Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 42

In the next few days, the city of Xi'an was in chaos.

Not on the official side, after all, the clan's rebellion and the royal family's struggle for power and profit, and the fight for the position of the son is a scandal, and it is impossible for the clan to reveal it easily and let the common people know that it is the beggars who are messing around.

Although it is true that there are poor people who cannot survive and have to beg for a living, there are indeed many lazy hooligans who are lazy, and beggars not only beg for food, but also do all kinds of crimes such as cheating, abducting and stealing, so beggars have always been a headache for the county magistrates. The thing is, now the head of Huazi, Zhu Cunbiao, and his gang have fallen, and without restraint, the Huazi have become no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are called kings.

Although Zhu Cunbiao has done a lot of evil, and the bad things he did have no limits, he still knows how to keep a low profile. The restrained beggars dare not blatantly oppose the government. These days, rape, robbery, stealing, collecting protection money and blackmailing, half of Xi'an The city was besieged by beggars like a monkey's nest, and several fire bubbles burst out of the mouth of the tossing Xi'an county magistrate. The third class of police officers and Zhang Xianzhong, the chief arrester, were also busy vomiting blood. The prison was almost full, and it took three days. There were fights and land grabs on the two streets, and several corpses were thrown on the streets every day.

As for Jinyiwei, Wei Wenzhong, a thousand households of Jinyiwei, was still tempted by Song Qingshu's rhetoric.

Although Emperor Chongzhen is now chasing and beating Wei Zhongxian's remnants of the factory guards, it does not mean that Emperor Chongzhen does not like these factory guards. Zhu Youjian is suspicious and insecure. What Emperor Chongzhen didn't like was the factory guard who was not loyal to him.

Although this matter is dangerous, it is an opportunity to show loyalty. In order to be loyal to the emperor, the little Shanxi Jinyiwei Qianhu dared to challenge the Qin Palace. Soaring to the top!

Zhang Xianzhong is also loyal enough. In order to help the stupid Bai Wenxuan, he went to Jinyiwei Qianhu to lobby, but Wei Wenzhong, who he said was overwhelmed, still saved his hand. point.

This Eunuch Li is the eunuch who brought up King Qin's companion. He has been in charge of the Prince Qin's mansion for so many years. Naturally, he has such means. A clan plots to rebel, and a second son competes for the reserve position. If any one is revealed, Qin Fan will be drunk It’s a pot, and Wei Wenzhong came here in armor and brought a knife. Knowing that this guy is also cruel, if there is no explanation, he must stab it, without showing his identity, Li Gonggong respectfully invited Wei Wenzhong into the mansion, and it is Please take your seat in the main hall of the King of Qin.

First there was a gift, a whole box of heavy silver ingots, no less than 1 taels, and then the old Qin king Zhu Yifu came out to meet him in person, crying bitterly about how he was not strict in teaching his sons, how he was not good at controlling the clan, and was ashamed of the emperor Trust, regret and so on, the royal family still holds a lot of weight these days, the king of Qin personally apologized, even if Wei Wenzhong was the urban management in the government, this would be panic.

Back to the Jinyiwei Qianhu House, there is another box of silver, several properties, a cart full of exquisite brocade, two Western muskets, ten jars of Shaoxing wine, some fruits of various colors, a large pile of gifts almost filled the Qianhu House Song Qingshu and Zhang Xianzhong, who worked so hard to get more than 1000 taels, were still trembling. Wei Wenzhong, who made a fortune sitting safely in a thousand households, is really more popular than others.

Money can turn ghosts around. That night, the mighty beggar emperor Zhu Cunbiao Zhu Fengguo and the letters, jade seals, and evidence that he had communicated with his second son Zhu Cunji's personal eunuch, Mr. An, were all sent to the Qin Palace. After entering the mansion, Zhu Cunbiao and Eunuch An were directly beaten to death in the Ye Court, which specially punished servants. As for the evidence, all the evidence was turned into smoke.

Of course, the upper-level confrontation is not known to the ordinary people below. Even the parties involved, Bai Wenxuan and Zhang Xianzhong, found out through hearsay, but at any rate, the big troubles faced by the few people have all been resolved!
Song Qingshu's cheating theme restaurant has finally opened for the second time!

It’s still the same room with the same old-fashioned decoration, but under the counter there is a big solid-looking wooden pier. Sitting on the wooden pier, Song Qingshu is obviously absent-minded and doesn’t pay attention to business. It’s still the same cute maid outfit. There is still a cat's beard on her face, Caiwei keeps wiping the clean reflective table surface, and keeps looking up, but she has set up some functions to take off the nasty maid's costume, and her scarred face is a A white shirt, black overalls, leaning lazily on the edge of the counter, not even sweeping the floor.

Not to mention, this guy is really handsome in this set, with a tall and straight body, and the scars on his face all add to the feeling of a mature man with vicissitudes. Song Qingshu curled his lips in jealousy from time to time.

"welcome!"

