I served as an admonisher in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 158: Establishing rules and regulations, pressure from General Mian Nirvana
The third day of the leap year.

Su Liang took a leave of absence on the pretext of spending time with his wife and children. He would rest from the third day of the lunar month to the sixteenth day of the leap month.

It’s not really a break.

Baijia College is about to start construction, and Su Liang always wants to take a look.

With the money rewarded by Zhao Zhen, the college was completed within half a year without any problems.

The eighth day of the leap year.

The king of military thieves was sentenced to death (dismemberment).

Zhang Deyi was sentenced to death and his family's residence was confiscated.

The demon party soldiers and thieves in various state capitals have also been basically wiped out.

Xixia seems to have accepted the canonization ceremony of the Song Dynasty and has not done anything that exceeds the rules on the border.

There was no movement in the Liao Kingdom.

……

Forbidden in the harem.

The little prince is in good health.

Miao Zhaoyi and Zhang Meiren both had big bellies.

The delivery dates of the two are almost the same, and they are both expected to give birth at the end of February.

Ouyang Xiu, Su Liang, Tang Jie, and Bao Zheng planned to ask Zhao Zhen to open Tianzhang Pavilion again after the two concubines gave birth to children, so as to mobilize strategies to strengthen and prosper the Song Dynasty.

……

Today, afternoon.

In the northwest border market, in a tent.

Di Qing was holding a copy of "Zuo Zhuan" in his hand. As soon as he turned to the first page, his upper eyelids and lower eyelids started fighting.

Reading "Zuo Zhuan" was a homework assigned by Fan Zhongyan to Di Qing, and he had to check it every day.

Although Di Qing didn't like reading, he still knew that reading was useful, so he read hard.

But he still couldn't get rid of his problem of falling asleep while studying. He pinched his thigh till it turned blue and red.

at this time.

A soldier ran over quickly and shouted: "General, it's bad, our merchants are fighting with Xixia merchants!"

"what?"

Di Qing stuffed "Zuo Zhuan" into his arms, rubbed his face with his hands, and strode out immediately.

About 300 meters in front of the tent, many people gathered around it.

Di Qing stepped forward.

Before he reached the crowd, he heard a very arrogant voice.

"The business tax and dental tax have been paid, and the money and goods have been cleared. It is absolutely impossible for you to return the goods at this time. Are you Song people so unruly in business?"

The speaker is a Xixia official.

He has no hair on his head and heavy earlobes, typical features of Xixia people.

There are official teeth in the market, which are used to assess the grade of goods and collect the dental tax and commercial tax.

Standing in the middle of the crowd were two strong Xixia businessmen and a short middle-aged Song Dynasty businessman.

A Xixia businessman's clothes were torn.

The middle-aged businessman from the Song Dynasty had bleeding from the corner of his mouth and messy hair. He obviously suffered a loss.

"Give way!" Di Qing strode to the middle of the crowd.

The crowd followed the sound.

When he saw the tall and powerful man with tattoos on his face, he knew that the famous Mian Nie General Di Qing had arrived.

The Xixia official instantly lost the arrogance he had just now.

"General Di, I am Yagu Leqiu, the chief officer of our Military Supervision Department. This matter is..."

Before Di Qing could finish speaking, he said coldly: "Did I ask you?"

Xixia official Yagu Leqiu suddenly fell silent.

What they feared most was the Song Dynasty Wu Quxing who liked to use force to reason.

Di Qing looked at the middle-aged businessman and asked, "Tell me."

The middle-aged businessman wiped the corners of his mouth with an aggrieved look on his face.

"General Di, it's like this. An hour ago, I bought five thousand kilograms of green and white salt from these two people. After Guan Ya inspected the goods, I paid the commercial tax and tooth tax, paid the money, and took delivery of the goods. But ...But when I checked, I found that they had mixed sand and ash into the green and white salt!" Di Qing looked to the side, and there was indeed a lot of sand and ash mixed in a sack with a cut.

Due to the large volume of goods, such fraud is difficult to detect immediately.

