Qin Shizhi's Confucian junior master

Chapter 224, the rich and powerful
Listening to the steward's words, Chen Shu asked in a daze

"Are you sure it's about bandits?"

"Yes, our people saw with their own eyes that the special envoy of the King of Qin and Lord Sima, the county lieutenant, were both in the county guard's mansion, so the subordinates speculated that it might be related to the suppression of bandits." The steward said.

Hearing that Sima Xin, who has been staying in the barracks, rarely came to the county guard's mansion, Chen Shu also tended to suppress bandits, but this kind of thing should be a matter of government affairs, why did they let them, big clans and chambers of commerce, participate in it? Woolen cloth?

"Who has gone?" Chen Shu continued to ask.

"The two chambers of commerce in Bashu, the Patriarch of the Sima Family, the Patriarch of the Li Family, and the rest are all the presidents of the chambers of commerce that can be counted, and some people are on their way," said the steward.

"I see, prepare a car and go to the Sheriff's Mansion."

After Chen Shu got into the carriage, he wondered what the purpose of calling them this time was, but after thinking about it, he couldn't guess it. After the carriage stopped, Chen Shu looked at the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion and took a deep breath. He walked in alone in one breath.

Under the guidance of the clerk, Chen Shu came to the room for discussion. At this time, the room was full of many people. Ziyou sat in the main seat. The president of the rich clan and the chamber of commerce, the widow Qing who had just received the reward sat in the first seat, the second seat was vacant, and Sima Su and Li Ye sat opposite.

"My lords, my comrades are late, please bear with me." Chen Shu saluted everyone.

"Patriarch Chen, you are welcome, take your seat quickly." Ziyou said with a smile.

Looking at Ziyou's smile, Chen Shu's back was always a little hairy, but he sat down on his seat honestly. After Chen Shu took his seat, the whole room was full of people. The servant closed the door of the room, and Ziyou watched All the people who arrived coughed lightly twice, and all eyes were on Ziyou.

"You all must be wondering why I summoned you?" Ziyou said, looking at the crowd.

The people below nodded, and the widow Qing said softly

"It's good for Master Wang to speak directly. If it is useful to come to our place, we will definitely not refuse."

Hearing what Widow Qing said, the rest of the people quickly agreed. Now Widow Qing is different from their gang of stinky merchants. She is an out-and-out owner of the title of Qin State. Squeeze into the ranks of Jinshi, superior to others.

"So let me just say it straight. Everyone knows that I was attacked by bandits on the way here." Seeing everyone nodding, Ziyou continued, "I have also heard that many bandits have affected merchants and businessmen. Traveling, so I have been thinking about sending troops to suppress the bandits, but to suppress the bandits requires an order from the court, so I sent someone to ask the king to order the bandits to be suppressed, but..."

Hearing Ziyou talk about suppressing bandits, Chen Shu's heart sank, and he listened carefully to Ziyou's words, but Ziyou stopped in the middle of what he said, which made him a little itchy. The bandits spent a lot of effort, but nothing worked. Now Ziyou talked about this matter in public again, but he only said half of it, which cut off some thoughts that had just arisen in his heart again.

"Your Excellency, it is good to speak directly. Suppressing bandits is a good thing for the country and the people. Presumably the king will not refuse." Qu Yi said after taking the words.

Everyone turned their expectant eyes to Ziyou again. Although the matter of suppressing the bandits has nothing to do with them, if the bandits are really wiped out, the cost of their business will be greatly reduced, and their profits will be even greater. So they look forward to the army to suppress the bandits every day.

"Everyone knows that Daqin has just ended its war against South Korea. The food, grass and soldiers paid for a war of annihilating the country and rewarding the army is an astronomical figure, so now the court is in a bit of a dilemma and can't get the money. The king wants to suppress the bandits. Yes, but the court’s money and food are not allowed, so this is delayed again and again. All the people who are doing it are my people in Daqin. I have heard a saying, what is a merchant? He said so. Merchant, merchant , One is someone who has something to discuss, and the other is someone who discusses ideas, how do you feel about this view?" Ziyou said as he put down his teacup.

These people here are all patriarchs or presidents of chambers of commerce. Money, I will do my best to grab some souvenirs. Although they all understand this truth, they all frowned. It's not that they don't want to give it, on the contrary, they are eager to give it. What kind of person do businessmen like best?Of course they are corrupt officials. They are not afraid of officials being corrupt, but they are afraid of not being corrupt. But there is also a question before them, that is, how much is appropriate to send.

"This is a good thing to benefit all the people, and it is also an important thing to benefit the court. Please think about it carefully. No matter how much you donate, the people of Shu County, the court, me, and even the king will remember your generosity." Ziyou looked at Everyone said.

After listening to Ziyou's words, everyone felt a surge of emotion in their hearts. As expected of Confucianism, what they said was a righteous speech, and they couldn't refuse it at all. They all laughed and began to echo Ziyou and asked Ziyou how to donate. The specific donation How much is the money and food.

