Zhou Wang Temple.

"Folks, folks, listen to me......"

Kong Zhenyun stood in front of the temple gate, shouting hoarsely.

This is the venue of the Heung Sage Association.

Because the situation changed too quickly during this time, after the Datong army returned to the imperial court, the new Quzhou prefect and Xi'an prefect had not yet arrived......

Deliberately.

After all, everyone understands that the situation in Zhejiang is unstable, and at this time, when he came to be an official, wouldn't he jump into the fire pit by himself, and he couldn't even save his life when he was in chaos, saying that these officials were still very smart, and the tragedy of Huizhou Shizhifu not long ago has proved their wisdom. Poor Shi Zhifu was pierced through a lung by a bullet that was not originally aimed at him, and when he was still pouring out of breath on the hospital bed, he was so angry that Diao Min who rushed into the mansion and looted the warehouse swallowed directly.

However, it is also said that his house slave ran away with his money, so in order to avoid future troubles, he poked the wound again.

In short, the cause of his death is questionable.

But after all, he died.

Then, in the absence of a magistrate, Kong Zhenyun, a doctor of the Five Classics who had refused to go along and had always entertained himself in the house behind closed doors, had the responsibility to come forward to preside over the overall situation under the constant pleading of the Xiangxian Association.

And then......

He was out of luck.

In front of him and a few village sages at the moment were countless angry workers and dock coolies.

There are also small traders.

They all ask for money.

After the incident at Shuitingmen Wharf, all the coolies at the wharf, the workers in the factories in the city, and even the women workers in the textile workshops, all found out that something was wrong, and all the gentry seemed to have begun to withhold their wages for various reasons.

That's not the scariest of all.

After all, when working for others, people must find ways to deduct money, but the deduction is ruthless, and it can't be said to make people panic, what really causes panic is something else......

White.

A wide variety of white bars.

Regardless of the purchase of raw materials or daily needs, these gentry have recently liked to open white strips, they, their children, their housekeepers, shopkeepers, all of them like to open white strips, and some even have white strips for starting their work, and even the vegetable sellers have found that they still have a lot of white strips in their hands.

This is collected when food is delivered to large households.

People just say that the person in charge is not there, so I will give you a note first, and you will come back to get it one day.

I won't lie to you.

They had asked from time to time, but those who had made a blank slip had promised that it was just a temporary lack of money......

They all have families and businesses.

They are all big families with heads and faces, what can they still owe you money?

Sometimes I really wait for the rice to go to the pot, and I can also take out a small amount, in short, although I am dissatisfied, but after all, these gentry are all well-known figures in the local area, and they have a big family, and they really don't have to be afraid of defaulting on their debts, it is mainly a kind of inertia, these gentry have been controlling the place, and it is difficult for the common people to think about anything else. But this time, as soon as the window paper was opened, these workers and coolies, as well as those female workers and small traders, instantly panicked, which is the problem of capital turnover, obviously seeing the Jing Nanjun killed, knowing that the future is uncertain, deliberately tightening the money to do something else!

What if they do run away!

What if their homes are raided!

……

All sorts of just in case.

But no matter what happens, it's these bottom layers who are unlucky in the end!

"Folks, after I am a saint, I will not lie to you!"

Kong Zhenyun shouted.

There was a disdainful boo in front of him.

"Folks, don't think nonsense, those who deduct wages, I will go and tell them, I will not deduct them again in the future, and I will also help you find them to cash out those white slips.

It's not that they don't give you money.

Now it is the head of the national crisis, the anti-party has entered Zhejiang, Yanzhou is fighting, whether we can escape the claws of Zhejiang, it depends on this battle, the front is the time when the military supplies are urgently needed, you don't want to strike, the strike is not right, at this time, the people of Zhejiang should work together to resist the foreign enemy, as soon as you strike, the military supplies outside cannot be transported, the guns cannot be made, and the defeat will be followed by the disaster......"

Dr. Kong continued to shout.

"It's you who suffered, it's our business, maybe we will divide the land!"

Shouts rang out from the crowd.

"Yes, we want money!"

"Pay back!"

……

There was a chaotic shout.

Countless arms hold white strips, like in front of a bank that is running out.

"Fang Qingtong hasn't come yet?"

Kong Zhenyun lowered his head and asked a fellow countryman beside him.

The latter shook his head.

"What about Ye Yinyang?"

Kong Zhenyun asked, wiping his sweat.

"Brother Yinyang went to Jinhua yesterday."

Another villager said.

"Why aren't you there, you're here on weekdays, why aren't you here at this time?"

Kong Zhenyun erupted and said angrily.

His voice was a little louder, and the nearest few people in front of him immediately heard it......

"Master Fang has run away!"

One of them shouted as if he had come to an instant.

"Master Ye also ran away!"

The other also dawned on him.

