Chapter Seventy-Eight: Rumors Spread
In the new army camp, the scene of haunting was even more weird, because Wang Yongan and Wang Yongtai had arranged everything early, and the soldiers standing guard had already pretended to faint. After the gates of the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info were opened, the little ghosts rushed into all parts of the camp and shouted loudly, and the soldiers were held down by the veterans and gendarmes and had to hide under the covers, which surprised many people.
Then the little ghosts rushed directly to the bedroom of the chief of staff Zhang Jimin, that Zhang Jimin ate a lot of wine with Chen Jian and others tonight, and his henchman Xia Congming congratulated Zhang Jimin in advance and said: "Chief of Staff, as soon as this Wang Yongtai leaves, the twenty-four mixed association will be your world in the future, you have to drink more, and you will be busy in the future, and you will have no time to drink." ”
Zhang Jimin was full of ambition and said, "General Wang Yongtai Wang...... Alas, it's not that I don't cooperate with him, but you see what he does? Drinking the blood of soldiers, eating empty salaries, and only thinking about making money for themselves, if it weren't for me to support this new army, the 24th Mixed Association would have become a long time ago. ”
Chen Jian also disdainfully said: "Then Wang Yongtai is just because he is Wu Changchun's godson, and this time he is related to Yuan Shikai, I am afraid that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small." ”
Xia Congming said: "Even if the punishment is heavy and the rain is small, I am afraid that Wang Yongtai will not be able to take charge of the army in the future, but it is a pity that the money of the Cao Gang...... I heard that Yang Zhenshan and they shared a lot of silver that night. ”
Zhang Jimin sneered: "These Beiyang moths, after I take charge of the army, I will definitely kick them all out of the army one by one." Hmph, my dignified Beiyang New Army actually raised these moths, it's really a shame for Beiyang! ”
"Drink and drink!" Xia Congming persuaded, "In the future, when the chief of staff is in charge of the army, he will definitely be able to lead the troops well, so as not to pollute the military style and discipline by Wang Yongtai and his ilk." ”
Zhang Jimin completely relaxed his mood and drank a lot, so when the little ghosts entered the house, he was still hungover, and was tied up by the little ghosts and splashed with water to wake up. Zhang Jimin shouted immediately after being woken up, and was immediately gagged by stinky socks, unable to speak, but no one came out to help left and right, and he was anxious. He was furious, these people who pretended to be ghosts didn't need to think about it and knew that it was Wang Yongtai who could bring these people into the barracks in the middle of the night except Wang Yongtai, but it was a pity that he drank too much at night and was tied up alive.
A little ghost sneered and said, "Take away, take away, take away overnight." ”
Zhang Jimin immediately heard that the voice of this little ghost was none other than Yang Zhenshan, who he looked down on, and he was in a hurry, and he actually fainted in anger. Yang Zhenshan didn't care whether he was angry or not, and ordered the soldiers to hurry up and transport Zhang Jimin to Zhenjiang overnight.
Early the next morning, the whole Yangzhou city was silent, and everyone dared to come out at noon, and now the people could blow up, and the haunting of Yangzhou City was not a trivial matter, and the people of the whole city saw it.
A fried fritter was just about to push the cart out of the stall, when he saw the neighbor's shoemaker's family loading things, and was puzzled: "His third uncle, what are you going to do here?" ”
"What to do? Let's go, this Yangzhou city can't stay. The shoemaker yawned, and yesterday he had been frightened all night, and the three children trembled with fear.
"Let's go? Where are you going? ”
"It's better to go anywhere than the haunted Yangzhou."
"Why do I think this Yangzhou city is haunted......"
The shoemaker loaded the things on the cart and put the three children on the donkey cart, and the old parents also walked out on crutches, and hurriedly helped the old parents to get into the donkey cart, and the wife also packed her luggage, and the wife drove the donkey cart and pushed the cart herself, and was about to leave, but when she saw that the fritter seller was still looking at them, she said angrily: "Brother He, what are you still doing in a daze?" Why don't you pack up and leave? ”
"His third brother, do we have to leave Yangzhou if we abandon our family and business?"
The shoemaker said with a bitter face: "I don't want to leave Yangzhou City either, but there is no way, the three children are frightened." If this trouble continues, my father and mother will be scared to death, anyway, we are craftsmen, and we will not starve to death wherever we go. Brother He, listen to my brother's persuasion. As soon as this king of Yama left, the little ghost ran out or something, and he wanted not to be haunted, unless the king of Yama came back. Let's go to a relative's house in Zhenjiang and hide for a while, alas...... Now it's time to sell the house, and no one is buying it. ”
Not long after the shoemaker left, the fritter seller saw four or five of his neighbors packing their belongings, and he hesitated, and in the evening he made another haunt and shouted and screamed. Early the next morning, the fritter seller no longer hesitated, no matter how more and more people escaped from the city of Yangzhou, no one could do their own fritter business, staying here was either scared to death or starved to death, it was better to go to Nanjing, so he hurriedly packed up everything, and took his wife and children to push the cart along the official road to the south.
The haunting of Yangzhou City and the flight of the people of Yangzhou City is obviously not a trivial matter that can be hidden, after the prefect was scared to death, it is now the acting Yangzhou Zhizhou who is acting in Yangzhou, and he immediately sent a telegram to the imperial court to report the haunting of Yangzhou and the flight of citizens.
