Gongbei upstairs.

"What do you want?"

Yang Qing shouted at the workers in front of him.

The Protector of the Kingdom, who confirmed his identity, was immediately treated differently, and the entire street and even the entire city of Guangzhou were jubilant, and everyone was converging towards him......

Then I had to find a spacious place.

This ancient city tower, which has stood since the Tang Dynasty and has been expanded for generations, has now become almost the center of the inner city of Guangzhou, is undoubtedly the best choice. The workers gathered from all sides crowded around the Gongbei Building, as if they saw the light of hope, and they all raised their heads to look at the Protector.

"All that has passed before, and I know what you have suffered, that the oppression of you by the factory owners is indeed outrageous, and that you have the right to demand a reward commensurate with the labor you have put in, and it is understandable to take some extraordinary measures when there is no way to complain. And the person who shot you is guilty, but the person who gave the order has already died at your feet, and He Wusu, although he escaped from Guangzhou, has also died outside. As for your actions of taking over Canton on your own after King Gui and the officials fled, and preventing the Gui Domain's guards from entering the city, neither I nor the Empress considered it reasonable. We all respect the choice of the people, and since you no longer want King Gui's rule, then Her Majesty the Empress will revoke the fiefdom of the Gui domain in Guangdong, and move the king of Gui to Liaodong, and the holy decree has been brought, and the king of Gui has received the decree.

Guangdong is no longer a fiefdom of the Gui domain.

Your requirements have been met, so I would like to ask, what else do you want next? ”

Yang Qing shouted.

The workers below were talking.

"Lord Protector, I want to ask, how do you count the people who died in the city before? As you know, it was easy to die in the war at that time, and we workers died a lot, and those village sages also died a lot, and even the soldiers of the officials also died a lot. ”

A worker raised his head and said cautiously.

"As I said, everything is over, this is a tragedy, whoever dies is an accident, Her Majesty the Empress will receive twenty taels of each person, and no one will be allowed to pursue this matter in the future, and it is also forbidden to take revenge on each other for this."

Yang Qing said.

The previous mess had to be handled in this way.

Whether it is reasonable or unreasonable, this is the best way to deal with it, the guilty one is only the one who ordered to shoot at the workers, but He Juren has been trampled to death, although He Wuyu fled the scene, he was also frightened, especially by the unanimous accusations of those who escaped from the village, and he was already choked on the fourth day of illness. The village sages who put him on the scene put all the blame on him, after all, it was he who ordered the army to suppress it, and as a result, the workers were so moved that the situation was out of control. As for the soldiers, they certainly could not be dealt with, they only shot in obedience, and the cavalry brigade did not move, although in fact they also fought with the workers later, but only in the confusion to get out of the city.

On the workers' side, one is to attack the Gui Wangfu, and the other is to retaliate and kill many village sages in the chaos.

And killed quite a few.

Because of the haste of the incident, many of the villagers did not have time to escape from the city, and more than 50 of the 300 villagers in the Guangdong Consultative Bureau were caught by the workers and then hanged by the angry workers. In addition, some factory owners and businessmen who usually exploited the workers the most ruthlessly, were also retaliated against by the workers, after all, anything can happen in the chaos.

As for the casualties on both sides during the fighting, it goes without saying.

Workers also suffered thousands of casualties.

But this must also be revealed.

There is no way to pursue this kind of thing, otherwise it could easily lead to a larger chaos.

"But you also need to withdraw from the official offices, private houses and factories occupied by you, after all, these are not yours, as for the property damage caused by the chaos before, whether it is the government or the people, this has also been exposed, and will not continue to be investigated."

Yang Qing said.

This is also a must.

During this period, it was impossible not to have a situation such as beating local tyrants, and basically except for those Jinyi guards who drew a list and explicitly prohibited workers from moving, the others were also swept away. Those village sages can be said to have suffered heavy losses, and even the Guiwang Mansion was not spared, but because of the special status of the Guangzhou branch of the Imperial Bank, their property in the bank was not affected. Including the private money houses in Guangzhou City, they are also under the protection of Jinyiwei, so the losses of King Gui and the village sages are still limited after all, and they will not be broken, and the goods lost by their factories are not worth mentioning.

In addition, the European firms in Guangzhou also suffered heavy losses, and even more than 100 foreigners died, but their losses were even less cared for.

However, the workers did not show much comfort because of Yang Qing's leniency......

"Any questions?"

Yang Qing asked.

The workers looked at each other, and one of them, who looked a little older, came up to his knees and kowtowed to him as the people gave way.

"Get up, Her Majesty the Empress has a decree, in the future, the people of the Ming Dynasty will only kneel to the prince of heaven and earth, and there is no need to kneel to anyone else."

Yang Qing said.

The man hesitated before standing up.

