Chapter 38: Roast Duck Assassin!
Peiping Political Bureau!
Tyranny didn't wait for anyone to pass it on, so he walked in directly.
Guo Zi hurried after receiving the news, and saluted respectfully as soon as they met.
"Xiaguan Guo Zi, I've seen the big priest!"
Tyrant Zhao glanced at him coldly, but did not say anything.
Guo Zi noticed that the person who came was not good, but his face still did not change, and respectfully invited Guo Zi into the duty room.
As soon as the two of them sat down, Tyrant Zhao opened his mouth directly.
"Guo Cunxing, you have won the appreciation of Emperor Taizu Gao, so you have been able to rise to the top, and in just ten years, you have been promoted from Hu Keshu to Beiping Zuobu Political Envoy!"
"If you don't think about reporting the emperor's favor, why do you want to collude with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and prepare to be the rebellious minister and thief?"
Violent Zhao's tone was extremely harsh, and he couldn't give Guo Zi a whole deal at once.
You must know that the person in front of you is the chief secretary of the Criminal Department, who is notoriously not angry and arrogant.
What's more, this great priest opened his mouth to accuse you of colluding with the vassal king to rebel, and you would be panicked if you were to change it!
Fortunately, Guo Zi is an old fox after all, and after losing his mind for a short time, he immediately reacted.
"Where did the Grand Priest start with this?"
"The lower officials have always been grateful for the emperor's kindness, and they are conscientious and loyal to their duties, how can they collude with King Yan to rebel?"
In the end, it is an old official who has been up and down in the sea, Guo Zi's words are extremely beautiful.
It's just that Storm Zhaoyuan is very human, where will he be easily fooled!
"Okay, you said that you didn't collude with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, but the official only asked you one thing, why is there a shortage of food in Beiping Mansion?"
Lack of food in Beiping Province?
Isn't that normal!
Besides, why there is a shortage of food in Beiping Mansion, it's not a good thing for the imperial court!
Guo Zi replied casually: "After the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the northern region is very withered, far less prosperous than the south, with a sparse population and a dilapidated economy."
"In addition, Beiping Mansion is vast and sparsely populated, and the weather is bad, so the grain output is not high, and most of them rely on the imperial court to dispatch from the south."
"But now the imperial court has cut off the supply channels of grain and grass in Beiping Mansion, so it will fall into the predicament of lack of grain!"
"The lower official wants to ask the chief priest, why did the imperial court do this? Do you want to ignore the tens of thousands of people in Beiping Mansion? ”
Storm Zhao's eyes flashed, he didn't expect that this Guo Zi was really daring, and he dared to rebel against the army!
"Guo Cunxing, where the food is going, you and I both know it!"
"This official came here today just to warn you, don't bring about your own death, and affect your descendants!"
As soon as the words fell, Storm Zhao got up and left, not caring about Guo Zi's iron-blue face at all.
After Tyrant Zhao left, Guo Zi was furious and smashed the teacup he was drinking from!
"How can it be!"
"You old puppet, dare to bully me like this?!"
Hearing these movements, Guo Zi's confidant Sun Yu, the deputy envoy of the Imperial Prosecutor's Department, Mo Lin, the servant Lu Zhen and others walked in one after another, and their faces were not very good-looking.
Guo Zi and Zhu Di have been operating in Beiping for ten years, and their influence has long penetrated into all aspects.
Not only the chief secretary in charge of civil affairs, but also the judicial department in charge of supervising criminal prisons, and the commander and envoy department in charge of military and political affairs, all have their henchmen.
Everyone's faces were ugly, especially Guo Zi's face was even bluer.
Tyranny Zhao came today, undoubtedly giving them a dismount!
"My lord, what shall we do now?"
Lu Zhen took the lead in asking questions, breaking the deadlock of silence.
They can now be said to have gone all the way to the dark, and there is no way back.
Guo Zi glanced at him coldly and forcibly calmed himself down.
"Storm Zhao, this old horseman, the next thing to look at is the grain."
"If he finds the grain and grass we have secretly stored, then everything will be over!"
