Chapter 63: Uncovering the Conspiracy

Listening to Shen Baozhen's words, although people were still unwilling, they couldn't find a reason to refute for a while, and there was a short, but death-like silence at the scene. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lord Shen said that he wanted to blackmail everyone?" The crowd remembered the "familiar" voice again, "Starvation is a small matter, a loss of temperance is a big matter, and adults do such an unrighteous thing, how can it be explained in a few empty words?" I can't wait! Defy! ”

"I can't wait! I can't wait! The crowd was encouraged, and several people who had already knelt down also stood up and shouted unconvinced, and the crowd began to rush forward again, and the guards tried their best to stop them, but the excited people were still getting closer and closer to Shen Baozhen, and at this time, Shen Baozhen Muran knelt in place without saying a word, and Xia Xianlun, Wu Dating and other shipping officials beside him were helpless and anxious. Seeing that the few people in front of him were about to pounce in front of Shen Baozhen.

"Bang! Bang! ”

Two crisp gunshots rang out, instantly quieting the crowd that had already fallen into a state of frenzy.

Lin Yizhe, who was holding a revolver that was still smoking from the muzzle, stepped forward and stood up in front of Shen Baozhen.

Looking at this young man with round eyes and rushing over like a mad tiger, everyone was startled, and even Shen Baozhen, who was kneeling on the ground, raised his head and looked at his nephew with incredible eyes.

"Are you going to rebel?" Lin Yizhe yelled, holding a revolver and pointing at the crowd, looking at the muzzle of the black hole facing him, the people in front were obviously scared, and they wanted to retreat, but there were people behind them, and there was no way back, and some people were so frightened that they even picked up their heads and squatted down.

The prestige of Lin Wenzhong's grandson and the great prestige of the Lin family in Fuzhou were reflected at this critical moment.

"Someone! Drag me out of that thick eyebrows and big eyebraids! ”

Lin Yizhe's heavy drinking was like a thunderclap in the flat ground, Wu Zhongxiang and the others only felt a "buzz" in their ears, and they were unsteady under their feet, and they almost fell.

That person didn't expect Lin Yizhe to recognize him, seeing Lin Yizhe pointing a gun at himself, he was startled, and quickly hid behind others, of course, the person he pulled as a shield didn't do it, and immediately pushed him away, and he hid behind another person, and that person immediately turned around and pushed him in front of him.

"That's you! Where to hide? Lin Yizhe pointed his gun at the instigator hiding in the crowd, who he had been observing for a long time.

The guards were reprimanded by Lin Yizhe, and they didn't dare to slack off, so they immediately stepped forward and pulled the pigtailed man out of the crowd and dragged him in front of Lin Yizhe.

"Who told you to fan the flames?" Lin Yizhe pointed a gun at his head and asked loudly.

"What fanned the flames? …… I...... You give us the money you pay for the opium trafficking, and don't you let people say it......"

"Dare to talk nonsense!" Lin Yizhe kicked him down, "Recruit from the truth!" How much silver did Hu Guangyong give you to come here to make trouble? ”

"What Hu Guangyong? I don't know what you're talking about! The big man who was grabbed by the two guards still had a hard mouth at this time!

"Do you dare to look me in the eye and say it again?" Lin Yizhe couldn't see that he was hard, and he used the trick he brought in later life - hypnosis.

"I'm not afraid of shadows, why don't you dare!" The big man seemed to raise his head to meet Lin Yizhe's gaze without fear, and suddenly felt dizzy, but felt that Lin Yizhe's gaze was extremely deep, like a huge valley, and he had fallen into it, as if he had fallen into hell forever.

"Let me ask you again, how much money did Hu Guangyong spend to hire you to make trouble here?"

"Hu--Master Hu gave me a hundred taels and told me to come here to borrow the foreign-foreign medicine tax and mobilize the local fathers and elders to storm the Harbour Administration, who asked him Shen Baozhen to drive Mr. Hu out of the Harbour Administration?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the middle of the crowd.

At this time, people were completely stunned by the content of Dahan's words, and they didn't notice that Lin Yizhe's eyes were different from just now.

The big man looked at Lin Yizhe blankly, a pair of bull's eyes glared at the boss, and while he was talking, the hara that flowed from the corner of his mouth had already dripped on the placket of his chest, but he didn't realize it.

"How many people did Hu Guangyong buy off to do this?" Lin Yizhe's eyes did not blink, staring at Dahan, he put the revolver against Dahan's head, but Dahan seemed to be unaware of the impact of the muzzle.

"I don't know how much, anyway, there are a lot," Dahan stretched out his hand and pointed to a few people in the crowd, "Ding Cripple, Erdezi, Laiwang, Xu Erye, Zhang Baifa, and a few brothers come out......"

The people who were pointed out by him were shocked, and they were about to pull out their legs and run away, but there were too many people behind, and they were eager to escape for a while, Xia Xianlun saw this, pointed at them, and shouted: "Take it all for me!" A group of guards stepped forward, separated the crowd, and dragged the rioters out of the crowd and fell to the ground.

