What can a riot bring to a city?

Confusion, fear, pain and even despair will be vividly displayed.

But, not really.

"Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. "The polarization of human society has been like an eternal curse over mankind since the day of the emergence of private ownership, and all those who try to challenge his authority are crushed by it, and perhaps in the short term such people will be called heroes or even great men, but the strong inertia of this spell will never allow such people to survive for long.

Some people say that it is human nature, and as Sizhe said, greed is the original sin.

In today's Datang, there are naturally very few people who have heard this sentence! But another similar sentence is familiar to the businessmen of Yangzhou City.

The judgment of interests has become the criterion for many people to behave in the world, and they are very ruthless! They are very indifferent! Therefore, they will naturally be criticized by people, so business is relegated to the bottom line, so the gentleman is ashamed of his words. Just because not everyone can be rich, but few people will say that they are immoral.

So, in today's Yangzhou City, although there are still many peeping eyes on the street, but those businessmen with a solid family background still have not stopped their footsteps of profit-seeking, with yesterday's painful experience, these people will not travel alone today, the streets of Yangzhou City can be seen everywhere heavily armed family members surrounded by one or several sturdy carriages, the destination of the carriage is naturally still those teeth in the city.

Yesterday, Qian Xiaojing gave up Tong Yu, so today, the soldiers who patrolled the streets were not very active. On the other hand, the troublemakers who clearly felt this change were naturally a little happy, and even a little excited, which was a desire to try again after releasing the malignancy in people's hearts.

It's just that for those heavily armed merchants, these people have no choice but to vent this viciousness on those who are weaker than them.

At this point, Qian Xiaojing's expectations have been met, and the chaos in Yangzhou City has escalated again!

It's just that none of this has anything to do with the merchants, at least that's what they think.

On the wide central street, a magnificent carriage is surrounded by dozens of powerful and stubborn knights.

There were not soldiers or officials sitting in the carriage, but a few merchants, and the reason why these lowly merchants were able to enjoy the carriage drawn by four tall horses, and gathered so many samurai, who at first glance looked very extraordinary, served them was simple, they were rich!

The merchants in the carriage do not belong to the family forces of Yangzhou City or the Haigang forces, they are just merchants, pure merchants!

There are not many such businessmen in today's Datang, but they are not absent.

"Alas, Brother Li, Brother Liu's family was destroyed by the chaos yesterday, and today I think I should complain in the yamen!" a man who looked to be in his fifties with slightly white sideburns sighed at a middle-aged man at the top.

"Oh, no wonder he is today and in the future!" The middle-aged life is very great, kneeling there, the upper body is as straight as a green pine, the sword eyebrows are starry, there is not a silver thread mixed in the hair, the eyes are calm, the pupils are deep, and the look is very extraordinary.

"Don't mention it! Brother Liu's family didn't mention how miserable it was yesterday! These people are like locusts crossing the border, and they won't even let go of the fruit on the tree!" A lean man in a green shirt on the other side of the middle-aged man also sighed.

"But fortunately, the land in Brother Liu's hands is worth a lot of money now! The man with pale sideburns said.

"Yes! Fortunately, Brother Liu and his wife and only son were safe yesterday, which is good!" the man in the green shirt sighed again.

"It's good that people are okay!" said the middle-aged man who got started seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

After a while, the carriage drove to the door of the tooth shop, and by the time it arrived, there were quite a few carriages parked at the door.

As soon as the three of them got out of the car, they were greeted by a courteous man, who opened the door of the tooth shop, and the three of them entered, and then the door closed again.

One door, two worlds.

After entering the tooth shop, the three of them were led by the men to a special private room on the second floor, and there was a window on one side of the private room, and when they opened the window, they could see the noisy crowd in the hall.

"Acquire land! Acquire land! As long as it is the land of eight squares in the center of the city, one acre of land is 150,000 yuan!"

