"The people's hearts are so chaotic." Shi Congzhi said unanimously: "The market is very chaotic. There have been several trends of robbing grain. They were suppressed by the government. Several people died. They were all the people of Kaifeng. It was heartbreaking to think about it."

Shi Congbin said calmly: "Will the one who is responsible for the cause?"

The initiator was of course the emperor, and the Shi family here twisted their bodies uneasy.

"Is it impossible to act like this before?"

"After my loyal and loyal family, my scholarly family, can't follow the thief. If the Hei Dynasty fails..."

"Well, you should be more cautious."

When it comes to the survival of the family, the middle-aged people here all look steadfast. Shi Congbin has a lot of money, which is enough to make him stand firm in the clan, but if you force everyone to choose a side position now, it is naturally not enough.

Even if the Shi family is not good at business, there are more than a dozen shops in Kaifeng City. Even if the business is not easy to do, there are still tens of acres of land outside the city. The old Zhuangzi and the ancestral hall that the Shi family started are all on the manor outside the city.

And the current situation, everyone here doesn't feel that it will take too long.

The grain in Huguang will be adjusted. Once the grain prices fall, the weather will warm up after spring, the cloth prices will fall, and then all kinds of prices will fall. It may be that due to the lack of accounts, insurance, fleets, and prices will generally rise, and business transactions will not be easy to do. But looking back, before Hutong, didn’t everyone do the same business?

Shi Congbin sneered, stood up and said, "Since that's the case, I'm a person who is not close to Huji and cannot be involved in the Shi family. I'm still a family and I'll have no relationship since then..."

"The third brother doesn't have to do this..." Although Shi Congzhi persuaded him, his butt didn't move.

The same was true for the rest of the people, and there were sneers on their faces.

Who did Shi Congbin treat himself as a terrible businessman? He lost his Shi family. If Hutchison loses again, it depends on how Shi Congbin gains a foothold!

Everyone is very optimistic about Hutchison's future from the beginning, but now many people are not optimistic, or at most neutral.

Defeating Xuan Dabing and killing the governor was a great situation. It was a great situation. It was very important for the army to quickly move south, occupy Xuan Da, and directly force the capital. What a great situation, Hutchison actually retreated directly. I don’t know what he thought?

If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty, it would be too much to worry, I'm afraid everyone would have completely given up on the peace and remember.

"Brother, I want you to remind your clan members." Shi Congbin slowly walked outward and said in a deep voice: "Don't leave the city easily recently..."

"What does it mean?" Shi Congzhi was shocked and stood up and said, "Is there any unpredictable change?"

"Will come from the west."

Everyone felt as if they were electrocuted. The thing they were most worried about finally broke out. Everyone stood up suddenly in an instant. Shi Congzhi's eyes widened and stared at Shi Congbin.

Shi Congbin, however, said calmly, "Brothers don't have to do this. It's not Hutchison. No matter how talented the brothers are, they will not be connected to each other. This news was conveyed by Hutchison's Military Information Department. You also know how powerful Hutchison's Military Information Department is."

"I know, I know!" Shi Congzhi strode over, and asked him to sit down according to Shi Congbin, and then said seriously: "The Ming Dynasty or Hutchison, we all who have passed on the family traditions of books can accept it. Lord Zhang was born as a famous minister, and he acted in a regular manner. Hutchison has always had rules. Even if he succeeded in the world, he would not fail. In the end, the world would be in a bad mood and the people would be in trouble. If the court could revive, he would still have decades or a hundred years of luck. However, no matter what, he should never be called powerful. This is a big thing that must be careful!"

"Of course, the people in Hutchison told me that entering Henan is inevitable, but you must not ask them to enter the south of the Huai River and Jiangnan. You must always force them back to southern Shanxi and Shaanxi."

Since Wang Er's invasion, the uprising in northern Shaanxi has gathered thirty camps. The original eight kings, Zhang Xianzhong, have been serving as military officers in Hutchison, and will not establish a battalion as the leader. The general Li Zicheng, who is still a postman in Yulin, will not rebel until the second half of next year or the first half of the year after that.

In less than a year, from the thousands of people of Wang Er to the 150,000 people gathered together in the 30th Battalion.

What everyone in the Shi family was most worried about was that after the autumn, more than 100,000 yuan left Shaanxi and crossed the river to Hedong. After moving for a while in southern Shanxi, they crossed the river south again. The whereabouts were unknown afterwards, and in Shi Congbin's words, they were about to enter Henan!

"They have conquered Pingshun, the leaders Zi Jinliang, Chuangwang, Shuanfangwang, Lao Huihui, Cao Cao, Chuangcaitian and others led their troops to move around Linxian and Cixian, and may go to Zhengde, Luoyang, or invade Kaifeng."

"The disaster is really a disaster."

"Ci County is less than 400 miles away from Fengxian, and you can get there day and night by horse. What's wrong?"

"Can there be soldiers in the city now?"

"The garrison of Henan Prefecture has only one deputy general with more than 2,700 people, and Kaifeng Prefecture also has more than 2,000 deputy generals. Originally, there were three guards in the Zhou Palace, and he had already handed over it. There were only a hundred guards and hundreds of eunuchs in the Zhou Palace, which was useless."

