Quan Yutianxia GL

In late June, rumors arose in various counties and counties in Daqing. It was said that mulberry wine had no miraculous effect on prolonging life and preserving health. Many people even came out to testify one after another, crying and innumerable relatives died of mulberry wine. .

In just half a month, the reputation of Sangluo Wine, which used to be as high as three to five thousand dollars a bucket, has become infamous. Merchants from all walks of life who once begged Sangluo Winery to order wine gathered in Hedong and blocked outside Sangluo Winery To compensate.

At the same time, rumors from the government and the public arose again, saying that Li Zhan, the fifth prince, had made great contributions to the control of salt, and the emperor preferred to make him the prince.

If Li Zhan is successfully established as the prince, then Li Shao, whom Yuan has been supporting, will lose its role, and Yuan will also face the hostility and purge of the new emperor and new forces—just like the Huo family back then.

Until this time, the Yuan family was finally a little bit wild, but at this critical juncture, it was the Zheng family, the Liang family and other aristocratic families who had made friends with them in every possible way-they were at such a critical juncture. , Qiqi blocked the door of Yuan's mansion, begging for the grain borrowed by Yuan Xin to make wine.

At this time, the spring plowing was not long, the autumn harvest had not yet arrived, it was the season of slack and yellow, and it coincided with the disaster of Yuan's distillery. How could there be food to pay off the debt?

"These wolf-hearted things!" Yuan Xiangguo was blocked in the mansion. He blew his beard and stared in anger, and yelled at the table: "In the past, when my Yuan family was proud, they would come here to beg for mercy. Now if something goes wrong, they come here to throw trouble!"

"Father, don't be angry." Yuan Ren rushed in from outside the door: "His Royal Highness Shao sent a message."

Yuan Xiangguo took the letter from Yuan Ren, opened it, and was even angrier: "The concubine is pregnant, so it's not suitable to see guests? It's too bad to see guests! At this critical juncture, even he, Li Shao, wants to have a relationship with my Yuan family." Draw a line?"

"Hmph! Li Shao is really unreliable." Yuan Xin smiled coldly: "Isn't he afraid that my Yuan family will fall to Li Zhan?"

"Fall to Li Zhan? The fifth brother said it lightly," Yuan Ren frowned and said, "In the past half a year, how many nails have I planted in Li Zhan's Royal Salt Merchant Group? How much salt have I secretly hoarded?" ? If he knows this, how can he use it for me, Yuan Shi?"

Yuan Xin wiped his right palm across his neck, and said ferociously, "Since that's the case, why don't you just keep doing it!"

"To shut up!"

Yuan Xiangguo and Yuan Ren yelled at the same time, preventing Yuan Xin from saying what he was going to say next, but then the father and son looked at each other, and both sides saw the blaze in each other's eyes.

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On August 25th, the 24th year of Yongwei in Daqing, Emperor Yongwei, who had been in power for 38 years, passed away in Mingguang Palace, and the fifth prince Li Zhan succeeded to the throne.

When the news reached Liaodong, it was already the third day of September. Chu Ning and Bai Su were leading an army and a business group to inspect Black Bone City.

"The emperor passed away," Chu Ning came back to his senses, and couldn't help sighing softly: "This era that has been struggling to maintain is finally coming to an end..."

Although Chu Ning had never met this emperor before, as his official position got higher and he experienced more, he felt more and more empathy for the struggle and trade-offs of being in a high position.I thought I could still see the emperor who used Mrs. Yan, Li Qingci and himself, but I didn't expect that life and death would be separated from now on.

A rare daze flashed across Bai Su's eyes. She remembered the last time she saw Dijun when she was proclaimed into the palace last year—the Dijun looked quite good at that time, and he didn't seem to be suffering from any illness... But Why, why, in such a short period of less than a year, the dragon controlled the guest?

"Order the whole county!" Chu Ning summoned Liang Chunhua: "Let all the flags of our county, the Weimin Army, and the battalions be lowered at half-staff!"

The military flag is the military flag designed by the Weimin Army after the expansion of the army last year - the background color is bright red, with crossed swords and shields embroidered on it, which means that the Weimin Army will hold the sword and use it as a shield to fight bravely for the defense of the people and the territory. Invincible.

And Junyan is the Yan flag in the guard of honor when the county guard travels, representing Chuning's status and dignity as the county guard.

From Chu Ning's point of view, regardless of the emperor's ability to govern, and no matter how powerful the emperor is, just because he can reuse women like Mrs. Yan and himself as officials, Chu Ning also feels that he should mourn for him.

