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Chapter 355 Long-term stability and loyalty

"A lot of fur!"

Uda inspected those furs, and looked up occasionally, "They are all good products!"

"Sent it!" The old thief sniffed.

Wang Laoer said, "What's the matter?"

The old thief said: "In the future, you will vomit after eating jerky!"

"It's all ours?" Wang Er Er realized later.

"No."

Yang Xuan really wanted to keep all this windfall in his own pocket.

But he knew he couldn't.

Wang Laoer muttered: "If you take it, you will take it. Who dares to talk too much?"

The old thief whispered: "This is a gentleman, not an official."

Wang Lao Er was stunned: "You mean, the officials can swallow the money?"

"Yes!"

"Then why can't Mr. Lang?"

"It's just because the officials only want one person and one family, but the gentleman thinks about the world."

Wang Lao Er sighed, "The fragrance of dried meat is not as good as in the world."

The old thief smiled kindly, "That's why Mr. Lang treats you best."

In many cases, living simply is not a bad thing.

But a lot of the time, trying to be innocent sucks.

"Yang Shijun, the villain wants to buy, but the villain just buys!"

Lang Fei was tied behind his back and thrown on the cart, howling: "The villain is not a smuggler."

Yang Xuan dropped the fur in his hand, clapped his hands and walked over, "Look, I haven't mentioned smuggling yet, so you're denying it right now, is that interesting?"

Lang Fei shouted: "The villain is really buying, Bo Luo, Ha Chi, you are so fucking talkative!"

Bo Luo raised his head and smiled bitterly: "This is Yang Gou, a Yang Gou who kills people without blinking an eye. Even if we really buy goods, do you think he will let us go? Look, he brought hundreds of horses, and he is clearly guarding us. You fucking want to pretend to be stupid, aren't you stupid! Ah!"

"This one is much smarter." Yang Xuan reached out and patted Bo Luo's cheek, "Do you want to save your life?"

Bo Luo was startled, then asked ecstatically, "Can you survive?"

"Of course." Yang Xuan looked at his hand, felt a little greasy, and felt sick in his heart, "After all, we are old friends, aren't we, you pay with one hand, and you pay with the other."

"how much is it?"

"50 dollars."

Even though he was ready to be blackmailed, Bo Luo still struggled like a fish discarded on the shore, "You are crazy! 50 yuan is enough to build a golden man."

"I'm not crazy, you're crazy."

Yang Xuan waved his hand, "Send him on his way."

Wu Da came over, "Master, is it a vertical pole or something?"

"Stand up."

Bo Luo stared at Yang Xuan, trying to tell the truth from his expression.

Yang Xuan walked towards Ha Chi, and Wu Da ordered several guards to erect the pole.

Trees of suitable size are cut off, the branches are removed, a section of bark is removed, and the top of this section is sharpened.

"That's it."

Wu Da pointed to Bo Luo, two guards came over, one of them smiled kindly, "Look, we even changed your clothes, anyway, it's the etiquette of the nobles, you can't say we are cruel when we go underground."

Another guard said: "So what if I say it, Mr. Lang said it, killing people for Datang, killing Yingye is all credit."

The guard asked, "Why?"

"Mr. Lang said that the gods of our Tang Dynasty are the most powerful and can protect us."

Bo Luo was stripped of his outer clothes and shouted: "Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang, we can discuss it! Less, how about 25 yuan? Ah!"

"Really think this is a shop?" Yang Xuan shook his head, "60!"

Bo Luo: "..."

60 million!
60?
"Hurry up," Uda yelled.

The two guards stripped Bo Luo naked, his plump body looked ridiculous, like a fat pig.

Bo Luo trembled, "I have something to say, I have something to say!"

The old thief asked curiously: "How can he survive?"

"Businessmen only have themselves in their eyes." Yang Xuan wiped the oil on his hands, "This is a group of people with the strongest desires in the world. They pursue money and then fame."

