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Chapter 224 Even imperial envoys dare to play tricks! 【order】

At this time, Li Huan had calmed down his initial surprise, but frowned slightly.

To be honest, Li Huan really didn't expect that people like Hu Xi and Wei Kun would obey his orders and lower the price of salt and grain in the city.

Li Huan was quite familiar with the dispositions of these merchants. These people would even sell their souls for profit. Not to mention that he was an imperial envoy who asked, even if the emperor ordered them, these people would probably not give up the benefits they got.

But now that these people have really lowered the price, Li Huan has to think deeply about what this abnormality means.

As for whether Du Guang would bring false news or something, Li Huan really didn't think about it. Du Guang must have confirmed such things before coming to tell him.

Raising his head, Li Huan looked at Qian Ning, Du Guang, Cao Yu and others with shocked expressions on their faces, and exhaled foul breath. Just looking at the reactions of a few people, Li Huan knew that asking these people might be a waste of time. If you have that kind of effort, you might as well think about what the purpose of these people like Hu Xi is.

Li Huan got up, walked out of the yamen and said, "Go out with me for a walk."

Several people hurriedly followed behind Li Huan and walked towards the outside.

After leaving the Jinyiwei yamen, he quickly merged into the flow of people on the long street.

Compared with usual, it is obvious that there are many more people on the long street. You can tell from the fact that many of these people are holding cloth bags in their hands. Most of these people have got the news of the price reduction of various companies, and they are rushing to buy salt at this moment. food.

Previously, the price of salt and grain in Xi'an Prefecture was one price per day, and it was rising every day. For the people in the city, seeing that price, they could no longer afford salt and grain.

Even for some ordinary people's families, if the price of salt and grain can't come down again, they may have to go out of the city like those refugees, relying on the little rice porridge donated by the government every day to continue their lives.

Now that they suddenly learned that the price of salt and grain in the city had been reduced, it naturally attracted many people to rush to buy it, if they could buy more.

Li Huan looked at these people, but there was no joy on his face, instead he frowned.

Looking at a grain store in front of him from a distance, Li Huan stopped in his tracks.

Just by looking at the signboard of the grain store, one could tell that it was a grain store of the Su family. There was a signboard hanging at the entrance of the grain store, which marked the price of today's grain.

Li Huan only took one look to confirm that the price of food had indeed dropped a lot compared to the previous two days.

"Strange, could it be said that these people really found out their conscience?"

Qian Ning on the side obviously also saw the food price on the signboard, and couldn't help showing a puzzled look.

Li Huan didn't speak, just watched from a distance.

At this moment, a familiar figure was slowly walking towards them.

Several servants and servants gathered around a person who looked like a member of staff, and the leader was none other than Su Xiang, a large grain merchant in Xi'an Prefecture who was invited not long ago.

There was a smile on Su Xiang's face, as if he saw Li Huan and the others, he hurriedly bowed his hands to Li Huan and the others and said: "Su Xiang, a grassroots man, I have seen the imperial envoy."

Li Huan sized up Su Xiang, but nodded lightly.

With Li Huan's spiritual sense, he couldn't see that Su Xiang was clearly waiting for him, so when he saw him, he rushed over immediately.

Su Xiang smiled and said: "My lord, Caomin and others have already followed your lord's order to lower the price. I wonder if the imperial envoy is satisfied?"

Li Huan just glanced at Su Xiang, nodded slightly and said: "Mr. Su has a heart. The people in the city must be grateful for his kind deeds."

Su Xiang smiled and said, "We still have to obey your request, don't you? As long as you are satisfied."

Speaking of which, Su Xiang cupped his hands at Li Huan and said, "If your lord has nothing else to do, Cao Min will leave first."

Watching Su Xiang's figure go away, Chen Yao suddenly said, "My lord, why do I feel that this Su Xiang came to see you on purpose. What does he mean?"

Even Qian Ning couldn't help but said, "Why does this person's words sound so wrong?"

Li Huan frowned, wondering what Su Xiang's purpose in coming to see him was.

A gentry like Su Xiang is not a fool, every move has a purpose, it is impossible to wait for him here in vain, just to have a few words with him.

All of a sudden, the store clerk who was selling food in front shouted: "Today's food has been sold out, and the store will be closed. If there is a need, everyone will come back tomorrow."

At the entrance of the grain shop, a group of people gathered around couldn't help being anxious when they heard the words. They finally waited until the price of grain dropped, but they told them to stop selling before it was their turn.

