Listening to the steward's words, Chen Shu was stunned and asked

"Are you sure it's a bandit?"

"Yes, our people saw with their own eyes that the envoy of King Qin and Lord Sima, the county lieutenant, were in the county guard mansion, so our subordinates guessed that it might be related to the suppression of bandits." The steward said.

Hearing that Sima Xindu, who had been out of the barracks, had rarely come to the county guard's mansion, Chen Shu was also inclined to suppress bandits, but this kind of thing should be a matter of government affairs, why would they let these big clans and chambers of commerce participate?

"Who went?" Chen Shu continued to ask.

"The two chambers of commerce in Bashu, the head of the Sima family, the head of the Li family, and the rest are some of the presidents of the chamber of commerce, and some people are going." The steward said.

"I see, prepare the car and go to the county guard's mansion."

After Chen Shu got into the carriage, he was guessing all the way about the purpose of summoning them this time, but he couldn't guess after thinking about it, after the carriage stopped, Chen Shu looked at the gate of the county guard mansion and took a deep breath and walked in alone.

Under the guidance of the little official, Chen Shu came to the room of the meeting, at this time the room was full of many people, Ziyou sat in the main seat, on both sides were the county guard Qu Yi and the county lieutenant Sima Xin, and below were all the presidents of the big clans and the chamber of commerce, the widow Qing who had just accepted the reward sat in the first place, the second position was empty, and Sima Su and Li Ye sat opposite.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my comrades are late, please bear with me." Chen Shu saluted to everyone and said.

"The head of the Chen family doesn't have to be polite, let's take a seat quickly." Ziyou said with a smile.

Looking at Ziyou's smile, Chen Shu always had some hair behind him, but he still sat on the seat honestly, after Chen Shu took his seat, the whole room was full, the little official closed the door of the room, Ziyou looked at the people who came to Qi, coughed lightly twice, and everyone's eyes were on Ziyou.

"I'm sure you're wondering why I'm gathering everyone, right?" Ziyou looked at everyone and said.

The people below all nodded, and the widow Qing said softly

"Master Wang has something to say, if it is useful to us, we will definitely not refuse."

Hearing Widow Qing say this, the rest of the people hurriedly agreed, now Widow Qing is different from their gang of stinky merchants, they are the authentic owners of the title of Qin State, although they are only the lowest public scholars, but they are also squeezed into the ranks of scholars, and they are superior.

"So I'll be straightforward, everyone knows that I was attacked by bandits on the way here." Ziyou saw that everyone nodded and continued, "I have also heard about many mountain bandits affecting merchants and people traveling these days, so I have been thinking about sending troops to suppress bandits, but suppressing bandits requires orders from the court, so I sent someone to ask the king to order the bandits, but."

Hearing Ziyou talk about suppressing bandits, Chen Shu's heart sank, and he listened carefully to Ziyou's words, but Ziyou's words stopped halfway, which made him a little itchy.

"It's good if you have something to say, suppressing bandits is a good thing for the country and the people, and the king will definitely not refuse." Qu Yi took over the conversation and said.

Everyone's expectant eyes looked at Ziyou again, although the matter of suppressing bandits has nothing to do with them, but if the real mountain bandits are exterminated, the cost of their business will be reduced a lot, and they will make more profits, so they look forward to the army to suppress bandits every day.

"Everyone also knows that Daqin has just ended the conquest of South Korea, and the amount of grain, grass and soldiers spent on a war to destroy the country and the reward of the army is an astronomical amount, so now the court is a little embarrassed, and he can't get this money, the king wants to suppress the bandits, but the court's money and food are not allowed, so it has been delayed again and again. I have heard a saying, what is a businessman? That's what he said about businessmen, businessmen, one is a person who has something to discuss, and the other is a person who has an idea, I wonder how you feel about this view? Ziyou put down the teacup and said.

These people here are all patriarchs of big clans or presidents of chambers of commerce, they are all people who are crawling and fighting, all of them are human spirits, and they immediately understood the meaning of Ziyou's words, to put it bluntly, you pay for it, I contribute, and take some souvenirs, although they all understand this truth, but they all frowned, not that they don't want to give, on the contrary, they want to give, what kind of people do businessmen like the most? Of course, they are corrupt officials, they are not afraid of officials being greedy, they are afraid that they are not greedy, but there is also a problem in front of them, that is, how much is appropriate.

"This is a good thing for the benefit of all the people, and it is also an important thing for the court, you should think about it, no matter how much you donate, the people of Shu County, the court and me, and even the king will remember your generosity." Ziyou looked at everyone and said.

After listening to Ziyou's words, everyone sighed with emotion in their hearts, worthy of being born in Confucianism, this is called a righteous word, they can't refuse at all, one by one they smiled and began to echo Ziyou and ask Ziyou how to donate, and how much money and food should be donated.

