Chapter 977 Universal Retribution

Yun Chu discovered that the people of the Tang Dynasty were most sensitive to human heads.

They also attached the highest importance to the safety of money.

More than 200 bodies without left ears were pulled out of Jinyang City, and it was said that Mingda Temple secretly buried more than 100 bodies without left ears.

The carts used to pull corpses out of Jinyang City were ox carts, which were covered with only a broken reed mat. This thing naturally could not cover the corpses completely. Therefore, many curious people only needed to bend down to see the frozen corpses on the ox carts. Some people's faces they had seen yesterday, but in just one day, the living people became dead.

Although many people died, the merchants in Hedong became more optimistic about this running water brand. After all, this time, Jinyang running water brand had its own capital pool, which was said to be as much as 800,000 strings of cash.

This money was basically equivalent to the annual tax revenue of Hedong Road, or perhaps even more.

This time, Yun Chu basically did not show up in the trading hall. He only looked at the report every day. When he saw that there were medium- and long-term goods for sale for three consecutive days, he finally put his heart at ease.

The things in Jinyang were basically dealt with. The rest could only be left to time. Yun Chu estimated that by next year, in the autumn of the third year of Linde, the flow of water in Jinyang would be the same as before the disaster.

After waiting for another three days, Yun Chu was ready to borrow the Hedong Road to return to Chang'an. This year, he planned to spend a good New Year at home in Chang'an and throw all the bad luck to the damn second year of Linde.

Before the order to set off was given, someone came to the house, and the person's face was blue and looked unlucky.

I heard from the shopkeeper sent by Yu Xiurong that the situation in Chang'an was even worse, and Prince Li Hong even began to use rogue means to blackmail those nobles and wealthy families.

This is political instability, which then spread to the economic field, seriously undermining people's confidence in Chang'an's economic recovery.

Yun Chu was indifferent to this. Anyway, he was in a low point now. How bad could it get? It was really bad, and the downhill road had reached its extreme. The road he would take from now on should be uphill.

As a mature official, if he wanted to achieve political achievements, he had to choose to take on the big responsibility bravely when things couldn't get any worse. Anyway, if he did badly, it was the objective facts that were at work. As long as he made some achievements, he would be praised as the mainstay and the pillar of the south sky.

"People are dying all the time. The dead are all famous shopkeepers in Chang'an. Originally, these shopkeepers joined the nobles and wealthy families for a safe haven.

Now, forget about being safe. The prince is jumping around in Chang'an like a tiger, just looking for a fat bite. The nobles and wealthy families can't compete with the prince, so they push those merchants who depend on the wealthy families and aristocratic families to take the blame.

Your Majesty, you also know that these merchants who depend on the wealthy and noble families as running dogs have to hand over more than 80% of their annual profits to the wealthy and noble families.

How much money do they have?

The money in the running sign is more like the rich families than the merchants.

The wealthy and nobles have taken the money in the capital pool. Now, the unlucky It was merchants.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince firmly believed that this group of people were like walnuts, and they would not get oil without being smashed.

With neither side willing to give in, the merchants had no way to survive.

The Cheng family gave the Crown Prince 500,000 strings of cash as compensation, and the Crown Prince used this to force the others. Then, the Cheng family bit back and said that it was the old shopkeeper of Deshenglong who made the decision and it had nothing to do with the Cheng family.

Just four days before I left for the master, the old shopkeeper of Deshenglong, Hou, drank half a bucket of brine from the tofu shop in front of so many people, and did not allow his son to send him to the Imperial Hospital. He wailed for a long time and finally vomited blood and died.

Before he died, he said that he was sorry for his boss.

Just because he said this before he died, Cheng Chumo of the Cheng family chopped off the dead man's head with a knife, saying that it was the old shopkeeper who did this. It is said that he is suspected of slandering the prince.

Huang Tiansheng, who specializes in Shujin business in Shu, was also summoned by the prince because he participated in the matter of withdrawing funds from the fund pool first. When he returned home at night, he gathered the whole family for dinner. It seemed that nothing happened. However, when the children and grandchildren came to pay their respects to Mr. and Mrs. Huang the next day, they found that Mr. and Mrs. Huang had hanged themselves.

His Royal Highness the Prince also lost his temper. This time he did not find those shopkeepers, but went directly to Wei, Du, Dugu, and even Ying Gong, Su Gong, and Yang Gong.

As a result, when the subordinates left Chang'an, the big shopkeepers or general managers of these families began to die one after another.

The prince was furious and was forced to die by his wife, so he stayed at home and did not go out.

Then, it was heard that Luo Queen Yang sent another person, Zhou Xing, a cruel official who could stop children from crying in Henan and Hebei.

Now, all the merchants in Chang'an don't expect anything else, and don't dare to hope that Chang'an will have any good things. They just hope that the master can go back as soon as possible to fight for a place for everyone to breathe. "

After listening to the words of the second shopkeeper Liu Song, Yun Chu slapped him on the head and said, "Didn't I say that the Yun family didn't do anything except squandering the family property to fill the hole during this period?

