There was a slaughter outside the restaurant.

Liu Xian and the soldiers of the Zhenwu battalion gathered around Zhu Zaili.

Zhu Zaili was still staring at the notice in his hand, but he looked up at a laborer who was tied up and asked in amazement: "Lao Jia, the female workers over there in the weaving yard, what is the daily salary for odd jobs?" ”

"Liuwen."

Zhu Zaili bowed slightly, and then motioned for Liu Xian to escort them away.

"Got it."

After a long time, Zhu Zaili raised his head, looked at Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong and asked, "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Gao, two people a day sixteen yuan, just two catties of grain, do you know what it means?" ”

Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "It's the businessman who wants to use the people to put pressure on the imperial court." ”

"Probably so."

Zhu Zaili shook his head and asked, "That's what the businessman meant, but what does these two catties of grain mean to the people?" ”

Zhang Juzheng was stunned by Gao Gong, and then sighed at the same time.

"Your Highness...... This. ”

"Two catties of grain a day, that is, thirty-two taels, and counting the disaster relief food provided by the imperial court, if it is just to survive, it can also keep two adults and one child alive." Zhu Zaili swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then said: "They want my people in the Ming Dynasty to choose for themselves, whether to starve their parents to death or their children." ”

"Gentle, courteous, frugal, loyal, filial piety, and righteousness, do they also deserve to mention these ten words?"

"From now on, all the wharves in the south of the Yangtze River, but anyone who wants to start work, regardless of long-term workers and odd workers, shall not be less than three catties per half a day, and female workers shall not be less than two catties and four taels, below this price, the laborers can directly come to the prince to complain, and I want to see if these merchants can cover the sky of my Ming Dynasty."

"Whoa."

——

On the water, the sailors of the imperial court did not feel too embarrassed Zhang Quan and others, and after diving in the water for a while, they were washed along the river for a while, and then they disappeared from the imperial court.

After coming ashore, Zhang Quan gasped heavily, but the turbulent water had already washed him and the rest of the people away.

Zhang Quan collapsed on the ground, and a sense of happiness for the rest of his life came to his heart.

It's just that before Zhang Quan came back to his senses, he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with the movement around him, and when he looked from afar, he saw a team of officers and soldiers escorting a prisoner cart to appear not far away.

Zhang Quanxuan was even vigilant.

That's not the way back to the city.

Zhang Quan vigilantly found a nearby tree and climbed up to the trunk.

Zhang Quan, who was squatting on the tree, realized that it was Ning Jue who was being held in the prisoner car.

And Ning Jue, who was lying on the prisoner cart with Erlang's legs crossed, didn't notice at all that the prisoner cart had gradually deviated from the direction of returning to the city.

As they walked, the prisoner cart came to a halt.

Ning Jue raised his head in astonishment, only to see Zhu Xizhong staring at him with wide eyes.

"What are you doing?"

Zhu Xizhong picked up his knife and cut off the iron lock on the prisoner car, and then opened the wooden door of the prisoner car.

"Brother Xian, that's it, further on is Yanziji, you find a boat to cross the river directly, go to the north, to Liaodong or the grassland......"

Before Zhu Xizhong's words fell, Ning Jue pulled back the wooden door of the prisoner car.

"Are you crazy?"

Zhu Xizhong hurriedly said: "Brother Xian, you listen to me, you can go, when I answer the pass, you save my life, I remember, this is my return to you." ”

"That's not to save your life, that's so I can't run, let you run quickly!"

"It's all the same, you don't have to worry about the court, when Jiajing's eighteenth year was the emperor's father's southern tour, I also saved the monarch's father's life, and we will pay it all back."

Ning Jue really didn't see that Zhu Xizhong was still a little genius who settled accounts.

"You're settling accounts like that?"

"What's wrong?" Zhu Xizhong's words stopped Ning Jue.

"If I'm gone, what will happen to the laborers who were arrested on the dock today? Can the court let them go? You're exchanging the lives of all of them for mine. ”

"I can't go."

After that, Ning Jue sat down on the prisoner car, and no matter what Zhu Xizhong said, he didn't speak again.

After Zhu Xizhong sighed a few times, he drove back to Jinling in the prisoner car.

It's just that Ning Jue didn't know that Zhang Quan, who was sitting on the tree and witnessed this scene, was already about to pinch his hand into the trunk.

"Mr. Ning, why didn't you say earlier that you didn't have a way to get out!"

Ning Jue is the imperial history of the four products.

With the appearance of swearing in the restaurant before, Zhang Quan thought that Ning Jue had a way to get out.

Zhang Quan never expected that Ning Jue had the idea of carrying all his sins.

"Mr. Ning, you wait, you wait! Zhang has to save you even if he gives up this life! ”

After dark, Zhang Quan climbed down from the tree.

Ruan Bi was thrown into his home to lose weight, and Hu Shan was taken back to prison.

Zhu Zaili's order was issued by the prince Xingyuan and directly posted on the outside of the major docks, but the originally calm scene did not appear as Zhu Zaili imagined.

These merchants did not have a very close organization among themselves, that is, they gathered in the Huiguo Wengong Ancestral Hall to eat tea on weekdays.

