Chapter 097 Receiving Rice

As soon as the gate opened, Wang Qiang and five others held official documents in their arms and quickly went to different places with whips. Lin Zimo wants to test Jia San's words, and some of them can really be believed. If you really want to save the people from water and fire, you must offend the Li family and other people. He doesn't want to choose to ignore it. After all, people's livelihood is too difficult.

Lin Zimo, who was sitting in his government office, was dealing with business as usual, and a government official ran in and said, "Sir, it's not good. A group of unruly people gathered in Li Jiami to make trouble.

Lin Zimo, who heard the words 'unruly people' and 'making trouble', suddenly became alert, picked up the tea at the table and asked carefully, "Why do they make trouble? Is there always a reason?"

The servants, who did not dare to hide anything, told the truth: "Farmer farmers sell rice for silver to pay the landlords' leased silver, and they thought that the price of rice they bought was too low, so they became dissatisfied. The housekeeper of Li's house has come to the government office to report the case.

Lin Zimo thought that Li Xian's layers of pressure would inevitably cause farmers to stand up and make trouble. If he doesn't send people, he can't say anything. After all, maintaining the local security environment is part of his responsibility. At this juke, he didn't care about Li Xian's views and attitudes towards him, but worried that this group of farmers would suffer losses.

Large families in the city have more or less families and courtyards. If the two sides clash, the minions will be unscrupulous. After all, if something really happens, the owner is in front of them, and they are just ordered to act. There are always farmers who care about this or that in their hearts, and they will not be free.

"Since the housekeeper of Li's house has come to our government office, you can call him in for me." Lin Zimo, who had tasted tea, said slowly.

The servant who took the order to quit soon. Li Xian's housekeeper stepped in and saluted Lin Zimo in a regular manner. Without turning around the bush, he directly explained his intention and took out a silver ticket from the cuffs and presented it to him.

Lin Zimo, who didn't look at the amount of the silver ticket, raised his eyebrows and pretended to be angry and said, "What are you doing?"

Li Xian's housekeeper said with a smile on his face, "The weather is getting colder. This is instead of my master to send charcoal to the magistrate."

Lin Zimo, with a straight face, really didn't intend to accept his money and pretended to show a relationship and said, "Take it back to this house quickly. Your master's business is my own business. Since the old man of the Li family is a close relative of Lord Li Yu, a member of the Ministry of Officials, I am duty-bound to do things. You go back first, and then I will bring someone in person.

The housekeeper of Lifu smiled and believed that he was a humane who knew the current affairs: "Thank you, Lin Zhifu for your heart. Small, don't bother the adults.

He, who left the silver ticket, bent down and retreated with a smile on his face. Lin Zimo picked up the silver ticket and looked at it carefully. In his heart, he really felt funny and angry. Li Xianning would rather spend money to open up the government and collude with officials, but he is unwilling to give up a little advantage and return it to the people. In his opinion, this may be to play on the road with one hand and the fish people with the other, so as to reflect the pleasure of these people looking down on the masses.

Lin Zimo casually put it into his sleeve bag, walked out of his mansion, and ordered the servant who served him to pass his order to the catcher in the government office. After saying that, he stood still for three minutes, thought for a moment, and then went straight out. Sitting on Guanjiao, he led 32 officials and trotted all the way to Li Jiami's shop.

The two sides who had not yet started were noisy and "reasonable", but the onlookers who stood on the inner three floors and the outer three floors saw the people coming from the government and ran away a lot, leaving only a few bold people standing far away, looking at their heads and watching. With a loud 'falling sedan chair', Lin Zimo slowly came out of the sedan chair.

The housekeeper of Li's rice shop one step in advance, walked a few steps to greet him and said with a charming smile, "Lin Zhifu, look, this?"

"I can make a free decision." Lin Zimo walked between the two people and saw many people holding sticks in their hands, so he said with a serious expression, "So? Do you want to make trouble in the jurisdiction of this house? I will tell you the truth, if anyone dares to take action under Lang Lang Qiankun, he will immediately take it away.

His words are mainly for the minions of the Li family. After all, the people on their side have already prepared all kinds of fighting tools. No one here doesn't know how powerful Lin Zimo is. He knows that he is not an empty talker, but a murderous butcher. This master not only killed Liu Hu and other villains, but also wiped out the mountain thieves who had not been extinct in Erlong Mountain for more than 30 years. Many people on both sides who heard and understood clearly were already afraid, so they put down their sticks in their hands.

