Zheng Baorong, who was already worried and had a heart, couldn't hold back now.

He hurriedly said, "No, when you encounter such a situation, why don't you report it to the government?"

This time the woman didn't say anything, but a middle-aged man next to him was carrying a hoe, rolled up his trousers and still covered with mud on his feet. It seemed that he had just come from the field and sneered: "Go to the government to report it? It's useless. They are all guarding each other. It's okay if they don't report it. Once they report it, there will be no salt to buy it, and at worst they will be beaten."

"A few days ago, my brother came from another place to visit his relatives. He was also a small official from Jiaozhou. After reporting it, he was not beaten, but he was taken out of the capital overnight. My family still couldn't buy salt, and they only barely survived by relying on the help of their neighbors."

Li Chen asked with a deep brow and said, "Then the rice price has risen. The rice from these rice stores is collected from the hands of the people and the landlords. Can the acquisition price increase?"

"That's right, the acquisition price must have increased a lot, right?" Zheng Baorong asked anxiously.

Li Chen turned his head and looked at Zheng Baorong expressionlessly, "Will you die if you don't speak?"

Zheng Baorong immediately shut up, lowered his head and dared not say anything.

The middle-aged man said at this time: "It's going up, of course it's going up."

Zheng Baorong, who had just lowered his head, looked happy.

If the purchase price also rises, then your sins will not be that severe.

But then, he heard the middle-aged man say: "It's just that the price of Mixing acquired from the landlords has slightly increased by half, which is useless. Most of the bosses of the Mixing store are big landlords, and they just rush to the right hand with their left hand."

"As for the purchase price for tenants and ordinary farmers, it will not rise but fall. It is said that the world is not peaceful, and transportation and storage costs will rise. In short, it is because of various reasons to suppress the purchase price. It is not okay to not sell it. When they encounter those who do not sell, they will come to grab it. It is not new to kill a few people at any time."

Li Chen's face became darker and darker as he heard it, and he said, "So serious? Is there any evidence?"

The middle-aged man laughed, lifted up his shirt, exposed his scarred chest, and a piece of rib that had collapsed, and said, "Is this evidence, my son?"

Li Chen took a deep breath, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it."

Another older man said to Li Chen: "Young Master, maybe you are really chivalrous, but you can't control such things. These rice shops dare to raise prices, and it's okay for so long. There are people behind them. I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace is the master behind them. How do you control it?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince?"

Li Chen said in a deep voice: "If the prince really supports these people, then the prince is not worthy of calling him the prince."

When these words came out, the people next to them all changed their faces.

The old man even said anxiously: "Be careful of your words! Be careful of your words! This is the capital city, and the emperor's feet are everywhere on the road. If you listen to them, you will be taken to the East Factory to torture it."

Li Chen said: "Brother-in-law, I know you have a good intention, but I am talking about the truth. Not to mention the capital, even when you go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, the truth is the same. If you are wrong, it is wrong, it is right. The prince will never support this pest."
Chapter completed!