Chapter 2008
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Li Junxian had given Wang Liaoyuan the mission of maintaining order in the city and preventing the people of the city from rebelling against the closed gates. But not long after Wang Liaoyuan returned to the government office, he received bad news: all the grain stores in Taiyuan City were out of grain!
It wasn't that the grain merchants were trying to raise the price of grain, but that there was no grain!
How could this be?
As an official, Wang Liaoyuan knew better than anyone the importance of food to the people. As the saying goes, 'food is the most important thing for the people'. If the news of Taiyuan City being without food continued to spread, Wang Liaoyuan believed that Taiyuan City would fall into chaos soon!
When the time came, countless people would rush out of the city to buy grain!
Even if Li Junxian hadn't given him this mission, as the Bing Province Governor, Wang Liaoyuan had to do his utmost to solve the problem of Taiyuan City!
"This subordinate will go!"
In the rear office of the Provincial Governor's Residence, the middle-aged scholar surnamed Pang clasped his hands and bowed. He also knew that this matter was urgent, so he immediately began to write a decree. When he was done, Wang Liaoyuan saw that the contents of the decree were correct, so he stamped it with his seal and handed it to Constable Feng.
"Constable Feng, I order you to immediately arrange for someone to make a copy of this notice and then post it in the city. Also, gather all the yamen and county yamen runners and strengthen the patrols in the city to prevent anyone from taking advantage of this opportunity to cause trouble! If you don't have enough people, immediately report it. This official will go and borrow soldiers from Advisor Fang! "
Constable Feng clasped his hands and said, "Yes! This subordinate will go! "
After saying this, Constable Feng took the decree from Wang Liaoyuan, turned around, and left in a hurry!
In the back office, Wang Liaoyuan frowned as he looked in the direction that Constable Feng had left in. He had a feeling that something was wrong. Since the world was at peace, there had never been a shortage of food in Taiyuan City. Although the four city gates of Taiyuan City had been sealed off for the past two days, even if Taiyuan City had been sealed off for ten days to half a month, there would still be enough food for the hundreds of thousands of people in the city. But now, all of the grain stores in the city had suddenly run out of food. This made Wang Liaoyuan, who had calmed down, feel that something was wrong!
Was someone playing tricks in the shadows?
Wang Liaoyuan couldn't help but wonder.
"Does the Provincial Governor feel that today's matter is a little strange?"
The middle-aged scholar saw Wang Liaoyuan deep in thought and his eyes flashed. He paused for a moment and then asked tentatively.
"There is indeed something fishy about this!"
Wang Liaoyuan came back to his senses and nodded. "Mr. Pang, did you notice something?"
Scholar Pang shook his head and said, "Even the Provincial Governor can't tell, so how can I? But this Pang feels that Taiyuan City has only been sealed for two days. With the world at peace and the Great Tang free of war, the grain stores in the city shouldn't have run out of grain, and the people in the city shouldn't have been fighting over grain! There must be some secret behind this! Perhaps someone was manipulating all of this in the dark!
Moreover, the major grain stores in the city are only experiencing a shortage of grain. No grain merchants took the opportunity to raise the price of grain. This shows that today's incident happened so suddenly that many grain merchants did not expect it. They are not the mastermind behind the scenes because they did not profit from it! "
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