For some people, you're better off trading blows than reasoning with them.
And these merchants of Yongle Square happened to be that sort of folk.
Once bitten, twice shy, none of them dared grumble any longer. They obediently agreed to the request for fifty taels of Regular Money.
As for what Su Xin said about harshly punishing gang members who were extorting and exploiting these shopkeepers—most shopkeepers merely sneered behind his back.
If a dog could be trained to stop eating shit, now that would truly be surprising.
After sending these shopkeepers off, Su Xin estimated his collection of Regular Money, which could possibly amount to sixty thousand taels!
The hundreds of merchants in Yongle Square, even excluding the tiny ones reluctant to put up Regular Money, had brought in a considerable profit.
When the Green Bamboo Gang was around, those bastards literally sucked blood. They had the nerve to take a few coins even from a small breakfast vendors.
