Chapter Seventy-Six: The Protests in Kaifeng Mansion
After Wu Xin's order was issued, thousands of soldiers and servants, under the leadership of the officials, stormed the squire's mansion, and after entering the mansion, they arrested people directly without saying a word, causing a big storm in Kaifeng Mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The wealthy merchant squires who did not agree to pay the grain were all imprisoned in the government jail, and all of a sudden, the situation in Kaifeng Mansion changed, and the arrested squire's family sat together to make peace, and then made a decision, boycotted the market, and then led nearly 2,000 servants to block the door of the prefect's yamen, and they were still planning a bigger turmoil, that is, all the servants outside the city were called into the city, which was more than 60,000 people.
If more than 10,000 people are crowded at the entrance of the prefect's yamen, this will be fatal to Wu Xinxin's injury.
Therefore, when Wu Xinxin received the captured squire's family and led the servants to block the door of the prefect's yamen, he realized that these people were not afraid of making a big deal, and hurriedly issued orders, and the county yas, strictly prohibiting the peasants in the jurisdiction from leaving the country, and then wrote a letter to the commander of the Henan guard, asking him to send additional soldiers to cooperate with the prefect's yamen to tide over this difficulty, because he had a very good relationship with the commander of the guard, so he was not afraid that he would not send troops to help him, after the letter was sent, Wu Xinxin made another deployment, closed the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and a thousand soldiers immediately went to the city wall. The swords were polished, and even more, there were dozens of artillery pieces on the walls.
All the officials of Kaifeng Mansion are very cautious about this matter, if the matter is big, the court blames no one can bear it, so after the county Cheng got the order, he did not dare to be careless, and immediately sent people to inform the elders of the towns who were old and prestigious, so that they could prevent the peasants from entering the city, and even issued announcements in the villages and towns, which said: "The purchase of grain by the Quartermaster Division is a holy decree, and the squires gather to make trouble, which is already suspected of rebellion. ”
In fact, these servants and peasants also help the rich man to do things, but the rich man has a promise, if this time it is done, the rent will be reduced by three percent, which makes the honest people a little active in their hearts, seeing the announcement of the government and the advice of the elders, some people have dispelled the idea, but there are still a large number of people in their hearts with this cheap in mind, crossing the checkpoint set up by the government on the avenue, and running to Kaifeng City.
Wu Xin walked out of the gate of the government under the protection of hundreds of officials, looking at the more than 2,000 people standing outside, but there was no fear in his heart.
"Do you want to rebel?" Wu Xin shouted loudly.
"The emperor ordered to buy grain, and the holy decree said that he was willing to buy and sell, and you disobeyed the decree and forced us to forcibly requisition grain, who really wanted to rebel?" A scholar in the crowd spoke.
Wu Xin pointed to the scholar who spoke, and said angrily: "Come on, arrest this unashamed person for this official." ”
Wu Xin's prestige in Kaifeng Mansion is very high, even if there are thousands of people standing in front of him, after hearing Wu Xinxin's order, the official does not hesitate, and the two of them will take down this scholar.
The official stepped forward, as if throwing a spark into a powder keg, the crowd instantly became excited, and dozens of servants consciously stood in front of the scholar, hindering the official from taking people, and the two officials couldn't push away the crowd, so they could only stop their hands and feet and look at Wu Xin.
Wu Xin looked at this scene and sneered: "This official sees, you really want to resist the decree and disrespect it, to the court law and a piece of paper, since this is the case, this official can't show mercy to his subordinates." Wu Xinxin knows very well that in the face of this situation, the government cannot retreat, otherwise who will obey the orders of the Kaifeng government in the future, and even make trouble to the whole country and let people follow suit, Wu Xinxin can't bear this consequence.
The scholar didn't retreat, and shouted loudly: "Lord Wu is so powerful, this matter has come to the front of the emperor, I don't know who the emperor will think will go to the court and a dead letter?" In order to seek political achievements, compete with the people for profit, buy and sell, extort and extort, these are all things that Lord Wu does today, who is right and who is wrong, the court has its own conclusion, and the emperor also has a holy judgment in his heart. ”
Wu Xin was not lightly angered by this scholar's clever mouth, and at this moment, a pair of soldiers were mobilized, with more than 1,300 people, which was also the largest number of people that Kaifeng Mansion could mobilize.
