Chapter 10: Take Control of the Middle Palace
After dawn, the entire Zhonggong Township was already under the control of Wang Jundao, and the people in the township did not know that the Zhonggong Township where they lived had actually changed hands.
In the courtyard of the Liu family, Wang Jundao looked at Liu Changfeng, whose mouth was frozen purple and trembling, and said lightly: "Give me a reason not to kill you." ”
Liu Changfeng's body trembled, his face regained a little brightness, and said, "I have money, I can give you money." ”
"Buying a life with money?" Wang Jundao smiled lightly and said, "How much money do you have?" ”
"I have thirty thousand taels of silver." Liu Changfeng gritted his teeth and said a part of his money.
"Oh? Do you think your life is only worth 30,000 taels of silver? Wang Jundao sneered.
"Fifty thousand taels! It's all my money. When Liu Changfeng said this, he sat on the ground as if he had drained all his strength.
"You are the first squire of Zhonggong Township, and your ancestors have been one of the best squires in Zhonggong for seven generations, and you have been sitting in the position of the head of Zhonggong Township for ten years, bullying and flattering, squeezing I don't know how much silver you have, and you also have your own business, is it only 50,000 taels?" Wang Jundao snorted coldly as he spoke. He admired Liu Changfeng's acting skills a little.
"And how much do you want? Make an offer. Liu Changfeng looked at Wang Jundao and said.
"How much do I want? What a big breath. I want a million taels of silver, can you give it? Wang Jundao glanced at Liu Changfeng coldly, and said lightly: "I almost forgot, if I kill you, all your family business will be mine." ”
"If you kill me, you won't be happy, and the court won't let you go." Liu Changfeng said viciously.
"What a big joke? If I am afraid of the court? How dare you come here? Wang Jundao looked up to the sky and smiled, paused, stared at Liu Changfeng, his eyes were like knives, and said, "I want to ask, are you an official appointed by the imperial court?" You are just the head of the squires elected by all the squires and landlords in Zhonggong Township, the reason why the Qing Zheng Axe made you the head of the township is that you can give them a lot of money, if I give the Qing court more money than you? Do you think they'll let me go? Also, if I use a large amount of your family wealth to bribe the county magistrate of Licheng County, do you think he will let me sit on the position of the township chief of this Zhonggong? ”
"You!" Liu Changfeng pointed at Wang Jundao, speechless, Wang Jundao's words have obviously been completely said to his heart, he is just a township chief, a dispensable township official who has not entered the imperial court official status, if he dies, the Licheng County Order will definitely only nominate a new township head, and it is impossible to mobilize the people for him, when the time comes, Wang Jundao will spend a little more money, and he will be able to become the township chief of the Zhonggong, or directly support a new puppet township chief to take the position.
"What? Can't wait to break me to pieces? Wang Jundao looked at Liu Changfeng and smiled kindly.
Liu Changfeng really wanted to cut Wang Jundao with a thousand knives, but at this moment, he was the meat on Wang Jundao's chopping board, and he couldn't resist at all, and he calmed down after half a sound, he knew that for the sake of today, only by surviving could he start thinking about countermeasures.
Wang Jundao couldn't help but be a little surprised, although this Liu Changfeng in front of him was only thirty-five or sixteen years old, but this calmness was extremely rare, if he cultivated it, he would be a talent, but it also depended on whether Liu Changfeng knew the current affairs.
After a while, Liu Changfeng suddenly looked at Wang Jundao, and said in a deep voice: "My family property, money and silver, all for you, if you still want my surname, then please let my wife and children go, they are innocent." ”
"Well, I can think about it." Wang Jundao nodded and said, "If you want to survive, it's actually very simple. ”
"Please make it clear." Liu Changfeng stared at Wang Jundao and said.
"Follow me and work for me." Wang Jundao looked at Liu Changfeng and said lightly: "In this case, you only need to give two-thirds of your family property, and you can keep one-third." ”
"Good!" How can Liu Changfeng deny it again? Hurriedly agreed, he could not die, and he could keep one-third of his property, but he never expected that his Liu family had been the great squire of the Zhonggong since the ancestors of the seven generations, and the family wealth was already millions of silver taels, and one-third was hundreds of thousands of taels.
Anyway, serving the Qing Zheng axe is a life, and serving Wang Jundao is also a life, with the idea of scattering wealth and eliminating disasters, he even has some gratitude in his heart for Wang Jundao's grace not to kill, if Wang Jundao knows what he thinks now, he is afraid that he will be shocked to kick him over, and then scold: cheap bones!
"Of course, there is one of them, three-quarters of your land must be handed over, and I grant you permission to keep a quarter!" Wang Jundao continued.
"No problem." Liu Changfeng said.
"Also, convene the people of Zhonggong Township, publicly apologize to the people, tell yourself about your deeds of oppressing and exploiting the people, and ask for forgiveness from the people, I hope you will not disappoint me." Wang Jundao said again.
"Good!" Although Liu Changfeng felt that it was a shame to apologize to those ordinary people, he did not dare to refuse under the threat of his life.
