Some gentry's faces changed greatly, but they thought that the admiral said that he wanted to persuade and raise funds?

Thinking of the fact that there are not a few people in this section, the faces of many gentry and big families suddenly became ugly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoAlthough their net worth and lives were saved because of the Admiral, they couldn't stand the Admiral's "persuasion" every once in a while. In this world, there is a lot of chaos, business is not good, the harvest in the field is small, and the landlord's family does not have much surplus grain.

The officials were all attracted by the word "service" of the Admiral, and their spirits were greatly lifted, the Admiral wanted to do things, and the few people below had to do their best to organize, and when the Admiral ate meat, everyone followed to drink soup, but it was a beautiful thing.

Zhou Wenming, the prefect of Nanxiong, had already hit Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, and secretly turned an invisible abacus into action. When he came, in order to make up the big gift to the Admiral, the Zhou Governor summoned the gentry of Nanxiong to the Yamen, and finally let the gentry make up a big gift of 30,000 taels of silver for him. Just this bit of silver, the gentry are still not happy, one by one as if charity, treating the prefect as a beggar, your family is two thousand, my family is one thousand, and dozens of families have to get together the silver.

But this time, if the Admiral personally ordered to "do things", the waist of the Zhou Governor's Mansion would be very hard, and the Admiral's hundred battles would be sent to the Nanxiong area, and the gentry would dare not open their eyes? Do you dare to give him the prefect's face again? At that time, if anyone dares to pick and ask again, he will be punished for the crime of being a thief, and see whether life is important or money is important!

Of course, for the Admiral, the credit cannot be discussed, and there must be hard work. At that time, you will have to get some hard-earned money to run errands. In order to leave the crater of Nanxiong, the prefect has made a lot of money to Beijing in the past two years, and the family foundation accumulated for more than ten years is about to be empty.

"I wonder what the Admiral is going to do? If it is money and food, the lower officials and others will be prepared for the Admiral. With the previous lesson of Qin Dacheng's previous horse, this time Zhou Wenming took the lead.

"Well..."

Tang Sanshui smiled softly again, but he didn't look at Zhou Wenming and the group of bitter (excited) officials and gentry, he only raised his hand and suddenly shouted: "Someone!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps in the courtyard around the courtyard, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of pro-soldiers of the superintendent poured into the courtyard, and the officials and gentry were surrounded by swords and spears.

The sudden change frightened many people's wine bowls and chopsticks to the ground, and the actors on the stage were also so frightened that they screamed and fled to the backstage. The bright knives and guns around made the officials and gentry dare not make a sound. Sharp-eyed people found that the commander of this team was not another close general of the Admiral, Song Qian, the chief soldier of Shaozhou, who commanded this team of superintendents?

Song Qian personally led the troops to the main table and controlled Zhou Wenming, the prefect of Nanxiong, and others.

"What do you mean, Lord Admiral?"

Zhou Wenming's hand was still holding the wine glass, but his voice trembled. The officials at the same table were also at a loss, and they didn't know which play the Admiral was playing. However, Qin Dacheng, the prefect of Shaozhou, seemed to know something, and walked behind the Admiral quietly, and then looked at Zhou Wenming and them gloatingly.

"What do you mean?"

The Admiral's face changed very quickly, he snorted angrily, slapped his palm on the table, pointed at these people and scolded: "As an official of the imperial court, you don't want to serve the court, relieve the people's suffering, and share worries for the monarch, but you only know that you are corrupt and bend the law, collect and extort, and disregard people's lives. What's more, secretly collaborating with thieves, privately disbursing money and food to thieves, saying that thieves come to surrender thieves, officials come to demote officials, hum, but one by one officials do not fall, it is really shameless!

... As the governor of Guangdong, this official is in charge of the military and political affairs of a province, and he has long ordered people to secretly investigate illegal acts such as Cha'er, and today he wants to wipe out all your actions in order to avenge the people's grievances and correct the atmosphere for the imperial court! ... At present, the Taiping thieves are blind to me in Shaozhou, and this admiral will not be ruthless to clean up Qing'er and others, and he will be sold by you if he can't say it! After speaking, he shouted again: "Tie up, tie it all up for me!" ”

Song Qian waved his hand, and a group of superintendents and soldiers immediately stepped forward to restrain the officials and gentry. The gang of overseers and pacesetters were all five big and three thick, and their subordinates did not leave any measure, and they tossed the officials and gentry enough. The military attaches who used to drink and fight have also changed, looking at these officials and gentry with a cruel smile. There are a few military attachés who are not close to the Admiral, but they have already been drunk by the drinking friends just now, and they will be wandering in their dreams, who knows that such a big change has happened outside their bodies.

The rope was added, and some officials thought that they were upright officials, and there was no such thing as corruption and bending the law, so they struggled and shouted: "Wronged, wronged, the Admiral is clear, the lower official has been an official for several years, I sincerely follow the teachings of the saints, and the pastoral place is like a home pipe, and there has never been anything that infringes on the interests of the people..."

"I'm not an official, I've never been corrupt, I've never bent the law, and I've never been a thief, so why do you want to arrest me?!" There were also gentry who were not officials and complained that they had been caught.

