ebonymovies Chapter 833 Where did the food go?
Chapter 833 Where did the food go?
Chapter 833 Where did the food go?
For Yunchu, the running water sign in Qujiang is a source of news to monitor all places in the Tang Dynasty.
It is not difficult for Yunchu to infer the people's livelihood in various places through the changes of materials in various places on the running water signs. He only needs to ask the accountant for the changes in the prices of goods in certain regions when he is watching the running water signs, and The amount of material transactions, combined with some specific news in the mansion newspaper, can understand the operation of the local people's livelihood better than the local officials.
The main reason is that the news reflected on the running water brand has a certain degree of forward-looking and secretiveness.
Before Yunchu decided that he was going to participate in the Emperor's Fengchan Taishan Grand Ceremony, on the running water sign in Qujiang, the economic performance of the state capital the emperor passed by was already very poor. With the prices of grain and linen as anchors, we can see how they are running. If you look at the performance on the card, you will find that there has been a huge gap in the supply of these two bulk goods.
The imperial palace newspaper did not mention any disasters in these places, and it was even unheard of to hear of military disasters and banditry.
Without these, only man-made disasters remain.
The common people work hard to produce grain and linen, just want to buy a better price for the extra three to five buckets of grain and one or two bolts of linen. Although the prices of these materials will be lower in good years, but because of the Tang opened up the Western Regions, the river, and even Dashi, and even some countries farther away. With grain and linen as anchors, there will naturally be a state of rising tides and boats.
That is to say, any goods on the Chang'an Liushui brand want to be traded, they must be priced in grain and linen, and then converted into copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins for trading.
Because of the exchange rate difference, the price of grain and linen on the running water brand that mainly deals in the Western Regions is generally higher than the market price. Anyone who wants to sell grain and linen will generally choose to trade here.
The grain and linen in Yanshi County are no exception. However, since the harvest of summer grain, the grain and linen in Yanshi County have never appeared on the running water sign. The same is that there are many state capitals. Later, Yunchu discovered that these state capitals were all on the emperor's way to Mount Tai.
After the autumn grain harvest, the situation still did not improve.
These things did not appear on the market, so where did they go?
In the early morning, when the brigade started to set off, Yunchu received a secret letter from Yin Erhu. At this time, he had already confirmed that the book of Pei Xingjian's murder family in Yanshi County was probably related to those missing things.
Because there are refugees blocking the way in Yanshi County.
It's ridiculous to say that Chang'an's wealth has blinded many people's eyes, thinking that people in the whole Tang Dynasty lived the same prosperous life.
What they don't know is that the habit of eating three meals a day is only a living habit of Chang'an people. The farther away from Chang'an, the fewer people eat three meals a day.
There seems to be never enough food, and there never seems to be enough linen and silk. No matter how much these things are produced, there will still be many hungry and naked people in the end.
Now, Yunchu really wants to see how Li Zhi solves these problems.
Li Si and the others were in a hurry to dismantle the breakfast stall. When Yunchu passed by, he found a mess, so he just chuckled and continued to urge the army to hurry.
Because of the asymmetrical news, Li Si was still happy that tens of thousands of catties of grain had been sold this morning.
Li Zhi's carriage, as huge as a house, rolled forward under the drag of sixteen black draft horses.
Speaking of draft horses, each of these sixteen draft horses is more handsome than others' war horses.
The emperor drives six, that is to say, the emperor usually travels by six horses to pull the cart, which is what Qin Shihuang did, and the subsequent emperors basically rode in a six-horse carriage.
When Li Zhi came here, things changed, because he was about to change his name to the Emperor, and he used sixteen horses to drag the carriage, so the power of his carriage was enough to allow him to cross mountains and mountains with a carriage comparable to a house.
This carriage is the sincerity of the Chang'an carriage workshop.
In Chang'an City, all the new technologies that have already had some signs have been applied to this carriage, including spring shock absorbers, swashplate steering, hub brake devices, steel bulletproof devices, and there is even a The small device that banishes the horse within seconds, and the security is the ultimate under the existing conditions.
