Indeed, even if you are dying, you have to be on top!

"Folks!"

He Wuyu shouted tremblingly.

He was picked up from the hospital bed by a group of villagers and forced into the carriage, Wu Ruilong's inability to completely disappoint the villagers, on the contrary, He Wuyu, who has not made a mistake all these years, is more trusted by them, so at this critical juncture, he still has to be moved out as a sea purple gold beam......

He's on the verge of being ordained!

It is said that the village sages are also blind, because the incident happened suddenly, and the guards have not yet entered the city.

They were actually stationed in Lubu.

That is, on the north bank of the Dongjiang estuary, after all, the main purpose of the escort army is to guard the Nanyang naval division to attack Humen, and the battalions in Lubu and Wushi can be used as the first line of defense on the periphery of Guangzhou. Of course, in fact, the main reason is that there is no place in and outside the city of Guangzhou, those factories, freight yards, warehouses, slums, commercial streets, and mansions of the rich have all filled the city around, and there is no place for the army to be stationed! For the capitalists, everything must be in the service of their wealth, including the army, which also gives way to making money, so it is most appropriate to drive them to the deer step. However, now it was unlucky, and the two guards of King Gui and the Consultative Bureau in the city of Guangzhou, plus a small number of guards in the various urn cities, totaled less than 2,000 people, and they had to face the workers' march of the whole city at once......

Completely dumbfounded!

At this time, it was as long as possible to delay and delay until the main forces of the First Army, especially their cavalry brigades, arrived.

It is estimated that it is only more than half an hour.

After all, in fact, if you calculate carefully, it is only thirty or forty miles away, and it is still a real road.

He Wuyu is responsible for delaying time.

"Folks, we are all villagers, what are you going to do! Why can't you live a good life this day? We are all a family, and our ancestors have lived together for generations, so don't believe the rumors of outsiders and be bewitched by them! ”

He Wuyu shouted.

He coughed a few times and then landed on crutches in agony.

Opposite him was a dense crowd of workers, who had completely blocked the main commercial street more than twenty paces wide, and there was no end in sight to the back, in fact the factory workers were still pouring out. At present, there are only more than 100,000 people who have really gathered, and there are more than 200,000 textile workers in Guangzhou alone, not only traditional silk, but also cotton spinning, so that the cotton plantations in Guangdong cannot supply it, and last year more than 100,000 quintals of cotton were imported from India alone. The linen cloth that was gradually phased out in the Ming Dynasty was also an important export commodity, and the linen cloth here has been sold as far away as South America and even further away as Europe.

And that's just an industry.

It is also the world's largest ceramic producer, the largest sugar export port, and Foshan, 30 miles away last Chinese New Year's Eve, produced twice as much iron in the UK.

There are factories all over the place between Guangzhou and Foshan.

More than a million workers from all walks of life have gathered in this city, and once they are mobilized, they are the real power that overwhelms everything, but it is clear that the village sages still do not see it, perhaps they have been high for a long time, and until now they have not been able to lower their heads to really look at these humble ......

Folks!

"Folks, let's all disperse, we all have to support our families, why don't you go to work and make trouble here!"

He Wuyu said earnestly.

"Yes, yes, it's all gone, there should be no such thing today, a few of you are from my factory, right? Hurry back to work, I won't pursue your absenteeism today, and next month each person's salary will be increased by half, as for those who make trouble, I will ask people to take the film to the government to protect it. It is also difficult for us to open a factory, we have to be considerate of each other, now the competition in the north is fierce, we actually can't make much money, we have to support each other, only the factory is prosperous to have food, you make trouble like this, I can't be hungry, but you don't have a job to eat. ”

He Juren said next to him.

"Yes, yes, everyone is just to eat, it's not good to make a big fuss, my old face is still a little useful, I promised you folks for those factory owners in Guangzhou, all labor money will rise by half from next month!"

He Wuyu said.

The workers on the opposite side looked at them indifferently.

"Don't go back yet!"

He Juren shouted.

They were accompanied by the shouts of the officers, and the guards in the formation immediately raised their guns, and the flintlock muzzles of the upper, middle and lower rows were aimed at the workers.

"We don't want to raise wages, we want to petition the imperial court, asking Her Majesty the Empress to recover the land of the Gui Domain, and hold a meeting of the four people according to the regulations of the imperial court. Could it be that this city of Guangzhou is not from the Ming Dynasty, and we are not like you, we are all subjects of Her Majesty the Empress? ”

That old Wu said in the crowd.

"yes, get out of the way!"

"We want to petition Her Majesty the Empress!"

……

Countless shouts rang out from the crowd.

