A philosopher once said: In history, on the eve of the change of dynasties, it was guided by the solidification of the elite class and the closure of the space for the rise of the poor, and then the continued corruption of the elite class led to economic collapse, igniting the flames of war and leading to the demise of the dynasty!

This is a truth that any county lord and civil and military officials know, and it is very easy to understand, but this is just like a set of circles that have been set up a long time ago, and no dynasty can escape its fate.

Like a cog, it never stops moving forward in a loop!

"An Idler's Miscellaneous"

No food!

No food!

No food!

"It's been a long walk, why hasn't a store selling grain been opened?" Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan wandered around the streets of Beiyangcheng, and the grain shops they found were all hanging wooden signs with no grain today.

Not to mention the grain shops, the other shops on the street are only open every now and then, and they are extremely deserted.

Most of the civilians interspersed with each other in the streets looked dull-eyed, and occasionally a few people in gorgeous clothes walked by, but they stayed away from these scruffy civilians, as if they were afraid of getting contaminated with something, and some of them seemed to be obviously malnourished, and eighty percent of them were caused by hunger and not eating.

"There is a group of people in front, let's go and have a look!" After turning a corner, Li Xiangfeng saw a crowd of people surrounded by a layer of black pressure at the door of a shop in front of him, turned his head and said something to Yan, and walked forward quickly.

I saw that the crowd was holding the bag, and they were looking forward to the inside of the store.

It turned out to be a food store, and there was grain to sell.

Li Xiangfeng felt a sense of joy in his heart, and finally found a store where he could buy grain, and when he looked around, he saw a guy coming out of the store, hanging the wooden sign in his hand above the gate, which read in white letters on a black background:

Today's corn is 16 silver coins/kg.

As soon as the sign was hung up, the surroundings suddenly became hot.

The onlookers all complained, and shouted one after another.

"Don't let people live, one price a day, one price a day! Yesterday there were 8 silver coins, and today there are already 16 silver coins!" the mother-in-law, who was holding a patch bag in her hand, complained with tears in her eyes, causing a resonance among the surrounding crowd.

A big man who looked to be 1.9 meters tall, holding a cloth bag in his hand, shouted: "Why is corn sold so expensive, we didn't sell it yesterday, and now the price has doubled and increased, do you think we are stupid?"

"yes!"

"yes, don't you buy it, isn't that a blatant bully?"

"Whoever suffers a thousand knives will definitely go to hell after death!"

The onlookers foamed at the mouth and cursed loudly.

Li Xiangfeng is not the corn he eats every day when he grows so big, but he also knows that corn is the main source of food in the northern region, and "corn cake" is also the most coveted pastry for Li Xiangfeng when he was a child.

Due to the large differences between the north and the south, rice is mainly grown in the south and corn is mainly grown in the north, resulting in completely different dietary differences.

Of course, there is rice to sell in the north, and there is also a lot of corn food to sell in the south, but because the distance increases, the corresponding transportation cost increases, so the price also rises rapidly, and in Nanyang City, food like corn is just a dim sum that can only be enjoyed by wealthy households.

How can ordinary people have any spare money to buy these foods to satisfy their hunger?

The [稷] in "Jiangshan Sheji" actually refers to

Willing to refer to grain, in the north it refers to corn.

Li Xiangfeng didn't know what price the corn was originally sold at here, but when he saw the price put up by the grain shop, he definitely knew that this was clearly slaughtering, and then the surrounding crowd was passionately attacking, it seemed that this grain store wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob and raise the price of grain.

It is no wonder that there is not a single grain store on several streets that has opened its doors, and this grain store raising the price of grain is just a normal means of sales.

In Nanyang City, Li Xiangfeng knew that the price of a kilogram of rice was between 8 and 10 copper coins, which was calculated as the highest price of 1 silver coin per kilogram, and now the price sold in this grain shop was 16 times higher than normal, so Li Xiangfeng also felt embarrassed by such a huge profit.

At this time, Yu Yan said coldly to Li Xiangfeng beside him: "No wonder Beiyang City is too guarded to let the victims enter the city, tens of thousands of victims are pouring into the city, I'm afraid it will become a group of rogues in the blink of an eye!"

"Rogue Kou" Li Xiangfeng muttered, fell into deep thought, those victims outside the city are at most displaced people who have been displaced by the disaster and have no place to live, but if the control is not good, someone raises a banner to incite these disaster victims, I am afraid that in the blink of an eye, they will become a group of bandits and rebels who are wandering around, that is, "rogue robbers".

The reason why they are not allowed to enter the city, I am afraid that the biggest worry is to "lure the wolf into the house", tens of thousands of disaster victims have entered the city and become rogues, not to mention the destruction of the city, but whether the garrison can be completely suppressed is another matter.

Therefore, if the city is lost, even if there are tens of thousands, thousands of reasons, the two directly subordinate officials of Taishou and Garrison will not escape the fate of being beheaded.

The scene that Li Xiangfeng saw in front of him also thought of such a scene in his heart, the residents in the city had not even had food, how could they help the victims?

