Chapter 20: Manslaughter
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The two women were lying on the ground, crying at a corpse in front of them, and there were some people around who were bleeding from their heads, and they were stopping the bleeding with the help of others.
Forty paces away, there was another group of seven or eight hundred local households, most of them in rags, also holding farm tools, and some people in neat clothes were clamoring loudly, and two of them were killed, and many more were injured, and many young people were eager to try this way.
Most of these tun households in Wendeng were Wendeng, who had arrived in Chongzhen's three or four years, and they were not qualified to divide land in Wendeng, and some of them had participated in road repair, and when they could not work in winter, they were organized by the training team to practice. At this time, although he was holding a farm tool, he still had a bit of momentum, and he did not back down in the face of twice as many opponents.
Several county officials separated the two sides in the middle, and they were all local snakes, shouting at the people on the opposite side, blocking them from rushing over. Those households were still a little afraid of these government people, so they maintained that there were no more fights.
Liu Minyou arrived with the stupid monk and Mo Huaiwen, and Xu Yuanhua, who arrived first, hurriedly greeted him.
"Lord Liu, you're here." Xu Yuanhua wiped the sweat from his face.
Liu Minyou jumped off the horse and hurriedly asked Xu Yuanhua, "Why did you fight?" ”
"These people were encouraged by some gentry, and they gathered early in the morning to prevent us from making the settlement, and did not allow our tun households to build shacks. Some of the tun households were anxious, pushing and shoving, and then they moved the farm tools, and three people died. We have one here, who came from Qingzhou Mansion last year. ”
"Take me to see it." Liu Min said with a gloomy face. "Xu Yuanhua knows that Liu Min values human life the most. Led him apart from the crowd to the morgue in front. Natunhu looked about forty years old, with a large wound on his forehead and blood all over his face. Two women, an old man and a young woman, cried hoarsely, and the other two seemed to be the sons of Natunhu, wielding the sticks in their hands to fight hard, but were stopped by several old men.
Mo Huaiwen squatted beside the older woman and whispered, "This aunt, this is Mr. Liu from Wendeng, don't cry first." ”
"Mr. Liu is the master of us!" When the two women heard that it was Liu Minyou, they came over on their knees and grabbed Liu Minyou's trouser legs. "The man in my family was beaten to death by them with a hoe, how will our family live in the future, I beg Mr. Liu to seek justice for us."
Liu Min gasped heavily, these homeless people came to Wendeng with great hardship, and they did not hesitate to do the most tiring work in order to earn a bite to eat, what they looked forward to was the day when the land was divided, so that the whole family could live in troubled times. But this tunhu fell here just as his wish was about to be granted.
He hurriedly helped the two women up, and comforted them with kind words: "Don't worry, Wendeng Camp will take care of your future days." Mourn for you, and I will go and share with them, and I will be your master. ”
Liu Minyou went over and persuaded the two excited descendants again, so that they could stabilize their feelings a little. Then he said to Xu Yuanhua: "You let each chief and a chief take care of the people to which they belong." Don't be impulsive, I'll talk to them in the past. ”
"My lord, I can't tell you about this. There were also two dead people over there, and they were pulling people from Sixiang. In the morning, there were less than two hundred, but now there are more than seven hundred. You may still be in danger in the past. ”
Liu Minyou frowned and said: "If you don't make it clear, if you repay each other like this, the contradictions between us and the locals will become more and more intensified, and I have to try it." Mo Huaiwen also said worriedly: "If you want to talk, you don't have to go in person, it's better to send a general to ask their patriarch to talk in the middle, there is a fast hand from the county government, and they have to see how much they have to see the situation."
After hearing this, Liu Minyou felt reasonable, Xu Yuanhua ran to the middle and told those fast hands, and after a while, an old man and a person who looked like a student came out over there. Liu Minyou suppressed the resentment in his heart and greeted him, followed by the bear-like stupid monk.
As soon as Mo Huaiwen looked at the appearance of the students over there, he remembered that Huang Gongcheng back then, obviously all the way. He called Xu Yuanhua's deputy and asked, "Is there any of our tunbao nearby?" ”
"There is one, and people have been sent to recruit people, but there are not many people over there, and there are only more than 200 households at present."
Mo Huaiwen thought for a while with a calm face, looked up at the more and more people on the opposite side with worried faces, and took out his waist card and said to the man: "When you go to the military camp to see Wang Changfu, you will say that the people of Wendeng have been bullied, please ask them to help." ”
The man hesitated: "Lord Liu said that he should try not to use force in civil affairs, isn't he talking about it?" ”
"Leave it alone, do what I say." Mo Huaiwen stuffed the waist card to the man, "You go to the barracks and go to the county government again, and let that Tang Zhi County come as soon as possible." Hurry up, ride my horse. ”
Mo Huaiwen watched the man squeeze out of the crowd, turned his head to look at Liu Minyou, only to see Liu Minyou and the old man talking non-stop, and the student next to him interjected from time to time, Liu Minyou turned his head to distinguish with him, and turned his head from time to time to point to the corpse here.
Mo Huaiwen couldn't help but shake his head slightly, "If this matter can be solved by talking, there will be no death." ”……
After talking like this for half an hour, there was still no conclusion, Liu Minyou became more and more excited, waving his hands from time to time to strengthen his tone, Mo Huaiwen was surrounded by noisy voices of "Late Ming Chapter 20 Manslaughter", and he couldn't hear what they were talking about, but he seemed to know that nothing had been discussed.
There are more and more indigenous households on the opposite side, more than 1,000 people, and most of them are young and strong
There was also a tunpu man who came here, and they all brought their own farm tools to help, although it was not a tunpu business, but they were naturally a system with a stake.
