Chapter 1092: Tyranny Is Fiercer than a Tiger

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Go to Baoding...

Emperor Hongzhi was silent.

He looked at the man in front of him.

This is a very ordinary person, unremarkable.

But now, his eyes are red.

The two women in the family also had their eyes red from crying.

In this small wooden house, there is also a spirit tablet, with incense burning in front of the spirit tablet, and words such as father can be vaguely seen.

In other words, the man's father has passed away.

In this family, he is the only man.

This is the pillar of the family, nine times out of ten, and the only one.

No one likes to leave their homeland, especially their own mother and wife.

Not to mention, how much inconvenience would there be for two women here, how could a man have the heart to leave home.

Emperor Hongzhi was silent.

He had a great-grandmother and a wife. He couldn't imagine how much pain he would have when he needed to leave them, and how heartbroken Zhou and Zhang would be.

Come to think of it... If it hadn't been for the end of the mountain, I would never have run away from home.

"Baoding?" Emperor Hongzhi said in an unusually calm tone, "What are you going to do in Baoding?"

"To pave the way for others, there is a wage of three taels of silver." The man seemed to dislike being asked too much.

Emperor Hongzhi stared at the man: "Is Tongzhou not good? I... I heard... In Tongzhou, the poor people will give out silver vouchers..."

The Chinese characters looked at Emperor Hongzhi strangely: "Are you a foreigner?"

Emperor Hongzhi: "..."

Xiao Jing couldn't help saying: "Bold, you let go like this..."

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes turned red suddenly, and the veins on his forehead popped out. He was angry.

So he said sharply to Xiao Jing: "Go away!"

Xiao Jing was taken aback for a moment, he didn't dare to vent his anger, and hurriedly backed away.

Fang Jifan stood aside, looking at Xiao Jing as if he was mentally retarded, this Eunuch Xiao is getting more and more confused with age.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "I am from the capital."

"It's no wonder." The man seemed to see something strange, the person in front of him was very extraordinary.

Fortunately, the man didn't suspect anything else, and with his knowledge, it was even more impossible for him to doubt that the one standing in front of him was the ruler of the world.

The man said: "What kind of silver voucher, it is clearly a victim voucher."

When Emperor Hongzhi heard the word "harmful", guilt surfaced on his face.

The man gritted his teeth and said, "Originally, in Tongzhou, the little ones can still have a bite to eat. In the past, at the wharf, they were used as leg strength for others. Although they barely fed themselves, they would not let the whole family starve to death. I heard that Baoding Mansion is a good place to eat." In this place, I can't bear to part with my mother and the wretched wife of the family. But since those dog officials issued some silver coupons, this day can't be passed. "

"In the beginning, they collected merchant taxes. The merchants in the canal paid the tax, but they didn't get any benefits. Some small merchants felt that the business could not be maintained, so they simply stopped doing it. The rest, desperately Lowering wages, this business tax, after all, has been received by people like villains."

"Afterwards, it was said that the common people were having a hard time. Many people were grateful for the issuance of silver vouchers. It is said that with the silver coupons, you can buy firewood, rice, oil, salt, but... all of a sudden, so many people have silver coupons in their hands, and within three to five days, the prices in Tongzhou have skyrocketed. Do you know how terrifying it is? In the past, a catty of rice cost thirty copper coins, but within a few days, even a catty of rice, even one tael of silver, can no longer be bought with silver coupons."

Emperor Hongzhi frowned, he couldn't understand: "Why?"

Where does the man know, why is this.

Fang Jifan said: "This is inflation. Think about it, Your Majesty, there is only so much food, rice, oil and salt in the market for the time being, but suddenly, everyone has silver coupons in their hands. It is conceivable how high the price will be. "

Emperor Hongzhi seemed to understand, but he seemed to feel that he had seen such a theory in The Wealth of Nations.

Production has not increased, supply has not increased, and there are countless more bills on the market.

