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Chapter 606 Come and be happy

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    After the arsonists were escorted away, Xu Wei and Wu Chengen also walked out of the warehouse.

    Looking back at the A-shaped warehouse, which only had blackened windows, Wu Chengen suggested with some worry: "It's all a show. If you really want to frame it, you'd better burn the A-shaped warehouse completely."

    "There's no need to go to so much trouble. What if it's burned elsewhere?" Xu Wei smiled nonchalantly and said, "When the time comes, the torture chamber's file will be written in whatever way you want it to be?"

    Master Xing¡¯s shameless face is like the sorrow of an orphan in the dark night.

    "It's better to be cautious. I heard that Lin Xunzhi is coming to Kunshan in the near future. Aren't you afraid of letting him take advantage of you?" Wu Chengen reminded in a low voice.

    "Come here, catch him, let's have fun together." Xu Wei said with his bones all over his body: "Anyway, we have a lot of time."

    "I'm telling you something serious." Wu Chengen gave him a helpless look. Although the two had been together day and night for almost two years, they still couldn't get used to Xu Wei's crazy style.

    "Isn't it said that Xu Wenchang is the most famous person? Why does it look more and more like a lunatic?"

    Oh, yes, he is.  Thinking about it this way, Lao Wu felt that Fat Xu was more normal

    "The same goes for serious people." Xu Wenchang smiled and said: "If he dares to find something to do with me, I will dare to poke holes in him so that he can't take advantage of me."

    "Uh, okay, you can figure it out." Wu Chengen was helpless. He insisted on adding extraneous details to a problem that could be easily solved.  It's purely boring and looking for trouble.

    When he left the reserve warehouse and came to the deserted street, Wu Chengen asked in a low voice: "Last question, how do you know they will come to burn the warehouse?"

    "I can figure things out." Xu Wei raised his head proudly. Seeing that Wu Chengen didn't believe it at all, he chuckled and told the truth:

    "Actually, I heard that Inspector Lin is coming to the county for inspection, and he will definitely inspect the reserve warehouse. By then, our trick will be exposed."

    "Yeah." Wu Chengen nodded.  At first, rumors were spreading in the county, and people were looting rice, flour, grain and oil, and chaos was about to break out.  On the one hand, Xu Wei took action to crack down on hoarding, and on the other hand, he used tricks to create the illusion of sufficient food supply.

    In fact, due to the blockade of the Dongting Chamber of Commerce and the drought, everyone was short of food. Wu Ji and the Taicang Wang family tried their best to send only two or three ships of food every day.

    ¡° Two or three shiploads of food are barely enough to provide relief for work, and there is no way to feed the nearly 100,000 citizens in the city.

    But Xu Wei was not panicked at all. He knew that the people had more or less food in their homes.

    And at this time, the price of food is soaring. One stone of rice can be sold for more than two taels of silver. But when the new grain comes out at the end of June, the price of food will drop by half.

    So normally, as long as citizens barely have enough food at home, they won¡¯t buy food at high prices at this time.  Naturally, there will be no rush to buy at the same time. In this way, only three to five hundred shi of food will be needed at most every day to meet the market needs.

    Xu Wei still had 3,000 shi obtained from looting five grain stores and more than 2,000 shi of grain donated by the gentry, which could barely last for half a month.

    But the premise is that there will be no food rush.  Once citizens panic-buy, he may be able to rob them all in one day.

    Therefore, Xu Wei ordered the fleet that came to deliver grain to use sandbags as rice bags, creating the illusion that five grain ships arrived in Kunshan every day.  In this way, when the people see that more than enough food to feed everyone is delivered every day, they will naturally stop panicking.

    But lies are lies after all, and sand cannot be turned into food.  After half a month, there should be 18,000 shi of food stored in the reserve warehouse account, but Xu Wei only has a mere 2,000 shi in hand It doesn't matter if no one checks the gap of 16,000 shi. He will try to close the account in the future.  Ping is.

    But as soon as the patrolman surnamed Lin came, Xu Wei's "fishy" trick was immediately revealed.

    "So you plan to" Wu Chengen has been hanging out in the yamen for many years. He knows what this guy wants to do when he hears it?

    "Burning the position by yourself? It's over once and for all."

    "Well, as a last resort, you have to light a fire yourself. That's why I took advantage of Kuding's family members and paid them a lot of money." Xu Wei said with a proud smile:

    "Of course, I still hope that the Xu family will light the fire. After all, we are the party of justice. Fortunately, they did not disappoint me, and they came after all."

    "Back then, Xu Fan framed Hu Ruzhen, but now he still can't stop eating shit. Once he can't stand up to the front, he wants to use dirty tricks behind his back." As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said:

    "If you fall into my hands this time, you must vent your anger!"

    "Alas" Wu Chengen sighed, thinking that it seems that KunShanxian County cannot stop.

    ??~~

    Early the next morning, citizens on Yaqian Street in Kunshan heard the sound of gongs ringing at the entrance of the Yamen.

    Knowing that there was excitement again, the people immediately gathered at the yamen gate.

    I saw a group of policemen in bright red uniforms escorting a long line of men in shackles out of the gate.

    This is a kind of humiliating punishment originally created by the Ming Dynasty, called "Yongxiang Tour", in which the prisoner wears wooden shackles and parades down the street under the supervision of the government officials.

    In order to achieve the effect of "clearing the punishment and teaching", gongs are also beaten to attract people to watch, and the crimes of the tortured are loudly announced.

    Well, actually humiliating talents is the main purpose.

    ??Among the official bustles that ordinary people love to watch most, the ¡®Yong Xiang Tour¡¯ can be ranked in the top threesecond only to beheading and the county magistrate¡¯s patrol.

    Comparing the excitement of the former and the pomp of the latter, Yongxiang Travel mainly wins by its topicality.  Because this penalty is generally used in serious cases of violators, moral violators, and robbers.

    Therefore, while the common people looked at the long line of men with shackles on their necks and chains on their feet, they talked enthusiastically:

    "Hey, there are many people exercising. What is wrong with this?"

    "It's probably a gang of robbers"

    "What, these are the group of Mr. Xu and Yuanwai Zhang!" They walked around the county town all day long, and many people recognized the group of people who were being shackled.

    "Hey, it's true!" The citizens couldn't help but gasped when they looked at the goatee and the iconic big scab.

    This group of people are the godsons of the Xu family. They have always ignored the government and bullied the market and acted tyrannically. Unexpectedly, they fell into trouble this time.

    "What did they do?" the people asked loudly.

    The officers just beat the gongs and turned a deaf ear, and escorted the group of men to Shenming Pavilion. When they saw that the people were almost gathered, they announced with a loud voice:

    "Yesterday, we arrested the current arsonists Xu Yang, Zhang Dawu, Ma Dadan, Zhou Wang and others, and set fire to the reserve warehouse containing 16,000 dan of grain!"

    "What?!" When the people heard this, they exploded, and all the food in the reserve warehouse was burned!

    "A group of criminals confessed, and the county magistrate ordered that their homes be raided for emergency use, and their shackles traveled around to declare their crimes and let the people cast aside them. Then they reported it to the government and asked for the official punishment!"

    "Bah! Bah! Bah!" Before the official finished speaking, countless thick phlegm sprayed like raindrops towards Zhang Dawu and the others, and the scene was spectacular.

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