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Chapter 20 Liangzhou Army is Too Greedy

It took only two days for Wen Liang to convict the evil servants of the Yang family. Except for a dozen or so people who cleaned the house, all those who went out with the master of the Yang family on weekdays were more or less guilty.

It happened seven or eight years ago, and less than a month ago. The sufferer was either directly beaten to death or indirectly forced to death. It is not surprising that Yang Wantang used this to establish his prestige in Tongcheng.

There were even fewer female relatives, and they were all left in the back garden of the Yang Mansion, under the care of the Liangzhou Army for the time being.

However, what surprised the people of Tongcheng was that, unlike the straightforward killing of Yang Jia, the Liangzhou army only convicted the rest of the people, but did not kill another person.

When the rumors were about to start, Wen Gu asked Wen Liang to show Yang Wantang's body to the public, showing that the Liangzhou Army had given the people of Tongcheng an explanation.However, there was no mention of Yang Wantang's secret communication with Beiyu, and it only existed in the rumors in the streets and alleys of the people in Tongcheng.

In any case, Yang Wantang's execution was a great blessing for Tongcheng. Seeing what the Liangzhou army did, the common people dared to go out and take to the streets, but they couldn't leave the city for the time being.

The common people have their own joys, but the big clans are all worried about the same thing.Now they have sent people to sit around the Zheng family's old house, waiting for Zheng Tong to make a decision for them.

Zheng Tong stayed in the room and avoided seeing him, and discussed with several masters in his own house.

"Yang Wantang is dead, but the Liangzhou army is here!" Zheng Tong's face was kind and friendly, and he seemed to be a good friend, but at this moment he slammed his stick with a venomous expression.

"Then what should we do? They've already asked for it, should we give it away or not?" asked another master of the Zheng family.

Zheng Tong said with a gloomy expression: "Send it! You have to give it away generously."

"But it's the first time they ask for it. Shouldn't we argue a few times and give less? It's so straightforward the first time, and the appetite doesn't get bigger and bigger after that?"

Zheng Tongdao: "After all, the Liangzhou army is not from our Dachu. If they stay for a while, they can stay for a lifetime? Let's just take a chance and spread the news that the Liangzhou army has occupied Tongcheng. If they don't die in Tongcheng, If you don’t run away, you won’t be able to take root here.”

Zheng Tong made up his mind, the lords of each house took their orders and were about to prepare, but they were stopped by Zheng Tong: "The Liangzhou army has just arrived, so they must not have figured out the situation in the city. Wealthy. It won't feed them."

The other Master Zheng asked: "What does the elder brother mean?"

Zheng Tong said in a deep voice: "They don't know, so you can help them figure out what the Sun family and historians are like in the city, what they do for a living, and how much surplus they have. Let them do the math."

"Brother is right, we can't just buy Taiping for them with the money."

Zheng Tong propped up his staff and sat down on the grand teacher's chair, his expression returned to normal.

"The more money we send out today, the more grievances will be reported to Liang Shoujun in the future. Let them follow us to pay the money now, and let them take the lead for us in the future."

In the morning of the next day, the Zheng family generously prepared the gifts, carrying boxes from the Zheng family's old house in the west of the city to the prefect's mansion in the north of the city, even three points more than what the Liangzhou army asked for.

The people in the city watched them ostentatiously, thinking that Yang Wantang didn't dare to act like this when Yang Wantang was around, how could the Liangzhou army be so open-minded.

Other big clans also scolded, but at the same time they scolded Liangzhou Army, they also scolded Zheng Tong's ancestors.

They originally planned to ask Zheng Tong to come forward to reject the Liangzhou army, even if they couldn't refuse to discuss it, but they didn't expect that Zheng Tong not only didn't make such a move, but simply complied with the request.In their eyes, Zheng Tong is now more hateful than Liangzhou Army.

However, after scolding and scolding, after the Zheng family gave gifts in the morning, just after noon, other wealthy households also prepared gifts and sent them over in the same way. The teams shuttled among them, and often two teams met and secretly compared whose box was bigger and whose box was heavier.

Dozens of teams finally gathered in front of the Taishou Mansion.

The leading gentlemen sat down in front of the concierge, and the servants carrying the boxes waited outside the gate of the prefect's mansion.

The more people there are, the longer the waiting time.Everyone who was waiting outside had a more or less sad face, only the peddlers who sold flax cakes Balanzi shuttled among them, and they were happy to make money.

When the business of the peddler is good, people are happy, and they talk more.

The servants didn't bother him either, the pancakes were delicious, and people liked to chat, and then they didn't sell the remaining Balanzi, and gave them to the servants to eat, chatting a few words by the way. I met a few big brothers and made an appointment to have a drink together.

Seeing that the pickers had bottomed out, but the purse was full, the dealer left happily, and when he reached a distance, he made a detour and turned back, and entered the eunuch's mansion through the back door while no one was watching. .

The soldier opened the door to let the peddler in, and he went to the side of the water tank to scoop up water, wiped the pockmarks on his face, and took off his clothes.

Looking at it again, who else could it be if it wasn't Li Mao.

Wen Gu, who got the news, also came over at this time, leaning on the railing and watching him.

Zhixia said first: "You are really good at it, your face is nothing but your body shape and posture have changed. You can also teach me, Miss and I can pretend to go out to play, so we don't have to stay here all day."

Hearing Zhixia's words, Li Mao quickly wiped off the water on his face, leaned over to salute Wen Gu, called the eldest lady, and then replied to Zhixia: "Miss Zhixia laughed, thanks to our inconspicuous appearance , this trick will work. For a character like Miss Zhixia, I am afraid that all tricks will be useless. Let alone the eldest lady."

Hearing what he said, Zhixia smiled and didn't answer.

Wen Gu didn't care that the two of them were joking, and asked, "Have you found out everything?"

Li Mao replied solemnly: "It's clear. In a day's time, these people have forgotten Yang Wantang and hated us. They say that our Liangzhou army will not stay in Tongcheng for long, and I am afraid that we are planning to go out of the city. The court of Chu reported the letter."

Wen Gu said: "Great Chu court? More than that?"

Li Mao immediately understood: "Miss, do you mean that there are other big families in this city who have communicated with Beiyu?"

Wen Gu said again: "Although Tongcheng is not the place that Beiyu must seize, after all, it is not far away. Yang Wantang has been around for less than a month. If there are no other people, it will be too clean."

Li Mao bowed and said: "No one in Tongcheng dares to go out of the city at this time, so the eldest lady wants to let the big clans not sit still first, and send people out to ask for reinforcements from Da Chu. It is much safer for those who have secretly connected with Beiyu to mix in there." .”

Wen Gu nodded, and Li Mao hurriedly said: "Then I'll send someone to keep an eye on a few important roads in advance, and when the young lady lets him out, I can find him."

Wen Gu didn't answer, and suddenly asked, "What day is it today?"

Li Mao was taken aback, and replied, "The seventh day of March."

Wen Gu pondered for a while, and said, "Arrange people to watch at that time, don't stop people, don't make a fuss, just find out which one it belongs to. What matters now is to help me with another matter."

(End of this chapter)