Zhu Shun did not answer the prince's question, and continued to walk forward with him, coming to the middle of the intersection of the two alleys.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong stood in the middle and looked up at both sides.

Two alleys, the entrances are full of white lanterns.

Spread away.

There is no end in sight.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong saw that the common people were living so miserably, and he couldn't hold back anymore, tears rolled in his eyes.

These are the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The people of the capital are like this, let alone the people of other places.

I don't know what kind of miserable days I lived.

As a dignified prince of the Ming Dynasty, he actually thought that the common people were living very well, and it was really like the peaceful and prosperous era advocated by the Donglin Party, where everyone had food and clothing.

In the end, those who lack food and clothing can't survive a winter.

Zhu Shun patted the crown prince Zhu Cihong on the shoulder and motioned for him to continue walking.

After walking a few steps, I came to a shop at the intersection of Hutong's house, a shop selling firewood.

Usually, the most lively shop in all the alleys of Daming is the firewood shop.

The people who gather at the door of the firewood shop every day to buy firewood can surround this place into several layers, and this has become a place for ordinary people to brag about the sea on weekdays, while waiting to buy firewood, while boasting to each other here.

At this time, it was deserted only a young man of medium stature, speaking with a Shandong accent, who was pleading for something from the cousin who sold firewood.

The cousin was a snob, and he didn't want to deal with the young man in the patched thin clothes at all, and looked at him impatiently, he couldn't stand it anymore, and suddenly said loudly: "As long as you kneel, I will give you a piece of river firewood." ”

After the cousin said this, the other cousins in the firewood shop were all attracted and looked at the young man playfully.

This young man is well-known for his morality in the nearby alley, and he is also known for his hard bones, and it is rumored that in order to avenge his brother, he single-handedly killed a family of officials in the fish and meat township.

After staying in Qingzhou, Shandong, the family came to the capital to seek refuge with relatives and lived in the Hutong of the Nursing Home in the capital.

I don't know if the rumors are true or not, but this young man's hard-boned and righteous spirit is well-known in the alley near the nursing home.

Shandong Han is good at practicing martial arts, and this young man has also practiced a good style, and he usually stands out for the lonely widows and weak people in several alleys near the nursing home.

Several cousins of the firewood shop were taught a lesson by young people once for forcibly embezzling the silver of a childless and widowed old man.

Now it is really a happy thing to take this opportunity to see such a hard bone kneeling, or to give them a few cousins to kneel.

The young man did not hesitate, nor did he show much inner struggle, and he was about to kneel down for a few dogs.

"Xiao Yi!"

No one expected that the man of the iron tower suddenly shouted, strode over, and knocked down the young man with a punch: "Xiao Yi!" You disappointed my brother so much, I didn't expect you to degenerate like this. ”

"Isn't it just a piece of river firewood, as for kneeling down for a few villains!"

"Where's your backbone!"

Xiao Yi's handsome face hit the corner of the wall, and the corners of his mouth were broken, and blood flowed.

stood up and said very plainly: "Brother Yuanchi, my father froze to death last night." ”

Just such a simple sentence.

The man of the iron tower froze in place on the spot, stunned, and tears fell out of his eyes.

Others don't know the family situation of Xiao Yi Bangcai, but the tower man, as his sworn brother, is very clear, Yi Bangcai is not only righteous and backbone, but also a big filial son.

When Chongzhen was in the second year, he did kill the whole family of a Xu official in Qingzhou, Shandong, not to show his brother, but because the Xu official teased his mother in the market.

Yi Bangcai didn't say half a nonsense, and in the dead of night, he carried a waist knife into Xu Zhi's house and killed his whole family.

Such a dutiful son, but let his father freeze to death, how much guilt will be in his heart, others don't know that the tower man understands too well.

Seeing that Yi Bang was going to kneel down for those villains again, he only needed a piece of river firewood for his father as a funeral.

The man of the iron tower rushed over in anger, smashed his fist in the face, smashed his teeth and flew out, and lay on the ground struggling in pain like a twisted snake and worm.

The man of the iron tower punched this cousin, and the anger in his heart decreased a little, but he still stared at the other cousins with red eyes: "Give Lao Tzu a burden!" ”

When the cousins saw the man of the iron tower beating people, they recognized who this irascible man was, Xiang Yuanchi, who lived in the alley of the Nursing Home, heard that he later climbed up to a noble old man and flew to the sky.

I thought I had sent this plague god away, but I didn't expect to meet him again, and the cousins were almost scared to death, and they dared to come forward to sell firewood.

The shopkeeper who has been huddled behind the counter and drinking a little wine, but he is not afraid of this Xiang Yuanchi, his cousin is a lawyer in the nearby county office.

Dare to hit him? The shopkeeper can let him eat in prison for the rest of his life.

The shopkeeper walked over with a drunken smell and said slowly: "Three coins and a load of silver, no credit." ”

Three coins of silver!

The prince Zhu Cihong, who was immersed in grief, suddenly raised his head, walked over and stared at the shopkeeper and said sharply: "What a big dog guts!" ”

"Thirty cents of silver for a load of firewood sold for three cents of silver, who made you do this?"

The shopkeeper is not afraid of the nine-foot-tall burly man who doesn't talk like a tower, but when he saw the short prince Zhu Cihong, he was not lightly frightened.

I don't know what's going on, but when the shopkeeper saw the prince Zhu Cihong coming over, he felt an indescribable momentum, and said tremblingly: "The owner let the small ones sell like this, and the small ones can only be sold at this price." ”

"Besides, it's not a small family that has increased its money, all the firewood shops in the capital are at the same price."

The crown prince Zhu Cihong heard that the price of firewood in the entire capital had increased tenfold, he was not the Emperor Jin Hui who didn't eat minced meat, and he had a lot of understanding of the bottom with his husband in the past two years.

I know the importance of firewood to the people, and I also know that every penny of silver raised is a disaster for the people.

Moreover, it was raised by twenty-seven cents of silver.

This is to force the people of the Ming Dynasty to a dead end, and force the people of the Ming Dynasty to die.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong finally understood why the eyes of the common people were hateful every time he opened the door, it was because he was wearing satin clothes, and he regarded him as a bureaucratic squire who killed his relatives.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong turned around, looked at Zhu Shun and said calmly: "Sir, I want to go to Miyun County." ”

"Carry out land reform."

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