Ming Dynasty fake eunuch

Chapter 656
The end of the new year is approaching, and the capital has become extremely lively. The people are busy taking inventory of this year's harvest, and then start preparing for the new year.

Merchants from other places also began to lower prices in order to sell the goods as soon as possible and go home early for the New Year.

The thousands of years of tradition of the Chinese people, even if they only stay at home for a while, they will travel thousands of miles to go home. The inheritance of thousands of years has also created the most industrious race in the world.

In the busyness, it seemed that the whole capital city was in motion. Ye Xun liked this atmosphere very much. Early in the morning, he brought a few guards in micro-clothes to the market.

Whether a country's economy is stable or not, the most direct reflection in this era is food prices.

After walking around, it’s not bad. Polished rice costs [-] renminbi, and brown rice only costs a dozen or a few renminbi. This is not easy to sell, because with the prosperity of the economy, the lives of the people in the capital have also improved a lot. If you want to buy brown rice to eat, you will be laughed at, and most of the people who buy brown rice go back to feed the livestock instead of eating it for themselves.

The meeting time with Mr. Zhang San was at noon, and this kid even booked a brothel in order to deceive others.

Fortunately, Ye Xun is not a real eunuch, otherwise, if he decides this place against him, he will have to turn his face against him, what is it like to bully someone who doesn't have that thing.

Looking at the bustling market, Ye Xun was in a good mood. It can be said that Daming was able to come back to life today. It can be said that he created it all by himself, and it is a lie to say that he is not proud.

After shopping for a while, I felt a little hungry, so there happened to be a wonton stall on the side of the road, so I went over and ordered a bowl of wonton noodles. While eating the steaming wonton noodles, I chatted with the old man who set up the stall.

"Old man, where are the people? With so many people, the business must be good, right?"

"Thanks to you, the little old man is from Huainan. After the two rivers and Huai Rivers flooded the year before last, you dragged your family to the capital. You are also lucky. Today is the last day for the little old man to leave the stall. Tomorrow, we are going back to Huainan." Well, I heard that with the help of Eunuch Ye, the lives of the villagers are better, and the embankment has also been repaired. Although the capital is good, it is not as good as home!"

Few of those who praise and flatter themselves face to face are sincere. Only by hearing the voices of ordinary people can one feel the joy of being loved and appreciated.

I don't want what the old man said next, but Ye Xun's mood changed.

"In fact, although the old man wants to go back to his hometown, the children don't want to. They always say that this place is more prosperous than their hometown, and they say that there are more opportunities. These young people!"

The old man kept shaking his head as he spoke, as if he had something to hide.

"Old people worry too much, young people should be aggressive, otherwise they will not live up to the good times of youth"

This kind of situation in later generations is called Bei Piao, but in ancient times, once there was a famine there, the first thing people thought of was the capital. , if there is no special channel, it is difficult to stay in the capital.

Each has its own way of life, and when the water is clear, there will be no fish. Ye Xun will not interfere in these matters.

"At first glance, the distinguished guests are foreigners. You don't know that life in the capital is becoming more and more difficult."

"Oh! Why is that?"

Maybe it's because he's leaving tomorrow, but the old man talked a lot today.

After looking around, he said in a low voice: "I don't know that the distinguished guest is a foreigner. Now many shops are enshrining nine-thousand-year-old statues in their homes. If you want to make an offering, you can just offer it! After all, the nine-thousand-year-old god has made great contributions to the court. , but to invite this statue back, the price ranges from 500 taels to as many as a thousand taels, those rich people don’t think much of it, people like us can afford it!”

Nine-thousand-year-old statue!

Hearing this term, Ye Xun's eyes narrowed immediately. In history, only Wei Zhongxian was called nine thousand years old, but now that Wei Zhongxian has long been executed, it is almost time to figure out who this so-called nine thousand years old is.

After eating half of the wonton noodles, he was in no mood to eat anymore, took out a silver coin from his pocket and threw it on the chopping board, suppressing the anger in his heart, and said softly: "Does the old man know where there is a statue of a nine-thousand-year-old god? "

"Hey! This little old man doesn't know. It was the servant master of Shuntian Mansion who came to inform us before. He just told us to prepare the money and not invite the nine thousand-year-old statue back home. Either leave Beijing or go to jail."

The governor of Shuntian Prefecture is Liu Zongzhou. He just took office yesterday, so it is impossible for him to do this.

And in this incident, Hu Jiucheng was the one who made Ye Xun most angry. As the boss of Xichang, how could he not know that such a big event happened under his nose?Or do you know and don't report?
Ye Xun is no longer in the mood to go shopping anymore. If this matter is not clear, the good reputation he has accumulated through hard work will definitely be ruined.

He raised his footsteps, thought for a while but then put it down again. How could he only listen to the words of an old man who set up a stall for such a big matter?

He turned his head and nodded to a guard beside him.

The guard had already heard Ye Xun's conversation with the old man who set up the stall just now, and after seeing Ye Xun's eyes, he immediately understood what Ye Xun wanted him to do, so he bowed and gave a salute, then turned and strode away.

The old man who set up the stall didn’t have a good look. It wasn’t until now that he realized that the distinguished guest he was talking about seemed to be more than just a distinguished guest. The burly men next to the stall seemed to be casual, but after a long time, there was no one besides this distinguished guest. The patronage of guests is not like this in the past.

"Guest, you, you"

Ye Xun smiled slightly, took out more than ten silver coins from his pocket, threw them on the chopping board, and said: "Old man, I will borrow your place for use, please forgive me for disturbing you."

The old man was so frightened that he couldn't earn these silver coins by selling wonton noodles for a month, but someone gave him a tip easily. How rich is this man!
It's not that the elderly have never seen the world. Before copper coins were completely withdrawn from circulation, among the low-level people, it was still the main currency in circulation. Silver coins, like gold ingots, had to be kept at home in the bottom of the box.

In a short time, the guards went and came back, holding a statue of a god in Taoist robes in his arms. The statue was carved so vividly that it was eighty percent similar to Ye Xun.

"Go and send this thing to Hu Jiucheng, and tell him that I will wait for him here, if there is no result in an hour, he will disappear by himself!"

Ye Xun had already forgiven Zhang Ziwen's matter last time, but this time even if he found out about it, Ye Xun still had to consider whether it was time to transfer him from the position of the head of the Xichang stall?

Without my knowledge, I got a name of nine thousand years old for myself, and forced merchants to buy statues at a high price. This is no longer as simple as discrediting myself. The person who manipulated this matter is definitely sinister. .

Hu Jiucheng returned to Beijing more than a month earlier than Ye Xun. He returned to Beijing directly from Dengzhou. The matter in Japan can be said to be very successful, but this cannot be used as a reason for his exoneration.

I don't know when it started, the originally noisy market suddenly quietened down strangely, and everyone's eyes turned to the wonton stall
(End of this chapter)