Even after a few days of extortion, the extorted capital continued to be urgently transferred into Beijing, and commerce also came to a complete standstill, not only in a depression.

The extremely lively and busy department store transactions in the east and west cities are gone.

The buyers, sellers, and tourists who once rubbed shoulders disappeared, and the south-to-north tones that filled the market and the strange and funny Chinese cries of exotic people all disappeared completely, and the huge market disappeared, only the thick snow that was not swept by the streets silently endured the howling cold wind, and it seemed that this place was becoming more and more empty and dead, leaving only a humble but able to play the market management, enjoy the market's fat oil and water, and the majestic and proud can't do it, and all of them were full of brains and fat The official market manager wore a thin and shabby winter coat and shrunk in the management office to roast the fire. With a black face, he took hot water and nibbled on the cakes he brought from home for lunch on duty......

The corn cake is not only rough and hard bran so much that I am afraid that it accounts for seventy percent, and it has nothing to do with the fine flour at all, it is too unpalatable, and it is mixed with sand, even if the sand is removed as much as possible when making it at home, there is still too much fine sand that cannot be removed in the noodles, so the cake made is more and more dry and hard and unpalatable.

But for them, this food is already a shortage of money and cannot be eaten to their heart's content, and it is already a rare free food that they can get at the moment, which is beneficial to them wearing this official skin, how can they be official officials of the state, and they are taken care of by the imperial court's policy of being fed.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to get this kind of food in vain, and if you want to survive, you can only live with the former subordinates who are not in the establishment and have no money to take care of them, like the servants of the temporary workers in later generations, but they have to shiver in the bitter cold wind to demolish the house and exchange the menial toil for some food.

Therefore, these small officials and officials in the market are disgusted but gnaw the cake very slowly and carefully, and after gnawing it, they continue to taste the residual taste of the food, and they are not full, and there is reluctance and dissatisfaction in their eyes, as if this kind of food that the livestock did not eat in the past is the most rare delicacy in the world......

Obviously, the market has fallen, and there is nothing to do here, and there is no need to go to work at all, but these officials who manage the market do not dare to stay at home comfortably, for fear that the imperial court, which is in financial difficulties, will not give them a stipend to make ends meet, and even more afraid that the imperial court will have an excuse to simply abolish the market management department, resulting in the loss of their status as officials who have finally come to the camp......

These people are all another kind of scoundrels and villains who have a little way to put on the official skin,

In the past, all of them were proud of playing with small power, and they were used to being tricky and fierce and extorting businessmen, and they were not satisfied with the filial piety that they took the initiative to send to the door, and their nostrils were facing the sky, and they were smiling and smiling, and they were picky and difficult to give gifts. Even the normal society in the past before the national disaster was afraid that it would have starved to death, and now it suddenly fell into this situation, it is simply a sudden fall from heaven to hell, and the body has to succumb to cold and hunger in the face of the cruel reality of abnormal material shortage, but the heart of the grassroots master who is accustomed to enjoying the management of business is undoubtedly difficult to accept this huge gap, and it is inevitable to harbor countless horrors, resentments, family wealth and wine and other hatred that have been deprived of everything.......

Idle and bored, and without the presence of outsiders, they were all like-hearted peers, and after they had eaten the bread, they would start to curse the pirates viciously, and also slander and curse the court...... What kind of trick is this?

Wages have been cut to a pitiful amount, not to mention, is this the food that people eat?

This is the court's treatment of officials?

The cornmeal they received had too much bran, which was completely the standard for feeding the livestock, and they highly suspected that the sand was also deliberate, and it must have been done by the household officials in charge of money and grain, which was shoddy and corrupted....... It's so hateful.

The imperial court was short of money and food, so it was natural to have to eat rice powder from the families of high-ranking officials and nobles and the army, and lose the irrelevant officials below, but it was indeed the people who took the opportunity to make a big profit and make a fortune for the country. The grassroots officials in Beijing, like these market managers, did not suspect or scold wrong, but they were just as resentful as the people who were victimized by the government in the past, but they helplessly secretly resented a few words, and the reality could not change anything.

