The Yun family's food supply was easy to handle. He encouraged Xiaolin to go to the Yongxing Army with a sign. When he came back, he brought more than a dozen carts of food. Although the officers' faces looked as if their parents had died, but in
Under Xiaolin's pressure, he obediently sold the rice to the Yun family for a hundred tons of brown rice at a low price.
Anyone from the Song Dynasty would keep silent about these two places: the Secret Intelligence Department and the Tixing Department. They are basically two palaces of the king of hell. The Tixing Department is better. Their duty is to supervise local officials. Those who are below the stick punishment in the Song Dynasty
Crimes can be adjudicated by the magistrate and county; crimes above a prison sentence are adjudicated by the magistrate, and the "punishing officer" is mainly responsible for supervision; death row inmates in prefectures and counties generally have to be approved by the "punishing officer", and the proposing department becomes a local litigation case
the highest judicial body.
The Secret Intelligence Department does not have a clear division of labor, which is terrifying. In other words, the people in the Secret Intelligence Department can take care of everything. Although they have a bad reputation, they are a group of people who can directly reach the heavens. If the army sergeants dare to act secretly,
Selling military rations is a punishable crime. Although the Secret Service doesn't care much about it, if you are targeted, it won't matter no matter how big your family's connections are.
Bacon looked at the refilled granary, clasped his hands and kept praying to God. Thank you, Hua Niang went back with thirty loads of grain. Although it was not much, if you save some food, you can always last until the next season's grain.
Xanthium and the others went hunting. The food at home was not enough. All they could do was go hunting in the distant mountains. Now that the mountains are covered by heavy snow, it was a good opportunity to pick up frozen beasts. They were already very familiar with this routine.
, the terrain of Dosha County is high and it sometimes snows, so they often encounter such situations, picking up the carcasses of wild beasts above the snow line, which requires a certain amount of luck and a strong body, but fortunately they have both.
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Yun Zheng likes to go shopping when he has nothing to do, especially the teahouses on the street. He never uses the soy sauce soup in the teahouses. He uses his own tea every time.
In just a few days, he gained a great reputation in the tea fighting circles in Chengdu. Now, whenever he enters a teahouse, those wealthy idlers will call out "Cheng Feng Lang!" and then come over to drink a cup of Yunzheng's tea.
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The shopkeeper is also aware of Yun Zheng's habits. A set of exquisite tea sets are specially prepared for him. They are scalded with boiling water every day and are waiting for Yun Zheng's orders. This man is a clean person and has been touched by others.
Even the tea bowls were not used, which made the shopkeeper specially bring out a set of newly made Ru kiln exquisite products to serve this gentleman.
Fighting and drinking tea is an elegant thing. Whenever someone comes to drink tea, they will stare at the tea set used by Yunzheng and say something in admiration: its color is egg white, like a pile of fat, and the juice is squeezed out of the eyes.
It looks like crab claws, with sesame seeds and tiny needles on the bottom, and other nonsense. I really want to use this kind of tea set, but Yun Zheng only has a pot and a cup in front of him. If he wants to drink tea, he can only bring his own cup to pour it.
"Brother Yun, you have to go out less often these days. Things are not right. Those poor devils look at our brothers like wolves. It snows heavily this winter and all the autumn silkworms freeze to death. Those people are gone.
There is no more work to chew grain, and now we are all hungry, so if we have bad thoughts, we will be in trouble."
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "Poverty breeds treachery, wealth breeds conscience. Although we brothers can get some leisure here, we are the ones who support a large family, including the servants and maids at home. The neighbors come to borrow some."
I have never refused rice and grain, so it doesn’t matter, we just need to live our lives well, and the court will take care of the people."
As soon as Yun Zheng's words left his mouth, another fat businessman leaned his head over and whispered: "You probably don't know yet, right? Something strange happened on the Jinjiang River. Some fishermen were fishing on the Jinjiang River, and as a result, a fish was fished out of the river.
The stone man, the stone man has been sunk in the river for who knows how many years, and it is covered with algae. After the fishermen removed the algae from the stone man, they found two lines of words written on it, do you know what it is?"
Seeing the mysteriousness of what this guy said, Yun Zheng and the other merchants shook their heads repeatedly and asked this guy to speak quickly. The guy happily drank the tea that Yun Zheng poured over him, and after being convinced, he whispered: "That's what I said above.
If you want to be beheaded, brothers, please do not spread the news."
After everyone nodded in unison, this guy said: "'There is no way the stone man has only one eye. Once this thing appears, the whole world will turn upside down."
Hearing this sentence, everyone present took a deep breath and turned pale. The two thieves Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun rebelled and almost killed everyone in Chengdu Prefecture. Only a few decades have passed.
Ah, older people can clearly remember the tragic situation at that time. Now that Chengdu has just become prosperous, come again?
Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but turn their eyes to the poor people squatting under the eaves of other people's houses waiting for employment. Seeing those people looking at them expressionlessly, they couldn't help but shudder. The more they looked, the more they seemed to have evil intentions.
