his opinion, even if he took out the food early to sell it, the disaster in Mingzhou would not change in any essential way.

At most, the people just eat a few more days.

When the food price is high, the food will eventually be eaten by people from Mingzhou.

The Zhu family took this opportunity to make some money, and Zhu Hongping thought it was natural.

"Yes, I have no hair on my lips and can't do things well. I heard that Qin Xiedao is quite famous in Chang'an City. He said he is both civil and military, but he didn't expect it to be such a thing."

Zhu Zhengfeng was completely disliked Qin Xiedao at this time.

As a native of Mingzhou, he knew too well how difficult it was to go fishing in the sea.

If it was so easy, would the Zhu family not even have a fishing boat?

"The more unreliable Qin Xiedao is, the better it is for us. If we inform us, we should not sell the food in each shop, so we said there was no goods.

Let's put it in another ten days and a half months, and then the food price in Mingzhou City will definitely set a record high.

Let’s see how Qin Xiedao dealt with this situation.”

"The food price in Mingzhou is much higher than that in Yangzhou and Suzhou. It is estimated that some businesses have begun to consider transporting food here.

If food prices continue to rise, everyone's enthusiasm for transportation will increase even higher.

Even if there is not much food in itself, someone will do this as long as the profit is rich enough.

At that time, should we communicate with these merchants in advance and do not sell food first?

When a large amount of food outage occurs in the people's homes, we will reluctantly take out some food to sell it."

The reason why aristocratic families can continue for life is that they first consider the interests of the family, not the interests of the country.

People like Zhu Zhengfeng, in addition to listening to the Zhu family, even if Xie Jin, the governor of Mingzhou, may not really take it seriously.

"Yes, let's leave this matter to you to coordinate."

Zhu Hongping snorted coldly, thinking of the scene in his mind that Xie Jin and Qin Xiedao came to the Zhu family to ask for help from him in the future.

At that time, will you help yourself or not?

We must let everyone know that the Zhu family is the real person in Mingzhou.

...

"Empress, let's go back, no need to watch it anymore. Even if everything goes well, they will not come back at the earliest in the evening.

If you go far, it may be normal to come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”

Wang Zhiming stood beside Xie Jin and let the sea breeze blow his long hair.

Although there are many people on the dock, there is no anger on everyone's faces, as if they are full of despair about the future.

Even Xie Jin, the governor of Mingzhou, had a look of desolation.

Originally, he thought that he would become the governor of Mingzhou at the age of 40, and would he have the opportunity to go to Chang'an City to be a minister or something in the future, which would be considered as the honor of revitalizing the Xie family.

Now it seems that it would be good to be able to secure the position of the governor of Mingzhou.

"Hey, I hope Qin Dalang really has a way to catch sea fish, otherwise this problem would be really big.

I don’t know what the court was thinking. Has it been given up on Mingzhou?"

Xie Jin couldn't help but complain a few times.

There is no way, he is really not happy about what happened these days.

It was already very polite if he didn't curse in front of Qin Xiedao.

"The soldiers brought by Qin Dalang look quite brave. If there was any turmoil in Mingzhou, they might be able to play a little role, but it would obviously be meaningless if they were used to provide disaster relief.

Even if you go out to sea to fish, it will probably not be of use except for the darkness on the boat."

As a local, Wang Zhiming naturally felt the taste of going to sea.

After only being overseas, Wang Zhiming had no interest in going overseas.

These days, ships are generally not big and are greatly affected by wind and waves.

A ship that keeps shaking can easily make people seasick.

The smaller the ship, the greater the possibility of seasickness.

Like the aircraft carriers in later generations, it is not that easy for you to even want seasickness.

"Whether it is useful or useless, it doesn't make any sense to say this now.

Now we can only expect Qin Dalang to really catch sea fish from the sea, otherwise the food price in Mingzhou City will probably continue to hit a new high tomorrow.

The people worked hard for a month, but the money they earned was not enough for the family to eat corn for two days.

If this situation continues, something will definitely happen."

Xie Jin felt that he was so unlucky.

Jiangnan is a water town, and it is very good for drought.

Even if it was a hurricane, it did not come as early as this year in previous years.

But I encountered these unusual situations.

"Well, lord, we must prepare early, otherwise Mingzhou City will be lost by then, and the problem will be big."

In Wang Zhiming's view, turmoil in Mingzhou is almost inevitable.
Chapter completed!