The so-called self-defense of the village is a means of self-protection of the local heroes. Since the raid on the Central Plains, the landlords in Henan have gathered in the villages to defend themselves, small villages and large villages, holding weapons to resist the Liukou, and sometimes resisting the soldiers and horses sent by the government, the reason is that they do not want to pay grain. Half of these powerful people are local tycoons, and the other half are bandits, and those who form a village must collude with the bandits, otherwise they will not be able to stand on their own. The reason why they had to collude with the bandits was that the supplies in the stockade could not last long on their own production, so they needed to collude with the bandits to loot the rest of the large households, and sometimes even capture the county seat and loot. Most of the soldiers in the village are not poor peasants, but landlords and rich peasants, who farm the land during the busy season and go out to fight and loot during the slack season.

Once the government wants to send troops to suppress it, they always get the news as soon as possible, either as birds and beasts to disperse for a while, or they will become law-abiding local gentry, in this case, the officials who are willing to eradicate these local disasters are also powerless. Since the fourth year of Chongzhen, several foreign county officials in Henan have been assassinated in the county office, and no official dares to mention this dispatch to suppress bandits.

Fortunately, although the powerful people in these villages do not obey the government, they are also hostile to the Liukou, because the government requires them to pay food and salary at most, while the Liukou not only ask for food and salary, but also want their lives. Compared with the incompetence of the officers and soldiers, these soldiers can sometimes take the initiative to attack small groups of rogues, and when they encounter a lone rogue bandit, they will directly kill people and cut off their heads, so the local government is now turning a blind eye to them, as long as the other party does not rebel from the rogue together, it is Amitabha, where will they provoke them. Some officials even regard these heroes as life-saving straws, and invite them as guests, so that they can save his life when the rogues come

Since entering the territory of Henan, this kind of self-defending village has seen a lot of bravery, if it is in Dengzhou, he may send troops to exterminate, the so-called world is not the king's land, you are a group of heroes who do not obey the king, do not obey the king's orders. But after all, his Liaodong Army is a guest army, and the villaged is in Henan, so he dares to suppress these villages, I am afraid that the Henan officials will not thank him, and he can't help to suppress it in the front, and the impeachment of the Liaodong Army in the back can be reported to the Beijing Division.

More things are better than less, what matters now is to encircle and suppress the rogues, and the matter of Haoqiang should be left to the government to solve it in the future. As long as the world is peaceful, these heroes will naturally lose the soil for survival, and they will have to obey the king's orders when the time comes.

Dayong was about to order the army to continue moving forward, ignoring the stockade, but his heart moved: the people who guarded the wall wore white hats?

Thinking of the evil deeds of those who returned in the later generations, Dayong felt a wave of disgust for no reason, and immediately ordered the guards to bring Chen San, the guide sent by Tangyin County, and after a while, Chen San was brought to him.

This Chen San was an errand officer of Tangyin County, and when the army passed through Tangyin, he asked the local government to send a guide, and the Tangyin County official sent this Chen San to come. It's not a good job to be a guide for the official army, this Liaodong army looks at the many soldiers and horses, but it's impossible to say whether it can fight anyone, in case it is surrounded by rogues like the general army who helped to suppress it, then his own life will not be guaranteed.

Chen San is really miserable about this hard-working errand, but the county lord said, don't do the errand if you don't go to this yamen. The family all pointed to the money and food on the errand, if the errand was not allowed, the family would not be allowed to drink the northwest wind. Chen San had no choice but to be this guide, but he was always worried along the way, for fear that this Liaodong army, like the previous officers and soldiers, would disperse with an uproar before he saw the shadow of the rogue. For the sake of his own life, he didn't even dare to wear the clothes of the official, and he didn't know where the mother-in-law found a shabby dress.

After the person was brought, this Chen San also saw Dayong for the first time, and suddenly saw that this official and military commander actually lost half of his face, and he was so frightened that he lost his soul, thinking that he had seen a ghost during the day, and almost ran away without turning his head.

It was not the first time that Dayong had seen someone who was frightened by his appearance, so he smiled and asked Chen Sandao: "Ben Shuai asked you, who is the person in this county who set up the village in front of you?" ”

"What?"

Dayong said it again, this Chen San came back to his senses, and he didn't dare to look at Dayong anymore, lowered his head and said cautiously: "Back to the general's words, in front of me is the village of the local big family Ma Deguima." ”

"Ma Degui?"

is another surnamed Ma, Dayong shook his head, how can he like the surname Ma so much, isn't the old Hui called Ma Shouying.

"Is this Ma Degui back?"

Chen Sanyi was stunned, but said with a look of envy, "Master Ma's house is steamed in letters, and all the people from the four miles and eight towns of the last festival will gather in the Ma family village, which is very lively, and the villain is fortunate to go to make up for a few times, Master Ma is really bold, the beef and mutton are open to supply, and the villain has really eaten a lot, and now I want to come."

Chen Sanzheng recalled his good life in the Ma family village, but when he saw that there was no sound around him, it was a little scary, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Dayong said coldly: "In this way, what is in this Ma family's village is back?" ”

"The old man Ma is the descendant of the Hua Chi Army stationed in Kaifeng during the Mengyuan period, and moved to my Tangyin County after the founding of the dynasty. As for Huihui, that's what the county Xiu called those parishioners. Chen San didn't dare to talk about it anymore.

