Chapter 1242： Conspiracy countermeasures

Chapter 1242 Conspiracy countermeasures

Dear mother, how did we become leaders? ! How did we become the chicken to scare the chicken to scare the monkey? !

Shopkeeper Tai and Shopkeeper Lu were slumped on the ground in fright, cowering in fear, there was no trace of blood on their faces, the cold sweat on their foreheads couldn't stop flowing down, and they couldn't stop trembling even if they were fat, like sifting chaff. Trembling, like getting an electric shock at the same time.

In the eyes of shopkeeper Tai and shopkeeper Lu, the smile on the guard's face next to him was like the smile on the prisoner's last beheading meal in the prison, eerie and terrifying.

A gust of wind blew by, like a howling ghost. The bright and clear sky seemed to turn black all of a sudden, and the surrounding air seemed to turn into a **** mouth, swallowing the two of them alive.

The sky is clear and there is no rain, only the two of them are dripping with rain!

God knows how shopkeeper Tai and shopkeeper Lu got to the county government office, even the two of them couldn't remember it.

When they reached the gate of the county government office, their brains were blank. When they crossed the threshold of the county government office like walking dead, they staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"Treasurer Lu, shopkeeper Tai, please. Wait a while inside, and the county lord will come after handling the official business."

The guard made a gesture of invitation and led the two to a classroom on the left side of the county government office.

"Hey, I have trouble, I have trouble..."

Treasurer Tai and Shopkeeper Lu thanked each other tremblingly, their voices trembling.

Shopkeeper Tai and Shopkeeper Lu looked up at the squad room in front of them. In their eyes, the squad room seemed to come alive suddenly, turning into a pitch-black squatting, bared-toothed evil ghost. The two doors were its gaping mouth. The kind that has no way out!

"Please."

The guard stood at the door and made a gesture of invitation to watch the two enter the classroom.

"Hey..."

Treasurer Tai and Manager Lu pushed open the door of the classroom with trembling hands under the watchful eyes of the guards.

Dying, dying...

Treasurers Tai and Lu trembled all over, and walked in with the mentality of stepping into the execution ground.

It was sunny outside, but it was a little darker inside, and the difference in light between inside and outside was huge. The moment the two entered, they seemed to be blind.

"Yo, isn't this shopkeeper Tai and shopkeeper Lu? We're all here now. Come, sit here."

As soon as the two entered the door, they heard a familiar voice before they got used to the light difference.

"Old Xing?!"

Treasurer Tai and Shopkeeper Lu immediately recognized the owner of the voice, and they were surprised.

Lao Xing is another grain merchant in the county, but they are not in the same street as them. Due to the distance, the three companies do not have too direct competition, and their relationship is relatively good.

Lao Xing is here? !

Also, what does Lao Xing mean when he says that everyone is ready? ! Does that mean there are other people in the room? !

In an instant, thousands of thoughts and emotions rushed into the hearts of shopkeeper Tai and shopkeeper Lu. The two hurriedly stretched out their hands and rubbed their eyes. After getting used to the light difference in the room, they looked up and saw a group of people sitting in the room , the one at the front is Lao Xing who just spoke.

Behind Lao Xing, there were more than 30 people sitting. They all knew each other well. These 30 people were all grain merchants in the county town, some of them were in the county town, and some were in the town below.

The two took a hasty glance. Basically, the grain merchants in the entire Jingnan County gathered in this room, including the three biggest grain merchants in the county. They were also present.

It turns out that all the grain merchants in the county have been invited! It's impossible to kill all the county officials, right? !

So, in this way, we are not the chickens who are the first sheep and the chickens who were killed to warn the monkeys? !

Treasurer Tai and Shopkeeper Lu looked at each other, overwhelmed with surprise, as if they had narrowly escaped death.

"Hehehehe, everyone is here, my old Tai/Lao Lu is late, forgive me, forgive me."

Treasurer Tai and Manager Lu clasped their fists at the grain merchants, and finally laughed again.

"Hahahaha, shopkeeper Tai and shopkeeper Lu, look at the bears of you two just now, those who didn't know thought you were going to the execution ground."

