Chastity Layman

The unscrupulous people in Yongzhou Prefecture went door to door to inform the people of Chang'an, telling them the new decree of the Town Fusi, the grain store closed for three days, and finally they can buy grain again.

Yang Ermao hurriedly asked his wife to get the bag, "Bring more money, the price of food must have risen sharply again today."

"Wait a minute, I have to issue food stamps to you first. Without food stamps, you will not be able to buy food if you have money."

"What are food stamps?"

The bad guy said with a fat head, "It's actually similar to household stickers."

You Fangzheng was accompanied by subordinate officials from the county yamen. This time, the town governor came to distribute food stamps to the people in person. According to the household registration information of each family in the yamen, the food stamps were given according to the household registration population registered above. .

Although these food stamps are just a piece of paper, they are indeed the same as household stickers. They record the number of people in the family, the number of slaves, and the number of old, young, middle, small, yellow, and female. The food supply regulations set the corresponding amount of food.

For example, men's daily rations are set more than women's rations, and the elderly and children are less than Ding. There are more middle-aged men and middle-aged women than children.

"This is a ten-day ration purchase certificate. With this certificate, go to the newly established grain shops at the gates of each square to buy food. Remember, you can buy food with tickets. Food tickets are registered and cannot be sold or lent. They are also not allowed to be sold, and offenders will be fined heavily.”

Yang Ermao put his fingerprints on the notebook according to the instructions of the soldiers of the town and Fusi, and then received his own food stamps. He was illiterate, and a county official told him how many catties of millet, wheat, and even soybeans were on it. How many.

The combination of five grains is both thick and thin.

Even the price is indicated on the household stickers. A bucket of round-grained rice costs 200 yuan, and the price of millet is slightly lower. Generally speaking, it is much cheaper than the grain market a few days ago, and even cheaper than the black market.

After thanking you thousands of times, Yang Ermao treasured the food stamp and put it in his arms. Although it is useless for others to pick up this food stamp, if he loses it, he will not be able to buy food, even if he reissues it. It will be very troublesome.

Quickly called the mother-in-law, and the two of them walked to the gate with their bags.

Along the way, I saw neighbors in the neighborhood coming out with bags and baskets, all to buy grain.

Some people are still a little skeptical. In the past, the price of food in the east and west markets was soaring day by day, and they couldn't buy it in the queue. Can they buy it this time?

When I arrived at the gate of the square, I saw a new house built next to the original street shop, guarded by soldiers from the Zhenfu Division, and there were piles of grain inside.

"Line up, line up, first come, first served, all line up."

Yang Er looked at the gleaming sword and gun in the hands of the Zhenfusi soldier, but he didn't dare to make a fuss. He lined up honestly with the others. It didn't take long, but he finally got to himself.

After handing over the food stamps, Fangzheng and several old people in the workshop guarantor to confirm their identities, then handed over the money, and finally received the food on their food stamps.

Looking at the corn, wheat, soybeans, etc., Yang Ermao still couldn't believe it. He couldn't buy food for a few days, and he was already thinking about whether to leave Beijing to escape. He didn't expect that after getting the food stamps today, he would really Got it.

Press your fingerprint to confirm receipt.

"Remember, this is your family's ten-day ration, save a little and don't sell it for resale, otherwise you will be disqualified from buying food!"

Yang Ermao nodded with a smile on his face.

Speaking of food, the husband and wife left from one side, looking at the neighbors who were still queuing, Yang Ermao was full of pride, and even greeted acquaintances, "I can really get it, the same as the ticket, the price is 200 yuan for round-grained rice For a bucket, corn and wheat are cheaper, and the food is good..."

"Damn it, I can finally have a full meal today."

The woman carried the food on her back, "I don't know when the next time I will receive the food. I need to save some of the food. I think I will cook porridge tonight. It just so happens that my son came back from finding some wild vegetables outside the city. eat."

Yang Ermao said, "Drink porridge again?"

