Meng Liang didn't do anything to them. After all, this was Yanmen County, and Shen Bing repeatedly told Meng Liang not to mess around outside.
What Meng Liang did was to escort Chen Yong and his group to the county governor Wu Xiaona and hand them over to him.
When Wu Xiao heard the news, he hurriedly walked out of the back hall. Then, Chen Yong and others who were kneeling in the middle took two anxious steps back and forth, then stamped their feet fiercely and asked:
"Hey Chen Yong, do you know who you are provoking this time?"
Chen Yong replied tremblingly:
"But... but General Yunzhong County, Shen... Shen Bing?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Gui and others who were kneeling behind them all raised their heads and looked at Chen Yong in surprise, and then looked at Wu Xiao, hoping to get a negative answer from him.
However, Wu Xiao replied:
"You know it's him, but you still dare to provoke him? Have you eaten the courage of a bear and a leopard?!"
Chen Yong immediately collapsed on the ground. The nursing staff behind him were stunned at first, and then they started to cry out, and some even cried.
At first, Chen Yong only heard the word "general" and guessed it was Shen Bing, because the only general in the area was Shen Bing, but now he is sure.
Who is this Shen Bing?
The heroes of the Qin army who destroyed Zhao, Wei and Chu are now leading more than 10,000 troops in Yunzhong County to defeat tens of thousands of Xiongnu fine cavalry. It is also said that Prince Fusu is also following Shen Bing in Yunzhong County... This How could he, Chen Yong, a small businessman, be able to offend him?
After thinking for a while, Chen Yong cheered up, kowtowed to Wu Xiao a few times, and said:
"The common people are ignorant of Mount Tai. They really don't know that this cloth comes from Yunzhong County."
"At the same time, the common people have no intention of offending the general. They also hope that the county guard can give the general a few kind words for the common people..."
Wu Xiao shook his head and interrupted Chen Yong:
"You said it easily."
"The general and I have never met, so how can we have a conversation?"
After thinking about it, Wu Xiao said to Chen Yong:
"If you want to survive, there may be another way..."
Chen Yong quickly cupped his hands and said:
"Please give me some advice, Sheriff!"
Wu Xiao lowered his voice and said:
"Do you know who is escorting you?"
Chen Yongqi said:
"Who? General Shen's subordinates?"
Wu Xiao replied:
"He is indeed a subordinate of General Shen."
"But this man's surname is Meng Liang, and he is the son of the concubine Meng Jia!"
Chen Yong couldn't help but secretly complain, he had offended several untouchable masters this time, and any one of them could have his entire family slaughtered.
Then he turned around and glared at Zhao Gui fiercely... He thought to himself, if this guy hadn't been so impulsive, I'm afraid this disaster wouldn't have happened.
Chen Yong even had the idea of blaming Zhao Gui.
This does not mean that Chen Yong is not upright. It is a matter of being executed by the whole family. It is not okay for Chen Yong not to think so.
But then Chen Yong gave up the idea.
The reason is that Zhao Gui is his subordinate to protect the courtyard, and he is also his brother-in-law. With the Qin law's continuous sitting system, he and Chen Yong cannot get rid of the relationship no matter what.
Wu Xiao said:
"If you can ask Meng Liang to say a few kind words for you, maybe you can be saved!"
In fact, Wu Xiao was wrong about this. Meng Liang was the one who wanted Chen Yong's life from the beginning to the end, but it was Shen Bing who restrained Meng Liang from acting rashly.
Otherwise, with Meng Liang's temper, there would be no "acquisition" at all, and he would simply charge Chen Yong and others with it.
As for what kind of charges to give... Meng Liang only needed to get someone to do some tricks, not to mention that Chen Yong and other bullies had already done a lot of crimes, so they could do this without any tricks.
But Shen Bing was determined not to allow this.
This is not because Shen Bingzhai is kind-hearted or doing it to show Fusu.
But for two reasons:
First of all, Qin law stipulates that scholars are not allowed to engage in business.
At this time, although Shen Bing had business reasons for running Yunzhong County at the same time, Meng Liang and his party were from the Qin army. They participated in the sale of cloth as business protectors, and in principle they could not interfere in commercial disputes between cloths.
Chen Yong's case is a typical business dispute.
Meng Liang and his party can protect him, but they cannot use the power of his soldiers to suppress Chen Yong, otherwise it will be a violation of Qin law and people will be caught.
If it were before this, Shen Bing wouldn't be afraid of being caught.
But now... with Zhao Gao and Li Si watching over them, any small incident will be reported to Ying Zheng, and if added to the jealousy, it will turn into negative news for Shen Bing and Fusu.
So Shen Bing is very careful about these things.
On the other hand, it is the perception of the people.
The people may not think there is anything wrong with this matter itself, even if Shen Bing beheads Chen Yong and his party.
After all, it was Zhao Gui and his party who took action in this matter first, and Chen Yong had bullied the market and acted evil in the past. Shen Bing's beheading him in public would only attract the applause of the people.
The problem is that this is a conflict caused by the sale of cloth.
If Shen Bing cuts off Chen Yong and his entourage because of this, what will other businessmen think?
What will the people think?
Killing someone in a business conflict?
Then who will dare to do business with Yunzhong County in the future?
Who should I approach to redress if I am deceived?
If the people buy cloth from Yunzhong County and there is a quality problem, wouldn't they even dare to say it?
So I simply didn’t buy it and didn’t do business with Yunzhong County.
This will have a very bad negative impact on Yunzhong County. Once this negative impact is formed, it will be difficult to eliminate, and it may even stay with Shen Bing for his entire life.
Therefore, after Shen Bing received the letter from Meng Liang, he immediately ordered:
"Don't bend the law. Everything will be handled according to the laws of Qin."
There would be nothing wrong with Chen Yong if he was dealt with according to the Qin Law, because he did not give any orders from beginning to end, but it was the private behavior of the nursing school. At most, it was just teaching Wu Fang to be jointly and severally responsible.
Zhao Gui and his party committed the crime of "strictly prohibiting private fighting".
This is no small crime...
The so-called private fighting refers to this kind of large-scale group fighting.
In group fights, there must be a mastermind. According to Qin law, the mastermind must be beheaded, and his followers must be severely punished.
That's the beauty of this law.
Its main purpose is to prevent "party formation for personal gain", and at the same time, it does not want to kill people or harm the people simply because of ordinary petty quarrels, so it punishes the "mastermind" heavily.
As long as no one dares to be the "mastermind", then this private fight will naturally not be fought.
So Zhao Gui was immediately tied up and taken to the market entrance to beheaded, and the rest of the nursing staff were also taken into custody to do hard labor.
Chen Yong's power was eradicated at that moment because of this accident.
Shen Bing actually met Chen Yong.
In fact, it was Chen Yong who rushed to Yunzhong County to apologize.
Shen Bing said directly to Chen Yong:
"If not, I will let you sell the cloth in Yunzhong County from now on!"
Chen Yong couldn't believe what he heard and looked at Shen Bing in surprise:
"The general means..."
Shen Bing replied:
"You take 10% of the profit, and Yunzhong County is responsible for production and transportation."
“With such win-win cooperation, we don’t need to think too much, so why not?”
Chen Yong was flattered and immediately knelt down and kowtowed:
"Thank you, General, for disregarding past grudges. The common people will do their best to serve the General!"