Yan Zibin walked all the way to the top of the city with Master Fang, and then he looked into the distance, and happened to see the group of officers and soldiers who were coming forward.

I saw this group of officers and soldiers, a knight in the lead held the sun, moon and waves flag, and the rest of the cavalry followed in a "herringbone shape".

Behind this group of cavalry was a large group of outcasts who were tied up.

When this group of officers and soldiers rushed to the left side of the city gate, Yan Zibin was lucky and shouted: "The officers and soldiers under the city will stand for me." ”

He shouted at this voice, and the officers and knights of the city stopped their horses and looked up at the city.

"Whoever is your chief officer, come out and answer." Yan Zibin was condescending and full of momentum.

"I am." Liu Renyu stepped out of the crowd and replied.

"Let me ask you, did you run away from the thieves?" Yan Zibin asked.

"Exactly."

"You have worked hard, I thank you on behalf of the people of this county, there are still many thieves in other places, so you should go and kill the thieves quickly." Yan Zibin squeezed out a little smile and persuaded.

"It's our duty to suppress thieves, of course I will go, but these surrendered homeless people don't have food, and I didn't bring extra food when I marched to fight, so I want to .........."

Before Liu Renyu's words fell, Yan Zibin immediately cut off his words and said: "Don't even think about it, now there is famine everywhere in Yansui, and taxes can't be collected." Our treasury here is empty, there is not a grain of grain, not a penny of silver can be seen, even the rats in the granary are going to starve to death, even if the door of the treasury is open, thieves will not patronize it, so if you want us to donate money and grain to you, I can only say three words, no way! ”

After Yan Zibin said this, Liu Renyu didn't react, and Liu Wuguo, who was traveling with him, didn't do it.

I saw Liu Wuguo come out of the crowd and said angrily: "I said that you have a big turban, you have no conscience, if we didn't relieve you from the siege of the thieves, you could still stand here and talk, I'm afraid that you would have been arrested and killed by the thieves a long time ago, we are your saviors, and you still don't give you money and food, is this like words?" ”

"You stinky hill eight, thieves with troops, how can you speak? The imperial court has raised soldiers for a thousand days, and now it is normal to use you, killing thieves is what you should do, why does this county want to thank you? Yan Zibin rolled his eyes and replied loudly.

"Okay, you are a civil official, you are powerful, I don't fight with you, I just ask you, do you know if Yang Zhishuai wants us to recruit thieves?"

"You still need to say this, of course the county knows."

"Yang Zhishuai wants to recruit thieves, and has ordered all prefectures and counties in Shaanxi to fully cooperate with this matter, and now we have recruited 3,000 displaced people, you have to come up with some money and food to help these displaced people, otherwise I will go to Yang Zhishuai to complain, saying that you do not cooperate with the work of recruiting An." Liu Wuguo threatened.

"To cooperate with the work, there must always be the ability to cooperate in order to cooperate, now the Mizhi Mansion is empty, without this ability, even if Yang Zhishuai comes to Mizhi in person, this county is also this sentence." Yan Zibin said indifferently.

"You're a donkey, you're so angry." Liu Wuguo saw that Yan Zibin refused to distribute money and food, and he didn't recognize the life-saving grace of their officers and soldiers at all, and his words were not good, so he finally became angry when he couldn't bear it.

With a "bang", Liu Wuguo, who was extremely angry, pulled out the Yanling knife he was wearing, held it tightly in his hand, and then stared at Yan Zibin fiercely.

"What are you doing with the army staring at me, do you still want to kill the official and rebel?" Yan Zibin saw that Liu Wuguo looked like he was going to kill himself, but he said without fear at all.

"We don't dare to rebel, but we can't be angry with you, donkey, hum!" Liu Wuguo gritted his teeth, slammed the Yanling knife into the scabbard, and replied viciously.

"That's right, if you are short of money and food, go elsewhere to ask for it, and here in Mizhi County, you don't have to make up your mind anymore." Yan Zibin said again.

"Humph...........。" Liu Wuguo's face was black and he didn't say a word.

At this time, Liu Renyu, who had been quietly watching the quarrel between the two court officials, spoke.

He looked at Yan Zibin with a smile on his face and said, "This magistrate, I haven't finished my words yet!" I said I want to take out the money and buy some grain from your rice fat merchants. ”

What!?

As soon as Liu Renyu said this, everyone present was dumbfounded.

