Chapter Eighty-Nine: Ye Father
Spleen discharge is a small city in Yunmengze, when King Zhao ran out in the past, Yin Zixi used King Zhao's car and banner, pretending to take spleen discharge as the royal capital, collect the fugitives and calm people's hearts. During the national disaster, as a fake capital, the spleen and the province were actually very small, and the circumference of the city was only twelve miles, and when Xiong Jing was about to enter the city, he found that he was actually lost.
"Wrong?" Xiong Jing saw the words at the head of the city and muttered like this. This is not the spleen and the spleen, this is the Yefu Yi.
"Big ......" Mi Xuan called it wrong again, she stuck out her tongue, and said again: "How is it wrong?" ”
"It's nothing, no, it's a good thing." Xiong Jing smiled. "I thought it was going south, but I didn't want this animal to run southwest."
Xiong Jing said that the disobedience under the crotch, this beast has spirituality, and sprayed a few times to express his dissatisfaction. Jing had already dismounted, and helped Mi Xuan to dismount. When the common people entered the city, they not only had to go through the wrong gate, but also those who rode horses had to dismount. Disobedience is not a dragon horse, it is a horse, Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan's clothes are also the clothes of the common people, the dress of the common people, it seems that everything is inconspicuous.
However, the two are different from ordinary people after all, especially their height. Xiong Jing has been growing taller, and his current height is seven feet six inches even according to Qin Qi; Eight or nine years ago, she was already six feet seven inches tall, and now she is more than seven feet tall. Such a height makes the two of them stand out from the crowd as soon as they get off the horse, and they will inevitably be noticed.
Note that the guards at the gate of the city did not stop it. Although the two of them are dressed as ordinary people, they have fair skin, no food, and their eyes are not as dull as ordinary people. Even if such a person is a commoner, he will not be an ordinary commoner, and he is likely to be a servant of a noble family. That's what the Yi Jaeyu of Yefu-eup thought at first.
The state of Chu recovered the old Ying, and the officials were slaughtered, but there was an exception for one kind of official, that is, officials with a strong clan background. The interests of the clan and the interests of the powerful were once the objects of the Qin State's suppression, but now they are the objects of the Chu State's cooperation. Unless the land is tight, the seal is generally not sealed in the township where the clan is strong, but in the area where there is no clan power.
Yushi, clans, and Haoqiang are organizations of the same nature in the political lineage of the Chu State, and these organizations are piled up to be the grassroots of the Chu State. There are two sides to everything, the clan is rampant in the countryside, and the scattered common people will be bullied by the clan.
If it is a country ruled by officials, it is natural to restrict the clan and crack down on the powerful in the name of protecting the common people, and if they do not do so, hidden households will inevitably be formed under the protection of the powerful clan, which will affect the government's tax collection and the government's demolition. For the government, the more scattered the common people, the more convenient it is to squeeze. Don't think that the squeezed people's fat and people's ointment will be handed over to the national treasury, and most of the people's fat and people's ointment will be filled by the officials.
In that case, why do middlemen need to make the difference? Remove officials, recognize clans, and powerful spheres of influence, and pay money according to the priority of things. If they are powerful enough and strong enough, then they can stand in the dynasty and participate in national affairs, which is much more efficient than the government of officials, but in this way, the common people will be bullied.
How the two are chosen depends on the past. For historical reasons, Qin chose the former; Also because of historical reasons, the state of Chu could only choose the latter.
Yi Zaiyu is an official with Yun Menghao's strong background, Yun Mengze has nothing great except for special products, after Ye Father sealed Yang Yu, he came to Ye Father twice, the first time was to go around, and the second time was to turn around. The second time, he appointed the former Yi official Yu as the governor of the city, and sent a relative to come over to make the Yi order. Although the relatives are Yi Ling, they are often in Jiying or Jiangling not far away.
Yefuyi is smaller than Spleen Yi, and the circumference of the city is only six miles. When the Yi pawn reported that a man and a woman had entered the city, Yi Zaiyu sent two servants to see what was going on. The first judgment of the servant was that the two should be the servants of the nobleman's family, and then looked at the sword hanging from Xiong Jing's waist to the left, and revised this judgment, saying that it was the nobleman's housekeeper.
"That woman, woman is beautiful!" The decoration of Mi Xuan is plain, but it still attracts attention. The servant who prayed to the fish had a pig brother's expression, and his saliva was almost flowing out. "If you are not married, why not sacrifice it to the general?" The general will be pleased. ”
"No, no. Men and women join hands in the market, and women will not want to. "Brother Zhu forgot anything else when he saw Mi Xuan's appearance, but fortunately, he didn't go to investigate alone, there was another person besides him.
The opinions of the two servants disagreed, but Brother Zhu's proposal was extremely tempting, if it was really a beauty, it would be a great joy to dedicate it to raising a child. The fish is a servant of the keeper, how can he not think about the sexual well-being of the lord?
"Where are they?" Yu still decided to see it for himself, he was afraid that the servant's aesthetic ability was insufficient, and he regarded the village woman as a beauty.
"It's in the big market." Brother Pig said, and he started drooling again.
"How much money?" In the big market, Xiong Jing has already bought a double-wheel car, and now he has to buy two slaves. His accent is not a pure old Ying accent, but an authentic Eastern accent. This made him suffer a lot, and it also made the businessmen in the city much more enthusiastic.
"The ......" looked at the fat sheep in front of him, and the eyes of the donkey outside the cattle and horse pens rolled, and finally said: "Ten thousand dollars." ”
This is the price of a servant as a big slave, Xiong Jing laughed when he heard it. Although he doesn't pay much attention to the government, he still knows the price. "It's not true."
