Chapter 40 Collapse
"I'll ask to see Lord Qianhu when I arrive at Suocheng first." Han Sen looked around and said dejectedly: "After waiting for half an hour, Li Qianhu looked unhappy when he saw me. After hearing what Wang Baihu and others had about it, Li Qianhu waved his hand and drove me out. He said that Min Baihu was causing trouble, Qianhu ignored it. He, Qianhu, had no ability to ask for people from Yang Shida... Qianhu also said that his salt ship had also been beaten up before, and he had asked for 10% of the money. This matter was caused by Min Baihu, and the money was always returned to Min Baihu..."
When Han Sen spoke, he felt quite ashamed in his words. It was obvious that the fifth-rank Qianhu was no better than the Baihu and the General Banners. He was quite identifiable in the local area, but Li Qianhu was so irresponsible, cowardly and incompetent. What's more important is the indifference and indifference he showed to ignore the life and death of the flag soldiers...
"Previously, Lord Li Qianhu did have a batch of salt ships detained at the water gate, the flag army carrying salt was beaten, and the salt cargo on the ship was increased by 10%. This was the result of Li Qianhu asking someone to plead for love." Han Sen's muscles twitched a few times and said angrily: "So Li Qianhu was not ruling, he really had no choice. Later, I went to see Min Qianhu signing books. After hearing this, he was very anxious. Min Qianhu also said that he would ask the commander or a co-master to turn the round on his behalf, but the time is not certain, and he dare not guarantee it.
Effective. If the government officials are probably useful, but recently the prefectures and county officials have been troubled by Shandong generals to collect grain. They are important to serve the military generals in Shandong, but our banner army will not take the life or death of our banner army to heart. To put it bluntly, even if a few of us die, these prefectures and county officials will at most send a document to deal with it. I am afraid that no one will really pay attention to it... Min Qianhu said that if he fails to ask for help, he will find a way to raise money, pay a large amount of silver to Yang Shida, and find a few well-known gentry to persuade him to reconcile..."
Han Sen's tone of speech became more and more low, until his voice was so low that others could no longer hear clearly.
Everyone was depressed and a few scholars felt that everything that had been old was quickly collapsed in front of them.
All the old order is rapidly collapsing, and the power of the local government comes from the recognition of order. When the order is intact, not to mention the prefectures and county halls, even if an official and a few servants are in charge, Yang Shida has to release the people in a regular manner. In fact, if the order is intact, Dahewei can completely solve this matter by himself... No matter how low the status of military officers in the garrison office is, the sixth-rank official cannot ask a group of salt diners to be arrested and detained...
People looked at each other, and the official hall suddenly became silent.
No one spoke or reacted next. The group of people in the official hall suddenly turned into stone sculptures and wooden statues. Except for the breathing that could not stop, all the subtle movements stopped.
Before Han Sen came back, people held the last glimmer of hope. After all, the world has not yet perished. Although everyone is a military officer and has always had a low status, they cannot be so unruly. A salt owl who holds a misunderstanding official position, actually gathers a group of rogue green-skinned gangsters and acts in a rampant manner under the name of salt patrol. If in normal times, many people are quite dissatisfied with the 10% commission given to Yang Shida. Min Yuanqi beat people without bank payment. Although the military households were worried, they secretly felt relieved... They thought it would be fine if they avoided the limelight in this matter, but unexpectedly, Yang Shida's group was like a maggot with bones, like an old turtle made in the pond. Now they bit the military households and don't let go!
"Let's go first." After a while, Min Yuanqi waved his hand and said, "I'll think of a solution again, so I won't just let it go."
Wang Mingyuan said angrily: "Of course I can't forget it like this, after all, it was the trouble you caused."
Min Yuanqi had not spoken for a moment, but at this moment he smiled and said, "Brother Mingyuan now knows that the salt ox is arrogant, and the thousand households are not taken seriously, and the government ignores it. According to Brother Mingyuan, no matter how excessive this generation is, how unruly or illegal, or how to bully men and women, we should endure it silently? According to your thoughts, this generation slapped us on the left face and should put our right face over again, otherwise would it be considered a troublemaker?"
"What the Lord Baihu said is reasonable!"
"It's too much to deceive people."
"This is considered riding on our necks and shit. If you can tolerate everything, you can tolerate it. Can you tolerate it again?"
In the noisy voice, Han Sen said again: "Li Qianhu still has troubles... The commander of the Fucheng City issued an order, saying that he would receive the order of the Nanjing Central Army Governor's Office, Dahewei, Yangzhou Wei Taizhou Wei and Huai'an Wei. The guards would transfer the handed grain to the subordinate Liu Shuai's troops in Shandong. In the future, we will have a lot of food, which is difficult enough..."
Although Han Sen was extremely despised and did not recognize Li Kecheng at all, it was because of Li Kecheng's background and power, and Han Sen subconsciously maintained the old order system, so he was still defending Shangguan as much as possible.