"Is this a Ming official army?" Yan Zibin was surprised.

"I'm afraid this guy wasn't kicked in the head by a donkey!" Liu Wuguo shook his head and sighed.

"This Lord Liu is really a living Bodhisattva!" The displaced people who surrendered sighed.

"What you said is true, you said you were willing to give us money to buy food!?" Yan Zibin was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.

"Absolutely." Liu Renyu nodded and said firmly.

"Okay, you wait." Yan Zibin first stabilized Liu Renyu, and then said to the other party's master: "Go and call the people of the Cao family and ask them to sell grain to this group of Qiu Ba." ”

Master Fang agreed, and then trotted towards the Cao family's mansion.

After a while, I saw a middle-aged man wearing a Liaodong mink six-in-one hat, a mink coat, soap-patterned shoes, a silver basin and a big face, and a rich body, who was taken to the city by Master Fang.

"County Zun, is there anything you have to do here?" As soon as the rich middle-aged man saw Yan Zibin, he asked with a question mark in his eyes.

"The thieves were defeated by the officials and troops under the city, and the thieves surrendered, and the officials and soldiers wanted food to settle the homeless, but we didn't have it in the treasury, so the officials and soldiers wanted to buy food from you." Yan Zibin made a long story short.

"What!? There is such a thing! There is actually a matter of officials and soldiers buying food to help the homeless, county honor, I don't read much, don't lie to me! The rich middle-aged man grinned.

"What did I lie to you! You come with me. After Yan Zibin finished speaking, he beckoned and led the rich middle-aged man to the left of the female wall.

When he came to the women's wall, Yan Zibin pointed to the middle-aged rich man and introduced to Liu Renyu: "The one under the city, this is Master Cao, a grain merchant in our Mizhi City, if you want to buy grain, discuss it with him." ”

After Yan Zibin finished the introduction, he stepped aside and let the two parties talk directly.

"This military master, the county lord said that you want to buy grain, is it true?" Master Cao asked.

"It's true, I want to help the homeless, and I don't have much food on hand, so I specially asked you to buy it." Liu Renyu replied.

"Oh, the little one knows, the price of this rice is small to tell you clearly, it is a year of famine, there are more people and less rice, and the price of rice is higher than usual, in addition, most of our rice fat grain is bought from Hedong and Shanxi, and a little freight, so a stone of grain costs 3 taels of silver, what do you think of this price?" Master Cao asked.

"Why is it so expensive, isn't it usually only a tael of silver and a stone?" When Liu Wuguo heard this price, he felt that it was a little outrageous, so he asked out of words.

"That's the price during the Apocalypse, didn't the little one just say, it's a famine year, so the price of rice is a little higher." Master Cao explained.

"I know, I can understand it completely, I want to ask, is your rice price out of the shell, or not out of the shell." Liu Renyu asked.

"It's not out of the shell, if it's out of the shell, then it's 4 taels and one stone." Master Cao replied.

"Got it, how much stock do you have?"

"All we can sell here is 300 stones, do you want it?"

"Yes, pay with one hand and deliver with the other."

"Okay, Master Jun, you are arrogant, so how do we trade?"

"Open the gates, and I'll bring someone in to buy it." Liu Renyu replied.

"No, if you open the gates of the city and you rush in, who knows what you will do, you are not allowed to enter the city." Yan Zibin, who had been standing next to him, suddenly opened his mouth.

"If you don't open the city gate, how can you trade?" Liu Renyu said dissatisfied.

"That's not easy, let's use hanging baskets to hang the grain down to the city, and you can put the silver in the empty hanging baskets and send it up." Yan Zibin replied.

"What shall I do if you take my money and do not give me food?" Liu Renyu questioned.

"Cut! Are you still afraid that we will cheat!? I'm afraid that if you have received the grain, you will not give you money. Yan Zibin sneered.

"This military master, don't worry, we pay attention to honesty in doing business, as long as you send the silver, my Lao Cao will definitely give you food." When Master Cao saw the two civil and military generals arguing, he vouched.

"I'm sorry, we don't know you well, I don't know if you pay attention to integrity." Liu Renyu shook his head in disbelief.

"Then you don't have to make this deal, you guys can go." Yan Zibin said impatiently.

