I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 162 The Dust Settles
Qi Erlai pulls boats at the pier, and his daily wages are only 180 renminbi. Excluding the [-] renminbi protection fee handed over to the gang, he only ends up with five taels of silver a month.

Hearing that the elder judged him to pay five taels of silver to his surname An, Qi Erlai's eyes went dark, and he didn't even feel pain in his buttocks.

Gritting his back molars and responding, thinking of how his mother-in-law scratched his face and howled when she heard the news, Qi Erlai was heartbroken, and bumped his head against the tea table beside him.

There was a muffled bang, the tea table was fine, but Qi Erlai's head turned red.

Liu Hong was taken aback. Seeing the dark red blood slowly flowing down Qi Erlai's forehead, his face changed slightly. He immediately patted Tang Mu to embolden him, and said angrily:

"Qi Erlai, are you dissatisfied with my judgment?"

"Young people don't dare." Qi Erlai trembling with painful teeth, replied tremblingly:

"Xiaomin only asks Master Qingtian to make decisions for Xiaomin, and let Nan Meiyu pay back the money owed to Xiaomin."

Nan Meiyu, who was standing beside Li Tian, ​​heard this, and the faint smile on her face disappeared in an instant. She hurriedly suppressed her throat and looked at Li Tian and said urgently:
"Young master Zhu, the villain was deceived by the Shahe gang. In fact, the villain didn't borrow that much at all."

After all the people under his rule went out like this, Liu Hong couldn't help but look around at the crowd and said sullenly:

"Where is Nanmeiyu? Come out and ask the official."

"Mr. Nan, it's only natural to borrow money to pay back money. Since you borrowed it, why didn't you pay it back?" Li Tian glanced at Nan Meiyu and said with a faint smile, shaking his fan to himself.

"Young master Zhu, the villain also has something to hide. Otherwise, if you borrow 500 taels of silver from the villain, the villain will return you 600 taels with interest within three years."

Glancing at Nan Meiyu's serious appearance, Li Tianzhen wanted to feel if Nan Meiyu's head was burnt out.

500 taels of silver will be borrowed for three years. This is using him as a scam, or using him as an ATM.

"Mr. Nan, you and I met by chance, and we have no friendship. It seems that my master has no reason to lend you money."

After shouting again and no one answered, Liu Hong was so angry that he thought Nan Meiyu had run away secretly, so he stood up while patting the tea table:
"It is reported to the county magistrate that the whole city will seize Nanmei jade."

The county magistrate's respect for Mr. Zhu was seen by Qi Erlai. He didn't dare to identify Nan Meiyu openly, so he had to turn a corner:

"My lord, Nan Meiyu... Nan Meiyu didn't leave, she is here."

"Is the Nanmei jade here?" Liu Hong stared at him suddenly, and then said angrily:

"Where is Nanmeiyu, get out of here!"

Looking at Qi Erlai who looked like he was wearing a red hijab and Liu Hong who looked furious, Li Tian coughed lightly, ignoring Nan Meiyu's anxious expression, stepped directly to sit on the wooden bench beside him and said:

"Nanmeiyu, Liu Xianzun is asking you something."

As soon as Li Tian opened his mouth, Liu Hong's eyes became clouded.

Standing in the hall, apart from the arresting officer, only the emperor and the son of an important minister, where is Nan Meiyu?

"Xiaomin kowtows to the county lord."

Seeing that Eldest Master Zhu was not going to take care of him anymore, Nan Meiyu could only reply aloud, and bowed down.

When Nan Meiyu bowed, Liu Hong was even more confused.

What the hell is going on here, is it possible that this young master wants to hide his identity?

Erzhang couldn't figure it out, so Liu Hong could only look at Li Tian in confusion, hoping that the emperor would show mercy, and don't let himself guess.

Seeing the question marks on Liu Hong's face, Li Tian sighed helplessly, so he got up and intervened in person, looked at Qi Erlai and said:

"Qi Erlai, my son asked you, you said that Nan Meiyu owed you 800 taels of silver, so how did he owe the 800 taels of silver? And the 800 taels of silver, is it yours or is it from your Shahe Gang? "

When Li Tian interrupted Liu Hong's words earlier, Qi Erlai understood some of the joints in a daze.

Now that Li Tian was hearing questions, Qi Erlai didn't care about that much anymore, and knocked his head and told the whole story of Nan Meiyu's loan of money.

After listening to what Qi Erlai said, Li Tian probably understood,
It turned out that the boat trackers on the wharf were always bullied, so they formed a group called the Shahe Gang, which meant that they became a gang, which naturally incurred a lot of expenses.

The way for the Shahe Gang to solve the expenses is that the trackers take the initiative to hand in the help fee, and the other is to use the tracker's money to lend usury in the city.

Because the tracker's money was hard to come by, the Shahe gang often made things difficult for those who borrowed money. Although bad debts were avoided in this way, no money was borrowed.

In desperation, the leader of the Shahe gang had no choice but to pin his hopes on scholars, hoping to find a literati to write a charter.

Literati are self-righteous, and they would not be willing to deal with low-level trackers, so the Shahe Gang searched for a long time, and finally found Nan Meiyu, a Yaman from Jingcheng.

At the beginning, Nan Meiyu promised the tracker to help them contact literati who were willing, but after a lot of contact, some of them were unwilling to write, and those who were willing could not.

In the end, Nan Meiyu could only go out in person, bought the articles of association of several banks, changed them a bit, and helped Shahe.

The boss of the Shahe gang was very satisfied at first, but when he was about to give the money, he unexpectedly learned that the regulations were put together by Nan Meiyu.

As a result, the Shahe Gang is naturally unwilling to pay the remuneration as originally planned.

After working for several days without getting a penny, Nan Meiyu was very angry, so she found a loophole in the regulations with a grudge.

It took half a month to find dozens of people, and borrowed all the money from the Shahe Gang, and because of a loophole, Nan Meiyu didn't have to pay back the money.

Nan Meiyu's ruthless methods can be said to have driven the trackers to a dead end, but the regulations in black and white stated that the Shahe Gang could not sue the officials.

In the end, they could only send dozens of trackers every day to look for Nanmei jade in the city day and night.

After Qi Erlai finished speaking, Liu Hong also stared over.

It turned out that the handsome young man in front of me was not a high-ranking official at all, but just a low-ranking idiot.

Thinking that he had actually saluted a dentist earlier, the corners of Liu Hongqi's mouth twitched, wishing he could take Nan Meiyu back to the county government now.

However, Liu Hong couldn't guess what Li Tian was thinking, and he didn't dare to get angry wantonly, so he had to look at Nan Meiyu patiently and said:

"Mr. Nan, the tracker is struggling to survive on a daily basis. I think it's best for Mr. Nan to return the money."

"My lord, please forgive me. Xiaomin has already used up the 500 taels of loan money, and is already penniless."

After saying nothing, Nan Meiyu turned to look at Li Tian, ​​her lips moved, and her eyes were full of prayers.

Quietly and Nan Meiyu looked at each other for a few breaths, thinking about his identity as a tooth and his ability to write articles of association, Li Tian pursed his lips, slapped a fan in his hand, got up and said:

"Forget it, the money owed by Nan Meiyu has been paid by me, but I only paid 600 taels."

"My lord, 600 taels will do, 600 taels will do."

Qi Erlai was overwhelmed with grief, and immediately looked at Liu Hong excitedly and shouted.

(End of this chapter)