Suddenly, an older man walked up to Zhou Yi excitedly and asked: "County Master, are Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong who are riding alone as saviors really my ancestors from the ancient times of Pingliang County?"
"What's the matter, Old Wangtou? Is there any benefit from this county magistrate's deception?" Zhou Yi asked with a blushing face and a heartbeat.
"However, Pingliang County in ancient times was not called Pingliang, but Changshan."
As luck would have it, there happens to be a mountain called Changshan near Pingliang County. Everyone in the audience misunderstood Zhou Yi's Changshan as Changshan.
Lao Wangtou quickly shook his head and waved his hands excitedly: "It's just that I never thought that our ancestors from Pingliang County were so powerful."
"If I had known that, a year ago, old man, I would have fought those Xiongnu bastards to the end even if I risked my life, so that I would not lose the reputation of my ancestors."
Everyone below was excited and agreed: "That's right, just do it if you don't accept it. Even if you can't win, it's not a loss if you fight to the death!"
Zhou Yi was very satisfied with the reaction of everyone in the audience. He knew that he had inspired the bloody spirit of everyone in Pingliang County.
Zhao Zilong from Pingliang County!
What a hero, what a mighty figure!
Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong were full of courage, leading Adou Qi in and out seven times, and regarded Cao Cao's hundreds of thousands of troops as nothing.
Now Zhouyi has set a heroic example for the people of Pingliang County. I believe everyone will be impressed by such a loyal, courageous and brave person, respect him, worship him, learn from him, and even become him.
Sure enough, after taking the night school course, no matter whether they were old or young in Pingliang County, as long as they had a stick in their hands, they began to imagine that they were Zhao Zilong, who could kill generals and seize swords among thousands of troops, entering and exiting seven times.
For a time, the entire night school was covered in dust by this group of old and young. A big black dog lying on the edge of the night school resting was slapped on the buttocks by some blind guy, and ran away screaming in pain. Far.
Zhou Yi, who was about to leave, looked at everyone's appearance and looked very much like himself who wanted to drift and race after watching the movie "Fast and Furious". Fortunately, Zhou Yi was poor and had no car for him to drift. Otherwise, Zhou Yi might have traveled through time a few years earlier.
Early the next morning, the Qinan brothers urged Sister-in-law Cuilan to take them to the county government office to thank Zhou Yi for his great kindness in sending people to treat them.
Zhou Yi didn't care at all about saving the Qinan siblings, and just asked them to work hard and live hard in Pingliang County.
Originally, the Qi Nan siblings wanted to go to Jiangnan to join their aunt, but now that Pingliang County is willing to take them in, and provide them with food and books to read. In addition, the journey to Jiangnan is long and dangerous, so Qinan decided to take his brother with him. Stay in Pingliang County.
Through a simple greeting, Zhou Yi learned from Qinan that a severe drought had occurred in the entire 21 counties of Yongzhou.
At first, Zhou Yi thought that only Pingliang County, Pingjiang County, and the surrounding areas of Pingyang City were suffering from drought. However, he did not expect that this drought would be more serious than he imagined.
"Hey! Information is blocked!" Zhou Yi secretly sighed.
Nowadays, the ears and eyes that Zhou Yi cultivates are only in Pingjiang County and Pingyang City. Someone will send him messages from time to time about the situation in the other two counties.
Based on the news he received from Qinan today, Zhou Yi decided to send people to other counties to recruit people and develop himself.
As for the method, it must be like in Pingyang City and Pingjiang County. First, let people raise the price of food to sky high, and then let people spread the news that food prices are cheap in Pingliang County, thereby attracting outsiders to settle in Pingliang County.
In addition, Pingliang County's incentive policy for attracting people, which is like a pyramid scheme, is still implemented, so Zhou Yi is confident that he can attract those poor people to his Pingliang County.
After seeing off the Qi Nan siblings and Sister-in-law Cuilan, Zhou Yi received news that Yang Xiu had returned from Pingyang City.
Although Zhou Yi received a letter from Yang Xiu a few days ago that he was ready to come back, Zhou Yi was somewhat excited at the thought of seeing Yang Xiu soon after a month-long absence.
Not only because Zhou Yi missed Yang Xiu, but also because Yang Xiu brought back a lot of supplies from Pingyang City.
Zhou Yi quickly asked people to prepare horses and went to the city gate to greet him.
When Yang Xiu saw that his young master had come to greet him in person, he was even more excited and quickly asked his servants to speed up.
As soon as Yang Xiu arrived in front of Zhou Yi, he burst into tears: "Master! I haven't seen you for more than a month. You have worked too hard for the people and have lost weight again!"
"No, no, Ash, it's hard and tiring for you to travel all the way to Pingyang City."
"By the way, Ash, you don't have a nickname for me yet. On the way to greet you, I just thought of a nickname for you."
In this country of Chen, people who are successful in reading or have high moral character are usually given the name Biao. Having a pseudonym is also a recognition of someone.
Now that his young master not only came out of the city gate to greet him, but also gave him a cousin name, how could he not make Yang Xiuming feel so moved and burst into tears of gratitude.
After hearing the name given to him by Zhou Yi, Yang Xiu's hands were shaking with excitement.
Yang Xiu secretly thought to himself: "Sure enough, the young master also has the ambition to compete in the Central Plains and the Nine Provinces, otherwise he would not have given me such a nickname."
Excited, Yang Xiu hurriedly ran to the convoy behind him, pulled out a piece of fabric, and then ran back and said, "Master, I purchased some silk fabric for you in Pingyang City, which can be used to make you some nice clothes."
"No hurry, no rush, Ash, please tell me, what was the price of food in the city when you left Pingyang City?"
Yang Xiu poked his head and recalled it, and then said truthfully: "When I left, a bucket of grain in Pingyang City had been sold for 79 taels of silver."
"What's more important is that most of the grain sold by the grain merchants in Pingyang City is bran and sand."
A bucket of rice in Chen Guo weighs about 12 kilograms, and 12 kilograms of coarse grains sell for 79 taels of silver.
If this is converted into modern currency based on five yuan per gram of silver, it would be a full 19,750 yuan, which is as high as 1,645 yuan per kilogram of grain.
It's so scary, it's really so scary.
Zhou Yi didn't expect these landlords and profiteers to be so cruel.
"This food is so expensive, how can the people of Pingyang City afford it?" Zhou Yi couldn't help but asked curiously.
Yang Xiu shook his head and said: "Of course I can't afford this. Someone just asked why the price of food is so high, and the profiteer choked back: What? You still think 79 taels of food are expensive? Can't you buy it? Is it because I don’t work hard enough to grow food? Sometimes I have to reflect on myself.”
After Zhou Yi heard Yang Xiu repeating the words of Pingyang City's profiteers who maliciously raised food prices, he felt like he had heard these words somewhere before, but Zhou Yi couldn't remember it for a while.
