Chapter 17: Infernal Affairs at the end of the Ming Dynasty
Chen Zhuang's military training is in full swing, and the evil sabotage plan against Chen Zhuang is also being carried out in secret.
In a deep mansion in Feng Zhuang, the local tyrants and inferior gentry in several Zhuangzi in Fang Yuan gathered in Feng Tian's deep mansion and discussed something secretly.
"Brother Feng Tian, what should I do next, you can show you brothers a clear way." A man with a sharp beak and a monkey's cheek in the first few Zhuangzi sitting below shouted at the top of his voice.
"What to do? He Yuan Dynasty took away a lot of our tenants, I heard a report from the next person, saying that this Yuan Dynasty will accept tenants again in the future, he is clearly going to smash our jobs, what can we do? If he didn't teach him a lesson, he really thought that the nearby villages were full of soft persimmons, bitter haha. Feng Tian said with a gloomy face to the landlords in the villages below.
"You all also know that in the early stage, he Yuan Dynasty accepted people, and our five villages sent some people to break into the interior, this Yuan Dynasty is also annoyingly tight, I don't know what's going on, and many of our people have been rejected for various reasons, but no matter how strict he is, there are loopholes, and we finally succeeded in inserting ten of our people, and then we have to make good use of these ten households, and let these ten families give them a catastrophe in Chenzhuang." After Feng Tian finished speaking, he punched the bookcase in front of him, shaking the books he had never opened for the first time.
"Brother Feng Tian means to let these ten families do a big deal in the village? So how should these ten families be connected, and what should these ten families do? The other person next to him got up again and asked.
"It's very simple, before my people mixed into Chen Zhuang, I told them that every five days I sent someone to the south of Chen Zhuang to meet with my housekeeper Feng Papi, before the people in our village communicated with me a few times, I heard that this Yuan Dynasty also practiced two hundred nursing homes in the village, it was really difficult for him, so afraid that we would retaliate against him, but he couldn't have imagined that we had already had someone mixed inside, so when we met next time, I would let Feng Pao belt a large number of fire folds for the people who mixed into Chen Zhuang, Then naturally, let him secretly distribute these fire folds to every household that mixed in, and in the middle of the night, they acted together to burn all the grain depots in Chenzhuang, the wharf in Chenzhuang, and everything in Chenzhuang, and Feng Papi would take advantage of the fire and take us to fight the fire with our respective people, everyone knows what to do when they go in, water and fire are ruthless, and naturally the ten families who are doing dirty work and tired people, and the Yuan Dynasty, will no longer be able to talk, so what does this Chenzhuang fire have to do with me? We're all good neighbors fighting fires, hahahaha. After Feng Tian finished speaking, he laughed treacherously.
"Wonderful, Brother Feng Tian, I didn't expect you to have such talents, it's really beyond our reach." The eyes of the few people sitting below flashed with greed. After burning Chen Zhuang, it is natural to fight the autumn wind, after all, the fire is together, who knows what is left, so planned, even Yuan An, the governor of Zhou, can't catch any handles, if Yuan An has to arrest them, every family and every family has people who are officials in various places, and they are not afraid of him Yuan An messing around without evidence.
After the plan was agreed, the five Zhuangzi people went back to prepare to organize some henchmen to widely accept some scoundrels and bandits and thieves they knew, and planned how they would take over the property of the Yuan Dynasty after the fire in Chen Zhuang.
"Master, the fish has bitten the hook." Yuan Bao, as usual, swaggered into Yuan Chao's house, and after seeing Yuan Chao, he lowered his voice and brought a piece of exciting news.
"Oh? Let's talk about it in detail. Yuan Chao originally thought that Yuan Bao was reporting some trivial news as usual, but he didn't expect Yuan Bao to suddenly bring such an explosive piece of information this time, and he suddenly came to his senses, which really felt like fishing for a long time, and suddenly saw the excitement of the fish floating.
