Chapter 248: Clever Tricks

An hour passed, and I saw the junior come back and said to the ruffian surnamed Guan with a sad face: "Big brother, Uncle Tan said that he still has important things to do, and he can't come here, and gave me ten taels of silver for me to 'hand' over to you and let you handle it yourself."

At this time, the surname Guan couldn't hold his breath, and scolded in his mouth: "His 'milk' and 'milk' surnamed Tan are too unrighteous, Lao Tzu does something for him, and he doesn't care about Lao Tzu, brothers don't follow the surname Tan in the future, and send ten taels of silver to send the person who asks for food, and he is too inappropriate for Lao Tzu."

"How about a few come with me, I see that you can't afford to lose the silver, how about you cooperate with me, and I won't send you to the government?"

"Okay, since I've come to this point, my surname is Guan, and I have nothing to say, uncle, what you say, although our brothers are 'bastards', they also know that it's okay, as long as you don't 'hand' us over to the government, uncle, if you want to know, I'll tell uncle"

I said to the chief eunuch who carried the sedan chair for me: "Liu An, you take a few of them into the palace to find Manager Chen, tell him about the matter here, he will deal with it, don't be embarrassed, let them come back as soon as possible."

"Okay, sir, I'll go now, but what if you use a sedan chair?"

"I don't need a sedan chair today, you can take someone with me, I can ride a horse if I have something"

"You guys have to listen to this father-in-law, don't have any other ideas, get there, cooperate with Manager Chen, maybe there is a wealth waiting for you," I said to the ruffians again

Several ruffians stood up at this time, and the one surnamed Guan gave me a salute and said: "This uncle, thank you, uncle, if there is anything here in the future, just say hello, my name is Guan Dasheng, no one on this street doesn't know my name."

"Okay, Guan Dasheng, you guys go"

After sending them away, I said to the poor shopkeeper, "I will pay you the money here for the shopkeeper, and I will ask the butler to bring it to you in a moment."

"Thank you, uncle, for telling me your name, I will set up an immortal tablet for you at home," the shopkeeper knelt down and kowtowed to me three times, kowtowing while kowtowing

"Okay, you're welcome, I don't need to say the name, we should go, you also close the 'door' and clean it up, so you can't do business"

"Uncle, you go slowly, remember to come back that day," the shopkeeper said as he sent us outside the big 'gate'

After such a fuss, I wanted to go out to see what the situation was, so I said to Lao Liu: "Brother Liu, you take the two fathers-in-law back, I'll take them around to see what the situation is."

"My lord, you better go back, now the street is 'chaotic', be careful, someone takes the opportunity to do your favor, adult"

"It's okay, you can go back, Brother Chen, a few of them will be fine, and I won't be fine, besides, no one dares to do anything to me in broad daylight."

Lao Liu left us with the remaining two eunuchs, and I took a few of them to the front, and the pedestrians on the street were all talking about the fact that the shops did not open the 'door' today, some said that the imperial court arrested the Qin criminals, some said that the ruffians did not let the 'door' open, anyway, there were five 'flowers' and eight 'doors', and all kinds of sayings were gathered in groups of three or five at the 'door' of each store

I walked a street and didn't see a shop open 'door', so I knew the seriousness of the matter, and I miscalculated the situation at that time, it seems that they have been planning for a long time, and even the ruffians and hooligans have used it, and I don't know how Chen Jiu arranged it, and I haven't found out the news

"My lord, what's going on, these people who opened shops used to open their 'doors' early, how can they not make money today, why are they closing the 'door'," Boss Chen asked behind me

"Brother Chen, this matter was organized by someone, you see, if these stores don't open their 'doors', will the capital be 'chaotic'."

"Yes, my lord, if these shops don't open their 'doors', the residents of the capital won't be able to hold on for a few days, and if they can't hold on, they will make trouble, and if they go on like this, it's not good for the imperial court."

As soon as I walked to a street corner, I saw a team of officers and soldiers coming from the opposite side, there were hundreds of people, and those officers and soldiers stopped at the street entrance, and the leader was a hundred households, and arranged for soldiers to take them in each street, and also sent a few soldiers to each street to shout: "Fathers and villagers, listen well, the court has arrested the rebel escapees of the Lan family in the past two days, everyone is fine, try not to come out, and the various merchants, the court has ordered that they will not be allowed to open for two days." If there is no food, you can come to the streets, and the imperial court will provide food to everyone at market prices, and when you are caught violating martial law, the officials and the eldest brother who is on an errand in the ya'men can enter and exit freely with their official certificates and bad cards."

