"What? Thousands of rioters rushed into the county town to make trouble? ”

Li Weiguo jumped up when he heard this, and after careful questioning, he realized that it was not a rebellion, but tenant farmers carrying hoes into the city to find those "old crows" to theorize.

"Old crow", as the name suggests, is not a pitch-black old crow, but a nickname given by the locals of Chongming to the big landowners, mocking them for exploiting tenants and eating people without spitting out bones.

Chongming County has just encountered a particularly heavy tidal flood, coupled with continuous violent storms and rains, the embankments along the river have burst, the fields have been flooded, trees and houses have been blown down, and the peasants have been displaced, and the suffering is unspeakable. Chongming County is bordered by rivers on all sides, and has been hit by wind, rain and tide, and the disaster is severe. Some of the surviving crops were rotten cotton, rice sprouted, and the harvest was only 10% of the average year. After the disaster, the landlords did not care about the lives of the tenant peasants, but still wanted to "not reduce the famine, and not delay the ripening," and ordered the tenant farmers to pay a rent of 500 catties of rice per 1,000 steps of land. The tenants could not bear it anymore, and the tunnel union petitioned Yan Kuan, the former Chongming County Commander, asking for a rent reduction. Yan Kuan pursued the trick of procrastination, and soon stepped down after appeasing the tenant farmers, and even fled without going through the handover procedures with the new county commander Li Weiguo for fear of sharing responsibility, leaving a mess behind.

The landlords continued to put pressure on the tenant farmers, and even used private armed forces to force the tenant farmers to pay rent, causing a number of injuries.

Thousands of tenant farmers entered the city and severely attacked the seven big landlords of Chongming County, including Xiao, Su, Zhou, Zan, Yan, Lu, and Huang, who brutally exploited the tenant farmers.

"What is the relationship between the Xiao family in Middle Street and Xiao Yang, the main bookkeeper?" Li Weiguo asked suddenly.

The official replied truthfully: "If you go back to your lordship, the Xiao family in the middle street is the home of Master Xiao, and after hearing the news, Master Xiao has already led the third class of officials to the scene, and asked the Lord to send troops to help quickly." ”

Li Weiguo sneered and asked Lao Tzu to send troops to save Xiao Yang's family? What are you kidding, Lao Tzu wishes that those chaotic people would block Xiao Yang, it is better to rob his family of ill-gotten gains, and then burn it clean, so that Xiao Yang is so angry that he vomits blood for half a liter before he is relieved.

Besides, this incident is very strange, thousands of chaotic people entered the county without warning with weapons, and the county soldiers guarding the city gate were all blind? He didn't even report it to him, the county order, which is one of them. Second, thousands of chaotic people have smashed and robbed six large landlords such as Su, Zhou, Zan, Yan, Lu, and Huang, and almost walked around the county seat, and it took several hours just to walk.

It must have been that Xiao Zhushu deliberately let the thousands of tenant farmers into the city, acquiesced in their attacks on the major landlords, and at the same time deliberately concealed it from Li Weiguo, brewing a conspiracy to deal with Li Weiguo, but he never thought that the situation would eventually get out of control, and those tenant farmers saw that the government did not stop them and became more and more bold and crazy, and after smashing and robbing several houses, they directly attacked the Xiao family, the largest landlord, which forced Xiao Yang to take people to the Xiao family for emergency, and at the same time ordered people to hurriedly come to inform Li Weiguo and ask him to send troops to suppress it.

The county government does have a military room, but in peacetime there are only a few dozen people in total, and after being assigned to patrol the city, the river, and the patrol, there are only a few people left at the gate of the yamen to stand guard and guard.

It is okay to expect these people to flaunt their military force and intimidate the common people, but once they encounter a popular uprising, especially a rebellion of thousands of people, it will not play much role.

This official was obviously instructed by Xiao Yang to ask Li Weiguo to bring his 100 escorts to the rescue, but Li Weiguo could not do what he wanted.

"Order that everyone in the yamen must not leave the county office, now that the chaos is strong, we should give priority to defending the county government, immediately close the gate of the county government, everyone is ready to fight, once the people dare to attack the county government, they should be repelled with all their might!"