"I want to buy land for 150,000 yuan, go aside! I will sell 170,000 mu, do you have anything to sell?

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"It seems that today's land price has risen a lot compared to yesterday!" the middle-aged man looked out the window and said softly.

"Yes! Look at this situation now, I am afraid that it will not be long before the land price in the center of the city will exceed 200,000 yuan per mu! This is a high price that has never been seen since the founding of the Tang Dynasty!" sighed the man with slightly white sideburns.

"I'm afraid there hasn't been such a price since the city of Yangzhou was built!" said the man in the green shirt.

After hearing this, the extraordinary middle-aged man still calmly looked at the chaotic crowd in the hall downstairs, and after a long time, he shook his head slightly and said, "It's not a good thing! At least for most of the people downstairs, it's not a good thing!"

"Hehe, that can't be helped! Who made these people willing!" the man with pale sideburns chuckled.

The middle-aged man just shook his head when he heard this, and didn't say anything.

At this time, some people appeared in the hall of the tooth shop, of course, these people have been waiting for a long time, and they have not attracted attention, until this moment they quietly got up, and slowly walked to the people who shouted the highest purchase price just now, just whispered a few words to them, and the few people who bought them were round-eyed, and nodded again and again with excitement on their faces, and then these people separated from the crowd and walked to the counter or a separate private room.

The whole process was very fast, it lasted less than a few breaths, and if it were not for a very keen observer, it would not be possible to discover what these people were doing, and at this moment, the vast majority of people in the tooth shop were all focused on the sale of land, so they naturally could not notice this slight change.

However, the middle-aged man on the second floor is an exception, because his mind is indeed not on the ground.

"The price of land can't go up!" the middle-aged man didn't say much, but the few people in the room sounded like a shock.

"Huh?" the man in the green shirt was the youngest, and he didn't hold his breath for a while, and shouted out in surprise.

The middle-aged man didn't seem to hear, his eyes searched the crowd downstairs quickly, and after a while, he spat out a sentence: "It's strange! How can there be several groups of people?"

The two men behind the middle-aged man glanced at each other and looked at each other suspiciously, but they did not interrupt the middle-aged man's contemplation.

A quarter of an hour later, three people left the hall on the first floor one after another, and the interval was neither short nor long, and the door of the tooth shop only opened a thin slit for entry and exit, such a slight movement naturally did not alarm many people.

However, the middle-aged man still found out: "These three teenagers are quite interesting!"

"Boy?" this time it was the man with pale sideburns who asked the question, and since just now he had been following the middle-aged man's gaze and searching, and naturally he also noticed the three people who left one after another.

It's just that these three people look to be in their forties, how can they be teenagers?

The middle-aged man did not remain silent this time, but waved his hand, and a personal guard behind him walked over and leaned over respectfully to listen.

"Go, follow the three boys, they should be together, find their lodgings, and see who they are. The middle-aged man said.

"Yes!" the guard replied.

Immediately, an expression appeared on the middle-aged man's face, as if he had discovered something very interesting, and a smile crept up on the corner of his mouth and said to the two behind him: "These three people look like middle-aged people in terms of their movements and language, but it can only be said that they imitate very well, but they are not in place, full of ingenuity, not sleek and flexible, but like puppets." But it's good to be able to learn this at a young age!"

"Then how did Brother Li find out about their age?" asked the man with slightly white sideburns curiously.

The middle-aged man smiled a little embarrassedly when he heard this, and said, "Neckline! Just now, when one of them occasionally passed directly under guò, I found that the skin in his neckline was very different from the skin on his neck, so I think he must have applied some disfigure-changing medicine on his face!"

"Haha, Brother Li hasn't forgotten his skills when he was young!" the man with slightly white sideburns laughed teasingly.

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"Huh, it seems that no one is really buying it at a higher price!" The man in the green shirt did not pay attention to the conversation between the two, but kept paying attention to the movement downstairs.