At that time, I am afraid that it will really respond to what Taishou said about stealing, looting, burning, killing and setting fire, and at that time, tens of thousands of city residents in the city will suffer.

Beiyang City is too guarded to prevent the victims from entering the city, which is tens of thousands of victims outside the city can not form a certain threat, even if the victims are instigated to attack Beiyang City, these poor and white army of displaced people may not even be able to go up the city wall at all, let alone break through the city?

If you create chaos in the city, it's a different story.

Li Xiangfeng, who had figured out this, also had some understanding of the Taishou practices of Beiyang City, but Li Xiangfeng did not dispel his idea of wanting to relieve the victims, and these various excuses could not be a reason to strangle tens of thousands of lives?

There is food in Beiyang City! Why don't you use it for disaster relief? Is it just to wait for the victims to become outcasts, and use the food to eat and drink enough to fight the victims in blood?

Li Xiangfeng, who was a little distracted, was awakened by the loud scolding of a big man next to him.

"Your mother's big pants are all deceived by you profiteers! The joint dog officials hoarded grain, and the relief grain of the imperial court was bought at a low price by you profiteers, and then hoarded! You are going to starve people to death! You are going to kill people! You are killing people with food!" The big man's eyes were already in a state of rage, and his body unconsciously squeezed forward.

His furious eyes stared at the stack of grain in the grain shop, and he no longer obeyed the call to move towards the grain, because he knew that after getting the grain, his family would have life-saving food! This was not just food, it was his family lying there, waiting for him to rescue him.

When the man saw the big man coming over with a vicious despise, he immediately became angry and angry, and pointed at the big man and scolded: "Blind your dog's eyes! Don't look at who opened the grain shop, dare to grab the grain in broad daylight! Come on! Call me away!"

After the grain guy finished yelling, three or five thugs with wooden sticks standing on both sides of the shop rushed to the big man, and beat him without saying a word

Special.

Countless sticks fell from a height, hitting the big man's back, legs, and head, and the big man who was knocked to the ground in an instant had the slightest strength to fight back, and he could only hold his head with both hands, and his body bent to resist the thug's more violent blows.

The sound of the stick hitting was particularly ear-catching, accompanied by the continuous howl of the big man into the ears of the surrounding onlookers, like an alarm bell, reminding everyone not to make such actions like the big man.

The crowd of onlookers instinctively reacted and dodged around, leaving a space for the thugs to greet the big man who was about to grab the food just now.

"Yesterday's 8 silver coins are too expensive, and today you have 16 silver coins, and you still want to buy them for yesterday's 8 silver coins?"

"Tell you! It doesn't matter if you don't buy it today, tomorrow will be the price of 3 gold coins!" The sour voice filled the ears of the surrounding crowd, like a powerless magic, and finally one of them couldn't bear it anymore and ran to the door of the grain store.

"I buy, I buy 2 kg!"

There is a second, there is a second, there is a third, and when it was young, the crowd that was still bustling just now gathered around the door of the grain store again, and they took out silver coins and began to buy corn.

Scandium!

The long sword collided with the wooden stick, making a crisp sound, and the thug was surprised to see a young man pull out his long sword and resist the wooden stick he was about to hit on Diao Min's body below.

"Boy, are you looking for death?" The thug was not stupid, seeing that this young man's clothes were not ordinary people's homes, he only looked at and intimidated him, and did not immediately pounce.

"That's enough! If you fight again, you'll die!" Li Xiangfeng said coldly.

But he didn't stop the thug's movements, and after the thug kicked the big man hard with his foot, he slowly walked towards Li Xiangfeng and Yu Yan with the other thugs.

Even if you don't embarrass these two rich young masters who seem to have some money, you can spend some money on it! The leader of the thugs surrounded the clouds with this kind of thought.

Five thugs, smiling, holding a wooden stick in their right hand, patted back and forth in the palm of their left hand rhythmically.

Yu Yan's long sword was unsheathed, pointed at a few people, and said coldly, "Those who take one step are dead!"

Such a murderous and cold voice made the leading thug feel a chill, but when he looked around, he found that it was only the two of them, so he was relieved.

I don't know which family's son-in-law came here to charge the big-tailed wolf, and if you want to be a good person, let you know how many eyes the prince of Ma is! After the leader of the thug settled down, he walked forward again.

Sou!

A dark shadow galloped in front of him.

"Yu Yan, don't be a killer!" Li Xiangfeng didn't want to make anything happen here, it would inevitably cause unnecessary trouble, if Beiyang City Taishou took advantage of this to embarrass himself, he and Yu Yan could only bear it.

Although he has the emperor's token to support him, it is still the Taishou of Beiyang City who has the final say here.

The black shadow flickered in front of the leader for a moment, and then returned like a black lightning bolt.

As the black shadow returned, a red blood line threw an arc in mid-air, and then the leader felt a sharp pain in his right hand.

"Ahh

The leading thug raised his right hand high and handed it to him, and the entire palm of his hand was cut off from the wrist, and several blood-red blood lines gushed outward from the wrist opening, and the eyes of the leading thug were blood-red, and his face was already twisted with pain.

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