Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Five Big Rat! Big Rat!
Cheng Tong felt his eyelids suddenly twitching, and he felt a little panicked, as if something was blocking him.
I opened the window and took a breath, but the uneasiness in my heart became stronger and stronger.
At this time, he heard some noise on the street, so when he walked out, he saw more than a dozen gorgeously decorated carriages, which could be clearly seen to be drawn by fine horses or even war horses, slowly rolling through Dayang County.
of streets.
"Whose son is traveling?" Cheng Tong asked the servants at the door. On the border of Hedong, the Chehou family gathered together, so there were often disciples of the Chehou family who followed the orders of their elders and came to the big town.
Yang County worships the gods and sages of the Tianzi Temple.
But, isn’t this ostentation too big?
There are more than a dozen carriages, each of which is pulled by a big horse. Just these dozen carriages, not many of the Chehous in Hedong can get together today.
Not to mention the drivers who drove the carriages, each one was a strong man, and the entourage on the left and right of the escort team were all fully armed, with swords at their waists, long bows and quivers on their backs, and a small group of knights following them.
The convoys were on the left and right, doing protection work.
Today, there are only a few Chehou family members who can put together such a formation and can swagger through the market.
The Pingyang Hou family in this county may be one of them.
But if the Marquis of Pingyang comes to Dayang, the official documents from the county governor should have arrived in advance!
"My lord, it is said that he is a high-ranking dignitary from Chang'an!" the servant replied.
"Damn it!" Cheng Dong touched his forehead: "No wonder I've been feeling uneasy lately, it turns out I'm going to lose money!"
So he ordered: "Go and find out the details of this young master. Find out where they are staying. Then go and hand over my invitation and ask to see this young master!"
"No!" The servant nodded and followed the convoy.
"I hope nothing happens..." Cheng Tong prayed in his heart.
As the county captain of Dayang County, Cheng Dong certainly knows what the current situation in Dayang is like.
Once the current situation of Dayang is exposed to the court and Chang'an, among other things, the government and the public will be shaken first. There will definitely be ministers who use the Emperor's Day to investigate the affairs of Dayang. Once that happens, then, you have to lose your head.
It's not just one or two.
Since the late emperor came to the throne, the emperor of the Han Dynasty has cut off the heads of powerful local officials and officials.
Even Chehou fell several times for occupying people's fields!
Of course Cheng Dong is scared of Dayang's current situation, and he is scared to death!
How many times in the middle of the night did he dream that the Imperial Army from Chang'an surrounded his home and dragged his family out like dogs...
However, if fear can make people obey the law, then what else does Ting Wei do?
With money at hand, how many people can remain unmoved?
In today's Dayang, corn costs three hundred per stone, and the price changes every day. These profits alone are enough to make all landowners smile.
But selling rice alone can no longer satisfy the landlords, powerful officials, and merchants in Dayang County, and there are too many copper coins to satisfy them.
The real benefit is that the price of rice has soared, forcing ordinary people to sell their farmland at a low price. Originally, one acre of farmland in Dayang County was worth at least 10,000 yuan, but now, people can only earn 1,000 yuan to survive.
Sold.
Under today's rice prices, it is equivalent to using only three stones of corn to buy land worth ten thousand dollars in the past.
Not only that, what should some poor people do if their land is sold out?
In order to survive and have something to eat, many poor farmers became slaves of others.
And this was unimaginable in the past!
In just half a month, Cheng Dong's family bought hundreds of acres of high-quality land and more than a dozen households of slaves.
Cheng Dong knows this is just the beginning!
From now until next year's autumn harvest, if the court takes no action, most of the farmers in Dayang County will go bankrupt!
This is a feast for powerful landlords and businessmen.
Some people even shouted the slogan of building a family that will last for thousands of years.
After the servants left, Cheng Dong still felt uneasy, so he stamped his foot: "If something goes wrong in Dayang County, how can the prefect and the county lieutenant stay out of it?"
So, he found his eldest son Cheng Dan and said to him: "Go to Anyi and ask the prefect and the county lieutenant for your father. Tell the prefect and the county lieutenant about the arrival of noble people in Chang'an and let them make an idea.
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"No!" Cheng Dan took the order and rode on the family's horse, heading in the direction of Anyi.
Could the current situation in Dayang be caused by internal fighting between the county guard and the county lieutenant?
Ever since Zhou Yangyou became the county governor, the officialdom in Hedong has become rotten from the inside out!
Although the governor of the county, Zhou Yangyou, spared no effort to fight against powerful forces, if he was good at flattering others, he could also be arrogant and even use powerful people.
As for the county lieutenant Shentu, a local snake in Hedong, and a group of local officials under his command, they were in the same situation as Zhou Yangyou, an outsider.
On the surface, these two people each pulled a group of people to fight with each other, and they were trying to get each other into trouble.
However, as the county captain of Qianshi, Cheng Tong knew that the two of them had a common interest - food!
Hedong had a good harvest last year. In addition to delivering one million stones of grain to Guanzhong and two million stones of military grain to Aocang, according to tradition, the local granary in Hedong County should also have the same amount of reserves in case of famine or danger in Guandong.
The imperial court urgently needs it.
but……
A classmate of Cheng Dong who worked in Gencang told him that there are less than 500,000 shi of grain in Gencang now. Where did the rest of the grain go? Only God knows!
In the officialdom of Hedong, there is a legend that it was the King of Huainan who spent a lot of money to buy the grain in Gencang.
Some people also say that he saw with his own eyes tank boats from the east, carrying boatloads of grain, going down the river to Luoyang.
Others say that it was Dao Jian, a big businessman from Qi State, who opened the way for the county captains and transported the grain to be sold.
Anyway, there are all kinds of things, but I can’t tell whether they are true or false.
But one thing is certain - at least half of the grain stored in Gencang and Shicang in Hedong was missing.
This is the real reason why the county guard did not dare to provide disaster relief and the county lieutenant did not say a word!
Because as long as the warehouse is opened, it will be exposed and the whole world will know that hamsters appeared in the Han family's granary in Hedong County and ate half of the grain in Hedong in one go!
If this matter is exposed, all the officials in Hedong County, from top to bottom, with more than 800 shi, will have to go to Tingwei Yamen. The officers and servants responsible for the security of the granary, Sima, will all lose their heads.
The county guards and county lieutenants will definitely be exterminated!
This is the reason why everyone in the official circles of Hedong County is silent about the fact that the county guard has not opened a warehouse and the county lieutenant has not said a word.
Who dares to lift this lid?
Whoever exposes it will be counterattacked and torn to pieces by the official power of the entire Hedong County!
Now, a nobleman with a great background came to Chang'an City. Cheng Tong felt that if he couldn't settle the matter, he would have to let the instigator, the county guard and the county lieutenant, settle the matter. (To be continued...)
ps: There will be another update later~
Ahem, lately I have been very late and have no time to code~~~~~~
I can't write at all during the day. The place where I live seems to be undergoing demolition recently. Starting at 10 o'clock every morning, there is a drilling machine rumbling outside. I can't calm down to think about things and the plot.
