Xu Captou turned around and saw Wang Yuan dressed up as a scholar. He didn't dare to hold his fist lightly and asked, "Who is the young master?"
"Wang Yuan, a boy from Dawang Village!"
Wang Yuan cupped his fists and returned the salute: "Wang Sihai and Wang Polu, who are being held tightly in prison, are both my tribesmen!"
"I can't even persuade the county magistrate to move out, but you, a young boy, can!"
Xu Captou was disdainful, but he said again: "All the fish sellers, gather here!"
A dead horse becomes a living horse doctor!
Merchants selling fish and fishermen gathered together. There were about forty or fifty stalls, with two or three people at each stall, adding up to hundreds of people in total.
Merchants wear commoners.
The fishermen wear linen clothes. It is late autumn now, and some of them are barefoot without shoes.
Wang Yuan stood on a stone slab, half his body taller than everyone else.
Merchants, fishermen, and fishermen looked up at him, wondering what he was going to do.
Wang Yuan looked around at these lower-class people: "You framed my people, I don't blame you, because I know that you were forced and there was nothing you could do."
Some merchants and fishermen lowered their heads in shame.
In the past two days, Xing San led the police to find them privately.
Tell them that if the county magistrate goes to court and summons them, let them say that the people in Dawang Village are fishing tyrants.
He also warned them that the dishonest county magistrate and the iron-clad petty officials dared to retract their confessions in court.
Someone will chase them away later!
Wang Yuan said again: "But do you know why fishermen and officials dare to exploit and bully you at will?"
Someone whispered: "It's not because we don't have a backer!"
The merchants and fishermen present nodded.
If they had someone to back them up, like petty officials or scoundrels, how could they dare to exploit them?
Wang Yuan chuckled and shook his head: "No, you are wrong, very wrong."
Some merchants and fishermen were dissatisfied: "Why is that?"
Wang Yuan narrowed his eyes: "You are being exploited not because you have no backers, but because you are cowards, cowards, weaklings. You are worse than eunuchs."
"Who do you think you are when you scold us like this?"
"It's better for you to get there than us. The people in Dawang Village were arrested differently!"
"You are worse than an eunuch. You don't take care of your fellow tribesmen when they are caught, and you only dare to scold us!"
The docile merchants and fishermen became angry and seemed to turn into man-eating beasts.
They don't dare to show their teeth when dealing with scoundrels and petty officials, but they are not afraid of ordinary people.
Dahu, Guo Cang, and Guo Liang's expressions changed and they quickly protected Wang Yuan.
Xu arrested the head, but he was dumbfounded: What is this kid doing? He was asked to persuade him, but he actually cursed people. He didn't even try to persuade me with good words. How can he stop cursing people?
Seeing that everyone was angry, Wang Yuan's eyes lit up and he continued to curse: "You still don't admit it? You said you have no backers, and now the county magistrate is your backer. Isn't this a hundred times better than a rogue official?"
"But you are afraid of being threatened by petty officials and don't dare to go. How dare you say that you are not worthless?"
Angry merchants and fishermen bowed their heads.
Some people were dissatisfied and whispered: "But the county magistrate is lazy, and the petty officials are tough! After the county master leaves, what should we do if they are causing trouble for us?"
"It's because you are so ignorant that they dare to cause trouble for you!"
Wang Yuan's eyes were filled with contempt: "What's so scary about them? There are more than a dozen gangsters, and you add up to hundreds of people. If you each go home and call one or two, there will be hundreds of people."
"You really want to unite, are more than a dozen gangsters enough for you to beat? When you see them, you all have to kneel down and call me grandpa."
Many merchants and fishermen’s eyes lit up.
Indeed, among the dozen or so gangsters, there were more fights in the village than these people.
Some merchants whispered: "But they have the support of the policeman behind them!"
"You deserve to be bullied!"
Wang Yuan sneered and said: "The county magistrate is the biggest in the county. The patrol officer is just a minor official under the county magistrate. He dares to support those scoundrels, so why don't you dare to go to the county government to file a complaint?"
"As long as you gather more than a hundred people to file a complaint, no matter which patrol, arrest, or county magistrate, his job will be taken away from him. But do you cowards dare? You are a bunch of cowards!"
Xu arrested the head, and the seven arresters immediately tried to tear Wang Yuan off from the top.
What does this guy want to do? Teach unruly people how to deal with official officials. How will they deal with official officials in the future?
However, in this situation, they did not dare to take action.
"Dare you?"
The questions were echoing in their minds. Looking at Wang Yuan who humiliated them, the merchants and fishermen couldn't hate him anymore. They just hated the thugs and patrols even more.
Wang Yuan sneered: "It doesn't matter if you don't dare. We, the people of Dawang Village, dare. We fight gangsters and are not afraid of patrols and arrests. It's okay if you don't help, but why should you hold back, give false testimony, and help those who hurt you? You are not
What is a coward?"
"I, we were wrong!"
There were merchants, and the villagers couldn't help crying!
That day Wang Polu was making trouble in Sanjiang, and Master Xing came and left without talking nonsense. They could relieve their anger by watching.
Xu Captou, the catcher shook his head at the side: It is of no use just asking the fishermen and merchants to admit their mistakes. They dare not testify, everything is in vain!
boom!