Although the time that has passed just now is only a cup of tea, but in this short period of time, there is indeed no sound of quotation again, but the people downstairs are still busy, and it is obvious that the eagerness and anxiety on the faces of most people are quickly replaced by excitement.

"Someone is selling! And there are quite a few of them!" the middle-aged man said flatly.

"Huh, how much land does this man have?" The man in the green shirt was even more surprised this time, his arithmetic was very good, although it was only a rough estimate, but he could also get a rough figure: "These people downstairs have almost known each other these days, except for the new ones, how many people have the rest of the people's family resources, I also have a number in my heart, although it is only a tea time, but if you want to meet the requirements of so many people at the same time, you need at least more than 1,500 acres of land." ”

"More than one group!" said the middle-aged man again flatly.

"No wonder!" said the man in the green shirt suddenly.

"What are they going to do? Just about to stop? It's not like the style of these people!" asked the man with pale sideburns, puzzled.

The middle-aged man naturally knew who the other party was referring to by these people.

"No! not from Yangzhou!" said the middle-aged man with great certainty.

"Could it be the people of the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames?" the man in the green shirt asked.

"Probably not! The purpose of the people of the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames coming to Yangzhou is to completely control the southeast maritime merchants, thinking of taking a piece of the maritime trade, and it is a good thing for them that the people's grievances are boiling, and they will not stop so early," the middle-aged man vetoed again.

"Who else would there be?" asked the man with pale sideburns.

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment, put his hands on the window edge, looked downstairs with deep eyes, and said: "It is not difficult to know this, this time the matter of Yangzhou City came very suddenly, and it was so sudden that I was caught off guard! There must be a pushing hand behind this matter, which should be launched by people from seven sects and five surnames on the bright side, which can also be seen from the big court meeting that day." ”

"It's just that why did the Seven Sects and Five Clans suddenly make trouble, and why did they disregard one thing so much? Are they really just for the maritime trade in the southeast?"

The two people behind the middle-aged man couldn't answer his question, and the man with slightly white sideburns said with a hint of helplessness: "The power of the people over there in the north is not too big, and it is estimated that even if there is a seat in the court, it is impossible to be too high, at most it can enter the Golden Palace during the great court meeting, but it must be a seat by the door, even if such a person sees the great changes in the Golden Palace, it is estimated that he will not be able to see anything." ”

The middle-aged man nodded heavily, and said, "Yes! If it weren't for that, we would have more information to analyze! ”

"But I always feel that Yangzhou City is not the purpose of the Seven Sects and Five Surnames, I'm afraid it's just a mistake to hit the deputy car!" the middle-aged man frowned and continued

"It's just that we know less about the seven sects and five surnames, and I'm afraid it's hard to analyze anything!" said the man in the green shirt.

"Not really! If we take a guess, we might be able to come up with some possibilities. The middle-aged man then said.

"What is possible?" asked the two behind them in unison.

"We all know that the seven clans and five surnames have always been the traditional families in the north, although there are some industries, but the proportion of commerce is far less than agriculture, so to speak, these Central Plains families do not look down on business, and they prefer land more than commerce. The middle-aged man said.

"Yes, these guys are very proud, they always think that they are Zhengshuo, and they advocate farming and reading heirlooms. The man with pale sideburns nodded and said.

"Then why did they make such a big move this time? They did not hesitate to collide with the current saint in front of hundreds of civil and military officials at the court meeting!" The middle-aged man was still shocked every time he thought of this.

"Is it possible to think that there are people within the Seven Sects and Five Clans who are promoting this qiē? Moreover, the status of the Seven Sects and Five Clans is not low, and they have a high right to speak, and at the same time they have a deep understanding of the situation in the south, especially the maritime merchants in the southeast. There aren't many people like this!But I happen to know one!" The middle-aged man appeared in front of him, he must have met in Chang'an more than ten years ago!

"Who?" asked the two behind the middle-aged man in unison.

