retaliate

Chapter 1057 Backer
In northern Xinjiang, the rush to buy salt remains.

"After all, the people have a lot of money, and they have to keep most of the money for family use, so they robbed some. Seeing that there was no movement from the Jiedu envoy's mansion, they took it away. Now it is those rich people who are rushing to buy, but they are very cunning, and the family members are scattered. Purchase in the name of the people."

Bao Dong stood opposite a salt shop, looked at dozens of men surrounding the shop, and said, "Our people want to infiltrate the common people, and tell them about the collusion between Chang'an and Ning Xing."

The little official beside him was surprised, "Master, if this is the case, I'm afraid that the people will panic!"

"Don't panic!" Bao Dong's chubby face showed disdain, "The most stupid thing about the emperor is that he doesn't know the temperament of the people in Beijiang. When they are cornered, they will grab it! Just go and grab the salt!"

The little official shivered, "Isn't that crazy?"

"Think about it, the Duke brought a group of lunatics to rob, who can stop it?" Bao Dong shook his head, "A group of idiots think that they are not against the Duke, they just want to make money... make money! It's only right and proper. But Northern Xinjiang is in danger because of this, but they turn a blind eye. The desire for money can really make people stupid."

The little official said: "The master's words are really good. By the way, the master said last time that Huichun pill can not only nourish the kidney, but also regulate yin and yang, but is it true?"

Bao Dong nodded, "The human body has yin and yang qi, and when the yang is strong, it will get angry. It's mostly like this when you look at people with red faces."

"What about the strong Yin Qi?"

"The yin energy is strong! This person will be feminine...to the extreme, this man will want to be a woman."

"I have a friend..." The official said sincerely: "He is like this, can he eat it?"

"Yes, but after taking the medicine, you have to change your mind."

"There are a few, then I will go later... I will let him buy it."

Bao Dong looked at the white powder on the little official's face, and said, "That's fine."

Suddenly there was a commotion on the opposite side, and then someone shouted: "Why is there no salt?"

Murderous intent flashed across Bao Dong's eyes, "This person deserves to be killed!"

Someone behind said faintly: "Arrangement!"

……

Almost frightened, Bao Dong turned around, "I said Helian Baihu, you can't make any noise when you walk?"

He Lianrong pointed to the opposite side, "These people are all under my Jin Yiwei's eye, and Mr. Bao just go."

"Good to say."

Bao Dong bowed his hands and left.

"Isn't the principal a classmate of the Duke? Are you still afraid of Jin Yiwei?" asked the little official.

Bao Dong glanced at him, "It's not because he's afraid, but because he keeps a respectful distance."

Standing under the eaves, He Lianrong said with a smile: "To many people, I, Jin Yiwei, are poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts. If you don't do anything wrong, why are you afraid of ghosts knocking on the door?"

The wrestler beside him laughed and said, "We have to be afraid of ghosts when we meet them!"

He Lianrong said: "Before the Duke returns, we must sort out the roster of those who have stolen more than [-] catties of salt this time."

"Yes!" Lux asked, "Are you going to kill someone?"

"I think so, but the Duke said that Mr. Erlang is not yet one year old, so he should do good deeds anyway."

……

"Wow!"

The second young master was lying on the bed and howling, while Ah Liang stood by the side feeling at a loss.

"Mr. Dalang, don't bully brother!"

Zheng Wuniang said angrily, then picked up her second child and coaxed her.

Ah Liang looked up, "Brother! Go play!"

Zheng Wuniang said with a smile: "Mr. Erlang is still young, and Mr. Dalang wants to take him out, and he has to wait for a few years!"

"Oh!"

A Liang was a little disappointed, and when he turned around, he saw the swordsman outside the door.

"The weather is getting colder, Mr. Dalang, don't blow the wind..."

Zheng Wuniang muttered, "I don't know when the Duke will return. There is a lot of noise outside, and they all say that there is no salt to eat. This person...how can he not eat salt?"

When Ah Liang went out, Fu Gui came out from nowhere, wagging his tail at him, and was yelped by the swordsman's tail.

"A Liang!"

