Chapter 582: Something Happens in the River
Once a scholar has a heart, it is even more ruthless than an ordinary martial artist. Under the annoyance and anger of the martial man, at most he drew a knife to kill a piece of people, and the scholar not only wanted to kill, but also punished his heart.
Transferred from Yizhou to Hezhong Mansion, Li Ze showed great tolerance and patience for Ding Jian, and Ding Jian was also determined to make Hezhong an improved version of the new Yizhou.
He was originally a son of a wealthy family, and he served as an assassin in Yizhou for several years, and he also had a deep understanding of Li Ze's New Deal, and in his heart, he had already constructed an improved version of the New Deal. In his opinion, Li Ze's fatal blow to the old order would cause great damage, and his improved version would unite all forces to the greatest extent.
He confidently went to Hezhong to take up his post.
Then, here his faith suffered one setback after another.
Ding Jian forgot that whether it was Li Ze's new policy or his improved version, it was based on harming the interests of big landlords and wealthy families. Li Ze is using a knife to destroy the old order, while Ding Jian wants to use gentle means to make these people give benefits to those poor people, so as to achieve the ideal state of harmony in the world.
But why should vested interests give up their interests?
People's hearts are greedy, those who don't want to have, and those who have want more.
Cutting off people's financial means is tantamount to killing your parents!
Ding Jian's new policy encountered all kinds of overt and covert opposition and rebellion in the river, and after a year, nothing was accomplished. Seeing the year-round harvest in the rich river, which is not as good as the local states such as Mozhou and Shuozhou, which were devastated by the war, Ding Jian finally became anxious.
Naturally, there is no money in the river, and when spring sowing and summer are long, Ding Jian sees a bumper harvest.
Where did the grain go?
Where does the money go?
Naturally, it is in the warehouse of those wealthy families.
Ding Jian squeezed out a little benefit from these people's pockets like squeezing toothpaste, and his face was a little numb with laughter.
What made Ding Jian completely murderous was due to two things after the winter.
One is the smuggling and sale of grain.
Under Li Ze's rule, grain was used as a general equivalent to stabilize prices, and the price of grain was extremely restricted by the imperial court, and it was not allowed to sell grain at a high price. In the early stage of Li Ze's development, he even bought grain from other places at a high price, and then sold it to the people under his rule at a low price. But it is precisely because of this policy to the end, so Li Ze's jurisdiction no matter when, are extremely stable, in recent years, with the expansion of the territory, the large-scale construction of water conservancy projects, the road is unblocked, coupled with God is very face-giving, bumper harvest year after year, so that the price of grain has been very stable, the most bitter time of this year, that is, just under the Luzhou Weizhou period, the green and yellow and suddenly increased a large number of people, at that stage, thanks to Jin Mantang from the south of the Yangtze River to buy a large amount of grain to stabilize prices.
Therefore, food is fundamental to the Zhenzhou court.
Although there has been a bumper harvest again this year, looking at the entire Zhenzhou, it is actually not very abundant. It's barely enough.
And at this time, in the river of abundant harvest, they are unwilling to take out the grain.
Because they have found a way to sell grain at a high price.
Zhu Wen proclaimed himself emperor in Chang'an and established a pseudo-Liang, which not only made the Zhenzhou court angry, but also made the southern princes of the south very dissatisfied, and for a while, the grain in the south was stuck and no longer transported along the canal to Luoyang, Chang'an. The territory under Zhu Wen's control, including the 800-mile Qinchuan, has been reduced on a large scale due to the war, in fact, even if the production is not reduced, these grains will not be able to feed the millions of people in Luoyang, Chang'an.
All of a sudden, the grain price in Luoyang, Chang'an, has grown wildly, which is more than ten times higher than the grain price in Zhenzhou, and with the advent of winter, the price is still rising.
Three times the windfall profit is enough to make people crazy, let alone more than ten times.
The wealthy families in the river took risks, and Chang'an was also in urgent need of food, so the two sides hit it off and carefully opened up a smuggling channel. In this way, a large amount of grain was smuggled out of the river and sold to Chang'an and other places.
A month ago, this smuggling channel was seized by Ding Jian, but the big tycoons in the river were extremely fast, and hundreds of people were killed, so that Ding Jian finally did not find conclusive evidence to crucify these people.
The second incident is the incident of drug adulteration of official food.
Ding Jian transferred grain from other places and sold it at a fair price by the supply and marketing cooperatives, but these people actually bribed a local staff member of the cooperative at a high price, mixed the grain with severe poison, and killed people with the grain. By the time Ding Jian found out the truth, the person who had adulterated the drug had already fled and absconded to Chang'an and other places.
Through these two things, Ding Jian finally recognized the situation he was facing, and he finally moved to kill.
