Chapter 1023 Zhu Yuanzhang's contribution is unparalleled
"Today will be very lively."
Jia Pingan looked at the piles of cloth and said.
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Wang Shun has finished his breakfast and is drinking tea.
He smiled slightly, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, "As I get older, it is difficult to fall asleep after waking up. Some people say that ghosts and gods are asking for their lives, so be vigilant."
Lu Shunzai came, "Today is the last good chance."
Wang Shun nodded, "We must defeat Jia Ping'an today, so as to raise the price."
Lu Shunzai said with a smile: "Those people think we have good intentions, hahahaha!"
Wang Shun's eyes were full of sarcasm, and he got up with his hands on the desk, "In this world, if you want to get something, you have to pay something. If you get something for no reason, it will be poisonous or it will have a backlash."
The two went out afterwards.
"Why didn't Cui Chen come?"
Wang Shun was a little dissatisfied.
At this moment, all the officials have arrived at their yamen, so there should not be many people on the street. But it's full of people everywhere.
Those people carried their burdens and happily went to Dongxi Market.
"Aye, the door won't open until noon!"
A young man yawns.
The middle-aged man beside him was carrying a bigger burden, and said with a straight face: "Go to the queue earlier... This is money! Cloth is money, now that the price of money has dropped, what are you waiting for if you don't buy it?"
The young man muttered: "But we have to buy it with copper coins!"
"Copper coins are copper coins, and cloth is also money."
The middle-aged man smiled and said: "I bought some yesterday, and I will buy some more today, and then I can marry you a wife."
The young man's face was a little red, "Aye, San Niang doesn't mind it!"
"What do you know?" The middle-aged man looked wise, "A woman says she doesn't dislike your poor family, but the more she says that, the more she dislikes it. Who doesn't want their life to be easier? In this life, you can only If you marry once, if you can make it more enthusiastic, you will win face for yourself anyway. Da Lang, women are more face-saving than men!"
The young man yawned, "Aye, Auntie also said that she doesn't dislike you!"
The middle-aged man froze, and then said with a dry smile: "A lot of times...women don't complain in front of others."
The young man rubbed his eyes, "Then last time I heard my aunt yelling, saying that marrying you is really bad luck for eight lifetimes..."
The middle-aged man finally couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped the young man on the back with his hands.
The young man moved his back and said in a low voice: "Aye, actually... They said that today is a fight between the superior and His Majesty! If we go to buy cloth, isn't that helping the superior?"
The middle-aged man was silent for a long time.
"Just buy!"
Outside the gate of Dongxi City, Chen Jinfa and more than ten officials were shouting.
This was the first time he was yelling in front of so many people, what a huge sense of shame!
But this is Zhao Guogong's order, so I can only follow it.
"Your Majesty said, if there is a cheap one, just buy it!"
Officials are shouting.
The middle-aged man brought his son to line up early, but he didn't expect to get this good news.
A big man shouted: "But how much money can Your Majesty have? Although we want to take advantage of it, what if we take advantage of His Majesty's advantage?"
"That's right, it's very comfortable to earn money from His Majesty, but thinking about those high-class people can also earn money, yeah yeah I'm not happy!"
Chen Jinfa shouted: "Just buy, Your Majesty released all the cloth in the palace. Just now, the cloth in the imperial city piled up like a mountain, just buy!"
Wang Shun narrowed his eyes slightly, "They have nothing to fear!"
"Why?"
Lu Shunzai saw Cui Chen, "What is he in a hurry for?"
Cui Chen came over in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "Just before, many officials in the imperial city brought cloth, and now the cloth in the imperial city is piled up like a mountain, piled up like a mountain!"
Lu Shunzai sneered, "This is the emperor's order!"
Cui Chen shook his head, "Spontaneously."
Lu Shunzai blurted out, "Is this dissatisfaction with us?"
The three were silent.
Cui Chen said arrogantly: "Did we, the gentry, ever care about those ants? When the barbarians went south, some of our gentry went to the south, and some of our gentry stayed in the north. Regardless of the north or south, our gentry can keep our family. It's getting better and better…”
Wang Shun nodded, "We don't need anyone's approval."
This is a monster. Most of its ancestors are famous, most of them are loyal ministers, and they claim to be able to flaunt their history. Later, the descendants continued to expand relying on the reputation of their ancestors, and eventually became behemoths.
"My lord, how do we do it today?" Cui Chen asked easily.
