In this era of unusually low productivity, ordinary people's homes, on weekdays, save money, eager to break a penny and spend it as a penny.

However, when visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year and visiting your father-in-law, you can't go empty-handed, right? In addition, relatives who come to the family to pay New Year's greetings can't let the family drink the northwest wind, right?

Prepare all kinds of materials for the festival in advance, and buy New Year's goods in the market, and every household is doing it.

On weekdays, I am reluctant to pay for the pork I want to eat, but I always have to cut a few taels for hospitality during the New Year, right? Also, if you are reluctant to buy tea, you always need to prepare a few taels, right?

New Year's goods must be prepared every year, but the people in Kaifeng City have discovered an extremely strange phenomenon this year. Originally, the prices of various daily necessities, especially grain, which would soar during the New Year's holidays, only increased slightly by a penny before the festival.

People live on food! Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, the seven major events of opening the door, for the people with meager incomes and always struggling on the verge of starvation, this is the top priority they are most concerned about.

In Kaifeng City in winter, the Bianhe River has long been frozen, and the grain and other materials imported into the capital from Hebei, Hedong and Jianghuai can only be transported by land.

The freezing of the river is one of the main factors for the soaring prices in Kaifeng City in winter. After all, shipping with a large carrying capacity and the least amount of manpower and material resources required is the most economical and low-cost mode of transportation.

However, this winter, the people in Kaifeng City were surprised to find that the grain shops hanging in the guise of Xiaoyaojin were open to supply grain.

As long as you can afford to buy as many buckets of rice as you want in the Xiaoyaojin Grain Shop, you can buy as many buckets of rice as you want, and there is no limit at all.

The grass people in the capital who have been shrouded in the shadow of hunger, everyone is afraid of hunger, and the news that the price of grain has barely risen, spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the grass people flocked to the front of nearly 100 Xiaoyaojin grain shops in the capital, with only one goal: to buy as much grain as possible.

"Teacher, the students have always thought it was very strange, where did you get so much food on this copper stinker?" Yang Jiong, who has been at home all the time, is full of doubts and questions.

Fan Zhen stroked his white beard and sighed: "Since Li Zhongyi entered the city, he has sent village officials and pavilions to each village and pavilion, and this pole is inserted to the bottom. ”

Yang Jiong still didn't understand, and asked: "This has a lot of food in the hands of the copper stink, and has it to do with it?" ”

"Alas, you, you, don't you hear Li Zhongyi's mantra: Down with the local tyrants and inferior gentry and divide the land?" Fan Zhen sighed secretly, his most proud protégé, Yang Jiong and Yang Boyo, compared with Li Zhongyi and Li Wuyi, are really too far behind, like a world of difference, and they can't be compared at all.

To put it in my heart, Fan Zhen has always agreed that Li Zhongyi is good at making a fortune, but Li Zhongyi is too high-spirited and has always refused to tame Fan Zhen's seat, which needs to be deliberately carved.

It's just that the facts of the world are unpredictable. Fan Zhen never dreamed that the more than 200,000 elite imperial forbidden troops led by Han Tong would not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Li family's army for more than an hour, and they collapsed in the blink of an eye, and the country changed hands from then on.

In the past, he was the prime minister of the political hall who monopolized the power of the imperial court, but now he has become a companion who raises flowers and grass, fishes and plays with birds all day long.

Fan Zhen lost momentum, and even Yang Jiong, who originally held the practical power in the political hall, also stepped aside. In just a few months, the successes and failures have changed, and the situation has also changed dramatically, which is really embarrassing and emotional.

"Boyo, there are a lot of big farmers in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, but there are a lot less." Although Fan Zhen was very dissatisfied with Li Zhongyi's practice of copying his house, he had to admire Li Zhongyi's amazing courage in daring to take a big and wealthy family.

When an official can't offend the powerful and powerful, he can't punish the doctor, and the prince can't be guilty of the same crime as the common people, this is the unspoken rule of the power circle that has been passed for thousands of years.

However, after Li Zhongyi came to power, the first knife was slashed at the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the fish and meat towns on weekdays. According to incomplete statistics, the money obtained from raiding homes alone is enough to cover three years of income for officials across the country.

As for the food obtained from the raid, even if it is described as a mountain, it is just a leopard in the tube.

If it was just to clean up the local tyrants and inferior gentry in the countryside, Fan Zhen would never have admired Li Zhongyi's courage. What's even more terrifying is that Li Zhongyi actually dared to take the Taoist temples and temples near Kaifeng City.

Since the beginning of Taizu, this dynasty has always worshiped Taoism, and it has developed to this day, and has gone through three generations of monarchs. According to what Fan Zhen knows, within a radius of 200 miles from Kaifeng City alone, there are nearly 1,000 Taoist temples of all sizes and hundreds of temples.

The fields under the name of the Taoist temple, as well as the grain reserves accumulated over the years, Fan Zhi vaguely knew it for a long time, but he was afraid that it was more than several times more abundant than the granary of the imperial court's treasury.

As a result, Li Zhongyi did not care about the strong backlash of the Buddhist and Taoist believers, and brazenly sent troops to confiscate the fields and grain of more than 2,000 Taoist temples and temples.

That's it, Li Zhongyi also granted Li Yunxiao, the governor of the Nine Gates, and drove tens of thousands of Taoist priests and monks who were not engaged in production out of the mountain gate and forced them to return to the world.

The so-called inappropriate home, I don't know the difficulties. As a former prime minister who was short of money to spend every day, he once dominated the world's major policies, and aside from his political position, he agreed with Li Zhongyi's various measures to drive the Buddha from the bottom of his heart.

The reason is actually very simple, the temples of Buddhism and the temples of Taoism have always been privileged classes who do not need to pay taxes and food.

Because of this, many wealthy families have placed their fields in the name of the temple, in order to escape the affairs of the imperial court.

At that time, as a prime minister, every day when he opened his eyes, he had to consider the next month's salary, the garrison's rations, and the rewards of the courtiers.

However, Taoist temples and temples are not engaged in production, and for every one more share of their land, the imperial court will receive two less of their income.

Fan Zhen is a member of the traditional scholar class, and his inherent educational experience and the reality of protecting the interests of scholars and doctors have determined his ruling concept: the imperial power can only share the world with scholars, and the scholar class is naturally superior!

However, Li Zhongyi was born in a family of middle- and lower-class bureaucrats, and in his dictionary, there were no rules and regulations for any class to be superior to others.

Therefore, in the face of Shilin's scolding, ignoring the strong backlash of people from the two worlds of Taoism and Buddhism, Li Zhongyi unscrupulously confiscated the fields of Taoist temples and temples.

Of course, in the process of confiscation, although the interests of some places were damaged, ordinary grass people were instigated, and even dozens of lives were killed.

However, Li Zhongyi's attitude was unusually resolute, not only sending troops to suppress it forcefully, but also raiding the home of the instigator.

Anyway, Li Zhongyi's courage to dare to do big things has to be admired by Fan Qian!

PS: The New Year is constantly changing, and I need the encouragement of the monthly pass, thank you!