Long Hair Army Li Shixian's Fan Ruzeng led the army to capture Fenghua City. The entire army enjoyed a period of unrestrained madness. The officers and soldiers had a good time, but the people of Fenghua City suffered. They finally understood that Long Hair was a true rebel army.
The Long Hair Army itself lacked lofty ideals and discipline. In addition, the monk king used rotten goods as informants and put on the Long Hair Army uniform to harm the masses. This made the image of the Long Hair Army worse and worse, and gradually lost the concern and support of most people.
It had only been less than a year since Fan Ruzeng led the Long Hair Army to occupy Fenghua City. Due to the loss of the people's hearts and support, the Long Hair Army was isolated in Fenghua. The soldiers and supplies that fought against the Qing army could not be understood and supported by the people of Fenghua.
Therefore, General Fan had no choice but to flee to Fenghua City with his tail between his legs under the attack of the Qing army and the foreign Gordon's victorious army.
Although the people of Fenghua still lived under the oppression of the Qing Dynasty nobles, compared to the people who were in dire straits and even lost their lives quickly brought by the Long Hair Army, the people were willing to cower in the tyranny of the Qing Dynasty and wait for the reincarnated heroes to appear. They did not want to be caught in the long thorns and die quickly.
Fortunately, in the battle to suppress the Long Hair rebel army, a new generation of heroes such as Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang were cultivated. Especially their Han identity, it allowed countless Han people to see the bright future of life and no longer feel inferior to the unscrupulous Manchu nobles.
During the time Long Hair occupied Fenghua City, many of the officials and businessmen in Fenghua City who were weak in bones followed Zhang Deshui to suck up to him as long as they didn't escape Fenghua City.
After the arrival of the Long Hair Army, due to the fact that most of them were farmers, they did not understand many truths of social development. The political proposition was highlighted by human nature, and the market economic activities were sidelined. As a result, the commodity economy of Fenghua City did not improve. It was much worse than the Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Deshui and the other businessmen had no business because the Long Hair Army had restricted the market economy and promoted the Holy Treasury's system. Some businessmen had their money stolen by Long Hair. In order to survive, they had to face the yellow soil again and do some unfamiliar menial work to earn some money.
Therefore, Zhang Deshui and the others were filled with anger. They admitted that they were unlucky and ran into unreasonable bandits. They did not dare to raise any objections for fear of losing their heads.
However, Zhang Deshui and the others were far luckier than Zhou Xueren, the rich man from Xikou Village. Although each family lost some money, they managed to save their lives.
Unlike Zhou Xueren, who lost his life because he couldn't stand Long Hair's domineering attitude, he thought that he was rich and belonged to a prestigious family in the village. Long Hair should be more polite to him. His lover in the Emerald Flower Pavilion, the Silver Phoenix, had been taken over by Fan Ruzheng. He didn't have to count the women, but Long Hair had to give him some face.
However, because Zhou Xueren was angry, he did not take Long Hair seriously. When a few Long Hair people, led by the ruffians of Xikou Village, went to the Zhou family to ask for the prize, Zhou Xueren pretended not to see it. This made Long Hair angry. In addition, the villagers were angry with the Zhou family's stingy idlers, so they pulled out their swords and killed Zhou Xueren on the spot.
As Long Hair had been on the battlefield for a long time, he was like a bloodthirsty wolf. When he saw people die and smelled blood, he would go crazy. He wanted to kill a few more people to satisfy his abnormal happiness.
As a result, the Zhou family was unlucky. A few long-haired men and hooligans burned, killed, and plundered the Zhou family until the once magnificent Zhou family residence was in a mess. The entire family was either killed or captured. No one could escape.
Because Li Shengfang was pretty, Long Hair had pinned her down on the bed and raped her for a while. Long Hair, the leader, felt unhappy. It was rare for him to meet such a beautiful woman in the countryside. When he retreated to the Zhou family's residence, he took Li Shengfang with him.
As a result, the entire Zhou family, except for Li Shengfang who was captured and became the wife of the bandit chief, died at home. Even their son Zhou Jian was not spared, completely ruining the future of the Zhou family.
Before Long Hair came to Xikou Village to donate food, Jiang Siqian already knew that Long Hair was destined to come to Xikou Village through the bastards in the tribe. He was still cursing Long Hair in his heart. The small Xikou Village was located at the foot of the mountain and seemed remote, but they still came to rob. They should be looking for everything they wanted in the rich and prosperous big town.
