Chapter 258: Street Fight
The dignified governor was forced into such a embarrassment by a group of people in the business world. Wang Fulin once again had a deep understanding of the gangsters of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, he just stopped today and did not suppress the local tyrant Zhong Nanfeng. He just hit this guy for a while, otherwise he might have to face dozens of thugs in a while. Huo Zheng and another old soldier Yang Tao were all from Yiwu, Jinhua Prefecture. These messy things in the city were far away from them. Following Qi Jiguang, he had strict military laws. He also felt incredible when he heard these things at this moment.
Therefore, at the repeated request of Manager Zhao, everyone did not continue to stay nearby, but continued to move towards Beixin Pass. At this time, the night was already very dark. If it was in Huizhou City, not only would it be banned at night, but there would also be civilian patrols. Most of the people who were tragic in the night would go to work. But at this moment, there was a constant stream of people around the area and the crowds of people made Wang Fulin feel like he would return to the modern night market. As Beixin Pass approached, he found that many shops sold food at night, but compared to the bustling places everywhere, there was no one to care about it. He thought about it and jumped off his horse and took Yu Wen forward.
There were grinded white rice in front of a store, and there were several large bags of them open in the store, which were also white rice. Wang Fulin reached out to pick up a handful of rice and looked at it, and then asked in a silence: "How to sell this rice?"
Perhaps seeing a rare visitor coming, Luo Kang, who had been guarding the store on this night, suddenly woke up. He saw that it was a young man and a servant, but he was a little disappointed. Which grain commerce in the city sent such a young man to discuss business? And it looked like a scholar, maybe it was just a pleasure to make a living. So he lit up his chin weakly and said listlessly: "The crushed white rice is fifty-five cents a dou."
"What if I buy one stone?"
One stone is more than a hundred kilograms. A family of three has been enough for nearly two months. When he heard such a question, Luo Kang glanced at Wang Fulin with some suspicion, but still answered: "If you buy one stone, it will be cheaper, five hundred yuan."
The price was astonishingly low. Wang Fulin clearly remembered that when the batch of grain was transported to Hangzhou, the price was one stone of rice and one tael of five cents of silver. Even if the ratio of copper coins to silver was floating up and down, it was at least three times the difference. So he rubbed his beardless chin and pondered. Seeing that he was so in such a situation, Luo Kang was too lazy to be perfunctory and sat back and planned to take a nap. But at this moment, he could only hear a burst of noise coming from a distance.
"It's this place, it's this store!"
Whether it was Wang Fulin who was thinking, Luo Kang who was planning to take a nap, or Yu Wen, Huo Zheng and Yang Tao, who had not dismounted, they all looked at the sound. They saw dozens of people rushing to a shop not far away, either picking up sticks or carrying a knife. In an instant, the pedestrians on the road scattered in a hurry, and even Huo Zheng and Yang Tao were urged by Manager Zhao to hide. Then they saw dozens of people surrounded the shop directly. The leaders rushed in and smashed them all, and they were wailing and begging for mercy, but the sound of pingping pong never stopped.
Seeing Luo Kang who had been perfunctory before, his face turned pale and his teeth were trembling, Wang Fulin asked in a low voice: "I dare to ask the shopkeeper, what's going on?"
"What's going on? It's not a blackmail!" Luo Kang burst out a few words from his teeth, and after breathing a long breath, he finally recovered. "This time, so many grain merchants transported rice to sell, but unexpectedly, the rice price in Hangzhou fell to the bottom, and it was about to lose its capital. We had to rent these stores, hoping to sell at least some grain in scattered food. But we didn't expect that the war brokers who were killed these days came to blackmail every now and then. If they didn't give it, a large group of people came to make a big fuss. People said that the rice you sold was mixed with sand, and even if you sued the official, no one would pay attention."
He had only seen Zhong Nanfeng and said, although Manager Zhao explained it, Wang Fulin had no real feelings. He witnessed this scene with his own eyes and saw someone being dragged out of the store and punched and kicked. He felt deeply palpitations. Seeing that the thugs who either held sticks or carried rice brought a lot of rice and grain from the store, they carried them on their shoulders and carried them, they scattered in a rush. He suddenly had another completely different feeling about the seemingly prosperous Hangzhou City. But suddenly, Luo Kang said something again.
"There is always good here in the city of Hangzhou, so it won't cause any death. If this guy is in Suzhou, he will not count on his own life, and he will also ask for a lawsuit and be blamed on others..."
Wang Fulin believed in the Suzhou case that Manager Zhao said, and he believed it eighty times. But at this moment, he heard a loud whistle, and soon there was another loud whistle. Surprisedly, he turned his head again, but found that this time the thugs who had just smashed and smashed the store and were forced back by another group of people. Although the number of people on both sides was equal, the people who came first had the things they had snatched were burdened with weight, while the people who later all were light and in full momentum. Just as the two sides were confronting each other, he suddenly heard a shout.
