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Liu Xiuyi urged the war horse, took two steps forward, and asked, "Who are you?" Why are you robbing the people's women here? ”

"The general didn't know that it was their father and daughter who owed us food and refused to pay it back, and we really had no choice, so we had to arrest his daughter to pay off the debt."

Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu raised their heads, looked at Liu Xiu cautiously, and then hurriedly lowered their heads.

Liu Xiu sighed and asked again, "How much grain did their father and daughter borrow from you?" ”

"Yes...... It's a bucket. ”

Ten buckets are one hundred, that is, one stone, and if one stone is one hundred and twenty catties, one bucket is only twelve catties.

Liu Xiu shook his head and said, "People borrowed a bucket of grain from you at the beginning, and now it's too unfair to arrest someone's daughter to pay off the debt, right?" Before Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu could speak, the young and beautiful woman stumbled out of the yard, went outside, knelt on the ground with a puff in front of Liu Xiu, choked up and said, "Master Jun, the father of the slave family just borrowed one of them."

Dousu, only a month later, they asked their father to return a stone of millet, the military master, the slave family really can't take out so much food, and ask the military master to be the master of the grass people! ”

A bucket of millet has multiplied tenfold in a month, and if you want to pay back a stone of millet, this is not even a usury, it is a staring and robbing.

Ma Wu's face sank, and he shouted, "You are so bold! ”

Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu were frightened, and stammered: "Borrow a bucket of grain, and return a stone of grain after a month, this ...... It's clearly priced, we ...... We didn't force them to borrow food! The young woman said urgently: "Master Jun, they hoard grain and take the opportunity to raise the price of grain, the grain that used to be four or five hundred yuan a stone, now four or five hundred yuan can't even buy half a bucket of grain, the people have no choice but to go to them to borrow grain, and they can't exchange it."

, you have to bankrupt your family, sell your land deeds, and sell your children......" At this point, the young woman couldn't stop crying.

Liu Xiu squinted his eyes, glanced at Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu who were sweating like rain, waved his hand and said, "Take the two of them back to the county government and ask what is going on!" ”

Ma Wu said: "Lord, I don't think there is so much trouble, let alone a retrial, it must be that they are bullying others, in my opinion, they should correct the law on the spot and set an example!" ”

Today, why are the people struggling to make a living, and why can't the people live? Natural disasters are one thing, the disaster relief of the imperial court is unfavorable on the one hand, and there is also a very key factor, that is, there are people like Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu.

They hoarded materials, monopolized the market, raised prices, and made a fortune, and the people couldn't survive, but they were so rich that in Ma Wu's eyes, even if they were cut by a thousand knives, it was not too much.

Liu Xiu took a deep breath and said, "Bring it back to the yamen!" ”

Seeing that Liu Xiu insisted, Ma Wu didn't want to say anything more, waved his hand and called over two cavalrymen, and asked the two of them to escort Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu back to the county office.

The young woman kowtowed to Liu Xiu and the others again and again, and said with a crying voice: "Thank you, Master Jun!" Thank you, all of you! Liu Xiu didn't say anything more, urged the black horse under his crotch, and walked towards the county office. Ma Wu looked at the young woman who was kowtowing again and again, sighed lightly, reached into his arms, took out a money bag, bent down, put it in front of the young woman, and said, "Take it."

Go get medicine for your father. ”

The thin middle-aged man who was kicked by Jia Laoliu just now is still lying in the yard and has not been able to stand up.

Looking at the money bag in front of her, the young woman cried even more, and said vigorously: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, ......."

Ma Wu sighed again, shook his head helplessly, and urged Ma to follow Liu Xiu.

On the way back to the county office, Ma Wu asked, "Lord, scum like them, there is no need for a retrial, right?" ”

Liu Xiu smiled and asked, "Zizhang, do we have enough food now?" ”

Ma Wu shook his head, they were lightly armed, Nanyang arrived from Yizhou, there was not much food in the army, more precisely, the food on each brother now is about two days' rations.

Liu Xiu asked again: "Is the military salary enough?" ”

Military salary? Ma Wu was almost happy, since he and Choshi formed the cavalry team, they didn't know what the military salary was, and they had never been paid. It's not that they don't want to send it, it's that they don't have any money in their hands at all.

Liu Xiu said: "We now want money but no money, and we want food but no food, but the army can neither lack money, let alone lack food, so where does our money and food come from?" ”

Ma Wu said: "The county government should have a lot of money and food, right? ”

"That's not enough! If we want to get enough money and food, we have to start with these big families in Chaoyang City. As he spoke, Liu Xiu raised his head and smiled at Ma Wu.

Ma Wu was inexplicably laughed by Liu Xiu, and didn't understand what he meant. He turned his head to look at Deng Yu, Yan Guang, Choshi and the others, all of whom were tacitly smiling silently.

Back at the county office, Liu Xiu immediately interrogated Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu. Neither of them is the leader, above them, there is a man named Zheng Da, who is the boss of Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu.

Zheng Da is a relative of Nanyang Taishou Zhen Fu, here in Chaoyang City, he is basically a character who is dangling horizontally, and no one dares to provoke him, even the county commander Yi Zhen and the county lieutenant Xie Sheng, when they see Zheng Da, they have to give three points.

After the large-scale drought in the south, Zheng Da united with several large merchants in Chaoyang City to take the opportunity to hoard grain and raise the price of grain. The people could not afford to buy food at all, so they could only sell their land and sell their children and daughters in exchange for food. The land deeds of the people, Zheng Da either kept it by himself or sold it, as for the children of the people's families, it was the same, if he saw what he liked, he would stay

If you don't like it, you can sell it to other places and make a windfall from it.

