Chapter 713: Shenyang City: Soaring Prices!
Facing the monstrous waves on the Aomei, Li Huamei, who was talking and laughing without changing her face like peaks and valleys, was vomiting pale at the moment, with tears in her eyes.
"Daddy, I can't stand it anymore. It's all this damn thing! She angrily pointed to Shi Lang, who was smiling all over her face, but she couldn't hide her joy, and couldn't stop complaining.
"Eldest sister, that's how it is to have a child. At first, I was going to vomit, but after a few days, it will be fine. Li Huaying, who was sitting beside Li Huamei and kept on her back, comforted her eldest sister in the tone of a passer-by.
"Daddy, last time you said that Huang Taiji was dead. Haven't told me how he died! Li Huamei is also trying to divert her attention from the strong pregnancy reaction at the beginning of pregnancy.
Li Shouhan nodded, anyway, there was nothing to deal with at the moment. The members of the two missions, Copleu and Winstanley, were led by the officers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War and the General Staff to travel around the southern and central regions. Visit the army and training in Nanzhong, various farms, villages and towns. There are also mountains of grain, warehouses of cloth, weapons, and so on.
"It's fine. Today can be regarded as stealing half a day of leisure. However, this Liaodong matter, although your eldest brother has a letter from Shandong, but after all, it is still separated by the sea. I don't think it's as clear as your second uncle knows. It's up to your second uncle to talk about it! ”
Li Peiting, who had just returned from Liaodong, had a red face, but the color of cinnabar appeared slightly.
"It's good! Then I will tell the lord, the admiral, and the eldest lady what they have seen and heard in Liaodong, and relieve the troubles of the eldest lady! ”
In the short few days since Li Huayu agreed to start a peace discussion with the Liao thieves and the arrival of the peace mission in Shenyang, everyone in the city of Shenyang, from the small people of Shengdou, to officials at all levels, to the banner lord Wang Ye Baylor, clearly felt that the price seemed to have two invisible hands. Two invisible forces are fighting and fighting repeatedly, although they can't see the bloody rain, but they can be felt.
"Master, didn't we say okay, endure it for a few days, why did it only take a day. You can't hold your breath? Tuha's minions said, pulling Tuha's sleeve. You let go, it's okay to not eat for a day, but it's too uncomfortable to not drink for a day!? ”
"Master, it's not that the minions won't let you drink, but now the prices of our Great Qing Kingdom are more lively than the crops where the locust plague occurred. Haven't you heard that in the past, prices doubled at most on one street, but there is still a pattern to follow, and the price will increase. Now it's good to pour. The price of one step changes three times, the price increases when the foot is raised, and the price is reduced when the foot is settled. Master, the mission will come in two days, and there will be a certain amount of ups and downs at that time, so why do you spend that unjust money? ”
"I don't care if he increases the price or lowers the price, let's have a drink first. Okay, I know you mean well. So, you go and buy me a little less. Just beat three taels of wine. That's good now, because it fluctuates, and you can buy a few taels. I'll stay up a little longer, drink one or two a day, and I guess the mission will arrive. Okay, don't be stunned. Go buy me wine. Seeing that Tuha could not be reluctant, Tuha's minions also took the order and left.
However, while walking this minion, he lamented in his heart: "Lords of the mission, you can come quickly, this is walking to the streets, and people say that you want to negotiate peace." But I didn't go to the end of the street and said that you were going to turn your face, which one is true?! Of course, it is a trivial matter whether you negotiate peace or turn your face, but when I hear that you are going to turn your face, prices will triple and rise, which is a big deal. My master is still good for wine, if you come next year, it is estimated that the master will kill me to make wine.! ”
Thinking about it, whether to buy wine or buy wine, so the minion shook his head and began to look for the little scalper.
In fact, now the whole Shenyang is panicked, not to mention the ordinary market people, dignitaries and those big and small scalpers are not frightened? The vagaries of news, the turmoil of people's hearts, the gossip of people with hearts, and the passive panic of people without people's hearts have plunged the whole city into a hell without fire. Everyone is extremely tormented in their hearts, but every time there is good news for peace, it is the scalpers who are suffering, and every time there is bad news, it is the people and Tuha who are in torment.
