[BL] Dragon Lord Just Wants to Take Vacation - Quick Transmigration

World 2 - Prince of Extinction

026 - 028

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     Sure enough, as soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in the city of Yunzhou.

     "King An has sold high-priced grain, so what do we have to be afraid of?"

     "Anyway, the sky is falling, and King An is going to hold it up."

     "That's right."

     In the afternoon of that day, the price of food in Yunzhou City rose accordingly.

     In the next two days, the grain store under the name of An Wang raised prices more than a dozen times one after another. Seeing this, other grain stores followed suit and raised prices.

     As a result, when many people bought grain at the grain store, they only had to pay, but they were suddenly told by the shop assistants that the price of grain had skyrocketed by 50% or even doubled, asking them to pay more.

     On the fourth day, the price of grain in Yunzhou city had skyrocketed to two taels of silver a bucket.

     In the Dayang Dynasty, a bucket was about fifteen catties.

     One tael of silver is about one thousand Wen copper coins.

     We must know that in good years, the price of grain among the people is only 20 Wen a Dou.

     Even in normal years, the price of food will not exceed 40 Wen.

     As a result, the price of food in Yunzhou City has soared to two taels of silver a bucket——

     We must know that these days, an ordinary family of three may not be able to save two taels of silver after a year of hard work.

     All of a sudden, in the city of Yunzhou, people's grievances arose everywhere.

     I don't know how many people smashed the longevity cards they made for King An overnight.

     What's more, I don't know how many Confucian scholars ran to the government office to protest, just to force Ao Ruize to take back his order.

     "Prince An, the emperor entrusted Yunzhou to you. Is this how you do your job? You are a prince in vain."

     "Could it be that the lives of millions of people in Yunzhou are not as good as those few ounces of dirty money? If there is a civil uprising in Yunzhou, you, Prince An, will bear the blame."

     "Sign up a letter, I will write a letter together, vowing to report what you have done to the court and the emperor."

     But Ao Ruize ignored them, but in order to appease the increasingly dissatisfied people, he still did some things.

     For example, on the charge of embezzling and breaking the law, he asked his subordinates to arrest all the officials above five grades in Yunzhou, and finally found out that they embezzled the money used to build the embankment, which caused the embankment of Yunzhou to be easily washed away by floods twice. , causing countless people in Yunzhou to die in vain.

     In the end, his subordinates confiscated millions of taels of silver from the homes of these corrupt officials.

     "But at most, this matter can appease the people for a day or two. If food prices don't drop for a day, the people of Yunzhou will rebel sooner or later."

     "Sooner or later? I'm afraid it will only happen in the past few days."

     Thousands of resting soldiers surrounded a tea stand outside Lizhou City, and hundreds of carts full of grain were parked not far away.