In fact, this time, the gentry who had reprimanded the guards were in a hurry again.

These people have silver, grain, and land in Ningbo.

Seeing that the merchants made a lot of money selling fish, how could they not rush in and get a piece of the pie?

Some of the gentry came forward in person, bought whales, and dealt with them.

Others let their subordinates appear in the name of business.

There are also people who secretly enter private stocks and merge with businessmen.

All in all, they have a huge investment in this transaction, and they also generate huge profits.

For example, whale oil, which only needs to be processed, and the profit is more than five times that between changing hands, as well as whale meat, dried fish, and pickled fish.

The feeling of entering Jindou on this day is very refreshing.

All of a sudden, the boats in the water village did not go to sea, which was a catastrophe for them.

How many goods have been negotiated with people, but they can't be delivered, what should I do?

When did you go to sea, what happened, and will you go to sea in the future?

Ordinary people are not allowed to go into the sea to fish, Daming has a sea ban, and only people from the water village are eligible.

Moreover, even if you can go to sea without permission, can you have the ability to go fishing for giant whales with so many big yellow croakers in a day or two?

Only then did they realize that without the guards, their financial resources would be cut off.

So a group of old and young gentry, unable to sit still, all of them were red-eyed, and they went around to inquire, and then rushed to the prefect's yamen in a hurry.

After all, in the backstage of the guards, they inquired about it, and it seemed to be ...... Can't be messed with......

After all the calculations, the prefect Wen Yansheng is better to bully.

So hundreds of people surrounded the prefect's yamen with great momentum.

This is an older part of the population.

Then, there were many people who came to read the news.

Obviously, everyone's faces were very ugly, but after all, they were still very polite, and recommended more than a dozen gentry led by Chen Taigong to enter.

Wen Yansheng really doesn't like these people, these people have a lot of energy in the local area, and they also like to engage in small circles, a group of people take their hometown as a link, you marry my daughter, my granddaughter marry your nephew.

All in all, such a group of people control almost everything in the locality, and they also like to support their children to study, and those who study well are selected as jinshi and become officials in the court, which is their reliance in the capital. The qualifications are mediocre, barely a talent, in the locality, with a group of scholars, clamoring for all kinds of public opinion every day, scolding this today, scolding that tomorrow, arrogant, the government can't control them.

If the qualifications are mediocre, and you don't even show talents, you will either do business secretly, or you will manage thousands of acres of land at home.

Whenever there was anything in the government that was not to their liking, they blew up and came in a swarm.

If it is one or two such people, Wen Yansheng is a dignified prefect, so naturally he doesn't look down on them very much, but what if there are thirty or fifty such families?

I can't afford to mess with it.

"Come, tea." Wen Yansheng suppressed the dislike in his heart, with a lovely smile on his face, and smiled kindly after they met the courtesy.

"I won't drink the tea." Mrs. Chen is on crutches in his hands, he is over ninety years old, with white hair, and a cold face at this time, looking a little irritable!

Speaking of this ninety years old, there is a great advantage in this era, that is, he has sixteen sons and more than seventy grandchildren, and he is flourishing.

What's more, his children and grandchildren and the children of each family have become relatives, and his daughters and granddaughters are almost married, and they are also such gentry families, which is not counting one Jinshi in his family, two people, Jinshi is in the capital to do the imperial history, arrest and scold whom. The two of them have now asked for an official, although they are only officials who are not in the county, but with this family background, life is not too bad.

He is in Ningbo Mansion, no matter which mansion he walks into, the person in charge of the family comes out to meet him, and if he doesn't call him uncle, he has to call him grandfather.

Ningbo Mansion can get the family, just this more than 100 numbers, this is a big family with a surname, this era of intermarriage, pay attention to the right family, from the time of Emperor Taizu Gao, more than 100 families to establish blood relations with each other, can be described as unbreakable.

Mrs. Chen's face is not good, his temper is also bad, he has a bad temper capital, after sitting down, with a cane in both hands, he said in a deep voice: "The old man came here, just ask one thing, that is the guard, why don't you go to sea today?" ”

"That's it?" Wen Yansheng was embarrassed, for this, so many people came, and they were still aggressive, and the teacher asked for guilt?

What does this mean? It's clear that he is bullying me Wen Yansheng is a foreigner, so he has to give himself a prestige.

Wen Yansheng behaved calmly, opened the tea cup with a smile, blew the tea foam floating in the tea, paused, and then said calmly: "Oh, so that's the case?" Don't Mr. Chen know? Prepare for the ...... I can't go to sea lately. ”

"What?" The gentry behind Mrs. Chen all had green faces.

Don't go to sea?

What about the fish?

Without fish, what can be done with the sheds and workshops where so much silver has been invested? Recruited so many people and disbanded like that?

