The territory of Gwangju Province became the same overnight.

There are people walking on the main road, but it is not the previous leisure, but dragging the family with the mouth of the cart to carry the burden, the street is bustling but everyone is panicking, the children are crying and the adults are shouting, like a rapid wave constantly rushing by, the teahouse and the restaurant are half closed, and there are not many customers who open the door, or they are chatting and talking uneasily, or nervously peeping out.

Crowds of merchants are out of sight, jewelers are closed, rice shops are crowded, and many people are rushing to buy rice grain, but

"There is no more rice." The shopkeeper waved to the crowded crowd and showed everyone the empty grain tank.

This happens in all the rice shops.

It is impossible to run out of rice grain overnight, and it is clear that the grain merchants have hidden the rice grain.

"Brother Gui, Brother Gui, how much can you help me." Some people who are familiar with grain merchants pleaded, "I am old and young, and I can't run, and I can't survive this winter without food." ”

The grain merchant was soft-hearted and saw pity for him, and pulled him inside to avoid humanity: "I can give you some of my own grain." ”

The man was grateful for the money, but the grain merchant pressed his hand and said, "But the price cannot be the same as before." ”

This is to take advantage of the chaos to raise the price! Every catastrophe or rebellion is a common means, when the Gwangju Mansion was in crisis before, the price of rice and grain also soared, but it was strictly stopped by the government, and Mrs. Wu Shao even released countless rice grains to suppress the price.

The purpose of raising grain prices and suing the government is to arrest this grain merchant.

The man looked at the grain merchant with flickering eyes in shock and anger, and listened to the sound of horses' hooves galloping outside the window, which was the patrol of the state capital, and the sound of iron hooves struck people's hearts, as long as he shouted that there was a profiteer

"I'm still willing to sell it." The grain merchant looked fearless, "Everyone else has already hidden the goods and left here, of course I have to leave, the grain will not be saved, I can sell some if I can, if I can't sell it, I don't want it." ”

If you don't want it, you don't give it to them for free, but burn it or hide it in a place where no one knows about it, so that it can be broken and rotten.

"It's going to be messed up soon, and the government still cares about me, a grain merchant?" He smiled faintly, "If the government arrests me, I will dedicate all this grain to Mrs. Wu." ”

Gwangju Mansion is about to be in chaos, Mrs. Wu Shao needs food even more, and receiving the grain will definitely spare this merchant, and the grain will be used for those porridge jars for the homeless beggars to drink, and he will not get anything, and he will offend all the grain merchants, and no one will sell it to him

The man hurriedly grabbed the grain merchant's hand: "Brother Gui said that you laughed, if you are willing to sell me grain, you will save my life, the state capital is in chaos, and I can't fill my stomach with this money." ”

The grain merchant accepted an extra twenty percent of the money, let the man secretly pull the grain away through the back door, and then called in the next acquaintance, and so on quickly sold out the stored grain, loaded with gold and silver and prepared to take advantage of the chaos to go out of the city, before he could go out was caught by the officers and soldiers.

"A lot of businessmen are doing this, and they are all arrested and sentenced to prison?"

"The price of food has been raised by them."

"The state capital is okay, and the counties below have begun to loot."

"What if you catch it? Now that the people are panicking and arresting them, the people don't believe that it is because of the speculation on grain prices, and they will only think that the Gwangju government is really going to be in chaos. ”

"I'm already refuting the rumors, but it's useless at all."

"The departure of those people has sparked speculation, and now that the bandits have appeared and killed people, this speculation has been confirmed."

"Now it's all decided that the rebels are coming."

"My lord, my lord, we can't go on like this, or the rebels will really fight."

In this situation, the rebels attacked, the people's hearts collapsed, and no city in Gwangju could hold it.

The prefect sat in the hall, his face haggard, his eyes red, and he couldn't sleep for several days.

"What are I going to do?" He asked, "Everything that needs to be done has been done." ”

The people who can be here are the most important officials, and everyone doesn't have to hide their words, so one of the officials stood up and said, "Talk to those families." ”

"The government alone can't appease the people, they don't believe us." An elderly official stood up and sighed, "To appease the people, you must use the people, those families are rooted in the land of Gwangju Prefecture, Ye Mao is intertwined, only if they are stable, the people can be stabilized." ”

It is a rule that every official knows to have a good relationship with the local family, and it seems that the rules cannot be changed in troubled times.

Everyone's eyes looked at the woman sitting in the corner again, she made the decision to levy money and grain from those families, and to borrow and divide the fields, whether the martial arts family didn't understand this, or was it too rude, annoying these families, and now the trouble is not less than the arrival of the rebels.

