Since Li Sanjian entered the territory of Quanzhou, it has either been pouring rain or torrential rain, or it has been raining continuously, the sky is overcast, and the climate is extremely bad.

Today, the sky in Quanzhou finally cleared.

On the sea in the east of Quanzhou, a round of red sun rises from the place where the water and the sky meet, and the morning glow that appears with the red sun dyes the sea, the reefs, the islands, the earth, and the entire Quanzhou city.

Living in the rainy weather for a long time, people seem to be moldy, so the coming sunny weather is what every Quanzhou person is looking forward to, at this moment, every Quanzhou person should be in a happy mood.

But this is not the case.

In front of a rice shop called "Shengyun Rice Shop" in Quanzhou City, countless people of Quanzhou gathered at this time.

At this time, the people have no intention of appreciating the sunrise in the early morning, and they have no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery, so they gather in front of the "Shengyun Rice Shop" early in the morning, holding various pockets, and looking at the closed door of the "Shengyun Rice Shop".

Recently, due to the flood that Quanzhou has not encountered in a hundred years, the price of rice in Quanzhou is one price a day, one price at a time, one time is higher than one time, and one day wins one day.

Yesterday I could buy two liters of rice, but I may not be able to buy it today, which makes the poor money in the pockets of the people of Quanzhou seem to be more and more tight.

Today, many ordinary people in Quanzhou, and even many hungry people from all over the country, gather early in the morning before the "Shengyun Rice Hang", just to buy some rice early, otherwise once it is in the afternoon and evening, they don't know what the price of rice in Quanzhou has become, and some people have even lined up for a whole night.

The "Shengyun Rice Shop" is one of the largest rice shops in Quanzhou, and the rice price of "Shengyun Rice Shop" can basically represent the rice price of the entire Quanzhou. At the same time, it is said that the proprietor of the "Shengyun Rice Shop" is a great good man, who eats fasting and recites Buddha, so the rice sold through the "Shengyun Rice Shop" is cheaper than the one on the market.

Therefore, at this time, there are more and more people in Quanzhou who gather in the "Shengyun Rice Shop", and there are so many that they have blocked the streets and alleys on both sides.

"What is the price of rice today?"

"Who knows? Hey, one price a day, and I don't let people live! ”

"Hey, you can be content, at least there is rice to sell to you in Quanzhou City, do you know what the situation is in Nan'an County, Hui'an County and other places? I've heard that people are starving to death in these counties, and there are even people... Someone robbed grain and rebelled... ”

"Hmph, I have no food to eat, I can't live anymore, what can I do if I don't rebel? Rebellion is death, and not rebellion is death, so it's better to rebel, maybe it's still a way to live. ”

"Shhh, silence, do you want to die and get away from it, what are you doing with me? Rebel? Rebellion is a great sin for the three tribes! ”

"That's a hundred times better than starving to death!"

"Coming, coming, guys are opening the store!"

After the people waited for an hour, someone from the "Shengyun Rice Walk" finally came out.

There are seven or eight wooden planks on each side of the door of the shop of Shengyun Rice Shop, and when the wooden planks are removed, several wooden signs nailed to the interior wall are the prices of rice and other goods today.

At this time, the door of the store opened, and more than a dozen rice shop guys and servants walked out from the inside and took off the wooden planks in turn.

But before the men and the servants took off all the planks on both sides, the people couldn't bear it anymore, and the crowd was surging, holding cloth bags, and squeezed forward one after another, wanting to know the price of rice today, and at the same time to be able to buy food earlier.

Seeing this, the guys and the little guys desperately pushed everyone, so they stopped everyone outside, took off the wooden plank, and showed the wooden sign on the inner wall.

"Today's rice price is 18 yuan, and the fight is 180 yuan."

These fifteen characters are written on the wooden plaque of the rice shop, which is one hundred and eighty copper coins per bucket of rice, and eighteen copper coins per liter of rice.

On weekdays, it is generally cheaper to buy a bucket of rice than to buy a liter of rice, but today it is not cheaper.

"Oh my God, yesterday it was one hundred and twenty dollars, and today it will be one hundred and eighty dollars?"

"Straight lady thief, your heart is too dark, right?"

"Who says it's not, it's not such a way to raise prices, right?"

"Is this still not going to let people live?" 58 reading

"Please, the small one is only ten dollars, so let me buy a liter, I can't open the pot at home...

Yesterday, the price of rice was 120 yuan, and today it has skyrocketed to 180 yuan, which means that yesterday you could buy two buckets of rice, but today you can only buy one and a half buckets.

These days, the price of rice is rising every day, but it is generally a method of counting money, counting money, where is it like now, overnight, the price of rice has risen by 60 yuan in one breath, you must know that the price of rice before the flood in Quanzhou is only 70 yuan per bucket.

So the crowd rushed forward, and there were those who cursed, those who cursed, and those who prayed, and it became a pot of porridge, and the scene was chaotic and noisy.

