Chapter 135: Niu Jin (3500 words)
"Well said!" There was another person in Su Li's tent, and Kebi Neng was extremely surprised, that person turned out to be Putou, the leader of the central region!
"The words of Lord Kebineng won my heart!" Putou stood aside with his hands on his sleeves and smiled: "Count me as the middle one!" ”
Putou is also full of resentment, as a relative, on the way to the west, and Lian as a junior, not only to drink to himself, but also to seize a few of his fancies, he worked hard to be a thug for you, and he didn't even give himself a little benefit, why!
Kebi can instantly understand, and Lian, Helian, you are really a traitor now, and even your brother doesn't support you, so how many days can you still jump?
The rules of the grassland since ancient times have been like this, those who can go up, and those who can't either surrender or die! This is true even if it is a sibling, or even his own biological parents!
Mao Dun, the male lord of the Huns, killed his own father and ascended to the throne! However, as long as he can lead the Xiongnu to prosperity, everyone has nothing to say and surrenders to the feet of Maudun!
"Then we will swear to the gods!" Sully stood up and cut his fingers, dripping the blood into the mare's milk wine.
"Swear to the Ancestors!" The two took turns to pick up the knife and drip blood into the wine, and the three of them held the wine glass with a solemn expression.
"The gods are above, the ancestors testify, the three Xianbei, like a family, advance and retreat together, if you violate this oath, the group will rise up and beg, and the sky will be destroyed!"
Due to the low level of productivity and the extreme lack of knowledge, people are almost completely under the control of natural forces, and all kinds of natural objects and natural phenomena in nature, such as mountains, rivers, the sun, moon and stars, etc., can have an impact on people's lives, and it is easy for people to have a sense of awe and mystery. But is it the same with the upper rulers? Probably not...... The three of them swore an oath for the alliance with blood, but Kebineng said ambitiously in his heart: "This oath will end when the single position is vacant!" "Kebineng, he still wants to be a single Yu!
"Your Highness, all the beggars who ate the food at the Tongfu Inn in Jingshi have arrived......," the shopkeeper on the side argued flatteringly to Liu.
After the disaster relief began, Liu Wei also thought about what to do with the beggars in Beijing, Luoyang City has a population of millions! There are not a few beggars, if they are left to fend for themselves, Liu Wei is a little unbearable, beggars are also people, who wants to be born beggars?
Therefore, Liu Wei ordered the Tongfu Inn to distribute the leftovers in the store to the beggars in a fixed place every day, so that it would not cause waste and give them a way to live.
Liu Wei looked at the beggars below and frowned, not because the beggars below were dirty, but because Liu Wei found that almost all of these beggars were middle-aged beggars, and there were not even a few disabled people! This is a problem, having hands and feet, begging for food all day long is not a blessing, but encourages laziness.
"Is it all here?" Liu Wei asked again.
Huang Zhong on the side replied: "Your Highness Qiqi, it's all here." ”
"What about the old and weak? My food is for the poor who can't feed themselves! Even if they go to the dock to fight the burden, they can have a full meal, right? Examine! Liu Wei's tone was extremely cold, and he fooled him with a low eyelid, a widow was born in the deep palace and grew up in the hands of a woman? Sometimes the people at the bottom just fool the ruler like a fool!
During the Guangxu period, the little emperor liked to eat eggs, and he had to eat four a day. Four eggs were only twelve or thirteen copper coins in the Guangxu period. And the lion in the imperial dining room opened his mouth widely, and the price was a full thirty-four taels of silver.
Guangxu once chatted with his teacher Weng Tonggong and said: "Eggs are so delicious, but this thing is so expensive, can you afford it, Master Weng?" Weng Tongyi knew that it was boring, and knew that it was the people from the Internal Affairs Office who made false claims, but it was inconvenient to say it directly, so he had to shirk and said: "Back to the emperor, the minister's family may encounter a sacrificial ceremony, and occasionally use it." Otherwise, don't dare either. In this way, Emperor Guangxu could eat 12,410 taels of silver by eating eggs.
From this, we can see how serious and widespread the phenomenon of the internal affairs government buying at a low price and selling it to the emperor at a high price by falsely reporting accounts. It is not surprising that the inner court of the political Qing Dynasty used four or five million taels of silver a year.
And Weng Tongyi, as the emperor's teacher, taught the little emperor that he didn't dare to offend the eunuchs in the palace, and bluntly told Guangxu the truth of the matter, not to mention other people? There is also Emperor Daoguang's own torn pants and he was reluctant to throw them away, and then asked people to make up for it, and it cost three thousand taels of silver! There are countless such examples, and the sorrow of the Qing Dynasty is doomed.
The two guards clamped down on the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper collapsed to the ground in fright, kowtowing like garlic and begging for mercy.
Liu Wei waved his hand and dragged people down, Liu Wei can tolerate one or two other things, but a good government has been made into a bad government, Liu Wei can't bear it!
"Let Zizhong see and smile, these people must know the whereabouts of the beggars who kidnapped Ling Mei, Zizhong can send someone to ask."
