When the arsonists were escorted down, Xu Wei and Wu Chengen also walked out of the warehouse.

Looking back at the A-shaped warehouse where the windows were blackened, Wu Chengen proposed with some unease: "Do a full set of dramas, if you really plan to plant a false position, you should burn the A-shaped warehouse completely." ”

"There's no need to be so troublesome, what if you burn elsewhere?" Xu Wei smiled disapprenosingly: "At that time, on the file of the torture room, don't you just write what you want?" ”

The shameless face of the criminal master is just like the sorrow of a lonely man in the night.

"It's better to be cautious, I heard that Lin Xunji is going to Kunshan in the near future, aren't you afraid to let him grab the handle?" Wu Chengen reminded in a low voice.

"He's coming, catch, let's be happy together." Xu Wei was covered in bones and said lightly: "Anyway, there is a lot of time." ”

"I'm serious with you." Wu Chengen had no choice but to glance at him, although the two had been together for almost two years, they still couldn't adapt to Xu Wei's crazy style.

Doesn't it say that Xu Wenchang is the most famous person, why does the more he looks like a neurotic?

Oh yes, he was. Thinking about it this way, Lao Wu felt that Fat Xu was much more normal......

"It's the same with the serious." Xu Wenchang smiled and said, "If he dares to come and grab me, I will dare to poke his loopholes, so that he can't eat and walk around." ”

"Well, let's see." Wu Chengen was helpless, he had to make another mistake if he could solve the problem simply. Pure poverty and boredom, nothing to do.

When he left the reserve warehouse and came to the empty street, Wu Chengen asked in a low voice: "Last question, how do you know that they will definitely come to burn the warehouse?" ”

"I can pinch it." Xu Wei raised his head proudly, and when he saw that Wu Chengen didn't believe it at all, he smiled and said the truth:

"Actually, I heard that the Lin patrol is going to come to this county to inspect, and it is estimated that he will definitely inspect the reserve warehouse. At that time, our tricks will be exposed. ”

"Hmm." Wu Chengen nodded. At the beginning, rumors spread in the county, and the people robbed rice, flour, grain and oil, and they were about to mess up. On the one hand, Xu Wei cracked down on hoarding, and on the other hand, he used tactics to create the illusion that the food supply was sufficient.

In fact, due to the blockade of the Dongting Chamber of Commerce, coupled with the lack of green and yellow, everyone is short of food, and the Wang family of Wu Ji and Taicang tried their best to send only two or three boats of grain every day.

Two or three boatloads of grain can barely be used for work, and they can't feed the nearly 100,000 citizens in the city.

But Xu Wei didn't panic at all, he knew that the people's homes were more or less stockpiled.

At this time, the price of grain was high, and one stone of rice could be sold for more than two taels of silver, and by the end of June, when the new grain came down, the price of grain would drop by half.

Therefore, normally speaking, as long as the food at home is barely enough for the people, they will not store grain at a high price at this time. Naturally, they will not rush to buy at the same time, so that they only need a maximum of three or five hundred stone of grain every day to meet the needs of the market.

Xu Wei still had 3,000 stones obtained from stealing five grain stores, as well as more than 2,000 stones of grain donated by the gentry, barely able to last for half a month.

But the premise is that there is no rush for food. Once the citizens panic buy, I am afraid that they will be able to snatch it up for him in one day.

Therefore, Xu Wei ordered the fleet that came to deliver grain to pass off sandbags as rice bags, creating the illusion that five grain ships arrived in Kunshan every day. In this way, the common people will naturally not panic when they see that there is more than enough food to feed everyone every day.

But a lie is a lie after all, and sand can't be turned into food. After half a month, there should be 18,000 stone of grain stored in the reserve account, but Xu Wei only has 2,000 stone in his hand...... This gap of 16,000 stones, no one checks it, it naturally doesn't matter, just try to settle the accounts in the future.

But as soon as the patrol surnamed Lin came, Xu Wei's trick of 'mixing fish eyes and pearls' was about to be debunked immediately.

"So you're going to ......" Wu Chengen has been messing around in the yamen for many years, and you know what this guy wants to do as soon as he hears it?

"Burn the warehouse yourself? It's a hundred. ”

"Well, as a last resort, you have to light your own fire. That's why I looked at the family members of those Kudings, and bought them with a lot of money. Xu Wei smiled proudly:

"Of course, I still hope that this fire will be set up by the Xu family, after all, we are the righteous side. Fortunately, they didn't disappoint me, and sure enough, they came. ”

"Back then, Xu Fan framed Hu Ruzhen, and now he still can't change his, once the front is just over, he wants to make a trick behind his back." As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said:

"This time it fell into my hands, you have to vent your evil anger!"

"Alas......" Wu Chengen sighed, and said in his heart It seems that this Kunshan County can't be stopped.

~~

Early the next morning, the citizens on the front street of the Yaqian in Kunshan heard the sound of gongs at the entrance of the yamen.

Knowing that there was another bustle to see, the common people immediately gathered at the yamen.

I saw a group of hunters wearing big red uniforms, escorting a long string of men wearing flail out of the gate.

This is a kind of humiliating punishment created by the Ming Dynasty, called 'flail travel', that is, the prisoner wears a wooden flail and displays it in the street under the supervision of the officials.

In order to achieve the effect of 'enlightening punishment and teaching', it is necessary to beat the gong to attract the crowd to watch, and loudly announce the guilt of the tortured.

Well, in fact, humiliating people is the main goal.

In the bustle of the government that the people love to see, the 'flail travel' can be ranked in the top three...... Second only to the killing head and the county lord on patrol.

Compared with the excitement of the former and the pomp and circumstance of the latter, the flail travel mainly wins by topicality. Because this punishment is generally used in major cases of rebellion, morality, and robbership.

Therefore, while looking at the long list of men with shackles around their necks and chains on their feet, the common people talked with great interest:

"Yo, multiplayer sports, what's going on?"

"Eighty percent are bandit gangs...... right?"

"What, this is Mr. Xu and Zhang Yuanwai's gang!" Looking up and not looking down in the county all day long, many people recognized the group of people who were in the yoke.

"Hey, really!" The citizens looked at the goatee and the iconic mole, and couldn't help but gasp.

This group of people is the godson of the Xu family, they have never taken the government seriously, they have bullied the market and are domineering, but they didn't expect to be planted this time.

"What did they do?" The common man asked loudly.

The official just struck the gong and turned a deaf ear, and kept escorting the string of men to the Shenming Pavilion, and when he saw that the people were almost gathered, a loud voice announced in a loud voice:

"Yesterday, the current arsonists Xu Yang, Zhang Dawu, Ma Dadang, Zhou Wangyi, etc., were arrested, and 16,000 stones of grain stored in the reserve warehouse were set on fire!"

"What?!" As soon as the people heard this, they blew up the pot, and the grain in the preparation warehouse was burned!

"When a cadre confessed, the county lord ordered his house to be raided for emergency use, and traveled around with his flail to declare the guilt, and let the people spurn it. Then report it to the government and ask for the Ming Zheng punishment! ”

"Phew! Bah! Bah! Before the official finished speaking, countless thick phlegm rained down on Zhang Dawu and others, and the scene was spectacular.

ps. The third more, and one more.