Chapter five hundred and ninety-six assembly (seeking a banknote)
It was another sunny day, and the Heyang government office once again promulgated a new decree early in the morning and posted it on the bulletin board outside the government office.
It's just that unlike the past nearly half a year, when every new decree was promulgated, it would immediately attract a large number of people to watch. Now, no matter how many decrees are promulgated in Heyang Mansion, there is no one outside the bulletin board.
No people read the content on the bulletin board at all, because after reading it, it has no other effect except to add to their hearts.
Anyway, regardless of whether they read the laws or not, the soldiers and gangsters roaming the city will come to collect taxes very punctually. In this case, why are you asking for trouble?
In Master Jiang's words, after the Liu family settled in Heyang, there were only two things in Heyang that the people could not escape in their entire lives, one was death and the other was taxation.
That makes so much sense!
"Hurry up, Mr. Jiang's speech is about to start. If we don't go there, there will definitely be no room."
On a certain street, a man dressed as a scholar walked in a hurry and said.
The companion next to him was a little tired and said helplessly: "The place where Mr. Jiang wants to speak is in the open space in front of Prince Wu's Mansion. It's not like you don't know how big it is there. If people are really close to each other, they will be crowded together."
Twenty thousand is no problem, how can there be no room?"
"Are you stupid? Mr. Jiang wants to talk to us people in Heyang! Why don't everyone rush over like crazy? Forget it, it doesn't make sense to you. You can do your own ink. I'll leave first."
As the scholar spoke, he started trotting instead of walking quickly.
When the tired companion saw this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted, a hesitant expression appeared on his face, but in the end he gritted his teeth and started to trot.
On another street not far away, there were also several porters in short coats, rushing towards the center of Heyang City.
The short and stocky man at the back glanced at the bulletin board as he passed by the government office, and couldn't help but said: "It seems that a new law has been promulgated. Should we stop and take a look?"
"What's there to see? It must be another new tax that Liu's group of bastards thought of. Apart from trying to steal money from the pockets of us miserable people, what else can they do? We'd better hurry up and rob the place.
Mr. Jiang, please say something! It seems that Mr. Jiang is willing to step forward and make decisions for us!"
The leading strong man said with excitement.
"Ah? Real or fake? No way? Wouldn't that be a rebellion?"
"What kind of rebellion? Who is rebelling? Mr. Jiang is the city guard of Heyang! But look at those people from the Liu family, how have they ever taken Mr. Jiang seriously after they came here! The ones who rebelled are the people from these aristocratic families.
! Lord Jiang, that’s called asking for orders for the people!”
"But those people from the Liu family have soldiers. There are thousands of soldiers. Even if Mr. Jiang wants to stand up for us, there is nothing he can do, right?"
"I don't know. Anyway, since Mr. Jiang wants to say something publicly, he must have an idea! If Mr. Jiang needs people to serve as soldiers in the war, I will definitely be the first to sign up!"
"Let's go together!"
Similar scenes continue to be staged in various places in Heyang City.
The Qian family's propaganda ability is excellent, and it is enough to cover the entire Heyang City with the news in just one day without Jiang Fan using his own intelligence network.
When the people of Heyang learned the news, they immediately became excited.
Although no one told them what Jiang Fan wanted to say, no matter how you look at such a huge momentum, it cannot end in a small fight, right?
What's more, countless people in Heyang secretly signed the previous petition, and many illiterate people directly pressed their fingerprints. Naturally, they have strong expectations for this in their hearts.
There was still about an hour before Jiang Fan's scheduled start time for his speech, and the huge open space in front of Prince Wu's Mansion was basically packed with people.
And there are countless people who are still swarming this way.
Normally, it is very taboo for too many people to gather together under any circumstances.
So let alone tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people crowding into one place, even if there is a gathering of dozens of people, there should be street patrol officers coming forward to question them.
But today's flow of people was not stopped from beginning to end by any street patrol officers.
The thousands of street patrol officers who were supposed to be all over Heyang seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and none of them could be found on the streets.
As for the five thousand soldiers of the Liu clan, except for those who had to put on a minimum appearance to guard the city, the rest of them wandered around Heyang City all day long, basically doing everything except official business.
Is it a business to prevent unusual gatherings of people? Of course it is a business.
So these wandering soldiers didn't take it to heart at all.
If you have that time, you might as well see which family has a prettier girl, or which family is richer, so you can blackmail them.
But after all, the noise was too loud. With so many people gathering in one place, even a blind person could hear the noise, not to mention that the Liu family were not blind at all.
So at this moment in the Heyang Mansion Yamen, Liu Ziyu was listening to the report of the servant in front of him with a confused face, but his mind was filled with questions that were getting bigger and bigger.
Jiang Fan... what are you doing?
Waiting until the servant finished reporting and Liu Ziyu dismissed the servant, the old man in the room asked strangely: "Fourth Grandpa, what the hell is Jiang Fan doing?"
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing to gather so many people here."
The old man frowned and had no idea for a while.
"He has always been very honest these days, why did he suddenly jump out again? Is it because I taxed his wine and pissed him off?"
Liu Ziyu asked strangely.
"Don't care about what he thinks. He is just a scholar with some ability. Just taxing his wine instead of directly taking it back to the family is already a kindness to him. If he is really so ignorant of praise, then just tax him.
It's a matter of killing him. Anyway, we haven't decided yet whether we want to keep him alive."
The old man snorted coldly and said.
"What Fourth Grandpa said is that I wanted to save his life before, but I didn't expect that he couldn't help but jump out again after only a few days of work. In this case, you can't blame me. He incited so many
The common people gathered together, their intentions are to be punished! However, with so many common people, it is easy to cause chaos, let's wait until tomorrow and the day after tomorrow... Then there are some experts around Jiang Fan, and I will have to trouble Fourth Grandpa to take action by then."
Liu Ziyu said.
"Don't worry, I'll go take a look today to see what Jiang Fan is planning. If there is any emergency, we can stop it in time."