Chapter 43: The Beginning of the First Contradictory Struggle 3
86_86695 Some young writers who have a bit of a pain like to write this kind of thing the most, such as "Life is a process of continuous choice" and the like. For Wang Shuhui, the measurement he has to make is also very simple. Let the old man become the prince, and he will have to face the problem of justification of rebellion. If he doesn't let his father-in-law become the prince, he will have to bear huge official pressure if he wants to exterminate the Zhijiang Ma family.
You must know that it is the year of Wanli, not the year of Chongzhen. Although there are signs of instability in the world, it has not yet reached the time of chaos in the world. Wang Shuhui simply weighed the armed forces he mastered, and made a decision easily. It is not yet time to openly rebel against the imperial court.
Wang Shuhui made his own decision. He set aside two thousand taels of silver as operating expenses. From the modern day, a carefully decorated dressing mirror was made as a tribute. There are also several sets of glass tea sets as gifts for the top and bottom. He gave all these belongings to his three old uncles, and let them take charge of the old man's inheritance.
In April 1920 of the Gregorian calendar, the atmosphere in the whole palace town became very tense. Not only are everyone in Wangfu Town armed, but barricades and watchtowers have been set up at the wharves of Wangfu Town and Jiangbei Village, and even when the peasant and industrial battalions go out of the town to farm, they also carry their own weapons with them, and the family members of the squad follow.
Wang Shuhui's disciples and employees are from the bottom of the spectrum, and they have unprecedented unity and enthusiasm for maintaining their hard-won good days. Zhang Dali's and other small bosses with a more wild temperament even said to Wang Shuhui that "the first strike is strong".
At this time, Wang Shuhui was in a different state and asked everyone to guard the door. And explained that in order to ensure their own safety, everyone can take a qiē method, killing and injuring people's lives, etc., and he also has his support. Other than that, apart from the selection of more than a dozen strong and agile young people for special training, no other measures were taken.
There are deep-seated reasons why Wang Shuhui did this.
He adheres to a standard for dealing with contradictions and conflicts. That is, "If people do not offend me, I will not offend others." That is, the strategy is to adopt a defensive counteroffensive mode.
In Wang Shuhui's view, Chinese, not to mention the Chinese at the end of the Ming Dynasty, are the Chinese in modern society. If it weren't for the fact that your vital interests were actually violated, you would be talking about a lot of nonsense, and no matter how righteous the attack is, you flaunt it. People are not indifferent, at least they don't really support it.
Therefore, Wang Shuhui made it clear to everyone in advance. Ma Songhua colluded with black and white to threaten the interests and safety of all Wangfu Town, and inferred that Ma Songhua would endanger the members of Wangfu Town in actual actions. After that, he did not preach any slogans or advertise any justice, but just passively and quietly waited for Ma Songhua's actions. He wants Ma Songhua to prove his own evil with practical actions. Wang Shuhui needed Ma Songhua as a reactionary teaching material to educate the members of Wangfu Town.
Niu Erlai is two years old Chinese New Year's Eve today and is a second-class family. It is different from the vast majority of the homeless members and hired workers in the big camp, as well as the hunters and fishermen in the original Jiangbei Village. Niu Erlai, who was born as a scoundrel, is not grateful to Wang Shuhui because of his current life.
Niu Erlai was originally a gangster in Zhijiang County, but because he accidentally offended the gangster, he hid in Jiangbei Village to avoid the limelight. happened to meet Wang Shuhui's people who incorporated Jiangbei Village, and he also joined in with a new look.
Niu Erlai originally thought that if he could mix in the palace, he would be able to walk sideways in Zhijiang County with the power of the palace. He didn't expect that although it was nominally recruited by the palace, in fact, it was signed with Wang Shuhui. After that, the heavy military training and endless cultural learning, as well as the non-stop labor every day, were simply hellish days for Niu Erlai, who was born a scoundrel.
Because it is customary to be natural to cheat and play tricks. Niu Erlai, whether it is military training or cultural learning, is at the bottom of the entire camp. Because he did not train and study seriously, and his personal hygiene habits were extremely poor, Niu Erlai became the most beaten and confined person in the entire camp. The hard days of the past half a year have made Niu Erlai's attitude towards Wang Shuhui from resistance to hatred.
When I heard that Ma Songhua, the famous overlord of this county, was going to deal with the big camp. Niu Erlai felt that his opportunity had come. On the streets of Zhijiang County, Niu Erlai, who has been working for more than ten years, believes that the Ma family, a giant household in Zhijiang who has a huge net worth of tens of thousands, no manpower, and eats both black and white, is by no means comparable to this bullshit guest of honor.
It's just that because the system in the camp is strict, it is not so easy to sneak out from here to report to Ma Songhua. Until today, it is Niu Erlai's turn to go to Jiangbei Village to patrol and defend.
When it was Niu Erlai's turn to be on duty, he lied to the team members who were on duty with him that he was going to be convenient. After that, he took advantage of the darkness of night and fled. Niu Erlai, who kept running away in the dark night, was still complacent, feeling that the training in the camp was not without any benefits. At least I couldn't have had such a good body before, and I could run so fast and so far. What he didn't know was that his escape was the water released by the instructor and leader of the team according to the arrangement of the battalion.