"Sometimes there is always time to think about nothing."

"Then I'll go and see if I can catch some fish later, or make some fish soup."

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Taipingfang, the home of secretary Lang Zhengxuanli.

A group of Zhen Fusi soldiers led by Chang'an county officials came to the door to check the grain of Zheng's family.

The steward of the Zheng family said that there was no food in the house.

"As far as we know, Secretary Zheng transported grain into the mansion several times during his stay in the mansion with horses and chariots, and it is estimated that the grain stored there is no less than a thousand shi. In addition, there are two villages outside Chang'an City, both of which have a lot of grain. "The people from the Zhenfu Division unceremoniously exposed the lie of the housekeeper.

But the butler just refused to admit it.

The head of the team led by the Zhen Fu Division stared, "According to the order of the Qin Zhen Fu envoy, the Zheng family violated the temporary grain management regulations in Chang'an, and need to cooperate with the door-to-door investigation, please get out of the way!"

"Why do you come here? This is the mansion of the current Secretary Lang!"

"Hehe, the house of the little secretary Lang dares to call himself a mansion? You have so much courage, come and search!"

"How dare you, my family, Alang, is the son of the Zheng family in Xingyang, a well-known noble family! How dare you insult the gentleman?"

"Of course we dare not insult the name of the Zheng family in Xingyang, but it is impossible for your family to make disaster fortune."

The noise at the door alarmed Zheng Xuanli, and he came out with a dark face.

"What are you arguing about? How decent is it? What a powerful official the Zhenfu Division is?"

"Secretary Zheng, according to the order of the Qin Zhenfu envoy, everyone in the capital, regardless of whether they are high-ranking nobles or ordinary people, must consciously report the food storage situation at home. Your family deliberately concealed the food storage, and the amount is large, which violates the temporary decree. We are ordered to punish you. Search your home."

"I do have some grain in my house, but these grains are produced on my own farm. The grain I grow is stored in my own house, and there is no trade. Why do you want to check?"

"This is authorized by His Majesty, a temporary decree at the time of the catastrophe, please cooperate with Secretary Lang."

Zheng Xuanli has been unlucky since the fourth day of June. After the assassination of the abandoned crown prince, he suffered all kinds of humiliation. In the end, he even got involved with his daughter. What did he get in exchange? He is now just a green-robed sixth-rank secretary, who sits on the bench all day long.

Now, a few subordinate soldiers dared to bully them like this.

Especially since these people were still under Qin Lang's subordinates, he became even more angry.

"I see who dares today!" Zheng Xuanli yelled.

The head of the team stepped forward.

"excuse me."

Then he directly grabbed his arm and pulled it aside, and several guards and soldiers stepped forward to hold his arm, preventing him from moving.

Then everyone broke into Zheng's house directly.

Several Zhuang Ding wanted to stop him, but they fell to the ground with bruised noses and swollen faces.

The search went well.

The Zheng family did store more than a thousand stones of grain.

As for the source of food, in fact, there is no discrepancy with what Zheng Xuanli said, most of it was produced by the Zheng family in the Zhuangzi outside the city. Seeing the current situation, he arranged for people to transport the food to his home to store it for hunger.

Previously, the higher-ups asked to declare the amount of food stored at home, and also stated that according to the emperor's will, each family can keep rations for one year, and the rest will be collected at market prices.

At this time, food is like hard currency, who wants to be expropriated?

Even if it was agreed to leave rations for one year, but now that there are prices in the market and no market, food is so expensive, who is willing to sell it out, and there is food in hand, so that they don't panic.

So they reported that they had no food left.

As a result, the Zhen Fusi came to the door today, and they directly pointed out the amount of grain stored in Zheng Xuanli's home, and even told him the grain stored in Zhuangzi outside the city, obviously coming prepared.

Zheng Xuanli refused to cooperate, and was immediately dismissed.

Bags of grain were moved out of the mansion, and it didn't take long for more than a thousand shi of grain exceeding the grain export to be moved out of the house.