It's a pity that the Admiral didn't care whether they were wronged or not, and only ordered the tiger and wolf men to tie them up.

Zhou Wenming was also held down by two five big and three thick personal soldiers, seeing that the big rope was about to tie himself up, Zhou Zhifu was also in a hurry, and shouted sharply: "The lower official is willing to take silver to atone for his sins!" ”

This shout made the Admiral, whose face had always been pale, stunned, and immediately a smile appeared on his face, and he was about to speak, but Qin Dacheng, the Shaozhou Mansion behind him, rushed forward with an angry face, and his right arm suddenly raised and slapped down on the table. The palm of the hand slapped on the table, making a loud "bang", and the wine glasses and chopsticks rose into the air.

"Dog officer, you dare to bribe Lord Admiral in public, what kind of person do you want Lord Admiral! If the Admiral accepts your stolen money, what is the difference between him and a dog officer? ”

This angry scolding in Zhou Wenming's ears immediately made him ashamed, everyone knows that the emperor personally gave the Admiral as the "Pillar of the Qing Dynasty", since the Admiral sat in Shaozhou, the thieves did not dare to make a step north. Although he often ordered the localities to pay and persuade money, all the money he could get was used for the food and salary expenses of the officers and soldiers, and the Admiral himself did not take a penny, and even paid out of his own pocket to subsidize the families of poor soldiers, so that they would have no worries when they killed the enemy. He had received a great gift from himself, but the Admiral ordered the gift money to be sent to the barracks in front of everyone, thinking that the soldiers would be rewarded for killing the enemy. Just ask, how could the Admiral, who is so loyal to the country and righteous and awe-inspiring, be moved by his own dirty silver!

Qin Dacheng's solemn words fell on the ears of the officials and gentry who were tied, and they were all moved, and they also made everyone's hearts beat, if they couldn't atone for their sins with silver, wouldn't they really go to prison today? If you really want to track it down, none of the officials present are innocent, and none of these gentry have a clean ass, doing business with Taiping Kou in the past two years is a fashionable thing here in Shaozhou, and if you don't make money, you can't be stupid? But who would have known that the Admiral, who had always turned a blind eye to this matter, would suddenly change his face and cure them in this way!

However, just when everyone was in shock, something happened that everyone didn't expect - Lord Admiral quietly jumped over Qin Dacheng, and then looked at Nanxiong Mansion with a look of shame, sighed, and the expression on his face changed, obviously struggling and hesitating in his heart. After a long time, Lord Admiral Fang Chang let out a long breath, and then said to Zhou Wenming in a harmonious voice: "I don't know how much silver Nanxiong Mansion is willing to atone for?" ”

Lord Admiral's words were like a heavenly sound, drifting into the ears of the Zhou Governor's Mansion and into the ears of the officials and gentry, making everyone feel like a spring breeze again.

"Your Excellency... My lord..."

Governor Zhou's heart was so excited that he choked up and was speechless for a while.

Seeing this, Lord Admiral shook his head slightly, stepped forward to personally support Governor Zhou's mansion, and whispered a few words of relief. This situation made the officials and gentry open their mouths wide and couldn't believe it, and it also made Qin Dacheng stunned, feeling that he might have misunderstood the meaning of the Admiral.

"Say, how much silver is Nanxiong Mansion going to pay to atone for your sins?"

The kind voice of the Admiral was heard in his ears again, and Governor Zhou stopped choking and said cautiously: "The lower officials know that they are not just officials, but they have not saved much over the years... The lower officials are willing to... Three thousand taels of silver silver atonement, only to ask the admiral to spare the official this time, after the official went back, he unprinted himself, resigned, and returned to the countryside to farm, no longer involved in officialdom. ”

After finishing speaking, he found that the Admiral's hand holding his hand seemed to be stiff, and when he raised his eyes, he was greeted by the Admiral's angry face.

"Nanxiong Mansion is the official who wants to eat and flowers!"

The Admiral was very angry, very angry, the offer of Nanxiong Mansion made him feel humiliated, and he wanted to buy him for three thousand taels of silver, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Zuodu and the young master of the prince, and the chief military officer of Guangdong Province! This... This is simply an insult, an insult to his person and character! Is it tolerable or unbearable, this Nanxiong Mansion also looks down on people!

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, the Admiral just wanted to kick the blind Nanxiong Mansion away, but he found that hundreds of pairs of eyes in the courtyard were staring at him, and then at the eager gaze of the officials and gentry, the swear words on his lips were taken back, and the anger on his face disappeared, and he turned into a very embarrassed look.

"Nanxiong Mansion is like this, which makes the official feel very embarrassed."

The Admiral stroked his beard lightly, and stood in front of everyone in the breeze, looking very tall and mighty.

Governor Zhou heard the meaning of Lord Admiral's words, and he realized that he was a little stingy, so he asked cautiously: "Then according to Lord Admiral's opinion, how much is this silver appropriate?" ”

The Admiral did not directly answer the question of the Governor Zhou, and the Admiral has always looked down on those blockages, and he does not bother with them.

"What does Shaozhou Mansion think?" (To be continued.) )