Chapter Seventy-Four: The Market and the Court

"Go buy a few strings of sugar gourds, and try to buy as many other foods as possible. ”

In addition, write down the price of this food, the old man has his own considerations. ”

Qin Qingtang pointed to the shouting hawker and said.

"My lord, can you finish eating so much food?"

The attendant asked subconsciously.

Qin Qingtang didn't answer, but the melancholy in his eyes was indeed getting heavier and heavier, looking at the steaming bun in his hand and putting it in the sedan chair, he really had no appetite.

"You go to the grain stores in the city to investigate carefully, and the price of food has also fluctuated in the past few days to sort out a charter, and I will check it after I retire from the court. ”

Qin Qingtang still felt that something was wrong, and pointed to another attendant beside him and spoke.

"Obey, my lord!" the entourage arched his hand, and his heart was indeed a little bitter, there are hundreds of grain shops in the capital, large and small, I am afraid that I will have to break my leg today.

After a cup of tea,

The middle-aged man who called Ren Zhi walked to the sedan chair with a large amount of food in his hand, and there were some doubts in his eyes, but he never asked.

"My lord, this is the price of all kinds of food. The attendant handed it over respectfully, and waited aside, probably guessing a little bit of the reason why the adults had smoked so much food today.

I'm afraid that the capital is going to change the sky, and tonight I have to let my mother-in-law and aunt hurry to Heda Grain Shop to accumulate some rice and noodles, and I'm afraid that the capital is going to change the sky.

Qin Qingtang looked at the dense prices above, compared to the past, it had risen by more than three or four percent unconsciously, what a fantasy this was?

"Let's go, enter the palace!"

Qin Qingtang put the paper into his cuffs, raised his feet and stepped into the sedan chair, lifted the curtain, and looked at the still bustling crowd on the long street, feeling inexplicably.

How many years?

Not only did the prices in the city not change in the slightest, but the market was peaceful, and some people in the gambling house even opened the market, betting on how many heads Xu Wu could cut off, because everyone knew that the Great Wei could not threaten the safety of Shangjing, and it was all a happy conversation after tea and dinner.

But now, the real dragon of Liangzhou was born, and Xu Wu ascended the throne,

In just one night, such a big change happened,

The people live on food!

A few days ago, the Ministry of War took out the charter of the Northern Expedition, and the same household department presented a few folds, and there were two words between the lines, cannibalism!

The next day, the court issued several decrees, a basket of clauses and clauses, but the food was transparent, and there was a sentence on it, the court was short of silver because of the war!

What should I do if the court is short of silver?

Naturally, he reached out to the people to ask for it!

Otherwise, you still expect those family gate valves to donate money to you?

This is fucking bullshit, you don't see the history books when the country is dying, those family lords and princes are also covering their pockets to death, even if the Son of Heaven takes the lead in taking out the money and food in the inner treasury, they only leak a little crumbs from between their fingernails, and they have to make a look of helping the court.

"Hey......"

Qin Qingtang sighed, casually distributed these bits and pieces of food to the beggars on the street, and sat in the sedan chair with a lot of thoughts.

In the temple of Taihe,

The two huge vases of the exquisitely painted official kiln have been broken, and the porcelain pieces everywhere are silent.

"Where is the Governor's Command Room now?"

Li Yan stood on top of the main hall and shouted.

"The minister is here!"

A middle-aged man trembled and knelt on the ground, he was originally the deputy commander of the Governor Division, dreaming every day, thinking that the Governor Division Fei Huang Tengda, not long ago Luo Wenzhou put on the royal unicorn suit and went to Qingxia to chase and intercept the thieves.

Seeing that the steady progress is just around the corner, his deputy commander can also get more face in the capital city, which Cheng wants to wipe out the whole army in a war, bury all the elites in it, not to mention, he also got in.

Now that he has succeeded to the throne, he has been walking on thin ice all day long, for fear that his head will accidentally fall to the ground, and this time there has been a big wave in the capital, wouldn't he want his own life.

