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Seal the mountain, seal the hole!

For the righteous army with the name of "righteous army", in fact, "thieves", these things are simple to do, but they are just a piece of paper, if it is the ordinary people's farmland, this Yingcheng County government will not be so neat, and now the reason why it is so neat is also simple - the profit of this cave merchant is slight, and it will not fall into the eyes of those who have just turned from cloth clothes to officials. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the afternoon of that day, Father Liu Quan, the only mining engineer in the newly established Mining Bureau, accompanied by Zhang Pu, carried a measuring pole and a record board to a small gypsum cave where no one was working, and they wanted to use this long-abandoned gypsum cave to conduct sampling and investigation, and then determine the depth and location of underground rock salt.

As soon as a few people went up the mountain, they immediately began to erect benchmarks, install equipment, and make on-site records.

Blonde, blue-eyed, high-nosed foreigners, chattering foreign words and shiny foreign gadgets, as soon as they appeared here, they attracted many onlookers from the villagers. These villagers, who have never been out of the ravine for a lifetime away from the city, face this scenery, which is more energetic and interesting than watching a monkey show.

In fact, in the past few days, the blonde and blue-eyed foreigner would always attract everyone's attention whenever he went to a place, but because he was accompanied by soldiers from the government, the people only watched from afar.

And Pan Jiliang, who had been following them for the past few days, suddenly found that this was a good opportunity to use.

"You see, it's these guys who are going to occupy the plaster hole of our Pan family, it's they who drive us all away, if these people succeed, the brothers' jobs will be smashed!"

"But no, the county government has a paper sealing order, and this mountain and this cave have been sealed, so how can we live!"

"Damn, if they knock on Lao Tzu's rice bowl, Lao Tzu will smash their dog's head!"

The man who spoke shouted in his mouth, this is hard enough to work in the paste hole, with the hard work of selling hard work, although it is hard, but these years rely on the paste hole, the family can be half hungry and half full; If there is no plaster hole, this day will naturally be more tense, and for many people, whether they can work in the plaster hole is simply a matter of life.

Someone here was inciting, someone there was echoing, and those people who were originally curious suddenly felt a burst of dissatisfaction in their hearts.

"What qualifications do foreigners have to break ground in the mountains of our China? Hmph, blind their dog's eyes! They want to drive Lao Tzu away, and Lao Tzu wants to drive them away first! ”

The person who spoke was obviously also a man who relied entirely on coal kilns to support his family.

"Do you know who they are?"

Pan Jiliang made it up again.

"I've seen this foreigner in Hankou, they are all invited by the God Sect in the provincial city, and they specialize in digging up children's hearts, livers and eyeballs, this God Sect can make things happen, all by virtue of these foreigners doing demon law, now they want to open a mine here with us, maybe they will also dig up children's hearts and livers to make mines when the time comes......"

Regardless of whether what Pan Jiliang said is true or not, for these villagers who have never seen foreigners, seeing that these people are blonde and blue-eyed and different from themselves, and here they hear that the other party will do demon magic, and when they think that if they open a gypsum hole in the future, they will also use the big guy's child as a mining guide, and now that this plaster hole has been sealed by them, the emotions of the villagers are immediately stirred.

"Kill this foreign devil!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd let out a roar.

"And that traitor, you can't let it go!"

Another person hurriedly responded, someone here started his head, and Pan Jiliang and others over there lit a fire on the side and fanned the wind, and what foreigners wanted to dig up children's hearts and livers to make mining quotations and the like, and shouted out from their mouths from time to time.

In the anger of the crowd here, several people rushed out of the crowd at the same time and ran towards the foreigners, Pan Jiliang hurriedly said to the people around him:

"The big guys are all up to help, foreign devils can't use witchcraft here, don't be afraid!"

So everyone followed in a swarm, and Liu Xinxin, who was working, was frightened, and from the angry faces and loud roars of the villagers, they knew that the person who came was not good.

Looking at the people who rushed over, Zhang Pu's heart suddenly felt cold, and he hurriedly said to Liu Xinxin:

"Father Liu, they're here to beat us. There are a lot of them, we can't beat them, so let's go quickly......"

Go, this will be a little unhurried, under the instigation of Pan Jiliang and others, more than a dozen villagers followed after him, shouting:

"Kill these dogs!"

As they ran, they looked back and saw them getting closer and closer, and then large and small stones flew by. Suddenly, a rock hit Liu Xinxin's thigh, and he immediately fell to the ground. One of the villagers rushed forward and kicked him in the back.

"Ah......h

Liu Xinxin immediately rolled on the ground in pain, and several villagers smashed the equipment such as the benchmark with stones. Seeing this, Zhang Pu knew that his little life was on this person, and he hurriedly shouted to another accompanying guard:

"Hurry up and go back and ask Lord Chen to send someone, and I'll save Father Liu!"

