Chapter 15 Controlling the Rebellion of the Profiteer Wang Lun
When the day was empty, outside the Chenjia grain shop on the south street of Jingzhao Mansion, more than 300 ironclad soldiers surrounded the grain shop, and even a fly flew out could be shot down, and outside the grain shop, the bold pedestrians were hiding behind the walls of the four places, secretly watching the progress of things, when Zhao Lei's name reached the ears of these people, some smart pedestrians had already guessed that Zhao Lei was going to rectify the treacherous grain merchants in Jingzhao Mansion, and they had already prepared some silver taels with active thoughts, waiting to buy cheap grain. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info full book
"Lord Zhao Lei can come to the small shop and make the small shop shine! I wonder why the adults came? Chen Chong, the shopkeeper of the Chen family's grain shop, asked Zhao Lei with a cold sweat on his face.
"It's nothing, the family has a lot of strong mouths, and there is a shortage of food, so I came over to sell a little, and the Chen family grain shop has food, right?" Zhao Lei asked Chen Chong indifferently.
"Yes, yes, how can there be no food in the grain store, how much are the adults going to want?" Chen Chong heard that Zhao Lei was just here to buy food, and his heart was a little calmer, and he said eagerly to Zhao Lei.
"Ten stones of good white rice, don't fool the official with those brown rice." Zhao Lei took Chen Chong to the grain store, grabbed a handful of rice in the grain tank, and after looking at it carefully, he said to Chen Chong threateningly.
Seeing that Zhao Lei seemed to be really here to buy food, Chen Chong finally put his mind at ease, greeted Zhao Lei and the others for tea diligently, and then asked more than a dozen guys to go to the granary in the alley to pick up food.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the buckets and stones that sold grain were not weight units, but a volume unit, and the weight of the bucket stones in each dynasty was different, and a bucket in the Northern Song Dynasty weighed about 6.25 grams, ten buckets and one stone, and one stone was sixty kilograms, and Zhao Lei wanted ten stones of grain, which was not much. But the grain weighing more than 600 kilograms can be piled up together to make a mountain of rice.
After drinking tea and resting in the grain shop for a while, Zhao Lei finally waited until the ten stone rice was loaded and shipped to the grain shop.
"Lord Zhao lives there, let the little one send the adult to the house." Chen Chong, the shopkeeper of the Chen family's shop, said to Zhao Lei in a low voice with a stammering face.
"No need, there are so many of us, each of us will go back with a bag, by the way, how much is a bucket of these rice?" Zhao Lei waved his hand at Chen Chong very casually and asked.
Chen Chong wasn't sure whether Zhao Lei came to look for trouble or made a special trip to buy rice, and he dared to say the price there, so he had to say to Zhao Lei with a compliment: "The little one dares to ask for Lord Zhao's money." The adults drove away the vicious Xixia people for the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people of Jingzhaofu benefited a lot. ā
"If you say it there, if you don't give money, you will become a robber, you kid wants to let the officials of the imperial envoy join me! Say a cheap price, but don't coax the official. Zhao Lei glared and said sharply to Chen Chong.
"This ......" Chen Chong smiled, he really gave Zhao Lei food just now, and then asked Zhao Lei to find ginseng, but now it has been broken. I could only bend my knees and smile and say: "My lord is worthy of an honest official who loves the people like a son!" Simply exemplary among officials......"
Watching Chen Chong unconsciously patting his ass, he was out of control. Zhao Lei's eyes glared angrily and said, "Let's talk about the point, how much is it?" ā
"Since the adults must give it, let's give a cost price, thirty Wen!" Chen Chong was taken aback by Zhao Lei, and stammered and hurriedly said.
"Thirty wen and one bucket, it's cheaper than the price of Bianjing rice, you won't lose money and want to bribe the official in disguise!" Zhao Lei squinted at Chen Chong with a puzzled expression and asked.
"There, these are all rice grains from the south of the Yangtze River, and the purchase price is only 20 wen per bucket, plus freight and consumption along the way. Thirty bookstores can still earn a penny! Chen Chong wanted to beat Zhao Lei away quickly, and even told Zhao Lei the trade secret in a hurry.
"I see, you can still make money for thirty wen and one fight, okay then! Brother Myeongyun. Take 3,000 wen to pay the bill. After hearing the secrets of the grain shop, Zhao Lei was even more annoyed in his heart, and turned his head to Su Xun beside him and said.
Su Xun pretended to touch his body. In the end, he said helplessly to Zhao Lei: "My lord, some time ago, there was a money shortage in the imperial court, and my lord exchanged all the scattered silver and money for the gold of the imperial court. ā
Zhao Lei watched Su Xun take out a fist-sized gold ingot, turned his head to Chen Chong and said, "I'm sorry!" Shopkeeper, there is no change on the official, there is only this kind of thing, can you find it? ā
In Su Xun's hand is a ten-tael gold ingot, which is worth one hundred taels when exchanged for silver, and if it is exchanged for Qian Mo, it is seventy-seven thousand Mo, such a gold ingot, a small grain shop can be exchanged there!
"I can't find it!" Chen Chong could only reply depressedly.
"Gotcha! Don't look for it, all the rest of the money is used to buy rice grain, it's cheap anyway, and I will eat it slowly when I return to Bianjing. Zhao Lei looked at Chen Chong with a playful smile and said.
Chen Chong was not stupid, he also began to understand that Zhao Lei had come to find fault at this time, and immediately rejected Zhao Lei's words, and shirked that there was not so much food in the store.
