In the early morning, a glimmer of light appeared on the edge of the sky, and the city of Fucheng, which had been quiet all night, gradually sounded. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the soldiers outside the city are pressing, and ordinary traders and vegetable farmers cannot enter the city as usual, the life of the people still has to live.

Fortunately, Wumeng Mansion is still prosperous, there are many shops in the streets and alleys of the city, and fresh fruits, vegetables and raw meat cannot be supplied normally, but there are still many stocks of rice, noodles, salt and vinegar.

It's just that the prices of food by-products have risen sharply in the past two days, and the prices of the small blackboards hanging on the doors of the rice shops in the city have been revised twice a day. And each time the price has soared a lot compared to the previous one.

No, in order to be able to buy cheap grain, many people went out before dawn and hurried to the nearby grain store with cotton bags.

Before the shop could open, hundreds of people were already lining up at the door.

Everyone was worried, touching the not very rich purse, and sighed silently: Alas, I don't know how much the price of grain has risen today.

They didn't want to buy more grain to store, but since the Tartars came from outside, those black-hearted grain merchants tightened their grain bags, and each household only needed to buy twenty catties of grain every day.

Oh my God, each family is not a big family these days, and the old and the young add up to six or seven people, and it is possible to have more than a dozen people.

How can twenty catties of food be enough for these many people?

It is even more difficult for people with many men, and it is normal for a man to eat one or two catties of grain in one meal.

Especially in recent days, the supply of meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits has been cut off, and the family can only eat dry food, so the food consumption is even worse.

Therefore, the people in the city had to come to buy food every day, looking at the rising food prices, and while their hearts were dripping blood, they couldn't help but curse a few words.

King Xiaoliang and his subordinates are naturally the targets of everyone's curses.

However, under the influence of rumors, there are also many people who don't know the truth and complain about Qi Jinzhi - what a Qi beheading, if you want to play prestige and offend the Tartars, you can toss on Wusa's own territory, why did you come to Wumeng to trouble us?

Now, King Xiaoliang is besieging the city with thousands of elite soldiers, and the inner and outer three layers of Wumeng are surrounded by ironclad, and the people can't escape if they want to.

Wumeng Mansion has suffered from the Liang rebellion, and the people know the methods of the Tartars.

Thinking of the various hardships they would suffer after the city was broken, they couldn't help but secretly scolded Qi Jinyitong again.

Now it's even better, before the Tartars have come in, there is a food crisis in the city.

Many fear not only that they may not die at the hands of the Tartars, but that they may starve to death.

"It's all to blame for that Qi beheading, by the way, and his unlucky mother-in-law, okay, what did you do to provoke King Xiaoliang? It dragged us down and lost our lives. ”

Some people were queuing up to buy food while scolding in their hearts.

They completely forgot that when Qi Jinzhi entered Wumeng, he had vigorously cleared out the rebels, stabilized the law and order in the city, exempted and exempted all harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and stabilized the price of grain and salt.

Some people even thought that if they really couldn't do it, they would push Qi Jinzhi and his guards out to take the blame, maybe King Xiaoliang would be angry and would be able to spare the people in the city.

So, when queuing, some people quietly chatted with the people around them, trying to belittle Qi Jinzhi in and out of words, trying to incite everyone's dissatisfaction with Qi Jinzhi.

Unfortunately, it had little effect.

Because for ordinary people, as long as they can get by, few of them dare to go against the court, and they can't even think of rebellion.

Although there are heavy troops besieging the city outside, they are still alive in the end, and they can endure it for a day.

Besides, didn't the government let out a rumor, and the uncle of Lord Qi will soon lead troops to the rescue. They only need to survive these few days, and there will always be a way to survive.

The people in the crowd who were inciting saw that they had spent a long time talking and talking, but it had no effect, gritted their teeth, and gestured to the people not far away.

In a short time, the closed door of the grain shop opened, and everyone saw it, and they all came to their senses, clenched their pockets, and prepared to move forward.

However, the door of the grain store was only half open, and a fellow poked his head out of it, looked at the crowd outside, quietly stuck out his tongue, took out a wooden sign and hung it on the door frame, and then quickly dodged back to the shop, and dropped the latch with a click.

"No food today!"

There were literate people in the crowd, and after reading the words on the wooden board with their hands on the pergola, they not only exclaimed, "What? Don't sell grain today? ”

Although the wooden board reads, "There is no food today", everyone knows very well that there is no food in the grain shop, and they clearly don't want to sell it!

