Hong Fu was instructed by Zhou Shu, and after leaving the small courtyard, as soon as he opened the door, he saw a group of people gathered together, and they were constantly talking loudly, but Hong Fu did not go out to drive people out as Zhou Shu said, because he saw that in this group of people, although most of them were the family members and slaves of a wealthy merchant who lived opposite, two of them were wearing black clothes.

He knew that the black clothes were pseudo-Tang officials, well, that is, the official uniforms of the patrol police they said.

Immediately, he quietly walked two steps, and arrived at the door of a few soldiers called protection, who were actually monitoring and guarding Zhou Shu's puppet Tang thief army, but for these soldiers, he did not put on the shelf of the big butler in the Shangshu Mansion in the past, but took out a humble attitude to serve the master and stepped forward: "Master Jun, what's wrong outside?" ”

The soldier he questioned looked like a young man of sixteen or seventeen, with the rank of private on his shoulder, but instead of answering immediately, he looked at the sergeant on the side.

After the sergeant nodded slightly, he said, "The family on the other side was caught dumping garbage at the door, no, those patrol officers came to the door to ask for a fine!" ”

Fines for taking out the trash? Hearing this, Hongfu, the big housekeeper, was a little confused, people like to dump garbage at the door, why did this pseudo-Tang official come to the door.

However, in order to inquire more carefully, he asked again: "That's the case, but it's just a fine, and the person on the other side is also a decent person, so it's okay to pay this fine, how can you be so unwise and noisy with officials!" ”

However, when the young soldier heard this, he showed a gloating smile: "Then you don't ask, how much they will be fined!" ”

"How much?" Hong Fu asked while secretly saying in his heart, this is just garbage, and people are still pouring in front of their own doors, how much can this be, I think it will be as little as a few dozen dollars, and as much as one or two taels of silver.

But the young soldier's words frightened him, because he saw the young soldier stretch out a slap and say, "Fifty taels!" ”

"What? Fifty taels? "Rao is he Hongfu is the big housekeeper in Shangshu Mansion, and there are countless amounts of money in his hands, and when he collects money on behalf of Zhou Shu, he has also received tens of thousands of taels of silver, even if he is himself, in fact, the family wealth is quite rich, and there are groups of wives and concubines and slaves in the old family.

This mere fifty taels of silver is naturally not taken seriously by him, but this does not mean that he does not know what the concept of fifty taels of silver is.

Not to mention fifty taels of silver, even if it is five taels of silver, it is enough for a family of several to live a whole year in peace.

"Fifty taels, so much, this is just garbage, they just sent someone to collect the garbage, how can they be fined so much!" During this time, Hong Fu also dealt with these soldiers guarding Zhou Shu a lot, knowing that although these people strictly controlled Zhou Shu's personal freedom, they would not be too embarrassed in normal times.

As long as the attitude is not so arrogant, the young soldier is still happy to chat with him in the boring duty time.

At this time, before the young soldier could speak, the sergeant on the side spoke, but this person's tone was not as good as the previous private, and he said: "Fifty taels is nothing, and if you don't fine him five hundred taels, it's good!" ”

After that, he said again: "Under the rule of my Datang, it is strictly forbidden to dump garbage and other uncivilized behaviors, if it is usual, it will be counted, although the fine for this kind of thing is a lot, but a few taels of silver will pass, but now, my Datang takes Jinling City as the capital teacher, and His Majesty the Holy Monarch will move to Jinling City next year, and His Majesty the Holy Monarch hates dirty and messy behavior the most."

So now it is Lord Qian, the minister of the Imperial Study, who is personally presiding over the rectification of the cityscape of Jinling City, who dares to slack off at this critical moment?

Moreover, if you don't punish you heavily at the beginning, how can you set an example? ”

Hearing this, Hong Fu just knew that the person on the other side probably bumped into someone's muzzle, and the pseudo-Tang side attached great importance to the appearance of the city, and he had heard a little about it in the past few years, but as far as he knew, the intensity of this punishment was not so great.

The family on the other side is estimated to have hit the muzzle of the gun and was caught by others to make an example of the monkeys.

The sergeant said, then looked down at the street, and then said, "Look, they will soon pay the fine!" ”

After this person's words fell, Hong Fu also followed his line of sight to look at the street, only to see a team of patrolmen in black uniforms trotting towards the street.

The two patrol officers who were originally entangled saw the reinforcements coming, and they quickly broke free!

