My Brother-in-law is the Prince

   Zhou Juren's wailing immediately added a bit of sadness to the house.

  Everyone panicked.

   Someone said in a low voice: "Where...where do you get so much food and put meat...this...this..."

  Someone said in disbelief: "How is this possible? Could it be a trick to set up suspicions and come here for us?"

"This is meat, it's meat!" Someone shouted: "It's impossible. It's just to teach us that Kaifeng is unlucky, so we only serve meat in Kaifeng? Nine times out of ten, all the four provinces serve meat. You Do you know... how much fish is needed? What is the market price of fish in the market?"

   "How many pigs have to be killed and how many fish are needed?"

  The repeated questioning made everyone fall silent.

  If the price of rice and meat in later generations is ten to one, then in this era, the price difference between meat and rice is at least thirty times higher.

  The reason is impossible, that is, the conversion ratio of meat in this era is low.

  Therefore, meat is a real luxury. Ordinary people can’t eat it during the New Year, and small landlords can only eat a good meal during the New Year.

  Although Zhou Juren and others are not short of meat, they can manage the land for a long time. How could they not know the benefits and disadvantages of this?

   As soon as the meat came out, I was completely desperate.

  Zhou Juren stood there in a daze, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

   Then, feeling more and more desperate, he couldn't help saying: "This is to persecute me, it's tantamount to death. They sold us food at a high price, but in fact... they have evil intentions, they have evil intentions!"

With a loud cry like this, he looked at Liu Jin, the prefect, his eyes were as big as lanterns, and he said angrily: "I understand, I understand, everything is understood. Your Majesty, this is Zhang Anshi's poisonous plan at all. This is to deliberately lure us and other innocent people to buy grain at high prices. In addition...the students even suspect that those who lend us money are also Zhang Anshi's people. The place of death! Your Majesty... Has there ever been such a treacherous and evil person in the world, who has planned so hard just to teach students that such a good-natured person will destroy his family?"

  After hearing Zhou Juren's words, an indescribable chill emerged from the bottom of everyone's heart.

  They are all very smart people. Once they start to calm down and think about the events of these days carefully, they seem to gradually understand.

  I thought it was the mantis catching the cicada, but who knew it was the oriole behind.

  The current situation is that they have countless grains in their hands, and almost all granaries are full of rice noodles.

  But... all their money was spent!

   Not only that, in order to buy more grain, after all, if you want to maintain the price of grain, you must ensure that all the grain on the market must be hoarded, so...borrowed a lot of money and continued to buy.

   Which family is not burdened with huge debts now?

  The scary thing is that now Zhang Anshi is still sending rice and meat to the refugees outside, at least for a long time, as long as the Taiping Mansion is still opening warehouses to release food to help the people. Then none of the grain in their hands can be sold.

  But this heavy debt, not to mention the debt itself, even the interest, is enough to overwhelm them.

  This means that even if they sell all their property, they may still owe people money.

   In this way, in a blink of an eye, they may not even be able to compare with tenants, really even worse than pigs and dogs.

  The magistrate Liu Jin seemed to have noticed something too. He looked at these bereaved people and felt sympathy for them in his heart. Now that he has reached this point, he is actually speechless.

Zhou Juren, however, was relentless, looking at him stubbornly, and then said: "Mr. Liu, the purchase of grain was also proposed by Mr. Liu. As for the previous things, there are some things that students have to say. Everyone is Scholars, there are some things that you don’t need to clarify, but there is one thing, everyone depends on each other in life and death, and we share weal and woe.”

"Now that they insult us like this and use such cunning means, they are already outraged by both humans and gods. If the people of the world know that Zhang Anshi is so vicious, everyone must punish them together. Mr. Liu, the students have no other requirements. One, return the grain immediately, and teach them to return the grain at the original price, not a penny less."

  As soon as Zhou Juren said this, it seemed that many people grasped at straws.