The half-person-high spring wooden door of the Northwest Tavern in the United States was suddenly pushed open, and it could be counted as the first customer to come in. Caiwei hurriedly jumped up and down excitedly to greet her, and bowed with a very service attitude.

But the one who came in was a poor-looking traveling businessman with his hands tucked into his sleeves. Caiwei greeted him so enthusiastically, which surprised him. Jumping over the menu handed over, Lao Cai simply didn't sit, turned his head and left.

"Brother, let's go."

Disappointment was written all over her little face, Caiwei turned her head depressed, and the scarred face in front of the counter hugged her arms cynically and hummed: "The price is so high, I can't even afford it, and I don't know what your head is. Was it squeezed by the door?"

"It's okay to pick Wei, from now on people like this don't need to be bothered, and we're not doing their business." But after recovering from God's blessing, he patted Cai Wei's little head comfortingly, and immediately Song Qingshu raised his head with confidence. His head retorted with his scarred face: "Did all your officials live on that little salary? Do you really think that the old emperor can only afford white noodles, steamed mutton noodles every day?"

Scarface was silent for a while, he used to follow Xiong Tingbi, he was a real upright official, but when he followed Xiong Tingbi to supervise Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi spent most of his time and energy every day than corruption and empty pay, sometimes even surpassing the war against Jurchen , the frontline of the battlefield is still like this, the decay of the Ming Empire at this time is really evident.

Seemingly seeing his loneliness, Song Qingshu patted him on the shoulder in a persuasive way: "So we want to kill these corrupt officials, and we are venting our anger on the people!"

Scarface is almost out of breath. This guy is obviously a profiteer himself. He set the price of vegetables so high that no one has come to the door. Now he looks reasonable. I really don’t know which one is his shame and the city wall. thick.

But at this time, Scarface admired Song Qingshu, a cunning, eccentric profiteer. Seeing that Caiwei was encouraged by the door, shaking her small fists to cheer herself up, Scarface simply lowered her voice and lay down on the counter, blaming in a low voice with.

"You are considered rich now, with four or five hundred taels of silver in your pocket. We can do it by ourselves. Why do you go to cooperate with that old Xi'er? You get half of the money you earn! Why bother?"

The last time something like Zhu Cunbiao happened, Qu Botao, the old Xier, flung his sleeves and walked away very shamelessly. Scarface looked down on this kind of people the most, but this time when he opened his business, Song Qingshu turned around again. He found it back, and the two continued to work together according to the contract, which made Scarface puzzled and at the same time extremely dissatisfied.

"You don't understand." Song Qingshu also lowered his head, muttering in a low voice: "Business is not only about buying and selling, but also about relationships. His family has been in business for six generations. Officially, there are more or less people everywhere. With friendship, with this relationship, we can save countless troubles, so giving him half of the shares is definitely not a loss!"

"and……"

Speaking of this, Song Qingshu became depressed again, inadvertently pointed to the wooden pier he was sitting on and said: "This money is hot!"

"I don't know if Brother Zhang gave it to us in a moment of dizziness. He said he was an official, and the gangster and outlaws are similar. We still have to live under his nose. If one day he comes to ask for it, we will give it to him." If you spend it, it will be a bad day!"

"You've been worrying about this for a long time!" After Song Qingshu scolded me, I slapped my sad face with gloom when I heard this, "If I say I don't know how to do business, it means you don't know the world. !"

He just wanted to open his mouth to show off, but when he rolled his eyes, the scar-faced guy crossed his arms again annoyed and said, "Didn't he ask you to meet at the Town God's Temple tonight? You'll know when you go."

Song Qing grinned bookishly, and just wanted to make some more sarcasm about this guy, but at this moment, a burst of laughter suddenly came from behind the door.

"Haha, Brother Baizhang, even Mr. Gu said your article is top-notch this time. You have great hope this year, and you can't justify being stingy today!"

"Hey, brother Feipeng, how do you say that you framed a certain one? When did I, Wang Hao, ever be stingy? Today, a certain one has given up this month's food. The shop I mentioned will arrive in front of it. Today, our brothers are drunk and have nothing to return to." Huh? How has this store changed?"

While talking, four scholars in white gowns and scarves walked in with three steps at a time, and the leader looked around suspiciously. Looking at these four people, Song Qingshu seemed to see four of them in an instant. Like a steaming Peking Duck, your eyes shine.

What kind of person makes the best money?Officials, women, students!These few are the college students of the Ming Dynasty!But Song Qingshu's main target..., uh, the business people don't even care about bickering with Scarface, Song Qingshu greets him personally, shaking his sleeves and saluting with a smile on his face: "A confidant in the sea is like a neighbor at the end of the world." !Several scholars are here, and the shop is full of splendor!"

A few silly county students who listened to the gentle welcome words immediately liked him very much. They didn't realize that Song Qingshu had fixed him as a fat sheep about to be slaughtered, so he was dragged to the table by Song Qingshu in a daze...

(End of this chapter)