Chapter 65: Buying a Life
"But my master doesn't like killing, and he also adheres to the virtue of having a good life in God, so he also gives Chang Dongjia a chance to mend his ways!"
"The villain must do it, and he must do it."
The man at the head walked up to the Chang family with a knife and sneered: "Raid the Chang family tonight, kill dozens of Ding guards, to be honest, this addiction is not enough, these people are the direct relatives of the Chang Dong family, the Chang Dong family will either take the silver out to buy their lives, or let them come to meet the blade of a certain family."
Chang Zhengyang is already dead at this time, businessmen love money, they can take risks for several times their profits, and they can even spare their lives for the sake of massive wealth.
But what is it for?
Not for the sake of the family and for the sake of the descendants? Now that all his direct descendants of Chang Zhengyang have been taken down, if he sacrifices his life to protect his wealth, who will pass on the wealth he has saved?
"The villain is willing to buy his life......"
"Okay." The man at the head glanced at Chang Zhengyang with disdain and said: "My master said, one life is 30,000 taels, there are a total of seventeen people here, that is, 510,000 taels, don't think about bargaining with Chang Dong's family, if it is less than 30,000 taels, a certain family will take one person out of it and cut it until Chang Dong's family can afford it!"
Chang Zhengyang said in a trembling voice: "Villain...... The villain has used a lot of cash to buy food and hoard it these days, and now how can he raise this lot of silver in a while. ”
"If you don't have any money, you will take your life!" The leader snorted angrily: "In three days, if you don't have any money, a certain family guarantees that your Chang family will not stay with chickens and dogs!" Also, my master said that raising the price of grain is an unrighteous act, and I don't expect you grain merchants to be good people, but if you still want to harm the people, don't blame him for being ruthless, from tomorrow, the price of grain in Huzhou can only be higher than the usual market price by 50% at most, this is still for the sake of the disaster year, otherwise...... In addition, if you dare to limit food, you must have the consciousness of trying the sword. ”
"The villain understands, the villain understands." Chang Zhengyang wiped his sweat with his sleeve again and again.
"Today's things are done well and rot in the stomach, if there is a little wind of it, hehe......"
"The villain understands, the villain understands ......"
"Let's go." With a wave of his hand, the man led a group of black-clothed men to disappear into the night.
"Master, let's report to the official." Chang Zhengyang's wife, Chang Qi, came back to her senses and said tremblingly.
"Reporter?" A miserable smile appeared at the corner of Chang Zhengyang's mouth: "It's really a woman's opinion, do you know whose person this is!"
"Who?" Chang Qi's family is also a woman from a big family, although her courage is not comparable to that of a rural servant, but in her eyes, the one who blatantly enters the Chang family tonight must be a murderer, with the background of the Chang family in the officialdom, as long as the Huzhou Mansion is pressurized, the Huzhou Mansion will not only do its best to search for the thief, but also will definitely send troops to protect the Chang House.
"Who else dares to ignore the law and discipline in this Huzhou territory, who dares to send hundreds of soldiers into people's houses, wantonly kill and extort, and dare to set a time limit? People don't pay attention to the government at all. ”
"Wang ...... Eternal King! Chang Qi exclaimed.
"You're not stupid." Chang Zhengyang trembled and walked to the back of the bookcase, sat down and said, "Chang Sheng."
"Daddy." Chang Zhengyang's eldest son, Chang Sheng, was still a little frightened at this time, when he was dragged out of the quilt before, in the face of the bright steel knife, he only completely confessed his life this night, but he didn't expect to leave a life by luck.
"We can't leak anything about what happened tonight, otherwise my Chang family will be wiped out, and those dead nursing homes will be transported to mass graves overnight to be buried, don't make too much noise."
"I know, Dad." Chang Sheng should leave immediately.
"Isn't there a king's law in this world?"
Chang Qi said angrily.
"Wang Fa?" Chang Zhengyang laughed miserably: "Madam, have you forgotten that Zhu Houwei himself is the king, and he is also the brother of the Son of Heaven, the most noble prince in the world, don't say that he will destroy our little Chang family, even if he makes this Huzhou Mansion complain, the people are not happy, how can he damage him in the slightest."
Chang Qi was speechless for a moment.
"The reason why he sent troops to attack at night shows that he doesn't want to have a reputation as harming the people, and he wants to extort money from the Chang family, and he also wants to open a warehouse and sell grain for his husband as an example, this is the reason why we can survive, if it weren't for this, maybe our Chang family would become a dead domain tonight."
"But how can we have so much money to redeem our lives?"
"The Chang family doesn't have it, but the money village does." Chang Zhengyang smiled bitterly: "How can King Yong not know that we can't have so much cash, but he still extorted more than 500,000 taels and gave me three days, which is obviously to let the husband go to the money village to borrow, and King Yong really calculated all the roads."
"It's too bullying." Chang Qi was extremely sad and indignant.
"After this catastrophe, the husband wants to open it, but he only blames the husband for being blinded by lard, and he dares to do such a disagreeable thing in the fiefdom of King Yong, and he deserves to let the Chang family suffer this difficulty, it's just that, eat a trench and grow a wisdom, there is a life in the connections, this silver will not be earned after all, not to mention that the husband feels that this matter may still be an opportunity for the Chang family."
Chang Qi didn't understand directly.
"Go and rest, there are still many things to consider for my husband, so I will sleep in the study tonight."
In the front yard of Yongwangfu, Ren Xing was listening to the report of the man with his hands behind his back.
"It seems that this Chang Zhengyang is quite a discerning person." Ren Xing said with a smile: "According to the original intention of our family, it is to kill the Chang family all over the house, and then burn it to the ground, who dares to guess that this is the handiwork of our Yongwang Mansion, but the master is far-sighted, not only can this matter be eliminated, but also extort hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and by the way, let the grain price in Huzhou be stable, this kind of killing three birds with one stone is really powerful."
"That's what my father-in-law said." The leader hugged his fists.
In fact, if you really want to talk about it, whether it is a civil servant or a military general, or how these people bow down and do small when the eunuchs are powerful and powerful, but they all despise these rootless things in their bones.
But this does not exist in Yongwangwei, because of Hongji.
Hong Ji can be regarded as the second confidant of King Yong, and he is also the prison army sent by King Yong to Weilidang.
Before this, Yongwangwei's soldiers had no experience in dealing with eunuchs, and even if they did, they had seen too much of the eunuchs' prestige, and the kind of style that they wanted to grow their nostrils on the top of their heads made people can't help but gag when they think of it.
However, when he arrived at the barracks, Hong Ji completely subverted the soldiers' perception of eunuchs, and they didn't talk about eating in the same pot with Brother Quanwei, and even participated in the training himself, in order to integrate into the whole faster.
The officials don't care about anything else, as long as they can lead by example, it is worthy of admiration, and it is precisely because of this subtle influence that the attitude of Yongwangwei's soldiers towards eunuchs has long been unusual.
This is true for Hong Ji, and for Ren Xing, the great companion of the eternal king, naturally there will be no exception.