The most important thing is that in other provinces, many people have already made an appointment, all waiting for the goods, many people even have paid the deposit, if the payment is delayed for a few days, it is reasonable, but you are not going to sea with the guards, and if you can't hand over the goods, it will cause a lawsuit.

In other prefectures, people who dare to come and buy your goods in large quantities, and people dare to make a decision for you, they are definitely not afraid that you will run away. Once there is a dispute, and it is not caused by one or two families, is this a problem that can be solved by accusation?

Of course, the most troublesome thing is not this, but everyone has been lying down and earning money for so many days, and the happiness is boundless, and suddenly someone said, people don't play with you anymore.

What does this mean?

"Why?" Mrs. Chen stared at Wen Yansheng deadly, her eyes were about to eat people.

If the guards don't go to sea, everyone really can't do anything about them, it's too big to suppress it.

"Taizhou was attacked by the Japanese invaders." Wen Yansheng said slowly: "Gong Chen doesn't know about this, right?"

"Wako?" Chen Taigong obviously didn't pay too much attention to this widow.

In fact, the Japanese are rampant, but it doesn't matter much to people like Chen Taigong, and the smuggling of Japanese and some people has not benefited themselves, but it is not harmful.

Besides, even if there are occasional Japanese invaders attacking the interior, for Chen Taigong, it is too far away from him, the Chen family is a big family, the Japanese are wanderers, the Chen family's house is a high-walled compound, there are hundreds of households at home, there are more than 100 powerful guards, with high walls, even if there are Japanese invaders, what is it? Do they have the ability to fight with themselves?

Mrs. Chen stiffened his face and said, "What does it have to do with this widow and the prepared guard who can't go to sea?" ”

Wen Yansheng sighed and said, "Mr. Chen, don't you know? The duty of the guards is to guard against the Japanese, this is the Japanese who attacked Taizhou, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not attack Ningbo, the preparation of the Japanese guards is to protect our Ningbo, how can we go to sea at this time? ”

Mrs. Chen stiffened his neck and said, "We don't need their protection." ”

"That's not possible, it's not a question of whether Mr. Chen is willing or not, if they go to sea at this time and there is a mistake, the court will naturally ask, isn't it?"

Chen Taigong was anxious, and said: "Then you have to say an accurate number, will you never go to sea?" There's always a day to go to sea, isn't it? ”

"There is no definite number." Wen Yansheng said for a long time: "This is not a false word, this is the truth." When the gang attacked Ningbo was exterminated, it was not too late to go to sea again. ”

Mrs. Chen felt a little dizzy, and said that he still couldn't go to sea.

But his Chen family is in the bay, and they smashed thousands of taels of silver to buy the land, if this guard has not been going to sea, the shack he bought and the manpower he recruited will not be useless? In the past, I could earn thousands of taels of silver a month by relying on this, but now I ...... Gone? When the time comes...... How do you explain it to others? And also......

Thinking of so many questions, he felt dizzy, and when the people on the side saw this, they whispered: "Uncle Mother, it's okay, or ......."

At this time, Chen Taicheng was extremely angry, slammed his crutches, knocked the blue bricks in the yatang, he was heartbroken, although he was old, but he blushed and shouted: "The widow who killed a thousand knives, I* your ancestor!" ”

Mr. Chen is a village elder, in fact, he is also a famous scholar, usually he is still very gentle, and I don't know if he is old, relying on the old and selling the old, and seeing the juniors scolding at every turn, so he is domineering, or because, at this time, he is angry and attacking, and he really hates the Japanese Kou, I wish these damn Japanese Kou were broken and scattered, and the corpses were broken into thousands of pieces, so in a rage, they broke out directly.

He said sharply with red eyes: "If these widows are not removed, they will never go to sea?" Then what will I eat, this is a competition with the people......"

He originally wanted to say that he was competing with the people for profit, but if he thought about it carefully, shouldn't this robber who killed a thousand knives compete with the people for profit?

He was like pulling a bellows, angry and groaning, and then coughed desperately, the crutches in his hand kept beating, and the juniors on the side wanted to hold him, he waved away with his cane, and said angrily: "The Japanese are raging, bullying our people, we don't share God with him, these damn thieves, rape and plunder, do all kinds of evil, can we stand idly by?" In order to protect the people, for the well-being of the military and civilians in Ningbo Prefecture, Governor Wen, you say something, how can these damn widows be cut off? Up and down Ningbo, those who have money to pay, those who have strength to contribute, how many strong men do you want, how much silver do you need, how to raise Xiangyong, you are a parent official, do you have an idea? ”

"Yes, if you don't get rid of the Japanese who kill a thousand knives, the soldiers and civilians of Ningbo will be uneasy for a day."

"I, a Zhuang who has been strong for more than 70 years, Governor Wen, you opened your mouth and let the government dispatch you."