Chapter 548 It's a Good Story

On the second day of June, Shengjia left the capital.

Wei Fengting accompanied Long Xiangwei to protect him, Yuan Shenjue, Bai Gusheng and Hao Huashi also accompanied him.

Although Xinbao has his own car, he basically doesn't need it, and usually stays in the emperor's car.

Seeing that he was far away from the capital, Tuanzi felt very guilty: "If parents and elder brothers leave Xinbao alone to play, Xinbao will be sad and may even cry, but Xinbao will leave his family to play alone... just, there is still a little happiness Xinbao is really heartless."

Emperor Ming Pei smiled and said: "Then Xinbao will accompany his father, mother and elder brother, and let Yeye go to another palace by himself, will he have a conscience?"

Tuanzi paused and blinked his big eyes: "Yes, Xinbao loves so many people, but it's a pity that Xinbao only has one, so there must be a choice."

"Well," Emperor Ming Pei smiled and nodded: "The thinking is very clear."

Outside, Hao Huashi smiled and said, "Your Majesty."

Emperor Ming Pei nodded, and Fang Wuyou called him in.

Hao Huashi came in to meet the ceremony, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Master, guess what, there are a few people from the capital, the Chen Sande I mentioned last time, and a few other people who are similar, and they came out with Sheng Jia Yes! I went over to have a look, and Chen Sande said, I heard that there is also a hanging pot over there. If the people over there don’t know about these things, they can tell others about it. I was very interested in seeing the meaning , looked at the face and there is no disguise, nothing suspicious."

"Very good." Emperor Ming Pei was also a little funny: "You tell Feng Ting that you don't need to talk to them, let them follow along, and take care of them as you go."

The last time he sent someone to check, this Chen Sande has two older brothers who are very successful and have a wealthy family. He has no family responsibilities. Very laid back, a real old Beijinger, nothing wrong with it.

He may have helped the He family by chance, so he got interested, and he was not short of money, and he usually had nothing to do, so he followed him out.

Hao Huashi complied, and said again: "I just heard them say that she is He Qingwen's younger sister. She sold herself and became a maidservant not to save her elder brother... Later, the owner of that family was a courtier. , Wang Wuyou, who heard about this, sent his sister back yesterday, and also returned the deed of prostitution."

"Wang Wuyou?" Emperor Ming Pei smiled and said, "It's him."

He paused for a moment: "If He Qingwen is on the list in this provincial examination, someone must have written about it, and it will be a good story."

After finishing speaking, he asked Hao Huashi casually, "Can you play chess?"

Hao Huashi shook his hands at that time: "I won't, I won't! I will leave!!"

He ran away like flying, Emperor Ming Pei twitched the corners of his mouth, and asked Fang Wuyou: "Where's Xun'er?"

Fang Wuyou said: "Grandpa Guo has been patrolling from the beginning early in the morning, and he hasn't finished watching it yet."

Emperor Ming Pei laughed and said, "It's also a worry."

He touched Tuanzi's chin casually, and asked her, "Who does Xinbao want to call for a chat?"

Xinbao thought for a while: "Uncle Shen!"

Emperor Ming Pei raised his hand with a smile, and Fang Wuyou went out to send someone to summon him.

Shen Shouyan was called to accompany him, and he stayed in Yan Shichang's car during the day. Yan Shichang couldn't stay idle, and rode back and forth for a stroll, so he was alone at the moment. When the emperor summoned him, he was startled, and hurried over , met Li.

Emperor Ming Pei said: "Don't be restrained, sit down."

Shen Shouyan thanked En and sat down, and Tuanzi asked him: "Uncle, have you eaten the dates and grapes that Xinbao gave you?"

"Eat," Shen Shouyan smiled when he saw the dumplings, and said with a smile, "I ate them all, they are very sweet."

Tuanzi smiled at him.

Emperor Ming Pei said: "I'm free now, you've been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, tell me about the rivers and lakes."

Shen Shouyan said: "Yes."

He thought for a while, then said: "I don't have much knowledge, so I just talked about it from my own family."

He started talking about how he was spotted by his master, how he started learning martial arts, and how he joined a gang when he entered the rivers and lakes.

Shen Shouyan is not a very scheming person, and he speaks very casually.

Tuanzi listened to it as a story, and listened with gusto. Emperor Mingpei also looked relaxed. In fact, he was already thinking about the problem in his mind.

For example, an extremely important income in the gang, the security fee, and the so-called confession...

It stands to reason that if merchants pay taxes to the imperial court, the imperial court should protect the merchants' safety, allowing these people to compete fairly and develop their own strengths, instead of merchants who have to pay taxes and security fees, which is equivalent to a heavier burden on merchants.

Of course, some of these people who paid the security fee to the gang must be forced, but there are also some wealthy businessmen who just want to have such a backer so that they can bully their peers and earn more.

So if we want to reform, there will be many problems involved.

The first is how to control the lower-level officers and soldiers so that they can fulfill their duties and not allow extortion; second, how to govern these gangs and how to make a smooth transition.

Yuan Shenjue finally finished scanning around, came in for a look, and said, "Xinbao, what's the matter?"

Emperor Ming Pei was sitting cross-legged, and Tuanzi was sitting in the hollow of his legs, holding his arm with both hands, leaning on his arm, motionless.

Emperor Ming Pei held up his small face and looked at it: "Is it uncomfortable to shake?"

Tuanzi nodded: "A little bit."

Emperor Ming Pei hurriedly asked someone to make mint tea, Yuan Shenjue washed his hands, took a small bottle from his purse, poured out two cool pills, and fed them into Xinbao's mouth, Emperor Ming Pei touched the forehead of the dumpling : "Do you want to go to sleep for a while?"

"No," Tuanzi changed his other arm and said, "Xinbao wants to listen to Uncle Shen's storytelling."

Emperor Ming Pei said: "Then Uncle Xinbao will go to bed after he finished speaking, okay? If you get up early in the morning, you will easily faint when you get on the carriage."

Although Shen Shouyan was not very knowledgeable, he was an old Jianghu after all, so he could understand such obvious words, so he said a few more words with a smile, and then left.

Xinbao drank half a cup of mint tea, Hua Shuang carried her to sleep behind her.

Emperor Ming Pei said to Fang Wuyou: "Ask someone to tell Feng Ting to travel less for the first two days and go to the station early."

Fang Wuyou responded and went down to give instructions, and Emperor Ming Pei summoned Cheng Fuju to come in and speak.

Emperor Ming Pei asked him: "Do you know that private gangs will charge security fees from merchants?"

Cheng Fuju said: "I'm ashamed, I don't know much about it."

As the servant of the household department, he is not ignorant of this, but it is really not clear enough.

Yuan Shenjue sat at the side, knowing what the emperor wanted to say, he said: "I have heard Uncle Shen talk about this before, and Xinbao asked me quietly at that time, whether Chaotianmen was a gangster, and Uncle Shen explained it later. I did a quick check afterwards.”

He did things very meticulously. When Xinbao asked, he didn't know enough. Even if Xinbao would not ask again in the future, he would still investigate and understand, so he explained in detail.

What Yuan Shenjue said was far more comprehensive than what Shen Shouyan said.

One of the best big gangs like Chaotianmen is begged by merchants to send money to them, because this sign is really useful.

But like some small gangs, this is far from the case. They are here with merchants and cannot compete with big gangs, so they have a bit of a sense of "occupying the mountain as king" and collecting protection money from the villagers near them.

The protection fee belongs to the kind where they don't care about anything if they pay it, but if they don't pay it, they will make trouble, and the people are miserable.