  So everyone shouted: "Yes, yes, the food is refunded, and there must be a penny. Please let the Lord be the master."

  Liu Jin's face was already miserable.

  He is very clear that these people are about to lose their families, and at this point, they will not have any scruples.

   To put it bluntly, these are desperadoes. For this sake, if their request cannot be met, they will do anything.

   What's more, these years, he has been in contact with these people a lot. In truth, he is also inseparable from these people.

  At the moment, he pretended to ponder, but in fact he was already flustered, but he just used pondering to cover up.

   "What if they don't retreat?" Liu Jin tried his best to calmly say: "This is Jin Yiwei, it's Zhang Anshi!"

  Zhou Juren's eyes were already red, and he said hysterically: "Whoever lied to me for a long time, I will pay it off!"

Liu Jin looked at Zhou Juren's ruthless look, tried to calm down the fluster in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Mr. ...wait and see."

  Obviously, Liu Jin still had luck in his heart.

   It's just the situation, which is more pessimistic than they imagined.

  In the east of the city, for half a month in a row, meat is available almost every day.

  Even... with enough food security, a group of women started to play new tricks.

  Because another batch of sugar and mung beans have been supplied recently, we made sweet porridge with mung beans.

  Sweet porridge like this can only be served to children first. This stuff may not be worth much in later generations, but in this era, it definitely exists like a bird's nest.

  First of all, white sugar is a scarce product. To use sugar to make porridge, for ordinary people, it is a waste of money.

  Someone turned a hundred rice into rice noodles.

   There are also people who have made all kinds of pancakes.

  Although there are not many ingredients, there are quite a lot of various designs and colors.

  The women are now at ease, and have slowly come out of the famine. Nowadays, a group of women get together and have a job, and everyone racks their brains and can always come up with new tricks.

  The men are divided into several thousand households and work separately.

  They dug a canal nearby.

  The official road was well repaired, and gravel was paved on the roadbed, so that the transportation of grain and horses was more convenient.

  The teenagers have textbooks. Although the paper is very poor, the books printed with ink carry a book fragrance that they have never smelled before. Many of these teenagers lost their parents in the catastrophe. Now, some people start to take care of their daily life, some give them new clothes, and some men mend their clothes. Three meals can be guaranteed, and some people care about them. of studies.

  In the panic, after all this is despair, suddenly there seems to be a ray of light, and this ray of light makes them suddenly discover that they can still live happily in this world.

  Although their happiness, at least in the eyes of the rich and powerful, is cheap, it is nothing more than eating and drinking enough, learning a few words, and being taken care of when they are sick.

   But even so, for the vast majority of people here, it is actually a luxury.

  Liu Jianye is already able to take care of himself. Sometimes when people come to consult, if it's just a minor illness, the two doctors let him handle it by himself.

  He can always deal with it properly. When he is free, he secretly reads the medical books brought by the doctors.

   This is what the doctor put on the bookshelf in the consulting room. On the cover is written: "Principles of Germs", "Compendium of Medicine", "Diagnostics", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and so on.

  The doctor seems to let him see everything, and sometimes he will test him.

  Father Liu is in charge of being a bricklayer, and occasionally comes to see him, and always saves up some food that he is reluctant to eat on weekdays and stuffs it for him.

  Of course, his attitude is not very good. He always scolds him with a sullen face not to be lazy, and to behave properly.

  Furthermore, Father Liu has a loud voice, and he always makes people around him hear it. This makes Liu Jianye hang his head every time, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to get in.

  The only thing that is not optimistic is the rice shop in the city.

  Ever since the Jinyiwei came, almost no one cares about it.

  It's ridiculous that they also played various signs of high-priced rice.

  As a result, many people in the city who were not affected by the disaster also went out and turned left, and went to receive relief like the refugees.

  Even the folks at the rice shop ran out of the city in a hurry.

  So much rice, not to mention the sky-high price now, even if the price drops ten times, I'm afraid it won't be sold.