Henan was also a province with a large population in the Ming Dynasty, but there were only eight prefectures and one prefecture. The most important of them were of course Kaifeng and Henan, but the total garrison was only more than 5,000, and its strength was very weak. Originally, Henan was also a major province with many garrisons and many soldiers, which was also an important source of military service for the capital. Now, there are also Henan and Shandong's garrison soldiers taking turns to serve in the capital regularly, and of course they were just to work as coolies. The garrison soldiers were no longer able to assume military functions.

The imperial court has not yet established a general in Henan. The governor was originally the full name of the Right Minister of the Ministry of War and the Right Deputy Censor of the Censorate of the Censorate of Henan and other places. Later, during the Jiajing period, he added the river management and military farming, and only in the Wanli period, the admiral military affairs were added, as for completing all functions.

In other words, because Henan is in the heart of the mainland and has many relatives, the governor is much weaker in military affairs than the governors on the border and other provinces. In addition, the title of admiral in military affairs can be seen very late.

It is easy to imagine how weak the military power of Henan, especially the mobile military power, is.

Li Zicheng had just left Shangluo Mountain and easily broke Luoyang with tens of thousands of people he had just recruited. Although King Fu was stupid, it is undeniable that Luoyang's defense was too weak.

Everyone present felt as if they were struck by lightning when they heard the news, and they felt like they were scattered.

A little brother could save face and pulled Shi Congbin and said, "Third brother, you can't ignore it. You have to help us. After all, we are brothers of the same clan connected by blood."

Someone said, "Our family has a village outside the city, so just hide."

Shi Congbin said: "It's just preliminary news now. How many people really want to capture Kaifeng? Whether they go to Kaifeng, Henan, or Zhengde Mansion, it's hard to say. We can't listen to the wind and rain."

Shi Congyi nodded and said, "Small chaos hides from the countryside, big chaos hides from the city. Even if it really comes, staying in Kaifeng is much safer than hiding in the countryside."

"There are more than 100,000 thieves." Shi Congbin said: "After breaking the city, there are no other kinds of things."

Everyone fell silent, the brazier in the house seemed to have gone out, and the whole room was extremely cold.

After a while, someone said with great difficulty: "If we really occupy the area of ​​Cixian and come to Kaifeng Prefecture, then we can only hide in Jinan, or simply go to the capital."

"Go to the capital?" Someone retorted: "The price of grain in the capital is 2 taels and one stone. Our family has at least two or three hundred people. Not to mention the expenses along the way, we have to prepare to live in the capital for a few months. Where can this expense be paid? Although there is a lot of money deposited in the public, we can't stand such trouble."

Shi Congzhi said: "After that being said, life is still in the way. If the thieves are approaching, they still have to leave. Kaifeng has too few soldiers and horses, and the city is too wide, with more than 100,000 people. They accidentally got on the top of the city. It would be too late to regret it at that time."

This is very reasonable and no one refutes it. However, when they think of the family escaping, the wars and futures are unknown, and they have to face various accidents. In addition, the expenses are huge, each family has to prepare to use up all their money. The sadness on each person's faces becomes more and more intense.

Shi Congzhi looked at his third brother. Seeing Shi Congbin's calm face from beginning to end, he said, "Three, I know you have resentment in your heart, but a family of hundreds of people always have different lengths. Since you can do it, you have to tell me a solution and make a charter. As long as we can do it, we will definitely follow it."

After the heat was enough, Shi Congbin would certainly not be polite anymore. He smiled coldly and said, "I'm going to tell the truth, brothers, this kind of scene in our family is probably everywhere. Think about it, if Hutchison really wants nothing, it will be so easy to talk about. All the goods account have a lot of silver and twelve cents to be returned?"

Everyone nodded slightly, Hutchison was indeed a little too generous this time.

"Although Hutchison is not, they can do so. It's okay not to come to wealthy places such as Kaifeng, but we have to show sincerity." Shi Congbin continued: "The price of grain, cloth and iron has risen sharply this time, because Hutchison wants to use this matter to deal with the court."

"This is really a wonderful idea." Shi Congzhi pondered: "Since ancient times, I have heard that soldiers meet and see the heights of the battlefield. Winners win the world, and losers lose their lives. I have never heard of such a big thing using such means."

"Harmony is not urgent." Shi Congbin could vaguely understand some of it, and said now: "The prices soared, the public was full of resentment, and they attacked the prefectures. Within one or two years after the ascension of the throne, the world was uncontrollable. So what if the Hunter army was carrying Lord Zhang to the south at this time?"

"Oh, it's great, great." Shi Congzhi was still swaying between Hutchison and the court, and was quite puzzled and dissatisfied with Zhang Han's retreat to the grassland. After hearing this explanation, he suddenly felt confused and slammed his high-high, "Mr. Zhang is worthy of being Lord Zhang. He has already surrendered the Northern Barbarians. He is a little better than Emperor Gao of this dynasty. How could he act without any far-reaching considerations?"

"In order to cooperate with Hutchison," Shi Congbin said coldly: "We need to take out a large amount of capital to buy grain transported to the north. Most of the grain is transported from the canal to the north, mainly from Huguang. Because Henan and Shandong are short of grain, there will also be Huguang merchants transporting grain along the road from Shashi to Kaifeng. Our Shi family's task is to contact major merchants in Kaifeng, invest and buy all the grains from the north!"

Shi Congbin has always been doing business among the clans and has not shown any special features. But when he speaks at this moment, there are faint metal and stone, which makes people feel daunting.
Chapter completed!