In the evening after the dispersal of the dynasty, Wang Hao came to Liang Shicheng's mansion from the small door connected to Liang Shicheng's mansion.

Liangfu study.

Wang Hao waited in front of Liang Shicheng, like a filial son and grandson: "Mr. Enfu, I heard that the rice shop in the city that sells rice at a low price was opened by Le Xiao'er, and the price of rice in Biandu has risen to this level, and it seems to be slightly involved with it, what is the idea of this Le Xiao'er?" ”

"The old man also heard about this!" Liang Shicheng, who was sitting on the chair, half closed his eyes, and was also thinking hard: "What the hell is this Le Xiao'er's idea?" It's getting more and more unpredictable! ”

Whether it is Liang Shicheng or Wang Hao, there are a group of henchmen and people who listen to the news, Biandu usually has any movements, as long as he hears it, it will be transmitted immediately, and Lotte as the political enemy of the two, in front of His Majesty more and more favored, Yu Chao gradually has a decisive momentum, naturally become the focus of the two, ordinary Lotte has some superficial things, will also reach the ears of the two at the first time.

Handing the brewed tea to Liang Shicheng, Wang Hao continued: "Mr. Enfu, I think Nale Xiaoer has always been a person who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early, the price of grain in Biandu is still high, and Nale Xiaoer's family has a lot of assets, how can he care about the price of rice and grain, what is the meaning of this move?" ”

"When you say that, our family is even more confused!" Hearing Wang Hao say this, Liang Shichang sighed, trying his best to find out the purpose of Lotte's doing.

Wang Hao thought for a while and said: "Does Le Xiao'er intend to use this to suppress other merchants in Biandu, and want to dominate the grain market in one fell swoop in the future to monopolize its profits?" ”

Liang Shicheng obviously disdained such statements: "There is a little profit from rice grain, as far as the old man knows, the ticket number and sea trade handled by Nale Xiaoer are all daily income and gold making a living, and our family is also coveted very much, how can Nale Xiaoer care about the small profit of the rice shop!" ”

"That'...... Is this happy child for his intentions? Wang Hao became more and more puzzled.

Not only Liang Shicheng and Wang Hao, but also a number of well-informed officials in the DPRK couldn't figure out what Lotte meant.

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Yang Zhi, who has been with Lotte and has very few words, couldn't help but ask questions, and bowed to Lotte: "Hou Ye, the little stupid, although the price of rice in Biandu is expensive, as long as the court closes the position and gives porridge to relieve hunger, the price of rice can return to normal after half a month, so why should Hou Ye do this?" ”

In this regard, Lotte smiled: "Let me ask you, Gyeonggi, Jingdong, and Jingxi Zhulu, who has the most land?" ”

"Little ones don't know!" Yang Zhi shook his head.

"Nale will tell you, Gyeonggi, Jingdong, and Jingxi Zhulu, who has the most land!" Lotte smiled.

Listening to Yang Zhi's question, along with Wu Song and Shakuchi, they also got better, and they all looked at Lotte to hear the answer.

After a pause, Le Cai said: "It's Cai Jing, the former prime minister of this dynasty!" ”

Yang Zhi raised his eyebrows and said: "The dignified prime minister has put so many fields and properties, aren't you afraid that they will be pointed out by the people?" ”

"This dynasty does not suppress land annexation, let alone land trading!" Wu Song worked as an errand in the Yamen, and he was more aware of some things in the imperial court, and his expression was indifferent.

Shakuchi just said well: "How much land does the little good Cai Jing have?" ”

Lotte said: "Some time ago, the official ordered someone to thoroughly investigate the case of the Gongtian Office, and the lands in Gyeonggi, Jingdong, and Jingxi were all encroached upon by the Gongtian except for the royal relatives and officials, and it was naturally easy for the royal relatives and magnates to find out how many fields the Cai family had. ”

Shakuchi estimated and said, "Cai Jing's family must have twenty or thirty thousand acres of land!" ”

Lotte shook his head and said with a smile: "It's almost as much as 20 times the base number of this base!" ”

"So, Cai Jing's family has at least 400,000 acres of land?" This time even Wu Song opened his mouth in surprise, Wu Song had stayed in the yamen, and he still had some numbers about how many fields the big family had, but it was the first time he heard such a big number of times.

Ignoring the surprise of a few people, Lotte continued: "Cai Jing has more than 400,000 acres of good land, nearly 200,000 mu in western Beijing, and the annual rice grain collected is more than 10,000 quintals, and more than 10,000 pieces of silver. ”

Hearing this, Wu Song and Yang Zhi were all taken aback, according to this calculation, the field and mulberry silk weaving combined, Cai Jing has at least 40,000 yuan of income a year.

Cai Jing has been the prime minister for more than 20 years, and after Zhao Huan succeeded to the throne, he confiscated Cai Jing's family property, and his family's land property was sold from the Jingkang period to the seven years of Jianyan of Gaozong Zhao Gou, and there are still many unsold properties, which shows how many industries his family has. Of course, it has something to do with the war at that time, and the people were unable to buy land.