Isn't Huang Taiji's heart abnormally tormented? Although it is said that the eldest son of Li Huayu has sent the official documents, and the Long March of 10,000 miles can be regarded as a breakthrough in the Jinsha River, but the pigs know how many people are unwilling now, how many people are planning a conspiracy, although Huang Taiji did not install a bug or monitor in Prince Rui's mansion, but it seems that he can clearly see the Dolgon brothers whispering in the secret room and dispatching troops.
"No, I have to do something." Thinking of this, Huang Taiji called his henchmen, perhaps because he was in a hurry, he issued an edict and asked Sonny to come over to see him immediately. As a result, when the guard passed the decree, he also told the truth, it didn't matter now, Sony didn't even have time to change his clothes, and ran into the palace directly in civilian clothes and barefoot.
And when he entered the gate of Huang Taiji's dormitory, he deliberately pretended not to see the road clearly, and rolled in with a bone. Seeing such an embarrassed Sonny Huang Taiji couldn't help but be stunned, and after asking the reason, Huang Taiji nodded with satisfaction and said: "You slave, but obedient, okay, I can't let you freeze, come here, take my clothes and give them to Master Soniso!" ”
The emperor was so honored, which naturally moved Sony a lot, and put on Huang Taiji's clothes, and Sony hurriedly thanked him for his gratitude. After the scene, Huang Taiji was not polite, and said straight to the point: "You slave heard that he has made a fortune recently, the gold and silver in the family are like mountains, and the rice and grain are like the sea. In the future, if I don't have anything to eat, I'll go to your house to eat. ”
These words frightened Sonny and hurriedly kowtowed to apologize, Huang Taiji smiled and helped Sonny up and said, "What are you doing here, I'm just joking, you and I don't separate each other." Thou hast done my will, and thy money and bread are in thy house as in my treasury. How could I blame you. But you should know that no one will come to take the gold, silver, rice, and grain, because they are all looking forward to the rise, and only when the price rises, they can only afford to borrow your Hades debt and buy treetops. But in that case, the gold, silver, and rice will be gone. You're a good slave to me, and you can't bear to see my money lost. ”
Sonny snot and tears spread all over his face: "The emperor's kindness, although the slave is difficult to repay if he dies, even if the slave fights for his life, he will not let the emperor's money and food lose a cent." Huang Taiji sighed when he heard this: "Alas. Of course, you can trust it, but whether you can keep this money and food is not up to you and me. ”
Sony hurriedly asked what it was, and Huang Taiji smiled and said, "You slave is usually extremely smart, why bother to play dumb riddles with me, this is the key to success or failure." It depends on whether the mission can reach Shengjing smoothly. When it arrives, the price of Shengjing will be able to return to Wanli Year overnight, and if it fails, it may rise tenfold. ”
Speaking of which, if Sony doesn't know what to do, it's not as good as a pig, and he doesn't deserve to be the elder of the three dynasties in history. So he said: "The emperor has orders, and the servants will fight to the death." Huang Taiji waved his hand and said, "Which one wants you to fight to the death?" I only have one small thing, there is not enough food in the palace recently. Even the Kabush Xianchao soldiers and those guards under my direct command have not had a good meal for a long time, so let them stay at your house for a few days, and you will have to entertain them well. In addition, the autumn hunt is also coming, you and they are preparing to prepare, I heard that there are more rare birds and beasts in southern Liaoning recently than before, you are a good slave of me, how can you not give me a little hunting back. ”
Sony, what kind of brain. immediately understood what Huang Taiji was referring to, so. He was immediately ordered to go back and prepare. After sending Sonny away, Huang Taiji felt that his heart seemed to be much more stable, but when he turned his head, he felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, so he called the guards with him and said, "Go, find Prince Su." ”
But. The guards went and returned, bringing back a news that made Huang Taiji angry.
"Prince Su's master and Prince Yu took the servants in the palace to hunt in the Jinzhou area!"
