From Chief to Ball

After several consecutive days of slump and several consecutive days of no one caring about it, in half a decade, more than a dozen people in Mincheng who lost everything chose to commit suicide to escape the terrible life.

Countless vendettas, revenge, homicides, and persecutions were caused by the previous transactions. More than 20 people were injured, and more than a dozen houses were broken into and robbed.

The worst scene happened to a man with nowhere to go. He spent all his savings to buy a pot of flowers from a friend five days ago.Because my friend was in urgent need of money, the price was slightly lower, and the two had a drink after the transaction.

But what happened next made the flower buyer desperate, and ran to a friend's house to ask the friend to return the money to him, even if it was only half.

The two sides were at a stalemate, and there were some quarrels, and in the end they even said some ugly words.That night, the person who bought the flowers also knew that his life was over, coupled with his previous anger, he rushed into his friend's house with his own axe, and killed seven members of the family, including the four-year-old The child was not spared either, and finally committed suicide.

The evil after the bubble burst is not only the price dive, but also manifests the greed, ruthlessness, and despair in people's hearts in various ways.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, the New Year was supposed to be celebrated immediately, but the officials in Mincheng were not in the mood to rest.

The homicides of the past few days and the suicides of the past few days seem to be able to be killed and sentenced, but the year-end evaluation is completely over.

The officials who had originally rated it had already given an upper-average rating, but after such an incident, the rating that was supposed to be fair had been reduced to a mid-range rating.

A large county has suddenly become such a mess, and it is always necessary to find out a few people who are responsible, but besides the blame, there are more important and more urgent matters that need to be resolved.

A group of sellers holding futures trading contracts held up the bills and surrounded the gate of the sheriff's house and the gate of the Judiciary.

Those buyers refused to pay the rest of the money due to the price dive. Many people even chose to escape with their families during the Chinese New Year to avoid the limelight, or locked the door to prevent outsiders from entering.

There is a government stamp on the transaction contract, and there is no problem with the stamp duty-paid bills, and the transaction price on it is also clearly written.

Those who surrounded the gates of the Judiciary shouted that they hoped that the magistrate would make a reasonable judgment and demand that the buyer pay the rest of the money.

These people are not those bottom-level people who are poor and see at most three or five silver coins a year. There are speculators, upstarts who have made a fortune in the past two years, as well as gray people in the city, workshop owners, and others. Some middle-aged citizens.

The transaction is legal and reasonable, and it seems that there is nothing worthy of deliberation, but the magistrate can only hide his head at home like a fool.

Because in front of the sheriff's yamen, there is another group of people who are buyers of futures.

Dozens of people carried two fresh corpses that had just committed suicide, weeping bitterly, shouting that the people are living in dire straits, and this is to force them to death.

They asked the county to accept the bottom, or ruled that the original transaction was invalid, and they could give in and not return the deposit paid.Or hope that the county will pay to buy all the orchids at their purchase price.

If you don't do this, the officials will force the people to turn against the people and make a living.

The crowd stood in front of the door, weeping loudly, and begged the officials to make decisions for them. If things go on like this, more people will die.

Of course, there is no real bottom among these people, and those who can still get involved at this time are all people with high net worth and great influence.

The owners of several large workshops even cried out that if the county does not come forward to solve the problem, their own workshops will not be able to continue due to lack of funds. At that time, hundreds of unemployed people will wreak havoc on the city and create many lawbreakers. .Especially at this time when the new year is approaching, if you don’t make the decision, you may not be able to pay the employees for the Chinese New Year. This is going to stir up a civil uprising!

After several years of fermentation, those who are still involved in it up to now, although some of them are middle and lower classes who have gambled their lives, but more of them are involved in it. speculate.

But because of this, things became troublesome.

If it was the bottom and middle and lower classes, the army or the security team would have been dispatched long ago, a few sticks would be thrown down and a few shots would be taken to catch a batch and throw them into prisons, or send them to barren reclamation land, and the incident would subside.Every few years, the middle and lower classes will make trouble. The miners incident and the earlier carders uprising in the north have been dealt with quite skillfully.

But now it is not the middle and lower classes that are involved, so the problem becomes more complicated. Those methods cannot be used. Many of them are high-ranking figures, and they are all members of the county's prominent families or the county council. How can they draw sticks on their own people?

However, the requirements of the two sides are completely different, which makes the officials extremely embarrassed. Big disturbance.

Chapter 125 Who to offend

All the officials were frowning.

The sheriff is quite old, and it is obvious that it is impossible to climb up any more, and he can just hang out.

However, the rest of the officials in the county are still young, and they are still looking forward to making some political achievements. At least when they are evaluated, everyone will say a few good things about themselves-the ones who can speak are naturally not those who are struggling on the survival line or are not considered as low-level people. But above the middle.

Just like the last time when the miners fought for death compensation, even if they used their hands and feet to shoot and kill a few, as long as the coal supply in the city was not cut off, it would be considered a good deed, and they might be sent to the Wanmin Umbrella.

