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Chapter 502 Broken contract! (Please subscribe!)
In Jinling City yesterday, there were two things that people talked about.

The first thing is that in the "Yunling family" last night, a northern prince named "Ni Daye" defeated Mao Buyi and Hou Junting two "Four Great Talents in the South of the Yangtze River" through the "Flying Flower Order".

What is even more amazing is that Ni Daye wrote ten poems in a fit of anger. According to the onlookers present, the quality of those ten poems was of the highest quality.

It is a pity that because the time for the competition yesterday was short and everyone was not prepared, Ni Daye just read the sentence and did not leave any calligraphy, which is really a pity.

Because Ni Daye came out to rescue Wang Ba, everyone took it for granted that he must be staying in the palace, and someone with good intentions went to verify it, but they were told that there was no one like Ni Daye in the palace.

This is kind of weird...

Obviously talented in poetry, now there is another chance to become famous, if it was someone else, they would have rushed out to show their faces, right?But he disappeared, which is really puzzling...

Some people even compare this Ni Daye with Zhang Xianbo who is far away in Jingzhou and has only been heard of, because these two people have the following things in common.

He is quite talented in poetry, and his works are praised by people, but they can only be heard, and there are very few people who can see the true face...

Since ancient times, there have been talented men and beautiful women, and there is no doubt that Ni Daye must be a talented man, so the girls in Jinling City who have not left the cabinet heard that even Mao Buyi and Hou Junting easily defeated Ni Daye, they were full of enthusiasm, and they asked about Ni Daye's whereabouts everywhere.

The second thing is also extremely sensational.

Wang Chengen posted an announcement in the city, saying that it is natural and inevitable that Zhaojialiangzhuang will reduce the price, and in a few days, all the grainzhuang will reduce the price!Food prices have stabilized, so naturally there is no need to fear the flow of refugees.

So Wang Chengen ordered that from today onwards, the gates of the city will be opened wide, because he has already negotiated with the leader of the refugees. The refugees will rest in Jinling City for a few days before leaving.

One stone caused a thousand waves!

The common people's reaction was not only shock, but also joy. According to what Wang Chengen said, the price of food will drop immediately. Those people who have not grabbed Zhao's low-priced food in the past two days will finally be more stable. .

However, many grain farm owners headed by Zhao Baiyu are very disdainful of this. All grain farms have lowered their prices. Who gave you the courage?Liang Jingru?

They have already learned the reason why Zhao Baiyu was forced to lower the price, and they have also discussed that as soon as Zhao Qingfeng returns, the food price will immediately rise back!
And when the time comes, all of them will close the door tightly, and no one will be able to open it!

food?

No!

You let a wave of refugees into the city?
Come in!

See how you end up then!
On this day, the city of Jinling was unusually lively.

Early in the morning, of course, they still came to Zhaojia Liangzhuang's store to wait for the grain grabbing. This time, the servants of the Zhao family learned to be smart and only brought a thousand catties of grain. Even if they wanted to grab it, there was nothing left.

According to their master, today is the last day to sell grain like this, hey, poor those who can't get the grain!
The people who didn't get the food today are not so depressed. They still believe in Wang Cheng'en. Besides, although the Zhao family sells little food, if it happens like this every day, they don't believe that they will never be able to get it!

So after the food was sold out, everyone came to the gate of the city by coincidence, and found that the gate of the city was really wide open, poking their heads, waiting eagerly.

As for the Zhao family in Jinling City, Zhao Baiyu and Mrs. Zhao paced back and forth in the house, feeling irritable...

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Zhang Twelve didn't know what happened in the city.

He got up early today because he made up for a day of sleep yesterday. When he got up, he realized that those refugees got up earlier than them.

They were so excited to be able to enter Jinling and get money, how could they be in the mood to sleep late?
As for Zhao Qingfeng, who was guarded by Lu San and Du Lang, his expression was also a little excited, and he secretly glanced at Zhang Twelve, with a mean smile on his lips, I don't know what he was thinking...

The happiest thing is Lu Sanpi. After staying in Jinling for more than [-] years, he is finally going to be an official. This is something that he didn't dare to think about before, right?

This time, I can finally go back to the village to worship my ancestors openly...

Because of their own thoughts, everyone's footsteps are much faster. How can they look like refugees?

Facing the rising sun in early March, the majestic and elegant Jinling City Wall appeared far away in front of everyone, and when they walked forward, they saw the open city gate, and the mood can be imagined.

