Chapter 401: Bad News
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In the second year of Taining, spring!
The ice and snow are beginning to melt, and the mountains are all over the fields and yellow, just waiting for the new sprouts to spit green and decorate the earth with color!
Farmers carry hoes, nail rakes, and dig into the fields that have been frozen for a winter, and have become extremely cold and hard.
Preparing for this year's spring ploughing!
The small people in the market, hurrying in their footsteps, are running around and working hard for life!
It's a spring full of hope.
Everyone agreed that this year will be smooth and rainy, and there will be a bumper grain harvest.
The rebels were completely exterminated.
The battle in the north was divided, and the Wuheng royal court was driven out of the territory of the Great Wei.
If you work hard for a few years, you can return the world to a peaceful and prosperous world.
The heavy broken ship of Dawei Jiangshan will sail on the right route again and ride the wind and waves!
It's just that......
Nine out of ten life is unsatisfactory!
Just when people's hearts were full of beautiful expectations, the anti-thief, who had been crippled by the beating, after a winter of cultivation, in the spring of the second year of Taining, under the leadership of the great anti-thief Sima Doudi, launched the most ferocious attack on the local government and the city.
They grasped the emptiness of the garrison in the north, and the army was on the front line to resist the Wuheng royal court, and they couldn't spare the troops to clean up their group of anti-thieves.
Its arrogance and audacity greatly exceeded the expectations of the world.
"Sima Dou, a small villager in the countryside, coincided with his meeting, Bolang and sand. I thought that he had been beaten and disabled, and at most he could only toss and turn in a small place in the poor countryside. Unexpectedly, he would be able to return to the light and have the courage to march to the capital. ”
"This time, he will definitely die!"
"Who's going to fight the thief? The anti-thieves almost encountered decent resistance along the way, and they were like a bamboo, and they were about to hit the capital. The local soldiers had no time to rescue, and the war in the north was in full swing, and the war was stalemate, and they could not draw troops to help the capital. Can we only rely on the Southern Army? ”
"The southern army has less than 20,000 troops, and there are 200,000 anti-thieves. In this war, it depends on whether the general of the Southern Army has the ability to win more with less? ”
"The thieves are a rabble, and there is nothing to worry about. The 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Southern Army are all veterans who have seen blood. The Southern Army is enough to deal with the arrogant Sima Dou, so that he has no return! ”
"You're all old emperors! The anti-thieves have been fighting for so many years, and there is also a group of veterans of hundreds of battles who have fought hundreds of battles with officers and soldiers under Sima Doumen, and the number is as low as three or five thousand. Relying on these three or five thousand veterans, it is completely possible to pull up an army of 100,000 people. In addition, of the 20,000 people in the Yugoslav Army, only 10,000 are veterans, and the remaining 10,000 are all recruits who were replenished last year and have not yet been on the battlefield. ”
"In that case, let the Southern Army expand its army. With 10,000 veterans, temporarily pull up a team of 50,000 soldiers and horses, and fight against the anti-thieves, I don't believe that we can't win! It really doesn't work, the city wall of the capital is a line of defense that the thieves will never cross. The walls of the capital are 12 feet high and 15 miles wide. Even if there are thousands of troops, they don't want to pry open a corner of the city's walls. Ladies and gentlemen, why are you worried? Could it be that what the official said is not right? ”
"What will be the consequences of really letting the thieves hit the capital? Don't forget, there is a war going on in the north, and it is difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat, holding back the vast majority of the imperial court's forces. Moreover, most of the grain, grass and ordnance of the imperial court were transported to the northern front. Let the southern army pull up 50,000 soldiers and horses, food, grass, and ordnance in a short period of time, where will it come from? ”
"Your Majesty only raided the house last year and made a big windfall. The official didn't believe that in such a short period of time, the money, grain and grass obtained from the raid had been exhausted! ”
"At the end of the year, Shaofu made up the arrears of salaries and grain and grass, which cost a lot. At the beginning of the year, a batch of grain and grass materials was transported to the front line. ”
"In addition, the imperial court has been recruiting soldiers, and the recruits have been sent to the front line. If the southern army wants to pull up a team of 50,000 people, grain and grass are a difficult problem, and where will the 50,000 soldiers and horses come from is a big problem! Seeing that spring ploughing is about to be made, requisitioning and issuing people at this time is bound to delay spring ploughing. If the spring ploughing is delayed, the autumn harvest will be affected. If the autumn harvest is not smooth, the taxes will inevitably not be collected......"
"Then don't levy people's husbands! There are so many small people in Jingcheng City, and they recruit soldiers directly from the capital. ”
"I'm afraid it will cause resentment!"
"It's much better than the capital being attacked by anti-thieves and you and I becoming the people who lost the country."
"This matter still needs to be asked to the general of the Southern Army, and it is not possible to talk about it on paper."
"Your Majesty's opinion is also sought."
"Your Majesty's opinion is not important, in the end, it is up to all the adults here to make up their minds."
"Your Majesty's opinion is not important, but this step cannot be missing! Do you want to erect Your Majesty with great fanfare and attract the world's rebuke? ”
"If it is a peaceful year, Your Majesty's talents are enough to cope with the heavy government affairs. Right now, with internal and external troubles and smoke everywhere, Your Majesty seems a little indecisive! ”
"To put it bluntly, His Majesty is not talented enough to cope with the current situation. Why beat around the bush! ”
"We talked in this room, and although we didn't have to worry about the conversation getting out, we couldn't lose our vigilance. It is necessary to beat around the bush! ”
"If you want me to say, send dozens of beauties directly to Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty will indulge in beauty, and you will have no time to ask about military affairs!"
