son-in-law

Chapter 533 Chapter [-]
After the busy Mid-Autumn Festival, the maid presented the recently received gift list. Li Shishi looked it over and accidentally found the gift from Ning Yi, only to remember that the two hadn't met for a while.

She asked the maid to find the gift. The gift was a painting. The painting was a full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The artist was called Tang Zhigui, who was a famous landscape artist a hundred years ago. It must be worth a lot of money.After a short glance, the teacher asked the maid to take it back.

Valuable paintings do not necessarily represent the heart, and girls are most sensitive to this aspect.Thinking of this, she felt somewhat sullen about Ning Yi.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the business in Fanlou was busy. She had scheduled a poetry party to attend, and there were many guests who wanted to talk and chat.The courtier's oiran does not accompany others to sleep, either to add color to the big scene, or to gather alone to give people an hour or two of peace and comfort.

It takes an hour or two to see someone, and even longer to attend a party.In the capital, there are a lot of people who she can't afford or don't want to offend. Even if she breaks herself in half, it's not enough.And when she had free time, or the time she could use, she devoted all her time to Tong Shuer's case, either going to Kaifeng Mansion to inquire about the case, or meeting with the other sisters who were involved.These women are not all from Fanlou, but this time they are the common enemies of the fireworks industry.

If a brothel woman wants to express her attitude, of course she can't gather a sign all over the street to protest, that is to die.After all, they express their dissatisfaction through various "friends", these friends include officialdom, business magnates, and celebrities.

After the uproar during this period of time, the pressure on Tong Shu'er's murder case was also quite high. On the other hand, the murderer also had some connections with the officials outside the office. He ran a number of ways, stuffed money and gave gifts. , up and down activities.Afterwards, there was a clear stream that said that the brothel women dared to point fingers at the court murder case, threatened public opinion, and had to beat their arrogance.Teachers and the others are not afraid. When they meet a high-ranking official, they cry to them in a weak voice, and then there are literati privately wrote and circulated articles, wanting to punish the officials and officials, and to nail the heartless man who abandoned Tong Shuer. Column of shame.In the turbulent material debate, the two sides eventually formed a tug of war, and it seemed that most of the officers and officials could not escape.

For this kind of thing, Shishi and the others didn't have to go to Kaifeng House to hear the case, but being there at the trial still made Shishi feel a kind of joy.After all, they are doing very good things. Everyone has come to help, and this is the result. Although Kaifeng House has repeatedly delayed the time for the judgment, after all, it can't cover up the bad guys, and it can't be dragged to the end of the day!
But at this time, it is more or less able to see who is a friend.Since learning about her case with Tong Shuer, many talented people who I knew before have come over to help with writing and come up with ideas. Some of the clerks in the yamen also came to express their indignation, and some of them are estimated to have secretly pushed for the right. Conviction outside of the officers.But at this time, Ning Yi didn't come, and when she remembered it, it was somewhat unpleasant.

Of course, she knew that Ning Yi had been here twice. At that time, she happened to have something to do with her. After she came back and got a notification from the maid, the other party had already left.This is somewhat insincere: I'm not free, you can wait.In addition, of course, I can't come out when I see guests alone. If I participate in a poetry festival somewhere, as a talented person like you, if you really want to go in, is it possible that someone will block you?It was as if he was stingy with a few of his poems.

In the past, when she was not very familiar with her, she felt that Ning Yi's personality was weird. After more than half a year of getting along relatively frequently, she became accustomed to Ning Yi's personality from being weird.The guy has been thinking about doing business recently, and every poem has to be matched with a branch of Zhuji - Shishi has never seen such a "stingy" talent for poetry, and his poetry is really people. I couldn't stop it, and in the end, I could only think that he was a little "lazy" when it came to writing poetry.

It's not an unbearable character for everyone to be friends, but after getting to know them, they find it interesting.On weekdays, if Ning Yi was busy, she would say hello and leave after saying a few words. The teacher also thought it was normal, because she had an open-minded temperament. More or less, there is some resentment.

Soon after, that resentment increased a little.

