Yun Chu, gentle, Di Renjie just because they can't eat meat every day, they should feel unbearable.

The residents of Chang'an City now only think that they can buy coarse grain from Fangzheng every day, which is enough for the stomach of the family.

Before dawn, they lined up with grain bags to buy cheap grain.

"A bucket of millet is worth four dollars, a bucket of sorghum is three dollars, and beans are six dollars." Liu Yi told the people who asked about the price of today's grain over and over again.

"Didn't go up?"

"It hasn't risen, and it won't rise in the future, it's at this price, the government doesn't want to make our bitter money, besides, can this money still be used as money?"

"I see, if the big canteen was the same price as before, we would be able to go to the big canteen every day."

"That's right, now that we're on the construction site, we don't want copper coins anymore, we want food instead, and a handful of copper coins can't be exchanged for a Hu cake, simply, out of sight is clean, don't eat hahaha."

Butler Liu Yi laughed a few times when he heard this, and he was laughing when he said it, but in fact, his heart was already bitter and about to taste like Coptis chinensis.

The fang of Jinchangfang is now Liu Yi's son Liu Ke, but when selling cheap grain, Liu Yi did not allow his son Liu Ke to interfere.

Every time he digs grain, he will use a long ruler to scrape the grain in the bucket along the bucket surface, make up for the shortage, and scrape off the excess.

Because the role of copper coins in Chang'an City is getting weaker and weaker, it is actually a big profit to buy this year's grain at the price of previous years.

In fact, the people of Jinchangfang are not so poor as they appear, and the poor save grain in the Taiping years is almost the eternal memory of Chang'an people.

And their food stocks are basically stored on an annual basis.

It is only because I am frightened by hunger that I cherish the food at home more at this time, and then I am very interested in the affordable grain issued by the government, because no one knows whether the price of grain will remain at a high level forever.

That's why Chang'an City can be so quiet under the storm that Cui Mian and the others made.

This is the real achievement of Yunchu's governance of Wannian County in the past ten years, so that the people in the city have the spare strength to withstand one or several disasters.

Everyone thinks that as long as the autumn grain comes down and there is more grain, the price of grain in Chang'an may not be so high.

Only Liu Yi, who distributed grain to the villagers, knew that no matter how much grain Guanzhong produced, it would not be enough for those people to buy.

I heard the county zun say that at this point, it is no longer a matter of who makes money or not.

It's a matter of who dies and who lives.

If Chang'an City survives, the future will be bright, and if it can't be survived, it will be waiting to beg for a life under the crotch of those old men of the family in the future.

Looking at the copper coins that were thrown into the bamboo basket by the villagers, Liu Yi scooped it up, glanced at the new money with blurred handwriting, and threw it back into the bamboo basket, these days, there are more and more new money on the market.

His heart sank a little, and then he shook his head and shouted at the team that couldn't see the tail: "It's all there, it's all there, don't worry, there is a lot of food in the county." ”

I don't know if those people have confidence in Liu Yi, the housekeeper of the Yun family, or in the county of Yun Chu, each of them answered very simply, but unfortunately, the sadness on their faces could not subside.

Yun Chu got up very early, and when he left, he glanced at the breakfast at home and felt that he had no appetite.

"Wait, I'll go to the yamen after eating."

was stopped by Yu Xiurong, Yun Chu had no choice but to sit at the dinner table, frowning and drinking porridge with the whole family, and eating millet buns and pickles.

After eating a few bites, Yun Chu groaned and said to Yu Xiurong: "Our family doesn't have this need, right?

It's summer at this time, and there is no shortage of all kinds of vegetables, even if there is no meat, what about fish? This thing is all over Chang'an, even if it is to fry some small fish, it is better than eating pickles, sometimes pretending to put yourself in it. ”

Yu Xiurong saw that the whole family was looking at her with great eagerness, so she snorted and said: "At this time, the people of the whole city are gnawing on millet buns.

