Chapter 108 The capital is expensive

There are really a lot of rogues who have escaped from Shanxi, but basically all of them have entered Henan. But there were not many people under him who were beaten at the beginning, and there were only about 1,000 people to talk about, but the main force still existed.

At the beginning of the Liukou's entry into Henan, all the Liukou were added together, and there were only one or two thousand people. These people were divided into pieces and went to one side, but the big guys seemed to want to go together, and no one dared to run to Kaifeng, Luoyang, Zhengzhou and other big cities, at most to some small places. In this way, it was very laborious for the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, but even so, they actually killed 70,000 or 80,000 rogues.

Didn't you say that there were only 10,000 or 20,000 rogues, how could you kill so many? To put it bluntly, the reason is very simple, if you can't catch the rogues, you will replace them with ordinary people, and the prefectures, cities, and counties have killed the good and risked their merits. Not only are they not ashamed, they are even proud. As a result, the people were already running out of food, and the government was tossing like this, and many people who were forced to helpless could only go to the rogues.

Among the rogues, Li Zicheng has the best reputation, followed by Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong, so these three also began to grow at a very fast speed. Suppress bandits, suppress bandits, suppress and suppress, and there are more and more bandits.

The news of the rampant bandits in Henan is known to the whole world, and the governor Zhang Ixu can even shamelessly report the report card of his subordinates to the imperial court, and ask the imperial court to reward him.

It was sent to Beijing and entered the cabinet. Lord Yue first looked at it, and was quite satisfied with Zhang Ixu's achievements, and then handed the excerpt to other ministers for circulation, and after reading it, the ministers also praised one after another, saying that they could give Zhang Ixu and the generals a meritorious service, and increase the number of troops and salaries.

But at this time, Lord Yue suddenly felt that something was wrong, and said, "Show me the fold again." ”

After taking the excerpt, Yue Su looked at it again, and then his face became solemn, and he said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the first battle of Taiyuan has beaten the Liukou to pieces, and there is not much left. Now I continue to say on the good news that nearly 80,000 rogue people have been exterminated, if so, the rogue should have been killed, and what will the army be used for? There are also ......" Yue Su said this, his voice became stern, "According to the eyeliner sent to Henan by the imperial court, the current rogue is so strong, except for Luoyang, Kaifeng, and Zhengzhou, there are rogue gangsters everywhere. Since he has killed so many rogues, why are there more and more rogues? ”

When the ministers heard this, they were all speechless and did not move. Seeing that they didn't speak, Yue Su said sternly again: "Isn't he very capable of opening up my future?" In this way, he gave him an order, saying that in the first battle of Taiyuan, there were only 120,000 rogues who escaped, and you can exterminate 70,000 or 80,000 rogues in a short period of time, which is really commendable, and there are few rogues who want to come to Henan. The deadline is one month, let him clear the rogues in Henan, if he can't be cleared, he will be the governor of the end. Okay, let's vote. ”

This kind of thing, Lord Yue can basically give it in one sentence, and there will be no surprises in the result of the vote.

Lord Yue's cabinet office, at home, Li Haoquan, who was dressed in civilian clothes, took more than a dozen people and escorted three mule carts out of the house, he was going to buy rice. Generally speaking, you don't need to go to the position of Lord Yue, even if it is a langzhong in the six yamen, you basically don't need to go out to buy rice at home, just let me know, and the people who send rice are lined up. But Lord Yue's house is different, he does everything by himself, and he definitely won't let the rice shop send rice. This is also to avoid having that bad businessman to have a messy relationship.

Generally speaking, the big and small affairs of the house, Jin Chan and Tie Qiu are responsible for foreign affairs, and if they need to buy anything, they will also arrange for people to go. When the two of them were having dinner last night, they got a report from the people below, saying that the rice was not enough and they needed to buy it tomorrow, and Jin Chan was just about to say that you should buy it, but Li Haoquan hurriedly said: "Brother Jin, I have been idle enough in the house these days, and I just want to go shopping tomorrow, so I will buy rice by the way." ”

Since Li Haoquan is going, Jin Chan can't say no, so he agrees.

So, when Li Haoquan was in his prime, he took people to the street to buy rice.

The purchase of things in the mansion of Lord Yue has always had a purpose, and it is not allowed to oppress people with power, and it is not allowed to report the name of the Yue Mansion. Li Haoquan knew this, and the big guy left in civilian clothes, talking and laughing along the way.

Soon I came to a rice shop, and there were many people who came to buy rice, and they were all queuing. However, when Yuefu buys rice, it must not be bought by liters, but by stone. Even if you buy more, you don't have to queue up, Li Haoquan stepped forward and asked about the price, and the rice shop guy replied: "Ten taels of silver and one stone." ”

"What?" As soon as he heard this price, Li Haoquan was stunned. Then he said: "Isn't the official price one tael of silver and one stone, how can you sell it for ten taels?" "He also doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and the price of grain has long risen, and after the Tartar left at the beginning of this year, it rose to six taels of silver and a stone.

"This master, are you really confused, or are you pretending to be confused? One or two silver and one stone, that is the old yellow calendar, now the north is drought, the rogue is rampant, and the price of rice has already risen. If you think it's expensive, go to another house, it's the same price anyway. The guy didn't know who the other party was, so he said directly.

