After two days of hard work by the Jingzhao Prefecture and the county government, more than 300,000 displaced people gradually settled down, but the problem of food shortage was still very serious, and the local government warehouse could allocate less than 10,000 stone of grain in its hands, and could only provide relief to more than 300,000 displaced people for a few days. ，

Yicang is the people's own reserve of grain, and after the autumn harvest every year, a part of the grain will be paid for storage, and it will be used for disaster relief in the event of a famine, which is generally managed by the local government.

Opening a righteous warehouse to help the victims does not mean that the Yicang in Luoyang is used to help the victims in Xuchang, it is not the meaning, but that the localities have opened their own righteous warehouses, that is, the displaced people must return to their hometowns in order to enjoy the reserve grain they paid in previous years.

The next morning, when the government officially announced the news of the imperial court's decision to open Yicang to help the victims, many people began to pack up their things and return home, although many people were still skeptical.

One family drives 100 families, and 100 families drive thousands of families, and a trend of returning to their hometowns has slowly formed, especially the displaced people who have grabbed rice in Beishi are worried about the liquidation of the government and ordered them to return grain, and the attitude of this part of the people to return to their hometowns is even more firm.

By noon, a mighty tide of returning to their hometowns appeared on the official road, as if they had fled and were now going back to their hometowns to enjoy their reserves.

The emergence of the tide of returning to their hometowns made Cui Bosu and Wang Shunzhi breathe a long sigh of relief, but this is only a serious problem that has begun to be solved, and there is another serious problem to be solved, that is, Chang Ping was robbed, how to explain to the saint?

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Baibao wine shop in front of the gate of Fengdu City, this is the largest wine shop in Beijing, covering an area of five acres, consisting of three four-story restaurants, which can accommodate thousands of people to dine at the same time, and the backstage of this wine shop is also the Dugu family.

However, a small restaurant, in the eyes of the Dugu family, is really a drop in the bucket, just to decorate the façade of the Dugu family.

In the morning, on the wide square of Baibao Wine Shop, Yang Yuanqing, the general led by the left and right guards of the East Palace, set up hundreds of tables for a banquet, inviting more than 1,000 representative wealthy families in the capital.

Yang Yuanqing's 1,200 invitations were delivered door-to-door by the army to the big households the day before yesterday and yesterday, 'a glass of wine was specially prepared, and the monarch was invited to discuss the righteous deeds', which was very polite and euphemistic, and even added a sentence, 'There is something in the house, you can tell it in advance, and the young general will personally visit the door', and the payment is the three words 'Yang Yuanqing', and he has no position or title.

The printing is also very simple, without embellishment, just a small piece of paper, with a few modest words printed on the engraving.

But it is such a simple and respectful invitation, all the people who received it, no one dared to ask for leave and say no, Lao Tzu was sick, and his son had to come, everyone knew that if he really dared to refuse not to come, then Yang Yuanqing would visit the door alone, and the money and food to be taken out at that time would probably make them cry and not be able to cry. Templars,

Yang Yuanqing's prestige spread all over the world, but this prestige has a hint of killing and blood, his name is signed at the end, and there is always a little chilling thing in the dragon flying phoenix dance.

In the morning, an endless stream of guests came to Baibao Liquor Store with invitations, each with a serious expression, and did not deliberately change into solemn clothes, but with a worried heart, silently calculating the money and food they might give.

In front of these troops, Yang Yuanqing, the host of today's banquet, has changed into a civilian robe, and with more than a dozen eagle generals who are also wearing civilian robes, standing in front of the wine shop to welcome the guests.

"Welcome! Yang Yuanqing is very honored! ”

"Please! Please sit by name. ”

"Time is in a hurry, the hospitality is not good, please forgive me!"

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This is indeed a banquet of poor hospitality, not a traditional split table, but a group table that people are not accustomed to and disgusted, that is, a dozen people sit around a large square table, each with a small plate in front of them, a pair of chopsticks, and there are only five or six plates of cold dishes on the table, not even wine.

But the name is meticulous, this is for the convenience of fundraising, each guest has his own fixed seat, each seat is pasted with his name in front of the seat, according to the square where they live, it is still easier to find.

Before the banquet began, more than a thousand guests had already arrived, whispering and inquiring about each other, they were more concerned about the money and food they needed to pay, rather than the food on the wine table, and they all wanted to get a little news from others, but unfortunately, from five stones to five hundred stones, there were all kinds of theories, but there was no accurate and authoritative number, just like the only few plates of cold dishes on the table, it was disappointing.

"Dang!" A crisp bell rang, the banquet started on time, the banquet gradually quieted down, occasionally a few fat head and big ears of the rich businessmen stretched out the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, but were frightened by the stern eyes of the people at the same table, hurriedly put down the chopsticks, no one moved the chopsticks, as if there was a poison in the dish that touched the lips and died.

