When Hu Hanshan arrived in Jing County, he did not go to the countryside for disaster relief as soon as possible, and went to the county seat with the inspectors of the General Administration Department.

Hu Hanshan did not go to the county government to find the magistrate, but found a random teahouse in the county seat, and sat in the main hall of the teahouse and asked the inspectors of the General Administration Department to go out and arrest people.

Only half of the incense stick time has passed, and the grain merchants in the county seat of Jing County have the shadow of the local squire behind them.

One after another, they were all caught in front of Hu Hanshan.

Hu Hanshan put down the blue and white glazed bowl in his hand, and looked at the grain merchants who were trembling and kneeling beside him.

I was still thinking about what excuse to use to intimidate them, but I actually sent it to the door myself.

Several grain merchants were all dressed in magpie and gold satin, and according to the provisions of the Ming Dynasty, merchants were not allowed to wear silk.

The merchants of Jinling have a lot of taboos, and they usually only dare to wear silk at home.

The local businessmen are not so taboo, the collusion between officials and businessmen is quite deep, and there is the support of the local gentry behind them.

Wear silk without scruples and ride in a sedan chair.

However, if they really ran into officials like Hu Hanshan who came to look for trouble, these grain merchants would have to suffer.

Hu Hanshan shouted sternly: "Raise your heads." ”

The grain merchants raised their heads tremblingly, not understanding where a group of Qiu Ba came out of nowhere and arrested them, grain merchants with deep backgrounds.

Hu Hanshan pointed to the knife on the waist of the General Administration Department, and said with a smile: "Do you know what kind of knife this is?" ”

Where have the grain merchants seen the style of the embroidered spring knife, let alone the grain merchant, even if it is the local emperor of Jing County, the county master, he has never seen the embroidered spring knife.

Hu Hanshan knew that they had never seen the embroidered spring knife, and continued to say with a smile: "This kind of knife is called the embroidered spring knife. ”

Just hearing the three words of embroidered spring knife, the faces of the grain merchants turned white, and they no longer had any calmness in their hearts, and hurriedly kowtowed to Hu Hanshan one after another.

I have never seen the embroidered spring knife, but the resounding name of the embroidered spring knife has spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

The local bureaucrats and squires did not know that every time the embroidered spring knife appeared, a large number of heads would fall to the ground.

These heads are all Beijing officials who can't be provoked by ordinary times, or local high-ranking officials.

"Alright." Hu Hanshan was bored and asked these grain merchants to stop kowtowing, and said the purpose of arresting them: "There is only one thing to invite you over this time. ”

Please?

The grain merchants are all rich families with heads and faces in Jing County, when did they suffer from such offense.

Where is this please, it is clearly coercing them.

If this is replaced by a local health center, even if thousands of households arrest them, the grain merchants will dare to ask for an explanation.

However, the person who captured them wore embroidered spring knives, and the grain merchants still had the slightest intention of asking for explanations, and they just wanted to go back quickly.

A grain merchant wiped the cold sweat on his head, and his mouth was not good: "This ...... This official, I don't know what is the matter with us. ”

"As long as it can be done, I will do my best to get it done."

Hu Hanshan wanted this sentence, raised the horsewhip in his hand, and patted the magpie on the grain merchant's body: "There is nothing else, the official just wants to exchange the grain in his hand for all the bran in your hands." ”

It turned out that he was looking for them to do business, and the grain merchant who spoke was a lot more relieved: "I don't know how much grain the official has in his hands and how much bran he wants to exchange." ”

Li Jun, who was standing on the side, threw a booklet in his hand in front of the grain merchant.

The grain merchant opened the booklet with trembling hands, and his heart was ready to spend money to buy peace.

After opening the booklet and reading it, his face turned pale and pale, where is this trading, it is clearly robbing.

The grain merchant said with a hint of crying: "The official can't be like this, but the grain of 2,000 stones will be exchanged for 200,000 or 300,000 stone of bran from our hands." ”

"How can anyone do such a business, it has multiplied more than a hundred times."

Hu Hanshan himself knew in his heart that this was no different from robbery, but he couldn't do anything about it.

There are many people affected by the disaster this time, and the food for disaster relief will not be able to be transported for a while.

I had to think of some trick trick, and this method was to snatch the bran that the grain merchants used to feed their livestock.

At this time, the common people began to eat Guanyin soil and swelled to death.

In the eyes of the common people, bran is already this life-saving food, at least it is much better than Guanyin soil and bark leaves.

Hu Hanshan knew that these grain merchants would not agree, so the horsewhip on the grain merchant was a little heavier: "What kind of clothes are you wearing?" ”

The grain merchants glanced at each other, and they were only wearing magpie and golden satin, and the color did not violate the law of the Ming Dynasty.

Hu Hanshan saw that they were confused, and knew that he had been wearing silk in the local government and county for a long time, and he had forgotten that the Ming Law stipulated that merchants could not wear silk.

Hu Hanshanyin laughed: "You are all wearing silk, this crime is big and big, and small is small." ”

"To put it mildly, there is an indispensable one who raids the family and exterminates the clan."

When the grain merchants heard the sentence of raiding their homes and exterminating their clans, they thought that these were all officers and soldiers wearing embroidered spring knives, and they were all masters who killed people without blinking.

The grain merchants were really scared in their hearts, and they began to kowtow like garlic again.

Hu Hanshan shouted: "Come on, go and raid all their homes, and take them to the capital to behead the public." ”

When the grain merchants heard that they were going to be taken to the capital and beheaded, they still had to take their whole family together, and they didn't dare to drag it anymore.

No matter how important the bran is, it is not as important as the lives of their entire family.

The grain merchant at the front had never been robbed like this, and cried distressedly: "The official spares his life, and we are willing to exchange the bran for the grain in the official's hand." ”

Hu Hanshan was satisfied when he heard this, and personally helped the grain merchants up: "Agree early, otherwise there won't be so many things." ”

"Don't think about dredging up the relationship, even if the county with the most power in the entire Jing County, if the official wants to escort him to the capital for questioning, it's just a matter of words."

The grain merchants subconsciously glanced at the embroidered spring knife, and did not dare to have any other thoughts.

It is not credible for others to say this, even if the procurator in charge of the criminal law of the entire political department wants to convict and behead an ordinary person, he has to send it to the criminal department for review, and he can only be beheaded until after the autumn.

The officers and soldiers with embroidered spring knives are different, and now they say that they will cut off their heads, and they will never wait until tomorrow.

Hu Hanshan waved his hand and asked a few of his little flags to follow the grain merchants to get the keys to their respective granaries.

Leaving two inspectors to watch near the granary, lest there be any extraneous complications, and the local bureaucratic squires resorted to some unseemly means.