At present, these people are following behind, probably wanting to express their gratitude.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Cilang looked at Chen Chang and spoke.

"Take them to the teahouse and invite them to have tea and snacks. After the others on the second floor of the teahouse disperse, I will meet them."

Chen Chang nodded and turned around to make arrangements.

Zhu Cilang slowed down and looked at the shops on the left and right sides of the street.

After the riot just now, several shops have closed, and there is no customer in the open shops.

Shops and merchants are the primary concerns of Zhu Cilang, and trade tax is also a question that Zhu Cilang needs to think about. The most important point of the civil servant group's confrontation with the imperial power is concentrated on trade tax. Whenever the court was preparing to collect trade taxes, civil servants would collectively stand up and oppose it, saying that this is a competition for profit with the people. In fact, the so-called people are themselves, and ordinary people cannot eat enough, so where can they get the spare money to do business?

The court needed money and could not collect commercial taxes, so it could only increase agricultural taxes. As a result, the extremely poor people borne most of the agricultural taxes and could only rebel if they could not bear it.

The agricultural taxes in the Ming Dynasty were indeed very low. If they were in a normal year, they could bear it. However, the climate of small glaciers in the late Ming Dynasty caused disasters in agricultural production every year. In addition, land annexation became increasingly serious, and the extremely poor people could not afford to eat, so it would be difficult for them to pay a copper coin.

If Zhu Cilang wants to increase the income of the court, he can only make a fuss about trade and taxes. This means that Zhu Cilang is likely to confront the entire civil servant group, so before that, he must investigate secretly and obtain enough information. Even if the civil servant group opposes, it will not have much effect.

"Young Master Huang, it has been arranged, there is no one else on the second floor of the teahouse."

Zhu Cilang nodded and looked at Chen Chang. Needless to say, Chen Chang must have found a way to clean up other guests in the teahouse. Not to mention the second floor, I'm afraid there will be no other guests on the first floor.

After the rascals were taken away, the streets returned to peace, and people coming and going appeared again. Not many people cared about the scene just now, and maybe everyone was accustomed to it.

Entering the teahouse, Zhu Cilang looked at the situation on the first floor, and Chen Chang, who was beside him, lowered his head.

"Chen Chang, when you leave later, you will compensate the shopkeeper for some tea money, and do not have too much to avoid causing trouble."

Zhu Cilang is not feeling sorry for those taels of silver. The key is that Chen Chang is too generous in his actions, which will definitely attract the attention of others. There are too few people who are so generous in these days.

Looking at Zhu Cilang who was going upstairs, Chen Chang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped away the sweat from his forehead, and followed quickly.

When Zhu Cilang appeared at the entrance of the stairs, the two old men, middle-aged men, three women, two men, five young men, all stood up.

Two old men and middle-aged men walked to Zhu Cixuan.

The white-bearded old man was still holding the silver ingot in his hand.

"Young Master, thank you for helping you. I'll give you this ingot of silver. There's too much money and we can't afford it."

Zhu Cilang shook his head gently.
Chapter completed!