The shopkeeper of the wine shop is surnamed Zhang, yesterday when Yang Yuanqing sent someone to discuss the banquet with him, he agreed, his heart was full of joy, and invited more than 1,000 wealthy businessmen to eat in his wine shop, which is undoubtedly a great publicity, he was full of confidence to arrange a sumptuous wine banquet, deer lips, white eel, sea bass, the best Dali peach wine, all kinds of good delicacies are in his menu.

But when he began to discuss the specific details in the afternoon, the heart of the shopkeeper was instantly frozen into an ice lump, and the other party was only willing to pay a hundred yuan for wine and food, and there was only one yuan for a table on average, not to mention wine, and even meat and vegetables could not be afforded.

Between face and waist bag, Zhang Da shopkeeper finally chose the latter, a lot of money, he couldn't even prepare rice, only five plates of cold dishes, all of which were fresh and refreshing mountain dishes. ，

At this time, Zhang Da shopkeeper was silently tearing in the room to clean up his bedding rolls, he knew very well in his heart that this was a Hongmen banquet, I am afraid that from now on, no one in Chang'an's big businessmen will want to come to his wine shop to eat.

At the banquet, Yang Yuanqing walked to the front desk, he was about to start speaking, this is today's main course, everyone's ears were pricked up, holding their breath, an obese rich businessman was so nervous that he coughed repeatedly, causing the audience to look at him angrily, he was even more afraid of nervousness, blushed, and fainted all of a sudden, causing a small commotion, several soldiers hurriedly stepped forward and carried him down.

Yang Yuanqing smiled, and said in a voice that the whole audience could hear: "First of all, I apologize to everyone, it's just that the time is too rushed, and the wine shop has no time to prepare, so I am a little neglectful of everyone, and my subordinates are solemnly negotiating with the wine shop." ”

In the room, the shopkeeper couldn't help but cry.

Yang Yuanqing continued to explain the truth of the family and the country to everyone, trying to make everyone feel that this is an honor, to share the worries of the court and the Great Sui, and to share the joys and sorrows with the saints.

"More than 300,000 refugees poured into the capital, all of them were the people of the Great Sui, all brothers and sisters, one side was in trouble, when all sides helped, the imperial court has ordered the opening of Yicang disaster relief, but the food is still not enough, which requires everyone here to be generous to help, share the worries of the imperial court, so that the 300,000 victims feel the kindness of the gentry in the capital, including the army, we are also doing our best to ......."

Yang Yuanqing's topic turned to the army again, he wanted everyone here to understand that it was the army that was protecting them, that he had received a favor, and that it was time for them to repay the favor.

"Tens of thousands of our brothers have not closed their eyes for several days and nights, to protect the safety of the capital, to protect the safety of your property, so far, none of you here have been affected by the displaced people, we are doing our best to protect everyone, and please cooperate with the government and the army for disaster relief."

Yang Yuanqing raised his voice, "We don't want everyone's mansion to be attacked by the homeless, we will do our best to protect it, but we can't guarantee it, if the food is insufficient, we will not be able to control the hungry people, it is very likely that some of you will be broken into by the hungry people, this situation is what we don't want to see, if this happens, I, Yang Yuanqing, am ready to ask the saint for sin, everyone, the safety of the capital, everyone is responsible, everyone and I will take this responsibility together!" ”

After the opening remarks, Yang Yuanqing's speech entered the main topic, "We have calculated, according to the calculation of one stone of grain for each victim, a total of 300,000 stone is needed, and there are a total of 6,000 large households in the capital who need to share the worries of the imperial court, that is to say, the average household is 50 stone of grain, if the grain is not enough, we will discount the money at the regular closing price, and we can go elsewhere to buy grain." ”

After Yang Yuanqing finished speaking, there was an uproar at the banquet, and the whispers were loud, the price of grain in the regular closing warehouse was 400 yuan for rice, 4,000 yuan for one stone of rice, 40 yuan for hanging money, 50 stone for 2,000 yuan, and each household had to pay at least 2,000 yuan, and the market price of 200 yuan for rice was only 1,000 yuan, which was simply a blatant robbery.

"Everyone, please be quiet! Be quiet, please! ”

The banquet gradually quieted down again, Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "I know that everyone is very strange, why don't you use the market price to convert, because I want the saint to explain, and the saint uses the official price of the regular liquidation, the saint does not know the market price, and will not consider the market price, mainly because there is no rice in the regular closing position now, and the price is still maintained at 400 yuan of rice, so I advise everyone to donate food as much as possible, if there is not enough food at home, you can go to the market to buy it."