As for the saying that it is sold out, the common people don't believe it, especially when they can clearly see the mountain of grain piled up in the grain store, it is not sold out.Are they really blind?
Some people couldn't help asking the manager of the grain shop to sell some more grain, but the guys in the shop drove the people away fiercely, and then closed the door with a bang. Before the grain store.

"roll!"

The steward yelled loudly, only to scare the people back again and again.

Li Huan couldn't help but look cold when he saw this scene, took a deep breath and said, "Go and have a look elsewhere."

Soon Li Huan and others walked through many places, and saw that almost all the grain shops in the city had put up signs saying that the grain was sold out.

Many people came with hope, but in the end they could only return with disappointment.

Qian Ning, Du Guang, Chen Yao and others looked gloomy.

Chen Yao scolded angrily: "Fucking price cuts, are they cutting prices? If they don't sell things after the price cuts, who are they fooling?"

After Chen Yao's words fell, Li Huan's voice was a bit cold and said: "Of course I'm fooling the official!"

"what!"

Chen Yao couldn't help but let out a low cry when he heard the words, and then he reacted, his face was full of anger, wasn't he just fooling Li Huan?Li Huan asked them to lower the price, and they did, but they didn't sell anything after the price reduction.

At the same time, Chen Yao also understood why Fang guessed that Su Xiang would wait for them there. It was clear that he was telling Li Huan that they had indeed lowered the price according to Li Huan's order, but after the price reduction, they had the final say. .This is already a demonstration to Li Huan.

"Damn it, my lord, let me bring a team and catch them."

At the same time, in the government office

An official said to Wu Wei, Cheng Tai, and Feng Qin with a somewhat strange expression on his face: "My lord, I just got the news that almost [-]% of the grain shops in the city are closed for sale."

Cheng Tai was taken aback for a moment, with a somewhat surprised expression on his face, he said, "Didn't you say that almost all the grain stores have reduced their prices, why did they suddenly close down?"

On the other hand, Wu Wei was stunned for a moment, and then he showed a clear expression on his face. He stroked his beard and couldn't help sighing: "Wei Kun, Su Xiang and the others are really good at playing. They are not afraid of angering Li. Huan?"

Feng Qin stroked his beard and said with emotion: "I never thought that these people would dare to tease Li Huan like this. They are really not afraid that Li Huan will ransack their homes and exterminate their families in a fit of anger."

Wu Wei heard the words and said calmly: "They are really not afraid. I believe that Li Huan will soon receive the news that the people in the city will not be able to buy food, what will be the consequences."

Cheng Tai was stunned, but couldn't help but said: "I really don't know how Li Huan will react when he gets this news."

Feng Qin couldn't help laughing and said: "Anger must be very angry, but Li Huan can't say anything, after all, it's not like he didn't give him face."

Cheng Tai thought about the operations of Hu Xi, Wei Kun and others, put himself in the shoes of others and said, "I'm afraid Li Huan has the intention to kill people now."

Wu Wei said lightly: "No matter how angry we are, our imperial envoy can only bear it."

While Cheng Tai and Wu Wei were discussing how Li Huan would react to the news, on the long street, Li Huan was looking at a closed grain store in front of him with a half-smile, as if he hadn't heard Chen Yao's words. Said: "Be obedient and live well, isn't it good?"

As soon as these words came out, Chen Yao, Du Guang, and Qian Ning could not help but shudder.

Li Huan said in a cold voice: "Call together the men and horses, and follow me to arrest people."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yao said with surprise on his face: "My lord, have you finally made up your mind to arrest people? That's great. This subordinate is going to gather people now."

Qian Ning couldn't help but said to Li Huan: "My lord, aren't you going to wait until the army arrives and see how these people react before taking action?"

With his hands behind his back, Li Huan sighed softly: "I can wait, but the people in this city can't wait, and the countless disaster-stricken people in Shaanxi can't wait."

As he spoke, Li Huan snorted coldly and said: "Since they are given the opportunity, they are unwilling to seize it and insist on playing tricks with me, so I will let them know that Jin Yiwei is not those civil servants, and they have the patience to accompany them." They play tricks."

Excitement flashed across the eyes of Du Guang and Cao Yu.

Following Li Huan's side, they have long been accustomed to Li Huan's style.

Li Huan's reputation of not taking revenge overnight is for nothing. If the Zhenwei camp led by Guan Zheng and Ren Ping hadn't arrived in time this time, I'm afraid Li Huan would not have sent invitations to Su Xiang and the others. Instead, he directly ordered the army to block the door and arrest people.