Ascending to the Dianjiangtai of Black Bone City, Chuning silently looked at Chang'an, accompanied by the dull drumbeat and military song, the county behind her slowly descended to two-thirds of the chess pole.

Off the stage, Mrs. Yan, Chu Rou, Yang Houde, Tang Xin, Li Wenyu and others were dressed in military uniforms and stood in line with their soldiers.

"Everyone is there! Stand at attention!" Mrs. Yan stepped forward and gave an order: "Take off your helmet! Salute!"

When everyone heard the order, they took off their helmets and held them in their left hands. With their right hands, they clenched into fists and hammered heavily on their chests.

At the same time, far away in the imperial palace of the imperial capital Chang'an, Li Zhan, dressed in white linen, was kneeling and sitting in the Mingguang Palace with the children of a royal family in a county, listening to Eunuch An cry on the ground: "Emperor Daxing gets tired easily recently, but always It's still considered strong, but, for some reason, it caught the wind and cold..."

Wind chill.

Is it really cold?

A cold light flashed across Li Zhan's eyes, and then he saw Eunuch An holding a brocade box, and after opening it, he took out a roll of yellow silk from it: "This is the imperial edict drafted by Emperor Daxing, with the countersignature of the Minister of the Nine Temples... "

"Only the Deputy Secretary of Jiuqing?" Li Zhan's face changed slightly, and he asked, "Where is Sangong?"

Eunuch An trembled suddenly: "San Gong... San Gong..."

"With my king here, my nephew doesn't need to worry." King Song, dressed in military uniform and with a plain belt around his waist, led his guards to rush forward, grabbed the edict in Mr. An's hand, opened it for a look, then raised it above his head, and pressed the sword Looking around at the children of the royal family: "The dynasty cannot be without a master for a day, and the country cannot be without a king for a day. According to the imperial edict of Emperor Daxing, the fifth highness is invited to succeed!"

The royal disciples and officials who had always had a deep friendship with Li Zhan hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty, I have issued an edict to invite His Highness the Fifth Highness to ascend the throne..."

Seeing that Li Shao and the others hadn't responded, the King of Song couldn't help shouting in a loud voice: "Your Highness, Your Highness Seven, Your Highness Ninth, why don't you wait?"

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"The first emperor was only able to control the guests, and Li Zhan couldn't wait to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, and he was not afraid of people scolding him for being ugly?" Chuning opened a message from Chang'an, and after reading it, he couldn't help shaking his head: "Compared to the first emperor Come on, after all, Li Zhan is a little more tender, but also a little anxious."

"It's really too urgent." Bai Su picked up another letter and looked at it, then passed it to Chuning casually: "I became the throne in September, and in November, I ransacked Li Shao's mansion on the charge of hiding soldiers and intending to rebel. "

"Li Shao died just like that?" Chuning couldn't believe it after finishing the letter, "Yuan didn't help him?"

Bai Su thought for a while, and replied: "The caravan came back with a gossip, saying that the Yuan family brought the eldest princess and grandson back to visit relatives a few days in advance."

"It seems that the good show is yet to come!" Chu Ning laughed, then shook his head and said, "Since last year, A Su has manipulated the price of Sang Luo's wine to induce Yuan's to use a large amount of stored grain to make wine. This year is not considered a good year. Even though the Yuan family has countless fertile fields and beautiful land, after paying back the grain of Zheng Liang and other aristocratic families, there should not be much left. When fighting with Li Zhan, the confidence is no longer what it used to be..."

"The Yuan family has little food, but they hoarded a lot of money." Bai Su thought, "If the news brought back by the caravan is correct, they should have hoarded a lot of private salt."

Chuning looked at Bai Su and asked, "What's A Su going to do next?"

"Continue to collect a large amount of grain and raise the price of grain in Chenjun, Hedong and other counties." Bai Su paused, thought for a while, and then said again: "Let's find a way to lower the price of salt..."

"A Su wants to devalue Yuan's hoard of salt?"

Chuning's eyes lit up, and he was extremely excited—one of Bai Su's goals from last year's deployment to this year was to use economic means to take time out of the Yuan family, and even to defeat the Yuan family!

"Great! The dried salted fish and dried salted meat that I have hoarded for half a year this year can finally be exchanged for money and food!"

Compared with a war with real swords and guns, this kind of economic war without directly facing the ruins after the war is more acceptable to Chuning, and she is even a little eager to try it. However, she is still a little worried: "The funds in hand can support Do you want to start such a huge commercial layout?"

