Li Xiao dealt with the chaos in Jinan, and Sun Chengzong in the capital was not idle. Since you want to suppress a group of people, you must win over a group of people. Blindly offending all strata of society is pure stupidity.

Sun Chengzong is not a fool, when Li Xiao put forward the proposal of the official gentry to pay food and pay for the errand, the scheming Sun Chengzong has already found the object that needs to be wooed.

The people of the Great Tomorrow are probably divided into four classes, Shinong and Gong. Most scholars refer to scholars, and farmers are peasants, and the composition of workers is more complex. There are craftsmen, craftsmen, and so on...... and the men of the various merchants in the city.

The saddest thing is business!

In the Ming Dynasty, the status of merchants was the lowest. Obviously, the family has a lot of money, but you dare to wear silk clothes during the Hongwu period, you are guilty. Even though Zhu Hongwu's descendants were nicer to the merchants, and although the silk clothes were allowed to be worn, the merchants were still the targets of the officials.

Even if you have money, it will be useless if you don't have a good backer. A poor talent is pitted against a rich businessman, and the winner is often a poor and sour talent. Because they are scholars, they are naturally close to the officials. If you dare to go against a scholar, the end will be death, or even if you can't survive.

The prefect of the broken family, the prefect of the extinction. This is the sad end of the businessmen after offending the officials.

As for taxes, apportionments, or the various honors of officials. It was a vigorous exploitation of a businessman, and the officials rushed to it. It was scraped layer after layer, for fear that I would suffer a loss and scrape less.

For more than 200 years in the Ming Dynasty, the merchants were exploited all the way over, and the sadness and pain in it were really indescribable.

Li Xiao looked at the fat man in front of him, as long as he was nervous, he usually sweated. The fat man was more disgusted when he sweated, the sweat flowed down his cheeks like a stream, standing in front of Li Xiao trembling, shaking like waves of fat all over his body.

"You are Shen Wanling?" Li Xiao stared at this guy with a foreign hat and a silk robe. Could it be that rich people can't pursue a little bit these days? According to Li Xiao's judgment, this guy is enough to slaughter the standard.

"Villain Shen Wanling, see Lord Shangshu."

Li Xiao turned his head, and couldn't bear to look at the miserable appearance of this fat man who wanted to bend down but couldn't. How did such a pig become the president of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce?

"Shen Wanling, sit down." Looking at Shen Wanling's trembling legs, Li Xiao felt that it was better to let him sit down before a fat body crushed his legs.

"Thank you, sir!" It is estimated that he couldn't hold on anymore, so Shen Wanling arched his hand at Li Xiao and sat down on the chair next to him.

Seeing Shen Wanling struggling to stuff himself into the chair, Li Xiao was worried about the firmness of the chair.

"Look at this, this is a new decree of the imperial court." Li Xiao casually threw Shen Wanling a piece of paperwork.

Shen Wanling touched the sweat on his forehead and looked carefully at the document in front of him. When I turned the first page, my eyes, which were squeezed by the fat meat, lit up.

"My lord, this decree ......!" After reading the paperwork, Shen Wanling's face was flushed with excitement.

"This is the latest decree of the imperial court to you merchants, and the heads of the Chamber of Commerce have the same rights as Xiucai. Even if you are in the public court, you don't have to kneel. Li Xiao felt that this was very important to Shen Wanling. At his weight, it is a big question whether he can get up once he kneels.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, Imperial Court! The old decay is here on behalf of Shandong businessmen, and he is grateful for the grace of heaven. In the future, Lord Shangshu will be sent, and the old man will not give up when he goes to the soup and fights the fire. Shen Wanling's face trembled with excitement, and it seemed that he was going to have a precursor to a stroke. I held it up twice, as if I wanted to get up from my chair and kowtow to thank you. But it didn't work out!

is another clever one, and he has long inquired about who has the final say in this court.

"I don't want you to go to the soup, and I don't want you to die. There is an errand handed over to you in front of you, and I don't know if you can do it well. Li Xiao looked at Shen Wanling, even if this thing wants to go to the soup, I'm afraid it won't be able to fucking run.

"Lord Shangshu is so gracious, but there is a Shandong merchant who has been sent to do his best."

