nine thousand years old

Chapter 296 Arrest (third update)

Lin's house.

As a well-known wealthy businessman in a wealthy place in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the leading merchant in the entire Zhou Dynasty, the Lin family's mansion can be described as extremely luxurious, covering countless areas. Looking at the vermilion gate, a straight passage goes straight to the depths of the courtyard, and inside is a forest of exotic flowers and grasses, with carved railings everywhere.

At this moment, in the courtyard directly facing the front hall of the Lin family, the water in the clear pond glistened, and in the luxurious vermilion octagonal gazebo, four or five elderly people sat around the stone table. The maidservant, who is exquisite and delicate, is guarding all around, serving them respectfully!

The old man in the lead had a thin figure and a hale and hearty face. His eyes were full of radiance, and on the bridge of his high nose, he wore a pair of glasses that he sent someone to buy at a high price from Chang'an City. It is said that these glasses were The Dazhou Academy accidentally researched it, and it really is able to see a lot clearly when it is worn on the eyes.

This person is none other than the contemporary resident of the Lin family, Lin Tongzhi.

And the people around him are all the principals of the Lin family, including people in charge of silk, grain farms, salt, mines and other businesses. Among them, the fat and bloated old man in charge of silk has just replaced Lin Yuzhi. He seemed extraordinarily excited, and kept bowing to Lin Tongzhi to curry favor,

"Patriarch, don't worry, this silk business is in my hands, it will definitely not be worse than Lin Yuzhi, and it must be better than him. I have already sent people to Chang'an City. The business in the palace has been taken over, and this alone can be worth [-]% of the profit of our silk cloth shop!"

"Well, yes, I trust you!"

With a smile on Lin Tongzhi's face, he said with a smile while taking the drink from the maid next to him, his slightly wrinkled face was filled with unconcealable pride.

"Patriarch, with regard to commercial taxation and land reform, shall we continue like this?"

While talking and laughing, one of the old men frowned slightly, with a trace of solemnity on his face, and whispered that he sent someone to deliver a batch of goods to Chang'an City a few days ago, and the person who delivered the goods also dropped by After inquiring about the news of Chang'an City, it is said that now, the land reform has been completed in the whole north, and those merchants have begun to pay taxes normally.

In addition, the imperial court seems to implement an invoice system. All freight transactions must be evidenced by bills specially printed by the imperial court, so as to facilitate the imperial court to make statistics on the circulation of these commodities. This time, the Lin family went to the north to do business. When I came into contact with these, I encountered a lot of troubles!
The Lin family may not care about these systems, but those northern businessmen dare not. They are terrified of the Dongjiji Factory!
If it weren't for the Lin family's statement here, I'm afraid this time the business would be lost!
Seeing that the situation in the north has become like this, the principal guessed that the land and commercial tax reforms are the general trend, and wanted to comfort Lin Tongzhi and stop insisting, otherwise it would easily bring disaster to the Lin family.

However, Lin Tongzhi didn't care. Before the old man finished speaking, he waved impatiently and said,

"You don't need to worry about this matter!"

"I have already greeted the merchants in the entire Jiangnan Road. If the Lin family does not move, these merchants will not move. Our Jiangnan Road has the most food production and merchants. I don't believe that the imperial court dares to force us. Yes, he is not afraid that all our merchants will unite to strike production and strike the market, making his foundation unstable?"

"Hmph, if you want to take our land and distribute it to those untouchables, this old man absolutely disagrees!"

"Taxation, this is to shake our foundation, absolutely not!"

"This time, we will fight the court to the end!"

"The old man wants to see, this imperial court can take..."

boom!
Before Lin Tongzhi's arrogant words fell, there was a sudden muffled sound from the courtyard door in the front hall. Before Lin Tongzhi and others could react, a thin young man in a green suit and soap hat Rolling and crawling, with an indescribably terrified look on his face, he ran towards this side.

Pfft!
This servant was the gatekeeper, and he ran to the gazebo where Lin Tongzhi and the others were located in a short while, with unconcealable horror on his face, and shouted loudly,

"Master, it's not good, it's not good!"

"Something happened!"

"What's going on? Speak well!"

Lin Tongzhi stood up with a gloomy face, with a trace of dignity on his wrinkled face, and the several old men who accompanied him also stood up, with the same serious expressions on their faces. There was a hint of ominous premonition, especially the old man who had just comforted Lin Tongzhi frowned.

"Master..."

"People from the government are here, as well as officers and soldiers. There are a large number of people, there are hundreds of them. They have smashed the gate and broke in. They want to arrest you..."

The famous family Ding panted heavily and said in panic.

"what?"

"Why did they catch..."

When Lin Tongzhi and the others heard the words, their faces showed unconcealable shock. How could the people from the government suddenly come to the Lin family to arrest people without warning?

However, the officers and soldiers did not give them time to reflect. On the bluestone road facing the courtyard, a group of officers and soldiers with awe-inspiring aura appeared, and many of them were wearing bright red flying fish suits with embroidered spring on their waists. knife!

Whoa!

In the blink of an eye, a group of fans and those from Suzhou City rushed around the gazebo. The leader was a thin man with an unconcealable expression on his face. He was the general manager of Fengyulou in Jiangnan Road. Chen Jintang, and beside him were the two commanding officers of the Suzhou government office.

"Encircle!"

"No one can run away!"

Chen Jintang's face was gloomy, and his gaze was full of unconcealable awe, and he swept across several people. With a big wave of his hand, countless gangsters, yamen servants, arresters, etc. had already flocked to them, directly surrounding them. In the gazebo, the Xiuchun Knife was drawn out of its sheath, and the awe-inspiring aura made the whole world seem oppressed and dead.

All the maids serving Lin Tongzhi and others were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they all hid in the corner of the wall in horror, not daring to make any sound.

"Bold!"

"Who are you?"

"Dare to trespass on the old man's house?"

Lin Tongzhi was also taken aback by this terrifying scene, but he quickly realized that with the current power of the Lin family, there is no need to be too afraid of these court people. In the entire city of Suzhou, his words are more powerful than that one. A high-ranking magistrate is much easier to use!
"Humph!"

Chen Jintang took two steps forward and came to the arrogant Lin Tongzhi. He glanced at the latter, and slapped the latter's face directly. This huge force directly slapped Lin Tongzhi away. , the corner of his mouth was dripping with bright red blood, and two of his teeth were missing. Before the latter got up, Chen Jintang rushed over again, trampled him down, and said in a dark voice,
"Chen, he is the leader of Jiangnan Road of the East Police Factory!"

"I'm here to investigate your Lin family's corruption and violation of the law!"

"If you have anything to say, go to the yamen and say it!"

"take away!"

Whoa!

A group of people swarmed up, directly surrounded Lin Tongzhi, and locked him with iron chains arbitrarily. As for the rest of the old men, they naturally did not let them go. go outside.

The Lin family's residence suddenly became chaotic...

(End of this chapter)