My Brother-in-law is the Prince Chapter 334

  Chapter 334 I want to see blood flow into rivers

  Everyone looked at Zhou Juren's dead body in horror.

   Then came Zhang Anshi's exclamation: "God, I hate this the most, quickly take the corpse away, take away..."

  The lieutenants were also taken aback, and hurried to carry the corpse. Someone brought a bucket and wiped the blood on the ground and the yellow and white things that spewed out.

   Some people even rushed upstairs to drive the scholars who went upstairs, just in case.

The buildings of ancient times are different from those of later generations. Don't look at this group of Confucian pavilions with only seven floors, but in fact, the floors of later generations are only about 2.8 meters high, while the buildings of Confucian scholars are two feet high. two floors.

  Mr. Zhang was trembling. I don't know if it was because of Zhou Juren, or because of...the food...

  He just had a sense of desperation, like… he was screwed.

   Sure enough, there was another boy who didn't know who it was, rushing over and shouting: “One tael of silver and one stone of grain, this grain can't be sold, the grain traded in the market is 800 ren…”

   Zhang Taigong only felt that he was going to faint.

   What does this mean?

  It means that he received so much food for two taels of silver...almost made him bankrupt.

   What's more, there is still a large amount of debt to be repaid next. This debt is a large amount of borrowing, and the interest is not small.

  But all of a sudden, there is so much grain in the warehouse, how to sell it?

  Even if it can be sold, can it really be sold for 800 yuan?

   Next, there must be many people who want to sell grain, and countless grains are sold like a downpour. But the food in his hand... when will he be able to sell it.

  As for the loan... that is the scariest thing, it is the guarantee and mortgage of your own land!

  That is to say...if you can't find a way to repay, you will take the land.

   This is ancestral property!

  Continue to borrow?

   This is obviously impossible, relatives and friends...I'm afraid that many people have stockpiled food, and they will not be able to protect themselves.

  Continue to look for the bank...but...what else can he use as collateral?

   "It's over, it's over, this is the end of my life!" Zhang Taigong suddenly realized that Zhou Juren was lucky, at least he died, but it was all over.

  And the situation he has to face is really more uncomfortable than Zhu Xin.

  Eunuch Zhang's complexion was changing, and he was full of sadness at this moment, and he felt that his mind was extremely chaotic and a mess.

  At this time, I heard someone shouting: "Wei Guogong...Wei Guogong...It's you, you are the one who harmed us, we are promoted to the common people, why did you harm us like this?"

  People don't realize their own mistakes. If there is a mistake, it must be someone else who made the mistake.

   All of a sudden, one stone caused a thousand waves.

   Zhu Di frowned.

   Fortunately, before Zhu Di took the case, there were already many school captains, one by one holding on to the hilt of their swords, vigilantly surrounding Zhang Anshi, all looking ready to go.

Zhang Anshi stood up, and said coldly: "I have harmed you, what have I harmed you? Did I mention that food prices will rise? Or did I mention that there will be a catastrophe in Nanzhili, and the whole Nanzhili will be short of food? I have harmed you." Don't you know who the person is?"

Zhang Anshi sneered disdainfully and said: "I have said again and again that the Taiping Mansion has a bumper harvest and the whole Taiping Mansion is booming. I even sent a mansion newspaper to severely punish those who spread rumors and cause trouble. But... let me ask you, who is spreading rumors and causing trouble? You all admire those who spread rumors and make troubles? Didn't you always say that the Taiping Mansion is in ruins? Didn't you say that the food harvest has been exhausted, and there are starvation everywhere in Taiping Mansion? Why, I, Zhang Anshi, have managed it well. Are you disappointed after entering the Taiping Mansion? This Taiping Mansion has not caused cannibalism, so I, Zhang Anshi, deserve to die?"

  Everyone had dejected looks on their faces, and each of them was ashen, like a living dead.

Zhang Anshi continued: "You call yourself the Shengdou people, but in this Taiping Mansion, all the Shengdou people live and work in peace and contentment, why are you unhappy? Hoarding food and waiting for the world to die, can you take advantage of it? Fortunately, you are still Scholars, things that are not as good as pigs and dogs! If Confucius is born again, he will die of anger when he sees you and other things that are not as good as pigs and dogs. Fortunately, you are still self-righteous, and you are still self-righteous, and you are called the disciples of some saints."

  After hearing this, everyone was furious. Some people shouted and scolded, but some people knelt down: "Duke Wei, please save us, please save us..."

  The grandpa Zhang was also in a hurry to go to the doctor, but he also knelt down and said with a mournful face: "If you don't save us, we will die without a place to die."

   Everyone cried out.

   This time it is really going to be over, if the family property is gone, if the land is taken away by the bank. Then...it's all over.

  Zhang Anshi laughed and said: "You want to teach me how to save?"