Among the grain merchants, there was a shopkeeper surnamed Han, who was an old acquaintance with the two of them, and said with a smile.

"Come on, old Han, you were no better than the two of them when you came in. The crow landed on the pig, so don't blame anyone."

As soon as shopkeeper Han's voice fell, other grain merchants laughed at him in the same tone.

Ha ha ha ha…

There was a burst of laughter in the room, and the atmosphere suddenly became cheerful.

Except for the seven or eight grain merchants next to each other in Xifang, the county seat, these grain merchants, when they first received notice from the guards that they were invited by the county venerable, thought that they had been chosen as the top sheep and made an example, and they were in constant panic. After seeing other grain merchants in the board room, they breathed a sigh of relief. After sweeping away the gloom, it is impossible for the county lord to drive out all the grain merchants.

"You said, the county lord invited us here, why?"

The shopkeeper Liu of the Fushu Grain Shop is cautious. He first stepped on a chair and looked out the window, then leaned on the door and listened for a while. After confirming that no one was outside, he said to everyone.

"Aren't you squatting in the latrine to ask about the smell? Are you asking knowingly? What else can you say about this stall, and it's not because of the price of food!" Shopkeeper Han rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"The county honored to invite us here must be to lower the price of grain!" Several grain merchants present replied without thinking.

"You said that if the county lord came later and asked us to lower the price of food, what should we do?" asked shopkeeper Liu.

"How much? Now the price of grain is rising three times a day. On the basis of the price of food outside, we can reduce the grain price by three or five pennies per stone. If it falls too much, it will not work! It is becoming more and more difficult for us to purchase grain these days. It is difficult to buy grain in the south of the Yangtze River. You can only go to Bashu in the west or Shandong in the north to buy grain. Not to mention the long journey, the local grain has also seen the wind rise. People eat horse chews along the way plus shipping costs. A lot of money, and the road is not safe. Yesterday we were robbed when we came back from work, and a group of bandits who looked like refugees came roaring in. If it weren't for the accompanying guards who worked hard, the food we worked so hard to transport would not be able to keep... The cost is so high High, can we not raise the price?! If the price is lowered, we won’t make any money, so why do we work so hard?!” said a shopkeeper present.

"Don't surrender?! Do you want to die? The shopkeepers Mi and Wang who were beheaded in Taizhou Fucheng are a lesson from the past! And in Taiping County, I heard that the shopkeeper Zhang of Zhang Ji Liang was also arrested, saying that he will be arrested at noon tomorrow. It's time to drive to Wenzhan! Linhai County is also the same, arrested three grain merchants and sent them to prison... We, the magistrate, are going to do it first. If we agree to lower the price, it's okay. If we don't agree, I'm afraid we will learn the prefect's thunderbolt method !” After hearing this, a shopkeeper next to him shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Hmph! If we advance and retreat together and bite our teeth, I don't believe he can kill them all! Now the court is obviously powerless to rescue. Without our grain merchants to transport grain, the people in the whole county will starve to death!" Shopkeeper Wang sneered Said that he is a money addict, and he is not willing to reduce the price, even if the price of grain is reduced by three or five renminbi.

"We are flesh and blood, can we still fight against the government?" The shopkeeper who spoke just now smiled wryly.

"Confrontation, why should we fight? There is no place to stay here, but there is a place to stay! If the price is forced to drop, then I will not sell grain in Jingnan. There are many disaster-prone places in the south of the Yangtze River. I will just sell elsewhere." A long, thin shopkeeper with a tuft of beard on his chin sneered.

He is one of the three largest grain merchants in the county. His name is Yang Zhen. He is the shopkeeper of Yangji Grain Store and the most influential grain merchant in Jingnan.

"That's right, shopkeeper Yang is right. The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit! What are we working so hard to transport food for? It's not for making money. If he forces the price to drop, we will Don't fight against him, so as not to be caught and beheaded. I don't keep my master here, I have a place to keep my master!" Hearing this, many grain merchants' eyes lit up, and they followed suit.

(end of this chapter)