060 Burning granaries
[Chapter Word Count:3104Last Updated:2014-10-0908:24:40.0]
Huang Juren, that is the real big landlord with a thousand hectares of cards on the ground of Tanggu, there are four or five Zhuangzi's land all his, and at the peak, more than 2,000 tenants farmed for him. Not only that, but in Tanggu Street, **Ren even owns the entire street of shops, and there are many warehouses outside the city.
In Tanggu, an open port city full of foreign merchants, there are many richer people than Huang Juren, but these foreign merchants who take sea boats, as well as local merchants from all over the world in the Qing Dynasty, all belong to the God of Wealth passing by, although they have a lot of money, they are unwilling to provoke a local snake like Huang Juren.
Don't say anything else, just take this dung splashing incident, no matter how Chinese businessmen are very taboo, everyone is here to ask for money when they go out, there is really no need to provoke this group of local snakes with no lower limit.
It is precisely because of this psychology that Huang Juren is mixed in Tanggu, whether it is black and white or official and business, he goes very smoothly, and generally has a little business, everyone looks at the face of the head snake and takes care of him, and gradually he doesn't know where the north is.
The frog at the bottom of the well never knows how big the outside world is, otherwise he wouldn't be stupid enough to let the people in the capital rush up in a flash, and it is a poisonous plan with no way out. Dare to set fire in front of Xiao Letian? He didn't know that this two devils even dared to burn Yongzhengye's grave.
When the flames of the granary at the head of the village jumped into the air, it was just after midnight when the foreigner clock was more than two o'clock, at this time, everyone was sleeping sweetly, and even the dogs in the courtyard of Huang Juren's mansion were sleeping with their tongues sticking out, and they were quietly not angry at all.
Suddenly, the watchdogs of the entire village jumped up and barked at the same time, as if they had seen a ghost at the same time, and the whole Zhuangzi was in chaos in an instant.
"What's the matter? There's a thief...... This is Huang Ye's Zhuangzi, who would dare to make a little thief? and so on...... What is this sound that you hear...... It's broken, it's on fire......"
The night sky was not whirring in the natural wind, but a whirlwind swept up by the flames, and the granary at the head of the village stored 50,000 koku of grain, rice, wheat, sorghum, and corn...... It was all new grain from years ago, and it cost 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver to say the least of this grain.
Huang Juren was woken up by the sound of dogs barking and gongs in the village, this guy slept really well, and half of the sky in the south was red, and he was still snoring.
"What's going on? Where is the water...... This group of untouchables, they still play with fire at night, and there is nowhere to waste the money?wait......" At this time, Huang Juren's heart suddenly welled up with a bad premonition, and when he put on his clothes and pushed open the window, he found that the direction of the fire was his family's granary.
"Oh I cāo...... Could it be that my family's granary is running out of water? The housekeeper ...... "In a panic, Huang Juren, who didn't even wear shoes, stumbled towards the direction of the fire with a group of family members.
As soon as he walked out of the entrance of the village, a huge fire like the Taishang Laojun gossip furnace was presented in front of everyone, and the people pushed by the rushing heat wave couldn't get close at all. Before he could speak, an old woman fatter than a pig suddenly jumped out behind him, sitting on the ground and crying.
"I can't live, my food, my money......" It was Huang Juren's wife who cried, a famous evil woman in Tanggu City.
Huang Juren's heart was about to break now, he gritted his teeth and said, "What's going on, how did ......you get it?" and as he was talking, suddenly someone ran around the fire in front of him, and the steaming heat scorched him with sweat.
"Huang Ye, come to the Huai Forest, Xiao Braid's subordinates are all tied up in the woods, and their hands and feet are all broken......" The hairs on Huang Juren's back stood up, and he suddenly thought of an incredible possibility. When he navigated the fire and found the seven ruffians who were being bound, he realized that he had provoked a real raptor.
"Okay, it's not that the raptor doesn't pass the river, this is going to step on my head?" There are more than 300 Tanggu trading houses, and none of them dare to ride on my head......" Just as he shouted, the family next to him tugged at his sleeve and reached out to the depths of the woods and pointed, "Huang Ye, what did you look at at that time......
When he looked at it, he almost scared him to pee, only to see that there were seventy or eighty black shadows in the locust forest, covering his face with black veils, and the bright steel knife in his hand reflected the firelight. These people's cold eyes stared at ** Ren deadly, and a murderous aura came to their faces.
Huang Ye took three steps back in fright, and only then did he take a breath of relief until he hid behind the family Ding Qun. Now the two groups are so deadlocked with each other, don't look at the number of people around him, but they are all ordinary bankers and family members, and more than two hundred people actually let the momentum of dozens of people be suppressed.
Time passed minute by minute, neither of them spoke, no one acted, until the villagers were distressed about the food and began to prepare wooden barrels to splash water, Xiao Letian's subordinates in the woods finally moved. Just a few bowstrings were heard, and the wooden barrels in the hands of the villagers who were fighting the fire were shot through.
