When Liu Yun first heard that his father had been kidnapped by bandits, he planned to go directly to Langya Village to rescue his father. With his current strength, he was not afraid of first-class warriors at all.
But Liu Yun calmed down and thought about it. Langya Village is easy to defend but difficult to attack because of the large number of people. If he wanted to sneak in quietly and find the place where the bandits kept the meat tickets, he knew it would be difficult without even thinking about it. He was not completely sure.
If you do this accidentally, you will alert the robbers. If the infiltration fails and the robbers kill your father directly, you will regret it. Liu Yun had to give up this idea.
So Liu Yun planned to raise five thousand taels of silver first, and then go to Langya Village to rescue his father. This would at least make him safer.
Liu Yun went straight to Liu Jin's mansion, and the target of Liu Yun's loan was Liu Jin.
Five thousand taels of silver is not a small amount of money. In Qingshui Town, only Liu Jin's family is most likely to have so much cash. Liu Jin has made a lot of money as an official in Qingshui Town over the years.
Liu Yun believed that he could borrow enough money from Liu Jin's family.
Just when Liu Yun was about to arrive at the Liu Jin family's residence, he heard an unusually chaotic noise.
I saw a house not far from Liu Jin's house, surrounded by a group of people. There were old and young in the group. The only thing in common was that these people had sallow skin, thin bodies, and were wearing the same clothes.
Patch, it's obvious that these people come from poor backgrounds.
These poor people kept beating on the red door of the house, seeming to want to break in.
"Zhang Yuanwai, please return the money to us. My son is sick now and needs money urgently to see a doctor and get medicine. We can't delay it any longer."
"Zhang Yuanwai, we will return the interest. Please return the principal we deposited to us."
"..."
Many people begged loudly, and many people even knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, regardless of whether the people in the house could hear or see.
Liu Yun immediately understood what happened.
The house surrounded by people is the Zhang family's mansion. The Zhang family can be considered a wealthy family in Qingshui Town. They opened a bank in Qingshui Town two years ago. As long as you deposit money in it, you can earn a certain amount of interest.
After the Zhang family received the money, they ran other businesses or lent it to others to collect high profits.
It is similar to the bank where Liu Yun worked in his previous life, but the imperial court in this world does not strictly supervise various banks. They can open banks directly without reporting to the Yamen. Therefore, the guarantee is very low, and banks may go bankrupt at any time.
Zi left.
Only those banks or bank accounts with good reputations that have been operating throughout the Daqian Dynasty for hundreds of years have good guarantees.
It's just that such large banks or bank accounts can only be found in big cities, not small towns. They don't look down on the little savings of poor people at all. The banks opened in small places like Qingshui Town are basically
They were all opened by powerful local families to make profits from them.
When the Zhang family first opened a bank, no people deposited money into it because they were afraid that their money would be wasted. After all, there is no guarantee for a newly opened bank. Who knows whether it will go bankrupt at any time.
But it didn't take long for Liu Jin to come forward as a guarantee for the bank opened by the Zhang family.
With the guarantee from the court officials, the Zhang family found many trustees and began to promote the various benefits of the bank. Coupled with the increasingly rampant banditry around them, the people also felt that it was not safe to keep their money at home. Some people began to put their money away one after another.
Put it into the money opened by the Zhang family.
In the past two years, many people around Qingshui Town have deposited money into banks opened by the Zhang family.
I never thought that something happened just two years after the Zhang family's bank opened. The people who deposited money in it could no longer withdraw their principal. So these people who saved money gathered outside the Zhang family today, wanting to ask for a
Say something and get your principal back.
No matter how noisy the people outside were, there was no movement from the Zhang family, and no one came out to give an explanation or explanation to the people outside.
The people were begging and crying outside, but no one dared to open the door of the Zhang family and rush in. Therefore, the Zhang family remained indifferent and no one showed up, because the Zhang family expected that these poor people would not dare to do anything extraordinary.
At this time, the police officers from the Yamen seemed to have heard the commotion, and they walked over quickly with knives in their hands and serious expressions on their faces.
"Everyone, stop it. What are you unscrupulous people trying to do by gathering a crowd to cause trouble in Zhang Yuanwai's residence? Do you want to force your way into Zhang Yuanwai's house and seek wealth and death?"
The leading policeman came to the crowd, shouted angrily, and suppressed the voices of the people around him. He stared coldly at the crowd around him. Several policemen following him quickly stepped forward and hurriedly stopped the people around him.
The few people who knocked on the door were rushed aside.
The catcher's name is Wang Jie, he is the head of Qingshui Town's Yamen, he is a third-rate martial artist and an evil official who oppresses the villagers and preys on the common people.
"Sir Wang, we came to see Zhang Yuanwai, but we didn't have any intention of seeking wealth or killing anyone. We just wanted to get back the hard-earned money we deposited in the bank."
"Yes, sir, we can't do things like seeking money and killing people. We just want our money back."
"My lord, I hope you can tell me clearly that it was Yuan Wai who owed us money and refused to pay, so we came to ask for it."
"..."