"Protector of the country, it's not that the little ones don't believe in you and Her Majesty the Empress, it's just that this Guangzhou can be said to be far away from the emperor, and you and Her Majesty the Empress are thousands of miles apart and are busy with state affairs, so it's impossible to just stare at this Guangzhou. After you leave, the officials in Guangzhou still have the final say, and those village sages know what kind of people they are, and it is impossible for them to say that after this incident, they don't want to retaliate. They are all rich and powerful, and the officialdom is all relatives and friends, and if they want to cooperate with the officials and lords to kill us, it is nothing more than a gesture. It is impossible for you and Her Majesty the Empress to know what has happened to us here, and they have thrown us into prison for the protection of the officials, and we will be suffocated to death in the middle of the night, and we will not even need to report it. What's more, we don't have to partner with the official master, and hire someone to sink us into the Pearl River afterwards, can we still expect those officials to redress our grievances? ”

He said.

"Yes, Lord Protector, we believe that you and Her Majesty the Empress, you and Her Majesty the Empress both love the people, but we don't believe those officials, they are all in the same group as those village sages. It is most common for them to deceive and collude together to deceive the Holy Hearing, even if Taizu is sympathetic to the people, isn't there also a case of stealing grain and empty seals? ”

Another said.

This is obviously a book.

"Also, those factory owners will definitely not use us when they come back in the future, even if there is a protector now, they promised not to settle accounts with us, but it will be different afterwards, as soon as you leave here, they still have the final say?"

Another worker said.

Then the workers spoke.

They all know very well that this matter cannot be good, those factory owners have died, and a lot of them have died, and they have lost a lot of property, and the enmity between the two sides has been settled, how can they give up? No matter how good the Protector Gong is, it is useless, because it is impossible for him to stay here and stare at it every day, as soon as he leaves, a place like this where the emperor is far away is completely the world of the village sages. It is useless to change the officials of the imperial court, and the officials of the imperial court can only be with the village sages, they cannot be with the poor, and the time will definitely be in collusion with the officials and gentry, unless they escape from Guangdong, they will not be able to escape from the palm of the people's hands. It is impossible for the empress and the protector to know about these thousands of miles away, and they will not care about this place after they have arranged it, as a monarch, it is already the Holy Lord Mingjun who can arrange for this.

But the Holy Lord Mingjun also has to manage this place through officials, and the officials don't report to them what they can know?

Jin Yiwei?

Can't Jinyiwei collect money?

In the past, this place did not belong to the imperial court, and Jinyiwei would help them, this place belonged to the imperial court, and Jinyiwei and the townsmen were also a family!

People don't care about these poor ghosts!

It's useless to just be the Holy Lord Mingjun, with Zhu Yuanzhang's strength, it's useless to peel the skin and grass, it's not easy for those officials to gang up and fool the emperor? Yang Sichang can fool Chongzhen, and the tax increase is to curb mergers and reduce the burden on the poor! Chongzhen is still being led by their noses? The common people know better than the Holy Lord Mingjun what kind of officials in this world are, and the Lord Qingtian is rare!

"And what do you want?"

Yang Qing asked with interest.

"The little one doesn't dare to ask for anything else, only the Protector and Her Majesty the Empress to pity the little one."

The old man knelt down and kowtowed and begged.

Then the surrounding workers knelt down one after another, knelt down and kowtowed to Yang Qing together, and asked the Protector to show them the way. In fact, what they all wanted was to let the Protector take them as the Imperial Village, so that they would be more or less sheltered. Otherwise, if they really hand over Guangzhou to restore the management of the imperial court, as soon as Yang Qing has gone through the limelight for a while, they will wait for those village sages to take them!

In this Pearl River, there are no people who have been sunk for offending the villagers over the years.

"That's it!"

Yang Qing thought for a while and said: "I do have a solution, since you don't believe in me and Her Majesty the Empress, but you don't believe in those officials who later took over Guangzhou for the imperial court, then simply don't send officials." ”

"No officials?"

The workers were at a loss.

"Yes, the imperial court does not send officials, of course, only officials in Guangzhou, but the political envoys of Guangdong, and officials from other places still have to be sent, but the Nanhai where the capital of Guangzhou is located, the two counties of Panyu, the imperial court no longer appoints officials, but the Guangzhou government office, the governor of Guangdong and the divisions are still stationed here. The two counties of Nanhai and Panyu were merged into the Canton Commune, which continued to be governed by the members of the Canton Commune elected by the Four People's Congress, and you could appoint your own police station to maintain law and order, and in addition to the taxes you had to pay for the imperial court, you would collect your own taxes and support your own institutions. In the same way, you can also form your own court to hear cases, but you must follow the laws of the court, in short, you pay the taxes that must be paid to the court and obey the laws of the court, and then you can be autonomous"

Yang Qing explained.

"Is that okay?"

The worker, who had obviously read the book, was stunned.