Take the space supermarket to farm

Chapter 269 Killing the chicken to scare the monkey

Wang looked at Xia Daohua's dazed little face and couldn't help but smile:

"Oh, it's my fault, why are you telling you this?

In fact, I just want to give you a heads up.

I know you are soft-hearted, but if there is a crisis, it is still necessary to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. We must not harm the people of this city because of a moment of soft-heartedness.

Don't blame me for being cruel."

Xia Daohua suddenly realized that this was what Wang meant.

Could it be that in Wang's heart, he is still a merciful master?

It seems that Wang's patience with those who fan the flames has reached its limit, and she plans to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

I just wonder which chickens with blind eyes will be killed in the end?

Xia Daohua soon knew the answer.

The entire owner of Zhang Ji's Grain Store was imprisoned and his house was searched. Several top managers were also detained. Zhang Ji's assets were all confiscated, and all the grain in Zhang Ji's grain depot was confiscated.

Song Ji Grain Store and Wu Ji Grain Store had close ties with Zhang Ji, so they were imprisoned for a period of time and were released after paying a fine of 5,000 taels of silver and 10,000 shi of grain.

Liu Ji Grain Store was fined three thousand taels of silver, the grain shop was ordered to close for rectification, and the grain was confiscated.

Zhouji Grain Store was fined 1,500 taels of silver and paid 5,000 shi of grain to compensate for the crime.

Chenji Grain Store was fined 500 taels of silver and handed over 3,000 shi of grain to satisfy the crime.

Zhou Ji and Chen Ji were the two grain merchants who suffered the least losses among the grain merchants who were reorganized this time.

Especially Chen Ji,

Originally, its scale was inferior to Zhang Ji and Song Ji, and slightly stronger than Wu Ji. The four companies basically monopolized the grain store business in Jixiang County.

Zhou Ji is a rising star, and his strength is much lower than the four of them. In the past, he could only do small businesses that they looked down upon.

At this time, Zhang Ji, Song Yimei, and Wu Ji all suffered heavy losses, and Chen Ji started to tremble.

However, with the lessons learned from the Zhang family, the head of Chen Ji was very cautious and did not rush to expand. Instead, he carefully observed the situation and did not dare to offend the eyes of Magistrate Yang and the Wang family again.

All the land owned by the Zhang family was requisitioned by Magistrate Yang as official land and then distributed to the refugees for farming.

Magistrate Yang posted notices at the city gate, Caishikou and several busy places to promote the new policy:

Cultivation of official land is tax-free, as long as a certain proportion of grain is paid as rent.

Refugees who have been farming for three years and have no bad records can settle in the local area.

For the refugees who settled in the local area, part of the official land could be allocated to them as permanent land.

A month later, the food relief from the imperial court arrived, as did the food allocated by the Wang family from the Wang family. The refugees were properly resettled, and various infrastructure projects under the leadership of Magistrate Yang gradually entered the stage of contraction.

The city walls, reservoirs, canals, and trenches have all been built to an almost perfect level.

In addition to road construction and a few workshops that still need manpower, most of the refugees have been resettled as new farmers in Jixiang County.

Afterwards, while having tea with the Wang family, Xia Daohua found out that it turned out that Zhang Ji and Liu Ji had become the backers of the stewards under the King of Huai'an, and they no longer took Magistrate Yang and the Wang family seriously.

Not only did they obstruct Magistrate Yang and Wang's efforts to mobilize food to appease the refugees, and refused to cooperate in selling grain, they also secretly bribed some local snakes and let them mix with the refugees, taking advantage of the summer rice flowers being kidnapped, and Wang's lack of food on hand. At that time, they incited the refugees to cause trouble.

This approach deeply offended Mr. Wang.

The Wang family originally promised Magistrate Yang that they would rein in the methods used in the family's internal strife in the past and not use them lightly.

But since these reckless grain merchants dared to block Magistrate Yang from administering the government and used these despicable methods, the Wang family had no inhibitions.

Once Wang takes action, how can a small and emerging merchant like Zhang Ji be her opponent?

Although Wang did not elaborate on the means she used, Xia Daohua still figured it out after thinking about it.

When Zhang Ji's whole family was imprisoned, they were probably all confused.

Not to mention that Zhang Ji had done a lot of illegal things originally. Even if they were innocent and clean, since Wang had the idea to deal with them, how could he leave any flaws?

But the steward of the King of Huai'an, who had received money from the Zhang family, would not offend Magistrate Yang and the Wang family, who were from aristocratic families, for a small merchant in a small place like Jixiang County.

You must know that the aristocratic family is very difficult to deal with.

Furthermore, compared with the princes and nobles, these aristocratic families who control certain areas are on equal footing in terms of status.

Things like getting married to each other are inevitable.

Who would offend a powerful and powerful relative for the sake of a little ant who can't see the situation clearly?

Behind Magistrate Yang and his wife, there is one from the Yang family and one from the Wang family. It is always the King of Huai'an who will not offend these two easily.

As for a steward of the King of Huai'an, even if he was frivolous and arrogant, how could he get into trouble for a small businessman who was rushing to get there?

In addition, Magistrate Yang and Mrs. Wang acted neatly and clearly, listing the incriminating evidence one by one, with all the witnesses and material evidence, and the entire case was made watertight.

Even if the lawsuit goes to the imperial court, it will only be decided by the couple!

How could the manager support Zhang Ji?

Soon after Xia Daohua and Wang had tea, they saw the county government selling Zhang Ji's female family members.

The Liu family who was sharp-tongued and eloquent at the time, but whose words were quite disrespectful to Wang family, was also among them.

It's just that Mrs. Liu has lost her original brilliance and intelligence at this time, and she looks very haggard. Most likely it was difficult to wash herself in prison, and her clothes are already dirty and torn.

Xia Daohua turned away, not wanting to look anymore.

Mr. Liu himself, and those underage children, may not have been directly involved in those crimes. But since they enjoyed the benefits of the family and the family committed crimes, when something went wrong, it was naturally impossible for them to be left alone.

Although the Zhang family was the "chicken" chosen by Wang to scare the monkeys, they were not innocent.

Hoarding is in itself a violation of criminal law.

What's more, the Zhang family has a bad record of setting traps against farmers in order to occupy people's fields, forcing their families to die.

There is even the evil practice of forcing girls into prostitution.

What Wang did was to suddenly throw out the criminal evidence that he had collected privately, and to imprison all the relevant people in a swift and vigorous manner, without giving the Zhang family the time or opportunity to bribe their way out of guilt.

In fact, they were not wronged.

Wang's move shocked the entire officialdom and merchants in Jixiang County.

Many people who originally planned to stumble Magistrate Yang stopped their actions. After all, it can be seen from this incident that even if Magistrate Yang is a good old man, this Wang family is not an economical person.

What's more, Magistrate Yang didn't seem to hesitate at all when he lent it to Wang's servants.

These two couples are, after all, a family.

No matter how different they look on the outside, they are all the same cruel and tough on the inside.

Good night, sweet dreams, see you tomorrow.^_^

(End of chapter)