It was also at this time that Gao Lei, who was far away in Wuyi, handed him a knife handle.
Or these wealthy families in the river also know that the situation is getting more and more critical, at this time they finally remembered the predecessor of the river section Gao Lei, but Gao Lei did not enter the oil and salt, for Gao Lei, he sold all the land to the government, and then ran to Wuyi with his family, how could it be mixed into the river like an ink tank?
Since they couldn't persuade Gao Lei, these people stretched out their hands to Gao Lei's sons, and the beautiful woman didn't hesitate to drop them and dragged them into the water. In the grain smuggling incident, Gao Lei's sons were involved. Fortunately, Gao Lei found out early, and he broke all his sons' legs with a stick.
The angry Gao Lei naturally knew the seriousness of this matter, and he was so angry that he finally tore off his last feelings and handed over some people's private evidence to Ding Jian.
Ding Jian used these evidence as a breakthrough to kill the killer, and before the end of the year, hundreds of people had been arrested and imprisoned, and in the process of raiding the house, more and more evidence of collusion with Pseudo Liang was turned out from under the water.
The river finally couldn't sit still.
The private connection has now become a public appeal, if it weren't for Tu Lichun sitting in the river, Ding Jian might have been torn into seven or eight pieces by these people.
"There is now conclusive evidence that these people are conspiring with pseudo-beams." Tian Bodao: "More and more evidence shows that this time the whole incident was planned by Jing Xiang, and the purpose was to force these big families in the river to rebel, including deliberately leaking some evidence of smuggling grain in the river to Ding Jian. Jing Xiang's time is calculated very accurately, this time period also happens to be the time when the Tubo people invaded, Jing Xiang may not care about the life and death of these big families in the river, but he can drag Tu Lichun's Zuo Weiwei in the Hezhong Mansion to death. We even suspect that Jing Xiang has secretly deployed an army to enter the river province to support these families who are preparing to rebel when necessary, or that it is precisely because of this that these people in the river who do not know whether they are alive or dead are willing to take risks. They probably thought that if it did, they could take the Hezhong Mansion to the Pseudo-Liang, and if it didn't, they could also flee to Chang'an. ”
"Jing Xiang is really a character!" For Jing Xiang's methods, Li Ze was quite appreciative. "Listening to the thunder in the silent place, these big men in the river have been used by him to the extreme, as long as the situation in the river can hold us for a few months, it will naturally be extremely beneficial to them."
"In this game, Jing Xiang thinks that Ansui Du Youcai will definitely not be able to withstand the Tubo people's attack on the country, and he even thinks that the Hedong army will not be the opponent of the Tubo people, and it will be a stalemate situation, if Tu Lichun's Zuo Weiwei is pressed in the river, the situation in Hedong will naturally be dangerous, and at that time, we have to mobilize other troops to support Hezhong. For their threat, it is at its lowest, and they can also concentrate all their efforts to develop south, and they are now anxious to obtain the food and wealth of the south. ”
Li Ze glanced at the distribution map of the forces in the river presented by Tian Bo in his hand, and shook his head: "This is the power of the sect thief!" Look, in the whole river, once activated, there is chaos everywhere! ”
"Childe, rest assured, everything is under control." Tian Bo said: "Once there is a movement in the river, within ten days, the internal guards will cooperate with General Tu to destroy them all with lightning speed." ”
"What about that army of Pseudo-Liang?" Li Ze asked. "Can you eat it? Jing Xiang has done so many things, how can we not reciprocate? ”
"Childe, the main thing is to use the fastest speed to quell the civil strife, as for whether you can make some extra money by the way, it depends on the opportunity. If the people sent by Jing Xiang are not alert and a little stupid, I think there is still a good chance. Tian Bo said with a smile: "The subordinates are ready to leave for the river immediately." ”
"Go ahead!" Li Ze waved his hand: "Without shattering that old world, we can't redraw a new map of the river according to our ideas." The blood that should be shed always has to be shed, and now Ding Jian finally understands this. When he finishes this thing, he can be transferred back to the center, so that he can have a deeper understanding of our policies, and this person will be very important to us in the future. ”
"I hope that Ding Jian can also understand Gongzi's hard work for him through this incident, cultivating a certain person like Gongzi, and he will not hesitate to tolerate his mistakes again and again, but it is the first time that his subordinates can see it."
"It's rare to have a descendant of a southern tycoon defect to us, how can we not run it well? Other people's horse bones, I don't hesitate to pay for horse bones, not to mention that this person is indeed talented. Li Ze laughed.
Tian Bo left in a hurry, Li Ze also walked out of his public hall slowly, the wind outside was still biting, but his heart was hot, and the curtain of another big drama slowly opened.
Tibet is destined to become another stepping stone for itself.