Three days. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

Li Chao's ultimatum time has also passed.

In the past three days, Shangzhou has almost paid all the food that should be paid, and in the end, there are only a dozen or so families left who were fined for giving gifts last time.

These dozen or so are the most powerful clans in Shangzhou.

In the past few days, these dozen or so families have successively sent some grain to the yamen, but all of them are less than 1,000. This amount is completely wrong with what Li Chao has mastered, they haven't even paid a third of it, let alone have no indication of the fine issued by Li Chao.

Three days have passed.

The Yamen of Shangzhou put up lanterns, and the crown prince Li Chengqian and the envoy Li Chao hosted a banquet for the big businessmen of Shangzhou, and this time they basically received invitations to the imperial court and those who bought more than 100 stones of grain.

The prince and the envoy had a banquet, and these people in Shangzhou still felt quite face-saving.

A group of wealthy businessmen from large Shangzhou families greeted each other in front of the ya.

"Pavilion Master Du!"

"Hello Mr. Zhang!"

"Lao Tzu, no younger than Pavilion Master Zhang. This time, the owner of the Zhang Pavilion has climbed the high branches, glorified the ancestors, and earned five posthumous gifts for the ancestors, which is amazing. ”

Du Li, the owner of the Xinfeng Guild Hall, stood there, listening to the old man of the Zhang family, a large local family, with a humble attitude. In Shangluo, Shangzhou, the Zhang family is the largest household in the city.

The Zhang family is prosperous, not far from the city, is the ancestral house of the Zhang family, the whole village is the place where the Zhang family lived, the houses are house by house, the surrounding fields are also theirs, and they also have a wharf of the Zhang family.

The village walls of Zhang's village are also much taller than ordinary villages, and the locals call them Zhangwu. It is a castle, and there are hundreds of men of the Zhang family in the castle, including family members and servants, and there are more than three or four thousand people in the family, which is famous far and wide.

Even if he is in the history of Shangzhou, he has to go to Zhang Wu to meet this old man Zhang.

Xinfeng Hall has to go to visit and give gifts from time to time, and it can't afford to offend the Zhang family.

"I heard that the owner of the Du Pavilion partnered with Li Xiang to open a cake factory, it's amazing."

"It's just that Li Xiang looks at it." Du Li replied with a smile.

"Well, in the future, the master of the Du Pavilion will be developed, but don't forget our small families in Shangzhou." Saying that, Old Man Zhang took the children of the clan into the government.

Du Li looked at the figure of Old Man Zhang and his entourage, and a sneer appeared on his face.

"Pavilion Master Du, this surnamed Zhang is also good enough, he actually dares to have a hard top with Li Xiang, to this day, he just took out 800 stone of grain, and he ignored Li Xiang's fine, and he actually dared to come to the banquet today!"

Du Li snorted.

"This old man is also old and mediocre, and he really thinks how great it is for him to go to the Luo Zhang family. It's just sitting in a well and watching the sky, and Yelang is arrogant and can't do anything about himself. Today's banquet is destined to be lively and beautiful. ”

"Lively?" Several grain merchants in the Xinfeng Hall were surprised.

Du Li said, "They don't want to think about it, who is Li Xiangguo?" Warning ultimatum again and again, is it really Li Xiang who is muddy? Li Xiangna is a person who is in and out of the phase, decisive in killing, ruthless, how can a small wealthy family in Shangluo City be able to fight? Think about Peng Guogong's father and son, what kind of power is that, if you say it will be destroyed, it will be destroyed, and it will be uprooted, and the heads of father and son are still hanging on the head of Chang'an City. Farther away, the father and son of the king of Lujiang, the father and son are both the kings of the county, and they are the cousins of His Majesty today, what is the result? ”

Speaking of this, Du Li showed a somewhat playful smile on his face, "Some people just die." We're going to be able to see the show today! ”

"How will Li Xianghui deal with the Zhang family and others?"

