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Chapter 710 Cui Mian's Integrity

The delicate balance originally constructed by three generations of emperors Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi was disrupted in Chang'an.

In the past, whenever the money disaster came, the big guys obediently accepted the exploitation and waited for the matter to pass. Although everyone would suffer losses, the person who caused the disaster would not do everything. After a certain point it will stop.

Just like when cutting leeks, you will never dig the roots of leeks, which can be regarded as a kind of kindness.

This time, during the process of cutting leeks, someone actually started to rebel. For those people, killing the rebel was far more important than making money.

This is why Yunchu firmly believes that these people must fight him to the death in Chang'an.

I have to admit that under the circumstances that people are throwing money to Chang'an over and over again, the supplies on the city's surface in Chang'an are rapidly disappearing.

Needless to say, the food has really become a bowl of copper coins.The food is gone.

After the price of grain rose to 150 yuan per bucket, the price finally stopped. However, this kind of stop was not because of the kindness of Cui Mian, but because there was no one who could afford to sell grain to Cui Mian. It's not something ordinary people can exchange with a bowl of grain, but it needs to be traded in large quantities on the running water card in Qujiangli.

And the quantity is carried out on the basis of one thousand loads.

Therefore, in Chang'an City at this time, everyone cherishes food very much, and many people think that eating is eating money.

Yunchu needs to lead by example, and Gentle also needs to lead by example, so the meals of the two of them have become very bad now.

Not to mention any meat on the table, even fine grains are gone. Now, even Li Si, who is the most picky, no longer clamors to eat meat. He only hopes to be satisfied with a meal of dumplings stuffed with leeks and eggs up.

Of course, Cui Mian's so-called killing did not mean physical destruction. This method of killing Yunchu had already been tested in Luoyang, and the effect was not satisfactory.

And they also have to be prepared for the horrible consequences of not killing the tiger.

They knew about the results in Luoyang, but they couldn't be sure that Yunchu did it. However, so many people died, so they must be suspicious of some people, right?
The elegance of the aristocratic family is that they hate to use violence to solve things. Of course, this is because many times, they can solve many, many things without violence.

When everyone is hoarding food, meat has become extremely precious. The previously unimpeded access to yaks has completely stopped recently, because Xu Jingye raised the price to a level that even Yunchu couldn't bear. up to the point.

Until Yunchu held his son Yunjin and his daughter Yunjin to take a nap together, Yunchu felt a pain in his arm and woke up to see that his daughter and son were holding his arm and chewing on it in their sleep.

Seeing the two children wriggling their mouths, Yun Chu felt very sad, so a cow fell to death in the Yun family's farm...

People in Chang'an city who are used to eating meat for a long time now habitually sniff when they pass by the two large canteens in Chang'an. Unfortunately, the familiar aroma of boiled meat is gone now.

Fortunately, there are always some coarse grains distributed in Fangshizi. The quantity is not much, but it is enough to feed the whole family.

Yunchu killed a thousand camels at one go, and the meat was put on the market. Although the price was very expensive, it was gone within a day.

Needless to say, it was snatched away by Cui Mian, a rich man.

He didn't allow Yunchu to give the common people any hope.

The money in the hands of the common people either bought grain early on, or bet all of it on the house. Therefore, the coarse grains that Fangzheng distributes every day have become the only source of food supplements for the big guys.

Rich families left Chang'an City long ago, went to the countryside, or returned to their hometown for food. They have stronger survival ability than ordinary people.

Fortunately, in Chang'an, the officials of Wannian and Wannian counties have shown an extremely strong cohesion. In this difficult period, they still follow the two county officials. I believe that Chang'an City will definitely become the final victor.

Yunchu set up a big pot in the county government office, and half a cow was boiled in this pot, which was the cow that fell to death in Yun's farm.

Yunchu's ability to cook beef is naturally outstanding. From early in the morning, the aroma of stewed beef wafted from the Wannian County Government.