Chaoyang has such a scourge as Zheng Da, and the lives of the people are miserable.

Yi Zhen and Xie Sheng knew very well what Zheng Da had done, but neither of them dared to care, if they really got on the bar with Zheng Da, Zheng Da would not do anything, and they would lose their official positions.

Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu are both capable officers under Zheng Da, but this time they are very unlucky, and I don't know what bad luck they had, so they were bumped into by Liu Xiu.

Without extorting confessions through torture, the frightened Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu told everything they knew. After reading the confessions of the two of them, Liu Xiu nodded and said to Deng Yu: "Zhonghua, you can arrange to invite the big families in the city to come to the county government for a meal." We won't be able to leave for a while, but this huge Chaoyang County also needs it

Someone to govern. ”

Deng Yu nodded and responded: "Yes!" Princess! ”

In the evening of the same day, the invited scholars arrived at the county government one after another. Chaoyang is not a big county in Nanyang, but it is not a small county either, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 people in the city!

There are many large families in Chaoyang City, at least the patriarchs of each family have more than 20 people, including Zheng Da.

Now Chaoyang is occupied by the Chungling rebels, and Zheng Da is a relative of Zhen Fu, it stands to reason that he should have escaped or hid a long time ago, and he didn't dare to come to see Liu Xiucai, but Zheng Da just came. He believes in a saying, money can make ghosts grind, as long as he can give enough benefits to the Chungling rebels, the Chungling rebels also have to respect him and hold him, not to mention, he has hoarded a large amount of grain in his hands, and the place to hide the grain is only him and

A very small number of henchmen knew that if he died, the Chung Ling rebels would never be able to find the batch of grain he had hidden, which was the biggest trump card in his hand at present.

In the hall of the county office, people sat down separately. Naturally, Liu Xiu sat in the center, and the patriarchs of each family sat on both sides, and behind them were Deng Yu, Yan Guang and others. The time for the banquet has arrived, and some people have not yet arrived, and Liu Xiu doesn't care. He cleared his throat and said in a loud voice: "We, the capital of Zhutian, take it as our mission to overthrow the reckless thieves and restore the Han Dynasty

If you don't wait for trouble and destruction in the city, my pillar Tiandu Department will never be difficult for everyone. ”

Hearing this, people's eyes lit up, and they raised their glasses and said: "With General Liu's words, I will rest assured!" Let's all toast General Liu together! ”

"Yes, yes, yes! To General Liu! ”

Liu Xiu smiled, picked up the wine glass, greeted everyone on the left and right, and then drank the wine in the cup.

As soon as the wine was served, Zheng Da owed a debt, and said with a smile on his face: "General Liu, I heard that there was a misunderstanding between the general and my brother today......

Before he finished speaking, Liu Xiu asked curiously, "Who is this gentleman?" ”

"Back to General Liu, villain Zheng Da, my brothers are named Lu Yue and Jia Liang!" Zheng Da said with a smile.

Lu Yue and Jia Liang are the real names of Lu Laosan and Jia Laoliu. Liu Xiu suddenly realized that this person was Zheng Da. He looked at Zheng Da, who was in his thirties, with slender eyes and a hooked nose, and at first glance he was a scheming person.

Liu Xiu said: "Lu Yue and Jia Liang, they are lawless in the city and rob the people's daughters, I want to punish the two of them, Mr. Zheng will not have any objections, right?" ”

"General Liu, please take a look!" Zheng Da took out a piece of silk cloth from his cuff and handed it to Liu Xiu. Jiu'er, who was standing next to Liu Xiu and dressed as a little maid, walked over, took the silk cloth, and put it in front of Liu Xiu.

The latter opened the silk cloth, and it was written an IOU, and the IOU clearly stated that if you borrow a bucket of millet, a stone of millet will be returned a month later, and at the end there will be the signature of the person who has money and grain. Providing this IOU, Zheng Da wanted to show Liu Xiu that he was in possession, not a robbery of people's daughters. But then, he didn't say a word about the IOU, and then took out three brocade boxes from the side, signaled to Jiu'er, and said to Liu Xiu with a smile: "General Liu, I know how much my brother has offended today, and with their sins, no matter what kind of punishment General Liu is in Lu Yue and Jia Liang, but after all, he and I are brothers who have worshipped the handle, and I hope that General Liu can."

Raise your noble hand and spare the lives of the two of them! ”

Liu Xiu looked at Zheng Da in some surprise, and said secretly in his heart: This person is not simple! He obviously has an IOU in his hand, and he is obviously the party that occupies the reason, but he doesn't say a word about it, only saying that he captured Lu Yue and Jia Liang because he made a mistake and offended himself, and begged himself to open the net and let him go, which can be described as

It's to give yourself enough face.

Just when Liu Xiu looked at Zheng Da with a smile and was silent, Jiu'er walked to Zheng Da's side and brought all the three brocade boxes he moved out to Liu Xiu. She glanced at Liu Xiu and asked in a low voice, "Lord, do you want to open it?" ”

Liu Xiu nodded slightly.

Jiu'er opened the first and smallest brocade box, and in an instant, a turquoise light emanated from the box, and people looked at it, and it turned out to be two green night pearls.

These two pearls of the night, at least the size of a pigeon's egg, emitted a single green light in the fairly bright hall. When everyone present saw this, they were all taken aback, and they exclaimed in their hearts, Zheng Da is so generous, this pair of night pearls, I'm afraid it can only be described as priceless, right?