Chapter 1433: Moving, it will happen! (Thanks Hans for his great reward!)

"Eh! Have you heard about it? The Jinshi Gang in the southwest of the county

seat was given a pot by the county government yesterday afternoon~!"

"What? Did Jin Wanbiao catch it?"

"Catch it! Catch it! It is said that the 58 members of the Jinshi Gang have

all been taken to the county jail!"

"Great! Great! The people of the Jinshi Gang have done all the bad things, and

Jin Wanbiao is cruel by nature. I don't know how many merchants have been

blackmailed by him! They should have been arrested long ago!"

"You didn't want to arrest Jin Wanbiao before you became the magistrate? Isn't

there no evidence?"

"What's wrong? Is there evidence this time?"

"Hey! It's different this time! This time, it's not Sun Catcher from the

county government office, but the guards of the Hou Mansion. Even if he lends

him Jin Wanbiao ten courage, I dare not say anything!"

"Oh! It seems that Master Hou can't understand their bullies!"

"Isn't it? And I heard that the Chengbei Canghai Gang was also destroyed

yesterday afternoon! Although their gang leader, Tsunami Tian, is not as

abominable as Jin Wanbiao, he also charged a lot of merchant protection fees!"

"It's far more than that! Except for these two big gangs, many small gangsters

in the city were arrested yesterday afternoon. I have a nephew who works as an

errand at the yamen. He said that the county government's cell is already

overcrowded. Hu Dianshi, it is said that I didn't close my eyes last night!"

"Huh! Such an exaggeration! It seems that Master Hou really made the shot!

Otherwise, no one can have this kind of thunder method to wipe out all the

hooligans in Lantian County!"

"No wonder the Sifang City Gate in Lantian County was suddenly closed

yesterday afternoon! It turned out that Lord Hou wanted to completely remove

these malignant tumors in the city! Now that these rascals are gone, I feel

that the city has a lot of security!"

"And have you found that there are more teams of patrol officers in the city

today? I don’t know if they only patrol in the last few days, or if they will

patrol like this in the future, if it is the latter, then the city will never

again There will be cases of land ruffians extorting merchant protection

fees!"

"Haha! What did I say yesterday? The business department established by the

county government is definitely a good thing for our business people! Although

the business tax payment is more than before, there are no bullies like Jin

Wanbiao and Tsunami Tian to extortion protection money. , The money saved is

enough to pay the business tax! What's more, in addition to the priority

supply of the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, the merchants in Lantian County

can also go to the county to study for their children. In general, it is

definitely a good thing. !"

"Yes, that's right! If you do business in other states and counties, you will

also be blackmailed by bullies like Jin Wanbiao. The monthly expenses are not

necessarily lower than the expenses of opening a shop in Lantian County! Ah,

the Department of Commerce of this county government, I support it from the

bottom of my heart! I just rushed to Lord Hou to clean up the bullies in the

city this time, and gave us merchants a sigh of anger. I, Jin Fugui, said to

support Lord Hou. ~!"

"Yes, yes~! Must support Hou Ye~!"

The next day.

The people of Lantian County who woke up early couldn't help talking in

groups. The focus of the topic was naturally the Lantian County Skynet action

yesterday!

Merchants who were dissatisfied with the Department of Commerce and the new

Commercial Tax Law have changed their attitudes at this moment and started to

talk about the Department of Commerce!

"Go and see! The county government has posted a new notice!"

What a coincidence, at this moment, someone ran over and shouted.

"The new notice? It must be related to the bullies of Jin Wanbiao! Go! Let's

go and see!"

I don’t know who screamed, and immediately, the merchants and the common

people walked quickly in the direction of the county government!

In front of the notice board at the gate of the county government office,

twenty or thirty people were already surrounded by this time. A scholar read

while watching, "Members of the Jinshi Gang and Canghai Gang, in recent

months, they have been blackmailing merchants in the city. Asked for

protection money, and was guilty of wounding, arson and other crimes. After

the county government tried, the criminal confessed to the crime. The county

magistrate decided to traffic these people to the mine and serve three years

in prison! The two big gangs helped the leaders and were directly exiled.

Qiongzhou!