"Quick, folks, don't let them all run away, let's go to their house to find them, let's go get our money ourselves!"

The first shouted.

Then the crowd was in chaos, everyone rushed to their respective targets in panic with white stripes, Kong Zhenyun was stupid when he saw this scene, but before he could wake up, the two fellow sages beside him turned around and ran, almost at the same time, hundreds of people in the crowd pounced together, and he was stunned to watch these people drown the two fellow sages......

"Master Xu, this is ten taels of meat for your housekeeper, give the silver quickly."

"This is the twenty taels that Ling Gongzi just wrote yesterday."

……

There was a chaotic shout.

Kong Zhenyun wanted to cry and watched this scene without tears.

Of course he understood what was going on, although his family didn't do it, and he was still a little confident in his ancestor's tablet, but those gentry didn't have his Holy Descent's Light Protector. No matter what the battle situation is, it is always right to keep the silver, and once the battle is lost in the end, the silver will be bought from Yang Xin. Although this method is indeed stupid, the problem is that those gentry have no other way but to coax it until the time, and now it is the end of the coaxing.

However, these people found that it was useless, and many of the gentry had already carried the silver away.

They're not stupid!

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out......

Kong Zhenyun raised his head in astonishment, and then saw the local eunuch he had just been looking for, Fang Yingxiang, the former senator of the Shandong Bu Political Envoy Division, was sitting on a horse with a gloomy face not far away, and beside him, there was a team of cavalry that had just arrived.

Not a vigilante group.

Cavalry who was transferred back from the front.

An officer was holding a short gun that was still smoking.

"Who dares to make trouble?"

Fang Yingxiang shouted.

"Qingtong Gong save me!"

An old villager rushed out of the crowd and shouted as if he had seen his own father.

"Master Fang, this is a hundred taels of charcoal bought by the steward of your mansion, a small business, you can pity the poor little one!"

A man shouted with a white strip.

"I've got that too!"

"Pay back!"

The originally silent crowd instantly boiled again.

Fang Yingxiang signaled to the officer next to him, who immediately took off another short gun, and then pulled the trigger at the sky.

All of a sudden, the crowd fell silent again.

"The old man made it clear to you today that the silver in your hands will be given to you a lot, but not for now, but after repelling the rebels. This battle is the common responsibility of tens of millions of people in Zhejiang, not the responsibility of the gentry alone, although the peddlers and pawns should also contribute, the front soldiers fought bloodily, we have the money to contribute and the strength to contribute, is it the time to care about the money?

Disperse immediately, and those who gather a crowd to disturb the peace for this matter will be killed!

As for the striking workers.

Those who dare to strike will be punished as rebels, and there is a war ahead, so is the strike intended to help the rebel party?

Go back to work immediately!

Continue to mess around and kill! ”

After all, Master Fang was a big man, and when this official power came out, the momentum was immediately different.

"Lao Tzu won't do it, brothers, don't do it for them, Yingguo Gong called us and we will divide the land, why give them their lives, strike, continue to strike!"

Shouts rang out from the crowd.

The officer snatched the short gun from the soldier next to him and pulled the trigger.

The shot rang out, and the man fell.

"Who else dares to strike?"

The officer shouted.

His accent is not from this area, but from Wenzhou.

This was originally intended to reinforce the front line, but in fact the battlefield was not far from Quzhou, and an army that landed in Baisha was attacking Shouchang, and Quzhou, including the regimental training reinforced from Guangxin, was engaged with the Jingnan army in Shouchang at this time. Although it was true that the main force could not be rushed back in Huzhou for the time being, relying on the strong military production capacity in this area, the gentry quickly armed an army of more than 20,000 people for a diversionary attack on the Jingnan army attacking Yanzhou from the periphery.

But it's also the last strength they can piece together.

Even many children of wealthy families have to go to the battlefield, it can be said that they have done their best, of course, there can be no accidents at this time.

What is Quzhou?

The entire Zhejiang is currently the lifeline, and the vast majority of all the materials transported from other places are transported to the front line from here, and are transported to factories in Jinhua and other places. Fang Yingxiang understood this, so he went to Longyou as fast as possible, intercepted a cavalry post that had just arrived from Wenzhou, and came directly to suppress it.

There was silence among the people gathered......

"Go back to work immediately!"

Master Fang shouted.

"Raise your gun!"

The officer shouted.

The cavalry behind raised their spears......

"Brothers, fight with them and get our silver back!"

There was a roar on the rooftops on both sides, followed by an explosion of grenades.

Fang Yingxiang and the cavalry turned back in amazement, the fire of the explosion sounded in the cavalry behind, the entire cavalry team was in chaos, the screams of the war horses continued to sound, and there were dozens of more people on the roofs on both sides, one by one holding fuses and burning grenades......

"Come on, get our money back!"

"It's time to welcome the Jing army!"

……

The next moment was a tsunami-like roar behind him.

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