marquis of jingan

Chapter 36
The lethality of this nursery rhyme is undoubtedly very powerful.

It's not that it's written so well, nor is it how brilliant Shen Yi's method is, the main reason is...

It fit the occasion.

The price of food has skyrocketed. Even if the family has spare money and can survive until the autumn harvest, the people in Jiangdu have complaints and resentments in their hearts, but there is nowhere to vent their resentment. Now such a nursery rhyme suddenly appeared, and it is naturally deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. .

There are tigers and wolves everywhere in Jiangdu!
This sentence can be said to be a theory of death.

It happened that the people in Jiangdu not only had resentment against the price increase of the grain merchants, but also against the imperial court who "requisitioned grain". After hearing this nursery rhyme sung in the authentic Jiangdu dialect, many people began to sing along.

Even in teahouses and restaurants, some people would talk about this nursery rhyme when talking and laughing, and many people would pat their thighs, angrily scolding the court for injustice and profiteers for their injustice.

According to Shen Yi's arrangement, Xu Fu and the other children didn't spread the song all the time. It took them a day to almost run all over Jiangdu City. Every time they went to a new place, they would sing a few words.

Once someone asks them about the whole libretto, these children will memorize it honestly, and when asked who taught them, they always say that it was taught by an old beggar with a white beard.

In this way, these children only sang for one day, and on the second day, they honestly went back to the small broken house where they were hiding, bought some steamed buns with the money Shen Yi gave them, and had a delicious meal .

Although Shen Yi gave them more than one or two taels of silver, even if they bought meat every once in a while, it would be enough to eat for a while, but these children were afraid of poverty, especially Xu Fu. I bought a few white noodle steamed buns and enjoyed them with a few friends.

For these children, being able to eat a mouthful of steamed buns is already very satisfying.

And when these children were eating steamed buns, the ballad they spent a day spreading had almost spread throughout the entire Jiangdu. On the third day, Xu Fu left a few young ones with him early in the morning. At the residence, while he himself went out for a walk, seeing that the song had spread, he bought some food on the street and brought them back to the small shabby house.

According to Shen Yi's original arrangement, for the safety of the few of them, as long as the song is spread, they don't have to go out to continue singing.

In this way, a few children who may not even have a name in Jiangdu City caused an uproar in Jiangdu City.

On the third day, the song had already spread throughout Jiangdu. The children in the streets and alleys might not be able to remember the whole text, but they could remember one or two lines, especially the last one or two.

"There is no food, and the price is going up."

"Jiangdu is full of tigers and wolves!"

Under the attack of public opinion on this scale, the ballad soon reached the ears of County Magistrate Feng of Jiangdu County.

The person who handed over the lyrics of this ballad was Mr. Deng from the county government office. After Mr. Deng handed over a piece of paper with the lyrics written on it, he carefully glanced at his own county lord and said in a low voice: "Master, this The first nursery rhyme was sung in the city of Jiangdu in the past two days, probably because of the increase in the price of food in the city, there are unscrupulous people who slander the government and the court..."

County Magistrate Feng took the paper, glanced at it lightly, then threw the paper aside, and said, "Where did you slander the government? At most, it's just slandering the court."

Master Deng's eyes widened, and he looked at the fat county gentleman in front of him, dumbfounded: "Master, this Jiangdu City is under your rule, if something like this happens, the prefect's yamen will blame you, and you will be responsible. You don't care about this?"

"in spite of."

Feng Xianzun narrowed his eyes and snorted: "In the final analysis, this incident was caused by the imperial court coming to Jiangdu to buy grain. The court's purchase of grain was directly done by the prefect's yamen. Now the price of grain in Jiangdu city has skyrocketed, causing If the dissatisfaction of the common people is dissatisfied, what does it have to do with our county government?"

Speaking of this, Feng Zhixian threw the paper aside, and said lazily: "Burn it, burn it, and when the Shangguan asked, he said that the county government didn't know anything about this matter."

Master Deng nodded first, then glanced thoughtfully at Magistrate Feng, and suddenly understood why his master had such an attitude.

After figuring it out, Master Deng nodded, took the piece of paper out, and bowed to leave.

After Mr. Deng left, Feng Xianzun, who was on the main seat, opened his eyes. His eyes were not big, and he seemed to be squinting.

The county lord snorted: "You have taken all the benefits, and you can't escape this trouble. I didn't take a penny, so why should I wipe your ass?!"

"The matter has become serious, and the higher-ups will pursue it, and it will not do anything about me, Mr. Feng!"

Of course Feng Xianzun was angry.

Because he had already heard that the imperial court spent money to buy grain in Jiangdu this time, and the price of grain bought by the magistrate's office from the grain merchants had been compressed to the point where it could no longer be compressed.

In other words, the magistrate's yamen and the household official from the capital must have taken money from it.

But Feng Lu didn't see a penny of this money.

Although he is a subordinate official of the magistrate's yamen, Chen Zhifu doesn't have to go through him to do anything, but he is the magistrate of the county attached to Guo, and Jiangdu City is theoretically ruled by him, Mr. Feng!
Your prefect and the household department's lords have joined forces to make money from Jiangdu City. Of course he can't control it, but it's a bit too much to not share any money!
If he couldn't get any money, Master Feng had no choice but to go to the magistrate's yamen to make a fuss, so he could only hold his nose and endure it, but this incident caused trouble, and it was impossible for him to wipe Shangguan's ass.

I didn't take a single penny, not to mention the Ministry of Household Affairs or the court to blame, even if the three legal departments came to Jiangdu to investigate, Feng Lu was also innocent, and he had no fear at all!

In fact, Feng Zhixian also blamed Chen Yu and Chen Zhifu.

Although Chen Yu is young, his time in the officialdom is no shorter than that of Fengzhi County. He naturally knows some unspoken rules of the officialdom. They were all to be blocked, but this time, Chen Yu didn't get a penny from it, so it was naturally impossible to give the money to Mr. Feng, the magistrate of Feng County.

The Jiangdu county government office is in Jiangdu city, and the magistrate's government office in Jiangdu city is also in Jiangdu city, so what Master Feng can know, the magistrate of the government government government office will soon know.

When Chen Zhifu found out about this, he was drinking with Young Master Zhao from the capital in a small red building by the Yudai Lake.

Mr. Zhao has been indulging in Yudai Lake for the past few days in Jiangdu. He looks a little thinner, with two big dark circles under his eyes, obviously he has lost both energy and blood.

He sat with Chen Yu, looked at the dancing girl in front of him, and said with a smile on his face, "This Jiangdu girl is really gentle and lovely, if it wasn't for my family's permission, I would have taken two of them back to the capital and taken them as concubines. "

Chen Zhifu chuckled: "It's a blessing for them to be able to enter the son's house as a concubine."

While the two were drinking, a servant from the prefect's yamen ran over in a panic, first whispered something in Chen Yu's ear, and then handed a piece of paper in front of Chen Yu.

After hearing the boy's words, Chen Zhifu's face was already not very good-looking, and when he read the white paper in his hand, his face became even more gloomy.

"Jiangdu is full of tigers and wolves!"

Every word is heartbreaking!

Mr. Zhao at the side also noticed that something was wrong with Chen Yu. He put down his wine glass and asked with a smile, "Master Chen, what happened?"

Chen Yu put down the white paper, his face was a little distorted.

"Someone wants to destroy me..."

(End of this chapter)