In the evening, the squires of Hanchuan County came to Linjiang Building, the only restaurant in the county that was a bit of a grade.

Everyone had a heavy look on their faces, and they stood in the courtyard, looking at each other, shaking their heads and sighing, and one by one forcing a smile and a word of suffering.

originally thought that Gao Yihuan was ruthless enough to lower the tenant rent, and the officers and soldiers who didn't want to welcome in were much more ruthless than Gao Jukou, Gao Yihuan just took part of the rent, and the left army wanted everything.

Now that Hanchuan is experiencing this catastrophe, the squires are all responsible, especially Wang Jinshi, if it weren't for him, Zuo Zhen would not have chosen to come to Hanchuan.

But at this time, Wang Jinshi's son was beaten half to death, and his daughter-in-law committed suicide, and he had already left tears of regret and wanted to beat himself to death.

Originally, they were not in the mood to come to today's banquet, but Zhang Zongbing was very concerned about Sun County's order to raise a sum of money and food in the county to send him off to the defense, and ordered the soldiers to call all the leading figures in the county.

For a time, the squires in the county were dragged out of their homes by the soldiers of Zuo Town, and even Wang Jinshi, who had died in the family and his son was crippled, was also escorted to the banquet.

The dignified Jinshi master is a face-saving figure in the locality, Zuo Jun does not give any face, not only blackmails him for money, but also spoils his family, but he has no ability to resist at all, it can be said that his majesty is swept away, and his reputation for being stupid and stupid may become the laughing stock of others.

The squires were led to the private room on the second floor, and after a short time, Zhang Yingxiang came to Linjiang Tower with nearly a hundred relatives.

With so many soldiers, the squires immediately bitterly knew that they would have to shed blood again tonight.

A few days ago, I had a banquet, and each person took out a few thousand taels of silver before being sent home, and this time I don't know how much I have to pay in order to change peace.

Zhang Yingxiang is still very good to his relatives, nearly 100 relatives, more than 10 tables are set up downstairs, each table is prepared with chicken, duck and fish, as well as fat but not greasy pig's head meat, which is mouth-watering.

The soldiers took their seats one after another, and Zhang Yingxiang waved his hand and greeted: "The fellow villagers are warmly welcome, and the brothers eat and drink well, don't live up to their kindness." ”

The soldiers of Zuo Zhen laughed for a while, and when Zhang Yingxiang went up to the second floor accompanied by several generals, he immediately started, making loud noises one by one, guessing and drinking, eating meat in large pieces, and being so unhappy.

"Hehe~ All the fathers and elders are here!" Zhang Yingxiang walked into the private room, smiling but not smiling.

The gentry who were talking quietly in the room were silent in an instant, and they all stood up under the leadership of Sun County Commander and saluted General Zhang.

Zhang Yingxiang sat down directly beside Sun Xianling, and then raised his hand to suppress it, "I called everyone here today, mainly to discuss how to reimburse the cost of our left army garrison." When I heard that you wanted to pay it all at once, I was very moved in my heart, and after discussing with the soldiers, I decided to give you a discount, which was 150,000 taels! ”

The squires almost vomited blood, and they all looked embarrassed. Previously, they had already made up 100,000 taels, and now they want 150,000 taels, even if they dig out their money, they can't make it up.

Hanchuan County's annual tax is less than 10,000 taels, and they rely on collecting rents and collecting it for many years before they can recover it.

Zhang Yingxiang saw everyone's expressions, no one answered, his heart was unhappy, his face turned up again, and the general next to him suddenly stood up and slapped on the table, shaking the wine and soup on the plate.

"Mother, don't be ashamed. 150,000 taels, not one less, don't take the kindness of the chief soldier seriously, we must get it together tonight, and when our chief soldier changes his mind, it won't be this price! ”

At the same time, the door of the private room was pushed open, and several left sergeants broke in, pulled out the knife in half, and the blade was cold and shining, looking murderous.

