Guo Bin and his entourage went south to Jiaozhou this time, although they were looking for the traces of Dong Feng, the holy hand of Xinglin, but now that they have encountered soaring food prices, there is no reason to stand idly by. At least see it with your own eyes, make your own judgments, and understand the ins and outs of things, and also accumulate experience for yourself in government, right?

Everyone wanted to follow the flow of people to see what was going on, which made the price of food in this city soar. But after all, it was in the city, and those who could not ride their horses had to take the reins and gallop forward with the flow of people.

After running for a short distance, the speed of the flow of people slowed down, and the surging front was full of human heads, no wonder I couldn't see a few people on the street just now, could it be that all the people in Panyu City came here? Fortunately, the heights of Guo Bin, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong are all extremely tall and powerful in the Central Plains. The group stood in the crowd, except for the guards who were half a head taller than the Jiaozhou people around them, Guo Bin and the four of them were nearly a head taller, and only the small and cute Dong Xing'er stood in the crowd with a small mouth and was unhappy.

Seeing this, Guo Bin knew it in his heart. Dong Xing'er is lively and active, and she does not have the conservatism and complacency of a woman at this time, and she loves to be lively. Therefore, he stretched out his hand to stabilize Dong Xing'er's mount, and stretched out his right arm to put it in front of Dong Xing'er. Seeing this, Dong Xing'er's face was slightly red, but she did not refuse, but reached out to help Guo Bin's arm and jumped into the saddle in a very graceful and light posture.

I saw that there was a huge grain store in front of me, and the front of the store was crowded with citizens who came to buy grain. Originally, merchants did business, what they wanted was a large flow of people and good business, where is the reason to push the guests who come to buy grain out? But this grain store actually put up the door panel, and in broad daylight, I saw that the door was about to be sealed.

Seeing this, the common people who did not buy food naturally did not agree, and those in front kept banging on the door panels, and those who could not reach the back crowded forward. For a while, the crowd was turbulent, only from the shopkeeper to the guys, they were all dumbfounded, and they had never seen such a crazy way to buy food on weekdays!

The shopkeeper who was wearing a thin old man, seeing that the situation was not right, hurriedly beckoned the guys to stabilize everyone's emotions. But this human affection is turbulent, how can it be said that it can be stabilized if it is stabilized? Whatever you say, the people in front can hear it, but when the people behind squeeze, the formation is chaotic again.

The shopkeeper was also extraordinary, and when he saw that he couldn't stabilize everyone, he ordered the man to move the couch from the back hall and put it at the door. Immediately, he jumped up with a light figure far beyond his age, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone be quiet, the old man has something to say!" Seeing that the crowd just ignored them, he ordered a few bronze bowls to be taken out and struck with a mallet to shock the audience. At this moment, everyone in the field heard the movement and gradually stabilized.

Guan Yu and Guo Bin glanced at each other, and their hearts were shocked at the same time: This old man's body shape is familiar!

After the crowd gradually quieted down, they only heard a neutral voice coming from the shopkeeper's mouth: "Everyone! There is really no food in the store, and now the warehouse is empty, you are like this, and the little old man can't change the food! ”

I only heard someone in the crowd shouting: "You have a huge grain store, there is too much grain to count, how can you say that it is gone?" Yesterday, some people saw in the granary behind your store, pulling grain out one by one! Isn't it because you see the rise in food prices and take the opportunity to make a big profit? The onlookers listened, and the crowd was furious.

Dong Xing'er said: "This old man looks quite honest, but he originally wanted to keep the grain and make a lot of money, it's really not a thing!" ”

When Guo Bin heard this, his mind was full of cold sweat, this little aunt and grandmother don't understand the world, and she will believe whatever others say. Fortunately, now that the crowd is raging, no one can hear her muttering, otherwise it will be a big trouble.

Sure enough, I saw that the shopkeeper had made a lot of effort to stabilize the chaotic crowd, and only listened to him: "Everyone, listen to the little old man's explanation!" It's not that the store doesn't want to sell grain, everyone is from Jiaozhou, and they are local, so why should the store be angry for a little profit? It's really the Yellow Turban thieves in the Central Plains, and our new Zhu Thorn History also has to organize a trilogy, saying that it is to stabilize the state, and when there is spare strength, we will also go north to the Central Plains to help the imperial court! ”

This time he seemed to have learned wisely, and the old shopkeeper didn't give the people below a chance to shout, coughed a few times, and continued: "The so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. Since Zhu Tingshi wants to train the army, he will draw the bottom of the grain storage in all the grain stores and grain depots in the entire Panyu City, and there is also a clear order, since then, but in all the grain stores in Jiaozhou, every stone of grain sold, the Assassin Mansion will draw seventy yuan of profits! In the past, everyone had a number of grain prices, but now that we have added 70 yuan for worship, our grain store sells 190 yuan and has to paste more than 10 or 20 yuan backwards! Everyone is a native of Jiaozhou, and they are also taken care of by the position on weekdays, so the store is forced to lose money today, and tens of thousands of stone grain are also transferred from other grain depots to solve the urgent need in Panyu City! But today's crowd is raging, as soon as the store opens this morning, tens of thousands of stone grain will be snapped up in the blink of an eye, but where is there still grain in the grain warehouse? ”