At noon, when the beef was cooked, Mr. Liu stood beside the cauldron with a smile, put a small piece of beef on each official's rice plate, and poured a spoonful of thick broth on it.

He kept cheering the big guy up and said: "Be patient, everyone has eaten a lot of fat in the past few years, just take this opportunity to clear the stomach, and when this momentum passes, let's eat meat in a big bowl , drink heavily."

The lower-level officials were still well informed. They knew that the food shortage this time was not caused by natural disasters, but by man-made disasters. It was not that there was no food in Chang'an City, but that the food had been bought away.

Since the food is still in Chang'an, they don't worry too much. At present, the county officials can still maintain the rations of the people of Chang'an City. When the county government can no longer afford it, they have ways to obtain food outside the plate.

Now, it's just that the county lord doesn't want to use those methods.

A bite of meat is very inspiring. Everyone knows that after all the cattle in the county lord's family fall to death, it will be time for the county lord to explode. Min Zhuang with blue eyes will never continue to be a vegetarian.

When Lu Ting came to the Wannian County Yamen again, he happened to meet Yunchu, Gentle, Di Renjie and the three of them sat around a pot and ate braised beef with millet buns. There was not much meat in this pot of braised beef, more The best ones are yam and taro.

After rejecting Yunchu's invitation to eat together, Lu Ting sighed and said, "Your Majesty, this is not a way. You can't fight Cui Mian with the well-being of everyone in Chang'an City."

Yun Chu took a bite of braised beef, and another bite of millet buns, chewed and swallowed slowly, and then said lightly: "It's a good deal to suffer once, so that you don't have to suffer again in the future."

Lu Ting said: "The help you expected from the Lord did not come, and the eight hundred li urgent memorial you sent to Luoyang was blocked by the sect before it arrived at Yushitai.

And Junhou's memorial to His Majesty, although it was in His Majesty's hands, His Majesty did not express anything. Junhou, Cui Mian has too much money and food in his hands, and he would rather dedicate the money and food to His Majesty. There is only one requirement, that is, not to send it to Chang'an can only be transported to the disaster area.

Even if you want to use the government to take advantage of it, it is impossible. "

Yunchu soaked the millet buns in the broth for a while, and then took them out to eat very sweet.

Gentle, who swallowed a large piece of beef, said, "What does Cui Mian want?"

Lu Tingdao: "Marquis Yun came to apologize personally, and at the same time, allowed 160 seven families to buy the houses on both sides of Zhuque Street. One house is [-] yuan, no two prices."

Yunchu smiled wryly and said, "For the people of Chang'an, I am willing to come to apologize, but the houses on both sides of Zhuque Street are 12 yuan a set, and the price is not the same.

You tell Cui Mian, don't forget, I also have a lot of copper coins in my hand, and when I have enough food, it will be his death. "

Lu Ting then sighed and said, "Why bother, both sides will suffer, and the people will suffer in the end."

Yun Chu sneered and said, "Tell Cui Mian, you should either exchange a huge amount of copper coins for the house on Zhuque Street, or get out of Chang'an City, and go back and forth obediently, Chang'an City is not something he can do whatever he wants .

You think that His Majesty sees Chang'an in danger and ignores it, but you don't know that His Majesty is testing your truth. Once you return home in Chang'an, it will not be what I, Yunchu, want to do to you, but what I want to do to you. Facing punishment from His Majesty.

After all, the people in Chang'an City are also His Majesty's subjects, you think a little food can change His Majesty.

Lu Ting, sometimes I really feel that you people are different from ordinary people. Ordinary people can see that His Majesty's patience with the wealthy family has reached the extreme, but you don't know it. What's the reason? "

Lu Ting seemed to be suffering from a sighing disease, and sighed again: "The old man didn't participate, and the old man got a house with [-] guan in real money.

