Following the old man's gaze, Lin Xiao saw that someone had already bought a coffin there, and those people had helped to bury the deceased and began to set off to carry it out of the city.

Looking at the backs of those people, Lin Xiao was a little puzzled, turned his head to the old man and said:

"Senior, look at those people...... They are all young and strong, why don't they go to find some work, and would rather wait here for a bowl of porridge and soup? ”

"What kind of work is there to do these days...... Don't hide it from the son, even if there are some occasional short-term jobs, you can only get a dozen yuan a day, but now the price of rice has risen to 100 wen a catty, and you can only buy one or two meters after working hard for a day...... How can I have any strength to work the next day? …… Hey!"

"Huh?! Is it so expensive? Lin Xiao exclaimed.

When he was in Annan, Chen Yiming and Lin Xiao talked about the prices of Annan and Daming, he knew that one tael of silver was equivalent to copper coins, which amounted to one thousand Wen, and before the Wanli Dynasty, the prices of Daming were still relatively stable, and the government stipulated that one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice, that is, two hundred and forty catties, and one hundred wen could buy more than 20 catties of rice.

Since the late Wanli period, due to the slight relaxation of the sea ban, more and more silver has flowed into the Ming Dynasty from the West through the sea trade routes, and the purchasing power of silver has continued to decline, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver can only buy one stone, and one hundred Wen can also buy more than ten catties of rice, why can only one catty be bought now?

"Isn't this military disaster causing trouble? In addition, there are disasters and famines everywhere, and there are hungry people everywhere, can food not be expensive? …… Salt is more expensive! ”

"That'...... How much does it cost to buy a maid this year? ”

Lin Xiao had a dark face and asked in a deep voice, this Hu Lihuang only paid the price of three catties of rice, and he wanted to buy a woman, how dark is this?

"This ,...... In the general year, if you buy a maid, you will have to pay fifty taels to say the least...... Although this army is chaotic and human life is not valuable, how can you have to do it? How can anyone buy someone for 300 yuan. ”

Tang Ping pondered and said slowly, with a strange look in his eyes, why does this master seem to not eat fireworks in the world? Don't understand the market at all?

"Speaking of which, the surname Hu is really hateful!"

Lin Xiao said as he reached out and took out the last silver ingot, put it on the table, got up and said to Tang Ping: "Senior, Lin still has some things, you have to go first, please ask everyone to have a light meal later, and the rest of the silver ...... And he gave it to the girl. ”

He was going to go to Qu Shiyun to have a good talk, but the government couldn't do this!

At least the people have to be fed dry food, right?

……

At this moment, a group of people rushed in the distance, clamoring to take people, Lin Xiao just stood up, and one of the people in the middle pointed at him from a distance and shouted: "It's him!" That's the kid! Don't let him run! ”

Lin Xiao turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that the person who came was more than a dozen officials, all carrying waist knives, looking like they were catching fast, and the one in the middle had a blue nose and swollen face, and was being held by two people and was shouting, who else could it be if it wasn't Hu Lihuang?

"Sure enough, it's endless!" Lin Xiao's eyes froze, and he hated in his heart.

"Who are you, and why are you disturbing the order of the Good Shed here?"

The leader stretched out his hand and pointed at Lin Xiao and shouted, this person had a feather stuck in his hat, and he seemed to have a head.

"Dare to ask where you are disturbing the order?" Lin Xiao's face sank like water, and he said coldly.

"What is your intention to flout the royal law in front of so many hungry people, and to beat the government for no reason?"

"That's right! It's this kid who beat me! Hey~Yo! …… Wei Dutou, still don't take him down? ”

Hu Lihuang, supported by two subordinates, covered his mouth, glared at Lin Xiao viciously, and as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, the mouth that had lost two front teeth was like a black hole, and there was wind leaking when he spoke.

"As for a bully like you, I'm too light!"

