Chapter 232: The Battle Without Blades
First.
Soon after the snowstorm and freezing rain in 'Zhongzhou', the grain merchants who originally collected grain stopped one after another, the peasant households had grain in hand, and there was no way to sell it, and the shops in the city where the 'Xianwei Gang' was located began to sell at a price lower than last year's rice, and the news spread, the residents in the city snapped up the purchases, and the peasant households panicked, but the transportation was inconvenient, the road to and from the city was far away, and the grain in each family's hands was not much, and it was not very cost-effective to come and go not only inconvenient for people in the city to ask for money at every turn, but it was not very cost-effective for people to eat cattle chews, and most of the peasant households were still waiting for grain merchants or small traders to come to buy.
The first day of October, the first day of the first day.
'Xiezhou'. Governor Li Chongde, together with the garrison Cai Zhuo, and the generals Kang Chengnian and Fan Jing, led more than 16,000 people to encircle and suppress on all sides, exterminate the giant thief Hu Long, and the bandits in 'Xiezhou' began to stop for several years. On the Great Joy.
The first day of October.
'Yuanrong Gang', the more people escaped, the more people escaped, the arrests were almost exhausted, and the recovery of property was less than 30%. That night, the new leader of the 'Yuan Rong Gang' took office, and it was difficult to solve the decline, so he quickly helped collect gold and silver property.
The first day of October.
Liu Huanjin, who had been in a coma for several days, finally lost his breath, from beginning to end Liang Xie and Yifeng didn't have time to ask, Liu Huanjin also insisted on not waking up, originally with his internal strength and Xuanyi's body was not killed after a few heavy blows, but it was a coincidence that he still died.
Liang Xie and Yifeng shouted that it was a pity, how hard it took to capture the person who came back died without asking, but remembering that the fire burned the house that day Liu Huanjin lay in the house for the longest time, maybe it was too heavy smoke to cause death, it was not that he didn't think of this layer that day, but where can the lives of the four people take care of Liu Huanjin in an instant.
On the third day of October, the 'Yuanrong Gang' was basically stable, and Liu Huanjin had fled before he became the gang leader, so far less than 30% of the 'Yuanrong Gang' gang remained, and most of their gold and silver property was burned down with the rudder, and only some of the branches and shops remained.
After Liu also took office, he had collected the gold and silver goods of several shops and branch halls in one place, and the other Thai half that had not been collected were swept away by the fleeing gangs, so that the remaining property of the 'Yuan Rong Gang' was barely kept in two percent compared with before the war, and the gang leader was one family, the original deputy gang leader, and the hall master was no longer left.
On the third day of October, the new leader of the 'Bingjia Gang' took office. In recent days, the power of the 'Bingjia Gang' has changed too much and too quickly, some of the gangs support Bing Qiyin to be killed by Ding Shen's master and apprentice, and some support Ding Shen to be killed by Bing Qiyin and his wife, and later many died in the hands of Liang Xie and Yifeng, plus when the previous and the 'Yang Dao Alliance' faced the enemy, the four gangs belonged to the 'Bingjia Gang' and contributed the most casualties, and the rest of the gang was terrified and frightened under the constraints of the owner of the gang. The Yuanrong gang is generally the same, the gang scrambles and flees with gold and silver, and when the new gang leader takes over, the huge gang is full of devastation, messing around, the gold and silver are empty, and there is not much left, and it is still a problem to have enough to eat, let alone do anything.
The third day of October, Bingshen Day.
Engineering suggests five things, and the upper allows.
The third day of October.
The Yangdaomeng officially began to collect grain at last year's grain prices, and all wheat, corn, millet, and rice were not reduced by a percentage point at the same period last year's prices.
The fourth day of October, Ding You Day.
The imperial court fills vacancies and seals officials. Liu Qianhu and 'Zhongzhou' were awarded the title of "Inner Governor's Mansion" and "Zhongzhou", and they returned to Beijing to listen to the call, and the "Inner Governor's Mansion" evacuated "Zhongzhou".
The sixth day of October.
The 'Yuanrong Gang' opened a warehouse to sell grain, and the selling price was reduced by one percent on the basis of the 'Xianwei Gang', and the 'Yangdao League' spent a total of 30,000 taels to collect grain from the third to the sixth day of the first month, and the four gangs knew it. That night, the new leader of the 'Armor Gang' stole the gold and silver in the gang and fled overnight, and by the next morning, the rest of the gang followed suit, and the 'Armor Gang' collapsed overnight.
The seventh day of October.
Li Lin sent people to check on the news, and the 'Bingjia Gang' left the house in vain, and there was no gold and silver in the second gang.
The seventh day of October, Gengzi Day.
Tell the emperor of Tianzun to be called, and the temple number is 'Xianzong'. The next day, the edict was issued to the world, and the edict said: "The emperor Shengde Hongshi Zhaoyi is in the scope of those at that time....... The emperor's brother Daxing Emperor is benevolent and filial..... Inform Wan Fang that the envoy is aware. ”
On the same day, the two old ministers of 'Dalongcheng' Yang and Zhao said that they had been repeatedly impeached for party disputes and retreated to beg for retirement. On the same day, two old ministers impeached Ren Siqian for corruption and perversion of the law, and he was heinous.
The tenth day of October.
