Chapter 8: Dialogue at the City Gate

Liu Zheng had a black line in his head: "Dad, I'm your son, what you said!" ”

"Humph!" Liu Chengzong looked at Liu Zheng with a dark face and said, "Just because you are my son, I said that!" What you are thinking in your heart, what you are doing, you know in your heart, if I don't look at you, you will be poked out of the hole this day! ”

Liu Zheng was slightly stunned, there is something in Dad's words, does Dad know? It's impossible, there were no outsiders at the three of them last night, even if Dad planted someone in his Zhuangzi, it is impossible for anyone to know, Old Man Wei's courtyard is surrounded by his absolute henchmen, could it be that someone among them has defected and been bought by Daddy?

"Dad, you are too high of the child's ability, the sky is so high, the child can't reach it at all!"

"Hmph, don't think I don't know what you think, are you planning to entangle those friends on your rivers and lakes and take the second master to their warehouse outside the city?"

Call! Liu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that what his father was thinking about was this, okay, okay, fortunately, what his father said was not what he planned to rebel about, otherwise he would really doubt his own life, and the people he personally cultivated could still defect, so what kind of rebellion would he have, and he would hang himself on the southeast branch. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

put on a flattering smile and said: "Haha, what, Dad, you are really as wise as a torch, you can see through the child's thoughts at a glance!" ”

Liu Chengzong snorted again and said: "It's good that you know, don't always think that no one in this world is smarter than you, be careful and suffer a big loss in the future!" ”

"Yes, yes, what Daddy taught me is that the child must study hard, make persistent efforts, and strive to be the smartest person in the world!"

"Huh? Darn! ”

"Well, okay, Dad, the child is wrong, the child must hold his tail and be a man in the future!"

"It's pretty much the same, hurry up and change your clothes, don't look at what time it is, you're still sitting at home, the prefect blames it, do you eat the guilt?"

"Yes, yes, go change your clothes!"

Liu Zheng hurriedly walked to the backyard, Liu Chengzong looked at his son's back, and a fine light flashed in his cloudy eyes, but this essence light only flashed away, and the eyes became cloudy again.

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Three thousand stones of grain were delivered to Wang Jiabin, and Wang Jiabin finally breathed a sigh of relief, these grains were enough for the tens of thousands of homeless people outside the city for seven or eight days, which gave him seven or eight days of relief.

He has already sent someone to Yangzhou to buy grain, although there is no shortage of silver in the treasury, but according to the current price of rice, it is not a problem to buy tens of thousands of stones, and he also plans to meet the new prince for a while, this Qingzhou is his fiefdom, this world is also the world of his Zhu family, he doesn't believe that the prince is not a dime.

Liu Zheng followed Liu Chengzong out of the house, went to the yamen, and learned that the prefect went to the north city gate, and the two masters of Tongzhi and Tongju went to the south city gate, and came out of the yamen, Liu Chengzong went to the north gate, and Liu Zheng took the two little officials in the yamen who were mixed with him to the south city gate.

When he came back this morning, he saw the soup kitchen outside the south gate of the city, and when he entered the city, he saw the two great masters standing on the tower of the city gate.

Yu Zheng looked at Liu Zheng who came over and squinted his eyes slightly, Qian You snorted disdainfully, and Yu Zheng heard Qian You's cold snort and was slightly displeased.

Yu Zheng has been in Qingzhou for nearly seven years, and Qian You has only been here for more than three years, for Liu Chengzong's son, Yu Zheng obviously has a clearer understanding than Qian You, don't look at him all day long and don't do a little bit of business, but in this yamen, it is extremely open, although most of the people here are looking at the face of his father Liu Chengzong, but Yu Zheng does not underestimate Liu Zheng at all.

Other state capitals, the prefect's yamen and the same knowledge yamen are separated, but there are many in the Ming Dynasty like this Qingzhou Mansion, the prefect and the same governor work in the same yamen, don't look at him has been here for seven years, but the history of each room in the yamen does not listen to his own, in addition to the history of the six rooms, the other five room officials, households, soldiers, criminals, and workers do not listen to their own greetings at all.

is like this himself, not to mention the new prefect Wang Jiabin, but even so, this Qian You still can't recognize the situation.

In this world, there are no officials who are not afraid of oil officials and slippery officials, and the officials in this Qingzhou Mansion are really a model of sliding officials and oil officials in the world, and the heads of these people are none other than Liu Chengzong, the head catcher who is not visible in the government office, this is the real powerful person.

Liu Chengzong is powerful, his son is not simple, don't look at him all day long, causing trouble, but all those errand workers in this yamen do not listen to him, father and son, one controls the history of each room, and the other controls all the errands, hehe, they really regard this yamen as their own backyard.

At this time, when he saw Liu Zheng coming, Yu Zheng smiled and said, "Nephew Liu Xian, why did you come to me without serving the eldest master?" This call of Liu Xian's nephew was very close.

Yu Zheng didn't hide his disagreement with his boss, Liu Zheng listened to it really, and heard him call himself a virtuous nephew, beating snakes with sticks, and hugged his fists with a sly smile: "The prefect is too busy and chaotic, I came to your old man's house to hide and be quiet!" ”

"You little slippery!"

