After some tests between each other, the little fox and the old fox parted happily, and everyone felt that they were more sure.

After drinking and eating, Ye Xingyuan said goodbye and left. Chen Huangqi then gave him a small gift. Qingxue tea and the music box were all the things he promised during the meal, and he did not take the opportunity to bring a red envelope or something.

Ye Xingyuan originally wanted to return, but after thinking about it, he still left the music box to Ouyang Ziyu to play with. Qingxue also shared it with everyone, and drank it like a cow chewing peonies. He seemed to have temporarily put aside the matter of the Shen family, busy with the affairs of the government office, strictly restrained the officials, eliminated the redundant staff, assessed them every month, and prohibited the troublemakers from disturbing the people. For a time, the official style became solemn and the efficiency was greatly improved. Of course, there was a legend about Mr. Ye immediately, and there were countless people who flattered the horse.

Of course, this kind of praise is nothing to Ye Xingyuan, so he didn't care about it at all.

In the past half a month, what he had to do was to integrate the internal affairs. At least in the government office, there must be no one who would hinder him. Although Lu Tongzhi was a fence-skinned man, fortunately, he was gentle and had no opinion. He could do whatever he asked him to do, which made Ye Xingyuan very relaxed.

Only after he completely grasped the officials of the government office could he show his strength. As for cases and official duties, as long as they did not involve the four major families, Ye Xingyuan made a decision and was extremely efficient. This made the people in the government office admire him even more. He was frightened by Ye Xingyuan's reputation, and no one dared to compete with him again.

The house Qianhu, who was supposed to be an ant on the hot pan, patiently did not come to urge him. He had only contacted Lu Shiyi Niang twice to convey the news from Beijing.

Ye Xingyuan actually didn't care much about other things, and only found that one key thing was that the grain prices in various places were slowly rising. The rising prices of grain in the north, as Ye Xingyuan expected that the price of grain in the Jiangnan area had always been very stable.

Although the price of the grain loan contract increased, before Ye Xingyuan took office, the grain price in Xingzhou City did not change much, and it was still one tael, two taels, three stones, which could be said to be very calm and would not worry the government.

But in the past half month, it has been different. The spot price of rice has risen by 50% or 60%, from one tael, two taels or one stone to one tael, nine taels. You should know that now is the time after the autumn harvest, and the rice price is the cheapest. At this time, it will definitely be strange.

According to this method of rising, the price of grain will not exceed three liang when the price of the food is not up to date? Thinking of this, Ye Xingyuan's face is even more awesome. Small-scale speculation helps economic activity and can be ignored, but if the speculation is excessive and even affects the real economy in turn, it is a crime that has to be punished.

Especially when people regard food as the most important thing, rising grain prices will inevitably lead to civil unrest. If such a thing happens in Jiangnan, then Ye Xingyuan, the prefect, no longer needs to be on the way.

He pondered for a while, then called Lu Tongzhi and asked, "Does Lord Lu know if the rice price has risen recently?"

Lu Tongzhi was stunned and could only nodded and admitted that he knew, and said with a wry smile: "Sir, there are many merchants who are cooking food in Jiangdong. Sometimes they join forces to raise prices. This is common in Jiangnan. As long as it does not affect people's livelihood, the government office usually turns a blind eye."

Food is a necessity, so it is easiest to make money on food, and the people are not so sensitive to prices. As long as it is not so high that it is unbearable and let grain merchants make more money, they just curse and finally have to buy rice and go home.

If the yamen wants to manage, there will be many things, so as long as the people don’t make trouble, officials will definitely take the initiative to manage the price of grain. Now the price of grain is less than two taels, for the wealthy Jiangnan, it is still a flat price that the people can bear for the time being.

"But this price increase is different." Ye Xingyuan had already discovered the problem, "Lu Tongzhi, do you know what price the grain loan has reached recently?"

"Grain loan?" Lu Tongzhi blinked, not understanding what direct relationship this had with the price of grain. He also bought a few grain loans at his family. In his opinion, this was just a pure investment and had long forgotten its relationship with grain. Fortunately, he was still paying attention to the price and answered, "Report to the adults, yesterday's price was almost approaching three taels. Those who bought one tael of silver should make a fortune now!"

Although he had learned the news a long time ago, because he was cautious by nature, he only bought some symbolically at the beginning, and then he made hundreds of taels of silver. If he had borrowed money from the money house and bought hundreds of grain loans at that time, wouldn't he have already made a fortune at this time?

