The refugees who suffered from the flood near Sili gathered in Luoyang, the largest capital in the world, hoping to find a way to survive here! The number of refugees outside Luoyang has reached as many as 300,000! And the number is growing by the day!

At the same time, the price of grain in the city has exceeded 2,000 yuan! In just five days, the price of food has increased fivefold! The people of Luoyang City are boiling with resentment, the price of food is too high, and they can't afford to eat! Those well-off families with a little savings have begun to use their savings to buy food, and the lives of the poor people at the bottom are even worse, and they have begun to smash pots and sell iron to buy food to make ends meet, and the amount of rations per meal has also decreased again and again!

Add an extra scoop of water and tighten your belt!

This is the common strategy of the lower class people in Luoyang to deal with high food prices, in the past, some odd jobs were barely able to make a living, after all, Luoyang is a metropolis with a population of one million, as long as you are willing to contribute, you can always eat with a mouthful of food, but now eating a full meal has become an endless luxury!

Although the big families are not worried about the problem of eating, they are also extremely troubled, and if they continue to make such a fuss, once the people are provoked, most of the big households with no foundation will bear the brunt! It is definitely the target of the mob to kill the rich and help the poor! So, those who have money are starting to think about immigration again!

However, it is a pity that the migration of southern Liaoning has been suspended!

Zhou Tian and Ronghua's rhetoric is: The fleet has set sail, wait for the next trip!

Many people will ask, when is the next trip?

The fastest is ten days, the slowest is half a month!

Those big businessmen are about to regret their hearts, why didn't they sign up a few days ago? If you sign up and pay some immigration tax, you will now take your family to watch the scenery on the boat, and the little money you spend will not be earned back with much effort after you arrive in southern Liaoning? Why didn't you figure it out in the first place?

This matter has long been expected in Zhuang Shaoyou, but there is no way to nod, there are more than 100 merchants who have signed up for immigration in the past three days, which one is not dragging the family? There are also many slaves and maids, adding up to more than 5,000 people! This is still the effect of Zhuang Shaoyou's rigid regulations to limit the number of people, otherwise the number of people will be more than doubled!

Since there is no hope for immigrants in southern Liaoning, those rich businessmen began to think of other places, but the whole original place is in chaos, and Luoyang is surrounded by refugees. It's like there is no way to enter the heavens and no door to the ground, and he is suffocated alive in the powder keg of Luoyang, unable to move!

A few days ago, the general He Jin extorted 50 million money from the merchants in Luoyang, and he hated those merchants so much that their teeth itched! Its first pawnshop in Luoyang, Tao Ji Pawnshop, was blackmailed even more ruthlessly, although Tao Ji Pawnshop also has a backstage, but He Jin doesn't care about this set and doesn't put anyone in his eyes!

The 50 million of 15 million was used for his nephew Liu Wei to ascend the throne, and the remaining more than 30 million was used to compensate the army and reward for military exploits, He Jin lost nearly 1,000 people in the Battle of Xiyuan, and more than 2,000 were wounded. Moreover, Zhuang Shaoyoujun's pension policy is so good that Luoyang City is obvious to all, this person is more popular than a dead person, and He Jin was forced by Zhuang Shaoyou to bleed a little bit this time!

Originally, the soldiers were very happy, each of them was rewarded with thousands of dollars, and there were even more who had outstanding achievements, which was a lot of income for these big soldiers, enough to support the family's expenses for two or three months! Maybe you can even tear some cloth for your wife and children to make new clothes!

But the price of this grain has increased fivefold in a row, and all hopes and expectations have turned into floating clouds! 1,000 yuan can only buy half a hue of rice now! Not even half a month's worth of rice is enough!

Therefore, the joy and gratitude when he first received the reward Dade instantly turned into nothingness, and life is still hard! Fortunately, his rations are provided by the army, otherwise he really can't live!

And the soldiers on Zhuang Shaoyou's side are extremely happy and happy, fortunately they moved their families away a few days ago, otherwise they would definitely starve to death if they stayed in Luoyang City! Now the family is eating public food, all of them are raised by the general, everything does not need to worry, compared to those neighbors who are struggling with the food and clothing line, it is already a very happy thing to be able to not worry about food! The only regret is that the purchasing power of the money on hand has declined, and I can't buy too many things, but it doesn't matter, Luoyang things are expensive, save them first, and then spend them after they arrive in southern Liaoning!

Compared with the civilians struggling to make ends meet, the situation of refugees outside the city is even more difficult! Every day, refugees starved to death outside the city, and the city's officials and soldiers sent people to collect the corpses and incinerate them to prevent the outbreak of the plague.

More than half of the 300,000 refugees outside Luoyang are gathered in the south of the city, because there is free porridge to drink in the south of the city! Many big families in Luoyang City are setting up sheds outside the city to give porridge, but more just to make a gesture and earn some reputation, which is also a bit forced, because if no one manages it, once it causes a civil uprising, it will be those big families who are unlucky in the end! So take the initiative to get some blood now to prevent bleeding in the future!

Now the price of grain in the city is so expensive, and this year is obviously the autumn grain harvest, and the grain is almost the same as gold, who is willing to throw a lot of it out? So most of the porridge shops outside the city are just formalities!