"Ridiculous! This is the work of the ministers, and he will be scolded through the ages! ”
"Although Your Majesty lacks talent, he is still a wise man. As a courtier of the Great Wei Dynasty, we have been assisting Your Majesty since then, and we have reopened the peaceful and prosperous era. ”
……
The general trend of the world never shifts by the will of a certain person.
The anti-thief Sima Dou, led an army of 200,000 and drove straight in, less than a hundred miles away from Gyeonggi.
Seeing that it was about to enter Gyeonggi, everyone in the capital was terrified.
There are already people who want to leave the city and go to the countryside to take refuge.
"When I go to the countryside at this time, I'm afraid I just hit the muzzle of the anti-thief and become a ghost under the knife!"
Boss Su of the Su Ji Pickle Shop in Jinyinfang is persuading the owner of the clay pottery shop next door.
"You look at the high shopkeeper of the North and South grocery stores who greet people happily every day, this time it must be a false alarm?"
"Is it really okay this time? Can Boss Su guarantee it? ”
Boss Su was a little embarrassed.
How could he guarantee such a thing?
"Wait, I'll ask Shopkeeper Gao."
"Together, together!"
The shopkeepers of the surrounding shops poured into the No. 1 store of North and South Chop Soup, hoping to hear the exact news from the shopkeeper Gao, and An Yi'an's impetuous and panicked hearts.
"I have long heard that the background of the mixed soup in the north and south is hard, and the owner is a great person, from a certain big family. Shopkeeper Gao, you must have gotten the news a long time ago! This time, does it matter? Is it a false alarm as Boss Su said? ”
"Shopkeeper Gao, tell everyone quickly! We all listen to you. ”
"As long as you say it's okay this time, the capital will definitely be saved, we will believe you, and we won't go out of the city!"
"Yes, shopkeeper Gao, let's talk about it!"
High shopkeeper: "......"
He's also embarrassed.
The anti-thieves are about to enter Gyeonggi, and no one dares to pack a ticket whether the southern army can successfully strangle the anti-thieves.
"Neighbors, bosses, to be honest, what the situation is this time and how the situation will develop, Gao is not clear. However, if you look at the walls of the capital, the walls are high and deep, and I don't believe that those mud-legged thieves can break through the walls of the capital. ”
"That makes sense!"
"So the capital is safe, we don't have to go out of the city to avoid the military disaster?"
"However, in case the thieves besiege the capital, everyone will not be able to enter or leave, will there be enough food in the capital?"
When it comes to food, everyone panics!
Whether you are fleeing from the city or staying in the capital, you need food.
However, the small people in the capital, including their shopkeepers, bosses, and families with a little assets, can only eat food for a month at most.
In fact, having enough food for a month at home is definitely a lot.
For most small people, there is only enough food at home for three to five days.
They go out to work, and many of them work part-time, and they settle the settlement on the same day.
After settling the wages, he went to buy grain.
"Hurry up and buy food!"
This group of people obviously reacted faster than the small people in the market.
They threw down the high shopkeeper, took out the back baskets, cloth bags, bamboo baskets, and all the utensils that could hold grain, and rushed to the grain store not far away.
What the?
No food?
Sold out?
Are you kidding!
It must be hoarding strange houses and driving up food prices.
Open the door, open the door, and buy food.
Don't open, don't open, just don't open!
The shop has no food, so it just doesn't sell.
Everyone couldn't, so they rushed to the next grain store and ate the closed door as usual.
No one is dead.
If you don't insist on buying food at this time, it will only be more difficult to buy later.
Everyone divided the way and asked one by one.
Someone was lucky enough to buy food.
But......
"Why is it so expensive?"
"It's too expensive, it's okay to buy it tomorrow. But if you come to buy it tomorrow, it's not this price, it will be twice as high as today. ”
MMP!
It's really no treacherous business!
You can only grit your teeth!
"Give me fifty pounds first! I'll go back and get the money later, and I'm going to buy it. ”
"If you want to buy it, hurry up. Maybe the shop will be closed at some point. ”
……
People are always extremely sensitive to food.
It can be said that it is normal for a grain store to close.
However, several grain shops have closed one after another, and even the prices of the grain shops that are open are ridiculously expensive, which makes many small people vigilant.
What happened?
Why are so many grain shops closed?
Why is food so expensive?
Until, when they heard that the thieves had hit Gyeonggi, the people were all panicked.
Thousands of small people poured into the streets and began to rush to buy food.
Food prices are rising.
Originally, a load of rough grain only cost 300 yuan, but it rose to 900 yuan, and it will continue to rise.
At this price, the vast majority of small people cannot afford it.
Everyone had to make careful calculations, pick up the grain, and calculate the daily rations.
Originally, we had to eat three days of food, but we had to eat enough for eight or ten days.
In the past, I could occasionally make tooth sacrifices, but now all the money has to be exchanged for grain and stored in the rice bowl.
The people of the capital were panicked.
Pedestrians on the street hurried, and everyone had a nervous look on their faces.
Most of the shops are out of business.
Only the large and small grain shops in the capital are crowded with people.
------Off topic------
There is a third update today!
Yuan Bao finally straightened out his thinking, and began to work hard, incarnate a code word machine, and start saving manuscripts!