"What the second master criticized is that I will definitely correct it in the future!"

Liu Zheng and Yu Zheng were laughing here, but Qian You on the side said in a weird manner: "I really don't know what to say, now the victims are everywhere, and I and other officials are busy relocating the victims, why is this your little catcher but lazy?" ”

Qian You's weird words did not arouse Liu Zheng's disgust at all, but replied with a smile: "Lord Tongju, what you said is not right, you forgot about my family's donation of 3,000 stone of rice grain yesterday so quickly?" ”

"You ......" Qian You was not lightly angered by Liu Zheng's words, and snorted heavily: "You are so shameless, now the people are displaced, and tens of thousands of people are waiting to be fed, but you maliciously hoard rice and grain to raise the price, and do such evil things, once the people are provoked, I will play Your Majesty, and you will wait for Your Majesty to punish your nine clans!" ”

You cow, all at once put the hat that stirred up the people on my head! Is Lao Tzu really scared?

Liu Zheng pretended to be afraid and said: "It is actually a small thing to provoke a civil uprising, the small one is so afraid, the small one will definitely do everything to prevent this from happening!" ”

Qian You thought he had won, and smiled proudly: "It's good that you know!" ”

Liu Zheng hurriedly said: "The little one has retired, and the little one will go to persuade his father to donate all the rice and grain he has hoarded!" ”

Liu Zheng left in a panic, Qian You laughed happily, Yu Zheng is contemplative, Qian You is ****, he Yu Zheng is not, don't look at Liu Zheng's panicked face, but his eyes are as calm as a pool of still water.

Liu Zheng really didn't panic, and when he got off the city wall, he gave two instructions to the two catchers who followed him, Mao Fei and Li Gouzi, and the two of them immediately rushed to the west of the city after getting the order, while Liu Zheng returned home and teased the maid.

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The soup was safe for a few days, but by the seventh day, the rice in the bowls was so thin that there were almost no grains of rice visible.

A large number of rumors began to spread among the victims, and the victims became more and more restless, and the prefect Wang Jiabin's hair was almost gray, pacing back and forth in the back hall of the palace.

While pacing Wang Jiabin, he kept saying: "Mr. Feiyu, why haven't you come back, why haven't you come back!" ”

Maybe he couldn't stand it anymore, and Lu Zuo, the only pusher who was still with Wang Jiabin, said: "My lord, I went to Yangzhou for hundreds of miles, and it took more than ten days to go back and forth, but it has only been seven days, how can Mr. Feiyu go back?" ”

"Maoyang, what should I do, what should I do, tomorrow will inevitably break rice, hateful, those rice merchants should die, Liu Chengzong should die, Yu Zhengqian You should die, even Zhu Changshu, the king of Heng, should also die!"

Lu Zuo was shocked, this Wang Jiabin is crazy, dare to say such a thing? Wang Jiabin was indeed about to go crazy, he thought that King Heng would not watch this Qingzhou City have an accident, after all, this is his fiefdom, and it is not good for him to mess up, but who would have thought that the first few **** went to this King Heng to discuss the matter of borrowing grain, not only was he severely humiliated, but he was also beaten out with a stick.

What made him hate even more was the Inspection Division, he asked Sun Baicheng of the Inspection Department to lead the troops to force the other three grain stores to ask for food, but this Sun Baicheng came with a push, two, five or six, and now his prefect is asking for soldiers and no soldiers, and there are tens of thousands of disaster victims outside the city who want to make trouble, how can he not be driven crazy?

"My lord, there is only one way now!"

Hearing what Lu Zuo said, Wang Jiabin immediately rejoiced: "What can Maoyang do, tell me quickly!"

Lu Zuo sighed softly and said, "Why don't you go to Liu Chengzong?" ”

"Looking for Liu Chengzong?" Wang Jiabin was slightly stunned, and then sighed and said: "Maoyang, I know what you mean, but I got three thousand stone grains from him last time, and I still rely on Yu Zheng and Qian You, and now I go to him to ......."

Lu Zuo smiled slightly: "Why did the adults think that he would not give food?" ”

Wang Jiabin said in a daze: "Do you need to say this?" What is he stockpiling food for? He wished that the more people who died in Qingzhou, the better, and then he would not only be able to buy the land from the people at a lower price, but also rely on the high-priced grain to get back the money from the people who sold the fields! ”

At this moment, Lu Zuo smiled as if Kong Ming possessed his body: "My lord, under normal circumstances, it may be like this, but now the situation is different, if the rice grain is cut off tomorrow, it will inevitably set off a civil unrest, once the chaos starts, will Qingzhou still be saved?" ”

Wang Jiabin twisted his brows and thought for a moment and said: "Maoyang, I won't hide it from you, Mr. Feiyu carefully told me when he left, never close the city gate when there is rice, so the city gate is still open these days, but tomorrow there will be no food, after the city gate is closed tonight, it will not be opened again tomorrow!" At that time, there will be soldiers guarding the city, as long as they delay for a day or two to come to the Lingshan camp to help, the civil unrest can be stopped, and Qingzhou will be protected, but if you do this, the people will inevitably have some casualties......"

There will be some dead and wounded! If Liu Zheng heard this, he would inevitably be laughed at angrily!