Chapter 57 The rivers are overflowing
"Tianhe is leaking, the best way is not to plug the leak, but to escape!"
"People who dare to plug the leak are generally fools and will definitely be drowned in the sky."
"The Yun family's little money is naturally not enough to plug the leak, plus the gentleness, Di Renjie's is not enough, the Yun family is a praying mantis in front of the carriage of this disaster, and you two are considered to be ants?"
"Why do we have to rush to fill the gap?"
"Actually, it's all about fame!"
"The Yun family failed to plug the leak, the Wen family went up, the Wen family failed to go to the Di family, after the Di family failed, who should go up? Is it time for King Yong, the initiator?
So, by analogy, who should King Yong go to after his failure?
In the past, our goal was the queen, and when the matter came to the queen, it would come to an end, because she was the king, but I didn't expect that King Yong, a fool, would have a fat pig arch, and I would have no choice, anyway, which pig to kill is not to kill? ”
"If King Yong fails, if the emperor doesn't want to use his son's five horses to calm the people's anger, then only he can take the money out and continue to make up for the sky.
I asked Zeng Fu to take the account office to Luoyang, Yangzhou, Jinyang, Chengdu and other places where all the flowing water brands are located in the past two years, and let them use the worst assumptions to calculate a worst result for me.
Then they came up with a number – sixteen million guan!
The total tax paid by Longshuo in the Tang Dynasty in the second year was only 9.6 million guan, which also included silk and linen, of which Chang'an contributed 2.73 million guan, note that this is pure money.
In other words, the emperor filled in all the private treasury and even the treasury of the young eunuch, which was not enough to make up for the sky. ”
"The reason why we want the brave moth to fight the fire is to give the emperor an illusion that this hole can be filled."
"Except for us, no one knows that what they want to make up for is not money, but reputation, which can't be bought with money."
"However, our brothers went to mend the sky like moths to the fire, losing money, which is an insignificant thing, and gaining a reputation that is difficult to buy.
When our credibility is really established, money, a snobbish thing, will take the initiative to lean in. ”
"Our money, King Yong's money, the prince's money, the emperor's money, after so much money is invested, will it really be wasted?"
"Copper coins are copper coins, it exists in physical form, as long as it exists, it will not disappear, but before the credibility of this thing is established, these money will just sleep and will not produce any benefits."
"If we establish this thing of credibility, you will be surprised to find that the money that was invested in the past has magically returned, and the fund pool that used to be only two million yuan suddenly became five million, seven million yuan."
"Chang'an is very short of money, very short, I just want to let more money pour into Chang'an through this big change......"
"Only when money is in Chang'an, Datang will understand the correct use of money."
"Do you think my reasons are good?"
Yun Chu finally said everything in his heart, and said to Di Renjie with a confused gentle wink at the innocent one.
Gently twisting her body tied to the tree, she said, "What are you talking about?" ”
Di Renjie on the other tree was full of anger, he was a person who could know what you said by his mouth, so what he saw was the back of Yun Chu's head.
Yun Chu untied the two of them from the tree, and Wen Rou immediately took off the two large balls of cotton in his ears and roared, "What are you talking about? ”
Yun Chu spread his hands and said: "Some words are too uncomfortable to hold in my heart, so I have to say them to you, but I am afraid that you will look down on me if you know it, so I have to use this method." ”
Di Renjie rubbed his wrist and walked over and said, "Something unsightly? ”
Yun Chu sighed and said, "No way, it's really unsightly." ”
Gently said: "The matter is too serious to tell us?" ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "There is nothing to hide from you, what I said just now is an in-depth analysis of what we are doing now, and you also know that when you do things, you don't care about your deeds, you don't have a perfect heart, and you can't stand the analysis with one mind, so you just need to know that things are done, and you don't need to hear my heart." ”
Gently nodded and said: "It makes sense, sometimes I am worried that you will hear my heart, if you hear it, you may kick me to death." ”
Di Renjie said: "Chang'an should be in chaos now." ”
Yun Chu said: "It's not an ordinary chaos, I guess that today's Chang'an people can't even see a smile on their faces, the two cities that used to be lively may now be full of people, and the lively Pingkangfang in the past may now become a ghost town, you may not see the orchids beckoning on the side of the wine shop, nor can you see the taxis and ladies hanging out on the edge of the bridge."
There should be a lot of corpses piled up under the five-storey flowing water sign building, and there are still merchants lining up to jump down on the roof......"
Gentle frowned: "How miserable." ”
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "This is just the beginning, before December, the government has to pay all the autumn levies, and most of the merchants are used to paying on December 15, now, they have no money, even the goods are gone, what to take to pay the autumn levies?"
