Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 348 Attack
"Thank you very much!" Wang Wenzuo was overjoyed when he heard the words, hurriedly put away the talisman letter, and walked out.

When Wang Wenzuo got his men ready, it was more than a quarter of Shenshi. He went out of Yanxi Gate and turned south, passed Yongxing and Chongren Erfang, and then turned west, following the east-west direction. Street, all the way through Wuben, Xingdao, Guanglu, and Taiping Sifang, with cavalry in front and troops behind.There was no one on the street, only scattered debris and corpses. From time to time, people could be seen poking around on both sides of the street, but before Wang Wenzuo ordered to chase them, they quickly disappeared into the alley.

"Stop!" Wang Wenzuo raised his arm and ordered his subordinates to stop at the junction of Yanshou, Taiping, and Buzheng Sanfang. This place is very close to the West Market, and he can even hear the shouts of the mob. I don't want to just rush over with a hundred people in a daze, and get caught in the vortex of thousands of mobs.

"Xiao Yi, tell me the truth!" Wang Wenzuo said in a low voice, "What's going on here? Didn't you take advantage of the Qianqiu Festival to assassinate the queen? How did you make such a big deal happen?"

"Want to hear the truth?" Wu Xiaoyi glanced at Wang Wenzuo with a sneer on his face: "This kind of request is really strange. Few people in the court like to listen to the truth!"

"It's them, not me, and I'm not even a member of the court!" Wang Wenzuo said, "Speak up, don't waste time, don't you claim to be a knight who saves danger? Now every moment there are people Die!"

"Okay!" Wu Xiaoyi's face changed slightly: "I'm telling the truth, but I'm afraid you will be very disappointed. They only asked me to assassinate the queen. I don't know anything else. In his eyes, I will definitely be caught. , Knowing too much is harmful!"

"Okay!" Wang Wenzuo sighed gloomyly: "I have a hunch, what a bad day!"

"But seeing all this, I'm not surprised at all. Really, I'm even a little surprised that something happened today!"

"What do you mean?" Wang Wenzuo asked in surprise, "Didn't you say that you don't know the content of their plot?"

"Liu Weili doesn't have that much ability to turn so many people into robbers!" Wu Xiaoyi sneered and smiled: "The vast majority of these people are spontaneous!"

"Spontaneous? Are you saying that this riot has nothing to do with Liu Weili?"

"There may be a little relationship, but how do you say it? Wang Sima, do you know how much a bucket of rice costs in Chang'an?"

"How much is a bucket of rice?" Wang Wenzuo was stunned. He had never bought rice in Chang'an, so how could he know the price of rice?

"Seven or eight dollars a fight?" Wu Xiaoyi laughed: "Wang Sima, it's not surprising that you think so. After all, you don't have to worry about food and clothing, and you don't need to pay attention to the price of rice!"

"When I passed by Hebei this time, I saw that the price of rice was seven or eight yuan!"

"That's Hebei, not Guanzhong, and it's not Chang'an. I paid attention to it when I passed by the West Market the day before yesterday. A bucket of corn costs eighty cents!"

"Eighty Wen!" Wang Wenzuo was taken aback: "How can it be so expensive? This is ten times the price of rice in Hebei!"

"Is it strange? Not surprising, this is Chang'an, Chang'an, which is not easy to live in!" Wu Xiaoyi sneered and said, "Did you know? The grain from the southeast is transported to Luoyang, and one dendrobium is worth eight buckets (the shipping fee is [-]%), and then from Luoyang again To transport it to Chang’an, the shipping fee for a bucket will be [-] renminbi, plus shop rent, warehouse commission, loss, and merchant’s interest, is [-] renminbi too much?”

"How do you know these things?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"We in Chang'an don't have ten days' worth of wealth. If we don't pay attention to these things, I'm afraid we'll starve to death!" Wu Xiaoyi sneered, "Wang Sima, do you understand why you said that now?"

"Listen to you, this city of Chang'an is sitting on a pile of firewood!" Wang Wenzuo sighed. It can be said that Chang'an was the first capital city in ancient China to rely on water transport to survive. The strong national power and developed trade of the Tang Dynasty made The scale and population of Chang’an City have reached unprecedented levels (excluding modern China), and it is an absolute international metropolis. The dense population exceeds the agricultural support capacity of the Guanzhong area, and most of them are handicraftsmen or floating waves who have left agricultural production man of.In order to make up for the food shortage, the imperial government had to transfer a large amount of food from other agricultural areas.

However, unlike Kaifeng, Nanjing, and Beijing in later generations, the water transportation conditions in Chang'an are much worse. Whether it is from Henan, Jianghuai, Hebei or the southeast, the cost of transporting grain is extremely high. As a result, the price of rice in Chang'an fluctuates extremely. Large, periodic famines occurred.It has happened many times in history that the nearby Luoyang granary is full of grain from the southeast, but Chang'an is worth thousands of dollars, the dead carry the Tao, and even the emperor has to take dignitaries and imperial troops to Luoyang to flee famine. grain.Even if the emperor is like this, the living conditions of the many ordinary residents in Chang'an City can be imagined. When the price of rice is low, the poor people have wine and are drunk today. It is not surprising that yuan purchases.

Just as Wang Wenzuo was considering whether to let Wu Xiaoyi go ahead to investigate, a person came out from behind the wall of the square by the road and ran towards this side, but was stopped by the sergeant and pulled over. Asked, the man suddenly shouted: "Ming Zun, I actually met you in Chang'an! Wang Canjun, please help me quickly!"

Wang Wenzuo was taken aback when he heard the words, and looked closely at the man kneeling on the ground. He saw that he had a high nose, deep eyes, and a medium build. He should be a barbarian, and he didn't have the slightest impression: "You know me? Why don't I have any impression at all!"

"Your nobleman forgets so much!" The man smiled and said, "The villain is the companion of Mr. Cao Ye, and I saw him join the army twice when he was in Baekje. The villain's status is humble, so it's not surprising that you don't remember joining the army! "

"Oh, oh! So it is like this!" Wang Wenzuo nodded, and asked casually, "Then where is your master now, is it okay?"

"The master of the villain is in the West Market right now, surrounded by thousands of thieves, he is in danger!" The man kowtowed twice: "I also ask Wang Canjun to help!"

When Wang Wenzuo asked, he found out that Cao Yena happened to be in Xishi today. When the riot broke out, many Hu merchants in Xishi fled into the Zoroastrian temple, relying on its strong walls to defend themselves.Since the four walls of the Zoroastrian Temple were all made of bricks, outside mobs couldn't take it down for a while, so Cao Yena asked his servants to escape from the secret passage to ask for help from the officers and soldiers.

"This is strange. Since there is a secret way, why didn't your master escape, but stayed in the Zoroastrian temple?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

(End of this chapter)