The delicate balance originally managed by the three emperors Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi was disrupted in Chang'an.
In the past, whenever money disasters came, everyone would accept the exploitation obediently and wait for the incident to pass. Although everyone would suffer losses, the people who caused the disaster would not do everything possible and loot.
It will stop after a certain point.
Just like when cutting leeks, you will never dig out the roots. It can be regarded as a kind of kindness.
This time, during the process of cutting leeks, someone actually started to resist. For those people, killing the resister was far more important than making money.
This is why Yunchu firmly believes that these people must fight with him in Chang'an.
I have to admit that with people pouring money into Chang'an over and over again, the supplies on the city's surface are quickly disappearing.
Needless to say, food has really become a bowl of copper coins and a bowl of food.
After the price of grain rose to 150 yuan per bucket, the price finally stopped. However, this reduction was not due to Cui Mian's kindness, but because no one could sell the grain to Cui Mian.
The price is definitely not what ordinary people can exchange for a bowl of grain, but it requires large transactions on the flowing water signs in Qujiang.
And the quantity is based on one thousand tons per lot.
Therefore, at this time in Chang'an City, everyone cherished food, and many people felt that eating meant eating money.
Yunchu needs to lead by example, and Gentle also needs to lead by example. Therefore, the food for their two families has become very bad now.
Not to mention there is no meat on the table, not even fine grains. Now, even the most picky Li Si no longer clamors to eat meat. He only hopes to eat a meal of leek and egg dumplings and he will be satisfied.
Already.
Of course, what Cui Mian and the others meant by killing was not physical destruction. They had already tried this method of killing Yun Chu in Luoyang, but the effect was not ideal.
And they also have to prepare for the horrific consequences if they fail to kill the tiger.
They knew what happened in Luoyang, but they couldn't be sure that it was Yun Chu who did it. However, with so many people dead, they had to suspect some people, right?
The elegance of aristocratic families is that they hate using violence to solve things. Of course, this is because many times, they can solve many, many things without violence.
When everyone is hoarding food, meat has become extremely precious. The previously unimpeded channels for obtaining yaks have been completely stopped recently because Xu Jingye has raised the price to a level that even Yunchu cannot afford.
It has reached a point where it has risen.
Until Yun Chu was holding his son Yun Jin and his daughter Yun Jin taking a nap together, Yun Chu felt pain in his arm and woke up and found that his daughter and son were holding his arm and chewing on it in their sleep.
Seeing the two children wriggling their mouths, Yun Chu felt very sad, so a cow fell to death on the Yun family's farm...
The people of Chang'an, who have long been accustomed to eating meat, now habitually sniffle when passing the two large canteens in Chang'an. Unfortunately, the familiar aroma of cooking meat is now gone.
Fortunately, there are always some coarse grains distributed in the market. The quantity is not large, but it is enough to feed the family.
Yun Chu killed a thousand camels in one go, and the meat was put on the market. Although the price was very expensive, it was gone in less than a day.
Needless to say, he was robbed again by Cui Mian, a wealthy man.
He did not allow Yunchu to give the people any hope.
The money in the hands of the people either bought grain early or invested it all on their houses. Therefore, the coarse grains distributed by Fangzheng every day became the only source of food supplement for everyone.
Rich families have long since left Chang'an City and gone to the countryside, or returned to their hometowns to eat. They have stronger survival capabilities than ordinary people.
Fortunately, the officials of Chang'an and Wannian counties have chosen a very strong cohesion. In this difficult period, they still follow the two county officials. I believe that Chang'an City will definitely become the final winner.
Yunchu set up a large pot in the county government office, and in this pot was boiled half a cow, the same cow that fell to death in Yun's farm.
Yunchu's ability to cook beef was naturally outstanding. Starting from early morning, the aroma of beef stew filled the Wannian County Government Office.
At noon, when the beef was cooked, Master Liu stood beside the big pot with a smile, put a small piece of beef on each official's rice plate, and poured a ladle of thick broth over it.
He kept cheering everyone up and said: "Keep it up, everyone has eaten so much in the past few years that they are full of fat. We just take this opportunity to clear our stomachs. When this momentum subsides, let's eat a big bowl of meat again."
, drink heavily."
The lower-level officials were still well-informed. They knew that this time the food shortage was not caused by natural disasters, but by man-made disasters. It was not that there was no food in Chang'an, but that the food had been bought.
Since the food is still in Chang'an, they are not too worried. At present, it seems that the county government can still maintain the food rations of the people of Chang'an City. When the county government can no longer afford it, they will have ways to obtain food off the plate.
Now, it's just that the county official doesn't want to use those methods.
A mouthful of meat is very inspiring. Everyone knows that after all the cattle of the county family fall to death, it will be time for the county family to break out. At that time, there were so many people outside the city who had no food and wine to eat.
Minzhuang, who has blue eyes, will never continue to be a vegetarian.
When Lu Ting came to Wannian County Government again, he happened to meet Yun Chu, Wen Wen, and Di Renjie, who were eating braised beef with millet buns in a pot. There was not much meat in the pot of braised beef. More
The ones are yam and taro.
After rejecting Yun Chu's invitation to eat together, Lu Ting sighed and said: "Your Majesty, this is not an option. You cannot use the well-being of the entire people of Chang'an City to fight against Cui Mian."
Yun Chu took a bite of the braised beef, then took a bite of the millet steamed bun, chewed it carefully and swallowed it slowly, then said calmly: "It's a good deal if you suffer once and don't have to suffer like this again in the future."
Lu Tingdao: "The help you expected did not come. The urgent memorial you sent to Luoyang for eight hundred miles was rejected by the disciples before it reached the Yushitai.
