Chapter 192: Soup kitchen

Zhang Yi had two thoughts when he went to pass the transfer order so happily, the first was because Zhou Hu and Ding Yuan were close, and he was also a disobedient person to him, and the Taiyuan County Governor Cheng Lian was restrained from the side, which made him extremely unhappy with this Zhou Hu. Another thing, this Zhou Hu is unruly and bold, and he will definitely not obey the order. He also wanted to use this Zhou Hu to test Wang Gang's bottom line.

It is only more than 100 miles from Jingcheng Pass to Jinyang County, and it can be reached in half a day by fast horse. A team of cavalry who gave the order, with Zhang Yi's order, came to Jingcheng Pass, but found that Zhou Hu was not in Jingcheng Pass at all. After asking the soldiers, I found out that Zhou Hu went to the town in front.

The herald followed the soldiers to the town, where rows of inns and restaurants were built on both sides of the town, and there were also some light textile tea houses. Of course, there are also some brothels in Qinglou, most of which belong to the Zhou family. There are horse-drawn carriages full of goods parked on the streets, and the prosperity is not much better than that of Taiyuan's West Market.

In a green building called Cuifang Pavilion, the herald finally found Zhou Hu.

At this time, Zhou Hu was in a private room, and there were several delicate women in the room, dressed in light clothes and tulle. snuggled up to Zhou Hu, and kept scratching his head towards Zhou Hu. And Zhou Hu had already drunk and couldn't stand steadily, staggered up, pushed a woman to the low table, and removed the woman's clothes.

There was a knock at the door, and a soldier said.

"General Zhou, Zhang Taishou sent someone. said that there was an order from Zhang Taishou, you see......"

"Look at your uncle, let him wait" Before the soldier could finish speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Zhou Hu. Turning over and pressing the woman at the low table under him, the woman's panting and the ridicule of the woman next to her suddenly came from the room.

The herald at the door was extremely angry, but he was helpless. waited until the lights came on, and Zhou Hu walked out of the private room with a sleepy face.

Seeing the dispatcher at the door, he said in an unkind tone.

"What about the appointment?"

The herald hurriedly handed over the order, Zhou Hu glanced at it, threw the order to the ground, and spit a mouthful of phlegm towards the order.

"He Zhang Yi is really old and confused, I am on the order of Ding Tingshi to garrison Jingcheng Pass. What right does he have to transfer me. You go back and tell him that he is dead, what should he do?"

"But Ding's assassin has been transferred back to Luoyang, and the newly appointed governor of Bingzhou has arrived in Luoyang, so he asked Taishou to transfer you back."

"New State Pastor. I'm a little baby, relying on a woman to be on top, and I still want to transfer me."

Speaking of Wang Gang, Zhou Hu was even more uncut, and he only heard about Wang Gang's promotion to the state pastor in the past two days, thinking that it was only by relying on the relationship of the county lord that he climbed to a high position. That's why he forced his backstage away, and he didn't care about Wang Gang even more.

"Kezhou Pastoral is ......"

The herald wanted to say something, but was glared at by Zhou Hu.

"Get the hell out of here, right away"

The herald had no choice but to leave with hatred.

On the streets of Jinyang, there were many soldiers, busy building porridge sheds and lighting stoves, which immediately attracted the onlookers of the people, and then bags of grain were sent over. Poured into a boiling pot, and after a while, bursts of rice fragrance came. It caused the refugees in the city to rumble in their stomachs.

A crowd of people gathered around the porridge shack.

"Line up, it's not crowded, there will be it, the new Wang Zhoumu has bought a lot of food," a soldier shouted loudly beside him.

The team gradually stopped in the commotion, and saw that the person in front of them was already holding a bowl of cooked millet rice, and couldn't help but swallow their saliva until the hot millet porridge was really handed to him, all as if he was still dreaming. The boiling rice soup brought the refugee back to reality.

"Ahh

There was a terrible scream from the front, and the soldiers hurriedly stepped forward to check.

"Don't be in a hurry, be careful of scalding, and after drinking," the soldier said gently. After saying that, he picked up the bowl on the ground, made another bowl for him, and brought it to his side.

It turned out that the corn soup was too hot, and the refugee may have not eaten for several days, and he was in a hurry to eat and burned his mouth.

There was a low laugh in the middle of the group, and the whole team relaxed. Some people took the initiative to get out of the way, so that some elderly people and children could receive porridge first.

This night, the refugees in the city slept very soundly, and they would never sleep until they were awakened hungry in the middle of the night. Although they were still on the street, at least they felt a trace of warmth in Jinyang.

And the big families in the city didn't sleep so sweetly this night, especially the Xu family and the Deng family.

The head of the Xu family is named Xu Qi, and he is the cousin of Xu Chen of the Xu family in the clouds, but now that Xu Chen has fallen into the hands of Wang Gang, Xu Qi doesn't know yet. I got the news today that the new Bingzhou Mu Wang Gang came to Jinyang and personally inquired about the price of grain, but what made Xu Qi puzzled was that Wang Gang did not trouble the Xu family with the matter of grain, but bought a lot of Xu family's grain, although the price was cheaper than the market price, at the price of 300 yuan of rice, the Xu family made more than 10 million yuan, but this Xu Qi was somewhat unreliable.

Another thing is that the people sent to buy the population were also arrested by Wang Gang, although the people had been released, but they were only sternly warned that they could no longer take the opportunity to buy tenant farmers. But it still made Xu Qi a little uneasy.

Xu Qi finally decided to discuss it with the Deng family, after all, now the Deng family and the Xu family are basically grasshoppers on the same rope, one is lost, and the other is prosperous.

"Send someone to inform the people of the Deng family to come and say that I have something important to discuss with them"

Although the Xu family is not as good as before, the arrogance in their bones still can't be let go. In my heart, I still look down on the Deng family, who was born as a businessman.

The Deng family also has a farm house in Jinyang, covering an area of more than 100 acres. Located in Xicheng District, it is taken care of by Deng Yi, the second master of the Deng family. And Deng Hong, the Deng family, stayed in Qi County. Deng Yi is over 40 years old this year, when he is in the prime of life, and Deng Yi is quite ambitious. has always wanted to make the Deng family's business bigger, and he is good at calculating, and he operates the grain prices in Jinyang, which means that he alone has the final say on the grain prices in the entire Bingzhou.

At first, he thought that the new state pastor would also ask them to buy some grain from the Deng family, but he didn't expect to wait until the evening, and he didn't see anyone to report it, as for the housekeeper who went to buy the population, he conveyed to him Wang Gang's order that he could not buy and sell people. But he didn't take it seriously, after all, the law of the Han Dynasty also stipulates that you can't buy people privately, but who takes this seriously.

When he was still thinking about whether the price of food should increase again tomorrow, a subordinate rushed in to say goodbye.

"Second master, someone from the Xu family is here, let the master go, and say that there is something important to discuss"

"That old thing, if you can't come by yourself when you look for me, let me go. He could make so much money without me, what a white-eyed wolf."

However, after all, Deng Yi still got up and walked towards the gate of the mansion.