Ningyuan Zhongyoushou, Caozhuang Post.

Wei Liangchen sat on a small stool outside the post station, holding a painting board supported by a wooden board, and was constantly writing and drawing on the paper on it.

Li Yongzhen and the postmaster of the postmaster were negotiating whether the eighth-rank official Zhongshu Sheshou was qualified to use the military postmaster.

It's pitiful to say that the generals in the closed door did not know Wei Liangchen's identity and only thought he was a person in the palace, so they regarded him as an angel. Not only did they arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation properly, but they also responded to all the requests made by Wei Liangchen.

But after the Ministry of War issued the official documents, the generals of the closed door learned from it that the young man who had always regarded as "angels" was just an eighth-rank two-town house clan, and his attitude changed drastically. Not only did he no longer report everything to Wei Liangchen, but he did not even provide the food he served every day. Wei Liangchen could only ask Tian Gang to buy food at the shop opened by the closed door.

The court has sent Cui Jingrong, the Right Minister of the Ministry of War, to close the door, and Li Bing, the governor of Liaodong, also arrived from Guangning. The two of them have now fully begun to deal with the military change in the closing of the door.

As soon as Cui Jingrong arrived at the closing, he informed the generals of the news that Gao Huai had been locked up by his own army, and opened the vassal treasury to take out the money and rewarded the rioters, which were praised for the time being. The mutiny soldiers in Ningyuan and Jinzhou quickly stabilized and the chaos was effectively controlled.

After Li Bing arrived at Shanhaiguan, he made a plan with Cui Jingrong and asked Wang Bangcai, Li Huoyang and others to push a few soldiers as scapegoats. He has reported to the court. If it is not done well, he will be executed by Qiu Hou.

No one told Liangchen about these things. They were only learned about Li Wei’s private stroll and a chance to close the door.

There is no good minister here at Shanhaiguan. Cui Jingrong and Li Bing completely ignore it. It was him who Wei Sheren came to the closure gate, calmed the incident, and opened the ban. The merits of the beginning of the flood road. No matter what, he did not greet the good ministers, just pretended that he did not exist.

This made Wei Liangchen, who had originally planned to do something else, completely calmed down. He knew that he, a messy man, could not get into the eyes of others, and it would be meaningless to stay there, so he took Li Yongzhen and Tian to Jinzhou.

The eighth-rank Zhongshu Sheshouan is now increasingly unable to make any moves, because the postmaster and Liangchen who are in charge of the postmaster are at the same level. In addition, Liangchen does not have a formal official letter and there is no certificate in Shanhaiguan. Naturally, the postmaster of Caozhuang Post will not arrange any houses for Wei Liangchen as Li Yongzhen said, and he should be treated like an imperial envoy.

Caozhuang Post is a military post. After leaving Shanhaiguan, all post stations are military posts, which are under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Metropolitan Office and are directly responsible by the various garrisons. Even the Liaodong Governor cannot take care of them.

This postmaster was once a servant of Ningyuan General. After being injured, she was appointed as the postmaster at this postmaster. Li Yongzhen couldn't speak to him. When Tian Gang and the others came, they showed the Jinyiwei's waist sign, but the postmaster still ignored it. He said that there was no clue or official documents, and the Heavenly King would not stay if he came.

Tian Gang and Li Wei, who were used to being in the pass, had no choice, because the people from the border army were very fierce, and the generals might be afraid of the factory guards, but the people below only saw the head of the family, so they were not afraid of these erotic goods in flying fish suits.

Just this postmaster looked at him with a murderous aura.

It's almost dark, so there's no place to live. This place is still dozens of miles away from Ningyuan City, and even horses can still ride, so Liangchen and the others can't get into the city before dark.

No trick is easy to use, Li Yongzhen can only help but bend, hoping that this postmaster can be able to be compatible.

In front, Liangchen focused on painting on the drawing board. Whether he could live in the inn was Li Yongzhen's business. If he couldn't even solve this little trouble, he would have been in vain for so many years.

Liangchen is not a blind painting. He is drawing maps along the line from Shanhaiguan. Important guardhouses, villages, and even rivers are clearly marked on them.

Li Wei went to feed the horses, and Tian Gangshi stood aside. He felt that it was meaningless to draw these things in Wei Sheren, because there were these maps in the army. If he was interested in military affairs, he would have to go to Jinzhou to ask for one.

Of course, Liangchen would ask. He was the eighth-rank two-day house clerk. Although he was just a messy official, fortunately he was an official and he also had a job in co-organizing money, grain and debt. It should not be difficult to read the map of Jinzhou. He believed that the officials in Jinzhou would not be like the postmaster of the military post and would not treat him as a cadre.

After drawing the sketch, Liangchen began to write letters to Wanli.

Like the letter, he showed off his skills in writing novels in his previous life and recorded in detail what he saw and heard in the past two days.

After writing, he took out the envelope and sealed it, covered it with his official seal, asked Tian Gang to put it away, and then handed it to Beijing in the flood road of the Jinyiwei.

In the officialdom, this is called a book.

On the surface, officials above the juren and above can give the emperor a notebook, but the formal way is to follow the Tongzhengsi, but Liangchen is here to follow the Jinyiwei path.

This method can certainly ensure that Wei Liangchen's notebook can be handed to the emperor's desk as soon as possible, but it has a very bad side effect, that is, this notebook is shameless. If the outside court knows it, no matter whether the above is a good or a bad thing, they will attack each other.

