Section 64: Bitter Prisoners

When Yun Ye was going to go to the beach to see the giant ship, Li Jing and his wife came back again, and entered the lord's mansion with a smile, Li Jing and Yun Ye talked about spices, and he also wanted to intervene, this time he was no longer talking to Yun Ye about the bearded guest, but the changes around Chang'an City, such a change Li Jing never thought of.

Yun Ye knew very well that when agriculture had a bumper harvest for many years, the commercial society would inevitably come early, and a pluralistic society would sooner or later destroy a single agricultural society.

Over the years, the income of land has accounted for a small proportion of a big family, food is no longer a family to show off the capital, mountains of grain can not be exchanged for much money, Chang'an people always say that Chang'an rice is expensive, in fact, this is a total cost of living name.

Land prices are rising, labor is rising, grain is baked into a pot helmet, the price has more than doubled, Granny Cao's meatloaf used to cost two pennies, now it needs a big son, the price has jumped more than five times, a large family wants to live in Chang'an for a long time, the cost of living is very amazing.

When the land was not enough to sustain a large family to continue the luxury, business was naturally put on the agenda, and the emperor emptied the grain of Chang Ping, and his favorite was the peasant households, and the grain stored at home could finally be sold to Chang Ping at the state's protective price.

The honest farmers themselves also found that after planting grain and paying rent, although there is a lot of food, it can't be exchanged for a few dollars, the mother-in-law needs needlework, the baby needs to study, the girl needs flowers, and they also need to weigh a pound of Yun's pot wine to find a neighbor who throws a temper, but the grain just can't afford to sell at a price, which makes people sad.

There is a house full of grain, do you dare to say that my family is not rich? In the first two years, the landlord's family did not have this food, what should I do, the whole family did it three times a day. I can't finish eating, the master of the dog day is still black-hearted, sending food to the door to pay the rent, and can pull his face into the crotch of his pants, and the second dog family takes a handful of copper and slaps it on the table in the account room to pay the rent, and will be immediately treated as a guest. The bones and sticks boiled in the cauldron were all given to Ergou, and there was a thick layer of meat on top......

The mother-in-law fed the chickens with the yellow corn in the hoard, and the loser mother-in-law was just about to take off her shoes and teach a lesson, when she remembered that this group of chickens was the treasure that could get copper coins at home, so she peeled off a handful of corn kernels from the corn cob and sprinkled them for the chickens to eat.

There is food but no money, and those in the city who do not farm do not eat much food now, and many people do not eat wheat and should eat rice. Damn, people in Guanzhong don't eat noodles, what kind of rice do they eat.

Hell, the price of wild rice growing on the edge of the stinky ditch is higher than that of wheat, and the carved hu rice is something that only eats two bites in a disaster year, and now people in Chang'an are eating, and a bowl of carved hu rice can be worth two bowls of noodles in the restaurant.

His Majesty's crusade to the East has only been more than a year, so why can't he conquer for two more years? Haven't the Koreans been wiped out yet? You can take it in one go. There is also a place to go for these grains at home.

A few years ago, I still regarded food as my life, but in recent years, food has become less and less important. Everyone likes copper coins, and the benevolent emperor has been reducing agricultural taxes for the past two years, and it used to be one out of ten, but now it has become one out of thirty, and if it goes on like this, this land can be planted in vain.

Ergou's family actually doesn't farm. The grandfather of the family planted some vegetables in the yard, and he couldn't eat them, so he took advantage of the time when the second dog went to the city to work and took them into the city to sell some. The money earned in a year is more than what he earns as a strong laborer, the mother is kind, and will definitely not treat his subordinates badly, his eldest daughter is fourteen years old, and she is a clever baby, can she also go to the city to work?

The peasants are the most determined and thorough group of people in the country, and when they all begin to seek change, the time of great change has arrived.

"Or you kid has a vision, I used to see you divide the Yun family Zhuangzi, and I thought you were avoiding trouble, who would have thought that you would complete the layout of the family quietly.

Your son, who has become a fine man, took your fat housekeeper to buy all my family's grain at a low price, and then turned back and ground it into flour and sold it all to the grassland, in exchange for too many cattle and sheep to count, the most annoying thing is that your son sells sheep, and sells them separately, mutton at a price, with sheepskin at a price, and with wool on sheepskin is another price, the old man bought a hundred and ten sheep from your family and came back, who knows that the horns of the sheep were sawed off, if your family does not get rich, it is really unreasonable. “

"What does the child know, it's not a few old servants in the family who are taking care of it, he's just messing around, the younger generation is just weird, there are a lot of goods in Lingnan, why do you only need spices and nothing else?"

Li Jing looked up to the sky and laughed, and the red whisk girl was also triumphant, I don't know what kind of things can make them so happy, is it because he promised to give his family some spices just now?

"The rest of the goods have their own methods, so you don't need to worry about it."

"It's impossible, there are only a few people who can provide goods to your family now, and it's probably not easy to bypass the Yun family. Unless there are newcomers to join the ranks of supply, what kind of newcomers have the courage to do this? “

"The old man doesn't hide it from you, in the South China Sea, you Yun Ye can indeed be regarded as a man of his word, but after crossing the strait, can you Lingnan Sailor still command the heroes on the water?"