Back then, when Zhang Liang made a shocking blow in Bolangsha, now, at most, he could knock off a little bit of car paint.
In such a safe carriage, Li Zhi's face was so gloomy that water could be wrung out.
"Two years ago, I issued an order to exempt the taxes of the states and counties along the route, and ordered them to stockpile a lot of food and supplies for my east tour. Three months before departure, I specially sent personnel to check , The report said that everything is ready, just waiting for my east tour.
You see, just after leaving Luoyang, something like this happened. When the former army in Yanshi County arrived, it suddenly caught fire.
Queen, I remember that you arranged for the officer sent down to check, right? "
Wu Mei glanced at the furious emperor with peace and resentment, and said: "The concubine sent Li Jingxuan, and it was your Majesty who suddenly replaced it with Li Yifu."
"Why don't I know?"
Wu Mei snorted and said, "Zuo Chun specially came to inform my concubine."
Li Zhi said: "It's really easy to talk, Zuo Chun is dead."
Wu Mei stood up and hugged Taiping who was woken up by Li Zhi, shaking while walking, finally waited for Taiping to stop crying, and then said to Li Zhi: "If your majesty thinks so, the concubine can't help it."
Li Zhi became even more angry: "Could it be that apart from Guo Yunchu, I can't find a minister capable of doing things?"
Wu Mei smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't forget that the courtiers' request for the Taishan Conferring Ceremony is to be frugal, and your Majesty has repeatedly overturned the total expenditure proposed by the courtiers, and added more to the consumption, but he is unwilling." Use the royal treasury of Shaofu Supervisor.
In view of this, before departure, the concubine reminded His Majesty to be careful of insufficient national expenses, but His Majesty thought that the ten kingdoms of the world have been exempted from tax for four years, and the people are rich enough to afford this expense. "
Li Zhi said: "Then it can't happen just after leaving Luoyang, right?"
Wu Mei laughed loudly and said: "If Your Majesty returns to Chang'an this time, Yun Chu will definitely make His Majesty feel what a truly splendid country is.
Nothing else, but Chang'an is rich enough, rich enough, and has enough interests to motivate them to spend money for His Majesty.
However, since His Majesty has sent Li Jingxuan to Yanshi ahead of schedule, I believe he will handle the problem well. "
Li Zhi sneered and said: "My taxes are really exempted, but Pei Xingjian said that the local people are extremely poor, so since the taxes exempted by me did not fall on the people, there will always be a place to go." .”
Wu Mei smiled and said: "So, the house caught fire, and your taxes were burned.
This is still a trivial matter. Since problems can occur in places like Yanshi, accidents will inevitably occur in other places on the ground of more than 1000 miles. Your Majesty has brought so many people, so it is better to be frugal. "
Li Zhi said: "The army cannot be frugal."
Wu Mei said: "Then we have to exempt all the officials and their family members from providing supplies, anyway, they don't like it..."
When Yunchu was camping in Yanshi, he received the emperor's order to exempt honorable officials and their families from providing for them.
After this news was learned by Li Si, the girl who was suffering from a cold happily blew out a huge snot bubble, and then resolutely overturned the verbal agreement to supply food to some people. Not going to take out.
At the same time, she could finally recuperate peacefully in her carriage, and the three of Yun Jin and the others could also have a good night's sleep, without having to drag their tired bodies to find ways to sell food.
When the market is good, the inconspicuous shipping fee is insignificant. Anyway, it can be added several times and counted on the buyer.
Yanshi County is not far from Luoyang, and the food still cannot be sold at Li Si's psychological price. She plans to start selling food after leaving Luoyang for five hundred miles.
That's right, grain processed into food can be sold at a higher price.
Li Si had a fever, and her little face was flushed red. After Yunchu came to see the child, he fed her the Xiao Bupleurum tablet that Sun Simiao had researched, and asked Chunyu to make ginger soup for Li Si to drink. The child began to sweat, so he sat in the carriage with a book in his arms and kept watch.
When Li Si woke up, she felt as if she was falling apart, and asked for water in a daze. After she drank a cup of warm water, she realized that it was Master Yunchu who gave her the water.
