Butterfly [The Great Austrian Woman Version]

After Jizong came back from the disaster area, disasters from all over the world kept coming. Land, personnel, and houses, Jizong was buried by mountains of documents every day. After some instructions were processed, more flooded in. The financial situation of the feudal lord's mansion began to be stretched. .

On the other hand, Jiu didn't know what Ji Zong was busy with. What he was anxiously waiting for was news from his master.Ji Zong, who was caught in a busy predicament, did not think of asking and explaining the matter. Yu Xuma saw that he was waiting anxiously for a long time, and he kept explaining to Jiu how busy Ji Zong was now.Of course Jiu knew it, but he still couldn't hide his anxiety.On this day, Yu Xumo prepared porridge soup and warm water for Ji Zong again, and wanted to bring them to meet her, when he saw Jiu standing under the tree pacing back and forth, he shouted.

"Long time, come here."

After hearing the words for a long time, he bowed slightly and hurried to Yu Xumo.

"Jiu, could you please carry the tray for me?" Yu Xumo raised the tray in his hand as a gesture, and without thinking too much about it, he took it.Yu Xumo smiled and walked in front, "Go with me, and ask about your master by the way." Jiu held the tray in a daze, then looked at Yu Xumo with shining eyes, and the latter nodded to him , smiled gently.Jiu was inconvenient to salute while carrying something, so he lowered his head deeply, and followed Yu Xuma's footsteps, and went.

Jing looked at the backs of the two of them, thoughtfully, Aoi fanned the wind with her hand, and curled her lips secretly behind the mirror.The wild boy who came out of nowhere, thanks to Master Yu Suma who valued him so much and asked Jing to serve him.In fact, Jing has no complaints, serving anyone is not serving, but Aoi has so many ideas and opinions, and because of this, Yu Xumo didn't let Aoi serve for a long time.

Yu Suma entered Ji Zong's courtyard unimpeded. In the meeting hall, the setting sun turned the golden hall into orange, which was very warm.Now is the most leisure time of the day here, and the vassals have to go home to rest. The accumulated things come to an end today, and they have to wait until tomorrow if they have to wait for instructions.Yu Xumo went up to the veranda, but saw that there were still people inside, strangely, he knelt upright outside the sliding door, in a corner that was not easily seen, and waited quietly for the person to finish his report.Jiu also put down the tray and knelt behind Yu Xuma. He straightened his body like Xuma, but knelt down and buried his head, just like the servants serving in the corridor.

Yu Xumo didn't look at it for long, he was attracted by the content of the conversation inside.

"Is this true?" Ji Zong slowly put down the file and asked.

"Yes, similar things happened everywhere in the domain."

"Purchasing after a disaster is normal, and price fluctuations are also human. But, has it reached the point of killing people in the downtown area?"

The person who reported below looked at Ji Zong's face and said, "Yes, there is no food in the market, not to mention rice and noodles, even beans."

Ji Zong squinted his eyes to look at the dazzlingly red sunset outside. Taxes here are heavy, generally "four publics and six peoples". .Farmers grow food, but they are not necessarily willing to eat it.That's why there is a lifestyle like Edo's that buys things for the day every morning.It sounds cool, but it is actually a kind of sadness that there is no tomorrow after today.

"How do you usually do it?" Ji Zong asked the people below, the man's face changed, and Ji Zong was thinking about things, but he didn't notice.

"My lord, it's the feudal lords and feudal lords who opened warehouses to distribute relief food." The man replied with flickering eyes, secretly resenting why he was the one who reported the matter back and forth, and the feudal lords walked faster than one by one, but why did they take this drudgery? gave her.

Ji Zong thought, this is also a normal phenomenon after the disaster, and the relief food is released, but it is a pity that prices cannot be stabilized like the world she lived in before.However, this matter always gave her an indescribable sense of disobedience.It made her unable to make the decision to open the warehouse to release the grain. Disaster relief is like firefighting. If the food problem cannot be solved, the number of dead people will increase.But what is wrong?The corner of Ji Zong's eyes turned to Yu Xumo who was waiting in the corner, and he also saw Jiu behind him, his brows loosened.