But there is no precedent for such a thing before, and I don't know how to solve it.

The internal opinions of officials are also varied, and no one is willing to take responsibility, but many people are involved in it.

The commercial officer Shi Ming is the one who is most melancholy now. The orchid business had nothing to do with him at first, but as the business became more and more busy, his son Shi Lei did not know where he got advice from others, so he came back and told Shi Ming that he might as well set up a special one. Orchid Exchange City.

Not long after, I don't know who wrote a eulogy, praising Shi Ming's behavior of caring for the people, and claiming that the orchids in Mincheng are flourishing, and the commercial officer Shi Ming contributed a lot.

At that time, Shi Ming was still happy to hear it, and wanted to find the person who wrote this sycophant, but he couldn't find it, and someone pretended to be it.

Now that something has happened, the "good things" that were praised by others have become the responsibility, and the carols at the beginning seemed to put him on fire.

He is really like an ant on a hot pot now, and he didn't start the orchid trend, but now the yellow mud staining his crotch is not shit, so he can't tell.

Zhang Yu, another tax officer involved in the stamp duty proposal, was much more relaxed.

Due to the relationship between Henry Zhang and Chen Jian, Chen Jian gave him an idea at the beginning, and he thought it was a good idea at the time.

Because stamp duty can be used not only in the orchid market, but also in various transactions in many places.There is a government seal, which makes people feel more at ease, and the tax rate is not high, but the hairs of the rich are all plucked, not to mention the small noise, and sometimes the plucked people sing loudly.

Last year, because of this stamp tax proposal, it was highly commended by the Ministry of Household Affairs and rated as a top.

Now that Lanhua has a problem, his attitude is very firm: act according to the contract, which has the government seal on it, if there is a disturbance and you don't follow the laws and regulations, then in the world, whoever can make trouble will have a say right?If it is possible to make trouble, is it comparable to the number of those hired workers?

Anyway, he is not involved in this matter, and he is not in charge of justice, nor in charge of law and order, but only a tax collector.If it is a tax resistance uprising, he must be responsible. The problem is that the current matter is not tax resistance, but many people hope that the county will fulfill its responsibility for the sake of collecting stamp duty. This problem is much simpler.

Someone from the household department endorsed him, and Min county is a county where stamp duty is applicable, so he has the confidence to speak with a backer.

What's more, the matter of Lanhua has nothing to do with him at all. Chen Jian told him that something might happen in the future, very early on.As Chen Jian's industry and reputation grew, Chen Jian's suggestions were paid more attention to. Seeing that everyone made a fortune, he tried to quit early.

Now the opinions among the officials are not unified. Those who are irresponsible want to live in mud, those who are responsible want to shirk, and some people even want no one to take responsibility in a whimsical way.

If you want the government to support you, as long as the government has money, where will the money come from?Collect from rich households and workshop owners?I'm afraid that my reputation will be ruined.Collect from the bottom?Maybe something big will happen, and I won't be able to collect so much.Furthermore, why back up?No one wants to do things that offend people, especially those who can speak.

If there is no result through discussion, all you need to do is to invite all famous people in Mincheng to discuss together when the New Year is approaching.

Once something really happens, these people are needed to help clean up the mess.

Chen Jian set up his workshop in Nan'an, but his reputation in Fujian is rising day by day, and he was the one who broke the orchid bubble, so he must be invited to discuss this matter.

In addition, once those speculators and workshop owners deliberately refuse to pay their employees to force the officials to agree, they may need the help of the group of people from the Mexican Party to persuade and appease the bottom.

When the officials sent someone to invite Chen Jian, Chen Jian was taking the members of the Mexican Party of the Charity Business Association to use the charity fund to distribute some New Year's items in the slums when the New Year was approaching.

There are not many things, just a few catties of white flour for making dumplings on New Year's Eve, firecrackers for children, hair ropes, insect repellent medicine, soy sauce and other things.

It doesn't cost a lot of money, but the response is very good.

While gaining the reputation of being a good person, Chen Jian calculated how many people died directly or indirectly at his own hands, or were ruined by him in the past few years.

A few glass workshops were damaged, and a family was ruined; the hydrogen chloride exhaust gas from the chemical workshop caused the downwind to lose a hundred acres of land, and the owner sold the land and went to the city to work as a hired worker; more than a dozen died in the explosives workshop; a bunch of soy sauce workshops collapsed; orchids Dozens of people committed suicide and were killed during the wave; the promotion of cotton gins led to a round of small-scale mergers in the countryside, forcing many farmers who owed debts to repay their land to large farmers who found it profitable...

After roughly doing the calculations, Chen Jian felt that with the addition of the several big news planned in the future, the number of people who died indirectly in Minjun alone before he went to sea could exceed a thousand, and the people whose families were broken up and whose lives were changed would be affected. More.