Where are the officers and soldiers, they are bandits at all. As soon as everyone saw it, they knew that if they didn't cut meat today, they probably wouldn't be able to get out of this door again.

Many gentry could only look at Sun Xianling, and complained a little in their hearts, didn't they say that they would go to Xiangyang to ask for troops? How did it become a piece of money for Zhang Yingxiang again.

However, Sun Xianling ignored their inquiring eyes, and instead smiled at Zhang Yingxiang: "Don't worry, General Zhang, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and the county can't let the brothers of the Left Army chill." The county took the lead in taking out three hundred taels, and you should take as much as you wanted, and claimed your own amount, so that the brothers in the left army could move to other places. ”

Seeing the county order say this, everyone couldn't help but wonder in their hearts, it wouldn't be Sun County Ling and Zhang Yingxiang who had discussed it and came to loot them.

For a while, everyone wanted to die. Wang Jinshi sighed, "I pledged to donate 10,000 taels, and let people take it!" ”

Anyway, he had to send Zuo Zhen away as soon as possible and let them continue to be stationed, he didn't dare to guarantee that there would be any family members who would be hurt by these brutes.

Wang Jinshi took the lead, and what else did the others say, all the squires and lords pledged to let people go back and get the silver to redeem themselves.

About half an hour or so, boxes of silver were carried to the courtyard of Linjiang Building one after another, piled up like a hill.

Zhang Yingxiang looked down from the window, the silver with white flowers was shining silver in the moonlight, and his eyes were also shining.

Although there is still some distance from 150,000 taels, Zhang Yingxiang is already very happy, he can't help but turn around, "Hehe~ Ben will replace the brothers, thank you for your love." ”

The rich man of Hanchuan County is really squeezed almost now, and it is estimated that he will not be able to make up for one night, seeing that there is no silver box coming in, Sun Xianling said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, can you be accommodating with the rest, and give everyone a little more time." ”

Zhang Yingxiang was in a good mood, "Hehe, it's easy to say, Ben Jiang is not in a hurry, anyway, Ben Jiang didn't plan to leave so quickly, so he will stay in Hanchuan for a little longer, and I'll talk about it when you get together." ”

As soon as they heard this, the squires beat their chests and were almost forced to cry.

Zhang Yingxiang was in a happy mood, making people optimistic about the silver, beckoning everyone to eat, where did everyone have an appetite, the atmosphere became a little embarrassing, but it did not affect Zhang Yingxiang at all.

He was in a happy mood, completely ignoring the feelings of everyone, he drank a few glasses, and suddenly felt that something was not right, and it seemed to be a little less meaningful, so he put down his chopsticks and asked, "Why don't you find a few girls and come over to accompany the wine!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, no one dared to take this stubble, after Zhang Yingxiang entered the city, he had already spoiled many women from good families, and there were five people who were forced to die.

No one spoke, Mr. Zhang was moody, and his eyebrows immediately became unhappy again.

He put down the wine glass heavily, snorted coldly, and when the generals next to him saw it, he immediately became angry again, "Mother, our general army led the troops to protect you, and you have this attitude." If we don't satisfy our general army today, our left army will stay in Hanchuan! ”

The gentry were so frightened that their faces were like ashes, this was unacceptable, and some people were just about to give in, but Sun Xianling suddenly sneered, "Then you will stay in Hanchuan!" Now I just want to go, I'm afraid I can't go! ”

Zhang Yingxiang, who had a straight face, frowned, a little surprised, and raised his eyebrows, "What does Sun County's order mean?" ”

Before the words fell, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and then the two left sergeants let out a miserable scream, and their bodies slammed open the door of the house and smashed on the wine table, the table suddenly collapsed, and the plates and wine glasses fell to the ground, startling the gentry to jump away.

Zhang Yingxiang looked stool, saw more than a dozen uninvited guests, appeared outside the door, and immediately rushed up and ran to the window, "Come on, come and save Lao Tzu!" ”

Sun Xianling sneered: "General Zhang, it's useless, if you cut your throat, no one will save you!" ”

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