"My lord, do you have to have a head?" a sergeant asked.

"That's right." Yang Xuan said sarcastically: "When the fame and fortune come to an end for them, they will focus on power. Afterwards, they will either gain power through wooing and corrupting means to train spokespersons, or go shirtless and become officials themselves. "

"A businessman becomes an official? Dreaming!" The old thief thought it was impossible.

The Central Plains Dynasty has always been quite vigilant against merchants and suppressed them severely.

"The ancestors said that if businessmen forget their righteousness when they see profit, let them become officials, and the world will be in chaos."

Boluo was pulled to the stake, and one of the guards asked, "Get him some grease?"

Wu Da shook his head, "No need, it will bleed if pierced, it's just slippery."

Bo Luo thought of the rumors he had heard: Yang Gou likes to strip his opponent naked and let him sit on a tree trunk, which slowly slides down the valley road.Such a person can't die for a while, and howls for a long time.

"Here I am! Mr. Yang, Mr. Yang! Aye! Here I am!"

Bo Luo howled hoarsely.

A guard holding him felt that his feet were wet, looked down, and cursed: "Damn it! He's incontinent!"

Seeing this, Lang Fei shouted: "Master, the old man is willing to pay the ransom."

Wang Lao Er looked at him with the eyes of a fool, "Your money is in the city, and you can take it yourself."

"Second brother has grown up." The old thief was very pleased.

Lang Fei shivered, "I still have money outside, as long as I let this old man go, I swear to hand over all that money."

Uh!
Wang Laoer has no idea.

"Take it back and hang it outside the city!" Yang Xuan no longer looked at Lang Fei.

"Why? Didn't Shijun ask for money? Boluo and the others can pay ransom to redeem themselves, why can't the villain?" Boluo was almost desperate.

After thinking about it carefully, he and Yang Xuan had no personal enmity, and they had never had any intersection in the past.

"Why did Shijun put the villain to death?"

Yang Xuan saw a few good leathers, took them out and handed them to the old thief, "Take them back."

He turned around and looked at Lang Fei, "People like Bo Luo are scourges, and there are not too many scourges from foreign races. You are also a scourge, but you are from Datang. The less scourges from Datang, the better."

In the afternoon, the convoy entered Lin'an City mightily.

"Get rich."

The officials of the prefecture were ecstatic.

Lang Fei, who had been tortured all the way, was thrown outside the city, and then the soldiers dispatched and arrested several businessmen and more than ten officials in the city.

"The businessman ransacked his house and hanged him."

"Please forgive me!" the merchants howled.

Yang Xuan was not moved at all, "Officials... ransacked the house and reported it to Tao County and the Ministry of Officials."

A row of businessmen were hanged outside the city, and the money went into the treasury.

The respected Lord Envoy returned home with some fine furs.

"Ah Ning, here are some cloaks for you."

Zhou Ning was surprised, "Didn't you bring any money when you went out today? Where did you get it?"

"It was given by someone else." Yang Xuan casually threw the fur aside.

"Who is so generous? Where is that person?"

"Going to the West Paradise."

On the second day, the lunch in the state canteen was very rich, and there was enough mutton.

That sum of money became sweet and sweet, and the officials took advantage of the opportunity of eating to beat the clock to sell their hardships, saying that the affairs under their jurisdiction were so short of money that they had to sell their blood.

"My lord, keep the money and keep it, spend it!"

Lu Qiang, who was used to living a hard life, couldn't help but want to relax for a while.

"This money has entered the public account, how to spend it is still in accordance with the rules and severity."

People are disappointed.

"The business route was cut off this time, causing many workshops in various parts of Chenzhou to stop working. The workshops stopped working. It's good for the merchants to have a solid foundation, but what about those workers? What about those who don't have overnight food at home?"

Yang Xuan knocked on the table with his fingers, and said with a cold face: "If you have money, don't think about how to spend it, can you think about the people first?"