"But...these silver vouchers can be exchanged for real gold and silver in the future." Emperor Hongzhi frowned.

Fang Jifan smiled and said: "For ordinary people, they can't wait to exchange for real gold and silver. Thinking about it, it won't take long for these silver coupons to snowball into the hands of a few people."

"That's right." The man still gritted his teeth: "In the market, prices are skyrocketing, and a catty of rice can only be bought with a silver coupon of one or two silvers. Wealthy families in the city, as well as gentry outside the city, only use a little food, and hold a lot of silver coupons in their hands. Why don't the common people know that silver coupons can be exchanged for silver in the future, but soon, Everyone found that not only shopping with silver coupons, the price of goods soared, but also real gold and silver shopping, the price has also risen a lot. Everyone is already full and hungry. Whoever has the leisure to save the silver coupons."

"As soon as the price of goods soared, those who had food in their hands became more hoarded. They could mix eight liang of sand and incense ash into the two liang of grain. Ordinary people's homes, even if there were some family members in the past, in order to survive. , and had to take it out, you said, can you live on this day?"

The face of Emperor Hongzhi was already covered by dark clouds.

He clenched his fists and was silent for a long time: "Why didn't anyone go to the nearby counties to buy grain?"

"How can it be so easy." The man said: "Not to mention, the local gentry are so entangled here, how can they allow foreign businessmen to interfere? Do these ordinary people have to walk a few miles to buy a few more catties of rice?" Is it a hundred miles to go back and forth? Hey... I really can't live my life... Doing my feet on the pier, I used to be able to barely keep my family from starving, but now... I can hardly support myself."

"People say that only when you go to Baoding Mansion can you have a good life. If you don't go to Baoding Mansion, you really can't live in this day."

Emperor Hongzhi was trembling with anger.

He suddenly remembered something: "Zhizhou Yang Yiqing, I heard that he is a good official who loves the people, how could he allow..."

The man spat and said disdainfully: "What kind of official, no matter what official comes, it's not the petty officials who really do things. Who knows what happened under his nose? Anyone who can communicate with him, Which one is not a gentry, these gentry buy a large number of silver certificates, and then exchange them for real gold and silver from him, what a huge profit this is, how many people have made a lot of money, they will naturally praise this as good governance. Those The petty official has long been colluding with the gentry. These dog officials who took office are not all relying on something to govern the place. What the petty official says, what do they believe? oil, the deaf and the blind..."

The man said: "It's late, I'm leaving, no matter how late, I won't be able to reach Baoding Mansion tomorrow..."

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't imagine that the sky was brighter now, and he could see the man's face clearly. The man's face was disheveled, and the two women were also sallow and emaciated.

This Tongzhou is a thoroughfare. Who would have thought that at the feet of the emperor, someone would come here suffering from hunger and cold.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "I am also planning to go to Tongzhou, why not go with me."

As he said that, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to take out some silver, but after thinking about it carefully, here... I am afraid that the silver will not be useful for the time being, so he turned his head and looked at Xiao Jing: "Did you bring any dry food? Here Let's keep some at their home."

Emperor Hongzhi sighed, but felt that his eyes were reddened and tears were swirling.

There are many things that he can't imagine.

He originally thought that maybe Tongzhou had changed for the better, but it was definitely not as good as the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty boasted.

But who would have thought that... the New Deal... would become a tyranny.

The commercial tax came, but in the end... it was a mess.

Xiao Jing hurriedly took some dry food and stayed.

Seeing this, the man is no longer hostile, thank you very much.

He said goodbye to the women, and then went to Baoding with Emperor Hongzhi.

After leaving Baoding City, I found that on the bumpy road towards Baoding, there were countless ragged civilians, dragging their families along the same road.

Emperor Hongzhi looked livid.

Fang Jifan just smiled wryly, but he felt uneasy in his heart, Baoding Mansion... what will happen, Ouyang Zhi, don't make yourself a teacher.

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