Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

Shangshu Wang Yingjiao also looked at Liu Yixiu in surprise, and said in puzzlement, "I didn't know it would be like this!"

"As the Minister of the Household Department, I will naturally know whether the whole of the two capitals and thirteen provinces will get better soon!"

"But Xishan is indeed the most barren land in Gyeonggi! Otherwise, the capital's nobles and ministers have already been annexed, so why stay until now?!"

"So much coal suddenly appeared in this western mountain. Not only did you, Mr. Liu Ge, not expect it, but I also did not expect it!"

Wang Yingjiao continued to add a few words.

After hearing this, Liu Yixiu said: "It seems that Zhang Gui is surrounded by an expert prospector, who has already found out the nearby ore veins for him!"

Wang Yingjiao sighed: "There is no other way. The imperial decree granting this place Taikang Bo Zhuangtian has already been archived, and it was published in the "Di Bao". It is worth going to a fertile field as big as Xishan."

"It's really cheap for him, we are all played by him!"

Liu Yixuan said angrily.

Then, Liu Yixiu ordered to his servant Sheng Rui: "Go and ask, how much are these coals sold for?"

"yes!"

Sheng Rui agreed and asked the coal miners here.

After a while, Sheng Rui ran back and said, "My lord, they said that the ones shipped to the city will be sold at last year's par price."

"Affordable price?!"

Liu Yixiu was shocked and thought to himself: "Now the price of coal has increased many times compared to last year's par price. Uncle Zhang Guo is the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, and he still sells it at a par price! Whether he is a reincarnation of a Bodhisattva or not, we can't let him go bad." Our business of hoarding coal to lower the cost of buying people, otherwise, this year’s coal hoarding at high prices will be in vain!"

After thinking this way, Liu Yixiu told Sheng Rui: "Go back immediately and find out which stores are selling cheap coal, and we will buy as much as they sell. In addition, take my post to meet other wealthy families in the capital. Let them know about this, and now if everyone wants not to lose money by hoarding high-priced coal, we must not let Zhang Gui sell cheap coal to the common people!"

"clear!"

Sheng Rui agreed to go.

Like Liu Yixiu, he came to Xishan, and many high-ranking officials and dignitaries who saw a lot of coal in Xishan, like Liu Yixiu, sent their slaves to find out that Zhang Gui was selling coal at a low price, and immediately arranged for their own slaves to sell coal at a low price. Buy Zhang Gui's cheap coal.

Wang Yingjiao, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, did not do this, because he did not participate in hoarding.

And now his eyes have been attracted by so many refugees in Xishan.

This surprised him.

He didn't expect that there would be so many refugees in Xishan.

I saw these refugees cowering in the huts like frozen cats, naked, and almost as black as coal except for white spots in their eyes.

"Mourning for the hardships of the people's lives!"

Because of this, Wang Yingjiao forgot for a moment that his purpose of coming here was to discuss Buddhist principles with Miao Ni, and he suddenly developed some sense of responsibility that he should have as a minister of the household department.

Boom!

With the sound of a gong, several young men who were beating the gong appeared in the shanty town where these refugees lived.

These refugees also stood up from the sheds one by one when they heard the gong, and they showed excited expressions.

"Uncle Guo has issued an order. Considering that everyone temporarily needs food to keep them warm, monthly money will be distributed on a ten-day basis, and coal, cotton cloth, and grain will be distributed directly as wages. Now go to the office of the group to collect them."

These young men shouted after the gong was struck.

And after these young men shouted, these refugees were suddenly overjoyed, and they walked to their respective team leader's room to collect their wages.

Soon, many refugees who reacted quickly had brought back a bag of rice, a bag of coal and a piece of cloth.

After seeing Liu Yixiu, Wang Yingjiao and other dignitaries appearing, many refugees who still planned to sell their children and daughters, after hearing that they could get food to eat and keep out the cold, they also hurriedly pulled the hair on their children's heads. Draft bid.

A girl named Erni was kneeling in the snow, waiting to be sold, and she looked back at her father in surprise after seeing her father pull out the straw mark on her head: "Father, don't you sell me? "

The middle-aged man grinned with yellow teeth: "I won't sell it! Now Daddy can support you by himself."

"Very good!"

Erni jumped up in a jerk, running barefoot in the snow, with her hands flying, she cheered and said:

"Daddy won't sell me!"

"Daddy won't sell me!"

"Daddy won't sell me!"

…

For a while, all the common people and children like her were like this, as if their eyes were full of energy and vitality, and their laughter kept rippling in the warm winter sun.

