Brother Huo still has 4 fat followers left, and at this time, the 4 of them made a very difficult appearance and carried a big axe to Roshan.

"Brother Huo! Weapons have arrived! The four fat men shouted together, and it was quite imposing.

Brother Huo picked up the big axe with one hand, looking relaxed and freehand, the four fat men bragged on the side, and Zhang Yan, the main bookkeeper, also praised him as "the overlord of the force".

"Stinky boy, if you don't want to die, kneel down and beg for mercy!" Roshan has a very loud voice, as if a roar can make people frightened.

Wang Hongyu glanced slightly outside the door, and the smile on his face was even more moving.

The county magistrate said loudly at this time: "I am the county commander of Liangxiang Ai Youzhi, you will immediately put down your weapons and honestly report your name!" ”

"Humph! Ai Youzhi: yes. The fire surnamed Roshan sneered and said proudly: "Say my name, scare you!"

I am the chief nurse of the tall people! He is known as Jingxi Juding, General of Grain and Salt, General of Xiaoqinghe, and his real name is Li Dahuo! ”

Ai Youzhi really didn't react when she heard this, but her expression when she stopped thinking was a bit like she was frightened. The thieves took the opportunity to laugh.

"It's also nicknamed the head of the belt...... Li Dahuo, right? Wang Hongyu of Zunyi will meet you. ”

Without further ado, he stood in front of Ai Xianling, clenched his hammer and prepared to face his opponent.

"Look for death!"

Li Dahuo picked up the big axe, held it high above his head, and ran like a rainbow with trembling legs, his momentum was unstoppable.

"Come on! Boy, don't you have a lot of strength! Look at my move's 'big fire, big axe'! ”

"It's too silly~"

It happened that Yan Er, who was unconscious, was carrying the unconscious Yan Er in his other hand, and threw it with all his strength at this time, just in front of Li Dahuo's feet who were charging.

Holding the big axe high and preparing to chop back, shouting the big Roshan, because the fat squeezes his eyes, the observation range is limited, and because of the weight, the inertia is too great, and he can't dodge, so he trips and falls heavily on the ground.

The big axe fell from the air and smashed into his leg, breaking his ankle, and he couldn't get up now.

This......

When I saw him raise the axe just now, his legs were trembling, this kind of weight is already a huge burden on his legs, and sure enough, the weakness is in the lower plate.

With lightning speed, he quickly controlled the fallen Li Dahuo, Wang Hongyu glanced at the group of thieves again, and no one dared to meet his edge.

"Behind me is a tall man, you can't afford to mess with it!" Li Dahuo was powerless to resist, so he had to play tricks.

"Mr. Nangao! It's something you can't afford to mess with! "Carry Zou Yuanbiao out, the county order is also Zou Yuanbiao's disciple.

"What Mr. Nanguo?" Li Dahuo asked innocently.

Oh! Wang Hongyu showed a violent look and said to Ai Youzhi: "This thief dares to slander the county honor's mentor is Nanguo!" ”

"It's disgusting!" Ai Youzhi also pretended to be confused, made a furious appearance, and signaled that the thief would be severely punished.

"Bold thief, I'll give you loose meat!"

Wang Hongyu picked up the hammer, and began to loosen the meat against the fat body, and a few hammers were accompanied by screams from big to small.

The scene of punishment was so vigorous that it frightened the rest of the thieves.

Only the chief bookkeeper Zhang Yan knew that this was a head-killing business, and of course he had to continue to resist desperately: "Hugh is going to be rampant!" I still have more than 30 subordinates, and no one in the county government listens to you. Come on! Come here, kill me! ”

Click, many people came in from all over the warehouse, and even Wang Hongyu and Ai Youzhi followed a few people behind them, all of them were armed with weapons, completely surrounding this place.

Looking around, Zhang Yan smiled and blossomed, there are so many people here, I am afraid that you will not succeed with a sledgehammer.

But no, there seem to be more than 30 people coming, and there are nearly 100 people!

"Look clearly, your people are here!"

Meng Biao said aloud with a Sichuan voice. The thieves suddenly realized, only to see a hundred people come in, and 30 trapped knots knelt on the ground, which were the subordinates of the master book, and the rest were all Meng Biao's Sichuan army.

"Meng Biao? How many kills did this thief say just now? ”

"Three kills!"

"Kill three!"

Click!

When the Sichuan soldiers heard the order, they didn't say much and stepped forward directly, and killed 3 thieves who had not surrendered with swords in their hands.

"Spare your life!"

"Surrender! I'll say everything! ”

"It's all done by the master book and others, I can testify......"

Seeing the thunderous methods of the Sichuan soldiers, many thieves in the warehouse cried for their fathers and mothers, and knelt down to ask for surrender.

Only Zhang Yan knew that he could not get rid of the charge, so he simply turned around and ran towards a secret door in a vain attempt to escape.

Wang Hongyu had been staring at him for a long time, stepped forward and grabbed him, breaking one of his legs with a hammer, completely breaking the thief's hope of escaping.

Meng Biao's sentry horses, arranged by Wang Hongyu and Ai Youzhi, had already surrounded the warehouse. With the strength of these elite Sichuan troops, they quickly took down Zhang Zhushu's subordinates. Most of the rest of the party in the county government were also targeted by people at the same time. Other neutral people, hearing that the prefectural order had been stolen and the main book had been taken, also supported the prefectural order.

From the warehouse, thousands of taels of silver, 100,000 catties of illegal salt, and nearly 10,000 stones of rice and flour were directly confiscated, as well as dried fish, sesame oil, pigs and sheep, and other materials that were consumed in the capital in large quantities. This is not counting the encroachment on fertile land and the hidden materials of the rest of the people involved.

