Brother Huo still had four fat followers left. At this time, the four of them looked like they were struggling and carried a big ax to Roshan.
"Brother Huo! The weapons are here!" The four fat men shouted together, quite impressively.
Brother Huo picked up the big ax with one hand, looking relaxed and happy. The four fat men were bragging and applauding, and even the bookkeeper Zhang Yan also praised him as "the king of strength".
"You bastard, if you don't want to die, just kneel down and beg for mercy!" Roshan's voice was so loud that it seemed that just one roar could frighten people.
Wang Hongyu winked slightly toward the door, and when he turned around, the smile on his face became even more touching.
The county magistrate said loudly at this time: "I am Ai Youzhi, the magistrate of Liangxiang County. You all must immediately put down your weapons and tell your names honestly!"
"Hmph! Ai Youzhi, right?" Roshan, surnamed Huo, sneered and said proudly: "Say my name and I'll scare you!
I am Lord Gao’s chief nursing officer! I am known as Jingxi Juding, General of Grain and Salt, General of Xiaoqinghe, and my real name is Li Huohuo!”
Ai Youzhi didn't really react after hearing this, but her expression when she stopped to think seemed a bit frightened. The thieves took the opportunity to laugh.
"You're also nicknamed Mr. Li Dahuo, right? Wang Hongyu of Zunyi will come to meet you."
Without saying much, he stood in front of Magistrate Ai, gripped the hammer and prepared to face his opponent.
"court death!"
Li Huohuo swung the big ax and held it high above his head. His trembling legs were running like flying, and his momentum was like a rainbow and unstoppable.
"Come on! Boy, aren't you very strong? Look at my move of 'Fire, Powerful and Big Ax'!"
"It's so silly~"
It happened that the other hand was holding the unconscious Yan Er, and at this moment he threw it with all his strength, just in front of the charging Li Huo Huo.
Daroushan raised his big ax high and swung it backwards, ready to chop, and yelled the name of his moves. Because the fat squeezed his eyes, his observation range was limited, and because of the weight, the inertia was too great and he couldn't dodge. He was tripped and fell heavily on the ground.
On the ground.
The big ax fell from the sky and hit his leg, breaking his ankle and making him unable to get up.
this......
When I saw him lifting the ax just now, his legs were shaking. This kind of weight is a huge burden on the legs. Sure enough, the weak point is in the lower body.
With lightning speed, he quickly controlled Li Huohuo who fell to the ground. Wang Hongyu glanced at the group of thieves again, but no one dared to meet his attack.
"There's Mr. Gao behind me, you can't afford to offend me!" Li Huohuo was unable to resist, so he could only talk.
"Mr. Nan Gao! You are the one you cannot afford to offend!" He carried Zou Yuanbiao out. The county magistrate was also Zou Yuanbiao's disciple.
"What Mr. Nanguo?" Li Huohuo asked in a naive manner.
Oh! Wang Hongyu looked furious and said to Ai Youzhi: "This thief dares to slander the county magistrate's mentor as Nan Guo!"
"It's really disgusting!" Ai Youzhi also pretended to be confused, pretending to be furious, signaling that the thief would be severely punished.
"Bold thief, I'll loosen the meat for you!"
Wang Hongyu picked up the hammer and started to loosen the flesh of his fat body. After several hammer blows, the screams were heard from loud to soft. Of course, this kind of fool would definitely be left alive to provide a confession.
The scene of punishing the evil was so exciting that the other thieves were frightened and turned pale.
Only Zhang Yan, the chief bookkeeper, knew that this was a beheading deal, so of course he had to continue to resist desperately: "Stop being so arrogant! I still have more than 30 subordinates, and no one in the county government will listen to you. Come on, people! Come all over,
Kill, kill, kill!"
Click, click, sure enough, many people came in from all over the warehouse. Even Wang Hongyu and Ai Youzhi came with a few people behind them. They all held weapons and completely surrounded the place.
