Xun Fan looked at the bowl of noodles in front of him silently, "You follow me and feel like this, let alone the people?" ”

"During this period of time, for disaster prevention, I went down to the township and county, and the people I saw were not tens of thousands, but also thousands, including local scholars, wealthy merchants, ordinary and poor families, and lonely people, but no matter what their identities were, they only had admiration when it came to the general," Xun Fan said softly: "They heard someone say that this catastrophe fell from the sky because the general took advantage of his power to bully the king and return the angry response, and he would also arrest people to the county government, and the rumors often died before they started." ”

"I thought that the student officials would angrily deal with those who spread rumors, but they reprimanded the people, and only punished them for ten days of hard labor, and then let them go, saying that the general had an order, and when he met someone who scolded her, he should ask for the reason, and if there was a reason, he had to write to her; There is no cause, and there is no favoritism, and the maximum penalty is fifteen days of hard labor. ”

"The punishment is so light, I thought the rumors would not stop, after all, at most fifteen days of hard labor, as long as enough money is given, when someone will risk making this money, who knows, there are very few people who spread such rumors, but it is the will of the general, knowing in advance that the disaster is coming, and the rumors of saving the people from fire and water are rife, and there are even legends that this is the will of God for the general as the son of heaven, so there is this kindness, otherwise, all dynasties and dynasties, before hearing of the catastrophe, they will first warn with the eclipse, so that the people of the world have more than a month to prepare."

Feng Bi looked at Xun Fan worriedly, "Lord Lang ......"

Xun Fan shook his hand at him and said, "I have long been mentally prepared, but I didn't expect her to have such a reputation among the people, and Wang Mang was just like that when he stole the country." I'm only worried, whether she can always be like this, if she succeeds like Wang Mang, won't it hurt the people of the world? ”

Written by: ...... So you are already thinking about the future from the position of a great general?

Fengbi said worriedly: "Lord Lang, San Langjun has always been unwilling to give up......"

Speaking of the bad brother, Xun Fan immediately lost the desire to think again, he picked a chopstick noodle, and said expressionlessly: "Don't worry about him, fortunately, the general doesn't like to engage in that set." ”

So, since you can't persuade him, let him go, as long as it doesn't affect his family.

Feng pen helplessly responded.

Xun Fan said that inviting Yuan Li over was not to scare Yu Hong, and after eating noodles, he immediately wrote a letter, planning to order someone to send it to Yuan Li the next day.

Yu Hong, who was separated from him by two courtyards, hesitated for a while, if he killed Xun Fan ruthlessly, would this matter be buried?

But thinking that many people have seen Xun Fan today, I am afraid that it is very difficult to suddenly suffer from illness to let him die, although he is the county guard, but because he was originally the county guard, this city was first taken by the Huns, he fled with the soldiers and people in the city when he met the Zhao family, the Zhao family army took the city back, because he knew more about this place, when he knew that his official reputation was okay, Zhao Hanzhang still ordered him to be the county guard.

It's just that the county orders under his hands were either killed in battle or fled, and Zhao Hanzhang reappointed the county orders, so it can be said that seventy percent of the county orders in the counties under his jurisdiction are new, and only thirty percent are old.

And whether it is old or new, his prestige is limited, especially the group of student county orders, there are many problems, and there is no fear of him, if Xun Fan dies suddenly, they will definitely be suspicious.

Considering the consequences of being found out after Xun Fan's death, Yu Hong could only press the murderous intent and consider other ways to deal with the aftermath.

How could he call Yuan Lilai?

Victory is not martial, victory is not martial!

If you vote for the person who the state assassin, the county guard, and the county magistrate least want to see, then Yuan Li will definitely be elected with the highest number of votes.

Even if Qing is like Zu Li, he doesn't like Yuan Li to inspect his subordinates.

Yuan Li is too strong, and he has his own rhythm in governing the place, and his arrival will ruin his own steps.

What is right is not necessarily right.

And one side of the plus or minus will definitely lose, no matter how Yu Hong calculates, he is not the one who has a chance to win, and he can't help but be a little desperate.

Zheng Zhi couldn't empathize with his brother-in-law, after the initial fear, he became arrogant, and said to Yu Hong: "What are you afraid of, this is our territory, it's a big deal to kill that Yuan Li together, and then throw the body of the Yellow River, just say that when they went to inspect the embankment, the embankment collapsed, and the whole person fell into the river, and they couldn't catch it." ”

"Nonsense, do you think that Yuan Li is a powerless literati like Xun Fan, he still has two hundred personal soldiers, how can you kill him?"

"Under the medicine, they always have to eat and drink, sweat medicine, care about his two hundred, two thousand, all down," and said: "Please Yuan Li come into the house, call a few musicians to sacrifice, he must be defenseless, when the time comes, I will send people to ambush left and right, no matter how powerful he is, he only has two fists, I don't believe he can beat dozens of us." ”

"Don't mess around, hurry up and get the rest of the grain out at a low price, what is the price of grain given by the Zhao family today?"

