Chapter 454 This Cheng Xu is too cruel to himself!
"Threat! Intimidation! You are simply a bully and a gangster!"
Yan Lu angrily punched Jiujiu, but did not dare to get close to him. He squatted down and beat the ground angrily.
Jiuzhi said: "Did I say I wasn't?"
"Is there still king's law? Is there still heavenly justice?" Yan Lu said angrily: "Kill me now if you can! If you let me out, I will report it to the official! Do you have to work as a prefect? We do it every year
How much tax money should you pay to the court? The prefect’s mansion will bulldoze you!"
Jiuzhi smiled and said, "Then you give it a try?"
At this time, a voice came from the darkness.
"Who wants to report to the official?"
At the same time, Cheng Xu walked out of the darkness and stood next to Xiao Luomu.
"Master Cheng!" Yan Lu seemed to have seen a life-saving straw and shouted: "Master Chief! You have to make the decision for us! This gangster, he! He..."
Yin Nan sensed something was wrong, grabbed Yan Lu and said, "It doesn't look like Master Cheng is here to save us..."
At this time, a chair was put down behind Cheng Xu, and he sat down as well.
The three people just sat under the beam of light, facing the crowd in the darkness, as if they were being examined in three chambers.
Cheng Xu turned his head to look at Xiao Luomu, took a pen from the darkness behind him, and said: "Boss Xiao, please sign the agreement first."
"Very good." Xiao Luomu nodded, reached into the darkness behind his back, and took out a stack of agreements.
Cheng Xu didn't even look at it, but signed on it.
Yin Nan couldn't help but ask: "Master Cheng, what are you...doing?"
Cheng Xu didn't even raise his head and continued to sign on his hand, saying: "The Yanchuan Prefecture agrees with the Oriental Chamber of Commerce to open a supermarket. Such a good project that is beneficial to the people, the Prefecture will naturally support."
Xiao Luomu smiled and said: "After the supermarket is built, we have to rely on the help of the prefect's mansion. Doesn't Mr. Cheng have any objection to giving the prefect's mansion shares?"
"Very good, we will have a happy cooperation in the future." Cheng Xu handed the agreement and pen back into the darkness and shook hands with Xiao Luomu.
"Master Lao Cheng, thank you for your trouble."
"Easy to say, easy to say."
"Cheng Xu!!" Yan Lu felt a mouthful of blood reaching his chest and shouted angrily: "You collusion between government and businessmen!!"
Cheng Xu then looked at Yan Lu and said: "Boss Yan's words are inappropriate. If it is an illegal project and I sign a contract with Boss Xiao, that would be called collusion. Good projects like this are not called collusion, but co-operation between the government and businessmen."
, work together.”
Yan Lu said: "Does the prefect know that you are doing this?"
Cheng Xu asked in reply: "What does this matter have to do with Lord Taishou? I am the chief secretary of the Taishou Mansion, and I have always been responsible for economic affairs."
"Cheng Xu, you corrupt official! I'm going to go to the prefect's mansion to sue you! I'm going to Changsui to sue the emperor!" Yan Lu wiped his sweat.
Yin Nan grabbed Yan Lu again and said softly: "Boss Yan, please calm down first, I think something is not good."
Yan Lu, who was dressed roughly, asked, "How do you say it?"
Yin Nan said: "Have you noticed that things are becoming more and more like what Boss Song said?"
Yan Lu recalled what Song Baiyu had said before at the inn.
"Have you ever thought about why Xiao Luomu chose Yanchuan in the first place? What if they are also of the same mind?"
"The Right Prime Minister's Mansion and the Marquis' Mansion, Dong Twelve, Li Zhi, Zhu Guoneng, as well as the Yanchuan Prefect's Mansion and the Central Government Office, if they collude with the powerful officials and businessmen, they will all be with Xiao Luomu..."
Thinking of this, Yan Lu was shocked!
Yin Nan said again: "What if this matter has something to do with Li Dai? Maybe Song Baiyu's guess is true, and he missed something. He didn't count that Jiuzhi and Xiao Luomu were also in the same group. Bai Dao,
Underworld, business... Boss Yan!"