However, these will be investigated and dealt with by the county in turn, Wang Hongyu has handled this matter, and naturally wants the county to cash in the allocation of food and materials, Ai Youzhi knew at this time that he was a Wuju person, and the general of the Sichuan Army Zhou Dunji Department, there was a little less respect in his heart, but because of his strength and intelligence ability, the fear rose several times.

Without much delay, he immediately allocated materials to the Sichuan army with the county Cheng, and directly removed 5,000 catties of salt, 1,000 catties of rice and noodles from the warehouse and wharf, and 100 catties of 2 catties of fat chickens, 100 catties of dried fish, and 50 catties of sesame oil.

In addition, Ai Youzhi took out 500 taels of silver from the seized taels as a reward for the Sichuan soldiers.

These things are worth a lot of money, and if you send military funds to procure them, it will be a big hemorrhage.

At this time, the prices in the capital were quite stable, basically similar to the "Miscellaneous Records of the Wan Department" in the 18th year of Wanli and the "Instructions for the Ministry of Industry and Warehouse" in the 43rd year of Wanli.

The confiscated private salt is relatively sophisticated, and it can be used as a middle- and high-grade official salt in the market, and one pound can be worth 4 yuan.

1 tael of silver is ten denarii. In the late Ming Dynasty, 1 tael of silver was exchanged for copper coins ranging from 600 to 2000 wen, and at this time it was about 1 tael and 1000 wen. At this time, 6,000 catties of salt were worth 24 taels of silver.

Food is even more valuable.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, grain was much more expensive than coarse salt, for example, during the Jiajing period, Jiangnan stove households had to hand over 3,200 catties of salt every year, and every 400 catties of salt were exchanged for 100 catties of rice.

At this time, in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, rice is one tael per stone, and one catty is more than 16 Wen, which is four times that of salt. The flour is divided into different grades, and these are of good quality for about 10 pounds and 10 yuan. In this way, 1,000 stones of rice and noodles are worth 800 taels of silver.

This grain is enough for Zhou Dunji's more than 1,000 soldiers to eat for more than 2 months, and he doesn't have to worry about Tongzhou being stuck and not giving food.

There are also 2 catties of fat chicken and dried fish and sesame oil that are easy to preserve, although these quantities are not very many, but they are also more valuable on weekdays.

2 catties of fat chicken only cost 50 wen, dried fish 36 wen per catty, sesame oil 1 catty 28 wen, it costs a lot of military expenses to buy it yourself, and you can't even buy so many good things.

However, the price of these materials has attracted Wang Hongyu's great attention.

There is a lot of information in this, which will be of great effect to me in the future.

The price of ordinary rice is very high, already four times that of salt, and only slightly lower than sesame oil and live chickens per catty, almost half the price of dried fish with extracted water.

Recruit troops with Xiong Tingbi, 18 taels of silver a year, assuming you can get it.

Converted according to the price of rice, there can be 1080 catties of rice. According to the price of flour, there can be 1,800 catties of flour.

For ordinary workers, it is about 3-4 yuan a day, and if you do more than 300 days a year, you can have 10-12 taels of silver, and you can also have more objective rice noodles.

In an agrarian society, if it is not exploited layer by layer and there is no systematic collapse and deduction, the amount of grain is not bad.

It's a pity that it's hypothetical......

Prices have brought some enlightenment to Wang Hongyu:

First of all, from the late Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was not that it was already extremely poor, but that there was a terrible systemic collapse and it was completely out of control, otherwise judging from the price of grain in the capital in the late Ming Dynasty, the part-time job would still be able to live.

The second revelation is that the things eaten at this time, especially rice and meat, are really very valuable.

For example, at this time, coal was only 1 yuan and 20 yuan per catty, and only 1.2 yuan per catty, less than 1/13 of the price of rice, and less than 1/8 of the face price.

In later generations, the relatively cheap household coal, if it is 800 yuan per ton, compared to 4 cents a catty, is only 1/5 of rice and noodles.

Such supply and demand prices will, of course, allow both land and capital to be engaged in food, instead of further developing manufacturing and science and technology, because there is a huge shortage of food to eat. Therefore, in terms of prices, the price of food has risen and everything has fallen, and I am afraid that only a large number of silk, ceramics and some luxury goods can be spared from the shock.

Meat is also expensive, but not as exaggerated as rice.

For example, rice is 16 wen per catty, and live carp is 24 wen per catty, which is only slightly higher than rice. The production of fish farming is limited by breeding and technology, and it is far less profitable than growing grain, so a large number of fish ponds have been filled in Huguang to grow grain.

Looking at the expensive rice, being carried to the cart and transported away, Wang Hongyu involuntarily licked his lips.

So, if you want to make a difference, you really have to hold on to food, especially in high-yield crops, as well as in breeding, water conservancy and fertilizers.

After spending 500 taels of new military funds, he hired 500 people and 100 ox carts from the county, and was escorted by Meng Biao, a sentry guard, to set off for Tongzhou.

Ai Youzhi also made a special trip to bid farewell to Wang Hongyu.

Regardless of whether he is a man of literature or martial arts, his hometown and position are relatively consistent, and his ability is so amazing, his knowledge may not be that he is rich in learning. As Ai Youzhi, who has seen a lot of people, he must still have a special marriage with Wang Hongyu.

He politely arranged the officials, cooperated with the Sichuan army to recruit the people, and then seemed to inadvertently ask who was behind Wang Hongyu? When will I be entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court?

"Ai Xianzun doesn't have to worry, even if he is about to step down, he only needs to have a righteous reputation for punishing adultery and eliminating evil, and with the arrival of Mr. Nangao, he will definitely be able to reverse the current situation."

The two said goodbye, one felt that the other was mysterious and unpredictable, and the other wanted to pick up wool in the future.