The henchman who was kneeling on the side and pretending not to exist immediately said: "Twenty-one Wen Yidou." ”

Yu Hong was surprised, "Why did you drop a penny?" ”

Confidant: "The Fang family's grain shop has also dropped a penny, and the other families are closed, as if they are watching the news." ”

In fact, it is to see if the yamen will deal with the newly opened grain shop and the Fang family.

Yu Hong said to Zheng Zhi: "You will open today." ”

Zheng Zhi, "Tomorrow, it's past noon today." ”

He still wants to kill Yuan Li and Xun Fan, so that there is no need to pay for the grain at a low price, kill the two of them, and they will naturally have the final say here.

Zheng Zhi sneered, he wanted to see how much grain they had to fill this hole.

What Zheng Zhi didn't expect was that the next day, the newly opened grain shop dropped another penny.

The people who go out to buy food every day are stunned, and the excitement of hoarding food has finally faded.

At the same time, the door of a small grain store in the county town also opened, and the pricing followed Zhao's.

Seeing this, the other families in the alliance with Zheng Zhi became uneasy in their hearts, could it be that the Zhao family had really prepared so much food that they could keep reducing the price.

It takes time for Yuan Li to arrive, and the price of grain has dropped much faster than him, Zheng Zhi has no time to think about Yuan Li anymore, he wants to transport the remaining grain to other disaster counties to sell at a high price, but before he can leave, the alliance that went out to inquire about the news came back, "There are also Zhao's newly opened grain shops in other counties." ”

Zheng Zhi's face was ugly, "It's all opened by the mother of the general?" ”

"No, it's more opened by the seventh master of the Zhao family, although it is not as capricious as Mrs. Wang, it drops by one penny a day, and the price is not high, between twenty and twenty-five wen, there is also the imperial court's disaster relief grain and work for relief, and now the grain merchants outside have followed the price reduction."

The alliance glanced at Zheng Zhi and whispered: "Zheng Langjun, the snake can't suppress the strong dragon in the end, and we will all have to live under the rule of the general in the future, and it is not easy to screw her up, so let's reduce the price." ”

Zheng Zhi sneered, "At this time, I only remembered to reduce the price, is it a little late." ”

"It's not too late," the alliance said calmly: "This time the flood is very wide-ranging, and the rise in food prices is a reasonable thing, we are just taking advantage of the trend, not raising prices, there are many businessmen in the world who do this, as far as I know, the seventh master of the Zhao family also took advantage of this wave of floods to make a lot of money, and the general only asks for the crime of maliciously raising prices, but we are not, so we will be fine." ”

"But now that food prices have fallen, and we are still resisting, that's a different story."

They didn't know that Zheng Zhi planned to kill Yuan Li and Xun Fan, and if they knew, they wouldn't have discussed such a matter with him at all.

Zheng Zhi lowered his eyes, looked up and smiled after a while: "It's okay, then sell it at a low price." ”

The allies breathed a sigh of relief, saluted, and went home, and the next day all the grain shops in the city were opened.

Zhao's grain shop marked a bucket of wheat with "Nineteen Wen", and everyone silently followed to the same price.

Correspondingly, millet and beans have also been reduced in price.

When the people in the city saw it, they were not in a hurry, and the people who were crowded in front of Zhao's new grain shop and Fang's grain shop to buy it slowed down, and only bought one bucket and dragged their families home, "Maybe it will be cheaper tomorrow." ”

When the people in the countryside heard the sound and rushed to buy grain, they saw that there were so many grain shops opened, and the prices had dropped to about the same as in previous years, so they were not so anxious.

The price of grain posted by Zhao stayed on 19 Wen for three days, and then dropped to 18 Wen, at this time the people's hearts have been decided, and the passenger flow in the grain shop has returned to before, and there will be no longer long queues.

At this time, Yuan Li also entered the city.

Others don't know that the people in the new grain shop are very relieved, there is not much grain in the warehouse, and this grain shop will not be able to open for a few more days, and when General Yuan comes, they can find an excuse to withdraw.

According to the usual practice, when a Beijing official comes to the place on a business trip, he either lives in a post station or in the county guard's mansion, and the right to see the intimacy with the county guard.

That's why Xun Fan came here for disaster relief and lived in the county guard's mansion, because he and Yu Hong were good friends.

Yu Hong was also very enthusiastic about Yuan Li, and directly invited him to live in the county guard's mansion.

Yuan Li refused, and didn't even live in the post station, so he found an empty house in the city under the name of the yamen and lived in it.

He brought two hundred personal soldiers, no matter where the post station could not accommodate so many people, if he lived in the post station, the soldiers could only be stationed outside the post station to eat the wind.

At this time, it was already summer, and it was not cold to sleep in the open, but there were many mosquitoes outside, and the flood had just passed, so it was the time when he needed to be most careful about drinking water and mosquitoes, so as long as he entered the city, he would find an empty house to live in.

