The rat-bearded manager narrowed his eyes and said, "But no one can eat so many people in one sitting like the four of us!"
Sun Shen frowned and said, "Then I'll make it more troublesome and just sell it to a few more stores!"
The two parties bargained for a long time, but General Sun Shen finally won and sold all the death row prisoners at a price of forty taels each! Afterwards, these people will be listed on the official list. However, without the process of decapitation, the common people will lose an entertainment!
After agreeing on the price, the four stewards directed the thugs to load the prisoners into the prison van. It can be seen that they have a tacit understanding, and these prisoners are evenly distributed.
Those prisoners heard clearly, so when the thugs dragged them to the car, they struggled desperately! But these thugs were all ruthless, and with just a few punches and sticks they beat the people to the ground. There were no serious injuries on their bodies, and they were all stuffed into the prison van. That's it, those in charge still thought the thugs were too heavy-handed and broke their own belongings!
After the group of death row prisoners had finished talking, General Sun Shen pointed to a group of prisoners next to him and said: "This group is all those who are ready to be sentenced to life-long exile. They are also 40 taels per person! You can work after you bring them back! After one year After half a year, a document will be sent directly from the receiving place, saying that they died of illness and were eaten by wild beasts, and you can use them with confidence!"
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, there were rarely sentences of exile, and prisoners were basically sent to the army! The so-called military exile means forcing prisoners to serve in the garrison. It was the heaviest punishment in the Ming Dynasty except for the death penalty. Expulsion into the army is divided into two types according to the period: "lifetime" and "permanent".
Those who are "lifelong" will serve until their own death; those who are "eternal" will be punished by their descendants, and they will not be "relaxed" until "everything is exhausted". In the Ming Dynasty, the penalty of military exile was widely used, while the penalty of exile was "permanent but not used." In fact, the penalty of exile was replaced by the penalty of military exile. But precisely because of this provision, Liu Haojia took advantage of a loophole and sold everyone!
Then the steward came up and checked the quality again, and divided the group of prisoners equally as before. After loading this group of prisoners into the car, General Sun Shen pointed to the largest group of people and said: "Four brothers, the sentences of exile for this group of people vary from long to short, so in the end they were all unified, and it was eight years! So these You can use the people for eight years! But let’s make a deal first. The first two groups of people must die in the mines, but these people must be returned in full after eight years! And each person will receive ten taels of silver per year. The rent cannot be less! If anyone dies, we will pay forty taels of silver!"
The fat steward curled his lips and said: "You can't be more ruthless, or we'll all be exiled for life! These strong and strong men are being dragged back, but they are asking us to pay them back after a few years. How is this possible?"
Manager Mouse Beard also said: "That's right, there might be a landslide in the mine at some point, and people will die inside. We won't have the labor to work and we will have to pay you money. We will lose money inside and outside!" "
General Sun Shen said: "You can't say that! Although these people are rented to you, you must return them. But as long as they are alive when they come back, it will be fine if they have no arms or legs! So you go there on weekdays. Just use it until you die, don’t worry about anything else!”
Shopkeeper Zhao Feng Er nodded and said: "That's the same truth, but the rent of ten taels per year is too expensive! Don't forget, to save their lives, you have to use more food and medicinal materials, these things are very expensive!"
General Sun Shen said: "Guys, please don't bargain with me! Again, what you don't want is what others want!"
The four managers knew that they had already taken advantage of the situation, and asking for a price reduction was just a businessman's instinct. Now that General Sun Shen was unwilling to retreat, naturally he had no choice but to agree. Afterwards, the two sides handed over the prisoners and rosters, and General Sun Shen came forward to collect the money. The transaction was finally completed!
After the prison van took away the crying prisoners, Liu Haojia turned his attention to the gang leaders. Everyone he saw could not help but tremble, feeling as if they were being stared at by a wild beast!
Liu Haojia held the handle of the knife and walked back and forth in front of everyone, allowing them to see him clearly, and at the same time, he also looked at these people carefully. Finally, he stood up and said loudly: "You are all heroes, and you are also called heroes in the world. You are much stronger than me, a mere district general! I think a general like me is not in your eyes! By the way, Tell me, my surname is Liu!"
At this time, the clever person said: "It turns out to be Mr. Liu Qi, I'm polite here!"
Liu Haojia was stunned when he saw the person speaking! It turns out that the man in front of me looks like he is forty years old, and he actually licked his face and called him "little brother"! However, after this person spoke, the others nodded and bowed one by one, calling them adults, brothers, and so on, but there was really only one person who called himself younger brother!
But the attitude of these people was still extremely respectful, because they could also see that although Liu Haojia had not spoken just now, he was definitely the person in charge here, and even General Sun Shen was only standing next to him as the commander-in-chief, which showed that he So much power!
After Liu Haojia carefully looked at the person who claimed to be his younger brother, he continued: "Did you all see clearly the scene just now?"
Everyone looked at each other in shock when they heard this and didn't dare to answer for a moment! Tell me that you have seen clearly, it is clearly selling prisoners privately, which is a criminal activity! You can't tell clearly, but this matter was done right under your nose, so they didn't know what to say for a while!
But it was the strong man who said first: "Master Liu, I can see clearly!"
Everyone immediately looked at Liu Haojia, and when they saw that he had no reaction, they nodded to show that they had seen clearly. Liu Haojia said: "Just see clearly! That's just killing the chicken to show the monkeys! But I can tell you the truth. Those people have done too much evil in daily life and have crossed the line, so they deserve to die! Those are the ones who have done too much evil. It’s not a capital crime, I’m afraid I’ll be dead when I come back from Xishan!”
Many of the leaders present were heartbroken when they heard this! Because they know that Liu Haojia is telling the truth, those on death row and those who have been exiled for life are better off. If they fall into the mine, they will become the owner's belongings. They must take good care of their own belongings and hope they can be used for a longer time!
As for those prisoners who have to work for a few years and are about to be sent back, to them they are just rented objects. Naturally, they will use them until they die. As long as they can save their breath and hand them back to the government, who will care about what they will become in the future? It’s not useless!