As soon as I heard this method, it was really good, although it was said that martial law would naturally make people panic, but some of the imperial court ordered that all shops were not allowed to open their 'doors', so that their boycott was also destroyed, and the residents would also think that the merchants did not open the 'doors' because they had received orders from the imperial court, and their hearts were not panicked, and those who did not have food at home could still buy food provided by the government, and if the problem of food was solved, there would be no 'commotion' and 'chaos'

Such an idea should also be Zhang Juzheng's reliance, Chen Jiu and the emperor are two who don't have such brains, Zhang Juzheng's trick, I guess the next move should be Shuntianfu to summon all the Li Zheng to appease people, and they are familiar with the situation of each resident, and they are much more effective in doing their work than officers and soldiers shouting on the street

Another advantage is that Dongchang can go to arrest people according to the information he has heard in the past few days, and under the banner of catching rebels, it will not cause a big 'commotion', which is really a double kill, and there are officers and soldiers guarding every street entrance, and it is difficult to escape

In this way, the overall situation should be stabilized quickly, plus the grain rush outside the city, see how many people can calm down, as long as the grain merchants can't hold their breath, this strike action will be broken in half, and Chen Jiu in the city will arrest these ruffians and hooligans again, and the people who have not restrained these merchants will not be able to rely on themselves, so they will naturally open the 'door' for business

After arranging for those soldiers to be left, the hundred households saw a few of us standing here and said, "Don't stand here, go home early, don't interfere with our official business," although this person was a soldier, he still spoke very politely

I took out the official voucher in my arms and handed it to the hundred households, and when the hundred households saw it, they immediately saluted me and said: "Lord Lan, the little one offended the little one, and the little one doesn't know your identity, so please don't be surprised."

"It's all for the imperial court, you guys have worked hard, I want to go around, okay?" I politely said to the hundred households

"Your Excellency, you can take this official certificate with you wherever you want," said the hundred households, handing me the official certificate

We walked through the soldiers blocking the street to the front, and the pedestrians on the street also began to go home one after another after the soldiers' shouting, and there was not much disgust, after all, everyone knew about the Lan family's rebellion a few days ago, and now it is also appropriate to arrest the fugitives, and there is no restriction on the order of the imperial court, everyone is only closed by the merchants, but some things can still be bought in a few days, so they all walk home calmly

"My lord, martial law in broad daylight, but I haven't had it for many years, why do you still arrest the case of the Lan family's rebellion....."

"This is not something we can manage, let's go to our ya'men in front of us to have a look," I was afraid that Boss Chen would say something about cheap Dad, so I quickly interrupted him, after all, although the three tigers followed me, they still didn't completely believe in them, and it was better not to let them know

Boss Chen also stopped the conversation, silently followed me and walked forward, now it is difficult to find a rental carriage on the street, even if there are also officers and soldiers driven home, there is no way, a few of us have to walk to Xiao Cai's mansion, my purpose is to go to see Xiao Cai's mansion, and also to see how senior brother is doing over there

After walking for more than half an hour, after more than a dozen martial law officers and soldiers came to Xiao Cai Mansion, the workers here in Xiao Cai Mansion have been evacuated, only one unknown bookstore and a worker are cleaning inside, the big 'door' is open half, we push the 'door' in, the bookstore does not know me, I asked: "What are you doing, this is not an idle person who can come."

"This is my family, Lord Lan came to see the ya'men', you don't know my family."

"Lord Lan, I don't know you, I don't know if you came over, Cai Shuban 'handed over', let me send you the key to the house in the afternoon, now that you are old, I will give it to you now."

The clerk said, took out a bunch of keys and handed them over, of course I didn't pick it up, Boss Chen took the keys and held them in his hand

"Are you all packed?"

"Yes, the adults have cleaned up, you always look at the unsatisfactory places there, I will bring someone to repair it for you, and we won't be able to come back tomorrow"

"That's it, I don't have to look at it now, we haven't moved here yet, wait for a few days to move over, when it's not suitable there, I'll go to your place and ask a few people to repair it, you guys have worked hard, now you can go, you don't need to clean it, my people still have to clean it again."

"Then thank you, sir, let's take our leave and go home, and I'll talk to us."

After sending away the bookstore and the workers, I took them around the courtyard twice, and Boss Chen couldn't help but ask me: "My lord, what are you looking at, isn't it the same, you have walked around twice?"

Of course, Boss Chen doesn't know what I'm looking at, because I have to find a suitable place to build a silver vault, so much silver can't be put in the house, if it is placed in the house, then I will become the 'fat' and 'meat' of those big thieves, and those knights still stare at my silver here every day