PS: There are two more chapters in the evening

"From this month onwards, the Anyi salt official will not accept salt for the time being......"

"What!?" Hearing this, all the salt workers, as well as the father of the daughter of the salt family, were struck by lightning, and they all asked, "Superior, what ......is this?" Why is that? “

"I don't know the specifics? It's just that I won't collect it this month. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" the city clerk prevaricated.

"And what about next month?" The father of the daughter of the salt clan asked loudly.

"I don't know, I don't know, when the time comes, you will come and see, in short, leave quickly, and Hugh will delay the entry of the car into the market." He became impatient and asked the salt workers to be driven away, and the family of the daughter of the salt family had to leave in a huff.

On the way back, the old salt worker vented his anger on his daughter, and kept scolding her, scolding her for not marrying anymore and staying at home to eat rice.

When leaving Anyi, in a trance, she only thought that she had seen a figure similar to her husband on the street, ignoring her father's scolding, and hurriedly went over to grab the man, who expected that when the man turned around, the daughter of the Yan family only saw an ugly man whose skin was rotten like leprosy, and opened his mouth and asked in a hoarse voice: "What are you doing?" “

"The concubine recognized the wrong person...... "Who is her husband?" The look, voice and temperament are not the same, the daughter of the Yan family jumped to the side in fright, and bowed sorry, the ugly man ignored her anymore, turned his head and left angrily, and the daughter of the Yan family noticed that the cuffs on one side of him were empty......

"Maybe I've been tortured......" She shuddered and walked away, but she couldn't help but look back a few more times, and she was inevitably reprimanded by her salt worker's father again.

scolded and scolded, but although the city officials did not collect salt, they did not say anything to death, and the family could only stay up for another month, and try their luck next month.

……

The market officials really didn't know the reason why the Anyi salt officials no longer collected salt from the folk salt workers, but Wei Manduo, the head of the Wei family, was worried about this matter.

"What is the situation in Hexi?" As soon as Lu Xing arrived in Anyi, he was summoned into the mansion by Wei Manduo for questioning

Lu Xing was worried: "It's not good, although the Qin people don't have many troops, they are very difficult, some positions along the Yushui have been lost, and the Qin people have driven straight into the autumn millet." “

"The gains and losses of some Xiaoyi are insignificant, but we must not let the enemy eat my corn, you know, eat me for one hour, and be the enemy for ten minutes!"

Here's what happened, originally Hedong was affected by the disaster, so Wei hoped that Hexi would have a harvest to solve the urgent need. Unexpectedly, the Qin people took advantage of the disaster of the Wei clan and sent troops to cut down the grain, cut the grain and rob the people, a large area of corn fields was robbed, and many Hexi people also ran to the Qin State.

This is tantamount to adding insult to injury for the Wei family, because of Hexi, they have paid a huge price, and for Hexi, they have formed an undying grudge with the Qin State. Now Wei has been hit hard by drought and locust plagues, but he cannot get the feedback of Hexi, which Wei Mando cannot accept.

"The gentleman is still struggling to maintain himself in Hexi, and I hope that the head of the family will send troops again, and he will definitely be able to repel the Qin people as soon as possible and strive to transport grain to Hedong."

Wei and his son lived on both sides of the river in the east and west, and the situation on either side was not optimistic, and Wei Ju had to deal with the unruly people of Hexi, and he must also repel the enemy's counterattack and prevent spies from infiltrating. Wei Man is a little more relaxed than his son, he has to deal not only with sudden natural disasters, but also with long-planned man-made disasters and suspicious neighbors.

The reason why Wei Manduo was so eager for grain in Hexi was also because there was a big problem with Anyi salt, one of the pillars of Wei's economy. In August and September of this year, just after the catastrophe, the salt merchants of Chaoge, Puyang, and Taoqiu suddenly stopped buying Anyi salt! Now the treasury of Anyi is full of salt, but the grain is empty, so the salt workers have returned in vain.

Because even Wei Manduo himself is counting on Ling Hubo, who is in charge of the resale of salt, to send back the news from the Central Plains, what is going on!?

As for the food to solve his urgent needs, he can only be cheeky now, in the name of the Houma Alliance, to borrow grain from the neighboring Han clan.

Han Hu quickly replied, in which he said "uncle", but refused to borrow food on the grounds that he was also seriously affected.

Similar to Wei's Hexi, Han's occupation of Chenggao is also a source of disaster that plunges them into continuous wars, taking advantage of the disaster of the Jin Kingdom, the Zheng people also tried to counterattack to recapture there, Han Hu was naturally unwilling to let go, and in the rest of the month, the two sides had carried out several attacks and defenses in Chenggao, but they couldn't help each other. In the face of the strong fortress built by Lu Ban's supervision, Zheng Guoren could only look at the city and sigh, and the Han clan was also unable to expand the results of the battle because of its limited strength and the impact of drought and locust plagues.

On the contrary, the Zhao family, who Wei Manduo did not ask for, took the initiative to send people to inquire about the disaster, and eagerly wanted to help the Wei family to help the victims and transport grain into Hedong.

Wei Manduo only felt his eyelids jump, when the locust plague was rampant, he had made people rumored that the natural disaster was caused by Zhao Wuxian's immoral dictatorship, but Zhao quickly fought back with effective disaster control methods, so that Wei Manduo, who worshiped the locust temple but was useless, was not embarrassed. Seeing that the contradictions in the territory were becoming more and more intense, he couldn't come up with any good ideas, but when the Zhao family took the initiative to help, the suspicious Wei Manduo felt that there was a ghost in it......

