The squad leader looked at Ban Ban, who looked like an honest and honest man, but he turned out to be a money minister. He kept talking about it endlessly.??
There is someone above this team leader. His brother-in-law is the prefect of Min Da, and he knows a lot about the inside story.
Let’s start from the beginning, when Zhou Wenxun and Magistrate Min began to ‘borrow’ grain from the wealthy people in Yicheng.
It can be said that Zhou Wenxun has such a sense of urgency. When the news of the natural disaster in Baihe Kingdom reached Yicheng, Zhou Wenxun was worried that victims of the disaster in Baihe Kingdom would flock to the border town, and Baihe Kingdom was Qilin.
A country that is a tributary of a country is like a little brother's country. If the little brother is in trouble, how can the big brother not save him?!
Regardless of whether the border city will allow the victims of the White Crane Kingdom to enter the city, this has to wait for instructions from the superiors, but there is no doubt about whether it will provide relief to the victims of the White Crane Kingdom.
The border town, which is already short on food, will never be able to withstand the continuous influx of disaster victims from Baihe Country. After all, Yicheng is far away and it is impossible to know the situation in the border town at the first time. However, after all, it is better to prepare in advance than to be temporarily in trouble.
claw.
So Zhou Wenxun negotiated with Magistrate Min that Yicheng should reserve more grain first, in case the court's grain was too late and something happened to the border town.
Zhou Wenxun will be respected and loved by the people wherever he serves as an official. He naturally has his own ability. 'Borrowing' grain from the rich people in Yicheng went smoothly here, and there were even many merchants who listened.
After receiving the news, he took the initiative to donate food.??
Yicheng had its own grain reserves, plus the grain donated by the wealthy in advance and the grain bought with money; this is why two to three hundred thousand victims came to Yicheng at once, including Zhou Wenxun and the prefect Min
Neither of them was very nervous, and they dared to explain why they decided to provide relief food to the victims for half a year.
However, there is a saying that "without women, there is no business". There is no businessman in this world who does not put profits first. Donating food to the government is nothing more than other benefits that the government will give them.
This is where the problem arises. Some merchants are not interested in the benefits provided by the government, or they are too distracted to understand what is going on.
The Chang family is one of them.
Chang Yuanwai donated grain, and the government was not prepared to investigate the means used to manipulate the grain. But Chang Yuanwai probably felt that he had suffered a big loss this time, but it was impossible to take back the grain that had been donated.
I went back, so...
This person actually wanted to recover the losses from the victims.
Chang Yuan is a big donor of food, so the government will give him some thin noodles. His words are quite popular among the officials, especially the junior officials who don’t know anything.??
After the people of Liancheng entered the city, Chang Yuanwai immediately sent people to contact the wealthy households in Liancheng. He used this "easy food" to cooperate with the wealthy households, and the wealthy households helped him take back the grain.
Help wealthy households settle in Yicheng and find vacancies in government offices.
Twelve looked at him in confusion, "What does this have to do with people outside trying to hit him?"
The squad leader slapped his thigh and said "hey".
"When he did these things, he did not do them in the name of the Chang family. He was quite a ghost. He was afraid of being found out by the magistrates and magistrates, so he used other people's names."
"At the beginning, they did things secretly. The magistrates and magistrates really didn't know about his actions, but he didn't know that there were people from the magistrates and magistrates in the south of the city. It didn't take long for them to leak out.
Here you go."
Mr. Zhou and his brother-in-law are so sinister...
His brother-in-law immediately spread the news through word of mouth to those whose names were used by Chang Yuanwai.??
Mr. Zhou was even more hateful and had people spread the word among the people of Liancheng through the mouths of the seven aunts and eight aunts.
Although the effect didn't look good, the people in Liancheng didn't go to trouble the wealthy households who were exploiting them. But it can be seen from the way the people in Liancheng surrounded Mr. Chang and the others that it wasn't that the effect was not good.
Like this, but the effect is slowly coming out.
However, due to the arrival of Prince Xian and the influx of people from the border towns into the city, those wealthy households who were afraid of Prince Xian’s power did not dare to take any further action. They were also uneasy because there were people who were even worse off than them living nearby. In addition, his brother-in-law had to be a political official.
This achievement was shown to Prince Xian and accelerated the resettlement of the victims. As for the people of Liancheng, the plan that Mr. Zhou and his brother-in-law had originally prepared to clean up the rich households was ruined.
Naturally, these team captains would not tell Prince Xian's personal guards. Doesn't that mean they would tell Prince Xian himself? His brother-in-law gave him a good opportunity to show his face in front of Prince Xian, and he would not be stupid.
to harm his brother-in-law.
Twelve understands that reputation is the most important thing for a businessman. Regardless of whether he is a truly trustworthy person, the reputation outside must be good, the kind that will give a thumbs up to anyone who hears it.
Especially at the government level.
You said what Chang Yuanwai did was unreasonable. Although they were torturing the victims, who in Yicheng didn't keep an eye on the victims before they left???
As for the government, even if the government says that the matter has been found out and has nothing to do with them, who can guarantee whether the prefect and the prefect really believe it, and whether they will have a bad impression of their families because of this matter?
not good?
It is said that they are donating both food and silver, but the result may not be that the benefits are attached, but they will be covered in filth, which is unbearable for individuals, let alone profit-seeking businessmen?!
Yuchi smiled while arranging the army and said: "If that's all, they can deal with the Chang family privately. Chang Yuanwai's move has offended most of the respectable people in Yicheng. Who doesn't want to kill him?"
Fast?
No, I can’t say all of them, but for several of them it’s not difficult to make the Chang family disappear quietly.”
As far as he knew, the Chang family's foundation was not strong. Although the Chang family's ancestors were all from Yicheng, its real prosperity only started when a few of Chang's father's brothers and other brothers went into business together to earn the middle price difference.
Compared with the really big families in Yicheng whose ancestors have occupied the status of aristocratic families for several generations or even more than ten generations, the Chang family is, to put it bluntly, a 'nouveau riche family' that cannot rise to the top.
Twelve immediately realized what Yuchi meant, "You mean, they are doing this to show their master?"??
"Naturally, the magistrates and magistrates who have been in charge of Yicheng for many years are not sure whether this matter will involve them, not to mention that our prince has just arrived in Yicheng."
Especially since their prince rarely leaves the inn, and when he occasionally goes out for a walk, there are shadowless troops guarding him in front and behind him, and he cannot get closer even if he wants to.
I don't know their prince's temperament and preferences, but judging from the rumors about Prince Xian, even Yuchi would feel that their prince is a person who hates evil as much as he hates it, and is as decisive as a criminal commander.
In short, people with ghosts in their hearts will definitely be frightened when they hear that such a person is around.
No, there is this scene at the entrance of the post house.
Either they really want to express their anger at Yuan Chang, or they want to show their attitude in front of their prince. They are not the same people as Chang Yuanwai. They were all harmed by Chang Yuanwai, and they deeply hate people like Chang Yuanwai.