When they heard Wang Jie's arrival, they immediately slapped him with a big hat, and the people hurriedly explained.
"You are bold and cunning. You are full of nonsense. I only saw you like robbers attacking Zhang Yuanwai's house, trying to break in and seek wealth and death. However, I did not see that Zhang Yuanwai owed you money and refused to pay it. Now you can retreat quickly, how can you still do it?"
Let bygones be bygones, otherwise, I will capture you all and put you in a cell." Wang Jie said coldly with a fierce look in his eyes.
"Sir, what we are telling the truth is true. As you know when the Zhang family opened a bank, we deposited a lot of money in it, but now we cannot withdraw it. The merchant did not give us an explanation or explanation. We were forced to come here.
Ask, sir, as long as the Zhang family is willing to pay back the money, we will leave immediately." An old man replied loudly, and the rest of the people agreed.
"Yuan Yuan's family has a great business. How can he refuse to pay the money he owes you untouchables? When you reported to the official a few days ago, Mr. Liu has promised you that in a few days, you will be able to get the money deposited in the Zhang Family Bank."
The money will not be less."
"But you came to the Zhang family to cause trouble. It's obvious that you want to use this as an excuse to seek wealth and death. If you don't get out, then don't blame the sword for having no eyes." With that, Wang Jie pulled out his saber and said viciously.
, the rest of the police officers did the same, and began to threaten the people with their swords.
Obviously, Wang Jie brought people here to help the Zhang family disperse the people.
The Zhang family was able to open a bank thanks to Liu Jin's support.
People can't withdraw money from the bank now. It's obvious that the money has been divided between the Zhang family and Liu Jin.
And Wang Jie is Liu Jin's confidant, so he must also be a beneficiary, so he will naturally not help the common people to stand out.
"Sir, this matter has been delayed for a month. The Zhang family has not given us an explanation, and there is no sign of paying back the money. If we can't get the money today, we will not go back." A man gritted his teeth.
, said solemnly and loudly.
"If the Zhang family doesn't pay back the money today, we will never go back."
"We must see the money today. As long as you ask the Zhang family to pay back the money, sir, we promise to go back immediately." The people booed again and shouted excitedly.
The savings they deposited into the Zhang Family Bank were all their hard work accumulated over many years. They still have no explanation. How can they let it go just because of a few words from these policemen?
"You unruly people and untouchables, I think you really want to rebel. Beat me up and teach these unruly people and untouchables a lesson." Wang Jie ordered his men, raised the knife in his hand, and struck fiercely with the back of the knife.
The man who made the noise slashed over.
Hearing a scream, the man covered his head and squatted on the ground, blood flowing out quickly from his fingers.
The rest of the detectives also raised their knives and used the backs of their knives to slash at the civilians. Their attacks were ruthless and merciless, and they were not afraid of beating these civilians to death.
In their eyes, these poor people with no power are just ants. They dare to disobey and come here to cause trouble. They are simply asking for death. Even if they kill a few by mistake, they can just be labeled as bandits. Not only are they not guilty, but they will be rewarded.
Since the Zhang family and Liu Jin dare not to repay the people's money, they are not afraid of the people making trouble.
Later, they only need to give money to the slightly famous people among the people, divide them up, and then teach some ignorant people a lesson. Naturally, they can easily suppress the matter and let the poor people pinch their noses and admit that they are unlucky.
Dare to gather people to cause trouble again.
"Ah" "Ah"
As these policemen took action against the people, screams soon began to sound one after another.
Although there were nearly 200 people gathered outside Zhang's house and only a dozen or so policemen, these people did not even dare to break into Zhang Yuan's wife's house, and how could they dare to fight with these policemen, so they could only let the policemen go.
They were slashed with a knife, but no one dared to fight back, they just dodged with their heads in their hands.
Seeing someone lying on the ground with a bloody head and a beating, many people panicked and quickly began to flee the place, not daring to stay where they were to let the Zhang family pay back the money.
"My lords, please stop fighting. We don't want the money. Isn't it okay if we don't want the money?"
"Adults, my son is only eight years old. He can't bear such a heavy beating. We know we are wrong and we are leaving now. Please let us go."
Many people who were running slowly couldn't stand the beating anymore. They all knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy, begging the police to stop. It was extremely pitiful and miserable.
"You are really a bunch of scoundrels. You won't listen to my good advice and you have to force us to take action. Get out of here now." Wang Jie saw that the people were almost running away, so he ordered his men to stop and pointed at the face of one of the people.
He spat thick phlegm and cursed loudly, his face full of disdain.
No matter which era, the people at the bottom have a very difficult life and have to endure exploitation and oppression.
When Liu Yun saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel angry. The bandits outside were running rampant and doing evil everywhere without them taking care of them. They were very courageous and skillful in bullying the poor people.
"You dog officials are so majestic." Liu Yun couldn't help shouting angrily. He changed his appearance. He originally wanted to go to the Liu family to kill people and steal gold and silver. Since he encountered such a thing, he didn't mind killing him.
After getting these pieces of shit, they even robbed the Zhang family.