Chapter 47: Resource Monopoly
After listening to Bai Zhengyan's words, Lan Feiyan only felt that cold sweat broke out on his back, his family was lonely, without power or power, if they wanted to deal with themselves, wouldn't it be easy?
"Grandpa Bai, but I don't regret sending Zhang Qiaoqiao's sister and brother to prison, but what you said is very reasonable, I will be careful in the future, at this moment, it is still important to find Xiaowu, I don't know if Grandpa Bai has any way?"
Bai Zhengyan looked at the side of the wall and said, "If you do a bad thing and show your feet, what will you do next?" ”
Lan Feiyan propped his head on one elbow, raised his long eyebrows, and said, "Naturally, I will not move, and I will talk about it when the limelight is over." ”
"Grandpa Bai, isn't it useless for me to spy on Diao Mansion?"
Bai Zhengyan stroked his beard and said, "You can look for clues from Diao's Mansion, your brother is as big as a living person, he can't disappear out of thin air, there will always be people who have seen him." ”
Lan Feiyan suddenly opened his mind and said happily: "Yan'er knows what to do, Yan'er thanks Grandpa Bai for reminding me." ”
She thought of it again, yesterday in the yamen, the Zhang County Order who seemed to be a good official.
"Grandpa Bai, is the biggest official in our Youguan City Zhang County Order?"
Bai Zhengyan didn't understand why she suddenly asked this, but he still replied, "It's not." ”
"Huh?"
Lan Feiyan was shocked, there are even bigger officials in this place than Zhang County Order.
Bai Zhengyan ignored her surprise, he looked into the distance, and his thoughts went back to many years ago.
"We are a border pass city here, more than forty years ago, the Tianxin Kingdom and the small country next to it wanted to annex my Hanyuan Kingdom, and launched several wars, just because of the disparity in troops, in order to protect the people, Commander Li ordered everyone outside the city to retreat to Youguan City.
Later, in a major war, because the grain and grass of the imperial court were not delivered to the military camp in time, Li led the army to be defeated, so he could only retreat to Youguan City with the remaining soldiers, swearing to protect the people in the city to the death, and he himself broke an arm in that battle.
Later, the places outside Youguan City were plundered by Tianxin Kingdom, including Jingyuan County, at that time, the soldiers of Tianxin Kingdom were killed when they saw people, and there was hardly a single person left outside the city of Hanyuan Country.
The generals sent by the imperial court changed one after another, and fought for more than ten years, but they could only hold the city of Youguan, and could not recover the lost territory, until General Li came, he was not only strong in martial arts, but also proficient in the art of war, and after many years, he finally recovered the lost land, but there were no people outside the city.
After recovering the lost land, General Li ordered that the people who had taken refuge in the city should return to their original places of residence, and the people who should farm the land should be farmed, while his army was guarding the other side of the deep mountains. ”
Hearing this, Lan Feiyan asked again: "Grandpa Bai, then the biggest official here is General Li, what is the original identity of him and the major general?" ”
Bai Zhengyan said with a smile: "I only know that General Li is the uncle of the country, as for the identity of the young general, no one knows, but it is rumored that this young general is strong in martial arts and is relatively indifferent and ruthless, I really don't know anything else." ”
Lan Feiyan looked at Bai Zhengyan's white hair, he should have been less than thirty years old when he fought, and he knew many things in this city.
"Grandpa Bai, what do the people of Zhangjia Village do, and why have they become the richest of the three major families?"
"Alas, Zhangjia Village has a large population, and the fields account for more than half of Jingyuan County, over the years, they have been doing grain business, all the rice shops in this Youguan City are opened by Zhangjia Village, and some food in the army is also provided by them."
Lan Feiyan couldn't help but sigh, this is a resource monopoly! No wonder it's so rich.
"Grandpa Bai, can you do me a favor?"
"Little baby, you say."
Lan Feiyan took out a silver ticket of five hundred taels from his body, since he wanted to start with the people in Diao's mansion, he had to use silver, didn't the old saying say, money can make ghosts grind.
