Chastity Layman

Jingyang County Yazhong.

Master Sledgehammer Qin Yong has left, leaving only Jingyang Commander Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanrui.

"The one surnamed Qin is really deceiving people!" Zheng Yuanrui cursed angrily with his face livid.

On the other hand, Wang Renbiao sighed, "Brother Zheng, you did not handle the matter properly this time. Now that someone has taken hold of you, we can only bow our heads."

Zheng Yuanrui said, "This Qin guy is a shit-stirring stick. I'm talking about the little bastards of the Qin family. The big ones are better, but the little ones are unscrupulous and have repeatedly made enemies of our gentry. Such a trivial matter has to be dealt with." Gang is online, isn't this an opportunity to make waves?"

"He's here for our gentry. These common people and unreasonable people will run rampant once they gain power!"

Wang Renyou sighed, "You may be right, but we have fallen behind in this matter right now, so we can't force it."

"Then my thousand stones of grain will be confiscated by that little Qin family bastard?"

Wang Renyou looked at him, "It's this time, and you still only think about the food, now we have to hope that Qin Lang won't take the opportunity to pursue Brother Zheng, let alone Defang. Forget it , let’s not talk about it, let’s go to meet those two together, who is the holy family now!”

Looking at Zheng Yuanrui, Wang Renyou also had a headache. At such a critical moment, you said that you insisted on smuggling this food for what, but unfortunately you also ran into Qin Lang. Isn't this your head under the knife?

Originally, the five surnames and the seven families finally boarded Li Tang's boat before. Seeing the world is peaceful, everyone can finally continue to live a stable life and continue to be a high-ranking nobleman. Under the general dominant situation, Li Shimin directly cut off his head.

Once Jian Jian died, the five surnames and seven families were considered unlucky.

Which family is not living with its tail between its legs? Your Zheng family, as the natal family of the former princess, should have lived with its tail between its legs, but why haven't you learned your lesson? You still do this at a time like this, but now it's good, and it makes people feel angry again. Got the handle.

"Brother Wang, you must help me." Zheng Yuanrui also realized that this time he would not be able to get away easily, and he was happy to scold a few words just now, but when he thought of meeting that little bastard Qin Lang, he was still a little uneasy.

Wang Renyou was an in-law of the Zheng family and a classmate of his, but Wang Renyou also had another important identity, that is, his uncle married the current emperor's aunt, and he was conferred the title of Princess Tong'an not long ago. Based on this relationship, the Wang family is now much closer to the royal family.

Although the Wang family was close to Prince Jiancheng at the beginning, they are still uncles and relatives after all.

"I'll think of a way, but I have to bow my head for a while. Who made the Qin family gain power now? You can see that the Cui family is quick to see the wind."

Zheng Yuanrui was helpless, "Okay, okay."

Jingyang Wharf.

Qin Lang accompanied his father Qin Qiong to stand on the embankment, but did not enter Jingyang County, and did not plan to enter Jingyang County at first, but just passed by from here, and then went to Binning, Jingyuan, Lianggan Zhuzhou to inspect, and found Zheng's smuggling at the pier Food was just a small accident.

"How do you plan to deal with this matter?" Qin Qiong asked his son.

"It's obvious that Zheng Yuanrui and his son smuggled grain. At this moment, it is a felony. The grain was confiscated, detained, and sent to Chang'an Imperial Prison for His Majesty's disposal." Qin Lang said.

Qin Qiong shook her head, her son is still very capable of handling things, but one thing is that sometimes he does things too directly.

This is in line with the temperament of young people, but now that he is an official in the court, this kind of temperament is not good.

"Have you considered the Zheng family? After all, the Zheng family is one of the five surnames and seven sects. The Zheng family in Xingyang has been the leader of the gentry for many years. Although it is slightly hit by the abolition of the prince, it is impossible for His Majesty to suppress the Zheng family for a long time. After one dozen, you will still have to pull again, and you will have to show your favor after Liwei!"

