What is righteousness? There are many explanations, but if a person is working for the welfare of the people, the spirit he shows should be called "righteousness." From this point of view, Hua Xiongmao should be righteous and awe-inspiring at this time. But it is clear that these people at Yuezhangji Pier do not think so. In their opinion, a foreigner who came out of nowhere came to see Zhang Youliang and Mrs. Zhang, the leader of Yue Zhangji, for the first time, blatantly demanded that Mrs. Zhang's land be brought to the people for the same planting, and also asked not to collect rent. This is not "righteousness" at all, this is a real "stupidity".

So when Hua Xiongmao asked to see Mrs. Zhang, the people on the two boats who stopped Hua Xiongmao had no intention of reporting at all. Since the other party has made this attitude clear, then the meeting between this person and Mrs. Zhang will definitely end unhappily. Mrs. Zhang had already threatened to get food from the "insurance group" in the county, although I heard that the insurance group was overwhelming, and Mrs. Zhang might not do anything to this person this time. But if Mrs. Zhang gets angry, the person who reported it will only be afraid that he will be offended afterwards.

Hua Xiongmao knew what these people were thinking at a glance, and he simply stopped paying attention to them, but shouted at the people on the dock: "Folks! The flood has become like this, and now if you don't hurry up to plant and harvest, what will everyone eat to live? It's not bad that our insurance team has food in hand. But even if we let everyone take all our food, we won't be able to eat it this winter. Don't dare to sow crops now, or are you ready to travel thousands of miles to escape the famine? You don't know how difficult it is to escape the famine, right? When you return from the famine, your land is not yours. I don't think you haven't seen it, right? ”

Hearing Hua Xiongmao say this, the faces of the people on the two boats in front of him changed when they boarded. This is cruel enough, Zhang Youliang can become the largest landlord in the local area, and he has a very close relationship with natural disasters. After each disaster year, his family's land would expand considerably. One of the main reasons why many people still refuse to leave Anhui is that these ordinary people are very worried that they will not have their own land when they come back after they leave. So they did everything they could to stay at home. So many of these people are working for the Zhang family on the docks. Hearing Hua Xiongmao's words, I can't make sure that the people on the dock listen to them in their ears, and they have other thoughts in their hearts. They first looked at Hua Xiongmao in astonishment, and then they all became noisy.

"What are you talking about?"

"You fart!"

"How dare you say bad things about Mrs. Zhang, you don't want to live?"

Hua Xiongmao laughed loudly, and his clear voice instantly suppressed the voices of those people, "Whether I am telling the truth or not, the villagers themselves know it." If you don't agree today, forget it, I'll come back the day after tomorrow. After finishing speaking, Hua Xiongmao turned around and made a gesture, and the members of the insurance group on the boat shouted a trumpet at the same time, rowed their oars, and the boat headed towards the way they came. The two boats of bewildered doglegs just watched Hua Xiongmao and them go leisurely.

The comrades of the insurance regiment were often on the water these days, and they were well trained, and the boats rowed fast on the water, and it was not long before the dock was left far behind. Yuwen Badu praised: "Zhenglan is really majestic. ”

Hua Xiongmao did not respond to such praise. He actually really wanted to go into this Tuweizi today, and among the information of the People's Party, Zhang Youliang is almost 70 years old this year. Such an old man dared to speak out to deal with the insurance group, which actually surprised Hua Xiongmao. It stands to reason that people at this age are conservative. Hua Xiongmao knew the strength of the insurance group, and everyone traveled thousands of miles from Shanghai to Fengtai County, Anhui Province, and then from Fengtai County to Anqing, and after receiving military training for a month and a half, they walked back to Fengtai County. In the disaster relief operation, the performance of the insurance team was quite remarkable. Chen Ke once talked in detail about the theory of military construction, Hua Xiongmao was also a martial artist, and during the training in Anqing, he had seen the level of the Anhui New Army. In Hua Xiongmao's view, in addition to weapons, the Anhui New Army and the Insurance Regiment are only half a catty. A country landlord, at most a bandit leader. Dare to fight the idea of the insurance group, did you take the wrong medicine?