When Zhou Ning came back from the outside, seeing him standing under the eaves with red lips and white teeth, he couldn't help waving.

"Auntie!"

But Ah Liang refused to go down, sat down, put his arms around the swordsman and muttered, "Where's Aye? Swordsman!"

As the child grows up, he needs a strong role model and support. At this time, the father can fill this psychological hole in due course.

"This child!"

Zhou Ning entered the room, followed by Yiniang and Aunt Guan.Before going in, Yiniang took a look at Ah Liang and said, "Looks like the old gentleman."

It's like a reincarnation!
She shook her head, dismissing the thought.

Zhou Ning sat down, "Yiniang sit down."

"Thank you ma'am!"

Yi Niang sat down.

Aunt Guan who was standing didn't make a sound.

At first she was very dissatisfied with this difference in treatment, but when she saw that Yiniang had a seat with the Duke, and sometimes the Duke even went to help her, such thoughts dissipated.

"The rush to buy salt outside can't be suppressed." Zhou Ning took a sip of tea, "The Jiedu envoy sent someone to say that there is no need to worry about it. But at this time, it can be seen that people are against each other."

Yiniang's eyes lit up, "Madam, you want to say... to see the hearts of the people?"

Zhou Ning nodded, "My husband often says that people's hearts are like water, and once it boils, there will be strong winds and waves. He has been winning people's hearts all these years in northern Xinjiang. I want to see..."

"What did the Jiedu envoy's mansion say?" Yiniang asked.

"Liu Gong said just try."

"It's time to try." Yiniang said: "In the future, many things will have to rely on the hearts of the people."

"Yes!"

It's not that you can rule the world with a tyrannical army. When the people in the world are separated from you, the army becomes a source of water.

"Go to the front yard!"

Zhou Ning went to the front yard and convened a meeting with the stewards.

……

"Madam said to test the hearts of the people, but the old man thought that this was an explanation from the Duke before he left."

In Jiedushi's mansion, Liu Qing explained his previous statement.

Song Zhen handed several documents to the waiting official, and after he left, he thumped his lower back with his backhand, "People's hearts! You can control it, and you can't be bullied."

"That's right, Zitai treats the people with sincerity. I'm afraid it will attract a lot of tricks to plan Sangzhou this time. It's better to try it first."

Half an hour later, a small official came to report, "Madam ordered me to bring three carts of salt, and said that I sold all of them to the Jiedu envoy's mansion at the purchase price."

Liu Qing was stunned, and said with a smile: "This is drizzle to moisten things! Good! Take it!"

Song Zhen said: "It's time to make a big splash!"

Liu Qing shook his head, "No, it's better to just wait and watch."

Mrs. Guogong sold most of the salt at home. According to reports, Mrs. Guogong said that she never worried about the lack of salt in northern Xinjiang.

"Said Guo Gong can definitely think of a way!"

"So, are we really short of salt?"

"Changan and Ningxing colluded and cut off our salt road."

"Fuck! Beiliao is my mortal enemy of Tang Dynasty! Can you also collude?"

"Some people have no country in their hearts, only selfishness!"

"That's a very good statement. What's the name of the young man? I think you are quite pleasing to the eye, have you ever been married..."

"My name is Dongdongbao."

"How can there be such a weird name? Hey! Don't go!"

The news fermented quickly.

This is discussed everywhere.

The walls of the squares in Taoxian City have been knocked down long ago, but the people are still accustomed to taking the squares as the unit, even if they go out for a stroll after dinner, they are mostly in the original territory.

A group of old people squatted on the side of the intersection in the square after dinner.

"It is said that the madam sold salt to the Jiedu envoy's mansion, and how much she bought and how much she sold."

"I want to sell it too, but I'm worried about running out of salt!"

A group of people are muttering.

"Hey! Where are you going, old Liu?"

An old man came from the right with a bamboo basket.

"Selling salt!" said the old man.

An old man asked: "Selling salt? Don't you worry about losing salt at home?"

There were two men dressed as literati talking outside the nearby wine shop, and one of them said: "This man will die if he doesn't eat salt. You old man doesn't study, so you don't know how powerful you are."