It was two days after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yu Hezhong and Chen Sifeng came to see her together. In comparison, this feeling really made the teacher feel a little warmer.In fact, both Yu Hezhong and Chen Sifeng are also officials in the capital now. Although they are both minor officials, among the officials, the Beijing officials are the most honorable, and no one else wants to be. Gao Zhiren, the teacher's identity for the two is only limited to the category of childhood friends. When talking about Ning Yi, Chen Sifeng shook his head with a sneer: "Liheng, he is a little too concerned about money..."

Among the two, Chen Sifeng was quite arrogant, while Yu Hezhong was slightly better, but neither of them understood what Ning Yi had done.Then he talked about some things one after another: "I heard that there are food shortages on both sides of the north and south."

"The price of rice has risen too high, but Zhuji is also harvesting grain recently..."

"Actually, people in Beijing and outside Beijing have not been very peaceful recently, and the atmosphere in the ministry is not very relaxed..."

"I heard that the government of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion is privately used, and the resources of the imperial court are to be used for business, and the reason for this is the soaring food price. As a result, the material discussion has been fierce. In the past few days, many officials have been taken off their hats. I'm very prepared, but the Censors Qingliu I know have been a little noisy recently, and I'm wondering if there will be problems again."

"Lord Qin and the Chancellor of the Imperial Censor are from the same clan, can't we fight?"

"It's hard to say, Qin Zhongcheng has an upright personality. Last year, he even dared to participate in Cai Taishi..."

As the lower-level officials, although they can't contact the upper-level, they are quite sensitive to the change of wind direction, and they feel a little bit of the breath of the mountain and rain.The teacher wrote down the food shortage. In a sense, taking advantage of soaring food prices to make money is what all businessmen do. If Ning Yi has been busy with this matter recently, it is not incomprehensible.

But it was a famine. At this time, how can you only think about making money...

This is what I think in my heart, and I know that these ideas are somewhat naive in the eyes of many people.In the next few days, while following the progress of Tong Shuer's case, she also inquired a little about the situation of the famine in the north and south. Some of the people she communicated with also knew the inside story and talked about the situation of the disaster this year, and then the traders hoarded Grain, raising the price of grain, has expanded its scope to the extent of several roads in the north and south!Most people sigh when they talk about this. Most people are dying this year, and then they talk about the inhumanity of those who hoard food.

So consistent until the day of August 22, after the first round of busy work, just to spare some time in the evening, Shishi asked Li Yun for leave, and left Fanlou to visit Ningfu.When I came to the door, I met Su Wending, only to know that Ning Yi was still dealing with things in Zhuji, so she turned back to Zhuji. After the notification, a shopkeeper invited her in and asked her to wait in the side hall. It was said that the owner was in a meeting , and will come out later: "My boss just said that I just happened to have something to do with Mrs. Shi Shi."

The teacher sat down in the side hall.

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At the same moment, on the street outside the Fanlou, a man in luxurious clothes was waving a folding fan and walking in the dark.Behind him, followed by a carriage and a number of followers.

With a folding fan in his hand, watching the bustling scene along the way, a faint smile appeared on the man's face, he tilted his head and whispered to the people around him: "Du Chengxi, Zhen, sometimes I go out on the palace wall. Look, the lights are prosperous, but I still feel that the heights are too cold. Only when I go out of the palace, when I am in this prosperous place, do I feel that this is what the capital should look like, just like I recently read The poems that arrived, a night of fish and dragon dances... Okay, here we go, let's go in."

The one who appeared here at this time was Emperor Jinghan Zhou Zhe, who went out of the palace in micro-clothing.During the recent period of time, a discordant atmosphere has been brewing in the court hall. He would be somewhat annoyed in normal times, but the recent success of the war in the north has swept away the haze in his heart.He watched all this develop with a relaxed mind, and took time out to relax.It is not the first time that Fanlou has come here. He didn't see Master Li last time, which made him feel a little regretful. If he could meet him this time, he would be in a good mood.

