The imperial concubine was spoiled by the prince again

Chapter 253 Not Afraid of Being Discovered
Yingge was immediately excited: "What does the pavilion master mean?"

Jinxiu closed the window: "Has Xiao Yunming been shopping for rice recently?"

Yingge lowered her voice and asked mysteriously, "Shall we make trouble for him?"

Jinxiu shook her head: "No, on the contrary, we have to help him."

Yingge was puzzled: "Don't you hate him? Besides, if he buys too much food, won't your prince have to work hard later?"

Jinxiu glanced at him: "Hmph."

Who is "your prince"?
It is useless to rely on silver alone for disaster relief, that thing can neither fill the stomach nor keep warm, and the top priority is to buy enough supplies with those silver taels.

The amount of food needed to feed 10 people is not a small amount. The surrounding areas of Lunan County have been more or less affected by the disaster. Not to mention the sharp rise in the price of rice, there is not much left.

Xiao Yunming is not stupid, he knows how to purchase from other places.

Since the day he set off, the news of the Fifth Prince's Mansion's purchase of rice and grain supplies has not stopped.

No matter whether he was just pretending or actually doing practical things, the emperor and the people mostly praised him for this method he came up with.

However, I don't know how many people have thought about it, why is this not a good opportunity for Xiao Yunming to hoard wealth for himself?
Increased grain price = the silver he took away could not buy enough grain = more silver was needed.

With just a little movement, Xiao Yunming's pockets will be bulged a lot, right?
For example, encounter bandits?
The news from Lunan is that the fifth prince met bandits on his way, was trapped halfway, and lost a lot of property, which made it impossible to rescue the people in time. The food purchased from the capital and along the way needs to be delivered quickly, and His Royal Highness Start early.

This reason was so effective that even the emperor had to order everyone to cooperate with Xiao Yunming to act cheaply.

It is considered a violation of the criminal law to deliberately raise the price of grain or store up grain in private.

She quietly asked Yingge: "Tell me, does Xiao Yunming hope to send the disaster relief goods to the people of Lunan smoothly, or keep them in his pocket?"

Yingge hesitated and said, "Does the pavilion master suspect that the bandit incident is fake?"

Jinxiu thought for a while: "Whether it's true or not, let our people do it."

"I want Xiao Yunming to lose both his wealth and reputation."

A guy who uses other people's lives to gain his own future is not worthy of her mercy.

The Dark Pavilion, which was not far behind the Fifth Prince's army, received a letter from Feiying from the big shopkeeper. After interpreting the secret words, they were a little puzzled—let them pretend to be bandits to steal the supplies brought by the Fifth Prince?

Why is this?

But then I saw that the letter emphasized: This is the instruction of the pavilion master.

They put aside their doubts one by one, gearing up to get ready.

A few days later, Xiao Yunming, who was still asleep, was woken up by the sound of shouting, beating, and killing. He heard that it was a night attack by "Bandits", so he didn't take it seriously at all - anyway, it was just going through the motions to deceive the accompanying officials .

The members of the Dark Pavilion were also very puzzled to find that the night attack was not difficult.

But when they were puzzled, they still had to do what they had to do. They only picked food to grab, and when Xiao Yunming finally realized what was wrong, he looked at the camp, his eyes were full of flames.

Countless men in black held torches and set fire everywhere, and the disturbed camp was in a mess.

When the night raid was over and everything subsided, the person in charge of counting the losses couldn't even speak.

"Almost all the tents were burned down, and more than half of the supplies were missing. They should have been robbed by bandits."

Robbed?

The so-called "Bandit" was originally arranged by himself, and he planned to transfer the supplies without anyone noticing in the confrontation after confrontation, but he could give the court a reasonable explanation.

But are they crazy to attack so ruthlessly all of a sudden?Not afraid of being discovered?

(End of this chapter)