Water Margin people

Chapter 1205 Xiao Jiasui enters the city

At the dock outside Hecai Town, merchant ships are loading goods.

Xiao Jiasui was wearing a clean gray robe, holding a ledger and an abacus in his hand, just like an old accountant.

There was no one to see him off. Xiao Jiasui had sneaked in secretly this time and was not suitable to see him off. There were many informants from Tokyo here at the dock. If he was discovered, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

Xiao Jiasui was on a ship counting the goods with a ledger and abacus.

As the trumpets sounded, each ship had counted its cargo.

“The quantity is right!”

Xiao Jiasui also spoke to the shipowner.

These shipowners are all from Tokyo. They are responsible for driving the ship to Tokyo, where someone will unload the cargo at the dock.

Xiao Jiasui naturally followed the ship to Tokyo.

Li Gang, who was on the tower, suddenly felt his eyelids twitching, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart, as if there was some danger.

Xiao Jiasui just approached Tokyo City when he spotted Li Gang on the tower. He just glanced at Xiao Jiasui and lowered his head slightly, covering his face with his hat. He and Li Gang had met several times. If their eyes met, even if they put on makeup, will be recognized.

"Now that the powerful enemy is outside, Tokyo still opens its gates so wide."

Xiao Jiasui was a little surprised. Li Gang was now a guard in Tokyo. This status of guarding the city tower showed that Li Gang attached great importance to Tokyo's defense.

Xiao Jiasui didn't look up and just followed everyone into Tokyo.

"Well, so many caravans are coming again?"

"This is my excuse!"

Li Gang couldn't understand what Sun Lei meant. He knew that Sun Lei must have a conspiracy, but he just couldn't figure out what it was.

Li Gang frowned as he looked at the caravan entering the city. These were determined Qi people, and there were definitely spies among them.

A large number of laborers are already waiting at the dock. These people are all locals in Tokyo and now make money by loading and unloading goods at the dock.

"Li Gang?"

Li Gang sighed helplessly, but he could not stop all this. If it were not for trade, Tokyo would be famine now.

"Are you going to register separately? The security is tight enough!"

"I didn't expect that Li Gang would personally guard the tower."

Xiao Jiasui smiled in his heart.

After unloading the goods, Xiao Jiasui entered Tokyo with the caravan. At this time, Xiao Jiasui had put on a beard and put some black powder on his face. He suddenly looked much older, like an old man in his fifties.

Xiao Jiasui was naturally prepared. He was also from a caravan, but he was from a local caravan in Tokyo.

"Go over there and register!"

When the soldiers guarding the city saw the reason for the caravan, they immediately pointed to a shed nearby.

After three days of travel, Xiao Jiasui arrived at the dock outside Tokyo.

Li Gang got up and went to the city wall and looked at the endless flow of people coming in and out of the city, as well as the bustling dock in the distance.

The soldier checked several times, looked at Xiao Jiasui again, and then let him go.

Xiao Jiasui entered Tokyo and quickly blended into the crowd, heading toward the inner city along the street.

“Why is food still so expensive!”

Not long after leaving, I saw a large number of people in shabby clothes shouting around the grain store.

"Before there was a shortage of food, you sold it for 1,700 coins per stone. Now that there is no shortage of food, why are you still selling it at this price?"

"It is! It is!"

……

The crowd roared angrily. Hunger is terrible. People who are hungry can do anything.

"One thousand seven hundred wen? That's quite dark! The purchase price is only one thousand two hundred wen, and it's easy to transport it by water. Do you dare to increase the price of this stone by five hundred wen?" Xiao Jiasui shook his head after hearing this. He knew that in Tokyo Food prices are high, but I didn’t expect it to reach this point now.

Xiao Jiasui was not in a hurry to go to the inner city, and just watched the excitement outside the grain store.

After watching for a while, I went to the salt shop next door. The price of salt has also risen sharply. Refined salt already costs one hundred cents per pound.

Xiao Jiasui walked around the streets of the outer city and found that prices in Tokyo's market had doubled, and the people were complaining endlessly.

"It looks like the unrest just needs a little fueling."

Xiao Jiasui thought about it. High-profit trade not only plundered Tokyo's money, but also attracted Tokyo's caravans. Now low-profit goods from other places cannot be transported in. Goods are scarce. This is why Tokyo's prices are soaring. s reason.

Xiao Jiasui walked around until dark. As soon as it got dark, the streets in the outer city became depressed and there were fewer people.

"Is this already the case in the outer city?"

Xiao Jiasui also came to Tokyo back then. At that time, there were many hooks and tiles in the outer city, so it was not as depressed as it is now.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Xiao Jiasui entered the inner city.

The moment I stepped into the inner city, the feeling was different.

"This is Bianliang, Tokyo, where people are feasting and feasting!"

Looking at the lanterns on the street, the luxuriously dressed pedestrians, the restaurants mingling with each other, the green mouths of the warblers and swallows, and the endless shouting, Xiao Jiasui smiled, and now he finally saw the real person in Bianliang, Tokyo.

"Inner city, outer city! Haha!"

Xiao Jiasui chuckled and walked into a Wazi restaurant near Fanlou.

As soon as I entered, I heard shouts. There were cockfighters, dogfighters, and gamblers. Looking at the gold and silver on the gambling table, the bets were all huge.

Xiao Jiasui ordered some food and drinks and sat down by the window on the second floor of Wazi, where she could see Huangjianyuan Street.

Xiao Jiasui looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street and made calculations in his mind.

Tokyo is now very divided. The rich live in the inner city and the poor live in the outer city.

The inner city is in ecstasy, while the outer city is in dire straits.

This is the most realistic portrayal of Tokyo now.

Just as Xiao Jiasui was thinking, there was a commotion at the door of Panlou opposite, and dozens of idle men wanted to take action.

"Ok?"

Xiao Jiasui watched the excitement with interest.

People in Wazi no longer care about drinking and gambling, they are all running to watch the fun. There are people behind the idle people in Tokyo.

"Who are these? No one cares about the fights on the street?"

Xiao Jiasui asked, looking at the people around him.

All the gamblers were familiar with each other on the street. They recognized him at a glance and started commenting. They turned out to be idle men raised by several princes.

"Why did this fight start?"

Xiao Jiasui asked again.

"you do not know……"

Several gamblers lowered their voices and spoke in detail. This was actually related to the struggle for imperial power.

It turns out that since Zhao Huan and Zhao Ji fell out and ordered the guards to block Gen Yue, all the princes began to take sides, and it was common for their subordinates to fight.

The farce lasted for a long time, and the idle men fought softly. No one killed anyone. They fought just to show their loyalty.

After sitting for a long time, when the street returned to calm, Xiao Jiasui stood up and left. He did not contact everyone in Tokyo, nor did he go to the secret stronghold. Instead, he came to an inn in the inner city and asked for an ordinary room.

The management in Tokyo is very strict, and you have to have a license to stay in a hotel. This made Xiao Jiasui admire Li Gang's methods, but these tricks were not enough to deal with Qi Guo.

(End of this chapter)