Chapter 111 Crisis
Early the next morning, news spread throughout Anyi that the Pei family army was going to distribute money, and everyone went to the county government office to collect it. When they first heard the news, the people actually didn't believe it. How could such a good thing happen in this world?
, but what the person who spread the word said about having noses and eyes made people feel that it was absolutely true, and people could not help but believe it, so more and more people gradually gathered at the gate of the county government office, so much so that the Pei family army was asked to send troops to maintain law and order.
When Hua Yuncheng and Chen Yongkun arrived with a group of wealthy merchants from Anyi, they saw that the scene was in good order. The people formed a half circle around the yamen entrance and were blocked by hundreds of Pei family soldiers holding long guns.
They were pointing at the large-character notice at the county government office door and chatting with the people around them.
In the encirclement, there is a table on the left and right sides. Dozens of people form a long queue in front of the table. The person at the front is lying on the table, talking very fast, and the people behind him are anxiously sitting next to each other.
Waiting on the ground. A clerk sat behind the table, writing quickly according to the words of the person in front of the table.
"This is?" Hua Yuncheng pointed to the tables and asked.
Immediately, a loyal servant went forward to inquire and reported back: "Master, those owners who were robbed by Zhang Xianzhong are in the process of ranking. The Pei family army posted a notice saying that all the owners must first register with the clerk at the Yamen Gate, etc.
After registering, take the registration form and your own evidence. After verification, you can receive your property. Anyone who pretends to be a financial person will be fined ten times the amount of money they pretended to claim. Those who exceed 10,000 taels will not be killed.
amnesty."
"It's interesting," Hua Yuncheng heard what the servant said. He felt that the process was not difficult, but rather simple. He was about to ask the servant to register his family's lost property, but unexpectedly, Chen Yongkun was beside him.
stopped him.
Chen Yongkun discovered the mystery and whispered: "Brother Hua, this is strange, wait a moment." Then he asked the servant: "You just said you need evidence? Why do you need evidence?"
"Mr. Chen, I read the notice saying that a large number of people were robbed by Zhang Xianzhong. The Pei family army acted on behalf of heaven and drove away Zhang Xianzhong. Naturally, they will also return the family property robbed by Zhang Xianzhong to Baixin. But there is always a possibility.
Some scum are greedy and want to take possession of other people's property as their own, so in order to avoid good people suffering losses and treacherous people benefiting, you need evidence to prove that these properties belong to you before you can take them away."
Hua Yuncheng and Chen Yongkun looked at each other and knew in their hearts that this was probably Pei Jiajun's killer move.
Hua Yuncheng asked: "Did he ask for any evidence in his notice? Is there any mark on my own money? How can I have evidence?"
"Say, the notice says that you can use various documents issued by the government in the past, such as land deeds. If not, you can also use vouchers that can prove your income, such as account books, etc., to prove that you really have so much
Money. Anyway, it’s all kinds of money. As long as you can prove that your income is indeed that much.”
"This matter is simple." Hua Yuncheng said with a smile, "Show him the false accounts made by the family in the past. I don't believe that Pei Jiajun can see what the problem is." He immediately ordered his servants to go and give his family
A loss of 10,000 taels was reported.
As the servants went to line up to register, Hua Yuncheng said to the wealthy people around him: "I thought this Pei Jiajun was nothing more than that. I thought he could play some tricks, but I didn't expect him to be like this."
The big businessmen around him smiled and agreed, but they were more cautious and wanted to see the situation first. Hua Yuncheng felt a little disdainful, but he didn't care. They were just a group of villains who followed the wind. That's all they would need. Otherwise, these
How can a person be qualified to be ranked with himself?
The servant checked in, got a registration form, took the account book hurriedly delivered by another person, and walked into the yamen again. A young official who looked like he had a lot of status was already sitting at a table waiting for him.
, showed the account book to the young man. The young man simply flipped through it and didn't say anything. He just put the registration form in the servant's hand on the table, stamped it with a big seal, and said: "Okay, take this.
Go get the money."
Looking at the 10,000 taels of silver carried by several people, the servant felt that the whole process went smoothly, which was a bit unreal, but he had already taken the silver, so there would be no accidents.
When the servant came to Du Hua Yuncheng with the money, he was still a little dizzy, but the money was real. When Hua Yuncheng saw the white money, he stroked Hu Xu proudly and said contemptuously
Glancing at the wealthy people beside him, he snorted in his heart, but also regretted a little. What he regretted was not that he was the first one to collect the money, but that the 10,000 taels he had just reported was too little, and he didn't know what he could do.
Can't you pick it up again?
Seeing that Hua Yuncheng got the money so smoothly, the other wealthy households immediately became jealous and ordered their slaves to go and collect the money, fearing that they would be late and the money would be gone and they would not have a share.
The hearts of those who went there later became much darker. The lowest ones were no less than 6,000 taels, and there were many more than 10,000 taels. One household even reported a hundred thousand taels, but I don’t know what happened. Pei Jiajun
At most, they would only be given 10,000 taels, and many more would be excused by giving reasons to declare again in the future.
These big families were obviously dissatisfied and expressed their dissatisfaction one after another. Seeing that it had no effect, they ordered their servants to dress up as common people and hide in the crowd, trying to encourage the people to put pressure on the Pei family army.
However, the tried-and-true methods in the past seemed to have failed now. The common people watched eagerly as the wealthy households moved box after box of silver out of the yamen. Looking at the wealthy households, their eyes turned red with jealousy.
They don't have the so-called evidence, and they can't even make false accounts, so they are naturally excluded from the ranks of receiving money. It would be bad if these big families really lost so much, but the common people all know that,
In fact, these large households did not suffer much losses. For example, Hua Yuncheng and Zhang Xianzhong did not even break into his house, so what losses did he have? But Hua Yuncheng moved boxes of money home.
How can this be tolerated?
Now, how is it possible that we have to fight against these big families because they have less money to move? At this moment, most people have an idea, since they can't receive it, why can these big families get it? But now they
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