There is a saying that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake on the ground, and no matter how strong Fan Yongdou's ability is in the north, he has to lie on his stomach when he reaches the southern boundary.

Local hooligans, if you want to get a foreigner, don't have too many methods.

When Fan Yongdou heard that the grain depot had also ordered it for him, he trembled with anger, "What a scoundrel! Block and don't let Fan sell grain, even if you still burn my granary, what kind of grudge do I have against you? ”

There are not many people in the Fan family's business in Yuezhou, and there were more than ten guys watching the grain depot, but there were scoundrels on the wharf making trouble, and the money shopkeeper was beaten, and the guys guarding the grain depot went to the front to help.

At this time, several Xuanyi guards climbed over the wall from behind and directly burned the grain depot.

Originally, Fan Yongdou could buy 300,000 stone of grain, but he only bought 100,000 stone, and now 100,000 stone has been set on fire, and Fan Yongdou has the heart to die.

He hurried out, and the scoundrels gathered on the docks, seeing that the grain depot was on fire, immediately slipped away to get into trouble.

"Hurry up~ Hurry up and put out the fire!" Fan Yongdou saw the grain depot, black smoke was emitting, a raging fire was ignited, and he couldn't help but shout hoarsely.

In fact, without waiting for his orders, the guys had already picked up buckets and basins and started to put out the fire, but there were too few people to stop the fire at all.

When Fan Yongdou was desperate to put out the fire, Ma Hongshan and others got on a boat and went to Changde Mansion to temporarily avoid the limelight, and prepared to wait for the price of grain to continue to fall back to two taels, and then began to eat a large amount of grain.

This time to fry the grain, Ma Hongshan and his gang, plus a few large local grain merchants in Huguang, can be said to be the bankers, is the winner, they fried the grain from two to twelve taels, and then shipped at a high level, all the grain merchants who later chased up and did not ship in time were the losers, and the people who bought the grain were also losers.

Of course, the worst is Fan Yongdou, no one is worse than him.

At this time, on the boat, Ma Hongshan and several big businessmen from Huguang temporarily left Yuezhou to avoid the limelight.

People like them can monopolize the commerce of a place, so they naturally have a relationship in the government, and in addition to giving gifts to those big officials every year, they also have a very good relationship with the low-level officials.

No matter what the will of the imperial court or the orders of the upper officials, in the end, they have to rely on these low-level officials to open up their relationship, and they are like a fish in water in the local area, as long as they don't kick the iron plate, they can basically go sideways.

The government wants to take action against the merchants who speculate on grain, Ma Hongshan and others have already received the news, and those low-level officials and officials have taken the benefits, and they heard that the person who took the lead this time is Ma Shoufu's nephew, so they naturally reported the news early.

At this time, the boat was on Dongting Lake, Ma Hongshan and Gao Yicheng stood at the bow of the boat, and the majestic wind on the lake blew by, blowing refreshingly.

Everyone was full of spring, and Gao Yicheng said with a smile: "Ma Lao's operation this time can be said to be quite good, the handsome gave me 300,000 taels of silver, and this low buy and high sale will become 800,000 taels." Ma Lao is afraid that he has also made a lot of money this time! ”

Ma Hongshan smiled, "This is also to follow the tall and handsome and make a fortune together." ”

Saying that, he said: "Commander Gao, now the wind in Huguang is quite nervous, this batch of silver may not be transported for a while, and after the wind is over, will all the silver buy grain, or Commander Gao will bring some of it back." ”

Gao Yicheng glanced at Ma Hongshan, "The marshal has already explained, bought all the grain, and then transported it to Chengtian Mansion for storage." ”

The fire near the wharf was already difficult to extinguish, and Fan Yongdou was in a hurry, so he personally went into battle, led the guys to grab grain from the fire, and snatched out bags of rice.

However, there were too few men in the Fan family, and the hired workers were driven away by the ruffians and hooligans, and in the face of the burning group, Fan Yongdou felt a burst of despair in his heart.

At this moment, a large group of people in the vicinity rushed to the warehouse when they saw that the warehouse was on fire.

Without saying a word, the local men rushed into the grain depot one after another to carry out the grain that had not yet been burned.

When Fan Yongdou saw it, a glimmer of hope immediately ignited in his heart, and he was almost moved to tears, "When it is in danger, the villagers are still simple and willing to help!" ”

As soon as Fan Yongdou was excited, his eyes were instantly confused by tears, and he was moved.

He saw an old man dressed in a short shirt, with his trouser legs rolled up to his knees, wearing a pair of straw sandals, and carrying a bag of rice, but he walked out of the granary, and was busy gratitiously catching the old man, and was about to take the old man and say a word of gratitude, but the old man passed by him like the wind.

"Son, tell the gold to come back, stop fishing, and move it again." The old man was carrying a bag of rice, his face flushed, and he shouted loudly and excitedly while carrying the rice home.

The people who came in were all like this, they were even happier than the festival, and they took advantage of the chaos to rob, anyway, it was burned, it was burned, it was better for us to move back, and we could still eat a full meal.

Fan Yongdou saw these mud legs and carried away his grain, his face was full of astonishment, his body shook a few times, and he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

"The owner, the owner~" The money shopkeeper was shocked and hurriedly went to help, but he was a step too slow, Fan Yongdou didn't catch his breath, and collapsed directly on the ground.

A group of Fan guys who were smoky in the smoky city rushed up, pinched people again, slapped them again, and rescued Fan Yongdou after half a sound.

In a short time, the grain depot was burned down, and less than a thousand stones of grain were snatched up.

This time, he really lost all his money, and he was burdened with a huge debt of more than 600,000 taels, and more importantly, he did not complete the task given to him by the Qing court, and he was afraid that he would be finished when he returned.

For a while, Fan Yongdou wanted to die, but at this moment, the official who had been waiting for a long time suddenly rushed over.

As the first head catcher, he brutally pushed the crowd away, stood in front of Fan Yongdou, and said arrogantly: "Who is your proprietor?" ”

The money shopkeeper's heart was full of anger, and when he saw a servant coming, he immediately said: "Official, this is our host, and the official has to be the master for us!" Look at what those people have made our hosts angry. ”

"You're the proprietor?" The head catcher asked, and without waiting for Fan Yongdou to answer, he suddenly waved his hand and shouted: "You profiteer, you raise the price of grain, and when you see that the matter is exposed, you set fire to the grain, and want to destroy the evidence of the crime, it is simply heinous." Someone, take it away for me. ”

Before Ma Hongshan, people spread the news that there was a group of Shanxi businessmen who were collecting grain in the vast lake.

After that, he let people spend a lot of money to buy off several officials in Yuezhou, as well as a few officials in charge of arrest. Although this kind of official is not in the stream, he has a lot of power in his hands, and he can put you in it for a random reason, and when he is in prison, what they say is what he says, and there is no place for you to reason with death.

These officials didn't know Fan Yongdou's identity, they only knew that he was a foreign businessman, and there was no pressure at all.

Before the money shopkeeper could react, several officials stepped forward, shackled Fan Yongdou, who looked sluggish, and dragged him directly into the city, locked in a cell that did not see the light of day.

"Collusion between officials and businessmen, is there still a royal law in the Ming Dynasty?" Seeing Fan Yongdou being dragged away, the money shopkeeper's body trembled.

Many Fan guys have suddenly undergone great changes, and they have no backbone, and their faces are both blank and full of panic~

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