Yun Chu reached out and touched Li Si's forehead, and saw that the child's fever seemed to have subsided, so he said to Chunyu who had been kneeling in the corner of the carriage, "The fever has subsided, remember to add some water, wait a while If she is hungry, give her some porridge and pickles. The porridge should be thick, and the pickles should not be too salty. Don’t bathe her, and don’t wipe her body. Wait until dawn and make sure she’s okay.”
After finishing speaking, he cast a blank glance at Li Si who was looking at him, raised his hand but did not let it fall, and then got out of the carriage and left.
When Yunchu left, Li Si looked at Chunyu and said, "Does your father-in-law's taking care of your daughter-in-law make you a bit of an eyesore?"
Chunyu shook his head and said, "The servant girl was married at the age of the princess. The way my father-in-law looks at me is different from the way the prince looks at the princess."
Li Si smiled and said, "What's the difference?"
Chunyu said: "Your Majesty looks at the princess with pity and anger, and seems to have a little bit of self-blame.
My father-in-law was different, he looked at me with only regret, as if he felt that I married the wrong person. "
Li Si pulled the quilt to the nose, only showing a pair of eyes and said: "Yes, the master even forgot that I am already a woman who needs to be avoided. In her eyes, I am still a sick child who needs to be taken care of. "
Chunyu thought for a while and said, "Why isn't Mrs. Yun taking care of the princess?"
Li Sidao: "Master is a very good doctor. He said that the cold I suffered would pass on to others. Auntie has to take care of Fenghuang'er and Jinxiu'er. I can't pass on to her. Naturally, only Master came to take care of me."
Chunyu asked in puzzlement, "Why does the princess have to ask the servants what they think about this matter?"
Li Sidao: "Whenever Yun's children get sick, they will only be taken care of by the master or A Niang, and they will never be taken care of by others.
The reason why I ask you these words is because I don't want anyone to use etiquette to tarnish the master. No one will succeed. Whoever does this will be killed by me, and I will not die endlessly. "
Chunyu nodded and said: "This servant confirmed her mind just now, and found that her heart is peaceful, and there is nothing else."
A smile appeared on Li Si's face, and he closed his eyes and said, "In a happy place, there can only be happiness, nothing else can be accommodated."
Yun Chu got out of Li Si's carriage, and went straight to the carriage where Yun Jin, Wen Huan, and Di Guangsi lived. Li Si was not in good health, and those three silly children seemed to be not very safe.
There was a twilight in the carriage, and when Yunchu opened the door, he saw three children entangled with each other, wrapped in a thick quilt, sleeping in the dark.
In the corner of the carriage sat Cui Shi who was sleeping with his head tilted. As soon as Yunchu got into the carriage, Cui Shi woke up, and whispered to Yunchu who was checking on the three children: "Drink the medicine and ginger soup, sleep for a while." It should be fine."
Yun Chu took his hand away from Di Guangsi's forehead, nodded and said, "Fortunately, he is strong."
As he spoke, he picked up Wen Huan's hand and looked at it.
Cui quickly said: "Chilblains have developed, Guangsi's ears also have frostbite, the servants have rubbed marmot oil on them.
Alas, three good noble sons, but they have to suffer from merchants..."
Impatient with Cui's nagging, Yunchu confirmed that the three children were in good health, and left. He stood in front of Yu Xiurong's carriage door for a while, but he didn't go up to disturb their mother and child's sleep, and strode back to his military tent. .
Rourou got the news that the grain depot in Yanshi County was on fire and suffered heavy losses in the afternoon. He always felt that Yunchu seemed to know the bad news in advance, but there was no evidence.
So, he came to Yunchu's tent early to look for a definite answer, but he heard that Yunchu had gone to take care of the sick Li Si, so he roasted himself by the fire, drinking, eating meat and reading, waiting for Yunchu to return.
"Sisi better?" Seeing that Yunchu had returned, Rourou asked as she put down her wine glass.
"Well, I'm sweating all over, and I don't have a fever anymore. The other three are fine and sleeping soundly."
Rourou tapped the table with her knuckles and said: "You came to Yanshi, but you didn't pay attention to the things here. Did you know it already, or didn't you want to make trouble?"