"The gold mine has started to produce now, and Liaodong County's income and expenditure are already self-sufficient." Bai Su dragged the paper and calculated while writing: "The Hongyan Pavilion has clothing, soap and bath beans, which are heaven and earth. There are board and lodging and liquor, and the Four Seas Merchant Group has cement, pottery, porcelain, and woodware, etc... In addition to the income from Qianjintai and Kyushu Bodyguard, the cash balance in my account now exceeds 300 million."

"It's almost the same." Chu Ning nodded, and then sighed, "I don't know if Miss Qing's trip to Jizhou went well..."

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After Feng Jiuqing left Liaodong, she did not rush to Jizhou immediately, but arrived in Donglai on a merchant ship.After landing in Penglai City, she borrowed a horse from the Kyushu Bodyguard and went straight to Huangxian County.

Today's Huangxian County is no longer what it used to be. Not only has the population increased, but the business has become more prosperous. Even the dilapidated county town has been demolished. Like Muyang City, many beautiful small courtyards with blue tiles and white walls have been built.

Feng Jiuqing stopped and walked among these courtyards, looking at the figures that hurriedly came and went, she couldn't help but feel emotional.

"Master, seeing that you are alone, do you need a servant to relieve your boring journey?"

"Huh?" Feng Jiuqing looked around, then at the little woman in thin clothes who blocked her, and asked doubtfully, "You called me?"

"It turned out to be a girl." The little woman's eyes and ears seemed to be not very good. She looked closely and looked again and again, and then said with a face full of disappointment: "You are rude, please don't blame the girl..."

Suddenly someone approached, Feng Jiuqing subconsciously wanted to draw his sword, but stopped when he was about to unsheath, and blurted out: "Ruyan? Are you Ruyan?"

When the little woman heard Feng Jiuqing calling her, she immediately froze the body that was about to bow down, and said in a panic: "Miss, did you recognize the wrong person? Slave..."

"You are Ruyan... you... why did you become like this?" Feng Jiuqing supported Ruyan: "This... this white ash is actually lime powder? Why did you put lime powder on your face?"

However, without waiting for Feng Jiuqing to ask carefully, that Ruyan seemed to generate supernatural power out of thin air, violently pushed Feng Jiuqing away, and stumbled into the alley.

Feng Jiuqing looked at Ruyan's back silently, let go of the horse after hesitating for a moment, carried the sword and luggage into the alley, and followed Ruyan far away.

Ruyan probably couldn't see the people or things ten steps away, but she groped to knock on one courtyard door after another, and was taken advantage of by the hostesses who opened the doors one after another, and was scolded by the women who opened the doors one after another.

Feng Jiuqing didn't know how long she had been following, nor did she know how many doors Ruyan knocked on, how many people she stopped, and finally, she stopped a guest.

The guest was a disheveled Hanako, holding up a copper coin that he didn't know where to get, and waving it in front of Ruyan, Ruyan followed him to an alley and let him do whatever he wanted.

Feng Jiuqing stood not far away with her sword in her arms, watching these quietly, watching Huazi humming an out-of-tune tune and leaving the alley, watching Ruyan crawling on the ground looking for the copper coin.

But there was no money on the ground at all, that Huazi just threw the copper coins on the ground, let Ru Yan pick it up after hearing the sound...

--is it wrong?

Is it really wrong?

After Chuning stole the Spring Breeze Building, these women who had a place to live, have since then been living on the streets, falling into the muddy abyss, and never recovering...

Ministers, nobles, and aristocratic families in the court are all busy fighting for power and profit, Liaodong envoy Chu Wenhe is busy expanding abroad, junior sister Bai Feng is busy making money, and fighting Yuan's family-who would have thought of these people living at the bottom Woolen cloth?Who cares about those who live at the bottom?

Ruyan picked up the copper coins that Feng Jiuqing threw on the ground, touched and touched, counted and counted—five coins!A full five words!

I bought half a bowl of wheat grains, put them in my clothes like cigarettes, and carried them back to a cave like a treasure. I found a half-broken earthenware pot, ignited the fire buried in the ashes, and started cooking without peeling the shells. No grain of corn came.

Feng Jiuqing watched her cook the wheat grains, watched her help out an old woman with half-remnant flowers, fed her wheat rice in a bamboo tube, and said with a smile: "Ah Xin, I found a job today, and I got a job." The wages can finally let you eat enough..."