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In late February, news suddenly came out from the center of Liangzhou, the first lady Guo Fen and the elder Yang Dingguo both expressed great anger at Gaochang's hoarders, and followed Zheng Wei to urge Gaochang's grain merchants to share their worries with the country in the name of the three ministers left behind, so as to relieve the people's hardship. However, considering the distance from Liangzhou to Gaochang, the response from Gaochang has not been transmitted back for the time being.

Before that, the market had long been very worried about the increasingly high grain prices in the central region, and at this time, when they heard the news, they all talked about it, and one day later, the five consuls suddenly convened all the people in Liang to correct the imperial history, and issued a document to prepare to deal with the matter of hoarding grain in the central part of the country.

For a while, the teahouses and taverns in the market were all discussed, and as for the imperial historians on the evaluation platform, everyone was even more concerned, and they collected information about Gao Chang separately, preparing to put forward their opinions in the "big discussion" three days later.

What is Big Talk?

It turns out that the setting of this correction platform, from all over the selection and convening of the correction of the imperial history as an important link between the center of the Tang Dynasty and the various places, is also an intermediary between the official and the people, because the selection of the correction of the imperial history is representative in all walks of life, so it is a very important representative of public opinion, but since the emergence of the correction of the imperial history, the number of people has gradually increased, basically all states and counties, all walks of life, all religions and all ethnic groups, and the daily administration of Tiance Datang, and not all affairs need all the participation of the imperial history in Liang, Therefore, the imperial history is divided into categories, there are those who discuss commerce, those who discuss religion, those who discuss public security, those who discuss criminal law, those who discuss engineering, those who discuss education, and those who discuss corruption, a total of 16 departments, and gradually build some houses around the evaluation platform, as a place for each branch to discuss the history of the imperial history and accommodation, each department is called the hall, such as the Minglun Hall for the main discussion of education, the education hall for the main religion, and the folk mouth Shun, so they are called the 16 halls of the correction.

The sixteen halls usually discuss their respective fields, and only when a major event occurs will they gather all the history of the Liang Imperial Palace, which is the great discussion. The Great Council was held in the largest official building in Liangzhou -- the Correction Desk.

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Since its establishment, the Tiance regime has won the support of the people. And the people's evaluation of a ZF not only has an absolute benchmark, but also a relative benchmark, if the Tiance regime under the leadership of Zhang Mai is compared with the mature modern ZF in later generations, it naturally has many deficiencies, but compared with the previous ruler of Anlong - whether it is the Hui or the Guiyi Army, it is much better, and compared with the surrounding regimes such as the Later Tang, Khitan, the extinct Lingxi Hui, the Saman who fell into confusion and the fragmented Tubo, etc., are obviously much better, the people are satisfied, and the evaluation of ZF's governance is basically positive. It is not without corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but at this time, the high-level officials are in the stage of forging ahead, from Zhang Mai to Zheng Wei, they are also focusing on cracking down on corruption, which is concentric.

It is precisely on this basis that the Tiance regime is very confident in the speech of the people in its territory, and it adopts an attitude of focusing on guidance in dealing with public opinion, and this has created a very lively atmosphere of public discussion and political discussion in Tiance, especially in several large cities, especially in Liangzhou, where everyone is unscrupulous in talking, and the atmosphere of "gossip" is very strong.

Of course, no one dares to verbally offend Zhang Mai, although the official has not set a crime of slandering the leader, but with Zhang Mai's popularity in Anlong now, whoever dares to say a bad word about him in front of others is afraid that he will be drowned by the people around him with saliva immediately.

With the current atmosphere in Liangzhou, the people in the market only hate that the days are too peaceful and there is no point to talk about, and now such a major event suddenly happens, naturally everyone pays attention to it, and everyone talks about it, and the correction and evaluation platform also allows the people to enter the auditorium, and the observer seats are limited, so as soon as this incident is announced, there are thousands of people grabbing hundreds of auditors' seats, and in the end they can only follow the usual practice - write everyone's names on a slip of paper and throw them into a large bucket to draw lots.

Three days before the meeting, there was a lot of arguing, and two days before the meeting, the people began to divide into several factions. After the correction of the imperial history into the cool and all walks of life have extensive contact, all walks of life respect them very much, and they also pay attention to the collection of people's opinions, so before entering the correction of the evaluation of the platform, they all went to their good friends in Liangzhou to meet to collect opinions, and the people in the market have also gathered around the correction of the imperial history who are willing to adopt their opinions, and slowly formed different camps.

