In another restaurant's second-floor private room, there were about a dozen wealthy businessmen sitting.
These people are all big salt merchants in Yangzhou. They had a meeting together two months ago to study how to deal with Lin Ruhai.
At that time, they didn't pay much attention to Lin Ruhai's family, so they just treated them as usual.
Little did they know that two months had passed, and Lin Ruhai showed terrible officialdom tactics, constantly forcing these salt merchants, forcing them to become tax rebels if they did not pay the full amount of salt tax.
In fact, Wei Chunhua still despised Lin Ruhai and regarded him as Hai Rui, who was super capable but had no one behind him, so he wanted to send his own tribe to lure Lin Zhao into the water.
Unexpectedly, Lin Zhao slapped Wei Yang back and sent Wei Yang to jail.
That’s why today’s move was made.
At this time, all the salt merchants were showing their momentum. After all, they had thousands of tenants, and their life and death depended on a single thought. They had millions of gold and silver at their disposal.
A person who can control these can develop some power.
Wei Chunhua glanced at several people and said: "Brothers, Lin Zhao is so ruthless, how should we deal with him next?"
The middle-aged fat man named Tong Zhaohe said: "Master Wei, I said two months ago that the Lin family has sinister intentions and should be eliminated as soon as possible. But I didn't expect that he would be so cruel and shameless. I told you, let's do it quickly.
, then kill him! In fact, we have killed too few officials? Not to mention that Tan Hua Gong’s son is just a small dianshi, but if we kill the entire Lin family, so what? One more of their family is not more, and less of them
Every family has a lot.”
Another person chuckled and said: "What the old boy said is true. Unless he is protected by a large army when he travels, any bandit raised by any of our police stations can kill that dog official."
Wei Chunhua nodded slightly and said: "You brothers are right, I underestimated him before, now I will handle it myself!"
Everyone nodded.
After all, there are so many salt merchants in Yangzhou, and only the Wei family is the leader.
There are many salt workers and salt lords in his family, especially those salt lords, who are all desperadoes. Once they become fierce, they can pacify the Cao Gang and destroy the Salt Gang.
That's why the Wei family can occupy 30% of Yangzhou's salt industry.
What a rich country!
After everyone dispersed, Wei Chunhua stepped onto a carriage. A groom in fine clothes said to Wei Chunhua: "Master, where are we going?"
"Go to the house by the Slender West Lake!"
The coachman nodded and immediately waved his whip. Unexpectedly, the carriage only moved forward a dozen feet, and several figures blocked the front. The leader was the guy Lin Zhao had been keeping close to him for half a year, named Lin Dafei. He could only be heard walking towards the stopped carriage.
He said sharply: "Wei Chunhua, get out of the car!"
The groom was slightly startled, but he was about to have an attack.
He was originally a fighting man, and with a flick of his whip, he was about to make a killing move, but there was a "swish" sound, and a sharp arrow was directly nailed to his throat.
Then the coachman stiffened and fell off the carriage.
"You guys, ants, dare to talk to us!"
A servant put down his bow and arrow and said with disdain.
Wei Chunhua in the carriage sighed, secretly feeling that he had been too careless.
With such a simple and easy manner, no wonder someone noticed him and took advantage of this opportunity to intercept him.
He glanced at Lin Dafei and immediately recognized the other person's identity.
In fact, he remembered the descriptions of Lin Ruhai's family and everyone around him.
Lin Dafei smiled and said: "Master Wei, there is a request from Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor Yamen!"
Wei Chunhua smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't expect that we, ordinary people, could actually work. Lin Dianshi sent someone to invite him!"
In fact, Dian Shi was a low-ranking official. With Wei Chunhua's wealth and status, how could he take such a big official in his eyes?
So at this moment, he deliberately emphasized the word "classical history" very strongly.
But even so, he had to get off the carriage obediently, and at the same time he knew in his heart that he had underestimated that little Lin Dianshi.
It wasn't that Wei Chunhua was arrogant and unprepared and directly selected a group of strong men among his tenants. It was actually that Wei Chunhua never thought that Lin Zhao would dare to be so crazy and directly slaughter hundreds of people.
It has been a hundred years since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty, and no official has ever dared to do this!
Those Jiedu envoys dared to do this because they had soldiers in their hands!
Those dandy boys dared to ask their servants to kill people, but they only dared to kill one or two people.
Even so, you have to find a way to open up official connections and spend a lot of money to get through.
Besides, in Wei Chunhua's expectation, Lin Zhao was bound to die this time. Just like Linzhou and Suzhou, he was also a directly transferred tenant. Afterwards, he casually introduced a few scapegoats. Isn't everything calm?
Several government officials came forward, pulled Wei Chunhua off the carriage, and then tied him up with five-flowered ropes. During this process, Wei Chunhua seemed very calm, and his face was even filled with excitement.
A bit of a smile.
Of course he would not know that at this moment, a patrol team that had just seen human blood was preparing to completely attack the Wei family. Lin Zhao had already made up his mind to completely clean up the Wei family in Yangzhou.