The chauffeur hurriedly threw down the clipboard and ran down the hill as fast as he could. As soon as Zhang Pu turned around and ran a few steps, he was caught up by the villagers. Then he waved the wooden stick in his hand and hit Zhang Pu with his head and face. Before he could help Liu Xinxin, he had already been beaten with a blue nose and swollen eyes, and his face was covered with blood. Fortunately, the guard ran fast, and at this time he had already run to the station of the Mining Bureau, and when he saw two guards with foreign guns by the door, he hurriedly shouted:

"Shoot, shoot!"

When the two guards looked in the direction where the guards were running, they saw chaos halfway up the mountainside, and they knew that something was wrong. The two guards immediately raised their foreign guns and fired two shots in succession into the air.

The sound of gunfire alarmed Chen Duan, who was doing something, and he hurriedly ran towards the place where there was trouble with the guards in the mining bureau. The gunshots also frightened the troublesome villagers, and Pan Jiliang hurriedly shouted:

"The foreign guns are here, brothers, go back!"

Seeing the foreign gun team running over with guns, those villagers who had been angry before left Liu Xinxin and Zhang Pu and fled in all directions.

Chen Duan led everyone to run up, and when he saw Liu Xinxin and Zhang Pu lying on the ground, both of whom were blurred in flesh and blood, and their injuries were heavy, their hearts suddenly tightened. He hurriedly ordered the two to be carried back to the mining bureau, and immediately got on a stretcher, first after a brief diagnosis and treatment by the doctor, and then personally escorted them back to Wuchang for treatment. In the evening of the next day, they were taken to a small hospital run by the church in Hankow, where they were not in danger of dying their lives, although they were injured and broken.

It was only at this time that Chen Duanfang breathed a sigh of relief, and then crossed the river to the Dadu Governor's Mansion to report to Zhu Yifeng about the incident.

"Dig out your eyes and dig out your heart, you can really say it!"

After listening to Chen Duan's report, Zhu Yifeng's whole person immediately trembled with anger, in China in this era, this is the case, throughout the Westernization Movement, the resistance is of course from the Qing court, but the real resistance is these rural fools, what telegrams burn souls, railways destroy feng shui, it can be said that it is these rural fools who block change again and again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yifeng suddenly slapped it on the coffee table and scolded loudly:

"Arrest all these unlawless people and punish them severely!"

Looking at the angry Metropolitan Governor, Chen Duan hurriedly said:

"Governor, this ancient law does not blame the public, if they are all arrested, won't it provoke civil unrest?"

"Civil unrest? Hmph, they dare! If Lao Tzu frightened them, it would have boosted their prestige! ”

Zhu Yifeng roared angrily.

"Go and call Wang Fu over, how many people are there in Yingcheng? Three thousand? Five thousand? It's still 10,000, Lao Tzu transferred a regiment! If they do rebel, kill them all! ”

When Chen Duan heard this, he looked at the Metropolitan Governor with murderous intent on his face, and the whole person was suddenly startled - kill them all!

No matter what the people are there, there is always a cause for this civil unrest, and if because of this incident, the army kills and kills people to establish power, and then then he will not become the instigator of right and wrong?

As a native of Hubei, Chen Duan, how could he not know how much impact this matter would have on his reputation, and when the time comes, I am afraid that all the elders of Yingcheng will curse themselves behind their backs.

At that moment, Chen Duan thought of this, and hurriedly said:

"The Governor of the Metropolitan Municipality please calm his anger and don't send troops over for the time being, his subordinates think that this matter can be handled by Yingcheng County first, and he will be ordered to investigate this matter strictly."

"Strict investigation? Humph......"

With a cold smile, thinking of the handling of things such as cutting telegraph poles in history, Zhu Yifeng sneered:

"What kind of strict investigation method? Did you finally come up with a seventy-old or eighty-year-old man to confess his guilt? ”

In fact, this is exactly the way to deal with large-scale "mass incidents" in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, to pull out an old man to confess and give an explanation.

The words of the Grand Governor made Chen Duan's expression suddenly embarrassed, he really had such a plan.

"However, this matter should be handled by Yingcheng County, however, I have to have an attitude towards this matter, this law does not blame the public, and Hugh must mention it again, since then, I Hubei, not only can not mention this matter, but the law must be blamed for the public."

After speaking, he took out a piece of letterhead and picked up the pen to write a letter to Yingcheng County.

"You tell him that the perpetrators must be punished, from the Huangkou children to the elderly, as long as this case is involved, no one can be let go!"

After that, Zhu Yifeng handed the letter to Chen Duan and said.

"I wanted to enlighten those fools. Unexpectedly, the people were confused, and it became a big thing. Now we don't leave room for them, we don't have time to spend on them, and we have to use an iron fist to deal with these fools and fools, so we ask him to do this, and if he doesn't do this, I will transfer the army to do it! As soon as the army moves, they have to test the sharpness of the army's bayonets! ”

After receiving the letter from the hands of the Grand Governor, Chen Duan, whose mood could be described as extremely complicated, cast an admiring look at him, thinking: If you want to do great things, you really need the courage of the Grand Governor! (To be continued.) )