Chapter 6 Old Fang ()

"Haha, old sir, although Li does have the heart to be loyal to the country, there is no hurry. The most important thing at the moment is how to deal with the Kui family in the Yizhuang... Can you explain the specific situation of this Yizhuang or the situation of the Kui family you know to me?"

As an official, just kidding, don’t even think about working for the Qing court! Li Han knew that the New Army Uprising was about to break out in Wuchang, less than two hundred miles away tomorrow. Even if he really went to Sichuan, at most one month later, Sichuan, the country of the Heavenly Mansion, would break away from the Qing Dynasty because of the response to the Hubei uprising. What’s the use of asking it to be a deceased official who would not be able to stay for long. Even if he had made up his mind to join the upcoming uprising and work hard to realize the rise of New China as soon as possible. However, although he thought so in his heart, he did not directly reject the old man’s kindness. After all, he was not kindness. He just said to solve the current difficulties first, and then talk about the rest after the rest is solved!

"Yes, yes, yes, look at me, old man, I'm old, I can't tell the difference between the matter when I'm old. Old man Rong recalls it, wait a moment... the old man will tell you the situation of this charity village and Nakui's domestic beast..."

"This Kui family is actually not a big family in our place. It was just a small family in Jiangxia. It had a thirty or fifty acres of pastoral real estate. Although there were some juren and scholars in the family, it was all before Emperor Guangxu took power... If it were to say that the Kui family was in great trouble, this family actually had an unfilial son, namely Kui Sheng. He did not obey discipline and did not learn the saints' sayings. Instead, he followed some gangsters all day long, and the gangsters ran around. Until ten years ago, he met him.

The daughter of the horse thief leader who was a 100-mile mountain here - Hongsheng, perhaps a turtle pair of mung beans, had caught the eye, and then he called the horse thief leader for his son-in-law. Two years later, the former governor sent officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits, and caught all the horse thief leaders who were drinking and drinking in one fell swoop, including the father-in-law of Kuisheng's beast and the thief's wife. However, not long after the court withdrew, he gathered a bunch of scattered horse thiefs and took the throne, and since then he became a habitual thief leader who harmed our generation..."

Speaking of this, the old man's face became a little ugly, and he sighed deeply, "If it were to say that the ancestors of the Kui family did not commit crimes and gave birth to such a beast. After Kui Sheng took power, the first one was to lead a group of horse thieves to destroy the entire family of the Lao Kui family, and earn tens of thousands of silver! He bought horses for him and bribed officials and officials of nearby counties. Over time, his power became stronger and stronger. He has gradually been able to fight with other local martial arts and patrol battalions and undefeated. A few years ago, he even slaughtered the paper shop-Zhao family. That was not a small family like the Kui family.

But it is really a wealthy family in Jiangxia. I heard that the Zhao family has no less than tens of thousands of acres of land alone. Since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, it has been a huge amount of Hubei. The inventory of gold and silver is probably no less than tens of millions of land. Logically speaking, the more than a thousand horse thieves under Kui Sheng could not break the city wall of the Zhao family. But I couldn't stand it. Kui Sheng's tricks were sinister. First, he kidnapped the second son of the Zhao family, the most beloved master of Zhao family, and then ordered people to sneak into the Zhao family's courtyard and poured poison into the well, then captured the Zhao family's mansion... Oh, by the way, the current charity house is the original Zhao family..."

"Hey... the court's meaning has become increasingly difficult to understand in recent years. If this beast has committed such a great sin, the Zhao family has killed only thousands of lives. The court has to send troops to suppress him. Unexpectedly, he just paid for some money to deal with him. Not only did he not suffer any further military disasters, he was also called by the governor of Huguang.... He also gave him a seat in the Jiangxia Patrol Camp stationed in the paper workshop. This did not clearly increase his arrogance.

Do you think? Look at what he did in the years after this move! He opened pawnshops, casinos, tobacco shops, brothels in nearby prefectures and counties. All of these were made by his Kui family, and he even went to us to buy the paddy fields we had. This field is the lifeblood of the villagers who would sell it to his family! They used bad ideas, made people smoke cigarettes, gamble money, and then gave us usury to others to bet and smoke. Then came to the door to ask for debts. Through these methods, they collected the fields of these families, and many of them were made by them.