Yin Nan grabbed Yan Lu's arm tightly, his expression began to waver, and said: "I can't fight..."
The more Yan Lu thought about it, the more frightened he became, but the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He slapped Yin Nan hard, pointed at Cheng Xu and cursed: "I don't accept it!!!"
Cheng Xu asked: "What are you dissatisfied with?"
Yan Lu said: "My Yan family has been operating in Yanchuan for more than ten generations. We work conscientiously and abide by our duties. We never do anything to deceive the court and harm the people. I have always been like this since I became the leader. Why do you treat me like this?!"
"Stand by your duty? Never deceive the court?"
Cheng Xu reached into the darkness behind him again, pulled out a booklet like a magic trick, and said: "Boss Yan, are you really not blushing?"
"What do you mean?" Yan Lu looked at the booklet in Cheng Xu's hand and felt a bad premonition in his heart.
Cheng Xu put her finger on the tip of her tongue and licked it, then started to turn the pages of the book, saying one sentence after each page:
"The number of hidden households in the Yan family increased to 872 from the second year to the eleventh year."
boom!!
Yan Lu was stunned on the spot and couldn't believe his ears.
"In the Yin family, from the fifth year to the eleventh year, the number of hidden households increased to 663."
"In the Zhang family, from the third year to the eleventh year, the number of hidden households increased to 513."
"The Lei family, from the fourth year to the eleventh year, the number of hidden households increased to 380."
"The Chen family, five years since the supreme..."
Every time Cheng Xu recited a sentence, one merchant stayed where he was. When he finished reciting all the words, most of the merchants fell to the ground.
Cheng Xu closed the book and said with a smile: "I want to hand this over to the imperial court. Even if you can save your lives, can you still keep your family's land?"
boom!!!
Hearing this, all the merchants' heads seemed to explode. Even Yan Lu sat down on the ground and collapsed into a pile of mud.
Xiao Luomu glanced at Cheng Xu secretly and secretly marveled at the good method!
He was born into a big family and was no stranger to hiding in hiding. This was a common tactic used by powerful people.
You can avoid taxes and don't have to divide the land. It's like raising a group of slaves who only know how to work.
More importantly, these people can serve as the family's hidden reserve force and can play a huge role at critical times.
When big projects are to be built, they can be quickly put to work.
When it comes to solving problems through violence, you can quickly arm them.
This kind of thing happened in the previous dynasties, and every court had a headache.
If you want to catch them, you won't be able to catch them all unless there are ruthless officials with clean sleeves and tough style in every place.
But such a ruthless official is hard to come by in a hundred years.
If we don't catch them, we can only watch them eat away at the country like parasites.
For hundreds of years, seclusion has been an unspoken rule for powerful people.
It would be unlucky to be caught for this matter, but there is a high probability that it will not happen.
If a liquidation is really carried out, the Xiao family will probably have no fewer hidden households than the Yan family.
Although Cheng Xu is not from a big family, he was born in a big family. His father and uncle are both stewards of the Marquis Mansion in Qingdong City, and his uncle is Xu Shouli's most trusted assistant. Even Xu An has to treat him respectfully.
Call me Uncle Cheng.
Cheng Xu grew up in the Marquis Mansion and was well aware of the family's methods of concealment.
But what surprised Xiao Luomu was that it was fine for Cheng Xu to know, but he dared to start from this point!
This is courage!
Xiao Luomu opened a supermarket, which only harmed the interests of businessmen like Yan Lu and Yin Nan.
Cheng Xu brought the issue of hermit households to the table, because he wanted to destroy their foundation and eliminate their households!
In comparison, the person who was really standing against the Yanchuan merchants at this time was not Xiao Luomu, but Cheng Xu!
While Xiao Luomu praised Cheng Xu in surprise, he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Cheng Xu is not only taking the blame for Li Dai, but also taking the blame for him!
Xiao Luomu understood.
This Cheng Xu is too cruel to himself!
In order to gain Zhao Cheng's trust, he wanted to make Zhao Cheng's sword!