Wang Yuan jumped off the stone slab and grabbed a tearful old fisherman by the collar: "How many fish did you sell here, and how much commission did you get in total?"
The old fisherman was skinny, wearing tattered linen clothes, and didn't even have shoes on his feet. He looked like a beast. Wang Yuan subconsciously replied: "I have been selling fish here for ten years. I usually sell it every three days, with ten pounds and twenty pounds each time."
The price varied, the smaller one was fined 80 fen, the bigger one was fined 160 fen."
Wang Yuan asked again: "If you calculate that, you will be fined at least one hundred cents each time. Do you know how much money you have been fined in the past ten years?"
The old fisherman shook his head. He felt a lot, but he couldn't count.
Wang Yuandao: "One hundred coins at a time, once every three days, ten times a month, is one thousand coins. Twelve months in a year, that is twelve coins, and ten years is one hundred and twenty coins. You have been dominated by fishermen in these ten years."
One hundred and twenty strokes were taken."
"What? One hundred and twenty guan, they took 120 guan from me! I, I have lived for most of my life, and I haven't even saved ten guan!"
The old fisherman cried loudly: "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu How can they beat me so much? They are more powerful than tigers and wolves! My son has not even married a wife. If this money had not been pumped, my son would have been able to build a house and marry a wife."
, they are too cruel!”
Many fishermen were shocked. They didn't expect that after years of accumulation, the fishing tyrants could extract so much money.
The merchants are more gritty and pay more than the fishermen.
Those who sell short fish don't care much.
Wang Yuan grabbed a young fisherman and said, "How long have you been selling fish here? How much does the fisherman slap you every time?"
The young fisherman was anxious: "I don't know how to settle accounts. I sell fish to my mother for medical treatment. I come here every three or four days and sell one to twenty catties or twenty to thirty catties at a time. The younger ones are fined sixty cents, and the more.
I was fined three hundred and sixty cents. I have been selling fish here for three years. Please help me figure out how much money they fined me!"
Wang Yuandao: "If you calculate it as one hundred guan at a time, it's about one thousand guan in one month, ten guans in two months a year, and thirty-six guan in three years."
The little fisherman gritted his teeth and cried: "If they hadn't collected the thirty-six dollars, my mother's illness would have been cured long ago!"
"You are still young now, but you can still come to the county and sell fish for thirty years in the future!"
Wang Yuan sighed: "Twelve guan in one year, one hundred and twenty guan in ten years, two hundred and forty guan in twenty years, and three hundred and sixty guan in thirty years! This much money is enough to buy one hundred acres of land.
Landlord, if you can build four blue brick houses with eight rooms and a courtyard, you can eat meat every day for ten years!"
"No, I can't give them so much money. I want to leave the money for my mother's medical treatment!"
When he said this, the small fishermen immediately felt that the losses were as great as heaven.
Many fishermen and merchants are also calculating how many years they can live and how much money they have to pay to these fishing tyrants.
They didn't know how to calculate before, but now Wang Yuan has given them a template, and it's easy to calculate ten, twenty, and thirty years.
It’s not that I don’t know, it’s just that I was shocked.
The eyes of the merchants and fishermen were so red that they could not wait to go to those fishing tyrants to fight for their lives.
It’s not that we can’t make money, it’s just that we were exploited by the fishermen!
"You can't settle the account like this. Many people die in their early thirties. How can you sell fish that has been around for twenty or thirty years? Fish are worthless in the summer and you can't catch fish in the winter. This guy is just deceiving people!"
The seven arresters looked at Wang Yuan fearfully, as if they wanted to say something but didn't dare.
If they talk nonsense now, they will be torn into pieces by these irrational fishermen!
"We are not in this world to endure hardship, suffer, be hungry, be bullied, exploited, be slaves to others, and be slaves to others. Even if we are ordinary, we must live with dignity!"
Wang Yuan climbed up the stone slab again, looked down at the crowd and opened his arms: "Now your destiny is in your own hands. The county magistrate has decided to support you. Are you willing to continue to be a weakling without any talent? Are you willing to be a corrupt official for the fishing tyrants in the future?
Pay a few hundred dollars? Are you willing to let your parents, wife and children have no food or clothing?"
"I don't want to!"
Merchants and fishermen gritted their teeth and roared!
Wang Yuan put his hands on his ears and shouted sideways: "Louder, I can't hear you!"
"I don't want to!"
"I don't want to!"
…
The fishermen and merchants roared and roared, as if they had changed from sheep to beasts.
Xu arrested the head, and the seven detectives were trembling as they watched. They had never felt that these mud legs were so terrifying.
"If you don't want to, okay!"
Wang Yuan pointed with his backhand: "The county government is right there, and the county magistrate is waiting for you. Be your own hero, be a hero to your parents, wives and children, be a hero who resists fate, and kill those who oppress us."
People, keep our hard-earned money!"
Roar!
A group of merchants and fishermen roared like a flood rushing towards the county government office.
Xu Captou, the seven detectives looked at the people who looked like cannibals, and then looked at Wang Yuan with a smile on his face, as if they saw a ferocious beast, and cold sweat broke out down their spines.
At this moment they knew why scholars don’t use knives to kill people!