"I want the ground in Shandong to be stable, and you have to help the government to prevent the ground in Shandong from being chaotic. Once this errand is done, all the things on this paperwork will become a reality. ”

"No! Shandong Chamber of Commerce must go all out to ensure the stability of the ground in Shandong. The Shandong Chamber of Commerce voluntarily pays 50,000 taels of silver for the Shandong garrison every year, and also asks Lord Shangshu to agree. ”

Businessmen are actually the group that dislikes turmoil the most, and now Li Xiao has given them such great benefits. Where is the reason to drag mud and water? Shen Wanling hurriedly promised Li Xiao that the Chamber of Commerce would work hard to ensure that the ground in Shandong was not chaotic. And every year, the Chamber of Commerce will hand over 50,000 taels of silver as Li Xiao's military expenses.

Fifty thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, but it is nothing to the merchants. If all the promised things in the paper are implemented, the businessmen will not be afraid of the exploitation of officials in the future. The clever Shen Wanling still wants to find a big backer for the Chamber of Commerce. Otherwise, God knows if those officials will wear small shoes for businessmen after the filial piety is broken.

With such a big backer as Li Xiao, are you still afraid of those petty officials?

"Huh! Then thank you Mr. Shen for your kindness! Li Xiao is very satisfied with this person who knows gratitude, which is a rare virtue that needs to be maintained.

Those scholars who were lucky enough to leave Jinan at the beginning of the turmoil went to various places and quickly mobilized some people, thinking of making trouble as quickly as possible. But they found that the people in Jinan City who had promised to come to support were delayed. Moreover, the people they mobilized were also strongly interfered with by certain forces. The merchant who had promised to give some money and grain suddenly turned back.

Not to mention that there is no money and food, you can't even borrow a venue.

Man Ye has been working very hard lately, taking his first cavalry division on an armed parade in Shandong. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who had just finished suppressing bandits, moved their troops to Zichuan to deter the party.

Wu Changshi was surprised to find that the fire of turmoil that had originally planned to burn the whole of Shandong had only burned a sprout in Jinan and then died down. The whole of Shandong did not become chaotic, and as for Hebei, there was not even a single fire. As early as the period of the defense of the capital, the Shilin people in the capital ran almost as well.

The small flames in Jinan are also about to be extinguished, except for the suppression of the Tianxiong soldiers on the surface. What's more, a hidden force is stationed in Jinan.

Li Yongfang looked at the tattooed guy in front of him, this guy is known as the white tiger. The skin is indeed very white, and the tattoos on the body resemble tiger patterns. When the soldering iron burns him, the guy roars like a tiger. Perhaps, this is where his nickname comes from.

"White Tiger, know your Tigers. Bringing you here is one thing, who is behind the scenes to stir up the people. ”

"My lord, it's all those students. I swear to God, I'm telling the truth. Otherwise, I will extinguish the lights, and the adults will spare me. His hands were chained, and the white tiger wanted to kneel but couldn't.

"Of course I know that it was the students who instigated the trouble, and I also knew that the one who made the most trouble was called Huang Xiaofeng. However, I also know that things such as wearing a black scarf and holding a bench umbrella and crutches in his hand are not something that a fool like Huang Xiaofeng could come up with.

Your white tiger is in this Jinan City, known as black and white. How? Don't give my old governor face? Brighten it up, killing you here is not much like killing an ant. Now you say it, your life can be saved.

If you don't, then God forbid. You don't like to live and die! As a veteran spy, Li Yongfang is very experienced in interrogation. No matter how tough the tough guy came into his hands, it was as soft as a noodle.

This is the first task after the return, and it must be completed beautifully.

"It's really those students who make trouble, adults, you just let the villain go as a fart." The tears of the white tiger are almost dry, and anyone who sees it can't believe that this is the chief of the Tiger Gang in Jinan.

"Oops! Still don't give up, thinking that someone will protect you. Someone! Bring people up. As soon as Li Yongfang waved his hand, his subordinates brought in a person. When the white tiger saw it, it turned out to be his deputy gang leader. Unexpectedly, he was also caught here. However, judging by the neat clothes on his body, he should not have been punished.

Li Yongfang stopped talking, but ordered someone to find a jar. Then a firewood was lit under the cylinder, and it didn't take long for the firewood to burn the cylinder hot. The white tiger and the deputy gang leader kept exchanging glances, not knowing what the official with the Liaodong accent above was going to do.

Li Yongfang, who closed his eyes and recuperated, suddenly opened his eyes.

