At this time, Zhao Wenhua did not know that Emperor Zhu Houzhao had instructed Emperor Zhu Zailei to replace him from his position in the construction of the military base in the war of extermination.

Despite this, he is already very bored now, especially when he sees Qi Jiguang, Tang Kekuan, and Hu Zongxian's good honey oil blending, he is even more indignant in his heart, which is not the result he wants to see.

The current Ming country is rich, as the central empire, even civilians still eat meat and sing every night, not to mention that as a high-ranking official of the empire and the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, the natural life is even more prosperous.

Although Qi Jiguang and others went to sea to exterminate the Japanese this time, it was not a good errand such as patrolling, but the daily march was not as good as the previous Ming army, and in addition to the rooms for military purposes, there were ready-made wine tables, theaters, restaurants with various cuisines, and hospitals.

After all, the current Ming Dynasty is different from the past.

In today's era, human life is naturally not cheap, and even because of the abundance of life and the improvement of the national education level, human dignity has also improved a lot, in the past it was enough to give a full mouth, but now it is not enough to let it eat enough, but also to make it feel that they live with dignity, and it is precisely because of this that more and more people in the Ming Dynasty began to accept the idea of equality for all, and even regarded this as the natural right of human beings, that is, human rights.

It is precisely for this reason that even in the military, we must begin to improve the treatment of officers and soldiers, not only to keep them fed and clothed, but also to make them feel at home and respected.

The Ming Dynasty plundered the foreign world for decades, and the huge wealth accumulated by feeding back to the people, so that the people's living level was improved, and the ideological level was also improved, and they gradually regarded themselves as the masters of the country, and even the army began to advocate the equality of officers and soldiers.

Of course, for many people who still have thoughts about the hierarchical society before the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally difficult to accept such a phenomenon, Zhao Wenhua is now very uncomfortable with the picture of these soldiers dangling in front of him and not kneeling and kowtowing, especially when these soldiers take the initiative to salute and greet the future generations of soldiers, he still has to return the salute, which makes him extremely uncomfortable, thinking that if this is changed to before, why should I return the salute to you Qiu Ba.

Although Zhao Wenhua was depressed in his heart, he also knew that now that the entire Ming Dynasty paid attention to equality everywhere, he could not disobey the general trend, so he could only not be angry on the surface, in order not to salute the people he despised, even if he was eating, he only sat in a secluded corner and ate alone.

But for a few days on the train, Zhao Wenhua didn't want to be so lonely and didn't even have anyone to talk to, and at this time he happened to see Hu Zongxian coming, although he was a little dissatisfied because Hu Zongxian did not cooperate with him to provoke the relationship between Qi Jiguang and Tang Kekuan, and even wrote a letter to Xu Jie to call Hu Zongxian's small report, but now Hu Zongxian is still an equal minister, so he still enthusiastically got up and gave his hand:

"Hu Jingluo, but I also want to eat, remember to eat here after eating!"

Hu Zongxian nodded, and hurriedly asked the cook in the restaurant to make him some vegetarian dishes and a bowl of millet porridge, and walked towards Zhao Wenhua, walking in the aisle, Hu Zongxian also met many officers and soldiers who came to eat in the restaurant like Zhao Wenhua, and the officers and soldiers saluted him, and he also returned the salute one by one with a plate, and smiled and asked some people how they ate.

"Hu Jingluo, you are from Jinshi, why bother to be enthusiastic with these people, just nod", Zhao Wenhua said and beckoned Hu Zongxian to sit down in front of him.

Hu Zongxian was about to sit down, when he heard someone shouting behind him: "Qi Shuai is good!" Tang Shuai is good! ”

Hu Zongxian looked back and saw that at this time, Qi Jiguang and Tang Kekuan really also came to the restaurant, and they also greeted these officers and soldiers first.

Hu Zongxian also went to say hello when he saw this, and then sat directly with Qi Jiguang and Tang Kekuan on the left hand side of Zhao Wenhua's window, and sat with several non-commissioned officers, talking while eating, laughing from time to time.

Seeing this, Zhao Wenhua had to sit back, eating alone and eating alone, feeling very lonely for a while, and naturally feeling even more depressed.

In short, the society without hierarchical order makes Zhao Wenhua very uncomfortable, and the only thing that can make people feel a little bit of a master is that when he was inspecting the project, after getting off the train and arriving at the garrison military port before going to sea, looking at the low eyebrows of these workers who built a large army barracks, Zhao Wenhua finally realized what an official is.

"Dasikong, this army is going to sea, when will the money for the new barracks project arrive, and these workers recruited at the moment have not yet received the money."