Li Weiguo decided not to save him, and the official was in a hurry, so he left the yamen over the wall while no one was paying attention, and hurriedly went to report to Xiao Yang.

On the one hand, in order to eradicate these four hostile rival families for the Xiao family, on the other hand, he used these thousands of tenant farmers to make trouble and create a riot situation to blame Li Weiguo for the crime of having no way to rule, even if Li Weiguo could not be killed, at least it could divert Li Weiguo's energy so that he had no time to continue to check the accounts of the county government.

This was a perfect plan that Xiao Yang thought was seamless, but what he never expected was that he did not estimate the change in mentality of the "Diao people", these tenant farmers experienced the smashing and robbing of the homes of the four major landlords of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan in trembling, and saw that the government did not intervene and suddenly became bold, and his greed also swelled, not only continued to smash and rob the Lu and Huang families, but even went straight to the Xiao family, the largest landlord, and wantonly smashed and looted.

It was the scale of thousands of people, in just half a pillar of incense, the entire Xiao family compound was smashed into a mess, valuable calligraphy and paintings, ancient bottles, gold and silver jewelry, cash was soft, and even grain, oil, rice noodles, clothes, shoes, pillows and other worthless things were all looted, and by the time Xiao Yang arrived with people, it was too late, and dozens of officials were so frightened in the face of thousands of angry tenant farmers that they didn't dare to arrest people, and watched thousands of tenant farmers scatter in a hurry after robbing.

Xiao Yang's father and brothers were beaten one by one and their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, the old mothers, sisters and daughters-in-law were also abused by countless groping pigs, and the family guards were seriously injured and fell unconscious.

Seeing this, Xiao Yang was so angry that he stomped his feet, wanting to cry without tears.

Especially when he heard that the officials who came later said that Li Weiguo refused to send troops to rescue, Xiao Yang suddenly spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and he fainted directly.

After all, thousands of tenant farmers are angry, and the people are angry, and if Li Weiguo brings a hundred guards over, there will be only one result, Li Weiguo will not come to Taiwan, and the tenant farmers will point the finger at Li Weiguo and ask Li Weiguo to give an explanation.

In fact, Li Weiguo knew very well in his heart that under the feudal ownership system, it was natural for the landlords to collect rent from tenants, and the government generally had no right to interfere with how much they collected. In this way, Li Weiguo will be in a dilemma, it is basically impossible for the landlords to reduce rent and interest, especially Xiao Yang is the biggest landlord will definitely take the lead in opposition, offending these big landlords, Chongming County's tax and grain collection work will not be counted on, and the court will blame Li Weiguo for not being able to eat and walk around. But if the rent and interest are not reduced, then these thousands of angry tenant farmers will definitely vent their fire on Li Weiguo's head, and the result will be unimaginable, I am afraid that it will cause a riot, even if he Li Weiguo has a hundred guards, I am afraid that he will not be able to stop thousands of hoes and sickles from smashing down, and his life will be in danger.

Therefore, Li Weiguo chose to stand still, on the one hand, let Xiao Yang suffer the consequences, sit and watch the homes of those big landlords being smashed and robbed, and let them know that the common people will become bandits if they are forced to be anxious, and only by reducing rent and interest so that the people can survive can they continue to collect rent from local owners. On the other hand, it is also to let these thousands of tenant farmers vent their anger, only after they smash and loot these landlords' houses can they extinguish their anger and become less irritable, and at the same time, they have broken the law by smashing and robbing after all, so it will be much easier for Li Weiguo to talk to them about the national law.

As Li Weiguo estimated, after thousands of tenant farmers smashed and looted the homes of these big landlords, most of them lost the anger they had when they first entered the city, but became afraid, worried that the government would ask for their guilt. Therefore, some of them soon left the team one after another, went directly out of the county seat and returned to their villages and towns to hide, so that when the original thousands of people finally arrived at the gate of the county government, there were less than 1,000 people left.