Although the memorial to Your Majesty from the Lord and Marquis was in His Majesty's hands, His Majesty did not express any reaction. The Lord, Cui Mian had too much money and food available in his hands, and he would rather dedicate the money and food to His Majesty. He only had one request, that is, not to send it to
Chang'an can only be transported to the disaster area.
Even if you want to use the government to rob you, it will be impossible."
Yun Chu put the millet bun into the broth and soaked it for a while, then took it out and ate it. It was very sweet.
He swallowed a large piece of beef and said softly: "What does Cui Mian want?"
Lu Ting said: "Marquis Yun personally came to apologize. At the same time, he allowed 167 families to purchase the houses on both sides of Zhuque Street. Each house is worth 10,000 yuan, no matter the price."
Yun Chu smiled bitterly and said: "For the sake of the people of Chang'an, I am willing to come and apologize. However, the houses on both sides of Zhuque Street are priced at 120,000 yuan each.
Tell Cui Mian, don't forget, I also have a lot of copper coins in my hand, and when I have enough food, he will die."
Lu Ting then sighed and said: "Why bother? Both sides suffer, and the people who suffer in the end are the people."
Yun Chu sneered and said: "Tell Cui Mian, either he can exchange a huge amount of copper coins for the house on Zhuque Street, or he can get out of Chang'an City and go back and forth from wherever he came. Chang'an City is not something he can do whatever he wants.
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You think that His Majesty is watching Chang'an fall into danger and ignoring it, but you don't know that His Majesty is also testing your truth. Once you return home defeated in Chang'an, then it will not be what I, Yunchu, want to do to you, but what I want to do to you.
Facing punishment from His Majesty.
After all, the people in Chang'an City are also His Majesty's subjects. Do you think that a little food can change His Majesty?
Lu Ting, sometimes I really feel that you people are different from ordinary people. Ordinary people can see that His Majesty has reached the extreme level of patience with wealthy families, but you don’t know it yourself. What’s the point of this?”
Lu Ting seemed to be suffering from the disease of sighing. He sighed again and said: "If I don't participate, I will get a house with one hundred thousand gold and silver."
The Lord is right, Cui Mian will undoubtedly die, but Cui Mian is not afraid of death, it can even be said that when Cui Mian did this, he was ready to kill everyone in his family."
Di Renjie burst out laughing.
"A Longyang Lord, and a childless one at that. Even if the whole family is slaughtered, he can only behead one of his heads. But he is really not afraid of death."
Lu Ting said: "If your Majesty wants to chop off more heads, that's fine. Someone is willing to give them their heads."
Yun Chu looked at Lu Ting leaving and said to Di Renjie: "Are you sure he is really a Long Yang?"
Di Renjie nodded.
Di Renjie knew every move Cui Mian made.
Yun Chu didn't know what method Di Renjie used to actually get someone from Cui Zhuan to help him keep an eye on Cui Mian.
Cui Zhuan is actually not a very good spy, but using him to keep an eye on Cui Mian is perfect because he is Cui Mian's school boy.
Cui Mian could not do without him all the time.
"You have never met Cui Zhuan. Once you meet him, you will feel that it is understandable for men to like men."
Di Renjie fell on the chair, folded his hands on his fat belly, and licked his lips when talking about Cui Zhuan.
Wen Wen immediately said: "Looking at the way Lao Di licks his lips, there is no need to describe how beautiful this man is.
The question now is that Cui Mian bought more than 60% of the cotton cloth workshop's output, causing our cotton reserves to be insufficient. Should we continue to allow Cui Mian and others to buy up all the cotton cloth?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "The market is free. People are willing to increase the price to buy those cotton cloths, why not allow them?"
Di Renjie said: "The people of Chang'an actually have no shortage of clothes these years. If we don't make new clothes for two or three years, no one will die."
If it doesn’t work out, linen and coarse cloth can’t be worn.”
Wen Wen said: "Those people buy everything and want everything. It seems that they are really planning to short Chang'an City.
The grain war has come to an end. Now we have to wait for those greedy grain merchants to transport grain from the canal, and then we can use the excuse of repairing the canal waterway to cut off their retreat.
Also, do you really want to kill Cui Mian?"
Yun Chu said: "In the future, Chang'an must be built into a forbidden place where those people cannot cause trouble.
Cui Mian must die."
Di Renjie, who was picking his teeth, took out a piece of pork from the gap between his teeth, chewed it carefully and ate it, then said indifferently: "This man must be killed by torture, not assassinated, let alone let him die inexplicably.
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"Do you hate this man so much?"
"Yes, it was because of him that I even took out the shreds of meat from between my teeth and ate them. In the past, I would spit them out directly."
Yun Chu clapped his hands and said, "Then wait until we sell the last trump card before proceeding. No matter what, we must build Chang'an into a wealthy city, a city so wealthy that ordinary people dare not come in."
Wen Wenwen let out a long sigh and said, "What's the difference between your behavior and Cui Mian's?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Of course there is a difference. I need a large group of people who value Chang'an as their destiny. I also need a group of people who are proud to defend Chang'an under any circumstances. What's more, I need a large group of people who are willing to fight with Chang'an City.
People who live and die together.
Rather than a group of speculators, a group of people who jump in when they see benefits and run away when danger comes."
Wen Wen smiled and said: "So, the first batch of people who came in are actually the fertilizer that nourishes Chang'an, right?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "That's not the case. Chang'an City is not a devil's cave."
Di Renjie said: "In fact, it is already a devil's cave, right?"
She smiled softly and said, "It's a new world."
No matter what these three people say, various projects in Chang'an City are still proceeding step by step.
In July, the hottest month, Yunchu ordered the Xingqing Square to be emptied and held a grand opening ceremony. After the first vacant house was knocked down, the price of food in Chang'an City rose again by six copper coins.
This chapter has been completed!