This great upheaval in Yangzhou City finally disappeared after the return of the Nanjing Song.

Wu Zhong scoundrels, gangsters and salt dings, some of the people who rushed to the front when the chaos occurred, all kinds of people who participated in the operation, before and after, together with the gentry, officials, salt merchants, a total of 3,000 people were arrested.

There were more than 300 people who were ordered to be beheaded by the prince on the spot, and then more than 100 people were beheaded one after another, hanging around the city gate, and the grinning heads were hung for more than ten days, and the pedestrians who passed by the city gate every day would see it.

However, the disturbance caused by this incident is extremely small.

The people who were killed, the highest status was the retired servants, these people, in the eyes of the peasants in the countryside, were still the number ones, and what were they in the eyes of the real ruling class of this huge empire?

If you kill it, you will kill it, it doesn't matter.

A huge turmoil was easily resolved.

The arrested, gentry and salt merchants, with more than 30 first-class people who committed the most serious crimes, were all sent to Lingao, Hainan.

At this time, it is not possible to go north, but it is still peaceful to go south, even so, whether these 30 or so people plus their relatives can arrive safely is two words.

When these people were crying and crying, miserable and miserable on the road, Yangzhou city inside and outside the city is also gathered a lot of people onlookers, the Ming Dynasty exiled prisoners, generally sent to the military state, such as Yangzhou crimes, may be sent directly to Jinshanwei, in the late Ming Dynasty, the law and order were abolished, there were very few prisoners in the exile guard.

At this time, the second class is to cut off the rank of the gentry, that is, there is no longer the qualification of the official gentry, and the payment of grain and payment is equivalent to that of ordinary people. If it is a salt merchant, it is not polite, and there is no fine, but the qualification of the nest will be cancelled.

Then there was more, that is, the admonition, which was personally admonished by the crown prince on the school field of the garrison camp, and then he threw everyone in the camp, which lasted for more than ten days, and everyone was terrified, seeing that some people were brought into exile, and some people were taken away, and their faces were as pale as dirt.

Liu Yan, Yang Yingming, Dai Jun...... Come out! ”

"Yes, sir."

After being detained for more than ten days, he was arrested again, and now whether it is an official gentleman or a salt merchant with copper on his waist, they all nod their heads when they see these officers and soldiers, and they are very polite.

If it was before, the uncle could clip a little officer in his eyelids?

With a "bang", the door opened, and the little officer who led the team looked at everyone, couldn't help laughing, and waved his hand: "Hurry up, look at what you have become one by one, the houses of our city defense camp have also been badly trampled by you, and we will have to ask someone to clean them carefully after a while." ”

While complaining, on the other hand, he called someone to inspect it, press his handprint according to his name, prepare the file, and then brought it to the door of the barracks, and the little officer waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let's go, gentlemen!" ”

If it was before, such a little military attache was not like a bird in the eyes of everyone and a pariah, these days, a good man is not a soldier, a good iron does not hit nails, and the soldier is either a military family, or a broken household, there is really no way, find such a bite of food to eat.

Even if you are a military attaché, you are no different from a beggar's head.

At this time, I saw that the other party's bearing was extraordinary, and the battle jacket on his body was also very clean, and the original lowly and lowly atmosphere had long been gone.

The prince raised the salaries of officers and soldiers, reprimanded the old and weak, strengthened training, and in a short period of time, the town army used to garrison was also fierce and fierce, and he looked like a soldier.

Not to mention anything else, the barracks are cleaned up, the toilets are sprinkled and cleaned every day, and the soldiers also pay attention to hygiene, and there are hygiene regulations in the camp, and those who violate them will be punished...... After living here for so many days, many people can see it very clearly.

There are already many big salt merchants with big families and salt farms, and they have made up their minds that after they go back, the salt farms will also learn from the garrison, and they dare not say anything else, practice their physique and this hygiene habit, line up for meals, and fold the bedding neatly.

I heard that Huai'an Qingjiang, where the training is more ruthless and the requirements are stricter, it is the Pingyu army directly led by the serious prince, and it is necessary to train to become the first-class strong soldier in the world, but everyone does not dare to compare.

Out of the clean gate of the barracks, looking up at the blue sky overhead, many people are like in a dream, and those who are emotionally fragile are left in tears for a while.

………… In the crowd, there was a middle-aged man named Liu Yan, who looked contemplative from time to time when he walked.

He is a big businessman among the salt merchants in Huai'an, and his family has a nest book for more than five generations and a history of more than 100 years.

Huaiyang salt merchants, those with millions of family assets are just "small businessmen", like the Liu family, the Qianzhuang fields, salt farms and everything add up, not to mention three or five million silver coins.

It's also funny to say that the financial system of the Ming Dynasty is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, and even some of the big businessmen in their own country are inferior. Wanli collects the world, a big son is eager to be used for ten, and when he dies, it is only a small treasury of 18 million, and in the Huaiyang area, any two big salt merchants may have more money than the emperor has worked hard for decades.

Out of the door, everyone is embarrassed, surrounded by the officers and soldiers of the garrison battalion who are holding back their laughter, and the onlookers whose smiling faces are rotten, this big turmoil has nothing to do with the real people, so there are more and more people who come out to see the excitement, and now everyone knows that the salt merchants and gentry are locked up in the small school yard of the city camp, who doesn't hurry up to see the excitement?