  Such a scene, I really don’t know, I thought the owners of these rice shops were crazy.

  After half a month, in the deep house of the Wang family in the west of the city, as usual, the maidservant brought ginseng soup to wash the master.

   It was only three poles in the sun, and there was no movement in the inner room.

  So the maidservant tiptoed into the inner room, and when she entered, she immediately let out a scream.

   Immediately afterwards, all the members of the royal family flocked here, and some female family members began to cry.

   However, Wang Jin, the master of the Wang family, who is known as the king and half of the city, is hanging on the beam at this moment, with disheveled hair and a terrified complexion.

  Wang Jin has a big family and a big business, and he hoards the most food. Naturally, he suffered the heaviest losses.

  Overnight, all the family properties disappeared, and they were burdened with huge debts. Even if they sold all the fields and mansions, they would not be able to pay off.

  This Wang Jin was short-tempered, and in desperation, he simply died.

  Not long after, the magistrate came in person, left in a hurry after the funeral, and then returned to the government office, where Zhou Juren and others came again.

  Zhou Juren has gray hair and teary eyes.

  He and Wang Jin are old friends. Now that Wang Jin is dead, it is inevitable that the rabbit will die and the fox will be sad.

   Besides, his situation is not much better now.

   "Fu Jun..."

   "It says inside."

  Liu Jin already had a premonition that the situation was serious, so he entered the house, sat down, picked up the teacup, and drank tea.

   All of this, done in one go, has already become a habit.

Then, he said: "The government has already checked. People like you are not just you. To tell you the truth, there are countless people who have been victims. Now that the trouble has come to this point, people must be devastated. As a parent official, I can't bear to see the people under my rule being forced to such a point. Throughout the dynasties, although I have heard of various tyrannical policies that are fiercer than tigers, I have never seen them. , to practice such a despicable method, to plunder people’s property like this.”

  Everyone nodded sadly.

Liu Jin said again: "Since...the victims are not just one or two people, there is a possibility of redemption. In my opinion, this matter cannot be dealt with in this government. The only way is to go to Beijing and file a letter together. Well, let’s sue and complain, in a word, let’s all go together, maybe we can talk about it.”

  Zhou Juren and the others frowned, looking very hesitant.

Liu Jin glanced at their faces, and he understood their worries, and continued: "Don't worry, Luoyang, I heard that someone has left for the capital, and everyone's wealth and life are here. At this time, if How can it make sense if you don’t sue and don’t seek justice?”

After a pause, Liu Jin continued: "Now that Luoyang has taken the lead, I am afraid that there will be righteous men going with him in other prefectures and counties. In Kaifeng, all the victims will also go. Don't worry, there are still many in the court. People, I am concerned about the livelihood of the people. These days, I have also received some letters, concerned about the well-being of the people, and asking about your situation. Besides, why did someone from Luoyang Mansion enter Beijing first..."

  Liu Jin's eyes were half-opened and half-closed, eyes slightly closed, and said meaningfully: "You must know that Hu Gong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, has just left Luoyang not long ago. This is obviously...Hu Gong's instruction..."

  After Zhou Juren listened, he seemed to sense something, so he said: "What Mr. Liu means is... if we enter Beijing... the momentum is not small..."

Liu Jindao: "Not only is it not small, but this time, he, Zhang Anshi, has offended the public. Think about it, there are so many state capitals, so many people who have been victimized, there are thousands if not ten thousand. There are people who are upright and dare to speak, but I don’t believe it, my Ming Dynasty is a place where there is no kingly law.”

   "Okay." Zhou Juren gritted his teeth. At present, this is the only way that is more reliable.

  The people behind were also whispering, as if they also felt that they had grasped a life-saving straw.

   "I'm going to prepare right now, and I'll go to Beijing tomorrow." Zhou Juren said: "Now, we must seek justice."

   Everyone then left.