These workers are not stupid, in the final analysis, their current situation is caused by a different system from the imperial court, not that it can be solved by raising the wages a little, just increase the wages by half of the wages, as long as the system does not change, the factory owner will find some excuse and deduct it back. The root cause is that the first is to use the land to select the village sages to form a consultative bureau, instead of drawing lots to form the Four People's Assembly like the imperial court, and the second is that there is no imperial village in the territory of the Gui Domain, and the land is all in the hands of the landlords, so they can play silkworm eaters and forbid the peasants to grow grain, not only to sell them cocoons at a low price, but also to buy their grain at a high price. Third, the government only serves the landlords and factory owners, and those who are officials are originally appointed by the latter, and of course only listen to these people.

If these things don't change, there's no point in giving them some benefits.

"Nonsense, it's nonsense!"

He Wuyu said bitterly.

As he spoke, he coughed again, and was even so angry that he couldn't speak.

"It's just nonsense, look at what you have raised, the Gui domain is the fief of King Gui, this kind of national event, how can you grass people participate!"

He Juren shouted for him.

"Why not? Her Majesty the Empress was elected by the Four People's Assembly! ”

Lao Wu said.

"Yes, we're going to petition!"

……

The shouts rang out again.

"You dog, you usually steal and play tricks and don't do your job, and a group of scoundrels get together every day to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and today you are here to confuse the public, what is your intention? Someone is coming, take down this dog thing first, and send it to the government office for careful interrogation to see if it is a spy bought by a foreign country! ”

He Juren said angrily.

The two guards behind him stepped forward with guns.

A few good friends beside Lao Wu immediately blocked him behind, and the surrounding workers rushed forward angrily......

"What do you all want to do? Don't give you a shame, my lord, I can't discuss it with you, so do you want to rebel? If you don't disperse and arrest you all in prison, you all have a long ability, you need to know that this Guangzhou is still King Gui's, and you are the subjects of King Gui, this is a rebellion! Don't think that when you hear people say how the court is, you will be tempted, you need to know that the court is the court, and the Gui domain is the Gui domain, since it is on the land of the Gui domain, you have to follow the rules of our Gui domain. Guards, prepare to shoot, I don't believe your bones are harder than guns! ”

He Juren shouted.

"This is the Guangzhou of the Ming Dynasty, and King Gui is also a minister of Her Majesty the Empress, I think you want to rebel, right?"

Lao Wu shouted out of the crowd.

"Brothers, don't be afraid of them, let's go forward, let's walk on the land of the Ming Dynasty, let's go to the Ming Emperor to petition, no one is qualified to stop us, whoever blocks it is to make Her Majesty the Empress rebel, and the army of the Protector will clean them up!"

He raised his arms and shouted.

At this moment, a large group of cavalry behind He Juren arrived, all of them were elite wearing half-body armor and riding Indian horses, and it was obvious that the escort army began to enter the city.

Without hesitation, He Wuyu turned around and got into the carriage himself, and at this time the workers also began to move forward, and the two soldiers who had gone to arrest Lao Wu hurriedly retreated, while the infantry with guns began to aim. A general who had just arrived stopped beside He Wuyu's carriage and looked at him with inquiring eyes......

He Wu hands down everything.

He has been the first assistant, and it is impossible for him to care about a few lives, and the reason why he has so much to do with the workers is only because the cavalry did not arrive, and the few infantry alone can't stop the workers.

Now that the cavalry has arrived, what does he care?

This kind of thing must be suppressed strongly, what is it to kill dozens or hundreds of Diao people, the former college bachelor acting as the first assistant, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, will not take the lives of these Diao people seriously at all. On the contrary, the thinking of these workers is already very dangerous, and if they are not suppressed, it will be even more difficult to clean up the development in the future. Yang Qing didn't want to really attack by force, which was very clear to the sages of Guangzhou, but if these workers really had to make trouble every day and mess up Guangzhou first, then Yang Qing would not miss the opportunity

The arrogance of these workers must be brought down with the force of thunder.

The general didn't say more, they were all mercenaries in nature, and there was no problem in being obedient, he immediately led the cavalry to urge the horses forward, while He Wuyu's carriage left backwards, and the other villagers who followed also left, leaving only He Juren and those soldiers on the scene, and soon the plate cavalry lined up on the street, with spears raised.

"No more shooting!"

He Juren shouted.

"We're not afraid of them!"

Lao Wu shouted in front of the crowd.

He and his companions folded their arms, as did the other workers, approaching the soldier's bayonet line with a slow, steady pace.

"This dog thing doesn't know whether to live or die!"

He Juren took the flintlock short gun handed by his subordinates with an angry face and scolded.

Immediately afterwards, he aimed at Lao Wu and pulled the trigger.

The gunfire rang out suddenly, and the bullets that flew out with the flames instantly hit Lao Wu's chest, and he immediately fell backwards in the impact of the bullets, that is, at the same time, the soldiers pulled the trigger one after another. The three rows of musket lines across the street directly spewed dense flames, and the workers in the front row fell in pieces under the gunfire......