A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 600
Shanxi, Taiyuan Prefecture, Qingyuan County.

Qingyuan, later renamed Qingxu, is located not far to the southwest of Taiyuan City. It is the authentic birthplace of old mature vinegar in Shanxi. It is known as the "Vinegar Capital". Jealous by jealousy.

Chai, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea belong to the daily necessities of the common people. Even if the profit is thin, it cannot withstand the high demand. Qingyuan’s mature vinegar is well-known far and wide, so around the vinegar industry, inside and outside Qingyuan City, vinegar shops have formed one by one. Every year , There is a steady stream of businessmen who come to batch goods.

And in Qingyuan territory, the Li family is a well-deserved wealthy family. Their ancestors have been running the vinegar business here for generations. It can be said that they have deep connections. The patriarch of the Li family has served as the leader of the local vinegar business for many years.

Like all businessmen in Shanxi, they also paid great attention to making friends with officials and businessmen, and focused on cultivating scholars in the clan. After generations of Baiding, finally, the grave of the current patriarch finally smoked. The magistrate of the county is the magistrate of the prefecture, and now he has been promoted to the magistrate of Guide Prefecture, Henan.

Although the head of the Li family has many brothers, his direct lineage is weak. There is only one son, Li Zhenyu, and his only grandson died young. But because of Li Zhenzhen's relationship, he overwhelmed the group of brothers. He has been in the position of patriarch for many years.

And he is very happy that he also has a virtuous and shrewd granddaughter-in-law Chu Wanyun, who comes from a scholarly family, but is capable and quiet, and is quite good at business. , well organized.

Although the people in the clan say that the Chu family is a bastard and that Kefu is ordered to do so, the old patriarch thinks highly of this granddaughter-in-law, and is willing to listen to her ideas on everything.

Just when the old patriarch urged his son to work hard, give birth to another boy and a half girl, continue the incense, and was full of longing for the future, disasters came, and the Shanxi merchants suddenly pointed their finger at their Li family, as well as the in-laws in Taiyuan, and Shanxi In many areas, businesses close to the East Road also caused disasters.

First of all, there are rumors that the Li family and others are colluding with foreign thieves to harm the elders of the village.

Afterwards, under the strong pressure of everyone, all major merchants stopped cooperating with the Li family intermittently, their sales and raw material purchase channels began to be cut off, or they were robbed by rich local merchants who took advantage of the fire, and all stores were on the verge of running out of stock. At the point where it can be sold, the rest of the Li family's property also began to lose money one after another.
Looking at the geography of Qingyuan, it is surrounded by Qi County, Pingyang, Pingyao, Yuci, Taigu, and Jiexiu, and all the families live in it. Once they surrounded it, the Li family property suffered heavy casualties.

Closing the door and closing down is just the first step, and then it is the beginning of the nightmare. A large number of instigated villagers, as well as green-skinned villains who took the opportunity to make trouble, gathered before Li's mansion, shouting, cursing and crying every day, and finally developed to the people of the clan. As soon as he went to the street, he encountered a series of difficulties, beatings, and abuse.

Once when the young lady went to the street, she was also besieged by several shrews. In panic, even her clothes were torn to pieces.

What made her even more angry was that a series of pornographic news about her spread in Qingyuan and other places, claiming that the vixen Chu Wanyun was shameless, that he could not be at peace with his dead husband, and instead showed his face all day long, flirting with men. It looks like a fox.

Some people even vividly spread the story of how the vixen Chu secretly went to the East Road for business, how he colluded with Wang Dou's thieves, not to mention how shamelessly he recommended himself as a pillow in the middle of the night, and secretly climbed onto Wang Dou's bed, how coquettish he was, and so on.

These rumors have a beginning and an end, vivid and vivid, the poor young lady is chaste and self-reliant, how can she bear such gossip?His face paled with anger.

After a series of incidents, Li Jiaji's heart fluttered and his family business was robbed, all because the patriarch and others had a good relationship with Donglu. He didn't see the good things and caused a lot of trouble. Is he, the patriarch, still qualified to be the patriarch?

The clan elders are already discussing the dismissal of the patriarch, and the relatives are even more distant because of trouble, and to make matters worse, the local vinegar industry guild has dismissed Li Lao as the head of the clan.

From the beginning of the rumors to the end of October, the Li family, which used to be lively and prominent, can be said to have fallen trees and scattered wild animals. In the huge mansion, there are only three or two kittens left. .

Seeing that the turmoil was getting bigger and bigger, in the end, the clan elders didn't even care about dismissing the clan leader. They made 36 tricks, took the best strategy, swept away money, and left Qingyuan on their own. They didn't care about the safety of their immediate clan. .

After this blow, Mr. Li's straight waist in the past has been bent over, but his spirit is still there, and his frowning face is still full of stubbornness.

"There is nothing wrong with the cooperation with Donglu. Although there is a hurdle in front of us, as long as we get over it, my Li family can usher in greater development."

Looking at his daughter-in-law, the old man said firmly.

