With the rice donated by Liang Jingren, we have more confidence when we go to the hardest-hit areas.

To be honest, I didn't have any food in my hands, and I didn't dare to let Tai go to that kind of place. There is no relief food, you don't say that you are going to disaster relief, but you say that you will be beaten to death.

Are you coming empty-handed for disaster relief? We're all starving to death, and you're still making jokes about the birds with no oil and no salt, don't you owe a beating?

Since the Wei and Han dynasties, etiquette and music have collapsed, and people's hearts have not been ancient. The concept of the people respecting the king as God is long gone. In particular, the place where we stand now was the land of Soochow not long ago. In the eyes of some people, they are afraid that they will still treat us as invaders. It's just that because their original monarch was also a tyrant who was not worthy of support at all, they did not openly rebel against us.

If such a catastrophe occurred in Jing, Yang and other places that originally belonged to Eastern Wu, and the imperial court did not come forward to provide disaster relief, it would be easy to stimulate the anti-Jin sentiment of the local people.

This is also the main reason for the emperor's anxiety. The world that has been won by hard work and bloody battles for generations, if half of the country is lost because of a natural disaster, what face does the emperor have to meet the ancestors of the Sima family?

Later, the emperor was ill, and the father of the Taidai went out on patrol, and he hurried south after only a little bit of fun in the earthquake-stricken areas such as Yinping and Guangwu in the north.

It is difficult to fight the country, and it is even more difficult to defend the country.

Because it is not easy to conquer people's hearts than to conquer the land.

On this day, when our ship arrived at the mouth of the Hanyang River, the people of the Hanyang Taishou faction were already anxiously waiting on the shore.

He knelt on the ground and wiped his sweat while saying, "When Lord Jiang sent the ministers, he repeatedly told the ministers not to let His Royal Highness and His Royal Highness King Qi land. The mobile phone station p. is the fastest to update. King Qi had already asked, "What happened in Hanyang City?" ”

"The Taishou Yamen was surrounded by a group of rebels. Last night, the rice shop in the city was robbed, and Lord Jiang sent people to arrest a few people who made trouble. As a result, early this morning. The government was surrounded by water. ”

At this time, Tai opened his mouth and said, "Hasn't the price of rice come down?" The day before yesterday, when we were in Gangneung, the rice there had dropped to 15 taels and 1 stones. There was no one to rob the thirty taels and one stone land in Xiangyang. Why is it that fifteen taels and one stone are still grabbed here? ”

The man replied, "Even Lord Jiang is very puzzled by this. A few days ago, the price of rice here also reached 30 taels and 1 stones, and at that time, Lord Jiang sent people to keep an eye on a few rice shops every day, for fear of robbery. In the past two days, seeing that the price of rice has dropped day by day, Lord Jiang was very happy, thinking that he had finally overcome the difficulties. It will get better in the future. Who knew that something happened at this time. ”

At this time, another ship following us also docked. Jumping off the boat, a man asked, "Which rice store was robbed?" ”

This person turned around and saw it, and quickly said, "It's your Diliang Ji Mi Xing." “

Liang Jingren listened, and instead of being angry, he laughed and said, "This is fun, and there are still people who dare to rob my rice." He said to Tai again, "Your Highness, Xiaomin knows who is behind this rice grab, and he is purely here for Xiaomin." The two highnesses and the other adults might as well go to the mountain villa of the small people to rest first. Wait for the small people to solve those who took the opportunity to make trouble, and then ask His Royal Highness and the adults to go to the mansion. ”

After saying that, he followed the people sent by Taishou and left.

It made King Qi and Mrs. Yang look at each other. How can this man's style be greater than theirs? There are so many people in the government who don't need it. Let them go and "rest", and he will deal with it himself?

At this time, King Qi looked at me and asked, "This Liang Da shopkeeper, how did you get rid of him?" It's not that he's always been unofficial. Unruly, is it the most difficult bone to gnaw in the whole Jingxiang? ”

I think. At this time. Probably even Mrs. Yang knows that I am a concubine, but everyone knows it. I don't call myself a slave anymore. Directly talked to King Qi and said, "Well, we also happened to meet him in a specific place, so we chatted with him, and it turned out that he was Shi Chongdi's uncle." Because Shi Chong and my father still have a little friendship, through this relationship, he was finally convinced. ”

At this time, several local officials in Jingzhou, including Lord Mu Guo of Jingzhou, all showed expressions of disbelief, looked at me and asked, "Is he Uncle Shi Chongdi?" ”

I was even more surprised than they and asked, "Don't the adults know the origin of this Liang Da shopkeeper?" ”

They shook their heads together. Mr. Guo said, "He only popped up in recent years, where he used to be, what he did, no one knows." He also never dealt with the government, nor did he make friends with local clans, so there was very little information about him from the outside. He is the richest man in Jingxiang and the first mysterious person. ”

King Qi asked, "Then what did he rely on to get started?" ”

Another Master Chen said, "No one knows about this, only that he suddenly came to Xiangyang from other places two years ago to open a rice shop, and the price of rice was slightly lower than that of other rice shops at the beginning." Those rice shops banded together to push the price even lower, trying to squeeze him away. Who knows, if others are low, he will be lower, and the price of rice will continue to be low like that. It was so low that the other families were about to cry, so they had to send someone to beg him. ”

I smiled and interjected, "This man can't ask, the more he asks, the more he won't answer." "Just like Tai and I first came to ask him to donate rice three times, and each time we went, we found that he was tougher than the last time, and the smile on his face became more mocking – that is, the more he owed it.

Master Chen hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, people outside say that he has a brain problem, no matter what, the more you ask him, the more he will get worse." These rice shops don't ask him to be good, and the more they ask him, the lower the price of rice will be. It is said that if you ask for it once, you will lower it again. In this way, it only took one or two years to bring down several other Xiaomi stores. Now only one Sheng Ji is left, barely maintaining. ”

Speaking of this, several Jingzhou officials suddenly realized, "No wonder he can keep the price of rice so low, and it can last for more than a year." He is Shi Chong's brother-in-law, and he has huge financial support behind him, so he is naturally not afraid of losing money for a year or two. ”

At this time, Tai said, "But when we were in Gangneung, we saw that rice shop called Sheng Kee, and the business was also very prosperous." ”

Master Guo smiled and said, "Sheng Ji, we all thought that we wouldn't be able to support it for long, but Sheng Ji's boss was in a hurry and made a strange move. ”

"What's the trick?" "He married his daughter to the King of Chu as a side concubine, and got the strength of the King of Chu. Now, although Sheng Ji is always a little worse than Liang Ji, it can also be called second. ”

Speaking of which, everyone has actually understood in their hearts that most of the people who snatched rice were people from the Sheng Ji faction.