Even Li Huan gave Su Xiang and others a chance this time, but it's a pity that these people didn't take Li Huan seriously at all, they completely regarded Li Huang as officials like Cheng Tai and Feng Qin.

He even played tricks in front of Li Huan, which naturally angered Li Huan.

Su Xiang didn't go far away, after leaving the sight of Li Huan and others, he walked directly into a restaurant.

Above the restaurant, in a private room, more than a dozen figures including Hu Xi, Wei Kun, Liao Rong, Jiang Zhengye, etc. were gathered in the private room.

Seeing Su Xiang walk into the box, everyone looked at Su Xiang in unison.

Hu Xi smiled and said to Su Xiang: "Brother Su, have you ever met that imperial envoy?"

Su Xiang nodded with a smile on his face, "I've seen it."

Wei Kun chuckled and said, "I think Li Huan must have been very surprised when he saw you, Brother Su."

Su Xiang smiled and said: "There was some surprise, but it wasn't that exaggerated, but he must have thought that we gave him thin noodles and lowered the price on his own initiative."

Liao Rong sneered and said: "Then he must have seen all our shops closed at this moment. If he is not stupid, he must understand that we are playing with him now."

Speaking of which, Liao Rong glanced at everyone and said, "Everyone, tell me, if Li Huan sees us raising the price even higher tomorrow, how will he react?"

Jiang Zhengye said with a bit of disdain: "It doesn't matter how he reacts, we can sell our own grain at whatever price we want, this time we should teach him a lesson and let him know that imperial envoys are not omnipotent."

Immediately, someone echoed: "That's right, on our territory, both dragons and snakes have to be coiled, so what about the imperial envoys."

On the long street, hundreds of Jinyiwei are gathering. At the same time, at the gate of Xi'an Fucheng, a group of people is leading dozens of carriages slowly entering the city under the leadership of a dozen Jinyiwei.

These are exactly the hundreds of young men Li Huan and the others recruited in Huayin County not long ago.

When Li Huan was in the capital at the beginning, he said that he would recruit a group of young and strong from among the refugees from Shaanxi to reorganize the capital camp.

Obviously, recruiting hundreds of young men in Huayin County is a start, but these young men are obviously untrained, and they don't look much different from ordinary people.

But no matter how you say it, there are hundreds of young adults.

When these people entered Xi'an Mansion, a Jinyiwei galloped over.

"My lord, hundreds of households are escorting the confiscated gold and silver from Huayin County, and hundreds of young men have already entered the city. Please show me how to arrange them?"

Li Huan couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth when he heard the words, what is really missing.

He had been restraining his temper before and did not do anything to Hu Xi, Su Xiang and others. On the one hand, he wanted to give these people a chance, and on the other hand, it was because of insufficient manpower.

Dozens of big and small merchants in the city are involved, and if they do not do anything, Li Huan will definitely take down all these dozens of companies with a thunderous force.

But in this way, a large number of manpower must be used, but Li Huan's current manpower is only a few hundred people.

Not counting the three hundred brocade guards who came with him, the total number of brocade guards and even non-staff personnel that Shaanxi Jinyiwei Thousand Households can mobilize in a short time can add up to 400 people at most.

No matter how much it is said, it is already beyond the limit of Shanxi Jinyiwei Thousand Households, so if Li Huan really wants to do it at this time, there are actually only six or seven hundred people available under him.

If it is to deal with a family or two, so many people are naturally more than enough, not to mention arresting people, even ransacking the house is enough.

But this time, what Li Huan has to deal with is not one or two families, but dozens of families, especially the Su family, Hu family, and Wei family. To arrest people, there is no guarantee that these people will not jump over the wall in a hurry to resist.

It's just the power these few families have. To be honest, Li Huan's hundreds of people are really not fully sure that they can suppress these local tyrants.

Not to mention anything else, just Wei Kun, a great salt merchant, according to the information that Jin Yiwei has, Wei Kun has three to five hundred desperadoes as thugs, and even if Wei Kun is willing, he can pull out a team of nearly a thousand The team of people came out.

It is really a show that a big salt merchant who can monopolize the salt in a province is just a show. Without three to five hundred backbones and thousands of people to take care of the huge industry, how can Wei Kun enjoy the salt profit of a province.

Perhaps Wei Kun was inferior to the Lianghuai salt merchants, but that was also compared with the Lianghuai salt merchants. Looking at this Shaanxi area, among the many wealthy merchants, there are so many desperadoes under his command. Home can be compared with it.

At this moment, there are hundreds more young and strong. Although they are only young and strong, if they wear Jin Yiwei's clothes and hold weapons, they may not be able to kill people with their hands, but it is absolutely no problem to fill up the number of people and become strong.

