The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

Emperor Yan felt very happy, and Chu Xinghe was also extremely pleased.

Ye Ren hated Jiang Fan so much at this time. He didn't expect that the vicious plan he came up with would end up hurting himself.

Although he was afraid of Jiang Fan's wit and courage, he became more determined to kill Jiang Fan.

Jiang Fan, the person involved in this tragedy, had no idea what was happening in the capital. He was in Huaining County at the time. In addition to paying attention to the arrival of grain merchants, he started brewing wine and making perfumes and soaps.

He built workshops one after another. He had more than two million taels of silver on him, and he had too much money to burn. He could build as many workshops as he could.

Unfortunately, the bricks and tiles from the kiln have not yet come out of the kiln, so the workshop can only be built in Huaining County.

When the bricks and tiles from the brick kiln come out, he plans to build a commercial capital around Huaining County, where various workshops are gathered together.

In addition to perfume and soap, Jiang Fan also used river sand to start making glass, and the first thing he made was a mirror.

And various glass products, luminous cups, and various glass crafts.

It took three days to get the construction of the perfume, soap, wine and glass factories on track.

At this time, several recorders were often stood up by Jiang Fan. Except when they were picking flowers, weeds, and digging sand, they could not even find Jiang Fan at other times.

They felt very miserable but helpless, so the only news that came back to the capital recently was that Jiang Fan continued to force the people to pick flowers, weeds and dig stones.

The capital city was a little uncomfortable with Jiang Fan's sudden silence and the fact that he no longer did anything out of line or bad.

Of course, everyone is now starting to care about how Jiang Fan will stabilize food prices.

On Chu Yan'er's side, everything went smoothly and the disaster was under control. Moreover, the construction of the river embankment would prevent Huainan Prefecture from being hit by floods for several years.

Not only the common people, but also all the court officials were more optimistic that Chu Yan'er would win this game.

The court officials who were beaten by Emperor Yan became active again after a few days of recuperation. Upon hearing the news of Jiang Fan's silence, they were extremely happy.

Although they were unhappy about being beaten by Emperor Yan, they felt happy when they thought that Jiang Fan was going to lose the bet, and they felt that the beating was not in vain.

Just when the princes and court officials gathered together again, preparing to celebrate Jiang Fan's inability to solve the grain price problem, Jiang Fan took action in Huaining County.

He immediately ordered the White Robe Army to block all roads in and out of Huaining Prefecture.

Except for people, no goods are allowed to enter or leave at will. Especially food. You can enter! You can't leave!

When this measure was first introduced, grain merchants and ordinary people were somewhat confused.

In fact, because of the high food prices, the people in Huaining County who were not affected by the disaster had many complaints against Jiang Fan, the Eighth Prince.

The grain price in Huai'an County has dropped, but in Huaining County, it has not dropped, but has even increased, which has caused the people to complain.

The Eighth Prince's inaction and his stupid behavior made the people even more angry. There were people secretly cursing Jiang Fan every day.

But just when the people were angry, Jiang Fan not only sealed off the city, but also started to open the warehouses to sell grain, and the price of grain was even lower than the market price.

The grain, which was originally priced at 10 wen per jin, was now sold at 8 wen per jin. When the news came out, the people of Huaining County were all dumbfounded.

People flocked to buy grain, although they needed to show their ID card issued by the county government and were given a fixed amount on time. But at least they didn't have to worry about running out of food due to high grain prices.

A day ago, the food purchased by Niu Wu and others had been delivered. The food in Jiang Fan's hands now could support the consumption of more than 200,000 people and 60,000 disaster victims in Huaining County for several months.

Therefore, he found the right opportunity to strike.

On the first day of selling grain at a low price, the grain merchants who came to Huaining County to make a lot of money were suddenly confused. When this happened, they could not make any money.

Most of them wanted to make a last-ditch effort and also lowered the price.

But the problem is that Jiang Fan supplies food at a low price, and no one is interested even if they lower the price.

The grain merchants came to their senses and hurriedly wanted to evacuate Huaining County, but the city gates were closed to grain merchants, only entry was allowed but no exit. All of a sudden, nearly a hundred grain merchants and millions of kilograms of grain were trapped in Huaining County.

The grain merchants were faced with the problem that they could not leave Huaining County. Even if they did, the round-trip freight was another expense, resulting in heavy losses.

The foreign grain merchants were at their wits' end and contacted the local grain merchants, hoping to sell to them at a lower price.

The local grain merchants in Huaining were instructed by several princes and saw through Jiang Fan's plan. They wanted to pay a high price and put the grain into their own warehouses.

As long as they store the grain brought by those foreign grain merchants into the warehouse, they can also raise the price of grain when Jiang Fan can no longer hold on.

Although they didn't know how long Jiang Fan could hold out, as long as their food prices didn't drop, Jiang Fan's solution to the food price problem would be a joke and not a success.

But just when these local grain merchants were preparing to buy grain at a high price, the white-robed guards came to their doorstep. The first local grain merchant who bought grain was arrested, and six grain merchants were arrested in a row.

Jiang Fan pushed out several grain merchants at the vegetable market in Huaining County, and listed a series of crimes against them, including hoarding grain, disrupting the market, harming the people, and raising the price of grain, and beheaded them in public.

This strike directly frightened the remaining grain merchants. Although they had the support of several princes and court officials behind them, distant water could not quench immediate thirst.

In addition, when the grain merchants from other places saw Jiang Fan killing the grain merchants, they were so scared that they immediately sold all the grain to Jiang Fan at a low price. Millions of kilograms of grain went into Jiang Fan's pocket.

What else could the local grain merchants say? Waste time with Jiang Fan? Jiang Fan had millions of kilograms of grain, and he could slowly consume them to death.

Although food can be stored for a period of time, how long can it be stored?

If they wait until the new grain comes out next year, the old grain will be even less valuable. All the grain they have will be thrown away.

Some of them even lost their lives playing with the princes and courtiers, and no princes or courtiers came to rescue them. They saw the truth. They couldn't afford to play with the princes and courtiers.

As a result, the grain price in Huaining County collapsed overnight. It dropped to the lowest point. The original price was 10 wen per catty, but now it is 7 wen per catty.

Grain merchants rushed to sell grain, fearing that their grain would be wasted. They were more ruthless than the other. If Jiang Fan offered eight cents, they would offer seven cents. If Jiang Fan offered seven cents, they would offer six cents. They did not stop until Jiang Fan lowered the grain price to five cents.

Those unscrupulous grain merchants have almost lost all the money they made from selling grain at high prices during this period.

Faced with such a situation, the people were grateful to Jiang Fan and praised him for his clever methods and said he was a god!

Several recorders were dumbfounded when they saw that Jiang Fan had been prepared and had lowered the price of grain overnight, even to five cents per pound.

However, they were full of admiration and excitedly reported the news back to the capital.

In Huai'an County, when Chu Yan'er heard the news that Huaining's grain prices were lowered in one day, she just smiled faintly, as if she had expected it.