Chapter 50: The Pioneer (Part II)

At the end of the year, there was more than one caravan heading north against the cold wind. At the end of the year, the members of the Huaxia Fuxing Society who went deep into the tiger's den in the caravan were not only Chang Fugui.

They are all young, and most of them can write and calculate, and even if they don't take any risks, they can live quite rich in this life. However, at least at this moment, he didn't go but no one calculated his personal life and death. They sprinkled like seeds, Jeju, Gotang, Cheongju, Dadu, and even as far as Kaipyeong and Yingchang. They silently took root everywhere, silently sprouted, and grown, until one day, they bloomed bright flowers with their lives.

According to later statistics from the Huaxia Fuxing Society, before and after the Northern Expedition and later during the period of stabilizing the region, more than 1,100 members of the Fuxing Society died at the hands of the Mengyuan army and the gentry. In the early days of the Northern Expedition, the entire Fuxing Society had only 3,000 members.

A great sacrifice also means a great gain.

It was only in the short period of ten days from the end of the month to the tenth day of the first month that the price of rice in cities north of the Yellow River rose by 30% like a rocket. Different from the natural fluctuations in the price of rice noodles during the previous Chinese New Year, this fluctuation did not have any downward posture as soon as it jumped up. As soon as the market opened on the tenth day of the first lunar month, the numbers on the water signs of each grain store frightened the people who came to buy rice. Brown rice went from 220 Wen Huai at the end of the month to 300 Wen. And the price of one stone of white noodles is as high as five hundred. This is still the standard Huaxia Tongbao discount, and if you use the copper coin, it will be doubled.

"Shopkeeper Sun, you are also black-hearted. If you dare to raise the price like this in the first month, you are not afraid that you will be seen by the king of the stove and be punished by God?! Immediately, some people scolded, with unconcealable grief and indignation in their voices.

It is common sense that businesses will make an extra sum of money during the New Year's holidays, and everyone can tolerate it. But the years have passed, and he still keeps the high price, which is deliberately cheating people. You must know that for almost a whole year last year, the price of rice hovered around 150 yuan a stone, and many people in the city were used to it, and they didn't even think about hoarding next year's rations in the autumn. And the rice shop waited until the end of the year, and continued to directly double the price of rice, which is equivalent to grabbing money from everyone's pockets. Who's money is earned back when beads of sweat fall to the ground and fall eight petals, how can they withstand this kind of conscience robbery?

"Yes, Shopkeeper Sun. It snowed so heavily last year, why didn't it look like there was going to be a famine? Your boss is going to do this for the New Year, what's the picture?! ”

"Shopkeeper Sun, two hundred and two at the end of the year, we also admit it. After all, it's the end of the year, and you and the guys are working hard. But the year is over, you have to do well, let's have a full meal, right?! ”

The other people around also spoke. Move it with affection, know it with reason, and advise the shopkeeper Sun not to do the lack of virtue in the neck of the card person!

Unexpectedly, instead of listening to persuasion, the shopkeeper Sun immediately patted his thigh and shouted. "Oh, I said old and young masters, all the neighbors, you all say that I lack virtue, am I willing to be poked in the back? It's all looking down and looking up to see the old neighbor, I have nothing to do to do what are you doing? It's really, really unlawful. For the whole winter, there was not much rice from the south. This is spring, and it is said that the Huai thief will go north. As soon as this battle starts, who knows when and when peace will be restored. There is only so much rice and grain in my store, and if you sell one bucket, you will lose one bucket, how dare you sell it cheaply all at once?! ”

"Is there really going to be a war?"

"Yes, his Uncle Sun, you are always well-informed, do you really want to fight?"

"Oh, that's terrible! Master Sun, why didn't you let everyone know earlier!."

When everyone heard this, they immediately didn't care about accusing the shopkeeper Sun of lacking morality, and they all got to the bottom of it with a white face.

"That's what I just knew, old and young masters!" Shopkeeper Sun had a bitter face, and bowed his hand to everyone again and again, "If I had known about Xin'er, I wouldn't have hurried to persuade the owner to hoard tens of thousands of stone grain." Sensei said that it was sold, even if it was left in the warehouse and looked at it, it was also steady! But I'm just like everyone else, I'm just a little common man. Usually just do a small business to support the family, but if you really encounter something big, who will tell me! ”

"Alas!"

"Alas! What bad luck! ”

"Isn't it? It's only been a few days?! ”

Sighs, one after another. Whether it is a change of dynasty or a change of generation, it is all a matter for heroes and heroes. Who can the little people stop? Who cares that their families are ruined by war?

After sighing, everyone looked at each other, took out the maximum number that could be used in their pockets, and bought rice from Shopkeeper Sun and the men. If there is really a fight, the price of rice will definitely continue to rise. Buy more today, and you'll be able to spend a few hundred less copper coins later. Although it is only a difference of a few hundred texts, dozens of buckets, or three or two stones, it often means that you can survive this war, or starve to death!

Some people were unwilling, and while watching the guys fill their grain pockets with rice, they asked tentatively: "Uncle Sun, Master Sun, didn't you say that the people of Huaiyang govern the country with business and covet dividends?" In the first few battles, they didn't jam the canal. This time"

"The problem is, this time is different. In the past, the imperial court was able to gain the upper hand to some extent, but they only thought about self-preservation, and they did not dare to do anything. But this time, the imperial court, alas, don't say it! Too much is a curse! Shopkeeper Sun looked around vigilantly and closed his mouth again.

The court is no longer good, this is something that anyone with a discerning eye can see. Although the turmoil last autumn had little impact on the people, the common people knew that everything was prosperous for their families and talents. The father and the son have both moved the knife, how can this family be invincible?

"The point is, even if the Huai'an Army doesn't jam the canal, we won't dare to do business from the river anymore!" There are some things that Shopkeeper Sun didn't dare to say, but among the guests who came to buy rice, there were bold ones, and they pointed out a fact when they opened their mouths. "Think about it, the emperor can't even control his wife and children, can he control those arrogant soldiers and generals below? When you brought rice from the south, you wanted to take the opportunity to make a lot of money, and you were accumulating great merit from the Buddha. But when the official looked at it, hey, so much rice, it just so happened that I was short of military rations here. The kind-hearted knife flashed and let you put down the grain ship and leave. When you meet that black-hearted person, find a crime to put a charge on your head, and take it away with people and boats. Do you still expect your wife and children to go to the capital to sue the emperor and let the emperor come forward to administer justice for you? Alas! ”

"Ahh When they heard this, they sighed in unison again. What kind of virtue the officers and soldiers of Mengyuan are, everyone knows it clearly in their hearts. Every time they passed the canal, the banks were as clean as locusts. After that, whether it is the local government or the emperor in the capital, no one will come forward to recover the loss for the bitter master. This time, the Huai'an army invaded the north, and the officers and men had to go up along the canal. When the convoy carrying grain met officers and soldiers, wasn't it meat buns beating dogs?