I cursed like a routine every day, but there was no pleasure, and then I was bored and uncomfortable, and I sighed with a sad face, and finally stayed up until I got home from work, but then I was uncomfortable with my family, and then I was afraid that the court would suddenly dismiss me and cut off my life......

This phenomenon in the eastern and western cities, Zhao Yue, who is in the northern city, cannot see it at this time, and when he sees it, he will only say indifferently at most, "You deserve it." ”

What he could see was:

In the past, the small merchants, shops, street vendors, etc. that could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of Jingshi disappeared; In the past, many high-end buildings and halls with prosperous business were locked one by one, and in the cold wind, there was silence inside.

In the past, the secret prostitution gambling halls and other half-closed doors that were also thriving, although they have not completely disappeared, they have almost disappeared.

Jingshi, after all, including ordinary officials, eating has become a problem that will tighten at any time like a rope, how can there be spare money and leisure to gamble and prostitution.

On the other hand, the number of women in Gyeonggi has plummeted.

Some of them are old, and normal women who are not beautiful but young are rare. Moreover, the delicate and tender women were all old women who were fortunate to exist in bureaucrats or wealthy families of the former powerful gentry, but they were all deliberately extorted because the pirates disliked them for being old and cunning and vicious and unable to work. Women, in a way, have become the most scarce commodity in the Gyeonggi region. What's worse is that counting the hundreds of thousands of old Hu women such as Liaoxia Tubo and other Liaoxia Tubo that Zhao Yue deliberately abandoned to the Great Song Dynasty at that time, there are not many women in the entire Great Song Dynasty now. At present, the most down-and-out Jingshi people want to prostitute themselves, and how can they enjoy their beauty.

The Jingshi people, who have enjoyed too many benefits and conveniences at the feet of the Son of Heaven, were once extremely proud and erosive, but now they have fallen into the most yin and yang imbalance in an unprecedented way.

Just walking in Beicheng, Zhao Yue also keenly felt that the smell of strong male hormones filled all over the capital.

Among them, the most uncomfortable thing is that in the national disaster, there is no need to worry about eating, there is no need to work for life, and there is time and leisure and excess energy to squander the son's Yanei.

Accustomed to the beauty of the clouds and indulging in wine, but now there is no wine to enjoy, how can these guys who are full of food and have nothing to do stand this, but they dare not be as arrogant and arrogant as ever in the Beijing division where there are unscrupulous people everywhere and resentment and dissatisfaction, and they are afraid to bully men and women as before........

However, no matter what time it is, there will always be individual buildings and halls that can still be open in the dead silence of entertainment, and there will always be people who have the leisure, mood and money to enjoy.

This kind of museum, this kind of person, naturally has strong power to rely on.

The more the country and the nation are in danger, the more they will show the corruption and ferocity of power and the shamelessness, domineering, indulgence, nobility and particularity of some people.

During the Anti-Japanese War of the Republic of China, the front line was tight, but the rear was corrupt and tight, Jiang someone's brother-in-law - the descendants of Confucius, the descendants of Confucius - Kong XX and his children Kong Ling X wantonly plundered the national wealth and people's property, wantonly killed people like trampling on dead ants and did not take it seriously at all, what an arrogant bastard face, is the best and most shocking proof in modern history.

The distribution of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty is expensive in the east and cheap in the west, rich in the north and poor in the south.

The east of the city is the focus of the various ministries of the imperial court and the dignitaries. The north of the city is a place where the rich are focused, and there are many powerful old eunuchs and big families.

On the main street in the north of the city where Zhao Yue walked, there was a luxury restaurant that could still stand out from the crowd and generally operate as usual.

As for the Song Dynasty, there are almost no poultry and livestock to eat meat today, and there are no wild animals and freshwater fish to eat.

