Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2136 Carnivore

  Taixing four years.

October.

   Zuo Fengyi.

  The howling north wind has blown up unknowingly, which has caused the temperature to drop a lot in the past few days. People inside and outside the city began to wear thicker clothes on their bodies to resist the cold.

Although the temperature has dropped, the number of people in these central cities in Guanzhong has not decreased much. The bazaars are still noisy, and the shouts of merchants are still loud. Everyone is selling or buying according to their own needs. The winter has not yet come completely, so save some reserves for yourself.

The north side of the city is generally the residence of high-ranking officials and dignitaries. What they pay attention to is quiet and comfortable, so it is far away from the noisy market, plus it attracts Qushui, and there are stone benches and tables, small pavilions and rockeries, for the purpose of Quiet amidst the noise, enjoy your leisure.

At the main street, there are fewer pedestrians. Occasionally, there is a delivery burden, and they will turn into the alley in a hurry, and then someone will hand over the goods at the corner gate. From time to time, there will be disputes about the quality of the goods, and some fireworks will be added. breath.

Most of the pedestrians walking along these streets are servants of high-ranking families, servants, maidservants, etc., and then they will glance at each other, and if their lintel is higher than the other's, they will pass by with their heads up On the contrary, he nodded and stood aside, waiting for the other party to pass before moving on.

  A fancy car turned around the corner of the street and came slowly. The servants from various houses quickly gave way to the road and stood by the side of the road. They didn't dare to raise their heads to discuss with each other until the car passed by.

  『Which house does this belong to? 』

  『Can’t you see this? Really, there are decorations on it, from the Yang family...』

  『The Yang family? 』

  『And that one? Hongnong Yang! 』

  『Uh...what is Hongnong doing here? 』

  『Hehe, you have a lot of guts, you dare to take care of the master’s affairs? 』

  『I’ll just talk casually… talk…』

   When Yang Xiu got out of the car, there were already several people talking and laughing in the courtyard in harmony.

  Although the harvest of this year's autumn harvest is so-so, it can even be said that it is a year of bad harvest, and the year of famine is not an exaggeration, but for these manor owners, the atmosphere is not tense, and they don't think there is anything to be nervous about...

  Laughing and talking, toasting and inviting, if you put aside the topic of discussion between them and only look at the appearance, then most of them will think it is just an ordinary feast.

  『I heard that the south is fighting hard...』

  『Isn’t it? 』

  『Hussars have sent troops to Wuguan a few days ago, and there is no news of victory so far...』

  『Yeah, I saw refugees coming, but I didn’t see any good news. Could it be…』

  『No, I’m afraid it’s because the Wuguan Road is difficult, and it’s stuck somewhere. 』

  『Well, it makes sense. 』

  『So... I’m afraid it will be difficult for the hussars to triumph in this year? 』

  『It’s hard to say, but it seems like it’s probably true...』

  『Ah, in this battle, food and grass must be requisitioned... What should I do? 』

  『Yes, yes, what should I do? 』

  Although what they said was good, there was no worry on everyone's face. It has been three or four hundred years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, and the war is not once or twice. As for the requisition of grain and grass, it has been carried out countless times. Local tyrants like these with a lot of land in their hands are even more familiar with these things. The requisition of food and grass will certainly have some impact, but they will quickly transfer these impacts to other people...

  This year, due to various reasons, the food production is insufficient, so from the very beginning, these big households began to preach that the price of food will definitely rise, will rise, will rise...

At the beginning, the common people were skeptical, because the management of the hussars in Guanzhong in the past few years has been very effective, and the prices have been stable. Generally speaking, the lives of ordinary people are quite good. Many people even plan to borrow When the winter is slack, tidy up the roof of your house, or the fence in the yard, or pull a few feet of linen cloth for your mother-in-law to make clothes. Anyway, there are many places that need money, but the savings in their hands But very few, if it is because of the rise in food prices, then it is almost equivalent to the original things, all of which cannot be done...

  Ordinary people are afraid of rising grain prices, but they have no way to control this matter. If they buy grain at a high price, what if the grain price does not rise? Similarly, if you don't buy some grain now, what if the price rises in the future?

  Ordinary people are worried, but the big households and landlords are laughing, because they have hoarded a considerable amount of grain and grass in the past few years. Therefore, the increase in food prices is a disaster for the common people, but for these big households, it is a pie falling from the sky, delicious, fresh and hot.

   Just one month after the autumn harvest, the price of food has quietly increased by 10-20%, but this is far from enough...

   What can you do with an increase of 10 to 20 percent?

   At least it will be doubled, and doubled again!

   Otherwise, where does your family’s money come from?

  The basic principle is like this, but when it comes to the details, it is thousands of times more complicated. It's just that this is not the first time these big households have done this, otherwise their grandparents wouldn't have accumulated so much real estate...

  In their cognition, this is earning hard money. You know, hoarding so much... er, food and grass also requires a lot of effort. Not to mention other things, you have to build a few warehouses, right? It also needs to send someone to guard and maintain it, which takes a lot of effort!

