The people of Songjiang collectively refer to the people who eat the rice in the market as Qingpi, and the word Qingpi is not a good word among the local people, and it is similar to the scolding red guys.

But everyone can scold the red guys, but the green skin is not something that everyone dares to offend.

There are all kinds of rice on the market, some are serious about business, and there are also crooked ones. And if you want to eat well and eat well in this industry, you have to deal with the local big families without exception.

Only the gentry are worthy of being called big households, and only large households can interfere with the actions of the government, so that the green skins have done something unseemly and violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and there are people who protect them.

Murder and arson, robbery and robbery, these kinds of things are not often done by the green skins. Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft the water, the best thing to do in the green skin in the Songjiang area is maritime.

The Ming Dynasty is now officially forbidden to the sea, so maritime affairs are actually smuggling.

The most popular goods in Haimao today are silk and tea from the south of the Yangtze River, and porcelain from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.

Qingpi itself is not qualified to engage in maritime trade, but they are valuable to participate, and this participation is soliciting.

This solicitation can also be said to be pimping, but it is not a party in the party, but a customer in the business field.

The production of goods in various places, there must be someone to contact the trade route, the maritime merchants want to make a lot of money, there must be enough supply, a seller, a buyer, the vacuum between the two sides and the asymmetry of flood interest and all kinds of inconvenience, it has created the living space of Qingpi.

To put it bluntly, Qingpi is the middleman.

I heard that there are green skins that have done a good job and even have a way in the northwest, and those who have vision can also make a career on their own.

The whitewashing routine is almost the same at the moment, either it is to donate a lot of money to the academy, or it is to build bridges and roads in the local area, and those who can buy officials can buy officials, and those who can't buy it are for the family to think about the imperial examination with a heart that can read.

Father-in-law Wei is newly established in this special zone, and the officialdom of Nanzhi has not yet recognized it, and the situation is a little delicate, so his old man will visit him in person, and no one will take the initiative to come to his special zone to do business.

But Father-in-law Wei urgently needed businessmen to enter the market, so Qingpi became his guest.

The green skin he invited was a native of Songjiang, and there were seven people in total.

said it was please, but it was actually tied up by the five flowers.

Without this method, Ren Qingpi is not willing to deal with his father-in-law Wei.

The maritime affairs shouted by the internal supervisor Wei are not only the roots of large households, but also the roots of people's green skins.

It's like people have been doing it safely and steadily, and suddenly a person comes out and says don't do it, I will operate exclusively after this transaction, and all you want to do it will come to me to register, and pay money to do business in my territory.

Who's willing, you say?

The green skins are all natives, and they are all people who eat food in the market, and they are all ghosts. Don't say that Grandpa Wei has just arrived, even if he has been here for a year and a half, it is impossible for people to solicit customers for your Grandpa Wei.

You know, money moves people's hearts, and it can also kill people. This sea smuggling is too involved, and if the Qingpis really want to do it for Duke Wei, they will definitely offend the local big families, in that case, they will not only worry about their own lives, but also involve their families.

People have roots, and Qingpi is no exception, they just want to beg for a bowl of rice, but they don't want to lose their lives.

Therefore, this matter cannot be discussed at all.

The most important thing that Grandpa Wei lacks here is patience, and what he lacks the most is this thing.

found that he couldn't talk, so he was directly called to prison.

This prison is called the Sea Prison, and it was converted from a granary in the original water camp.

Gonggong Wei attached great importance to this sea prison and threatened that there was an edict prison in the north and a sea prison in the south.

Those who enter the edict prison also shed their skin, and those who enter the sea prison have to squeeze out oil from the hemp stalks.

Because it was made temporarily, the cells in the sea prison looked relatively simple, but when the green skins were pushed in by the sergeants, their scalps were numb if they were numb.

Clamping sticks, finger blocking, tiger chairs, wooden donkeys, soldering irons, leather whips......

The torture tools that people on the market can see are here, and what they can't see, Wei Gonggong also has them here.