At this time, it is the time when the whole city is united, and we eat coarse grain for a few days, even if it is good for others to look at.

Besides, these people in the family have never suffered hardship, and they just took this opportunity to suffer a little bit and let them know what a hard life is. ”

Hearing Yu Xiurong say this, Naha and the others immediately understood that there was really no possibility of wanting to eat delicious food, so they lowered their heads and drank the gruel with a snoring sound, especially Li Si, who had just been scolded, was about to put the porridge bowl on his face.

Cui Mian got up from a pink tent, looked back at the scholar Cui Zhuan who was still sleeping, and used his index finger to flick Cui Zhuan's pink lips, and then, Cui Zhuan skillfully held his index finger.

Cui Mian looked at the puppy-like Cui Zhuan gently and said in a low voice: "If I die, will you follow?" ”

Cui Zhuan fell into Cui Mian's arms, lifted Cui Mian's clothes, leaned his head on Cui Mian's white chest and said, "You are dead, where can I go?" ”

Cui Mian looked at the bright window and said with a smile: "I thought that last night was my death, but I didn't expect Yun Chu to be so enduring." ”

Cui Zhuan was puzzled and said, "Since you know that there will be assassins, why don't you arrange more guards?" ”

Cui Mian shook his head and said: "No matter how many dogs there are, they can't stop a tiger that wants to eat people, Yun Chu is a man-eating tiger, and he is still the most vicious of this kind of tigers." ”

Cui Zhuan said: "Isn't it good for us to go back to Zhuo County, why do we want to stay in such a dangerous place as Chang'an?" ”

Cui Mian smiled: "When we left Zhuojun this time, we didn't plan to go back, and we can't go back." ”

After that, he slapped Cui Zhuan's pretty face, tidied up his underwear, and after a while, a noble son in brocade clothes appeared in the lobby of Cui's mansion in the capital.

Cui Zhuan bit his fingers and watched Cui Mian leave, and then, a pair of dark eyes showed a look of pain, and finally, he slowly changed his clothes, dragged a white gauze robe, held a jade pot, and walked into the lobby.

"Three hundred and one hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred and fifty-eight loads of grain, which is already seventy percent of the grain stored in Chang'an City, Yun Chu still has a large amount of grain in his hands to supply the people of Chang'an, I suspect that he used the grain in the thirty-six righteous warehouses that have been sold to us, Gongzi, he did this, obviously ignoring the grain delivery period in four months, and was ready to cheat."

After the accounting was completed, a bearded shopkeeper reported the news he had summarized to Cui Mian.

Cui Mian raised his hand and said: "These are not important, if he can't hand over the grain purchased through the Qujiang Flowing Water Card in November, it will be the Qujiang Flowing Water Card that will collapse, not us." ”

The shopkeeper said a little anxiously: "In this way, our loss is too great, this time the son comes to Chang'an with the elegance of the world's family, even if he can't make money, he can't lose so much, once those people lose confidence in the son, the son will probably die without a place to bury." ”

Cui Mian waved his hand and said: "Destroying the flowing water cards in Qujiang, even if the loss is more, it is worth it."

Besides, we have a large amount of grain in our hands, even if it is lost, it will only be lost for 10,000 years, and the grain in the seventy-two righteous warehouses in the two counties of Chang'an is only.

I'm just waiting for Yun Chu to use off-board tricks to deal with us now, if we don't destroy the flowing water cards in Qujiangli, our flowing water cards won't stand.

You go and tell Master Liu that our bid for the houses on both sides of Suzaku Street is only 8,000 yuan.

If he doesn't agree, I will transport all the collected grain away and not leave a single one for Chang'an. ”

The shopkeeper's teeth chattered, and he said for a long time: "It's one thing to threaten Yun Chu with food, if we really starve to death the people of Chang'an, the emperor will not let us go." ”

Cui Mian said with a smile: "Actually, it is for the emperor to see, the Cui family has been degraded as a third-class family, and the emperor is also ready to rebuild the "Clan Chronicles", and when they finish compiling it this time, the Cui family will become a nobody."