Li Huan immediately said to Qian Ning: "Qian Ning, you can make arrangements immediately, let Meng Liang Baihu bring those hundreds of young men to change into Jinyiwei's clothes, and then bring them here for me."

Qian Ning's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and said: "Don't worry, my lord, there is nothing else in the yamen. It's not a problem to find a few hundred pieces of Jin Yiwei's clothes. It's really not enough. I'll let my subordinates gather together again, and they will always be able to get them all together." .”

Li Huan waved his hand, and Qian Ning rode away immediately.

A large number of Jinyiwei gathered, and as the number of Jinyiwei increased, it naturally attracted the attention of many people.

in the government office
A patrol inspector stumbled over and said to Cheng Tai and Wu Wei, "My lord, it's too bad. The people from Jinyiwei are gathering, I'm afraid something will happen."

Cheng Tai and Feng Qin's expressions immediately changed when they heard the words, and they stood up suddenly, when Cheng Tai exclaimed: "No, Li Huan is probably going to kill."

Wu Wei's complexion changed slightly, and he looked at Cheng Tai and Feng Qin with a little hesitation and said, "You two adults, are you exaggerating? Hu Xi and his actions may be playing tricks and provoking Li Huan, but Li Huan Huan Tangtang, the imperial envoy, would never be so narrow-minded, he would just arrest people."

Hearing what Wu Wei said, Cheng Tai and Feng Qin looked at each other, and Cheng Tai smiled wryly: "Haven't you heard of Li Huan's reputation for being narrow-minded, always taking revenge, and never taking revenge overnight?"

Wu Wei was taken aback for a moment, Shandi is so far away from the capital, who would inquire about these things when they are free.

Besides, even if there were sporadic news about Li Huan, it had already been spread badly. Even if they heard about it, they would treat it as a joke, and no one would take it to heart.

Don't say that you haven't heard of it before, even if you really heard the news about Li Huan's revenge, Wu Wei wouldn't take it seriously.

But looking at the reactions of Feng Qin and Cheng Tai now, it seems that Li Huan really wants to play for real.

Wu Wei couldn't help but said: "My lords, don't let Li Huan arrest people, something big will happen then."

Others don't know why Wu Wei doesn't know the details of Su Xiang, Hu Xi, Wei Kun, etc. If these people are pushed into a hurry, maybe the whole Xi'an prefecture city will fall into chaos.

Cheng Tai's forehead was full of fine beads of sweat from tension and worry, walking back and forth in place, muttering to himself: "What can I do, what can I do."

Wu Wei looked at Cheng Tai and said: "My lord, let's go and stop the imperial envoy, otherwise once we do something, it may be too late."

Hearing this, Cheng Tai couldn't help rushing to Wu Wei: "To stop Li Huan from killing the star at this time, my officer's head is broken, and Li Huan might be regarded as a colleague of Su Xiang, Wei Kun and others by then. The Party has been taken down."

Feng Qin who was on the side gritted his teeth and said, "To intercede with Li Huan, why not go to Su Xiang, Wei Kun and the others quickly, and then take them to apologize to Li Huan, and ask Li Huan to give them a break?"

Hearing what Feng Qin said, Cheng Tai couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, hurry up and find Su Xiang, Wei Kun and the others to plead guilty to Li Huan, please don't remember the villain's fault, Lord Li Huan, and forgive them. ..."

It's a pity that before Cheng Tai finished speaking, Wu Wei shook his head and said: "This is impossible. Based on what I know about Su Xiang and Wei Kun, they will never plead guilty to Li Huan. Li Huan lowered his head, when the time comes, they must follow Li Huan's order to keep prices down, and they don't know how much money they will lose, it will be harder than killing them."

Cheng Tai said anxiously: "This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either, so let's watch from the sidelines and see how they fight."

Fortunately, Li Huan didn't hear such a remark as the majestic chief envoy of a province, otherwise, he might be the first to take Cheng Tai down.

Jin Yiwei made such a big commotion, naturally it couldn't be hidden from the eyeliner of Li Huan and the various families in Jin Yiwei's yamen.

As the real snake-like existence of Xi'an Prefecture, the penetration and control of the Su family, Wei family, Hu family and others over Xi'an Prefecture even surpassed the government's control over the city of Xi'an Prefecture.

The reason why Li Huan didn't gather people quietly, but made such a big fanfare, was not that Li Huan didn't know that such a move would inevitably alarm Su Xiang, Wei Kun and others.