From now on, if anyone dares to blackmail merchants, the county government

will punish them severely! In addition, in order to maintain the public order

of the city, there will be patrols in the city every day. At the same time,

patrols will be strengthened in the city to ensure that the merchants have a

good business environment and the people have a stable living environment! "

A close examination of the relevant laws in the Tang and Song dynasties

reveals that the maximum period of punishment in these two dynasties generally

did not exceed three years. Will be sentenced to up to two years in prison.

The laws of the Tang and Song dynasties set three years as the upper limit of

the sentence, from one to three years divided into five criminal law levels.

The reason why there is no longer term imprisonment is mainly because the

population in ancient times would not be as large as in modern times, and

human resources would not be as worthless as modern society. In this era,

everyone is a very precious labor force used to develop production and farming

operations. Once the prisoner is detained extensively and detained for a long

time, it will have a great impact on the production and operations of the

entire society.

Moreover, the fixed-term imprisonment of this era cannot only imprison

prisoners. In addition to being detained, these prisoners must complete

compulsory high-intensity labor. This practice is roughly the same as the

fixed-term imprisonment and labor reform practiced in modern society!

Therefore, the county government's punishment for the gangsters caught

yesterday is still very heavy!

"Great! Great! In the future, no one in the city will dare to collect

protection fees!"

"Master Hou is really thinking about the merchants waiting for me! This

commercial department is well established!"

"That's right! You can do business with peace of mind and down-to-earth in the

future! Although there are a lot of business taxes, the old man is willing to

pay!"

"No! The old man has to buy a shop in Lantian County. Who wants to resell the

shop? The price is easy to negotiate!"

After seeing this notice at the gate of the county government, the people and

the merchants finally saw the county government's determination to rectify the

law and order of Lantian County. The merchants all breathed a sigh of relief

and rejoiced!

"Hey? Isn't that the boss of Chang'an City? Why did he bring so many cars?

What is in that car?"

"Just ask, don’t you know? Boss Cao is still very good at talking!"

When everyone was talking about it, they caught a glimpse of a motorcade on

the road west of the county government. The leader was Cao Wendong, the

largest cloth merchant in Chang'an! Seeing Cao Wendong brought so many

carriages to Lantian County, the people at the county government office could

not help but talk.

Naturally brave people approached and asked: "Boss Cao, what are you going to

do, you are so exciting?"

Cao Wendong didn't put on airs, he said with a smile: "Cao heard that Lantian

County had established a Department of Commerce yesterday. He treats

businessmen, people, and craftsmen equally, and that the children of merchants

can also participate in county schools. This makes Cao very excited! Because

of the Department of Commerce, we can stop our businessmen from being blinded

and bullied! So after thinking about it, I plan to completely move the family

to Lantian County. Anyway, there are several Cao shops in this city. You can

take this Let Inuzi enter the county school!"

When Yanhuang Academy was not established last year, Cao Wendong approached Li

Zexuan several times and wanted the latter to establish a chamber of commerce

and help businessmen improve their social status. At that time, Li Zexuan

refused his request due to personal reasons. Later, Li Zexuan established

himself. After the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, although Cao Wendong also

joined the Yanhuang Chamber of Commerce, the status of the merchant in society

has not changed!

In any place, merchants are lowly untouchables, despised by others!

Now Li Zexuan intends to establish a Department of Commerce in Lantian County

to protect the social status and interests of business people, and he has made

it clear that the status and class of businessmen and ordinary people are the

same. After receiving the news, Cao Wendong was very happy, and then he

quickly cleaned up After cleaning up, the family moved directly to Lantian

County!

After all, it can be said that Lantian County is regarded as the only and

possibly the last piece of pure land for the merchants of Datang! Only here

can business people get fair and just social treatment and social status, and

can get the opportunity to enter the county school. In Cao Wendong’s view,

these two things are good things that can’t be exchanged with money. "Yeah!

"What? Boss Cao? You are moving to Lantian County~?"

After hearing what Cao Wendong said, the merchants couldn't help exclaiming

one by one.

Cao Wendong smiled faintly: "Why? Doesn't it look like? The old man has

already set up a mansion in Lantian County. It is in Yong'an Fang, and he will

be a close neighbor of Lord Hou by then!"

"But Mr. Cao, what should you do at the cloth workshop in Chang'an City?"