He waved his hand and said, "I see, you go down first, and come to hear the reply tomorrow."

"Yes." Seeing that the feudal lord didn't ask any more questions, the man breathed a sigh of relief and hurried out.

Yu Xumo knew that Ji Zong had seen him, and when he saw that person retreated, he waited for a while, and led Jiu into the meeting hall.Ji Zong took a sip of the soup Yu Suma handed over, and asked, "Mei, have you experienced the disasters in the domain in the past?"

Yu Xumo nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Every few years, I will always experience it once, but I'm used to it." Ji Zong finished the soup in a few gulps, handed it back to Xumo, and then asked, "What about your family?" How do you deal with it?"

"It's nothing more than responding to the lord's call to release some food. Sometimes the disaster is serious, and the family will also release some food."

"So, generally there is food in the house?"

Yu Xumo wiped Ji Zong's face with warm water, and said, "Well, generally daimyos and vassals have territories, and they will save some of the rent they collect every year." These days, food is a hard currency, and the place is cheap, and the land occupied by each family is large. Big, it’s okay to store up some food.After Yu Xumo finished speaking, she handed a new handkerchief to Ji Zong, but Ji Zong didn't pick it up, she was in a daze and didn't know what she was thinking.The disaster victims have no food to eat, and the famous vassals all over the country have food in stock, so who is rushing to buy food?Who has the strength to snap up food?

"A Yuan!" Ji Zong called A Yuan habitually, and A Yuan also rushed over after a while, obviously being called, walking in a hurry, with sweat on his face.

"Yes, master."

"Go and find the local chronicles, especially those in the year of disaster!" Ji Zong got up and paced back and forth.Ah Yuan is familiar with the arrangement of her books. On the way here, Ah Yuan also knew that the master asked her to come here because the food was sold out everywhere, and there were murders in the downtown area, all because the poor could not buy food. .She had to hurry to look for information, thinking as she walked, it was time to find a personal servant for the master.Of course she can do these things with ease, but now that she has more internal and external affairs in her hands, she has to train a few useful people for her master.

Yu Xumo knelt on the tatami and watched Ji Zong walking around. Ji Zong couldn't figure out who bought the grain and why. Who benefited from this matter?No one will do things that are not beneficial, and those who benefit are of course the ones who do it.However, if the food is snapped up, the price of the food will only increase. Who will sell the food to those who have received it?The rich have food, how can the poor afford it?No one noticed that after kneeling outside the door for a long time, the kneeling back gradually stiffened, and the hands that were supporting the ground were clenched into fists.

"Jiu, at your age, you should have experienced several disaster years. Tell me about it." When Ji Zong saw Jiu, he wanted to ask, but his mind was messed up, and he couldn't figure it out for a while, and didn't know what to do. what.

Yu Xumo looked back at Jiu, who knelt on the ground for a long time, didn't get up, and didn't answer.Ji Zong stopped, seeing Jiu trembling, he stepped forward strangely, raised his chin with his hand, and raised his face.Gritting his teeth for a long time, trembling slightly, his eyes were shining with anger.Ji Zong felt as if he had been scalded by something, and withdrew his hand.

"Jiu, what's the matter with you?" She asked in surprise, she had seen this young man bury the dead skillfully and numbly, and his attachment to his relatives, but she had never seen his emotion called anger.In her eyes, Jiu is appointed, with a kind of numbness and indifference, as if the emotion of anger is a luxury for this teenager, and it has been removed from his body long ago.Who knows, I saw it at this time.

Jiu actually shook his body and clenched his teeth, unable to speak a word.Yu Xumo also noticed something was wrong with him, stepped forward and patted his back lightly, and softly called "Jiu"

"Master." Ah Yuan also took back the books Ji Zong wanted at this time, she looked at Yu Suma and Jiu, and knelt down in front of Ji Zong.Ji Zong glanced at Yu Xumo, who was comforting Jiu, and gently unfolded the file. Lines of words stating the facts were presented in front of her, without emotion, only telling the facts.

