Chapter 29: The Fengdu Incident

At dusk, Yang Yuanqing led dozens of soldiers to Zhao Kaiyuan's house under the guidance of a Cangcheng engagement.

"General Yang, it's in this alley, and the top courtyard is his house." Engaged pointed to a deep alleyway.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, quickened his pace and walked towards the alley, and in a moment, they walked into the depths of the alley.

"Here we are, here it is!"

Pointing to a pitch-black door, he stepped forward and slapped the knocker, "Old Zhao!" Lao Zhao! ”

After shouting a few times, no one answered, and at this moment, Yang Yuanqing faintly smelled a trace of blood, he was shocked in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Smash open the door!" ”

Several soldiers rushed up, kicked the door open with a slam kick, and everyone poured into the courtyard, the situation in the courtyard was shocking, three corpses were lying in the courtyard, blood was flowing all over the ground, Yang Yuanqing swept around, did not see Zhao Kaiyuan, he immediately ordered the opponent: "Search me carefully, every suspicious place must not be let go!" ”

Dozens of soldiers scattered to various rooms, Yang Yuanqing's mood was a little depressed, it can be seen from the bloodshed, the time of death is less than a quarter of an hour, they are a step late, the other party is quick and vicious, just found a little clue was cut off.

"General!"

The shouts of soldiers came from the right wing, Yang Yuanqing walked over quickly, walked into the room, and saw a thin corpse curled up in the corner, it was Zhao Kaiyuan, Yang Yuanqing slowly stepped forward, only to see that Zhao Kaiyuan's right hand had been cut off, it seemed that he was dragging something before he died, and his endless despair could be seen on his face distorted by pain.

"General, this way!" A soldier points to the corner.

Yang Yuanqing stepped forward, only to see that a few bricks in the corner of the wall had been turned over, and there was a concave shape underneath, obviously hiding something, it should be Zhao Kaiyuan's secret, which had been snatched away by the other party.

Yang Yuanqing knew that there was no need to search any further, so he stood up and said to the frightened man: "You go and report to the official immediately!" ”

He sighed and randomly ordered, "Tell the brothers, get out of here at once!" ”

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Chen Zhiwei's room was brightly lit. A black-clothed subordinate put an iron box on the table and bowed down to report: "Sir, their whole family has been wiped out, and this was snatched from Zhao Kaiyuan's hands." ”

Chen Zhiwei opened the iron box with gloomy eyes, inside was a booklet and a note, he opened the note, only to see a sentence written on it, 'If I have an accident, I will immediately hand over the iron box to Yang Yuanqing, the palace supervisor of Fenyang!'" ’

Chen Zhiwei sneered, Zhao Kaiyuan actually thought that he would kill him, he tore the note to shreds, picked up the booklet again, opened it and looked at it, and saw that it actually recorded in detail the time, quantity and person in charge of King Qi's collection of armor and weapons, which made Chen Zhiwei gasp, if this booklet fell into the hands of Yang Yuanqing, King Qi would be in danger!

"Cloud Joins the Army is here!"

There was a report from his subordinates outside the door, Chen Zhiwei's face immediately sank, this is Yun Dingxing is here, Yun Dingxing is an official slave, but he is good at flattery, and he works on utensils, and he actually coaxed King Qi to obey, and named him as the West Pavilion sacrificial wine, the official position is second only to Chen Zhiwei, and a little higher than another henchman Qiao Lingze, which makes Chen Zhiwei extremely unconvinced, and he also looks down on Yun Dingxing in his bones.