Standing in front of him was the young lady, wearing a purple-red beige, with a goose gall heart bun, and a step in her hair. She was two or three years younger than Wang Dou, and the years had not left traces on her face, and her figure was still the same. Exquisite and embossed, the elegant and noble temperament on her body is stronger, and she is full of the charm of a young woman.

When Li Zhenzhen went to Guide Mansion to take up a post, the young wife and mother-in-law followed him. Because the bandits were flourishing, Li Zhenzhen was worried, so he sent all his wives, concubines and daughters-in-law back to his hometown.

Because the old patriarch thinks highly of her, the young lady also concentrates more on business affairs, and only occasionally goes to Yongning City on the East Road to meet her best friend Ji Junjiao.

Hearing the words of the old patriarch, the young lady raised her head and said with tears: "Even so, it only brings disaster to the family, and the child is always uneasy..."

As soon as she said this, a stone was thrown from outside the mansion and hit the roof tiles not far above her head. Amidst the uproar, mud, sand and tiles fell, and everyone in the hall screamed in fright. Her mother-in-law clutched her chest , stood up tremblingly: "This...how can this be done?"

"We want to survive..."

"Kill the internal thieves who colluded with the East Road!"

Outside Li's mansion, local people were crowded in black, many of them were shop assistants from various shops, their families and relatives, and there were even more people watching the excitement.

There were also many leaders in the crowd. Under their instruction, some people who looked like storytellers loudly encouraged the surroundings, fanning the flames, and from time to time, some green skins clamored to respond.

Everyone has collected a lot of injustice and criminal evidence about Wang Dou. Under their publicity, in many prefectures and counties in Shanxi, it seems that Wang Dou was replaced by an upright man who fought bloody for the country overnight. The town commander has become a scum who does all kinds of evil, has no king and no father, and is a black sheep that everyone hates.

Many people who had a good impression of Wang Dou were also a little shaken after hearing the news.

In particular, the power of the various families is deeply rooted, and many scribes, officials, generals, etc. in Shanxi are either their clansmen, or have close interest ties with them.

They don't care about attacking and swearing at Wang Dou, but if anyone speaks for Wang Dou or Donglu, they will pay attention to them. At least they will be full of old punches, and at worst they will be arrested for no reason, or even worse, for no reason. Disappeared, nine times out of ten, lost his life.

The turmoil of rumors is getting stronger and stronger, even in the remote countryside, many small people and women also know that there is a Xuanfu Town East Road in the north of Shanxi, where there lives a man with sores on the top of his head, pus on the soles of his feet, and a heart heavier than coal. Black general.

The general soldier has no king and no father, not to mention being rude to the gentry, and he is also extremely licentious. He needs to guard eight women every night to fall asleep. No, the Han women can't satisfy him, and he went to the grassland to snatch thousands of Tartar women back. Well, those Tartar women don't take a bath a few times in their lives, and Wang Dou also has an appetite, which shows his shamelessness.

What's even more hateful is that he wants to rob the big guy's job and starve his father and brothers to death. No, since the east road merchants come in, how can the local merchants survive?
As for someone claiming that the East Road is rich, that is purely a lie. Those businessmen are as black-hearted and shameless as Wang Dou. They can eat enough and grow up by sucking the blood of big guys. They are like mosquitoes and flies. full?
They are full, and the big guy deserves to starve to death?

Treat the profiteers on the East Road as you would treat mosquitoes and flies, and slap them to death at once.

Wang Dou and the East Road profiteers are shameless, even more shameless, and even more hateful, those traitors who seduce foreign thieves, such as that Chu family, Chu Wanyun, who killed her husband, and even raped and raised a man. Hooked up with that Wang Dou, what a pair of adulterers and prostitutes!
Outside Li's residence, the instigator was eloquent, and the audience next to him nodded frequently, all of them were angry and angry.

A very thin woman in ragged clothes even cried when she heard that her man was working in a shop, as the owner said, if the East Road merchants came in, wouldn't his man lose his livelihood?How can I and the few children in my family survive?
Is it easy to find a job to make ends meet in the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters?Those unscrupulous East Road businessmen, just want to starve their own mothers to death?
Also, those hateful internal thieves in Li's mansion, that Chu family, looked chaste and inviolable, but unexpectedly they were a whore!
Under extreme fear and anger, she screamed, her hair disheveled, suddenly picked up a stone from the ground, threw all her strength into the mansion, and shouted at the top of her lungs: "Kill these thieves who colluded with outsiders!"

"Kill them!"

"Kill them..."

"Rush in and beat these thieves to death."

"Take that whore out and soak it in a pig cage!"

For a while, the crowd was full of excitement, stones and bricks were thrown towards the mansion like raindrops, and there was a constant rattle of bricks and tiles, and even a few lighted torches were also thrown into it.There are also many green skins, desperately smashing the door, and some people are even going to climb over the wall.

And far away from these crowds, some yamen servants just watched lazily, with no intention of dissuading them at all.

In the hall, everyone in the Li family was even more terrified, the crowd was out of control, and the already rare guards could not stop them at all. If the angry crowd rushed in, they would probably end up being beaten to death .

A woman like Mrs. Young may end up even more miserable.

(End of this chapter)