The entire Lintong County Government immediately fell into chaos and wailing sounds.

All the merchants who had not had time to run were soon surrendered in front of the Yulin Guard's guns and halberds, tied up and were taken to Zhang Yue.

Like the forest's spear and halberd, the bright sword.

Everyone was fighting and trembling.

"You are so brave..." Zhang Yue stretched out his sleeves and snorted softly: "Even the public fields of the country dare to make decisions!"

The merchants' backbone in front of swords is even worse than that of bureaucrats.

In an instant, there was a beg of mercy.

"Shizhong Gong forgives his crimes, forgives his crimes!" Everyone kowtowed together: "We are all good businessmen and law-abiding subjects. We are just bewitching the officials of Lintong and are obsessed with profits. We just made a mistake. I hope the Shizhong will mercy..."

"Ha..." Zhang Yue laughed in anger. Is there a creature like a law-abiding businessman in this world?

Well, maybe there is?

But it certainly won't appear here.

because……

The merchants who appeared here were not so much merchants as the white gloves of the Chang'an nobles.

After careful examination, Zhang Yue was sure to find that these people were either relatives of a noble relative or retainers of a noble relative.

To put it bluntly, they are puppets and extensions of the power of nobles.

It is the tentacles that infiltrate power into the people.

"Are law-abiding subjects?" Zhang Yue chuckled: "Are you a lowly merchant who is worthy of calling yourself a 'subject'?"

In the eyes of today's scholars and officials, there is no distinction between good and bad in the group of merchants.

All merchants are bad guys!

Just like they divided the barbarians.

It is not a distinction between good barbarians and bad barbarians. All barbarians are treated equally, and they are all "not produced by neutral spirit and cannot be transformed by etiquette". They are completely unworthy of rescue.

On the issue of merchants, Confucian scholars went further and more radically.

After all, many people may never see barbarians or something in their lifetime, and they can only imagine their badness from their minds.

But the merchants' bad luck is indeed what appears before them.

In order to pursue profits, these slags destroy and disrupt local order, and allow the people to move, and no longer rely on the land.

What's even more terrifying is that these people clearly price all the beauty and morality in the world, put it on the shelves, and publicly sell it.

Even the teachings of saints and clan etiquette and laws can be abandoned by merchants because of their interests.

So, whipping merchants became the mainstream.

When Yang Ke was telling the story, the scholars and officials in the world raised their limbs and shouted wildly, "Yang Duwei 666, Yang Duwei did a good job and kill those unkind businessmen who are rich and unkind!"

It was not until the lawsuit expanded and the interests of these people were damaged that they realized something seemed wrong and turned to attack and questioned Yang Ke.

Despite this, the literati still looked down on and tried their best to belittle the merchants.

Because the contradiction between them and merchants is a class contradiction.

It is the hostility of one class to another.

As a former civil servant, Zhang Yue has long been familiar with how to exploit class contradictions, and even knows how to play with his eyes closed.

Therefore, Zhang Yue said these words completely natural and politically correct!

Since the Qin Dynasty, the merchant group has been exiled to alternative types.

In the national system level, the social status of merchants is theoretically higher than that of slaves, prisoners and son-in-law.

Thinking back to the beginning, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall and the Dao, and he only chose merchants, sons-in-law, and prisoners, and treated them as consumables and consumed them without any mercy.

Relatively speaking, the Qin Empire may have warmth and humane feelings towards slaves.

After all, I just have a bad background and can be saved.

Merchants, son-in-law, prisoners, and no qualifications to save them!

All the merchants heard this and bowed: "The villain knows his guilt, he knows his guilt!"

In front of the butcher's knife, even the big businessman with tens of millions of households is as powerless as a man.

There was no choice but to offer their master behind them.

"The Lord Shizhong is here, please let the villain report that although the villain is a merchant and is listed in the market, the villain is a man who works for Xu Xu..." These merchants rushed forward and shouted the name of their master.

There was no way, they knew that if they did not lift the master out, the servant officer on the opposite side would give a direct order, chop them up on the ground and hang their heads on the city wall to show their public.

As businessmen, they knew very well that in front of real powerful ministers, there was no difference between tens of millions of families and tens of thousands of families and a civilian.

Maybe it will even stimulate the other party's killing mentality.

Under the Han political system, killing merchants and executing civilians are two different things.

The former is killed.

No one will ask, no one will even review it.

In the eyes of public opinion, a mere merchant is treated the same as a distant barbarian.

If you die, you die. What's the big deal?

On the contrary, civilians and officials should think about whether they will have the reputation of killing innocent people indiscriminately?

I have some concerns, and I usually show mercy because I cherish my feathers.

For example, when Zhao Yu, the censor, served as the court magistrate, often rehabilitated the criminal civilians, reduced their crimes, and even directly forgiven them.

Zhang Yue listened to these people's messy confessions, reached out and took out his ears.

Without talking about these people, Zhang Yue can also know who the master behind them is.

To say it, it is nothing more than putting things in secret on the surface.

but……

Zhang Yue turned his head and looked at the scholars behind him. When he saw the expressions of these people, he nodded with satisfaction.

Things have developed to this point and are smoothly beyond imagination.

He turned around and waved his hand to order: "Catch them all, let them write their confessions, and then send them to Chang'an and hand them over to Tingweiqing!"

"No!" Jin Shang held the Emperor's Day and received the order and worshipped him.

He followed and did this job.

This situation made him so excited that he couldn't suppress his inner excitement.

There was a noble relative standing behind these merchants in front of him.

In normal times, even his father would not be able to do anything to them.

But now...

These people are just lambs to be slaughtered and their political achievements.

They and the powerful people behind them can't escape!

When I am very short of money today, I am particularly short of money.

These more than ten merchants and the families of the powerful behind them are at least 30,000 to 50,000.

And with such merit, it was a foregone conclusion that he took the lead and became the minister.

Stepping on the corpses of powerful people to take over, this is the fastest way for the Han nobles to be promoted!

Zhang Yue held his hands, held Yao Jian, and walked slowly forward toward the Lintong County Government.

It was really great to kill the upper structure of the Lintong official government at one time.

But after the fun is over, I have to clean up the mess.

"Zhi Jinwu, please come in and talk to me..." Zhang Yue turned his head and said to Yu Jiyan, who had been a audience.

From the time of leaving Chang'an City, Zhang Yue has determined a principle: this time, the destruction is just by the way, and the main thing is construction.

From Lintong to Huxian, it is like a long snake formation.

It also happens to be a complete Gyeonggi economic circle.
Chapter completed!