"Want to take me away? You're not qualified enough. After hearing this, Mei Ling smiled coldly, and then ordered behind him: "Go to Lord Li to shout grievances, just say that our Treasure Pavilion has been threatened and blackmailed by the people in the government, and let Lord Li make the decision for us." ”

"Yes, the little one will go right away." After hearing Mei Ling's order, the chief steward on the first floor hurriedly ran outside.

After a few breaths, the chief steward returned to Mei Ling's side: "The shopkeeper, the outside is surrounded by arrests, and the little ones can't get out." ”

Glancing at the chief manager hatefully, Mei Ling smiled at Liu Hua and said: "The deputy chief catches the head, the slave family wants to send his subordinates to the prefect's yamen to shout grievances, but the outside is surrounded by people, and the people of the slave family can't get out, I wonder if the deputy chief arrest can make it convenient?" What about the people who put it down to go out of the city? ”

Liu Hua was sitting on a chair at this time, fiddling with the dice with Erlang's legs, and after hearing Mei Ling's words, he showed a sunny smile: "No problem, but please wait a little longer."

When my men fill these sacks, let your men go out with my men, all the money is gambling money, I have to take it back and confiscate it, alas...... The first time I gambled, I had no experience, and the next time I came here to gamble, I had to prepare a carriage in advance. ”

Just as Liu Hua was talking about this, Sun Shidong and Da Niu came down from upstairs, and when they saw that they were each carrying a sack, Liu Hua couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter?" How long did it take to load the money? Also, why is it so much, I have already sent back ten sacks, how did you get two sacks? ”

"You don't know what to do, the thugs upstairs are all some practitioners, those gamblers who are gambling in the private room, some of them have brought their own bodyguards, as soon as they heard that we were going to catch gambling, those people were all anxious, let the bodyguards come to pick us up, and the time was all delayed in dealing with those bodyguards.

After subduing the bodyguards, we started to load the money, you don't see we only have two sacks, but we have silver tickets and gold in them, good guys, this is the first time I've seen so much money. Sun Shidong said with green light in his eyes.

Hearing the conversation between the two, Mei Ling's face instantly became gloomy: "You guys have a big deal, a big deal, the vice president catches the head, you are so bold, do you know the identities of those VIPs above?" You dare to collect even their money, I think your catch is coming to an end. ”

"I'm really not afraid of big things, they are the king of heaven, as long as they are involved in gambling, I have to deal with it according to the law." Speaking of this, Liu Hua said to Sun Shidong: "You send these two sacks and these sacks on the first floor back." And then you're there guarding these sacks. ”

Sun Shidong led a few people to carry away the sacks on the front foot, and more than 30 people wearing brocade clothes, blue noses and swollen faces, and wounds on their heads ran down the upper floors on the back feet. Why did the people of the government confiscate their money?

One of them, it seems, is also a public person, after seeing Liu Hua's fast hunting suit, this person immediately reprimanded arrogantly: "Where did you come from? is so short-sighted, this official is Huang Ziqian, who has been experienced as a judge in Yangzhou, and his grade is the seventh grade.

Your arrests are really getting more and more lawless, when you were just upstairs, you dared to hit people, and now this official orders you to return all the silver you have just collected to everyone, and then each of you will slap yourself ten times, and after the beating, you all will get out of the way for me. ”

A fat wealthy businessman pointed to Liu Hua's nose and said: "What Lord Huang said is reasonable, although I am not a member of the government, I am a big taxpayer in Yangzhou Mansion, in other words, I am the one who supports you."

Are you catchers in the water? Even dare to confiscate our money, you immediately return those silver bills to me, otherwise, we will not pay all this year's taxes, and at that time, will you bear the responsibility arising from this? ”

After a pause, the man changed his tone: "If you want to catch people for merit, there are poor ghosts on this floor, you can catch them back and pay them back, why bother us, you just need to return the silver ticket to us, we won't care about you, otherwise, I will let you go around without food." ”

As soon as this person's voice fell, the remaining rich businessmen echoed their words, and all of them accused Liu Hua one by one, and even several wealthy businessmen even threatened Liu Hua, saying that they would teach Liu Hua a good lesson.

Hearing these people's questions, Liu Hua did not get angry, but smiled and took out the "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty" prepared in advance, and after opening it, he pointed to one of them and said to Huang Ziqian, who was the happiest jumper:

"It is strictly forbidden to open casinos and participate in gambling in this dynasty, and officials who participate in gambling are to be punished with a hundred lashes for two months, and they are not allowed to redeem them, and they will never be used to set an example for the latter.

Huang Ziqian, when you are dying, you don't even know that as a person in an official position, you actually know the law and break the law, participate in crowd gambling, not only involve a huge amount of gambling, but even threaten the case-handling personnel.

Now this arrest will quickly interrogate you in isolation according to the law, come here, put shackles on Huang Ziqian, and then take him away, if he dares to scream again, I will whip him in the mouth. ”

"You, you, you're guilty of the following." Seeing that after Liu Hua finished his order, there were really two catchers who came towards him with shackles, Huang Ziqian was angry and angry, and was about to reprimand a few words, but when he saw Liu Hua take out a whip, he immediately swallowed the words back.

The rest of the rich businessmen saw that Liu Hua even dared to put Huang Ziqian in the shackles, in line with the principle that heroes do not suffer immediate losses, these rich businessmen did not dare to speak, seeing that everyone was finally honest, Liu Hua quickly ordered the surrounding catchers:

"Escort Boss Mei and these wealthy businessmen back, record a confession for each of them, and let them explain clearly about their participation in crowd gambling, and after recording the confession, they will give a notice to their families and ask them to pay a fine for ransom."

"The surname is Liu, are you sure you want to do this?" After Mei Ling heard Liu Hua's order, he said with a cold face: "It seems that you don't give me this face?" Liu Hua, do you believe it or not? If you take us away now, you won't have a cup of tea, and you'll have to send us back.

If you want to lock us up, and then make us pay a fine, you will really daydream, and I will put you down here now, you can't lock us up, and you won't get a penny fine.

Even if you send us to a prison in Yangzhou Mansion, it won't work, because there are our friends there, and my friends will let us go.

Hum...... To tell you the truth, there is no place in the entire Yangzhou city that can lock us up, as long as there are people in that place, I will let the people there become our friends. ”

After hearing this, Liu Hua said with a smile: "There is still such a thing? Xie Lu Xie Mei's boss reminded me that I really planned to put you in prison before.

Since you can't be locked up there, for the sake of insurance, then I'd better keep you in a safe place, and I believe that the people there will never become your friends. ”

After saying this, Liu Hua turned back to Da Niu and instructed: "You lead the brothers, lock up Boss Mei and these rich businessmen in Yizhuang in the western suburbs, and then nail the door to death, and let them make friends with the corpses there."

I'll go back and settle those intercessors first, and then I'll see you, if you have nothing to do, you can tell some ghost stories outside Yizhuang, stir up some movements, the more terrifying the better, and find a way to scare away half of the souls and six spirits of those rich merchants. ”