Some restaurants and tea shops also saw business opportunities from it, and tried to entertain one or two to correct the imperial history, as long as there is a correction of the imperial history, there will definitely be a lot of people who come to ask what the opinion of the imperial history is, or express their own opinions, hoping that the imperial history can bring these statements in. As soon as they came and went, the business of this restaurant and tea shop became popular, and other restaurants, tea shops and even some open temples also followed suit, and it became a spontaneous political point in Liangzhou.

Among them, several places are the most influential, the first is the largest restaurant in Liangzhou - Liu Lingju in the south of the city, and the second to the tenth are more than a dozen cheap hotels and low-cost teahouses located in the eastern business district of the city.

This division seems natural, but in fact, there is a lot of information in it.

It turned out that in the planning that Liangzhou had just begun, the east of the city belonged to the commercial district, and the merchants built their own houses and even set up tents in a barren area. The coolies and even beggars who went into the city to beg for a living are also here, the women who have lost their footing to do business are of course also here, the taverns, teahouses, restaurants, everything, all kinds of indiscriminate things have taken root here, and it is the abyss of the three customs.

When the Tiance regime was first established, it was in ruins, and big merchants such as the Zheng family and the Nai family also bought land in the east of the city, but later their business was at a higher level, and they gradually moved out of here and moved to the south of the city. What is the south of the city?

It was originally a religious area, mainly Buddhism, and occasionally to Tianfangjiao, Mingjiao, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Nestorianism, due to the intervention of religious forces, the buildings in this area are the most gorgeous, the houses are also the most, there are usually commercial activities in ancient religious places, such as another time and space in the Northern Song Dynasty, the most developed place for commercial Kaifeng Mansion is Daxiangguo Temple, the situation in Liangzhou is different from the situation in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there is also something in common, that is, the commercial power is also gathered here, but it is a high-level businessman who gathers, For example, large-scale trading, such as the circulation of silver money (monks are one of the most liquid classes in this era), such as the trading of high-end intelligence, and so on.

Because it is a religious area, women who can't get on the stage can't fight on the street here, and the smell of wine and meat can't float here, even if they do business, they are dressed up politely, and women who have lost their feet are actually not nothing, but they are not packaged like women who have lost their feet, such as female Taoist priests like Yu Xuanji. In addition, all kinds of entertainment facilities are also the highest level in the whole northwest, the best wine, the best tea, the best monks, the best military dramas, are all here, and Liu Lingju is the most important restaurant in this place. This is the place where the superior people travel, and it is the return of elegance.

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From the first day the news came out, Naib went to Liu Lingju Restaurant to meet Zheng Ji - those who can enter the big discussion, in addition to the standing correction of the imperial history, there are also some scattered doctors, who have a certain amount of money to correct the imperial history, but the scattered doctors do not, but they can enter the internal discussion in regular and irregular meetings, and Zheng Ji and Naib have this qualification.

In fact, Zheng Ji knew about this matter earlier than Naib, but he knew how to distinguish between the important and did not leak a word before the central decision to make it public - it would be easy to trace the source of information if such a small area of information was leaked. But as soon as he met with Naib, it was open to the entire merchant class and religious leaders.

At the same time, there were also those who commented on the activities of the imperial historian or the scattered doctor in the east of the city, and the source of their news was An Liu-for this disabled old man, the elegant place in the south of the city was not suitable for him, and he preferred to hang out with the peddlers and pawns here, not only him, but also many families of the veterans of Lingxi settled here. Although it is not as elegant as the south of the city, and even a little dirty and messy, it is actually more comfortable to live in.

An Liu, the elder of the Ming Sect, Wen Suhai and others scolded in the tea shop, and the citizens next to them followed suit, and the entire east of the city was full of scolding the profiteers of Gaochang. These low-rate ten ** have been hungry, so they naturally know the terrible high price of food, and they don't need to pay attention to any etiquette here, they all said: "Now that the country is in difficulty, these profiteers don't help, forget it, and take advantage of the chaos to rob and make the country rich, these people, they should be killed!" ”

"Exactly! Kill, kill! ”

I don't know who said: "It's better to find out all these profiteers who took the opportunity to raise the price of food one by one and raid their homes!" Food, it is used to give relief to the poor, and the black money they earn is sent to the west to pay for the marshal's military expenses! ”