  Someone said: "As long as the Taiping Mansion doesn't sell grain... the price of grain will rise back sooner or later. Duke Wei... If this is the case, the princes and the people of the world will be grateful..."

   "Yes, yes, Duke Wei... I implore Duke Wei to lend a helping hand!"

  Seeing how miserable they were, Hu Guang couldn't help his eyes getting wet, and couldn't help but look at Zhang Anshi, hoping that Zhang Anshi wouldn't do anything wrong.

   Out of the corner of Yang Rong's eyes, he glanced at Zhang Anshi with a half-smile.

  Zhang Anshidao: "As long as the Taiping Mansion does not sell grain, the grain can return to the original price, then...you can survive, right?"

   "Yes, yes! If Duke Wei is like this, he will be praised for thousands of years."

  Zhang Anshi said: "This is not impossible."

  After everyone listened, some people were ecstatic, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.

  So, everyone bowed down and kowtowed to Zhang Anshi: "Duke Wei deeply understands righteousness..."

   "Then how much should the food price return? Three taels, four taels, five taels?"

  Zhang Anshi continued word by word: "The bulk of the food has increased, so the common people have to pay several times the price to buy food. In order to fill their stomachs, they will spend several times the price, right?"

"I promise you, it can be passed down for thousands of years. I naturally believe in this. But if I promise you, the cost of buying food for the people in other prefectures in Nanzhili who are short of food will be unattainable. And your deficit will It has been passed on to those small people who need to buy food. You say...will they come to scold me, Zhang Anshi, or come to scold you?"

"I, Zhang Anshi, don't care about things after Qianqiu, and I don't want to. Future generations comment on merits and demerits, and I have a relationship with today's me? I, Zhang Anshi, are short-sighted and only look at the present. If I did something like this with you today , is going to be stabbed in the spine. You don't have any shame, how can I, Zhang Anshi, not want it?"

  After everyone listened, suddenly, the last bit of hope was shattered.

Zhang Anshi looked at them, his face was full of sarcasm, he sneered and said, "Why do you think I want to hold a poetry meeting here? I just heard that you people talk about my right and wrong behind your back all the time. What did you say that the Taiping Mansion is already full of starvation, but I just want to take advantage of today's food delivery day to teach you to see with your own eyes and see how ridiculous you really are! Now that things are going on...I still want Zhang Anshi to save you, you guys How old are you?"

After Zhang Anshi finished speaking, he waved his hands disdainfully, like chasing flies: "Go to death, go to hell, keep on scolding, do whatever you like! But... don't die here in my group of Confucian Pavilions, don't die." Dirty this group of Confucian pavilions, come... see off guests."

   These words are really chilling.

   Someone yelled.

  Someone was crying loudly.

  The lieutenants shouted and chased away mercilessly one by one.

  Mr. Zhang only felt his eyes darkened, his heart ached, and he shouted: "Mr. Li, Mr. Li..."

  That Li Xiucai has already fled, and there is no trace of him at all.

   Zhang Taigong immediately groaned and fell to the ground.

   A bang.

   A moment later, someone stepped forward and shouted, "Another one died."

  Zhang Anshi still kept his face cold, unmoved.

   It wasn't until these people carried away those who drove away, and drove away those who drove away, that peace was restored in this group of Confucian pavilions.

   "Hey..." Hu Guang sighed.

  He sighed too much, but suddenly heard a voice from outside: "Why doesn't the court care about it? Is there any royal law to bully us like this... Oh my God... there is no one in the civil and military court who is a gentleman?"

  But someone yelled: "Hu Guang wronged the country, and he will never be reborn in his next life!"

  Hu Guang: "..."

  The noisy voice is getting farther and farther away.

  Zhu Di looked up at Hu Guang playfully.

  Hu Guang hurriedly prostrated himself, and said with a wry smile: "Chen..."

  Zhu Di said indifferently: "Get up, it is better for them to scold you for harming the country than for them to praise you. If such a person praises you as a gentleman, then... I have to be more cautious with you."

  For a while, Hu Guang didn't know what to say. He suddenly realized that Yang Rong might be right.

  It's just... thinking that I was notorious and was not tolerated by the group I was born in, I still feel sad and sad, and I don't know how to deal with it.

   Seeing that everyone who should go has left, Zhang Anshi has already stepped forward, saluted and said: "Why is Your Majesty here?"

  Zhu Di said: "Come and have a look here, watch the excitement, um, Qunru Pavilion, this place is not bad."

Zhang Anshidao: "I... didn't mean to flaunt myself. In fact... I just wanted to build a square by the river so that the nearby residents could have a place to go for leisure. But after the square was built, I thought, this is bare. The square seems to be lacking some embellishments. So this pavilion was simply built. Visitors can eat and drink enough, and when they are tired from walking in this square with their relatives and friends, they can also enter the pavilion, take a rest, and drop by. Go to the corridor of the attic and have a look at the river view."