Everyone is pushing and shoving the rice shop guys and small guys, and they are chattering and noisy.

Some of the rice shop guys and little guys have good words to persuade each other, some scold, some scold, and even some guys have already started and scuffled with the people who bought rice.

"Hugh is noisy!" The scene was chaotic, and it was about to get out of control, so a rice shop shopkeeper wearing a satin robe walked out of the shop, and shouted loudly, but it also frightened everyone.

"Fellow neighbors!" The shopkeeper of the rice shop saw that the crowd was quiet for a while, so he continued: "The price of rice has skyrocketed so much, do you think it is the ghost of this store?" Is it my 'Shengyun Rice Travel' who is willing? You are all my neighbors in the neighborhood of Shengyun Rice Shop, some of you are still old customers who often buy rice in our store, today, the shopkeeper will tell you the truth, since the disaster in Quanzhou, the road is not smooth, the grain outside can hardly be transported in, and the price of rice is also a reasonable thing. In fact, this is not the most important, the most important thing is that I have no grain in Quanzhou at this time, you can go everywhere to see, at this moment, there are very few rice shops for sale, and the price of rice is higher than my 'Shengyun Rice Shop'. ”

The shopkeeper of the rice shop saw that the crowd was quiet and silent, so he became even more energetic, and simply stood behind a street stool and continued: "One more thing, you must know that the government has not only opened a warehouse to release grain since yesterday, but also began to collect grain... ”

"Collecting grain? The government collects grain? Someone asked in surprise.

"Exactly!" The shopkeeper of the rice shop suddenly raised his voice an octave and said loudly: "Yesterday evening, the government began to collect grain, do you know at what price the government collects grain? ”

"Straight mother thief, starling-like old biting worm, can you fucking be happy?" The shopkeeper of the rice shop sold them one after another, which made the grumpy man ask loudly and angrily.

"You... You bastard... You bastard... The shopkeeper of the rice shop pointed angrily at the crowd and said: "Today, for the sake of the neighbors, this shopkeeper will not care about the corpse of your road, fellow neighbors, at what price do you accept rice from the local government?" It's 300 yuan, a full 300 yuan, which is 20 yuan higher than the rice sold in our store, and I heard that the government is also preparing to raise the price of rice. Well? Say, why don't you say it? ”

The Quanzhou government not only did not open a warehouse to release grain, but also collected rice at a high price? What exactly does the government mean? At this time, after everyone learned the news, they all thought of it together.

When Li Sanjian was in the capital, he was the master of the people, avenged the grievances of the people, was not afraid of the powerful, and the official reputation was excellent, and he was a clean official and a righteous official, and many people also knew about these things, and at the same time, Li Sanjian sacrificed himself in Nan'an County, Quanzhou a few days ago to control the water, and at this time it had already spread throughout Quanzhou, so the people of Quanzhou praised Li Sanjian and felt lucky to have such a good official.

However, at this time, when Quanzhou was suffering from floods that had not been encountered in a century, and when the people were in urgent need of relief, not only did they not open warehouses for relief, but they actually bought rice, grabbed grain, and hoarded grain on a large scale.

The government acted so perversely that everyone had to suspect the actions of Li Sanjian, the governor of Quanzhou.

Could it be that Li Sanjian is in vain? On the surface, he is a clean official and a righteous official, but in fact, he is the same as those sanctimonious officials in the past? Everyone couldn't help but have doubts about Li Sanjian.

If Li Sanjian is really such an official, and he is really so hypocritical, then he is really not as good as those officials who openly oppress the people.

The shopkeeper of the rice shop then said proudly: "The owner of my family is a person who is a Buddha, and he thinks of your old neighbors, so he took out some rice to help you, but you still complain?" Hurry up and buy rice.,,There's not much rice in the small shop.,There's no store in this village.,It's you who will be hungry at that time.,Not the shopkeeper.。。。 ”

In fact, at this time, the Quanzhou government purchased a large amount of grain at 250 yuan per bucket, and the shopkeeper of the rice shop deliberately raised the purchase price of the Quanzhou government, which was nothing more than to sell grain for the sake of "Shengyun Rice Shop", so as to obtain huge profits.

"Smack!"

"Ouch!"

Before the rice shopkeeper's voice fell, a lump of wet mud was thrown on his fat face, and the rice shop shopkeeper was caught off guard, and suddenly fell from the stool, but fortunately, there were several guys around, so he hurriedly followed the rice shop shopkeeper, so that he avoided falling to the ground.

"The government is unkind, and it is really despicable to be in cahoots with profiteers!"

"The government is perverse and oppresses the people!"

"Rob, the government and profiteers are doing this, why should I be polite to them?"

"It's the other way around, it's the other way around!"

"It's death if it's against it, and death if it's not against it, it's better to be the opposite!"

At this time, everyone was angry, and rushed to the rice shop with the rice bag, it was a crowd of surging feelings, and the rice shop guys and small servants couldn't stop it at all, and the rice shop shopkeeper was frightened and hurriedly retreated into the store.