Chapter 389: Burying People Trilogy (I)

"Five adults, three old and weak, you can buy four catties of food a day, how many days do you want to buy food?" The uniformed clerk has a smiling expression and a smile on his face, and the first article of the United Firm's Employee Code is this. If you can't laugh, you can do whatever you like.

The first grain buyer was a man in his thirties, holding a money bag in his hand, very uncomfortable with the smiling service, and asked cautiously: "How much is the price of grain?" The people in the back pricked up their ears to listen. The clerk smiled apologetically, picked up a sign beside him, hung it outside, and said, "I'm sorry, I forgot to hang the sign." It is very clear that miscellaneous grains cost a pound, rice costs a pound, and noodles cost a pound. ”

"I only have this silver, how much grain can I buy?" Bang, the man poured out a few pieces of broken silver, the clerk was not impatient at all, there was a balance next to him, and he came out as soon as he weighed it. smiled and told this man: "Nine coins of silver, nine hundred copper coins." I bought all of them into food, and I was afraid that you would not be able to carry it alone. ”

The man's face turned red, not because he was ashamed, but because he was stimulated by the price of grain, such a cheap grain price, he couldn't have imagined it before. "Then buy a month's worth of grain first, and all the grains."

The clerk said with a smile: "Broken silver is not easy to calculate, you might as well exchange it for Dengzhou money." Probably because this clerk really doesn't look like a bad person, and he won't take people into the ditch, the man nodded, and soon got a handful of finely made metal money and put it in the money bag. The grain store guy handed him a slip and said with a smile: "Take the list and put away the money bag." Go to the window over there and pick up the food by the order. When the man left, the clerk smiled and said, "Next!" ”

On one side, the soldiers with stern faces are looking at the queue, and on the other hand, there are smiling clerks, which is a bit of a feeling of ice and fire. The man quickly got the food, and the last bit of anxiety in his heart disappeared. There are 120 catties of miscellaneous grains, and the family can eat for a month. But he was still a little worried about the money in his hand, so he asked the clerk who put the grain: "Can this money really be used?" The clerk smiled and pointed to the uniform on his body and said, "Twenty steps ahead, there is a shop." The clerk was dressed like this. If you go there, you can use Dengzhou money to buy whatever you want. ”

Dengzhou money is another devil's claw stretched out by Chen Xie, obtained by hydraulic stamping, and the product of mixed metals. The copper content is less than 30%. The system is exquisite. Very deceptive. Whoever goes back and melts the zuò bronze. Lose all the pants that can be paid.

The currency of the Ming Dynasty was silver, and the Dengzhou silver yuan gradually became a series in the past two years, one tael, five coins, two coins, and one coin. Copper round. One dollar of silver can be exchanged for one hundred copper dollars. Chen Xie is using this method to facilitate transactions at the same time. Slowly eroding the financial system of the Ming Dynasty, no one can detect Chen Xie's sinister intentions now, and it is estimated that they do not have the ability to detect it. Dengzhou silver yuan, but it is genuine silver, but the quantity is insufficient. One tael of silver dollars, up to nine coins. But he can be used for one or two purposes, what can you do? Isn't currency just a credibility?

With the Dengzhou money, when you go to the store in front, you can buy more things. The prices of essential commodities such as salt, sugar, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, and tea were maintained at a level that was acceptable to the people before the disaster.

There are more than a dozen such grain stores and grocery stores in Jinan almost overnight. Divided by urban area, each area has a grain store and a grocery store. The clerk wears a uniform and serves with a smile. At the entrance of each store, there is a team of recruits on duty, and the guard changes every hour.

The emergence of these stores is really a catastrophe for the merchants who do grain trading in Jinan. The grain price in Jinan is on par with the grain price in Denglai, who can resist this? Even if it was not affected, the price of grain in Jinan City was half higher than that of Denglai. Since the beginning of spring, grain merchants in Jinan have been hoarding grain, so as to make a fortune at this juncture. It's going to be a real death.

During the day, the local grain merchants and the newly opened grain stores were all right. The people in the city lined up in an orderly manner and bought grain in an orderly manner, but the local grain stores naturally did not do any business. Because of the abundance of grain, the low price of grain, and the good quality, after the people got the grain, the order in the city was fast and stable as usual.

After nightfall, the city of Jinan suddenly declared martial law, and the city was full of soldiers standing guard in the streets with torches. No one was allowed to walk around the streets without a permit issued by the governor's yamen. This trick is used together with the grain store, which can be described as extremely vicious.

A carriage was stopped on the street, and the family members standing in the carriage shouted at the soldiers: "Get out of the way, don't you see whose carriage it is?" Let you, sir, and who will give you the courage to stand in the way? ”

The two family members got out of the carriage, and a fat man sat in the car, frowning and thinking about it.