Yuan Zhen, the deputy envoy of Zhejiang Haiphong Province, who was directly in charge of the project, couldn't help but ask when Zhao Wenhua, who was in charge of the project, came here.

Zhao Wenhua didn't want to directly say that he embezzled the money to invest in a certain money bank to eat interest and has not recovered it yet, but said: "The project money has not been allocated yet, and the affairs of the imperial court are complicated, how can it be so fast, let them wait a few more days, and they will not starve to death!" ”

"Da Sikong doesn't know, some of these workers are farmers from Henan and Sichuan, in order to earn wages and go home to send their children to college or marry their daughters-in-law or something, now there is no work here, they are here in order to wait for the wages to come down, they have been playing in vain for a month, and then playing like this, delaying these workers to make money elsewhere, at the end of the year, I am afraid that I will not even be able to make up the travel expenses, let alone support my family, and then drag on for fear of making trouble!"

This Yuan Zhen has been a local official for a long time, and is a front-line official who contacts workers, so he naturally knows that since the abolition of the road introduction system and the opening of the sea trade to the outside world, most of the workers used in the economically developed coastal areas are cheap labor from the inland, these people have no fixed jobs, they are all following their fellow relatives and friends to the provinces to find work, basically one job will go to another place to do it, the most afraid is that there is no work to do or delay the time to work, after all, they only stay outside for one year, If you have money or not, you must go back at the end of each year, once you don't pay your wages and live in chaos, after all, these people are a group of relatives and friends from the same country, and it is easy to make trouble, and they are all people of the Ming Dynasty, no more than slaves bought from overseas, they are protected by law.

Zhao Wenhua naturally knew these truths, but he really couldn't find them out for a while, and he instinctively thought that since these workers were all poor farmers in the interior, and seeing that these people were all of low cultural level, they seemed to be very obedient, so he said:

"Let them make trouble, it's hard for them to be able to do the opposite, now everyone in the world is well fed, the family is solid, and a group of workers can't make big waves! Besides, what are you doing with the local police soldiers, as long as you are in a hurry, you will drive these uneducated and low-level people back to the countryside! ”

Yuan Zhen had to bow his head and say yes, but he still had some hidden worries in his heart, after all, this world is not what it used to be, these common people, the court officials said to kill and beat, as long as they don't provoke the people's uprising, it's nothing, even if the people's rebellion is provoked, as long as they lie that they are bandits, it's okay, and if they are exterminated, it's okay and even have some function of suppressing bandits.

But at present, the imperial court has already announced the elimination of all bandits in the Zhengde period, and now the world has reached a consensus, most of the bandits are unfair to the people, even if the local officials suppress the bandits, they must be investigated whether there is a matter of forcing the people to be bandits, and now the popularity of education, even if these people have no culture and no knowledge, their relatives and friends must have read books and drank ink, even if they themselves are more or less some social culture and even primary and secondary school culture level, if people come to Beijing to sue the emperor, Even if you keep the black gauze hat, you will fall into the responsibility of governing the local inappeasement and it will be difficult to rise.

Sure enough, as Yuan Zhen expected, not long after Qi Jiguang, Tang Kekuan, Hu Zongxian, Zhao Wenhua and others arrived in this Songjiang Mansion, outside the military port, some workers waved a banner saying "Return my hard-earned money" and shouted loudly.

The soldiers guarding outside the military port did not dare to shoot, after all, they had been educated by the imperial court for many years in terms of nationality and patriotism, and they had the thoughts and feelings of loving the country and their compatriots, and they knew that these troublemakers were all compatriots, and as long as they did not attack them with weapons, they could not kill their compatriots without permission.

Zhao Wenhua obviously underestimated the strength of the workers in the new era, and when he saw this scene, he was naturally panicked and angry, because now anyone can guess that this matter has something to do with him Zhao Wenhua, because he, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, is in charge of the project.

"Deputy Envoy Yuan, what about the explosion-proof police officers of your police department, all of them are transferred and these workers are blown away! If this delays the extermination of the imperial court, can you afford it?! What nonsense! Kill one or two of him if necessary! Report it to the crime of complicit! ”

Zhao Wenhua hurriedly shouted angrily at Yuan Qian.

"Da Sikong, these are not white slaves and black slaves making trouble, dispatching police officers will only backfire, let alone killing, and, if you have given a strict order today, those who kill their own people for no reason will be dismissed from their posts without asking whether they are right or wrong!"

Yuan Zhibu said with some embarrassment.