Looking around, Zhang Yan smiled broadly. With so many people here, she was afraid that you might not be able to do it with just a sledgehammer.
But that’s not right, there seemed to be more than 30 people coming, there were nearly a hundred people!
"Look carefully, your people are all here!"
Meng Biao said loudly with a Sichuan accent. The thieves suddenly realized that they saw only a hundred people coming in, and 30 of them were trapped and kneeling on the ground. They were the chief clerk's men, and the rest were all Meng Biao's men.
Sichuan Army.
"Meng Biao? How many kills did this thief say just now?"
"Three kills!"
"Kill three!"
Click, click, click!
After hearing the order, the Sichuan soldiers stepped forward without saying much, raised their swords and killed three thieves who had not surrendered.
"Spare my life!"
"I wish to surrender! I will say anything!"
"It was all done by the chief bookkeeper and others, I can testify..."
Seeing the thunderous tactics of the Sichuan soldiers, many thieves in the warehouse cried for their fathers and mothers, knelt down and begged to surrender.
Only Zhang Yan knew that she could not absolve herself of the crime, so she simply turned around and ran toward a secret door in an attempt to escape.
Wang Hongyu had been staring at him for a long time, stepped forward, grabbed him, and broke one of his legs with a hammer, completely ending the thief's hope of escaping.
Meng Biao's sentry horse, under the arrangement of Wang Hongyu and Ai Youzhi, had already surrounded the warehouse. With the strength of these elite Sichuan troops, they quickly captured Master Zhang's men. The rest of the county government's comrades also
Most of them were targeted at the same time. Other neutral personnel also supported the county magistrate when they heard that the county magistrate had stolen the goods and had taken the main book.
Thousands of taels of silver, 100,000 jins of illicit salt, nearly 10,000 shi of rice and noodles were seized directly from the warehouse, as well as dried fish, sesame oil, pigs and sheep and other various materials that are consumed in large quantities in the capital. This does not include the occupation of fertile land, and
The materials hidden by other relevant persons.
However, these were investigated and dealt with by the county in turn. After Wang Hongyu took care of the matter, he naturally asked the county to cash in the allocation of grain and materials. At this time, Ai Youzhi knew that he was a military officer and the commander-in-chief of the Zhou Dunji Department of the Sichuan Army, so he felt a little less respected.
But because of its strength and intelligence capabilities, the fear has increased several times.
Without wasting much time, he immediately allocated supplies to the Sichuan army with the county magistrate, and directly moved 5,000 kilograms of salt, rice, and flour each from the warehouse and dock, as well as 2 kilograms of fat chickens, 100 kilograms of dried fish, and 50 kilograms of sesame oil.
In addition, Ai Youzhi took out 500 taels of silver from the seized silver taels as a reward for the Sichuan soldiers.
These things are worth a lot of money, and if you spend military funds to purchase them, it will cost you a lot.
At this time, prices in the capital were relatively stable, basically similar to what was recorded in the "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" written in the 18th year of Wanli's reign, and in the "Instructions for the Factory Storehouse of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce" written in the 43rd year of Wanli's reign.
The seized private salt was relatively high-quality and could be used as official salt in the market, with a pound of mid- to high-grade salt worth 4 Wen.
1 tael of silver is worth 10 coins. In the late Ming Dynasty, 1 tael of silver was exchanged for copper coins ranging from 600 to 2,000 coins. At this time, it was about 1,000 coins. At this time, 6 thousand kilograms of salt was worth 24 taels of silver.
Food is even more valuable.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, grain was much more expensive than coarse salt. For example, during the Jiajing period, Jiangnan kitchen households had to hand over 3,200 kilograms of salt every year, and every 400 kilograms of salt was exchanged for 100 kilograms of rice.
At this time, in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, rice was one tael per stone, and one pound was more than 16 Wen, which was four times as much as salt. Flour was divided into different grades, and one pound of these of good quality was about 10 Wen. Calculated in this way, rice,
The noodles cost 1,000 stones each and are worth 800 taels of silver.
