Chapter 217 The fate of the profiteer
Hearing that the grain was about to be sold, everyone rushed out of the alley and rushed to the street. What they saw was not only a group of clerks carrying red notices, but also a group of Jinyiwei carrying embroidered spring swords began to rush towards one grain merchant after another.
When he arrived at the door of a grain merchant and was surrounded by a grain shop, a loud Jinyiwei took out a stack of paper and read out loud all the illegal crimes and acts of stolen the country. Then he broke into the door and arrested the whole family of the unscrupulous merchant. After a little resistance, he immediately killed him.
In the past, when the Jinyiwei killed people, the people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out, but today is different from the past. After everyone heard that these grain merchants were traitors, everyone hated them like a volcano erupting. Faced with the Jinyiwei's killing without hesitation, the people did not fear and curse, but applauded and cheered together.
Once there are fish that have escaped the net, the people will help catch them, and then rush forward and smash them into meat paste.
The Jinyiwei was happy to watch the excitement for the people because their adults said that when people were in panic, it was a good thing to let the people's anxiety vent, and it could stabilize the people's hearts.
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My elders also said that these traitors will sooner or later be killed, but it is absolutely impossible to use any procedures to give them a chance to survive. Our Jinyiwei is not good at killing people in vain, but it is necessary to find a reason to resist and run away or something. It is also necessary to let the people kill a group of people to relieve them.
They also said-
Early this morning, the newly appointed Commander of Power was really different from other commanders at all levels, with different ideas and different ways of doing things, but it just makes people feel that their Jinyiwei is also different from the past. When doing things, they will be more energetic. What's more power? Everyone is all focused on it, and the word "Power" in front of this adult can be removed directly.
Just when everyone thought the court was going to arrest all grain merchants, they found that even if they were adjacent to the grain merchants who announced the guilt, they did not commit any crime. And there was an official from the Jinyiwei who stood up and announced the legal grain merchants: "Catch out the grain of the cheating merchants in the country and sell them to you at the price of eight cents per stone. But they are strictly required to sell them at the price of one or two cents per ounce. If they dare to hoard goods and dare to raise the price randomly, the Jinyiwei's knife will be ready to serve at any time."
Faced with this price difference of money like giving away money for free, and facing the Jinyiwei's arrest and killing people like a wolf, all grain merchants carefully implemented the instructions in the Jinyiwei's favor and power.
Thirty or four hundred thousand stones of grain were invested into the market. The grain merchants who had originally hoarded goods had to open the warehouse as soon as possible to sell the grain, for fear that they would eventually fall into their hands.
In this way, the price of food was suppressed and abundant. The famine in Beijing was solved in a blink of an eye. The reputation of the Jinyiwei was unparalleled for a while, and it was a good reputation.
The results of the search like flowing water were sent over. After summarizing it up, Zhao Xing was startled and he really couldn't believe his eyes: "These eight families are really rich."
All the officials who were still under house arrest stretched their necks to look over, and the food they seized was actually 700,000 to 800,000 stones. Oh my God, the food stored in these fifty families is actually enough for all the people in the entire capital to eat for two or three months. These guys don’t need to be treason for treason. It’s just this hoarding of goods, which is a death sentence.
At this time, boxes of silver and gold were moved into the yard and piled up in the yard. Everyone could not leave the door of the lobby, but standing on the steps, seeing the gold and silver in the yard turned the whole yard into a silvery white and golden light. There were countless jewelry and toys, which made the old officials who had seen the world the most felt dry and confused.
"How many of these are there?" Zhao Xing was calm and calm. With this calmness, all the officials admired him.
Guo Guangsheng, who had a preliminary inventory, replied: "Silver and gold are counted, and jewelry and antiques are not counted."
"Two million." Zhao Xing was also a little excited, but only a few were limited to some.
This made all the officials admire Zhao Xing's calmness to the point where he was promising. Not to mention anything else, the calmness of the new commander was much stronger than Luo Yang's nature.
In fact, they were thinking too much. The reason why Zhao Xing was so calm was because in his world, there were red money, and he had no big idea about gold and silver. If he had free time and converted the gold and silver into red money, it would be 600 million. When he could stack up a building as high as the east wall of the yard, he would probably go crazy.
Seeing so much money, Zhao Xing asked Qian Qiancheng in wonderingly, who walked in with a sad look on his face: "Qiancheng, why do they have so much food and so much money?"
Qian Qiancheng was in a deep mood and took out a gold long life lock from the pile of jewelry and handed it to Zhao Xing: "Sir, the Eight Great Masters secretly stored millions of stones of rice and beans outside the city. After Jiannu came, they robbed the gold and silver of the people around them, and then sold them for the price of four taels of silver and one stone. This is their payment for the goods."
When Zhao Xing looked down, the blood on his long life was still red.
Zhao Xing's eyes turned red. He took out a handkerchief, carefully wrapped the longevity lock with a fat baby's life, and put it in his arms. Then he said to all the officials to Qian Qiancheng: "I don't want to hand over those traitors who have reached this point to the Three Justices for interrogation. I can't wait. I don't want them to live even a quarter of an hour longer."
Everyone nodded with red eyes.
"Qian Qianhu, go, immediately, immediately, to rectify the Dharma on the spot, and then throw their dirty bodies out of the city, so that Jiannu can see how their dogs die."
Without officials to stop Qian Qiancheng went out to execute without hesitation.
For a time, the shopkeepers of more than 200 eight major officials and the people in charge, and the participants were announced on the street and beheaded directly. Then, they threw their bodies out of the city and threw them to their master on the north city.
When it was dark, Zhao Xing put officials at all levels under house arrest. From this moment on, everyone knew that even if someone wanted to notify the Eight Great Masters in Shanxi, it would be too late. Regardless of whether the Eight Great Masters received the news, it had nothing to do with them. This is Zhao Xing's kindness to his subordinates.
Zhao Xing did not ask for Chongzhen in person. He wrote a memorial to Chongzhen, explaining the case of destroying eight shops in detail and explaining the arrangements for this batch of grain.
Five hundred thousand stones were sold to other legitimate merchants on the spot, which completely solved the food shortage problem of the people in the capital and also stabilized the prices. There were 200,000 stones and one million taels of silver. The emperor asked the emperor to distribute it to the 200,000 Qin army outside the city to stabilize the morale and increase morale. The remaining nearly 100,000 stones, Zhao Xing was preparing to take it out and open a porridge farm to stabilize the refugees in the capital. Then he sincerely claimed a leave to Emperor Chongzhen and asked him to go home and visit his old lady.
Because so much food and silver suddenly came out, the situation in the capital was stable in a blink of an eye. Emperor Chongzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief and then generously allowed Zhao Xing to go to and from get off work normally.
Chapter completed!