"The owner of the village, today I heard the informant come to report, saying that it is a family from Feng Zhuang, and they are going to the south of the village for the first time every five days, and every time they follow, you can see this resident and Feng Tian, the landlord of Feng Zhuang, the housekeeper of the house, Feng Papi, to meet, this time they have met for a long time, and Feng Papi also gave him a sack of things, after this family came back, secretly connected these ten families, according to our informant's many secret observations, it was found that this Feng Papi gave a fire fold, it seems that they are going to make a move."
"Heh, if you want to break Cao Gong, it is advisable to attack with fire, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, it seems that he Feng Tian regards himself as Zhuge Liang and me as Cao Mengde, let ......" Yuan Chao was about to give the order and send more people to secretly keep an eye on them, and when it was necessary to control them at all times, suddenly Yuan Xu came over and whispered a few words in Yuan Chao's ear.
"Yo, could it be that Feng Tian regarded himself as Zhou Gongjin again this time? Here comes the bitter ploy again? Uncle clan, one of the ten families is from Li Zhuang named Li Miao. Yuan Chao asked his uncle.
"Yes, yes, how does the owner of the village know, the owner of the village is really an unpredictable prophet and a clever ......" Although Yuan Bao didn't know what Yuan Chao was doing all of a sudden, he still slapped his ass twice first.
"That's right, this person named Li Miao was sneaky at the door just now, and was called into the house by Yuan Xu and asked, saying that he was here to report something. Uncle Clan, you hide behind the screen first, and I'll take a look at what medicine he sells in his stomach. Yuan Chao waved his hand towards the screen, ready to ask this Li Miao.
After Yuan Bao hid behind the screen, Yuan Xu brought Li Miao in.
"The owner, the owner, the villain has something important to say, please believe the villain and spare the villain." As soon as Li Miao came in, as soon as he saw Yuan Chao, he knelt on the ground with a puff and walked towards Yuan Chao with his knees.
"Alright, alright, let's talk about it quickly." Yuan Chao carefully observed Li Miao's every move to see if he was pretending.
"Owner, in our village, there are ten spies from nearby villages, ah no, there are nine spies besides me, they got an order today, and they are ready to set fire to the village tonight. The owner of the village, I was also a loafer in Li Zhuang before, but these days in our village, I work with everyone, take silver together, for the first time by the respect of the villagers, my son now has a book in the business school, I am very satisfied, I don't want others to ruin such a life, the owner. After Li Miao finished speaking, she sat down on the ground again and cried.
"This person can recruit all the spies at once, and he only needs to catch them in one net, so in this case, this person should indeed be a person who has changed his ways, and there is no possibility of lying." Yuan Chao thought for a moment and made a judgment.
"Okay Li Miao, I know, you can change your evil and return to the right, prove that you are not bad, what you need to do now is to go back and then set fire to the village according to the time agreement, you can rest assured, when I arrest them in the end, I will miss you, from now on you will forget about this matter and work hard in the village, and they, I will be sent to Chenzhou, so that they can see the official and go to prison."
Li Miao looked up at Yuan Chao, thinking that he could keep his current life, wiped his tears, nodded vigorously, and quietly left from the side door.
"Zhuang master, there is no way to sue Feng Tian and them, after all, we only have the words of these villagers, Feng Tian will not admit it, and we will have no choice but to end up in the end." Yuan Bao came out of the back screen and said.
"I naturally know, but if I lock up the villagers in private, it will cause criticism, and even get into a lawsuit, but if I don't punish them, it will be too cheap for them, I can only let the government punish this group of people for me, so as to sound the alarm for the people who are going to make trouble next." Yuan Chao patiently explained to Yuan Bao.
"Okay, call more trustworthy villagers, catch the arsonist thief, I don't want to use Chen's military camp to scare the snakes." Yuan Chao finished arranging and was ready to go back to the room to rest.