Jiang Siqian himself was not a hooligan. When he usually saw his own hooligans, he would only nod his head because of his face. He did not have a deep relationship with them. In addition, he did not help the hooligans financially, so he rarely took the initiative to contribute money and food to the hooligans.
Therefore, the hooligans of Xikou Village, including the hooligans surnamed Jiang, disdained to come and go with Jiang Siqian. If it weren't for his uncle who had been in the market nearby and was considered a righteous man, the hooligans would dare to teach Jiang Siqian a lesson to teach him a lesson. Xikou Village wasn't ruled by Zhou Xueren's family. The hooligans were the real rulers.
Jiang Siqian relied on his uncle's message to know that Long Hair from Fenghua City would come to Xikou Village to ask for money.
At that time, after listening to his uncle's concern, he even asked his uncle how much money he should prepare to eliminate the disaster. The salt shop business was booming, and he wanted to seize the time to do more business. If he asked for money from a few long-haired people, it was nothing more than sending away a few wine money from the gangsters. As long as it did not affect the business, he did not think it was a big deal to pay a little money.
Moreover, this was a business matter, and the Zhou family should pay for it. He was happy to push the boat with the current and do Long Hair a favor. He hoped that they would not find trouble with his family.
Of course, Jiang Siqian's high enthusiasm for work was not because he was grateful to the Zhou family for rewarding him with a salesperson position, nor was it because he was worried about Li Shengfang's feelings. He just wanted to borrow the chicken to lay eggs and earn the style of a rich man.
He saw that the profits from selling salt were huge, so he had a crooked idea in his heart. On the surface, he was conscientious and conscientious for the Zhou family's business, but in private, he had his own small calculations. He used the Zhou family's business platform to secretly manipulate his money bag.
Although Zhou Xueren kept a close eye on the inventory every quarter, he couldn't keep an eye on Jiang Siqian's cunning mind. He would always play tricks on the daily sales, deliberately concealing the actual sales figures and reporting a lower number to Li Shengfang. Every day, in January, he also ate a lot of money from the Zhou family.
Every time Zhou Xueren did not come, he would instruct his wife, Li Shengfang, to investigate. Although women were meticulous, she did not understand the tricks in business.
In addition, the amount of salt entering and leaving was huge, and it was all a running account. It was impossible to turn the inventory upside down every time they counted and weigh the bags.
Moreover, Jiang Siqian had told Li Shengfang early on to tell Zhou Xueren that salt would naturally leak out during storage and seep into the room's underground. For example, if he purchased 100 catties of salt, it was impossible to sell it out and earn 100 catties of salt. It was definitely a little less.
As for the rate of loss of salt, what was it? According to Jiang Siqian's experience, 10% loss was not a lot.
Buying 100 catties of salt, selling it would become 90 catties. Zhou Xueren listened to Li Shengfang's report and did not believe it. He suspected that Jiang Siqian was talking nonsense. He clearly wanted to be corrupt and deliberately said that it was a loss.
Li Shengfang didn't know how to wear and tear, so she couldn't tell which of the two men was lying. At first, she was stuck in the middle.
Although Li Shengfang didn't know about the loss of salt, she wanted to speak from Jiang Siqian's position. She felt that the Zhou family was already very rich. Jiang Siqian worked hard for them every day to make salt economy. He was just making a little money. He was a man who was tired of eating.
Moreover, the gentle and pleasant Jiang Siqian brought endless physical and mental enjoyment to Li Shengfang, but he did not earn Li Shengfang a few silver taels. From the perspective of economic mutual benefit, Jiang Siqian was equivalent to being played with by Li Shengfang's body and feelings.
Men still needed to spend money to buy prostitutes, and women seeking extramarital affairs were actually a kind of prostitution. If they did not give the man financial compensation, it was clearly a disguised form of exploitation and exploitation. Not only could there be no trace of male supremacy, but even the most basic male power was given up.
Therefore, Li Shengfang looked at Jiang Siqian's family who was still financially down and out. She couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. She seemed to be a selfish bad woman. She only knew how to use the advantages of men to satisfy her physical needs, but she forgot to respect the needs of men. She didn't know that Jiang Siqian needed money to support his family.
Therefore, in the face of her husband's confusion and suspicion, Li Shengfang had the obligation to help Jiang Siqian. She even thought that even if Jiang Siqian really embezzled the salt money, it was understandable and forgivable.
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