The eyes in the hall were focused on her, Li Minglou didn't let the prefect speak for her anymore, and took the initiative to speak: "Have those bandits caught it?" ”

Yes, the prefect was reminded to sit up straight: "Catch those bandits first and exterminate them to reassure the people." ”

"My lord, those bandits are not from outside, they are said to be panicked wandering beggars, and they all scattered after they were killed." An official sighed and looked at Mrs. Wu Shao again, "There are many people in the country, and they are mixed in, so they can't be found at all." ”

It is also because Mrs. Wu Shao has collected displaced people, and there are many fish and dragons in Gwangju Mansion, and some bandits pretend to be homeless people to mix in, and now they are taking advantage of the chaos in Gwangju Mansion to loot.

Li Minglou frowned: "That means these bandits are in Gwangju Mansion?" ”

Now it's not a matter of pestering the bandits, it's about joining forces with the family to stabilize the people first, if you can't convince the family, even if you catch the bandits, the chaos will continue.

The officials in the hall were about to speak, and a general in his twenties sitting there spoke first.

"Yes." He stood up and said, "These people are not rebels, nor are they bandits from outside, and no suspected bandits left Gwangju after the incident." ”

What this person said was too sure, the officials frowned, the bandits may not let you recognize them as bandits, how to identify them among the homeless?

"If there are more than 10 people who enter or leave the territory of Gwangju Prefecture, they will be registered in a separate register." The general explained to them, "Report to the city gate guards and the patrol soldiers to strictly monitor them. ”

It is impossible for three or five people to become bandits, only by gathering a crowd can they be courageous, and these fellow villagers will be deliberately scattered and assigned different jobs and assigned to different places to live.

"No bandit can grow and assemble in our Gwangju Mansion." The general said categorically.

When the government deliberates, there are the most civil officials, and only Yuanji and the other three people participate on the military general's side, and they rarely speak, so that except for Yuanji, everyone is still a little unfamiliar with these three people, and they only know that one is in charge of soldiers and horses, one is in charge of city defense, and the other is what kind of control and supervision.

The one who is talking now is the general in charge of the control and supervision, called Zhongliu, who is not very old, his face is gloomy, especially a pair of eyes are floating around, which makes people uncomfortable.

"And who do you say are these murderers? Where is it now? An official frowned.

Zhongliu's eyes sank slightly: "They are in the territory of Gwangju Mansion, I will catch them all." ”

Yes, no, not already caught, the officials shook their heads.

"But the departure of these families is all negotiated." Zhongliu Dao, "Although the Huang family has not left yet, the leader is the Huang family, the Tian family, the Liao family, the Wu family, and so on, everyone obeys its arrangement, as for whether there is anyone behind the Huang family, we are investigating." ”

It turned out to be the head of the Huang family, but there is no surprise, no need to investigate Everyone knows that these families must be united, and it has always been like this, the officials smiled bitterly, but what if they knew? There is no crime for people to move together, and the reason is to solve the pressure of people and save rations for the Gwangju government.

The family's means of doing things are like this, so that you are dumb and can't say that you are suffering from coptis chinensis.

"Rumors among the people, businessmen inflating the price of food, and they are indispensable to participate in it." The prefect stretched out his hand and pressed his head, "Master Zhong, we all know this, but what can we do now?" ”

"Arrest them all?" An official smiled bitterly, and then looked at the others with their hands outstretched, "Then we can't really suppress the chaos in Gwangju Mansion." ”

Li Minglou motioned for Zhongliu to sit down and look at everyone: "Then what do you mean now?" ”

Listen to her about the war, and the matter of governing the city should be done according to their methods, and everyone present breathed a sigh of relief: "Please ask the prefect to meet Mrs. Huang, and convene the villagers to discuss how to relieve and appease the township." ”

So in the end, the government has to bow to these families.

A discussion came to an end with a result, and Li Minglou took Yuanji, Jiang Liang, and Liu Fan to leave the front office and return to the back house.

Jiang Liang and Liu Fan did not retire this time, but stepped forward.

"Young lady, the old man has something to say." He said.

Li Minglou turned around, and saw Jiang Liang lowering his head to hide his expression, Liu Fan twisted his face slightly uncomfortably, it seemed that they didn't just have thoughts about what had happened.

"What do you think about the current situation in Gwangju Prefecture?" Li Minglou took the initiative to ask.