Wei Chunhua has been monopolizing Yanggang in Yangzhou for decades. He has communicated with the imperial court and local officials, and at the same time trained many scribes to support his family. He has been living in Weifu in Yangzhou for his own use for so long that he has become
I have forgotten the saying "The county magistrate who destroys the family is the prefect who destroys the family".
Legally speaking, if the Salt Patrol Censor's Yamen discovers signs of tax evasion by merchants under its jurisdiction, it can contact the local government to handle the matter, but in an emergency, it can be executed first and then reported.
Now the Salt Patrol Censor's Yamen has been besieged for a long time, but the local officials have not shown up at all. Naturally, they will not show up casually. This gave Lin Zhao an opportunity to turn things around.
This opportunity was definitely left to him by the enemy.
Since the local government was deliberately slow to respond, don't blame Lin Zhao for being ruthless!
Among Yangzhou salt merchants, the Wei family is the most powerful. Not only does his family have many members, but there are also many heroes. They are wealthy businessmen on the surface, but they are powerful behind the scenes. Those who know the details are the high-ranking officials in Liangjiang area.
, no one is willing to provoke the Wei family.
However, this time, Lin Zhao sent people to fight with murderous intent, catching the Wei family by surprise.
Those thugs and heroes were killed by sharp arrows before they could take action. There was a clan elder who relied on his elders to gain connections. In the end, he was shot through the throat by a sharp arrow after he only spoke half of his words.
It can be said that the Wei family had no time to resist, so the salt guards who patrolled the Salt Censor's Yamen broke into the house, their property was confiscated, the clan members were captured alive, and all the gangster thugs were killed.
The tens of millions of property accumulated by the Wei family were deprived of all by the Yanxunyan Censor Yamen.
When Wei Chunhua saw this scene, his heart ached even more, and he vomited blood and fainted in the lobby of the Yushi Yamen.
Well, but now he has lost his family property, lost his wings, and has become a waning old man. Who will pay attention to him and throw him directly into prison?
Zhao Quan and the others were both excited and confused.
He never expected that his martial arts skills would be so high!
No matter how ferocious the dead warriors raised by the Wei family are, they are no match for him. Although those guys who come and go are very good at martial arts, but in the eyes of Zhao Quan and other saltmen, they are like moving in slow motion.
It seemed that if he was shot by them, he would die.
"The dead soldiers of the Wei family are very brave, but it turned out that we were not the enemy with one shot. It seems that those high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen were also deceived by a bunch of fools. I thought they were so smart!"
With this mentality, the more property was seized, the more contemptuous the saltmen became, and they were reluctant to stab all these guys to death.
They have such high martial arts skills and profound knowledge, but they are deceived by the methods of these wealthy businessmen, thinking that they are all deep-minded, good at dancing, shrewd and powerful.
If you had known this, why were you so afraid of them in the first place?
Thinking of this, the salt men's pushing and shoving became even more fierce: "Everyone, please be honest!"
On a pavilion in the middle of a courtyard in the distance, a middle-aged man in official uniform smoothed his beard and remained silent while listening to the news reported by his servants.
Another person next to him, also wearing an official robe, gently raised the white chess piece in his hand and placed it on the chessboard, saying: "Prefect Mu, the Wei family is completely finished. What should we do next?"
Magistrate Namu was Mu Tianyan, Magistrate of Yangzhou. At this time, he was stroking his beard with his hands, calm and calm. He raised the sunspot and took a step forward. He drank a cup of hot tea and smiled slightly: "It's just that we underestimated Lin Ruhai's ruthlessness.
, seize the opportunity and act decisively, not even giving us a chance to take action. They are the Yangzhou Salt Patrol Censor Yamen. They caught the salt merchants' illegal tax resistance, executed them, and reported afterwards, which completely complied with the procedures.
I'm here, but there's nothing I can do!"
"But." Mu Tianyan paused and sneered: "But I don't believe that he dares to massacre Yangzhou. If nothing else happens, he wants to kill people to establish his power. It's a pity that those salt merchants are used to being comfortable and can't bear it at all.
His offensive. We will wait and see what happens. Salt merchants change every ten years, and changing a batch now is just picking peaches for future generations."
The official was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly and said, "What Magistrate Mu said is true, but the lower official is stupid! It's just that the lower official is worried that the Wei family is so angry that he bites him at will."
Mu Tianyan looked in the direction of the Wei family, with a look of worry in his eyes: "It was the Wei family's fault to raise dead soldiers and besiege the Yamen! It is normal to bite at will. Don't worry, I will communicate with Lin Ruhai
For a long time, this man also had an exquisite heart and would not cross the line! His son Lin Zhao is an even more shrewd person."
The Yangzhou officialdom looked on with cold eyes, but the salt merchants were frightened.
Tong Zhaohe, Zhao Qixiang, or someone with the surname Chen and the surname Wang, have long lost their wisdom and are arrogant and arrogant.
Everyone was in their own homes, listening to the frightening report. They collapsed on their chairs one by one, with a look of fear in their eyes.
Although they all have fox-like hearts, they are all helpless when faced with the Yamen who don't play their cards according to the routine and just lift the table and take the knife.
"I just hope that if the Wei family is destroyed, Lin Ruhai and Lin Zhao and his son should calm down and stop!"
I don’t know how many people are praying in their hearts.