"Do you want to rebel?"

Wang Juren lay on the wall and said tremblingly.

He's really going to break down.

He really didn't understand why the tenants who had gone to besiege Huangzhuang suddenly came to attack him? Fortunately, the mansions of his family are closed, and in order to prevent bandits, they are built like castles, and after a few loyal clansmen ran back to report the news, as soon as the gate on his side was closed, he immediately organized house slaves to prepare to resist, and he could still support it in a short time.

He had already sent someone to Xuancheng to ask the prefect for help.

He also knew that the county order might not be easy to make, and the prefect of Ning Guofu was Chen Jinshi's brother, who had also gone to Xuancheng at this time, and they would definitely not die without help......

He's doing it for them.

But the problem is that he has to be able to make it to the prefect and bring people here!

"We don't rebel, we will catch the rebels!"

Li Zhong shouted proudly.

Around him, there was a clamor from the militia and the tenants.

"Bold, I am a person raised by the court, I am a meritorious person to protect myself, not to mention that you are falsely accused and framed, even if the yamen comes, you don't dare to take me, even if the brocade guards come, you have to take out the driving sticker first, who are you waiting for, dare to come here to spread wild, aren't you afraid of the laws of the court? If you dare to make trouble unreasonably, the Lord of Futai will arrive immediately, and you will be arrested in prison at that time! ”

The king shouted with courage.

The tenants immediately cringed.

After all, the Wang family has also accumulated power for hundreds of years, and the image of the lord is also deep-rooted. This is not as simple as a qualification to enter Beijing to take the exam, he is already leading the imperial court, he can already be an official, even if he commits a crime, he must first go through the procedure to reform his reputation before he can be arrested.

Not including, of course, rebellion.

"That's a lot of nonsense!"

Li Zhong said disdainfully.

Just then, one of the militiamen at the base of the wall in front of them suddenly turned around, and then ran wildly in this direction, and a fuse burned rapidly on top of a large bag of gunpowder behind him.

"Get down!"

Li Zhong yelled.

The militiamen and tenants lay down in confusion.

On the wall, Wang Juren looked confused.

The outer wall of his big house is not just a high wall, but actually a ring of houses on the periphery, and these houses are even open to the outside and say that the windows are actually perforations, and once there are bandits attacking, the house slaves can shoot arrows inside. However, Jiangnan Chengping has been peaceful for hundreds of years, Xuancheng can be regarded as Nanjing, bandits have long been extinct, and now those domestic slaves of the Wang family cannot still have this equipment and quality, in fact, those domestic slaves have long forgotten this means of defense, and they are all lying on the top or blocking a few doors. Wang Juren on the top of the wall could not see what was happening below because of the eaves facing outward, and he and a few of his cronies and slaves watched in confusion as the militia and tenants also lay down or find other shelter.

And then......

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of the sky falling apart.

A cloud of smoke mixed with dust gushed out under the eaves, and at the same time, the violent shaking shook the roof beneath him like an earthquake, and the whole roof made a strange sound that was on the verge of collapse.

Wang Juren immediately let out a frightened scream, and the next moment the roof in front of him, like suddenly hollowed out sand, collapsed with dust in the smashing, and he and those cronies and slaves also collapsed with the collapse of the roof, like a group of toads falling from a height in the rubble.

"This house is so sturdy!"

Li Zhong praised sincerely.

It was really surprising to him that he didn't directly blow up Wang Juren.

"What are you looking at, why don't you pick up our old man?"

Then he yelled.

There was laughter all around, and even the tenants lost their awe when they looked at the old man who was lying on his stomach like a dead toad in the rubble, after all, the image of the old man at this time also made me unable to be in awe, and soon those militiamen rushed forward and dragged out Wang Juren, who was actually only unconscious, from inside......

"What do you want?"

Suddenly, there was an angry reprimand.

Li Zhong immediately turned his head and looked at the county venerable not far away.

The latter, with dozens of officials, was putting on an official posture, standing in front of the sedan chair and glaring angrily, but those officials were obviously inward-looking, and they cowered one by one with their instruments. At this time, Wang Juren also came to his senses, his face was covered with dust and blood, and he suddenly saw the official uniform of the county honor, and at that moment it was like seeing relatives, struggling to get rid of the control of those militias......

"County Zun, help!"

He cried out in tears.

But the next moment, Li Zhong unceremoniously slapped him honestly.

"County Zun, this person bewitched the people, attacked Huangzhuang with arms, and wanted to plot wrongdoing, so he gathered militia to arrest the head of the village according to the law, and was about to hand over Jinyi Wei to find out his henchmen."

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhong turned around and said.

"If you are trying to do something wrong with the king, who can testify, could it be that the king raised people to attack the Huangzhuang himself?"

The county magistrate said with a gloomy face.

"We testified that the housekeeper of the Wang family said that he would open the Huangzhuang and let us kill people and steal money, and before leaving, Wang Juren himself said that everyone who went was free of half of the rent, and he also killed more than a dozen pigs waiting for us to come back to celebrate. Also, our knives and guns were all taken out of Wang Juren's house, and Wang Juren also said that he had already contacted Master Chen's family, Hu Gongsheng's family, and Li Jiansheng's family to work together, and this time he wanted to eradicate Xuanzhou Wei's Huangzhuang! ”

A tenant said.