Lin Xiao squinted his eyes and said sharply, "The imperial court has transported tens of thousands of stone of grain, enough for fifty or sixty thousand hungry people to eat for half a month, how do you provide disaster relief?" ”

"Yo he! The kid is quite sideways! Do you dare to be so crazy when you see tolerance? Military affairs are also something that people like you dare to talk about? ”

Dutou Wei Tonghui heard this, and the yin and yang were weird.

"Don't you ask, 'Why did I beat him?'

Lin Xiao was furious, and his voice became colder and colder, "This fang can't do a good job, do some things that take advantage of people's danger, and still beat people at every turn, shouldn't he teach a lesson?" ”

"Okay, should we go to the court for questioning! Take! ”

"What if I don't go? What are you going to do? ”

Lin Xiao saw that this person was going to take people indiscriminately, and it was clearly Hu Lihuang's gang, his anger became more and more angry, and his cold gaze pierced Wei Tonghui's eyes like an arrow.

"It's up to you! …… I'll tell you, if you go to the court, it's still light to treat you as a disturber, I think you look like a Tartar spy! ”

Wei Tonghui saw that Lin Xiao was stinky and hard, he was furious, and shouted, "Brothers, take it!" ”

Damn! You wild man really don't treat Lao Tzu as a cadre!

"No!"

Lang took out his waist knife and surrounded Lin Xiao, looking at the posture, it was no better than Hu Lihuang's subordinates just now, and his gestures were a little professional.

"That's right! This thief is a spy...... Brothers, take down this thief and take him to the palace for torture! I have a lot of rewards, sir! ”

Hu Lihuang danced with his hands, and his voice became more and more high-pitched and shrill and thin. "If this thief resists, kill me on the spot...... Everything is under my lord's responsibility! ”

"Brothers, do you hear that? No mercy! ”

Wei Tonghui got Hu Lihuang's promise, his expression perked up, and he shouted.

"Who dares to touch me!"

Lin Xiao stood with his hands down, his face was pale, his heart suddenly became murderous, and his voice was so cold that it seemed to come from hell.

This kind of tolerance of careless human life is not necessary, can the small people have a good life under their rule?

The crowd saw that Lin Xiao was surrounded in the middle single-handedly, but he did not panic, especially when he saw that his eyes showed a cold light, faintly revealing a sinister aura, he was timid in his heart, and he raised his waist knife to make a gesture but did not dare to step forward.

"Dodge, who dared to resist arrest and have such a big breath?"

A cold voice suddenly sounded.

Lin Xiao turned around when he heard the sound, and at some point there was a team of brocade guards behind him, leading the team with a shoehorn face, wearing a green brocade suit, wearing a black domed small black yarn, wearing a slender embroidered spring knife around his waist, and a pair of slender eyes were staring at him with cold eyes.

There are about a dozen of these people, they are indeed Jinyi Guards, and the person who led the team is named Jiang Hao, a small banner, why they happened to be here is unknown.

The Jinyi Wei of the Ming Dynasty began in the Hongwu period, when Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, strengthened the centralized rule, especially to guard against the dissenting intentions of the ministers, he was specially ordered to take charge of the prison, giving the right to patrol and arrest, and its organization was called the Jinyi Wei Command Division, which consisted of two towns and souths.

Among them, Beizhen Fusi is notorious for being in charge of the Imperial Prison, mainly engaged in reconnaissance, arrest, interrogation and other activities, and is a special agency that serves as the emperor's guard and engages in white terrorist activities.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the highest commander of the Jinyi Guard is the Governor of Zuodu, with a commander and two Zhenfu Divisions, and the Zhenfu Division has jurisdiction over the Fourteen Guards, and its commanders are thousands of households, hundreds of households, general flags, and small banners, and ordinary sergeants are called captains and wrestlers, and each small flag has about ten people.

At present, in the middle of the court, due to the vacancy of the left governor, the actual leader before was the commander Ma Jixiang, and now Ma Jixiang has been taken, and its highest commander is the governor who has just returned to the court, Li Yuanyin, a few days ago, Li Yuanyin locked them in the camp and reorganized them, and now he has resumed his patrol duty in the capital, but the palace ban and the city gate guards have been replaced with their own lineage forbidden army.