Ningyuan Zhongright, Cao Zhuangyi.

Wei Liangchen sat on a small stool outside the post station, holding a drawing board propped up with a wooden board, and was writing and drawing on the paper on it.

Li Yongzhen and the post man of the post station are negotiating whether the Zhongshu people of the eight rank officials are qualified to use the military post.

It's also pitiful to say, the generals who originally closed the door didn't know Wei Liangchen's identity, and only thought that he was a person in the palace, so they all regarded him as an angel, not only did the food, clothing, housing and transportation arrangements be appropriate, but they also didn't want any of Wei Liangchen's requirements.

But when the official document of the Ministry of War was issued, the generals who closed the door learned that the young man they had always regarded as an "angel" was just a person from the two palaces of the eighth grade, and their attitude suddenly changed greatly. Not only did Wei Liangchen no longer know everything, but he didn't even provide the daily meals, and Wei Liangchen, who was harmed, could only ask Tian Gang to take the money to buy food from the shops opened by the people who closed the door.

The imperial court had already sent Cui Jingrong, the right attendant of the military department, to close the gate, and Li Bing, the governor of Liaodong, had also arrived from Guangning, and the two men had now taken full authority to deal with the military mutiny at the gate.

As soon as Cui Jingrong arrived at the gate, he informed the generals of the news that Gao Huai had been locked up by the pro-army, and opened the treasury to take out the salary and silver to reward the rebellious army, which was praised for a while. The mutinous sergeants in Ningyuan and Jinzhou also quickly stabilized, and the chaos was effectively controlled.

After Li Bing arrived at Shanhaiguan, he and Cui Jingrong summed up, and asked Wang Bangcai, Li Shouyang and others to push a few sergeants as scapegoats for the military mutiny, and now they have been reported to the imperial court.

No one told Liangchen about these things, and they were all learned by Li Wei after he was walking around the door in private and hooking up with Jinyiwei's potential closing eyeliner.

There is no good minister here in Shanhaiguan at all, and Cui Jingrong and Li Bing also completely ignore the fact that it was he who was the first person from Wei She to close the door, quell the incident, and be able to open the ban, and the credit of the beginning of the flood road.

This made Wei Liangchen, who had planned to do something more, completely rested his mind, knowing that he was a miscellaneous person who could not be in the eyes of others at all, and there was no point in him staying any longer, so he took Li Yongzhen and Tian Gang to Jinzhou.

The scholars in the Eight Grades are now more and more unable to do it, because the post keepers and good ministers in charge of the post station are at the same level. In addition, Liangchen did not have an official letter in his hand, and Shanhaiguan did not issue a voucher, so the post man of Cao Zhuangyi naturally would not arrange anything for Wei Liangchen to go to the house as Li Yongzhen said, and he should be treated like Qincha.

Caozhuang post is a military post, after leaving the Shanhaiguan, all the post stations are military posts, all under the jurisdiction of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, and the guards are directly responsible, and the governor of Liaodong can't manage them.

This post was once the family of Ning Yuan's generals, and after being injured, he was given an post post in this post station, Li Yongzhen couldn't talk to him, Tian Gang showed the waist card of the brocade guard when they came, but this post man still ignored it. There is no evidence to say anything, there is no official document, and the king of heaven will not live when he comes.

Tian Gang and Li Wei, who were used to being in the customs, had no choice, because the people in the border army were very fierce, and the generals may be jealous of the factory guards, but the people below only had the head of the family in their eyes, and they were not afraid of these flying fish suits.

Just this Yicheng, looking at it, there is a murderous aura.

It's getting dark, and there's nowhere to live. This place is still dozens of miles away from Ningyuan City, even if the horse can still ride, the good ministers and they can't enter the city before dark.

It's not easy to use any tricks, Li Yongzhen can only grind hard and soak hard, hoping that this Yicheng can be accommodating.

Ahead, Liangchen was concentrating on painting on the drawing board, whether he could live in the post station or not was Li Yongzhen's business, if he couldn't even solve this little trouble, it would be in vain for so many years.

Liangchen is not a blind drawing, he is drawing a map along the line from Shanhaiguan. Important forts, villages, and even rivers are clearly marked on them.

Levi went to feed the horses, and Tian Gang stood aside, and he felt that there was no point in the Weishe people drawing these, because there were these maps in the army. If he is interested in military affairs, he can go to Jinzhou and ask for a copy.

Of course Liangchen will, he is a member of the two palaces of Bapin, although he is only a miscellaneous sesame official, but fortunately, he has an official body, and he also has an official business to assist in the arrears of money and grain, and it should not be difficult to take a look at the map with Jinzhou. He believed that it was impossible for the officials in Jinzhou to be like the postmen of this military post and not regard him as a cadre.

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

Like the previous letter, he took out the skills he wrote in his previous life and recorded in detail what he had seen and heard in the past two days.

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

In officialdom, this is called a book.

On the bright side, officials who are above the rank of fame and above can give the emperor a book, but the formal way is to go through the political department, but the good ministers here are the way to take the Jinyi guard.

Although this method can ensure that Wei Liangchen's book can be handed to the emperor's desk as soon as possible, it has a very bad side effect, that is, this kind of book is not visible. If the foreign dynasty knows, no matter whether it is a good thing or a bad thing, they will attack each other.

If Wei Liangchen was a member of the inner court, or a factory guard, he would not have any trouble in this regard, but he was a scholar in the miscellaneous stream. And no matter how miscellaneous the stream is, it also belongs to the officials of the foreign dynasty. The flood road of the official factory guard of the foreign dynasty is a great rebellion in the eyes of the foreign court.