"I don't think I'll be spared!" Du Li said that although he operates in Shangzhou, he often travels back and forth to Chang'an, and often goes to Du's house, and knows more about the situation in the DPRK than ordinary people. He knows better than others that Xiangguo Li Chao is by no means a good person. Don't look at Li Chao so young on the surface, and he often smiles, but he has many ruthless methods.

Inside the yamen.

Old man Zhang is very proud today.

This Shangzhou Yamen is the same as his own family, wherever he goes, there are people who greet him, and even many officials in the yamen, who are all children of his clan and in-laws.

"The old man's figure is getting more and more fit!"

"I just accepted the eleventh concubine, old man, you have to take it easy." Someone laughed.

A group of parents from large households in Shangzhou automatically gathered around Old Man Zhang, and no one was around to talk and laugh loudly.

"Xiangguo, these guys are arrogant enough." Cheng Chumo said to Li Chao.

Li Chao stood in the attic, looking at the unscrupulous appearance of the group of Shangzhou tyrants in the courtyard in the distance, and still had a slight smile on his face.

"It's good that they're here, they set up such a big stage today, if they don't come, this play won't be exciting."

"Do you really want to move them?"

"The sword is not out of the sheath, and some people will always think that we are just making a show of thunder and rain."

Li Chao turned his head to Niu Jianhu and said, "Are you ready?" ”

"It's ready, as long as Xiangguo gives an order, Zhang Wu will take it in a moment."

Li Chao nodded.

His patience is also limited, the Zhang family and other more than a dozen Shangzhou Haoqiang did not take him seriously at all, and repeatedly challenged his patience, and Li Chao let them die.

Today is the time to kill chickens.

Shangzhou Assassin Liu Ye came over.

"Xiangguo, everyone is almost here, do you want to start the feast?"

"Let's get started."

Liu Ye nodded, turned around and went down first.

People are arriving one after another, all the heads and faces in Shangzhou have arrived, the backyard of the yamen is big enough, and today it happens to be a cloudy day, and the tables are directly placed in the backyard, and hundreds of people can be accommodated.

Still, a few hundred people sat there, and it was still very noisy.

The officials of the Yazhong led the people to their seats.

Old man Zhang and the heads of more than ten households were led to sit at the front table, which was below the first table of the prince and Li Chao.

Old man Zhang pretended to excuse himself a few times, and then sat on crutches with a red face.

Liu Ye first said a few words on it, and then invited the prince and Li Chao to attend.

Li Chao appeared with Li Chengqian.

"Before the banquet begins, let me make an announcement." Li Chao stood there with a smile and said, "Shangluo Zhang's clan relies on its power to run rampant in the township, fish and flesh the people, and do a lot of injustice. The prime minister was full of bad deeds, and during this period of time with the prince to Shangzhou, he continued to receive complaints from the people and merchants, and during this time, he also sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly, but unexpectedly, he was shocked by the fact that he couldn't imagine that Shangluo Zhang's family, a small wealthy family in the state, actually had so many evil deeds and bad deeds......"

Everyone was caught off guard.

Li Xiangguo: Is this going to move the Zhang family?

Hundreds of pairs of eyes turned to the old man Zhang who was the chief in the audience, and the old man Zhang, who was still sitting proudly as the chief, was stunned. The excitement on his face turned into a swollen purple of shock and anger.

A group of guards came out from one side.

In the stunned eyes of everyone, he picked up Old Man Zhang directly from the chief.

Niu Jianhu knocked off the old man's head with a knife, kicked him in the crook of the leg, the old man stood unsteadily, and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Now please Liu Envoy Jun ascend to the court to hear the case, handle the case impartially, the prime minister and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will observe, and you are here to testify!"

Things changed so quickly that everyone in Shangzhou didn't expect that a wine banquet would become a public trial.

"Ascension!"

"Whew!"

"Wu!"

As the sound of the servants' water and fire sticks hitting the ground sounded, a unique trial began! (To be continued.) )