It turned out that Nanxun Town was the distribution center of the lake silk, so there were all kinds of tooth shops, so they did some buying and selling the lake silk and then reselling, or taking the lead in setting up the line to collect benefits from the business. And Husi is a large business, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars at every turn, which is why there are too many high-rollers in Nanxun Town.

With such a big interest, it is naturally impossible for everyone to do business in a proper manner. Those who have money and power begin to engage in forced buying and selling, or raising or lowering prices without authorization, or engaging in extortion under various names. These people are commonly known as Xingba.

This situation has been recorded many times in the original history. For example, "Taicang Prefecture Chronicles", "Nanxiang Town Chronicles" and so on during the Chongzhen period. In fact, even in the era of highly developed civilization in later generations, this situation still exists.

Here in Nanxun Town, it is naturally the sphere of influence of the two families surnamed Chen and Wang, and the existence of these tyrants, if these two surnames are not standing behind them, it is impossible to gain a foothold in Nanxun Town.

At the beginning, the two surnames each used these tyrants to make countless ill-gotten gains. Later, they began to steal business from each other. They waited on the edge of the river, and when they saw the boat carrying the lake silk coming, they immediately went to intercept it, or snatch it, or beat the white strip, or coax the lake silk to grab it. Even later, he was not satisfied with waiting for rabbits in the town, and later even went down to the countryside to grab lake silk.

The occurrence of this situation made the two surnames fight a few times, of course, it happened when they snatched the lake silk in the countryside. In Nanxun Town, everyone is a decent person, but they didn't do anything.

Later, the imperial court opened the sea. Wealthy merchants from all over the country came to hear the news, and the price of lake silk also rose a lot. The two surnames agreed that if they have money to earn together, they can't be the same as before. The rule set is that people cannot be sent to the countryside to harvest it, and the nearby Husi must be consciously concentrated in Nanxun Town. When you get to the town, you can do whatever you want, each according to your ability.

Of course, there are other factors here. Because there are many people with backgrounds in the town, such as those from Beijing, from Nanjing, and so on. They also don't allow the tyrants to grab the business, and they want to go on.

It is precisely because of this agreement that Chen Youming's house, which was originally remote, became popular all of a sudden because it was the first in the town. As long as the boat carrying the lake silk from the river enters the town from this side, it must first pass by his door.

The surname Chen is going to open a dental shop in his house, so with some means, the business will definitely be better than others. However, Chen Youming has always been excluded by the main family, and suddenly asked him for this family, and the compensation was pitiful. He has a wife and children to raise, so naturally he disagrees.

Unexpectedly, the main family not only did not look at adding a little more money to the same clan, but found an excuse to say that Chen Youming broke valuables and asked him to pay compensation, and now even his son's matter has been added. He's just a fellow, how can he afford to lose so much silver.

After Chen Youming explained the cause and effect, he said very guiltily: "Just now, because of the villain, Chen Youtong already has a grudge against the master. He is the youngest son of the patriarch, and he is in charge of the affairs of the tyrant on weekdays. is worried about him, I'm afraid it will affect the old man to buy lake silk! ”

In his opinion, no matter what the background of this old man is, since he brought people to Nanxun Town, he must have come to Husi. Although this old man should have a good background, but the Chen family is the head snake, and there are people behind the Chen family, if you really want to fight, you don't know if you win or lose, but it is not good for this old man after all. Therefore, he was very guilty.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled and didn't mind: "It's okay, I don't plan to buy Husi." Come here just to take a look, and I'll ask you to take me to Nanxun Town for a good walk! How is it? ”

When Chen Youming heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and hurriedly responded. As for his own trouble, though he would love to solve it. But after all, he didn't know the identity of Emperor Chongzhen, and the other party was just his own tenant. The Chen family is a behemoth again, so he just forget it when he thinks about it.

Emperor Chongzhen turned around and walked inside, chatting casually: "Do you care about the things of Xingba, don't those people care about it?" ”

It stands to reason that this is a rural area, and the government is only at the county level, and local disputes are resolved by the gentry of the chief. Someone will definitely make trouble about these conflicts, and the appointment chief will definitely come forward.

Chen Youming listened to it and said with a wry smile: "If the appointment chief is not suitable for the head of the Chen family, it is the head of the Wang family, and it will definitely be unfair to judge it." Otherwise, there would be no hegemony. ”

"That's just as well!" When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he thought that it was indeed as expected.

When he wanted to say more, he saw Tian Guifei coming over, dressed in women's clothes, and said to Emperor Chongzhen with a smile: "Master! ”

In order to make it easier to travel, Tian Guifei disguised herself as a man all the way. Now there is no need to hurry, so I naturally change back to women's clothes. Suddenly, her appearance stunned Chen Youming, who saw him for the first time.

Liu Xingzuo, who was following behind, bumped into him without a trace, but he didn't care too much. With the appearance of a concubine, it would be strange if it was not eye-catching!

Chen Youming was hit like this, he immediately came back to his senses, he was a little embarrassed, he lowered his head and followed for a while, thinking about Chen Youtong's personality, he hesitated a little, but he still held back.

"After eating, I guess the shops are open, and then go out, it's still early!" Emperor Chongzhen knew that Tian Guifei wanted to go shopping, so he said with a smile.

As for breakfast, naturally there are people to worry about, and the two of them just have to eat.

"Childe......" Chen Youming suddenly whispered, and then hesitated a little and didn't speak for a while.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he turned his head to look at him like this, and couldn't help but ask a little curiously, "What's wrong?" If you have something to say, you might as well speak up! ”

Chen Youming's face changed a few times, and finally he spoke: "Childe, the reason why Chen Youtong has always been embarrassed by the villain, in fact, there is another reason, the villain was inconvenient to talk about it before, but now it ...... Nowadays......"

He stammered a few words, and when he saw that Emperor Chongzhen showed a little impatience, he still said the rest of the words: "There is a bit of a posture in the cheap, which attracts people's attention!" “

Emperor Chongzhen was a little surprised when he heard this. Turning his head to look at Tian Guifei, she suddenly came back to her senses. When Chen Youming said this at this time, he should have seen Tian Guifei's women's clothes, so he kindly reminded him.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer: "I want to see who ate the bear's heart leopard gall!" ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't care, obviously didn't take Chen Youming's reminder seriously, which made Chen Youming secretly worried. This lady's appearance is far better than that of her daughter-in-law, this ...... Yikes......