After some counting, the Zhenfu Department wrote a list receipt to the Zheng family.

Finally, I left a sentence, with this article, I can go to the town Fusi to collect the grain payment, and then I drove the grain truck away.

Zheng Xuanli was let go.

He stood at the door in a state of desperation, as sad and helpless as a big yellow girl who was raped by seven or eight big men in turn.

"Ah Lang, these people are so unreasonable. It's unreasonable. They dare to insult the five surnames and seven sects, and our Shandong gentry like this. Alang must participate in the Zhenfu Division!"

The butler stomped his feet and beat his chest, cursing.

After Zheng Xuanli was stunned for a long time, he didn't go home, but had his horse prepared to go out, and he rushed to his uncle Zheng Shanguo's house.

Zheng Shanli is the patriarch of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and he was also in a high position before.

Although they are squeezed out and suppressed now, the prestige of the leaders of the Shandong gentry is there.

When he arrived at the mansion of Xingyang County, he found that the Zhen Fusi was also moving food out of Zheng Shanguo's mansion. Zheng Shanguo had a high status, a big house, and many slaves, so his mansion had more food.

Zhenfusi copied more than 5000 shi of grain from his mansion.

"Where's Ah Lang?" Zheng Xuanli shouted and asked the housekeeper Zheng Shanguo who was standing at the door and watching the food move.

"In the study."

"Why do you let them move the food?" Zheng Xuanli asked.

The housekeeper was helpless, "Ah Lang asked them to move, and we are not allowed to stop them."

Zheng Xuan directly entered the mansion and rushed to the study room in a polite manner. As soon as he entered the study room, Zheng Shanguo, the former prince Zuo Shuzi, minister of Dali Temple, and minister of the Minbu, actually wrote calligraphy there.

"Why is Congfu still so leisurely and elegant? Our Zheng family has been trampled to the ground, look what's going on outside, they are copying our house!" Zheng Xuanli shouted.

Zheng Shanguo continued to write.

He didn't raise his eyelids, "Why are you panicking? It's just a little food, so you don't have to panic like this, ransacking my house? There's no reason why I ransacked my Zheng's house?"

"But what's the difference between them stealing food like this and ransacking their homes? Our Zheng family is the leader of the Shandong gentry. If we don't stop it, where will our Zheng family face in the future?"

Zheng Shanguo ignored him, "The leaders of the Shandong gentry are not us now, but the Boling Cui clan, Cui Mingan, Cui Dunli's uncle and nephew are Jane's Sacred Heart, even the Qinghe Cui clan is closely following the new emperor, our Zheng family has long been nothing leader."

"But we are still a famous family in Shandong, how can we let them trample like this."

Zheng Shanguo put down the pen, looked at the words he had just written, and felt that the last two strokes were still not finished, so he crumpled up the words and threw them into the wastebasket.

"Calm down, don't lose the big with a small one. Since someone dares to do something, it means that he came prepared. Isn't it just in line with his wish that you are bluffing like this now?"

"It's true that the five surnames and seven families have been famous for hundreds of years, but think about Cui Hao being exiled, and the Qinghe Cui family being exiled in the previous dynasty, they are not vigilant enough. If the handle is sent to the emperor, no matter how famous the gentry is, It's not as tough as the current emperor."

Five surnames and seven families rely on their reputation for thousands of years. Once they put aside their fame and are caught in a fatal situation, who can fight for the emperor of the world with one surname?

"Then we just swallow it like this?"

"Since Qin Lang has made a move, he will never just grab food from our Zheng family. How many rich and powerful families in Chang'an have no food storage? Let's just watch and see if Qin Sanlang has the guts to do it from the whole How much ability do the nobles and nobles in Chang'an grab food in their hands to deal with the anger of the crowd."

"We don't need to do anything, just watch quietly, someone will come out."

"Some people are really arrogant when they think they have won the holy family. After all, they are still too young! Just wait and see!"