It was one of his distant nephews, Xiucai, named Liu Yonglong, who wrote to Liu Kongzhao to complain, originally from Chuzhou, Zhejiang, and sent his home to Jinling. Before the "Eunuch Rebellion" in Nanjing, relying on the military land handed down by his ancestors to collect rent, the whole family had no worries about food and clothing, and Liu Yonglong could still have a few spare money to spend on the Qinhuai River.

But after the "Eunuch Rebellion", Liu Yonglong's home took a sharp turn. First of all, all the military fields handed down by the ancestors were copied by King Ji Yan (Ji Kun), and half an acre was not left. Then Liu Yonglong's talent and fame depreciated, and several businessmen who originally sheltered the Liu family turned their faces and no longer paid money to the Liu family!

Because now there is no such thing as exempting gentry officials from commercial taxes...... Even Liu Bowen's signboard is not good!

Many of the tax collectors who collect money from tax cards in various places are prefixed! The authentic Zhu Yuanzhang's species, who dares to compare their ancestors with them? No one dares to beat them, they all have murderous guys in their hands, and they really dare to call to death, but those who make trouble don't dare to kill them - killing Zongzi is a rebellion! The one who wants to destroy the door......

Without the two major incomes of military land and sheltered merchants, it is not the worst, the worst thing is that the old foundation of Liu Yonglong's family has also been exhausted because of the exile of his father-in-law's family to Taiwan (currently still in Gulangyu).

Liu Yonglong is a descendant of the sincere Bo family, and of course he has to marry a wife, and he married a woman from the Wei State Mansion who was a family friend. My father-in-law's family has suffered and is going to the island of miasma in Taiwan, can he not help him? Besides, at that time, Liu Yonglong didn't know that Prince Zhu's determination to investigate the military tun Guantian was so great and his methods were so ruthless that he didn't even give face to his distant uncle Liu Kongzhao!

And the house leak is usually put together with the overnight rain, and Liu Yonglong's house is no exception! At the same time as the land is lost and the family is depleted, the problem of debt follows.

The Liu family's debt problem was caused by the return of military fields. Because in these years, tenants have to pay a deposit for renting land, and when they quit the land, they have to return the deposit. After the Liu family lost their land, the lease relationship with the tenant naturally did not exist, and the tenant could of course ask for a return of the tenant......

If Jinling Xungui was in power, Liu Yonglong could have relied on the deposit of the tenants. If the yamen in the southeast is still "kneeling and begging for food" in front of the gentry and Haoqiang as in the past, even if he is not a descendant of Liu Bowen, with the power of his family and his fame, he is not afraid of a few hillbillies.

But the problem is that the power of the noble Jinling has fallen! Although Liu Kongzhao is still on the stage, he is a nobleman in the south, not a nobleman in the north, and he is alone in today's political arena, he has to be an official with his tail between his legs, where can he dare to protect a distant nephew?

And the government in the southeast has also straightened its waist to do things - after the military field is recovered, 20% of it is the officials' professional land! How much of a stake does that have to be? How can an inferior gentleman like Liu Yonglong be allowed to rely on the deposit of the tenant? And the magistrate still has two knives behind his back, "last elimination" and "left class supervision of the imperial history", can he work hard?

So Liu Yonglong had no choice but to sell the house in Jinling to pay off the debt, and after paying it off, there was still a little left, which was used to rent a house and meet daily expenses. And he himself studied hard, hoping to win a move, and then become an official.

But I didn't expect the prices in Jinling City to become more and more expensive day by day, especially the price of rice has risen since the winter of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, and it is almost breaking the sky when it rises to the midsummer of the nineteenth year. A bucket of rice has passed five dollars of silver, the price of rice is a foundation, and when the price of rice rises, it is the rise of all things!

How does this call Liu Yonglong live? He is not alone, he has five mothers above him, four wives in the middle, seven children waiting to be fed below, and five old servants who have followed the Liu family for a lifetime.