The three of them are going to Pingkangfang.
"I met those cloth merchants yesterday, and according to the instructions of each family, I will obey them today."
Lu Shunzai asked: "What will happen in the end?"
Wang Shun said: "Even if it is cut in half... the emperor must be heartbroken!"
"Jia Ping'an is there!"
Everyone saw Jia Pingan in front of him.
"Who is that boy next to him?" Lu Shunyi asked.
Lu Shunzai narrowed his eyes, "Prince!"
Li Hong talked with Jia Ping'an about the things in the imperial city.
"...The cloth is like a mountain, and those officials say they can't understand it..."
"This is just the simplest feeling of family and country."
"Why?" The prince was puzzled. He noticed that his uncle's eye sockets were turning red very quickly.
"There are so many people who don't get used to in life, who do you see will take out the money in the family?"
Jia Ping'an smiled, and Bao Dong approached and whispered, "Wang Shun and the others are behind."
Li Hong looked back.
Wang Shun and the three were stunned for a moment.
No one thought that the prince would turn back
Immediately, the three handed over.
The crown prince nodded, turned around and said, "Gu also can't understand them!"
"The gentry is like a giant beast. They feel that they can be independent from the dynasty, but they are in it."
Jia Pingan has been feeling the three gazes, as if a fire is burning his back.
Entering the Chang'an cafeteria, Jia Pingan went straight to his room and sat down.
The prince sat opposite, Zeng Xianglin and Wang Xia stood behind.
Wang Xia gave Zeng Xianglin a wink.
Zeng Xianglin coughed dryly, "Your Highness hasn't eaten yet."
Jia Pingan was reading a book. He had only read half of the book that the student was rushing for the exam.
"Yes." Zeng Xianglin was about to go out.
"Go alone!"
The prince is interested in this.
"Your Highness, the kitchen is smoky, you shouldn't go there."
Zeng Xianglin said in a low voice.
The prince stared, "I just want to go."
Zeng Xianglin softened immediately, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is understanding the people's sentiments!"
In the kitchen, Zeng Xianglin couldn't help but want to curse.
Several women who are helping the kitchen are choosing vegetables and cleaning various ingredients in the kitchen, including dough, and soaked rice...
It's a mother who has no cook!
Zeng Xianglin asked with a straight face: "Where is the cook? Call!"
Several servants stopped looking at Zeng Xianglin, and one servant cursed: "The starving ghost is reincarnated! I want to eat before noon, go out!"
Zeng Xianglin was furious, "What are you talking about? Let the shopkeeper come out!"
He doesn't know what it means to be powerful at all... let alone how powerful a woman is.
Several women got up, and the most stalwart walked in front. They stretched out their fingers and nodded at Zeng Xianglin, "Who are you talking about?"
Not to be outdone, Zeng Xianglin stretched out his finger to point at her, "Say you! Why can't you?"
Two fingers pointed at each other, one thick and rough, the other slender and tender.
say!
Zeng Xianglin felt ashamed.
He just wanted to withdraw his hand, but the woman grabbed his hand with quick eyesight and quick hands. She turned around and said with a smile, "Look, these fingers are white and tender, even whiter and tender than those young ladies. Where did they come from? Guests can't enter." The backyard, or someone's relatives... say."
These women seemed vulgar, but their delicate thoughts made Zeng Xianglin feel ashamed.
The prince outside frowned, "Zeng Xianglin is incompetent!"
Wang Xia was secretly delighted, thinking that her chance had come, so she went in.
Zeng Xianglin was entangled with the woman, but his strength was so weak that he was tripped by the woman and fell to the ground.
"Let go!"
Zeng Xianglin blushed and shouted.
As soon as Wang Xia came in, she saw a stout woman riding on Zeng Xianglin's body, leaning forward, holding Zeng Xianglin's hands.
"Ahem!" Wang Xia blushed.
The woman looks up.
Zeng Xianglin felt ashamed when he saw Wang Xia.
Wang Xia said: "We are friends of Duke Zhao."
"Say it earlier!"
The woman stood up with still unfinished thoughts, and slipped Zeng Xianglin up like a chicken in her hands.
Zeng Xianglin blushed, "I think you are a woman, otherwise a punch..."
Before she finished speaking, Wang Xia noticed that Zeng Xianglin's complexion changed, as if he was caught somewhere in pain. He even stood on tiptoe...
"oh!"