The emperor did not allow us to marry, did not allow us to nominate officials, and Yun Chu was preventing us from staying in Chang'an.

Among these three, only Chang'an is the one where we still have a little room for struggle, do it, win, I just die, don't do it, or lose, the family is scattered in front of us.

Don't say it, go and tell Master Liu, either kill me, or agree to the conditions I put forward. ”

Cui Mian's words made the shopkeeper sweat and the fear of being killed, so that he didn't know how to face the crazy Cui Gongzi in front of him for a while.

Waiting for Cui Zhuan to come to the lobby with the jade pot, he brought a cup of red grape wine to Cui Mian's mouth, Cui Mian drank it dry in one gulp, but there were still some corners of his mouth, the color of human blood.

The shopkeeper of the Cui family left, and Cui Zhuan held Cui Mian's hand and said, "The son is very bitter in his heart. ”

Cui Mian nodded and said, "It's not what I want to do if it becomes the current situation. ”

Cui Zhuan said: "The current situation is also like a year for Yun Chu. ”

Cui Mian smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, when Master Liu told me that I could take the courtyard of No. 2 Zhuque Street with 100,000 yuan, I should have agreed."

In the end, he was robbed by the old thief of Lu Ting, this old thief seems to be acting as a peacemaker, in fact, the Lu family, who wants him to be ruined, let the emperor see their loyalty in this dispute, and can be called a traitor in my family.

I hate to eat the flesh of this old thief. ”

Cui Zhuan also wanted to persuade Cui Mian, seeing that he was about to go crazy, he carefully closed his mouth, he knew that if he said one more word, he would accept severe punishment.

"Follow me to Qingyun Tower, call the most famous singer in Chang'an City, and we will swagger through the market."

Cui Mian gave an order, and left the Cui family mansion with Cui Zhuan.

Just when Cui Mian was wandering early in the morning on Qingyun Tower, the largest green building in Chang'an City, Yun Chu had just learned something from Di Renjie.

It turned out that Cui Mian was going to destroy the flowing water sign in Qujiang, and then find another way.

"All of our income now comes from the flowing water brand, and it stands to reason that the interest is not so big, why would Cui Mian spend so much money for this thing?"

Yun Chu looked at Di Renjie's fat face and said, "Being a vegetarian for so long has not made you lose weight. ”

Di Renjie said irritably: "Most vegetarian things are fat, don't use this thing to laugh at me, quickly answer my questions." ”

Yun Chu spread his hands and said: "I originally planned to select five places in the east, west, north and south of Datang to create five flowing water brands that can be united.

Once these five flowing water brands are built, the bulk goods of the whole Datang will enter and exit through these five flowing water brands.

At that time, the landowners of the family will no longer have a way to harm the world, because there is only one channel for the goods in their hands and money and grain to enter and exit, that is, the flowing water brand, which has become controllable.

I didn't expect Cui Mian's eyes to be very vicious, and he actually saw through my arrangement. ”

Di Renjie nodded and said: "So, people are waiting for you to use off-board tricks to deal with him now, whether it is burning the granary or killing Cui Mian, people have something to say, and they can even use the excuse that we like to play tricks, re-establish a flowing water brand, and replace us."

Speaking of which, the credibility that we have finally established in Chang'an cannot withstand the scrutiny of the family.

When it comes to credibility, other people's reputation for hundreds or thousands of years is much better than ours, and I wonder now why he didn't build a new one to compete with us, and he had to bring us down to rest assured. ”

Yun Chu said with a smile: "Just like the house in Chang'an, people just don't want to accept our blackmail, don't want to suffer, and won't learn from us, which is a shame for them." ”

Di Renjie took out half of the millet bun from his arms, took a bite and said: "Everyone is in pain now, I just got the news that Cui Mian is wandering on Qingyun Tower to give you a chance to kill him." ”

Chapter 1, I continue,

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