"Cao Zhen, do you want to disobey me?"
"Disobedience? If you want to join forces with the gentry and wealthy businessmen to fight against the imperial court, this hall master will really resist this order today.
Suzhou is not a place where you can interfere or talk. I will give you ten breaths to get out of my sight, otherwise I will throw you into the water! "
"Hahaha, I'm so scared!"
"Do it!"
Plop...
In Pi Laosi's astonishment, four of Cao Zhen's men grabbed Pi Laosi and threw him, creating a large splash.
As expected of a man who makes a living on the canal, Pi Laosi stood firmly in the water for a moment after being hit, and roared at Cao Zhen: "Cao Zhen, you, you are so presumptuous, aren't you afraid of being punished by the gang rules?"
"If you keep talking nonsense, I will sink you here!"
Cao Zhen responded with a sneer, turned around, mounted his horse and left, leaving behind a helmsman and more than twenty masters from Suzhou Hall, as well as the Chang family and the Fu family who looked at each other.
After a while, Chang Qia looked at Pi Laosi who had already landed on the beach: "Hall Master Pi, what should I do about this...?"
"Don't worry about them. The leader of this hall will go back to Zhenjiang now and tell the gang leader that if he dares to disobey, he will die! Now you can go back to Suzhou City first and don't worry about this place!"
"good!"
Chang Qia and Fu Shan looked at each other and responded helplessly.
"As if we don't exist?"
When the two were about to leave, the helmsman of Suzhou Hall, Shen Fang, said coldly.
"Since you are not going to clean up, you don't have to wait until an hour later. Someone comes and ties them both up and sinks them to the bottom of the water!"
"Presumptuous, doesn't your hall master exist?"
"Master Pi, this is Suzhou, not your Changzhou. You still can't control us!"
"Do you want to touch this hall master?"
"Come here, since Hall Master Pi won't leave, let's give him a ride!"
Shen Fang rubbed his hands, shook his neck, and walked towards Pi Laosi with a grin.
How could a person like Pi Laosi, who had risen to power through words, be a match for a master like Shen Fang, who worked hard on the canal every day? In just a few breaths, Pi Laosi was thrown into the canal.
"you……"
"If you keep talking nonsense, we will leave you here completely with these two idiots!"
Shen Fang said coldly, interrupting Pi Laosi's angry shouting in the water.
Last night, the commander of the Jin Yiwei arrived at the entrance of the Suzhou hall. His own hall master and the commander of the Jin Yiwei left, and their attitude changed drastically when they came back.
Although they didn't know what they were talking about, the military adviser analyzed for them the most favorable situation for Suzhou Hall and Caobang at present, which was to side with Suzhou Mansion and the imperial court.
Although there are risks, it is definitely the most rewarding.
If the imperial court wins, it will be a great benefit for them. The top management of Caogang will definitely change, and they will be able to take over.
If the people from Jiangnan were victorious, the worst they could do was enter the Jinyi Guards, and they would still have a good place to go after being cleared, so they were so unscrupulous.
"Stop...stop, let's clean up, clean up!"
"Master Shen, listen to me. Let's clean it up. We'll clean it up right away. We'll definitely clean it up for you within half an hour!"
"No need, you don't cherish the opportunity given to you. Do you really think Hall Master Cao is joking with you?"
Facing Chang Qia and Fu Shan's begging for mercy, Shen Fang showed no mercy. With a wave of his hand, his men tied their hands behind their backs and threw them into the river. They saw the river rolling violently.
After a while, the movement in the river became much quieter. Another two people jumped in and fished them out, hanging them upside down on a tree by the river.
Shen Fang looked at the people of the Chang family and the Fu family: "I want to inform you that the master of the house will bring 10,000 taels of silver to collect the person. It will be considered as the cost of cleaning the canal. If you don't come after an hour, the hall master will pay a visit to your home!" "
After finishing speaking, he waved his hand, and one of his subordinates picked up a bamboo flute and started playing it. Within a few breaths, more than a hundred men with axes, saws, and hammers came jumping into the water.
Within a quarter of an hour, the masonry, wood, etc. that had sunk to the bottom of the river were fished out, and then a burst of violent smashing, directly dismembering the two overturned cargo ships.
If it weren't for the turbid river water, sawdust floating on the water, etc., there would be no trace of a shipwreck here.
"Brothers, when you return to the hall, each person will receive ten taels of silver as wine money!"
"Hahaha, Captain Shen, you should make more arrangements for such a good thing!"
"Don't worry, as long as you have the strength, I guarantee that you will make enough monthly money for a year in these days!"
Shen Fang laughed loudly: "Okay, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and go to other sunken places to see if there are still any hard-headed ones!"
"Brothers, let's go!"
A group of men left in a huff, leaving behind wood and bricks all over the floor, as well as the shopkeepers of the Chang family and the Fu family hanging upside down.
Similar scenes were staged in several places throughout the Suzhou section of the canal.
After some operations, not only the goods were lost, but also ten thousand taels of silver. The most hateful thing was that the Caobang people directly dismembered their sunken ship and burned it as firewood, which made them itchy with hatred.
The power of the Cao Gang is still great for the gentry and wealthy businessmen in Suzhou. No one dares to completely turn their backs. If they are not allowed to use the waterway, their business will shrink by 50%.
With the participation of the Cao Gang, the shipwreck of the canal would not matter, and the ship blockage would not last long. The gentry and wealthy merchants had no choice but to concentrate all their efforts in the city.
For a time, the entire city of Suzhou was completely detonated.
The common people couldn't cook if they couldn't buy Cai Mi oil and salt;
If tourists can’t eat delicious food or buy specialty products, their trip is in vain. They can’t even find a place to stay and can’t leave, so they have to sleep on the streets;
The goods of the merchants cannot be sold, not only the time is wasted, but also all the money may be lost;
The sellers walking around the streets can't get their goods, and the craftsmen in the workshops have no work, so they can't earn scraps. The family is still waiting for the rice to be cooked;
Under the secret incitement of some people, these angry people targeted the Suzhou magistrate's office, and then gathered towards Daoqian Street.
The entire Daoqian Street was surrounded on three levels inside and three levels outside, and crowds continued to gather.
The newly recruited guards in front of the magistrate's office felt cramped in their calves as they looked at the angry people.
"Damn it, this happened to me on my first day at the Yamen. The food in this Yamen is not delicious either!"
"It's okay. Give them the courage. They don't dare to attack the Yamen. It's okay to make noise. Once they attack the Yamen, it's the same as rebellion. They don't dare."
"Hey, they are all from the neighbors. They can't be seen when they look up and look down. If we try to do this, we can't do it!"
"Boy, you are still too young. To tell you the truth, if I really do attack, your so-called neighbors will definitely be the most ruthless. Why, because I am jealous of you and do not punish others, why should I not take the opportunity to attack you once?"
"I'll give you a lesson. If you encounter this kind of situation in the future, don't think about knocking everyone down. Instead, catch one person and beat him to death. This will shock you!"
"These gentry and wealthy businessmen are really nothing. If they dare to cause trouble like this, aren't they afraid that the imperial court will settle accounts in the future?"
"The law does not punish the public. Besides, have these gentry and wealthy businessmen violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty? Which law prohibits closing a business? Which law prohibits dismissal of craftsmen?"