The officer at the head stood in front of the family under the support of torches, and said expressionlessly: "On the orders of Lord Zhongcheng, martial law will be imposed in the whole city after dark, and those who dare to disobey will be killed on the spot." ”

When the man in the carriage heard this, he couldn't help but come out, looked at the young officer, and sneered: "Good tone, I'm going to break through this card next, I see what you can do to me?" ”

After hearing this, the officer drew his saber without hesitation, stared at the fat man in silk clothes and said, "Retreat, otherwise there will be no mercy." ”

"I'm the housekeeper of the Dewang Mansion, so if you have a kind, shoot it." The man was not afraid at all, but continued to take a step forward, and the officer decisively raised his command knife: "One last warning, one further step, and kill on the spot." Behind the officer, ten soldiers lined up with their guns raised, just waiting for his order.

At this moment, the man's complexion changed, and after he stopped, his face was cloudy, and he looked at the officer's expression of not giving in at all, and he was afraid in his heart. Snorted twice, got into the carriage, and said to the coachman, "Go back!" ”

The carriage returned to the Dewang Mansion, and Zhu Youshu, the king of Jinan, was drinking and listening to music in the backyard. There is also a clan in the city of Jinan, that is, Zhu Ensheng, the general of Fengguo. Many of the clans in the Ming Dynasty were broken, and Zhu Youshu and Zhu Ensheng were doing well. One is a vassal king, and the other has a title, unlike those clans that have nothing, and there is no progress in life. These descendants of the old Zhu family were raised as pigs by the imperial court, so they would die on the government and stay in the fiefdom obediently.

It is conceivable that these people have nothing to do, but these clans are still able to give birth, and the more they are born, the poorer they are. It is inevitable that one generation is not as good as the next. In Zhu Youzhen's generation, the people don't know how many clans are asking for food.

"What?" Hearing the housekeeper's words, Zhu Youshu stood up angrily, dropped a cup, and stared at the candle flame in front of him with a gloomy face. "Chen Sihua, what does he want to do? Come and prepare the car, the lonely king wants to leave the palace. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly stopped him and said, "Lord, no, don't." These local officials usually have nothing to do but look for trouble, and when you go out this big night, I'm afraid it won't be easy to come back. ”

Zhu Youshu is also making a appearance, he, the vassal king, except for the name of a clan vassal king, is nothing else in the eyes of officials. Not to mention Chen Xie, the prefect of Jinan will not take him seriously.

Late at night, Chen Xie was in the study, looking at a record on the desktop, there were 36 grain stores in Jinan City, involving more than 50 large households. These families have teamed up to hoard more than 800,000 stone of grain, waiting for it to be sold at a high price before the summer harvest. This year's weather is dry, and even if the summer grain harvest is harvested, this grain price will not be able to fall. These people still have some earnings, but these people are black enough to earn a sum before the summer harvest. If they weren't greedy, Chen Xie's pit would be useless to them.

Now that Chen Xie's grain store is open, the grain from Jinan City cannot be shipped out, and the grain has to rot in his hands. Selling at a low price? Are they willing? No, there is no doubt about it. When they are forced to do nothing, they will reduce the price to deal with it, but at that time, Chen Xie will have more ruthless tricks waiting for them. Compared with Chen Xie's financial resources, these people are not enough for the class.

Chen Xie's burying trilogy is now just the beginning. After taking office, there was no action, and people in Jinan City thought that Chen Xie was a good talker. Unexpectedly, Chen Xie has been waiting for this year's drought and wants to bury a group of people.

In fact, what Chen Xie wants to bury most is not these businessmen, they are just incidental loot.

In late May, the people of Yanzhou continued to starve to death, and the Yanzhou government had stopped giving porridge, the city gate was closed, and the soldiers went to the city to be on guard, showing the current posture of the enemy. There were tens of thousands of hungry people outside the city, and the camps set up at random could not be seen at a glance, and there was no order at all in the chaos. Now even if you want to sell your sons and daughters, you don't have a chance, the city gate is not open, and no one comes out to buy it.

Some strong men began to wander back and forth among the crowd, spreading rumors.

"Did you hear that? Qufu has grain, the Confucian family, and the saint's door. Their family has thousands of hectares of fertile land, and eighty percent of the fertile land in Qufu belongs to the Confucian family. I heard that the Kong family's grain was rotten in the warehouse, and they refused to take an extra grain of grain for relief. ”

It's good to say that these rumors are false, but the question is that these rumors are true. King Lu gave fifty taels of silver, and the Confucian family in Qufu was a little more generous, and gave two hundred taels and some old grain. Then there was no movement, the entire Yanzhou Mansion, nearly 100,000 hungry people, Yanzhou Mansion only four or five days to stop the porridge shed. With so many people, where should they go?

Finally, someone shouted: "Go, if you want to live, go to Qufu." The Kong family has millions of stone of grain in the warehouse. "If one person stands up, tens of millions of people will follow, not to mention, not to mention not just one person, but dozens. These people took the displaced people and began to march towards Qufu County.

It seems to be a good thing that the people are gone, but the Yanzhou prefect is completely panicked, because the people have gone to Qufu. The saint's door is in Qufu, and if something happens to the Kong family, he, an official, will be the end.

What to do? First, send troops, and second, ask for help. These two Yanzhou prefects were doing it, sending 500 soldiers out of the city, but as soon as the city gate was opened, they were scared back by more than 10,000 hungry people. Not all the hungry people are gone, and some of them are left in place, not despairing. (To be continued......)