Jiangning Mansion.

Liu Jiangbai's brows were tightly locked, and he kept pacing back and forth, and Liao Dang, the head catcher of Jiangning City, stood aside respectfully, his eyes moving with Liu Jiangbai, waiting for Liu Jiangbai's order.

"Are there really thousands of people?" Small beads of sweat appeared on Liu Jiangbai's forehead, and the news that Liao Dang had just brought scared him a lot.

"Lord Fu Yin, the little father-in-law is from Misang Village, he won't talk to me." Liao Dare looked determined.

"It's not that the official doesn't believe you, it's just that this incident happened suddenly, and there are a large number of people involved, so I'm afraid that someone will interfere with it."

Liu Jiangbai was irritable in his heart, just now Liao Dang suddenly came to the government office and told him that there were thousands of people in the village outside Jiangning City, and they were ready to come to the government collectively to sue the Lin family weaving mill and ask the government to shut down the Lin family's weaving workshop.

Some people even said that if the government sat idly by, they would lead people to smash the Lin family's weaving workshop and not hesitate to go to prison.

Liao Dang hesitated for a moment, he said: "Lord Liu, with all due respect, the Lin Weaving Workshop has lowered the price of cloth by five hundred Wen, which has made the vast majority of cloth merchants in Jiangning Mansion order the cloth of the Lin Weaving Workshop, and no one cares about the cloth woven by the people, and it is normal for the people to be dissatisfied in their hearts, after all, this is equivalent to cutting off their way of life." “

After a pause, he continued: "However, Lord Liu's guess just now is not unreasonable, a few days ago, Xiao accidentally saw Liu Kun of the Liu Family Cloth Company and Zhang Qingshan and Liu Tongju, the proprietors of the Yang Cloth Company, eating wine in Yuhua Building. “

"Liu Tong's judgment?"

Liu Jiangbai's heart sank, this Liu Tongju's name is Liu Ziqin, a native of Jiangning, who climbed from a county magistrate of Jiangning Mansion to the position of the current Jiangning Mansion, which can be described as the real head snake of Jiangning.

"There is no wind and no waves, Liu Ziqin won the position of Jiangning Mansion General Judgment by meeting Li Wenfu, and he is as disgusted with the law change as Li Wenfu and others, and it seems that Liu Tong's sentence is the wind that caused the people to raise trouble this time." Liu Jiangbai snorted heavily.

The official system of the Chinese Dynasty, in order to prevent the tail of the Fuzhou officials from falling apart, set up the general judgment as a deputy to handle government affairs with the Fu Yin, and at the same time, the general judge also has the responsibility of supervising the Fu Yin, and can directly report to the emperor to report to the Fuzhou and county officials within the jurisdiction, so he has no way to judge this Liu Tong, not to mention, Liu Ziqin was originally placed by Li Wenfu in Jiangning to restrain him.

"Don't make a noise about this matter for the time being, so as not to startle the snake, this official will go to see King Duan now." Liu Jiangbai felt that he had a shallow foundation in Jiangning, and he couldn't fight Liu Ziqin secretly, so he could only ask King Duan for help, after all, now King Duan has a holy purpose in his hands, and he is the governor of all military affairs in Jiangning Mansion.

Liao dared to respond Yes, the party struggle in the imperial court is everywhere from top to bottom, and naturally it also extends to this Jiangning Mansion, although he is a head, he can also feel it.

Let Liao dare to go back, Liu Jiangbai went straight to Duanwang's mansion, and at the same time sent someone to inform Lin Mu.

Here, Lin Mu sent the merchant away, and was swinging with the slave, and when he got the notice, he didn't care, and went to Duanwang's Mansion under the escort of Shan Hu.

In the study, Duan Wang and Liu Jiangbai were waiting for him, but he could see at a glance that the two were in a bad mood.

"Lin Mu, the soap has been sold for a lot of silver." Liu Jiangbai reluctantly asked Lin Mu with a smile.

Directly told Lin Mu that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, he didn't dare to tell the truth, "One hundred thousand taels of silver, run a group training, and the silver for building a military workshop is there." ”

"One hundred thousand taels?" Liu Jiangbai and King Duan glanced at each other, their expressions were shocked, but they were also relieved, with so much silver, Lin Mu was afraid that this difficulty would be over.

Clearing his throat, King Duan pretended to be an old man and said, "Lin Shi said, don't be happy too early, there is something very troublesome now, if it is not handled properly, I am afraid that our attempt to change the law in Jiangning will be ruined." “

"Please also ask Your Highness to make it clear." Lin Mu's mind was racing, and he vaguely guessed something in his heart. 、

"Liu Gong just got the news that thousands of people want to enter the city tomorrow to tell you, and they will smash your weaving mill, claiming that the Lin family's weaving workshop has cut off their way of life." King Duan's expression was serious, and it was obvious that this matter was also a tricky issue for him.

"It's time to come after all." Lin Mu didn't have the panic that Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang imagined.

Liu Jiangbai saw this. "Lin Mu, this is not a child's play, if this matter reaches the imperial court, someone will definitely make a big fuss and slander the law, and no one will be able to keep your Lin Clan's weaving workshop at that time."

"Then how did His Highness Liu Mansion Yin deal with this matter?" Before the official business, Lin Mu didn't dare to call Uncle Liujiang Bailiu.

King Duan said: "Just now, this king and Liu Gong discussed it, since these people claim that you sell cloth at a low price, it is better for you to raise the price of cloth. ”

"Your Highness, the merchant who ordered the cloth has paid a deposit, and raising the price at this time is tantamount to breaking the contract?" Lin Mu was very disdainful of the ideas of the two.

Although Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang said that they wanted to change the law, they still had the feudal officialdom thinking of the Chinese Dynasty in their minds, and they did not consider the changes that would inevitably be caused by the advent of the great era, and they were still led by the contradictions caused by the changes of the times.

"Breaking the contract will cost you at most some silver, and you're not without money now, but if this matter gets bigger, no one can hold it, and if it's not good, you will have to sit in prison." Liu Jiangbai could see that Lin Mu was indifferent to their suggestion.

Smiling lightly, Lin Mulang said: "Lin Mou thought that His Royal Highness Liufu Yin He was a giant-eyed hero, who could see the changes in the current world and was unswervingly committed to changing the law, but he didn't expect that just a little fight would make the two of them mess up, but now Lin Mou understood why foreigners have been trading with the Chinese Dynasty for a hundred years, but the Chinese Dynasty still can't see the changes in other countries, and still sticks to the old rules, and also understands why it is so difficult to change the law." ”

Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang were a little embarrassed, and they didn't dare to look at Lin Mu, they really wanted Lin Mu to spend some money to settle this matter, after all, it would be serious if the people of thousands of people also made a riot.

Staring at the eyes of the two, Lin Mu looked serious: "The so-called change is a violent change in which the superior new system replaces the maladministration, in this change, the old and backward things will inevitably be replaced by new and advanced things, and the new interest groups will inevitably step on the corpses of the old interest groups to come to the forefront, leading the Hua Dynasty to free itself from the backward productive forces and complete the transformation of the Hua Dynasty from an agricultural country to an industrial country, otherwise the Hua Dynasty will be gnawed in the world jungle of the jungle of ”

In the end, Lin Mu almost shouted, the world in the nineteenth century was changing drastically, and taking a wrong step was an abyss for a country, and the current Hua Dynasty reform is still difficult, even Liu Jiangbai and Duanwang are not able to firm the way forward in the face of the changes brought about by new things, how absurd this is, perhaps, this is the limitation of history has its time.