"Cheng Ergou, you bastard! Dare to betray Lao Tzu, you wait...... Huh-" A thin-faced man named Xu Erye just cursed, and the guard slammed the butt of the gun on his head, and squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, and said no more.

Lin Yizhe ended the hypnosis of the big man named Cheng Ergou, and said loudly to the villagers: "Have you heard it? In order to take revenge on Lord Shen, Hu Guangyong deliberately spent money to hire these scoundrels to fan the flames and stir up trouble, and the villagers must not be deceived by them......"

"What paid me to hire me? You're spewing blood! The big man named Cheng Ergou woke up like a dream, heard Lin Yizhe's words, and immediately shouted again, and was immediately pressed down by two guards, he turned his head and found that several accomplices had also been arrested, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"You ...... What's going on? It was you who sold me, and I recruited Lao Tzu, right......" Before he finished speaking, an accomplice jumped up and kicked him in the face, Cheng Ergou's face was covered with blood for a while, and he screamed, and the accomplice was immediately pressed down by the guards.

"All of them will be taken down for strict trial!" Xia Xianlun ordered sharply, and several instigators were tied up by the guards and escorted out of the Harbour Administration one by one.

"Lord Lin, we are not all encouraged, but we are really here for this foreign medicine tax." The Xiucai, who was already bleeding on his head, stood up proudly after watching these people being escorted away, and said to Lin Yizhe.

"This gentleman is ......" Lin Yizhe saw that this Xiucai, who was about twenty-three or four years old, was bleeding from his forehead, and he had already stained the shabby cloth robe he was wearing with blood, and knew that he was here to admonish sincerely, so he couldn't help but be respectful.

"Mr., I don't dare to be it. Lord Lin is the province's Xie Yuan, after Lin Wenzhong, he has a reputation for raising people, but he is just a student and can't afford it. Under the surname Mei Minghong, the cursive word is far away, and Lord Lin can call me Mei Xiucai. That Xiucai stepped forward and arched his hand to Lin Yizhe, "Lord Lin, it is absolutely impossible to raise a ship with foreign medicine tax, and I hope that Lord Lin will persuade Lord Shen to take back his life." ”

"Mr. Mei, folks, have you ever known that if it wasn't for us who deliberately used opium to raise the shipmaster, someone really deceived people too much, took salaries from the bottom of the kettle, deliberately suppressed them, and cut off the shipmaster's salary!"

"Oh?!" Mei Xiuchang made Lin Yizhe's words suffocated, and he couldn't help but stop asking questions and listen to his next words intently.

"This person claims that the Western Expedition is in a hurry, but with his ability, can he reduce the salary of tens of thousands of taels per month? The money for the levy in the west has its own local apportionment, and it can't be spread on the head of the shipmaster! He knew that the shipmaster had no funds, but he still wanted to take it! This is clearly to drive the shipmaster to a dead end! You know, if the shipmaster has no money to operate, what is your errand? What is the livelihood of the wife and children in the family? ”

Lin Yizhe saw that many shipyard craftsmen were also in the crowd, so he said to them aloud, "I know a few of you, when the shipyard site was hit by a typhoon and rain, the river bank collapsed, and everyone went down to the river with me to save people. If it weren't for the fact that a few of you held me in spite of the danger, I am afraid that I would not be able to stand here today to expose the conspiracy and talk to everyone. ”

"Lord Lin! …… Do you remember us-" The shipkeepers remembered the scene of everyone suffering together in the storm that day, and they couldn't imagine that Lin Yizhe could still remember them, and their hearts were moved, and they couldn't help but choke up and knelt down.

"The reason why the shipmaster can have the scale of today, the strategy of Lord Shen, and the dedication of all of you, is it just for the sake of the notoriety of the opium tax, that the shipmaster will never recover? If the Harbour Master falls, what good will it do you? ”

The shipmaster craftsmen in the crowd listened to Lin Yizhe's words, and they were ashamed for a while, and they all pulled their wives and children to kneel down: "My lord, we were wrong, we shouldn't be bewitched by traitors, Lord Shen thinks about our livelihood everywhere, but we still make Lord Shen so embarrassed, we really deserve death!" Please punish you. After that, dozens of shipmasters and their families kept kowtowing to Shen Baozhen to confess their guilt.

"You wait, I don't blame you for today's events, I know that you are also thinking about the reputation of the shipmaster, and you will work hard in the future." Shen Baozhen replied to them softly in a hoarse voice, obviously he was too stimulated today, Lin Yizhe knew in his heart that Shen Baozhen regarded his reputation as his life, and he had to take foreign medicine taxes to support the shipmaster, and he himself could not pass the moral hurdle. His uncle worked hard for the shipmaster, and he was slandered and assassinated by all kinds of villains, what is the reason!

"Lord Xie Shen's grace of not punishing-" A group of craftsmen burst into tears as if they had been amnestied, and after standing up with their family members in their arms, they still cried incessantly.

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