allendalepharm Chapter 643 The public is displeased and makes an unannounced visit with his subordinates in micro-c
Chapter 643 The public is displeased and makes an unannounced visit with his subordinates in micro-c
Chapter 643 The public is displeased, and he brings his subordinates to make an unannounced visit...
Huai'an Mansion, Qingjiangpu
In Huai'an Fucheng, there are shops with "Jiajiamidian" posters and plaques hanging in front of the door. There are crowds of people in Huai'an Fucheng who are buying food in Huai'an Fucheng. Or they wear coir raincoats, and most of them carry rice grain cloth bags on their backs.
At this moment, a wooden sign stuck on the rice bucket on the table in front of the shop and the white rice grains was taken away by a clerk and replaced with a new wooden sign.
"Hey, why has it increased by another two hundred Wen?" At this moment, a young man in a rough shirt with bunts showing his upper arms came up and complained.
The guy said with a smile: "You don't know that, now the Huai'an mansion is all at this price, hurry up and queue up."
The men, women and children who lined up behind them talked and complained.
In the back hall of the rice shop, on a black wooden table, with the lights on, looking at the account books and calculating the abacus, the shopkeeper Li, the shopkeeper, suddenly got up, with a smile on his wrinkled face, and turned to the clothes. A middle-aged man from Yuanwai Mansion and a young man greeted him.
"Master." Shopkeeper Li called out.
"How much have you sold in the past few days?" Jia You, surrounded by his son Jia Yu and the steward surnamed Zhou, came up to him with his hands behind his back, and asked with elegance on his face with a short beard.
Shopkeeper Li smiled and said, "Yesterday, I collected 3000 taels of silver in total. Today, I added [-] taels of silver to the bucket of rice. There is still a queue outside. There should be more today."
Jia You nodded and said, "It's a few thousand taels of silver a day. Fortunately, we have less grain and rice this time, otherwise we can open more rice shops."
Shopkeeper Li said with a smile: "Master, that's not the case. Now the entire Huai'an Prefecture is short of rice grains. I heard that Zhen's family earns tens of thousands of taels of silver every day. That's not even the fact that they sell it to other rice shops."
Jia Yu said softly, "Father, I heard that the Pan family owed the Nanjing household department's granary on credit. It would be great if we could also owe some on credit."
Jia You said: "The Pan family in Nanjing, we don't have much friendship with them, the rice can make a fortune."
"Isn't my cousin an official in Huai'an Mansion? Ask him to write a letter to the Nanjing household department, and maybe it will be done." Jia Yu said with a playful smile.
Just as Jia You was about to speak, he suddenly heard shouts and arguments from outside.
Jia You frowned, and asked, "What's going on, what's going on outside?"
At this moment, a clerk came in and said, "My lord, someone is making trouble."
A look of anger appeared on Jia Yu's face, and she said, "I've really eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's guts. Whose business is this, he doesn't know? Taisui is breaking ground! Dad, you wait here, I'll go and see."
Jia You warned: "Hurry up and send him away."
Not far from Jia's Rice Shop, Jia Heng was wearing a colorful brocade robe at the moment, looking into the distance, Xia Houying at the side also changed from the flying fish suit to a green shirt, her plain hair was rolled up into a man's bun, and she was wearing a wooden hairpin. Passing through, he held up the umbrella with one hand and supported Jia Heng, blocking the thousands of raindrops falling from the sky.
Jia Heng's face was like dark water, looking at the rice shop not far away, his eyes were uncertain.
Before going to Xuzhou, he planned to dispose of the partial branch of the twelfth house of the Jia family in Jinling, and then arrested the Pan family and the servant of the household department, and then went to Xuzhou to pick up the grain and hide for a while. , to save a bunch of messy people from coming to him to intercede.
Xia Houying secretly glanced at the young man, feeling a little uncertain about what he was up to.
At the moment Liu Jixian is waving his muscular arms, arguing with the rice seller.