Although Chen Yueyue also has dozens of taels of silver on her, it is estimated that it is not enough, she can't just make a silver ticket of five hundred taels as soon as she makes a move! You need to exchange it for a silver ticket of 100 taels.
"Grandpa Bai, I have a silver ticket here, can you help me exchange it for one hundred and two?"
Bai Zhengyan is a little strange, this kid was so poor a while ago that he even had to pay for medical treatment, how could he be so rich today.
Lan Feiyan noticed Bai Zhengyan's change, and she smiled: "Grandpa Bai, you can rest assured that my silver ticket is rightfully obtained." ”
Bai Zhengyan has lived most of his life, and he still has the ability to see people, so he naturally believes that Lan Feiyan is a person.
He took the silver ticket and said with a smile: "Then I will go to Yinzhuang to change it later, it is not too early, I should also go to open the door of the pharmacy, by the way, if you have nothing to do, come and help." ”
Lan Feiyan hadn't slept all night, and she was already sleepy at the moment, but when she heard Bai Zhengyan ask her to go to the pharmacy to do something, she still agreed.
Following behind Bai Zhengyan, looking at this old man with a straight waist, Lan Feiyan thought of the Chen family's wall grass again, the third uncle, this Chen family village is weak and indifferent, if Xu is also related to the management of the third uncle.
When I arrived at the pharmacy, as soon as I opened the door, several women walked in, all of whom were grabbing herbs for the elderly or young children in the family.
At this time, it is the end of spring, and the weather is hot and cold, so there are naturally many people who are sick from the cold.
It didn't take long for the guy in the store to come, Lan Feiyan didn't understand anything, so he could only stand beside Bai Zhengyan and watch.
One of the women walked up to the side and said, "Doctor Bai, my youngest son has a cough again, you can prescribe me some more medicine like last time." ”
Bai Zhengyan glared at her, "Daughter-in-law of the Li family, you have to bring the baby to me to see, so I can prescribe medicine." ”
The daughter-in-law of the Li family showed a helpless expression, "This early morning, aren't I afraid that he will catch a cold?" ”
"Then you'll have breakfast and bring him over."
Bai Zhengyan shook his head secretly, how many times have this been said, there are still people who don't bring patients over, and they have to prescribe their own medicine when they open their mouths.
"Yo, Brother Bai, is this a new apprentice?"
An old man in his fifties, wearing a gray robe and a thin figure, came in at the door, shouting at Bai Zhengyan.
Lan Feiyan was stunned when he saw him, isn't this person the thin husband, his son was guarding the door in Diao's Mansion last night.
She understood a little at this time, why Grandpa Bai asked her to come to the pharmacy.
Bai Zhengyan didn't look at him, but concentrated on checking the pulse of a woman in her forties.
After a while, Bai Zhengyan let go of his hand, picked up the pen and wrote, and then handed the prescription to the guy, and said, "Grab three days' worth of medicine according to the amount above." ”
The woman's face was full of exhaustion, and her eyes were dim, she frowned, and said, "Doctor Bai, what kind of illness am I?" I can't sleep well at night, I am anxious and depressed, and I can't help but curse when I see unsatisfactory things during the day, and sometimes I am dizzy and weak. ”
Bai Zhengyan pondered for a moment.
"You're sick and you're all worried, as the saying goes, you're sick when you're depressed, you better relax, be less angry, and don't think so much."
The woman frowned, "But, but I can't control it, I want to scold people every day, and these children are scared by me." ”
"The medicine I prescribe has a calming effect, you drink it for three days first, go out for a walk by yourself, relax, don't always be bored in the house, this good person will be bored."
The woman answered, paid the money, and went out.
Lan Feiyan muttered in her heart, this woman is afraid that menopause has arrived, women in ancient times were too restrained and couldn't show their faces outside, even if they went outside, there was no fun to go.
Alas, it's still good in modern times, and there is no good place to go.