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The fat businessman was afraid that his words would not surprise him, so he pointed to the mountain in Chengdu Prefecture and said: "If only stone men appear, we don't have to worry too much, but there have been thunderstorms in the mountains recently, and Chengyanguan was struck by lightning. We in Chengdu
The government has done something wrong. Look at the heavy snow outside. How many days has it been snowing? It has been eleven days. Although it has been there for a while and not for a while, brothers, except for Little Brother Yun, who is new here, which one of us
Aren’t you someone who has lived in Chengdu for several lifetimes? Have you ever seen such heavy snow?”
Everyone's faces began to turn blue, and the timid ones began to tremble.
"It doesn't matter, the Yongxing Army is nearby. Those poor devils don't dare to make trouble..." A businessman encouraged everyone with a white face.
Yun Zheng's face suddenly fell, and he shook his hands and said: "Brother, I can't believe Yongxing Army, what else can they do now besides performing Nuo opera?
As you all know, my little brother moved here from Dosha County. Why did he move here? It was not because of the civil uprising in Dosha County. For the sake of my little brother’s safety, I really didn’t dare to stay in Dosha County so I moved to Chengdu Prefecture.
, you don’t know, the rebels broke through Dou Sha Pass and almost killed all the people in the city. My younger brother was a regiment leader and led the villagers into Dou Sha Pass. The scene was miserable. The streets were full of dead people.
Many women died naked on the street, and children were beaten to death. Because of this, I had nightmares for more than a month. I also became seriously ill. More than two hundred Yongxing troops went to attack.
The leader of the thieves suffered heavy casualties. If it weren’t for the help of the common people, the soldiers of the Yongxing Army would be useless. After all the thieves ran away, they reached out and asked us for money, saying it was money to reward the army..."
As Yun Zheng explained the tragedy of Douchuan one by one, no one in the teahouse could laugh. These people still knew about Douchuan. As the gateway to and from Dali country, as long as it was
The wealthy businessmen all have inextricable connections there, so they know the things there in detail.
Who was the most unlucky person after the civil unrest? It wasn’t just the rich households like myself. The poor people went to rebel. When they thought of the scene described by Yun Zheng, and confirmed it with what they knew, everyone immediately panicked.
"My younger brother is a young man. He can't make up his mind. Let's ask the ancestors of the Lu family for advice. As the clan's son-in-law, he can't just leave my younger brother alone. In Chengdu, he is the only one who has survived safely.
Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun's rebellion will definitely have some ideas."
After Yun Zheng said these words, he walked away without even counting the copper coins he threw on the table.
As soon as Yun Zheng left, the other rich people had no intention of drinking tea. They said goodbye dejectedly. I don't know who shouted out: "I really can only ask Mr. Lu to help everyone come up with an idea. Brother, go right away."
pay a visit to."
Yun Zheng sat in the carriage and slightly opened the curtain of the carriage to look outside. As he thought, those people had already gone home in a hurry, and some were heading out of the city, both on donkeys and in cars.
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He closed his eyes slightly and thought over and over again about the loopholes in this approach. So far, no flaws have been exposed. Since those wealthy businessmen can be ruthless for their wealth, then there is no need to blame the common people for causing trouble. Yun Zheng naturally counts himself among the common people.
No matter how much money he has, he still stubbornly believes that he is a common man.
The seeds of panic have been sown, and now we are slowly waiting for them to ferment, grow, and finally mature and bear fruit. Human emotions are fragile, and a sense of security is what the Chinese have been striving for since ancient times. Now, if we take advantage of the sense of security, we will not
We know how long these vested interests can last.
"Monkey, Uncle Xanthium and the others are back?"
"I'm back. Hanniu told me just now when I went to Lingxi Pavilion. I brought back a lot of prey. Madam is sorting it out at home. She's going to skin it, smoke it with charcoal, dry it and store it."
Yun Zheng nodded. After Xanthium and the others left, Xiao Lin had to stay and guard the Yun family's gunpowder depot. This was also Xiao Lin's own responsibility. Counting the quantity once a day was what he had to do.
Yun Zheng didn't think there was anything wrong with the people's rebellion. They had no food to eat and were about to starve to death. If they didn't rebel, would they be starving to death? When things happened to him, Yun Zheng felt that he would go even further. He had never done anything more.
They are not obedient!
Rumors often spread faster than rumors. When Yun Zheng went to Mr. Peng Li's house and visited the old man, and when he returned home, Xiao Lin was already fully armed. As a spy, he must find out the truth of the entire incident.
The root cause is very important.
Several signs of rebellion were already present, including stone figures, proverbs, and famines. In his opinion, Chengdu Mansion was now in danger. When he thought of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun, he felt extremely anxious. People in Shu had a tradition of rebellion.
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"Things have taken a turn for the worse and are extremely critical. I have passed on the information. Please remember these days not to cause trouble. Secret spies are rampant in Chengdu. If you can't leave your house, don't go out."
Xiao Lin gave Yun Zheng a few instructions and hurried out of the Yun family door... (To be continued)