   "You have a lot of thoughts." Zhu Di laughed, he felt that Zhang Anshi's brain was really overactive, and he wanted to toss about everything.

Zhang Anshi smiled: "When this loft is built, choosing a name is a big problem. First of all, it must be elegant, and second, it must have deep meaning. Look at the world's famous buildings, which one has no story behind it. I dare not take the identity of your majesty and brother-in-law. Telling the story of the attic, I was afraid that I would trespass in the palace because of this, and after thinking about it, I had to wrong my brothers, so I named it Qun Confucianism."

  Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "There is no need to explain. This time, the summer food in Taiping Mansion is the best in the world. It is really unexpected. This time, I was also taken aback."

  Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "Where, where, in fact, I didn't do anything?"

  Zhu Di nodded: "This is similar to what Yang Gong said. He also said that this is the result of the concerted efforts of the nine counties in Taiping Prefecture, and it cannot be attributed to one person."

  Zhang Anshi glanced at Yang Rong resentfully, feeling very complicated.

  Zhu Di continued: "But you are the governor after all, and this merit is still yours. This time, you can be regarded as proud of me. What happened just now?"

  Zhang Anshi briefly explained the matter, and finally said: "There are people spreading rumors everywhere, saying that the Taiping Mansion is over, so many people went to buy food one after another, and in the end...it was smashed into their hands."

After Zhu Di heard this, he smiled slightly and said, "These people are really hateful. But what you said just now touched my heart. To deal with these people... that's how it should be! It's just... eight hundred coins and one stone grain...you How much silver did you collect for this grain?"

"It's also 800 Wen." Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, now Taiping Mansion has a bumper harvest and there is so much food, but if... because of the large amount of food, the food plummets, so the people who have worked so hard to plant Grain is worthless. The so-called cheap grain hurts farmers. Therefore, the Taiping Mansion has tried a unified purchase system. Part of the food is used as an emergency reserve in the treasury, and the other part is to find a way to digest it."

After Zhu Di heard this, he frowned and said, "In this case, if the price of grain is high, the common people will sell the grain to other places for profit, but if the price of grain is low, they will sell it to the government, and the government will lose money." ? If things go on like this, it is not a small burden."

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "Yes, this is also the problem, so in addition to storing some like ministers for emergencies. On the other hand, I plan to find a way to work **** the diversification of this food Look, Your Majesty, if there is too much grain, you can make wine. If not, I plan to build a few food workshops, so that there will be room for profit."

   "Food workshop?" Zhu Di looked at him thoughtfully, as if waiting for his next words.

Zhang Anshi went on to say: "Besides, those coarse grains can also encourage the believers to raise livestock. I also plan to set up animal husbandry stations in various counties, hire veterinarians, and introduce various pigs, chickens and ducks... In short, You can't do without food, but once you have food to eat, you can't do it alone. What you have to do now is to grow food desperately. The extra food is always useful.”

  Zhu Di looked at him seriously and said: "Can the common people undertake livestock husbandry?"

Zhang Anshidao: "The minister ordered people to investigate. Now in Taiping Mansion, each household has several people and owns about 20 acres of land. Now that water conservancy has been built, fertilizers have been encouraged, and grain types have been improved. In fact, it is only seven or eight acres for food The land is enough for a whole family to have three meals a day, and every meal is white rice."

  Three meals a day…

  Hearing these words, not to mention Zhu Di, even Xia Yuanji couldn't help but gasp.

   Can you not rush to shock?

   You must know that the so-called three meals a day are generally only enjoyed by wealthy households and nobles.

  In this era, the living habits of ordinary people are two meals a day, morning and evening, and it is good to be able to eat. And as for white rice...it's not something ordinary people can eat at will. Most people eat yellow rice or other coarse grains.

Zhang Anshi said again: "Some of the surplus crops can be sold, and the surplus can be enough to raise some chickens and ducks or grow some vegetable fields. Of course, the government cannot ignore the situation in the year of the catastrophe. If there is an extreme catastrophe, the government must release grain. I have built grain depots in every county to ensure a year or a half of storage, in order to prevent it from happening."

After a pause, Zhang Anshi continued: "Of course, this alone is not enough. If the strong men go out to do some part-time jobs during the slack season, or if the family has more labor, one person can go out to work. This can also be regarded as improving the family situation. The way. The government can encourage it."

  Zhu Di listened, very satisfied, nodded repeatedly and said: "You have predicted everything."

Zhang Anshi said sincerely: "It's not that I expected it, but changed the tax system to ensure that the government has power. If it were like before, a county would only have a few decent officials, and the rest... would be handymen. The taxes received are not even enough to support myself, and to do anything, you have to look at the eyes of the sages and gentry, so even if Bao Zheng is alive, it is hard for a clever woman to cook without rice."

