"Yongtai Grain Firm, Fengyu Rice Shop, Fuhhe Grain Store, monopolizing the grain trade, hoarding bizarrely, driving up grain prices, plunging the people into misery, and placing the state in jeopardy, deserve death a thousand times over, utterly unforgivable!"
"The Emperor decrees, the heads of the three major grain shops will be executed along with their entire families, and their associates exiled to Lingnan, without amnesty, to the satisfaction of all, serving as a warning to others!"
In the light rain of the early summer, Fang Ke, clad in his flying fish robe, led dozens of strong men parading the major managers of the three grain firms through the streets of Lu Ting in stocks, shouting rhythmically and forcefully as they walked.
When they reached the front of Yuelai Inn, he even slowed his pace, pulling at his throat to shout even louder...
Countless townspeople of Lu Ting ran back and forth along the parade like mad, howling all the while.
