Inside the courtyard.
The two brothers and sisters stared at each other.
After a pause, Zhu Gaochi asked the question he was most concerned about.
"So, is Su Yang good to you? Has he ever bullied you?"
"My husband is very kind to me. Because I am sick, he doesn't let me do anything."
Zhu Wanqiu smiled sweetly, her tone full of sweetness.
In this era when Cheng and Zhu were popular, she had never heard of a man who would earn money to support the family, wash and cook at the same time, and pamper his wife into a treasure.
"Then what does he do for a living?"
"Well, my husband sometimes goes into the mountains to hunt, sometimes he does hard work, and sometimes he sells the chairs and stools he made. Recently, he has been reclaiming wasteland and preparing to borrow some grain seeds next year..."
Zhu Wanqiu counted carefully with her fingers, hearing that Big Fatty became more and more desperate.
The co-author is a poor boy who has nothing, and he does not have a household registration card. He may be a refugee who fled from some nook and cranny...
This is really difficult to handle!
Zhu Gaochi paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and then he spoke with a sincere face.
"Sister, let's go with big brother!"
"There have been rumors from the court that the new emperor may take action against my father!"
"Eldest brother will arrange for someone to send you to the south of the Yangtze River, where you can live a life without worries about food and clothing. You will suffer hardship by following Su Yang, and my father will never allow you to marry him..."
"I don't!" Zhu Wanqiu put away her smile and replied coldly, "I will never leave my husband, let alone follow your arrangements!"
"What a prince, what a father, he has already abandoned me. I, Zhu Wanqiu, don't have such a father!"
"If you dare to do anything to Su Yang, I will kill you immediately and I will never forgive you for the rest of my life!"
Zhu Gaochi: "!!!"
Numb!
Completely numb!
Su Yang belongs to your uncle!
You deceived my sister so miserably!
This prince must chop you into pieces today!
Big Fatty didn't bother to ask anymore, and sat in the rocking chair helplessly, ready to wait and see!
When we met, I chopped up that bastard Su Yang!
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Fangshan is a small county.
Entering the county town, there is a cross street connecting east and west and crisscrossing north and south.
The county government office is located in the center of the cross street, with the county school and warehouses on both sides.
This is the basic setup of an ancient small town, and Fangshan County is small and poor, with no money to be made, so no officials are willing to come to this remote, ghostly place.
Because today is a market day, the flow of people on the streets is still very large, adding a lot of fireworks to Fangshan City out of thin air.
When you actually come to the market, it's a different scene.
The cries of various vendors can be heard endlessly, making it noisy and lively.
Su Yang walked patiently and carefully, admiring the various life styles of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty, while hoping to find some good goods at cheap prices.
After all, Su Yang didn't have much money in his pocket. Every penny he spent was a penny lost.
When we arrived at the grain store, there were already many people gathered outside, looking very angry and cursing the store manager for being a profiteer!
"Shopkeeper, why did the price increase?"
"Yes, why did the price suddenly increase?"
"Profiteer! You are a profiteer!"
"I'm going to report it to the government to have you punished!"
Thanks to Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict, now ordinary people have the courage and confidence to report to the government when they encounter unfair things!
The shopkeeper was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. He raised his hand to signal everyone to quiet down, and then he explained aggrievedly.
“Fellow folks, it’s not just my family that has seen a price increase, it’s the entire Beiping Prefecture that has seen a price increase!”
"Perhaps you don't know yet, His Majesty the Emperor has just deposed Prince Qi. Shandong is now in chaos and food cannot be transported at all!"
"So the rise in food prices is really not what we want, and there is really nothing we can do about it!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole place was in an uproar, and the people watching all started whispering.
The imperial court deposed another King of Qi, but the people did not care.
What they care about is how they will live if there is a problem with food!
Fangshan County has many mountains and forests but little arable land. The food grown in Fangshan County is not enough. What should we do now?
There was only one person in the crowd whose expression changed wildly!
King Zhu Shu of Qi was deposed again!
When Su Yang heard the news, his expression suddenly changed!
No wonder King Zhu Di of Yan started hoarding food and grass crazily regardless of people's livelihood!
Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen accelerated his vassal reduction!