The old man said: "Years ago, the poor in my husband's family picked and searched for salt, but now they can put as much as they want.

The old man has never read a book, but after careful consideration, who gave this good day?Wasn't it given by the Duke?

Now some people want to embarrass the Duke and us Beijiang, the old man has nothing to say, one word, fight!Fight them to the end!
The old man was stupid, so he decided on one, and the old man will go wherever the Duke tells him to go! "

The old man held his head high, but the two scholars were resentful, a little ashamed.

"Yeah! Isn't this good day given by the Duke? Now that the Duke and his wife have come forward, what are we waiting for?" An old man got up and bent down to put on the shoes he had taken off earlier, "Let's go sell salt! "

Crowds gradually gathered outside Jiedushi's mansion.

"Sell salt!"

"Sell salt!"

"Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze at all!"

The sergeants who maintained order turned pale with fright, fearing that a stampede would happen.

"These fools!"

Several tyrants watched this scene from the other side and sneered.

"It's a good thing we didn't get involved this time!"

Sun Xian said.

"Yes! It's a pity that I lost a lot of money!"

"Liu Qing has come out."

Liu Qing came out and shouted: "Don't worry, don't worry, come one by one!"

Da da da!
The sound of horseshoes approaching slowly on the long street.

Someone took a look, "It's the Duke!"

"The Duke is back."

As soon as Yang Xuan came back, he saw the scene of 'sieging' the Jiedu ambassador's mansion.

"This is……"

He told Zhou Ning to try the hearts of the people, but he didn't explain how... After explaining everything, his wife became a subordinate.

An old man came out to salute.

"Don't break my life!"

Yang Xuan got off his horse and helped him up.

The old man was getting old, and said tremblingly: "I heard people say that someone wants to run on the Duke! The villain asked his children and grandchildren, and when he learned that they also went to grab the salt, he slapped him a few times. Isn't that... ..."

The old man turned around, "Come out."

A middle-aged man and a young man came out, and there were indeed slap marks on their faces. The middle-aged man's was deep, and the young man's was shallow, so you couldn't see it unless you looked carefully.

"The old man kicked them out and sold the salt back. Duke, it's not that the old man refuses to give it away, it's that the family...is not well-off." The old man looked ashamed.

Yang Xuan supported him and looked at the common people.

It is said that people's hearts cannot be tested, but he can't help it... During these years in northern Xinjiang, he asked himself to be considerate to the people, but after all, there was a hurdle in his heart.

What a big deal it is to fight against rebellion. Once there is an incident, the hearts of the people are the most critical.

What if the people object?
Repression is naturally inappropriate.

Most of the officers and men of the Northern Xinjiang Army are the children of Northern Xinjiang. Once the hearts of the people are disturbed, the morale of the army will disperse.

He likes to hang around outside when he has nothing to do, looking at the fireworks and smiling faces.

He wants to integrate himself into it and share weal and woe with everyone, but he knows that everyone's joys and sorrows are different.

He felt that it was justified to be against nature, but in the eyes of outsiders, filial piety to the emperor and being wronged was just a chat after dinner.

If the people do not support it, the army will not support it.

That's why he asked Zhou Ning to try the hearts of the people.

He felt that the best outcome would be for the common people to stop snapping up salt completely.

This is appeal.

What I didn't expect was...

Yang Xuan held the old man's hand, feeling something choked in his chest.

His lips twitched, but he couldn't speak.

"Yang..."

The old man said: "The Duke said that we are a family! The old man has never read a book, he is stupid, and he doesn't understand any major principles. He only knows one thing. How can his own family make things difficult for his own family?"

own family!
Yang Xuan thought of his suspicion, and couldn't help but blushed.

He looked down at the old man.

On an old face, the wrinkles are like the bark of an old tree, full of vicissitudes.There is joy in a pair of cloudy eyes, as if...

"The Duke is our backer. If the Duke is good, we will be fine." The old man expressed Yang Xuan's position in the hearts of the people in the simplest words.

I am their backer.

Yang Xuan looked at him and said seriously:

"You are my backer!"

(End of this chapter)