Chapter 054: The Culprit
Fang Tong secretly felt a little sad, and when he saw Taihu Lake, he looked at it and saw that it was full of vitality and infinite scenery.
Here, it is his territory, he is the king, what good people don't live long, bad people live for thousands of years, for other Fang Tong, it is really called a wise saying.
When it comes to good people and bad people, between heaven and earth, which is good and which is bad?
Those dynastic changes, not all of them became kings and lost their reputations, and they all turned into barren loess in the end.
There are only the strong and the weak, where are the good guys and the bad guys?
Thinking about it this way, Fang Tong is even more reasonable, if he wants to occupy the Taihu Lake area, the people are not happy, he wants to make this piece of the country he controls solid.
What rivers and lakes, what kind of court officials, as long as they dare to offend an inch of his territory, they will definitely make him pay the price of blood.
Fang Tong stood quietly for a long time, took a deep breath, and his eyes revealed a cold chill.
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On Taihu Lake, the boat is docked on the shore of the lake where the wind and sand are crossed.
Qiu Zhenhai took off the hat he wore on his head, threw it in the cabin, and tied the cable to the shore.
Chu Tianxing, Shen Yinshi, and Luo Feng jumped ashore and breathed in the fresh air, which was extremely intoxicating.
"Chu Shaoxia, we have entered the sphere of influence of the bully Fang Tong, and Fengshadu often has his guards patrolling to check on people entering and leaving. ”
Qiu Zhenhai lowered his voice and said to Chu Tianxing and the others.
A pair of shrewd eyes, looking around, watching the patrolling guards.
Chu Tianxing's eyes were as sharp as a sword, and he had already closely watched the surrounding environment, and muttered: "Dog thief bully, it seems that he got the news in advance and sent additional patrolling guards. We need to be very careful!"
Luo Feng said lightly: "In my opinion, it is better to kill the bully's kennel and screw his head off." ”
"Don't act recklessly, it's all Fang Tong watching here, and besides, the terrain of Taihu Lake is extremely complicated. And Fang Tong has many subordinates, and more of them are outlaws. Chu Tianxing immediately objected.
Qiu Zhenhai nodded, "Chu Shaoxia is right, there are many islands in Taihu Lake. I heard that the bully Fang Tong trained a group of dead soldiers......"
"Dead man?" Shen Yinshi frowned, "It seems that this bully Fang Tong is really a wolf with ambitions." ”
"Stand, stand, ......be inspected," several people were summarizing, and several patrolling guards shouted as they walked over, holding scimitars as bright as snow in their hands.
On the shore of this lake, there are many boats coming and going, and there is an endless stream of people.
Even if the area is in the midst of a disaster, it is purely man-made.
Those grains were collected by the bully Fang Tong at a low price, and then sold at a high price, making huge profits.
And Fengshadu is an important pass for the bully Fangtong to sell grain, so there is a large flow of people in and out, some people come here to buy food, and some people come here to explore the truth.
But they must all be interrogated by the guards under the bully Fang Tong, and even a fly will not want to escape from Fengshadu.
Chu Tianxing and a few people were mixed in with the people who entered Fengshadu to buy food, looking at those scrawny people with yellow faces and thin muscles, it could be seen that they were overwhelmed by this man-made disaster.
"Uncle, are you all here to buy food in Fengshadu?" Shen Yinshi looked at these poor people, and felt pity spontaneously, and asked a rickety old man in ragged clothes with concern.
The old man coughed for a while, and sighed in an old and muddy tone, "In the area of Taihu Lake, in addition to the wind and sand, there is a food supply, where is there a cough, cough cough cough ......."
"How many silver taels is a bucket of rice?"
Chu Tianxing was worthy of being born in the family of merchants, and immediately asked.
The old man glanced at Chu Tianxing a few times, "Young man, you don't know yet, right? This rice is a price a day, and it is getting more and more expensive." In the early years of Zhenguan, the rice was worth a piece of silk, and in the three years of Zhenguan, the rice was less than 5 yuan. Nowadays, a bucket of rice costs a hundred taels of silver......"
"What?" Chu Tianxing and a few people almost fainted in fright, a bucket of rice and a hundred taels of silver?
"Brute!" Luo Feng scolded, "No, scolding him for being a brute is an insult to a brute, it's really better to be a brute." ”
"Crazy dog offal!" Shen Yinshi was also so angry that she gritted her teeth.
Chu Tianxing glanced at it, and the people who lined up in a long line to buy rice, even if they lined up for a long time, the rice they bought was only a handful, and it was simply not called buying rice on a fight, but buying rice on grains.
MD, no wonder there is a disaster in the south of the Yangtze River! It is a miracle that the bully Fang Tong is so rampant in the world, hoarding food, driving up prices, and not causing disasters.
In the final analysis, the culprit of this disaster is the bully Fang Tong, and it is not an exaggeration to break such a moth into thousands of pieces.
"If this continues, I'm afraid the price of this rice will continue to rise......" Chu Tianxing sighed faintly.
"It's still going up? It's a hundred taels and one bucket of rice, can it still go to the sky?"
"The people take food as the sky, there is no food, there is a famine, there is only a supply of rice, even if it is sky-high, they can only swallow their anger. "Chu Tianxing knows that under the instinct of survival, the bully Fang Tong's family dominates and makes black money.
No matter how helpless the people are, they can only comply.
"Hey, what are you guys muttering about? If you want to buy rice, you can buy it, and if you don't buy it, don't grind and chirp......"
One of the guards noticed Chu Tianxing and the others, paced in front of Chu Tianxing and the others, and shouted at the top of his voice.
Shen Yinshi glared at the guard fiercely, held the hilt of the sword in his hand, and shook off angrily: "The dog fights the human power, the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty!"
"Stinky girl, what did you say?"
As he spoke, he picked up the slap in his hand and was about to slap Shen Yinshi.
Shen Yinshi was about to draw his sword, but he was held down by Chu Tianxing, and then grabbed the wrist slapped by the guard, and grinned, "This little brother, I'm sorry, we're here to buy rice." ”
He dragged the guard's hand down, took out a few grains of broken silver from his arms, and stuffed them into the guard's hand, "A little meaning, please smile!"
The guard weighed the broken silver in his hand, looked at Chu Tianxing a few times, and saw that he was well-dressed, completely different from the ordinary people who bought rice, and thought in his heart, he earned this bit of broken silver, which was his patrol for three days.
He glanced at Shen Yinshi, "Be honest!"
"Yes, we'll follow the rules. Chu Tianxing's eyes wiped a trace of chill, grandma has legs, if she is not worried about revealing her identity, it will be your turn to be a crumb like you.
The guard walked away and continued his patrol.
Qiu Zhenhai secretly pinched a cold sweat and looked at Chu Tianxing.
Shen Yinshi pursed her lips, "Master, why are you so polite to him, let me kill him with a sword." ”
Luo Feng smiled and said nothing.
"Yinshi, don't forget, the main purpose of our sneaking into Taihu Lake was revealed before we saw the bully Fang Tong. Didn't you come for nothing?"
Although Shen Yinshi was angry, after thinking about it, what Chu Tianxing said made sense, so he had to ask: "Then what should we do?"