Chapter 137 Food and Grass
After understanding what he meant, Si Shang couldn't help but feel sad. This was to let them pay for food, so how could they be willing to do so?
One of the merchants surnamed Qian said with a shy smile: "Haha, Lord Liu, but we have paid the taxes truthfully."
"Yes, you are right, but what I want to say is that you all have a lot of surplus grain in your family. If you can contribute one or two, I will thank you sincerely." Liu Yu's way.
"But this makes no sense." The merchant surnamed Qian said, "The money and food in our family are all my own."
"My frontline soldiers are bleeding to protect Qin!" Liu Yu's way.
"Yes, but what does this have to do with us?" The merchant surnamed Qian spread his hands again.
"They guard the rear, for the peace and tranquility of Qin's homeland, and for the protection of you people!" Liu Yuzhi said again, his face no longer looked very good.
"So what? It's not what I asked them to protect." Qian Shang continued.
"You!" At this time, Ye Cheng, who was standing beside him, finally couldn't help but point his hand at the businessman and said angrily:
"In the face of difficulties, every man is responsible! Even if the merchants are profit-oriented, they will not be like this! In order to retreat to the Western Rong, the people of our Qin have joined the army and are willing to throw their blood! All the people can understand this truth! At this time of crisis, you are all here.
I don't know!"
"This is not what I asked them to join the army. What does it have to do with us whether to fight Xirong?" The merchant said again, let alone how unhappy he was to ask him to give out the food.
"It has nothing to do with you?" Ye Cheng was angry and laughed. "If it weren't for the prefect leading the army to fight, the Xirong would have been in already! Can you sit here!?"
He said this, and the businessman named Qian seemed to be afraid that he would be strong, so he couldn't help but smiled dryly and looked at Ye Cheng and said, "Sir, you are an officer of the Wuwei Mansion. You will not abuse your power just because we are unwilling to pay food.
Alright? Haha, we are all serious businessmen who are law-abiding and obeying the law. The prefect has long strictly enforced the law. I believe you won’t know that the law is broken, right?”
His tone was disgusting. When Ye Cheng heard this, he felt anger rushing to his forehead. He was about to get angry, but Liu Yuzhi raised his hand to stop him and looked at the businessman with a smile.
:
"Shopkeeper Qian, as far as I know, your business is spread all over Qin, and in Qinzhou City, there are more than half of the restaurants, brothels, and gambling houses in your name, right?"
"This...hehe, the small business, the small business made Lord Liu laugh." Manager Qian laughed.
"Okay." Liu Yuzhi nodded, looked at Ye Cheng again and said: "From tomorrow, all Qian's stores will be seized."
"Yes!" Ye Cheng immediately took the order, and did not forget to glar at Manager Qian.
When the latter heard this, he became anxious and couldn't help but stand up and said, "This, Lord Liu, you have no reason! You are not convinced!"
Liu Yuzhi glanced at him: "Now I have reason to suspect that your brothel is suspected of forcing a good man to become a prostitute. Do you think, should you be sealed? And the gambling house, I have decided to start banning gambling in Qin, what is the money manager?
objection?"
"This..." Manager Qian became even more anxious, but he could not refute it.
Without waiting for him to speak, Liu Yuzhi continued: "As for the restaurant, I will not seal it for no reason, I will give you another reason!"
Ah!? Hearing this, Shopkeeper Qian was stunned. After being stunned, he also knelt on the ground with a thud and said in a trembling voice: "Mr. Liu is merciful, and he is merciful..."
Liu Yuzhi is the chief minister of Qinzhou. It is not a matter of one sentence to really want to govern a businessman.
His move to kill the chicken to warn the monkey was extremely effective. Seeing this, the other three people quickly stood up and bowed and said, "At this time of crisis in the family and country, we are all willing to help us!"
"Okay, I will thank you three of you." Liu Yuzhi also stood up and bowed, then glanced at Manager Qian and said, "Barrior Qian, hurry up, as for you, there is no need, Qinzhou, you don't need you like this.
businessman.”
"Ah? Lord Liu, Lord Liu will give you another chance..." Manager Qian shouted, but Liu Yuzhi had already stepped away.
This is a typical example of not eating a toast. When the other three people saw this, they shook their heads, and they were quite gloating.
It was not until a long time before Manager Qian came to his senses. After getting up, he was furious and pointed at the other three and said, "I'm sorry for you!"
"Hey? Manager Qian is such a bad thing." One person replied: "Liu Yuzhi is the chief minister of Qinzhou. If the prefect is not here, he has the final say. Can you fight? Besides, for the nation, we should have the opportunity to do so.
As for the efforts, Manager Qian’s previous words were too hurtful, and it’s not that Lord Changshi was so angry.”
As soon as he finished speaking, someone else said, "By the way, Manager Qian, are you interested in selling your stores to me? I can pay a high price..."
Fengyang County.
The people gathered together, Jiang Yi was standing on a high platform and said loudly:
"Friends! My Qin army soldiers are fighting bloody battles with the Xirong on the front line! But do you know that they are not full, not warm in clothes, and are hungry. They would rather eat bark and hay than die than take a step back!"
"What are they doing, to protect us, fellow villagers!"
"For the sake of home, these young men are willing to sprinkle blood on the battlefield and fight with their lives!"
"Think about it, how courage does it take!"
"Now, we are in sight of victory, but we cannot advance because of insufficient food and grass."
"I know that there is not much food in your family, but even if two or three families join together to make up some, it will be enough for a soldier on the front line to eat!"
"And we just need to tie the belt and tighten our belly. What's the big deal? But this can help the soldiers ahead and kill more enemies!"
"I'm fighting! A big deal is a meal a day! I'll give you two buckets!"
"I'll do three fights!"
"I'll do three fights too!"
There is no suspense at all, because the Xirong is a foreign enemy of the foreign race. Under Jiang Yi's speech, the crowd was excited and the people raised their hands and shouted.
People have no surplus food at home, and each person can only give out a little bit, but the key problem is that there are many people! This can be imagined.
After mobilizing the people, Jiang Yi rushed to the largest wealthy business in the city and said to him directly: "The people would rather be hungry than work. Don't you give me a try?"
His words were full of threats. When the latter heard this, he couldn't help swallowing his saliva and laughed dryly: "Yes, yes... Lord Jiang said, how dare he not obey..."
The incident in Fengyang County quickly spread throughout Qin. What was unexpected was that, people from all over the country began to spontaneously donate supplies to support the war.
For a moment, the supplies filled the counties. After hearing this, Liu Yuzhi couldn't help but sigh:
Chapter completed!