"The Everlasting Peace Grain Company, the Abundant Prosperity Rice Shop, and the Rich Harvest Granary monopolized the grain trade, hoarded supplies for profit, and drove up grain prices, plunging the people into fire and flood and bringing our nation to the brink of ruin. They deserve ten thousand deaths! Their crimes are beyond pardon!"
"His Majesty has decreed: the principal offenders of the Three Great Grain Houses shall be executed along with their entire households, with punishment extending to three generations of their kin! Their accomplices shall be exiled to Lingnan, excluded from all pardons, to gladden the realm and serve as a warning to others!"
In the light rain around the Start of Summer, Fang Ke, clad in a Flying Fish Embroidered Uniform, led several dozen Strongmen escorting the senior and junior managers of Luting's Three Great Grain Houses through the streets in cangues, proclaiming their crimes in a loud, ringing cadence as they went.
When they reached the Welcome Inn, he deliberately slowed his steps and strained his throat to shout even louder...
Countless people of Luting ran back and forth alongside the procession like madmen, howling all the way.
Stones, mud, and dog shit rained down on the managers of the Three Great Grain Houses...
As the procession inched forward, a bunch of clever clogs emerged from somewhere in the crowd, pulled out strings of firecrackers, lit them, and waved them in their hands as they cheered at the tops of their lungs.
Yang Ge stood outside the inn, watching that string of filthy, disheveled prisoners through the thick gunpowder smoke. The grin on his face was harder to keep down than an AK!
He had often heard people preach about not letting hatred control your emotions, claiming revenge could never bring joy or happiness, only push