When he said this, he burst into tears, and Dong Xing'er immediately whispered to Guo Bin: "Brother Bin, this Jiaozhou Assassin Zhu Fu is the son of Zhu Jun, the general of the right chariot?" It's really the son of a mouse who can make holes, Zhu Jun, this old man is not a good thing, and his son has also come to Jiaozhou to harm the people! Saying that, he said arrogantly: "Brother Bin, if you can't touch this matter, you can say something else, but since you ran into it today, how can you leave it alone?" Zhu Jun, this little old man, I saw that he was not a good thing at the beginning, hum! ”

For a girl like Dong Xing'er, who is not deeply involved in the world and is innocent, people are completely divided into good people and bad people. As long as he is a good person, he is a good person, and if he is determined to be a bad person, he has sores on the top of his head, pus on the soles of his feet, and even his hair on his body is smelly.

Just like when we watched TV when we were children, whenever a new character came out, we always had to ask the adults around us, is this person good or bad? At the beginning, Zhu Jun wanted to kill the 200,000 Yellow Turban soldiers outside the city of Changshe, but Guo Bin led the army to surround his big tent and clashed with him. Since then, Dong Xing'er has naturally classified Zhu Jun, the right Zhonglang, as a bad person, and now he has no good words for his son Zhu Fu.

Guo Bin was powerless to complain about Dong Xing'er's change of attitude so quickly, but he still heard something else about the shopkeeper's words. Now that the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Central Plains has been basically pacified, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army is also scattered under the encirclement and suppression of the official army, some of them are defeated and killed, and some are scattered all over the country. Therefore, no one in the official face dares to mention the Yellow Turban Rebellion anymore, this is a matter of the face of the Son of Heaven, and it must not be ignored.

Although Guo Bin is extremely disdainful of this kind of behavior of defending the people and whitewashing the peace, politics is politics. However, this Zhu Fu, as an official of the imperial court, is the assassin of Jiaozhou appointed by the Son of Heaven, and is responsible for controlling the nine counties of Jiaozhou.

Speaking of which, we have to talk about the basic situation of Jiaozhou. Although the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty made many innovations in strengthening the centralization of power and weakening the establishment of the system of decentralization, it was inevitable that many traditions of the feudal system handed down from the pre-Qin period still remained. Officials can serve as officials in their own townships, which is one of them.

Before the Qin Dynasty, although the whole world recognized the status of the Zhou royal family as the co-ruler of the world, whether it was economically or politically, the mutual restraint between the central and local governments was extremely limited.

Because there is no unified and precise standard for measuring length, volume, and weight, this greatly increases the difficulty for the government to obtain the financial revenue on which it depends. Because in the era when there was no unified weights and measures, it was extremely difficult to determine the size of the land, the weight of the grain, and the volume of buckets or hu. Therefore, it was almost impossible to issue a fortune to officials, so the talents at that time invented the sub-feudal system, replacing the fortune with a fief as a reward for meritorious heroes and officials.

In response to this national condition, our ancestors creatively invented the well field system, a system that integrates the economic system, political system, and social morality. The well field system divides a piece of land into nine fields, with the middle one as a public field and the nine surrounding fields as private fields. The production of the public land is used as the financial revenue of the governments at all levels, and goes into the hands of the people who are divided into feudal offices, such as the secretary and the scholar.

These feudal ministers and scholars will use these grains and goods to form a government and recruit soldiers, which can not only respond to the call of the higher authorities and even the central government to jointly send troops, but also use them to deter the common people and stabilize the localities. In this way, the Ida system survived and developed under the conditions of the original productive forces, and it was undoubtedly a very advanced policy at that time.

Later, relatively uniform weights and measures appeared in various countries, and with the development of productive forces, the well field system gradually collapsed, and public land was abandoned, while the area of private land gradually increased. At this time, the conditions for the emergence of the Yulu system gradually matured. This is because the government essentially pays the hired officials to them, and the system is a system of employment contracts between the central government and officials. Since it is an employment contract, it is natural to have a clear remuneration, and the emergence of weights and measures solves the disadvantage that remuneration is not easy to measure, and also solves the problem of local governments collecting taxes.

Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the rank of officials was measured by "stone", and this "stone" was the unit for measuring the official's salary. From 200 stones to 300 stones, then to 600 stones, 2,000 stones, and the level of the officials, it is not only the grade of the officials.

Since there was a unified weights and measures, the measurement of officials' salaries was much simpler, and from then on, the officials' salaries were no longer the set of the well field system, but the salaries of each official were determined by the imperial court and provided by the imperial court, at least nominally.

The so-called food of whoever eats must be given to whomever it wants, this truth is ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and there is no exception. Through this system, the imperial court at least nominally seized the money bags of officials large and small from the central to the local level. Naturally, the influence of the central government, which had implemented the system of feudal statehood, which corresponded to the county system, was much stronger than that of the feudal state-building system, which was compatible with the Ida system.

However, in the Han Dynasty, there was another drawback that was not completely eliminated, and that was that officials could serve as officials without geographical restrictions. To put it bluntly, officials can serve in their hometowns. Why is this a drawback? Because it is very easy for local officials to form a local hegemon, in the social situation at this time, it is to form a wealthy family that controls the economic, political, and even military power of a place (the wealthy clan raises the tribe, which is reasonable and legal at this time).