Yangzhou West City, Yulang Street.

Fifteen hundred brocade clothes rode the Bai family's mansion to the front and back of the left and right sides of the water.

It doesn't attack, but it shoots down even a bird.

The great righteousness is to get rid of the salt thief!

After being surrounded all night, no one in the Bai family dared to close their eyes.

Everyone knows that this young commander of Jinyiwei is the most curious.

What if they had just closed their eyes and thousands of horsemen rushed up to raid their homes and destroy their homes?

This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that the Bai family always uses a hanging basket to send people to negotiate.

Whether you want gold, silver, or women, as long as you open your mouth, everything is easy to discuss.

However, the people who were sent out were like stones thrown into the sea, and there was no resound......

The Bai family survived the most difficult night of their lives in darkness and fear, and the old and young women and children were almost about to collapse.

It wasn't until the Oriental Morning Star rose, a touch of fish belly white broke through the darkness, and after the sky gradually brightened, there were bursts of meat fragrance from all directions, and the Bai family found out that they were tired and finally survived.

And the smell of meat came from the Jinyi Riding Places stationed at the corners of the streets.

They are eating porridge......

Seeing this scene from afar, the Bai family, who had been invincible in Yangzhou Mansion for a hundred and ten years, was simply full of blood and tears!

Is there any heavenly reason?!

Bai Shijie, who had been watching on the high wall all night, sent someone to talk again, and prepared two baskets of Huangqiao baked cakes.

This time, however, he finally knew how the people he had sent out had disappeared......

As soon as the four or five servants approached the place where the Jinyi Tiqi was stationed, they pounced on a group of tigers and wolves, took them all, and then escorted them to the corner of the street, where they disappeared.

I don't know if I live or die!

The Huangqiao baked cakes and snacks sent were scattered all over the place, and no one paid attention to them.

Seeing this scene, Bai Shijie felt a chill in the bottom of his heart.

What made him even more chilling in his heart was that the military spirit of the Yanding people who guarded the Bai family's mansion was already unstable.

The Bai family's reward is high, but no matter how much money there is, it is not as important as life, it is still the life of the whole family!

This is not a chaotic thing, the era when the local tycoons can build an earthen fort to protect themselves.

Although there are many uneven worlds and many thieves, the overall national situation is still stable and upward.

At this time, against the Tianjia Jinyi Guard, is it because the whole family has lived enough?

If it weren't for Bai Shijie's praise from the emperors of the past dynasties, and even the plaque of the "Righteous Merchants of the Country" given to the Bai family by the Emperor Taishang's imperial pen would have been lifted out of the ancestral hall of the Bai family and placed on the gatehouse, the salters would have dispersed long ago!

It's a matter of life and death!

This night, Bai Shijie was about to regret his intestines.

When Jia Cong showed up in Yangzhou Mansion with those dozen or so people, he should have used thunderous means to kill them in one fell swoop!

At that time, killing this group of people was simply a no-brainer for him......

But in order to avoid suspicion, he hesitated.

However, after this hesitation, that Jia Qingchen never gave him a chance, but instead took advantage of him and used a trick to hide from the world and take down Liu Zhao in one fell swoop.

Since then, it has really become a climate in the Jiangnan territory.

Let the tiger return to the mountain, and then the trouble will be endless!

In just one night, Bai Shijie, who was once the most powerful in Yangzhou Mansion, seemed to be ten or twenty years old.

Even my back is a little rickety......

He doesn't look forward to anything else now, he only hopes that the favors he once bestowed, the mountains of gold and silver spilled, and the peerless beauties he sent can help his Bai family survive this catastrophe.

He no longer expected the other seven salt merchants to lend a hand, from the moment the old dog of the Zhao family stood up, Bai Shijie knew that the other seven families could not count on it......

Although Bai Shijie is young, he is not naïve.

Fortunately, his hopes were not completely disappointed......

Just after the hour, the dead silence of Yulang Street finally made waves.