In order to show importance, Wang Chengen also came outside the city gate early in the morning. On such an occasion, as the highest general of Jinling City, Sui Wuyuan should also attend.

But there was a little episode yesterday. In order to fight for his son, Sui Wuyuan led troops to Wang's house, saying that he wanted to catch the murderer who beat his son, and hoped that Wang Chengen would hand him over, but in the end he hit a wall, feeling unhappy and holding a grudge .

So Sui Wuyuan lied today that he was sick, and it was inconvenient to come forward. In fact, he didn't believe that Wang Chengen could easily settle the previous menacing homeless tide, and hid behind and secretly watched jokes!

Because Zhang Twelve had explained in advance, Lu Sanpi walked in the front and had a cordial and friendly conversation with the prefect Wang Chengen as a representative of the refugees. Then Lu Sanpi signaled everyone to be quiet and listened to Wang Chengen's speech.

What they said was nothing more than a scene, and after they finished speaking, they sent someone to carry a big iron box over, and then began to distribute the money!
This was the scene everyone was looking forward to, and when they got the money, they finally believed that the magistrate was not bad, so they shouted.

This matter has come to an end. What Wang Chengen means is that it is not easy for everyone to travel across mountains and rivers to Jinling. The hard work of five taels of silver is a token of appreciation. Everyone can go to the city to rest and play, and then make plans.

Only then did the homeless army officially enter the city and spread out...

And Lu Sanpi followed Wang Chengen to the direction of the magistrate. On the way, Wang Chengen thanked Lu Sanpi again for his support and help this time, which made him flattered.

When he heard that Wang Chengen had arranged for him an official position as a yamen servant, Lu Sanpi wept with joy.

Actually speaking, the official position of this yamen servant is really not high.

According to the construction of official positions in this era, except for the yamen servants, the remaining officials and officials in the entire imperial court have official status, which is what is often called "formal workers", which is similar to the current "civil servants".

The remaining "yamen servants" have no official status, and it is hard to say that they are regular workers, which are now often called temporary workers.

The yamen servants are also divided into "three classes of yamen servants", which means that the yamen servants are divided into "three classes".

The first is the soap class, which is mainly used as a guard of honor for the magistrate or stand on both sides of the trial to frighten and punish criminals.

The second is the fast class, which is the kind of people we often call "catch fast". The fast catch is not a profession, it is a collective term. The fast catchers do things like arrest criminals, solve crimes, and collect taxes. live.

The third is the strong squad, migrant workers called temporarily, who can assist in defending the city in case of emergency and so on.

But Lu Sanpi, a government servant, was given a new form by Wang Chengen.

Because this time is equivalent to repaying a gift, so Lu Sanpi doesn't have to do the above-mentioned things, and he will just follow Wang Chengen in the future. He will do some errands in the magistrate's office, and he will be brisk and not tired, and he can follow him every day. After En's death, even if he didn't have an official status, he was definitely considered a fat job!

No wonder Lu Sanpi is so happy. Now he is grateful to Wang Chengen, and he is afraid that no matter what Wang Chengen asks him to do, he will be ashamed...

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As for Zhang Twelve, he sneaked away after entering the city.

Escorted Zhao Qingfeng into the carriage prepared by Wang Chengen in advance, driven by Du Lang and Lu San, and drove towards Zhaojia Liangzhuang.

Sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed, Zhang Twelve was not worried that Zhao Qingfeng would sneak away, but Zhao Qingfeng kept staring at him, very worried that Zhang Twelve would escape if he was not careful.

His idea was very simple, as long as he returned to Zhao's house, Jinling would be his world, he had to keep an eye on these bullies, and then let them know why Hua'er was so popular!

The carriage soon arrived at the gate of Zhaojia Liangzhuang. The guard saw two ugly men driving over, with doubts on his face, he asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Before the two of them could speak, Zhao Qingfeng couldn't wait to get out of the carriage.

"Master?"

"It's the young master! The young master is back!"

Although Zhao Qingfeng's current appearance is very embarrassing, not to mention the old and messy clothes, and his face is covered with mud, it is not enough to describe it as unkempt, if the guard hadn't had a deep enough impression of Zhao Qingfeng, he might not be able to recognize him.

Following the shout of the guard, the servants of the Zhao family rushed out of the mansion one after another. After confirming that their young master had finally returned after a long absence, they also shouted happily.

Zhang Twelve also got out of the car. Naturally, no one cared about the three of them.

Zhao Qingfeng was afraid that they would run away, so he hurriedly came to them and urged them to enter the mansion.