   Zhang Anshi's words are the truth.

  In ancient times, the standard of a good official was basically linked to the so-called blue sky. But it's hard to hear that who revitalized one side and made the local people get a huge improvement.

  Therefore, when the ancients wanted to praise someone as a good official, it was often after the person arrived at the place that he immediately started to deal with old cases accumulated over the years, and then how to seek justice for the people.

  Shengsheng turned the duties of the county magistrate into a so-called judge.

   But in fact, in fact, the ancient magistrates did have limited authority. What they can do may really be the work of judges. As for other things, which one does not require money? Anyone who comes will be caught blind.

  So most of the time, the so-called county government is essentially village and clan autonomy, so the so-called sages and gentry are derived. They control local affairs. The affairs of this place have not improved for thousands of years, and this is also why.

Zhang Anshi said again: "Actually, in the final analysis, the reason why the Taiping Mansion was able to go so smoothly is thanks to His Majesty's vigorous efforts to confiscate and purge the rebels in the six counties. The implementation of the New Deal can be smooth. If it is not the case, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to... What to do."

  As soon as this remark came out, Zhu Di thought of Yao Guangxiao again.

  If it wasn't for Yao Guangxiao, I'm afraid Zhu Di would never have made up his mind so painfully.

  Thinking about it at this time, Zhu Di even felt a little scared.

  Could it be...Master Yao has already thought about today, what he wants is to completely remove these obstacles, and also for today?

  Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but his eyes turned red. Master Yao's actions are unpredictable!

  If it was someone else, Zhu Di would never doubt that a person would even arrange things behind him clearly.

  But if this person is Yao Guangxiao, then...the greatest possibility is...this is exactly what Master Yao wants to pursue. Everything, since he stepped into the original Ningguo Mansion, he has already planned.

  And what is happening now is more like the last game he played with his own life.

  In this chess game, Yao Guangxiao as a chess player is no longer there, but he has predicted the result from the very beginning.

   "Hey..." Zhu Di was in a complicated mood, sighed deeply, and then said with emotion: "Master Yao's plans are so great that extraordinary people can imagine."

Zhang Anshi also seemed to understand Zhu Di's meaning. In fact, Zhang Anshi also doubted that the best conditions Yao Guangxiao created for him directly turned the six counties into a blank sheet of paper without any resistance from the New Deal. Was it... Yao Guangxiao's original plan, Or maybe it's just... just a coincidence.

  But if they are really planning and planning, then... Yao Guangxiao's wisdom is really terrifying.

  Zhang Anshi subconsciously said: "Your Majesty thinks..."

  Zhu Di took a deep look at Zhang Anshi, and said: "I have known Master Yao for many years, and I have seen his methods. These... must be his handwriting. Hey, he dared to take his own life like this, do you know why?"

  Zhang An Shidao: "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty."

Zhu Di seemed to be careless, but he was full of emotion, and said word by word: "This is because he believes in me. Once I make up my mind, I will never change it easily. He also trusts you. I believe that after his death, Zhang Anshi dares For the world first. This is the real person who seeks the country. He seeks the country with his body, regardless of fame and fortune. I mean, Master Yao has a spirit in the sky, even if he is willing to forgive you, I will definitely not forgive you lightly."

  Zhang Anshi is silent.

  He thought that he was the most steadfast New Dealer, but who knows, there is someone who is more steadfast than him now.

  He even offered his life to support him, is he better than him?

   Alright, now it's as if a firecracker is protruding from the back of his head, this road can only go to the dark.

  Zhang Anshi took a deep breath, admiring Yao Guangxiao from the bottom of his heart, and said earnestly: "I will die forever."

  Zhu Di's face softened, and he didn't continue to talk about this topic, but turned around and said: "I came to Qixia today, and I feel that Qixia seems to be much more lively."

   "Of course." When Zhang Anshi mentioned this, he immediately beamed with joy, and said happily, "Does your majesty know why?"

  Zhu Di said: "Don't be a fool."

  Zhang Anshidao: "Your Majesty, guess it. Guess more, you can exercise your brain and prevent old age... No, Your Majesty is wise and omniscient. If you think about it, you can understand it as soon as you think about it."

  Zhu Di pulled his face down, turned his head, glanced at Yang Rong and the others, and said: "I am too lazy to guess, Qing and others are all heroes of my Ming Dynasty, let's guess, if you guess right, I will reward you."

  Hu Guang: "..."

  Natsuhara Yoshi: "..."

  Jin Zhong: "..."

  Even Yang Rong, Zhang Er's monks can't figure it out. This is completely a field they have never set foot in. How can they guess?

  (end of this chapter)

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