King Zhou was deposed and exiled to Yunnan!
The King of Qi was deposed and Nanjing was imprisoned!
History is still like this!
Emperor Jianwen began his vigorous campaign to eliminate vassals!
Su Yang's expression gradually changed and he fell into deep thought.
After the king of Zhou Zhu Zhu was deposed, the king of Qi Zhu Su was also deposed as a commoner because of his crimes and imprisoned in the capital!
If Zhou Wang Zhu Ju was deposed for disrespecting the emperor, everyone in the world would accept it.
But then the King of Qi, Zhu Shu, was deposed again. The new emperor's intention to cut down the vassal was not too obvious!
Zhu Yunwen's hypocrisy in front of Zhu Yuanzhang was all torn to pieces at this moment!
It is still the 31st year of Hongwu. He, Zhu Yunwen, couldn't even wait for the reform of Yuan and Jianxin, so he couldn't wait to start slashing at all his uncles with his sword!
After a succession of five vassal kings were killed and crippled by Zhu Yunwen, King Yan angrily raised his troops and launched the Battle of Jingnan!
There is nothing wrong with reducing the number of feudal lords and strengthening the centralization of power.
But he, Zhu Yunwen, should not have listened to the slander of that incompetent scholar Huang Zicheng. He first killed other vassal kings and only retained Zhu Di, giving Zhu Di a chance to breathe.
The heavy price Zhu Yunwen paid for this was that Zhu Di's fierce military strength finally overthrew his Jianwen court!
Su Yang doesn't know whether Zhu Di can successfully appease the enemy this time.
But he knows one thing!
That is,
There's going to be a war!
When he thought of this, Su Yang immediately shouted to the grain store manager.
"Shopkeeper, how much food is left, I want it all!"
King Zhu Di of Yan is hoarding food and grass like crazy!
Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen was not a fool, he directly cut off the grain transportation channels of Beiping Mansion!
This is because they noticed Zhu Di's actions and took countermeasures!
If nothing else happens, Beiping may face a food shortage for a long time to come!
When he thought of this, Su Yang became a little anxious.
He doesn't care about the little money, he can't really let his little wife starve, right?
But he is not the only smart person. Now I heard that Peiping may run out of food!
After hearing his voice, everyone reacted and started asking for food.
The owner of the grain store seemed to have been prepared and asked the clerk to take out a sign and place it at the door.
"We're running out of food, please go elsewhere!"
Seeing this, Su Yang turned around and left without looking back, running through all the grain stores in Fangshan County in one breath.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough and finally bought some food from the last house, which was enough for the couple to eat for a month.
After buying the grain, Su Yang saw that there was still some money left in his purse, so he went to the salt shop again.
As the price of food increases, so does the price of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Buying earlier will save you money.
However, the next moment Su Yang was dumbfounded and looked at the salt shop owner with a livid face.
"What did you say?"
"You want a hundred cents a pound of sea salt?"
"Why don't you just go grab the money?"
The normal market price of sea salt is sixty cents per catty, but this stupid profiteer sells it for one hundred cents per catty!
The shopkeeper of the salt shop chuckled, his face full of confidence.
"Hey, you're really right, I'm just robbing money!"
"Now the imperial court has stopped issuing salt quotas to Peiping salt merchants. Only my family can get this salt and sell it!"
"Boy, I advise you to buy it now, otherwise you won't be able to buy it after a few days!"
When Su Yang heard this, his face became even uglier.
Zhu Yunwen, this bastard, is really good at it. He wants to completely blockade the entire Beiping Mansion!
Jianwen, Jianwen, I will be your ancestor!
I don't have any objection at all, and I don't dare to have any objections to how you want to mess with King Yan Zhu Di, but you have to consider the life and death of tens of millions of people in Beiping Prefecture, right?
Cut off the supply of grain and grass in Beiping Prefecture, increase the price of materials like crazy, and run out of food and salt. How do you want us ordinary people to survive?
One side is hoarding food and grass crazily, and the other is cutting off the source of food and grass. How will you two bastards make the people of Beiping live their lives?
This is really "when gods fight, mortals suffer"!
One is Zhu Di, the other is Zhu Yunzhen. Together they are two bastards. Neither of them are good people!