When Zhuang Shaoyou and He Jin clashed last month, He Jin threatened Luoyang merchants to cut off the supply to Zhuang Shaoyou's army, trying to trap Zhuang Shaoyou, but Zhuang Shaoyou directly transported a boatload of fine grain from southern Liaoning, a total of 200,000 Hu, this month the army ate thousands of Hu, there are still many left, according to Zhuang Shaoyou's instructions, Ronghua and Zhou Tian used the 150,000 Hu fine grain on the ship to exchange 200,000 Hu for 200,000 Hu coarse grain millet with the grain merchants, which is still Zhuang Shaoyou's face is exchanged, because as long as the grain is gold at this juncture! It's good stuff that fills your stomach! Therefore, the coarse grain of the city is more popular than the fine grain!

Zhuang Shaoyou sent people to open a porridge shop at the south wharf of the city, and two meals of millet porridge a day were provided uninterruptedly.

Different from the chaos in other places outside the city, the refugees in the south of the city are in order, for no other reason, the porridge shops in other places will be cut off at every turn, and the queue for two hours will be empty, and the angry refugees will also smash a few porridge shops that do not rain with thunder and rain, refugees are also people, and they also have feelings, and if they dare to waste the feelings of refugees, they will have to bear the anger of refugees!

But this has never happened in Seongnam, because the refugees know that as long as you are in line, you will not be disappointed! Therefore, nearly 200,000 refugees gathered in the south of the city, and these refugees are very conscious of maintaining order for the porridge shop, but if anyone dares to break the rules or make trouble, there is no need for Zhuang Shaoyou's people to worry, and the refugees in line will not agree in the first place!

It's just that with the increasing number of refugees, the supply speed of porridge shops can't keep up, so Zhuang Shaoyou can only continue to increase the number of porridge shops, from two on the first day, to four on the second day, and to eight on the third day, which can barely be supplied, but even so, refugees generally have to queue for two hours to get a bowl of porridge, and generally go to the queue to wait for the second bowl after receiving a bowl, four hours a day, just for these two bowls of porridge! Find a place to lie down and sleep the rest of the time!

Although every effort has been made to reduce the supply, there must always be a bottom line, so these 200,000 people are basically raised by Zhuang Shaoyou alone, and the daily consumption rate of corn is as high as more than 2,000 Hu, and with the surge in the number of refugees, the consumption will also surge! 200,000 grains seem like a lot, but they can't be supplied for too long!

What's even worse is that the flood has spread widely, the number of refugees is extremely large, and the already poor Han world is even worse, I don't know when I want to recover, and those refugees don't know when they can disperse, Zhuang Shaoyou can support them for a while, but can't support them for a lifetime!

In the fifth year of Ping, the fifth day of the seventh month, the day when the new emperor ascended the throne.

Early in the morning, Zhuang Shaoyou dressed neatly and sat in a carriage, surrounded by five hundred guards, and walked towards the palace, these days Luoyang City looks turbulent on the surface, and has attracted attention from the soaring prices and refugees outside the city, but in fact, the real monstrous waves are still brewing in the upper echelons, ready to go!

Today's Zhuang Shaoyou is wearing black gold armor and crimson tiger skin robes, this is still the treasure that Zhang Liang sent to him in order to envelop him, and the legend is that it is the object of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, which is worth a lot of money! The Sun Sword with the Qiankun Sun and Moon Sword hanging on his waist, coupled with his already very burly figure, looks extraordinarily mighty.

At five o'clock, Zhuang Shaoyou arrived at the court, the last time he came here was the first day of the first month, the original court meeting Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong a golden cicada out of the shell, in one fell swoop changed the power pattern of Luoyang, the formation of two opposing situations, this month has happened countless major events, but this pattern has been extended to this day.

The general He Jin faction and Zhuang Shaoyou faction continued the original struggle, although there were many fewer allies than before, Empress Dowager Dong was placed under house arrest, the hussar general Dong Zhong committed suicide, Jian Shuo was killed, Liu Hong died, and now only Zhuang Shaoyou is left in this department, but it can still maintain a delicate balance.

Because today's Zhuang Shaoyou is no longer what it used to be, the strength of one person is enough to confront the general He Jin, if the first conflict with He Jin He Jin did not do his best, it is not enough to explain too many problems; But the second battle of the West Garden is the two sides go all out to fight, and it is in front of the Manchu Dynasty, Zhuang Shaogu's army is strong, Luoyang is obvious to all!

What's more important is that Zhuang Shaoyou's army is united and has absolute control over his subordinates, He Jin in the Battle of Xiyuan relied on successively rebelling against the Xiyuan Army and Dong Chongjun, so as to turn the tide, and no one on either side could bargain for peace in the situation, and before this, He Jin had also tried many times to rebel against Zhuang Shaoyou's army, but it had no effect at all! And the Zhuang army regards He Jin as a mortal enemy, and there is no room for turning around!

Just when Yuan Shao was still envious and jealous of the loss of the name of the first person of the new generation, Zhuang Shaoyou was already able to fight with the strength of the older generation with his own strength, and now Zhuang Shaoyou has become one of the strongest people in Luoyang, and there is no need to add the new generation!

For this point, Yuan Shao felt powerless for the first time in his heart, but this did not discourage him, but only aroused Yuan Shao's determination to fight to the end, and he swore not to give up if he did not bring down Zhuang Shaoyou!