If Wei Liangchen was a middle-aged man in the inner court or a factory guard, he would not have any trouble with this, but he was a miscellaneous person in the Secretariat. No matter how mixed the man is, he would be an official from the outer court. The official from the outer court uses the winter road of the factory guard, which is a great rebellious person in the eyes of the outer court.

Li Yongzhen once reminded Wei Liangchen that Liangchen did not take the consequences of using the factory Weixun Road seriously, because he did not regard himself as a member of the foreign court.

He belongs to the inner court.

Now, in the future, it will be.

After all this, Liangchen saw that Li Yongzhen was still talking nonsense to the postmaster, and couldn't help but feel funny and signaled Tian Gang to give some benefits to the postmaster.

"Wei Sheren, we don't have much money anymore." Tian Gang looked puzzled. He hurried when he left Beijing. Neither he nor Li Wei brought any money. In the past few days, he had turned him and Li Wei into paupers.

"Let's just go first, and when I arrive in Jinzhou, I will go and change my fate."

Liangchen smiled bitterly. He didn't even have money to be an official, and he was considered the best. Mr. Wanli was really unconscientious. If he gave him an official position, you can ask someone to send some money to come and have fun. It's useless that Wei Liangchen has done his best for you these days, and it's almost time to devote himself to your life until he dies.

After sending Tian Gang over, Liangchen took out the notebook he had recorded these two days and looked carefully. The more he looked, the more shocked he became.

The reason for being shocked is that judging from the results of his visits over the past few days, the grain prices in Liaodong are very high, at least three times higher than those in the pass.

The Liaodong area is located outside the pass, facing Lu Nu in the north and the sea in the south. Only Shanhaiguan is connected to the mainland. In the good times, the grain produced in Liaodong cannot be transported to the pass, and the result is that the food is abundant and the price is low, which hurts the farmers.

If there is a major disaster, the grain inside the pass will not be able to be transported outside the pass in the short term, and the price of grain outside the pass will inevitably rise sharply. If there is another war at this time and a large number of troops are gathered outside the pass, the consumption of grain will be even more amazing. The most direct consequence is that the grain price will rise to a sensational number.

Liangchen heard from the local people that the disaster occurred in the 24th year of Wanli, and the grain price rose by as much as twenty times.

The food prices are high, but the Liaodong garrison's salary is low.

In fact, Liangchen investigated clearly that the garrisons of Liaodong were 2 taels of silver per month, which was much higher than that of the garrisons in the pass. However, due to the high grain prices and inconvenient transportation, it made it difficult for department stores outside the pass to pass, so the prices of various daily necessities were very high.

The good minister roughly estimated that the actual purchasing power of a soldier's two taels of silver per month is only equivalent to four cents of silver in the pass. This is based on something to buy. If there is nothing to buy, no matter how much silver is, it will be useless. It is like a rich man holding gold on a big tree in a flood.

Therefore, no matter how good the harvest is, the rice prices in Liaodong are often at a low level after the autumn harvest. When the green and yellow spring is inconsistent, the rice prices will rise all the way. Merchants can hoard the seasonal changes in rice prices and reach the level of wealth. This can be seen from Li Yongzhen's investigation of rice shops along the way.

Li Wei investigated several large rice shops through the Jinyiwei channel, and all the generals from Liaodong stood behind him. There were generals, generals, and the youngest were officers above guerrillas.

Originally, Liaodong mainly used military farms to support self-sufficiency, and also supplemented the civilian movement, Beijing movement, salt induction and other measures to ensure the supply of food for Liaodong's military and civilians.

Now, the civil movement is mainly controlled by the Liaodong generals, and they have to make profits. The Beijing movement is not a major disaster or when a large army is being driven, and it rarely transports a large amount of grain to Liaodong. The last time the large-scale transportation of grain to Liaodong was the battle of resisting Japanese and aiding Korea more than ten years ago.

The salt induction has basically become a personal channel for Liaodong generals. The largest salt merchant is no longer the court, but the Liaodong general Li Chengliang. I heard that the Li family opened hundreds of salt stores in various parts of Liaodong.

Over the past two hundred years, like the Guannei Guard, the Liaodong Guard system has been in name only. Although the name of the Guard is still used in various places, the military power of Liaodong Town is actually mainly derived from recruiting troops. Generals of all sizes use the salary issued by the court to support the elite, and these elites are called servants.

On the books, the officers and soldiers of Liaodong garrison had two taels of monthly silver, and their actual purchasing power was equivalent to four cents within the pass. But this was based on the lack of deductions. If there was deductions, then don’t talk about it.

People regard food as the heaven, and soldiers are responsible for food as their life. If they have enough food, they will be strong, and if they have strong soldiers, they will be strong.

The fundamental reason why Liangchen studied the rice price was that he had to figure out what Gao Huai had done, which caused the Liaodong military leaders to drive him away without hesitation of military changes.

At the same time, he also figured out the economic foundation of Liaodong, combined with the reality of Liaodong, and prescribed a prescription for Liaodong.

A prescription that can guarantee that ten years later, the year of great disasters will be the year of a large army gathering. Liaodong officers and soldiers not only have food to eat, but also have a strong prescription.

This prescription is not adopted by Wanli. It is not something that Liang Chen is thinking about for the time being, because he has not come up with a solution and he has not figured out many things.

Now he is just sorting out what he sees and hears together with some knowledge from his previous life. The most urgent task is to go to Shuangshantai to meet Zhang Hu, who was not a father-in-law and a general.
Chapter completed!