"The consequence of replacing salt with chili powder is anal fever and stomach discomfort. Poor families have no extra silver to see a doctor, so they can only get medicine to treat it themselves. I don't know how many lives the people in the Dragon Boat Festival have destroyed in this area."

"It's because the medicinal materials in the medicine store are very expensive, and the people have no choice but to go up the mountain to collect them by themselves. Others don't know, but we know the market outside. Local medicinal materials are more than half more expensive than outside. No, not only salt and medicine, but many things are expensive."

A young man showed a sarcastic smile on his face. Why it is expensive? It is simply because someone deliberately raised the price to make a profit. Where did the difference in the middle go? It goes without saying!

Long Qi frowned even more. The local climate was not good and the people could not get a good harvest. Judging from the situation after entering the city, business was not developed, and handicrafts might be the same. If what this kid said was true, it would be reasonable for them to be forced to become bandits.

"You are domineering and wantonly breaking into the city to rob, and the government office will turn a blind eye?" Long Qi felt that the most incredible thing was this. If the local government offices regard them as nothing, would there be rules in the city?

"There is no law here. As long as we have money and power, we can eliminate all troubles. Don't say that we rob wealth, we just kill people, and we can get out as long as we give enough money. Anyway, this place is far away from the capital, and no one goes thousands of miles to report the imperial court."

Long Qi sneered, "So what if you get to the capital? You have to pass the nail plate to meet the saint. There are very few people who can survive. In order to sue the emperor, how many people can do it."

The civilians sued officials for a slaughter. They were originally deposed in the late Daqi period, but they were reused in Dongyue.

The wooden board is equipped with nails with the tip facing upwards, as short as two feet, and as long as four or five feet. People who want to sue the officials must roll over the nail board!

The young man blinked, and he looked at Long Qi with a little more inquiring: "Brother, have you come from the capital? How come you know this kind of thing so clearly? Judging from your extraordinary gestures, you must be a big shot."

Long Qi just looked at him squintedly, but he thought in his heart, ignored his question, and asked, "Do you have a tacit understanding with the local government office? Can you rob the house so randomly?"

The young man's expression was disappointed, and after being exposed, he was extremely embarrassed: "One of the time, he cannot harm human life and will not cause injury or death. It is just a robbery of wealth. Is it just a robbery of wealth? Naturally, he must respect some of the money from this robbery."

Long Qi was furious when he heard this: "How dare they do this?"

"Don't calm down," the young man felt his anger, fearing that the harm would cause him, and hurriedly said: "Otherwise, the emperor is far away from him, and his parents are the biggest emperor, and the old emperor far away in the capital cannot control it."

Long Qi was so angry that he said coldly: "After you were really arrested, you were given money and walked out of the government office in a swagger. Are the local officials so rampant?"

The young man touched his nose awkwardly and smiled apologized: "The words just now are a bit exaggerated. How could they let us go out with such a sly swagger? They are all pretending to escape from prison, having a tacit understanding between each other and not expose each other."

What a tacit understanding between them. Long Qi thought of what he saw in the southwest, and looking at the Dragon Boat Festival, it was like a rampant evil ghost on earth!

The people in the southwest are living a miserable life, but some people suddenly get better with their naked eyes. That is because of the procurement of Kua Cliff. However, this winter drought occurred suddenly this year. Judging from the weather in the southwest, if spring drought occurs again, you should not even think about spring farming.

Long Qi heard the people complaining as he came over, and he didn't have any hope for the beginning of spring. He also hoped that the merchants from other places could expand the scope of procurement and make their lives easier.

Yes, Liu Yuan and others were all under the name of foreign merchants when purchasing, and did not dare to expose themselves.

When he arrived at Duanyang, Long Qi realized what open and honest bad things were. Even the people agreed to this unreasonable rule. This itself was an unreasonable existence, which was jaw-dropping.

All the strange feelings upstairs just now come from. Why are the shopkeepers and the clerks so much? Why are the residents so common? After a long time of habit, they regard it as a reasonable existence. How terrifying!

"Brother, we were forced to leave this business and never harmed human life. Besides, the money we robbed was returned to Shi Jitang, and many people even praised us for robbing the rich and helping the poor."

When the young man talked about Shi Jitang, Long Qi looked up and asked, "What is Shi Jitang?"

"It was a place built by Mr. Cheng of the academy to house orphans and elderly people who had lost their children to raise." The young man said: "Every time we would secretly put some money in to make up for our conscience, but later we didn't know who leaked the news."

"Mr. Cheng from the academy is a female gentleman?"

"How do you know?" The young man became more convinced: "Brother, you really came from the capital. You have seen people in the world. Mr. Cheng is said to be from a famous scholar. His grandfather is a famous writer in the world and has played chess with the emperor!"

Long Qi said: "Mr. Cheng Cheng has passed away and is no longer alive."

"Die?" The young man touched his nose again: "Did you come to Xun Mr. Cheng? I know where their academy is."

"Take me over after dawn." Long Qi glanced at him: "How many people are there in Duanyang like you?"

The young man was stunned and shook his head and said, "How can we count them? Only those who only make money dare to enter and exit the city. Those who make money and kill money are lurking around the officialdom outside the city. They are extremely vicious and kill people and take money!"

They are all bandits, and there are different ways to act. They act differently and have different positions, so it is naturally impossible to get together.

Playing like them, they think they have kept the bottom line, only seeking money, not killing lives, and are not involved in the fight against the bandits who do not care about killing people or robbing women or trafficking young children. Young people all look contempt when they mention them.

Long Qi thought for a moment and suddenly said, "I lack a leader in Duanyang. If you follow me these days, you will not treat you badly."

After saying that, Long Qi put a ingot of silver on the table. The ingot was ten taels. The young man was about to get it. Long Qi waved his hand and covered it, saying, "Do work first, then get the silver. I will do what I say."

"..." The young man was depressed, and Long Qi said again: "It's hard to call you if you don't have a name, so you might as well call A Chen."
Chapter completed!