"What? Out of food? How can this? ”

When the people behind heard the shouting in front of them, they also panicked, and desperately squeezed forward, shouting while squeezing back.

"Liar, what is no food? They clearly want to hoard Juqi. ”

"Open the door, open the door, you just raised the price, and now it's still ...... You black-hearted profiteers clearly want to starve the villagers of the whole city to death! ”

Everyone was angry and shouted, and the person standing at the front was even more emotionally uncontrollable and waved his fist and slammed the door hard, only smashing the door panel loudly.

The young man in the grain shop was so frightened that he cowered at the thin door panel that was about to be smashed.

In the end, seeing that the good people outside were about to turn into mobs, the man had to shout desperately: "Folks, it's not that we don't sell food, but we really don't have food." The Wumeng official warehouse has long been empty, and the hundreds of people in the government eat and feed the horses, all supported by our grain shops, woo, we can't do it! ”

"Yes, folks, if you want food, go to the government office, the stock of the grain store was taken away by the government officials last night."

A few young men remembered the owner's instructions and shouted to the people outside.

The people outside the grain shop who had been standing up for many days of fear finally broke out, and they all rushed forward with great excitement, shouting, scolding, and shouting in their mouths, while the people in front kept slamming the door and scolding angrily.

It stands to reason that in such a chaotic situation, the voices of a few young men in the grain store were like drops of water falling into the sea, which was not noticeable at all.

And there are a few people in the crowd in front of them who are not completely carried away, of course, they can also be called 'ulterior motives', they suddenly stop and knock on the door, and make silent movements with the people left and right.

It took a while before he suddenly realized, "Oh my God, it was Qi who cut off his head and pulled all the food away." Straight mother, damn Qi beheaded, it's not over that he provoked the Tartars, he still wants to starve us to death! ”

"Folks, let's go to the government to ask for food!"

"Yes, yes, we must go and cut off the head of Qi to have an explanation, he has a small Wusa county order, why should we be in Wumeng?"

"What? Qi beheaded, isn't it a new official sent by the imperial court? ”

"Good fellow, he actually got all the food? Maybe the idea of selling limited quantities of grain in the grain store before was also thought up by this black-hearted bastard. ”、

"Let's go, let's go to the government~~"

Under the instigation of well-intentioned people, the people who were shrouded in fear were completely out of control, and rushed to the government office.

……

"What? And they took advantage of the people? ”

After Qi Jinzhi heard the news, his face changed slightly. He did discuss with Mr. Ji yesterday to create some chaos in the county.

But he never thought of inciting the people, because he knew that even the most perfect plan would have accidents.

And in the event of an accident, the people involved will be harmed.

As a local parent, Qi Jinzhi wants to protect the people under his rule, not let them suffer in vain.

Listening to the reply of the next person, Qi Jinzhi realized that this incident was not small, and about half of the people in Fucheng were involved, and if one was not done well, there would be a riot among the people.

And if he is careful, he will become the main target of the people's anger.

Qi Jinzhi is not afraid of death, but he doesn't want to die so unexplained and nestled.

"My lord, what should I do now, the outside of the government is full of people, and many people who have heard the news are rushing to the government,"

Mr. Ji's face turned pale, everything was originally planned, but they never thought that those families would be so frustrated, and in order to test Qi Jinzhi's 'strength', they would treat the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the city as child's play.

"We must hurry up and find a way, otherwise, if the people are instigated by those with intentions, it will definitely cause a catastrophe!"

Mr. Ji was so anxious that he rubbed his hands.

Qi Jinzhi thought about it for a while, and then smiled: "It's okay, since they dare to say this, I dare to do it!" Qi Dayong~"

With a bang, Qi Dayong stood in front of Qi Jinzhi like a benchmark.

Qi Jinzhi beckoned to him

Qi Dayong understood, walked to Qi Jinzhi's side, and bowed down to wait for the dispatch.

Qi Jinzhi whispered a few words in his ear.

"Yes, little one understands!"

Qi Dayong raised his head in response, hugged his fists, and quickly retreated.

"Mr. Ji, you find a few people with loud voices and let them stand at the door and shout,"

Qi Jinzhi said to Mr. Ji again.

"Shouting what?" Mr. Ji's face was still heavy, and it was obvious that he had not yet 'comprehended' Qi Jinzhi's 'clever plan'.

