It was noon when Sun Tu came out of the Ministry of Revenue. The sun above his head was already burning like fire. The fragrance of wine and food kept coming from the restaurants and restaurants on both sides of the street, making his stomach gulp, but he was already hungry.

Since he had eaten a bowl of vegetarian soup cakes in the inn early in the morning, he had walked a lot of roads in a few hours, but he had never eaten anything again. Now Sun Tu's body is growing and developing, and he is hungry faster, which makes him unable to wait for another one or two to go back to the inn to have a meal.

However, when the hotels in the inner city saw that the decorations and fronts were all high-end places. It was not something ordinary people like him could go in and consume. Sun Tu took a few steps until he returned to the outer city. Then he found a relatively simple restaurant nearby, but it was a foot shop.

The Song Dynasty court has always had a clear order that people prohibited wine vendors from privately making wine. Even if they open a restaurant, they had to buy licenses from the government to make wine and sell it themselves. This is the law to buy pounce. The reason why the Ji family behind Zhang Chuan thought of taking over the Sun family hotel was that it was the reason.

In Bianjing City, people call the inns that can brew wine and sell wine by themselves the main store. The other is the foot store. If the latter wants to sell wine, they can only buy it from the main store, and the price will naturally be much higher. Of course, the main store also has to pay a considerable amount of wine-making tax to the government every year. It is said that there are 72 main stores in Kaifeng City, each of which is famous, and it has been at least four stars or above in later generations, and there are no less than a hundred foot store.

There are less than 200 hotels in a city with a population of millions. This can only infer how luxurious the city of Bianjing is and how rich the people are. In fact, people who live here are happy to enjoy life, and it is common for them to go to restaurants. For example, in this small foot shop restaurant, more than ten tables have been sat almost by customers, and only one table is empty in the corner.

When Sun Tu went in and sat down, a friend came forward to greet him with a smile on his face. Sun Tu was not particular about eating, so he only asked the other party to serve him a bowl of vegetarian soup cake and two side dishes, so he didn't order wine. Because, firstly, the price of wine is really not cheap now, and secondly, he was not used to the poor wine from the Song Dynasty.

After sitting down, his mind turned even more. Thinking of the situation in front of him, Sun Tu became a little worried. What should he do next?

Just by the second day of next month, the consumption will be considerable. The inn I live in will cost more than 200 yuan a day, and the food and drink cost of the two of them will cost at least dozens of taels of silver in a month. What’s more important is that Li Duzhi can say that the owed silver that he has to pay is more than 200 taels, so how can he afford it?

He originally thought that he would no longer have to worry about money if he had a warehouse or a hotel, but he would have problems when he arrived in Tokyo. Moreover, he had to do this job, otherwise his sins would only be worse after he went back.

He felt uneasy, which made Sun Tu lose his appetite for food. He just stuffed dishes and noodles into his mouth randomly, but ignored the taste. At this moment, he suddenly heard someone beside him calling Sun Sanlang, which made him stunned and quickly turned around and looked back.

As a result, only two men were drinking, and they didn't look at him. It was obvious that Sun Sanlang was not his Sun Tu, but another person of the same surname. However, this made him hear clearly what the two chatted with—

Only one person said, "Sun Sanlang has been in great trouble recently. Not only did his wife die in an emergency, but his youngest daughter disappeared two days ago. What a sin."

"Are you talking about the four-year-old girl? The one who looks very beautiful?"

"It's her. Two days ago, she was playing in front of the door, but suddenly disappeared. She was so anxious that she looked for people everywhere, but she couldn't find them."

"Is it because the person was stolen by the man in the ghost house?"

When Sun Tu heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He already knew where Fan Lou was and had looked at him from afar, but what is the ghost Fan Lou?

"Hey, it's probably because of the people there who have committed the crime. In the past two years, more and more women and children have been lost in our Kaifeng city. I guess it was the guys there who kidnapped the people."

"You said the court doesn't care. What should I do if this continues?"

"Stand? The Guifan Tower is too complicated. Even if the officers and soldiers go down, they may not be able to find those people, let alone the servants in Kaifeng Prefecture. In the early years, when Bao Xiaosu was appointed as the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, they could still restrain themselves, but even so, they could not completely wipe out Guifan Tower. Naturally, no one can do anything to them today. And I also heard something..." As he said that, the man deliberately lowered his voice and pretended to be mysterious.

"But what happened?"

"I heard that someone in Guifanlou colluded with a family member of a senior official in the court. Otherwise, how could those families taste the freshness..."

This person's words were a bit obscure, but Sun Tu, who heard it clearly, understood it. It was obvious that the thief in Fanlou had found a high-ranking official in the court as a backer, so he was so unscrupulous. At the same time, he had no choice but to let Kaifeng Prefecture and other yamen take them. As for the price, it should be to give the kidnapped women and other things to the high-ranking official's family to enjoy.

This kind of official and thieves' family of harming the people will make people feel creepy and indignant as long as they listen to it. But these two people are ordinary people, so it would be fine to talk in private by drinking, but they dare not preach it.

However, what the two of them said made Sun Tu feel even worse. In just one day, his view on Tokyo Bianliang had taken a sharp turn.

When I entered the city yesterday, when I saw this prosperous city, he still yearned for it, thinking that it is truly a popular place to be called the first choice for time travel by many people in later generations, and thought it would be good to live here for the rest of my life.

But now, he realized that it was just the imagination of the literary and artistic young people in later generations, and the view that they had worn filters.

To talk about how prosperous and open the Song Dynasty was and how rich the people living here were, it only refers to those who were successful in studying and even passed the Jinshi exam. As for the vast majority of the people at the bottom, they still lived in hardships and even had a life of stagnation.

This can be seen from your own experience today. All officials in the yamen are difficult to deal with. Even if you enter the door, you have to spend a lot of money and you can't help you solve the problem. This has to be put in later generations, recording a video and reporting will be enough for some people to drink a pot.

The existence of Guifan Tower made Sun Tu feel even more incredible. In Kaifeng Bianjing City, there was such a terrifying organization under the feet of the emperor that threatened the safety of the people. The government even let it go, and some even colluded with it. What kind of era is this!

Don’t listen to the man saying that the terrain of Gui Fanlou is complicated, and no officer or soldier can do anything to them. That’s nonsense. If the government really wants to deal with an underground organization, it’s not easy. After all, it’s because someone wants to use Gui Fanlou to satisfy his shameful selfish desires.

The surface openness and prosperity, the filth and sin in the dark, are completely intertwined. This is the real Bianjing city! Even Sun Tu has a feeling that this is the best microcosm of the Song Dynasty today.

Under the prosperous scene of flowers blooming and fire cooking oil, there are countless internal and external troubles. At this time, the Song Dynasty had already arrived at the most dangerous moment, but the rulers and ministers in power still turned a blind eye to it and just lived in their own dreams. They would not wake up until the iron hooves of the Jin people crossed the Yellow River and rushed to the city of Tokyo, but by then everything was too late.

I don’t know where it was, but Sun Tu once read a saying that the rich and rich Republic of China was like a beautiful and noble cheongsam, but it was covered with lice and fleas, and had already bitten everything inside. In his opinion, the Song Dynasty is also the same today. Under this bright brocade robe, there are so many dirt, blood and tears, as well as countless lice and fleas...
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