But this time, the other party is not in Fanlou.Recognizing that this was the royal nobleman brought by Captain Gao last time, mother Li Yun hurriedly came out and apologized desperately.Zhou Zhe was quite tolerant, he waved his hand to show that he didn't care, so he called another oiran for company.

Zhou Zhe didn't come to Fanlou very often, but looking at Li's mother's attitude, it was obvious that he had a very high status, and some of the maids in the building started to discuss it in private.Not long after, when Zhou Zhe came out, he overheard the conversation between the two maids: "Then, where did Miss Shishi go today?"

"I heard that you are looking for Ning Yining, and you know that they were friends when they were children... They have a very close relationship."

Zhou Zhe frowned, and then smiled at Du Chengxi, the head of the inner circle beside him: "Du Chengxi, this Ning Yi and Ning Liheng, it's not easy."

Du Chengxi frowned and said, "You know, the emperor...the poem that the master sang just now was written by him."

"Hey, that's not the case." Zhou Zhe smiled, "The last time I came here, this teacher and teacher went to perform for what Zhuji, and this Zhuji was opened by his family. That is to say, This Young Master Ning, who stole the woman I liked twice, isn't that amazing? Haha..."

He said this, but his voice was not high, he took a step, looked back at Du Chengxi's expression, and then suddenly frowned: "You, don't look like this! Don't make trouble because of this kind of thing! Talented and beautiful, Love stories have been known since ancient times. I just came out to have some fun in my spare time. He didn't know, what could this mean! Let me tell you, this Ning Liheng is a powerful person under the right hand, a talent! This is also What is the fate between me and him... well, forget about it, do you think... I'm a faint king?"

He lowered his voice again and said the last sentence, he turned around with a smile, and went back to accompany the beautiful lady...

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Zhuji, a large room with flickering lights, more than [-] people gathered in it, looking at a large map on the blackboard in front of it, Ning Yi was still talking and circling on it, the shopkeeper here, whispered to Ning Yi After saying a word, it was: "The teacher girl is leaving."

"Huh?" Ning Yi blinked, then looked at everyone, "I have something to do, let's go out for a while, we'll continue talking when we come back later, no two, it's negligent." At the end of the room, Wen Ren, who had only returned to Beijing today, did not Er was actually listening to what he had to say, and at this moment he smiled and bowed his hands to him.

Ning Yi and the shopkeeper chased out: "Have you gone far yet?"

"Just now, I said, it shouldn't go far."

"Really... I just have something to ask her, so let's just ask her to come in and listen..."

Ning Yi said in a low voice, and walked out quickly. When she was about to reach the side door of Zhuji, she caught up with Shishi and her maid: "Li Shishi, wait, let's go so quickly, I happened to be looking for you for something..."

There was an embarrassed and charming smile on the teacher's side: "I just passed by here today, and I stopped by to have a look. Liheng, you have to do something in advance, and I have to hurry back here."

"Oh..." Ning Yi was stunned, and then nodded, "Then... that's really negligent, I'll find you next time."

"Okay." Teacher Yingying bowed and walked towards the door.

When she went out and the lights on the street came over, the smile on her face subsided and she sighed, the maid next to her listened to her and sighed softly: "Since there is something, it does not say that you will find me tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. I, just say next time... ah..."

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On the other side, Ning Yi frowned, hurriedly returned to the room, and continued to look at the large circled map with everyone.

"... Let's continue to say that every household here has different situations. What I have listed here today are just some taken for granted methods. How to convince them really requires your adaptability. The basis of adaptability should still be based on intelligence. From this picture, it seems that there are still quite a few people who can be visited, but you have temporarily missed them. Of course, although time is not enough, I still advocate one step at a time. Footprints, as long as they have visited, they must be thorough, and the work must be solid. Don't even go there. Be efficient. If they can only endure your talk once, then your talk this time must be very effective. quality……"

On the big map, the terrain around Bianliang is marked with a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and the range exceeds a province in later generations. It is also marked with large and small dots and circles. This is the vicinity of Bianliang. There are more than 200 such people on the map.However, since Bianliang is a place where rich people live together, people who settled in Bianliang City but whose land is in other places are not counted.

