Chapter 397 Do it by the rules today
.The person who cooperated with Gui Youguang's actions was Tiezhu and others' loyal guards, which was also to avoid leaking rumors or informing people.
When everyone was out, he was silent and did not stay idle. Under the escort of Sanchi and a few people, he went straight to the south of the city in a very small dress, the secret base of the Jinyiwei.
Sanchi went up to call the door, asked inside, and then he answered the code as he used to, but he didn't get any response. Sanchi was anxious and smashed the door "bangbang", but it still silently, as if no one had ever been inside.
Sitting silently in the carriage, lifting the curtain, and calling back the futile three feet.
"Sir, he was deliberately not seeing us." Sanchi said angrily: "Can you just forget it?"
"Idiot, can't you climb walls?" said silently.
"Oh." Sanchi scratched his head and looked at the high wall and said, "But there are all broken porcelain pieces on it, so I can't climb."
"It seems that they really don't plan to see me anymore." Chen Shu sighed, came out of the carriage, stood firmly with the wall of the car, and used all his strength to whisper: "Zhu Shisan, if you don't see me again, I won't have you, as a brother!!"
The voice was sharp and angry, which made the old man startled.
But there was no movement on the door, which made the silence feel very embarrassed and sat back on the carriage with anger. He said in a muffled voice: "Go!" The guards surrounded the carriage and left with a little dejected look.
Seeing the arrogant guy slipping away through the crack in the door, Lu Ji felt that he would never have been so happy in his life. After the silence of them, he finally couldn't help laughing, regardless of how dark Zhu Shisan's face was.
I had laughed enough, but when I saw Zhu Shisan still had a long face. Lu Ji calmed down and said, "Smile."
"Enough!" Zhu Shisan whispered angrily: "I don't know how you got the commander, but the General of the Grand Commander asked me to come to Suzhou to protect Lord Shen, not to help you tear down his platform."
"Yoyou," Lu Ji sneered: "Now you are tough? Why didn't you say anything just now?"
"Hmph," Zhu Shisan chuckled contemptuously, "With Lord Shen's genius wisdom, can I still need to speak out?"
"You" Lu Ji's beautiful face flashed with a hint of confusion, and he immediately said suddenly: "So that's it!" As he said that, Yinya gritted, "So, are you going to disobey him?"
"I won't disobey!" Zhu Shisan shook his head and said, "But don't expect me to help you." As he said, he raised his voice and shouted to the people in the room: "Listen, I'll be in my nest these days. Whoever dares to go out and breaks my leg!"
"You!" Lu Ji was angry at first, and then laughed loudly: "As long as you don't help each other, I will knock him down, and don't you want to kill an ant?"
"Hahaha" Zhu Shisan also laughed and said, "You are so stupid. Only those who don't know his past will have this naive idea." As he said that, he wrapped his hands on his chest and said leisurely: "I'll wait and see who it was when I saw it, and come to beg me in tears."
"Okay, okay!" Lu Ji stomped his feet and said, "Let's go and see!" Then he got into the sedan chair, and even said a harsh sentence: "When the time comes, let's roll the bed together and get out of here!"
A trace of ruthlessness flashed across Zhu Shisan's face, and he exhaled two turbid breaths and said, "I won't give it to you!"
"No need!" When he said this, Lu Ji had already left the gate of the Jinyiwei.
"Bah, sissy, dead shemale!" Looking at his departure back, Zhu Shisan whispered: "Nothing looks like a man!"
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Lu Ji's carriage left Zhu Shisan's sedan chair. Before he could walk out of the alley, he was stopped by several officials in red and black hats. He said fiercely: "Stop, wait for the inspection!"
The coachman in brocade clothes smiled contemptuously and said, "Open your dog's eyes and see whose carriage is this?" Although the sedan chair is quite low-key, you can still see a light-colored sign with six-sided snowflakes from the lower part of the window. The officials in Suzhou City all know that this is a symbol of the Pan family.
Carrying such a suitable carriage has always been without any taboos, and the old man does not believe that anyone dares to stop their car.
Several officials laughed and said, "In extraordinary times, let's cooperate."
"Don't think about it!" the old man said angrily: "Get out quickly! Otherwise, don't blame me for being polite!"
"Why are you not polite?" At this time, a majestic voice sounded, and Hai Ruihai Gangfeng appeared behind the yamen runners, staring at the old man coldly and said, "The law of the Ming Dynasty contains clear texts, and in the palace city, officials above the fifth rank can only ride in the sedan chair. I wonder what rank is in the sedan chair? Which adult is it?"
There was this regulation at the beginning of the country, but it was established by Lao Zhu, who practiced thrift and frugality. For more than a hundred years, it has been trampled on. Now it is a businessman and a woman. Anyway, as long as you have the conditions, you can sit.
The old man thought that there was no 25 out of this? He said unhappily: "The Han family members went out and sat in the sedan chair for decades, so why should you take care of it?"
"No one has ever taken care of it for decades?" Hai Rui sneered: "I will take care of it today! Get out of the sedan chair!"
