Jiyin City, Xingren Prefecture, because of the autumn harvest, is particularly lively on the Jihe River, and boats of all sizes come along the river and transport grain to Jiyin City from all directions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In front of Guo Ji's grain shop in Jiyin City, it was already crowded with people.

"Why has the price been reduced again, yesterday it was still 800 wen with one stone, why is it 760 wen today?"

"Exactly, it doesn't make sense, I heard that this grain shop collects grain, and the price is better than that of the township, so I rushed a hundred miles of land and sent the grain here, just to get a few more dollars, but now it is not as good as the township!"

"What is the price of grain in your township?"

"Alas, Motimoti, seven hundred and fifty Wen, it's not as good as here!"

In the midst of the gossiping voice, Yue Fei looked around, wanting to see the faces of these people. The mountains of grain did not make these people feel happy, and some were only worried.

This is still the farmer who has harvested the grain, and what about those who have not harvested the grain?

"It's out, it's out, it's out, it's out...... What is this, why has it dropped again, seven hundred and fifty Wen, the same as in my township? ”

"Shopkeeper, you can't be so black-hearted!"

After coming out and erasing the six characters in the seven hundred and sixty words written in the chalk and changing them to five characters, the shopkeeper got up and glanced around lightly: "I think the price of the grain I collect is cheap, just ship it to a place where you are willing to pay a high price and sell it, I won't stop you!" ”

After a while, someone came out and said: "The price of the shopkeeper is too low, and in a few days, the price of this grain has dropped by more than 100 wen...... Originally, I was collecting a few extra stones of grain, and I was thinking of pulling two pieces of cotton cloth for my family......"

"Hugh wants to tell me this, do you think I'm willing? Goryeo's grain, transported by sea, is only 700 wen and one stone! The white rice in Jiangnan is better than your rice, and it is only 720 wen and one stone! If you are not convinced, just go to the grain stores and ask, who is paying a higher price than me, I will not say a word, but I will post ten times to you! ”

The peasants were clumsy, and they could not be compared with the sharp teeth of this merchant, and he did not know what to do.

"Let's be honest with you, we have a good harvest, but there is also a harvest elsewhere, and a bigger harvest! It won't be long before another grain arrives from Goryeo, and the price of this grain will fall! If you don't believe it, go back and put it away, and then I can save dozens of dollars! ”

As soon as the treasurer of the grain collection said this, everyone sighed again. Some left, but many more remained: who would, if not in a hurry to spend money!

"If the land money law is not implemented, and the people only pay taxes with grain, they will not be exploited by this profiteer again!" Seeing this scene, Yue Fei turned his face to Zhou Quan and said, "Brother, it's a good thing to pay the acres with money, but I'm afraid it's not a good thing to pay taxes with money!" ”

Zhou Quan shook his head, and Yue Fei only saw his appearance. It seems that if you pay taxes with money, you will be subjected to a single exploitation by profiteers, but in fact, if you pay taxes with grain, you will not be less exploited by the officials.

And another important purpose of paying taxes with money is to promote the circulation of goods and money.

In recent years, a large amount of gold, silver, copper and other precious metals have been scavenged from Japan, and the silver and copper coins produced on a large scale by the hydraulic punching method have also made monetary preparations for this purpose, although there are still some shortcomings, but they are barely enough.

"It's not a bad thing to pay taxes with money, but the court failed to follow up with the law of peace, if the price of rice falls, the court guarantees the price of grain, and when the price of rice rises, the court lowers the price and releases grain. I raised the matter, but there was a loud opposition from the DPRK and China. ”

"Why is there such a big opposition to such a move that benefits the country and the people?" Yue Fei asked puzzled.

"Pengju thinks that who is after the big grain merchant, isn't it the powerful people who make decisions in the court?"

"A group of traitors who are mercenary, the officials should sweep them all away!" Yue Fei hated the authentic language.

Zhou Quan smiled and pointed to the signboard of this grain store, which had the word "Tianshui" on it, and he lowered his voice slightly: "This grain store is the periphery of the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce, and the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce is run by the clan, and the official family also has interests in it." Don't say that the Tianshui Chamber of Commerce, those grain stores that rely on the internal eunuchs in the palace and the favored ministers of the Son of Heaven, after they make a profit, which one should not pay a profit to the official family? ”

Yue Fei was stunned for a moment, he was shocked and angry, only to feel that the world in front of him seemed to have collapsed.

It must be known that in the education he received, he has always been an official saint and benevolent, but he was deceived and deceived by villains, but he never thought that how many people could sit on the throne so easily be deceived and deceived?

The so-called emperor is a virtuous monarch, it is all the fault of the ministers, this pot, the ministers have carried it countless times, and they will continue to carry it in the future.

"Taking Liang Shicheng as an example, he can make a net profit of five or six hundred thousand yuan by selling snow sugar every year, but Pengju, do you know how much he has to pay to the official family, only at the beginning of the year, he made a contribution to the official family, and there were as many as 100,000 yuan. If you count it as a whole year, about half of the snow sugar patents have been collected by the government. ”

"Brother, why is there no one to advise the Minister of Chinese Wu, and since you can often see the official family, why don't you advise?"