Fifty or sixty students wearing scarves and green scarves appeared, not to mention that these thin Confucian students only had this small number, but against more than a thousand fierce horses, they were not left behind.

It is also a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, Jinyiwei has been downtrodden for more than ten years, more than ten years ago, most of these scholars were children, where do you know the power of Jinyi?

Coupled with the transcendent status of scholars, students do not worship officials when they see them, and they are commensurate with county officials as friends.

These reading seeds gathered together, and even the Governor Yamen dared to enter, not to mention a group of Qiu Ba who suddenly appeared?

In this peaceful and prosperous world, it is not the turn of the martial arts!

"The Bai family is a family of loyalty, paving bridges and roads, providing relief to the victims, and countless living people, why is it humiliated?"

"The county school is funded by the Bai family all the year round, so that I can have a place to study, rice and grain, this is a great talent, how dare you be presumptuous?"

"Ask you what the Bai family is guilty of, you can't say it, it's unreasonable!!"

With the crusade of a group of students, and the Jinyi riders couldn't answer, the momentum seemed to decline, and the people who were originally watching from afar also hugged over and said good things for the Bai family......

In this era of great emphasis on the township party, only the most stupid fools will do it.

A century-old wealthy family like the Bai family is the most important for the benefit of the township.

Not to mention how many people in Yangzhou Mansion have received the favor of the Bai family, just to say that there are thousands of people who rely on the Bai family to eat!

No one started before, so no one dared to step forward to do anything to the officials and soldiers.

Now that so many reading seeds have started, these people are suddenly driven and hula come around.

The one on the left said that the Bai family was benevolent, and the one on the right said that the Bai family was benevolent.

gossiping, they all say that the Bai family is very good, and it is gradually becoming a turbulent trend......

Seeing that hundreds of people, including men, women, old and young, under the leadership of dozens of Confucian students, they approached more and more, and the six thousand households stationed on Yulang Street saw sweat on their foreheads.

This kind of formation, not to mention them, even if the governor of Jiangnan is here, he does not dare to use swords and soldiers, so he can only persuade each other with good words.

It's a pity that the six thousand households together can't play the mouth of a showman......

Seeing that the situation was critical, the Jinyi cavalry retreated one after another, and the more radical people even began to pick up stones to embarrass people, and suddenly two huge "firecracker sounds" came from behind the people.

Then I saw the crowd of people cut through the wind and waves as if by a giant ship......

Dozens of horsemen dressed in dark brocade clothes, all with terrifying faces and terrifying scars, separated the crowd with force, and those who dared to resist were waiting for them with an embroidered spring knife on their heads and faces. This is how the people are, if you are soft, he will be hard, and when you are hard, he will be at peace. It sounds sarcastic, but most of the time......

The brave men rode and escorted a noble boy riding a white horse to slowly drive over.

And seeing the arrival of this young man, the momentum of the brocade-clothed horsemen, who had been giving in again and again, suddenly changed, and they also became fierce, and they refused to take a step back, even if they were forced by the group of lifters and students.

When Jia Cong arrived on horseback, he saw a middle-aged man pointing at Zhou Qing's nose in Zhijiang Province, and he was extremely arrogant.

Seeing Jia Cong's arrival, the middle-aged man seemed to be ready to point the finger at Jia Cong, sneered at each other, and asked without Jia Cong's introduction: "You are the Jia Qingchen who writes about life if it is only as first seen?" ”

Jia Cong instructed in an indifferent voice: "Strip off his turban and Confucian shirt and send him to prison." ”

"Whoa!"

Zhou Qing, who was ashamed on the other side, immediately took the order and arranged for his subordinates to do it.

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows coldly and said sharply: "Who dares?" I am Zhou Yun'an, the twenty-fourth person on the Wuxu Kegui List in the twenty-third year of Zhenyuan, who dares to be disrespectful to this master? A group of dogs, do you think it's still when the former Chao Ti rode rampant? ”

"Palm."