He did not agree at the first time, but mobilized soldiers to be careful at the boundary between Zhao and Wei.

"The secretaries of the Jin State are all beggar-thy-neighbor people, the Zhao family is so diligent, if I don't guard against it, I'm afraid that I will be attacked. Rather than receiving Zhao's poisonous assistance, I might as well wait for the price of salt in the Central Plains to rise, or for the grain from Hexi to arrive. “

But he can prevent it from the outside, but he can't prevent it from the inside.

……

Ever since the locusts had eaten up the crops, and since she had been driven back by the city officials to deliver salt in Anyi, the daughter of the Yan family had always had a bitter face, and she was in charge of cooking rice from time to time to lift the lid of the rice jar to see that the rice in the rice jar was getting less and less, and finally saw the bottom.

Her father and brothers no longer go to the salt pond to collect salt, but roam the mountains in search of wild vegetables, especially the locusts that have not eaten the clean roots and tubers. They even put the bran of the first year in the wind and blew it again and again, and found some grains of rice from it, and in these days, the rice was counted almost one by one.

The situation worsened, and the people in the countryside who did not want to go to Hexi to work as conscripts fled to the mountains to work as robbers, in fact, it was difficult to find food in the mountains, so they could only fiercely rob others to make a living. There are also one or two people who quietly left their hometown and embarked on the road of escaping the famine, their destination is the eldest son of the Zhao family two hundred miles away, it is said that the disaster there is not bad, even if there is no food, relying on Zhao Qing's relief, the farmer can still have food and clothing.

In short, the people of Yanchi-eup are looking for all kinds of ways out, and they have already expected that the future is not good, the most alert people have gone, and when it enters the middle of winter, most of the remaining people will also leave their homes, leaving this land that has lost hope.

The family of the daughter of the salt family thought about it, and there was no other way out, but they could only guard the almost empty village like most salt worker families, break a small piece of salt and put it in their mouths every day, and drink a large bowl of gruel mixed with wild vegetable roots, so that their stomachs were in a state of fullness, and they pretended that they were full.

Because the salt officials in the market promised that they would give them an answer next month.

Maybe next month, the salt you have worked so hard to pick will be exchanged for food?

The weather is getting colder, the days are getting shorter and shorter, and the cold nights are constantly consuming people's calories, and the period from late to morning seems to never end, and the family can only lie in bed hungry and sleep, hoping never to wake up.

Because as soon as you wake up, you will have the desire to eat.

On the first day of October, when the family finally ran out of cooking, the daughter of the Yan family boiled the last few grains of rice into porridge, and the family drank it silently, and then pulled the salt cart again and walked towards Anyi.

More than 1,000 salt workers around Anyi made an appointment that they would go to the market outside Anyi again on this day to exchange grain.

Everyone has already discussed, if it doesn't work, go and ask the head of the house for help!

These families were exhausted, and they marched towards Anyi with their last hope, and the single family slowly converged into a stream, which then became a big river, and finally densely blocked outside the city of Anyi.

However, this time, Wei Yan did not even let the salt workers enter the market.

……

Anyi Salt Market used to be the most lively salt trading place, and people came and went, and it was extremely prosperous. But after the catastrophe, the daughter of the Yan family always felt that the red tiles on the exterior wall of Anyi City were no longer as bright as before, and the market was not as lively as before, it seemed a little deserted, and wild grass was spreading around.

"Officer, can you change the salt this month?" The father of the daughter of the salt clan raised his head and asked the officials upstairs.

The city officials were expressionless, the price of salt was still plummeting, and the salt production in Anyi Pond was overproduced, and when the price was run, it was faced with the dilemma of not being able to sell it.

"There is no grain in the treasury to exchange salt with you...... Thou shalt ...... I'll come back next month. “

Everyone was in an uproar, and immediately someone said angrily: "Next month, next month, why is it always next month!" Next month, Naigong's entire family starved to death! “

"I always say that there is a shortage of food, isn't this food?"

The father of the daughter of the Yan family also pointed to the grain that was constantly loaded and transported in the market and asked, there are always a few places in Hedong that have escaped the invasion of locusts, but all the grain brought to Anyi must naturally meet the needs of the government and the secretary first, followed by the military, as for the salt workers, it is not in the scope of consideration.

"Our ancestors picked salt for the Wei family, so the salt is the clan, the ancestor of the family once had an oath with our people, to exchange grain for grain, generation to generation, but now they have broken their promises, if we don't change grain today, we will not leave!"

"Diao Min, what are you talking about?"

The city official was impatient again, and with a wave of his hand, he let the soldiers guarding the market drive him away, and accidentally saw blood in the middle of the push......

"Murdered!"

Seeing someone falling, the salt workers, who were already forced by hunger, were immediately annoyed, and they were not vegetarians, so they picked up the hoes of salt mining and fought with the city officials.

"It's the other way around! Instead of waiting to starve to death, it is better to grab food and go home! I don't know who shouted this, and the salt workers, as well as the hungry people with green eyes on the edge of the market, suddenly blew up, and they forgot their original intentions and threw themselves at the carts loaded with grain......

History records this day like this: In the winter and October of the 22nd year of Gong, Hedong was hungry, and the salt workers of Anyi rebelled!

(To be continued.) )