"I don't believe it's sold at this price. Let's go to another house. Li Haoquan was angry, but Yue Su had already ordered not to bully others, so he had to endure it and go to another house.

Just as I was about to leave, I saw an aunt who was over half a hundred years old and said: "Young man, the food in the city is now at this price, and it is the same everywhere you go......

"Ah......" Hearing this, Li Haoquan was completely stupid, looking at the aunt who spoke, it didn't seem like a deception, and Li Haoquan could only admit it. After all, there is no rice in the house, so we have to eat.

Li Haoquan shouted to the guy, "Bring me thirty stones." ”

"Okay, pay the money first, I'll let someone load rice for you."

Li Haoquan brought three hundred taels of silver today, handed over the silver to the counter, and the man shouted to move the rice. Thirty stone rice is also a lot, there are seventy or eighty packs, no matter how you say it, you have to pack it for a while.

Kung Fu was pretending, and a big fat man came out of the back hall of the rice shop, and the fat man shouted loudly at the counter: "Monkey eight, the owner has a word, the border between Huguang and Henan, the rogue is very noisy, and the grain is difficult to transport, from now on, the price of grain will rise, fifteen taels and one stone!" ”

"Got it, shopkeeper!" The man agreed, and then ran out of the rice shop, pointed to Li Haoquan's mule cart, and shouted: "Don't load thirty stones, the owner has a word, the price of grain will increase by fifteen taels and one stone, just load twenty stones for him!" ”

Next to the mule cart was a laborer loading the cart, which had already loaded more than 20 stones, and when he heard this, he began to unload the extra load.

"Twenty stones!" Li Haoquan didn't do it anymore, and shouted loudly: "What did you say? Didn't you just say that ten taels of silver and one stone, Lao Tzu has paid all the silver here, and now you are saying fifteen taels of silver and one stone, playing Lao Tzu! ”

"Keep your mouth clean, and don't look at whose rice shop this is! Tell you, it's fifteen taels of silver and a stone, if you don't want to buy it, Lao Tzu will return the silver to you now. Lao Tzu here rice, I'm not afraid that I can't sell it, to tell you the truth, now the Liukou is making trouble on the border between Huguang and Henan, and the grain can't be shipped, if you don't buy it today, the price will rise tomorrow! The guy named Monkey Eight was arrogant and shouted at Li Haoquan.

"Today's grain, Lao Tzu has bought it, anyway, you also received the silver, thirty stone rice, one or two less!" Li Haoquan is also hot-tempered, in Yuesu Mansion, second only to Tieqiu, if Tieqiu comes, it is estimated that he will already do it.

After Li Haoquan finished speaking, he saw that the laborer was moving grain under the car, he raised his hand and slapped it, grabbed it directly on the grain bag, and casually pushed it back, ready to throw it back to the car, but he didn't expect that this grain bag was a little unstrong, and the labor bag was tight, only to hear the sound of "bang", the grain bag was torn apart by Li Haoquan.

And then the grain in it was spilled and fell all over the ground.

There were people queuing up outside the rice shop, but they didn't dare to go forward to pick it up, I was afraid that they also knew the origin of this rice shop, and they didn't dare to mess around. However, there was a young woman who was leading a little girl to line up to buy rice, and when the little girl saw the rice scattered all over the ground, she hurriedly broke free of her mother's hand and ran over.

The little girl shouted while still calling, "Youmi, mother, Youmi......"

When the young woman saw her daughter running over, she was startled, and quickly shouted, "Xiaolian, come back quickly..."

When the young woman shouted, it was too late, and the little girl ran to the mule cart, and had already picked up a handful of rice from the ground, and just stood up, the monkey eight on the side raised a foot and kicked it directly on the little girl's stomach. The girl was only seven or eight years old, where could she withstand his kick, and with a "peng" sound, her body fell backwards. The little head hit the car board, and the person fainted.

The girl ran over to save her fainting daughter, and the back of her head was covered with blood, and she didn't know if the child was okay, so she cried anxiously.

"Get out of here! Don't delay the business of our rice shop here! At this time, Monkey Eight was still domineering and scolded loudly at the young woman.

In this situation, Li Haoquan saw it in his eyes, where could he bear it, raised his hand, grabbed Monkey Ba's collar, and then lifted him up, and shouted loudly: "Raised by a son of a bitch, in broad daylight, dare to bully people like this, do you still have a royal law in your eyes?" ”

When Monkey Eight was brought up, he was startled at first, then reacted and shouted: ", hurry up and put Lao Tzu down!" What are you still doing in a daze, you and I fight! ”

As soon as the mechanics of the rice shop heard this, they hurriedly stepped forward to help. There were only five or six of them, and there were more than ten of them who came to buy rice with Li Haoquan. Seeing that the other party was moving, he hesitated about anything, picked up his fists and feet, and fought with Ligong.

The people who came out to buy rice with Li Haoquan were also the guards of the Yue Mansion, each with good skills, and there were more people than the other party. Where are those few forcemakers who are opponents, they are knocked to the ground with three punches and two kicks.

There were other guys in the rice shop, and when they found that there was a fight outside, it was their own people who were beaten, and they all shouted, "There are people outside who are scattered, and the people behind come out to help!" ”

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