"Zhong Nanfeng, this is our place. Do you dare to cross the line?"
"Your land? Oh!" Zhong Nanfeng, who had just met Wang Fulin, appeared proudly again at this moment, but he changed into a short-skinned body, with a simple knife on his waist, and a white towel on his head, and he cleaned it up neatly. He put his hands on his hips and shouted fiercely, "I have never heard of this lake villa that really divides territory. Whoever has a thick arm or a fierce knife is the territory! The one you just smashed and robbed was the shop that I Zhong Nanfeng wanted to protect, but you have to make a mistake, so don't think about going out in a hurry! Brothers, scout guys, get on!"
The door of the store that had just been smashed and smashed just now was another group fight. Wang Fulin felt dazzled and couldn't even see it. Manager Zhao was already trembling with his calves. He grabbed Wang Fulin's sleeve and whispered: "Little official, if those two gangs of people were fighting to the rise, no matter what passers-by or innocent people, they would be implicated. What's more, we had some connection with Zhong Nanfeng just now, and it would be even more troublesome to be seen by him. Let's go quickly!"
He said this, and the follower beside him muttered: "If I had known that I would have brought everyone with me!"
Wang Fulin just had this idea and immediately suppressed it. Not to mention that what he disliked the most was taking regret medicine, so what if he really brought everyone out? He was a servant of the Cheng family and the Xu family. Don’t be too strong, if he really wanted to face these guys who fought and caused trouble all day long, he would only lose one result, and he would have to drag him down. However, he didn’t have a sword when he came out, which was a bit overwhelming. However, he still had time to leave now, so he listened to Manager Zhao’s advice and planned to quietly stay away from both sides of the melee. But at this moment, Luo Kang, who had been lukewarm before, suddenly spoke.
"A few guests, these guys have not finished fighting. There is nothing wrong with chasing chasing irrelevant people. If you don't dislike it, why not hide in the shop? Horses can also be brought in first. Let's get off the door panel together, and they won't break the door and come in without any trouble!"
Luo Kang also thought that when Wang Fulin and others left, he would guard the shop alone. Perhaps those guys who were so excited would take the lead, and then he would be in trouble. At this moment, seeing Wang Fulin hesitate for a moment, he nodded. He hurriedly moved the things and put them in. He saw four horses and six people, four of whom helped him get off the door panel together, and he was very quick. He was obviously a shop owner, so he breathed even more relieved. Until they were all sealed tightly for a moment, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled and said thanking him, but he didn't expect that Wang Fulin was looking at the food in the food bags.
This time, he was not as negligent as he had just now. He stepped forward and asked diligently: "Do you really want it? If so, I can sell it cheaper."
"How much food do you have in total?"
Luo Kang was a little puzzled by Wang Fulin's question, but there was nothing to hide from others. He directly stretched out a slap and said with a wry smile: "One thousand stones. I specially ground the rice in the hunch over there and sent it on a boat. It's been almost ten days."
"If I want it all, how much do you want to pay."
If it weren't for Wang Fulin's expression when he said this, Luo Kang would have thought that the young man was looking for happiness. He glanced at the other people who were crowded in his store. Seeing that the person who looked like a housekeeper did not interrupt at all, he asked tentatively: "Is this little official doing grain business at home?"
"This is off-topic. You just need to say clearly how much is a thousand stone rice willing to sell it to me."
Although it was still not sure whether Wang Fulin's words were true or not, Luo Kang decided to believe it for a while. He thought about it carefully and finally said bluntly: "A price of one thousand stones is 450 taels. This is already a loss-making price. If it weren't for the difficult business here and there were people in the business, I would have to hold on until the price of grain in Hangzhou rose. Alas, the southeastern governments paid so much financial resources every year, but in the end, the rice prices rose and fell. In the final analysis, there were too many people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be idle people like the business to cause trouble everywhere!"
Wang Fulin heard the second half of his feelings, but knew that this was not something he could manage at the moment, so he could only choose to put it aside. As for the price of 450 taels of silver for a thousand stone of grain, he felt it was very reasonable, so he nodded and said, "Then let's make a deal, manage Zhao, you can handle this matter, and load the thousand stone of rice back as soon as possible."
Luo Kang was just a real person and asked for a price. But he never thought that Wang Fulin would just agree so directly! He stared at the young boy who was only fifteen or sixteen incredibly, and said in a strange way: "The little official really wants to buy it? This is not a small deal..."
At this time, Manager Zhao suddenly laughed: "The little official keeps his word, not to mention that your price is indeed fair, so you don't have to worry about reneging. After dawn, you take a look at all the food, and I will ask someone to deliver it immediately."
Chapter completed!