   Liu Jin suddenly said: "Wait a minute!"

  Zhou Juren stopped, raised his eyebrows and said, "What else do you want to teach?"

   Liu Jin said with an expression of ambiguity on his face, "We want to enter Beijing, but we can't enter for nothing."

   Zhou Juren showed suspicion on his face, and said: "The Fu Jun means..."

Liu Jindao: "The emperor and the people ruled the world together. This is because water can carry a boat and overturn it. If there were no people, wouldn't the court be a rootless duckweed? So the sage kings of all dynasties knew that This principle, but if there are traitors in the court, bewitching the sage, and making the sage go in without knowing it, then disaster may come. So, you want to go to Beijing, but your family can't be idle."

  After hearing this, Zhou Juren opened his eyes slightly, and immediately understood what was going on.

  The so-called co-governance of the world is that the emperor is high above. Local affairs are already controlled by people like Zhou Juren.

   Therefore, it is necessary to sue the imperial court, and at the same time there must be a little movement, to create a scene of Zhang Anshi's disaster for the country and the people, and the people's lives are ruined.

  Only in this way can the emperor Lao Tzu listen to his words and have to worry about these harmed people.

  So Zhou Juren nodded and said: "Zhou is taught."

   Liu Jin smiled and said: "Don't worry, if something happens to the Kaifeng mansion, the mansion will immediately start playing and report to the emperor."

  Zhou Juren and others bowed again, and then left.

  ...

   Zhou Mansion.

   "Friday..."

"exist."

   "How many years have you been with this old man?"

   "The little one has been with you, master, for thirteen years."

   "In the past thirteen years, I have taught you how to manage tenants and take care of the house. I have treated you well."

   "Master's kindness to Xiao is as great as a mountain..."

Zhou Juren raised his head, took a close look at Friday, and said again: "It's good that you know. At the beginning, you were just an idler. Now? People should be grateful, the old man will go to Beijing tomorrow, and you are here Well... don't you have many friends from three mountains and five mountains? And those people under you... come... let me tell you a few words."

  This Friday he smiled, bowed forward, and listened carefully.

  After Zhou Juren explained in a soft voice, he calmly said: "Don't worry, the government will not pursue you if you want to make trouble. The bigger the trouble, the better."

  Friday suddenly thought of the few women I covet on weekdays, and thought of some of my friends in the weekdays. He patted his chest and said, "Master, don't worry, it's just a little thing."

  ...

  A quick play.

   It was sent to the palace quickly.

  Zhu Di looked at Kuaizao, squinted his eyes, thoughtful.

   "Going to Beijing... sue the imperial court..." Zhu Di muttered these words, then raised his head and glanced in disbelief, and said, "Is it so blatant to sue the imperial court?"

  "Your Majesty." Yi Shiha said: "Many of them are scholars with fame and reputation. As scholars, according to my Great Ming Law, they can go to Beijing without guidance. It's just that their movements are not small, and they are ostentatious along the way... Slaves..."

  Zhu Di didn't show any joy or anger on his face, and he just said lightly: "It's justifiable for someone to complain about such a incident during this relief. What about Hu Guang, is there any news now?"

  Yi Shiha didn't understand Zhu Di's thoughts, so he said truthfully: "Grand Hu will come to Beijing too in a few days. It's strange to say that in the prefectures and counties he passed by, there are people who claim to sue the imperial court..."

Zhu Di paced around, lowered his head slightly and thought for a while, as if talking to himself: "Hu Guang is a fool, he may not have the ability, nor does he have the courage, this should be just a mistake, it can't be Hu Guang Encourage."

  Yi Shiha just laughed dryly, not knowing how to continue.

Zhu Di thought of something, looked up and said, "Why hasn't there been any movement from Zhang Qing's side? The Jin Yiwei only cares about feeding food, but arresting rebellious officials and thieves is also the top priority. Why haven't we seen any arrests?" one person?"