"The dragon went out of Liangzhou, and the thief became the emperor, how did this matter get into the market?"

Li Yan waved her sleeves, her body trembled slightly in the wide skirt, and now she completely tore off her face, and the fig leaf of the heavenly family was ruthlessly removed.

"What a real dragon was born!"

Even his father didn't make such a big move when he succeeded to the throne, and now I'm afraid that the whole world knows about it, and ordinary people in the market can paint the appearance of a real dragon.

"Your Highness, the minister has sent someone to inspect it, and he will definitely give an answer to His Highness within one day. "The new commander of the Governor's Department made the kowtow like ordinary pounded garlic, and when he lifted it, his flesh was already blurred.

"Get out!"

"Where is Shangjing Fuyi?"

"The old minister is here!"

A white-haired old man trembled and fell to his knees.

"This rumor in the market has spread under your rule, and you should investigate the case with him. ”

"If you don't give a constitution within a day, you will apologize with death. Li Yan said coldly, without giving this old minister the slightest face, since you sit in this position, you have this responsibility.

"No matter how to suppress this sprout first, I knew that this Daqing was still our Li family, and now I am not surnamed Xu, you put aside your stomach and take a look, you are eating the Li family's food, and you should weigh it when you do things!"

"How long will it take for the South Road Border Army to reach the border of Liangzhou?"

Li Yan turned his mouth and asked, after the anti-thief father and son left Humen Pass, the South Road Border Army had already started to arrange for it to go north, and there were Quartet official roads in the pass as a guarantee, and it took more than half a month to calculate the time.

"Your Highness still has seven days to reach Liangzhou. ”

"It's just that the situation is urgent, and the imperial court is too tightly destroyed and the grain and grass are insufficient, so we have to continue to allocate silver. The military department Shangshu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said carefully, and the household department Shangshu on the side was even more heady when he heard this.

"That's it, you can't count on it!"

"This silver is made up by the inner treasury!"

Li Yan's voice fell, and the head of the household department breathed a sigh of relief, and the paper that Qin Qingtang was crumpling tightly in his hand was also crumpled and did not take it out, and he was finally relieved.

Li Yan's cold gaze swept over the faces of the ministers of the imperial court, since the silver levy a few days ago, the atmosphere in the court and the central government can be said to have dropped to the freezing point, and the various Shangshu departments only took out thousands of taels of silver to deal with the scene, among which the people of the various gate valves only took out tens of thousands of taels, and they also called their names and emptied their families.

The huge court can't even make up a million taels of silver!

If it was in the past, maybe they would have believed it, but how did these people get their hands on the nearly 10 million taels of silver copied out by the Zhang family in Beichuan County?

"Now more than 100,000 border troops on the southern road have been drawn, plus 200,000 elite forbidden troops in the Shangjing camp, and 200,000 horses have been replenished by the troops drawn from all sides plus the state and county guards, a total of 500,000 troops are heading north, plus more than 400,000 young and strong people who have been requisitioned, and 900,000 horses, I see how rampant you are a thief!"

Li Yan clasped her hands tightly, these days she has hated the anti-thief father and son to the bone marrow, how can the big war not be excited.

Qin Qingtang looked at the little emperor who was still looking forward to the appearance on the high platform and sighed, worried, His Majesty is young, and His Royal Highness does not know about military affairs, how can this march and battle be judged by the number of people.

The border armies of all sides are just that, no matter how bad they are, they have seen blood, but the 200,000 elite forbidden troops are simply nonsense, saying that the guards of the counties can suppress bandits and eliminate Kou on weekdays, and if they encounter the most elite Beiliang iron cavalry under the sky, they are afraid that they will collapse at the touch of a button.

If the defense drags on for a year and a half, although the court is struggling, it can still give it a try, but now the court has the same atmosphere and has to force the north to attack the thieves, how can it win?

I'm afraid this Daqing is really going to change!