The old man was so angry that he took out a handful of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it to the official's hand next to him and said, "Brothers, have some tea and give it a big deal."
Who dared to take this money in front of Haibijia? The old man gave it a round but didn't give it out. He couldn't help but feel embarrassed and said ashamed and annoyed: "Don't toast or not eat the punishment, our master is the inspector!"
"Is your master sitting in the sedan chair?" Hai Rui asked coldly.
"Of course not," the old man said angrily: "My master is in Shandong. I said, don't make trouble unreasonable, okay?"
"Take it!" Hai Rui said with a look of Gujing Bubo: "Take it back for a detailed questioning."
Lu Ji in the sedan chair finally couldn't help it. He lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and shouted into the alley: "Zhu Shisan is not coming out to help!"
There was no response in the alley.
"Take it!"
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When he returned to the government office, Sanchi was still angry and said angrily: "Zhu Shisan is so unrighteous!"
"You can't say that," Shen Mo was calm and wiped his face again, while saying lightly: "He has his difficulties, and he has clearly told us that we can't force anything anymore."
"Has he told us?" The monk Sanchi-two was confused.
"Of course," Shen Mo threw the towel at him and smiled: "He doesn't say anything, which means that someone is by his side and it's hard to speak out. Except for the people from the Lu family in Pinghu, who else can force him to do this?"
"Oh," Sanchi said suddenly: "So that Lu Ji, who is neither male nor female, is also inside?"
"Yes," Shen Mo smiled and said, "I originally thought of blocking him from the back door, but I thought that he could not be a big fish, so I don't have to make Zhu Shisan embarrassed because of this."
"Isn't it a big fish? Isn't the one from the Lu family in Pinghu?" Sanchi's eyes widened.
"Just like him." When silent recalled Lu Ji's appearance, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "If you don't succeed, what can you do?"
At this time, Tiezhu came in from outside and reported: "Sir, the person you want has captured three. The remaining one was not found."
"It doesn't matter, three are enough." Silent nodded and said, "Go and have a look."
Under Tiezhu's leadership, he went to the inquiry room of the government office. Gui Youguang had already brought several books and asked for confessions there.
As soon as Chen Si came in, everyone in the room stood up and saluted. Chen Si nodded slightly, then sat down in the main seat, looking at the three desolate guys and said, "Is it good to go from the guest of honor to the prisoner?" These three people all attended the banquet the day before yesterday.
The three of them called Qu Liantian: "Sir, the whole city has the same six-point profit. We only added up to tens of thousands of taels of seal money. All the big families of the Pan family and Wang family have millions of taels!"
"Fifty steps and laugh a hundred steps." He snorted silently, slapped the Ruling on the table and said: "Zhengde, in the 40th year of Jiajing, the imperial court repeatedly declared that the monthly profit of borrowing should not exceed three points, but you want six points of profit. It is still a violation of the law. This is like killing people. Is there any difference between killing one and killing two?"
After some questioning, the three people who wanted to use the big players as shields glared.
Chen Si picked up a few loan notes from the table with the words 'Someone borrowed a few taels of silver from a certain number due to the lack of a certain year, month and day, plus six profits, return them in one month, and borrowed a contract certificate.' and shook, "These loan notes include the seals from your store and your signature."
Then, from the basket that Gui Youguang brought back, he picked up a book of accounts and saw that it was the money-letting account. He read it casually: "On February 15th, the Lion Temple money was 3, 5 taels of silver with five taels of silver. Five entries were used to collect fifteen pieces of Ruixiangzhuang cloth tickets as the mainstay." Then he narrowed his eyes and found another one, and read it: "On March 14th, the Lion Temple money was collected, three ingots of silver with three large and small, and the pledge was returned."
"By these things, you can make a case of usury release! "Silently, looking at the pale three people with a expressionless face. It was not until the three of them lowered their heads in fear that they asked Gui Youguang: "Sir, you are the Suzhou Promoter, you are responsible for the criminal name. What crime should they be punished?"
"Sir, according to the law, those who privately lent usury will be 80 stoles and exiled to 1,200 miles, and their property will be confiscated." Gui Youguang said unambiguously.
"Sir, please spare your life." The three of them finally couldn't hold on and kowtowed, "Master, please give me a way out. We, we will listen to you in everything." They were 'blind eating dumplings, and knew that this was Xiang Zhuang's sword dancing, and they were meant to Pei Gong, so they must have been for that matter.
"What happened after I went back the day before yesterday?" Chen Si closed his eyes slightly, and his voice seemed to come from the horizon: "Why did your attitude turn a big turn?" This is the reason why he caught the three of them.
The three of them still had to stammer, opened their eyes slowly in silence, and said with murderous aura: "You Dao is the magistrate who destroyed the family and the prefect who destroyed the family, do you believe it?"
"Trust, Let's go" the three of them were completely scared and explained like a bean in the bamboo tube.
It turned out that the bosses and bosses did think that the silent plan was a long-term plan. When they went back from the banquet, they even made a move and made an appointment to go back and ask their respective bosses behind the scenes to make the case. No matter what, they would make this happen.