"As for how much to donate, it depends on how much you are loyal to the people of Shu County, to Qin, and to the king. As for how much you can do your best." Ziyou said with a faint smile, just kidding. I don't know how much your family property is. You can figure it out for yourself.

What Ziyou said was to do his best, but no one here would really dare to give less. In their view, Ziyou was a blatant extortion, but they didn't dare to have the slightest objection. Thighs, then they will be the next widows, and each of them immediately made up their minds to cut their flesh.

"We will definitely do our best to support Governor Qu and General Sima in their efforts to suppress the bandits. On behalf of the Bashi Chamber of Commerce, I will donate [-] dans of food and [-] gold in military pay." Widow Qing said first.

"My Li family has [-] dans of grain and [-] gold for military pay." Li Ye followed up.

"Sima's family, [-] deniers of food, [-] gold military pay." Sima Su followed up and said.

"I"

After the three people made their quotations, none of the remaining people dared to delay. Everyone in the hall began to quote for a while. Ziyou knocked on the table, and Qu Yi quickly wrote down everyone's quotations. Listening to the quotations of these people, although they are still calm on the surface, turmoil has begun to appear in their hearts. These people have removed the money from the three major families, and the rest of them have a total of 20 gold, so they are still making quotations. You must know that Han Wang'an gave the Han Bian army only one hundred thousand gold. If these money were given to Han Wang'an, how could the Han army be defeated by the Qin army so quickly.

The combat power of the Qin army is astonishing, because there is a clear price tag for each enemy's head. With two heads, you are the rank of meritorious service. Who wouldn't be tempted to see it?People are afraid of killing, but when killing becomes a reward, everyone can't wait to grow two hands and cut off a few more heads. The reason why the Qin and Han Dynasties are amazing is the military title system, and the royal navy in the future also relies on it. This kind of reward method overwhelmed Spain, Portugal, France and many other opponents.

After everyone finished calling the price, Chen Shu was the only one left who did not bid. Chen Shu looked a little complicated now, he couldn't figure out what Ziyou wanted to do, but his purpose was to let Ziyou send an army out to suppress the bandits , bid immediately
"Although the Chen family is not big, they also have small assets. The banditry in Shu Mountain has been in danger for many years, and my Chen family is not immune. Therefore, on behalf of the Chen family, I donate [-] dans of grain and [-] gold to help our Great Qin soldiers put down the banditry in Shu Mountain."

Chen Shu's quotation was higher than any of the previous people, including Widow Qing, which made everyone a little surprised. It's not that they couldn't offer more money and food than Widow Qing, but in order to protect the face of Widow Qing, the boss of the Chamber of Commerce in Sichuan and Sichuan, so It wasn't that the price was higher, instead of making such a price, it was better to send some to Zi You in private. Seeing that Chen Shu, who has always been a good man, did such a behavior, everyone was a little puzzled.

"As expected of being the Patriarch of the Chen family, I will definitely ask for credit for everyone. The county guard's mansion has prepared thin wine, please?" Ziyou said.

The crowd followed Ziyou to the side yard. After a feast for the host and guests, only Ziyou, Qu Yi, and Sima Xin were left in the Sheriff's Mansion. Sima Xin kept clicking his tongue as he looked at the bill. Not to mention the extermination of the bandits in Shushan, another battle against South Korea is enough.

"These people are really rich." Sima Xin said with emotion.

"Are you going to follow what you said before, send the money from Widow Qing, Sima's family and Li's family back the same way, and use part of the remaining money to suppress the bandits, and escort the rest back to Xianyang?" Qu Yi asked.

"No, these people don't lack the money. Did I ask you to investigate clearly?" Ziyou asked, Master Ziyou didn't have the habit of sending money back from rich people, after all, it was using yours It's somewhat inappropriate for me to send you money to do your business.

"The investigation is clear. These days, my subordinates have been hanging out with Chen Shusi. It has been confirmed that those businessmen are in collusion with the Chen family. The subordinates sent people to investigate these people privately. I don't know if I don't investigate. The land of these people's families has exceeded Moreover, some land was obtained through some shady means," Qu Yi said.

Qu Yi sent the results of these days' investigations to Ziyou's hands. It was all evidence of the family's crimes. After reading it, Ziyou put down the evidence. He originally thought that the annexation of powerful lands in Qin State was relatively relatively difficult. Restrain, Qin Fa is still there after all, but he didn't expect that these people's greed for land has exceeded his imagination, it seems that he must come up with a way to rule the tyrants, bless, he must bless them one by one.

"Keep an eye on these people. They are heroes of the Great Qin Dynasty. Do we need them to pay for the attack on Wei?" Ziyou said.

"But in terms of these evidences alone, it can only be said that they were arrested, but not that they ransacked their homes." Qu Yi said with some concern.

Ziyou glanced at Qu Yi helplessly, Sima Xin looked at Ziyou's eyes, a gleam appeared in his eyes and he cupped his hands and said

"My lord, the general's subordinates discovered that someone had hidden armor, and please allow the general to lead someone to arrest him."

　Everyone can guess what this blessing means.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)