Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 200 Cooking frogs in warm water

After entering Cuijiazhuang, Fei Qian found that the current situation of Cuijia seems to be better than before. Not only does it seem that there are more people, but even some dilapidated places on the streets of the village have been repaired. Repair and replace.

  Cui Hou led Fei Qian and Huang Zhong to sit in the side hall of Cui's house, and arranged for his servants to prepare the banquet quickly.

This time, no matter from Fei Qian's status as a nobleman or the strength that Fei Qian has shown so far, it seems that it is slightly worse for Cui Hou to open the main hall to entertain, but the side hall of the Cui family is basically a little The problem is gone.

The old man of the Cui family seemed to have never been able to recover after being so angry that he had a stroke, so it was not convenient to attend, so Cui Hou was in charge of entertaining, but it can also be seen from this that Cui Hou also took over the Cui family smoothly during this time The Cui family also has a strong voice in their business.

Although there is another Cui Jun in the Cui family, who went to Xihe to be the prefect of the county, but after all, Xihe County is located in the border area, and Xianbei goes south from time to time to harass, so the focus of the Cui family is naturally on Luoyang, and Cui Jun has always been there before. Keeping his name incognito, the Cui family's big and small affairs are also taken care of by people from Cui Hou's branch. Even though Cui Jun's current position is higher than Cui Hou's, but if he has the right to speak, it may not be so easy to say in the future, but now he still does. It is Cui Hou who will be stronger.

  Chinese people have the habit of discussing things at the dinner table, so Fei Qian naturally chatted with Cui Hou.

   Chatting and chatting naturally talked about the current situation in Luoyang. The Cui family's Cuijiazhuang is actually not very far from Luoyang City, so of course some changes in Luoyang City are also matters that Cui Hou pays close attention to.

In fact, the city wall of Luoyang City in the Eastern Han Dynasty was more like a large circle of palace walls, because the South Palace and the North Palace of Luoyang City occupied a large area, and then added various agencies and departments, and then added The mansions of some dignitaries...

Therefore, the internal space of the city is very limited, and many facilities and markets are gradually expanding outwards relying on the city wall. Many people, especially a large number of middle-level and low-level people, now live outside Luoyang City, which also leads to The city wall of Luoyang City has lost most of its function of protecting the residents.

  So Yuan Kai's strategy that Dong Zhuo would collapse completely when the soldiers approached the city at that time was not wrong. When Luoyang City loses external supplements, only the people who live within the large palace walls of Luoyang City are left. The daily consumption of food and clothing is astonishing. After a few days of surrounding, even if Dong Zhuo still wants to fight to the death, The other high-ranking officials and nobles living in Luoyang will definitely attack them together.

  And the current situation, there are already a little signs of this.

  Food prices continue to rise.

  Food is an important pillar for the stability of a society. Food is the foundation of a country, and for a big country, sufficient food is crucial.

First of all, as far as the population is concerned, as long as there is sufficient food, the entire economy will not be subject to too much fluctuation, and the population will be able to maintain a steady growth on a stable basis until the growth rate is greater than the increase rate of food, and it will start to explode. various problems.

  The overall increase in grain now shows that the population of Luoyang has exceeded the original load, and the second is that the Kanto gentry's garrison in Suanzao has begun to affect Luoyang's externally transferred grain.

  Of course, in fact, there is still a lot of grain storage in the local powerful Wubao in Luoyang, just like the cave dug by Cuijiazhuang in the mountains, it also stores a lot of grain.

   But these grains also brought some troubles to the Cui family.

Cui Hou said with a wry smile: "In the past few days, there have been two 'transfer' orders in a row, one for 200 shi and one for 300 shi. If things go on like this, no matter how much food there is, it won't be enough to 'tune'. yes..."

  In the Han Dynasty, there were two main sources of food for the army, one was the "Fu" paid by the nationals, and the other was the "Tiao" that was apportioned additionally by the residents.

  "Zhu Fu" is generally fixed and collected once a year, but this "tune" has no specific restrictions, and is "tune" according to needs.

   But it is not possible to "adjust" endlessly. After all, food reserves are limited. If there are too many "adjustments", it will not be much different from robbery.

Fei Qian realized that perhaps this was already an obvious manifestation of Dong Zhuo's determination to evacuate Luoyang. Otherwise, if he planned to stay in Luoyang for a long time, he would take public grievances into consideration, and would not easily do such a thing that would be regarded as killing a chicken and taking eggs. .

  Fei Qian said: "Brother Yongyuan, I'm afraid you are also aware of this situation... Luoyang will change, and the drama of this change may be difficult to describe..."

Cui Hou shook his head and sighed: "It hasn't been long since General He's chariots and horses overturned, and the traces are still there, but now... alas! When will it stop!" What happened during this period is indeed like a revolving lantern, He Jin just killed Jian Shuo was hacked to death not long after he became famous; the new emperor Liu Bian was also abdicated and replaced by Liu Xie not long after he came to power; It's just who came up...

In fact, Cui Hou has the same thoughts as most of the nobles near Luoyang City. After all, Luoyang has been the capital of the Han Dynasty for nearly two hundred years. Even if there are occasional soldiers pointing at Luoyang, Luoyang City has always been safe and sound. , safe and sound, so in Cui Hou's heart, this time at most, something happened in the palace city in the center of Luoyang City, at most someone will stain the palace wall with blood again...

  As for a small character like myself, in Cui Hou's view, he just needs to endure this period of time. Anyway, whoever is in power won't always live like that?

"Brother Yongyuan, I'm afraid it won't be that simple this time... If we talk about the **** of the old general He Jin, it can affect this range..." Fei Qian pointed to the plate on the table, and then gestured across the whole Hall, "Then the impact will be so great now..."

   Cui Hou's small eyes widened a bit, and he said, "What do you mean by this brother?"

"Did these soldiers and horses gather in Luoyang in the past? Soldiers, lethal weapons..." Fei Qian didn't say the next half sentence, because now it is obvious that Dong Zhuo, who is in Luoyang City, the center of the imperial court, Those Kanto gentry gathered in Suanzao are none of them virtuous people, let alone "the sage uses it as a last resort".

  So the person who brought these soldiers together was actually the murderer who destroyed the order of the entire Han Dynasty...

  The flesh on the side of Cui Hou's face twitched twice, and he said, "Your brother, did you say... a mutiny?"

   Fei Qian smiled wryly and said: "Perhaps... it's even worse... At this time, it's like cooking a frog in warm water. By the time you feel the water is hot, it's too late..."

   "This..." Cui Hou's eyeballs moved left and right, apparently unable to accept what Fei Qian said...

   Well, let’s talk about a stalk, Mr. Luo wrote—

   "But Xuande has been troubled day and night since he lost Mrs. Gan."

   Keke...

PS: Everyone thinks that I must be accumulating manuscripts in the latest update. In fact, I have been transferred during this period of time. How can I have any time to write manuscripts? These are written with great difficulty...It will be put on the shelves this Friday, and I have no manuscripts here... Really Day and night troubles...

  (end of this chapter)