"Hey, what the fuck are you doing? Brother Xian, don't talk to them, Lao Tzu is in a bad mood today, let's go into the city and get money and food by ourselves. Liu Wuguo was finally completely enraged by Yan Zibin, and he pulled out his knife again, making a posture of attacking the city.

"You dare!?" Yan Zibin heard Liu Wuguo say that he was going to attack the city, although he still had a tough tone on his lips, he was trembling in his heart.

"Brother, it doesn't have to be like this, they are all officials of the imperial court, can't they even have basic trust?" Liu Renyu first appeased Liu Wuguo, and then said to Yan Zibin: "Since we are not at ease, then we will all give a hostage, and when the transaction is completed, we will release the hostages, how about it?" ”

"Do as you say." Yan Zibin agreed, and then looked behind him, only to see that Master Fang and Yang Inspector were all looking like Lao Tzu didn't want to go.

"Master Fang, this county still has to sit here, and you can't be a hostage, so I'll bother you to go on a trip." Yan Zibin said with a smile.

"Oh, don't, cousin, we have an eighty-year-old mother and a child waiting to be fed, can you let me go." When Master Fang heard that Yan Zibin was going to be a hostage by himself, he immediately cried and begged with a sad face.

"You coward, I'm letting you go to the official army to sit there, not letting you go to the enemy camp, what are you afraid of?" Yan Zibin scolded.

"It's not an enemy camp, but it seems to be an enemy camp." Master Fang muttered.

"They're not going to send hostages, if you have any strengths and weaknesses, we'll kill that person and give you your life. Then again, if you don't go, I don't think you'll have to do it anymore. Yan Zibin threatened.

"Honorable, ....... you!?" When Master Fang heard this, he was speechless at Yan Zibin.

"Don't talk nonsense, I just ask you if you're going?" Yan Zibin asked again.

"The subordinates have to go." Master Fang said helplessly.

"Well, very good, after today's incident is over, I will naturally not treat you badly." After Yan Zibin finished talking to Master Fang, he turned to Liu Renyu and said, "We sent Master Fang from Mizhi County to you as a hostage, he is a serious eight-rank official, so you have to send someone with an official position." ”

"No problem." Liu Renyu agreed, and then said to Yang Desheng beside him: "Desheng, you go for a walk." ”

"Okay, I'll come when I go." Yang Desheng nodded in agreement.

"We sent President Yang Desheng as a hostage." Liu Renyu said to Yan Zibin.

"Most of you martial artists are powerful, if you just come up like this, I'm afraid it's not safe, I think that's it, you tie up this Yang Qianzong and send it up, how about it?" Yan Zibin demanded.

"Donkey's day, it's too much to deceive people!" When Yang Desheng heard these words, he immediately felt insulted, his face turned red, and he was extremely angry.

"Desheng, the overall situation is important." Liu Renyu advised.

"Yes, sir." Yang Desheng tried to suppress his anger and replied.

So, the two sides each sent the hostages to hanging baskets, one to the head of the city, and the other to the camp of the officials and soldiers under the city.

Waiting for the apprehensive Master Fang to be brought to Liu Renyu, Liu Renyu tried to squeeze out a smile and pointed to a Mazha and said: "Master Fang is sitting here, there is no tea in our barracks, so I can't invite you to tea, it's really inconsiderate." ”

"What did the military master say, if it weren't for you, Mizhi City might have suffered, you are the great savior of Mizhi. So it's nothing to drink without tea. "Master Fang went to the official barracks, of course, he had to pick up good words.

"Even if you know each other, you still have a little conscience." When Liu Wuguo heard this, he couldn't help but interject.

"Okay, don't talk about it, let's talk about buying food first." Liu Renyu stopped talking first, and then shouted to the city: "The hostages have been delivered, let's start trading." ”

"Okay, let's get started." Yan Zibin agreed, and asked Master Cao to take the people in the city to Cao's rice shop to carry grain.

Liu Renyu took 900 taels of silver and put it in the hanging basket first.

After the silver was delivered, Master Cao ordered his bookkeeper to check one silver and one silver to see if it was genuine silver.

After the accounting clerk of the Cao family finished the inspection, he said to Master Cao: "Master, I have checked it all, and it is all genuine silver." ”

"Okay, send food." Master Cao nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered.

After a while, hundreds of sacks were thrown down from the top of the city, while the soldiers below carried the grain back to their camp.

The two sides were busy for about half an hour before the deal was completed, and then the two sides returned the hostages, and the deal was over.