Chapter 314: The Glazed Monkey and the Rammed Earth City Wall
Jin Yongtai goes out these days to simply take a two-person sedan chair, and the scene of hugging back and forth in the past, holding avoidance and quiet signs to clear the road is no longer seen.
This is all because of the gang of rogue officials who turned over, one of the reasons is that before the exile of these gang of rogue officials, they were all high and powerful, Jin Yongtai was from Wupin Zhi County, how dare he pose in front of them?
But the most important reason is that there are no more available people under Jin Yongtai - those liuguan are fully involved in all the affairs of Jingyi County, and they are "seconded" from the county government when there is a shortage of people, so that Jin Yongtai almost didn't even keep these two palanquin drivers!
Due to the seizure of power by the officials, Kim Yongtai now feels more and more that he is the "first person anyway" is a disguise, while dealing with the pretense of the Jeju pastoral envoy and Daejeongzhi County!
When the pretense has already made Jin Yongtai very dissatisfied, and when it comes to the salary this month, the small officials, fast hands and strong men who are blocking the gate of the county government will make him crazy - the money and grain in the Jingyi County Treasury and even the Yicang have been tossed by the officials, how can there be anything to pay salaries?
Those sub-liuguan are all glass monkeys, and the trick of Tai Chi pusher can be used to sneak - people are "borrowed", and it is natural for Jin Yongtai to find a way to send money.
In desperation, Jin Yongtai had no choice but to go to Ling Ming - he knew very well that no matter how the officials tossed, if they wanted to rely on the one-third of an acre of land in Jingyi County to rescue the late lord Gwanghaejun and regain power in Korea, it was a dream; What he can really rely on is Ling Ming and the young Chu Gongzi behind him, especially after the Liu family's private army, the strongest army in Jeju, was easily killed by Chu Gongzi!
He knows that the gang of old officialdom officials know even better, and they have to beat him from time to time, don't disobey the lords of the country!
But as the saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero. In a huge Jingyi County, so many people are living on their salaries, he really has no choice but to tremble and beg to see Ling Ming.
But the latter's attitude surprised him, neither pushing back, nor standing eyebrows. But he said to him in a kind way, borrow money? No problem! But you have to use the taxes of Gyeongui County as collateral - if the taxes of Jeongui County are not enough, it doesn't matter, anyway, in the future, when Gwanghaejun is restored, the whole of Korea will be yours, and the same is true for using taxes from other places as collateral.
Mrs. Jin Yong never expected that the lords of the kingdom would be so easy to talk to, and he was already driven crazy, so he borrowed three months' salary without thinking about it - now it is the end of the year, and in two or three months, he will be able to collect this year's autumn tax. Isn't that the problem solved?
Thinking back to the situation when he borrowed money at the beginning, Jin Yongtai had only one thought in his heart, this money was borrowed smoothly, that is, the interest rate was higher - three points of interest in just three months!
In the sedan chair, Jin Yongtai suddenly became a little irritable in his heart, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he lifted the sedan curtain, which was impressive. It is the bloodstains on the walls on both sides of the county Yaxi Street!
This made Jin Yongtai's heart tighten, and his legs trembled slightly involuntarily - it seemed that there was another scene of the Fuliao army killing in the county government square in front of him!
These Ming people are too ruthless. It took a whole day to wash away the blood stains on the three streets afterwards, and just like that, half a month later, someone still found a stinky piece of meat from the crack in the wall!
Jin Yongtai is the magistrate, in order to appease the families of the victims that day, he really broke his leg and broke his mouth!
Of course, there are still results, after some threats and intimidation. If this year's tax exemption is granted, the vast majority of people have resigned themselves to the order, but this is only limited to ordinary people.
The gentry in Jingyi County, especially the scholars, are not so easy to fool. Except for a few people who read and read stupidly like Jin Yongtai, believed the nonsense that helped the emperor restore, and finally threw themselves into the "anyway" camp, everyone else's choice is very simple - escape!
Kim Yongtai didn't have detailed statistics, but it's really not a joke that the big families in Jeongui County are ten rooms and nine empty - the first target for the big families to escape is Jeju City, followed by Dajing County in the west.
Kim Yongtai didn't take the escape of the big families very seriously, what he was worried about was that these big families would stab the real situation of Jeongyi County to the Korean royal court!
When he thought of the crusade of the royal army, Jin Yongtai felt shocked, but Song Yixing's words to cheer him up made him cheer up, "Traitors steal the country, although there are many but not righteous; We are faithful, though few but righteous...... There is a lot of help for the righteous, but little help for the unjust, although there are many thieves, what a way! ”
Of course, it is said that it is "He Zudao", but in fact, everyone knows that what they need to hold on to most now is the thick leg of the Fuliao Army.
Therefore, when the prince of Chu sent an order to them to expand the wharf at the mouth of the Yuanwaichuan and build a rammed earth city wall on the west bank of the Yuanwaichuan, Jin Yongtai immediately got busy, organized the people, measured the land, and prepared equipment......
It seems that the lords of the kingdom are going to live here for a long time, which is a great thing, and when the royal army comes to crusade in the future, they will not be able to stand idly by, right-when passing through the long doorway of the west gate of Jingyi County, Jin Yongtai thought so in his heart.
Out of the West Gate, came to the riverside of the Yuanwai River, along the river bank all the way to the south, just after the Tiandiyuan Waterfall, Jin Yongtai got off the sedan chair and took the ferry to the opposite bank.
The Yuanwai River is not wide, and it is only seventeen or eighteen zhang away, and the ferry boat took less than a stick of incense to get to the west bank.
After going ashore, Kim Yongtai stood on his feet and looked up at the three-zhang high watchtower on the bank of the river—this was the starting point of the east side, and the one that connected the watchtower was a rammed earth wall 1 zhang and 5 feet high.
The rammed-earth wall was almost in a straight line, starting from this watchtower and continuing southwest to the coast, a little more than a mile long; Under Kim Yong-tae's daily urging, the construction of the city wall progressed quickly, and now only the central gate is missing.
He was about to lift his feet and get on the sedan chair to walk to the city gate construction site, when he heard a sound of talking in the distance in the east, and listened attentively, it seemed that there was Song Yixing's voice in it.
Now Jin Zhixian became curious, and came east along the riverbank, and after walking about a hundred steps, it suddenly became clear in front of him - the woods on the riverbank had been cut down at some point, revealing a large clearing; And at the edge of the woods, there are many men dressed as Ming people who are wielding axes to cut wood.
On the bank of the river, sure enough, there were seven or eight liuguan led by Song Yixing, who were surrounding a man in white, greeting respectfully, Jin Yongtai looked at it fixedly, wasn't it Chu Fan Chu Gongzi who knocked on the county yaden and heard the drum that day?
“…… Since our Fuliao army is here, it will never leave! Ladies and gentlemen, don't worry. As soon as he walked behind the officials, Jin Yongtai heard Chu Fan say this, and like Song Yixing and them, his heart was like a big stone falling to the ground.
Looking around, there were several bronze ratchets on the bank of the river, which seemed to have just been cast, and a new question could not help but rise to his mind.
What is this Young Master Chu going to do here? (To be continued.) )
PS: Crab is on a business trip to Liupanshui today, and can only take advantage of the gap in the business trip to code words, so the update time may not be fixed in the past few days, please understand :)