Chapter 168: The undercurrent is surging

Dengzhou Fucheng and the surrounding county towns have begun to have some cases inexplicably these days, all of whom have not come back after entering the mountains, and the people who have reported the cases are all from rural villages, or to tell the truth, they are all poor people. This kind of thing, which has no benefit at all, has always been of little interest to the officials.

The people in the mountains looked at the officials and didn't respond, and there was nothing they could do but warn each other that there might be something strange in the mountains recently, and not to rush into the mountains.

In the city of Dengzhou, there are more outsiders than usual, and some people ask these people what they are doing, these people with Lunan accents are saying that they are going to Shanxi to do business with Tatars, which is ordinary, although Dengzhou is not the main road, but there are people who have walked.

Although this case involves a wide range of people, the various charges of the Dong Mansion are clear, and the human and material evidence is there, and it is obviously an ironclad case. After reporting it, although it was said that there was also a responsibility for unclear investigation, it was mainly a reward, and they also thought that doing so would offend the officials above, but Jiang Feng's knife was already on his neck, so what choice could he have.

But after the report was reported, there was no news, which made people even more worried. Officials at all levels in Shandong almost changed up and down when Jiajing ascended the throne, and there were very few tangled relationships with each other. Even if you find out the news, there is no way.

Jiang Feng knew the news, but he didn't bother to tell them, so these officials were like ants on a hot pot every day, and there was no one to manage the affairs in the prefecture and county. The above is like this, and the officials and catchers naturally have to get by.

The number of 'outsiders' is small, so after being checked by soldiers at the gate of the city, no one pays attention to them after entering the city, and these outsiders have prepared many reasons that are useless, and there may be a loss in their hearts, which may not be known.

The Dong family's warehouse full of silver bricks, now Jiang Feng invited the old man from the original porter back to guard it, and cleaned it regularly, those people around him didn't understand it very well, thinking that this house could have much money, but for those who came from modern times, they had experienced the phenomenon that real estate was extremely expensive, so they still stayed.

The old man is to clean up in the early morning, and the rest of the time is to nap here, this area is the place where all kinds of heavy materials are stored in Dengzhou, and it is extremely quiet on weekdays.

At noon on this day, just after lunchtime, there were very few people on the street, most of them were on lunch break or busy, and those merchants from other places ate after dinner and wandered on the street. When they walked through a certain intersection, these people did not have the strange feeling of a stranger in Dengzhou.

Looking back and forth, he walked in quickly, there was no one in the Dong family's warehouse house, two people put their arms behind them, and the other person jumped in with his arms. The two of them were squatting by the wall, looking like a few tired people resting here.

After a while, there was a sound from the wall, and the man who had just entered jumped down from it, shook his head at his companion when he landed, and said:

"The floor inside the house is already covered with dirt!"

There is also a salt shop near the sea, which is very normal, many coastal areas do not have the natural conditions for producing salt, and the same is true in Dengzhou, in a salt shop in the west of the city, the shopkeeper looked at the young man opposite hesitantly, and asked:

"Young man, do you want a hundred pounds of salt?"

The young man was dressed in a short garment of coarse cloth, and looked like a farmer plowing the field, but the coarse cloth garment had only patches on the knees and elbows. His face was tanned by the sun, his hands and feet were quite thick, and he looked powerful, thinking that he had done enough farm work.

"We have a large population in Zhuangzi, and the master said that he would buy more at a time, so as not to run more when he gets it."

The shopkeeper asked casually, looked at the young man in front of him and smiled, turned around and instructed the guys to carry the salt there, the accent of the person who bought the salt was slightly a bit of the taste of Beizhili, but this is also common, Beizhili and Shandong are close together, and it is common to come over to help.

Outside the door there were two or three men in about the same costumes, who took salt and put it on the donkeys they had brought, and with a shout, they went out of the city. The shopkeeper of the salt shop looked at the backs of those people, shook his head and turned back to the man next to him, and said:

"Do you know that they are from the village, it seems that this is the first time I have seen them!"

Zhao Xiucai went to the restaurant prepared by the Xia family to take a look, and asked what he could help with, and then walked out with a few people from the Yang family, more than a dozen children of the Yang family are still studying and learning various skills at the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Feng opened a small shop in the capital city of Dengzhou, just buying simple meals such as steamed food and cooked meat, and the children worked here, and the teachers invited in rotation every day gave them lessons. There was an iron ding who lived with them, and the Yang family hunters in the Thousand Households were now more and more integrated into Jiang Feng's small group. Therefore, the restrictions on seeing children in the family are not so strict.