Why did you come to me?"

Liu Song is the second son of Yun's housekeeper Liu Yi. Although his position is low, he became a servant of the Yun family because he is an old servant of the Yun family. Seeing that the master was angry, he knelt down in front of Yun Chu and said, "This is the result of the discussion between the eight shopkeepers of the Yun family and the madam and the eldest son.

Madam asked Xiao Xiao to bring a message to the Lord, too many people died. "

Yun Chu sneered and said: "The damn ones will not die, but the undead ones will die a lot. I will go back when all the damn ones are dead."

Liu Song carefully raised his head and glanced at Yun Chu and said, "I wonder who the Lord thinks deserves to die?"

Yun Chu gritted his white teeth and said, "Just because the Jinyang Liushui brand was restarted, 421 people died in Jinyang. The scale of the Chang'an Liushui brand is a hundred times that of Jinyang. How many people do you think should die?

Each and every one of them is so bold that they dare to use the Liushui brand that grandpa worked so hard to create as a tool for political struggle. If they don't kill a lot of them, there is no chance that someone will be bold enough to use the Liushui brand again next time. .

Okay now, King Yong has come in, the prince has come in, the queen has come in, let's all fight for our lives in the dog fighting arena in Chang'an.

When they lose their minds, they will regret touching my trick. "

Liu Song secretly glanced at Yun Chu's ferocious face and did not dare to say anything.

Yun Chu added: "Go back and tell the prince that you can make trouble, but don't get yourself into it. Since the queen has sent Zhou Xing here, he is here to kill people and seize power.

After the Chang'an incident spread to the court, he immediately returned to Luoyang, actively participated in welcoming the Buddha bone relics from Fahua Temple back to Beijing for enshrinement, and ignored the Chang'an incident.

He is still young, and it is normal for him to get angry and do random things. He cannot turn himself into a ruthless person like the Queen.

When you go back, tell your wife that you should guard the door and never leave Jinchangfang. "

The blue-faced man looked dejected. Yunchu didn't give Liu Song any time to rest, and asked him to go back as soon as the next day after things were arranged.

As for himself, he originally wanted to go back immediately, but now after listening to Liu Song's report, he is not in a hurry to go back. Anyway, there is more than enough time to go back before the year.

There was nothing he could do if the bulk goods on the three trade routes of Handan, Yuyang and Xuzhou could not reach Chang'an.

Therefore, Yunchu invited Mr. Liu, Chen Dansheng and other Handan merchants to go next to Mingda Temple to take a look at the newly established Mingda Yuan.

Yunchu did not invite Jinyang City Guards Chu Dayou. He had already made up his mind to make a clean separation between Liushui Brand and the local government.

Judging from his years of experience in politics, the more mothers-in-law there are, the less capable the daughters-in-law are at work.

The twelfth lunar month is only two days away, and it's already so cold by the Fenshui River that a dog could freeze to death.

The water-rich mud was frozen hard, and some moisture precipitated on the surface and became frost. The mud was spread here and there, looking like a plague.

Yun Chu led the bay red horse for a walk. It was not that he didn't want to ride, but the injury to the bay red horse's left front hoof was not completely healed. He could not ride the white horse given by the emperor, and he could not touch it. Once the bay red horse was hit by When it sees it, it barks in panic and even does things like bumping its head against the hitching post.

When it comes to jealousy, Yu Xiurong is far behind.

Yu Xiurong had already said that she was already old and wan, and she was mentally prepared for Yun Chu to suddenly bring back a stunningly beautiful concubine at a certain time.

However, if you dare to bring back an old woman, she will kill the vixen old woman with her own hands. According to her original words, she will bring back a young and beautiful woman, and she will give it to someone later, as a bed attendant, and hold a banquet at home to dance and sing. She has a good reputation as a housewife, singing or something.

As for the old woman, there are many at home!

That's why Yun Chu couldn't see through this. He really couldn't treat a living person as a toy and just waste it and give it away. So far, he still has the same mentality and has to be responsible for others when he sleeps with them. It's like an idiot's idea, and it can't be changed.

There are a lot of orphans in Jinyang, and Yunchu created quite a few of them a few days ago. However, these freshly minted orphans will naturally not appear in Mingda Courtyard. They only take in senior orphans who have suffered a lot in the past.

Yun Chu just glanced at the good-looking orphans in the courtyard and said to Master Huiyuan, "It shouldn't be like this."

Huiyuan was a very smart man and immediately said: "Those who are physically disabled have a bad mind."

Yun Chu said: "Isn't this right? You still judge people by their appearance?"

Huiyuan clasped his hands together and said: "The sins of the past life, the disability in this life, and the hardship in life are destiny. If the poor nun disrupts his retribution, he will suffer more in the next life. Ignoring it at this time is a good deed."

Yun Chu gritted his teeth and touched his bald head and said, "If I rape you now, it seems like it will be retribution from your previous life, right?"