"The tank is hot! You've all heard the story of the urn, so now it's up to the two of you to choose. Tell the mastermind behind this matter, there is always someone in this tank to enter. Whoever says it first won't go in, and the one who doesn't say it ......! Hey! I promise that one of you will be roasted to the outside and tender to the inside. Li Yongfang looked at the two of them with a smile.

"Goo-toot!" Both swallowed a big gulp.

A person can endure the torture without saying anything, and now there are competitors for confession, which makes both people feel uneasy. In the final analysis, the righteousness of the rivers and lakes is not very reliable. For the sake of profit, there will be so many unrighteous things happening, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not betray his brother in order not to be sinned.

"Yo he! It's all tough guys. Li Yongfang poured a cup of tea into the boiling hot vat, making a "z-la" sound.

The deputy gang leader couldn't bear it first, and knelt on the ground with a "poof", which proved that in the face of torture, the buddy's righteousness was a fart.

"My lord, I recruited, I recruited." The deputy gang leader knelt on the ground, very spineless.

"Raised by a son of a bitch, you stand up for Lao Tzu. Are you still Lao Tzu's brother? Stand up, there are no bears in the Tigers. The iron chain was earned, and the white tiger looked furious.

"Quack!" Li Yongfang picked out his ears, as if he had pulled out some earwax. Flicked his finger and pointed at the white tiger: "Throw him into the tank, and be careful to wrap a towel soaked in cold water around his neck." That way, he will live a little longer, and maybe he will be able to see his body being roasted. ”

"No!" Several strong men tied the white tiger with iron chains and stuffed it into the tank without the slightest hesitation. The smell of burnt flesh came up, and the white tiger let out a tiger-like roar again. Two sacks soaked in cold water were pressed against him one after the other, ensuring that he would not die until his legs were fully ripe.

"Say it! Coaxing the old man, your fate will only be worse than him. Li Yongfang looked at the deputy gang leader below with the most sincere smile on his face.

"Back! Official...... Official...... Official...... The words of the official. In the screams of the white tiger, the deputy gang leader couldn't speak, and there was a large wet patch in the crotch of his pants.

"Say!"

"The mastermind is Chen Laojun, the Taoist of Laojun Temple, and his godniece, Chen Ansheng, the host of Jixiang Nunnery. They were the first to mobilize believers to make trouble, and they were the ones who beat up officials and errands. Li Yongfang shouted, and the deputy gang leader's stammering healed without medicine. The bamboo tube poured beans and began to confess!

"Oh! Also fucking outsiders. Who came up with the idea? Li Yongfang asked with interest, he didn't expect that there would be the participation of the monks.

"The one who came up with the idea was a Xiucai named Li Fatzi, listen...... I heard that he is a good friend of Chen Ansheng. ”

"Yo he! And such a thing ......! Li Yongfang's eyes widened, with an expression of disbelief.

"Where are they now?"

"This villain doesn't know, now there are fewer people making trouble every day, and they are all hiding in Tibet. The villain really doesn't know where they are! ”

"Is it that the old man will put another jar and stuff you into it and you will remember?" Li Yongfang pointed to the vat containing the white tiger, which had already begun to smell of meat. The white tiger's body was roasted to a shiny color, and it was all oil.

"Nope! No! No! The villain really doesn't know, and begs the official to spare his life. ”

"Someone's ......!"

"Great official! Great officials! Is it okay for the small ones to have something else to say? Seeing that Li Yongfang was going to order someone to carry another cylinder over, the deputy gang leader immediately panicked. Now, the white tiger didn't even have the strength to howl, only a painful expression on his face.

"It depends on what it is, tell me?"

"Tomorrow! Tomorrow morning they will take advantage of the opportunity of the dung cart to go out of the city and storm the city gates, presumably to escort them to run. ”

"Storm the gates, how do you know?"

"Some of them bought some blades from our Tigers, and the villain overheard it. It seems that Chen Laojun, Chen Ansheng and Li Fatzi will take advantage of the chaos to prepare to escape. ”

"It's useful, put him in prison, and no one will be arraigned without an old man." Li Yongfang walked out very proudly, such important information had to be reported to Li Xiao first.

"Big brother, I can't help it." The deputy gang leader looked at the dying white tiger.

"Bad seeds!" The voice of the white tiger is weak like that of a mosquito.