On this day, Jiang Feng sent Zhao Xiucai down to purchase some things, so a few people who were thinking about their children followed, it has been almost two months in Dengzhou Mansion, and the merchants in the mansion all know that the new Qianhu in Yantai Mountain is a rich officer who pays attention to pomp.

Every period of time at the bottom of the mountain is a large purchase, and the payment is cash, never in arrears, every time is a large number of purchases, such guests will like. After Zhao Xiucai went down the mountain, he went directly to the merchant with the list to say hello, and the shopkeeper of the merchant politely said that the goods would be delivered to the cart waiting at the city gate, and it would not be too late to pay when the time came.

Zhao Xiucai, as the general manager of Jiang Feng, felt that the materials needed on the mountain were a little bigger than usual for this purchase, and this time he went down the mountain to almost sweep away the inventory of the firecracker store in Dengzhou Mansion, from finished products to raw materials, several nearby counties and the surrounding two prefectures were also purchased by people in the past.

The number of people who built the city wall on the mountain had doubled, and the laborers employed by the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain were not official servants, but were all paid in cash, and the price was five times more expensive than the mutual employment between private individuals.

Although the field needs to be served, it doesn't matter much if it's a few days late, but the requirements of the thousands of households in Yantai Mountain are more troublesome, and you need to provide a guarantee from Lizheng, indicating that I live in Dengzhou in the times, which is okay.

Buying all kinds of materials and desperately building and reinforcing the dock fort, Zhao Xiucai naturally understood why, thinking of this, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart, his own owner has always regarded force as the best way to solve things, don't you know that there are still some words in this world, called harmony and wealth.

But then again, using violence to solve things has been quite effective until now.

Because of these thoughts, Zhao Xiucai was a little absent-minded compared to a few elated companions around him. Walk past a dim sum shop. The latter two hunters were discussing whether to buy some snacks for their children, and now every family is considered rich and there is no shortage of silver.

Zhao Xiucai suddenly stopped, and the two people who were talking about it knocked Zhao Xiucai into a stumble at once, and the people behind hurriedly came over to support him, saying sorry words, but found that Zhao Xiucai was stunned and looked at the front, completely ignoring the impact from behind. The hunters who followed were also looking ahead, but there was nothing unusual about the people coming and going on the street.

The young man who bought a hundred catties of salt and his companion pushed the wheelbarrow and walked slowly towards this side, a total of four, all of them were sturdy men, obviously in a good mood, easily pushing the salt bag, while looking at the surrounding shops, as if they wanted to buy something to take back.

Although they wore patched clothes, they didn't seem to be short of money.

Zhao Xiucai, who has always been kind and even a little timid and afraid on weekdays, straightened up, walked a few steps briskly towards the front, and grabbed the young man in the stunned eyes of several hunters behind.

Everyone was stunned, and the young man's companion reacted in an instant, and his hands were touching into his arms.

These people who buy salt are naturally not bankers, and in the same way, the more than a dozen hunters of the Yang family are not real hunters, and the young man's companions are still a little slower, and the next few hunters have already pulled out the short knife on their waists and pointed at it, and the weapons in their arms are naturally not as convenient as hanging on their waists.

The people of the Thousand Households in Yantai Mountain can already run rampant in Dengzhou Mansion, who will take care of them with swords, bows and arrows, but the others have no reason, and the officials are fenced off with shackles. One of the hunters took three steps back, took the bow and arrows he was carrying, put them on his back, and pointed at the group that was buying salt.

The few people who put their hands into their arms suddenly froze there and didn't dare to move, although the two sides were on the avenue of Fucheng, but now there are still relatively few people, even if passers-by see it, they don't dare to step forward.

However, Zhao Xiucai of the party and the young man who bought salt are not like this, the young man looks at the body and the posture of two people, as long as he makes a slight movement, he can counter Zhao Xiucai, but he was grabbed by Zhao Xiucai, the young man's face was full of shocked expressions, and he stammered:

"Third uncle, third uncle, why are you in Dengzhou, not in Liao......"

Before the words were finished, Zhao Xiucai slapped the young man more than a dozen times, and his face was very honest and gentle, but at this time, he looked a little hideous, and he whispered and scolded there hatefully:

"Bastard thing, who let you come out of Weishan Island!?"