After receiving the telegram, the military aircraft department in the capital put the telegram aside, and Zaifeng pouted: "Ridiculous! Absurd! ”
Subsequently, the salt transportation made the thickening and also generated electricity, reporting the haunting of Yangzhou. In less than half a day, Yangzhou Zhizhou generated electricity, nearly half of the people in Yangzhou fled, if Wang Yongtai did not return to Yangzhou, then Yangzhou City will be ten rooms and nine empty. An hour later, the thickening power generation was increased, the salt merchants quickly left Yangzhou, the salt transportation department could not function, and many workers also fled.
The young regent Zaifeng couldn't sit still any longer, and asked angrily, "What happened in Yangzhou City?" Tell the thickening, check it for me, check it carefully, what the hell is going on. ”
That Sun Tiansheng was trembling in fear at home at this time, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, and immediately screamed: "Don't arrest me, don't arrest me!" ”
Someone outside the door shouted: "Sun Tiansheng, I am the fourth son's person." ”
Sun Tiansheng dared to open the door, and when he saw a young man outside the door, he said, "Are you the fourth son?" ”
"Yes, I'm the fourth son." The young man said, "The fourth prince asked me to bring you a message, the Yin soldiers and the Yin generals will only make trouble for three days, and after three days, the Yin soldiers and the Yin generals will be gone, and at that time Yangzhou City will be in chaos, and it will be a good time for you to make money." The fourth prince said, in such a chaotic moment, if you don't take that fame and fortune, it will be called a real revolutionary party to take fame and fortune. ”
"How do you ...... Where is the fourth son? Sun Tiansheng said.
The young man said: "The fourth prince should have arrived in Baoying County by now." ”
Sun Tiansheng was puzzled: "How does he know about the things in Yangzhou City?" ”
The young man said proudly: "The fourth prince knew five hundred years before and three hundred years later, he knew everything, strategized, and won thousands of miles, and he had already left me a clever plan." By the way, the fourth prince has left you a tip, please take a look. ”
Sun Tiansheng saw that the young man took out a bag, and said in his heart that these four sons were the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang, but he took the bag, but said shyly: "Little brother...... I can't read or write......"
The young man said: "The fourth prince also expected that you were illiterate, so let me verbally relay what it means, and you can keep it as a souvenir." ”
Sun Tiansheng put the bag into his arms and hurriedly asked, "Okay, what does the fourth son mean?" ”
The young man said: "The fourth prince said, if you want to achieve great things, it is not appropriate for you and your seven or eight friends alone, and now Yangzhou City is in a panic, you can go and break several surrounding county prisons, let go of the prisoners in them, and make the prisoners for your use." In the future, the court will arrest the prisoners privately, and there will be no time to hunt you down, and you will fly away with the money. ”
"Brilliant plan, wonderful plan!" Sun Tiansheng suddenly stroked his palms and shouted.
The young man said: "The fourth prince must finally tell you that if you dump the black pot to the revolutionary party, if it is you personally, there will definitely be no foreigners who will help you in the future, but if you say that the revolutionary party rebels and goes to the concession in the future, the foreigners will treat you as if you were a guest." The fourth prince also said, shoot in time, stop in time, and accept it when you see it! ”
"Thank you, thank you! Four sons! Sun Tiansheng slammed into the tunnel.
On the way to escape, it is called displacement, children crying, parents shouting, old people screaming, each one is worse than the other, and everyone flees to other places without looking back.
The prefect of Zhenjiang Prefecture was shocked when he learned that tens of thousands of Yangzhou people were coming straight to Zhenjiang. This Zhenjiang Mansion was not a big mansion originally, and the people had to cross the river thanks to it, and they had time to arrange it, otherwise the tens of thousands of people rushed into Zhenjiang, and the prefect would not do it. On the one hand, he reported to the Liangjiang Governor's Palace, and on the other hand, he secretly arranged for these refugees to go to him, and secretly investigated what happened in Yangzhou.
Later, the people who crossed the river early talked about the haunting of Yangzhou City, and the prefect of Zhenjiang also shouted ridiculous, but these tens of thousands of Yangzhou people fled to Zhenjiang with their families.
The prefect of Zhenjiang did not believe in the haunting at first, but then Shuiying came to report that he had found a New Army officer by the river. The prefect of Zhenjiang asked the officer to be brought, and at first glance, it was Zhang Jimin, chief of staff of the 24th Mixed Association. The prefect of Zhenjiang asked him why he was here, and Zhang Jimin said in a daze that he was knocked unconscious by the imp and brought here.
The prefect of Zhenjiang was also scared, and said in his heart that Yangzhou was really haunted, and he did a lot of bad things, but don't let the little ghost catch it. Zhenjiang Mansion is small, unable to accommodate many people, forced to rush to Nanjing, and this time the escape is not only the people of Yangzhou, but also some of the people of Zhenjiang.
As the saying goes, three people become tigers, and rumors stop at the wise, but in a place where the illiteracy rate was as high as 95 percent at the end of the Qing Dynasty, how many real wise people were there? Didn't the rebellions of the people of all Chinese dynasties originally originate from a myth or legend? Not to mention the end of the Qing Dynasty, even in the 21st century in later generations, there are many people who have been brainwashed by rumors, and the number of those who believe in evil cults is innumerable.