Armed with broadswords and spears, these soldiers surrounded them from all sides and surrounded 2,000 men.
The troublemakers saw that the soldiers were coming, and the courage in their hearts softened, human nature is like this, no one wants to really confront the government, this is not good, but it is going to kill people, even if Wu Xin is brought down and his life is lost, then the deal will be lost to his grandmother's house, so after seeing the soldiers, the crowd is not as arrogant as before, and there are many servants who are watching left and right, and they have already retreated.
Wu Xin said again: "Now the official is giving you a chance, if you disperse now, the official can not be held accountable, but if you are still obsessed, the official will take someone." ”
Following Wu Xinxin's ultimatum, many of the squire's family members looked at Wu Xinxin's appearance and were afraid in their hearts, this Wu Xinxin is not an ordinary person, if he really threw himself into prison, some squires withdrew at that time and led their servants out of the encirclement of the soldiers.
In a short time, there were only eight or nine hundred people left.
Wu Xin said loudly: "Haven't you woken up yet? ”
The scholar said: "We, ordinary people, of course, can't fight the government, so you can arrest all of us in prison, Wu Xinxin, to tell you the truth, I have written to the mercenary peasants outside the city, let them enter the city, my family has 8,000 mercenary peasants, I want to see if your prefect's prison can put down so many people, I also want to see how you explain after the imperial history comes." ”
This scholar miscalculated, this Wu Xin is a master who eats soft and does not eat hard, the more the scholar forces him, the more he will do things desperately, so after listening to the scholar's words.
Wu Xin pointed at the scholar and said: "Do you know that this is a major crime of rebellion, listen to the order, give me a beating of these people first, let them remember for a long time, and wake them up." ”
After the soldiers received the order, whether you were a person of status or not, they came forward and beat them, and suddenly there were wails, and some people resisted, but they were only beaten harder.
The officials had long seen that the scholar was not pleasing to the eye, and when the chaos was in turmoil, the four officials stepped forward and dragged the scholar to beat, for their prefect to vent his anger, and after a while, the scholar was beaten all over his body, lying on the ground, groaning in pain, and no longer had the prestige just now.
In fact, these remaining squire families would not have thought that Wu Xin would give such an order, otherwise they would have quit a long time ago, but it was too late to regret it at this time.
After beating him for a while, Wu Xinxin asked him to stop and ordered all these people to be put in prison, and his family members were notified to be convicted and questioned.
Of course, many ordinary people in Kaifeng City witnessed all this happening, mixed with Li Shichao, a brocade guard from Beijing.
Li Shichao watched all this happening, and couldn't help but think in his heart: "This Wu Xin has some guts, and he can be regarded as a capable minister, I will definitely play Commander Luo, let him play the truth and ask the emperor for him." Li Shichao has followed Tian Ergeng for a long time, and he is also a smart person, although he has not seen Zhu Youzhen, but he learned from Tian Ergeng's mouth that the emperor is a person, and treats these courtiers who dare to be, Zhu Youzhen likes it in his heart, so after Zhu Youzhen knows about this matter, he will not be angry, but a little happy.
After a total of 30,000 mercenaries from all over Kaifeng Prefecture rushed to the city wall of Kaifeng Prefecture, they did not dare to take a step forward, because standing in front of them were more than 5,000 soldiers, all of whom were military horses that were urgently mobilized from nearby by the commander of the guard, in order to prevent the mercenary peasants from entering the city.
A thousand households rode on a tall horse, looked at the servants from various counties and shouted, "If anyone dares to take another step forward, he will be killed." ”
When the soldiers heard Chihu's words, they shouted in unison, "Retreat." And took a step forward.
The farmer was frightened and couldn't help but take a step back.
After the two sides confronted each other for a while, in the end, these servants chose to retreat, even if they could reduce the rent, but it was not worth it to fight with their lives.
In fact, these mercenaries did not know, even if they swarmed up, these soldiers did not dare to use their swords, and when they came, the thousand households who led the team instructed that if they moved their swords and injured the people, their nature would have changed.
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