"What? The salt seller in the east, they actually want to frame His Highness the Crown Prince, how vicious!"
"Damn it, we don't buy their salt, and they dare to say the Crown Prince's salt is poisonous salt, how audacious!"
"Exactly, our family has been eating the Crown Prince's salt for several days, and nothing has happened. They actually say the Crown Prince's salt is poisonous salt and want us to buy their salt, it's a pipe dream!"
"Let's go, let's go to their shops and get justice for His Highness the Crown Prince!"
At this moment, many commoners couldn't stand it and wanted to go to those salt shops to get justice for Lin Tian.
The shopkeepers of those salt shops were unaware of this.
When he saw a large number of commoners coming towards him, a look of joy appeared on his face.
In his eyes, these people were not here to cause trouble, but to buy salt from his shop.
He naturally welcomed these commoners with open arms.
Because of this, he said to his shop assistants:
"Everyone, perk up! Our customers are here, be enthusiastic!"
"If you ruin my business, I won't pay you your wages!"
At these words, the shop assistants were all shaken.
For these shop assistants, they lived on their wages.
If they didn't get paid, they might not know what to eat this month.
Under such circumstances, these shop assistants naturally became exceptionally careful and diligent.
The shopkeeper was no different.
He even led these shop assistants to welcome them outside.
Their faces were full of enthusiasm, and as they saw the commoners approaching, they greeted them warmly, saying:
"Are you all here to buy salt? I have good news for you, our shop is offering a 10% discount today!"
"If you are buying salt today, you might as well buy a little more!"
These salt shopkeepers were still thinking that their promotional activity would make their business booming today.
However, the commoners had no intention of buying their salt at all.
On the contrary, many of them had angry expressions on their faces, staring at the salt shopkeepers with fierce eyes.
They looked less like customers coming to buy salt and more like people coming to cause trouble.
As expected, someone spoke the next moment.
"Buy salt? Is the trash salt in your shop worth our purchase?"
"Exactly, the salt in your shop has a strange taste, even sand, and the price is outrageously high. How dare you think we'll buy your salt!"
"It seems you still lack self-awareness! You expect us to buy such salt, it's a pipe dream. Your salt is far inferior to His Highness the Crown Prince's salt!"
These commoners were not here to give money; they were here to seek justice for Lin Tian.
Because of this, their words were harsher than each other.
At these words, the faces of the salt shopkeepers immediately turned grim.
Those who could afford to open salt shops were all people of some influence.
To him, when these commoners were happy, they were citizens; when they were unhappy, they were a bunch of lowly rabble.
Now that these people were here to cause trouble, they were lowly rabble in the eyes of the salt shopkeepers.
Therefore, the salt shopkeepers said viciously at this time:
"What, are you here to cause trouble? If you are here to cause trouble, I advise you to get lost. This shop is not for you rabble to provoke."
"If you don't leave, I'll call people to make you leave!"
These salt shops also kept quite a few thugs.
These thugs were there to prevent anyone from causing trouble for the salt shops, and also to prevent anyone from stealing their salt.
Therefore, these thugs often resorted to beating people.
Killing people was also a common occurrence for them.
As long as they had enough power, killing someone was a simple matter.
This led to the arrogant nature of many people in the salt shops.
Now, seeing so many commoners coming to cause trouble, the salt shopkeepers could no longer restrain themselves and were ready to deploy the thugs in their shops at any moment.
However, the commoners who came to seek justice for Lin Tian were not afraid.
Because they knew that Lin Tian's army was here.
As soon as these people made a move, Lin Tian's army would immediately intervene and easily suppress them.
Therefore, the commoners who came to seek justice for Lin Tian were not nervous at all; instead, they felt more confident.
"Ask us to leave? If you don't clarify things today, we won't leave!"
"Tell us, why did you send people to slander His Highness the Crown Prince, saying his salt was poisonous? Aren't you upset that His Highness the Crown Prince is selling salt at a lower price?"
"Do you want to monopolize the salt market and have us buy your expensive salt?"
The commoners who came here had basically understood the thoughts of these salt shopkeepers.
They were all selling salt, and naturally, they hoped their salt would sell better, and Lin Tian's salt would not sell.
It was precisely because of this thought that they resorted to such despicable means.
They falsely accused Lin Tian's salt of being poisonous, even claiming that Lin Tian's salt had killed people.
They wanted to use this method to make others continue to buy their salt.
However, they didn't think about it. Compared to Lin Tian's salt.
Their salt not only had poor quality but was also outrageously expensive.
Without any advantages, why would people buy their salt?
If he really wanted others to buy his salt, he should produce salt of better quality and at a lower price.
Only then would people be willing to buy it.
However, the salt shopkeepers didn't think about these things at all.
When he heard others talking about slandering Lin Tian's salt, he couldn't help but tremble all over.
He didn't expect that the secret actions he had ordered would be exposed so easily.
And that so many people would know about it after it was exposed.
This was a huge blow to their salt shop.
For him personally, it was also a huge crisis.
Once His Highness the Crown Prince found out about this, he would likely send his army to deal with him.
At that time, they wouldn't even know how they died.
Therefore, this salt shopkeeper roared at these commoners:
"Silence!"
"I have no idea what you are talking about. The matter of slandering His Highness the Crown Prince's salt has never happened!"
"If you continue to slander me, I don't mind beating all of you out!"
After speaking, this salt shopkeeper ignored whether others continued to speak and directly began to call for people.
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