"The situation is actually not optimistic..." After talking with everyone, the discussion was over, and it was already late, Ning Yi whispered to Wen Ren Buer about the progress of the whole thing, "More than ten days, What is really determined is only about [-] shi of grain, and if you add intentions, you can probably reach [-] shi, but it is the easiest to tackle the tough first, and the difficulty will increase if you want to expand later..."

He sighed. In fact, five thousand stone and ten thousand stone of grain didn't seem like a lot, but the account was not easy to calculate.

Taking the current situation as an example, the yield per mu of land in the Wu Dynasty at this time was about 100 catties, and when it was distributed to tenant farmers, the income per mu received by the landlord was actually a little more than half a stone.A big landlord with [-] mu of land in the family can have [-] shi of grain a year, and there is no way to eat it all. If the landlord has hoarded a thousand mu of land for several years, it is usually no pressure to take out [-] shi.

In fact, although the commerce of the Wu Dynasty is developed today, there is a situation that occurs frequently in this half-province: among these big landlords, at least half of them do not sell grain, and when the grain is in the warehouse When they are stored in the fields until they become moldy, they will take them to the fields and burn them on fire.

When there is no food for sale in many places, the problem of food storage is solved by burning it, which shows that there is food in a large area.But on the other hand, it is better to burn them than to sell them, which is enough to prove the firmness of the concept of self-closure. Of course, there are other reasons for this: for example, there are no channels, and for example, the aversion to doing business.

Only the situation of "no channel" is the best solution.And among the more than 200 households, a small half—usually the ones with the most food—Zhuji can’t talk to them, they have their own channels and methods, and half of the rest are stubborn , absolutely unconvincing, coupled with many other problems, in the end Ning Yi's expected results will not be too much.

"...In the most ideal state, before we have something to eat next year, the food we have to leverage is at least 50 shi. For Zhuji, I think it can be expected to get 45 shi. One hundred thousand shi There is no possibility, but on the outside, the relationship between Prime Minister Qin, Consort Kang and him, Duke Nian and the others, and Master Jueming together, whether it is possible to move [-] shi, I think... is not easy .”

Although Ning Yi said that Bamboo Kee is a small head, this kind of flowering is actually efficient.Qin Xiang and the others have a lot of face, and they may be able to talk about a few big landlords with three to five thousand stone or even tens of thousands of stone, but the number they can really reach is limited.After Ning Yi said this, Wenren Buer nodded: "In addition, I heard that the officialdom is not peaceful... They are starting to besiege Qin Xiang..."

Ning Yi shook his head: "I'm not worried about this, the old man's side is prepared, we'll just watch him perform..." He paused, "Actually, Wenren, the thing I'm most worried about is not yet. here..."

Merchants are chasing profits, and the disaster-stricken areas are stockpiling grain. This side is also a different mode of stockpiling grain. At this time, both sides are doing their own thing, and no one is alarmed.Once the food enters the disaster area, the real business starts to suppress the price. At that time, all kinds of people whose interests have been damaged will really jump out one after another.

Before that, in late August, a large-scale official storm had been brewing and began to erupt in the courtroom.The war between the two prime ministers and the Censor Qingliu seems to have started abruptly in the chaos...

All of this, many people, do not feel much for the time being.It's just that night, Li Shishi suffered from insomnia as usual. She looked at the moon and understood in her heart that this friend had deteriorated.

Just like Yu Hezhong and Chen Sifeng, they are a little careful and selfish, but they are still ordinary people.Without Ning Yi, this friend who used to make her feel different, at this time, began to look ugly.Maybe capable men are all the same. They all want to prove themselves in some respects by unscrupulous means, but...it becomes too ugly...

Are those dirty things really that busy?

In the days that followed, various rumors continued to spread, allowing her to determine her judgment on Ning Yi while paying attention to Tong Shuer's murder...

　The matter of large households burning grain has been happening all the way to modern China.It is said that before liberation, in the hometown, there were big landowners whose fields were more than [-] mu or more. They built the kind that were guarded by the cannon tower. There must be many ways to handle the class.

　
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