Chen Zhiwei put the booklet into his arms, put on a smile, walked out of the room with a smile, and smiled at Yun Dingxing, who was walking quickly: "Brother Yun, how did you think of coming to Taiyuan?" ”

Yun Dingxing has mixed well in the past two years, and is very trusted by the King of Qi, not only completely got rid of his slavery, but also was named the Xige sacrificial wine, and he was full of red faces, he knew that Chen Zhiwei and others looked down on him, but he didn't care, and he also bowed, squinted and smiled: "On the orders of His Royal Highness, I went to the Qing Palace on Wutai Mountain to invite Master Pan, His Royal Highness heard that he was very skilled, and asked me to go to Loufu County to send a letter to General Yuan Shangying by the way." ”

Chen Zhiwei's face changed slightly, and he waved his hand and said, "Cloud Sacrifice Wine, please sit in the room!" ”

Yun Dingxing followed Chen Zhiwei into the house and sat down, he saw that Chen Zhiwei's expression was a little wrong, so he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"You don't go to Yuan Shangying."

"Why?"

Chen Zhiwei sighed and said, "Yuan Shangying has been killed by Yang Yuanqing!" ”

Yun Dingxing looked dazed, but he was secretly surprised in his heart, he was not surprised that Yuan Shangying was killed, but surprised that Yang Yuanqing started to kill people, could it be that Yang Yuanqing began to attack the king?

He knew that the king of Qi had been holding a grudge against Yang Yuanqing in the past two years, waiting for an opportunity to get rid of it, this time Yang Yuanqing was appointed as the supervisor of the Fenyang Palace, and the king of Qi was ready to attack Yang Yuanqing from behind, delaying his construction period, and killing him with the hand of the saint, one is the pillars needed to repair the palace, he was reluctant to transport it out of the capital, and secondly, he wanted to use Yuan Shangying's supervisory advantage to control Yang Yuanqing, but he didn't expect that Yuan Shangying would be killed by Yang Yuanqing so soon.

Yun Dingxing was puzzled in his heart, and asked again: "What about the soldiers of Jinyang Palace, does Yang Yuanqing know?" ”

"He shouldn't know!"

Chen Zhiwei didn't want Yun Dingxing to interfere in his own affairs, so he dealt with him and said: "He and Yuan Shangying are just fighting for personal enmity, there is no other reason, the matter of the soldiers is calm, so don't ask more about the cloud sacrifice wine." ”

Chen Zhiwei suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "I heard that there was a riot in the capital, is there such a thing?" ”

Yun Dingxing smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "The price of grain in the capital has skyrocketed, and the rice has reached two hundred yuan, so it is strange that there will be no riots." ”

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After Zhao Kaiyuan's death, the matter of the armor did become calm, and Yang Yuanqing did not continue to investigate, even he knew that Wang Jian, the eunuch of Jinyang Palace, was the biggest suspect, and he did not look for Wang Jian once, as if he didn't know about the armor at all.

The next day, Yang Yuanqing visited Yang Xiong, the Taishou of Taiyuan County, and urged him to give another 50,000 people and 300,000 stone official grains, and Yang Yuanqing immediately returned to Fenyang Palace.

The crisis of King Qi's armor has been temporarily alleviated, but another more serious crisis has quietly struck Yang Yong, King of Qi.

Luoyang Fengdu, these days Kangbas is quite busy, his daughter A Mo gave birth to a son, he was officially promoted to grandfather, he was in a particularly comfortable mood, A Mo was married to Yang Wei as his wife at the beginning of last year, Yang Wei was in Fengzhou, A Mo lived with her in-laws, pregnant for ten months, and finally gave birth to a son in early March, named Yang Daoxing.

Kang Bas had just gone to Yang Mansion to visit his daughter and grandson, and was returning to Fengdu, just entering the gate of Fengdu, the tense atmosphere in Fengdu couldn't help but make him frown, only to see that the crowds in Fengdu were surging, and the crowds from all directions of the capital were crowded into a street of rice hanging, shouting and scolding one after another, this was the fifth consecutive day that this kind of rice buying was a grand occasion.

The price of rice has actually risen since last year, from the initial 20 yuan per bucket to 30 yuan, and then to 40 yuan, the speed is very slow, everyone's feeling is not very deep, but in February, the price of rice has risen sharply, from 50 yuan to 100 yuan, these days it has risen at a rate of 10 yuan per day, and yesterday it has risen to 200 yuan of rice.