"Taiyuan Wang's eldest son-in-law, now Yuzhang is too shou Wang Xian!" replied the middle-aged man.

"Wang Xian?" The man with pale sideburns obviously remembered Wang Xian, who had also seen him in Jingshi many years ago.

"Didn't you hear that he had made no achievements in Yuzhang in the past few years? Besides, although he was the eldest son of the Taiyuan Wang family, the head of the Wang family was his younger brother after all!

"The lack of achievements just shows that he has deeply realized the strength of the Yuzhang family, and besides, he has been in Yuzhang for so many years, if he has not been to Wuyue Town, then he is not Wang Xian!" "The middle-aged man is a businessman, and he is also a successful businessman, for Wuyue Town, the source of maritime trade, he has naturally been to many times, and he also has a lot of understanding of Wang Xian:" As for his energy in the Wang family and the seven sects and five surnames, this is probably difficult to say, sometimes even the authority of the head of the family may not necessarily be heavier than the rest, after all, the power of the family is more reflected through the government of the court, and Wang Xian is the biggest person in the Wang family. ”

"Then why did you wait until now to launch, you must know that Wang Xian Ke has been in Yuzhang for many years!" Although the man with pale sideburns faintly felt that the middle-aged man's guess was likely to be the truth, he was still a little puzzled.

The middle-aged man shook his head when he heard this, and said, "How would I know this! ”

"But I think maybe these people in front of me will be able to confirm my guess!" said the middle-aged man with a smile as he looked at the few people in the dental shop who had opened the door again.

The middle-aged man waved his hand again, and another guard went out, just to follow the few people who had just left the tooth shop.

Counting the teenager just now, this is already the second batch!

The middle-aged man and the two behind him are just businessmen, pure businessmen, but they are obviously not ordinary businessmen!

The two groups of people left quietly, and it took about half an hour, maybe only the middle-aged people in the entire dental store just now discovered this abnormality, but apparently as time went by, there were more people who found this abnormality, because it had been a long time since the sound of bidding for land purchases.

On the second floor of the Ya Shop, in another private room, the housekeeper of the Qian Mansion was happily listening to the report of his subordinates at the moment.

Qian Xiaojing asked him to come to the Ya Store today yesterday to raise the purchase price again, he naturally didn't want to come in person for such a big thing, but the rest of the Ya Shops in the city have the shadow of the local family and the Hai Gang behind them, and he is more or less a celebrity in the eyes of these people as the chief housekeeper of the Qian Mansion, and the lord means to let him go quietly, so naturally he will not go to other Ya Xing, so he has to come to this house near the Taishou Yamen.

Fortunately, after so many days, more and more people have noticed that there are local families and sea gangs behind this land battle, so now most of the businessmen will come to this tooth shop if they choose to trade, and it is very close to the Taishou Yamen, and they can go to the Yamen to register after signing the deed, which is very convenient!

"Great steward, just now we have received more than 700 acres of land! And it didn't cost any more money, we just doubled the price to buy so much, and we didn't mention the four times the miles that the chief butler had explained!" said a young man dressed as a subordinate to the money steward excitedly.

Steward Qian was a little pleased to hear the numbers in front of him, but after hearing the price that his subordinates said later, he suddenly got up from the couch, ignored the wound on his buttocks that had been torn open again by violent movements, and grabbed the young man's collar with both hands and asked sharply, "What did you say?"

"Only...... It's just doubled......" The young man replied with a trembling voice and a trembling voice, not knowing why the grand butler was in such an atmosphere.

"How is it possible? how could it be?" Steward Qian let go of his hands after hearing this, and kept muttering in his mouth.

After a while, he suddenly woke up: "Oh no! someone is selling!"

"Hurry up, get ready for the car, I'm going home!"

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Not to mention the busy money steward, the two guards sent out by the middle-aged man earlier are now quietly following their respective goals, and what awaits them will be different but somewhat similar fates......