Thus, Zhang Twelve and the others, together with Zhao Qingfeng, were surrounded by many servants and entered the Zhao residence...

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Both Zhao Baiyu and Mrs. Zhao heard the commotion outside, and probably guessed what it was. Mrs. Zhao excitedly wanted to go out to greet her, but was stopped by Zhao Baiyu.

Therefore, when Zhao Qingfeng entered the door, the first thing he saw were his parents sitting there.

"Father! Mother!"

After going through so many dangerous situations, even losing his life at one point, he finally returned to Zhao's house. Seeing his parents, Zhao Qingfeng's feelings collapsed for a while, and he burst into tears after shouting.

"My poor son! You have suffered a great crime!"

Mrs. Zhao couldn't take it anymore, she ran over to hug Zhao Qingfeng, and cried into a ball, the sound of grief was moving.

Zhao Baiyu's eye circles were also a little red, and he waved his hand to signal for the people to help the mother and son down. When Zhao Qingfeng left the front hall, he glanced at Zhang Twelve and the others, but hesitated to speak to Zhao Baiyu.

And Zhao Baiyu had guessed his thoughts, nodded to him and said: "Qingfeng go with your mother, father will make the decision for you!"

Hearing this, Zhao Qingfeng left slowly. Before going out, he did not forget to give Zhang Twelve a vicious look.

Under Zhao Baiyu's instruction, the servants also retreated, leaving only Zhao Baiyu and Zhang Twelve in the front hall.

"Boss Zhao, I will keep my word and send Mr. Zhao back. Shouldn't you also keep my word and lower the price of all food?"

Zhang Twelve got straight to the point.

"Ha ha……"

Zhao Baiyu sneered at first, and then said with cold eyes: "Mr. Zhang, I always keep my word. If you asked me to lower the price of food, wouldn't I immediately lower it?"

Zhang Twelve frowned, and said: "But you only sold one thousand catties a day before, which is like a drop in the bucket for tens of thousands of people in Jinling and even in the south! Now Mr. Zhao has been sent back by my subordinates, please invite Zhao The boss kept his promise and lowered the price of all food!"

Zhao Baiyu looked at Zhang Twelve as if he was looking at a fool, and said with a smirk: "Mr. Zhang, you should know that our Zhao Family Grain Village doesn't have much grain! It's been sold at a low price for a few days. It’s several thousand catties, and there’s very little food left, so—”

"So you plan to raise the price of food back?"

Zhang Twelve asked with a sneer.

"Master Zhang is really smart!"

Zhao Baiyu also had a smile on his face, but it was just a mockery.

"Boss Zhao, have you thought about it, are you sure you want to do this?"

Zhang Twelve narrowed his eyes and said expressionlessly.

Zhao Baiyu was also unfazed, and nodded firmly.

"Are you really sure?"

Zhang Twelve laughed and repeated it again.

I don't know why, but Zhao Baiyu always felt that the ugly man's smile was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, and he was obviously smiling, but why did he feel a little scared?

But he nodded again: "Of course the old man is sure!"

The words were not speculative, and Zhang Twelve got the answer, and he didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he clasped his fists and said, "Since that's the case—then Boss Zhao can do it for himself!"

Without stopping, he turned around and left.

This made Zhao Baiyu a little stunned, he was still thinking, this man surnamed Zhang would fly into a rage if he turned his back on what he said, how could he just leave like this...

It's just that his last sentence "I'm good for myself" sounds a bit creepy...

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Coming out of the Zhao family's Liangzhuang, the angry expression deliberately put on in the front hall of the Zhao family just now disappeared in a flash, and was replaced by a smiling face.

Lu San and Du Lang were even more puzzled after seeing it.

The two of them learned from Zhang Twelve's conversation with Zhao Qingfeng last night that Zhang Twelve took Zhao Qingfeng as a hostage and threatened Zhao Baiyu to lower the food price.

Now Zhao Qingfeng was sent back, but Zhao Baiyu immediately broke the contract, and the food price rose again, even the two of them were so angry, why did the young master laugh?

So Du Lang asked in confusion: "Master, aren't you angry?"

"Angry? Why are you angry?"

Zhang Twelve replied with a smile.

"The young master clearly negotiated with Zhao to lower the food price, but we sent Zhao Qingfeng back, but he backed down. Those refugees finally calmed down, and now that the food price has risen again, they will definitely not be satisfied!"

After hearing Lu San's words, Zhang Twelve laughed even louder: "Hehe, that's what I want!"

(End of this chapter)