Wu Song had a keen sense of smell and instantly captured the key to Lotte's words: "Cai Jing has been a minister for nearly 20 years, and he has always been corrupt as an official, so it is not enough for his family to have so much land, but the official said that the rice and grain produced by his field are all covered by his family, could it be that the rice and grain in Biandu are all sold by Cai Jing?" ”

Without waiting for Lotte to speak, Yang Zhiyan said: "An ordinary cooking cake in Biandu costs six yuan, how can such a high price be other than that?" ”

Shakuchi hurriedly followed: "Yes, the most, some time ago, I went back to Pingyu's hometown with Hou Ye, and a cooking cake was only two yuan, and the cooking cake in Biandu was more than a circle. ”

Thinking of returning to Pingyu, Shakuchi still has a sense of vanity, how many people in Pingyu will pay attention to themselves in the past, but this time it is very different to return to Pingyu with Lotte, don't say that it is those priests, scribes, and fast officials in the county government, as well as the outsiders and insiders in the countryside, that is, the county lord also smiled when he saw himself, and the words of the seven officials in front of the prime minister's door are not false.

Everywhere shakuchi went, the sound of horses was heard endlessly, and even the relatives of the shakuchi family were all proud of shakuchi.

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Since mid-spring, there has not been a single rain around Gyeonggi, and the capital is now almost starving.

Not only the monarchs and ministers of the court were worried, but even Emperor Maode, who lived in the palace ban, was also worried.

The fourth day of the sixth month is the period for Emperor Maode to get married, and now it is still raining, the drought is not alleviated, and the marriage of the princess of the heavenly family may be delayed.

In later generations, there is a saying called the abandoned cat effect, saying that if the cat is abandoned and picked up again, it will be super well-behaved, because it is afraid of being abandoned again. In fact, this statement does not exist and is unreliable, but some people put this statement into human feelings, saying that people have been abandoned in love, and they will suffer from gains and losses when they fall in love again.

The abandonment of the cat effect doesn't matter to cats, but for people, it has a full basis, because of the shadow of the previous failure with Cai Ying, for fear that something will go wrong with Lotte's family affairs, and Emperor Mao began to suffer some gains and losses, and became depressed.

At the end of May, Biandu finally entered the plum season, and the rain that had not been seen for nearly 100 days poured down from the sky, and the drought around Gyeonggi since mid-spring was eased.

Seeing the heavy rain falling from the sky, Emperor Maud's originally hanging heart finally let go.

The state is a violent agency, and it is natural for the grain merchants who want to deal with a lot of price hikes, especially when Lotte put forward the concept of monopoly, and after Zhao Ji's instructions, the Criminal Department will not only define the concept of monopoly, but also propose an anti-monopoly law for this purpose, so that the Kaifeng government will come forward to rectify a group of grain merchants.

June is getting closer and closer, and the Pingyu Marquis Mansion is becoming more and more busy.

At present, the Pingyu Marquis Mansion is not the Hou Mansion in Panlou, but has moved to the first district of Biandu, where Yang Jian originally lived, and the house of Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, was half sold and half sent.

Although this mansion is a little farther away from Ouchi, it is better than the mansion occupies a very large area, and the residence of the concubines of the Le family no longer has to be as crowded as before, and even the same bed with the Le Hou Ye at night, and the Le Hou Ye made it comfortable, and wanted to call excitedly, but for fear that others would hear it, he had to grit his teeth and hold on, not only that he felt that it was difficult to release, but that Lotte Jue was not stingy enough to be fun, and now he can let go.

The wedding of Lord Le Hou is imminent, and the Le family began to be fully busy, but Lotte is like a side person, watching the procedures and various settings of this way, and there is no room for Lotte and Sister Le's to operate, because it is a marriage with the palace, and everything is presided over by officials of the Ministry of Etiquette and palace personnel.

However, Lotte still has to usher in the send-off, because the big wedding is imminent, there are a lot of familiar, known, familiar, and unknown people appear in front of them, warmly greeting and asking if they need help, and then disappear after a false courtesy.

May 29 is a good day, because according to the Taishi Bureau, today is an auspicious day, which is an auspicious day for marriage.

The Taishi Bureau, which was originally the yamen that observed the celestial phenomena, calculated the solar terms, and formulated the calendar, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Southern Dynasties, often belonged to the Taishi Lingzhang Tianshi ephemeris. The secretary of Sui Province belonged to Taishi Cao, and Emperor Yang changed Cao to prison. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Taishi Supervisor was changed to the Taishi Bureau, and the heirs were renamed the Secretary Pavilion, the Hun Tian Supervision Yuan, and the Hillary Yi Supervisor several times, or they belonged to the Secretary Province. During the Kaiyuan period, it was reverted to the Taishi Bureau, and in the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, it was renamed Si Tiantai. The Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty were called Si Tianjian, and after the restructuring of Yuanfeng, it was changed to the Taishi Bureau. Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was changed to the well-known Qintianjian.

It stands to reason that the Taishi Bureau is only in charge of the celestial statues to calculate the solar terms, but due to the underdevelopment of science and technology in ancient times, it is impossible to explain all kinds of natural phenomena.

To be precise, today's emperor and his father-in-law want to have a meeting with the prospective Marquis of Ma Le, and the two sides want to agree on a good and auspicious day for marriage.

The Son of Heaven first sent an envoy to the house of the prospective horse to read the edict, announcing that the prospective horse should be sent to Donghuamen, and the emperor would receive the prospective horse in the palace and reward the prospective horse with a dowry gift.

After receiving the decree of thanksgiving, the concubine had to stay in the palace to eat, and the banquet prepared by the emperor for him was quite high-standard, and during the meal, the court band was still playing beautiful music on the side to cheer up the emperor and the prospective horses.

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