If you can go out of the camp, you can only go with the dust and wind, whether it is a gentry or a salt merchant, who has suffered this hardship?

In the summer, the head is on the top, and the heart is buoyant without taking a few steps, and most of them are taken out of the quilt in the middle of the night, and they are not wearing good clothes, and they have been locked up for more than ten days, and the original clothes are almost wrinkled, wrinkled, and they really don't look like a person.

All of them are old gentlemen with fine skin and white meat, who has ever suffered this?

At the moment, I can only walk in peace, gritting my teeth and moving forward.

What can you do with a belly of resentment?

The salt merchants and gentry sent to Lingao, Hainan were all exiled, and the original foundation and family property were all ruined. These are the most condemned, I heard that they are all inextricably linked with the Jiangnan side, many of them are also characters in the Donglin Restoration Society, this time sent to Hainan, thousands of miles of smoke and miasma ground, the whole family gathered in the school, allowed to bring a small amount of gold and silver, and then drove to the road, along the way is the garrison battalion rotation escort.

Seeing that scene, I can still walk out of the camp comfortably by myself, and then all the big things are gone...... Thinking about it this way, it's time to return to God!

Out of the camp, I finally saw a large number of carriages and horses, all of which were teams that came to greet each family when they heard the news, although Liu Yan's family was in Huai'an, there was also a small courtyard in Yangzhou, but these people were not there, and they didn't know what they had been trampled into.

While hesitating, a local salt merchant named Dai Jun smiled at Liu Yan while changing the clothes sent by his family: "Brother Zhongshi, there is no one to take care of the Zun family, Huai'an is far away, we have suffered these days." Come with me, listen to the play, drink some wine, and then go back to Huai'an for two days, how about it? ”

Among the salt merchants, this little hospitality is really nothing, Liu Yan only hesitated for a moment, then nodded, and said with a smile: "Since this is the case, I will bother Brother Dai." ”

"Where's the word, this time it's really fate, the two of us can live in one cell. To tell the truth, my family has been a businessman for three generations, and my brother never dreamed that he would be in prison one day, haha! ”

This Dai Jun is also bold, such a depressing thing is only a joke, Rao is Liu Yan's belly thoughts, and he has to laugh bitterly with him at this time.

"Compared with those who are put in Hainan, we should be happy!" There was laughter here, but someone sighed over there: "Even when the crown prince admonished us, he had already talked about the new improvement of the salt class, and it was imperative." Tell us not to make a mistake. Of course, saying these words also has the intention of warning the Jiangnan gentry, but I think it will be difficult for us salt merchants to continue to be rich and prosperous in the future. ”

The hearts of everyone who said such a thing immediately were cold, and for a while, everyone was not interested.

Dai Jun also smiled on his face, and after half a ring, he reluctantly smiled at Liu Yan: "Our family resources are saved, and we can't use them up in the tenth life." It really doesn't matter if you don't ask us to be salt merchants, spend money to hire teachers, and the children in the family are all studying, and we will also learn from the south to get a big family of poetry heirlooms. ”

Saying this, it is also to drum up everyone's excitement, and they are all buzzing at the moment, and then change clothes, get on the car, sit in the sedan chair, Liu Yanguan for a long time, think that the sedan chair is boring, and get on the horse brought by the family, Dai Jun also feels the same way, so they all ride together.

Everyone was locked up in the school field of the garrison camp, not far ahead, it was the thoroughfare, and there were some lively people on both sides, but there were not many people who came around in front of the barracks.

At this time, the gong sounded loudly in the front market, and everyone looked at it, and there were several teams of tall feet and tiger head cards coming from afar, and then there were sedan chairs carried by four people, with horses on top of their heads in front of them, and the honor guards on both sides were all old and sophisticated wealthy businessmen in the city.

"Yes, let's get out of the way."

Whether it is a salt merchant with a net worth of millions or millions, even if there are more than 1,000 salt under his head, more than 100 family members, and he can intersect with the state capital in private, but on the surface, he has to respectfully avoid officials, and a retired magistrate can also point his nose and scold the salt merchant!

This time everyone has just suffered a big loss, where do they dare to resist rudeness?

At the moment, they all asked the slaves to lead the horses away, and they didn't dare to touch the moldy head of this official, and if they were beaten with a board just after they came out, it would be too wronged.

"A dog, that's not, that's not Ma Hongjun?"

Dai Jun originally stood honestly on the side of the road, just waiting for the official's guard of honor to go back early, because he stood on the side of the horse, he just kept waving the horsewhip, but he didn't watch out for the official in the sedan chair and opened the sedan curtain to look around, and his eyes met, but Dai Jun recognized it at a glance, the guy in the sedan chair is also a salt merchant in the city, and his net worth is also quite rich, but he is a little bit unclear, and he spends tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy fakes, and he is in a hurry to tie up the gentry but is driven out of the door, and these things have always been done too much.

A while ago, in Nanjing's household department, he stammered indiscriminately, and was taught a lesson by the subordinates in Gao Hongtu's mansion.

Today, relatives came to the house, and the children's grandparents and uncles came a lot, cooking and drinking, and now they are tired and happy, only one more chapter.

We'll see if we can make it up tomorrow.

Sincerely, respects.

In addition, don't abandon me, don't give me a monthly pass, it's very sad.

(To be continued)