Destroyed people and died. That's not all. In the villages that didn't leave him any chance, he simply sent his horse thieves to come out to sweep him every month, and all the food and cloth were stolen by him by collecting protection and security taxes! Originally, before Master Lu had fallen into trouble, he didn't dare to come to us to provoke, but since Master Lu was appointed in Chengdu, we have been plagued by rice seedlings! Everyone had long hated these animals to death

A few families who knew some writing and writing joined together to sue the Kui family for bullying men and women, and did something wrong, and were imprisoned by the county magistrate. They wanted to use money to redeem people, but those who had no money were locked up inside. When did they have money to redeem people and then release them? Kuisheng also has a house in the county town, not far from the county town, but it was specially used to keep thugs. He usually rarely went there. Most of the time he lived in a charity village on the outskirts of the county town about 25 miles away from our lou village..."

"Oh, do you know how many horse thieves are in the charity house?"

"It's really not clear. However, I heard that Kui Sheng is now competing with the Red Gang (Ge Laohui) in Wuchang Prefecture for opium deals in several nearby counties. Therefore, he offended many Red Gang bosses. Therefore, the horse thieves in the charity village should be at least less than hundreds of people. When the young man just retired, he was invited by the owner of Zhuang Zhao and wandered around Zhaozhuang. Therefore, it would be no problem to know that the huge manor was a captive horse thief."

Just as the two were talking, a noise suddenly came from outside the house. Then, the young man named Shi Tou rushed into the house, "Old Fang... Brother Li, I have been looking for almost the same people. Our Lou Village is a small village that I couldn't get enough for the fifty people that Brother Tian wanted, only forty-three, but they are often touched and robbed. Brother, look, what do we need to do now?"

"No need", Li Han happened to solve the stomach problem, and he didn't know how much time the other party would leave for them, so he thanked Mr. Fang, took the bulletproof vest and his helmet, and then followed the young man named Shi Tou to leave Mr. Fang's home... "Brother Li, are you a revolutionary party?"

As soon as he left Mr. Fang's house, the stone that looked a little dazed suddenly seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and even the expression on his face became more and more!

Li Han was stunned. This is the problem. But he immediately shook his head, "It can't be considered as such!"

"But...oh, I understand..." Shi Tou was about to say something, but suddenly he opened his eyes, looked at the one behind his back and left the house. He stood at the door and looked at them from afar. A trace of understanding flashed across his face, which made Li Han feel a little puzzled. Perhaps only he himself knew what he understood!

"By the way, Brother Shi Tou, ask you about Mr. Fang. Do you know him?"

Li Han thought of Mr. Fang's words before, and a strange look flashed across his face. According to his thoughts, if Mr. Fang really belonged to an official family, it would be impossible for him to live in this remote mountain village after resigning. Although the scenery here is pleasant and easy to support his elderly care, he did not believe that the kind of officials of the Qing Dynasty, which was known as the "Three Years of Qing Dynasty's 100,000 Snow Flakes and Silver" could appear!

"What? Didn't the old man tell you?" Shi Tou looked at him in surprise. After seeing him shook his head, he replied, "If you want to say that Mr. Fang is really the number one big shot in our Lou Village. I heard from my grandfather about this. It is said that Mr. Fang was not originally named Fang, but like most people in our Lou Village, they were surnamed Lou. In the early years, it was probably when the bandits were chaotic. At that time, a few officials from the provinces in the Lou Village came to our Lou Village to avoid disaster, and one of them was one.

A man surnamed Fang. At that time, all the relatives in Fang's hometown went to one after another because they were sick, leaving him alone to rely on the villagers in the village to help him. The high-ranking official surnamed Fang recognized him as his adopted son when he saw that he was pitiful and had no descendants. Fang also left our Lou Village with the high-ranking official surnamed Fang. He first went to Chongqing Prefecture, and later he heard that he went to the capital and Gansu again, and finally made a foothold in Chengdu, following the old Governor Zhao that year, and became a high-ranking official!"

"However, although Mr. Fang is upright and has many villagers who have helped him to seek refuge in his life, his second son and his eldest grandson who died were too unfavorable. He heard that the second son was addicted to smoking with a group of officials from Chengdu Prefecture, which caused all the small amount of silver in Fang, who was never greedy, to spend all the money. In the end, he borrowed a lot of money from the usury. For this matter, the old man almost got angry with him! In the end, he simply cut off his father-son relationship and drove him out of the house! As for this eldest grandson, I can't say it. What do you think? He is not addicted to cigarettes and never gambles, but the old man originally expected him to get a merit test.
Chapter completed!