After a quarter of an hour, the two guards led the bandit with his arms back from there.
"My lord, they said that there was a business company behind them, and they all came from other places to ask for their livelihood. As for what business company it was, he didn't know. That business company would send different people to contact them.
At the beginning, I gave them some money so that they could have a full meal, and then let them stop people on the creek by themselves, and wait for them to have more people, and then start to grab the goods. These goods will be transported by boats and given to them. A little less money than the value of the goods.
Those people said that when they have more people in the future, they don't need to do this kind of thing, and find good things for them to do, and they can make at least two hundred wen a day. "
The guard told Zhang Zhong what he had just interrogated.
I don’t know what the guards did just now. The culprit’s head and face were pale, but he couldn’t see any injuries on his body. Zhang Zhong couldn’t think of which firm was helping behind him. Since he hasn’t revealed it yet, wait. , First solve the immediate matter.
"Have you found out where they live? Go straight to arrest people. There can be no chaos in the river. I also hope that more businessmen will come and go. They will be held at the pier first, and they will be sent to Huayuan County together when others are caught. Yamen."
Zhang Zhong gave orders to the Yamen in Sanshui County. For him, the Yamen in Sanshui County are no different from those in Huayuan County, and they are even better.
The government officials in Sanshui County think so too. They feel that they are the government officials of the Zhang family. They are not only not angry, but also very happy when the Zhang family calls them. , You don’t have to give the money to others, just share it with the public.
Arranged for the arrest, Zhang Zhong found the person waiting at the wharf who was robbed of the goods. The ship was fine, only the goods were robbed.
This person also teamed up with others to get two fleets. They set off from above and prepared to sell them in the capital. After being robbed of the goods, everyone ran to the pier and talked to the people on the pier. People quickly passed the news to the county.
Zhang Zhong’s arrival made them feel a little flattered. They didn’t expect that the magistrate came here in person and respectfully told Zhang Zhong how they were robbed that day and how much they lost. They didn’t expect Hua Yuan to be robbed. The county magistrate came to pay compensation, just to let the county magistrate catch people, as many things can be recovered.
Zhang Zhong knows that those things have already been shipped. If you want to follow this line to check, you can't get anything at all. No one knows where the cargo ship has arrived, not to mention many ships. It's almost the same, the goods shipped to the capital are gone every day.
After thinking about it, Zhang Zhong said to these merchants: "The goods are out. The approximate price is four hundred and twenty pens, right? The money was paid by the yamen in Huayuan County. You can walk here with confidence in the future. It was the same thing. The goods were all in the management of Huayuan County. After all, something went wrong in Huayuan County."
"My lord, you are such a good adult." A businessman knelt there and shouted when he heard Zhang Zhong's words.
"It doesn't have to be this way. I will continue to do business in the future." Zhang Zhong has his own plan. These gangsters have two hundred people, and they can be used for work. They don’t have to pay for the food. They just don’t have to starve to death. What to eat for them, enough wild vegetables.
It's easy for those government officials to grab some bandits who don't have weapons in their hands. He just needs to wait at the dock.
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Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan received a large sum of money today, 80,000 Guans, with silver, copper, and some silks. First, take out the ones belonging to their own households, and put the rest in the warehouse and send additional staff to take care of them.
Those who are selected from the silk are divided according to the population of Yushu Village. Regardless of their size, one person makes clothes for ten-foot cloth. 322 people need 80 and a half horses. Eighty-one horses are enough. Up.
The silk used for money is not always that accurate. Some even have wear and moth-eaten places. After picking and picking, choosing and choosing, finally found out eighty-one horses are relatively good. The remaining bad ones will be used when Huayuan County pays taxes upwards.
In order to maintain the monetary value of silk, the imperial court could continue to have the same purchasing power of the same value, which is equivalent to two hundred yuan.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan don’t plan to keep them. They usually buy things at home and use silk as soon as they can be used. They are all large-scale transactions. They are exchanged by others, and they are put in the warehouse to occupy space. They are always worried about rotten, or It was eaten by bugs.
The two cleaned up, called the people at home, and drove towards Yushu Village.
After a short period of time, the two-person team arrived outside the Yushu Village, and it turned out that there were a lot of elm trees. Due to the rain in the previous two days, some coal was washed away on the road here. The colors of black and yellow mixed together, which made people It was very muddy when it looked uncomfortable.
