Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household, also looked at Liu Yixiao with a surprised face, and said puzzledly: "How did I know it would be like this!" ”

"As the head of the household, I am the secretary of the household, and the entire two capitals and thirteen provinces, whether it is good or not, naturally I know!"

"But Seosan is indeed the most barren land in Gyeonggi! Otherwise, the Jingshi Xungui and the Princesses have already been merged, so why stay until now?! ”

"There is so much coal suddenly appearing in this West Mountain, not only did you Liu Ge not expect it, but I also didn't expect it!"

Wang Yingjiao continued to add a few words.

After hearing this, Liu Yixiao said: "Then it seems that there is a prospector around this Zhang Gui, and he has already discovered the ore veins near here!" ”

Wang Yingjiao sighed: "There is no way to do it, the holy decree that gave this place as Taikang Bo Zhuangtian has already been archived, and it has been published in the world as "Di Bao", and his Uncle Zhang Guo has earned it, just the coal he sees in front of him is worth going to the fertile fields as big as Xishan." ”

"It's really cheap for him, we've all been tricked by him!"

Liu Yixiao said angrily.

Then, Liu Yixian instructed his servant Sheng Rui: "You go and ask, how much does this coal sell?" ”

"Yes!"

Sheng Rui agreed and went to ask the coal miners here.

After a while, Sheng Rui ran back and said, "Back to the master, they said that those who were shipped to the city were sold at last year's parity." ”

"Sell it at a low price?!"

Liu Yixian was shocked, and thought: "Now the price of coal has already increased many times compared with last year's parity, is his Uncle Zhang Guo the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, and he is still selling at parity!" Whether he is the reincarnation of a bodhisattva or not, we must not let it ruin our business of hoarding coal to reduce the cost of buying people, otherwise, this year's coal will be hoarded at a high price! ”

After thinking like this, Liu Yixiao instructed Sheng Rui: "You go back immediately and inquire which stores are selling cheap coal, and we will buy as much as they sell." In addition, take my post to meet other wealthy families in the capital and let them know about it, now if you want to avoid losing money by hoarding high-priced coal, you can't let Zhang Gui sell cheap coal to the common people! ”

"Understood!"

Sheng Rui agreed.

Like Liu Yixiu, he came to Xishan, and many dignitaries and nobles who saw a lot of coal in Xishan were also like Liu Yixiu, and after sending domestic slaves to inquire about Zhang Gui's cheap coal, they immediately arranged for their own domestic slaves to buy Zhang Gui's cheap coal.

Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household, did not do this, because he did not participate in the hoarding of Juqi.

And now his eyes have been attracted by so many homeless people in Xishan.

This was a surprise to him.

He didn't expect there to be so many homeless people in Xishan.

I saw these homeless people cowering in their huts like frozen cats, unclothed, and almost as black as coal except for white spots in their eyes.

"How difficult it is to mourn the people's livelihood!"

Wang Yingjiao also forgot for a while that the purpose of his coming here was to talk about Buddhism with Miaoni, and suddenly gave birth to some sense of responsibility that he should have as a household secretary.

Boom!

With the sound of a gong, a number of young men who beat the gong appeared in the shantytown where these displaced people lived.

When the displaced people heard the sound of the gong, they all stood up from their huts one by one, and they looked excited.

"Uncle Guo has an order, considering that everyone needs to keep the cold away for the time being, so the monthly money is temporarily distributed on a ten-month basis, and coal, cotton cloth and food are directly distributed as wages, and now they go to the group office to receive them."

The young men shouted after striking the gong.

After these young men shouted, these homeless people were immediately overjoyed, and spread their legs and went to their respective group leader's rooms to receive wages.

Soon, many of the homeless people who reacted quickly had already returned with bags of rice, a bag of coal, and a piece of cloth.

Many homeless people who planned to sell their children after seeing Liu Yixian, Wang Yingjiao and other dignitaries appear, after hearing that they could now receive a real thing to keep their stomachs warm from the cold, they also hurriedly pulled out the straw marks on their children's heads.

A girl named Erni, who was kneeling in the snow, waiting to be sold, looked back at her father in surprise when she saw her father pull out the straw mark on her head: "Dad, don't you sell me?" ”

The middle-aged man grinned with yellow teeth: "It's not for sale!" Now Daddy can feed you on his own. ”

"Great!"

Erni jumped up at once, running barefoot in the snow, her hands flying, and cheered:

"Daddy won't sell me anymore!"

"Daddy won't sell me anymore!"

"Daddy won't sell me anymore!"