Qi Jinzhi coldly hooked the corners of his lips and said, "Let them say that the government has indeed collected all the grain from the grain shops—"

Hundreds of crows and crows crowded on Yaqian Street, raising their fists and shouting: "Open the door, get out of here with the surname Qi!" ”

The black-lacquered door of the palace was closed, and the back of the door was even more silent.

"Open the door, we want food, we want to live!"

"Yes, grain, grain, we want food!"

The sound of the waves came like a tsunami, and the people were so stimulated that they lost their minds, and their eyes were red staring at the closed door.

Some people in the crowd even counted the time, planning when to incite everyone to storm the government.

Just then, the door suddenly opened.

The people who were standing at the forefront and shouting were as if their throats had been choked, and suddenly their voices were gone, but the people on the periphery behind them were unaware and shouted hysterically.

But after shouting this round, they also noticed the anomaly and quieted down one after another.

Everyone watched as the two black lacquer doors of the palace opened, and a group of people walked out of it, and the first one was a middle-aged scribe.

This person is quite familiar to everyone, and he recognizes it as Mr. Ji, the master of the government, and he is followed by several scribes of the government.

Mr. Ji stood on the steps with his hands in his hands, and slowly glanced at the red-eared people below, and after a long time, he opened his mouth in the puzzled eyes of everyone: "Lord Qi has indeed collected all the food in the city——"

Before he could finish speaking, the people below had already shouted.

The scene is out of control again.

Sou~~

Boom!

Liu Hu stood behind Mr. Ji, bent his bow and arrows, and a special 'rocket' shot into the sky, and the gunpowder exploded in mid-air, making a violent sound.

Like a scorching thunderbolt falling on their ears, everyone was startled and closed their mouths one after another.

"Very good, can you listen to me continue to talk now," Mr. Ji said in a deep voice: "The adults do not collect the grain for their own use, but want to benefit the general public." The price of grain has risen twice a day, and in the past a liter of rice was only eight or nine copper plates, but yesterday afternoon it actually rose to 35 yuan. What about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? ”

Mr. Ji's old eyes swept the audience fiercely, especially when he saw a few people with different expressions, his eyes became more and more cold, "The adults can't bear the suffering of the people, so they forcibly requisitioned the stocks of the major grain stores, and prepared to release grain in the government office-"

Before he could finish speaking, there were bursts of cheers from the crowd, and of course, scattered doubts.

Mr. Ji pressed his hands downward, and after a while, the scene quieted down again, and he said loudly: "Each household can buy 50 catties of grain every day, 6 copper coins per catty of rice, and ...... per catty of noodles."

Mr. Ji slowly quoted the price, whether it was fine grain or coarse grain, the price set by the government was slightly higher than the market price by one or two copper coins.

Of course, compared to yesterday's food prices, they are still much lower.

There was another cheer among the people, followed by disbelief.

Mr. Ji didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered someone to set up the table, pull up the grain hopper and rod scale, and let the servants bring sacks of grain.

In order to make the people believe, Mr. Ji deliberately took a bamboo skewer, randomly chose a sack, and inserted it hard, and the white rice flowed out.

"Ah, what food!"

"Does the government really want to sell grain at a low price?"

The people were excited, and they all wanted to rush forward to buy food.

Mr. Ji raised a hand in the air.

With Fang Cai's appearance, the people have great respect for Mr. Ji, at least they are willing to listen to his orders and quiet down.

Mr. Ji took out a booklet and trembled, "This is Wumeng's household registration booklet, and the daily grain sales are sold according to the registration on the household register." Now you have to go home and bring your household registration and buy food with your household registration. Of course, if you can't trust the old man, you can leave your relatives or neighbors in line first, and then send a representative home to get the household registration! ”

Mr. Ji said all the things that the people might question, and everyone was embarrassed, and seeing that they were so open-minded, and then thinking of the various measures taken by Qi Jinzhi after he arrived in Wumeng before, the balance in their hearts was tilted towards Qi Jinzhi again.

The front of the government finally settled down, and the people were divided into two groups, one group stayed at the door to line up, and the other group quickly ran home to get the household registration.

At the same time, Qi Dayong led 200 Qi family troops to come out of the rear office with murderous spirits, and went all the way to the major grain stores......

PS: Well, this plot seems to be a bit long, so what, a certain Sa will finish writing it as soon as possible, and please continue to support it. (To be continued.) )