Then someone asked again.

Cao Wendong said indifferently: "Then treat it as a branch. From now on, the

Cao's store in Lantian County will be the head office!"

When everyone heard the words, they looked at each other immediately, and they

thought Cao Wendong was a "rich and willful" type of person! After all,

although the commercial scale of Lantian County has grown many times before,

compared with Chang'an City, Lantian County is still far behind! Now Cao

Wendong is willing to use the store in Chang'an City as a branch and move his

family to Lantian County. He is really rich and self-willed!

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"Now that most of the rogues in the city have been captured, the Department of

Commerce has officially begun to perform the tasks it should perform. However,

the public security environment in the city must always be paid attention to

to prevent the resurgence of evil forces like Jin Wanbiao. After all, this is

not easy. The stable management of Lantian County, once chaos once again, it

will be really difficult to manage!"

Lantian county post office, Li Zexuan said to the officials in the county

office.

Yesterday, let Liu Feng take the lead to help the county government arrest

people. It was indeed the instruction of Li Zexuan. Although he could not

catch all the rogues in the city, most of the rogues he caught could at least

be shocking. The effect made those Xiaoxiao who slipped through the net not

dare to do things in the city anymore!

Of course, the reason why he chose to rectify the law and order in Lantian

County at this time was that in addition to giving prestige to the Department

of Commerce and allowing more merchants to believe in the Department of

Commerce, Li Zexuan also has a small selfish heart, that is, his family has

now moved. We arrived at the Hou Mansion in Yong'an Fang, including Lan'er and

Han Yuxi, they all moved in two days ago! Li Zexuan didn't want the rogues in

the city to affect his family!

Although people in the Hou Mansion usually have entourage or guards when they

go out, who can guarantee that they will have guards every time they go out?

What if you encounter some rogues who don't open your eyes when you are not

guarded?

So instead of defending against day and night, it is better to directly give

all the main evil forces in the city to one pot. In this way, the little scum

fish that slipped through the net will stop for a long, long time without the

opportunity to continue to be evil! !

"The next official, remember the teachings of Lord Hou!"

He county magistrate arched his hands towards Li Zexuan and responded.

Li Zexuan nodded, and then asked: "How is the progress of the construction of

the water canals in the county? How is the progress of the installation of the

waterwheel?"

It was about mid-May to look at it. Seeing the hotter weather this day, Li

Zexuan couldn't say that he was anxious, it was impossible!

The county magistrate He replied with a bit of excitement: "Hou Ye, with the

joint efforts of the people in the county, the construction of cement ditches

in our county has basically come to an end. As for the installation of

waterwheels at various key nodes, There are only less than five waterwheels

that have not been installed yet! It is expected that at the latest the day

after tomorrow, the reservoir will be able to open the gates to release the

water and check whether our canals and waterwheels can operate normally!"

"So fast?"

Li Zexuan raised his eyebrows, very surprised.

Counting days, it's only been ten days! The cement ditch in a county is almost

finished? The progress of this project ~www.mtlnovel.com~ makes countless

modern people feel a little ashamed!

He county magistrate smiled and said:

"Master Hou, you don't know anything. After the people of Lantian County

learned that you built a waterwheel that can transport water automatically,

their enthusiasm for ditch repairing suddenly came up. Men, women and

children, regardless of age, They all joined the team building the canal.

Even if they can’t get paid, those people are still willing to help repair the

canal! In addition, some Zhuangzi even adopted a double-shift work mechanism

during the day and night in order to catch up with the work. It is precisely

because the villagers on the various Zhuangzi are desperately rushing to work

that the project progress is so fast today! "

In this situation, thanks to the news in the "Datang Daily" a few days ago, it

has completely inspired all the people to build canals! Compared with the

number of people previously reported to the county government, the number of

people who are now repairing canals is three times the previous number!

Such positivity, and such a choice of accumulated power.

Li Zexuan smiled satisfied: "Okay! Very good! Once the canal is completed,

immediately send someone to notify the benefactor! Time is not waiting, our

county must start diverting water as soon as possible!"

"The official follow the order~!"

Hu Dianshi, Sun Butou, Mengxiancheng, Wangxianwei, Zhang Zhubu and others

saluted and responded.

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