Chapter 141: The Wang Family
Lu Hanyang asked Yin Tong, the county magistrate of Sanchuan County, to take him to the big families in the county, and he would personally negotiate with these people.
This is not a wealthy family like a family for many years, just an ordinary landlord class.
He has to consider these people, and if they are honest, he will compensate them to a certain extent, after all, they need to open a warehouse and release grain.
If it is the kind of person who is unkind to the rich, then Lu Hanyang will not be polite.
Although this matter is what he wants to do, it is not his due responsibility, the court is the main body that should make the people's lives better.
It's not him, the so-called immortal, after all, he doesn't have the art of turning stones into gold, and he won't make something out of nothing. It is impossible for one person to feed the entire people of Datang.
Regarding the situation that Li Er had food and used it to raise troops for the Northern Expedition, Lu Hanyang was noncommittal.
Because Li Er had already mobilized countless conscripts to escort grain and grass to set off without communicating with him, Lu Hanyang would not stand up against it.
But if Lu Hanyang really had to choose, he would use this million stone grain to help the people.
After recuperating for a while longer, as for the crisis in the northern grasslands, let them continue to make trouble.
That's right, the grassland is indeed a big problem for the Tang Dynasty, after all, the remnants of the Turkic are not as good as before.
But there are still 100,000 people who control the strings, and the Hui are no less than the Turks.
Xue Yantuo was able to let these two tribes treat them together, and he was obviously the most powerful.
The strength of the army is not inferior to that of the Turks in their heyday, and such a steppe alien race is indeed a scourge in northern Xinjiang.
But now there is civil strife on the steppe, and there is constant internal friction between the three tribes, although Xue Yantuo has fallen into the wind and is oppressed by the Turks and the Hui together. But it can't be solved in a while.
And at this time, you only need to watch the fire from the other side, after all, these three alien races now really have a common hatred, and if the hatred for each other is irresolvable, they will not unite to invade the south.
If any one goes south, the other two will seize the opportunity and give him a hard time behind his back.
The alliance between the Hui and the Turks was not very reliable, mainly because of the pressure of Xue Yantuo, which forced them to join forces to protect themselves. Therefore, the three-legged stand is the best pattern, so that these three alien races cannot go south to invade the Tang Dynasty.
In this case, why did Li Er still go on the Northern Expedition? Lu Hanyang didn't understand this very well. But this time Datang sent troops and he still came, not to help Datang kill more aliens or anything, but to let Datang soldiers die less.
In this era, the sanitary conditions are not good, and the medical knowledge is very lacking. The slightest negligence can cost a person's life. Wound infection will cause a large number of soldiers to die, he just wants to treat more Tang soldiers.
How to fight the battle, Lu Hanyang doesn't understand, and he doesn't need him to charge into battle, and there are even soldiers who can surrender without a fight. Lu Hanyang is confident that this can be done.
But he was unwilling to do so, after all, these alien races had to pay a price for their invasion of the Central Plains for so many years. Not only that, but he also needs these aliens to submit to the Chinese nation, not to him personally.
This is the essential difference, the first is the victory of the whole nation, and the second is the victory of himself.
Of course, he is still on the road, Lu Hanyang doesn't have to worry about the army, he just needs to improve the lives of the people he sees along the way.
Under the leadership of Yin Tong, Lu Hanyang came to the largest restaurant in Sanchuan County, and during the time they came over, someone had already gone to inform those rich people and let them know that the fairy master wanted to see them.
These landlord class are just a little influential in a small county like Sanchuan County, when have you ever seen such a big man? Moreover, they had heard the legends of the immortals for a long time, and they had even witnessed the glimpses of the immortals flying into the city on the cranes.
So no one dared to slack off, they all put down what they were doing and came towards this big restaurant.
The largest restaurant in Sanchuan County is called Sanchuan Restaurant, which is the property of the wealthy Wang family in the city, and of course the restaurant must reserve enough grain, and the Wang family is also the one with the most grain in the hands of Sanchuan County.
There are also the Chen family in the west of the city and the Gao family in the north of the city, which are the three big families with the most grain in Sanchuan County. Although they are nothing in front of the big families with five surnames and seven wangs and four surnames in Guanzhong, but in Sanchuan County, they are above everyone below the official government.
"The villain Wang Jiu, I have seen the fairy lord and the county commander." Wang Jiu, the head of the Wang family, is a distant branch of the Taiyuan Wang family. Of course, this background has not been revealed by Wang Jiu, after all, this is the secret of their family.
"Wang Jiu? Are you the richest man in Sanchuan County? How much food do you have in hand? Lu Hanyang asked.
"Lord Qiqi Immortal, the villain has hoarded 30,000 stones of grain in his hands." Wang Jiu said.
"Thirty thousand stones? So much! Yin Tong exclaimed, why does this Wang family have so much food? That's impossible.
In fact, Wang Jiu was only going to say three thousand stones, but how could he hide so much grain in front of Lu Hanyang, which he was ready to give to the people.
"Where does so much food come from and what does it do?" Lu Hanyang asked.
"It doesn't work, wait for the orders of the master's family, and then plan for the future." Wang Jiu said.
"The Lord's house? Taiyuan Wang's? Lu Hanyang was puzzled, he didn't expect the Taiyuan Wang clan to stretch out his tentacles so far.
"Exactly, my Wang family is a branch of the Taiyuan Wang family, and I have been serving the main family for so many years." Wang Jiu replied.
"It seems that these grain Wang clans have ulterior motives, so this seat will laugh at it!" Lu Hanyang said that he originally wanted to give the Wang family some compensation, but he heard that it was the Taiyuan Wang family, with five surnames and seven wangs, so he didn't give it.
And what is this Taiyuan Wang family hoarding so much grain for?
Lu Hanyang still has to think about it, maybe it's to hoard Juqi and earn ill-gotten gains?
However, now Sanyuan County is already very short of grain, and there is still no increase in grain prices.
So there is no other purpose, as for what purpose? Lu Hanyang didn't know, but he didn't care, he would know when the time came to go to the Wang family in Chang'an City and ask.
After that, there are two Chen families in the west of the city and two Gao families in the north of the city, these two families are duty, one has 1,200 stones, and the other only has 1,100 stone of grain.
After each of them left their family rations, Lu Hanyang obtained 31,500 stone of grain in Sanyuan County to relieve the people.
During the Zhenguan period, natural disasters continued, last year there was a drought, and this year I don't know if there are any natural disasters. So the people have been struggling below the food and clothing line.
Although it is preached in history that it is a prosperous era, what Lu Hanyang sees cannot be associated with the prosperous era at all.