The lethality of this nursery rhyme is undoubtedly very powerful.
It’s not that it’s written so well, or that Shen Yi’s method is so brilliant, the main reason is...
It's very appropriate.
Food prices have skyrocketed. Even if the family has spare money to last until the autumn harvest, the people of Jiangdu still have complaints and grievances in their hearts, but there is nowhere to vent their grievances. Now such a nursery rhyme suddenly appears, which is naturally deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. .
Jiangdu is full of tigers and wolves!
This sentence can be said to be a heart-breaking statement.
It just so happened that the people of Jiangdu were not only resentful of the grain merchants' price increase, but also resentful of the court for "grain requisition". After hearing this nursery rhyme sung in the authentic Jiangdu dialect, many people began to sing along.
Even in teahouses and restaurants, some people would talk about this nursery rhyme when talking and laughing. Many people would slap their thighs and angrily criticize the injustice of the court and the injustice of profiteers.
According to Shen Yi's arrangement, Xu Fu and other children did not sing all the time in various places. They spent a day traveling almost all over Jiangdu City. Every time they went to a new place, they would sing a few lines.
Once someone asks them about the entire libretto, these children will memorize it faithfully. If they are asked who taught it, they will always say that it was an old beggar with a white beard who taught it.
In this way, these children only sang for one day. On the second day, they returned to the small dilapidated house where they were hiding, bought some steamed buns with the money Shen Yi gave them, and had a delicious meal. .
Although Shen Yi gave them more than a tael of silver, which was enough to buy meat for a while, these children were afraid of poverty, especially Xu Fu. Although he was young, he also knew the principle of long-lasting water, so he only I bought some white flour steamed buns and ate them with a few friends.
For these children, just one bite of steamed buns is already very satisfying.
And while these children were eating steamed buns, the song they spent a day spreading had almost spread throughout Jiangdu. By the third day, Xu Fu left a few young ones alone early in the morning. At his residence, he went out for a walk. Seeing that the song had spread, he bought some food on the street and brought it back to the small shabby house.
According to Shen Yi's original arrangement, for the safety of their little ones, as long as the songs are sung, they don't have to go out to continue singing.
In this way, a few children who may not even have names in Jiangdu City caused an uproar in Jiangdu City.
On the third day, this song had spread all over Jiangdu. Children in the streets and alleys may not be able to remember the entire text, but they can remember one or two sentences, especially the last one or two.
"Without food, prices are rising."
“There are tigers and wolves everywhere in Jiangdu!”
Under such a scale of public opinion offensive, the song soon reached the ears of Jiangdu County Magistrate Feng County Magistrate.
The person who handed over the lyrics of this ballad was Mr. Deng from the county government. After Master Deng handed over a piece of paper filled with lyrics with both hands, he then carefully looked at his county master and whispered: "Sir, this is This nursery rhyme was sung in Jiangdu City in the past two days. It was probably because of the increase in food prices in the city that some unscrupulous people slandered the government and the imperial court..."
County Magistrate Feng took the piece of paper, glanced at it lightly, then threw the paper aside and said, "How can it slander the government? At most, it is just slandering the court."
Master Deng's eyes widened, and he looked at the fat county magistrate in front of him, dumbfounded: "Master, this Jiangdu City is under your rule. If something like this happens, the prefect's Yamen will blame it, and you must bear the responsibility.
You don’t care about this?”
"in spite of."
County Master Feng narrowed his eyes and snorted: "In the final analysis, this matter was caused by the imperial court coming to Jiangdu to buy grain. The prefect's Yamen directly did the imperial court's purchase of grain. Now that the price of grain in Jiangdu City has skyrocketed, it has caused
If the people’s dissatisfaction is resolved, what does it have to do with our county government?”
At this point, Magistrate Feng threw the piece of paper aside and said lazily: "Burn it, burn it. When the superior officer asks, he will say that the county government has no knowledge of this matter."
Master Deng nodded first, then looked at Magistrate Feng thoughtfully, and suddenly understood why his master had such an attitude.
After thinking about it, Mr. Deng nodded, took the piece of paper out, then bent over and left.
After Master Deng left, Lord Feng opened his eyes. His eyes were not big and looked like they were squinting.
The county magistrate snorted: "You guys have taken all the benefits, and you can't escape this trouble. I didn't get a penny, so why should I wipe your ass?!"
"If the matter gets too big, even if the higher-ups investigate, they won't do anything to do with me, Mr. Feng!"
Of course Feng Xianzun was angry.
Because he had already heard that the imperial court spent money to buy grain from Jiangdu this time, and the price of grain purchased by the prefecture's Yamen from grain merchants had been reduced to the point where it could no longer be reduced.
In other words, the prefect's yamen and the household official from the capital must have taken money from it.
But Feng Lu had never seen a penny of this money.
Although he is a subordinate of the magistrate's office, Magistrate Chen does not have to go through him for anything he does, but he is the magistrate of Fuguo, and Jiangdu City is theoretically under his rule, Mr. Feng!
You, the prefect, and the people from the household department have joined forces to get money from Jiangdu City. Of course, he can't control it, but if you don't divide any money, this is a bit too much!
Since he couldn't make any money, Master Feng had no choice but to go to the magistrate's office to make trouble. He could only hold his nose and endure it. But if this matter caused trouble, he would not be able to wipe Shangguan's butt.
I didn’t get a penny, let alone the Ministry of Revenue or the court, even if the Ministry of Revenue or the court blamed him, even if the three law departments came to Jiangdu to investigate, he, Feng Lu, was innocent and had no fear at all!
In fact, Magistrate Feng also blamed Magistrate Chen Yu.
Although Chen Yu is not old, he has been in the officialdom for no longer than Feng Zhixian. He naturally knows some unspoken rules of the officialdom. If this matter is really that he, Chen Yu, wants to embezzle, then whether it is the mouth from above or the mouth from below
They all have to be blocked, but this time Chen Yu didn't get a penny from it, so it was naturally impossible for him to give the money to Mr. Feng, the magistrate of Feng County.
The Jiangdu County Government Office is in Jiangdu City, and the Jiangdu Prefect Government Office is also in Jiangdu City. Therefore, whatever Mr. Feng can know, the Prefect Government Office soon also knows.
When Magistrate Chen learned about this, he was drinking with Mr. Zhao from the capital in a small red building by the Yudai Lake.
In the past few days since Mr. Zhao arrived in Jiangdu, he has been indulging in Yudai Lake. He looks a little thinner. He has two big dark circles under his eyes, and he has obviously lost both energy and blood.
He sat with Chen Yu and looked at the dancing girls in front of him with a smile on his face: "This Jiangdu girl is really gentle and lovely. If my family hadn't forbidden her, I would have taken two of them back to the capital and made them my concubines.
"
Magistrate Chen chuckled: "It is a blessing for them to be able to enter the young master's house as a concubine."
While the two were drinking, a boy from the prefect's Yamen ran over in a panic. He first whispered a few words in Chen Yu's ear, and then handed a piece of paper in front of Chen Yu.
After hearing a few words from the boy, Magistrate Chen's face already looked bad. When he finished reading the white paper in his hand, his face turned gloomy.
“There are tigers and wolves everywhere in Jiangdu!”
Every word is heartbreaking!
Mr. Zhao on the side also noticed something was wrong with Chen Yu. He put down his wine glass and asked with a smile: "Master Chen, what happened?"
Chen Yu put down the white paper, his face a little distorted.