"Oh maa......" The timid villagers hurriedly threw away the wooden barrel and ran straight back in fright, while the surrounding villagers did not dare to act rashly, and they did not dare to splash water into the fire with water in their hands.
This is a threat, a very serious danger, Xiao Letian is going to use this domineering behavior to suppress the arrogance of these land snakes, he wants to watch this fire burn all the food.
"Fight the fire! Why don't you dead people put out the fire...... Our Huang family has raised you, you group of ...... who lack great virtue" The fat woman rolled on the ground like a splash, forcing the villagers and villagers to hurry to put out the fire, but no one listened to her.
After a while, the fire was three points stronger than just now, and at this time, Xiao Letian estimated that the fire could not be saved, and the fire had become a momentum, and it was no longer possible to stop it by manpower. Under his command, the army in the locust grove finally retreated.
It wasn't until this time that Huang Juren's soul was considered to be in place, he looked at the fire in distress and scolded angrily, "What are you looking at stupidly? Don't do it yet, you can grab as much as you want...... But at this time, there was nothing that could be done, and the basins of water splashed in the air had been dried by the flames, which showed the power of this fire.
The fire lasted until noon the next day, and there was nothing left in the granary, leaving only a large cloud of black smoke and ashes on the ground. At this time, the pigtail Sun was also frightened, and beside him were those subordinates whose hands and feet had been broken, and they were half-dead to report the situation to him.
"We're miserable...... Two masters, we are so miserable, we were surrounded by them before we could do anything, this group of people is really vicious, sticks, leather whips and even burn us with red-hot charcoal......"
"Woooooooooo......oo Whoever had a life in his hands was thrown into the granary and burned alive...... Even we were broken hand and foot...... You've got to avenge us......
Pigtails waved their hands to carry them down, and all that was left in his eyes was fear. Six of his men were burned to death, seven of them had their hands and feet broken, this was a declaration of war, and if he did not fight back, there would be no rice bowl for the pigtailed grandson on the ground in Tanggu, and all the brothers would leave him.
But do you really want revenge? Just rush at the enemy's fierceness, and there is also a bow and crossbow, which already shows that this is not an ordinary gangster, this must be a bandit level, if this is done, even if you win, you will have to die young and old!
"Huang Ye, what can you do? This is completely disrespectful to us, a few outsiders actually fought without declaring it! The people on the road are not so unsophisticated......" The pigtails of the little pigtail grandson were all cocked, and he said with righteous indignation, as if he had declared war on Xiao Letianxia.
Huang Ju's popularity trembled all morning, heartache, money, wife scolding, and fear of those people in black made Huang Juren, who has always been known for his calmness, lose his temper.
"Revenge, of course, I want to take revenge, but today this matter is no longer something you and I can settle with, I went to visit Zhou Xietai and Ma Tongzhi, even if it is a big bloodletting today, Lao Tzu sent troops to suppress this group of bandits......"
Huang Juren slapped the table viciously, "You go, gather all these dead and injured family members for me, and wait for the day when their foreign store opens tomorrow, you will give me a big funeral, I have to disgust him to death...... Also, you give me a notice from village to village, and encourage the people to encourage me, and say that the two devils who are going to get the special industrial zone are coming, and let everyone go and besiege him......"
Little Braid's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he remembered the popular uprising more than two months ago, when six or seven hundred people surrounded Qincha's residence and couldn't get through.
"Okay, no problem, but ...... Is the reduction of money and food still in the same proportion as last time?" asked the pigtailed grandson cautiously.
"No, this time it's a little more atmospheric, as long as you contribute, each family will reduce the rent of three buckets after the autumn......" Huang Juren said that his heart was dripping blood, and he promised to reduce the rent of one bucket per family last time the people met, and this time he reduced three buckets, and it is estimated that this year will not be good.
However, in order to eliminate Xiao Lotian and complete the task of the big man in the capital, he also fought hard, because the big man in the capital is the biggest backstage behind him. In the Qing Dynasty, if there was no backstage, the more wealth you had, the sooner bad luck would come.
When Huang Ye walked out of the house with his entourage, behind him was a loud smashing voice: "You bastard who lacks great virtue, the old lady is playing with you...... Why did you take away 20,000 taels of silver? It's not enough to burn so much food, you still have to use the family's money to give it away, and I won't live ......anymore."
"You ruined old lady, my lord and I do big things, how can I take revenge without spending money? Spend 20,000 taels today, and I can earn you back 100,000 yuan tomorrow, it's really ......."
Huang Juren thought very well, 20,000 silver is half of Lord Tongzhi and Lord Xietai, and the two major members of Tanggu Civil and Military will definitely make a move, and Xiao Letian will wait for death at that time.
"You just wait, I'll let you close the door on the opening day, I'll let you eat a lawsuit, and if you don't die, you will be picked up a layer of skin......"