The Gyeonggi region is populated, and although there are still primeval forests and mountains such as wild boar forests, there are not many wild game delicacies, and fish and shrimp in the rivers are overfished and scarce.

Nowadays, the meat that can be eaten in Beijing, whether it is mountain delicacies or river fresh, must be enjoyed by the palace and the powerful, and it is not allowed to be sold casually. Of course, even if the hunter fisherman can sell it all over the city, it is surprisingly expensive, even if the bureaucrats can't afford it, the scarce thing is expensive, the river fresh, which was nothing in the past, is now more expensive than gold, and it is less and more rare than gold, and if you want to eat it, unless you use power to buy and seize it, but there are bigger and more powerful power forces staring at it, and ordinary people have the right to play it in vain......

At this time, officials with serious power in the capital did not have the heart to eat, drink and have fun in the restaurant, and they were not busy with official business, but they also had to worry about how to gain a foothold in the officialdom to protect their lives and positions or drill camps to take up positions in the increasingly sinister and unpredictable turmoil of the court situation. Ordinary officials have no conditions, and they don't dare to go to the restaurant at this time, lest they accidentally become the first bird to be beaten.

The country is so difficult, the court is in crisis, as an official, you don't worry about state affairs, you still have leisure and pleasure, where is your loyalty and patriotism?

This kind of questioning reputation cannot be put into the hands of people.

And the rich businessmen and big people in the capital are all gone.

Therefore, at this time, the guests who can enjoy themselves in this restaurant are all idle sons who have considerable power and strength in the family.

Today's leader is the son of a noble general of the forbidden army, surnamed Cao, called Cao Teng, who was originally the founder of the Northern Song Dynasty, but after the Cao family, he was already a side branch.

It's just that the development direction that the Cao family has been striving to pursue in the past dynasties: abandon the military and follow the literature, and want to obtain a better and more decent breakthrough in the Great Song Dynasty, which emphasizes literature and light martial arts, and seeks to establish a wealth and wealth with literature for a longer period of time, and the children have a more relaxed future.

And Cao Teng's father grew up without studying and had to make money and food from the martial arts career, but he was still capable, and this side branch in the declining Cao family became important, and the Cao family tilted family resources to help him rise to a higher position in the forbidden army and gain more power. Cao Teng, the eldest son of the side branch, can naturally follow his father to be proud, but he is not like his father who sleeps when he reads, he is smart and can read, he loves to make friends with readers, he seems to be a talent, and he looks good, and the reading future that the Cao family has not obtained for several generations seems to be expected to achieve a breakthrough in Cao Teng.......

Well, that's a spoiled.

He has the ferocity and cruelty of the Jiangmen Wufu family, as well as the shortcomings of Confucian scholars.

On the surface, he is a scholar who is elegant and moderate, but he is actually conceited and talented, his eyes are above the top, and he loves to be in the limelight and enjoys being touted the arrogant, murderous, and willful guy.

There were seventeen or eighteen people who ate, drank and had fun here, all of them were decent scholars who had a certain amount of power in the north of the city and relied on leisure and money to come out in a chic manner, but they were divided into two groups. Cao Teng's side is not superior in numbers.

Where there are people, there is strife.

What's more, another group of scholars who were born in the family of civil officials in the Yanai didn't look down on Cao Teng, who was born in Jiangmen, and didn't recognize Cao Teng's conceited talent.

In the hearts of these people, Cao Teng? What kind of scholar is it, but he is a rare guy who can read some books among the Cao family, but he is just an outstanding scholar in the eyes of the declining Cao family, a crippled general, a big one in the file, and a scholar who dares to boast of being a talented scholar with high intelligence? It's still far from the true talent, temperament, and cultivation of a true scholar, so it's better to honestly make food in the circle of martial artists and reckless people in the family, and don't claim to be a saint disciple and lose the face of a serious scholar under the saint's door......

Among the five people around Cao Teng, there are also decent people from serious reading families, and there is a Liu Gongzi whose father is a contemporary Confucian, and he is willing to tout that following Cao Teng is a childhood friendship, smells like, and the current national crisis has become unprecedentedly popular, and the family needs to be more armed to protect itself.