The woman let go of her hand, and Zeng Xianglin made a sound that was almost a moan.
The woman smiled and said, "I'm offended."
She withdrew her hand, looked down, and asked in confusion: "No... where is it?"
Zeng Xianglin turned around and rushed out.
Wang Xia ignored it and said, "My little man didn't eat breakfast."
Wang Xia nodded and went back.
With a bowl of assorted fried rice in hand, the prince squatted at the kitchen door to eat.
The fried rice is very fragrant, and the bone soup that has been simmered overnight is even more fragrant.
"Your Highness, go in and eat."
Wang Xia tried hard to persuade her.
The crown prince shook his head, he didn't dare to think of those women inside.
He has never seen such a woman, she can be called a devil.
After breakfast, the prince returned to his room.
Jia Ping'an is still reading.
"uncle."
The prince hesitated.
Jia Pingan put down the book curiously, "What's the matter?"
The prince looked at the people in the room.
Jia Pingan waved his hand.
Wang Xia hesitated for a moment and decided to stay.
"You go out too." The prince said.
There were only two uncles and nephews left in the room, and the prince said: "Uncle, the kitchen is in a mess, filled with all kinds of smells..."
"All the delicious food you eat comes from those stinky things." Jia Pingan hit the nail on the head, "Human beings drank blood at the beginning, and gradually learned to use fire, so they were cooked. But is barbecue without salt and seasoning good? ?”
The crown prince shook his head, "It's not tasty."
Jia Ping'an laughed and said, "Afterwards, I learned how to make pottery, and learned to cook and eat food... It's hard to say which way is better."
Prince hesitated again and again, Jia Pingan said: "Just say it."
Prince said: "The women in the kitchen are extremely vulgar."
Jia Ping'an asked: "How vulgar? But who was beaten? Or stripped of whose clothes."
The prince looked up at him in surprise, "Uncle, how do you know?"
Ah!
In later generations, he has seen the toughness of those old ladies in the enterprise.
"That woman was riding on Zeng Xianglin's body, she looked fierce, but...but..."
The prince blushed.
The little **** is in love for the first time?
Jia Pingan secretly laughed.
It must be very difficult for this child to say this sentence.
Jia Ping'an looked down at the book indifferently, "What's there?"
The crown prince was in a hurry, "That's a woman! How could she be so vulgar... Shameless!"
Jia Pingan finally put down the book, smiled and said, "Are there many women who come out to do things?"
The crown prince shook his head, "That's very little."
"Then why did the woman come out to do things?"
The prince thought for a while, "It must be to make money, that is, the poor at home have no choice, so I came out."
Wang Xia and Zeng Xianglin were just outside the door, and everyone including Bao Dong and others heard the conversation inside.
"Can men and women be equal in this world?"
"Men are superior to women, unequal."
"Then what would a woman worry about if she came out to earn money?"
"I'm worried about being bullied, uncle, I know."
Jia Ping'an looked down at the book.
The prince excitedly said: "Those women come from poor families to work and earn money, but those men will bully them. If they want to avoid being bullied, they have to be more vicious and vulgar than men. The more they do this, the more they will scare those men."
Jia Ping'an's voice was very soft, "This is the methodology I told you. No matter what happens, you can go backwards to the source, find the motive from the source, find the motive, and then everything will be solved."
Outside the door, Zeng Xianglin blushed.
Wang Xia said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhao Guo is really powerful."
…
"Ready."
A follower comes in.
Wang Shun nodded, "Let them bring the food and wine, the market will open just after eating."
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East Market is open.
"Don't go back!"
Chen Jinfa was still shouting.
Just before, a message spread.
"Those superior people wanted to deceive us, but fortunately His Majesty found out, so he lowered the price of the cloth, otherwise we would suffer a lot."
"Then let's not buy it."
The people's thinking is very simple.
An old man said: "Your Majesty is in trouble! Your Majesty put out a lot of cloth to save me from waiting, and lost a lot of money. Now that we know it, how can we take advantage of Your Majesty?"
Chen Jinfa shouted: "Just go, Your Majesty said, you can't lose!"
These are the words of Jia Pingan!
As for the emperor, it is said that he fell into deep thought after seeing the account books.
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"How many pieces of tea will I have tomorrow?"
The emperor's question made Wang Zhongliang unable to answer.
On the other side, Li Yifu showed up at the queen with a group of thugs.