An old woman smiled when she saw this scene, and started to ignite the coal her son had brought with the fire from the public house, and picked up the fallen grass marks on the ground, threw them into the fire, and sporadic Mars is coming.

At this time, more and more bonfires began to appear, staggered among the sheds, like stars gradually increasing in the night.

Many people began to gather around the fire to keep warm and cook porridge, and their eyes began to move away from Liu Yixiu and other high-ranking officials. They began to have the courage to look directly at the children who were about to be sold cheaply by themselves, and their eyes also changed from pleading to satisfaction, as if this was the case. The first touch of warmth they feel in this world.

The eyes of many dignitaries such as Liu Yixiu are getting colder and harsher.

They didn't like this happy scene.

It was as if these bonfires were burning their property, and the light from the bonfires seemed to dazzle their eyes, and the free and cheerful laughter of the children seemed to mock them.

Because of this, Liu Yixiu asked Wang Yingjiao, Shangshu of the Household Department, in a deep voice: "Da Si Nong, what are you thinking now?"

Wang Yingjiao let out a long sigh: "Suddenly I won't be here any longer."

Because of what Wang Yingjiao said, Liu Yixiu laughed out of anger: "Why do you say that?"

"This is simply scolding me, the Secretary of the Household Department, for being incompetent!"

Wang Yingjiao said something in pain.

Then, he looked at Liu Yixiu and other civil servants who came here and said: "I am a Jinshi, a disciple of a sage, but compared with Uncle Guo, I am even worse than a beast!"

"Uncle Guo's idea is to open mines in Xishan to support the people, so that the people will not be hungry or cold."

"And me, what about me, the Minister of the Household Department?"

"I actually thought that he was here to force other people's wives and daughters to become prostitutes, but for the entertainment of my scholar-officials! And not only did I think so, I actually wanted to have a romantic time!"

"Do you think I am a beast in clothes!"

"I will resign as soon as I go back, and I will have no face to face my father and face the world."

"It is my responsibility as a scholar-bureaucrat to establish a life for the people; to make the people neither hungry nor cold and not sell their sons and daughters is also my duty as the Secretary of the Ministry of Households, but I have always turned a blind eye to it. , I really don’t know how far I’m going to mislead the country and the monarch!”

The more Wang Yingjiao spoke, the more excited he became, and at the end he burst into tears and said: "Ashamed, ashamed!"

"enough!"

Liu Yixiu suddenly yelled, and stared at Wang Yingjiao short of breath: "Why do you think so?"

Wang Yingjiao asked puzzledly: "Is there something wrong with this?"

"It's nothing but nothing, what a pity to freeze to death and starve to death!"

Liu Yixiu said.

Wang Yingjiao: "..."

He suddenly felt that Liu Yixiu was very strange.

Liu Guojin, the head of the Military Selection Department of the Ministry of War who also came here, also said: "What the old man said is right! Besides, people without land can also be called people?"

"Yes! This has nothing to do with your incompetence as the Minister of the Ministry of Households. This clearly shows that the uncle Zhang Gui is taking profits from the people and disrupting the market!"

Li Zilong, governor of Shuntian, also said something at this time.

"That's right! Doing so clearly harms the country, businesses, and even the people! How could Da Sinong feel that he was wrong?"

Guo Xing also echoed in the matter.

At this time, Sheng Rui rushed to Liu Yixiu's place in a hurry: "Master, I found out clearly that the coal here is only sold by shops called comprehensive stores, but these comprehensive stores have a limit on the coal they can sell to each household every day! It’s because the production is limited, we have to do this, we can’t increase the price to buy in large quantities, and they also say that this is an order personally issued by the uncle of the country, and they dare not disobey it.”

"It's not because the production is limited. It's obviously because we don't want us to buy a lot of his coal, so that we can save a few people from freezing to death this winter!"

Liu Yixiu said bitterly, and then said again: "I never thought that Uncle Zhang Guo would do such vicious tricks for these scumbags! He actually gave them coal and food as wages, and also restricted their purchases! Don't let the rich and big families have more money!" purchase!"

"Despicable! Despicable!"

Liu Guojin also scolded, and at the same time he was very worried: "Why don't I embezzle the high-priced coal that I have embezzled from the army and get it all thrown into my hands by Uncle Guo?"

"I think this is a benevolent thing! I don't know if I have lost my heart by scolding like this! Or, I have forgotten morality!"

Suddenly, a discordant voice came, Liu Yixiu and other dissatisfied dignitaries could not help but follow the sound, their eyes were full of evil fire.