He shook his head, looked back at Mi Xuan who was sitting on the wheel, and led him to leave. Mi Xuan also smiled at him, regardless of the dynasty, women always like to spend money on shopping, some such as pillows, bedclothes, or she chooses herself. Every piece of utensils is loaded into the car, and her heart will be full, and her smile will be more.
Xiong Jing wanted to leave, and an old man in the fence stepped out: "My son, please stay." When Xiong Jing turned around, he said: "This price is indeed untrue, however, this servant is not an ordinary servant, if my son wants to buy, 8,000 yuan is also available." He has a mother, and if both mother and daughter buy it, 21,000 yuan can be. ”
Xiong Jing's vision is naturally very picky, and the other servants are the servants of poor families, and this thin skin and tender meat will naturally not be the servants of ordinary people. At this time, the slave girl was brought out of the cow and horse pen, and the slave girl kept her head down, but she felt that she was not ugly.
"Where did they come from?" Xiong Jing was very worried that it was the wife of an official of the Qin State.
"She is the concubine of the Qin people, and her husband died in the government when he was in the government." Lao Chan walked in and looked at Xiong Jing carefully, and when he was about to say, Xiong Jing said, "Look up." ”
The woman looked up. This is an ordinary woman, very thin, her eyes are smart, and she is full of fear. Xiong Jing looked back at Mi Xuan, and Mi Xuan also saw the woman's appearance clearly. The slaves sold in the market are very pitiful, but there are very few in their eyes that reveal pity. Qi Xuan nodded lightly because of the pity in her eyes.
"Twenty-one thousand?" Xiong Jing looked at Lao Yu again, and he habitually bargained.
"Another six hundred dollars can be reduced." Lao Chan said a price, and made an exaggerated gesture.
"How about two golds?" Xiong Jing doesn't like odds, two gold is 19,200 yuan.
"Yes! Can! Not to mention the old man, the people around him are also very happy. Seeing that they were overjoyed, Xiong Jing secretly shouted in his heart that he had forgotten the exchange rate.
When the Qin people ruled the old Ying, they used Qin half taels. In addition to collecting taxes, the government can also collect taxes in disguise by issuing additional currency. If other countries do this, the merchants will certainly use the new money to run out the money of other countries, demanding the exchange of gold and silver, and causing chaos in the market. The king of Chu Zhuang disliked that Chu money was too small, so he minted big money, and as a result, 'the people (merchants) were inconvenient, so they all went to their businesses', and finally had to abolish the big money and still use the small money. This is not to issue new money, this is to increase the cost of making money, maybe he wants to sell more copper.
Qin didn't care about businessmen, he didn't worry about the chaos in the market, and there was no obstacle to the issuance of additional currency. King Qin Huiwen's 'Chuxing Money', the Qin half taels issued were all full weight, each coin was three centimeters in diameter, twelve Qin baht, and weighed eight grams. By the later period, the diameter of Qin Banliang was only two centimeters, and the weight was less than three grams; The money minted before was still very beautiful, but it was very rough in the later period; At first, it was cast in bronze, and in the later period, bronze doping became more and more, and the iron Qin half tael was simply cast.
And the Qin law also stipulated: 'Those who live in Jia City and the officials of the government do not dare to choose money and cloth; Whoever chooses to do money and cloth will be told by the captain of the Legion that the officials are not careful, and they are all guilty.' This means that you can't 'choose' the currency, you can't pick and choose, otherwise you will be guilty.
One of the items that the Chu State regained from Nanjun and re-established its rule was to exchange Chu money for half a tael of Qin in the hands of the common people, and of course the exchange price could not be exchanged for one; I didn't dare to let the common people suffer too much, so I finally settled on one for one for two.
Since he had already said that he would pay two golds, Xiong Jing paid two golds. When the servant was making the deed, he turned his head to look at Mi Xuan, who had let the servant sit in the car, and the woman sat on the other side of the car. Dissatisfied with the heavy pressure and wanting to pout his hooves, Xiong Jing hurriedly stepped forward to appease, thinking about whether to buy a horse.
"What else do you want to buy? Bad people may also be helpful. The old man smiled, and the title changed from a cordial 'my son' to a respectful 'foot' - Xiong Jing paid not gold coins, but two versions of gold, and gold is not something ordinary people can have.
"I want to buy a horse." Xiong Jing looked at the cattle and horses in the pen again. "But I don't know where the philistines are?"
"Dare to ask, the seeker is ......," Lao Chan's voice raised. The two are different, although both are intermediaries, similar to the later tooth people. The donkey was the intermediary of cattle, horses, and slaves, and the yu was the intermediary of other transactions.
"Is there a house outside of Benyi?" Xiong Jing asked, Ye's father is Xiaoyi, and the market is not beaten, so there may not be a nephew.
"Foot, foot, wait. Wait. After the old man finished speaking, he was busy whispering in the ear of the man, and the person got into the crowd and disappeared suddenly.
Xiong Jing looked at his expression and felt that he either had a nephew, or knew where there was a house. While waiting, he had to choose another horse and replace the disobedience of pulling the cart. Instead of sitting in the car, Mi Xuan took his hand and selected the horses together.
Yi Zaiyu was standing not far away, and he also had the urge to drool when he saw Mi Xuan, this is by no means a village woman, this is a real beauty. But the golden light from those editions of gold stopped him again. He had seen a similar amount of gold in the house where he raised the king, and said that it was a reward from the king. This man has so much gold, is it also the king's gift? Or was it stolen?