"Give us an explanation!"
"that is!"
"Give us an explanation!"
"Why did our store be raided?"
The bosses and wives of more than a dozen businesses whose shops had just been confiscated started shouting loudly at the yamen gate of Xitong County.
Hearing this voice, the county magistrate Yu Wenbin was about to step out and ask what the reason was, when he happened to see Master Liu coming back.
Seeing Master Liu, the county magistrate Yu Wenbin grabbed Master Liu's arm and asked, "What's going on with the people making trouble outside?"
"County magistrate, those people were dissatisfied with your management and said it was against the rules. No, they went to the yamen gate to make trouble." Master Liu replied.
Hearing Master Liu's words, County Magistrate Yu Wenbin panicked.
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of people fighting each other, you are afraid of people making trouble.
"Then what should we do? We can't let them keep making trouble outside the Yamen." Magistrate Yu Wenbin asked.
"County magistrate, I'm going to follow what you said. If the people don't listen, there's nothing I can do." Master Liu said.
From these words, Yu Wenbin knew that Master Liu was accusing himself of inappropriate behavior.
In Xitong County, there are probably only two people who dare to talk to the county magistrate Yu Wenbin like this. One is Master Liu and the other is Landlord Jiang.
Seeing Master Liu so helpless, the county magistrate Yu Wenbin had no choice but to try it alone.
He cautiously walked towards the government office, and saw people making troubles gathered in front of the government office, and everyone said different words.
At this time, he started talking: "Well...well, fellow villagers, why are you shouting so loudly in front of the government office here?"
Seeing Magistrate Yu standing in front of them, the people spoke louder.
"Why are you copying my store?"
"We only have business dealings with the He family, why did they raid our store?"
"Our store has been raided. Where have we been?"
Most of what the people said was because of the looting of shops.
"Folks, be quiet, be quiet. This... I must be worthy of the court, and be worthy of the people. I am enforcing the law impartially by raiding your shop. Think about it, what is this sea ban? Specified?"
Good guy, the words are so nice, Yu Wenbin just wants to loot this shop first, convert it into silver, and collect the 50,000 taels of silver as soon as possible.
They only know that there is a sea ban and they cannot go to sea. Who knows what the sea ban stipulates.
Seeing that the common people had not said a word, and they didn't know how much the sea ban was, the county magistrate Yu Wenbin pretended to sympathize with them and made up the following: "The sea ban was issued in the 11th year of Dechang. It will be decided at the end of the month. This is what was decided last year. I would like to reiterate it again. As for the sea ban, the people and any officials are not allowed to go to sea for fishing, business, etc. You just need to remember that as long as you go to sea, you are touching the sea. Violating the sea ban. People who violate the sea ban will be punished by lingchi, the family will be hanged, and the family property will be confiscated. The so-called family property is not just at home, as long as you have your own shop or alliance outside. Shops, that counts.”
Good guy, this county magistrate is just bullying the people who are not familiar with the sea ban and deliberately talking nonsense.
The sea ban only states that the property of a person who has violated the sea ban will be confiscated. The so-called family property is only the grain, silver and other things stored in the home. To explain one more point, if his home is taken over, everything in the home becomes the government's property.
However, the sea ban did not specify that stores that were allied with him would also be raided.
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With Yu Zhixian's words, the people who were not very clear about the sea ban were immediately speechless.
After a while, a bold commoner asked: "Then the goods in my house are not all from the He family, so why did they raid my shop?"
After hearing this, Yu Wenbin smiled slightly and looked at the people: "As long as the goods that enter the He family are sold, they will be included in the list."
At this time, with Yu Wenbin's words, these people immediately didn't know what to say, but the bold people continued to ask: "Then my shop was raided, where will I live?"
"I have nothing to do with this." Yu Zhixian said, looking at the quiet people, he walked back to the Yamen.
Seeing Yu Zhixian walking into the government office, these people were suddenly helpless and had to disperse. They didn't know where they were going.
"Master Liu!" Yu Zhixian shouted, and Master Liu came over.
"County magistrate, what can I do?" Master Liu asked.
"How much money did you collect from those shops that were raided?" Yu Zhixian asked.
Master Liu: "Back to the magistrate, there are 6,780 taels. If all those brocades were converted into silver, there should be almost 10,000 taels."
Listening to Master Liu's answer, Yu Zhixian muttered to himself: "This is not enough. It costs fifty thousand taels of silver. I have copied more than a dozen cloth shops to get this much. Is it possible that I, the county magistrate, really Are we going to smash up all the shops of all the business people in Xitong County? Then am I not a sinner?"
While the county magistrate Yu Wenbin was talking to himself, the county magistrate Suo Wenxuan came over and said, "Yu Zhixian, what are you talking to yourself about?"
Seeing Suo County Magistrate coming, County Magistrate Yu Wenbin smiled slightly. After all, besides himself and Master Liu, he was the only one who could rely on him.