Ji Zong's hand holding the file started to shake, what is it?What are these!It's no wonder that she couldn't understand the joints. How could a person who grew up in the new society understand the cruelty of the slave society.Here, it is not only money, food, but also land and people that measure interests!After each disaster year, the skyrocketing increase is due to the sharp decrease of land servants under personal names, the sharp decrease of farmers, and the increase of filth.Those who hoard food, what they exchange for these food is not equivalent money, but slaves and land!

Thinking about the vassals who left early today, and thinking about the reluctance of the person who reported back just now, these things are strung together, Ji Zong smiled angrily.It seems that she is really naive, what is hereditary system, her mother's is hers, before she has accumulated her own strength, these so-called hers are still taking benefits from her.Didn't the feudal lords of all dynasties know about the petty tricks under her nose?not necessarily!But what can they do?This is the money and food of the feudal vassal daimyo, and only they have the final say on how to manage it.Feudal lords can be forced to expropriate, and they can open warehouses to release grain. However, the long-distance water cannot quench the near-thirst, and there will still be farmers who sell their land and children, or even themselves, in exchange for living grain in order to survive.This kind of direct usury really opened Ji Zong's eyes.

"Those who have land sell land, and those who don't have land sell people, this, this is true." Ji Zong suddenly looked at Jiu, what about Huiduo?In the disaster year, how to survive, they have nothing.No, Ji Zong looked at the body that had been raised by Xiao Chuan Sheng Chuan for a long time, and suddenly thought sadly that they still had their own bodies.Although he was dismissed as lowly by those people, he was a real man, a rare man in this era.

Ji Zong closed his eyes, what can she do, what should she do, go with the flow, rise up to resist, fight for, fight for what?To overthrow slavery?Why, there is no one who can control it.She could imagine that after she ordered the opening of warehouses to release grain, the vassals performed their duties and "donated generously" one after another, but their "loyalty" to the lord was worthy of praise!What about her?What was left was the empty feudal lord's mansion, the whereabouts of real power, and even the sneer of the snoopers.

She is not such an unrealistic person, and she does everything one by one. The things she can do now, first of all, is how to fill the market with food, and stabilize the price so that people who really need food can buy food , There is no need to sell land and children to buy high-priced food.Ji Zong closed his eyes, let the anger rise to the top of his head, and then fell down, slowly regaining calm, and a clear vein gradually formed.

"Yuan, who is the biggest businessman in the clan?" Yuan has been in control of Ji Yi Fan's intelligence organization for a while, she seems to be born to do this job, she is like a fish in water, now asked by Ji Zong, she was stunned, road

"Businessmen are all small traders, and there are no large-scale ones. Moreover, all feudal clans prohibit trade." She had a tacit understanding with Ji Zong, knowing that what she was asking now must not be small vendors in the market, but besides small vendors, who else What kind of businessman?A royal businessman like a general?There may be places like Edo and Heian-kyo, but in Kii Fan, there really are!However, she secretly glanced at Suma Kazuku.

Ji Zong kept staring at A Yuan, so he naturally saw the look in her eyes, "Tell me!" If there is really a big businessman she mentioned, why hide it, who doesn't know?A Yuan glanced at Ji Zong, and asked with his eyes, are you sure.In fact, Ji Zong was really wrong. Some people really didn't know, or it was inconvenient to say, she thought it was the era of free trade.

Seeing Ji Zong's reaction, Ah Yuan knew that the master must have made a common-sense mistake.However, she glanced at Master Suma, and then for a long time, after thinking about it, there was nothing wrong with it.She said softly, "Please ask the master to retreat." As for Ji Zongqing's ignorance of Yu Suma and Jiu, it is beyond her ability to interfere.

Ji Zong's pupils shrank, and he said, "Everyone back down!" Waiting quietly in the corridor, the servants in the corridor all retreated slowly.Ji Zong said with a wry smile, she was really born in sorrow and died in peace, she has only been safe for a few days, and she has already forgotten about it.It is necessary to retreat left and right to discuss matters, and then think about the performance of those vassals today, but it is also true.