Cao Teng, the heart is very high, and now it is the time when the Jingshi will be proud, and the friends are constantly touted as arrogant during the banquet, and the pirates blackmail after the disaster, the Jingshi is extremely short of wine, he is rich and noble and has not had the opportunity to drink for a long time, and finally saved enough money today and the friends to raise money together to come to the restaurant to squander and eat and drink, under the painful drink, the result is too much, is feeling the lack of wine and meat to eat and drink wantonly, hated the restaurant has fish and meat dishes are expensive to death, next time I come to eat and drink I don't know how long to wait, There is no beauty who has long been accustomed to serving her, these days there is nowhere to vent her lust, she is really suffocated, the spirit of the insect and the nameless evil fire are on the brain together, and he is delirious, and then he is ridiculed and provoked by another group of scholars who do not deal with him, and he is so angry that he shows his true nature, and scolds these people's civil officials and fathers are all waste, and he has the face to despise Jiangmen and Jiangmen who was born in this study.......

The most common scholars in this era waved their sleeves and spat and quarreled and disagreed, and unconsciously brought about the matter of Zhao Yue's entry into Beijing that they had just learned, and the topic changed, blaming Zhao Gonglian for the decay and collapse of the Song Dynasty as a hypocritical national thief, and relying on the Cangzhao family for all the unsatisfactory and unfortunate Jingshi they have suffered now.

"The state affairs are so difficult, it is all Zhao Gonglian, the thief, and his family who have been selling their reputation for more than ten years, deceiving the monarch, disrupting the dynasty, and destroying the order of social livelihood. This dog thief is the first evil of the great traitor and traitor in the ages, making wind and rain in Cangbei, belonging to Sima Zhao's heart, passers-by know that Cangzhao is undoubtedly trying to support the army and take advantage of the country's weakness to rebel and seize the throne......"

Liu Gongzi, the son of Confucianism, couldn't look down on Cangzhao, a grassroots mud-legged Shilin rich and noble, and he was proud of the wine, blushing in excitement, standing up, waving his sleeves, and making a generous statement.

His behavior is to express his own mentality to vent out, otherwise he will not be happy, and he will not show his extraordinary, and the second is to divert the firepower of Cao Teng who was attacked by the group, do his friendship, and also shoot Cao Teng's sycophants, showing his unique role, but his words also won a piece of applause from both sides.

Nowadays, Jingshi people scold Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family as a fashion trend and glory topic, which can resonate the most.

It seems that everything that is bad in the Song Dynasty today is the result of the Cangzhao family and Zhao Gonglian, and it seems that as long as the Cangzhao is eradicated, the Great Song Dynasty will be able to restore its former prosperity.

The Confucian regime and the state have a characteristic, they are the best at being corrupt and corrupt, but they can confidently blame others for all the crimes, especially the official who has the highest ability, the greatest contribution, high character, and the most prestigious among the people, and recognizes this from the emperor to the below, and does not kill or be happy.

This is an important reason why the world is forging ahead and making progress, but instead of making progress, China has become more and more ignorant and backward in the course of history, and has become the most backward and pathetic power.

If Zhao Yue heard this Liu Gongzi's high arguments, he would not open his mouth to deny that he was a traitor of the pit dynasty that had never been seen in the past.

At this point, Liu Gongzi was purely blind for alarmism, but it is not wrong.

For this shamelessness of blaming everything on Cangzhao, Zhao Yue will not be angry.

In any case, the corrupt will be punished cruelly, and it is better to be generous to those who are about to die, and not to care about their insolence for a moment, and it is not worth wasting time on them.

However, Cao Teng was more strongly stimulated in the atmosphere of slandering the Cangzhao family, and his anger further surged into the flames, and he became frivolous and cruel in his coma, and lost his mind.

So the accident came, and the first danger that Zhao Yue encountered when he entered Beijing suddenly happened.