Li Yongzhen once reminded Wei Liangchen that the consequences of using the factory guard flood road, but Liangchen did not take it seriously, because he did not regard himself as a member of the foreign dynasty at all.

He belongs to the inner court.

Now, in the future, all are.

After all this, Liangchen saw that Li Yongzhen was still talking nonsense with Na Yicheng, and couldn't help laughing, and motioned to Tian Gang to stuff some benefits for Na Yicheng.

"Wei Sheren, we don't have much money." Tian Gang's face was embarrassed, and he was in a hurry when he left Beijing, he and Li Wei didn't bring any money, and the items used in the past few days had already turned him and Li Wei into poor people.

"Let's do it first, when we get to Jinzhou, I'll go and make a difference."

Liangchen smiled bitterly, he didn't even have a coil when he was an official, and he was considered the best. The old man Wanli is really inconsiderate, the official body is given, you can ask someone to send some silver to come over and spend flowers, in vain I Wei Liangchen has done my best for you these days, and I just did my best to die.

After sending Tian Gang over, Liangchen took out the notebook of the past two days and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

The reason for his frightening is that, judging from the results of his visits in the past few days, the price of grain in Liaodong is very high, at least three times higher than that in the Guannei.

Liaodong region is located outside the customs, north of the slaves, south of the sea, only Shanhaiguan all the way to the interior of the communication, in the harvest year, the grain produced in Liaodong can not be transported to the customs, the result is naturally the grain is abundant and the price is cheap, the price is cheap and hurts the peasants.

If there is a year of great disaster, the grain inside the customs will not be able to be transported outside the customs in the short term, and the price of grain outside the customs will inevitably rise sharply. If there were any more war at this time, and a large number of troops were gathered outside the gates, the consumption of grain would be even more staggering, and the most direct consequence would be that the price of grain would rise to a sensational amount.

Liangchen heard from the local people that in the 24th year of Wanli, the price of grain had risen by as much as 20 times.

The price of grain was high, but the salary of the Liaodong garrison was low.

In fact, Liangchen investigated clearly, and the salary of the Liaodong garrison was two taels of silver per month, which was much higher than that of the garrison in the pass. However, because of the excessively high price of food and the inconvenience of transportation, it is difficult to get through the department stores outside the customs area, so the prices of various daily necessities are very high.

Liangchen roughly estimated that the actual purchasing power of a soldier's salary of two taels of silver per month was only equivalent to four taels of silver in the Guannai. Again, this is based on the fact that there is something to buy, and if there is nothing to buy, no amount of money will help. It's like a rich man holding gold and waiting to die on a tree during a flood.

Therefore, regardless of the harvest or bad year, the price of rice after the autumn harvest in Liaodong is often at a low level, and the price of rice will rise all the way in the spring when there is no green and yellow. Merchants took advantage of the seasonal changes in the price of rice to hoard and were able to reach the level of great wealth. This can be known from Li Yongzhen's investigation of the rice shop along the way.

Li Wei investigated several large rice shops through Jinyiwei's channels, and behind them all stood the generals of Liaodong. There are general soldiers, there are generals, and the youngest is also an officer above the guerrilla level.

Originally, at the beginning of the country, Liaodong mainly relied on tuntian for self-sufficiency, and supplemented the people's movement, Beijing transportation, salt introduction and other strategies to ensure the food supply of the military and civilians in Liaodong.

At present, the part of the democracy movement is mainly controlled by the Liaodong generals, and they want to make profits from it. In the case of Beijing, when it was not a year of great disasters or when the army was mobilized, it was basically rare to send a large amount of grain to Liaodong. The last time a large-scale shipment of grain to Liaodong was more than 10 years ago during the War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea.

The salt introduction has basically become a channel for the private interests of the generals of Liaodong, and the biggest salt merchant is no longer the imperial court, but Li Chengliang, the marshal of Liaodong. I heard that the Li family has opened hundreds of salt shops in various parts of Liaodong.

Two hundred years later, like the Guannei Guard, the Liaodong Guard system has existed in name only. Although the name of the guard is still used in various places, in fact, the military strength of Liaodong Town mainly comes from recruitment, and the generals of all sizes will use the salary and silver issued by the imperial court to support the elite, and these elites are called Jiading.

On the books, the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Guard Station had two taels of silver per month, and their actual purchasing power was equivalent to four coins in the Guannei. But this is based on the absence of deception. If there is a deduction, then there is no gossip.

The people take food as their sky, and the soldiers take food as their life. If you eat enough, the soldiers will be strong, and if the soldiers are strong, they will be stubborn.

The fundamental reason why Liangchen studied the price of rice was that he wanted to find out what Gao Huai had done, so that the military leaders in Liaodong would drive him away at the expense of the military mutiny.

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 guarantee that ten years later, in the year of the catastrophe and the year of the assembly of the army, the officers and soldiers of Liaodong not only have food to eat, but also a prescription for strength and war.

Whether this prescription is used or not is not something that Liangchen thinks about for the time being, because he has not yet figured out a way, and there are many things that he has not figured out.

Now he is just sorting out what he has seen and heard combined with some knowledge in his previous life, and the top priority is to go to Shuangshantai to meet Zhang Hu, who is not a father-in-law but a military general.

Gao Huai fell, but his tax soldiers are still there, and this army is now ownerless.