Although there are several officials in the county government office, what can those officials do? Most of the issues are not usually considered by Master Liu and himself.
"Major Suo County, you're here just in time. Think about it, how can you make up 50,000 taels of silver in these few days?" Yu Wenbin said with a smile on his face.
Hearing so much money, County Prime Minister Suo Wenxuan was a little helpless.
A few years ago, when Da Mo was still relatively wealthy, it wouldn't be a problem to collect this amount of money. But in the past few years, it has been harder to make money than before.
"Yu Zhixian, there is only one way at the moment." County Prime Minister Suo Wenxuan said.
"What method?" Yu Wenbin asked.
"Borrow from Landlord Jiang. He is the only landowner in Xitong County, and he is the only one who can come up with this money." County Prime Minister Suo Wenxuan said, looking at Yu Zhixian without saying a word, and then said: "Yu Zhixian , I still have something to do, so I’ll go and get busy first. This is the only way I can think of. "
Seeing that the county magistrate Suo Wenxuan had left, seeing that Master Liu was helpless, and thinking of the people shouting outside the Yamen just now, the county magistrate Yu Wenxuan had no choice but to go find Jiang Landlord.
"That's all, let's check with Landlord Jiang." After saying this, Yu Zhixian walked out.
Indeed, there is only one such landlord in Xitong County, and most of the money and grain saved by the people belong to him.
A long time ago, there were many landlords in Xitong County. Later, the Jiang family made more and more money and became more and more powerful. Gradually, the land owned by other landlords belonged to the Jiang family. In the end, all the land belonged to the Jiang family.
This is not due to the current Landlord Jiang, but to the credit of Landlord Jiang's late father. By the time of his father, all the land belonged to his family.
Today's Landlord Jiang doesn't have to do anything.
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, lying at home, with money and food rolling in.
"Please let me know, I'm looking for Landlord Jiang." Yu Wenbin said.
"alright, please wait."
From Yu Wenbin's words and actions, we can see how powerful Jiang's family is. Even the magistrate had to notify Jiang's family when entering Jiang's house.
If it were in other counties, it would be a casual matter for the magistrate to enter the landlord's home.
In fact, Yu Zhixian could do this, but he didn't dare. Even though he was the county magistrate, if he went in so rudely, let alone borrowing money, I'm afraid it would be difficult to meet Landlord Jiang.
"Master, the magistrate is here."
After hearing the servant's report, Landlord Jiang stood up in a hurry, sat on the edge of the bed, took a bite of loquat fed by the woman beside him, and then asked: "Why is he here?"
The servant shook his head: "I don't know."
"Let him in."
"yes."
After a while, Yu Wenbin came over with a smile on his face and saluted first: "Yu is bothering Landlord Jiang."
"What's the matter?" Landlord Jiang asked.
Although he was obese, he couldn't stop eating food in his mouth and continued to take a bite of loquat fed by the woman beside him.
Said to be a woman, she was actually the concubine raised by Landlord Jiang.
In Xitong County, no one can compare with him, and he has almost twenty concubines.
Yu Zhixian hesitated for a moment and then spoke: "Well...recently...the court has to collect taxes again. This...has to collect a tax of 50,000 taels of silver. If not, after a certain day..."
I knew he was doing it for this, but looking at the amount, I couldn't do anything about it.
"Yu Zhixian, I think you want to seize my house, right?" Landlord Jiang said.
"Don't dare."
Landlord Jiang: "Fifty thousand taels of silver, don't you want to take away my house?"
"Landlord Jiang, this... Yu has no choice. Otherwise, you can borrow it again and I will pay you back when I have the money."
"Repay me?" Landlord Jiang remembered what happened last year, and continued: "Last year, you seemed to have lent me 20,000 taels of silver, right? Later, you paid back 9,700 taels of silver, and you haven't paid it back yet. "
"This... Yu really has no choice. If I don't borrow this from you, I don't know who to borrow it from." Yu Wenbin was in a dilemma.
Seeing that Landlord Jiang stopped saying anything, Yu Wenbin made up his mind: "Is Landlord Jiang still angry with Yu about Miss Li? If so, Yu will bring her to you right away. .”
It seems that Yu Wenbin worked really hard to stay in Xitong County.
"That's all. Yu Zhixian insulted me once last time, and I don't want to do it again." Landlord Jiang said.
Knowing that Landlord Jiang likes women, this is the only way to please him now.
Yu Wenbin expressed his thoughts: "Don't worry, Yu has a clever plan. It's hard to get into your Jiang house. If I get her here then, who will know that she is here with you?"
"Really?" Landlord Jiang asked.
"Don't worry, Yu has a clever plan. Make sure no one knows her whereabouts."
"Okay. Let me believe you for once."
Seeing the smile on Landlord Jiang's face, Yu Zhixian came and said, "Okay, I'll take my leave first. I'll stay on your couch tonight."
"good."
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