"I said you were deliberately finding fault, didn't you? The price of rice in the city is full now, you go and see, how can there be a bucket of fifty yuan?" The guy looked at Liu Jixian who was dressed in casual clothes. , I was subconsciously a little afraid.
Liu Jixian said angrily: "You profiteers, the price has increased tenfold in the past few days, and now the price has increased?"
The guy was completely annoyed, and said, "You stupid big man, who are you calling a profiteer?"
At this moment, a voice with a sneer came from inside, saying: "Who is making trouble outside, isn't he tired of working? Don't even look at where this is?"
Jia Heng looked indifferent, and said in a cold voice: "The Lord is here."
"En." Xia Houying responded softly, and raised the thumb of the bare hand that raised the umbrella to the tiger's mouth and moved it down. The neatly manicured nails did not see any Kodan and Impatiens flower juice.
At this time, Jia Yu came to the door under the retinue of several young servants, looked at Liu Jixian, pointed to the cloth banner beside him, and said, "I don't even look at the words on it!"
Liu Jixian turned to look at the writing on the side, looked at it for a while, said "oh oh" several times, and asked, "I don't know how to read, what is written on it?"
Seeing this ignorant scene, the people watching couldn't help bursting into laughter.
Jia Yu's face was green and red, and said: "This is the rice shop of the Jia family. Do you know Yongning Bo? He is the governor of the river in Huai'an Prefecture. He leads an army of tens of thousands to put down the rebellion. Who in the entire Han Dynasty doesn’t know about the Envoy of the Camp, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and the Minister of Military Aircraft?”
Liu Jixian said "Oh", looked at Jia Yu with a blank expression, and asked, "What does Yongning Bo have to do with you?"
Seeing this scene, Xia Houying twitched the corners of her mouth, and glanced at the young man's face, but saw that his face was calm. Looking from the side, it seemed that because of the rush of time these days, the lines of his face became more sharp and deep, and Xiao Xuan's demeanor remained undiminished.
It's really hard to imagine that this person ordered Liu Jixian to do this scene just now.
Jia Yu said angrily, "Blind your eyes, I am Yongningbo's brother!"
At this moment, most of the people's faces showed fear, but they were all pointing.
"Let me tell you, if you want to make trouble, you'd better weigh it carefully and wait for Uncle Yongning to come over and use Jin Yiwei to arrest you!" Jia Yu said angrily.
Liu Jixian stiffened his neck and said, "You should sell at the original price, and you can't raise the price at will."
Jia Yu was very annoyed when he heard this, and said angrily, "I've been talking with you for a long time, but you didn't understand, did you? Come and drive this man away!"
At this time, several servants made a promise, raised the door bolt and bench from behind, and beat Liu Jixian.
Jia Heng shouted heavily: "Stop!"
At this time, under a black umbrella held up by Xia Houying, a handsome young man in a plain blue shirt came from a distance.
Jia Yu saw that although the visitor had a young face and a handsome face, but he walked with an extraordinary bearing, and his eyes looked around, he couldn't help feeling a little timid, and asked, "Who are you?"
Jia Heng stared intently at the young man opposite, and asked, "Who gave you the courage to drive up the price of food here and hoard goods?"
At this time, Liu Jixian approached, cupped his hands towards Jia Heng, and then stood beside Jia Heng, looking at Jia Yu coldly.
"Okay, you guys are in the same group!" Seeing this, Jia Yu felt like she had been teased, with anger rolling on her young face, she shouted, "Shoot out these troublemakers with sticks."
At this moment, the movement of Jia's rice shop suddenly attracted the crowds of other shop customers and passers-by. For a while, all the three floors and the outer three floors were looking at the rice shop, and all eyes were on the young man.
Jia Heng's eyes were slightly cold, and he ignored these people.
Before Jia Heng could make a move, Liu Jixian had already slashed, snatched the servant's stick, and stood in front of Jia Heng's body, "swiping" as the stick danced, and the few guys who came over had already been arrested. He fell to the ground on the spot, moaning and moaning non-stop.