"I will have a lot of requirements in the future, you must comply with them, you can rest assured, I will not let you do those things that have lost your conscience, I will only let you really get the love of the people. Of course, you can not do what I say, but you must know that since I can keep you alive, I can also make you unable to live. Wang Jundao said sharply.
"Don't dare, don't dare." Liu Changfeng hurriedly wiped his cold sweaty forehead.
In the next few days, the hooligans who bullied and dominated the market, the squires who oppressed the people, and the landlords who exploited the people in Zhonggong Township were all arrested, and they were propagated with various crimes and evil surnames, and under the escort of the tiger warriors, they kept swimming back and forth through the two small streets of Zhonggong that were not prosperous.
All the people of Zhonggong Township were very happy, and what Wang Jundao did next made the people feel more comfortable and comfortable, Liu Changfeng summoned all the people in the town, apologized in public, and told his crimes with affection, and finally knelt down in front of more than 2,000 people in the township, and in the end, he was forgiven by the simple people.
Immediately afterwards, under Wang Jundao's arrangement, Liu Changfeng rented a large amount of land confiscated from those landlords with bad surnames and the land bought from those landlords with good surnames at low prices without interest to all the people, and everyone got two to three acres of land, and everyone was happy.
Liu Changfeng never expected that he would be admired and thanked by the people of the town, who had always been hated and feared by the people in the town, and now he walked to the small streets of Zhonggong Township, and the people would greet him with a smile.
He couldn't help but think of the previous days, at that time, as long as he walked on the street, the people were eager to resist the door, afraid that he would go in, and the children would run away when they saw him, he had never been so comfortable and happy as now, he realized what Wang Jundao said to him before, it turned out that it was a happy thing to get the love and respect of the people, and such happiness was far beyond getting gold and silver.
He deeply realized that these were given to him by Wang Jundao, which made him completely dead set on Wang Jundao.
Time flickered, it has been several days since Wang Jundao occupied Zhonggong Township, and these words, under the command of Wang Jundao, the tiger team is like a tiger descending from the mountain, unstoppable, under the decapitation action of the special combat squad, it soon occupied the entire Zhonggong Township jurisdiction of eight bao, more than 70 villages.
Under the firm implementation of his new policy, more than 30,000 people in Zhonggong Township are grateful to him, and even many families worship him every day to thank him for his reconstruction. Wang Jundao did not let those landlords and tyrants who had lost a large amount of land and whose surnames were not bad be unable to survive, but supported them and turned them from farmers to businessmen.
On this basis, Wang Jundao's militia can be said to have developed rapidly, with more than 1,000 people, and the Tiger Ben Brigade has also been reorganized into the Tiger Ben Battalion by Wang Jundao, with the battalion commander, chief of staff, and instructor all served by him alone, and below the battalion there was a special operations platoon, a guard company, and five combat companies, totaling 645 people.
To this end, he built a base on the basis of a huge manor on the bank of the Yushui River under the Wohu Mountain in Zhonggong Township, as the camp of the Tiger Camp, the Tiger Camp is close to the mountains and rivers, the scenery is beautiful, it is the place where the three rivers of Jinxiu, Jinyang and Jinyun converge, the scenery is beautiful, the back is the Wohu Mountain, the front is close to the Yushui River, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the best military camp location, and the military and political center of Wang Jundao has also moved from Kangzhuang to Zhonggong.
On January 28, Wang Jundao led a group of people into an iron shop in the westernmost part of Zhonggong Township, which is the first iron shop in Zhonggong Township, and 80% of the iron tools in Zhonggong Township come from this iron shop, not only that, most of the gunpowder guns, gunpowder, iron sand, swords, bows and arrows used by the people of Zhonggong Township also come from this iron shop.
This blacksmith used to be the property of a bully squire, but now it has been converted into Wang Jundao's arsenal, of course, strictly speaking, this is not an arsenal at all, because it can produce rifles, pistols, machine guns, cannons, not to mention cars, tanks, armored vehicles, etc.
But it was possible to produce large quantities of gunpowder, and there was a good forging process, especially their forging of steel, which could still produce high-quality alloy steel, albeit by hand, and the process of polishing the barrel and making the body of the gun.
These rich experiences are not possessed by the workers on the production line in developed countries, such people, as long as they give them design drawings and let them develop, it will not be long before they can not only make you production machines, but also make weapons that satisfy you, which is what Wang Jundao is most optimistic about this iron shop.
And there is another point, this iron shop can almost supply the needs of most of the people in Zhonggong Township for ironware, which means that there are enough craftsmen in the iron shop, in addition to a good source of pig iron and coal, which is exactly what he needs most at present.
Wang Jundao knew that as long as he used this group of people well, and at the same time gathered all kinds of craftsmen in the process of expansion, divided them into various types, trained them uniformly, and then passed on the technology to them, it would not be long before his industrial team would snowball bigger and tighter!
And they are experienced and skilled, they can train a large number of workers for themselves, and when the time comes, they will continue to implement the policy of bringing the old with the new, and I am afraid that in a few years, they will have inexhaustible manufacturing workers.
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