No one can clearly explain why this year's heavy snowfall is so fierce? From the end of October, that is, after the end of the Battle of Xianrenling, it began to rain until the end of November, and for a whole month, the entire Chu State and even the entire Zhongzhou Da 6 were actually enveloped by this blizzard. [ Eighty-one?] {

The snow is endless, and it is outrageous, and now the land of Chu is flat, and no one can find where the road is, where the field is, and where the ditch is, and the whole world is surrounded by snow.

How much impact this blizzard has had on the history of Zhongzhou, later historians have not had an accurate tone. But there are a few points that cannot be doubted.

First of all, after this blizzard, nearly two million people died in Chu alone, and more than a million people are missing, as for the people who were disabled because of the heavy snow, it is not clear, and no one is interested in counting them.

Secondly, this blizzard completely exposed the incompetence of the administrative system of the Chu State, although it was not very satisfactory before, but it was not so obvious. After this blizzard, the people of the world finally understood that the government they supported had no ability, or no heart, to care about the lives of the people.

In the end, it was this blizzard that made all the people in Zhongzhou Big 6 finally start to pay attention to the flowing fire of Peishui, and this includes those who read. The reason is very simple, Peishui is the only government system that is still in power in this blizzard, and the deeds of transporting grain for thousands of miles are really touching.

Look, sometimes it's as simple as fighting for the hearts and minds of the people, when the Chu State government is pretending to be dead and powerless, Peishui people just did some of their own work, and they won hundreds of millions of people's hearts.

This deal is really cost-effective, and Liuhuo is really lucky to have Suzaku as a good wife. But now, Suzaku, a good wife, is not in a good mood, and the current situation of Dawang City is too unoptimistic.

Mei Jiao Niang and Yun Shayue were sitting next to Suzaku, and the three women were together, worried about this bit of family business.

"Oh my God, it's only been fourteen or fifteen days, and the price of grain in Dawangcheng has actually doubled, and the price of other daily necessities has also risen by seventy percent?

Yun Shayue, who was beside her, was holding a report in her hand and looking at it carefully: "How can this be? Half a month has passed, and the number of refugees on the border has actually increased to 50,000? Haven't our warehouses in Golden State and further north been opened? Why do those refugees still come?"

"Fear, they are just because of fear..."Suzaku sighed and said, "I understand the mentality of these people too well, for so many years, they have regarded Peishui as a miracle land full of gold, and now when they encounter a catastrophe, they subconsciously do not believe in the local government, but believe in the ideal in their hearts..."

"Of course, the poor governance ability of the Chu State, even if we give them the food for free, they will not go out, and they can give the people in the city a point, and where can the people in remote areas go if they don't flee to us?"

"Ahh

"But we don't have much food now, and the troops are now the same as refugees, only eating one meal a day, but with this savings, our food is only enough to last for ten days..."

Mei Jiaoniang also interjected after hearing this, "Yesterday I met an iron abacus, he is now anxious and his mouth is full of bubbles, no matter how many healing techniques he uses, I heard that there are 3,000 merchants in Dawang City, and only 300 are willing to open a position to stabilize prices, which is a drop in the bucket..."

Mei Jiaoniang is right, there are three thousand businesses in the Dawang City, these are all people who have made a lot of money in Peishui for more than ten years, and the materials in their private warehouses are enough to survive this crisis, but the nature of businessmen is to make profits in chaos, and it is impossible to make them give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money.

Daydream and Iron Abacus, with a huge team of civil officials, began to do the work one by one, but unfortunately they got nothing but soft nails one by one.

You say you owe on credit, pay back the highest interest, and they just shake their heads.

You say barter, jewelry for food, the highest price for it? They still sighed.

Even daydreamed of taking out gold coins to buy them, but in exchange for only two words: out of stock.

The expressions of the businessmen should be more sincere and sincere, the attitude towards the officials should be more polite and polite, and before leaving, they will stuff large bags of gifts into your arms, but if you want materials, people will say no.

Also, an opportunity to make a 3oo% profit is put in front of you, who will fancy the 5o% profit you give?

"I can't afford it, we can't afford to give them the price they want, they want to double, double, double, countless times..."

After listening to Suzaku's analysis, Mei Jiao was furious, "Is this still a human?

Yun Shaoyue asked anxiously, "What about our grain delivery team? The first batch has been out for fifteen days, and it is supposed to be back..."

"It's not that fast, it takes seven or eight days for a team of 100 people to arrive at the destination empty, and it takes at least ten days to come back with a full load of food......

Just as Suzaku was speaking, a hurried maid suddenly ran from outside the study.

"My lord, it's not good, the fight has started, and a shop selling cloth in Dawang Chengli has been smashed by the people..."