The grain price of 'Fenghuomen' was lowered by one percent and sold, so far the grain price has been lower than the market price of the same period last year by three percent, and the price of rice collected by the four gangs last year is not far away, and the cash of the 'Yang Dao League' is not enough to support alone, so the price of the grain is reduced by one percent, and 180,000 taels of cash are spent within a few days.
October 15.
The rice shops have successively reduced the price of the sale, several grain merchants began to collect grain, the price of which is about 60 percent of the price of the same period last year, the yamen everywhere to urge the tax to pay is tight, some do not pay the beginning of deductions, with forced labor to offset the tax burden, pay less than 50 percent of the deadline within one month.
October 18, Ding Si Day.
'Ezhou' inspected the imperial envoy, Jia Dongchen impeached Ren Siqian for being disloyal and unfilial, and Ren Siqian asked to step down again and stay there.
October 20th.
The rice shops are competing to sell at a lower price, the rice line that collects rice is less, less than half of last year, and the price is only forty percent of last year, the bid is only fifty percent, the people are very anxious, competing to sell rice, the 'Yang Dao League' collects rice and spends as much as 360,000 taels of silver, the price is much higher than the market price, some even go to the four grain shops to buy grain and sell it in the 'Yang Dao League', at the market price to see that the Yang Dao League will lose, the left seven fingers and Huo Wuyang always keep an eye on the 'Yang Dao League', and secretly calculate the remaining silver in the hands of the 'Yang Dao League'. The traitors of the Yang Dao League don't know how to find out, and they do everything they can to collect food in the gang.
October 23.
'Yang Dao League' cash silver is embarrassed, sell other goods in the warehouse, reduce the price of two into 110,000 taels of silver to collect rice, the cash is not enough to begin to offset the price of rice, the people are more anxious, but the price of the rice collector is low, the 'Yang Dao League' a limited amount of cash can not receive much rice, and the people have no choice but to sell below half price.
On the same day, the "Fenghuomen" and "Xianwei Gang" gang dispatched, the price of rice rose slightly, charged at half price, and the daily limit was one hour per day, the first to come first to receive, and the people were not waiting for the people to sell rice after expiration, and within three days, the four gangs and each rice line collected 300,000 taels of low-priced rice, and transferred it to the grain store to sell it again.
October twenty-four.
The people were in a hurry, and before dawn they lined up to sell grain to the 'Fenghuomen' and 'Xianwei Gang', and the 'Yuanrong Gang' found more than 100,000 taels of silver to collect grain with the other two gangs, and on that day, the three gangs collected more than 500,000 taels of low-priced rice, and transferred them to their respective rice shops to sell only two percent higher than the price of rice, continuing to suppress prices, and the people had no way to raise prices.
October 25.
'Dayou Rice Shop' swept the three gangs of rice shops and grain shops, and the 'Fenghuomen' and 'Xianwei Gang' noticed that something was wrong and stopped selling them in time, half of the grain has been collected, and all the grain in the grain shops under the name of the 'Yuanrong Gang' has been collected. On the same day, the 'Dayou Rice Stock' that appeared out of thin air suddenly harvested rice at a price lower than last year's grain price, and the people everywhere flocked to it, collecting about 600,000 rice in a single day, and the 'Fenghuomen,' 'Xianwei Gang,' and 'Yuanrong Gang' collected less than 50,000 yuan of grain that day.
October 26.
'Yang Dao League' price increase, with the 'Dayou Rice Line' at the same price to receive rice, the two have a lot, three days in a row swept 'Zhongzhou', more than 3 million, the two compete very fiercely, and finally 'Dayou Rice Line' chess is high, 'Yang Dao League' due to the lack of cash, the goods offset a part, only about 500,000 taels of silver grain, far less than 'Dayou Rice Line'.
October 29.
Grain prices rose again, 'Dayou Rice Bank' received rice at the same grain price in the same period last year, and the price of 'Yangdaomeng' followed, the three gangs were anxious, and they sent people to 'Tangzhou', 'Gumengzhou' and other places to inquire about grain prices, and learned that the grain price of 'Tangzhou' was higher than that of 'Zhongzhou', and 'Gumengzhou' had 'Six Dragons Gang' to collect unlimited rice, the price was not high or low, and if the three gangs received rice at the same price, the cost of round-trip transportation would be much higher, and the three gangs were based in 'Zhongzhou', 'Zhongzhou' people were used to eating pasta, and rice was in' Zhongzhou's 'I'm afraid that the sale is slower, if it is transported to 'Gumengzhou' or other states to sell, the cost is high, and the three gangs have to turn back to 'Zhongzhou', at this time, 'Dayoumixing' and 'Yangdaomeng' have increased in price by two percent. The low-priced grain of the three gang grain shops has been bought and sold by the people, and it has been almost sold out, and the grain prices of the three gangs have not been suppressed, and the old and new grain have been sold together only in and out, and the expenses of deducting all kinds of carriages, horses, and gangs have been lost.
The first day of November.
The three gangs began to collect rice at a price higher than the 'Yang Dao League' two percent, the people have almost paid the taxes, do not rush to sell, the price of rice remains high, the 'Yang Dao League' and 'Dayou Rice Bank' followed by the price increase, the three gangs did not collect much on the day, seeing this year's poor harvest, and the first quarter of next year is a poor harvest, the price of grain next year will be at least more than three percent higher than this year and last year, but unfortunately there is nothing in the warehouse is helpless. The strange thing is that more than 60 percent of the halls of the 'Yang Dao League' have been changed to grain sales, and the retail price of grain has doubled compared with last year.