NABC Chapter 334 I want to see blood flow into rivers
Chapter 334 I want to see blood flow into rivers
Chapter 334 I want to see blood flow into rivers
Everyone looked at Zhou Juren's corpse in horror.
Then came Zhang Anshi's exclamation: "God, I hate this the most, quickly take the corpse away, take away..."
The school captains were also startled, and hurried to carry the corpse. Someone brought a bucket and wiped the blood and the yellow and white things that spewed out on the ground.
Some people even started rushing upstairs to drive those 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 [-] meters high, while the buildings of Confucian scholars are two feet high. two floors.
Zhang Taigong was trembling, and he didn't know if it was because of Zhou Juren, or because...the food...
He only had a sense of despair, as if... he was finished.
Sure enough, there was another boy who didn't know who came rushing up and shouted: "One tael of silver and one stone of grain, this grain can't be sold, the grain traded in the market is [-] Wen..."
Zhang Taigong only felt that he was going to faint.
What does this mean?
It means that the amount of food he collected for two or two taels of silver...almost made him bankrupt.
What's more, there is still a large amount of debt to be repaid in the future. This amount of debt is a large amount of borrowing, and the interest is not small.
But all of a sudden, with so much grain in the warehouse, how to sell it?
Even if it can be sold, can it really be sold for [-] yuan?
Next, there must be many people wanting to sell grain one after another, and countless grains were sold like a torrential rain.But the food in his hand... when will he be able to sell it.
As for the loan... that's the scariest thing, it's a guarantee and mortgage with the family's land!
In other words... 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 am afraid that many people have stockpiled food, and they cannot 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.
Zhang Taigong's complexion fluctuated, and he was full of sadness at this moment, and he felt that his mind was extremely chaotic and a mess.
At this time, someone shouted: "Duke Wei...Duke Wei... It's all you, you're the one who harmed us, we're 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, a stone stirred up a thousand waves.
Zhu Di frowned.
Fortunately, before Zhu Di came up with the case, there were already many school captains, one by one holding on to the hilt of their sabers, 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 great 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? Why do 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, govern Alright, Taiping Mansion, are you disappointed? This Taiping Mansion has not caused cannibalism, so I, Zhang Anshi, deserve to die?"
Everyone looked depressed, each face ashen, like a living dead.
Zhang Anshi continued: "You call yourself the small people of Shengdou, but in this Taiping Mansion, all the small people of Shengdou live and work in peace and contentment. Why are you unhappy? You are 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 everyone heard this, they were furious, some shouted and scolded, but some knelt down: "Duke Wei, please save us, please save us..."
The grandpa Zhang was also in a hurry to go to the doctor, he knelt down and said with a mournful face: "If you don't save us, we will die without a place to die."
Everyone begged.
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 does not sell grain... the price of grain will rise back sooner or later. Duke Wei... If he can do this, he will surely be a prince for generations, and all people in 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 getting tears in his eyes, 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 Anshi said: "As long as the Taiping Mansion doesn't 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 understands righteousness deeply..."
"Then how much should the food price go back to? 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 have to 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 ordinary 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! Even now... I still want Zhang Anshi to save you, How old are you?"
After Zhang Anshi finished speaking, he waved his hands disdainfully, like chasing away flies: "Go to death if you want to die, keep cursing if you want to scold, do whatever you like! But... don't die here with my group of Confucian Pavilions, Don't make this group of Confucian pavilions dirty, come... see off guests."
These words really chilled people.
Someone yelled.
Someone was crying.
The school captains shouted and chased away mercilessly one by one.
Zhang Taigong only felt his eyes darkened, his heart ached, and he called out: "Mr. Li, Mr. Li..."
But Li Xiucai had fled long ago, and there was no trace of him at all.
Immediately, Zhang Taigong groaned and fell to the ground.
A thud.
After a while, someone stepped forward and shouted, "Another one died."
Zhang Anshi still had a cold face, 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 law to bully us like this...Oh my god...is there 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 was getting farther and farther away.
Zhu Di looked up at Hu Guang playfully.
Hu Guang hurriedly prostrated himself, and said with a wry smile: "Minister..."
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 moment, Hu Guang didn't know what to say.He suddenly realized that Yang Rong might be right.
It's just... when I think of myself being notorious and being 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 had to go had already left, Zhang Anshi 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 bare 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. , you can go to the corridor of the attic to 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 grain in Taiping Mansion is the best in the world, which is really unexpected. This time, I was also taken aback."
Zhang Anshi said with a smile: "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 went on to say: "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 fell 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 pennies and one stone grain ...How much money did you collect these grains?"
"It's also [-] Wen." Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, Taiping Mansion has a bumper harvest now, and there is so much food, but if... because of the large amount of food, the food has plummeted. As a result, the people have worked so hard to plant The grain is worthless. The so-called cheap grain hurts the farmers. Therefore, the Taiping government has tried to implement the 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 hard on 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 [-] 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 know, 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 satisfy their hunger.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 with satisfaction, 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 enough to support myself, and I have to look at the eyes of the sages and gentry to do anything, so even if Bao Zheng is alive, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice."
What Zhang Anshi said was 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 in 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 local officials in ancient times 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.
Therefore, most of the time, the so-called county government is essentially village and clan autonomy, which is why the so-called sages and gentry are derived. They control local affairs.
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 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 I will... It’s hard to do anything.”
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 now, 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 blush.Master Yao's actions are unpredictable!
If it was someone else, Zhu Di would definitely not doubt that a person would even arrange the affairs behind him clearly.
But if this person is Yao Guangxiao, then... the biggest possibility is... this is exactly what Master Yao is looking for. Everything, since he stepped into the original Ningguo Mansion, he has already planned.
And what's happening now is more like the last game he played with his own life.
In this chess game, Yao Guangxiao was no longer there as a chess player, but he had 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 just... There is no book without a coincidence.
But if they are really planning and planning, then... Yao Guangxiao's wisdom is truly 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 Anshi said: "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 own body, regardless of fame and fortune. Two meanings, 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 was 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 gave his life to support him, is he better than him?
Alright, now it's as if a firecracker is being held at 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 never refuse to die."
Zhu Di's face softened, and he didn't continue to talk about it, but changed the topic and said: "I came to Qixia today, and I feel that Qixia seems to be much more lively."
"Of course." As soon as Zhang Anshi mentioned this, he immediately beamed with joy, and said happily: "Does your majesty know why?"
Zhu Di said: "Stop trying to sell me."
Zhang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, guess more. 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 immediately."
Zhu Di pulled his face down, turned his head, glanced at Yang Rong and the others, and said, "I'm too lazy to guess, Qing and others are all heroes of my Ming Dynasty, let's guess, if you guess correctly, I will reward you."
Hu Guang: "..."
Xia Yuanji: "..."
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)