"Huh?" Suzaku jumped up all of a sudden, afraid of violent conflicts, once this thing starts, it can't end.

"Is anyone hurt, have you seen blood?" asked Suzaku nervously.

"This is not clear, anyway, when I knew, Prime Minister Bai and General Zuo had already rushed over with people, and now there should be nothing wrong..."

"Prepare the horse, I'm going to see it myself..."

At this time, on the main street of Dawangcheng, the façade of a shop called Guangyuan Cloth had been smashed to pieces, and the ground was full of torn cloth and cotton trampled in the snow.

This is Shuiyu Street, a commercial street named after Shuiyu Mine, which should have been the time for everyone to open their doors to do business, but now everyone has put on the door panels, and a pair of frightened eyes are still revealed in the cracks of the door panels.

Today's matter is actually very simple, winter is the peak season for cloth shop business, everyone has to buy a new dress after the New Year, and winter clothes are not as good as summer, after all, this year's weather is too cold, not more cotton is really unbearable.

Because of this, as soon as the cloth shop opened this morning, it ushered in an endless stream of customers. However, when the customer saw that the most ordinary gray cloth actually asked for a silver coin a foot, the scolding suddenly rang out.

"Black, this is too dark? Yesterday it was 7o copper coins a foot, why did it rise to a silver coin today?

"That's it, in previous years, this kind of gray cloth was only thirty or forty copper coins a foot, and you actually tripled, you want to kill someone?"

"Profiteers, profiteers..."

The scolding of the common people is endless, but the people of Dawangcheng are rich and knowledgeable, to put it bluntly, the people of Peishui are all rich middle-class people, these people scold people commonly, but it is not worth it to do it for this silver coin.

It may be that the price increase for a month has made the cloth shop owner a little flustered, and he really thinks that the people of Dawang City are a group of ducks who can only move their beaks. He sat in the room and ignored these people at all, just said lightly.

"Oh, we're in business, and we're not going to open a good church, the price has risen all over the city, why can't I go up?"

After speaking, the boss simply leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate. Judging from his daily experience, these duck-billed people just scolded a few words, but after a while, they would still buy it when they were tired of scolding.

But he forgot one thing, everything must have a degree, especially the price increase, it is impossible to rise indefinitely, and the patience of the people is also limited.

At this time, a rough boy's voice reached his ears, "Boss, you must also have a limit to the price increase, without such an unreasonable price increase as you, how can you rise to one silver coin if you sell thirty copper coins of cloth on weekdays? I am not an unreasonable person, just according to the price of 6o copper coins yesterday, you sell me six feet..."

The boss was surprised because it was clearly the voice of a child in the voice change period. But how could a child speak in such a bold tone?

When he opened his eyes, he was still an acquaintance, wasn't this Ning Shun, who had just died of his father in the back street? His father was a soldier who died in the Battle of Xianrenling. The fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy also has an older sister who just got married half a year ago.

"Oh, isn't this Ning Shun? you don't serve your sick mother, why did you come to me to mess around, hurry home..."

"I'm not leaving, today you have to sell me these flower cloths, this is my mother's new clothes to wear for the New Year..."

"Okay, good, you are filial, but you also have to bring enough money, even if we are neighbors, I will give you a discount, then it will cost 9o copper coins a foot, you have to buy 6o, that's not good..."

"You are a profiteer, how can you raise the price so much, you are bullying..."

Perhaps it was the child's clean eyes and righteous tone that annoyed him, and the cloth shop owner jumped up from his chair at once.

"You bear child, why are there so many, if you want to buy it, buy it, if you don't buy it, hurry up..."

There may be stones on the ground, and Ning Shun cried on the spot.

"Damn, hit someone, this grandson bullied the child, bullied Ning Shun..."

"Brute, Ning Shun's father just died in battle, someone bullied orphans and widows, this bastard is too much of a thing..."

"What a filial child, my sister just got married to the mine half a year ago, Ning Shun's father spent a lot of money in order to give his daughter a dowry, and all the military salaries he saved were exchanged for dowry..."

In everyone's mouth, Ning Shun's family situation is clear to everyone. just married a girl, because Ning Shun's father wanted to save face, and he spent all his savings. Originally, this was not a thing, and he saved up again in a year or two with his military salary, but unfortunately there were unforeseen circumstances, and he actually died in Xianrenling.

If you don't say that the disaster is not a one-way street, Ning Shun's mother is still sick, but at this time, my sister and brother-in-law went to work in the mine, and as a result, the family and the outside of the house all rely on Xiao Ning Shun to cook.

At this time, Peishui's economic crisis exploded, and only one-third of the bereavement benefits for the dead were given, and the rest was all owed, coupled with the soaring prices during this time, which made Xiao Ningshun, who was in his teens, really helpless.

As a result, the scene just now happened.