"If there is a big fire living here, will it explode?" Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan got off the car and looked at the mud and coal sticking to their feet. When it was hot, the wind blew these coal powder in the air. There was a spark or something, and there was a direct bang, and the whole village was gone.
"Impossible. The coal yards with so many explosions have already exploded into the sky one by one, and the remaining section of the road will go forward and turn a corner." Wang Juan wanted to take a good look, pulling Zhang Xiaobao, deep and shallow. Go forward with one foot.
Turning to the front play, I saw a lot of people working there from a distance, and little children running around, waiting a little closer, and finally I can see clearly that the people in Yushu Village are there. To build roads, I used to push carts of gravel from somewhere in the village.
When they were piled on the road here, a few people carried spades and spread them down. Some sand was filled in the gaps. Some people found stone rollers and pressed them repeatedly there.
The little baby is responsible for sending water to the adults, sending washed hand towels to wipe sweat, and the slightly larger ones are swept behind with a broom tied with bamboo leaves.
When the car on Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan turned around, the people in the village finally found out. For a few days, people would drive over to deliver meat to them every day. The meat is not easy to preserve, so it can only be delivered every day. Today The meat delivery truck hasn't come yet, and they thought that the few vehicles that appeared were for meat delivery.
As soon as the old man Cunzheng saw the car, he greeted a few boys and greeted him. When he got closer, he saw that there were two little boys, and none of the people who drove the car had seen him. He was puzzled.
"It's from the Zhang family. Look at the rice seedlings on the car. It's almost the same as the meat delivered by the Zhang family. It's just one more. The painting is different." A person with sharp eyes saw the rice seedlings on the car belonging to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. The sign said to the people around him there.
A few people are relieved now, it's the Zhang family. The old man walked two steps forward with a stick, and asked, "The meat deliverer?"
"It's not a meat delivery. This time I put on a cloth to make clothes for the people in the village. I'm going to work and make two clothes." Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan said to the old man in silence.
"Work? Okay, work well, just wait for you to call, you can't eat your things for nothing." When the old man heard that he could have work, he said happily and recruited the next few people. After starting, the few people stepped forward and began to help take things down.
Before the road was being built, many large stone gaps had not been filled, and the car could not go through. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also joined hands and entered the village. Others helped to move things together. There were a few more villages. The person in ran over.
The old man Cunzheng watched the two little babies walk strenuously on such a road, and asked the Zhang family who had just spoken, "Are these two?"
"This is the little son of our Zhang family, and this is the little lady of the Wang family. Come and play for a while this time." The Zhang family introduced the old man.
"Hey, you can't go then, go find a few people, take the shelf that is going to be carried by the magistrate, and carry the two little ancestors away."
The old man was taken aback. The two little boys who came here were so identifiable, how could they neglect and greet people to fetch things.
"No, no, we can go by ourselves." Zhang Xiaobao waved his hand there.
"That can't be done, you have to carry it all the way, in case you get hit, you can't explain it, the people in the village will feel sorry." The old man did not make any concessions. , Don’t let your feet touch the ground, even when the child comes.
The old man stood in front of him, and Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan couldn’t play the game of eagle-catching chicks with the old man. They had to stand there. After a while, four sturdy-looking young men came, including Tian Gouzi. On each of the four people's shoulders, there was a wood thick with an arm, two fronts and two backs, and on the wood in the middle was a big chair with a shed.
"Let this, go back to someone and tell the cooks in the village to take out the dried meat we cooked in the first two days for cooking, and take out everything else you can eat, and kill the chicken from the big cat's house. Up."
The old man tapped on the ground with a stick, and greeted a man who passed by with a cloth on his back.
The chair was placed half a foot above the ground, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan got up, and they could sit side by side. The four of them stood up steadily at the same time, and lifted Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan up.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were pretending to be children. They couldn't say too many things that adults should say. They didn't say a word. They looked around and let people carry them all the way to the village. When they reached the place where the road was being built, the villagers stopped what they were doing. , Looked at Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan with respectful eyes.
"Everyone will continue to work and eat together at dinner. Come over, call a few people, and wait for instructions."
The old man ordered there to let a 13 or 4 year old child come over, waiting to serve Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
People from the Zhang family knew what the little master and little lady were doing this time, and said to the old man: "Where is the coal? The little master and little lady want to see something fresh."