Thinking of this, Hua Xiongmao turned his head and looked at the Tuweizi again, the distance was very far, and the Tuweizi didn't seem to be a big deal from a distance. After getting used to the architecture of Shanghai, this earthen enclosure seemed to Hua Xiongmao to be simple and dilapidated. In this flood, the original house outside the fence has long been completely collapsed. Anyway, when Hua Xiongmao rescued people, it was already a wave there. Families have already built new homes there. Against the backdrop of this simple and dilapidated earthen enclosure, the few houses outside the enclosure look insignificant at all.

"It would be nice to have a telescope." Hua Xiongmao suddenly sighed.

"What?" Yuwenba didn't understand. He did not participate in the Anqing military training and had never seen a telescope. I can't understand the mood of Hua Xiongmao, who has used a telescope, at this time.

Wen Qing said that we can make glass in the future, and we will try to build telescopes at that time. You'll know when the time comes. Hua Xiongmao gave an answer that was not an answer.

These words obviously aroused Yuwen Badu's curiosity, and he was about to ask what the telescope was, when he heard Hua Xiongmao say: "Yuwen, what do you say Zhang Youliang is thinking about at this time?" ”

Zhang Youliang, who was called an "old thing" by Hua Xiongmao, was not thinking about anything at this time. At this time, he was angrily listening to the person in front of him return to the process of Hua Xiongmao's visit.

In fact, there is a misunderstanding between Hua Xiongmao and Zhang Youliang. Hua Xiongmao, who had been preparing for revolution with Chen Ke more than a year ago, never thought that the insurance regiment was a "semi-bandit" arm. In his opinion, the insurance regiment is a regular army, coupled with Chen Ke's army building model and the large number of college student officers in the insurance regiment, Hua Xiongmao has never felt that this armed force has the slightest relationship with bandits.

In Zhang Youliang's eyes, this "insurance group" that popped out of nowhere was an out-and-out bandit army. Unlike other bandits, it seems that the leader of this bandit has something to do with the government. The flood not only destroyed the rural areas of Yue Zhangji in Anhui Province, but also completely cut off Zhang Youliang's information channels. Therefore, his understanding of the insurance group was only limited to the time before the flood, when the insurance group had just arrived. Not to mention Zhang Youliang, other people's views on the insurance group are exactly the same. And Zhang Youliang also has an armed force similar to the insurance regiment under his command. The parties are directly in a competitive and even hostile relationship in the "business". If it weren't for the sudden heavy rain and the ensuing flood, Zhang Youliang would have let his people test the details of the insurance group a long time ago.

In the flood, the behavior of the insurance group to rescue the people made Zhang Youliang feel that the insurance group had bad intentions. At that time, the insurance group wanted to send the rescued people into the enclosure, and Zhang Youliang's first reaction was that this bandit army wanted to take the opportunity to capture the enclosure. So he did not hesitate to turn away the insurance group and those people. Of course, Zhang Youliang also knows very well that there is selfishness in this. His first reaction was that after more deaths, the Zhang family's land could expand a lot. If these people are put in, after all, they are villagers, and it will always take a lot of complicated processes to start. And if these people refuse to sell their land, it is not so easy to deal with. It is a very good choice to keep the insurance group and those folks out of the public and private.

Now that the people from the insurance group actually came to the door, and made such an outrageous request, after Zhang Youliang listened to the hail of the people below who were a little trembling, he only felt that the passionate emotions that had not appeared for a long time actually came back. "Take out your own land and let the people plant, without collecting rent, so that everyone can survive the disaster year." What do these guys think they are? A group of bandits made such a rebellious demand! Not to mention the insurance group, even the county order did not dare to put forward such non-trivial thoughts.

Zhang Youliang is sixty-eight years old this year, and since he was eighteen years old, he followed Li Hongzhang's Huai army to go on expeditions, but those long-haired people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have had similar fallacies. It is natural to plant the land and pay rent, and take out the land to plant for the people who have been affected by the disaster, so that you can drink the northwest wind yourself?