Yun Chu poured himself a cup of tea, held it in his palm, found a small soft couch, sat down and smiled, "What happened in Yanshi?"
Gentlely said: "Small things, when Pei Xingjian's army just arrived in Yanshi, the warehouse in Yanshi County caught fire, and the warehouse was filled with supplies for Pei Xingjian. The most ridiculous thing is that after the warehouse caught fire, the Yanshi County sent He sent a chief bookkeeper to explain to Pei Xingjian that because the warehouse was on fire, he could only provide half of the supplies for the army. Pei Xingjian would accept this explanation and hacked the chief bookman to death with one knife, ordering the county magistrate Before he leaves Yanshi, he must collect enough military rations, otherwise he will kill the entire family of the county magistrate.
Then, the county magistrate led the yamen servants to search for food from house to house in Yanshi County.
Before dawn, Pei Xingjian got enough grain and continued to move forward. Li Jingxuan came to Yanshi again to check the fire in the grain depot.
As a result, I saw a county magistrate who committed suicide by hanging himself, a county lieutenant who cut his neck to death, small officials at all levels kneeling in the county government with their hands bound and waiting to be arrested, and Yanshi County, whose food was confiscated and has become a refugee common people. "
Regarding the tragic situation in Yanshi County, Yunchu did not show too much sympathy, and asked lightly after drinking a sip of tea, "Where is the food in Yanshi County?"
Rou Rou looked at Yun Chu and said, "Are you very popular? At this moment, you are still asking about the food, isn't the food burned by the fire?
Li Jingxuan searched the homes of the county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief bookkeeper, and small officials at all levels, but found no corruption. The food had to be burned for no other reason. "
Yunchu frowned, and said to Rourou: "Tell Di Renjie immediately, don't get involved in this matter, even if you admit defeat to that guy in Luoyang Dali Temple, don't be brave."
Seeing Yun Chu's seriousness, Rourou lowered her voice and said, "Can't we afford to offend?"
Yun Chu sighed and said, "My goal is the emperor."
The gentle eyeballs rolled around a few times and said, "What about Emperor Sui Yang's extravagant visit to Yangzhou?"
There was a smile on the corner of Yunchu's mouth, and he said to Rourou: "You should ask that old guy Li Ji, when Emperor Sui Yang went to Yangzhou, he followed a group of strong Liang from Wagang Village who rebelled at that time.
He should be familiar with this kind of thing. "
Rourou also smiled and said: "Wagangzhai is only [-] miles away from Yanshi, according to the legend left by the bandits in Wagangzhai back then, [-] miles away is not enough for them to run overnight.
However, I will not ask, if you want to ask, it is your daughter-in-law who will ask. "
Yun Chu thought for a while and said, "That's true, and only if Li Si asks, old thief Li won't turn his back."
The gentleness who had already figured things out, after laughing, his face slowly became gloomy.
"Food does exist. The government did not take it, the officials did not take it, and it is not in the hands of the people. So, where did the food go?"
Yun Chu waved his hand and said, "The amount of food is huge, it's not just a small amount, it will always leave traces, with Li Jingxuan's ability, after dawn, there will be an answer that can be said."
Rourou took a deep breath and said: "This thing is done even more violently than what was done in Wagang Village back then.
Knowing that this is the ration on the emperor's road, he dared to operate like this. I have to say that there is really no shortage of desperadoes in this world. "
After the emotion was over, Rou Rou came to Yunchu's side again and said, "Sisi has a lot of food in his hand, it really wasn't arranged by you in advance."
Yunchu raised his head and took a look at Rourou: "I just gave these children a chance to make money.
The rest of the things were done by Li Si and have nothing to do with us. "
Rou Rou asked with some concern: "Will it affect the prince?"
Yun Chu thought for a while and said, "It depends on Li Si's choice. No matter what she does with this pile of grain or who she sells to, it's her choice."
Wen Wen said speechlessly: "Are you sure this child can survive this wave of storm?"
Yun Chu smiled and said, "The greater the wind and waves, the more expensive the fish!"
(End of this chapter)