The next day, west of Pizhou City, Yingcuifang.

In a teahouse on Convergence Street, people from all walks of life gathered.

Many people came, including the famous lawyer Hu Xingye in Pizhou City, the famous casino boss Xiao Zhaosheng, the famous burial head Jing Kecong, and the famous matchmaker Liu Zhupo.

In addition to these four people, hundreds of companies in Pizhou have also been invited to represent, such as a well-known figure in the industry industry, the purple-robed man Wei Gong Han Wei Ye. With a goatee, the big bone of deception Zheng Haoshan Zheng Ye. is not like a beggar, but like a rich businessman, Lu applied for Lu beggar's head.

Some tooth people were also invited, such as Yang Hongan's agent at Dahedu Wharf. Nanji's private teeth Qi Liang raised all the brokers and also sat next to them. Some of the rest of the people are standing with their private teeth, they are powerful and powerful, and they don't come forward in the background, so these people have to stand.

There are people who walk with feet around their private teeth, and the status of their feet is even lower, just like the little head of the "New Shunyi" foot walk, Teng Zhi'an Teng Ye also came. But don't talk about him, he is standing like Cui Minggao, the head of the bank, standing behind Agent Qi and the others.

Everyone gathered together, and many famous people in Pizhou City were present.

Of course, not everyone came, the collusion between the Ming Dynasty and the strong and inferior gentry and the Qingpi was serious, but for many gentry and businessmen, they mainly made money on land and goods, and they all looked at these inferior gentry and green skins.

There are also many big-toothed people who are also watching. Most of the officials who come to discuss the matter have no backstage, and they only collude with the fighting, etc., or what the yamen knows about the officials, and what the household knows about the clerks, and they will go away with the wind when the wind blows.

They or each person had a sense of crisis in the background, and Zhao Yuan sent a post to come over to take a look.

In the eyes of everyone, he is one of the tooth people in the grain bank, and he opened a money bank, and he can't help but put some usury money, and there is some collusion with some Qingpi forces.

Zhao Gaotang analyzed Yang He's various possibilities in the future, and everyone realized the seriousness of the situation and became nervous.

The beggar Lu was a little hesitant: "My old Lu Tou is just a poor beggar, and he still manages the street for the government, so Lord Yang shouldn't deal with me." ”

Everyone saw that he was dressed in satin clothes and his hands full of pearls, but he called himself a "poor beggar", and they all laughed.

Zhao Gaotang said: "Gong Lu, you still don't understand this Yang He's behavior?" In his eyes, what is the difference between a beggar and a green-skinned stick? Look at Sui Ning, not to mention all the heroes, even the beggars have been killed, and we can't sit still. ”

In an uproar in the hall, Lu Yan took out a saro handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped the sweat from his forehead uneasily.

The teahouse was breezy and there were ice cubes around, but Lu Ying was sitting on the bamboo chair of Xiangfei, still full of sweat, but he was nervous and worried.

Also, don't look at Lu Ying's silk and satin, there must be a bridge in and out, just like a rich man, but he has been a beggar leader for decades, and there are hundreds of beggars under him.

There are two kinds of beggars in this world, one is good begging, living helplessly, begging for some leftovers to survive in a low voice, or playing bamboo boards and singing lotus flowers on the street to beg for a few pennies.

One is the evil begging, who specifically seeks wealthy families or trading shops to force them, and their various methods are mainly self-harm. For example, take a green brick and slap your chest and back hard, sometimes even bleeding, the person opposite is nervous, and you are even afraid of lawsuits, so you have to give money.

Especially when there is a happy event in the city, these people must appear, holding green bricks in their hands to beg for it, and the master meets these people all think that he is unlucky, so as not to be unlucky, he hurriedly gives some money to pass the matter.

Lu Ying's ancestor was a wicked beggar, who was extremely powerful in Pizhou City, and the government gave him a token to avoid trouble, and let him manage large and small beggar gangs in Pizhou.

With the official tokens, Lu was actually like a tooth man, calling for wind and rain on the streets of Pizhou City. He can even set up a torture hall and kill beggars, big or small, and the government will never ask about it. When foreign beggars come to the border, they must also worship the wharf, and seventy or eighty percent of the income will be handed over to him.

Relying on the tokens of the government and the absolute ruling power over beggars and beggars, the Lu family has accumulated a large amount of property for decades.

In his generation, he usually has fine clothes and fine food, goes in and out of slaves and maids, and has a group of wives and concubines, which is bigger than a big family.

And although he is no longer begging on the street, Lu Yan naturally knows about the beggars of all sizes in Pizhou City, and there are not no good beggars, but there are almost few, and most of them are evil beggars.

They forcibly ask for trouble, and many of them also have "skills", such as knowing how to kill themselves without dying, how to steal a child to sell themselves to support their relatives, and how to steal a child to kill and sell themselves to bury them.

In order to eat for a long time, the children are stolen and abducted and mutilated, and various beggars have all kinds of harvesting and cutting methods. Or simply don't ask for it, and make a living by cheating. In the Ming Dynasty, beggars, liars, pickpockets, and thugs were almost one.