This bastard son! This is clearly that the Dolgon brothers dug a pit for him, and on the occasion of the hunting, they secretly poisoned the Nanyue Military Council and the Mission, and then threw the black cauldron on Haoge's head! Huang Taiji cursed in his heart. I only felt that the temples on both sides were jumping and jumping, my head couldn't stop hurting, and I felt dizzy in front of my eyes.
However, according to what he knows about his son, he is afraid that this brave and unscrupulous fool will not wait for others to do it, just a few words from others, and he will be busy attacking the envoy of the Nanyue Army, and he is typically sold by others and carries the money to the family for others!
"Quick! Send a message to Sonny and ask him to take someone to Golden State to greet the mission! If anyone dares to make a mistake on the road, they will be killed! ”
Sure enough, it was the son of Mo Ruo's father. Not long after Sonny ran away with 1,000 Kabush Xianchao soldiers and dozens of guards to meet his eldest son in Golden State, he crashed head-on into the hunting grounds of the two Manchurian flag lords, the white flag and the blue flag.
"The ancestors of the Great Qing Dynasty bless! Immortal Heavenly Buddha Kulun bless! Sonny secretly screamed in his heart that he was lucky, fortunately he was picked up by himself before the mission met these two two-pole princes, otherwise, I really don't know what kind of basket Hauge will poke out!
Seeing that there were Kabush soldiers and guards, and there was Sonny in command, Hauge knew that he wanted to attack the Southern Barbarian Mission, and put an end to the traitorous ministers in the DPRK and China's attempt to trick his father into groveling and humiliating surrender to the Southern Barbarians, and he was afraid that it would come to naught.
Even if he had great courage, he did not dare to do anything to the Kabush soldiers and guards. It's one thing to be able to fight, as long as you make a move, it is undoubtedly to provoke Huang Taiji's authority! I'm afraid that at that time, even if Huang Taiji wants to shelter him, he won't be able to open his mouth.
Among the two white flags, the two red flags and the rest of the flags, those who were offended by him and bullied by him will rise up and attack them and force Huang Taiji to deal with him according to the law!
However, since Haoge can become the Prince Su of the Manchurian Banner of the Zhenglan Banner, he still has some brains and the ability to improvise. When he saw the smiling Sonny saluting in front of his horse, telling him and Duoduo how to greet the mission at the emperor's behest, and at the same time ordering the state and county garrisons along the way to strictly protect the good students, he immediately changed his tune.
"Since your father sent you. Then the king will not hunt. The minions with this banner escorted the distinguished guests of the peace mission back to Shengjing to meet their father! He consciously turned the negotiation of peace into a request for peace, so that he could be a little more comfortable psychologically.
"Uncle Fifteen, you see, this hunt has to be rescheduled."
"It's okay! Send the mission to Shengjing, and we might as well come out to hunt again! Duoduo also took a sharp turn and changed his constitution.
The two executioners, who planned to intercept and kill the mission on the way, immediately became the flower messengers. Along the way, he respectfully escorted the delegation sent by Li Dagongzi of the Nanyue Army into Shenyang City.
In the city of Shenyang, rumors have long been flying.
"Do you know, Prince Su's master killed all the missions sent by the young marshal of the Nanyue Army! The corpse was thrown into the forest and fed to the wolves! ”
"Nonsense! Obviously thrown into the muddy river. The corpse floated down the river for dozens of miles, staining the river red! ”
All accounts are sworn and have their own witness testimony.
You said that your brother was a slave of the 37th Niu Lu Zhangjing under Prince Su, and I said that my brother-in-law had a good relationship with the fishermen on the banks of the Hunhe River, and he saw it with his own eyes.
Rumors! Naturally, the amount is increased without increasing the price, and it is becoming more and more outrageous. As the rumors grew wings throughout the city of Shenyang, they spread rapidly. Prices in the city have completely collapsed and skyrocketed.
"You damn minion! A few days ago, I asked you to go to drink, but you were reluctant to give Lao Tzu more fights, and what else did you say, after the mission entered Shengjing, the price of wine would fall. But look! Tuha waved the leather whip in his hand and slapped his head and face at the home.