"As for the amount of donation, it depends on how much loyalty you have to the people of Shu County, to the Qin State, and to the king, and as for how much, you can do your best." Ziyou smiled faintly and said, Just kidding, how do I know how much your family property is, you can do it yourself.

Ziyou said that he would do his best, but who dared to give less, in their opinion, Ziyou was blatant blackmail, but they didn't dare to have the slightest objection, if they hugged Ziyou's thighs, then they would be the next widow, and they suddenly made up their minds to cut their flesh.

"We will definitely do our best to support the affairs of Qu Junshou and General Sima to suppress bandits, and I will donate 50,000 quintals of grain and 30,000 gold of military salaries on behalf of the Ba Chamber of Commerce." Widow Qing was the first to speak.

"My Li family, 45,000 quintals of grain, 8,000 gold of military salary." Li Ye followed up and said.

"Sima's family, 50,000 denier of grain, 30,000 gold military salary." Sima Su followed.

"Me"

After the quotation of the three people, no one dared to delay, and for a while, everyone in the entire hall began to quote, Ziyou knocked on the table, Qu Yi quickly wrote down everyone's quotation, Ziyou listened to the quotation of these people, although it was still calm on the surface, but the heart had begun to ripple, these people except for the money taken out by the three major families, the rest of the people added up to 200,000 gold, and this is still offering, you must know that Han Wang'an's military salary to Han Bianjun is only 100,000 gold, if you give this money to Han Wang'an, How could the Han army be defeated by the Qin army so quickly.

The combat power of the Qin army is amazing, because there is a clear price mark for each enemy head, and you are a meritorious knighthood with two heads, who is not impressed? People are afraid of killing, but when the killing becomes a reward, everyone is eager to grow two more hands and cut off a few more heads, the reason why the Qin and Han dynasties are amazing in force is the military merit title system, and the future royal navy with a bang also relied on this reward method to overturn Spain, Portugal, France and many other opponents.

After everyone called the price, Chen Shu was left without shouting the price, Chen Shu's expression was a little complicated now, he couldn't figure out what Ziyou wanted to do, but his purpose was to let Ziyou send an army out to suppress the bandits, and immediately shouted the price

"Although the Chen family is not big, it also has small assets, and the Shushan bandits have been harmed for many years, and my Chen family is not immune, so on behalf of the Chen family, I donated 60,000 quintals of grain and 35,000 gold to help my Great Qin soldiers pacify the Shushan bandits."

Chen Shu's offer was more than any of the previous people, including Widow Qing, which made everyone a little surprised, they didn't have more money and food than Widow Qing, but in order to maintain the face of Widow Qing, the boss of the Chamber of Commerce in Bashu and Shu, so there was no higher offer, rather than such an offer, it was better to send some to Ziyou in private, seeing that Chen Shu, who has always been a human spirit, actually made such a behavior, everyone was also a little puzzled.

"It is worthy of being the head of the Chen family, I will definitely ask for credit for you, the county guard has prepared a thin wine in the mansion, please do you?" Ziyou said.

Everyone followed Ziyou to the courtyard on the side, and after a happy banquet for the host and guest, Ziyou, Qu Yi and Sima Xin were left in the county guard's mansion.

"These people are really rich." Sima Xin sighed.

"Did you follow what you said before, the widow Qing, the Sima family, and the Li family's money were sent back the way they came, and part of the remaining money was used to suppress the bandits, and the rest was escorted back to Xianyang?" Qu Yi asked.

"No, these people are not short of money, have I asked you to investigate the matter clearly?" Ziyou asked, Master Ziyou doesn't have the habit of sending rich people's money back, after all, this is using your money to do your business, and it is somewhat inappropriate for me to send you back.

"The investigation is clear, these days the subordinates and Chen Shuwei have been mixed up, it has been determined that those businessmen and the Chen family colluded, and the subordinates sent people to investigate these people privately, I don't know if I don't check, the land of these people's families has exceeded the regulations, and some of the land is still obtained through some shady means." Qu Yi said.

Qu Yi sent the results of the investigation these days to Ziyou's hands, which are all evidence of these family's violations and crimes, Ziyou put down these evidence after reading it, he originally thought that the situation of the annexation of the powerful land in the Qin State was still relatively restrained, after all, Qin Fa was still there, but he didn't expect that these people's greed for land had exceeded his imagination, it seemed that he had to come up with a way to govern the powerful and powerful, bless, one by one must bless them.

"These people are staring at it, they are the heroes of Great Qin, and they still need to pay for the money and food to attack Wei?" Ziyou said.

"But this evidence alone can only say that they were arrested, but it will not raid their homes." Qu Yi said with some concern.

Ziyou glanced at Qu Yi helplessly, Sima Xin looked at Ziyou's eyes, and said with a fine light in his eyes

"My lord, the last general's subordinates have found that someone is hiding armor privately, and I ask your lord to allow the last general to lead people to arrest him."

You can guess what this blessing means.

(End of chapter)