Li Weiguo was somewhat sure of the less than 1,000 tenant farmers, and he ordered all the county officials to hold weapons to guard the county government, so that the 100 guards could occupy the favorable terrain and suppress the riot by force once the situation got out of control.

However, Li Weiguo did not dare to be careless, he was a smart man, and he would not only use brute force to deal with the timid and fearful people, but only need to catch those who were bold among them.

At this time, a large number of people also came from the other side, they were those big landlords who were smashed and robbed by the tenant farmers, and at this moment, under the leadership of Xiao Yang, they rushed to the gate of the county government in tears, and they were wronged to Li Weiguo, asking Li Weiguo to severely punish the perpetrators and compensate them for their losses.

These landlords were caught off guard by the tenant farmers, and in fact each of the big landlords kept dozens or hundreds of slaves who guarded the homes, and now they were united, and the minions of each family were gathered, armed with all kinds of equipment, and there were even thousands of them.

Li Weiguo frowned, the two sides ran into each other, and once it was not handled well, it would cause a big riot.

"What do you want to do when you are bold enough to make trouble, dare to gather people to make trouble, smash and loot the rich households in the city, and now they are gathered at the gate of the county government? Is it impossible to rebel? Zhang Xiaoliu was secretly instructed by Li Weiguo, stood up and shouted loudly, played the vanguard for Li Weiguo, and tested the attitude of these tenant farmers.

Sure enough, the word rebellion immediately frightened all the tenant farmers, this is a big crime, raiding the house and destroying the door, and the people are immediately panicked.

On the other side, the big landlords showed their joy, they thought that the county lord was ready to do something to these poor people.

"Fan Zhongying, a grass citizen, has seen the county magistrate, and asked the lord to calm his anger, I am just dissatisfied with those landlords and powerful people who wantonly increase the tenant land endowment, and punish them slightly. We and other tenants are all croppers who do their duty, but because of the flood this year, there is no harvest in the fields, and we don't even have our own share of grain, and those landlords and powerful people are frantic not only do not reduce rents and interest rates, but increase rents and interest rates, and they want us to make up for the grain destroyed by the floods? This is to force us to death, what is the reason of heaven? We and the others jointly petitioned the adults, and hoped that the adults would be enlightened and leave a way for us to live. In front of the crowd, an old man who looked a little majestic said, and the others chimed in, looking like a leader.

Zhang Xiaoliu handed over a thick petition handed over by Fan Zhongying to Li Weiguo, who took a general look at it, and the content was to ask the government to come forward to let these big landlords reduce rent and interest.

Li Weiguo frowned, these landlords and old wealth are really hateful, and it is okay to squeeze tenants every year, after all, this is the basic phenomenon of feudal society, but this year there was a catastrophe, and the tenant farmers had no income, and they had to increase the rent and raise interest rates, which was really hateful.

Li Weiguo rolled his eyes, quickly weighed the pros and cons, and made the best choice, he said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, this year's flood in this county, your fields have no harvest, this official understands, and sympathizes with you. It's a pity that the previous county magistrate was too irresponsible, he promised you to reduce rent and interest but secretly resigned and left, and the official didn't know about it for a few days after taking office, and almost fell into an unjust situation. ”

"It turns out that the former county magistrate secretly resigned and ran away, no wonder we haven't been waiting for news these days, and we thought that adults and those big crows were the same thing, and they actually misunderstood adults, I really can't live with adults, and I deserve death." A person standing next to Fan Zhongying said suddenly, reminding everyone with one word.

Li Weiguo nodded, he first poured dirty water on the previous county commander, so as to establish a good image in front of the people, he sighed, and continued with a heavy expression: "Do you know, this official has not thought about tea and food these days, and has been thinking about how to help everyone tide over the difficulties, how can the imperial court have limited food and salaries for disaster relief, and more than 200,000 people in this county have been affected by the disaster, and it is a drop in the bucket at all, and the problem cannot be solved." ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone's hearts suddenly rose to their throats, and they all became nervous.