Mo Huaiwen turned his head to look, there was no trace of the soldiers, and his heart became more and more anxious, he knew that Liu Min had a plan, and this Mr. Liu did not want to form the strict confrontation between the Liao people and the natives before. The civil administration has also formulated corresponding countermeasures, such as the general store can operate for the nearby households, and will also collect their grain with enough money, and then gather some road construction and temporary laborers, and slowly integrate the indigenous people through guò work and the industry and commerce of Tunpu. But at present, the first step of the fort cannot be established, and the next steps are just a flash in the pan.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw the student scolding and turning to walk that way. Then he shouted a few words, and a dozen relatives and friends of the deceased ran out. When he got to the middle with farm tools in his hand, he wanted to surround Liu Minyou, and the first person directly wanted to grab Liu Minyou's collar.
Mo Huaiwen's heart screamed bad. As soon as the thought started, the stupid monk shouted, and knocked the household to the ground with a punch, and the other households who rushed over were stunned, and then raised their farm tools and smashed them at the two of them.
The stupid monk immediately pulled Liu Minyou behind his back, and he was hit with a few hoes in a row, and those households were quite ruthless, if it weren't for the thick skin and flesh of the sand monk, it was estimated that he would be dead on the spot.
As soon as Wendeng Tunhu saw the start of the fight, several people who reacted quickly immediately rushed over to help. There were also immediate support over there, Wendeng's general armor could no longer be suppressed, and people from both sides began to rush into the field in a scattered manner, and a larger group fight was just around the corner.
Mo Huaiwen didn't care about anything else, and saw that Liu Minyou was retreating, and hurriedly went over to pull him, at this time, the farmers on both sides roared in unison and rushed to the middle. Mo Huaiwen pulled Liu Minyou and desperately retreated. I could hear that Liu Minyou was still loudly asking the two sides not to fight, but in the sharp howls around him, only Mo Huaiwen beside him could hear it, and all the farmers were like crazy beasts. Completely lost his mind.
Dengzhou households have a numerical advantage, but Wendeng's tun households are stronger, and a small number have participated in basic training. The two sides were evenly matched, and they didn't have much formation. The people in front waved their farm tools indiscriminately, and the people in the back had to pull away from each other. The two sides are getting more and more scattered, chasing and killing all over the mountains, more and more people fall on the ground, and slowly even women join in, desperately fighting for their own land.
Mo Huaiwen escorted Liu Minyou and finally squeezed out of the crowd, and when he escaped dozens of steps to the periphery to find the horses, the horses didn't know where to go, and the stupid monk was also scattered in a panic just now, Mo Huaiwen, a weak scholar, only felt that there was a crisis everywhere, and he had to pull Liu Minyou away again.
Who knew that Liu Min got rid of him, and actually took out a short gun from his arms and loaded it, and said angrily to Mo Huaiwen: "Those two people are purely unreasonable, they don't want to pay rent, they don't want to give up the land, and it is not possible to bully Lao Tzu is Wen Deng's dirt buns." ”
Mo Huaiwen hurriedly persuaded: "The body of an adult's daughter, it's not worth fighting with these people, let's stay away for a while." ”
"What else to avoid, it's all fighting, and we have to do it." Liu Minyou did not hesitate, "Follow me to arrest the patriarch, that old man is not a good thing, or they are picking up those tenants, and catching him can make these people stop, otherwise I don't know how many people will die." ”
Liu Minyou loaded the short gun at this time, and took out a dagger from his waist, seeing Mo Huaiwen stunned, Mo Huaiwen hurriedly turned around, and did not find any weapons on the ground, he saw Liu Minyou turn around and go to the battlefield, gritted his teeth and picked up a stone in his hand and followed. The two of them looked carefully in the crowd, and there were people everywhere who were chaotic and joyful, where could they find the patriarch for a while, and everyone was wearing civilian clothes, Liu Minyou didn't know which side it was.
As soon as Liu Minyou pushed away a farmer in front of him, he heard someone next to him shouting and scolding in a Dengzhou accent: "Kill you Liao people." ”
He turned his head and saw that five or six steps to the left was a household standing, and the one on the ground was supposed to be a Wendeng Tunhu, who had been beaten to the point of bleeding, and he struggled to get up, but without success. After scolding, the residents of Dengzhou will pick up the hoe and kill the killer.
"Stop!" Liu Min shouted and pointed a short gun at the indigenous household, the man seemed to be not afraid at all, he was just a peasant, maybe he didn't know what Liu Min was holding, but roared with a hideous face: "You Wendeng people and Liao people, want to rob our land, let my wife and children starve to death, Lao Tzu will fight with you." Behind him was a woman and a child, both with a stick, screaming and swearing.
Liu Minyou hurriedly said: "It's not like that, you listen to my ......"
After roaring, the native of Nadeng Prefecture raised his hoe violently and smashed it at the tunhu on the ground.
Liu Minyou's mind turned countless thoughts in an instant, this person was most likely a tenant who was agitated, he thought that Wendeng Camp was coming to pong them, but he was deceived for a while. But the Wendeng Tunhu on the ground was even more innocent, the hoe was raised from the back of the man, drawing an arc, and it would hit the Tunhu on the ground in a blink of an eye, Liu Minyou's fingers subconsciously pulled the board hook.
There was a crisp chirp, and the indigenous household fell heavily backwards in the white smoke. The roar startled the farmers on both sides of the vicinity, and they each took a few steps back to look this way. The wife and children of the indigenous household were also stunned, and waited for a moment before they reacted, and pounced on the corpse of the household and wept bitterly.
Liu Min stood in place at a loss, with countless words in his heart, but he didn't know how to say them. The mother and son on the ground occasionally looked up at Liu Min, and their eyes were full of deep resentment. (To be continued.) )