Chapter 14: The Wanderers (6)

Sticks and turnips, the homeless people are honest. Some of them built walls, while more people reclaimed resettlement areas. The main purpose of reclamation is to catch the next autumn harvest and allow the displaced people to enter the cycle of self-sufficiency.

The other three counties also followed the pace of Cangxian County, and because the cash-for-work was implemented relatively early, there were no riots among the displaced people. Of course, there are also ordinary people who are mixed in with the homeless people, but they also work hard, not for nothing, so Xu Qing also turned a blind eye.

After a few days of idleness, another incident happened. In Cangzhou City, the price of grain soared, and it was rumored that the Assassin Mansion gave the displaced people a lot of white rice, which caused the grain to be bought out, so the price of grain soared......

Only one grain store can still sell grain at parity, which one? Huang Jia...... Why was the Huang family able to produce grain at a parity price? I don't know, I just know that one day Miss Huang came out of the Thorn Mansion angrily. And some people say that they have never seen Miss Huang family lose so much, and it must have been caused by a big loss!

So there were rumors that the clans of Cangzhou were forced to sell grain by the assassin history, and only the Huang family did not follow the wishes of the assassin history. Therefore, the Huang family still has surplus food, but the Huang family will be hostile to the assassin from now on. Other families did not have food, so the price of food became higher and higher.

- Xu Qing naturally knew that this was a rumor, because he had never bought a grain of rice from the Shi clan, let alone forced others to sell it. But no one believes it, otherwise why do you tell me why the price of grain is rising due to the shortage of grain?

Who is spreading rumors?

The last time the homeless people made trouble, it was the reason why someone was instigating. Xu Qing secretly asked Dark River to follow the few remaining men who were eating white rice, and wanted to investigate, but he found very little.

I only know that those men are not from Cangzhou, and it seems that they really just eat rice. After Xu Qing ordered the cash-for-work, they immediately left Cangzhou and headed for Henan. The dark river followed out of Cangzhou and followed them for another forty miles, but I didn't see them have any intention of returning, so I didn't pay attention......

Shao Deng, the county commander of Cangxian County, handed over the fold, saying that "the people's grievances are boiling".

After reading the excerpt, Xu Qing sneered, and the people's resentment was boiling? There are only 500 households in Cangzhou City who buy rice for food, and there are up to 800 households outside the city. This is not a boiling of public resentment...... The head of the grain store is the merchant who comes and goes.

The small caravan numbered fifty or sixty people, and the people ate the horses and chewed it, and the consumption of food for a day was quite large. The caravan traveled slowly, and from then to there, often in more than ten days, they had to fill the grain stack at once. Therefore, once the price of grain is high, they will have the greatest impact......

Fortunately, there were few people buying rice in the city, there were not many caravans, and the price of grain skyrocketed, but the Huang family's grain was still at a parity, so the actual destructive power to Cangzhou City was limited. The biggest damage was Xu Qing's reputation in Cangzhou.

Rumors pointed to Xu Qing, only saying that Xu Qing sacrificed his family in Cangzhou to curry favor with outsiders, favoring one over the other, and the outflow of fertile water. Xu Qing sent a letter to Huang Shimei, asking her to raise the price of the Huang family's grain at the market price. Xu Qing knew that Huang Shimei was taking responsibility for him. Xu Qing doesn't need her to help with this, he also needs someone he can trust to be an internal agent in the family......

In one day, the price of Huangjia's grain rose as high as the market price. Hundreds of households in the city will have to stop cooking if they want to see it, and the atmosphere is gloomy......

At the same time, Dark River began to arrange eyeliner everywhere to closely monitor whether anyone gathered to make trouble.

Huang Shimei handed over a letter, saying that the clans were not aware of the hidden poisonous needles in Xu Qing's decree, except for Huang Shimei. But later, after Xu Qing arranged for the displaced people to work for relief, another person saw it, and he poked out the idea.

The people of the family are not stupid, and almost everyone understands this reminder, it turns out that it is a soft knife to cut meat.

The various families gathered together to discuss how to wrestle with Xu Qing. As a result, they discussed the idea of first ruining Xu Qing's reputation and then restricting Xu Qing's power to ensure his own interests.

At the end of the letter, Huang Shimei's handwriting was a little sloppy, and she wrote, "It turns out that frogs really don't jump out." As for who the person who came out of the bucket, Huang Shimei didn't mention it, and she didn't know it.

It is reasonable for some people to perceive the danger of those decrees, and this kind of strategy of boiling frogs in warm water is not very clever. The family didn't pay attention to Xu Qing before, so they didn't worry about what Xu Qing did would have any deep meaning, and Xu Qing also took advantage of this, and he wanted to cut a few taels of meat.

Now, since it has been noticed that he wants to break his wrist, then he will break his wrist......

Searched all the officials in Cangzhou, and found a few who were close to the family, anyway, they were not clean, so it was easy to find some evidence, and all of them were imprisoned by Xu Qing. Several counties other than Cangxian County will be escorted back to Cangzhou......

Nearly 4,000 people from Cangzhou were known for their prosperity during the day, taking a walk on the edge of several family estates, shouting slogans, and engaging in military exercises, which were also "live-ammunition" drills with real swords and guns.