Dozens of torture instruments were placed in a room, and a few pots of charcoal were burned on the side, burning the already stuffy room to the heat.

Sanada and a group of shirtless guards wearing only a pair of crotch pants stood expressionlessly by the charcoal fire, and behind them were several iron-tipped red stakes, although there was no blood on them, but it made people feel creepy when they looked at it.

When the green skins were numb, someone shouted: "Kneel!" ”

Zhong Qingpi hurriedly knelt down, and then noticed that there was a chair in the corner in front of him, and there was a person sitting on the chair.

"The prisoner is brought, please send it to your father-in-law!"

"Okay."

Father-in-law Wei's heat, Sanada, a nerd, is making a charcoal stove in the house in the summer, isn't this a bad brain. He stood up, walked up to a few kneeling green skins, glanced at them one by one, then wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with a handkerchief, sighed softly, and asked the green skins: "Do you have faith?" ”

Faith?

Everyone in the green skin was stunned, what is this?

Grandpa Wei knew that they didn't understand what faith was, so he chuckled and explained to these lost lambs: "Faith is a kind of belief, a belief that is rooted in the depths of each of us. For this belief, we can go to the soup and go to the fire, we can go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot... Well, if you want to say something more realistic, just like the Jinshi in the imperial examination is faith for the scholars, and for the monk who I don't go to hell, it is also a kind of faith. Or maybe I want to live a better life, but it's actually a kind of faith. Belief in this kind of thing, mighty and unyielding, poor and humble cannot be moved, as long as people have faith. If a person has no faith, then that person is like a walking corpse, and there is no point in living. ”

Gonggong Wei was thirsty when he said this, waved his hand to the side, and a cup of tea was handed to him at that moment. After drinking a few sips, he found that the green skins kneeling on the ground were a little confused in terms of their eyes and expressions, and obviously they couldn't understand what his father-in-law Wei was saying, so he couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment: The quality can't keep up, and this kind of big truth is like playing the piano to the cow for these people.

"Our family also has faith, what is our family's faith? It is to do things for the emperor wholeheartedly, and whoever stops our family from doing things for the emperor is not able to get along with our family's beliefs! … How do we deal with this kind of person? Of course we're going to get him to death. What should we do if we kill someone, are we afraid? We're not afraid! Why? Because, we are doing things for the emperor! ”

When Father-in-law Wei said this, his face was full of pride. What could be more glorious, proud, and proud than doing things for His Majesty the Emperor?

"For the sake of our faith, we kindly invited you here, hoping that a few of you can help us realize our family's faith, but how do you do it?"

Gonggong Wei pursed his lips, his face was unhappy, and he chattered, "People, you always have to die, but the meaning of death is different." In our Han Dynasty, a person named Sima Qian said that people are inherently dead, either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than Hongmao. We are people of faith, so if we die, it will be heavier than Mount Tai, but what about you? You are all faithless, and death is as light as a feather! ”

As soon as the words fell, the fat man on the edge shouted excitedly: "Yes, yes, father-in-law, the little one has faith!" ”

"Oh? Tell us about it. ”

Gonggong Wei was very happy that someone had sublimated his soul and realized the truth, so he pointed to the fat man and asked him to say quickly.

"The little faith is to live a good life and not let the family have an accident, so," the fat man said this, and the words changed, that is, he begged, "Father-in-law, it's not that the little ones don't want to do things for their father-in-law, it's really that you can't do what you always confess, so that outsiders know that the little ones don't die..."

The rest of the Qingpi heard the fat man's words, and they were busy begging Gonggong Wei to let them go.

"It's good, you're brave enough to say what you think, and we're very happy. Indeed, living a good life is also faith, and you understand our words well and very well. ”

Father-in-law Wei was really pleased, it was too hot to care about the pleading of these people, so he just waved his hand at Sanada while wiping the sweat on his neck, "Drag this guy with faith out and cut it down." ”