After entering Cuijiazhuang, Fei Qian found that the current situation of the Cui family seems to be better than before, not only does it seem that there are more people, but even some of the original dilapidated places on the streets in the village have also been repaired and replaced. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Cui Hou led Fei Qian and Huang Zhong to the side hall of Cui's house to sit down, and arranged for the next person to quickly prepare the banquet.

This time, whether it is from Fei Qian's status as a scholar or the strength shown by Fei Qian that he has seen so far, it seems that it is slightly worse for Cui Hou to open the main hall to entertain him, but there is basically no problem at all in the side hall of the Cui family.

The old man of the Cui family seems to have not been able to recover after being so angry that he had a stroke, so it is inconvenient to attend, so Cui Hou is responsible for entertaining, but it can also be seen that Cui Hou has also successfully taken over the Cui family's business during this time, and he also has a strong voice in the Cui family.

Although the Cui family also has a Cui Jun, who went to Xihe to be the county guard, but after all, Xihe County is located on the border, and from time to time there are Xianbei harassment in the south, so the focus of the Cui family is naturally on the Luoyang side, and Cui Jun has been incognito before, and the affairs of the Cui family are also taken care of by Cui Hou's people, even though Cui Jun's current position is higher than Cui Houlai's, but if you want to say the right to speak, maybe it will not be easy to say in the future, but now Cui Hou will be stronger.

Huaxia people have the habit of discussing things at the dinner table, so Fei Qian naturally chatted with Cui Hou.

chatting and chatting, he naturally talked about the current situation in Luoyang, and the Cui family's Cuijiazhuang is actually not very far from Luoyang City, so some changes in Luoyang City are of course also matters that Cui Hou pays close attention to.

The city wall of Luoyang City in the Eastern Han Dynasty is actually more like a palace wall with a large circle, because the south palace and the north palace of Luoyang City themselves occupy a large piece of territory, and then add various institutions and departments, and then add some mansions of dignitaries......

Therefore, the space inside the city is very limited, many facilities and bazaars are gradually expanding outward relying on the city wall, and many people, especially a large number of middle-level and low-level people, now live outside Luoyang City, which also leads to the fact that the city walls of Luoyang City have lost most of their role in protecting their residents.

Therefore, at that time, Yuan Kui's strategy of approaching the city and Dong Zhuo completely collapsed was not wrong. When Luoyang City loses the supplement from the outside world, there are only people left who live within the large palace walls of Luoyang City, and the daily consumption of food and clothing is also amazing.

And now there are already a little signs of this.

Food prices continue to rise.

Food is an important pillar of the stability of a society. Food is the foundation of a country, and for a large country, food is very important.

First of all, as far as the population is concerned, as long as there is enough food, the entire economy will not be subject to too much fluctuation, and the population will be able to maintain a stable basis and continue to grow, until the growth rate is greater than the increase in food, and various problems will begin to erupt.

And now the overall grain rise, one shows that the population in this area of Luoyang has exceeded the original load, and the other is that the garrison of the Kwantung Shi clan in Suojube has begun to affect the amount of grain transferred from Luoyang.

Of course, in fact, there is still a lot of grain storage in the local Haoqiangwu Fort in Luoyang, and I think Cuijiazhuang also stores a lot of grain in the cave dug by the mountain.

But the grain also brought some trouble to the Cui family.

Cui Hou said with a wry smile: "In the past few days, there have been two consecutive 'adjustment' orders, one for 200 stones, and one for 300 stones, in this way, no matter how much food is not enough, it will not be enough to 'adjust'......"

There were two main sources of food for the army in the Han Dynasty, one was the "Zhu Tax" paid by the people, and the other was the "Tune" which was additionally apportioned by the people in the station.

"Zhufu" is generally fixed and charged once a year, but there is no specific restriction on this "adjustment", and it is "adjusted" according to demand.

However, it is not possible to "adjust" endlessly, after all, grain reserves are limited, and if there are too many "adjustments", there is not much difference from forcible robbery.

Fei Qian realized that perhaps this was already an obvious manifestation of Dong Zhuo's determination to evacuate Luoyang, otherwise if he planned to stay in Luoyang for a long time, he would consider the people's grievances to some extent, and he would not easily do this kind of thing that could be regarded as killing chickens and taking eggs.

Fei Qian said: "Brother Yongyuan, I'm afraid you are also aware of this situation now...... Luoyang will change here, and the drama of this change may be difficult to describe......"

Cui Hou shook his head and sighed: "General He's chariot and horse have not been overturned for a long time, and the traces are still there, and now, ...... Alas! When will it stop! "What happened during this period of time was indeed like a marquee, He Jin was hacked to death not long after he killed Jian Shuoguang; Not long after the new emperor Liu Wei came to power, he was also abdicated and replaced by Liu Xie; Now in Cui Hou's opinion, Dong Zhuo, the prime minister, can't be the prime minister for long, but he doesn't know who will come up......

In fact, Cui Hou now has similar thoughts to most of the scholars near Luoyang City, after all, the Han Dynasty has built the capital of Luoyang for nearly two hundred years, even if there are occasional soldiers pointing to Luoyang, but Luoyang City has always been safe and sound, so in Cui Hou's heart, this time at most, something happened in the palace city in the center of Luoyang City, and at most someone wanted to stain the blood on the palace wall......

And a small character like himself, in Cui Hou's concept, as long as he endures this period of time, anyway, who will govern not live like that?

"Brother Yongyuan, I'm afraid it won't be so simple this time...... If it is said that the pawn of the former general He Jin, it can affect this range......" Fei Qian pointed to the plate on the table, and then gestured to the entire hall, "Then the impact will be so great now......"

Cui Hou's small eyes widened, and he said, "What does the virtuous brother mean by this?" ”

"In the past, could these soldiers and horses gather in Luoyang now? Soldiers, murder weapons are also ......" Fei Qian did not say the next half of the sentence, because now it is obvious that the reality is that whether it is Dong Zhuo in Luoyang City, the center of the imperial court, or those Kwantung scholars gathered in Sour Zao, none of them can be called people of great virtue, let alone "saints have to use them".

Therefore, the people who gathered these soldiers were actually the murderers who undermined the order of the entire Han Dynasty......

The flesh on Cui Hou's face jumped twice, and said, "Brother Xian said...... Mutiny? ”

Fei Qian smiled bitterly: "Perhaps...... And worse...... At this time, it is like cooking frogs in warm water, and when the water is hot, it is too late......"

"This ......" Cui Hou's eyes rolled from side to side, obviously difficult to accept Fei Qian's prediction......