This food was more or less enough, enough to feed Zhou Dunji's more than 1,000 soldiers for more than two months. There was no need to worry about Tongzhou not being able to provide food.
There are also 2 pounds of fat chicken, dried fish for easy preservation, and sesame oil. Although these are not a lot, they are relatively valuable on weekdays.
A 2-pound fat chicken costs 50 Wen, dried fish is 36 Wen per catty, and sesame oil is 28 Wen per catty. It would cost a lot of military money to buy it yourself, and you can't even buy so many good things.
However, the prices of these materials aroused Wang Hongyu's great concern.
There is a lot of information here, which will be of great use to me in the future.
The price of ordinary rice is very high, already four times that of salt, only slightly lower than sesame oil and live chicken per kilogram, and almost half the price of dried fish with water extracted.
If Xiong Tingbi recruits troops, he will receive 18 taels of silver a year, assuming he can get it.
Converting according to the price of rice, you can have 1080 kilograms of rice. Converting according to the price of flour, you can have 1800 kilograms of flour.
For an ordinary worker, he earns about 3-4 taels of silver a day. If he works more than 300 days a year, he can earn 10-12 taels of silver, and he can also have a relatively objective amount of rice and noodles.
In an agricultural society, as long as we are not exploited at all levels and there is no systemic collapse and exploitation, the amount of food is pretty good.
Unfortunately that's an assumption...
Prices brought some inspiration to Wang Hongyu:
First of all, it was not that people were already extremely poor from the late Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, but that a terrible systemic collapse occurred and completely lost control. Otherwise, judging from the price of food in the capital during the late Ming Dynasty, working as a migrant worker could still make a living.
The second revelation is that the food eaten at this time, especially rice and meat, is really valuable.
For example, coal at this time was only 1 cent and 20 cents per 100 kilograms, and 1.2 cents per catty, which was less than 1/13 of the price of rice and less than 1/8 of the face price.
If the relatively cheap domestic coal of later generations is priced at 800 yuan per ton, it will cost 4 cents per pound, which is only 1/5 of rice and noodles.
Such supply and demand prices will of course cause land and capital to be used for food instead of further developing manufacturing and science and technology, because there is a huge gap in food. Therefore, in terms of prices, food prices will rise and everything will fall.
I am afraid that only the large exports of silk, ceramics and some luxury goods will be affected.
Meat is also expensive, but not as expensive as rice.
For example, rice costs 16 Wen/jin, and live carp costs 24 Wen/jin, which is only slightly higher than rice. The output of fish farming is limited by breeding and technology, and is far less profitable than growing food. Therefore, a large number of fish ponds have been filled in Huguang, specifically for planting.
food.
Seeing the expensive rice being carried away on the cart, Wang Hongyu couldn't help but lick his lips.
Therefore, if you want to make a difference, you really need to seize food, especially high-yielding crops, breeding, water conservancy and fertilizers.
They spent 500 taels of new military resources, hired 500 civilians and 100 ox carts from the county, and set off for Tongzhou under the escort of Meng Biao, a sentry soldier.
Ai Youzhi also made a special trip to say goodbye to Wang Hongyu.
Regardless of whether he is a civil or military official, his hometown has a relatively consistent stance, his abilities are so amazing, and his knowledge may not mean that he is rich in knowledge. As Ai Youzhi, who meets a lot of people, he must make a special connection with Wang Hongyu.
He politely arranged the staff and cooperated with the Sichuan army to recruit civilian husbands, and then seemingly inadvertently asked who was behind Wang Hongyu? When would he be entrusted with important tasks by the imperial court?
"There is no need to worry, Mr. Ai County. Even if he is about to leave office, as long as he has a reputation for justice in punishing rape and eradicating evil, with the arrival of Mr. Nan Gao, the current situation will definitely be reversed."
The two said goodbye. One felt that the other was mysterious and unpredictable, while the other wanted to flirt with each other again in the future. This chapter has been completed!