Although Lu Yun's Xichang was powerful, they naturally couldn't arrest people for no reason, otherwise the ministers in the imperial court would never let them off easily.
Especially that Mr. Liu!
Thinking of this, Lu Yun said to Ye Jiajia: "Otherwise, we will arrest them directly tonight."
"No, find the grain dealer I tracked down, and then find all the grain he hid. This way, we will have a reason to arrest the others."
"good!"
Lu Yun agreed and quickly asked the people in the West Factory to prepare and quickly capture the grain merchants that Ye Jiajia had found. By the way, he also took out all the grains they had hidden.
In a grain merchant's shop.
Many people were resting when suddenly a group of people wearing Western factory clothes walked in from outside and broke into the store directly.
They looked ferocious, and they immediately arrested all the clerks in the store, as well as the boss and others in the backyard.
The grain merchant was also confused...
I was just talking sweetly to my concubine, but suddenly this scene happened, and I felt a little embarrassed in my heart.
"What are you doing!"
The grain merchants were also very tough and didn't seem to be afraid at all.
As the leader, Ye Jiajia shouted, "Keep your dog eyes wide open and see clearly that we are from Xichang!"
"The West Factory arrests people without a reason, otherwise they would dare to question us! Don't you want to live?"
"this……"
The grain merchant suddenly became cold. When he took a closer look at the clothes these people were wearing, he immediately noticed something was wrong. What was going on?
The clothes of these people are indeed exactly the same as those in the West Factory. Could it be that they really came to arrest me, but what mistake did I make?
He was a little nervous and trembling.
"you……"
"No way!"
"Why did Xichang arrest me as a businessman for no reason? I was just selling some food, and I didn't do anything harmful to nature. It's even less likely that I would have anything to do with those officials."
However, Ye Jiajia couldn't control that much and walked up to him and slapped him twice, "Shut up!"
"Say one more word and I'll cut your tongue right off."
Hearing this, he suddenly panicked. What if he really cut off his tongue?
…
At the same time, in the house where they hid the grain, many people from the West Factory went directly there to open the cellar and take out all the grain inside.
After calculation, they found that the amount of food stored in the cellar was immeasurable. It can be said that they had very sufficient food.
However, these grain merchants insisted that all the grain was gone and had been robbed. The impact of this hunger caused the price of grain to rise.
Seeing so much food stored here, Lu Yun suddenly became angry. What's going on? What's the meaning!
"Okay, you all hide all this food one by one and don't sell it to the people. Instead, you want to get more profits."
"Okay, okay! My father-in-law has seen it today."
"Amazing!"
"Storing all this food is evidence of their crime!"
"yes!"
After grabbing the key evidence, Lu Yun didn't care. Anyway, their West Factory's reputation was not good, so there was no need to be polite this time.
Therefore, Lu Yun quickly led many people from the West Factory to arrest all the grain merchants in the city. Even if they had not been robbed before, they were all arrested.
In this way, until after dawn, all the grain merchants were arrested.
No chance at all!
The Xichang Yamen is not something that just anyone can get involved in!
No one can put their hands in the West Factory.
No one can change this!
Xichang Yamen, in prison.
Lu Yun put all the captured businessmen and their clerks together for interrogation one by one. Once they did not tell the truth or said something deceptive, they would be able to detect it immediately.
Anyway, many people know the horror of Xichang, and folk rumors also describe Xichang as a very scary image.
Naturally, they didn't have to worry too much, and they used all kinds of methods.
Early morning today.
At least the ministers have come to the main hall. They don't know that the grain merchants have been arrested because they were so sudden last night and all the grain merchants were arrested in a swarm.
It’s impossible to report a message!
As for Lu Yun, as an eunuch and not in the court, he mainly wanted to achieve his goals and there was no need to go to court every day. Moreover, the emperor also gave him great respect, so naturally he would not say too much.
Soon, the ministers of the court had gathered, and Emperor Liang Jing came out.
"My dear friends, if you have something to do, please tell me. If nothing happens, please withdraw from the court!"
Taifu Liu looked very angry at this time. On his way here, the moment he entered the palace, he suddenly received a report from his subordinates that all the grain merchants had been arrested.
Most of these grain merchants have some relationship with him. If these people are captured, it will become very dangerous!
This is absolutely not okay!
"Your Majesty, Eunuch Lu said that the grains for disaster relief must be mixed with pebbles and made very messy, even though we all thought this was not possible yesterday."
"Unexpectedly, after the implementation, many people who fished in troubled waters all left."
"And those people also suffered the punishment they deserved. This incident really surprised us."
"Eunuch Lu is still great. He is so smart that he immediately grasped this weakness. Now no one can continue to compete with the victims for food relief."
"Okay!" Liang Jing nodded. She didn't understand the method proposed by Lu Yun at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make some sense and it seemed to be really useful.
After briefly talking about the court's disaster relief efforts and the specific conditions of the victims, Liang Jing was about to leave.
Suddenly, Taifu Liu walked forward, plopped down, knelt on the ground, knelt in the hall, and shouted loudly to Liang Jing.
"His Majesty!"
"I heard that last night, the father-in-law named Lu took his people from the West Factory and arrested all the grain merchants in the city."
"All the grain merchants were arrested. This thing is a bit too weird."
"Is this eunuch named Lu a little too arrogant? He dares to do anything and arrest so many people."
"With so many businessmen, have they all made mistakes? The power of Xichang is too great. Your Majesty, this father-in-law named Lu is doing all kinds of things just because your Majesty likes and approves of him!"
"Your Majesty, there is a lot of public dissatisfaction over this matter. So many grain merchants were arrested overnight. This must be very inappropriate!"
"When I heard this, I was very shocked! I couldn't believe it at all."