"So this matter must be taken seriously, this official will go to the Yanwang Palace, you will keep an eye on the old man for the violent Zhao, and every word and deed must be recorded!"
Beiping Mansion City is now their territory, Guo Zi doesn't believe that on his own territory, what kind of moth can the violent Zhao make!
As for the food problem, it is a bit of a problem.
Yanwang Palace will become the target of public criticism next, and it is not a good idea to hide in the palace.
But if you continue to put it in those warehouses, it will be easier for Tyrant Zhao to track down the clues!
What to do?
Guo Zi left in a hurry and rushed to the Yanwang Palace.
Tyrant Zhao took Ye Xixian, like a nobody, and continued to shop.
"My lord, we seem to be targeted!"
"Let them follow!" Storm Zhao said coldly.
In fact, after he decided to expose his identity, he prepared for the worst.
It's just that he never thought that Guo Zi and Guo Cunxing would collude with Yanwang Zhu Di, and he was so decisive and decisive!
A Yanwang Mansion has been operating in Beiping for nearly 20 years, plus a political envoy Guo Zi, and now it is not an exaggeration to say that this Beiping Mansion is their base camp!
The situation in Beiping has been eroded to this point, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is the source, and Guo Zi, the political envoy of Nabu, is a tiger and should be killed!
As soon as he thought of this, a flash of anger flashed in Tyrant Zhao's eyes.
At this moment, a familiar voice came from not far ahead.
Storm Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he smiled unconsciously.
"I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence!"
squeezed through the crowd of onlookers, and Violent Zhao saw that Su Yang was arguing with people at the moment.
Su Yang originally invited a doctor to see the nervous second cousin, but the doctor came and disappeared, so he apologized to the doctor for a long time, and paid the "visit fee" in vain!
The little girl saw that he was a little unhappy and offered to go shopping together.
The husband and wife wandered around like this until they passed by a small vendor selling roast duck.
When the little daughter-in-law smelled the tempting fragrance, she immediately couldn't walk.
Well, it evokes the gluttonous worm in her memory!
What else could Su Yang do when he saw this, he could only pet him.
But when the little daughter-in-law picked one and was about to pay, he was horrified to find that this roast duck cost a tael of silver!
What is it?
This is the "Roast Duck Assassin"!
The market price of a mature duck is only seventy or eighty yuan, and after roasting, it will cost a damn tael of silver, which is more than ten times!
Even if the cost of artificial raw materials is removed, the price of this roast duck is inevitably too high!
You must know that the price of Daming is actually not high, and the purchasing power of one or two pieces of silver far exceeds the thousand yuan of later generations, which is enough for an ordinary family to eat for a year!
Of course, that's just eating, counting all kinds of taxes and servitude, one or two pieces of silver is enough for ordinary people to live for three months!
Although Su Yang didn't value money, his silver was not blown by the wind, so he argued with this peddler on the spot.
Who knew that the hawker was disrespectful, seeing that Su Yang and his wife were wearing coarse linen clothes, their words were also very polite, laughing at this roast duck is eaten by nobles, and they can't afford to pay for it, so don't buy it!
Su Yang was immediately furious when he heard this, and the two sides quarreled, attracting a lot of onlookers, as well as Ye Xixian.
Storm Zhao was about to come forward and teach the trader who looked down on people a lesson, but Su Yang left a cruel word.
"Okay!"
"You wait for me!"
"Damn roast duck assassin!"
"If I don't knock down the price of roast duck, I won't be surnamed Su!"
Su Yang angrily pulled his little daughter-in-law away and went straight to the blacksmith shop.
Tyrant Zhao looked at this kid dumbfounded, feeling that his head was full of black lines.
"What did this kid just say?"
"Roast duck assassin? He's going to bring down the price of roast duck? ”
Ye Xixian was also a little dazed, and then his face was full of disdain!
Roast duck is indeed something that only people with extra money can afford to eat!
Ordinary people who would be willing to spend this big price to buy a roast duck to satisfy their hunger!
So this roast duck itself is for dignitaries to eat, don't buy it if you kid has no money!
"Not good!"
"This kid is going astray!"
"He doesn't really plan to sell roast duck, does he?"
Ye Xixian: "???"