"I... I asked them to return the goods. These two Xixia people claimed that I had dropped the bag, so I started fighting with them. They... they were so deceptive!"

After hearing these words, Di Qing basically understood.

Filling the bellies of cattle and sheep with water, and mixing sand and ash into the green and white salt are things that some Xixia merchants often do.

A Xixia businessman immediately stood up and defended: "General Di, he is talking nonsense. It is obvious that he dropped the package, and when doing business, he must pay attention to the money and goods. Why didn't he check it clearly when he received the goods?"

"There are so many bags of salt, can I open them one by one and look at them? You are so shameless!" the middle-aged businessman said angrily.

At this time.

Guleqiu added: "There are rules in the shopping mall. Money and goods must be cleared. No more entanglement. If everyone returns goods like you, how will we do business in the future?"

Di Qing looked at the middle-aged businessman and said with a smile: He is right. After the money and goods are settled, you really can't be entangled anymore. Let's learn a lesson! "

Hearing this, Guleqiu couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He just liked Song Ren's silly and reasonable look.

He originally thought that the people of Song Dynasty would become tough after the abolition of Sui coins, but he didn't expect that they would still be so timid.

Immediately, Di Qing looked at Gu Leqiu.

"Let's do this. In order to avoid such disputes from happening again, from now on, I, the merchant of the Song Dynasty, will no longer buy the green and white salt of Xixia!"

The words fell.

The expressions of Guleqiu and the Xixia soldiers behind him suddenly changed.

There are two roots of people's livelihood in Xixia, one is pasture, and the other is green and white salt.

Among them, green and white salt still accounts for the majority.

The green and white salt they sold to the Song Dynasty every year was enough to cover the taxes of several states.

A few days ago, there were special instructions from above not to cause conflicts with the Song Dynasty people.

He also asked the person in charge of each market to clear the stocks of green and white salt quickly to prevent the Song Dynasty from closing the market.

The Song Dynasty no longer purchased the green and white salt from Xixia, but there was still salt to eat.

But if the green and white salt of Xixia cannot be sold, a group of people will starve to death.

Moreover, if the Queen Mother of Xixia and the Prime Minister knew about this, they would kill all three of their clans.

It seems not worth losing the entire Song Dynasty market for five thousand kilograms of green and white salt.

If someone else said this, he still wouldn't believe it.

But the other party was Di Qing, who fully had this power.

Gu Leqiu thought for a moment and said quickly: "General Di, let me tell the truth. It was these two businessmen who mixed sand and ash into the green and white salt. We admit our mistake and are willing to apologize and pay three times the compensation!"

As soon as Guleqiu waved, two Xixia soldiers arrested the two Xixia businessmen.

Di Qing looked at Gu Leqiu with a serious expression.

"According to my laws of the Song Dynasty, anyone who makes or sells counterfeit goods will be compensated ten for every counterfeit, and be punished with thirty sticks."

Thirty punishments with a stick would be enough to kill someone if Song soldiers were to execute it.

"No problem, no problem." Gu Leqiu quickly agreed. If he didn't agree, all three of his clans might be executed.

"Execution!"

Immediately, the Song soldiers placed two benches in the middle of the crowd, and then ordered the Xixia businessman to lie down on the benches.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Less than five sticks later, the buttocks of the two men were already bloody, but the Xixia soldiers on the side did not dare to say a word.

In the past, they always threatened that Xixia was about to attack Song Dynasty, but now no one has the courage to say this.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
After more than ten feet, the two men passed out.

Soon, the execution is over.

Even if the two of them survive, they will never be able to stand up again in this life.

Di Qing looked around and said loudly: "I, Di Qing, will establish a rule here. It is true that money and goods will be cleared, but there is a prerequisite: if you are not deceived, money and goods will be cleared!"

Di Qing couldn't help being stunned when he said this, and said in his heart: Reading is useful, it's of great use!

The merchants of Song Dynasty were all excited.

At this moment, they felt that they could raise their heads in front of the Xixia people in the future.

(End of this chapter)