Ridiculous to the end!

How ridiculous?

Extortion of money and food is a matter of course. It is also very common to coerce the gentry to offer silver.

Evil youths and evil slaves run rampant on the streets, robbing people's daughters...... It's not just ridiculous!

It's just outrageous!

But no matter how outrageous it is, for the gentry of Yangzhou City, especially for the eight general merchants of the Salt Merchants Association, what the prince has done in the past few days is simply "losing his conscience"!

500,000 taels!

Each family has to pay 500,000 taels of silver!

That day, the big guy was enthusiastic about the banquet of the prince, and he didn't even remember the reality that he could be imprisoned in the high wall of the capital at any time, and he was complimented in every way during the banquet.

When did they put the clan in their eyes, and the so-called clans in their eyes were simply small people who were not worth mentioning, and even the little people were much stronger than these so-called phoenix sons and dragon grandchildren. But even so, not only did they not know about repaying this prince, but they even extorted them a full four million taels of silver!

In the past few days, he has sent people to various houses every day to collect money.

Don't say it's 500,000 taels, even if you take out 100,000 taels, it's tantamount to cutting their hearts! But that bastard thing doesn't care about them at all.

Who can bear it, who can't bear it! Even if they couldn't bear it anymore, they could only grit their teeth and endure it, after all, this master had a knife in his hand.

The handle of the knife is not hard or tight, but the blade can definitely see the head. So be careful no matter what.

Again, early in the morning, as soon as the Qiu family's salt number opened the door, several officers and soldiers came, and the leader was still Bao Zengxi, as soon as he entered the door, he smiled at the shopkeeper.

"Oh, shopkeeper Cui, is the silver ready?"

"Scribe Bao, unfortunately, our lord crossed the river to Nanjing, this is not a mansion, so much silver at once, without the consent of the master, it really can't be spent!"

Cui Jiudao's words were also extremely unkind, and his face was full of anger. For so many years, not to mention such a small person, even for the county magistrate. Uncle also wants to erase the two words of his master.

After all, it is said that 1,000 to 10,000 years and months, whose hand has the silver? Who's the master? But I ran into such a group of Qiu Ba who didn't play cards according to common sense.

"It's okay, then I'll wait in the number, shopkeeper Cui, this is not the way to do business, why don't you serve tea? Why don't I let the brothers go to the back and do it themselves? ”

As soon as Cui Jiudao saw that this person was here again, he immediately said in an unkind tone.

"Baoshu History, don't deceive people too much, why do you have to work so hard, if you force out a popular uprising, you, can you bear the responsibility?"

When Cui Jiudao's words fell, the guys in the shop made a noise.

"That's it, that's it, if you bully people like this, don't think that you are officers and soldiers, and you can be unreasonable!"

"Even if you sue the court to fight the royal court, being unreasonable like you is rare in this world."

As men, they naturally knew the meaning of the shopkeeper's words, that is, to let them go along with the people, so that these people could be jealous.

"Smack!"

Without waiting for the guy to agitate Yanding, Bao Zengxi slapped the knife on the table and said sharply.

"Good! The surname Cui, if you have the ability, you will show the uncle what is the people's rebellion, the brothers' knives have not seen blood for so many days, and they have long been thirsty and panicked, and the people have changed, just right, when the time comes, the prince will just lead the troops to quell the rebellious people, and hang your heads on the city wall one by one, when the time comes, look at who the hell still dares to say a word! ”

In an instant, the guys who were still clamoring just now all became dumb, and even Cui Jiudao was dumbfounded, when they dealt with the government in the past, as long as the civil uprising was mentioned, the government immediately softened, but these Qiu Ba in front of him ...... There is no reason!

"Hmph, shopkeeper Cui, don't say that I embarrass you, the prince has ordered, give you half a month to raise money, if you can't get the silver after half a month, when the time comes, the prince will come to the door in person to get it, and then it will not be as simple as taking the silver!"

When he got up to leave, Bao Zengxi said again.

"Also, the prince of the world commanded, from now on every day to send 500 stones of grain to help the refugees, if the food is cut off, the refugees will change, and whose garden will be burned, the prince will not be able to help!"

Threat!

It's definitely a threat, having done so much business, Cui Jiudao has never seen such a clan.

Refugees outside the city...... Obviously, they were all recruited by that De Shizi, why let the big guy feed them with food!

But Cui Jiudao didn't dare to say this.

He can threaten the government with a popular uprising, and of course the prince can also threaten him with a popular uprising, of course, the refugees will not rush into the yamen, but the refugees will set fires, and they will set fire to the gardens outside the city!

"God, hurry up and send that prince to the high wall of the middle capital......"

Of course, Cui Jiudao and they just thought about it in their hearts, after all, everyone knows that this prince wants silver at most, but Dongyu will definitely die if he comes!

"You Qiu Ba will make you proud for a few days, and when that master is gone, see who will support you......"

Cui Jiudao, who was thinking so in his heart, didn't know at all, in fact, as early as two days ago, the officers and soldiers in the barracks outside the city had quietly left Yangzhou by night, and since two days ago, this team of more than 20,000 people has been out day and night, and under the cover of night, they are marching in the direction of Jiangkou.

Of course, the outside world simply doesn't know anything about this. But I don't know anything, it doesn't mean that no one is snooping, in fact, from the first day that De Shizi led the troops, there were also a few people who came to Yangzhou, and these Shanxi people came over, they lived in Qiu's house, and said to the outside world that they defected to Master Qiu's fellow villagers, but in fact, they were the slaves of the Fan family, and they came to Yangzhou to listen to the news.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, more than a dozen families, including the Fan family, have sent their own henchmen to lead the way for the Qing army, and with the help of Jin merchants from all over the country to provide them with intelligence, and to listen to the news for the Qing Dynasty, it can be said that the hard work is high.

Because the barracks were heavily guarded, Zhang Wu dispelled the idea of entering the camp to explore the truth after several attempts, but went directly to the vicinity of the barracks.

On this day, he just came to the Bao Ji Restaurant, and saw that the other party was carrying the wine into the carriage, so he pretended to be curious and asked with a smile.

"Shopkeeper Li, your business here seems to be good!"

"Oh, Brother Zhang, thanks to the prince, there are thirty or forty thousand troops living in this camp, although they are not allowed to go out of the camp, but one person can drink two or two wines, and there will be hundreds of altars that day!"

Relying on the business of the barracks, Shopkeeper Li has made money recently, smiled, and said in a low voice:

"Brother Zhang, you don't know, that prince of the world, listening to the singing of the music class all day long, drinking wine, the wine pool meat forest is just like this, you can get hundreds of pounds a day, I heard, he also asked people to other places to invite the music class to come over, in fact, the prince is listening to music, it is clearly taking the opportunity to beauty pageant, this is not yesterday out of the Zhang family music class people said, there are two girls in their team were left behind, counting, this time, the prince of the world has left more than a dozen prostitutes, hey, people! Why don't you take care of your body so much? ”

The shopkeeper's face, which seemed to be sighing, was full of envy. Obviously, any man will always be envious of this, and those prostitutes don't need to think about it, they must be all beautiful women.

"You said that the skinny horses that people have raised for many years have just fallen into the bed of the prince, but it's really ......"

"That's their blessing, isn't it?!"

Zhang Wu's words made Shopkeeper Li immediately laugh.

"Isn't that the case, it's better to accompany a character like the prince than those bad old men who accompany the association!"

When the laughter that only men understood resounded in front of the restaurant, Daniel Zhang stared thoughtfully at a few big cars driving in the distance......