"Young lady, now is not the time to think, but to do." Jiang Liang raised his head, "Kill." ”

His hand shrunk in his sleeve stretched out, and his slender hand, which had always held the pen, shone like a knife in the sun, and was raised and swung down.

Unexpectedly, this old scholar who could be blown down by a gust of wind opened his mouth to kill.

Yuan Ji was a little surprised, the adults sitting in the mansion were also scholars, but after discussing for more than ten days, none of them said half a word of killing.

Li Minglou was not frightened and smiled.

Two writing gentlemen were invited into the room, and a little girl ran to fetch the teapot from Jiang Liang's residence, which the young lady asked her to send to Jiang Liang at that time, saying that Jiang Liang would like it.

Seeing the teapot being put in his hand, Jiang Liang was a little surprised and a little moved.

These untrained child servants are clumsy but more convincing.

It is the importance of adults to teach by word and deed, so children will remember such a small thing as bringing him a tea pot.

Li Minglou said: "The bandits who plagued the villagers must be killed. ”

Yuan Ji added on the side: "They can't escape in the territory of Gwangju Mansion, and we already have clues and we can catch them soon." ”

Thinking of what Shi Cai heard in the hall, Jiang Liang's eyes lit up and said, "Sure enough, the people in Gwangju Mansion are all under the control of the young lady, and if there is a thunderbolt method, it is a true bodhisattva." ”

Since you have to rely on doing things, don't flatter, this old thief is very annoying, could it be that people have no bones when they are old? Liu Fan frowned, and simply spoke himself: "It's not just the bandits who want to kill, but also the family." ”

Li Minglou smiled: "Why don't you dare to say this in front of the hall?" ”

"It's not that I don't dare to say it, it's that those people don't dare to listen and don't dare to do it." Liu Fan said proudly.

Li Minglou said: "Because those people are not bandits, and second, they are not rebels, they are unarmed Li people. ”

Liu Fan stood up: "Unarmed? They were unarmed but disturbed the whole territory of Gwangju, they were not bandits, but they disturbed the people, they were not rebels, but they caused the people to flee in a hurry. ”

Long sleeves flicked to look at Li Minglou.

"What's the difference between this and bandits, and rebels?"

"It's also messing with my Great Xia, of course I have to be killed."

Jiang Liang held the teapot on the side and reminded: "You sit down and say sit down and say, there is reason not to be loud." After saying that, he looked at Li Minglou with a smile, "Young lady, what I said earlier is a true bodhisattva with thunderbolt means, if the young lady wants to protect the city and protect the people in this troubled world, she must stop these acts that destroy the stability of the people in the city, otherwise the city will be ruined and the people will die, and all the efforts made will be in vain." ”

Liu Fan explained the meaning for him: "That is to say, the people gathered here because of the young lady, if there is really a good one, the young lady is an accomplice." ”

Jiang Liang glared at him: "That's not what I meant. ”

Li Minglou said: "That being said, all they do is to move, and Gwangju Mansion is free to come and go, how can they kill people because of this?" If so, what is the difference between Gwangju and the rebels? ”

Jiang Liang smiled slightly: "The young lady is right, in fact, we want to ask, if these families have a big crime, do the young lady dare to kill them?" ”

Li Minglou smiled: "You are telling me to kill people now." ”

Previously, Liu Fan said that it was not only the bandits but also the family that he wanted to kill, Li Minglou asked him why didn't you say this in front of the hall, and Liu Fan replied arrogantly because those people didn't dare to listen to it, let alone do it.

So now they're telling her, that is, they think she dares to listen and do.

Liu Fan was slightly stunned, a smile appeared on his arrogant face, and some small tricks were exposed uncomfortably.

So don't talk so impulsively, you have to push the boat with the wind and drizzle, Jiang Liang got up with a smile and a gentle breeze: "Young lady, dealing with the family is a matter for the government, and the young lady is not suitable to come forward, but to say that it is indispensable to guard against people, most of the officials in this Gwangju Mansion are locals, and the relationship with these families is complicated, some of them are from families, and the young lady is an outsider, so in order to avoid some things being hidden from them, we want to come forward for the young lady and participate in this matter." ”

Li Minglou said in a good voice, and instructed Yuan Ji who was standing aside: "You take them to see the prefect, these two gentlemen are in charge of this matter, and the government and the family can tell them anything about it." ”

Motoyoshi responded yes.

Jiang Liang smiled and complimented: "The young lady is happy to do things." ”

Li Minglou looked at the two: "If it is found that the family is really guilty of violating the law and disturbing the people, the government will not dare to kill it, I will kill it." ”