So when Zhao Liang went to collect the money again, people on the whole street were staring at Zhao Liang and the three of them, wanting to see how they collected the regular money from several restaurants. Zhao Liang and the others were not in a hurry, and they calmly collected the small vendors first.

After collecting all the money, Soft Wood carried a bag of money on his back and went back to pay the errand accompanied by the big white goose.

Zhao Liang, under the gaze of everyone, walked to the nearest restaurant. He stood outside the door and shouted: "Shopkeeper, is it time to pay this month's payment?"

Everyone became excited when they saw it! They didn't expect that Zhao Liang would really dare to go to the restaurant to collect money. They all thought of watching the fun. The shopkeeper walked out of the door smoothly and stood on the steps. He looked at Zhao Liang condescendingly and said: "Zhao Tietou

.Don’t you know who the owner of this restaurant is?”

Zhao Liang nodded and said, "I know! Isn't it from Mr. Li's wife's family?"

The shopkeeper raised his chin and said, "Since you know it's Mr. Li's business, how dare you come here to disturb us? Be careful if Mr. Li sends a post to the county government and you will be thrown into jail!"

Zhao Liang tilted his neck and said, "That has nothing to do with me! I'm just here to deliver a message! I'm asking you now, will you pay the money for this case?"

The shopkeeper raised his head and waved his hands, as if he had seen stinky shit, and said: "No! No! Get out!"

"Okay! Let's get out of here!" Zhao Liang bowed his hands and left in a swaggering manner. He walked towards the second restaurant. Hope was ignited in the hearts of the vendors! If these restaurants don't pay, it seems that we will make a fuss.

Can you not pay it? Judging from their appearance, it seems that they don’t dare to offend these wealthy families.

Sure enough, the situation of the remaining vendors was similar. Zhao Liang's proposal to collect the payment was rejected without exception. However, Zhao Liang was not annoyed by being humiliated, he just handed over and left for the next vendor. The vendors were very disappointed, why didn't they see it?

The guys in the restaurant beat Zhao Tietou violently! The shopkeeper and the guys seemed to feel a sense of accomplishment for driving away Zhao Liang. They all stood in front of the door and talked and laughed loudly, taunting Zhao Liang! Zhao Liang didn't look back and staggered out of the street.

Gone.

But within two days, something happened to all these restaurants. A large bucket of feces was poured in front of the door, and the smell was overwhelming! No matter how hard the guys cleaned, they couldn't get rid of the smell! The business in the restaurant that day was so bad

Fell down!

Zhao Liang and the three of them were not far away.

Smiling as he watched the guys cleaning up the excrement, the restaurant owner Li Yuanwai angrily walked towards Zhao Liang and walked over quickly. He walked closer and pointed at Zhao Liang and said, "Did you do it to a scoundrel? Aren't you afraid that Yuanwai will deal with you?"

"

Zhao Liang said with an innocent face: "Which of your eyes saw that I did it? Besides, there is so much shit, do you think the three of us brothers can do it? Even if we did it, I'm afraid we would be covered in feces and urine! Look at us

His body is clean. How can he look like someone who has done this kind of pickling thing?"

The shopkeeper was so angry that he was shaking all over and said: "Who did it if it wasn't you? You want to get the money but you can't get it, so you use such despicable and dirty methods!"

Zhao Liang pulled out the short stick method and pulled aside the hand pointed at his nose, then tapped his shorts with his left hand and said: "Shopkeeper, this is a place where king's law is respected in Jiaozhou City. You are slandering me without any basis.

Aren't you afraid that I'll sue you for rebelling?"

The shopkeeper was so angry that he stomped his feet and turned around. The same thing happened a lot in Jiaozhou and Jimo cities. The grain shop found that the grain in their granary had been splashed with water; someone threw it into the brothel while they were singing and dancing.

A large number of live rats; people in the cloth shop found that diluted paint had been splashed on their fabrics; people in the dyeing shop found that their dyes had been mixed with something and changed the color. In short, the Ansheng business was no longer possible in the past. This

Instead, I lost a lot of money every month.

What's even worse! A dice shop hired a lot of thugs to prevent gamblers from causing trouble. Most of the thugs had bad tempers and beat up the Bloody Hands patrollers. As a result, they were sued by the patrollers.

When they arrived at the county government office, the thugs who beat people were beaten up. Just when they were planning revenge, a group of masked men came to the door that night, and all the thugs had one of their legs broken! The dice shop also had one of their legs broken.

It was smashed to pieces! In short, the streets of Jiaozhou and Jimo counties have been extremely chaotic in the past two months.

Either one of the big businesses had an accident today, or another one would have an accident tomorrow. In short, the business could not continue, and the losses were huge. The most unlucky thing was that they knew clearly that the Bloody Hand Gang was responsible for the incident, but they could not catch the culprits at all.

people and evidence.

Occasionally there are clues that prove that a person may have been involved in something, and then the person will disappear. After all, Liu Jiang now has two counties under his command, and those who are exposed in Jimo are transferred to Jiaozhou

If Jiaozhou is exposed, go to Jimo. If it doesn't work, just put it in Fushan Village for half a year. So these big households have nothing to do. And in this process, the county government is obviously in a neutral position. It's just that

They acted according to the law and did not give them any preferential treatment.

In the private room of the restaurant last time, a group of people were having an angry conversation. Yes, it was an angry conversation. But today there were more people than last time, and the private room was full with more than a dozen people. Everyone was very angry.

, their faces were all red. They had been discussing here for a long time, and they had not discussed anything about Ziwu Maoyou.

So when everyone fell silent, Mr. Huo said: "I lost more than 80 shi of grain last month. Before the guy looking at the warehouse was knocked unconscious, he recognized the person who did it. Although he covered his face,

But I can still recognize him from his body movements. When I took the person and took someone to arrest him the next day, this person had disappeared. Later, there was news that this person had been seen in Jimo. So I can’t afford to worry about it now.

Yes. I’m ready to pay.”

The strong man said: "Mr. Huo, this is not okay! If you pay the money, it means you have surrendered! How can we bow to a bunch of bastards!" Everyone agreed with the strong man's words.

Mr. Huo said slowly: "But what can we do to deal with them?"

"Force the county magistrate to issue a document to seize the person!" a person said viciously.

Mr. Huo shook his head and said: "Judging from the performance of the county government during this period, the county government will not care about these things. The county magistrate hopes that we will fight with the Bloody Hand Gang so that he can benefit from it. After all,

We pushed the county magistrate too hard before and didn't give him any rights."

In fact, what Mr. Huo said is correct. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, local power was no longer in the hands of the government, but in the hands of the local gentry. On the one hand, these people trained their family members to become officials in the court.

As a pillar of support, they also aggressively placed people among local officials and policemen. They also controlled local public opinion, population, land, and various businesses. Therefore, it was not the county magistrate who had the final say in the local area, but the gentry here.

The big guys.
Chapter completed!