Today's wine price is calculated according to the price of each dozen. In other words, every mention of wine is the price of a mention of wine!
Wine. As a non-necessities of life, the prices are so crazy, and the prices of those rice, flour, grain, oil, cloth, salt, tea and other things are naturally better, like wild horses. When the rumors spread all over Shenyang City, those poor ordinary flag men and Yu Ding sadly found that they might not be able to buy the same weight of rice when they went out with a bunch of money! This kind of scene was only seen on the streets of Shanghai in 1948.
With the collapse of copper coin prices. The scalpers on the streets have found a new way to make money, and that is to exchange copper coins and silver dollars! Because the shops are preparing to evacuate. Copper coins were too bulky to carry, so they began to refuse to use all kinds of tongbao and only accept silver dollars. These guys with a keen sense of smell set up stalls in front of the shops to exchange copper coins and silver dollars. Started this business.
A rag of indiscernible color, with a few hangings of money in a random place, behind the cloth, a scalper standing three bends and three bends of the hanger, standing there dangdang, fiddling with a few silver dollars in his hand. When he saw someone coming, he shouted and touted business.
"Exchange for silver dollars! Nanban's silver dollar, one piece for four hanging money! Only accept the treasures of the Southern Barbarians! ”
Some passers-by questioned such a price: "Several Nanban shops have hung signs, one silver dollar for two hanging treasures, how do you exchange it, four hanging money?" Lose your conscience? ”
"Old lady, when did you get the yellow calendar? The market has long passed! I'm still the price of righteousness! You go to the middle street and take a look, but it's five dollars for a silver dollar! ”
The old woman who asked the question didn't have time to scold, and she knew that she was a Yu Ding who couldn't go to the battlefield, but another scalper flew in the distance.
"Little Five! Little Five! Fast! Big brother said, price increase! A silver dollar for five hanging five! ”
"Why?"
"No reason! There are rumors on the street that Prince Li's mission was killed, and it was Prince Su's subordinates who did it, and now Prince Su's soldiers and horses have been mobilized, ready to go to Jinzhou and Gaizhou to prevent Prince Li's soldiers and horses from taking revenge! The price has to go up! ”
Before she could finish speaking, the old woman's face turned pale, and she gave the cloth bag in her hand to the silver dollar dealer, and snatched a few silver dollars from his hand. "Fifteen hanging money! Three bucks for you! My wife will suffer a little loss! ”
The price of goods in Shengjing City has more than doubled in one day! The scalpers who originally refused to go to Sony's house to complete the delivery of the new contract for the treetops for various reasons were crowded in his living room, clamoring for Sony to hand over the goods to them, and they wanted to get both money and goods.
A large number of grains, rice, oil, salt, cloth, and tea were transported out of the warehouses controlled by the Sony family by the scalpers, and quickly distributed to their little brothers according to their respective sales systems, providing ammunition for continuing to raise prices.
In Huang Taiji's dormitory, in Dolgon's study, two people who had been working hard for the price of prices in Liaodong for some time were constantly listening to reports from their subordinates. To what extent the prices have been inflated, and where the mission has been, there are people who are constantly making announcements to them.
"Master, the prices in Shengjing City have exceeded our expectations right now, shouldn't we let our minions throw out all the goods at hand?" In Dolgon's study, Cao Zhenyan and Cao Jueluo, whose eyes were almost red with bloodshots, were a little worried.
"Do you estimate how long it will take for the news of the mission to enter Shengjing to reach the city?"
"Tomorrow morning at most! Now that the city gate is closed, the city is full of rumors, and there are already rumors that the avenger of the Nanban has boarded the ship and set out for sea! ”
"Good! Tell the direct servants of the three royal mansions to throw away all the goods and contracts at hand! Let the other Five Flags pick it up! Those who dare to covet money, kill! ”
Dolgon's tone was as chilling as the wind that blew from the bitter cold of the Sauron Mountains in the far north for thirty-nine days. (To be continued.) )