If possible, Li Huan would also like to surprise every family with the force of a surprise attack from the sky, but it is a pity that in this prefectural city of Xi'an, it is really impossible to not disturb the large number of brocade guards gathered by each family. arrive.

Whenever Jinyiwei has any troubles, Su Xiang, Wei Kun and the others will definitely receive the news immediately, and they want to take action without telling everyone, which is clearly unrealistic.

That being the case, Li Huan didn't hide it at all, but made a big fanfare. Maybe it didn't have the effect of a surprise attack, but it also suppressed people with an upright momentum.

in the restaurant
With a loud bang, the door of the private room was pushed open violently, which only surprised Wei Kun, Su Xiang and others, and then everyone glared at the visitor.

Wei Kun's face was quite gloomy, he looked at the people and said: "Wei Wu, if you don't give the master an explanation, go and get the thirty big sticks yourself."

Wei Wu is one of Wei Kun's confidantes, but Wei Wu's behavior is obviously disrespectful. Didn't everyone look at Wei Wu with unfriendly eyes?

Wei Wu was tall and tall, like an iron tower. Hearing this, he said respectfully to Wei Kun: "My lord, the Jinyiwei people are gathering, and now there are at least three or four hundred people gathered, and according to the news from the people we sent to Jinyiwei to monitor, Jinyiwei seems to be We are recruiting manpower, and we will be able to gather at least 400 people in a short time."

"what?"

Hearing that Jin Yiwei's people were gathering, many people present were shocked, especially some people seemed to have thought of the purpose of Jin Yiwei's assembly, and many people showed a bit of panic on their faces.

"Li Huan isn't trying to harm us, is he?"

"Is he a lunatic, dare to do something to us?"

"Isn't he afraid that we will fight him to the death?"

Quite a few people were full of panic. Although they could be regarded as local overlords in the city, the awe they had for the government through the ages was still imprinted in their bones.

In fact, many people present were mostly scumbags, falling with the wind, and more pressured, they could only follow Wei Kun, Su Xiang, Hu Xi and others.

Because Su Xiang and Wei Kun showed full confidence and they were unwilling to give up their interests, they naturally chose to stay in line with Su Xiang and Wei Kun.

But now that they heard that Li Huan gathered Jinyiwei, it seemed that he wanted to harm them, so many people panicked.

Compared with many people who showed timidity and looked helpless and at a loss, Su Xiang, Hu Xi, and Wei Kun were worthy of being the leaders of these wealthy businessmen. Although they also had a bit of surprise and shock on their faces, they did not show panic color.

Glancing at the crowd, Wei Kun snorted coldly, a wave of evil spirit rose up by himself, and slapped the table with his palm suddenly, and immediately saw the table shattered into pieces all over the floor.

You must know that the desk table is made of high-quality wood, even a slap by an ordinary second-rate expert may not be able to shatter it, let alone smash it easily.

Wei Kun turned out to be a top-notch expert who kept his secrets hidden, especially the murderous aura on his body. If dozens of lives were not contaminated in his hands, he might not be able to condense such a murderous aura.

"Why panic, Jin Yiwei's people haven't come yet. If you're afraid, get out for Wei."

Wei Kun's murderous gaze swept across the crowd, but when Wei Kun's gaze caught him, everyone who was panicked and fidgeting all froze, and each of them didn't know what to think, and there was a look of fear in their eyes , lowered his head subconsciously, not daring to look at Wei Kun.

The box, which was originally extremely noisy, suddenly fell into a kind of silence after Wei Kun opened his mouth, which shows Wei Kun's deterrent power.

Su Xiang and Hu Xi, who had been sitting there without any reaction, were sitting beside Wei Kun on the same table, looking at the debris scattered all over the floor in front of them, Su Xiang stroked his beard and looked at Wei Kun with a fierce look on his face. , chuckled and said: "Brother Wei is still as powerful as before."

Hu Xi smiled and said, "Don't worry everyone, Brother Wei is just joking with everyone."

As Su Xiang and Hu Xi spoke to ease the atmosphere, the atmosphere that had become extremely tense after Wei Kun spoke suddenly eased a bit.

Many people glanced at Su Xiang and Hu Xi and subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

It's really that Wei Kun's reputation is too strong, and he doesn't think much of it on weekdays. Many people even subconsciously forget what Wei Kun did to start his career.

As a result, when Wei Kun got angry, especially when he felt the murderous intent in Wei Kun's eyes, many people subconsciously remembered the several big family extermination cases that Wei Kun had committed back then, and many people were stunned for a while.

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