The government will not pay attention to these, if they have money, they have to pay taxes, and if they don't have money, they still have to pay taxes, and there is generally no money in the market, even if they want to sell their homes, no one will buy them if they sell their children and daughters. ”
Di Renjie said: "Don't the merchants who took the money in the capital pool have no money? ”
Said gently: "At this time, the people who plundered the people's fat and people's ointment will die very, very miserable. ”
Di Renjie was silent for a long time and said: "Let's go back, Gongliang of Yanmen County, you should also go back and put a pillar of incense in front of his grave." ”
Yun Chu was silent for a moment and said, "Lao Liang is buried with Zhaoling, right?" ”
Di Renjie said: "Sleeping in Zhaoling has always been Lao Liang's long-cherished wish, he likes to follow Emperor Taizong, and when he gets there, he must have a lot to say to Emperor Taizong." ”
Yun Chu sighed and said, "Maybe......"
Said gently: "Let's go back, before the matter came out, I wanted the world to be turned upside down, and now, the matter has come out, my heart is panicked, this is no longer a royal matter, but also a matter of our people."
I don't want to be laughed at by Liang Gong underground, what to say, the words of the scholars and the cowards crying. ”
Yun Chu said: "It seems that you are ready to break the family?" ”
Gently spread his hands and said: "Not limited to my wife's dowry, in the future, we will all eat soft rice to make a living, fortunately, during this period of time, eating fasting and chanting Buddha will raise our bodies well." ”
Di Renjie said to Yun Chu seriously: "Come back, although it is more beneficial for us to drag things down, I am worried that there are many people who may not see the day when you give them hope again." ”
Yun Chu looked at Di Renjie and said, "Did you hear what I just said?" ”
Di Renjie said: "Judging by the twitching of the muscles on your face, and it is intermittently unwritten. ”
Yun Chu opened his arms and said, "Then go back." ”
When the shopkeeper Zhao came out of the hall of the flowing water brand, he first stretched out his head to look up, and after confirming that no one jumped off the building, he walked out of the hall cautiously and quickly, and after he came out, the servants also extinguished the last light in the hall.
The reason why he came to close the hall for five days today was to receive 60,000 pieces of silver from the Yongwang Mansion, and in the past five days, the Yongwang Mansion had successively transported more than 250,000 pieces of silver, including the 110,000 pieces that were taken away by Liu Nayan.
The money of 250,000 yuan was taken away by the merchants who had been waiting here for a long time, although the money could not make up for their losses, but it could also be slightly compensated.
In today's flowing water brand hall, there is only money out, no money coming in, although the Yun family has sold their property to the flowing water brand at all costs, but unfortunately, in the face of the huge number of debts of the flowing water brand, the number of creditors is just a drop in the bucket.
When he came out of the Qujiangcheng Bridge, he smelled a smell of corpses, which was emanated by Liu Nayan and Shi Zangjie, who were hung on the bridge by King Yong, although Chang'an has entered winter, these days are exceptionally warm, so that the corpses have begun to rot.
Before, the bridge had always been brightly lit, but now, it was dark, and only the two bodies hanging high above the bridge were swinging in the wind.
Shopkeeper Zhao drove his four-wheeled carriage across the bridge, and he didn't look at the huge ditch under the bridge, where floating corpses can often be seen these days, all with their heads down, as if they had no face to see people.
However, ten miles away, a light carriage dragged by a horse soon arrived, and Chang'an City, which had never been guarded in the past, now needs to queue up to enter, and the guards at the city gate have also changed from bad people to Jin Wuwei with golden helmets and golden armor.
Just as they were queuing up to enter the city, there was a sudden commotion in front of them, and a man who was found to be carrying a horizontal knife shouted the slogan of killing King Yong, and charged towards the city without his life......
When the shopkeeper Zhao entered the city, he saw the corpse of the man, who was now lying quietly on a straw mat, with several holes in his chest that had been poked out by spears.
Entering the door is Suzaku Street, in the past, even at night was the shining copper bull illuminated by the street lamps, now there are many people tied to it with iron chains, these iron chains are not bolted by the government, they are tied by themselves, they say very clearly, the flowing water brand owes them money, they will use the copper ox to pay off the debt, but the copper ox is too heavy, they can't pull away, so they have to use this method to declare sovereignty.
Walking all the way, looking all the way, there are people tied to every copper bull, who would have thought that these unkempt guys, five days ago, were still big high-rollers who haunted the Qinlou Chu Pavilion.
Zhao's shopkeeper turned the car into the fang market halfway, it was dark here, there were street lights, but no one lit them, it is estimated that the county government has no money to spend money to light the lights for the people.
finally returned home in the dark, and after washing, his wife brought food, and Zhao's shopkeeper, who had been busy all day, devoured it.
It's just strange that he only ate half of his meal tonight, and the other half was put on the dinner plate.
The wife said strangely: "I always don't talk enough on weekdays, why did I eat half of it today?" ”
Shopkeeper Zhao shook his head and said, "In the future, the family will change to morning food, and two meals at dusk." ”
The wife said worriedly: "Isn't the world bad?" ”
Shopkeeper Zhao said with a slumped face: "It's bad, it's very bad." ”
(End of chapter)