In addition, a decree was issued:

"All new household registrations, whether they are homeless or black, will be exempted from miscellaneous taxes this year and next year for every half stone of grain paid. The old household registration will pay one stone per ding grain for two years this year, and miscellaneous taxes will also be exempted......"

In the end, he bribed some people in the market to counterattack the rumors. Spread, the family wants to raise food prices to squeeze out the history of the country and the people, although this kind of remarks made Xu Qing himself have a lot of goosebumps, but in order to break his wrists, what are goosebumps?

Rumors can't be stopped, they can't be stopped, it's better to take the initiative to grasp the power to spread rumors, grasp the trend of rumors, and let him benefit his side.

Officialdom, market, force, tax cuts, Xu Qing is almost a full-scale war against the world!

——Xu Qing issued a challenge, did the clan dare to continue?

The people do not fight with the officials, this is the advantage that Xu Qing has, with this advantage, Xu Qing looks down on the family, and almost everything is justified, and others dare not oppose and boycott it openly.

The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, which is the advantage of the clan. The power of the family is ubiquitous and pervasive in Cangzhou, and the guidance of public opinion is almost monopolized by them.

The tip of the needle is against Maimang, and the atmosphere in Cangzhou is even lower. Dark clouds rolling, muffled thunder bursts......

Speaking of which, there is really no deep hatred between Xu Qing and the clan itself. It's just that the knowledge from later generations made him know the great harm of the family's land annexation, so he chose to clean up the empty households. Secondly, he figured out that Li Yuan had a meaning to deal with the family by letting him come here, so he decided to deal with the family.

In short, the war between him and the family was inevitable and irreconcilable, which was not only the class struggle between the Hanmen and the family represented by Xu Qing, but also the imperial order that Xu Qing carried, that is, the centralized struggle between the central government and the localities. Otherwise, he has a good life, what kind of tricks is he going to have with the clan?

Several military exercises have almost put everyone in Cangzhou at risk. Some small families began to send their families and money outside of Cangzhou, and they did not have much money, and they belonged to the kind of fish that could be filtered through the nets.

But several big families were still in a stalemate with Xu Qing, and they didn't think that Xu Qing would be able to use state soldiers against them. Not to mention the high price of grain, and then the price of other oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea is also rising, and the scope of this impact is even greater......

Buy less rice and eat less, that's because many people have their own seeds, but the necessary oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are not produced by every family. How else to say "Xing, the people suffer, die, the people suffer", Xu Qing and the struggle between the clan made the people of Cangzhou suffer for a few days in vain.

Now is the resentment boiling......

In Shao's house, Shao Jing was lying on the sickbed, dying.

"Big brother, Xu Qing hasn't moved yet, it seems that he has no tricks......," Shao Deng said while holding the soup jar on the side, looking down at Shao Jing on the sickbed.

"Ahem...... Shao Jing coughed, breathed slowly, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "This new history of thorns is not an ordinary person......

"Big brother, I understand......" Shao Deng helped Shao Jing tuck the quilt, nodded and went out.

As soon as I reached the door, a servant came. Shao Deng frowned slightly when he saw him, this was one of his henchmen. took him around to a corner, and the little guy leaned into Shao Deng's ear and said: "Just now, the assassin Shi ordered to cancel the customs customs duties in Cangzhou, and merchants don't have to pay taxes when they sell in Cangzhou!" ”

- When Shao Deng heard this, he gasped and said in his heart: He still dares to do this!?

With fifty percent profit, I'm crazy, and with one hundred percent profit, I'm desperate. The price of goods in Cangzhou is so high, at least it will cause the caravans outside to go crazy!

In the past, caravans, except for leaders with strong backgrounds, would not exceed three counties to sell goods. There is a saying that "if you cross three counties, you will lose money", and if you go too far, it means that the exploitation of officials is even more serious.

And now that Xu Qing has canceled the Cangzhou tariff, it will undoubtedly increase the profit by a lot! Originally, the businessmen outside Cangzhou adhered to the attitude that you are the master of your territory and did not interfere in the struggle of Cangzhou's territory. But in this case......

Profit, isn't a businessman just pursuing profit, why do you care about so many unspoken rules? As soon as Xu Qing ordered, the merchants of the entire southern Hebei began to move......

Shao Deng also realized this, and he returned to the ward of Shao Jing and asked the old fox for advice with a bitter face. Shao Jing listened to Xu Qing's decree, and was also slightly surprised: "Deng, you forgot, cough cough...... In addition to being afraid of commissions, businessmen are also afraid of robbery, those individuals raised by the Shao family, cough cough cough cough ......"

"Oh, big brother, rob the caravan, why don't you just ......" Shao Deng made a gesture to wipe his neck after speaking.

"Deng, it's not a good thing to change the history of thorns...... What we want is an obedient stinger, and for now, *okay, cough cough cough cough ......"

"Big brother, I understand......" Shao Deng nodded.

"Deng, you remember, if you can't put the assassination history in the hands of the Shao family, you can also destroy ......" Shao Jing rarely showed his ambition once, and coughed incessantly after speaking, as if the sentence just now drained his energy. Seeing this, Shao Deng helped Shao Jingshun smooth out and went out again.

On the border of Cangxian County, in the Daokou Village, the owner of the village, the King of Daokou, gathered five hundred minions, got out of the village, and went straight to the western boundary of Cangzhou......