Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

"Yes!"

Ah Da immediately clasped his fists and turned to leave.

Zhao Ya looked at Chen Jie and asked, "Will this make them bring out the grain?"

Chen Jie replied, "There are measures from above and policies from below, but since the Commandery Princess has issued the order, they will have to show some respect."

Zhao Ya furrowed her brows and said, "Are you saying that they dare to disobey my orders?"

Chen Jie said, "What’s so strange about that? The Commandery Princess, even with her power, is just a first-class official; at most, they could simply avoid the Commandery Princess. Thus, force won’t solve this issue."

Hearing this, Zhao Ya frowned and asked, "What do you mean? Do you think my orders are ignored?"

Chen Jie said, "Commandery Princess, let’s not discuss this initially. Even if all the major families and guilds in Mianshui obey you and release their hoarded grain, I estimate it would only be about fifty or sixty thousand stones. Including my seventy thousand stones, we still have a shortfall of nearly two hundred thousand stones."

Zhao Ya thought for a moment and then said, "I will write a letter to Huangzhou Prefecture to see if we can transfer some grain from there to alleviate the urgent need."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jie smiled. This was exactly what he had been waiting for.

What did Chen Jie come to Zhao Ya for? Was it to trick the local scholars into releasing their grain?