Chapter 411: Food Prices Soar
After coming back to his senses, Lin Yuwen kicked the bandit, "Go on." ”
"Today, there is a big drought this year, and the crops in the field have not yet grown, they are all dry, and there is no food at all, so the price of grain in the county has skyrocketed, and I..."
"Impossible!" Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yuwen interrupted him.
"Aunt, girl, what I said is true, true, if you don't believe it, ask him."
This he, of course, refers to another bandit.
"What about the Zheng family? Didn't the Zheng family have grain stores in every county, even in the town? Why don't they come out and stabilize food prices? "What is this Zheng family for!
Faced with her three questions, the bandit sighed, "At first, there was a stable price of food, but later, later..."
Lin Yuwen asked urgently, "What happened later?" ”
"Later, those profiteers colluded with the county magistrate to seal all the grain shops under the pretext that the Zheng family used the old grain to fill the new grain, and then our grain prices rose wildly under their push.
Even miscellaneous grains have skyrocketed to more than a dozen yuan a catty, even if we have money, we can't buy food, let alone those who don't have money.
And not only our county, but also the surrounding prefectures and counties have also failed to harvest, do you think, not to mention whether these places can stabilize the price of grain, even if it is stable, can there be so much grain to sell?
And even if we can sell it, at this time, we outsiders can't enter their city at all, and if we want to buy it, we can only go to those towns, and we can't buy much, and if we continue to stay and starve to death, we can only leave and go to a place with enough food.
It's just that we are like this in the north, where there is enough food, and if you don't want to starve to death, you can only come to the south.
The boss said that this year's drought is particularly serious, and there will definitely be a large number of victims flocking to the south, and if we are with those people, there will be too many people at that time, and no matter where we are, we will not be able to accept so many of us.
It is better to take advantage of the fact that there is still enough food in the south and there are no disaster victims, come over in advance and seize the opportunity.
Then, let's lead the boss here.
It's just that it didn't take long for us to run out of coils, and we really couldn't help it, so we could only rob, rob the rich and help the poor..."
"Is this how you rob your head, rob the rich and help the poor?"
Lin Yuwen kicked him angrily, "Let me ask you again, where did those people get the courage to dare to seal the shop of the emperor?" Moreover, there are so many shops under the Zheng family, what about the others? The medicine hall, the fruit and vegetable shop, are they so stupid that they won't ventilate with the branches of other prefectures and counties? ”
The bandit who was kicked screamed with a sigh, but still replied honestly, "Listen, listen to the boss, all the people in Zheng's shop, as long as they can ventilate and report the news, have all been pressed away." ”
Lin Yuwen still didn't believe it, "Even if they are all pressed away, the Zheng family's shop, even if it is the lowest branch, will receive and deliver goods almost every day, can those people not find out about the situation in your county, and then report it to their own family?" How could it be stumped by a small county order. ”
"Listen, I heard that there is someone above the county order, and he is still a big official."
"Humph! Can a big official be able to transfer the department? The Zheng family can talk directly to the household, and the household department Shangshu can be forwarded to the current saint, which official can cover the sky with one hand? Lin Yuwen felt that he was.
"This, we don't know this, we, ah, girl, don't, don't fight, I really don't know."
Why does this girl kick people at every turn, it hurts him to death.
Lin Yuwen threatened him while kicking, "Tell the truth to this girl, otherwise, I will continue to kick." ”
"Girl, I'm telling the truth, ah, I remembered, the boss said, said."
"What did you say?"
"Say, I heard that the county commander revealed to the people around him when he was drunk that it was the emperor, and the royal family wanted to beat and suppress the Zheng family", the bandit said, and pointed to the top.
As a result, as soon as he finished speaking, the girl kicked even harder, "Nonsense, the Zheng family is the only imperial merchant in our Dachu, not to mention anything else, the price of grain in Dachu still depends on the Zheng family to stabilize it, how can the royal family suppress them, you are talking nonsense, give this girl an honest explanation." ”
"Ah, girl, I, I don't know, it's what the boss heard, it's hearsay, yes, hearsay, how can we be a little common people, how can we know about the government, girl, stop fighting, by the way, I remembered, also, there is another situation."
It seems that this person is just underbeaten, "Say it quickly, don't grind and chirp, sure enough, you can only be honest if you beat it, tell me everything you know, don't hold back one for a while." ”
"The boss said, the Xiao family, the Xiao family is also in charge of grain, and they don't deal with the Zheng family, so maybe they will take this opportunity to fall into the ground."
"What else?"
"No, no."
This man always says the boss, the boss says, it seems that their boss knows a lot of things.
It's a pity that the boss has been killed by them.
However, it is a fact that food prices are no longer stable, and it is useless for them to understand why this is happening.
Since he didn't know, they couldn't pry more out of his mouth.
Then you can only ask what he knows.
According to this man, they have been here for more than 50 days, led by three capable people, and there were still 60 people when they arrived, so they seized a small village, and usually planted land in the fields, and every once in a while they would go out to 'rob the rich and help the poor' under the leadership of the boss.
It is said that every time there is a disaster in the north, a large number of victims will flock to the south.
This year, there has been a rare drought, and there will definitely be more people affected.
What they wanted to know most was when the large number of victims would arrive, and they didn't know.
said that they came early, and they didn't know the current situation in their hometown.
The others, he basically doesn't know anything, it's just a waste!
Although Lin Yuwen wanted to know the situation over there very much, he couldn't ask more information because he was not a person, so he could only give up.
It's almost the same if I asked the other one, and I know even less, after all, he is an ordinary bandit, and he knows even less about the 'boss said'.
These two are useless, so what to do with them?
Lin Yuwen does not agree with the murder, whether they are guilty or not, should be tried by the government, not by them personally.
However, they still have to hurry, and it is not a way to keep people.
But you can't let people go, so what should you do?
They interrogated them again, and determined that although these two men had robbed and injured many people, they had never killed anyone, and the two who killed the most people happened to be the two lying on the ground.
After all, most of them have only been bandits for a short time, and they have not yet reached the point of killing people without blinking.
According to Xue Langjing's meaning, as long as the bandits have been in place for a long time, they will kill people sooner or later, so it is better to kill people before they kill them, and never suffer in the future.
But Lin Yuwen disagreed and insisted on sending them to the official.