  Of course, these things still cannot be said aboveboard, after all, it is still necessary to express on the surface that the landlord of that family has no surplus food! There is not much grain and grass in the market, so the grain price has to go up!

  The most important thing is that the big households must unite to gain an active position in the struggle against Huqi's food price control, so these people even began to look forward to snowing soon!

Because as long as it snows, the roads in various places are basically closed, and then the soldiers who are riding outside can't say that they will be able to turn around in a while, which means that more food and grass are needed to support the front line. You can hold the bargaining chip and negotiate terms with General Hussars.

  As for those ordinary people, a group of gamers... er, a group of people who can't read a few characters, what can they know?

Although General Hussars has not yet issued an order for recruitment, but on the one hand, it is the expedition of soldiers, and on the other hand, the influx of refugees. Both of these things need to consume food and grass, and the farmland under Hussars can support it. Can it cost so much? They calculated and calculated, and then judged that it was difficult.

   Difficult.

  Then being able to solve a problem for the hussars, does that mean meritorious service? With meritorious service, can we have more low-tax "Grand Land"? Then it is almost equivalent to more output, more wealth, more beautiful women, and more other items that can improve the quality of life.

  This is an invisible war...

  Just two days ago, a warehouse in the county was flooded and burned to the point that there was not even a **** left. The chief officer happened to be at home on sick leave, and the deputy in charge was arrested and imprisoned.

   Then the deputy "suicide in fear of sin"...

   Immediately near the county seat, there was another wave of price increases for grain and grass, which was nearly 50% higher than the previous grain price! You know, it's not long before the autumn harvest is over...

   It's just the beginning, at least in the hearts of these big players, it's just the beginning.

  Of course, in order to determine some things in the end, it is necessary to know a little peripheral news, especially how long will the war between the Hussars and the General last?

  This is very important. If the hussars are fighting against the outside world, then their minds must be on fighting against foreign enemies. Then internal affairs will naturally be neglected to some extent. As long as no major incidents arise, they are generally discussed. Is it stable, is it harmonious, isn’t that how big men have come here for three or four hundred years?

The key is Huqi's "Juetian Law" is too much of a headache. No one reacted to it before, because many people actually think the same. Bo Zou, each leader preaches every day that he is the strongest, Xeon or something, but what happened in the end?

   Aren’t the big local households staying behind?

   And those Guanzhong masters who boasted of being extremely powerful before are all dead now!

  So at the beginning, the big household in Guanzhong thought, whether it is five years or eight years, how long can you, Feiqian, stay in Guanzhong? Maybe it's not five years before you end up with Dong Zhuo, Li Guo, etc. Then the "Juetian Law" and other laws issued by you Feiqian are just a piece of waste paper? No, worse than waste paper? At least the waste paper is still worth some money and is useful.

  So after Jia Xu, Pang Tong and others cleaned up the wave, it basically became the consensus of the big households in Guanzhong, just wait and see who can survive who...

   Unexpectedly, Fei Qian took root in Guanzhong. Seeing the time for "Jue Tian Lv" getting closer, these people naturally became more and more anxious.

  『Young Master Yang is here! 』

  Everyone in the courtyard stopped and turned to look at the door.

   It was not Yang Xiu who came, but another son of the Yang family in the Yang family, Yang Shuo, named Zifeng.

  『It’s really a sin to come down late and make you tired for a long time! 』Although he said "sin", it obviously didn't mean any real sin. Instead, he smiled and seemed very proud.

Although the Yang family of Hongnong had ruined a lot of family property before, but after taking the post of Luoyang order, they somewhat improved slightly by taking advantage of the name of the old "Eastern Capital" of the big man. The poor and embarrassing situation before was naturally improved a lot, and even the people with the Yang family were able to straighten their backs.

   This is the case for a powerful family, where everything is damaged and everyone is prosperous.

  No one would take Yang Shuo's modest words seriously. If he wanted to punish some "crimes", everyone was happy and cheered.

As for why people from the Yang family were invited to come, the simplest and most superficial reason is that the Yang family is on the border with Cao Cao after all, and it belongs to the Heluo war zone. In other words, compared to being well-informed, it is an exciting and painful choice to further push up the price of food in the future to make a fortune, or to accept it as soon as it is good.

   After exchanging pleasantries, they gradually got to the point.

  From a certain point of view, these people represented a force in the manor economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

  The manor economy may have represented a more advanced productive force at a certain point in time, but after entering the feudal society, the disadvantages of the manor economy gradually emerged.

  The manor economy of the Eastern Han Dynasty was based on the large land ownership system of the feudal landlords. An important way for the manor owners of the Eastern Han Dynasty to obtain a large amount of land was to annex private land. The large land ownership system of the manor economy in the Eastern Han Dynasty has experienced a long-term development process. In the economic activities of the manors in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of land acquisitions and occupations through legal or illegal means have always been the core and key of its economic activities. Examples of powerful manor owners in the Eastern Han Dynasty relying on their power to sell at low prices and even rob people's land can be found everywhere in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, thousands of slaves and tenants, and assets reaching billions. normal.

  When the land becomes the target of all wealth, everything will eventually fall on the land.