Mi Zhu bowed and thanked: "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”
"Hey! As easy as lifting a finger. ”
Liu Wei walked into the hall, and soon, Rao Wen ran to inform the interrogation results: "Your Highness, the shopkeeper will be recruited soon, His Royal Highness's mercy will let the store prepare more things, the vegetable oil and water in our store are rich, and the taste is very good, the shopkeeper has a crooked idea, he sold these leftovers to these beggars, these beggars relied on their strength, occupied these leftovers, leftovers, and then sold them to some people, and the profits were divided into three or seven." ”
Liu Wei's hand holding the teacup was a little stagnant: "Those beggars worked hard to resell these things to get seventy percent?" ”
"Take seventy percent of the shopkeepers, and those beggars can make a living." Rao Wen explained.
"Hehe......" Liu Wei laughed very creepy, big power and big greed, small power and little greed. It seems that it has become a matter of course to use power to accumulate wealth, even if it is to withhold life-saving food from other people's mouths! Is there less such a thing of eating human blood steamed buns? Liu Wei felt his teeth cold.
"That shopkeeper, confiscate everything, and confiscate the army! These beggars with hands and feet are all gathered, and since they have nothing to do, then I will give them something to do, and give them a livelihood! "For such beggars, if you raise them in vain, Liu Wei feels that he is slapping himself in the face, waiting to install a water wheel and transport materials, where is there no shortage of labor? Let them do things, eat and shelter, and pay a little wages, Liu Wei believes that they can be "transformed" from beggars slowly.
Mi Zhu trotted into the door and said: "Your Highness, I have found their hiding place, and I don't know if they have any accomplices, and I ask Your Highness to send someone to go with you." ”
"Good!" Liu Wei stood up and said, "Then I will go with Zizhong!" ”
"Huh?"
Niu Jin turned over a weed, and a dog hole was revealed behind the grass, Niu Jingang wanted to get in, but several other thin beggars on the side stopped: "Brother Niu, let's go in, you are big, I'm afraid you won't be able to get in." Niu Jin's courage made the other beggars a little arrogant, and when they saw this kind of thing of drilling dog holes, they stood up bravely and replaced Niu Jin to go in to find out the enemy's situation first.
Niu Jin nodded: "If that old man is here, come out quickly, although he can't run fast, but if he goes to report us, it won't be good." ”
The beggar nodded, one after another drilled in, Niu Jin pinched a handful of sweat in his hands, this is the place where the corpse is parked in Yizhuang, Niu Jin once begged for food and saw a dilapidated and idle house behind here, climbed in from the dog hole, and there was no "person" in it except for an old man who liked to drink from the door.
Niu Jin had a long heart, and wrote down here, this time the matter was urgent, and everyone avoided a place like Yizhuang, thinking that he could still avoid it for a while.
After a while, the back door of Yizhuang was opened, and several children beckoned: "Brother Niu, come in, that old man went out to drink, and there was no one inside." ”
Niu Jin was overjoyed, and the others carried the old beggar into Yizhuang, and covered up the dog hole to restore it to its original state.
There is always a lingering smell and a cold smell in Yizhuang, now that they are exhausted, they have long been unable to think about it so much, it is okay to run into the dilapidated house, although the top is leaky, but there is no coffin, corpse or anything like that.
The old beggar woke up in a daze, touched his head and tore at his few teeth, and said, "Damn, that little brother must be crazy." Niu Jin, where are we now? ”
"Where's Yizhuang?"
"Hey, I said how do you have a few pieces of straw paper behind you, is there any water?"
Niu Jin shook his head silently: "I have already called the dog to fight." ”
The old beggar nodded, sighed, and looked at himself revealing a shoe that exposed the front half of his feet, and one fell off somehow, naked: "I estimate that we have a big disaster this time, if that kid is caught, he will definitely die." ”
"A lot of people have died in winter, let's just treat him as if he is dead in winter, if it weren't for you, we would have died more people in winter." The small grade has made Niu Jin go through the vicissitudes of life. I can vaguely remember that I used to have a warm home although I was not rich, but the plague in the village was everywhere, ten rooms and nine empty, my father was infected and died, and my mother took herself and her younger brother to escape the plague and fled from home. Soon, the infant brother also died, and the weak child could afford to live and starve.
The mother had to sell herself to become a maid, people didn't want children, the mother gave all the money from the sale to herself, Niu Jin wandered around like this, and I didn't know how to enter the capital of this brilliant Han, Luoyang.
The old beggar scratched his head: "It's a pity, the grave is full of good things, but they are all sold for a cheap price." ”
The old beggar was born as a Taoist priest, and he also knew some things about feng shui, that winter, watching the beggars gradually freeze and starve to death in the temple, the old beggar stomped his feet, took advantage of his own ability, and took Niu Jin to open the tomb of a certain pre-Qin concubine. Guanzhong from Qin Ding's capital here, to Han. From 770 to 181 B.C., nearly a thousand years of history. The abundance of tombs in Guanzhong has long been a paradise for tomb robbers.
The Han law stipulates that the crime of tomb robbery is comparable to the crime of homicide, and digging up the graves of ancestors is equivalent to dying with his family.
As soon as the local government saw the tomb robber, it was directly sentenced to death!
(End of chapter)