162 Delightful
Although the weather is severely cold on the streets of the capital, although a certain store has not opened yet, there are already a long queue in front of the door. However, although there are many people, the cold wind blows, and no one can drink the cold wind, just queue up silently.
When it was dawn and winter was rising, the store finally started to move. As the door panel was taken off and the clerk inside showed up, the crowd in line suddenly became turbulent.
"Can this brother in front be convenient? The family hasn't cooked for a few days. I finally raised some money to come over. Can I buy some rice and go back to save the emergency?" Behind the team, a weak man wanted to squeeze forward, and begged.
But none of the people in the front were willing to give in, and they didn't even want to pay attention to him. There was only one half-white old man who turned to him and said, "If it weren't for the lack of food at home, who would have braved such a cold wind and rushed over to line up early? Just give up, everyone is in a hurry to buy rice and put it into the pot!"
The thin man's face darkened when he heard this. When he was about to talk about it, he heard a strong man in the front shouting loudly: "You are robbing money! When I came to buy rice a few days ago, I still had two taels of silver and one stone. Why did it increase to three taels of silver today?"
When the crowd heard this, the crowd became even more turbulent. Naturally, these people who bought food would not come to buy it every day. In addition, the weather was cold and they stayed at home without any trouble, so the price of food in a few days surprised them.
It was not easy to make some money, especially when the manpower was very low now, it was difficult for a strong man to make one tael of silver a month, but the grain shop actually moved its mouth and the grain soared to three taels of rice. How can this make people live?
However, three or four guys with thick sticks came out of the store, and a shopkeeper with a mouse beard surrounded by a rat-bearded shopkeeper. The man shouted loudly: "If you think it is expensive, buy it elsewhere. We are a fair deal here, and we will never force it to buy it. But if you dare to act wild, look at what the sign is this!"
The "Cao" flag is inserted into the store. Anyone with some common sense knows that this is the property of the Zuodu Censor Cao Yubian family. With the Zuodu Censor, even the factory guards have to sell their face!
"Why are you still standing there? If you want to buy it quickly, don't buy it, and you will delay your business and serve it with a stick!" Mouse beard shouted impatiently, as if he thought the weather was too cold outside, so he turned around and wanted to enter the door.
The strong man ranked first saw him, and he reached out to hold the mouse's beard's sleeve, bent over and begged in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, good, look, I'm in the first place, just sell me some food cheaper! My family is just a little silver, and every grain of rice is calculated, you..."
Before he could finish speaking, the mouse beard suddenly pulled his sleeves, patted his sleeves in disgust, waved his hand, and then walked in.
The guys holding thick sticks next to him immediately walked forward and waved the stick in his hand. If this strong man was unaware of his appearance, he would definitely take action.
When the others saw the strong man's begging, they were all very disappointed. Many people were a little desperate, and they rose by more than one or two more times. How can they live next?
At this moment, there seemed to be a lot of noise coming from the street. Everyone turned their heads and looked at them, and were stunned.
I saw the brigade of soldiers running. Although they were not all strong men, they were very imposing when they ran. They were obviously fighting and bloody.
The people in the capital were still very sensible. At a glance, they could see that these were the soldiers of the Beijing camp who participated in the battle to defend the capital, rather than the troops of the Five City Military and Horses who maintained public order.
What surprised them even more was that there were many Jinyiwei and Dongchang men who came with this team of soldiers from the Beijing camp. This kind of movement was extraordinary. If they hadn't known that there was no Jianlu outside the city, they would have thought Jianlu would have attacked the city again!
These people who bought grain did not know what these military guards were doing here. They were a little curious and watched them. What surprised them was that these military guards actually came to the grain store.
The mouse beard was also alarmed. When he came out and saw it, his heart moved. He immediately went out and clasped his fists and said, "Oh, I dare not bother you. Even if someone wants to cause trouble, the store has enough manpower to deal with it!"
When he heard this, he remembered the background of this grain store, and the people who bought grain suddenly felt cold.
However, the next scene immediately surprised everyone. A servant from the East Factory running in the front pushed away the mouse beard that was blocking the road, and then heard him wave his hand and said, "Come on, close the store for me!"
"..." Everyone was confused, including those who bought and sold grain, were stunned.
The soldiers and factory guards ignored them and rushed into the store. However, several leaders were at the door. A hundred households of Jinyiwei, who led the team, announced loudly to those who were queuing for food: "After today, all grain stores in the capital will be sealed and taken over by the court. All people will receive food according to the heads of each household."
This news was shocking and shocked everyone!
After a while, Mouse Beard came back to his senses first. He was angry and asked immediately with hatred: "Do you know whether you have figured it out? This is the family of Zuodu Censor Cao. Don't go wrong..."
The military chief was announced first by hundreds of households in the Jinyiwei. He was unwilling to fall behind and immediately shouted to the mouse beard: "Cao Yubian was convicted and had been beheaded and displayed in public. This grain store is the official. The Ministry of Revenue will order the grain stored in the other grain stores and give a receipt. When the grain in South Korea arrives, it will be returned!"
When the mouse beard heard this, he collapsed to the ground. His arrogant and arrogant just now disappeared!
On the contrary, after the people who bought grain understood the whole story, they immediately cheered happily. Many people who were desperate by the price of grain, such as the strong man who ranked first, even knelt down in the direction of the palace, and cried out with gratitude and long live the mountain!
Such a scene was performed at the entrance of every grain store in the capital. Almost all the people's hearts that were originally held by the high grain prices were all relieved and they were grateful to the emperor.
More soldiers from Beijing camps and factory guards, based on the preliminary survey, broke into the granary heavy warehouses that they didn't dare to enter. The stand guard and the seals were posted, which was very lively.
In contrast to the lively scenes like the capital, the movements in Yongping City. The fires here have been extinguished, and the whole city has been burned down, leaving only ruins with smoke.
Chapter completed!