"The shopkeeper is not kind enough, who doesn't know that the Chen family grain shop is the leader of the grain merchants in Jingzhao Mansion, and in the granary of South Street, at least 200,000 stone of grain belongs to the Chen family grain shop, and the official only sells a few hundred
How can you say no! Zhao Lei tasted the tea from the Chen family's grain shop and said to himself slowly.
"The locust plague in Jingzhao Mansion, now all the grain shops are short of food, not only us, but the prefect can prove it." Chen Chong whispered to Zhao Lei in a cold sweat, and at the same time moved the backer behind him out to threaten Zhao Lei.
"Prefect! Is it an adult? Zhao Lei asked Su Xun with a look of ignorance.
"The adult is now the general of Pingbei, the third grade of the purple robe, and the prefect of Jingzhao Mansion is from the fourth grade, and he must give a salute when he sees the adult, for the adult, the prefect is a villain." Su Xun had a very bad impression of the prefect of Jingzhao Mansion and said.
"What happens if the official buys something, and the merchant has something but doesn't sell it?" Zhao Lei continued to ask Su Xun with a casual expression.
"The Song law has an explanation, officials buy but merchants do not sell, the crime of contempt for the imperial court, depending on the severity of the sentence of exile or fine." Su Xun replied fluently, Zhao Lei said.
"The shopkeeper has thought about it, but what the official buys is military rations, and if he doesn't sell it, the consequences will be very serious." Zhao Lei said lightly threatening Chen Chong.
Seeing Chen Chong's face blue and the cold sweat of the cool summer, Zhao Lei was very happy in his heart.
At this moment, a sudden quarrel broke out outside the grain store, and a treacherous voice came.
"Song Law still has a solution, officials forcibly buy property, exile or resignation and demotion of officials, besides, Lord Zhao is only a general of Pingbei, although he is a third-grade official, but he has no power or position, seeing the adults is polite and respectful, not because of the prestige of the adults, for Lord Zhao, the prefect is definitely not a villain." A thin, slightly dark face, triangular eyes, thin lips, how to look at how sinister an official came over with several state government officials, and said to Zhao Lei with a sneer.
"You are?" Zhao Lei's expression was calm and clear, which made the people who came want to smoke him.
"The official Jingzhao prefect Wen Yilong, I heard that there are more than 300 soldiers here, I came to take a look, Song Law has a solution, the general entered the city, and the soldiers were not allowed to be hundreds, and the adults came with more than 300 people this time, is it trying to plot Jingzhao Mansion." Wen Yilong pressed over with a big hat and asked Zhao Lei.
Of course Zhao Lei knows who the person is, four days have made him very familiar with the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, this Wen Yilong in front of him is the son-in-law of the former prime minister Li Ruogu, the literary style is good, but the character is annoying, greedy for money, lustful, and domineering, so Li Ruogu put him in Jingzhao Mansion, saying that he would not take him into Beijing, Li Ruogu stopped on the front legs, and he made mistakes on the back legs, didn't this force Zhao Lei to deal with Li Ruogu's family!
"Lord Wen, I can't say anything about plotting against Jingzhao Mansion, but this official is short of food on the way back to Beijing, so if he wants to buy some food, is it forbidden to do so." Zhao Lei looked at Wen Yilong and said with a soft smile.
"The shopkeeper of the grain shop has already said that there is no food, Lord Zhao is entangled, isn't it forced to buy, be careful that the official will listen to the heavens, and participate in your crime of forcible occupation." Wen Yilong said to Zhao Lei without giving an inch.
"See! Ginseng! It has been more than two years since I left Bianjing, and there are a lot fewer people who even participate in the officials, and it turns out that in Bianjing for five days a big ginseng, three days a small ginseng, the imperial envoy and Taiwan officials have never let go of the opportunity to participate in the overthrow of the official, and there have been no officials to participate in the official for many days, I really miss it! Zhao Lei muttered with a nostalgic expression, and Wen Yilong, who was angry, turned pale but had nothing to say.
"Come on, the Chen family's grain shop will be sealed by the official, and the granary on South Street will be directly sealed, and those who dare to collide will be killed directly, and the grain will be counted in a while, and the thirty Wen and one bucket will be bought by the official, and the official's favorite is to buy it, and he likes to be ginseng and the official, Lord Wen, hurry up and write a recital!" Zhao Lei said arrogantly to Wen Yilong, and the accompanying guards on the side had already divided into several teams, ready to seal the granary on South Street.
"Zhao Lei, you are deliberately rebelling, this official will immediately inform the defense envoy of Jingzhao Mansion and ask him to bring troops to reason with you." Wen Yilong looked at the arrogant Zhao Lei, the green tendons on his head cracked, and he roared at Zhao Lei as he looked like he was about to die.
"Hang a sign, sell these grains at a price of thirty yuan, and sell them in limited quantities according to the household registration, remember, don't let people take advantage of the loopholes." Zhao Lei ignored Wen Yilong's roar and said carefully to Su Xun.
Wen Yilong looked at Zhao Lei, who was ignoring him, and looked at the dozen or so elite soldiers and dozens of ironclad soldiers around him, and ran away in disgrace without measuring, preparing to go to the Jingzhao Mansion Defense Envoy to move troops.
Just when Wen Yilong just turned around and was about to leave, he thought that the officials of Jingzhao Mansion suddenly ran over in a hurry, and shouted as he ran: "Lord Wen, the big thing is not good, Wang Lun, the tiger winged pawn of Linzhou, rebelled, led the victims to rush into the granary and official warehouse of Linzhou, grabbed grain and some weapons and armor, and went south into the mountains. ā
Wang Lun rebelled! Wen Yilong heard the official's words, and thought of Zhao Lei's fierce expression behind him, and collapsed to the ground with a dead face.
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