I'm so hard

Chapter 254
Immediately, all the ropes on Si Xiaofu's body were untied.

After Yin Maofeng wrote a request letter for 20 taels, Cui Haozhe followed suit without saying a word, the same 20 taels.

But Pu Zhongnan and Jin Yizheng just picked up the brushes, but they were stopped by Xiao Zijie.

"You two wait!"

The two looked at Xiao Zijie suspiciously.

"You two are in a different situation from them. Pu Zhongnan, your family is in the brothel business. This kind of business is very profitable. It's too little to ask you for 20. You can figure it out!"

After all, Xiao Zijie touched the crossbow stuck in his waist.

Park Zhongnan thought for a while and said, "How about 25...30 taels!"

When he said "20", he saw that Xiao Zijie was about to touch the crossbow again, so he immediately changed his words to 30 taels.

Jin Yizheng also hurriedly picked up the writing brush beside him, and said, "I...I also write 30 taels!"

Kong Ze shook his head: "No, you can't write 30 taels."

"My... my family's financial resources are similar to his's!" Jin Yizheng explained with a bitter face.

"In terms of financial resources, your two families are indeed similar, but in terms of personal status, you are higher than the three of them in the family, so you can take 40 taels!" Kong Ze said with a relaxed face.

"Four...40 taels? I...I...no problem!"

Seeing that Xiao Zijie wanted to touch the crossbow again, Jin Yizheng agreed in an instant.

This time, Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie wanted to extort a total of 110 million taels of silver from the four people. It was not because they were extorting extravagant prices, but because they knew the four economic giants in Korea, and each of them could provide the money.

The gap between the rich and the poor in Goryeo is even greater than that of Dazhou. The sum of the money of these businessmen is more rich than the treasury of Goryeo. Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie naturally cheated as much as they could.

After getting the money, they chose a place to continue cheating, first cheating money, and then cheating people. Anyway, they will not return to Dazhou until the end of December.

……

At the beginning of October, the wind blew in Changdan City for more than ten days, and the weather suddenly became cold.

The sky is overcast and there is a possibility of snow at any time.

In the vertical arch hall, the stove had already been set up, and Zhao Yan was very happy when he saw the memorial presented by Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie and the stub of the 120 million silver note.

It was definitely a very wise decision made by Zhao Yan to let these two boys cheat for money.

Near noon, Xizi asked, "Your Majesty, what do you want for lunch?"

Looking at the gloomy weather outside, Zhao Yan said: "Let's have a hot pot meal, the requirements are the same as usual, and you call Xiao Jingye into the palace, and say that I invite him to dinner."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xizi immediately went to prepare.

An hour later, Xiao Jingye came over with a smile on his face.

In recent months, as the New Deal has entered the right track and the court officials are united, Xiao Jingye has been much more relaxed.

When a person is at leisure, his complexion tends to improve.

And it was not the first time that Xiao Jingye had dinner with Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan loves to eat hot pot, which is a well-known thing among the courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are only five ministers who can eat hot pot with Zhao Yan: Xiao Jingye, Yang Xinghuai, Kong Moshan, Liu Chaotong and Pan Wenyue.

Originally, there was a chance that Shangguan would be displeased, but he paid attention to health preservation, didn't like spicy food, and was not very good at talking, so after Zhao Yan called him once, he didn't call him anymore.

The two ate and chatted, and they were both in a very happy mood.

At this moment, there was only a "bang", and the door of the palace was suddenly blown open.

A burst of cold air suddenly struck, both Zhao Yan and Xiao Jingye couldn't help shivering.

Xizi, who was waiting on the sidelines, quickly went to close the palace door. When he reached the door, he looked up and couldn't help saying, "Your Majesty, it's snowing!"

Hearing this, Zhao Yan and Xiao Jingye all stood up and walked to the entrance of the hall.

Whoosh!

Outside the door, there was a gust of cold wind, and heavy snow like goose feathers fell from the sky.

After a while, the ground was completely white.

Zhao Yan frowned slightly, and said, "The snow fell a little early this year!"

Xiao Jingye nodded slightly, this snow is not auspicious snow, because it is a sudden drop in temperature, it is very likely that many animals and plants will be damaged by freezing.

"Yeah, the snow is a bit strange this time, but the sky is unpredictable, and it will be sunny again in a few days!"

"I hope so." Zhao Yan looked towards the sky. In Da Zhou, what he couldn't control was the sky.

In the evening of that day, the snow fell heavily, and it fell more and more quickly, and the temperature dropped again. Zhao Yan's bedroom was filled with more than a dozen charcoal basins.

……

The next day, the sky was bright, the sun was dazzling, the sky was clear, and the weather was dry and cold.

The entire Changdan City was pure white, shrouded in a blanket of snow.

Zhao Yan was wearing a fur coat. After eating breakfast, he just arrived at the Chui Gong Hall when he heard a hurried and loud voice outside the hall.

"Hurry up at the mouth of the Yellow River! Urgent report at the mouth of the Yellow River!"

Zhao Yan listened carefully, and it seemed to be Yang Hong's voice. He couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, but he couldn't think of any problems at the mouth of the Yellow River. It was impossible for Heihan and Beimeng, who were closest to the mouth of the Yellow River, to attack here.

"Let Yang Hong in!"

After a while, Yang Hong, with somewhat disheveled hair, strode into the hall, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, it's not good. Last night, the mouth of the Yellow River passing through Caizhou suddenly broke its embankment, and most of Caizhou was flooded!"

"What?" Zhao Yan stood up suddenly.

"Caizhou? Caizhou? Although Caizhou is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the water is weak now. How could it suddenly burst and flood half of Caizhou? What are the casualties?"

"According to the news from Feige, the garrison of the Shence Army, at least seven or eight mansions were flooded, and countless farmlands were flooded. Coupled with the sudden cold air, the number of people who drowned and froze to death may be tens of thousands!"

Zhao Yan took a long breath, and said to Xizi who was at the side: "Quickly call Xiao Jingye and Kong Moshan into the palace."

Xizi immediately walked out of the palace gate and ordered the soldiers of the Imperial Army to summon the two of them.

Zhao Yan then said to Yang Hong: "Yang Hong, regardless of whether this is a natural disaster or man-made, you gather [-] magical troops and immediately join the garrison in Caizhou, and arrange the disaster victims properly first. The follow-up money and food will be delivered!"

"Sir, obey!" Yang Hong immediately got up and left.

Not long after, Xiao Jingye and Kong Moshan also came. When they were on the road, they heard about the disaster in Caizhou, and they were very anxious.

"Kong Moshan, I want you to quickly collect enough food to feed 10 people for a month, and ship it to Caizhou. You can also bring as many clothes and quilts as you can!"

"Wen Xiang, Caizhou has suffered a disaster and the people are suffering. I'm afraid I need you to go there in person. Otherwise, I don't worry. The Chinese New Year will be in two months. I don't want the people of Caizhou to still be in dire straits."

"I will appease the hearts of the people in Caizhou, please rest assured, Your Majesty!" Xiao Jingye said solemnly.

In the afternoon of the same day, Feige, the prefect of Caizhou, arrived. When he saw the truth of the embankment breach at the Caizhou section of the river, Zhao Yan's face instantly became gloomy.

(End of this chapter)