But he is indeed right, with the improvement of the level of national education, the idea of equality has become a consensus, of course, in the eyes of the Ming people in this era, white slaves and black slaves are not people, so they can accept the idea of equality for all, but because of this, even the lowest people in the Ming Dynasty dare to fight for their rights and interests and dare to make trouble, and even dare to say that it is a big deal to overthrow the court.

In addition, during the period when an official like Hai Rui served as the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate and was also in charge of the "Huangming Bao", he even proposed that once a mass incident occurred in the local area, the local officials should be held accountable and dismissed from their posts without asking the reason, so that the Ming Dynasty formed an atmosphere of helping the poor but not the rich, and helping the weak but not the strong.

Zhao Wenhua was also very depressed, he didn't expect that these people were so difficult to manage now, he just wanted to delay his wages for a little longer, and he couldn't even achieve such a goal.

Hu Zongxian just smiled when he saw this, then walked over and whispered to Zhao Wenhua: "Da Sikong, civil affairs are not trivial matters, this is what Yuan Fu said personally, since you owe wages, hurry up and send it, even if it is a loan in the name of the Infrastructure Construction Bureau!"

Zhao Wenhua did not respond to Hu Zongxian's suggestion, thinking to himself that Hu Zongxian said it was easy, taking out a loan in the name of the Infrastructure Construction Bureau, and when the year-end Audit Office reviewed it, how would he explain the loan when he pursued it? Unless you take out a loan in your own name, but don't you let yourself pay the wages for the imperial court, then the project money you release will not eat interest in vain.

Qi Jiguang looked at the appearance of those workers who were not afraid of the steel guns in the hands of the sergeants and were about to rush out, he was naturally angry with Zhao Wenhua, in his opinion, if this really made the workers make trouble, wouldn't it be bad for him to destroy the Japanese.

Qi Jiguang couldn't help but ask Zhao Wenhua: "Da Sikong, what's going on, you didn't pay the workers?" ”

"Qi Shuai, this matter has nothing to do with you, whether Zhao has paid wages or not, you don't have to ask, now these workers have trespassed into the barracks, it is obvious that they are thieves and deliberately making trouble, Qi Shuai, as the commander of the three armies, shouldn't he order him to be shot?"

This Zhao Wenhua instead questioned Qi Jiguang.

Qi Jiguang glanced at the workers who were making trouble outside, and suddenly shouted: "Come, take Zhao Wenhua, who is in charge of the construction of the base, to Ben Shuai!" Chopped! ”

Qi Jiguang's order really frightened the people present.

"I heard you right, Qi Shuai is going to cut Zhao Wenhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, on the spot?" Hu Zongxian asked himself secretly.

Zhao Wenhua himself was shocked, and then pointed at Qi Jiguang angrily: "Qi Jiguang! Don't you dare! You are a vulgar martial artist, why do you dare to kill this official, this official is a dignified Ministry of Works! The Imperial Court! ”

"With this official now being the supreme military commander of the war to exterminate the Japanese, and with you, Zhao Wenhua, who is now engaged in the army, with the power of military discipline regulations, creating contradictions between the military and the people and affecting the military deployment, the main general can be cut first and then played!"

When Qi Jiguang spoke, his two guards had already held down Zhao Wenhua, and then, Qi Jiguang raised his hand and pulled out the command knife, directly slashed it down, and then accurately cut off Zhao Wenhua's head.

Then, when everyone was stunned, and even the troublemaking workers were dumbfounded, Qi Jiguang came to these workers with the head of Zhao Wenhua: "The evil official who owes you wages, this handsome has been killed!" Please go back, within three days, Deputy Envoy Yuan will send all the wages! ”

After Qi Jiguang finished speaking, he came to Yuan Qian: "Deputy Envoy Yuan, go with Ben Shuai to get the silver dollar!" ”

"Yes!"

Yuan Zhen hurriedly agreed, as a civil official, he felt the majesty of the military general for the first time, and Hu Zongxian was no better, and only came back to his senses after a while, and muttered: "The way of the world has really changed!" Even a civil official like Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry can be cut down by a military general for violating military law! ”

The workers directly killed a red-robed official in front of them to vent their anger, and promised to pay wages within three days, so they naturally had to be gratefully dispersed, not only that, but even the officers and soldiers present were more in awe of Qi Jiguang, after all, they also saw Zhao Wenhua's arrogance, and now Qi Dashuai said that he would cut it, which naturally proves that Qi Dashuai still has the final say in this army.

Tang Kekuan couldn't help but secretly exclaim: "The surname is Qi, you cow!" When the old man led the troops decades ago, he didn't dare to kill civilian officials! Not to mention this second-class civil official! ”