Nangong Ping had big footprints all over his body. After he got up, he ignored Chu Qing at all. He ran to the back and directed a group of old and red-faced guards to carry the pickle jar from the cellar.
Chu Qing asked Fu San, and after learning about the situation, there was a rare look of shame on his face.
According to Fu San, this Zhou's rice shop is well-known, and everyone in Bei City knows this shop.
If the people knew that the Zhou shop was opened by the Prime Minister's family, they might be suspected of buying a reputation and pretending to be a good person. But in fact, this is not the case. The people have no idea that this shop has anything to do with the Prime Minister. Only the Jingzhao Mansion
I knew it from some of the adults in the court.
Zhou's shop is indeed as Nangong Ping said, it does not sell to "fellows", and even if the "fellows" know the owner, they will not dare to buy it. The shop is located in Beishi, and it only sells to the people of Beishi.
You must know that the arrival of so many refugees and their persistence for such a long time has also indirectly affected the people in Beijing. One is that the price of rice has increased, and the other is that the labor force has increased, which has also caused the wages of people in Beishi to drop a lot.
As early as when the refugees first gathered, Nangong Ping also took the shop assistants to the south of the city to cook some porridge for the refugees. However, this was not a long-term solution and was a drop in the bucket, so all he had to do every day was to stay in the shop.
Now, the price of rice has not gone up, but has gone down, but there is a rule that an ordinary person can only buy three dou.
Nangong Ping, who has been hanging out in Bei City all year round, is not a fool. He can tell at a glance whether the other person is a common person. If someone really wants to take advantage of something, he will be reported or even beaten and scolded by other Bei City people. In short, this good deed is done silently.
Doing it.
After the grain and pickles were moved, Chu Qing looked at Nangong Ping, who was bruised and swollen but happy, and asked the biggest doubt in his heart, where did the Nangong family's food come from?
Nangong Ping gave an answer, and Chu Qing immediately admired the Nangong family and Nangong Xi, the head of the officials of the dynasty, like the endless river.
The Nangong family was similar to the Li family. They knew that the refugees were coming to Beijing in advance than most people, so they collected a large amount of food in advance, even at a high price, then hoarded it, and then sold it at a low price after the refugees gathered.
Chu Qing's face turned red and he saluted Nangong Ping. He did not think that he was confusing right and wrong as he had just said, but that the other party bit him first.
"Shop Manager Nangong, I have wrongly blamed you. I am here to apologize to you, just to make amends. I thought all the grain shops in the capital were making dirty money, so I wanted to seal them all."
"Sir Chu, you actually want to..." Nangong Ping showed a child-like smile: "Sir, please don't blame yourself. You are devoted to the people, students admire you, and you have to pay homage to me."
Nangong Ping put away his smile and gave a big salute.
Chu Qing was a little confused, who was She? Wasn't the other party's name Nangong Ping?
Nangong Ping was obviously a careless person. When he saw that there was not a single hair left in the store, he left with the clerk and the guards, insisting on going to the south of the city to follow him to help.
Chu Qing looked at the "Book of Secretaries" on the dilapidated wooden table, and his impression of scholars changed a little. He was also full of curiosity about this Nangong Ping. His surname was Nangong. He must be a relative of Zaifu. He called Nangong Xi his uncle.
Basically, he is a direct descendant of the Nangong family, but he is willing to be a merchant shopkeeper in a shop in Beishi, and he also does good deeds.
Back on the carriage, Chu Qing had a good memory and asked Fu San to go back to Qianqi Camp and ask a few detective horses to follow him.
In fact, this was quite a mistake. Chu Qing didn't expect that there would be a grain shop like Zhou's in the capital, so he just used the roster to find trouble, thinking that the world was as dark as crows, and if he brought the men and horses of the Thousand Cavalry Battalion, he wouldn't
There has been such a big misunderstanding.
When he arrived at the third grain store, Chu Qing did not dare to act rashly. It was not until Jiang Yuesheng came in person and confirmed that the third grain store was indeed raising the price of grain that he went in to find fault.
Nothing new. I went in and asked to buy grain. When the other party heard that he was the deputy commander of the Qianqi Battalion, he said that he would make a good relationship with his master and that he would take it all for free.
When Chu Qing heard this, he was very happy. Seeing that the other party was so sensible, he didn't smash or seal it. However, Fu San didn't see it until he went to the warehouse behind and saw that there were five bags of rice, and it was still old rice.
This made Chu Qing angry. He grabbed the shopkeeper by the collar and asked, "The good fortune of his deputy commander of Qianqiying is worth five bags of Chen rice, not even a regular amount of money?"
The shopkeeper was so frightened that after being "guided" by Chu Qing, he finally understood and wrote an "IOU" stating that Wang's rice shop owed Qianqiying three thousand dou of rice and noodles.
Back on the carriage, Chu Qing took everyone to the fourth house, and also asked about Zhou's grain store.
When Jiang Yuesheng heard that there was a misunderstanding between the two parties, he couldn't laugh or cry, and slowly told Qianqiying what he knew about the situation.
As the saying goes, there are no saints in the court, not even the Prime Minister.
The Nangong family is a Lingbei family with a heritage of more than 300 years, but it is not considered to be the top family in the country. When the Supreme Emperor was in power, Nangong Xi was the minister of Honglu Temple, and at that time he firmly followed the Supreme Emperor.
After the Supreme Emperor ascended the throne, Nangong Xi became the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. When the Eight Dragons fought for the second time, he fell in love with the fourth prince at a glance, that is, he became the emperor. Then the fourth prince ascended the throne, the court was purged, and the previous prime minister
Fu Wu Shikui went crazy, and Nangong Xi suddenly became the prime minister of the dynasty, the head of hundreds of officials, one person below ten thousand people.
Nangong Xi is a very complicated person. Let’s talk about being an official first. When he was the minister of Honglu Temple, he was a famous hardliner. He once said that wherever the men of the Chang Dynasty look, they will see the land of Chang Dynasty and the soldiers of the Chang Dynasty.
Wherever you go, there is prosperous land.
The general meaning is mine, mine, or mine. Liangrong in the north, Yingdao on the other side of the East China Sea in the east, and Fanman in the south. They will either surrender and surrender, or they will destroy the country. It is also extremely harmful to other countries.
He is tough and does not look like a scholar who pays attention to the golden mean at all.
After becoming the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, he was no longer responsible for the affairs of neighboring countries. While the Supreme Emperor used him to eradicate dissidents, Nangong Xi was also eradicating those with political disagreements.
After the fourth prince ascended the throne, the court underwent a major blood change for the second time, and Nangong Xi was still like this. Those who he didn't like, and those who didn't like him, were transferred out of the capital or had their official robes removed.
In Jiang Yuesheng's words, above the court, Nangong Xi was very evil and did not engage in cliques like other adults, but all the ministers were afraid of him.
Logically speaking, such a person should not be a good official, but in fact, according to what Qianqiying knows, Nangong Xi is very good to the people and very bad to his colleagues. He should be greedy for money, but he is not greedy.
The money of the country is greedy for the money of family members and other officials. We should love the people and handle and account for all political affairs related to people's livelihood.
So to sum up, Nangong Xi has money, but the money is not clean, and he has power. The power is obtained through unfair fighting, and the power has been abused. He excludes dissidents, but he has also done a lot of practical things for the people, and he also spends money and extravagance.
The expenses were high, and the concubine alone had more than twenty houses, but the family members were also allowed to help the people in the name of merchants or in other ways.
"This..." Chu Qing couldn't laugh or cry: "This Lord Prime Minister is quite a weirdo."