The more Zhang Youliang thought about it, the more angry he became, and he slapped it on the table in front of him. There was a snap, which made the dog-legged family who reported it tremble. This Mrs. Zhang has been in the army for almost 20 years, has killed countless people, and has a fierce temper. Especially when encountering this kind of "unruly" thing, he has always scolded when he opened his mouth and beat him when he raised his hand. Seeing that Mrs. Zhang was angry like this, the family was afraid that Mrs. Zhang would be angry with himself.

"Call someone to come and go to the county government to complain. I heard that this insurance group has something to do with the county order, so let's see what the county order wants to do with these people? Zhang Youliang said loudly.

"Master Zhang, I don't think it's better to do this for now. Since this insurance group dares to say this, I am afraid that they already know that we want their food. This is to scare us a little first. If we lose the complaint, we will be afraid. A middle-aged man next to him hurriedly said.

"Master Wu, what do you think?" Zhang Youliang squinted at this Master Wu.

"I mean, let's send someone to find the field first, and then report to the officer. Master, you think, those people dare to be so unscrupulous, which must be related to the support of the county order. Now in the flood period, the county commander is only afraid that they will be used to guard against bandits, so he will definitely not offend these people. It's useless for us to report to the police for the time being. And there is no basis for empty words, what do we say? Master Wu said his thoughts.

"Hmph, that's what you think about a reader. Those bandits just thought that we didn't dare to report to the official, which is why they were so arrogant. Let's go to report to the officials this time, but we don't really want the government to treat them. It's about making this thing bigger, and those people are so intimidating us, that we are going to take out the land and let the people race it, and if nothing else, what do the gentry think? In this year of catastrophe, many people have been cornered and have bad intentions. It's okay on weekdays, but today, can you tolerate these people doing such nonsense? As long as the gentry can join forces, the county order will no longer dare to shield them. When the time comes, it will be much easier for us to do it again. ”

Master Wu didn't quite understand Zhang Youliang's thoughts, since Zhang Youliang knew that the people's hearts would fluctuate in the disaster year, wouldn't it seem that Zhang Youliang was unkind and righteous when he made it like this? Thinking of this, Master Wu's expression was a little apprehensive.

Seeing that Master Wu didn't understand what he meant at all, Zhang Youliang just snorted, but stopped talking. After Zhang Youliang joined the Huai Army, he could be regarded as crawling out of the pile of dead people. After experiencing life and death, Zhang Youliang looked hot, but his mind was actually very detailed. In a year like this, there will definitely be a civil uprising. It is not something that can be avoided by the landlord with a slight concession. And this insurance group went around to save the victims during the flood, and now it is putting forward this kind of proposition similar to equal wealth and poverty, and there must be someone behind it. Now going directly to the insurance group is not only morally not beneficial, but on the contrary, it allows those poor people who are starving to death to see someone to rely on. Therefore, now it is necessary to unite the gentry in the county to force the county order to express its position, and then force the county order to get the grain out of the insurance group.

As long as this goal can be achieved, the poor people in the local area will feel that the insurance group can be bullied. At that time, the people can be incited to rob the insurance group. In the eyes of the people, if the insurance group can give way once, then let go a second time. What else could the insurance group do then? If you do it to the people, you can unite with other gentry and ask the county to strictly run an insurance group.

Of course, this kind of method cannot be explained to Master Wu in detail. So although he was very dissatisfied in his heart, Zhang Youliang just asked Master Wu to write a statement, and then shouted to the family, "You guys give me a good look on the water, no one can let them go ashore these days." The family member was pardoned, and after answering, he ran away.

At this time, Zhang Youliang didn't know that in addition to Hua Xiongmao, who came by water to confront each other, the pathfinder team led by He Zudao was struggling to find the land passage leading to Yue Zhangji. The other two small boats made a small fleet of boats made a larger bend and landed on the west side of Yuezhangji, and a few people got off the boat and circled to the north of Yuezhangji, preparing to approach Yuezhangji, which was almost in ruins, and prepare to sneak inside. This small detachment was a task force sent by Chen Ke to understand the situation of mobilizing the masses in Yuezhangji.