Ye Xingyuan saw that he was obsessed with it and sighed: "You still haven't figured out that the delivery date of the current grain loan is March next year. Now everyone is willing to buy it at a price of three taels of silver, that means they think that by March next year, the price of grain will exceed three taels of gold!"

Although futures are things of the future, they are actually closely related to spot. If you cannot find someone else to take over at a higher price, it means you will get three liang of high-priced grain in March next year.

If you don’t think that the food prices will be abnormally high in March next year, how could anyone take this risk?

Lu Tongzhi's face suddenly turned pale! He thought he had made a fortune by borrowing grain for three liang, but if the price of grain for three liang, then he knew that this was simply the end of an official. If the price of grain in Jiangnan soared to this level, how could people's livelihood be maintained? At that time, even if Ye Xingyuan was holding on his back, could he, the Tongzhi be able to make good use of it?

"Sir, what should I do?" Lu Tongzhi was afraid. Although he still had luck in his heart, what if it was as Ye Xingyuan said? He deeply hated that he had not thought of this in advance, otherwise he would have prepared early.

"The key to the problem now is why they think that the grain prices will rise so high in March next year. Should they release fake news and let people take over, or are they really interested? The rising rice prices are also a sign that must not be missed." Ye Xingyuan also has a little knowledge of various futures methods, and the wealthy families who hoard and eat people and do not vomit bones are afraid that they will not be honest, so they must be on guard against it.

"In any case, the price of grain in Jiangnan cannot reach three taels." Lu Tongzhi suddenly reacted, "The government office and the four counties have affordable granaries. If the food prices are high, they can ask the court to open warehouses and release grain to stabilize the price of grain. This happened once ten years ago, and the officials still remember it."

He has been an official in Xingzhou for more than ten years, and he still understands the local situation. The highest grain prices are usually in summer, and it is only two or five or six at that time. In March, it reaches three or three. How high will the grain prices be before the harvest?

Ye Xingyuan frowned and said, "How much grain is left in the grain warehouse in Fuzhong County? Can I call it in an emergency?"

He made a quick decision and said, "You immediately send someone to take over the grain warehouses of Wuxing, return to Lu, Shenglong and Liping, and order all counties to obey the unified dispatch of government offices. Without my order, you can only enter and not leave, and you will never move a grain of rice."

Now is not a joke, Ye Xingyuan picked up the seal of the prefect and issued an order.

Lu Tongzhi looked ugly. He knew that this was another annoying task, but he knew that the situation was serious and did not dare to say more. He hurriedly took the order.

Concubine Qing appeared and said to Ye Xingyuan: "I didn't expect that the situation would develop so quickly. Even if the adults wanted to slowly draw it, it seemed too late."

Ye Xingyuan sighed: "It's not that the situation is developing rapidly, but that someone is deliberately pushing it. I have long felt that these things were originally connected, but now it seems more obvious. It's just that to solve the problem of grain prices, it's not difficult for me to suppress the price, but it's just to treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and let them make money in vain.

If you want to completely solve this problem, you have to solve Yunji. To solve Yunji, you have to solve the four great families. The most important thing to solve the four great families is the Shen family.”

Ye Xingyuan himself could call on the power of Qiongguan Money House, which could be said to be rich enough to rival a country. If he was willing, he could of course buy grain from other provinces to make a cut of grain. But the more he spent, the more he lost, and the money was made away by others. Of course, he had to choose to plow the courtyard and sweep the holes and solve the other party in one fell swoop.

After circling around, all the key points are in the Shen family.

"What about the Shen family is to start with the robbery of the Jinyiwei Hua Shigang?" Qingfei made a suggestion.

Ye Xingyuan nodded heavily, "I didn't want to take such a risk, but now I can only start as soon as possible."

In fact, he has always been in danger in his actions, but as his official position grows bigger and higher, he can't just stop him from dying like before. Including, he has personally taken action to challenge the King of Shu in Shu before, but after Yan Wuxie's three-life test, his ideas began to change and he wanted to make stability.

Unfortunately, he wanted to be stable, but others didn't want him to be stable. The Shen family acted and forced him to such a level while he was still stable. This was really a bully.

Ye Xingyuan had to do the tricks of military operations.

He called out Ouyang Ziyu and asked, "Is your junior brother from the overseas fairy island really reliable?"

"Reliable!" Ouyang Ziyu patted her chest and promised, "He is actually not a barbarian at all. He is also raised by my human race. He has always admired my Central Plains culture and is grateful for the kindness of my master. It is best to ask him for help."
Chapter completed!