Officials are keen to use power to acquire land, and businessmen will exchange the money they earn for more land. Handicraftsmen, and people in other industries, even people who have just escaped from extreme poverty, are eager to Being able to acquire a piece of land, this kind of deformed love for the land finally made it even more difficult for the big man to walk an inch after the stupid decree of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty...

That is to say, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the actions of the Han Dynasty to open up the territory to the surrounding areas gradually slowed down. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the territory even shrank. There were many political and economic factors, but one of them was inseparable from this "manor economy". The shackles of the world have caused many people's vision and life-long ideals to be restricted by the land under their feet, and they cannot be separated.

  The Eastern Han Dynasty was a regime built on the corpse of Wang Mang's new dynasty. When the two regimes alternated, the powerful landlord finally chose Liu Xiu because Liu Xiu did not engage in land reform.

In response to the issue of land annexation, Wang Mang's new dynasty introduced a policy of nationalizing all land and restoring the previous "well field system". People of different classes have different reactions to this policy. First of all, the proletariat can obtain land through this policy. , so they all applauded; but for the powerful landlords, the state will take away their excess land through this policy, so the powerful landlords strongly oppose it.

   Just a proletariat without effective leadership...

  At least at this moment when the Han Dynasty was handing over, these proletarians who supported Wang Mang were easily taken into the ditch by the powerful landlords. The reason is simple, the proletariat of the Eastern Han Dynasty knew too little and was very fragile...

Therefore, the capitalist countries of later generations are afraid that the proletariat will know too much. While desperately allowing their children to receive elite education 24 hours a day, they advocate happy education and provide various free entertainment. To reduce the burden on those middle- and lower-class children, it is best not only to reduce the burden of learning, but also to reduce the IQ. Even if some middle- and lower-class children propose that one plus one equals three, they cannot be corrected, and such children must be encouraged to continue. Stride forward bravely in the wrong direction.

  So these people in Dahan now naturally don’t think there is any problem with them, and they don’t think there is anything wrong with them in pushing up food prices. Isn’t everyone just earning some hard money? When the opportunity comes, how can you miss the opportunity to make money in vain?

Especially in the past when Guanzhong was in turmoil and all industries were damaged, the economy is now recovering a bit. These people finally saw the opportunity to make money, and the time red line of "Juetian Law" is getting closer and closer, and they will panic if they wait Even if you can't knock down "Juetian Law", you can get more bargaining chips. The worst is the worst. If you have more money in your hand, you don't panic, right?

Yang Shuo knew nothing about the peace talks between Fei Qian and Cao Cao, but he couldn't say that he didn't know anything, so Yang Shuo vaguely said some specious words, saying that now Fei Qian and Cao Cao Still fighting each other...

"Oh I got it…"

  『Brother Yang really knows a lot...』

  『It seems that the dispute over this thing is not for a while...』

  Zuo Fengyi's big family members exchanged glances.

   So, what are you doing?

   Engage!

  The food price...

   Still going up!

   Definitely need to continue to rise!

  Even if you want to spit out some for the hussars in the future, but it can fall into your own pocket, it is enough! If you have money, you don't make money, you bastard! In order to prove that they are not bastards, these big households of Zuo Fengyi almost immediately came to a common conclusion, continue to join forces to push up food prices!

The first step, these people are already doing, that is, all the grain stores put up the signs that there is no grain for sale, and then update a price every day, and release grain and grass that costs two stones from time to time, playing around and queuing outside the grain store the monkey...

The second step is to establish an offensive and defensive alliance. It is necessary to expand from Zuo Fengyi to Sanfu, and even consider going further to Hedong or even Heluo area to reduce the amount of grain and grass on the market together. Either put pressure on them, or simply join together and eat all their food and grass in one go!

   The third step, when most of the grain and grass on the market are under control, you can naturally call the wind and call the rain...

As for whether they will be suppressed by the hussars at that time, isn't the hussars and the general in a stalemate? Secondly, no matter who they are, it is inevitable that they will be lucky, just like corrupt officials who never think that they will be punished when they take bribes. Catch the same.

  However, I am still somewhat scared...

A group of Zuo Fengyi's big family gathered together, murmured for a while, and then found Yang Shuo, Yang Shuo laughed, as if a wise man who had seen the opportunity, waved his sleeves and said: "This What's the problem? You may wish to think about it, if it is an ordinary horse, killing it is killing it... But what about a famous horse? But willing to kill at will? The key is fame! 』

"Yes! Someone suddenly realized, "Now Hussars are new refugees, we can use them!" Taking care of the widows and the widows, so that they can be alone, does not cost much, but it is famous! We join hands and work together to protect the refugee one or two, but in reality, the refugee will repay our reputation! This is mutual insurance! At that time, you and I will be famous far and wide, even hussars, what can we do, what can we do? ! 』

  『Wonderful! 』

  『Exactly this reason! 』

  『Brother Taiwan is a great talent...』

  In the courtyard, the group of people burst into laughter, filled with the cheerful atmosphere of carnivorous animals.

  (end of this chapter)