What Junhou said is correct, Cui Mian will definitely die, but Cui Mian is not afraid of death, it can even be said that when Cui Mian did this, he was already ready to kill everyone. "

Di Renjie burst out laughing.

"A Lord Longyang, and a Lord Longyang who has no son or daughter, can only behead one of his whole families. He is really not afraid of death."

Lu Ting said: "If Your Majesty wants to cut off some more heads, it is also possible. Some people are willing to give heads."

Yunchu watched Lu Ting leave and said to Di Renjie, "Are you sure he is really a Long Yang?"

Di Renjie nodded.

Di Renjie knew Cui Mian's every move.

Yunchu didn't know what method Di Renjie used to get someone from Cui Zhuan to keep an eye on Cui Mian for him.

Cui Zhuan is actually not a very good spy, but it is better to use him to keep an eye on Cui Mian, because he is Cui Mian's school boy.

Cui Mian couldn't do without him all the time.

"You haven't seen Cui Zhuan before, as long as you meet him, you will feel that it is understandable for men to like men."

Di Renjie collapsed on the chair, crossed his hands on his fat belly, and licked his lips when talking about Cui Zhuan.

Rourou immediately said: "Looking at the way Lao Di licked his lips, there is no need to describe how beautiful this man is.

The question now is that Cui Mian bought more than [-]% of the output of the cotton cloth workshop, which caused our cotton reserves to be insufficient. Should we continue to allow Cui Mian and the others to buy up all the cotton cloth? "

Yun Chu smiled and said, "The market is free, people are willing to pay more for those cotton cloths, why not allow it?"

Di Renjie said: "People in Chang'an have not been short of clothes these years. If they don't make new clothes for two or three years, they won't die.

It's really impossible, and it's not impossible to wear linen and coarse cloth. "

Gentlely said: "Those people buy and want everything, it seems that they are really planning to buy out Chang'an City.

The grain war has come to an end. Now we have to wait for those greedy grain merchants to bring grain from the canal, and we can use the excuse of repairing the canal waterway to cut off their retreat.

Also, are you really going to kill Cui Mian? "

Yun Chu said: "In the future, Chang'an must be made into a forbidden place where those people can't make trouble.

Cui Mian must die. "

Di Renjie, who was picking his teeth, took out a big piece of shredded meat from the gap between his teeth, chewed it carefully and ate it, then said indifferently: "This man must be killed by punishment, assassination is not allowed, let alone his death is inexplicable."

"Do you hate this man so much?"

"Yeah, it's because of him that I even have to eat the shredded meat between my teeth. In the past, I just spit it out."

Yun Chu clapped his hands and said, "Then wait until we sell the last hole card. No matter what, we must make Chang'an a city of wealth and wealth, a city so rich that ordinary people dare not enter."

Wenrou sighed and said: "What's the difference between your behavior and Cui Mian's?"

Yun Chu said with a smile: "Of course there are differences. I need a large group of people who regard Chang'an as their life, a group of people who are proud to defend Chang'an no matter what the situation is, and a large group of people who are willing to fight with Chang'an City. People who live and die together.

Rather than a group of speculators, a group of people who see benefits and run away when they encounter danger. "

He smiled gently: "So, the first batch of people who came in were actually the fertilizer that nourished Chang'an, right?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "It's not like that, Chang'an City is not a devil's den."

Di Renjie said: "Actually, it's already a magic cave, isn't it?"

She smiled softly and said, "It's a new world."

No matter what these three people said, the various projects in Chang'an City are still proceeding step by step.

In July, when the weather was hottest, Yunchu ordered Xingqingfang to be emptied, and held a grand groundbreaking ceremony. After the first vacant house was demolished, the price of grain in Chang'an City rose by six copper coins again.

　Brothers, I am sick and I suspect it is influenza A, but I have no evidence, because I have no other symptoms except bone headaches and lethargy. I went to bed very early last night, slept twice during the day, and now I was yawning, crying, my body told me - go to sleep now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)