"Exhortation? Naturally, there are admonitions, for example, the two students Chen Dong and Chen Chao, who have nothing to do, go to the official house, and scold me from the official family to the prime minister and then to me...... But what's the use, the northwest of the imperial court needs money for soldiers, the official family needs money to repair Genyue, it costs money to maintain so many officials and soldiers, and the people still need money when they have floods and droughts. They are happy to scold people, and they have gained a good reputation, but how to solve these places that ask for money? Even if the official family wakes up and doesn't cultivate Genyue, do you say that the summer thief wants to fight? Do you want to raise the forbidden army? Do you want to build bridges and roads in various places? Do you want relief for those who have been hit by floods and droughts? ”

Zhou Quan's series of questions made Yue Fei more and more confused. The people have the truth of the people, and the court has the planning of the court, and the two have become a dilemma.

"In this world, only corrupt Confucianism and pseudo-Confucianism are the most useless, pointing out the head of the country is the way, there is no good way to solve the facts, or a little smarter, just use words to fool people, and the repetition of Zhou etiquette and benevolence can solve all problems, that is, problems in reality, can only be solved in reality, if there is a doctor, tell you that he has a good prescription, can cure all diseases, do you believe it or not?"

Naturally, he didn't believe it, Yue Fei nodded.

Zhou Quan was happy in his heart, seeing that he had transformed Yue Fei's traditional education little by little, which really gave him a sense of accomplishment.

At this moment, the crowd suddenly became chaotic.

Zhou Quan and Yue Fei were in the crowd, and they were a little surprised when they found that they were in a mess, and before a while, they saw a man, surrounded by seven or eight people, and dragged over with all kinds of flowers.

"I caught this guy, it's this kid who dares to burn the grain boat!" One of the guys dragging the man shouted.

"Damn, you dare to burn the grain ship of our Tianshui Chamber of Commerce?" The shopkeeper surnamed Guo screamed: "Tie up, tie up!" ”

"If it weren't for the grain you brought from Goryeo and Jiangnan, how could the price of our grain be so cheap, and if we burned your ship, the price of grain would naturally rise! Don't be happy early, Brother Li Bao will come to my rescue! ”

The kidnapped man shouted, and when he heard this, there was a buzz around him, and Zhou Quan and Yue Fei looked at Li Bao beside them strangely.

Li Bao's face was full of innocence: "It has nothing to do with me......"

"He called your brother, I didn't expect, Bao'er, you actually met a brother who obeyed you so much here." Zhou Quan teased.

"Brother Bao really travels extensively." Yue Fei also nodded repeatedly.

Li Bao is an honest person, and honest people love to compete, hearing Zhou Quan and Yue Fei ridiculing himself, he pulled a person next to him: "Who is Li Bao that man said?" ”

Next to him was a man who came to sell grain, and when he heard him say this, he laughed: "You don't even know Li Bao...... Li Bao is the most famous man in the neighborhood, originally worked in the family farming, in the past two years there have been man-made disasters, his family has no land, so he relies on people to help tenants make a living, but this year the situation is even worse, they say that they blame the food from other places into the house, and there are ......"

While he was talking, someone suddenly shouted: "It's on fire, it's on fire, it's on fire, it's on fire in the cotton field!" ”

Everyone looked out of the city, only to see a large area, black smoke rising to the sky, although it was not clear in the city, but from the shouting, it could be roughly judged that a large area of cotton outside the city was on fire.

At this time, it was the time of cotton picking, and a large area of the cotton field was on fire, which was definitely not an accident, but someone deliberately set it on fire!

"The people did not understand the root cause of their misery, so they expressed their resistance by destroying the tools and the fruits of their labor...... They don't know that doing so is not going to help, but rather to waste the wealth of the world! ”

Hearing the shouting outside, Yue Fei's eyes widened, and he looked at Zhou Quan, what Zhou Quan said to him a few days ago rang in his ears again.

Sure enough, as his brother said, the people burned boats and cotton to express their resistance in this way. And then, when the imperial court suppressed this behavior of the people, and then the people further resisted, and finally embarked on the road of rebellion.

This is the so-called official coercion of the people, in fact, the officials are just tools, and what really forces the people to rebel is the system that makes the people desperate.

Therefore, things change with the passage of time, and when they change, they change, and in order to make the country strong, it is necessary to give the people a way to get rich.

What Zhou Quan instilled in Yue Fei may not be correct, but when he thought about it with reference to what was happening in front of him, he felt that what Zhou Quan said became more and more reasonable.

The cotton fields outside were on fire, and the gongs in the city rang loudly, trying to summon the people out to put out the fire, but which of these peasants who sold grain was willing to work hard for the cotton fields of the rich families, and everyone stood up one by one, and finally they could only transfer the army in the city out.

The shopkeeper Guo's face was not good-looking, he scolded the bound man a few words, and whipped him, but because the grain collection was more important, he finally went to the scales to settle the accounts.

Just as he was having a good time, suddenly there was another chaos in the crowd, and several young men rushed to him, rushed directly to him, and before he could scream, they held him down and tied him up! (To be continued.) )