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "You don't have to panic first, listen to what the official has said." Although the imperial court's disaster relief and food cannot solve the fundamental problem, how can this official, as the parent official of Chongming County, watch you suffer and ignore it? So the official decided to work for relief, the official will arrange a job for everyone, everyone will get a salary after working hard, you can support your family and even soon be able to repay the land rent, what do you think, are you willing? ”

For the victims, having something to eat is considered a luxury, let alone a job that can be paid.

Fan Zhongying and the others were immediately overjoyed, and the tenant farmers behind couldn't wait to shout their willingness, for fear that Li Weiguo would regret it.

And this cash-for-work is also a solution that Li Weiguo suddenly came up with, because his Asian Investment Bank has a capital of 3 million pounds, and in addition to lending, this money will be used to invest and set up factories, which requires a lot of labor, and these tenant farmers in front of them have very low requirements and can provide cheap labor, killing two birds with one stone.

"Your Excellency is benevolent and righteous, and you are a good official, please accept my wait!" Fan Zhongying took the lead in kneeling down and kowtowing to Li Weiguo, and the nearly 1,000 tenants behind him were already scheming laborers, and they were easily moved by Li Weiguo's words, and they knelt down one after another to thank them for this kindness.

"Folks, please hurry up, how can I, Li Weiguo, He De, accept such a great gift from you, I can't help it!" Li Weiguo hurriedly helped Fan Zhongying and the others up, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't blush in the face of this situation, because he did have the intention of buying people's hearts.

The tenant farmers got up one after another, and one by one they were overjoyed.

"It's a good recruit to buy people's hearts! I really underestimated you before! Xiao Yang scolded secretly in his heart, and had to admit that this Li Weiguo was a powerful character, he was too light on the enemy before, so he said unwillingly: "My lord, don't you care if these Diao people enter the city to smash and rob the rich families?" ”

At this time, Xiao, Su, Zhou, Zan, Yan, Lu, Huang and other people were gritting their teeth, eager to immediately cut off the heads of these tenant farmers to relieve the hatred in their hearts.

"The county has its own decision!" Li Weiguo snorted coldly angrily, he had already learned that Xiao Yang's house had been smashed and robbed, and at this moment, seeing Xiao Yang's expression of killing his father, he was very happy in his heart.

Li Weiguo paused, and quickly became strict, as the head of a county, he loves the people sincerely, but he also does not allow anyone to violate the law and discipline, because it is no different from slapping him in the face. Especially there was a Xiao Yang watching him from the side, and he couldn't afford to be careless.

He said solemnly: "Fellow villagers, you have suffered natural disasters, and this official sympathizes with you and spares no effort to help you, but you gather people to make trouble, smash and rob many large households in the county, which violates the law of the imperial court. ”

Xiao, Su, Zhou, Zan, Yan, Lu, Huang and other people from various families breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Li Weiguo's words, and their hearts suddenly felt much better.

"The adults are kind and righteous to us, and we naturally can't shame the adults, and a few of our leaders are responsible for this matter, and I hope that the adults will not accumulate others." Fan Zhongying took the initiative to stand up and take responsibility, and soon more than a dozen people came forward.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Since you take the initiative to take responsibility, it's best to do it!" Someone came, took Fan Zhongying and others down, put them in prison and waited for their fate, and ordered the other people who participated in today's smashing and looting incident to quickly return the proceeds to the owners of each family, and there must be no mistake, otherwise the official will severely punish them. ”

Li Weiguo quickly pronounced the verdict, which appeased the refugees and gave face to the major families, and no matter which side got a reasonable explanation, the riot was quelled.

"Thank you, Lord Lee!" Whether it is the tenant refugees or the rich and powerful, they have to thank Li Weiguo at this moment.

Only Xiao Yang's face was gloomy, this sudden riot was a trap deliberately arranged by Xiao Yang against Li Weiguo at the beginning, but in the end the biggest beneficiary was Li Weiguo, on the other hand, Xiao Yang himself didn't get anything, but his family was looted by the mob.

"I hate it!" Xiao Yang returned to his messy home and roared to the sky.

"Poof!" A mouthful of old blood spurts out again!

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