Qin Qiong took a farther view of the situation in the court than Qin Lang. Today, today's people started their fortunes with the help of military upstarts, and they also relied on these generals to win the world, but it is different now that they are the emperor.

In the past, when he and Prince Jiancheng were fighting for the throne, the noble families mostly stood on Jiancheng's side, and it was the enemy or the opponent. But now that he is the emperor, it is impossible to always regard these famous families as opponents.

"The emperor often said to conquer the world immediately, but he cannot govern the world immediately. To govern the world, these gentry clans are ultimately inseparable, so they will return to the court sooner or later, and no one can replace them. Look at Wang Gui, Li Gang, etc. now. Have you re-entered the center? How many of us generals of the Qin Dynasty can transfer from military to civil to serve as Shangshu Jiuqing and other positions?"

"Grandfather, do you want me to be selfish?"

"It's not self-serving, but to take care of the overall situation. Since even His Majesty will not really drive these gentry out of the court, then we don't need to make this matter a big one. If the big thing is turned into a small one, it will be over. "

Qin Qiong suggested to Qin Lang that for Zheng Yuanxuan's case, the handling could be simplified.

Zheng Yuanrui's thousand-stone grain was determined to be sold by Zheng Jiabao to Chang Pingcang, and the grain was collected at the market price, and then Zheng Yuanrui didn't have to pursue it.

"Isn't it too tolerant of adultery to do this?"

"The overall situation is the most important thing. The key right now is to save people and relieve disasters, not to cause trouble. There is no need to make enemies of the Zheng family. It will be regarded as a face for the Wang family in a while, and everyone is happy."

"Grandfather is right, but my son still thinks that this matter should be reported to His Majesty first, and the son can submit to the Holy Tribunal according to the father's wishes, but all results are subject to the Holy Will."

Qin Qiong smiled.

"It's good of you to think so."

So Qin Lang said to Humanity, "Go and tell the county magistrate Wang that I will accompany Qi Guogong to inspect the place below, and see them tomorrow."

Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanrui, who had already left the city and came to the pier, could see Qin Qiong and his son from a distance. They stood there waiting for a long time, but they finally waited for such a notice.

Wang Renyou said to Zheng Yuanrui, "It seems that there is still room for change in this matter, just wait."

"That little bastard surnamed Qin deliberately humiliated our gentry!"

"Don't say a few words, it's really humiliating, you don't want to be here now, I'm afraid you will be directly put in shackles and sent to Chang'an Prison."

Upon hearing the word imperial edict, Zheng Yuanrui couldn't help but fell silent.

The reputation of the Imperial Prison is getting bigger and bigger, even Li Gui has been sent there, who dares to be careless? Once entering the imperial prison, even the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang can't get involved.

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Along the banks of the Jing River, Qin Lang and Qin Qiong inspected many villages along the way, and found that the fields are really lively now, and the common people seem to be scrambling for farming. There are men, women and children everywhere.

Under the county, every township, every mile, and every village, military orders have been issued layer by layer, and responsibilities have been assigned.

In the fields, ditches were being dug everywhere, as if they were going to fight a tunnel war. The women and their children, holding bamboo sticks and tying cloth strips, shouted in the field to drive away the jumping locusts, and drove the newly hatched and flightless jumping locusts together until the men dug them up. Then they took nets and cloths and threw them into buckets to drown.

After drowning, they were picked up quickly and dumped in the ground to dry.

At night, you can return with a full load and take it back to exchange for food.

Everyone is highly motivated. On the one hand, they are saving themselves. After all, there are still crops in the field, and on the other hand, there is food to exchange for.

Jumping gnats can be seen everywhere on the road, some of which have already molted several times and are very large and dark in color, while others have just hatched and are very light in color.

Although these jumping gnats can't fly, they eat when they are green.

Especially in places such as river beaches and lakes, it is even more dense.