Lu Ren heard Zhao Gaotang talk about Suining, Yang He has heard more or less about Suining, the local beggars have long been swept away, especially the evil beggars have died, and even the good beggars have been contained, and now the surname Yang has arrived in Pizhou, will he do the same?

And if there are no beggars, what are you doing in Pizhou City?

Thinking of this, the beads of sweat on Lu Ying's head gushed out again, and he wiped it again and again with a saro handkerchief.

"Even beggars don't let go, can you imagine, will Lord Yang let go of the people who play in the casino?" Zhao Gaotang's eyes swept over everyone's faces, especially Xiao Zhaosheng, the big boss of the casino, Jing Kecong, the head of the Pizhou funeral, and Liu Zhupo, the matchmaker, which made several people's faces change.

Not to mention the casino, the government also often sweeps it, all relying on collusion with the yamen and various officials to survive.

The funeral stick forces, and their subordinates are all villains, who use violence to coerce the good, and if their demands for property are not satisfied, their relatives will be stopped at home, and they will not be allowed to enter the ground for many years. hurts the heavens and reason, and leaves the gangsters, how can they shelter and block the burial?

There is also a matchmaker Liu Zhupo, who looks like she is only thirty years, and her charm is especially there, but she turned out to be the wife of the government, because she had an inexplicable relationship with Niu Xuejun, the head of the fast class, and later became a matchmaker, robbing widows and widows, abducting and selling women, and losing her conscience.

She didn't have the support of the head cow Xuejun, she was already torn to pieces by the angry people.

Ran Niu Xuejun's face, is it enough to see in front of Lord Yang?

Zhao Gaotang also looked at Hu Xingye, the chief lawyer of Pizhou, who was in his fifties, with a green shirt and a sparse beard, and sat steadily, with a taste of greed, ruthlessness, cunning, and treachery.

He was originally a showman, and after he couldn't be lifted, he made a living as a lawyer, and the most admired was a person named Deng Xi in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was also the originator of the ancient lawsuit.

Although separated by thousands of years, Hu Xingye seems to have obtained the true biography of Deng Xi, the originator of the lawsuit, and is best at reversing black and white, fabricating words and decorating, and sowing right and wrong.

One of his most famous cases is that he received 800 taels and wrote a complaint for an adulterer who colluded with his uncle and killed him.

Her murder has also become a helpless move that she has to do to preserve her chastity.

In the end, the prostitute was not guilty, and even advocated that Zhang Luo advocated that he would set up a chastity archway for this woman, and spread it for a while.

At this time, the magistrates were also seniors, lacking basic social experience and judicial practice, which were their opponents of lawsuits, and often fell into a trap without knowing it.

At this time, the judiciary also has a "trial transfer" review system, and if there is a problem in the trial of the magistrate, the criminal department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple will be retried for retrial, and not only the magistrate will be punished, but also the higher-level officials will be held responsible.

Therefore, whenever the magistrate is "transferred", he will be under great pressure, and in order not to be "transferred", he will have to compromise with the lawyers.

Because of this, Hu Xingye is arrogant, and he can even meet the state honor, and there is a seat for him to sit next to.

If he used his ability to benefit the people, it would be fine, but how could there be a barrister in the world who thought about the people? Hu Xingye did everything for money, others killed people with knives and sticks, he used words to kill, extort, falsely accused and framed, and the people of Pizhou City were afraid of him like tigers.

And there are people behind him, and there is an official Chen Tai'an, who is called a brother and a brother. Among them, the officials and wardens of the torture chamber are all relatives. There are beaters under each beater.

The upper, middle and lower three helped each other, plus he was treacherous and ruthless, so he was prominent in Pizhou City for a while, and he was known as Hu Gong.

At this time, Hu Gong Xingye looked at Zhao Gaotang and said slowly: "What is Zhao Gong's strategy?" ”

Zhao Gaotang sighed: "After Yang He arrived in Pizhou, although he has not moved, Zhao analyzed this person, this Yang He has always planned to do things and then moves, and if he does not move, it is amazing." I can't sit still and wait until everything is clear to him. ”

He said: "I have two strategies, of course the best policy is a group of harmony, Lord Yang is a hero, the people of Pizhou are all waiting for him, if we can make friends, we can also get a strong help." ”

Hu Xingye nodded: "It's just spending money to eliminate disasters, according to Zhao Gong's opinion, how much silver will it cost." ”

Zhao Gaotang sighed: "At least 10,000 taels!" ”

There was an exclamation in the hall, although none of the people sitting here were rich people, but 10,000 taels of silver was still an unimaginable huge amount of money for everyone.

In terms of the price of rice, in the peaceful and prosperous era, 10,000 taels of silver was equivalent to the net worth of 5 million in later generations.

And the number of 10,000 taels is still the least.

Hu Xingye's eyes flashed, and he said slowly: "Lord Yang is worth this price." ”

He glanced at everyone: "Make friends with Lord Yang, this is everyone's business, let's get together and divide it equally among each family." ”

Zhao Gaotang, Xiao Zhaosheng, Jing Kecong, Liu Zhupo and others have no objections, and this division is also beneficial to them. Only a few of the tooth-footed men below showed their bitter color, and each family divided it equally and spread it over their heads, which was a great number.

