The so-called "Lantern Festival and New Year", the Lantern Festival on the 14th, 15th, and 16th days of the first month is a carnival of the government and the people, and it is also the end of the first month.

Although the inside and outside of Tianjin City was quite dilapidated by the earthquake of the previous year, both the government and the people were quite wealthy, and although this lantern festival was not as luxurious and magnificent as Beijing's, it also had its own characteristics.

The young people like to be lively, and the family and the teenagers are thinking about going to see it, but Wang Tong didn't give them a holiday, including Wang Tong himself, everyone is training non-stop, and only those villagers, blacksmiths, and brocade guards with small families went to see it.

Tianjin is not as good as Beijing, everything has to be done personally, and Wang Tong has never been able to feel at ease, all yamen and Tianjin are undercurrents on the ground, I don't know what danger there is.

The best way to make yourself safe is to improve yourself, and what Wang Tong did was the same as what he did in Beijing, that is, to keep strengthening himself.

Except for the youngest Li Hutou, who was quite reluctant, the family members and other teenagers accepted Wang Tong's arrangement, they had been militarized for too long, and they had a kind of habitual obedience to orders.

After Wang Tong and several of his subordinates discussed, they set the eighteenth day of the first lunar month to assess the young men who signed up, and the barracks and various supplies for them were ready to stop.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, many shops in the city began to open, although the goods are not yet complete, and the guys from far away have not yet returned, but the year has passed, and everyone has to live.

After breakfast in the morning, he led the family and the teenagers to complete the preparatory activities in the yard, and the running began again.

Exercise does have a very good effect, that Wang Tong completed a variety of projects that were very difficult, and now they can be completed relatively easily, and the body's strength and flexibility are obvious.

Seeing that the sun was rising and the city gate was open for more than an hour, there were no messengers or the like to come to the door, and it seemed that the reply from the Jingshi would not arrive today.

When the Jingshi sent a message to the fast horse of Tianjin Wei, he almost had to rest at the post station outside the city for one night and then enter the city the next morning, and if he could not wait at this time, he would not come back.

"Little ones, run in line!"

With Wang Tong's greeting, everyone behind him answered loudly, and a servant had already opened the door, and a group of people ran out quickly.

Tan Jiang and his people have their own way of boiling their bodies, and those villagers have been taken over by Tan Jiang, and now there are not so many livestock and horses to take care of them, and they are constantly practicing every day.

Ran to the root of the city wall, and then began to run along the road on the side of the city wall, the people at the root of the city wall in Beijing are all poor households, and this Tianjin Wei is a little different, there are basically no people living in it, but they are all storehouses and shops.

These storehouses and shops are often very small, but the houses are very large, these are some merchants who deal in goods from the north and south, because the silk, cotton, silk, porcelain, bamboo, etc. made are relatively fine goods, can not be stacked in the open air, so it is relatively safe to put in the city.

There are so many businesses in the city, and they are in this transshipment hub, so everyone's business focus is not on retail, but on wholesale.

After running for more than ten days, Wang Tong felt that he had a much deeper understanding of Tianjin City, which made Wang Tong wonder if he should change the running route, maybe he could see more things.

There are more than 200 steps to the north gate, but there is a rare congestion in front, and you can see many idlers crowded over there to watch the excitement.

There was a faint cry from the crowd, since Layue came, the road near the root of the city wall was very deserted, and Wang Tong had never encountered such a situation when he led people to run.

Wang Tong raised his hand, and the family and the teenagers stopped in unison, but this uniform action made the onlookers stunned and turned their heads to look at this side.

Although some people know that it is the newcomer Wang Qianhu who runs around the root of the city wall, there are also many people who don't know, especially this road is already deserted, Wang Tong and others are wearing civilian clothes, and everyone doesn't take it seriously, they turn their heads and continue to look at the excitement.

After letting his subordinates rest for a while, Wang Tong also stepped forward, if the ordinary dispute made people let them pass, they could hear the cry from the courtyard to the outside, it should be people walking outside.

The voices were getting louder and louder, and people outside could hear them clearly, and they could hear people crying out there:

"Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, you can't take this silver, this is the foundation of our family's stocking this year, you have to take it, but what can we do with this business!"

"Lao Tzu doesn't care what you do, I've burned incense for three years, I don't know the rules, you dare not pay last year's incense money, you put the incense burner in the shop, how can there be such a cheap thing in this world."

"Brother Jiang, it's not that our family doesn't pay it, the ship transporting porcelain was overturned by the official ship in Jining, and it can't be turned around for a while, you have a grace period of half a year, and when the river thaws, the porcelain in the south will have silver."