Nearly 1,000 other tenants echoed in unison.

The county commander looked sadly at Wang Juren, whose face was covered with blood.

"If so, it should also be handed over to the county for detailed investigation, and if the evidence is ascertained, the county will report to the Criminal Department."

He said with a deep breath.

"This Bulao county has already reported to Commander Wu, and everything is waiting for the orders of Commander Wu, and Wang is said to have a lot of comrades, so before identifying his comrades, in order to ensure safety, to prevent his comrades from infiltrating and exterminating. The militia Ning Guolu temporarily imprisoned him at home, and sealed the Wang family for the order of the superiors. ”

Li Zhong said with a smile.

The county commander glanced at him hatefully, then looked at Wang Juren, who was stunned, turned around and brushed his sleeves away, and a laugh immediately sounded behind him.

All of Li Zhong's actions are legal, Huangzhuang is the private land of the royal family, and the militia are all tenants of the royal family, and there is no difference between Wang Juren wanting to enter Huangzhuang to kill people and rob and rebel, at least in the legal sense. One of the responsibilities of the militia is that when there is a rebellion in the local area, regardless of whether or not they receive an order from their superiors, they can summon the militia in the village to suppress it and prevent it from causing greater losses. And once the militia is gathered in the name of rebellion, it will automatically be converted from the militia to the army, that is to say, he went to save people before it belonged to the people, but since the Wang family attacked Huangzhuang, he has automatically been transferred to the active army. Local officials no longer have the authority to control him and his subordinate militia, and his immediate superior is Wu Shun, the commander of the Ningguo Brigade of the militia based in Xuancheng.

The county magistrate couldn't control him anymore.

Li Zhong knew these regulations of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and the county order also knew it, but he may not have taken it seriously before, after all, the military household was a low-class animal in their eyes, and as for Wang Juren, he may not know it, except for a belly of eight strands of Wenlian Daming Law, of course, Chen Jinshi, who instigated Wang Juren, would definitely not know it.

But......

"What does this have to do with us?"

In the Ningguo Mansion, Chen Jinshi said to his brother with a smile while holding a teacup.

"Isn't it our rebellion?"

He went on to say.

"But wouldn't this help Yang Qing's momentum? He can take this opportunity to take back the land in the Ningguo Mansion that was originally guarded, raid the homes of the gentry who dare to resist, and then kill the chickens and monkeys to deter the gentry in other places. Now the Huangzhuang has spread all over Nanzhili and eastern Zhejiang, and even Jiangxi and Huguang rely on copying those vassal kings to form a climate, if all the previous guards and official fields are recovered, both the scope of Huangzhuang and the number of militias will increase exponentially, and at that time Yang Qing's hand will really reach below. ”

His brother said.

"Wrong, it's not to make an example of chickens and monkeys, but everyone is in danger, to make the gentry hate the same enemy, to make the gentry unbearable to Yang Qing, first of all, you have to let him do something heinous, what can be more outrageous than killing the gentry at will?"

Chen Jinshi said.

"But the Wang family is indeed breaking the law?"

His brother said.

"But how can we describe it to the gentry of other places, and we don't just say it? Especially in the Xianggan Mountains of southern Zhejiang, Fujian, the gentry in those places where the imperial village has not yet been implemented, we can describe this matter to them as we want, they will not know what the real situation is, and they will not know the things that have been added after the reform of the guards. They will only know that the imperial court has produced a traitor who arbitrarily slaughtered the gentry, persecuted the civil servants and made the warriors rampant, and the horsemen went out to raid the house and destroy the door, and this traitor is still using the reason of checking the property of the guard, and continues to do all kinds of bao, and the Wang family's today is tomorrow!

What will the gentry do?

We are indeed powerless to resist in the face of Yang Qing.

Not to mention that there are these militias, but without these militias, it will take a few days for the new army in Nanjing to come? Nanzhili and Zhedong are all already in Yang Qing's sphere of influence, and we have no ability to resist him!

But these places are different! ”

Chen Jinshi said.

His brother smiled knowingly.

To put it bluntly, these civil officials are still fooling the ghosts of the dead, and they, or the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang behind them, mainly the gentry of the richest city circle from Nanjing to Ningbo, at this time, no matter what they do, they must immediately bear Yang Qing's iron fist, and Yang Qing can beat them to death with a stick at any time. But Yang Qing's ability can only ensure that he has control over these places, beyond this range, especially in Fujian, Jiangxi, Huguang and even those mountainous areas in southern Zhejiang, where the reform of the guard post has either not been completed, or it has only simply changed the establishment, and even the militia officers are still the officers of the guard post in the past, and the military households have not felt much change.

Those places are different from Xuancheng and those near Nanjing.

Then it was up to them to rebel against Yang Qing.

But in order for them to rebel against Yang Qing, they must first let Yang Qing engage in several massacres of extermination, targeting the gentry's extermination tragedy, in order to confirm his image of a mad butcher, and to make the gentry in these places have to resist in order to avoid being poisoned.

So......

"Wenxin sacrificed for justice, and we will remember his merits!"

Chen Jinshi said solemnly.