But this sentence seemed to stir up a thousand waves. The emotions of people inside and outside the official hall were like a burning oil pan splashing with water, and the whole crowd was boiling.
The domineering and illegal forces of the Shandong soldiers have been widely praised. Before that, neither Huai'an Guard nor Dahe Guard encountered any riots. Only a small group of defeated soldiers had escaped from Henan. Once they came, they were confiscated by the local garrison, which did not cause any major harm.
The Shandong soldiers followed Liu Zeqing, and there were more than 30,000 soldiers and other soldiers. Although Liu Zeqing was the worst among the four towns in Jiangbei in the future... Even Liu Liangzuo had fought some wars and had some elite soldiers who could fight. Liu Zeqing simply relied on waiting and looting to preserve and strengthen his strength. His subordinates had the least number of elite soldiers and the fewest elite soldiers, while the scum who did all the bad things had no bottom line was filled with the military camps of the soldiers who went south to Shandong.
These Shandong soldiers were visiting soldiers in foreign lands, but they were unable to save any military discipline. At least there would be some local fires in the hometown. When the enemy soldiers arrived in other places, the military discipline was difficult to maintain. What's more, there were vicious, cruel and unscrupulous generals like Liu Zeqing who were the generals?
These days, news of Shandong soldiers collecting grain, looting, and even beating and killing people have long been spreading. These Shandong soldiers recruiting grains are simply doing whatever they want. During the process of collecting grains, they even intentionally plunder the large gentry households. Originally, the generals were most afraid of offending the gentry, but now they are completely different. Liu Zeqing does not take ordinary officials and gentry seriously at all. He once murdered the court's servants, but Emperor Chongzhen ignored it. This made Liu Zeqing faintly feel the bottom line of the court, that is, as long as the generals who led the army were still serving the Ming Dynasty, the emperor would be worried without any bottom line...
For ordinary people, they were not concerned about the great cause of the dynasty, but the incident of the visiting soldiers beating and killing people and looting at will make them extremely worried. These soldiers collected grain and looting in Huai'an and various counties, and no one was taken seriously by them. Even the officials and officials of the prefectures and counties and officials became the helpers of these visiting soldiers. According to the rumor, Zhang Jiayu, the magistrate of Yancheng, was even pointed at the nose by someone from Shandong soldiers because of the supply problems... These news aggravated people's panic. After hearing the clear news, people's anger was even more intensified.
There were noisy talk inside and outside the official hall, and people looked angry on their faces. Amid the talk, Wang Mingyuan said angrily. He still felt that Min Yuanqi was too reckless and violent and caused trouble for nothing.
Guan Lei looked contemplative on his face. Ding Ruqi did not make a sound, but just walked out in a hurry.
The scholar who had not entered school had his face shaking in front of him. He didn't care. The left and right walls in front of him were the official halls. He subconsciously looked back. The five-bedroom official hall was still full of faces. The candlelight was shaking, and people's faces were also shaking under the lights. Most of them were wearing fat jackets. It was not too hot in spring, and the winter jackets would not take off early. Spring covered and autumn frozen. If you get sick, it would be even worse for the poor. We must be careful. We were placed on both sides of the courtyard, and the two were wiped with shiny snow. Everything seemed to be no different. Only the black and gray tiles were covered with dead artemisia that showed the decay weather. The interior and exterior walls of the courtyard were white and yellow. This was the result of the recent pleasing of craftsmen who served in the hundreds of households. Although the color was not good, the decayed official hall was obviously much new.
Everything seemed to be no different, but at this moment, Ding Ruqi felt that the things he believed in and relied on had completely collapsed, and everything in front of him became meaningless. The scholar covered his face and felt exhausted all over, so he walked out in a staggered manner.
"What's the point of saying this now? You have to talk about it based on your fists and swords and guns. Since the government ignores it and no one comes to the garrison to ask about it, then we will use swords and guns to attack Yang Shida and his gang, wouldn't there be no one to make trouble?"
"Who said this?"
"The dog slutty is said to be light and simple. Yang Shida and his gang are not fodder for free. How can they be easily beaten?"
"What he said makes some sense. What are we trying to practice with hundreds of households these days?
"If Yang Shida doesn't ask us to live, we won't ask him to live!"
"You can't stand such a hard life anymore. Shandong soldiers still have to call to pay the food. If you don't call, you will have to be robbed and beaten. If you don't do it, you will lose your life. If you don't find a way out, are you really waiting to die?"
"The court can't control too much. The emperor called the thieves to surround him. Since those officials ignored our lives and death, they really ignored Yang Shida's life and death. If this were the same, they were all seven-foot men, so what if they went to chop the donkeys and horses and shot them!"
"It's better to go and fight while sitting and waiting for death."
If Yang Shida and his gang's targeting had already made all the military households feel uncomfortable, then the news brought back by Han Sen would crush the last straw of the camel.
Chapter completed!