And I can also tell you the news that the Holy One will return to Beijing in a few days, and if anyone is willing to share his worries and donate more than 500 stone of food for the Holy One, I will present his name to the Holy One and ask the Holy One to give him a special reward. ”

A group of soldiers walked into the guests with a pledge book and asked them to sign the pledge, a businessman sighed and whispered to everyone: "There is no way to do this, it is estimated that you can't leave without donating, and maybe the soldiers will pretend to be homeless people to storm the house, everyone thinks about their wives and daughters, and accept their fate!" ”

He took a pen and wrote down 50 stone of donated grain, signed his name, pressed his handprint, got up and said to everyone: "Brother go home and prepare food, go first!" ”

Soon after the donation began, a group of people gathered in the northeast corner of the venue, about ten people.

These big households are the Longyou Township Party, they held a meeting yesterday to negotiate for a day, and finally decided to collectively boycott the fundraising, everyone gathered around their temporary leader Jiang Yuan, Jiang Yuan swore to them that the Dugu family had promised to support them to resist the fundraising.

At this time, many guests at the banquet noticed this group of Longyou Township Party and gradually quieted down, and even Yang Yuanqing noticed it.

After everyone discussed a few words, Jiang Yuan Huoran got up, pointed at Yang Yuanqing and asked sharply: "May I ask General Yang, you keep saying that the victims are so hard, each person needs one stone of grain, so it costs 300,000 stones, but according to the news I received, since this morning, a large number of disaster victims have returned to their hometowns, and they don't need so much food at all, but you don't say a word, are you so fooled by us?" ”

The middle-aged man's shouting made the banquet silent, everyone was looking at him, he was like a big tree rising from the ground, so that countless big families who were in pain with money and food found a support.

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him and asked the county next to him in a low voice, "Who is this person?" ”

The county Cheng hurriedly said: "This person's name is Jiang Yuan, a native of Longyou, a wealthy family, a fake son of General Yuwen, and he also has a daughter who is married to the Dugu family, and has always been quite strong. ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "It turned out to be Jiang Dahu, disrespectful, then how much food do you say?" ”

Jiang Yan snorted heavily, "We don't know how much food we need, but there is a problem with your algorithm, we definitely don't need 300,000 stones, we don't know where the extra grain will go?" ”

Yang Yuanqing's gaze became cold, "You mean that the extra grain was embezzled by me, Yang Yuanqing, is that what you mean?" ”

"I didn't mean that, but you're going to give us an explanation."

Jiang Yi turned around and shouted: "Everyone said yes!" ”

"Yes—" The village party around him responded, but he had no courage and a loud voice.

"Alright! I'll give you an explanation first. ”

Yang Yuanqing turned around and gave the soldier a look, and said with a smile: "Then ask Jiang Dahu to go to the room to talk." ”

Jiang Yi took a step back, he must not enter the room, at this moment, suddenly seven or eight soldiers rushed out from behind him, smashed him to the ground with the handle of the knife, and dragged him away viciously, and the ** ten township party next to him suddenly fell silent, and retreated, no one dared to come forward to save him, at the critical moment, the calculations, timidity and selfishness of the merchants began to manifest themselves, for fifty stone meters and the army to confront, it was too worthless!

Jiang Yi was dragged upside down into the house, and he struggled desperately, "You let go of me, let go of me!" ”

He turned back to the other villagers and shouted, "You all speak! Come and help me, didn't we discuss it yesterday? ”

But in addition to sympathizing with his gaze, no one dared to move, Zhang Xiancheng was also a little unbearable, after all, he was a relative of the Dugu family, he hurriedly whispered to Yang Yuanqing: "General Yang, this may not be appropriate......

Before he finished speaking, Yang Yuanqing glanced at him sternly, so frightened that he didn't dare to plead again.

Jiang Yuan was dragged into the room, and soon there was no sound, Yang Yuanqing said coldly: "Go on!" ”

He pointed to the Longyou Township Party again, "This group of people are all big households, donate 100 stones!" ”

**Ten looked at each other in surprise and began to complain to each other, and after a while, a soldier took a pledge and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing looked at it, then got up and smiled at everyone: "Unexpected!" Jiang Dahu is very considerate of the difficulties of the saint, and is willing to donate 5,000 stones, I hope everyone will take him as an example, and everyone will enthusiastically donate food to relieve the worries of the court! ”

This result made everyone tremble, and they didn't dare to resist anymore, they pledged donations one after another, and there were also huge rich people who were willing to take the initiative to donate a thousand stones of grain, and registered their names with Yang Yuanqing, they knew in their hearts that his harvest would be completely different from Jiang Dahu.

A Hongmen banquet attended by more than 1,000 people ended in just one hour, and at the same time, thousands of soldiers collected money and food from other large families who did not attend the banquet, and in the evening, Chang Ping had already transported 100,000 stone of grain, which completely made up for the grain that Chang Ping had been robbed.

At this time, Yang Guang's holy car had arrived in Hanoi, preparing to cross the Yellow River and return to Beijing, and that evening, Yun Dingxing's figure finally appeared in the tent camp of the court officials, and he found Pei Ju's tent.

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To be continued