Lu Qiang smiled wryly, "I'm afraid of being poor."

"The people are even poorer!" Yang Xuan said: "Go to inspect and calculate. The workshops in various places have been closed for a few days, how many workers are hired, and the daily wages are calculated. It's faster."

This matter is also simple, hurry back and forth.

The data will be aggregated in a few days.

After the small officials who went to various places introduced the situation, someone said: "Those merchants and hired workers don't know why we ask this, and the villain didn't say anything."

Yang Xuan picked up the roster and looked at it, and said: "The payment will be [-]% of the wages, and the salary will be paid every day if the work is suspended, until the business road is reopened."

He threw the roster on the case table, and said earnestly: "What is long-term peace and stability? People's lives are stable, and this is called long-term peace and stability. Through this matter, I want to tell you, what should be the first thing to do in the future? The people first. Only Only when you put the common people at the top of your work will you be able to act uprightly, sit upright, and not be afraid of the turmoil in the officialdom!"

Everyone was convinced and saluted: "I would like to be taught."

……

Next, the Chenzhou army attacked decisively, looking for clues of smuggling everywhere.

The state issued a reward, and if the report of smuggling was confirmed to be seized, the value of the reward would be [-]%.

This reward immediately triggered a tsunami-like effect.

Those businessmen found themselves being watched everywhere they went.

Especially for large vehicles, whenever a large vehicle enters or exits, someone always pretends to be hit and takes advantage of the situation to see what is inside the vehicle.

Under the circumstances of the nationwide investigation of smuggling, several adventurous businessmen were captured.

The reward will be distributed on the second day, and it will be anonymous.

Chen Zhou was shocked.

But someone with a heart inquired carefully. Although it was anonymous, they found that there would always be someone showing up at the smuggling scene.

"Mostly discovered by Taiping immigrants!"

Taiping immigrants made a name for themselves in one shot.

As a representative, Yue Er also went to the state to accept the award from the envoy.

"Taiping immigration is good!" Mr. Shijun's evaluation made the Taiping immigrants in the city very excited, and they expressed that they would continue to carry forward the folk customs of Taiping, so that future generations could follow in the footsteps of Mr. Shijun.

When Yue Er returned home, he looked at the two sons in a daze for a long time, until his wife asked, and then sighed: "My husband used to think that deception was not good, and he refused to teach Dalang and Erlang, but today my husband got it because of deception. Money, even more praised by the envoy. Do you want to teach or not?"

The smuggling business route was cut off, and the merchants of the three major departments were devastated.

……

After the three major divisions cut off the business route, a businessman took the risk of being arrested, and the whole family became unlucky.

Even so, more than a dozen businessmen still came to Chenzhou and entered Lin'an City.

More than a dozen people are small businessmen with small capital and flexible machines.

Ao Jin was one of them, and he brought his whole family here.That day, he was brought into the state to meet Yang Xuan, and excitedly expressed his loyalty.

It was still the same afterwards, he still took his wife and children to do business in Lin'an City.

But the furs he brought were sold out quickly, and the dozen or so small merchants who came together gradually disappeared, leaving only Aojin alone.

He changed from a businessman to a coolie, squatting on the street with a stick behind him, which is the sign of a coolie.

More than a dozen small merchants left, and Ao Jin's wife persuaded him to go back, saying that at least he would go back and buy some cattle and sheep, and start over.

But Ao Jin refused to agree to it.

"Ojin!"

The wife came with food. The so-called food is a piece of cake with some vegetables.

Ao Jin gobbled it up, while his wife sat by the side, and said with a sad face: "The lodging in Lin'an City costs money, and the food costs money. Our little money is almost enough."

Ao Jin looked up, "Have you eaten?"

The wife hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "I have eaten."

Ao Jin broke the cake and gave most of it to his wife.

"You have to work."

"You're tired of taking care of the kids."

