When the car was suspended, the drums sounded in Linzi City, and the drums were slow and dull. This is the signal before the city gate is closed, once the drum is finished, the gates and pavilions inside and outside the city must be closed, and if there are still pedestrians on the road, they must be detained and punished.

The capital is the weight of a country, the defense of the capital has always been strict and meticulous, but Linzi has not been at war for 52 years, the life of the monarch and the powerful is becoming more and more luxurious, the city is not only open during the day, but also open at night, when the drum sounds, the cities are in a hustle and bustle, the merchants in the big market are still trading, the thirteen city gates are closed twelve, only a Lu gate is left in the east of the city for the merchants who have not had time to go out of the city, so the time to stay in the door is very short.

Unlike the Yingdu of Chu, the capital of Yingdu of Chu is expensive in the east and cheap in the west, and the royal city is also biased towards the eastern city. Linzi is the opposite, Linzi Wangcheng was close to the west of the city at the beginning, after the Tian family replaced Jiang, abandoned the original palace city, demolished the city in the southwest corner, and built a small city in the southwest. The circumference of the small city is about eighteen li, and half of it is within the big city, and it is generally outside the big city, and it is isolated from the big city.

There are two palace cities in a city, the big city is not a regular rectangle, the west city wall, the south city wall are regular, the east city wall has many twists and turns because of the relationship between the water and the water, and even the concave in the northeast corner to avoid the bending of the water here; The north city wall is low in the east and high in the west, and it turns and retracts only a few miles to the west city, and changes the slope to the horizontal; In addition, there are many public and private workshops, so that the city is quite crowded.

As night fell, the hustle and bustle of the day did not subside, but more music sounded in the city. The rich and noble did not dare to go beyond the ranks, and when they dined, they played the flute and drums, played music and danced, and the luxury was not much behind the palace. In the north of the city and in the city, there are vague lights and no dance music in the workshops, and Qi can walk the world with clothes and crowns, relying on the non-stop work of countless weavers and embroiderers;

Only Xicheng is often silent at night, and even the lights are not visible, and the possible entertainment is to gather outside the wine shop, restaurant, and cockfighting arena, listen to the cheers inside, and taint some other people's liveliness. However, during this time, the poor people in Xicheng had a new place to go, and that was the students who came to Xicheng to give lectures.

“…… In the government of the Chu State, the common people can stand in the foreign courts. Above the foreign courts, not only can the country be threatened and relocated, but also the law, taxes, military affairs, sacrifices, and even labor and corn prices can be discussed. "No one could see the face of the person who spoke in the dark, but they were all infected by his momentum.

Hearing that the foreign court could even discuss the price of millet, the breathing of the people sitting around immediately became short. Someone timidly asked: "Dare to ask sir, can the price of millet be negotiated by the Chu foreign dynasty, can the price of millet be reduced?" ”

"Naturally, it can be lowered." The person who spoke was not a gentleman, but a student, called Fu Sheng. At the beginning, he also hated the domineering of the king of Chu, especially the reputation of killing people without dying, but I don't know when advocating Chu Zheng has been the consensus of many teachers and students. Although Chu Zheng is not good, it is better than the Three Jin Dynasty and even the Qi State, especially the foreign dynasty composed of ordinary people.

"The state of Chu and the Qin people have been fighting for three years, but the price of millet in the state of Chu has never been less than two hundred yuan, why? The state of Chu does not make profits from millet. After the war, the state of Chu seized the Qin people's Ao Cang, Ao Cang, the accumulation of millet is like the sea, if it is for all people to eat, it can be eaten for three years. However, for the sake of the peasants, the price of millet in Chu has not yet dropped, and this is all discussed by the peasants in foreign dynasties. The peasants wanted the price of millet to rise, and the price of millet for the workers to fall, so the price of millet in Chu was always fifty or sixty yuan. ”

"Fifty or sixty dollars?!" Everyone was amazed. The price of millet in Qi is the most expensive among the nations, and it is estimated that only Yan can be compared. The price of millet is 50 or 60 yuan, but it is very small, this is the price when the millet is harvested, and the price of millet often exceeds 50 or 60 yuan in the rest of the time. Of course, this is inevitably related to the developed commercial existence of Qi State, and there are many servants in Linzi, and the millet that these people buy is the most expensive.

