In this era of extremely low productivity, ordinary people's homes save money on weekdays and want to spend a penny apart as five cents.

However, when visiting relatives and friends during the Chinese New Year, you can’t go empty-handed, right? In addition, relatives who come to visit New Year at home can’t let others drink the northwest wind, right?

Prepare various supplies for the holiday in advance, and buy New Year's goods from the market and every household is doing it.

I am reluctant to pay for the pork I bought on weekdays. I always have to cut a few taels of pork during the Chinese New Year to serve as a guest? Also, I always have to prepare a few taels of pork that I am reluctant to buy?

New Year’s goods must be prepared every year, but the people in Kaifeng City have discovered an extremely strange phenomenon this year. Originally, the prices of daily necessities that would rise sharply during the holidays, especially the food prices, only increased slightly by a penny before the holidays.

Food is the most important thing for people! There are seven major things to do when opening the door to firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. For ordinary people who have a meager income and are always struggling on the verge of starvation, this is the top priority they care about most.

In the winter, the Bian River has long been frozen. The grain and other materials imported from Hebei, Hedong and Jianghuai areas can only be transported by land.

The frozen rivers are one of the main factors that soar in Kaifeng City in winter. After all, shipping with large carrying capacity and the least manpower and material resources is the most economical and affordable transportation model.

However, this winter, the people in Kaifeng City were surprised to find that the grain shops hung with Xiaoyaojin were open to supply grain.

As long as you can afford the money, you can buy as much as you want to buy in the Xiaoyaojin Grain Store. There is no limit at all.

The grass people in the capital who have always been shrouded in the shadow of hunger are all afraid of hunger. There is almost no news of the price of grain rising. One thing is spreading ten, ten is spreading hundreds of people. The grass people flocked to the gates of nearly a hundred Xiaoyaojin grain shops in the capital, with only one goal: to buy as much grain as possible.

"Mr., the student always finds it strange. Where did this stinky man get so much food?" Yang Jiong, who has been unemployed at home, asked Fan Zhi in confusion.

Fan Zhi held his white beard and sighed, "Since Li Zhongyi entered the city, he has sent village chiefs and tingzhengs to each village and tingzhengs. This pole is inserted to the bottom. How could he not know how much money and food are there in the wealthy families in the village and tingzhengs?"

Yang Jiong still didn't understand and asked, "This is a lot of food in Tongshaozi's hands, is it related to me?"

"Oh, you, don't you hear Li Zhongyi's catchphrase: to defeat the local tyrants and evil gentry and share the land?" Fan Zhi sighed secretly. His most proud disciple Yang Jiong and Yang Boyue were really far behind Li Zhongyi and Li Wujiu, which was as different as a world of difference, and could not be compared.

To be honest, Fan Zhi has always agreed with Li Zhongyi's good at making a fortune, but Li Zhongyi is too arrogant and has never been willing to tame Fan Zhi's seat, which requires deliberate crafting.

However, the facts of the world are unpredictable. Fan Zhi never dreamed that the more than 200,000 elite imperial guards led by Han Tong could not withstand the fierce attack of the Li family army for more than an hour. In the blink of an eye, the army was defeated and the country changed hands from then on.

Fan Zhi, who used to be the prime minister of the Political Affairs Hall who monopolized the power of the court, has now become a companion to raise flowers, grass, fish, and play with birds all day long.

Fan Zhi lost his power, and Yang Jiong, who originally had the pragmatic power in the political affairs hall, also followed suit. In just a few months, success or failure changed, and the situation changed a lot, which is really sad and emotional.

"Boyou, there are a lot fewer large landlords near Gyeonggi." Although Fan Zhi disagreed with Li Zhongyi's preference for raiding his home, he had to admire Li Zhongyi's amazing courage to take action against wealthy families.

An official cannot offend a powerful and powerful family, he cannot punish a doctor, and a prince does not commit the same crime as the common people. This is a hidden rule in the power circle that has been passed down for thousands of years. Even when Fan Zhi monopolizes the government, he dare not step over the line.

However, after Li Zhongyi came to power, he slashed at the local tyrants and evil gentry who usually took the fishing village. According to incomplete statistics, the money obtained from the house search alone was enough to meet the three-year salary of officials across the country.

As for the food obtained from the house search, even if it is described as a pile of mountains, it is just a glimpse of the leopard.

If you just clean up the local tyrants and evil gentry in the countryside, Fan Zhi would never admire Li Zhongyi's courage. What's even more terrifying is that Li Zhongyi actually dared to attack Taoist temples and temples near Kaifeng City.

Since Taizu, this dynasty has always been respecting Taoism and has developed to this day, and has been monarchs for three generations. As far as Fan Zhi knows, there are nearly a thousand Taoist temples of all sizes and hundreds of temples within a radius of two hundred miles of Kaifeng City.

Fan Zhi vaguely knew the land under the name of Taoist temple and the grain reserves accumulated over the years, but it was probably more than several times more abundant than the treasury granary of the imperial court.

As a result, Li Zhongyi did not care about the strong backlash from the Buddhist believers, and blatantly sent troops to seize the land and grain of more than 2,000 Taoist temples and temples.

Just this, Li Zhongyi also awarded the Nine Gate Admiral Li Yunxiao, driving out tens of thousands of Taoist priests and monks who were not in labor out of the mountain gate and forced them to return to secular life.

The so-called "not being in charge of the family" does not know the difficulties. As a former prime minister who lacks money every day, Fan Zhi, who once dominated the major policies of the world, puts aside his political stance and expresses his sincere recognition of Li Zhongyi's various measures to drive Buddha to the Buddha's way.

The reason is actually very simple. Buddhist temples and Taoist temples have always been privileged classes that do not require taxes and food.

It is precisely because of this that many wealthy families have named their land in the name of temples, with the purpose of escaping the court's affairs.

At that time, as the prime minister, Fan Zhi had to consider the salary for the next month, the rations for the garrison, and the rewards of the court officials every day as soon as he opened his eyes. After all, he had to consider the words of money and food.

However, Taoist temples and temples are not engaged in production. For every extra share of land, the court will lose two share of land tax revenue. The two are typical of a completely opposite pattern of interest.

Fan Zhi is a member of the traditional scholar-official class. His inherent educational experience and the reality of protecting the interests of scholar-officials all determine his ruling concept: the imperial power can only share the world with scholar-officials, and the scholar-official class is naturally superior to others!

However, Li Zhongyi was born in a middle-level bureaucratic family. In his dictionary, there was no rules and regulations that were superior to any class.

Therefore, in line with the scolding of Shilin and ignoring the strong backlash from people from both Taoism and Buddhism, Li Zhongyi unscrupulously searched the land of Taoism and temples.

Of course, during the search, although some local interests were damaged, they incited ordinary people to cause trouble, and even caused dozens of lives.

However, Li Zhongyi's attitude was extremely firm. He not only sent troops to suppress him strongly, but also searched the instigator's homes with clues.

No matter what, Fan Zhi has to admire Li Zhongyi's courage to do big things!
Chapter completed!