Then Hong Fu saw that the patrol police of more than ten people directly drew out their long knives, and one of the leaders strode forward and shouted: "Are you going to disobey our patrol police to enforce the law?" ”

At this time, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe finally came out of the house opposite, this person is the head of this family, not a powerful gentry, just a rich businessman, at best, it can be regarded as decent.

I saw that as soon as this person came out, he was smiling, and then personally gave a fine of fifty taels of silver, and then sent away this group of patrol police.

Before the patrol officer left, the leader of the group said loudly: "Now that the city is in the period of rectification, all violations of the law will be severely punished, and I hope you will do it yourself!" ”

After these patrolmen left in a hurry, Hong Fu sighed and said: "Although it is said that the troubled times should be punished, but this punishment is so severe, is it really not afraid of causing any turmoil?" ”

At this time, a second lieutenant who had just walked over heard this, and this young officer, who was estimated to have just graduated from the martial arts academy for a few months, immediately showed a sneer: "Our army has more than 10,000 heavy troops stationed in the city, and are you afraid of their turmoil?" Hmph, if they dare to stir up, we will dare to kill! ”

"This Jinling City surrendered without a fight, and when our army entered the city, there was no chance to clear out the gangsters in the city, otherwise, there would have been a big battle in Jinling City, and these gangsters would have been killed a long time ago, so there is still a chance for them to riot, and now they want to riot, then take the opportunity to clean up the city, so that we can also welcome the holy car with peace of mind!"

Hearing this, Hong Fu was shocked in his heart, and he couldn't help but lower his head when he looked at this young lieutenant, and after more than a month of contact, he knew that most of the ordinary soldiers in this pseudo-Tang thief army were ordinary people, as long as his attitude was better and humble, people would not have any objection to him.

However, most of the officers of the puppet Tang Thief Army are not good characters, and these officers think things from a very different angle from ordinary people, and they often have a contemptuous and hostile attitude towards the officials and powerful gentry of the Ming Dynasty.

The hostility is understandable, after all, the two sides are hostile, but they look down on them, why should they look down on the Ming officials who are full of poetry and books?

Hong Fu couldn't understand their thoughts, but now he knew that people were not afraid of turmoil at all, and even wished that there were people in the city who were in turmoil, so that they could take the opportunity to clean up one or two, after all, this Jinling City could be regarded as surrendering without a fight, and there were many people in the city who were honestly hiding all kinds of messy people.

After saying goodbye to these guards at the door, Hong Fu also returned to the courtyard, and then went up to the second floor to tell Zhou Shu about the matter.

After Zhou Shu heard that he was fined fifty taels just for dumping garbage, he couldn't help but sigh: In the past, he had a lot of ears for the strictness of the Tang Law, but it was better to see it than to smell it!

However, this money dream has been strong for a long time, and in troubled times, it was replaced by an old man, and I am afraid that it will also be done.

It's just that in this way, I don't know how many people will be wronged!

But when he said this, Zhou Shu suddenly remembered the situation he was in now, and immediately sighed, now he is still a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it is difficult to protect himself, where he can still worry about the life and death of others!

I don't know what the pseudo-Tang side is going to do with himself, is it possible that he really wants to surrender himself, and then give himself a big official to continue to be in charge?

At first, he wanted to cross the river and escape, but he was so late that when he was ready to escape, Jinling City had been completely sealed.

Then the thief army attacked the city fiercely, and the defenders were completely defeated in half a day.

At that time, many officials, gentry and nobles in the city were all panicked, and they were afraid that the thieves would slaughter the city after breaking the city, even if they didn't slaughter the city, but I am afraid they would not let go of these officials.

So many people just got in touch, and in order to protect their lives, they asked Zhou Shu and others to preside over the overall situation!

And Zhou Shu told the truth, he didn't want to die, under the plea of everyone, he sent people to negotiate with the thief army, and finally led the hundred officials, soldiers and civilians in the city to officially surrender, because when he surrendered, although Zhou Shu said that he would let the army save the lives of the hundred officials and gentry as much as possible.

But in fact, within a few days of the beginning, he found that although these thieves did not kill officials on a large scale, they were very skilled in raiding homes and seizing homes.

The mansions of the Duke of Wei and other officials and nobles were also raided, but fortunately, except for a small number of recalcitrant people, most of the officials and nobles and their families were still preserved.

Zhou Shu's family is also part of it, although he couldn't live with him and couldn't be let go, but the safety is still guaranteed at present, but this security is temporary, as for the future, he doesn't know.

Because now he still doesn't understand what the pseudo-Tang side is going to do with him, whether he will kill him, or let him go after being locked up for a while, or insist on letting him surrender publicly?