Chapter 182: Shocking the Snake (1)

After the golden rooster crowed high, the warm and warm sun slowly climbed into the sky, awakening Yingcheng, and the streets gradually became noisy!

"Shaobian...selling Shaobian..."

"The cross-bridge rice noodles... don't taste good, no money!"

"Old Liu... Give me a bowl of wontons!"

Chen Zhongze walked on the street in the morning with a huge jar of wine. Looking at the crowded crowds on the street, he had an illusion that he felt that this place was no worse than the Wuchang morning market where he had been there for many years.

He was suddenly shocked and Chen Zhongze smiled mockingly. How could this small county town, which was originally not famous in the province, be compared with Wuchang, the world's important town.

But even though he thought so, his heart became heavier. Yingcheng has changed a lot in the past half month. Since the Hubei branch military government opened the salt ban, more and more private capital and gentry, and industrialists have turned their attention to Yingcheng, a small land. In addition, the military government ordered the Regulations on Workshop and Recruitment, no one really dared to oppose the powerful military government. Anyway, the salt price in the province is getting higher and higher day by day, and it has become a huge profit!

Therefore, the merchants and others who were able to take pictures of the salt mine from the military government were unwilling to touch the military government's brow. Instead, they really made concessions, which benefited many ordinary people working in the salt mine and salt merchants. These in turn prospered Yingcheng's economy and enriched taxes.

Even Chen Zhongze was very dissatisfied with the fact that the military government controlled most of the salt wells in Yingcheng but did not help Wuchang and the comrades in the province, but instead made great profits. He had to admit that the people of Yingcheng had gained a lot of benefits from the military government's policies.

"It's Brother Chen, Brother Chen is resting today?"

A greeting came suddenly not far behind him, and he was so shocked that he was distracted that he was shocked and sweated a lot on his back.

Chen Zhongze heard the familiar voice, so he turned his head and saw a group of patrol soldiers turning from another street intersection. A vigilant soldier saw him and hurriedly greeted him.

Chen Zhongze is also a soldier of the city defense team, so he followed most of the people in the team and nodded repeatedly to several people with a smile: "It turns out to be Brother Maosheng, Brother Du and you guys. I felt uncomfortable yesterday and had a fever. If this ghost weather gets sick, it will not be cured in less than ten days or half a month. So I asked for leave from Li Tou, and went to Chengdong Pharmacy to grab some medicine, bought a pool of medicinal wine to remove heat and clear the heat, and prepared to go home and take good care of two days."

He raised the wine jar in his arms, but he didn't expect that he would move a little too much, causing a clang inside. He knew what was inside and he was a little guilty and couldn't help but change his face. Fortunately, the group of people didn't care and just thought he was really sick.

Another brother who was obviously addicted to alcohol was a little envious: "Brother Chen is so lucky. The medicinal wine from the century-old pharmacy in the east of the city is a good thing, two silver dollars a jar, a good thing!"

Seeing that no one noticed his strangeness, Chen Zhongze breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I know you are so greedy for the cup, how about it? I'll pour you a pot?"

He knew that the military government had made a mistake because the former city defense team had committed a crime, but now he was very strict with the city defense team. He would be deducted half a month's salary when he was caught during the parade, so he was sure.

Sure enough, when the boy heard him say this, his face drooped, "Brother Chen, you are still laughing at me. The last time I asked Team Li to find out, I deducted my salary for half a month. I originally wanted to send more to my family this month!"

“Hahahaha~~~”

Several people from the same team laughed together, and Chen Zhongze also laughed for a while, and then spoke: "Okay, okay, brothers, go and do it. Come to my place to drink when you have a drink when you have a rest in the evening, as long as you are not afraid of being infected by me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't expect that the team members agreed happily together, and they were all greedy people.

After leaving the few people with a smile, Chen Zhongze breathed a sigh of relief, freed up his hand to wipe off the sweat from his head, and continued to walk towards the southern suburbs.

His name is Chen Zhongze. He was born in the 14th year of Guangxu. His hometown is Xianning. He was a new soldier from the original Thirty Bill. He once participated in the Literary Society. Later, after the Literary Society was sealed, he hid himself for fear of affecting his parents in his family. He never participated in any other revolutionary organization since then. However, during the Wuchang Uprising that night, he was one of the first people to respond to.

On the night of the Wuchang Uprising, Chen Zhongze rushed out of the camp with several other people in the team and was dispersed by the Qing army shortly after, so he had to run to the Chuwangtai Ordnance Station according to some of the shouts he had heard before. Later, Xiong Bingkun was placed under Li Han's command, followed him to fight, and came to Ezhong and Yingcheng.

Chen Zhongze had a deep affection for the military government, but he did not have much awe for the young general who was only a few years older than him. He had won the second-level courage medal in battle. Logically speaking, the future should have been unlimited and should not appear in the queue of the city defense team.

It was just because he looked down on the military government under the leadership of Li Han that controlled most of the city-making behaviors of Yanjing in the county, and he was also dissatisfied with Li Han's disobedience to Wuchang's command and did not obey the deputy governor Liu Ying. Therefore, he repeatedly criticized him in public for not being a real revolutionary, but a revolutionary speculator like those constitutionalists who are now dependent on the military government and former officials at the bottom of the Qing court. As a result, he was not only taken back the second-level courageous medal, but also arranged to the city defense brigade.

The boundless future disappeared, and he was not interested in Li Han, so after receiving the invitation of the "Iron Blood Revolutionary Society" formed by someone who was the same in his heart, he joined without any hesitation.

In the past two days, Chen Zhongze has become increasingly uneasy. It turns out that their Iron Blood Revolutionary Society has gathered once every two days since its establishment. However, three days ago, the mysterious man who had never appeared but had been supporting the Iron Blood Revolutionary Society behind his back was gone, and the first time he did not send anyone to notify the meeting place.

This was nothing. After all, the military government in central Hubei has been mobilizing its troops very frequently these days. I have long suspected that the person behind it was a senior executive of the revolutionary army who was dissatisfied with Li Han. They just thought that he was also transferred to other places to prepare for war. Therefore, Tan Menglong and others raised their heads privately and agreed that everyone would communicate with each other and exchange wars in various places, but they didn't care too much.

Chen Zhongze and others really felt bad, but it was the day before yesterday.

First, Gu Wen was accused of corporal punishment of the recruits earlier. The military government sent someone to take him away and said he would be imprisoned for a few days so that he could change this problem. Everyone knows that Gu Wen has a bad temper and always beat and scolded the recruits who cannot complete the training. Therefore, it is reasonable to be imprisoned for a few days, and he just thought he had been reported by the recruit.

But after all, he was a comrade in the organization, so everyone entrusted him, who was lurking in the city defense team, to take care of Gu Wen in private and not to let him suffer too much.

Chen Zhongze did his best. On the day he learned that Gu Wen was imprisoned, he rushed to visit the prison. He didn't expect that he would go through the prison of the city defense team and found that there was no sign of him.

You should know that there are only three prisons in the county, namely the prison of the city defense brigade; the prison cells that were originally affiliated to the county government are now used as death rows, and basically all repeal or death sentences are locked up here; there is also a place not considered a prison, located in the recruit camp, which is a small black room for punishing recruits who do not uphold military discipline.

After learning that the war was over, the recruits were closed. Chen Zhongze suddenly became panicked. On the night when Gu Wen was arrested, a team official from the city defense brigade wanted to hand over two village tyrants who occupied his wife's house to go to the county jail. He was named and went there together, and he saw Gu Wen in a cell where the serious prisoners were imprisoned.
Chapter completed!