Lin Zimo saw the man who hadn't put down the stick: "It seems that you are not going to give face to this house?"

The rest of the people who had not thrown away the stick made a 'bang', and the stick fell heavily on the ground. Lin Zimo, who saw this result, softened his tight facial expression a little. Asking himself, he felt that he was not a man who liked to solve problems with violence. However, sometimes, reasoning is unreasonable, so only violent means can be used to achieve the ideal effect.

"Everyone should sit down and reason slowly." Lin Zimo said indifferently, "Thustray, what's going on?"

A leading young man among the farmers stood up bravely, grabbed a handful of rice spread out next to him, and said angrily, "Your Excellency, they are really bullying people too much. You can see that such a good rice can sell at least one taels of silver and three stones, while Li's rice shop is only willing to sell one taels of silver and six stones. They are not collecting rice, but killing us.

After listening to the farmer's opinions, Lin Zimo turned his head to look at the shopkeeper of Li Jiami's shop and said, "You can also talk about it. What's the situation?"

"Lord Lin, I am an honest and well-behaved businessman, and the owner's rice shop has always followed the old rules. Not only this price this year, but also this price last year, and the year before last, and the year before last..."

He thought that there was an invisible thing called inflation in the world. Seeing that this shopkeeper was a bully who talked nonsense and didn't want to ruin the whole plan for a while, he turned around and said, "In this way, they are not at fault, and you are unreasonable."

The young man who knelt down on his legs and talked about various price increases. He said the price of oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea this year and the price of previous years, and these goods were monopolized by Li Xian. Therefore, on the one hand, they are selling their own rice cheaply, and on the other hand, they are buying daily necessities at high prices. The huge price difference between the two was eaten by the Li family.

"All the way." Lin Zimo, who did not intend to sacrifice them, said with a dark face, "Don't make trouble again. They either sell the rice in their hands to the rice shop or to the government. Choose one of the two, it's up to you."

The young man kneeling on the ground asked timidly, "Your Excellency, what is the price charged by the government?"

"This government works for the court, and the emperor will naturally not treat you badly. Just as you said, three stone refined rice and one taels of silver. The government will open up to buy you. Lin Zimo's hands are facing the sky.

The young man turned his head hard and kowtowed repeatedly and said, "Thank you, magistrate, for understanding our difficulties. You are really our parents and Qingtian. When I go back, I will definitely let the villagers set up an elongation card for you.

Lin Zimo, who played tricks, said seriously: "Don't thank me. If you want to thank me, thank you, Lord Xie Chao. They asked me to purchase military food for the rebel army. The government only collects refined rice, not anything else, and exchanges silver.

The housekeeper and the shopkeeper of the rice shop were all dumbfounded when they heard him say this. They have long heard that the imperial court has sent hundreds of thousands of troops to quell the rebellion in Guangxi. In this way, this is a big business. People eat, horses eat, and all kinds of other animals have to eat. They believe that the government will never only collect rice, and will definitely collect other things in the future.

"It's all right here. You can do whatever you should do." Lin Zimo looked around.

He turned back, walked towards his official sedan, and then led the crowd away. The uplifted farmers were not noisy and drove their own cars in an orderly manner, following the officials. Before coming, Lin Zimo had already calculated and let his private acquisition first. As for other things, I haven't thought about it yet.

Seeing that Lin Zimo and others had just turned around and left, he told the shopkeeper, "You are optimistic about the rice shop. I'll go back to the master."

I felt that when he learned the important news, he turned over and ran to Li's house. After all, such a big thing was not within his authority.

After a period of incense, the housekeeper of Li's house found his master Li Xian in the garden and blurted out before he could wipe his sweat: "Sir, the government is charging refined rice at the price of one, two or three stones. They don't make white notes, but exchange cash. There is no quota for the number, in order to supply the rebel officers and soldiers ahead.

Li Xian, who was stunned for a moment, pushed down her legs of a beautiful girl in her arms, suddenly stood up, and said with a color to his housekeeper, "Come with me."

Walking on the road, he thought that such a large business was at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. If you are lucky, you will buy and sell one million taels of silver, and even have the opportunity to get the authority of the province's exclusive grain supply. If he can do it, it would be great. After all, Li Xian clearly knows the price of the army to buy military grain, which has been maintained at one taels of silver and one stone for a long time.