The rise in the price of rice has led to the rise in other prices, and the people of the capital have complained, and the people of the capital have discussed a lot about the reasons for the rise in the price of rice, some people say that there has been a disaster in Shandong in the past two years, and some people say that the transfer of rice from the south to the north is not timely, and there is also a saying that the tax is too heavy, and a large amount of grain and rice is concentrated in the hands of the government, which is one of the reasons.

However, the businessmen unanimously agreed that the root cause of the rise in the price of rice was the problem of the money system, on the one hand, the amount of money in the market increased greatly, and on the other hand, there was a flood of bad money.

Kang Bas also has a deep understanding that in the past two years, the amount of money minted by the imperial court has soared, but the copper is insufficient, and the result can only reduce the copper content of the money, in the past, the copper content of a Kaihuang five-baht coin can reach ninety, but now it is only sixty or fifty percent, and even the money can be broken in two by hand, the number of money has soared, the money is not valuable, how can the price of rice not rise.

However, there is indeed a special reason for the sharp rise in rice prices during this period of time, from October last year to the present, Liang County, Yingchuan County, Xingyang County, Xiangcheng County, Dong County and Luoyang Prefecture, for more than five months, not a drop of rain, a winter snow has not fallen, large and small rivers have dried up, winter wheat has not grown, a large area of death, coupled with the outbreak of locust plague in Liang County, so since February, a large number of displaced people have poured into the capital to eat, and the saint and the court officials have gone north to inspect the outside of the Saiwai, the capital is chaotic, and the price of grain has begun to skyrocket.

Kang Bas sighed, I heard that 300,000 displaced people have poured into the capital, and there is a steady stream of displaced people rushing to the capital from the disaster area, and the government will not come forward to guide them, nor will they open warehouses to release grain, so there will be a big mess, even he, a businessman, can understand, doesn't King Qi understand at all?

At this moment, an exclamation came from behind him, "The outcasts are coming!" ”

As soon as Kang Bas turned around, he was so shocked that he almost fell off the donkey, only to see tens of thousands of hungry people rushing towards Fengdu from all directions, and young and strong men rushed to the front, mixed with a large number of women and children, and they were only more than 200 steps away from Fengdu.

There was a great chaos at the gate of Fengdu, people scattered and fled, Combus whipped a flagellant donkey, and rushed to his shop, he ran more than 100 steps, then he heard the crying behind him, the screams suddenly sounded, he didn't dare to look back, whipped a few flagellated donkeys, and fled back to his shop.

"Quick! Put the wine away and hide it in the cellar. ”

When Combas entered the house, he cried out, "The hungry people are coming, gather the money and goods quickly." ”

The guys were in a big mess, closing the shop doors, hiding things, and they were in a hurry, and Combas rushed to Yang Yuanqing's Red Rust Winery again.

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On the morning of 16 March, a large-scale grain robbery broke out in the rice shop in Fengdu, and dozens of rice shops were not spared, not only the rice shops, but also the livestock, horse and meat shops in the vicinity of the rice shops were also affected one after another, money and goods were robbed, shops were burned, men and shopkeepers were killed, more than 500 people, homeless people and businessmen in the capital were trampled and squeezed to death, and thousands of people were injured, resulting in the 'Fengdu Rice Shop Incident' that shocked the government and the opposition.

Affected by this, the price of rice in the capital skyrocketed again, the rice broke through five hundred yuan, the people's grievances were boiling, and all the people's anger and contradictions pointed to Yang Hui, the king of Qi who stayed in the capital, Yang Yong also served as Jing Zhaoyin, and he could not escape the blame for such a serious incident.

What made the people of the capital even more dissatisfied was that it was not until two hours after the Fengdu rice line incident that Yang Xuan delayed ordering the army to enter Fengdu, and soon a news came out that when there was a riot in Fengdu, the king of Qi was not in the capital at that time, but in the spring in the mountains.

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