There are twenty-two mouths to eat inside and out, and the appetite is good, the family can't stand a bucket of rice a day, plus the odd expenses of vegetables, oil, firewood, salt, sauce, vinegar, cloth, plus the cost of seven children going to school, plus the rising rent, Liu Yonglong's family's daily expenses are almost unbearable! He is also an unemployed talent with no income, and he has no income and no income, and his life really can't go on, so he has to ask his distant uncle Liu Kongzhao for help.

But Liu Kongzhao has too many poor relatives, how much can he help? He just gave twenty taels of silver and a letter of recommendation, and asked him to go to Dengzhou, Shandong Province to defect to Shen Tingyang, the minister of Beiyang......

Now Liu Kongzhao's letter and silver have not been delivered, and Liu Yonglong had to be a few clothes to wear out to meet guests, and exchanged some silver to buy a cart of brown rice (he has a lot of family, and a cart of rice can't be eaten for long), and there is no livestock to pull the cart, so he pulls the cart himself, and his mother-in-law, the daughter of the Xu command envoy, pushes it behind.

As soon as the couple pushed a cart of brown rice out of the back door of a rice shop and turned to the alley where the rice shop was facing each other, they found that the alley was crowded with people, all of whom were ragged and vegetable-faced, and some of them were dragging their wives and children.

These people do not seem to be indigenous to Jinling, but speak with an accent somewhere in the north, apparently refugees from the north who are wandering in the southeast.

By the time Mr. and Mrs. Liu Yonglong pushed a cart of rice to pass through the alley, the refugees had already begun to clamour.

"It's up again......"

"Fuck, don't let people live?"

"A bucket of rice is five dollars and five cents!"

"Last month, it was still four dollars!"

"What the fuck is this?"

"How much does that kid pay for being a soldier for the prince? Now I can't afford to eat even five buckets of rice at home......"

"Damn, I'll grab it if I'm in a hurry!"

"That's right! If you don't have to eat, grab it! ”

"Grab the ......"

"yes, fuck it!"

It turned out that today was the day when the new army was paid and the military department distributed relief to the refugees in Beifu. Not every family in the New Army has been granted land, many of them do not have enough credit, and some are sailors, who have no land to collect rent, and they have to spend money to buy rice and grain for their families. If the family members of these new officers and soldiers live in Nanjing, the military salary is generally paid directly to the family, and the family members will buy rice after taking it.

In addition, there are many refugees from Beifu on the Nanjing side, whose official title is "Yimin", who are unwilling to be enslaved by the Eastern Captives and Liukou and follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to move south. Their household registration is registered and managed by the Ministry of War, and they can be given priority to join the army, and if they have difficulties in life, they can also receive relief rice from the Ministry of War. However, since last month, because the military department has run out of surplus food, it has changed to handing out money and letting them buy rice for themselves.

The rising price of rice in Nanjing has put great pressure on the lives of these two types of people.

The alley where Liu Yonglong buys rice is close to the Longjiangkou wharf, so there are many rice shops, which is a distribution market, and it is cheaper to buy rice from here. It is only necessary to pay a "gate tax" when entering the inner city, but most of the families and righteous people of the Beifu army live in the east of the outer city, and they can make a detour from the outer city and do not have to pay this tax.

So the families of the soldiers and refugees who were greedy for cheap came here to buy rice, but today they found that the rice here is not cheap either...... The money they have in hand is no longer enough to buy a month's food for the family!

These military refugees are no better than Liu Yonglong, they all ran to the southeast empty-handed, and there is nothing to pawn and sell. If you don't have money to buy rice, you have to starve, and if you don't want to starve, you can only rob it.

Anyway, these people have nothing, and they have nothing to fear...... Now the new army stationed in Nanjing is still their children! Wu Bingbu doesn't call the shots for them, but can they still call the shots for the profiteers who raise the price of rice?

Therefore, as soon as someone shouted to rob, the whole alley was in chaos, and the angry people rushed to the rice shops in the alley like a tide, and the stunned guy shopkeeper didn't even have time to go to the door, and no one dared to resist this group of hungry and crazy northerners, and they all ran away with their heads in their hands.

And Liu Yonglong and his wife were also unlucky, a good cart of brown rice, all of them were robbed, Liu Xiucai still wanted to resist, but he was smashed on the head by someone who didn't know who smashed his head, and fainted on the spot.