Chapter 54: Setting the Tone [Seeking Collection]
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Everything went smoothly. In addition to not catching Chang Rui, this guy didn't even want a wife, and jumped off the wall from the backyard of the county government.
The 'Chen Family's Army' occupied the county government, the county treasury and Chang Pingchang like a bamboo, and then Chen Cong, Chen Quan, Chen Min and other Chen family officials visited several large households in the county and the grain stores they operated one by one.
Outside the west gate of the county seat, batches of grain were continuously transported to the open space in front of the city gate. Chen Ming had already obtained a total count: the total amount exceeded 12,000 stones. Among them, there are more than 3,000 stones of sweet potatoes, sorghum, corn, millet and other miscellaneous grains. There are also 20,000 catties of various medicinal materials copied from various pharmacies in the county.
The Chen family didn't rob directly, and they didn't lose a penny of these bosses, but those bosses were 'forced to buy and sell'. There are also all kinds of vegetable oil and salt, some cloth and medicinal herbs, and Chen Jiatong is not deceived and bought and sold fairly. The silver they copied from the county town -- such as the silver taels in Chang Rui's house in the backyard of the county government and the county treasury, as well as a group of filthy officials in the county government such as Li Tianhe, all obediently handed over the silver in order to survive. Even the silver taels stored in the Chen family's own account, these silver were transported back to Tumenji to call it useless, and Chen Ming was all scattered.
"Our Chen family is a good man, as long as you transport the grain to the ground, you will not lose a grain of grain if you want food, and you will not be short of a penny of silver if you want silver. It's all big men, a mouthful of foam and a nail, the Chen family counts when they speak! When Chen Ming followed his mother and his party to the city gate in a carriage, Chen Hui was already starting to contribute to his 'career'.
Chen Ming told him very clearly, this winter as much as possible to get up and reduce the limelight, then you must prepare food.
In the Funiu Mountain, you can hunt without meat, but you can really kill people if you lack food. Moreover, Chen Ming did not intend to reduce the workload of coal and iron mines, iron-making, ironware and other industries, and this grain must be prepared in full quantities. Otherwise, the Chen family would have to brave the severe cold of minus ten or even twenty degrees Celsius in the big winter to go down the mountain to rub oil. Not only is it dangerous and hard, but it will also attract the government's ideas, what a tragic thing.
Chen Ming felt that if the people on the edge of the county really transported the grain to Tumenji, they would definitely be a small number of people who were willing to ask for food, and the vast majority would ask for silver. Because China is still very peaceful now, and whether it is Henan or Nanyang, Huguang is a place of grain production, and Lushan County will not really lack food. Therefore, silver is more convenient than grain, and after this happens, the government inevitably has to scrape the ground a few times, and it is easy to deal with it with silver.
At present, more than 12,000 stones of grain can be transported to Tumenji to save at least 10,000 stones!
Suffice it to say that everything is going well. The fragile defense of Lushan County was completely shattered like an eggshell in front of Chen Jiajun. But......
"If we come like this, we will make your uncle and father-in-law miserable."
After everything was over, Chen Hui even asked Chen Erhu to lead 30 big men to be a 'clean street tiger', caught more than 20 ruffians who took advantage of the fire to rob, beat them according to Chen Hui's intentions, and threw them on the street, but Chen Ming felt that it was necessary to let this group of 'scum' work to reform.
When the last group of people of the Chen family surrounded Chen Ming and Chen Hui and left Xiguan, this farce-like 'broken city' finally came to an end, and Chang Rui returned to the county government in less than two quarters of an hour after the Chen family left, and his first order was to close the four doors.
He wants to take revenge, he wants to report to his superiors, and he wants to ask the higher authorities to send troops to clear the Chen family. But no matter how angry Chang Rui is, he can't deny the fact that the foundation and heritage he has just accumulated in Lushan County are completely finished when they are swept away by the Chen family. And it is impossible to hide the fact that Lushan County was broken by someone to break the county government, he has a lot of messes to clean up!
But for Chen Hui and Chen Ming, their actions undoubtedly deeply pitted the Gao family and the Li family. Chen Ming didn't know how unacceptable, dumbfounded and collapsed the old father-in-law would be after learning the news, and his uncle, who had already gone to the state city to run for relations, would definitely vomit blood. The two of them inevitably have to be pinched and cleaned up by the government, it is really a flying snow in June, and they are more wronged than Dou E!
Chen Ming, he can only hehe on this topic.
He is quite compared to his uncle and father-in-law, but what is the law? Do you really want him to be put in prison and his family property looted before he thinks of rebelling?
The retreat that the Chen family created in the mountains was not pretentious.
A pit can only be a pit. At most, I will compensate them more in the future!
This is Chen Ming's thoughts. In Chen Hui's opinion, the Chen family has come to this point, and they are no longer qualified to say anything to compensate the Gao family and the Li family. At the beginning of the founding of the country, there were no deep mountains and ancient villages in Funiu Mountain. But more than 100 years have passed, and the bloody storm of that year has disappeared, and those people who hid in the mountains have moved back to the plains one after another because of their lives, or moved from the depths of the mountains to the junction of mountains and plains. For example, the villages around Tumenji.
Xiaonangou is far enough, and the Tiezhai, Niutouzhai, Hutouzhai and Qingfeng Zhai, which are dozens of miles farther away than Xiaonangou, are far beyond the scope of Lushan County's jurisdiction. It is not very realistic to use the energy of Lushan County, or even Ruzhou, to eliminate the Chen family. The Manchus could only send large troops to encircle and suppress them. But as long as Chen Ming shrunk in the mountains and didn't move, Wang Jun and the others wouldn't be asking for trouble, right?
Chen Ming still doesn't know enough about the 'rules' of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he can only think about it so much, and take one step at a time when the time comes. Chen Hui understands the rules of the Manchu Qing Dynasty very well, but his position is too low, and he understands more of a dog and fly camp that cannot be put on the stage, and the attitude and reaction of high-ranking officials at the state and county and even the provincial level cannot be estimated at all.
To say that this Ruzhou already has a Qingtiao Ridge, it may not be able to accommodate the second Chen family. But the magistrate of Lushan County is Chang Rui, who is disgraced, and the Chen family did not use his family as a raft and let Chang Rui go, but Chang Rui did not appreciate it, and no one dared to guarantee the ticket.
Looking at Chang Rui's ruthlessness in crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, who dares to say that he will definitely appreciate it?
The turmoil in Lushan County will not end because the Chen family has fallen into the grass, but will open up a bigger scene. And all this, the people of Lushan County are waiting, the county government is waiting up and down, and the Chen family who is retreating towards the mountains in Tumenji is also waiting.
The Gao family, the Li family!
There was not a single tenant of the Chen family who fled to the mountain, Chen Hui's subordinates who did not follow the Chen family up the mountain, and Zhou Tianyi who died in the line of duty and many officials [when the county government was broken], Li Tianhe and Huang Biao who had their legs broken, Jiang Yang who had their arms and legs broken, etc., everyone was watching and waiting.
Chang Rui had to set the tone for it all.