…

For a while, people and children like her were like this, as if their eyes suddenly had a god and vitality, and laughter kept rippling in the warm winter sun.

When an old woman saw this, she also smiled, and began to use the fire from the public house to ignite the coal that her son had received, and picked up the grass that had fallen all over the ground, and threw it into the fire, bursting out sporadic sparks.

At this time, more and more bonfires began to appear, crisscrossing between the shacks, like the stars that gradually grew in the night.

Many people began to warm up and cook porridge around the fire, and their eyes began to take their eyes off Liu Yixiao and other dignitaries, and they began to have the courage to look directly at the children who were going to be sold by themselves before, and their eyes also changed from pleading to satisfaction, as if this was the first warmth they felt in this world.

The eyes of many dignitaries such as Liu Yixiao became more and more cold.

They didn't like the happy scene.

It was as if the bonfires were burning their possessions, the light from the bonfires seemed to dazzle their eyes, and the free and cheerful laughter of the children seemed to mock them.

Liu Yixiao therefore asked Wang Yingjiao, the head of the household department, in a deep voice: "Dasi Nong, what do you think now?" ”

Wang Yingjiao sighed: "I suddenly stopped staying here for a moment. ”

Because Wang Yingjiao said this, Liu Yixiao laughed angrily: "Why do you say that? ”

"This is simply scolding me for being incompetent!"

Wang Yingjiao said bitterly.

Then, he looked at Liu Yixian and the other ministers who came here and said: "The loser is a Jinshi, a disciple of a saint, compared with Uncle Guo, we are simply not as good as a beast!" ”

"What Uncle Renguo wants is to open mines in Xishan to support the people, so that the people of Li will not be hungry or cold."

"And what about me, what about my Hubu Shangshu?"

"I would have thought that he was here to force other people's wives and daughters to be prostitutes, and for the pastime of my doctor! And not only did I think so, but I also wanted to come to the wind and snow! ”

"Do you think I'm a well-dressed beast!"

"After I went back, I resigned immediately, and I had no shame to face the monarch and the world."

"It is the duty of our doctors to establish a life for the people; It is also the duty of me to do this as a scholar of the household, but I have always turned a blind eye, and now if it weren't for the great drink of the uncle of the country, I really don't know how far I would have misled the country and the king! ”

The more Wang Yingjiao spoke, the more excited he became, and in the end, he burst into tears and said: "Ashamed, ashamed!" ”

"Enough!"

Liu Yixiao suddenly shouted, and stared at Wang Yingjiao with shortness of breath: "Why do you think so?" ”

Wang Yingjiao asked puzzledly: "Is this wrong?" ”

"It's just a mustard, what's the pity of freezing to death and starving to death!"

Liu Yixian said.

Wang Yingjiao: "......"

He suddenly felt that Liu Yixiao was so strange.

Liu Guojin, the director of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War, who also came here, also said: "What the elder said is right! Moreover, the landless can also be called a people? ”

"Yes! What does this have to do with your incompetence, which shows that Zhang Gui, the uncle of the country, is competing with the people for profit and disrupting the market! ”

Shuntian Governor Li Zilong also said at this time.

"That's right! This is clearly harmful to the country, business, and people! How could Da Si Nong feel that he was at fault? ”

Guo Xing also echoed the matter.

At this time, Sheng Rui hurriedly came to Liu Yixian: "Master, the little one has inquired clearly, the coal here is only sold by shops called comprehensive stores, but these comprehensive stores have a limit on the amount of coal sold to each household every day!" said that it was for the limited production, and we had to do this, and we couldn't buy it at a higher price, and said that this was an order personally issued by Uncle Guo, and they didn't dare to disobey it. ”

"This is where the production is limited, this is obviously because he doesn't want us to buy a lot of his coal, so that a few less grass mustard will freeze to death this winter!"

Liu Yixiao said hatefully, and then said: "I didn't expect that his Uncle Zhang Guo would do such vicious methods for the sake of these mustard pariahs!" He even directly distributed coal and grain to these untouchables as wages, and restricted purchases! Don't let the wealthy buy more! ”

"Despicable! Despicable! ”

Liu Guojin also scolded, and at the same time was very worried: "Wouldn't I be so smashed by Uncle Guo that I embezzled the coal that I hoarded at a high price from military salaries?" ”

"I think it's a good thing! I don't know if I have no heart to scold like this! Or rather, forget morality! ”

Suddenly, a discordant voice came, and Liu Yixiao and other disgruntled dignitaries couldn't help but look at the sound, their eyes full of evil fire.