Looking at them, Zhao Gaotang said: "Everyone, take precautions, you can't be stingy with the money you should spend." When the news of the Lian General Mansion came, although Lord Yang did not say it explicitly, he was quite dislike the tooth people, especially the private teeth. If Hu Gong said, spend money to eliminate disasters, give the money that should be given, lest Lord Yang get angry and cut your head, then it will be too late to regret it. ”

Yang Hongan's agent gritted his teeth: "Okay, Yang will pay this money." ”

Qi Liang raised the agent to look at him and said, "The small one also pays for it." ”

For their tooth people, the tooth slip is awarded by the state and county, but the profit is unimaginable. For example, in a certain episode, you can make a profit of several hundred taels of silver a year. However, it only costs one tael, one tael or four dollars a year, and at most two taels.

Yang Hongan's brokerage is even more profitable at Dahedu Wharf, which can exceed 1,000 taels a year, and only needs to bear 128 yuan of tax silver every year.

Qi Liang, the private tooth beside him, controlled a market in the south of the city, and gave money to the officials behind him, as well as the green skins of the thugs, and the net income was 500 taels a year.

Hundreds of times or thousands of times the income, in the Ming Dynasty, where to find such a good thing? So don't lose it.

Especially for private teeth, even if they don't pay taxes and silver, they all rely on using Bai Lai Qingpi as a thug, if they lose the benefits of making money from sitting on the ground, there is no place to cry.

Thinking of this, all the officials and private teeth are willing to pay money, and it is best to be in harmony with Lord Yang.

As for the footmen, they don't have to talk nonsense, and it's not their turn to say anything.

……

This is what Zhao Gaotang said, smash the silver, what if it doesn't work? The indiscriminate surname Yang is to cut it?

Xiao Zhaosheng, the big boss of the casino, is the most worried, the head of the funeral, Jing Kecong, and the matchmaker Liu Zhupo are also worried, this kind of thing, surnamed Yang has not done it in Suining City.

"If you can't make friends, you can only make trouble, and even tear your face." Zhao Gaotang's tone was very crisp.

Hu Xingye nodded: "Indeed, the only way to make friends is to make trouble, let the surname Yang see our true color." ”

His eyes flashed with coldness and treachery: "However, this trouble must also have a strategy and a plan." ”

Everyone discussed, depending on the situation, there are two kinds of trouble, and there are two kinds of trouble, and the trouble is to make people make noise on the street, Hu Xingye proposed to send more women to fight hard, and the beggar head Lu also recruited some beggars, and there were many old women, girls and children, forming the advantage of public opinion.

They will be taken care of by the officials, and no one will hinder them, if the surname Yang does it, it will be better, and Xiucai will be able to make noise.

He will also contact the state school, and let Zhong Xiucai go to the yamen to set up a broken shoe formation, so that the old parents of the state will consider taking back the power of the surname Yang.

If it doesn't work, they will make trouble, go to the streets, smash and loot everywhere, and even set fires, burn down warehouses, etc.

Hu Xingye's eyes flashed with a cold light: "If the surnamed Yang wants to destroy us, we will destroy Pizhou City!" ”

Zhao Gaotang nodded silently, he still had a plan in his heart, and when the time really came to that point, bandits from all over Pizhou would also make trouble. When the blood flowed like an infusion, Yang He said that he would kill all the bandits, calm the place, and see how he calmed down.

Of course, at this point, he will also clear himself up in advance, after all, he is still a squire in Pizhou City on the surface.

The people consulted and made various plans, and it was better to be in harmony.

Everyone is willing to give money, but it is a question of who to lobby with.

It is said that the four brothers who have the deepest friendship with Lord Yang are the four brothers who "promoted and made a fortune", but Deng Sheng has been in the Xin'anzhuang Inspection Department recently.

Deng Guan also returned to the delivery station, and recently brought his two brothers, Deng Cai, the official of the soap class, and Deng Fa, the official of the Zhuang class, to the delivery station, saying that they were busy with affairs in the office and "borrowed" a few manpower from the state government.

Recently, Chen Tai'an, the official, is also avoiding everyone, maybe he heard some rumors, and he was afraid of being involved, so he cut off from everyone, and he didn't even send a family member today.

When he said this, the hearts of the people were even more uneasy.

In the end, Hu Xingye proposed to consult with Wang Feng, the commander of the Ordnance Bureau, who had a lot of dealings with Yang He, and Nanchen, the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau, had a lot of dealings with everyone, so that he could pressure Wang Feng, presumably Wang Feng would go.

Of course, there is also the second wave of lobbying figures, that is, Qi Shangxian, the director of the Water Department of the Ministry of Industry, although this person is a Wupin Beijing official, but he is greedy for money and has interests involved. Knowing it with reason, moving it with affection, and adding generous benefits, it will definitely sell everyone a face.

If Wang Feng can't do it, try to let the head of Qi come out.