It's just that the common interests are driving them to make convergent choices.

At this juncture, the more you luck, the more you lose.

Since this is the case, it is better not to transport it first, and find a warehouse on the spot to store the goods, and the rent of the warehouse on the outskirts of Jinling has risen all the way.

The goods next to it will stop on the spot, and it will not have much impact for a while, but the food will not work.

A vicious circle was born.

The more the laborers on the wharf were able to get this wage, the more the merchants lost, and the more the merchants lost, the less grain they brought into the city, and the less grain they brought into the city, the more the minimum wages of these laborers had to rise, and the higher the price of grain would be.

Only a few days later, the wharf that had been rubbing shoulders was depressed, and more and more laborers were expelled from the wharf.

An even larger popular uprising is brewing.

The first to notice that something was wrong was Jinyiwei.

"Governor, this is the report of the wharves, there has been a lot of depression on the wharves these days, and the price of grain in the city is also rising, it should be more fierce."

Lu Bing inadvertently took over the secret music and said casually: "Isn't it a good thing that the dock is depressed?" There is no need to reform the tax system, and we are all better. ”

"If we find a way to deal with food prices, we will ...... it"

Before he finished speaking, Lu Bing figured out the logical relationship.

The depression of the wharf means that there is less work for laborers.

The high price of food means that it is more difficult for laborers to survive.

Lu Bing, who gasped, put the secret music on the bookcase, and then ordered: "Tomorrow quickly hand this music to the garrison hall Mai ......."

didn't wait for Lu Bing to finish speaking.

Lu Bing's heart was shocked again.

"No, prepare the car now, I'm going to see Grandpa Mai tonight!"

"Metropolitan Governor, the palace gate has fallen, and Grandpa Mai should already be ......"

"What nonsense, if you close the door, then go and smash the door! McFuy is going to the kiln tonight, and he has to be dragged out for me! ”

"Whoa!"

"In addition, I will go to Yingtianfu and the Five Military Mansions to check the surplus grain in the warehouse, and tomorrow we will add fifteen more porridge stalls."

Jin Yiwei had never seen Lu Bing look so flustered.

Just because Lu Bing thought of a terrifying question.

Throughout the ages, all the popular uprisings were outside the city, because the rebels were tenant farmers, Rao was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and they also decided to rebel after half of the journey.

In any case, the city was controlled by the imperial court at the beginning, which also reduced the cost of counterinsurgency.

But that's not the case right now.

The imperial court was in the city, and all the laborers who had no work were in the city, and even more coincidentally, the largest granaries were often in the city and on the docks......

Lu Bing didn't dare to continue to think about it, and he didn't even bother to change his clothes and rushed directly to the garrison hall.

——

A crisp "click" sounded.

Maybe it's just an attempt by a craftsman, or it may be a reckless man's inadvertent collapse.

In short, a lock that locked the door of the granary was opened.

The hungry people, who had been starving for an unknown amount of time, suddenly burrowed into the granary to fill their stomachs, and the door to the imitation effect opened.

Hungry people don't think about how much food is in the city.

All they know is that the old man has food after all.

"So much food, less than a mile away from us!"

A thousand words eventually converged into one unpretentious word.

"Eat!"

This is the first time since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang that there is no uprising without the "first evil", there is no fish-belly heavenly book ghost fire fox song, there is no stone man, and there is no lifeless old mother, vacuum hometown.

Such uprisings were previously known simply as "civil unrest".

It's just that the scale of the riots this time is so large, but it can't fit the word "civil unrest" in a small way.

——

The fire in the city burst out, but the Red Mansion where the soldiers were stationed did not react.

Ruan Bi, who was already hungry and had gold stars in his eyes, was suddenly released from his home.

"Master, we can live, we can live!"

"Where's the Jinyiwei?"

"It's all gone, and the city is already in chaos, and this will be a lot bigger than before, and no one cares about you."

Ruan Bi raised his head with difficulty and looked at the skyrocketing fire outside his courtyard.

Then he ran towards the door with an excited face.

"Guys, I know ......"

Before the words fell, the silence of the alley returned, and then there was a cry like thunder.

"I know him, he is Master Ruan on the dock!"

Ruan Bi realized that something was wrong, but it was too late.

In less than half an hour, the Ruan family became a sea of fire, and no one had ever seen the 47 members of the Ruan family again.

The gates of the city were left open, and some hungry people fled out of the city at night with their families, while the towns and warehouses close to the city walls outside the city had become a sea of fire, and the hungry people were gradually spreading to the villages on the outskirts of Beijing.

These hungry people have long seen it clearly.

What gold and silver, what copper coins and acres.

It's all fake, and it's only true if it's turned into food and eaten in the stomach.

It's just a little funny that when this "civil unrest" spread to the surrounding villages, many landlords and old fortunes subconsciously made a judgment by virtue of their years of experience in preparing for the Japanese and preventing bandits.

Hide in the city.

The city is safe after all.

Along the way, more and more hungry people are reminding them of a word all the time.

Sir, times have changed.

(End of chapter)