Although it hasn't reached the point of overwhelming the sky, it can be seen everywhere in the line of sight.

From time to time, Qin Lang grabbed one and observed it carefully.

In front, a group of children are herding chickens and ducks. The chickens and ducks are happily eating locusts, and they can easily peck locusts into their stomachs. He swayed back and forth, wobbled when he walked, and continued to eat.

While the children were watching the chickens and ducks, wherever the chickens and ducks went, they kept catching locusts. They took small nets, strangled the locusts they caught, and threw them into the baskets.

Qin Lang found that their harvest was not small, each of them had half a basket in their back basket, estimated to be no less than five or six catties.

The children are very excited and actively catching. A bucket of locusts can be exchanged for a bucket of millet. It is only valid for the first three days. After these three days, a bucket can only be exchanged for one liter, so now everyone is desperately catching Locust, children are working very hard.

"It seems that there are still fewer chickens and ducks." Qin Qiong sighed.

Qin Lang was very happy.

"Grandpa, look at the scene where everyone is catching locusts. After this battle, even if there is another outbreak of locusts in the future, I'm afraid it will be difficult to cause a disaster."

After walking for a while, I found a pile of firewood on the embankment. A group of children who were tired of catching locusts put their full baskets aside, and each of them used branches to string several bunches of locusts, and then roasted them on the fire. , there is no salt or fennel, etc., just roast it like this, which reminds Qin Lang of his own experience of catching fire and roasting food when he was a child.

The people don’t have so much oil to fry locusts, and they are not willing to wrap them in flour, and they don’t have any extra seasonings. They also start to eat locusts, but the way of eating is simple. In the interval, I will also directly roast some locusts to satisfy my hunger, so I don't need to go home to make lunch, and I don't need to bring dry food.

Qin Lang took out his money bag and bought a few bunches from the children for a penny, and then he, Qin Qiong and the guards also experienced this kind of pure natural roasted locusts without additives. The skills of the children were average, and some roasted burnt.

Qin Qiong's insults were all black and gray, but she was quite happy.

"Even children can roast locusts to eat, so why worry about the locusts not dying?"

Qin Lang accompanied Qin Qiong to patrol the Jingyang countryside for a day, silently counting and calculating along the way, he found that almost every household in the villages in Jingyang Township raised a lot of chickens, ducks and geese, which was obviously due to him hatching and selling seedlings , under normal circumstances, people’s families would not have so many seedlings, but this year, because of these cheap seedlings supplied by Qin Lang, even for the common people, these seedlings were exchanged for almost no cost, so this year, every family has raised dozens of chickens Duck and goose.

This year's grain prices are expected to continue to rise, but the prices of chickens, ducks and geese are expected to continue to fall.

It seems that I can open a roast duck shop or a cured chicken cured duck smoked chicken smoked duck preserved egg salted duck egg shop to help the people digest these poultry and egg products.

Back in Jingyang County after dark, Qin Lang also received a reply from the emperor. The emperor was satisfied with Qin Lang's solution, and felt that it was the best policy at the moment.

After receiving this decree, Qin Lang finally summoned Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanrui.

After Qin Lang reprimanded Zheng Yuanrui, he announced the result of the disposal. Chang Pingcang bought the thousand shi of grain at the market price, but there was no money to pay for the time being, so he issued an IOU for the time being.

Holding the white note with Qin Lang's signature, Zheng Yuanrui felt mixed emotions in his heart, but finally heaved a sigh of relief and thanked Qin Lang.

"Just this one time, never again!" Qin Lang said.

"Thank you Duke Yi!" Zheng Yuanrui thanked him.

"You don't have to thank me," Qin Lang said to him indifferently, "After you go to Qizhou to meet Duke Pei, please convey it to me, saying that I will go to Qizhou with Duke Qi to investigate the matter of locust catching in a few days, please Pei Your Majesty, get ready."