The soldiers removed the door panels, slept ten people in one room, hung curtains on the doors, smoked mugwort incense every day to drive away mosquitoes, and at the end of a month, not a single sick person in his team was sick.

Yu Hong didn't expect that he would rather live in an empty house with a leaky roof and in disrepair than live in the county guard's mansion, so he paused for a moment before saying: "General Yuan is tired of traveling and driving, and the lower officials have prepared wine and food in the mansion for you to catch the wind and wash the dust, and ask General Yuan to appreciate his face." ”

Yuan Li said with a smile: "The Zhao family army has a strict order, the soldiers are not allowed to harass the people, they are not allowed to take the people's things, and the Yu county guard is also a people, so we dare not violate the military rules." ”

rejected Yu Hong's invitation, and then cut straight to the point, "I heard that Yu Jun's wife and brother have a grain shop in the city?" ”

Yu Hong's heart tightened, and he didn't dare to deny it, "It's not true, it's just that his friend wanted to open a grain store, and he lacked some capital at that time, so he borrowed some from him, and he gave the money to his friend to operate." ”

Yu Hong said gently: "He is a scholar, he is studying every day, how can he understand this business thing?" ”

Yuan Li smiled lightly, "Really? ”

When he smiled, the scars on his face were crowded together, looking very hideous, Yu Hong's heart trembled when he saw it, and he lowered his head and didn't speak.

Yuan Li has the right to act cheaply, although he was punished by Zhao Hanzhang not long ago, but his rights are still very large, and he can handle cases independently.

So he began to investigate after seeing Yu Hong and Xun Fan, he didn't like to play slowly, he directly divided the troops into three ways, all the way down to the people, to ask the people in the city and outside the city, what is the situation in the past three months, and the people feel the deepest;

Along the way, I went to the yamen to check various documents and records, and when the time came, I could compare the voices of the people;

The last way was to meet all kinds of grain merchants, and Yuan Li was the first to see the people of the Fang family.

In the evening, Yuan Li sat in front of the desk and looked at all kinds of information found today.

The door panel was torn down, so the wind passed through the hall, and the huge hall was empty, except for a long table, and the leg of the table was lame, so Yuan Li asked someone to bring a similar stone and put it up with two planks.

Since accepting the setting that he will be ruined all his life, Yuan Li's materialistic desires have been reduced to the minimum, if it was in his early years, he would definitely not suffer this hardship.

Joke, he followed the girl from birth to death, isn't it for glory and wealth?

But now his goal is clearer, his goal is to be glorious and precious, and to be rich.

Seeing that he only had one candle, and that he needed to get close to the bookcase to see clearly, the soldiers immediately lit another candle and brought it over, so that it was brighter.

When the candle was put down, the soldier turned around and the candle was extinguished.

The soldier was stunned for a moment, glanced at Yuan Li, and hurriedly took it down quietly and lit it again, but he put it down, and before he turned around, the candle that he had been good all the way was gone.

Pro-Soldier: ......

He didn't believe in evil anymore, so he didn't take it out, so he picked up the candle and poked it at the wick next to it, lit it, pressed it on the table, and then moved his body to block the wind blowing in from the door, and stared at the flames vigorously.

The flame flickered for a moment, and the soldier grinned, and then the old candle next to him was extinguished.

The smiling face of the soldier froze on his face, and it took a while to quietly reach out to the old candle......

Yuan Li, who had been quiet, lifted his eyelids and glanced at him, and said, "No need to order." ”

The pro-soldier was aggrieved, responded in a low voice, bowed and retreated, and couldn't help but hit the back of his hand when he went out, telling you to have more hands, knowing that the general was unlucky......

Yuan Li was unlucky, but his ability was very strong, and before the things were sorted out, a man wearing a cloak came quietly, followed the soldiers into the house, and when everyone retreated, only Yuan Li and him were in the house, he lifted the cloak and knelt on the ground, and it was the elder who followed Yu Hong.

"Nuduxin meets the general."

"Get up," Yuan Li asked, "What's the matter with Yu Hong and his brother-in-law?" ”

"The slave doesn't know much about this, but Zheng Quan, who is next to Yu Hong, must know that he is Yu Hong's confidant, and all the things of Yu Hong will not be hidden from him." Du Xin cautiously glanced at Yuan Li and said: "The slave has tested Zheng Quan, he has two sons, who study with the Langjun in the house, and the knowledge is not under the Langjun, occasionally the Langjun want to write articles, and they also want to ghostwrite, last year he wanted to ransom the two children out and send them to study in the school, but Yu Hong did not agree." ”

Yuan Li smiled and said softly: "Cutting off people's futures, such as killing their parents, the general paves them for a bright future, but he is unwilling to let go, no wonder he is resentful." ”

Yuan Li said: "Tell him that as long as he can help me find out the case, I will protect his family and your family." ”

Du Xin suppressed the joy in his heart, knelt down and kowtowed: "The slave is willing to be a general, and he will be a general!" ”

Two chapters together into one chapter, see you tomorrow