After listening to Li Jing's words, Yun Ye stood up suddenly, called Lao Zhao over, and prepared to inquire about who was taking advantage of him on the other side of the strait, the big food pirates had already been dried by themselves, at this time, the other side of the strait should be the time when the dragons were fighting for hegemony without a leader, this process would generally last for two or three years, before a new dragon head could be born, and then he would send someone to exterminate it again, and if one appeared, he would kill one and show no mercy.

"Master Hou, I heard that there is a group of ruthless bandits on the side of Dashi, who specialize in robbing the maritime merchants of Dashi and Julan, whose name is the Sea Dragon King, but I haven't heard of the news of their attack on the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty."

Because there is no threat to the Datang merchant ships, Lao Zhao doesn't care, the prestige of his own marquis spreads far and wide in the sea, and it is natural for no one to dare to attack the Datang ships, and there is no need to be surprised by such a trivial matter as a few pirates grabbing territory in the distance.

After letting Lao Zhao go down, Yun Ye sat opposite Li Jing and said: "Great, the bearded guest actually ran out, and he will be caught by me next time, for the sake of the two of you, he still doesn't kill him, and he will be locked up to the ends of the earth to see if he can escape again." “

Li Jing said with a smile: "Eat a trench and grow wise, Zhong Jian will not fall into your hands again, he has also dispelled the idea of founding a country, and he wants to cross the sea with all his heart, and now he also has the overlord of one hundred and ten warships under his command." “

The couple was very satisfied with the transformation of the bearded guest, this time the couple hired seven or eight merchant ships to send people to drift on the sea for eight months to search for the traces of the bearded guest, and finally learned the whereabouts of the Sea Dragon King from the mouth of the big food merchant, and his family also saw the bearded guest with his own eyes, and brought back a letter from the bearded guest, telling Li Jing his own thoughts, and sent a lot of goods, naturally there is no need to buy another goods.

After listening to Li Jing's words, Yun Ye shook his head noncommittally and said to Li Jing: "It's just a group of local chickens and dogs, and they can be destroyed with one drum." ”

The Red Buddha Girl was furious, and pointed at Yun Ye and said, "Zhong Jian is not in the Datang Sea now, and he is not harming the Datang merchant ships, why do you want to chase him relentlessly?" ”

"I am an official, he is a thief, he is born to be an opponent, what is not the Tang Sea area, the whole world is not the king's land, the coast of the land is not the king's minister, where my Datang warship goes, where is the Datang sea area, this is the creed of the Lingnan Navy, which cannot be changed, my aunt may not understand the meaning of this sentence, the marshal must understand."

Li Jing turned his head and said to Hongfu: "Yun Ye's words are right, if the general has no ambition to annex the four seas, what kind of general is it, Zhong Jian himself chose the path of opposites, and he can't complain about others, Yun Ye can spare him from dying, it has already given our couple enough face, and we can't expect more." ”

Hongfu wanted to open his mouth and talk to Yun Ye about Zhang Zhongjian several times, but was interrupted by Li Jing's interjection, Li Jing himself is also a general of the Tang Dynasty, and he can't say anything about maintaining a pirate too much.

"The little nephew is going to the beach tomorrow to watch the Emperor launch, so the marshal might as well go and see if my Datang Navy can get into your eyes."

"Very good, the old man has been studying land warfare all his life, and it is my long-cherished wish to see the naval army fighting, and we will watch it together tomorrow."

During the conversation, Xin Yue had already prepared the banquet and invited them to the table, Li Jing arrived in Lingnan, Yun Ye had not officially entertained the couple yet, this was extremely rude, and now that the bearded guest had run out, he naturally had no knots, and the meal was happy for both the guests and the hosts.

Back in the guest room, Li Jingcai sighed and said to Hongfu: "Madam, you shouldn't talk to Yun Ye about Zhong Jian today, Zhong Jian is too casual in doing things, and it is not too much for her husband to be involved as a general of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise it will bring great disaster to the whole family." “

"The concubine is just not angry with Yun Ye's mouth, he said that Zhong Jian is a native chicken and a dog, does he regard the heroes of the world as nothing?" While helping Li Jing change his clothes, Hongfu was still annoyed.

Li Jing sat on the chair and took a sip of water and shook his head and said: "Madame doesn't know, the Lingnan Navy Master is indeed the overlord of the sea now, although Zhong Jian has a hundred warships, it seems to be strong, but in fact it is vulnerable, his subordinates are all slaves, and they must do things cruelly, this is not a long-term solution, Yun Ye is not a lie when he said that he went down, tomorrow we only need to see the warships under his command, we will understand the gap between the two." “

"Zhong Jian actually wants to leave a way back for our family, now Chang'an Cheng is becoming more and more weird, the concubine body can't understand this world anymore, it's better for you to retire early."

"Your Majesty doesn't speak, you can't go anywhere for your husband, you are ambitious, and you will eventually be burdened by your children and grandchildren, and you will be imprisoned in Chang'an, and you can't go anywhere!" (To be continued......)

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