At first, the reaction was fine, but what I never expected was that after just one night, the four major families in Suzhou City expressed their attitude towards the matter through the mouths of Pan Gui and Wang Dezhang. They rejected the silent proposal and insisted on the original plan. They also said that the situation was in control. After this battle, he would definitely be dismissed and investigated. No matter who is the prefect of Suzhou in the future, he would have to obey the orders.
"Assess the orders?" Chen Shu's mouth drew a cold arc and said: "Who will I listen to? Are they from the four major families in Suzhou? Or from the Pinghu Lu family?"
"We don't know about this."
Silence had no hope of these three minions. They could reveal the truth, so they asked, "Tell me about your grand plan to destroy Suzhou."
"Destruction" the three men were sweating profusely and shook their heads and said: "They said they would not, because the food prices were firmly controlled in their hands. They would rise as soon as they said they would rise, and they would fall as soon as they said they would fall."
"How can they do it?" asked Silently.
"It was only yesterday that they heard that they used three steps to set up the rice price. First, they spread rumors that Xu Haiyema is coming. Today, it is said that Songjiang is captured. Tomorrow, it is said that the royal palace and General Yu were killed, which caused rumors to spread everywhere and panic. Later, the people themselves spread rumors, as if the Japanese pirates were really going to fight over."
"Then they mobilized a lot of money to secretly purchase the stored grains from the hands of big grain merchants in the two places. It is said that the purchase price reached 2 taels and one stone, which was the same as last year's highest market price. After eating a lot, there was naturally not much stored grains from the hands of grain merchants in the two places."
"In the end, they hired people to queue up to buy grain in various grain stores. The people were panicked. As a result, people became more and more anxious and more people were queuing up to buy food. However, there were not many grain stores in the grain store. In this way, they rushed to buy food more and more, and grain stores were rushing to death."
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"Now the food is in the hands of those big customers. They can sell as much as they want." The three bosses said carefully: "Sir, the funds they have in their hands are more than tens of millions of taels. Although you are the master of the mansion, you are alone in the end, and it is important to protect yourself."
"Hehe" said silently and laughed: "I'm concerned about me." As he said that, he stretched out a finger and said: "The last question is, how much is the deposit in your number, and how much is the various tickets worth?"
"The three of us are almost the same, both of which are more than 200,000 taels of deposit and tickets worth 150,000 taels." The three answered honestly: "There should be too much difference in other stores."
"Then you have a total of Shaoxing? Do you have any questions? Don't answer." Silently said, "Don't write them down and don't show them to each other. The one who is closest to the correct answer will be acquitted."
The three of them immediately glared at each other, thought hard, took the pen and paper, blocked it with their hands, and wrote a string of numbers.
Chen Si took it and saw that the three numbers were not much different, and the average was about four million taels of silver deposit and three million taels of various tickets.
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After putting the three people in prison, he returned to the inner signing room in silence and said to Gui Youguang who followed in: "If what they said is true, then we need four or five hundred taels of silver to solve the problem more successfully."
"Does so much money be used to stabilize prices?" Gui Youguang said in surprise: "Is so much money be used to buy food?"
"This money is for the aftermath," said silently: "Those who manipulate the price of food are the real bigwigs. Their purpose is not just me being honest or making a fortune, but to sweep away the money houses in Suzhou City. This is their real purpose. If I don't prepare this money, the financial industry in Suzhou City will become someone else's. We still have to rely on others, which is equivalent to losing a lot."
"Sir, to be off-topic, you seem to care about the ticket number, money house and pawn shop." Gui Youguang said: "It even surpassed the Maritime Bureau and the concern for land."
Of course, Silence couldn't tell him that if this era develops normally, it would be the era when finance is king. He could only say very seriously: "This thing is now the core of the contradiction. If it is solved, this problem will be solved."
Gui Youguang seemed to understand but he didn't know how to ask again, so he nodded and said, "Then where does this money come from?"
"Borrow." said silently and in a deep voice: "Borrow all over the world, and you have to get it together." He said in his heart, "I can't ask my wife and let her help you think of a solution." After all, he didn't know the world of wealth in the Ming Dynasty. Ruohan, who had been doing business for many years, could be more clear about it. By the way, Ruohan had set off for Suzhou under the escort of the officers and soldiers of Shaoxing Prefecture, and should now arrive at the ground in Hangzhou.
At this time, Tiezhu hurried in, and his face looked weird and muttered a few words. Chen Mo couldn't help but laugh: "I didn't catch it, but someone has caught it for me. This is really God's will." He said, "Don't let it go when you come, lock it up first. When I finish my work, I will interrogate carefully and see who can't get along with me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another guard came in to report: "President Gu of the Grain and Oil Chamber of Commerce is here."
Chen Si ordered the man to invite him in, but he asked in a polite manner, "How much can you raise?"
"About one million taels." Gu Rundong said: "This number was already collected by the villain repeatedly persuaded him."
"Absolutely," said silently, "it should be enough to buy food with this money."
"Sir, where are we going to sell food?" Gu Rundong asked.
Chapter completed!