At this moment, Jia Yu stood in the same place, dazed on the spot, terrified, and called out to a clerk: "Okay, these murderous people can't buy and sell by force, and dare to beat them? Come on, go to the Hedao Yamen to report to the official, and take the money." Kill these murderers!"
A clerk hurried towards the Hedao Yamen.
And Jia You, who heard the voice from the shop, also led a few stewards out of the shop. He looked at the young man in green shirt opposite him at the first glance, frowned, and asked, "Friend, who are you?"
Jia Heng looked at Jia You with eyes like a sword, and said solemnly, "Who are you?"
He is really not familiar with the twelfth room of Jia's family in Jinling, and of course, so is he.
Stared at by those eagle-like eyes, Jia You felt a little fearful, and said, "We are the Jia family in Jinling..."
"The Jia family in Jinling? The Jia family taught you to come here to drive up prices, disrupt people's livelihood, and earn ill-gotten gains?" Jia Heng interrupted Jia You's words in a cold voice, and said in a deep voice: "You still fight?" Acting under the banner of Yongningbo?"
Jia You's heart trembled, and he faintly felt that the visitor was not easy to provoke, so he argued rationally: "Rice shops all over the city are now at this price, and when it comes to buying and selling grain, it's what you like, and we haven't forced others to pay more. Rice grain!"
Then, he said, "Your Excellency, you can go to the city to have a look. Not only our family, but the price is everywhere. The food we have worked so hard to transport from Jinling, we can't make no money at all, right?"
"I may not be in charge of other people's affairs, but I am in charge of the Jia family's affairs." Jia Heng said in a deep voice with a frosty complexion.
"You!" Jia You heard the words, his pupils shrank slightly, his heart trembled, and he thought to himself, could this person have enmity with their Jia family?
At this moment, I only heard the sound of horseshoes "da da" stepping across the bluestone road in the distance from the street, sounding successively, from far to near.
Everyone followed the prestige, and saw dozens of Jinyi Titi riding mightily coming, holding the reins in their hands, reining in the horses, and the Jinyi Fuwei, wearing bamboo hats, got off their horses in unison.
The people who were originally surrounded, all with fear on their faces, scattered a way.
Because Governor Jia Heng Hedao went to Qingjiangpu and brought five hundred guards of the Jinyi Mansion with him, so Huai'an city is no stranger to these Jinyi guards in flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives.
The brocade-clothed family rolled up one hand of the white sleeve, pressed the handle of the Xiuchun knife, led two followers, and strode forward.
Jia Yu walked over happily, pointed at Jia Heng and the others, and said, "That's them. We are the clansmen of Yongningbo in Jinling. These people came to make trouble."
He clearly thought it was the guy who went there earlier, the person who came to the Hedao Yamen.
The hundred households in brocade clothes came to Jia Heng, clasped their fists and said: "Yu Xuan, a hundred households in Beizhen Fusi, who is a low-ranking official, has met the governor."
Jia You, Jia Yu: "???"
The governor in brocade clothes?
No, no one in Huai'an prefecture knows that the governor of Jinyi is Yongning Bo!
Jia Heng shouted deeply: "Take the father and son and tie them to that tree. Jia wants to follow the family rules today!"
"Yes." The Jinyi Hundred Households headed by the Jinyi family handed over their hands, and then all the guards of the Jinyi Mansion responded in unison.
This scene caused the surrounding people to cheer and applaud in unison.
Jia Yu was so frightened that her limbs went limp, she yelled loudly: "Cousin, we are of the same race..."
However, two guards in golden clothes with big arms and round waists and flying fish suits stepped forward and pressed Jia Yu's shoulders, and moved towards the tree beside him.
Jia You's face was already pale, and he looked at the young man in green shirt in horror, and said, "Master Heng, I can't wait to transport the rice to Huai'an Mansion for sale, what crime did I commit?"