Jia Cong said lightly.

In order to make up for it, Zhou Qingxu stepped forward in person, grabbed the neckline of his own family, and whipped his big ears in the horror of everyone.

Jia Cong didn't say stop, he didn't stop.

After only seven or eight slaps, Zhou Yunan's thin face was already "completely ruddy", and by the time he was thirteen or fourteen, the whole person was already unstable and his eyes were scattered.

Only then did Jia Cong speak: "Take off his Qingjin Confucian shirt and send him to prison." ”

After Zhou Qing let out a vicious breath, he was refreshed, looked at Jia Cong with admiration and eagerness, and replied loudly: "Huh! ”

But I heard Jia Cong say coldly: "Next time, let people point their noses and reprimand, damage my imperial prestige, and deal with it by family law." ”

Zhou Qing's expression was awe-inspiring, and he bowed his head and said ashamedly: "Humble position insults the prestige of the adult, and the crime deserves death." ”

Jia Cong nodded, but didn't pay attention to it, but looked at the other more than fifty students, and said in a cold voice: "They are all reading seeds, reading the books of the sages, and being taught by the sages, what can't you say well?" Is the truth made by gathering sentient beings to make trouble? ”

If it weren't for the previous dismount, naturally no one would want to talk to him about anything.

But there is a lesson from Zhou Yun'an's past, no matter what impact Jia Cong will be impeached afterwards, at least now no one is willing to suffer immediate losses.

Therefore, I am willing to talk about it......

The first few scholars in costumes looked at each other, recommended a young and decent person to the ranks, and greeted Jia Cong: "Dare to ask, but Jia Qingchen and Jia friends face to face?" ”

People call each other "friends".

At present, this title is obviously a meaning of intimacy.

Jia Cong was not arrogant, turned over and dismounted and saluted back: "It's down." ”

The young man saw that he did not regard himself as a high-ranking official, but still saw him as a scholar, and said with a smile on his face: "Friend Jia, Meng Hao, who is in the lower Tianfu, thinks ......about the words."

Jia Cong listened calmly, Meng Hao coughed dryly, and continued: "I also heard that the Bai family, who personally praised the righteous merchants of the country in Yangzhou Mansion, was suddenly surrounded, so I came over to see what happened. The Bai family donated scholarship to various government schools, county schools and rural schools in Jiangnan Province every year, and Mr. Mu Min also received a lot of help from the Bai family. So ......"

Jia Cong nodded and said, "I understand, the student cares about state affairs, and he is also loyal." However, are these people also brought by Brother Zisi? "Holding the people hostage and petitioning for the people are two different things.

Meng Hao hurriedly said: "The matter of coercion, the students dare not do it again." These righteous people are also spontaneous......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Jia Cong turn over and get on his horse again, condescendingly looked at the black oppressive "righteous people", and said loudly: "Jinyiwei has set up a camp in Yangzhou Mansion, which is on Phoenix Island. Now there is still half of the construction work left, and the people are about to be called up to labor. You and the righteous people are so loyal and righteous, that they should not be left behind. After a pillar of incense, the number of people present, names, and residential addresses began to be counted, and at the beginning of tomorrow (five o'clock in the morning) Phoenix Island was pointed, and those who were registered in the register did not arrive, and flowed three thousand miles! ”

As soon as these remarks came out, the people present were all pale as if they were hiding from the plague, and they desperately hid back.

If there is anything more terrible in this world than taxes for ordinary people, it must be forced labor.

Taxes are only as much as silver, but forced labor can be fatal!

Although the conscription of this dynasty can be paid with silver, if the government must be recruited, who can bear it?

Therefore, it didn't take a pillar of incense at all, but in a blink of an eye, the original surging crowd of people who wanted to uphold justice disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, Meng Hao and Meng Zisi and dozens of other reading seeds all looked at Jia Cong in amazement.

rights, can you still use them like this?

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