Qingzhou is a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands, and the amount of food that these hundreds of thousands of people eat every day is very huge. In particular, the number of people in the city who are not engaged in production is also very large, and these people are called non-agricultural people in later generations, and these people have no land.

Naturally, what these people who did not have fields had to buy what they ate, and where to buy it was naturally in the rice shops opened by grain merchants. There are four largest grain merchants in Qingzhou City, namely Zheng, Wang, Hong, and Sun, who are not necessarily the richest people in Qingzhou Mansion, but they must be the people with the most food in Qingzhou City.

And these four grain merchants all took an attitude after receiving the invitation from Pang Gang, that is, they threw the invitations in their hands into the wastebasket, for this new Lingshan Wei Qianhu They looked down on them from the bottom of their hearts, although they did not have any official positions, but with the criss-crossing network and huge connections behind them, they need to pay attention to the thousands of households in a health center. Maybe the name on the invitation card was changed to the Qingzhou prefect or the commander of the yamen, which was pretty much the same.

Is it arrogant? Yes, that's it! At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the prototype of capitalism has been quietly born, and in the Ming Dynasty, they relied on their abundant financial resources to invite the best teachers and provide the best reading environment for the children in the family, so that they could participate in the imperial examination after they had learned something.

Together with the chief assistants of the cabinet, they have also become the spokesmen of the civilian clique, they are not responsible to the emperor, but objectively have become the highest representatives of the civilian clique in politics, if in order to cater to the emperor and go against the will of the majority of the civil officials, they will inevitably bear tremendous mental pressure and even pay a huge price. In this context, the merchant gentry group of the Ming Dynasty has become a very large force in the whole country. Under the slogan of "not competing with the people for profit", they buy and sell illegal salt, monopolize the commercial market, factories and mines, and in order to achieve the goal of accumulating money, they can do anything against the world, so in their opinion, Pang Gang, a small guard house, dared to let them open their granaries to release grain to relieve those mud legs who were nothing more than ants in their eyes, which in their eyes was simply the most ridiculous and funny thing in the whole world.

But are things really ridiculous and funny? Today Pang Gang wants to let them know what happens when power and wealth meet armies and steel knives.

The sky is bright, the residents of Qingzhou City are still sleeping, a heavily armed soldier trotted all the way to a residence in the southeast area of Qingzhou City, this residence is very gorgeous just by looking at the appearance, the tall wall made of blue bricks and green tiles, the vermilion gate and Zeng Liang's copper ring and the two large stone lions placed in front of the mansion all show the power and wealth of the master of this mansion, and the plaque on this gate is written with gold lacquer "Zheng Mansion" two big gold characters.

The leader of this group of soldiers is our Pang Gang, who was deflated last night, and at this time, Pang Gang, like all the soldiers, was covered in iron armor and held a scimitar with a cold light in his hand.

Pang Gang walked slowly to the gate of this mansion, looked coldly at the two dead wind lamps hanging in front of the gate, turned his head and asked the person behind him: "Da Zhuang, are the soldiers ready?" ”

Behind him, who was also wearing a pair of chain mail and holding a waist knife, Da Zhuang said in a muffled voice: "Lord Qiyu, the brothers have surrounded this house, and I promise that they won't be able to fly out even a fly." ”

Pang Gang shouted in a low voice: "Then what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and smash the door open for this official!" ”

"Yes!"

Da Zhuang responded with a wave of his hand, and immediately sixteen soldiers with big shoulders and round waists carried a log the thickness of a sea bowl to the gate, and with the order of the small flag standing next to him, the soldiers shouted the trumpet and began to bang on the door.

"Boom Boom"

A loud sound echoed through the streets like the roar of a monster on this cold, silent morning.

The old Wang Tou is over 50 years old this year, and he borrowed the light of his distant nephew, who was a steward in the Zheng Mansion, to be a porter in the Zheng Mansion. Zheng Mansion is one of the largest grain merchants in Qingzhou Mansion, there is naturally no shortage of food in the house, the old king is not only well fed and warmly clothed here, but also from time to time there are those small merchants who ask the master to do things, just these filial piety, he has no less than five taels of silver every month to go into the pocket, not to mention how moisturized.

Last night, the old Wang Tou drank all night with several scary people from the Zheng Mansion, and it was not until the middle of the night that he returned to his porter and fell asleep in a daze, never thinking that before dawn, there was a sound of shaking mountains at the gate in front of the mansion. The old king, who had been disturbed by his good dreams, was so angry that he rushed out of the gatehouse after approving a piece of clothing, and walked to the gate and was about to scold, but before he could scold, the door made of hard iron and wood collapsed, and in a burst of dust and smoke, a group of people rushed in.

Seeing such a situation, the drunken old king scolded angrily: "You bastards, do you know whose mansion this is, this is Master Zheng's home, you dare to break the gate of our Zheng Mansion, do you know how much of a sin you have committed, I tell you that as long as our master sends a name card to the mansion, you will all have to squat!" It's not all stopping and heading now."

Suddenly, the old king's originally loud shout suddenly became smaller, it turned out that the tip of a cold knife had reached his neck, and the coldness from the tip of the knife seemed to reach his heart, turning the wine in his head into a cold sweat flowing down his head.

A cold voice came from in front of him, "You shut up with the official, and now the official asks you, where does the lord of your Zheng Mansion live?" ”

As the voice came, the old king's eyes, which were originally slightly presbyopia, began to brighten in the morning light, and he could see clearly what was happening in front of him. At this time, in front of him stood a tall Ming officer with a red mandarin duck jacket on the outside of his armor, and he was looking at himself coldly at this moment, and the handle of the knife around his neck was in his hand. From his cold eyes, the old king had no doubt that as long as he said half a word from his mouth, this knife would not hesitate to cut his neck like killing a chicken in the next moment.

"The military master spares his life, the military master spares his life, our master is resting in the backyard." The old king, who had been buried in his throat by the loess, had a very deep understanding of the truth of not eating the loss in front of him, and immediately answered, and also pointed to the direction with his finger.

The officer who put the knife on the old king's neck was Pang Gang, and after listening to the old king's words, he pointed his finger to the southeast and ordered, everyone listen to the official, surround this mansion, and no one is allowed to escape, if you encounter a resistant, you will be killed!

"Yes!"

The hundreds of soldiers gathered behind Pang Gang responded in unison, and immediately rushed into the inner courtyard with knives, guns, firearms, and guns.

Soon, a series of high-pitched screams immediately resounded in this otherwise quiet and solemn mansion

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