Chapter 40: Chin Cha is poured with dung
In the city of Suzhou, it is now quiet and unexpected, the traffic in the past, the scene of people coming and going is gone, only three or three people are walking in a hurry, and these people are looking left and right, knocking on the door when they see the shops, but most of the shops are not moving, only a few open doors to explain two sentences on the door. Zuo Guangdou followed these people, and finally found an opportunity to ask questions in front of a shop.
"Shopkeeper, why don't you open the door in broad daylight? Why is this all closed? Don't the people of Suzhou need to buy anything? Zuo Guangdou asked.
The shopkeeper replied, "Sir is from out of town, right?" Don't you know that shops in Suzhou are on strike? Why didn't you inquire about buying now? It's already the fifteenth day, and it's almost the wax moon, and the people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce don't know when to make trouble. You see, the stains on my door, a few days ago, the neighbors couldn't buy anything, even the salt to eat was gone, begged me to buy something for a while, and the result was that the people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce knew about it, no, the door was splashed with tung oil, and the one next door was even more unlucky, and yesterday when the door was opened, it was pasted with a soak of pig manure, do you say that there is such a bully. ”
Zuo Guangdou asked: "Then why don't you go to the yamen to sue them?" Can't the yamen control them? ”
The shopkeeper said: "I went, I went at the beginning, the yamen can't control it at all, these people are all scoundrels and the like, the front is arrested, and the people behind come out again, they are not killing people and setting fires, and the yamen has no way to do anything, what do you say is this?" You said that we are in business, and these scoundrels can afford to spend, this is not about to enter the peak season of making money in the lunar month, just point to this month to make money for the New Year, this unlucky Suzhou Chamber of Commerce is a net mess. ”
The shopkeeper was just about to close the door after speaking, and saw a few gangsters who came from the side, and without saying a word, they threw a big dung at the door of the shop, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he quickly closed the door, and with a "poof" sound, a bubble of dung smashed on the door.
Zuo Guangdou's temper is very bad, and his temperament is also upright, he is the most unsightly of this, and he turned around and shouted: "Take it." ”
The following people hugged each other, and they pressed these people to the ground with three strikes and five divisions by two.
"Why are you throwing on someone's door, has he offended you?" Zuo Guangdou asked angrily.
"Can you handle it? Hillbilly, that's how you love to play. ”
"Call big brother, there are outsiders who are coming to make trouble."
"Looking for death, outsider?"
"Whose crotch is broken, exposing this old man."
The splashes were babbling nonsense and shouting, and after a while, more than a dozen people came running, each carrying a broken bag in their hands, and threw them at Zuo Guangdou and Han Yi. Zuo Guangdou was a little younger, and his reaction was faster, but Han Yi couldn't do it, and as soon as he soaked the dung, he was deducted on his head, so frightened that his entourage hurriedly helped wipe it, and the splashers took advantage of the situation and ran away. Han Yiqi was angry, such a big Ming Dynasty cabinet assistant let the gangsters detain a big dung, anyone would be angry, and he didn't care that Zuo Guangdou was positive, he was a supervisor, and he directly asked his entourage to transfer the guards to take revenge.
In fact, there is no need to call people at all, the Praetorian Guards have already come in. Think about it, with such a big secret visit by two officials, can there be no people who are secretly protected. They don't have to show up for a trivial matter, but the second assistant was detained by someone else, and it was a big deal, and in an instant, more than a hundred people poured over from all directions, threes, threes, twos, and twos, and none of the dozen or so slipped away, all of them were caught, and then Zuo Guangdou ordered the Praetorian Guards to act throughout the city, and started a big purge against these gangsters. After two hours, the operation was over, and all the thugs who were making trouble on the street numbered more than 500 people, all of whom were surrounded by the Praetorian Guards, and all of them were beaten to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen. Then he picked out all the small leaders and sent them to the barracks outside the city.
The Praetorian Guards made an earth-shattering uproar, and the prefect of Suzhou already knew about it, and hurriedly called all the bureaucrats and bureaucrats to greet him. Zuo Guangdou is better, he dodged just now, and his clothes were still smashed by dung. Han Yi was poured a lot of dung, it was so stinky that it made Han Yi's yellow gall come out, and the prefect of Suzhou saw Han Yi's miserable appearance, so he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty, and invited the two into the yamen to wash.
By the time the two had finished freshening up, the Praetorian Guards outside the city had already reported the results of the interrogation. What are the Praetorian Guards doing, not to mention that there are also the masters of the Jinyi Guards inside, these gangsters can't stand the torture at all, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they are recruited one by one. It's very simple, didn't they carry a lot of dung, Jinyiwei directly poured the dung into their mouths, and they didn't do it themselves, just let the little brothers under those gangsters do it, and then directly told them that we are Jinyiwei's business, if there is anything, just say it quickly, don't let us bother, I guess you also know our methods. The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, these people passed through this occasion, so the matter quickly became clear, they were hired by the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce, to take care of the meal, spend 100 yuan a day, and sign and draw.
In fact, the prefect of Suzhou has long known that it was the people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce who did it, and the officials he sent out did not contribute to the work, so he didn't know in his heart? If you lock these gangsters up, you have to take care of their food, and if they don't lock them up, they will make trouble. It's not that the prefect of Suzhou doesn't want to do things well, he has been communicating with the people of the Chamber of Commerce in the past few days, but the people of the Chamber of Commerce are hiding, only letting the subordinates come forward to send some silver. I have the heart to play the court, but I am afraid that I will be reprimanded for being incompetent, and I can't calm the ground, and I am even more afraid of causing these powerful departments such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang to stretch out their hands, and the psychological face is flickering, but this thing still came out.
Now that the human and physical evidence is in hand, Zuo Guangdou is also thinking about how to deal with this matter, if it is not impossible to let more than a thousand Praetorian Guards arrest these businessmen, but then the turmoil in the whole Suzhou will be great, if this matter is left like this, it will definitely live up to the emperor's expectations, what should I do? Han Yi is also angry, fuck, Lao Tzu helped you out, and as a result, you got a big head of shit, how embarrassing it would be if this spread to Lao Tzu in the capital, do the fucking people in the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce eat shit, you can eat shit, but don't deduct shit on Lao Tzu's head.
Just when Zuo Guangdou was thinking about how to solve the problem without causing turmoil, Han Yi was furious, and the prefect of Suzhou also asked people to invite the heads of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce. This time the people of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce no longer dared to take it big, this time they all obediently came to the prefect's yamen, and when they heard that the gangsters they were looking for splashed a big dung on Han Yi, the second assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, they were all stupid, this poked a big hole, and the loss was not splashed on Zuo Guangdou's head, that was the Qin Cha, and it was also the emperor's visit, splashing the emperor with a big dung, just waiting to wipe out the family.