Jia Heng's face was cold, and he said: "Hoarding goods for strange things, holding the banner of this official, bullying others here, how dare you say that you are innocent?"
Without waiting for the two to discuss, "Liu Jixian, each can whip twenty lashes! As a warning!"
Liu Jixian promised, and then picked up a whip from a captain in Jinyi, and started whipping the people who were tied to the tree.
Accompanied by screams and groans of pain, the people of Huai'an Mansion, who had been watching the excitement, cheered loudly.
In the distance, the officials of the Huai'an government office were also alarmed. Dozens of people came, seeing the flying fish suit under the coir raincoat, watching from a distance, none of them dared to step forward.
"Folks in Huai'an Fucheng, starting from today, Jia's rice grains should be sold at a [-]% discount before the price increase, and purchased according to the quota per person and family until they are sold out." Jia Heng looked at the crowd in the distance. The more people gathered, they said loudly: "Don't worry, folks, the government is chasing down those illegal profiteers who are driving up the price of food, and we must let everyone eat cheap food!"
It's not that I didn't think of free distribution, but it will only cause countless people to be greedy for petty gains, but it will not have the effect of suppressing the price of rice.
The people at the scene cheered one after another, and the street immediately resounded, "Bo Gaoyi, Yongning!"
Xia Houying was holding an umbrella at the moment, watching the young man in green shirt surrounded by the guards of the Jinyi Mansion who was not sheltering from the wind and rain, under Yingxiu's sword-like eyebrows, those clear eyes that were as clear as jade flickered, and there was a faint surge of splendor.
Jia Heng looked at Jia You and Jia Yu and his son, whose backs were dripping with blood, and said coldly: "In the future, if you use the banner of your own official to make trouble, you will not be lightly forgiven!"
Jia You and Jia Yu, father and son, were groaning in pain at the moment, almost crying for their father and mother, obediently answering, their hearts were already extremely frightened.
Jia Heng also ignored Jia You and his son, and returned to Hedao Yamen under the eyes of the people in Huai'an Mansion, leaving the guards of Jinyi Mansion behind.
Jia Heng turned to look at Liu Jixian who was on the side, and said in a low voice: "You have always been careful, this time you will personally take someone to Yangzhou, and bring the relevant criminals to Huai'an Mansion for strict interrogation, there is no room for error!"
He was ready to go to Shuyan to participate in Pan Ruxi, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs in Nanjing, who could not restrain his family from reselling official food. When the country was in crisis, he didn't know the general situation, and his cabinet system was completely lost.
To participate in the impeachment of a Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, it is necessary to arrest Pan Xiangdong, the brother-in-law of Minister Qian Shuwen, Ji Yousong, who was involved in reselling official food, and obtain relevant criminal evidence such as his confession.
In other words, his iron fist this time was mainly on the heads of Pan Ruxi, Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, and Qian Shuwen, Minister of the Household Department.
In the ancient times when the concept of market supervision did not exist, hoarding goods was still justifiable, but it was a violation of national law to owe official food on credit and resell it to disaster victims at a higher price.
Liu Jixian said: "Don't worry, my lord."
After Liu Jixian left, Jia Heng looked at Xia Houying and said, "Follow me to Yangzhou to receive the batch of official rations."
In his writings to the Water Transport Yamen and Liangjiang Governor's Yamen, he said that he went to Xuzhou to receive official food, relieve the victims of disasters in Huaixu, Huaiyang and other places, stabilize food prices, and let the Water Transport Governor's Department prepare a batch of boats and horses.
Otherwise, they are [-]% nonsense, he left his post on the matter of flood control and flood preparation, and so on.
Xia Houying looked at the young man with shining eyes, and asked, "My lord, are you leaving now?"
"Well, we'll set off later. The boats for the Water Transport Office should be ready by now." Jia Heng said.
On the other hand, as time passed, the news that Jia Heng personally disposed of the Jia family members also spread to the post house.