When everyone heard this, they applauded in unison, shouted happily, and said, "That's right, that's how it should be!" It's called killing two birds with one stone, the best of both worlds! ”

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There is no such hustle and bustle in the east of the city, Liu Ling Curie is an upper-class figure who has a tea talk overnight, talking about the situation in the central region, many religious leaders are also worried, the rise in grain prices in the central part of the country, although the people in charge are businessmen in Gaochang and its surrounding areas, but these people are not relying on their own funds to speculate, after Gaochang's transaction became hot, almost the eastern and western parts of the Tiance Datang attracted funds to the past, and the source of these funds, part of which came from the new money bank, And the monks are just one of the proprietors of these banks!

"Alas!" Master Xuanxiu, the presiding officer of Tianning Temple, said: "These grain merchants in Gaochang really shouldn't be! How can they make such a fortune? If I knew this was the case, I shouldn't have lent them the money in the first place! "He is also the choice of Mrs. Sanda, and he has a compassionate heart, otherwise he would not be able to become the host of Tianning Temple. However, if the grain merchants were to collapse due to the coercion of the government decree, it would also suffer heavy losses for Tianning Temple.

From the monks to the price of grain, the relationship is very deep, but not direct, but a long chain - the monks inject money into the bank, and the money bank directly or indirectly lends money to the grain merchants, and the grain merchants use these funds to buy grain, preserve it, and even use it to push up the price of grain. The monks do not directly control the bank, they only care about whether the bank earns interest and earns, and they do not necessarily ask very carefully about where the money from their bank goes, but they also do not know it completely. And the money bank is only a part of the source of funds for the grain merchants.

With the rise in grain prices in the central part of the country, the predictable wealth of monasteries and money farms has also risen, but this money is still in the hands of the grain merchants, and it has not yet been cashed out.

The Zoroastrian high priest Mu Beide, who migrated to Liangzhou to rebuild the Zoroastrian temple, said: "These profiteers really don't have any vision, and they don't make any money, but they go to make this money!" How did the money bank do it in the first place, and actually lent money to these people! ”

"This ......," Naib felt a little aggrieved.

At present, three money villages have been built in the Anlong area, one of the earliest is Kaiyuan money village, Zhang Mai sent people to congratulate when the money village opened, the Nai family and the Zheng family, are the two major families that control the zhì money village, Mu Beide blames the operation of the money village, that is, accuses Zheng and Nai of the two families!

"High Priest, you have wronged everyone by saying this!" Shi Ba's wife, Naib's sister, and Shi Nai, who holds an important position in the Kaiyuan Money Village, said: "This money is not lent out after the price of grain has risen this year!" It's not to lend it to someone, it was last year when the North Court was tight, a batch of loans were lent out, not to mention the small ones, just to say the big ones, at least 60 households borrowed our money! At that time, many people also used this money to transport grain from all over the country to Gaochang, and some of it also flowed into Beiting, becoming an important supplement to the official grain road! At that time, you all praised our great merit, and even the marshal wrote a personal letter to praise us at the front! This letter is still sealed in the zài money bank. It's just that now the times have changed, and this money has been transferred around in Gaochang, but it has not been transferred out, but it has been used to push up food prices! How could such a change be unexpected? ”

The Zen master of the Jokhang Temple in Liangzhou said: "That's what we did with good intentions, and now the situation in the central part is urgent, let's hurry up and get the money back!" Don't make trouble for the official family again! ”

Zheng Ji said: "If I could do this, I would have taken back the money a long time ago!" But last year, in order to encourage borrowers, we have agreed to make a repayment period of three years! Now that the deadline has not yet arrived, how can I rush it? Besides, in the current form, the money lenders are afraid of borrowing debts, and if they refuse to pay back, we are reasonable and helpless for them. ”

Master Xuanxiu said: "Or can we do this, we will join forces and come forward to let them reduce the price!" If we continue to make trouble like this, if the ruling government provokes a fire and gives them a spatula, then we will lose all our money! ”

"Although we lend them money, we can't control their qiē." Naiboo said: "Brother Zheng and I have already warned that there before, but whether it succeeds or not, we still have to see!" Alas, what I am most afraid of now is that the ruling government will go to extremes because of this, in that case, not only will we lose our vitality, but it will not be good for the country and in the long run! ”

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