Chapter 673: Ducks to be put on the shelves (please give me a monthly ticket)

Chen Ao smiled and said, "What are you saying? You are the acting governor. I will only give you a suggestion to adopt it. What should I do? It's like I'm ordering you."

The faces of the people on the lower head have elongated, and they all said in their hearts, "You sit like this and they kneel for two hours." Do you dare not accept your opinion?"

Liang Jian smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, I will listen to Your Highness's advice, please make it clear."

Chen Ao cheered up his spirits and said seriously: "The matter is urgent now, and it will cause trouble for one more day to delay. Why wouldn't the governor invite all the rice merchants in the city? It is said that they have all hoarded rice, so they asked them to offer the food. How about the government, merchants and people working together to overcome the difficulties?"

Liang Jian couldn't help but tremble and complained again. The rice merchants hoarded grain as the word "profit", so why are they willing to donate grain? It's a joke.

Liang Jian trembled and said, "What if the grain merchant refuses to give it?"

Chen Aofued the case, smiled slightly, and said softly: "If you refuse to give it, it will destroy the unity of merchants and people, and it will hoard goods and ignore my Song Dynasty creatures, Governor Liang, what do you think you should do?"

Only then did Liang Jian understand what Chen Ao meant, and it turned out that he was putting himself out for this.

God is pitiful to see that the leader of the merchant was Duke of Zheng, and he was also a person who could not be provoked. He had a favored daughter in the palace, and the people of Huaizhou had a great influence in the court. Even in this town, who dared to say that he had never received gifts from his Zheng family? If he refused to give it to him, what should he do if he could take Duke of Zheng? This sentence should be asked what if the Zheng family would do to him.

Liang Jianqi said Ai Ai: "I won't know until I end up."

I don’t know if it’s just fooling, but unfortunately Chen Ao is definitely not a fool. His face turned slapped and angrily shouted: “I don’t know? As a governor in a town, you don’t know? Seeing that Taiyuan is about to starve everywhere, people are living in poverty, you don’t know? This is what you are the governor?” He narrowed his eyes and looked at Liang Jian, and sneered: “This sentence is what you said. I have something to say first. If someone really starves to death, you will serve as the governor to pay your life. If a disaster victim dies, you commit suicide and apologize, two of you will die, and add your eldest son. If three dies, you will kill three of your family. Think carefully, don’t think that I am a soft persimmon, which makes me angry. Wen Xianzhi is your role model!”

This threat may not be taken seriously by others, but the King of Pingxi just killed Wen Xianzhi's family, and the heads of the family were still hanging in front of the mansion, so no one dared to underestimate them. Liang Jian was so brave that he heard it and said with a sad face: "I know now that if the unscrupulous merchant does not pay the grain, it will be unforgivable. The superiors will not share the worries of the court, and the subordinates will not relieve the people's ambitions. The wolfish ambitions are obvious. The general thinks that they can be taken to jail and torture."

Chen Ao smiled and said, "This is like a governor, but the jail sentence is too light and the torture is raided. If they don't send it to him, are the border troops blind and deaf? Can't they take it? Wealth is not fighting with officials. This is the words of our ancestors. If we don't obey, we have to have his head!"

Liang Jian couldn't help but gasp and could only say timidly: "Your Highness is saying, what he said."

Chen Ao put down the case and helped Liang Jian up, saying, "Governor Liang, the lives of the 100,000 people are all subject to the Governor. Governor should sit down first. If you come, why don't you go and invite all the grain merchants in the city? Whoever dares not come, seal their shops and immediately punish them for investigation. Governor Liang has something to say to all grain merchants, go and go back quickly!"

After hearing the orders, the lieutenant sang and went quickly. Chen Ao and Liang Jian sat down and greeted Liang Jian, first asking Liang Jian where they were. Liang Jian said, "I am from Hongzhou." Chen Ao said in surprise: "My ancestral home is also in Hongzhou. Oh, Old Governor Liang, I didn't expect you and I were still fellow villagers."

Liang Jian thought to himself, you are a fellow villager who cheated me? Then he smiled and said, "I am also surprised."

Chen Ao asked him again, how many years he had been in the town here, who was in his family. When he asked this, Liang Jian became alert. He asked how many people there were in his family doing what they were doing? Could it be...

Be careful.

Seeing that he was stammering, Chen Ao couldn't help but smile and said, "Is there something unspeakable about the Governor? It's okay, I like to ask this, haha... If I remember correctly, Governor Liang has seven sons, one of them studied in the Imperial Academy, and the rest are all in Taiyuan, right?"

Liang Jian's face suddenly changed, and he had to say, "The prince is very careful."

Chen Ao waved his hand and said, "Miappy, Miaoping, but I just heard some gossip. The old governor is a veteran on the battlefield. I admire him very much. If one day in the future, you may not be sure that you and I will go to the battlefield together and make achievements."

Liang Jian just listened in a mess, not daring to be negligent, but thought about how to get out. Before he knew it, it was getting late and late, and the other generals in the hall could only accompany him, and no one dared to leave.

