Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Chapter 302 The Fate of the Grain Merchants

[After such a long time without any news, I thought the emperor was up to something. Seeing his daughter saved reminded him of her mother who died long ago. When he thought of her mother who died long ago, he didn't want to see his daughter anymore and sent her to the cold palace to fend for herself.]

[And then there are a few overbearing concubines, sinister eunuchs, and vicious maids, and a bloody drama with a heroine is about to be born. ]

[I just don't know whether this Princess Huyang is following the path of farming literature or the path of love after being abused. ]

Princess Wuyang, with her back to Xu Jinyu, was rolling her eyes almost to the sky.

As she was flipping through the pages, Princess Wuyang suddenly smelled an indescribable odor.

"What stinks so bad!"

"that."

An old man passing by pointed to the city wall to Princess Wuyang.

"what!"

"what!"

Princess Wuyang and Xu Jinyu both took a step back and looked at the things on the city wall with pale faces.

All I saw were densely packed, wind-dried skulls hanging on the city wall.

"Why are there so many heads hanging? What happened in the capital?" Princess Wuyang was no longer afraid and quickly asked the old man who had spoken to her.

"Don't worry, young master, it's a good thing." The old man said with a smile.

"Good thing?"

Princess Wuyang felt relieved when she heard this, but she still asked, "Old man, please tell me what happened?"

The old man simply did not enter the city, and told Princess Wuyang what happened in the capital, his face full of joy at having his great revenge taken.

"Those are the heads of some unscrupulous grain merchants and the high officials behind them. His Majesty has said that since they don't want the people to live a good life, then they shouldn't live a good life either. Their heads must be hung on the city gate for a hundred days before they are allowed to be buried. Hanging them on the city wall is to let those unscrupulous merchants see what the consequences are for cheating the people."

The grain merchant’s head!

Wuyang's mood improved immediately.

These grain merchants deserve to have their heads chopped off.

Although the people of Lantu County acted in time and saved most of them, many poor people still starved to death.

This is the case with a Blueprint County. If this were the case with the entire Daqian, countless people would have died.

but·····

Princess Wuyang asked the old man curiously, "I see that you are a commoner from the suburbs of Beijing. Commoners from the suburbs of Beijing should not be hungry, so why do you hate these grain merchants so much?"

The old man looked back at Princess Wuyang and said, "I can tell you haven't been to the capital for a long time. I don't know what the situation was like back then. I won't starve, but those grain merchants will cut off our livelihood. Do you know how the people in the suburbs of Beijing make a living?"

Princess Wuyang thought about it and realized that she did know something about this. After all, she was going to be an official, so she couldn't be completely ignorant. "People in the suburbs of Beijing who have land can grow some fresh fruits and vegetables to make a living. Those who don't have land can find some temporary jobs in the capital to make a living."

"Ah." The old man sighed and continued, "I'm not hungry. There are new seeds sold by Princess Tai'an in the capital. My family bought some and sold them for a lot of money. But after only two days of selling, a grain merchant came to buy the peppers I grew for 50 coins per pound. But I can sell them to restaurants in the capital for one or two taels of silver per pound. When those beasts saw that I didn't sell them, they framed me."

"The next day I was brought to court, charged with insulting a decent girl. But I knew that decent girl well. She was Xiao Taohong from Chunhonglou. There were also many vegetable farmers from the suburbs of Beijing with me. I was charged with all kinds of crimes."

"What about adultery, molesting decent women, stealing, being a bandit, and a flower thief... If the Jingzhao Yin's runners hadn't come quickly, I would have almost died. Look at my hands."

The old man raised his hand that was covered by his sleeve. His ten fingers were twisted and deformed. It was not the kind of twisting and deformation caused by years of hard work. It was obvious that he had been tortured.

"These grain merchants really deserve to die!"

Princess Wuyang no longer felt frightened at all when looking at those heads; instead, she just felt relieved.

But she still had a question: "How many people were chopped... chopped?" Looking at those densely packed heads, Wuyang's voice trembled a little.

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know. I only know that the capital was filled with the smell of blood during those days, and the executioner chopped off heads until I wanted to cry."

[What a bold move! This time the emperor didn't catch the big and let the small go. He cut off all the grain merchants who raised the price. He really wasn't afraid that these people would do something desperate.]

[Ah! There are indeed some desperate people who are desperate, but they were all suppressed. I was wondering why the emperor suddenly became so courageous. It turns out that it is because the Ministry of Industry has produced a strong bow that is only slightly inferior to the compound bow. It turns out that fists always have the final say. ]

[No, this is my compound bow. I gave it a name like "Swift Wind" in the hope that I could fool people. It's obviously a low-end version of the compound bow. Great, the emperor stole my teaching materials!]

Xu Jinyu didn't care about the grain merchants anymore and rushed towards the palace with great momentum.

Princess Wuyang quietly slowed down her pace, while Ren Changfeng and Wei An behind her ran even faster.

They didn't want to see the scene where Xu Jinyu pointed at the emperor and cursed him. Although Xu Jinyu wouldn't actually curse him out loud, as a subject it was better for them not to listen to what was in his mind.

Fengtian Hall,

Emperor Xuan was sitting on the dragon throne, listening to the Minister of Revenue reporting on the harvest.

"This time, we seized countless granaries, nearly 10 million taels of gold and silver, 600,000 hidden households, 400,000 hectares of land, countless jewels and shops..."

The Minister of Revenue, who was reporting the situation, was almost laughing so hard that his mouth was about to split.

These grain merchants are wealthy. This wave of grain made the national treasury full all of a sudden, and not only was it full, but it also made the country wealthy.

As the Minister of Revenue, he was finally no longer a pauper and could finally stand up straight in front of the various departments.

Emperor Xuan looked at the Minister of Revenue and ordered directly: "Put 50% of those jewels and shops into my private treasury."

"Impossible, there are too many!" The Minister of Revenue replied subconsciously.

"We have gained so much, but there are still soldiers who died and need compensation, and..."

Before the Minister of Revenue finished speaking, General Xuanwei had already jumped up and said, "Your Majesty! I want the Gale Bow. If all my troops are equipped with the Gale Bow, I will dare to go to the north."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."

[Damn it! The emperor is so shameless, he actually stole the blueprints of the compound bow. How can an emperor be so shameless? Despicable villain, thief! Shameless! He just looks down on women, can't he just take it step by step. ]

[Those teachers in the school are just there to eat...]

Balabala, Macabaka, and Xu Jinyu output their passion.