"Zuotai, this Yongningbo...has just dealt with the members of the Jia family in Huai'an Mansion." Xu Shikui, the chief minister of Jiangzuo, said in surprise with a complicated expression.
As for the fact that the children of the twelfth house of the Jia family in Jinling followed the Zhen family and resold grain in the Huai'an mansion, the two Jiangnan feudal officials knew very well.
However, the two of them were both seduced and refused to speak out, and they had other plans.
Shen Fang's face was as gloomy as water, and he sneered and said, "Originally, I had to wait for the censor to impeach him after the incident. I didn't expect him to be so clever and punish him in the street. It's a good way! I'm afraid it won't be long before the entire Jianghuai and other places will be punished." To say that Uncle Yongning killed his relatives righteously is stern and selfless!"
Jia Heng took over the position of governor of Nanhe, and tried his best to turn the tide and reduce the harm of floods.
From the center of the Han Dynasty to the two rivers, Shilin official circles will regard Jia Heng as a capable official no matter whether they want to admit it or not, but ordinary people in Huaiyang, Huaixu and other places may not be as impressed as the people in Henan who have directly received favors .
But after the previous incident, the people all know that Uncle Yongning is selfless and upright.
The reputation spreads all at once, and this kind of reputation is admired and admired by some young scholars even among scholars.
And this is precisely Jia Heng's rarest virtuous name in Jiangnan, and it can also dilute the image of cruel officials and martial arts in the eyes of scholars in Jiangnan.
Combined with this celebrity anecdote: "In the summer of the 15th year of Chongping, Bodu Township, Hetai, Yongning, stationed in Huai'an, fighting floods and preparing for floods, I was shocked to hear that the clansmen relied on merchants' goods to stockpile goods, disturbing people's livelihood, and the public was displeased. The retinue made an unannounced visit in disguise, and whipped him..."
The image of a slightly cute official who heard his family's injustice, with a face full of anger, even upright, instantly appeared on the paper, making people look up at the mountains.
It is worth mentioning that Xu Kai, a scholar in the Imperial Academy, has already made Jia Heng famous in his correspondence with many friends in Jiangnan, praising Yongningbo Jia Heng as a leader of the country, open-minded and talented.
Xu Shikui looked solemn, and said in a low voice: "Zutai, seeing how Uncle Yongning's six relatives don't recognize him, it seems that he is about to get serious."
Shen Fang's eyes were indifferent, and he said sarcastically: "I'm still worried that he won't move the truth, so it depends on who else he can touch! Can he still wipe out Liangjiang's officialdom in one fell swoop like Nanhe Yamen?"
In Nanhe governor's yamen, after Gao Bin committed suicide, he went up to Guanhe and went down to inspection, and Jia Heng almost took over.
Following Yi Yinghe's confession, Jia Heng has sent people to arrest those who should be arrested according to the seriousness of the crimes, those who should be ransacked, and those who should be ransacked, and those who are lower-level are allowed to go to the embankment to fight the flood and make meritorious deeds.
A smile appeared on Xu Shikui's face, and he said in a low voice: "My lord, Uncle Yongning is the favorite of the emperor, he may not be able to manage a batch, but he can manage one or two people, supplying rice and food, so Suzhou and Zhenjiang should step up their dispatch. "
I'm afraid that the gods will fight and the little ghost will suffer. If we really want to investigate these days and find that the Jiangzuo feudal chief deliberately delayed, wouldn't he be a punching bag?
Shen Fang pondered for a moment, and said, "It's almost the same now, there is no need to delay any longer."
Anyway, the situation that should be created has been created, and the rest depends on whether Yongningbo dares to touch those officials and eunuchs in Nanjing.
As a matter of fact, the sons and daughters of officials in Nanjing are flocking to Huaiyang and other places like vultures, which is due to Shen Bing's inaction. Otherwise, with his deep cultivation in Jinling, it is impossible to restrict it.
(End of this chapter)