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8. Troubled soldiers want to burn the streets

Gao Yue then said, I am the Jieshang from Huainan, so I can recommend it to them, but it is best to let your two friends accept your affection. You might as well call them to come to Yangzhou to participate in the provincial examination. I will let you retire as the head of the provincial examination, give them a "removal" and then go to the Ministry of Rites and the Emperor to take the Jinshi exam. At that time, I will be the eldest uncle and you will be the younger uncle, so wouldn't it be good?

Han Yu was very excited and thanked him very much.

At this moment, several military officers, led by Gu Xiu and Yuanhong, hurriedly came to tell Gao Yue: "The Wei Gong is not doing well. The soldiers who were selected to fight were gathered at Luoshui Bridge to cause trouble, and many passers-by have been injured!"

All the officials who were aware of eating were stunned.

Gao Yue was furious and asked Gu Xiu: "Bowen, has the money you have all been distributed in place?"

Gu Xiu replied: "All of them are in place. According to Duke Wei's instructions, the salary for the military officers in the military was twenty-eight cents per year. Therefore, when they were given a refund, each person paid five cents of money, plus ten pieces of water and silk cloth, which was about the salary for August, so they could find a way out for themselves."

Then Gu Xiu stepped forward and told Gao Yue: "It is easy to resign the children of all states, because they all have land in the local area, and at most they can return to their hometowns to farm. But the soldiers were recruited, and they all hoped to eat the floating food of the military mansion. They had no land and livelihood skills, so they started to make trouble."

Gao Yue was very angry, but he could understand it.

This time, the Wuyi Army was organized, and the main body was Gao Yue's old subordinate, so he had to significantly withdraw the original 20,000 troops in Yangzhou, Huainan. In the end, more than a thousand troops were added to the Wuyi Army, and another three to four thousand were added to the local garrison troops. However, the other 10,000 were all rejected, and many of them were "two-corridor-lower soldiers" in the Du Ya era!

If it were normal, these soldiers would have cut Gao Yue's family with knives.

But now I dare not: Wu Yi's three armies, the left army was in the mouth of Guan Henan, the right army was outside Chanzhi Temple, and the central army guarded Gao Weigong in Shugang. Most of these groups were outsiders, and they all killed the fierce gangs of the Fan soldiers and Cai soldiers. They had no relatives and no reason with the Old Town soldiers, and would not sympathize with the Old Town soldiers.

The Armament Building, Military Subsidiary and Firearms Supervisor were also strictly controlled, and the soldiers who were revoked could not snatch weapons and rebel.

After being given a refund, the more than 10,000 soldiers were sitting unwillingly in the west of the city, at a loss. Some sold cloth or exchanged money for rice. After a few days, they pushed calf carts to the township to make a living, while others began to work in Yangzhou City.

But there were about four or five thousand people. After "thinking it through", they thought that Gao Yue was persecuting them.

"What else can we do if we don't join the army?"

"In the past, when they were in the army, they would be punished by the imperial court, and if they were fighting, they would be supported by Jieshuai. This is natural, but now they are driven to the countryside and wilderness, so cruel!"

Some people threw their foreheads on the ground, jumped to the ground platform, and shouted, "Since Gao Yuemu, we are waste, we might as well go into the mountain and continue to do things at the edge of the knife."

So everyone clamored for support, and Dayou immediately went to Bagong Mountain in Shouchun to gather and roar as bandits.

Someone shouted again: "If you don't keep me here, there will be places where you keep me. If you don't keep me everywhere, my grandfather will enter the mountain shed!"

"Don't be a thief in the mountains and rivers. They are not having a good life now. Why don't we go to this city and move goods to the ships passing by the diners and shops? Anyway, Gao Yue wants us to make a living by ourselves, so let's continue to eat from Yangzhou City!"

OK OK OK So thousands of people went together.

Soon, the group of retrenched soldiers occupied both sides of the Guanhe River in Yangzhou, set up shacks among the tiles of the buildings, and then began to cross the river. The ships that forced them to "moving goods" were hired, but they would not move them after paying. However, if anyone dared not pay, they would beat them up and down. Some ships transported goods on the Guanhe River. After walking less than five or six miles, the goods were "moved up and down" seven or eight times, and they were blocked like a cancer on the lifeline of Yangzhou City, which scared the surrounding merchants so that they did not dare to sail for one or two days.

"It's outrageous!" Gao Yue knew that he had to rectify the soldiers, otherwise the withdrawal system would not be implemented at all.

"Donald Wei will calm down for the time being. These snakes and rats occupy the long street. There are many warehouses and money cabinets, and the building and courtyard are also the prosperity of Yangzhou City. If Wu Yi army is sent to suppress the bullets and cannons and guns fly together, it may be destroyed in the war." Gu Xiu, Yuan Hong, including Han Yu, all stood up and asked Gao Yue to handle the matter calmly.

Gao Yue said: I have my own way to do this.

Then Gao Yue waved, let Gu Xiu and himself stand under the corner of the canteen, and asked with doubt: "Does anyone secretly support these soldiers?"

Gu Xiu whispered: "It seems that some salt merchants sell rice to them, and the sale is very low, which is equivalent to giving it."

"These maggots are going to die for themselves." Gao Yue said coldly, his determination was settled.

The next day, at dawn, the troubled soldiers were hula, and a group of hedgehogs gathered at the snail bridge, climbed to the bridge or the masts, and looked north: only the flags were waving and the armor was tight, "The Wuyi Army's Central Army came out of the Zhongshu Gate of Zicheng... and crossed the turbid water..."

Over there, "Wu Yi's right army came from the side of the samsaramen..."

The same group of soldiers in the town were nestled at the Taiping Bridge in the south of the city. When they saw the left army of Wuyi Army lined up to enter the Wansui Bridge from Guan Henankou, which was only one and a half miles away from him, they were all frightened.

Half an hour later, Wu Yi's army pressed the rebels from northwest, northeast and southward to oppress the seven or eight miles long Guanhe long street.

In the chaos, some soldiers held up torches and bundles of grass and shouted: "Don't panic, this long street residence has piled up with treasures and money, more than one million coins? If Gao Yue dares to be strong, we will set fire and burn it clean!"

"Yes, don't be afraid!" Thousands of soldiers shouted, then asked their families to hide in the shacks, find various ignition equipment and collected urban weapons, shrink at both ends, and finally all entrenched in the central area.

At this time, the people, merchants, craftsmen, and prostitutes on the Long Street of Yangzhou City screamed and lost their voices. They dragged their children and daughters, and ran out of the Long Street with valuable soft boxes.

More than a thousand soldiers of Wuyi's army, holding a divine thunder gun swaying with a fire rope, and wearing a thick Western-style chain mail, unfolding formations along the banks of Luoshui Bridge. On the bridge were a man who struck his life, surrounding the Pixiu flag and Gao Yue who was riding a horse in the center.

In autumn, there were no boats on the Guan River, and the cool mist surging and moving around the rain-like torches on both sides.

On the Wuyi Army, the spears were raised, the flags were flew, and the divine thunder guns were all flat. The muzzles with the outer hexagonal and inner circle were all in line with the direction where the riots gathered, and the scene was extremely tense.

The scene is temporarily quiet.

After a long time, Gao Yue said loudly: "What are the children? Everyone is just asking for food for their soldiers. Now they are being picked up and the military government has made up for money and cloth. From then on, they all make a living. It is also a good thing. Why do they block the Caohe River and forcefully extort business travel?"
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