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, how many shops are buying and selling in Tianjin Weihe Mansion, if you drag it like this and don't pay, then you don't have to light this incense, and you don't have to do the incense on the bow of the boat, Uncle Xiangtou has already ordered it down, and if you can't collect the money today, you will smash your shop, and show everyone and set up a rule."

The voice of Brother Jiang, who is called Brother Jiang, is not small, and this also has the meaning of shouting to the people watching the excitement, but Wang Tong heard the three words "bow incense", and the people watching the excitement were blocked on the third floor and the outer three layers, and they couldn't squeeze in for a while, so they had to ask the people around him:

"This big brother, do you know what's going on inside?"

The person he asked was a little impatient, but seeing that Wang Tong's clothes were not worn by ordinary people, and there were a group of people standing neatly and solemnly behind him, he had to answer patiently:

"The little brother listens to the accent from other places, and if you do business outside the city of Tianjin, every household must light incense to keep safe."

"Light incense to keep you safe?"

"It's to invite a burner of incense back from the bow of the boat, saying that it is please, not to buy it with silver, for example, this incense burner costs about fifty taels of silver a year."

Hearing this, Wang Tong almost didn't laugh, but he stiffened his face, what is the difference between this incense and the Ping An brand, and asked again after calming down:

"Ask this big brother again, lighting incense can really keep you safe!"

"Fools don't believe it, but it's true that you don't light this incense, it's true, there are many people on the bow of the boat and there is an official background, even if they are in a lawsuit, they are not afraid, but afterwards it is the bad luck of the complaint, after so many years, who dares to offend them."

The idle man who answered the question was louder, and the onlookers in front of him all turned around in surprise, and the idle man immediately bowed his head and didn't dare to speak, and Wang Tong didn't dare to speak anymore.

"Lao Kill is going to let go, otherwise Lao Tzu will do it!!"

As soon as the words fell, I heard a cry of pain inside, it seemed that Lao Zhang had been hit hard and fell over there, Wang Tong pondered and said to himself:

"After paying this money, if the servants in the yamen don't come to extort it, it's worth it if the scoundrels don't come to disturb it."

Before he finished speaking, the people around him sneered coldly at the same time, and someone muttered in a low voice:

"This bow incense is just dead for money, and the same is done for eating for nothing, and taking advantage of it for nothing, servants and gangsters...... Hmph, isn't this just a gang? ”

The old man fell to the ground, but he heard the cries of two more women inside, and it seemed that one of them was a girl, and someone beside him whispered:

"What a sin, Lao Zhang's daughter was widowed last year, and was kicked out of the door by her mother-in-law with her child, and when she returned home, Lao Zhang's mother-in-law was angry, and the boat capsized again, and as a result, the incense burner money was delayed, which is really ......"

"Lao Zhang, look at you are also pitiful, uncle, I'll give you a way to go, your girl and granddaughter are still quite smart, go to Xinghua Village in the south of the city to work for a year, don't say this incense burner money, maybe this store will be set up again, how about it, this is a road!!"

After speaking, some people in the inner circle already laughed, and a woman's cry suddenly became louder, followed by the sound of "touch", and the old Zhang prayed in a hoarse voice with a cry:

"Uncle Jiang, you can take the silver, I won't do this business......"

There was another thump and screams, and the two women screamed in unison, and Uncle Jiang scolded angrily:

"Show you the way, but you don't want to, why do you still want to threaten this business, these two women are going to Xinghua Village today, they really don't know the hearts of good people." It was quiet inside and out, this intention was too obvious, and this Jiang person with incense on the bow seemed to have come with the idea of the daughter and granddaughter of the Zhang family.

"Jiang Song, if you really do such a hurtful thing, I will die here today!"

The inside suddenly became intense, the old Zhang's voice was very poignant, the helplessness of the weak was like this, and they could only be forced to die, that Jiang Song laughed and said:

"If you want to die, you will die, if you don't dare, grandpa, I will help you do it, these two water spirit women in the province still have a concern in their hearts!"

Wang Tong grabbed the idle man who was chatting with him just now and asked:

"Do you often do this kind of thing?"

The idle man wanted to scold, but when he saw Wang Tongsenran's gaze softened, he muttered in a low voice:

"It's not one or two lives, the government doesn't care, of course they are willing to do it often."

Wang Tong casually threw the person aside, but at this time he heard an exclamation inside: Dad, don't ...... "stop!! ”

Things were suddenly about to get out of control, Wang Tong shouted outside, no one expected that suddenly there would be such a loud shout, it was quiet inside and out, and everyone's eyes were focused on Wang Tong.

Wang Tong strode inside, and the onlookers automatically made way for him, a woman in the circle was holding an old man's calf, and a little girl was crying loudly on the side......

(To be continued)