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The news on that day had already reached the Zheng family's villa. Wen Xianzhi was beheaded and the whole family was not left behind. The servant who reported the news spread the matter to Zheng Ke. Zheng Ke was burning the earth dragon's room to keep warm and read the book. He couldn't help but put down the book and said in horror: "What a courage!"

Then he immediately thought about something, and walked back and forth in the room with his hands in his arms, sometimes frowning, sometimes biting his lips, and his face turned pale to the extreme.

This Chen surnamed Chen is really crazy. He dares to put a knife on the neck of a second-rank official without asking for an imperial edict. This seems to be good...

Zheng Ke's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but murmur: "It's a good thing to kill second-rank officials and siege the Taiyuan Governor's Office. For such a big crime, Chen Ao is a noble man in heaven, and I'm afraid he can't escape the law. Wen Xianzhi is over, but does Chen Ao still want to escape?" Zheng Ke snorted coldly and said: "This is him seeking death himself, no wonder anyone!"

After saying that, he immediately asked someone to take a pen and write a letter, asking someone to send it to Li Bangyan, and his whole body became more relaxed.

What is Wen Xianzhi? If you die, you will die. If you die, you will not suffer any loss if you can defeat Chen’s surname.

Zheng Ke couldn't help but stroke his beard, smiled faintly, and said, "Come on, change to a new tea!"

But the shopkeeper who came in was the shopkeeper of the rice shop. The shopkeeper came over anxiously and said, "Master, a lieutenant came outside the rice shop to inform us that we would go to the Grand Governor's Office, saying that it was the acting governor, Lord Liang Jian, who had something to say."

Zheng Ke's face was pulled down again and he said, "When did Liang Jian become the acting governor?"

The shopkeeper said embarrassedly: "There is no news before. I guess it is a temporary release. The villain comes to ask the master, will the master go or not?"

Zheng Ke said disgusted: "If you don't go, can a deputy governor ask me to take action? Then Liang Jian doesn't have such a big face."

"But if you don't go..." The shopkeeper couldn't help but hesitate: "I'm afraid..."

Zheng Ke thought for a while and said, "You go there and see what they say. No matter what, don't respond first. Then I will inform me directly about it before making a decision."

The shopkeeper complained. The Grand Governor's Office was like the Hall of Yama to them. Who dared to go there? But the master told him that he had to refuse to listen, so he had to bite the bullet and said, "Yes."

Seeing the shopkeeper's faced embarrassment, Zheng Ke said with a gentle voice: "Xu Bing, you are also an old man from the Zheng family. Don't be afraid, they dare not do anything."

Xu Bing felt relieved and said, "I'm asking the master to wait for the villain to get the news."

Then he met with more than a dozen grain merchants overnight, and first explained and discussed ways to deal with it. Then he arrived at the Grand Governor's Office. After reporting, he entered one after another. In the White Tiger Hall, two squads of captains stood upright with their swords. Two squads of generals sat on both sides. The one sitting at the top was naturally the acting governor Liang Jian, and the one who was the second squad was accompanied by the smiling Chen Ao.

The grain merchants bowed one after another, and said, "The villain has met the King of Pingxi and the Governor Liang."

Liang Jian had some dealings with these people, but at this time he couldn't give up his face and said embarrassedly: "Everyone can do nothing."

Unexpectedly, Chen Ao couldn't help but say, "Let's wait!"

Everyone looked at Chen Ao. On the surface, Liang Jian was in the first place, but everyone knew that the real master in the White Tiger Hall was King Pingxi. Even Liang Jian was sitting in a dangerous position when he heard Chen Ao say something, and listened carefully.

Chen Ao said coldly: "I saw this king and Governor Liang, but now there are so many Dusi, General Yuhou, Du Yuhou, why don't you treat politely? Could it be that you look down on them? Humph, they are all fourth and fifth-rank military officers, and they are pillars given by the court. What are you? Just a bunch of grass-roots people, why don't you kowtow to all the generals quickly!"

The Jiang Zuo, who were sitting on both sides, coughed at this time, and someone waved his hand and wanted to say no, but then he thought that King Pingxi said so, how could he show his eyes for them? He was afraid that he wanted to give these grain merchants a warning, so he immediately closed his mouth and did not dare to say anything.

These grain merchants have also dealt with these military generals in normal times. Both sides have always been on par. The truth belongs to the truth, and the laws of the court belongs to the laws, but the people are different. The people are the people, and the powerful are also the people. Of course, these people are all powerful people. Who dares to make money in Taiyuan? Who has no background behind it?

After hearing Chen Ao's scolding, the grain merchants looked at each other, but under the eaves, they were now hitting like Chen Ao, and they didn't dare to say anything. They had to kneel down and kowtow to everyone, saying one by one: "The grass people have seen you all..." They usually worship them, but now they want to kowtow to others. With the spirit of these people, they are already very displeased. Not to mention them, even Dusi and Yuhou who accept these people's kowtows and perform great gifts, they all look cramped and seem a little uneasy.

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Chapter completed!