After a dispute between the two, the wife suddenly bowed her head and choked up, "You said you, we were good at first, wouldn't it be good to have the money to graze? You have to come to Laian, what should we do now? We don't care, what about the child? "

Ao Jin smiled wryly, "I can support you as a coolie."

"Go back!" The wife looked up, her eyes dim with tears, "Let's go back quietly, even if it's for others to herd, it's better than you working as a coolie."

"What are you doing when you go back?" Ao Jin said, "Look at the people here. They wear clean clothes. When they see friends, they will salute and say hello with a smile. Their children can read books, and we don't understand them behind their backs, but they feel beautiful verse.

Go back, go back and let our children go on our way?Knowing how to graze all day long, when the Khan gave an order, he had to bring his own dry food and weapons to fight for him, living like a fool.Is it not enough for us to be fools? "

Ao Jin's eyes shined brightly, "I want to be a native of Tang Dynasty, and our children should also be natives of Tang Dynasty."

The wife sighed, "You have to eat to be a person of Tang Dynasty! You said that you are loyal to Yang Gou... Yang Shijun, but you can't get food in exchange for being loyal."

Ao Jin shook his head, "It will be fine if you boil it over."

The wife finally broke out, jumped up and kicked him, "It's hard, you know it's hard, I've been with you for many years, and I've had a good life for half a year, and then I have to live it again, who wants to live this life, I can't pass it !"

The sound of the cart came slowly.

Squeak!

The cart stopped.

"Quick, unload, shout!"

"The fur from the south of town! The best!"

"The fat sheep in the south of the town, one bite is full of oil, and the children in the next door cry."

The Ojins turned around slowly.

An old acquaintance, also a colleague, is setting up a stall.

"Ao Jin!" The businessman found Ao Jin and said excitedly, "You are here too."

"I didn't leave." Ao Jin asked, "Why did you come? No one stopped you?"

The businessman snorted, "Stop it! Those wealthy businessmen are causing trouble, and Khan is in a state of distress. It doesn't work to threaten him with the emperor's uncle. No, no one cares about us anymore, so I'm here."

"Can we do business?" Ao Jin's wife said happily, "Quick, let's go back and collect the goods."

Ao Jin was beaming and ready to go back.

"Your Majesty is here."

Yang Xuan came to inspect.

Seeing that there was an extra businessman, Cao Ying said in a low voice: "Our people found out the news. After the smuggling was cut off, the three big businessmen went crazy, and the emperor's uncle didn't work."

"They will kill anyone who stops them from making a fortune, even if the person is the emperor."

Yang Xuan came over.

The merchant saluted, "I have met the envoy."

Ao Jin and his wife also saluted.

"It's you?" Yang Xuan still remembered Ao Jin, the Hu businessman who excitedly saluted him when he entered the prefecture last time.

"Shijun." Aojin said excitedly: "The villain is Aojin! The Aojin who kowtowed to Shijun last time."

Seeing that he was a little embarrassed, Yang Xuan knew that he was in a predicament when he thought of the last time this person said that he brought his whole family to Lin'an.

Ao Jin's wife stood beside her, not daring to raise her head, so Master Shijun asked kindly, "Where do you live?"

Ao Jin rubbed his hands, and said anxiously: "I have no place to live, so I live in the alley."

"This man's heart is devoted to the Tang Dynasty, and he is loyal. Don't let this kind of loyalty go to waste. It will chill your heart." Yang Xuan ordered: "Old Cao."

"The subordinate is here."

"Arrange a house for his family, and I will pay for it!"

This is Lin'an's house!
Or let you pay for it yourself.

Ao Jin's wife lost her composure and exclaimed.

"It seems that the business is not very good." Yang Xuan held Ao Jin's hand and patted the back of his hand, "It was my negligence, but it's not good to be rich suddenly. From today onwards, a shop will be set up opposite the state house, One, for Ojin."

(End of this chapter)