"Let's go with Jiu too." Yu Xumo looked, and Jiu had stopped trembling.Ji Zong looked at Yu Xumo's embarrassed expression. Yu Xumo was born here and grew up here. He didn't think there was anything wrong with some of the practices of this era. However, looking at Ji Zong's expression, it seemed that some of the facts he thought were wrong. appropriate.At this time, Ji Zong looked far away from him, making him feel cold all over.Ji Zong knew that all of this was not Yu Suma's fault. He was born in a privileged class and enjoyed a life that he enjoyed as a matter of course. What's more, she herself was also standing on the commanding heights of interests, so there was no morality.

"Mei, take Jiu back first."

Yu Xumo froze when he heard Ji Zong's words, his question was meant to be probing, and when he heard Ji Zong's answer, he smiled wryly, "Yes." After kneeling down, he went to Lajiu.A Yuan looked at the nose and smelled the mouth, without squinting, knelt down slightly, as a salute to Suma.In a daze, Jiu asked Yu Xumo to pull him up and took two steps. Suddenly, he broke free from Yu Xumo's hand, and knelt down in front of Ji Zong with a puff.

"My lord, natural disasters are not terrible, what is terrible are people. Natural disasters can only kill and hurt people, but people can eat people! Please!" I don't know what I am asking for for a long time. After talking about it, He was also taken aback, so he had to plop and kowtow with a muffled sound.He always knew how his father raised him, but he didn't feel ashamed, only sad, he didn't resent his fate, he didn't know how to survive if resentment arose in his heart.However, when he was beside Xiao Chuan Sheng Chuan, the more he knew and the more he learned, the things called resentment and anger were like rooted vines, entwining his heart and biting his flesh and blood.

He didn't know if the person in front of him understood, if he could help him, and he didn't even know what he was asking for, but he just believed in her, in this silent, helpless self, who buried the dead, This girl who is about my age.She seems to always be out of this real world, but she is kind, and she is not numb, yes, she has a kind of indifference to the rules of this world.A normal person, who would help a dirty man bury his body early in the morning?

"I see." Ji Zong stood up for a long time, looked into his eyes, and nodded slightly.Yu Suma was puzzled and retreated for a long time, Ji Zong took a deep breath and asked, "Now we can talk."

Ah Yuan straightened up, smiled, and said, "I don't know what the master wants to do, but the subordinates feel that the master will definitely get what he wants."

"Hmph, when did you start flattering?" Ji Zong rubbed his thumb and index finger back and forth, going through the things to do in his mind.Indeed, the businessman she mentioned was very important, and Yuan's words made her a little confused.

"Master, the biggest businessman in Ji Yi Fan is a black market businessman." A Yuan's voice was gentle, but her words were sharp.

At this point, Ji Zong thought of it. A businessman who seeks profit naturally does what he wants to do. In her era, selling arms, people, and even drugs was highly profitable.Here, she has no doubt that there are many people who smuggle salt and grain. "Okay, don't be fooled, I need the information of the largest black market dealer, and see if there is anything I can use. I will meet someone tonight!" , is the truth.

A Yuan smiled, and said, "That's why the subordinates say that the master must have his wishes come true." Ji Zong stared at her suspiciously, with a bit of sternness in his eyes, and A Yuan knew that this is not the time to be talkative, and said sternly, " Reporting back to my master, the biggest black market merchant in the Ji Yi Fan is the 'Ju Shi Clan' who sells medicinal materials." Later, after Ji Zong got to know the Ju Shi Clan in depth, he realized that what A Yuan said was easy, but it was not limited to the Ji Yi Fan. Selling medicinal materials is simply the underworld of this era, the underground empire.

"Jushi Clan?!" Ji Zong frowned and said, "Wouldn't it be the 'Jushi Clan' I thought of?"

Ah Yuantian smiled and nodded, "It is the 'Jushi Clan' you are thinking of, that is, 'Jushi', the relative of your father 'Jushi Liqing'!"