Wang Shuhui's subordinates, whether they are instructors, family members, or agricultural and industrial battalions and female worker battalions. One counts as one, and everyone has to train for a two-kilometer trail run every day. In addition to the women's workers' battalion and the craftsman's battalion, other units have to run an extra kilometer every day. There is also a 10-kilometer cross-country march back and forth every five days.
It is only a distance of more than four miles from Wangfu Town to Zhijiang County. After several months of training, Niu Erlai soon arrived in Zhijiang County. Because the gate of the county town was closed at night, Niu Erlai still shouted that someone had rebelled, so he woke up the soldiers guarding the city gate and hung him on the city wall. Because the content of his shouting was very terrifying, he was soon received by Ma Songhua.
After seeing Niu Erlai and listening to what Niu Erlai said, Ma Songhua was a little confused on the one hand, and on the other hand, the uneasiness in his heart finally settled.
To be honest, he really didn't expect Wang Shuhui to be such a ruthless character, and without saying a word, he crushed a well-known monk and scattered his bones. But on the other hand, he breathed a sigh of relief. Now, Wang Shuhui is not only guilty of smuggling salt, but also has a crime of murdering a monk waiting for him. What's more, what this scoundrel said, gathering homeless people to train privately, is also evidence of the crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan.
Ma Songhua is worthy of being a successful person, he is like a successful person, and he is very efficient in doing things. He snare the charges overnight, and the next morning, he found the county magistrate Tang Wenguang and asked him to sign the document to arrest Wang Shuhui.
Like the previous county magistrates of Zhijiang County, Tang Wenguang, who was born in Kejia Zhengtu, looked down on Ma Songhua, the county Cheng who was born as a prisoner, in his heart. However, because of the political characteristics of the feudal society in which the imperial power did not go to the countryside, as the most basic power representative of the Ming Dynasty, the county order of Zhijiang County, like all other county orders of the Ming Dynasty, must rely on the gentry to manage the jurisdiction.
If the gentry in the jurisdiction are the kind of good gentry who are heirlooms of poetry and rites, it is good to meet a landlord like the Zhijiang Ma family, and it is also a miserable thing to be a county magistrate in the local area.
When Ma Songhua came to the door, Tang Wenguang was drinking tea from the morning as he did every morning, driving away his wake-up gas. Under the morning light, Tang Wenguang admired the crystal teacup reflecting the reddish morning light in his hand, and the irritability caused by getting up was gradually flattening. Just when he was about to completely disappear when he got up, the next person came to report, and Ma Xiancheng asked to see him. Hearing this, Tang Wenguang's heart was filled with boredom at once.
Tang Wenguang was suddenly full of negative energy. While he was dressed under the service of his concubine, he muttered "Poor Cuoda, who doesn't know how to advance or retreat." I thought in my heart, I'm afraid that today is the day, and I don't want to be in a good mood.
In the front hall, looking at Ma Songhua, who casually gave him a salute, Tang Wenguang's mood was a lot darker. He held back his anger and raised his hand to let Ma Songhua sit down. When Ma Songhua explained his intentions, Tang Wenguang was puzzled.
In the eyes of Tang Wenguang, who is a noble scholar, Ma Songhua, who was born as a prisoner, is a short-sighted, full of village flavor and arrogant village husband. However, he still knows who advances and retreats. He should know that it is true that Zhu Youzi is now an empty cylinder royal family, but the empty cylinder royal family is also a royal family, and it is also the emperor's clan. What's more, Zhu Weiyan is still a serious county lord of 800, and Wang Shuhui is still a serious county lord of 800. Even Zhu Youzi, there is also news of the restoration of the prince.
Not to mention that Ma Songhua's biggest backer is just Shangshu's nephew. Even if Zhang Wenda, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, will he offend a clan unscrupulously, it is a matter of two words. Ma Songhua didn't have the right nerve today, and he wanted to pour dirty water on the local clan.
After Tang Wenguang listened to Ma Songhua's words, he didn't speak for a while. After a while, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, and said to Ma Songhua slowly, "I know that Ma Xiancheng only cares about the official affairs of the county, and he doesn't care much about the imperial court. But more than ten years ago, how did Lord Zhao Kehuai, the governor of Huguang, die, you don't know. ”
Ma Songhua knew that the previous county magistrates who were born in Jinshi looked down on him, a county magistrate who was born as a prisoner. They all feel that they, the natives of Zhijiang, are the kind of villagers who are short-sighted and only care about their own one-third of an acre. But Ma Songhua thinks that there is something remarkable about this.
He thinks that he has little knowledge, and he really cares about the one-third of an acre of land in Zhijiang County. However, in this one-third of an acre of land, you have to coil it for me, and you have to lie down for me if it is a tiger. In this Zhijiang County, he is the king of heaven. You lords who were born as non-commissioned officers, in order to collect enough taxes and get an excellent score in the evaluation of the officials, don't you have to stammer with me.
Tang Wenguang saw the impatience on Ma Songhua's face, and he was so angry in his heart. He said irritably, "If you don't know what's going on, go back and find someone who understands and ask about the "Chuzong Rebellion". If you can't find someone who understands, send someone to Jiangxia Mansion to ask Lord Zhang's family. Let's see if their family knows about it! I'm tired, stand down! ”
Tang Wenguang was not such an uncalm person. However, he really didn't want to entangle with Ma Songhua, a native, in an unhappy morning. He has already pointed out that the problem of the clan is that the governor of Huguang must be cautious. As for what Ma Songhua would do, he didn't want to ask