Empress Wu said coldly, "Keep an eye on those people, and impeach them if there is any disharmony."
Li Yifu agreed.
Empress Wu sneered and said: "After Guan Long weakened, the gentry took advantage of the trend and rose up. Once they got up, they had to look forward to Shu and only wanted to control the Tang Dynasty."
Li Yifu said: "They are all greedy and insatiable people, but they bear the name of a noble family. In my opinion, these families should be knocked into the dust."
He wanted to find a noble wife for his son, but he was rejected as soon as he opened his mouth. That kind of contempt... still makes him feel humiliated.
Empress Wu stood in the hall with her hands behind her back, raising her head slightly.
"Flowers are blooming, and fire is cooking oil. The more proud you are at the moment, the more tragic the backlash will be in the future."
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Jia Pingan walked slowly in Dongshi, with the prince beside him.
"The powerful family is a cancer, it can be called a country within a country, and it is above the dynasty. Look at the former Jin Dynasty, the dynasty is declining, the people are crying for help, what are those gentry doing?"
The prince said: "They are drinking and having fun, reciting poems and prose."
Jia Pingan nodded, "Later generations can only see the elegance of Lanting Preface, but not the tragedy below. How handsome and proud the book sage was at that time, the people below suffered so much... What's the benefit of such elegance? "
"But they have been proud of it for hundreds of years."
Bao Dong couldn't help but said.
"The gentry is a freak in terms of the dynasty. The more brilliant it is, the more tragic the final backlash will be."
The heads of the nobles who were killed by the failed examinee were flooded, this is backlash.
In later generations, some people debated the pros and cons of Huang Chao's move, and some said that the destruction of the aristocratic family left China without a backbone. When foreign races invaded, Huaxia appeared extremely powerless.
But what kind of dynasty is dominated by the powerful family?
They are independent kingdoms, and the government orders of the dynasty cannot reach the areas they control.
They encroach on fields and devour people. They are the biggest moths.
They occupy huge resources, are extravagant and lustful, and do all kinds of evil.
They have monopolized the right to education, and they will spare no effort to fool the people. If Zhu Yuanzhang, the later cattle-herding boy, hadn't broken this monopoly with a slap, the Chinese people would have remained ignorant forever.
So no matter how many faults Zhu Yuanzhang has, just expelling the Tartars and popularizing education is enough to make him shine through the ages, and no one can match it!
It was he who broke the educational monopoly held by the upper class and allowed the class to circulate.
Without Zhu Yuanzhang... When the gate of the country is blasted open by artillery, as long as the upper class is wiped out, this big country will become the third brother and second.
What the invaders will see is a group of ignorant people, as numb as dolls.
It is the breaking of the monopoly on education rights that has given this big country a backbone. It was these backbones who stood up when this big country fell, and used their shouts and blood to lift this nation up again from the ruins.
With this in mind, there is no need to discuss the right and wrong of Huang Chao's destruction of the aristocratic family.
Jia Ping'an walked into the restaurant, and the prince noticed that his uncle's breath had changed.
became fierce.
"It's about to start over there."
A group of villains passing messages back and forth.
Zheng Yuandong was just outside the door, looking back and said: "Today, 60% of the cloth merchants mobilized a huge amount of cloth...a huge amount, a huge amount that even Chang'an can't swallow."
"I know."
Jia Ping'an sat there.
The prince sat on the side and said softly: "Uncle, do we have as many as them?"
Jia Pingan shook his head, "Those high-ranking people joined forces...you have to know how amazing their savings have been over the years, and the total treasury in the court is far less than."
Datang managed to hide wealth from the people, but these people are all upper-class people, and the lower-class people are not considered people, but just tool people.
The prince's eyelids twitched, "What should I do?"
A deep sense of powerlessness made him sigh.
Jia Pingan smiled and said, "Why are you sighing?"
The prince was silent.
"Over there, fifty-five percent!"
Zheng Yuandong's face darkened, "People will die."
This is crazy!
Everyone looked at Jia Pingan.
Jia Pingan said: "Sixty percent!"
Zheng Yuandong shook his head, and Dou Dexuan, who had just entered, let out a hiccup.
Jia Ping'an ordered: "Help Dou Shangshu in. Besides, Lao Zheng, are the vicious young rangers you hired ready?"
Zheng Yuandong nodded.
Jia Ping'an said: "Let those people snap up cloth and buy as much as they can."
(end of this chapter)