"The government of my Qi country often collects wealth with millet and currency, and hundreds of laborers work day and night, and the income is only one day's food. The peasants work for a year, and the government harvests millet, and its price is very cheap, and there is the addition of salt and iron, and the service of the mouth, and a year's hard work can only satisfy the stomach. If the state of Qi can be governed by Chu, state affairs are discussed in foreign courts, and the common people can set the price of corn, and we will be blessed with this. ”

The Jixia Society debated a lot, just like the drummers of later generations, and there were many exaggerations in Fusheng's words, but the common people sitting around were inconvenient to be true or false, they had not been recruited as pawns, and their livelihoods were becoming more and more urgent, and they couldn't help but yearn for it.

"It's not impossible." Fu Sheng continued to shout, "The king of Chu once persuaded the king to also do the Chu government, so that the country can be prolonged for eternity, but there are traitors in the court who are obstructed, and they can't do it." If ......"

If there is a light, you can see Fu Sheng's face red and sweating profusely, this is the climax of his advocacy, and his voice can be heard miles away. The crisis also appeared at this time, and a dark shadow rushed over and shouted, "The company commander is here, please send Mr. away." ”

The company commander has jurisdiction over four miles, each with ten tracks, and one track with five. The Qi State implements the same joint sitting, but the Qi people are scattered, and this system has long been relaxed. Otherwise, 'the inner region cannot be crossed', and it is impossible for Fusheng to come here to talk about it. Hearing that the company commander was coming, the people sitting around were not flustered, and they were still sitting here after sending Fu Sheng away.

The company commander was an old man, staggering under the lights, and when he got very close and saw someone sitting here, he didn't dare to come forward to take someone, so he could only shout: "Gather in the middle of the night, steal or steal, and don't return home quickly." ”

As soon as he drank like this, everyone dispersed one after another. However, when leaving, the crowd was indignant, and the curses of the traitors were endless. Pointing to Sang scolding the commander of the Huai Company can naturally understand, but in the face of the black oppression of a group of people, he can only disperse by these people.

The night meeting was disbanded halfway.,Fu Sheng, who returned to the Jixia School Palace, met Mr. Song Yi.。

"Recently, there has been a lot of search for people in the city who are singing ballads, so it's better not to go during this time." Fu Sheng, who was running back to the school palace, was sweating, and Song Yi couldn't help but be a little worried when he looked at him.

"Mr. Yu, students are not afraid." Fu Sheng replied. "The common people look forward to the students as they look forward to the ...... of Ganlin"

"I can't go." Song Yi sighed. His identity and his behavior made him quite contradictory: on the one hand, he ate Qi Lu as Dr. Qi, and thought about the Qi country and shared the worries of the king; On the one hand, he was angry with the system of Qi and sad about the situation of the common people, so he constantly criticized the system of Qi State. "I heard that Chu Guozhou has been out of Langya for a few days, and he should go to Qi when he crosses the sea."

"Really?!" Fu Sheng was overjoyed when he heard this. He is a native of Qi, but it is precisely because he is a native of Qi that he can't wait for Chu to invade Qi, and only when Chu is invaded and internal shocks can the status quo of Qi be changed.

"Yes, yes." Song Yi also had some joy on his face. "The king is worried about the Chu State and Qi Dynasty, so today he summoned Hou Sheng and wanted to ask. Hou Sheng said: There are 100,000 halberd-holding soldiers in Linzi, 230,000 soldiers in the whole city, and only 200,000 soldiers in Chu can fight, so the Qi army will win. But he didn't mention that Linzi had 50,000 halberd-wielding soldiers, and most of the rest had no heart to fight. ”