"Ben Shuai asks you, can these returns follow my Da Ming law, but can you keep to yourself?"

"This"

Chen San squeaked, the third elder of the Ma family was his top boss, in case he knew that he said bad things about the Ma family in front of these foreign officials and soldiers, could he be good when he went back.

Seeing this, Guo Yi shouted angrily: "What is this, the handsome man asked you to answer quickly!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Chen San was frightened by Guo Yi and hurriedly said: "Back to the big handsome, the villain is just a servant in the county, I only know that Master Ma is the largest household in the county, and the rest of the small people don't know the way, I really don't know the way." ”

Dayong frowned: "Do you not know the way or don't want to say it?" He waved his hand at the guards, "Fight until he is willing to speak!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Suddenly, the two guards stepped forward and held down Chen San, and kicked him in the back knee, Chen San fell to the ground with a thud, and before he could react, a guard had already smashed his ass with a scabbard.

The scabbard was not a board, it crackled when it was fighting, but it was a muffled sound, but the sheath was smashed on the bones, and Chen San almost fainted in pain.

"The handsome spare, the handsome spare! Ahh Chen San couldn't stop shouting, but he couldn't bear the pain and shouted: "The villain said it, the villain said it." ”

"Let him go." Dayong waved his hand to signal that the guards didn't have to fight anymore, helped Chen San up, and asked him to summon all the things about the Ma family that knew Lu Dao.

Chen San didn't say that it was okay, but when he said it, not only was the fire of the great bravery, but the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army were also furious

It turned out that the Ma family relied on their identity to run rampant in the township on weekdays, doing a lot of evil. Not to mention, in the second year of Chongzhen, the Ma family had a splash of skin and went to the neighboring village to steal sheep and was caught by the people in the neighboring village. Unexpectedly, hundreds of people came back from the Majia village that night, beating people and smashing things when they saw them, killing and injuring more than a dozen Han people.

When the Han people reported to the government, the magistrate of the county at that time was a Han Chinese, and when he heard that there were Huihui mobs in the territory and hurt people, he was immediately furious, and immediately transferred the official and contacted the Nanyang Health Office to prepare to go to Majiazhai to arrest the mob. As a result, before the officers and soldiers of the guard station arrived, thousands of Hui Muslims rushed into the city and surrounded the yamen of the county.

Afterwards, the more the magistrate thought about it, the more angry he became, and this time he didn't dare to call those people in the yamen to come forward to contact him, for fear of leaking the news, but he personally went to Nanyang Mansion to report to the prefect. Who knew that the prefect not only did not support the prefect, but also transferred troops to arrest the mob and reprimanded him for his life. Within two months, the officials came to transfer the county order to Jiangxi.

In the third year of Chongzhen, when the guys of a car and horse shop in the county drove to send passengers through the Majia village, they had a quarrel with the Hui Hui in the village for some reason, and then they were injured by the Hui Hui in the village. A merchant passing by here carried this guy back to the county seat and prepared for Lang Zhong to be treated, but the mob refused to give up, and after following into the city, he continued to beat this guy in public, and also injured the merchant.

The merchant hurriedly went to the yamen to report the case, but the auxiliary soldiers, the catchers, and the messengers did not dare to come forward to stop them after they came to the scene, and the merchant's son knelt in front of them and begged bitterly, but they still did not come forward to stop them.

After beating up the guys and merchants, they still didn't get angry, and then they started to fight in the street, they smashed everywhere, and the largest restaurant in the city, Hexian Ju, was also smashed by them, and even the guests who ate inside did not let go, and they beat one by one. What is even more infuriating is that the innocent pedestrians on the street have not been spared by them, and they have been subjected to violence by Muslims to varying degrees.

What makes people angry is that from the beginning to the end of the incident, the Yamen's Zhukuai and Cha Ding stood on the other side of the street, and did not stop these Huihui mobs at all, in Chen San's words: Huihui is too fierce, and the government can't afford to provoke it.

The merchant never came to Tangyin again to do business because of this incident, and the man of the carriage and horse shop was afraid of retaliation by the Muslims, so he moved his family to a neighboring county. The shops that were destroyed and the people who were injured were not compensated in any way.

Just at the time of this year's Chinese New Year, two young people from the Ma family village rode horses to the county seat to molest women. The two Hui youths left immediately, but it did not take long for them to arrive with dozens of Muslims armed with knives and clubs, and beheaded the priest and his son.

The next day after fleeing back to the Majia village, they gathered thousands of Hui Hui people near the village, claiming that the Han people in the city had bullied the Hui children, and rushed into the county seat in the morning, armed with machetes, wooden sticks, and spears, and smashed a street in the county town from head to tail.

The government transferred hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, arresters and errand servants, but they didn't dare to take care of it, after all, the riot was Huihui, and they were outnumbered, and the new county commander was afraid that the matter would spread to the top and lose his official position like his predecessor, so he had to watch them behave nonsense.

"They rushed in and smashed whatever they saw, even my washbasin!" Thinking of the scene of going back to the city to commit violence, Chen San is still a little scared when he thinks about it now.

Dayong said angrily: "Then why don't you people who eat official meals stop it? Don't you have any guys in your hands? ”

"How dare the villain, I was stupid when I saw them rushing in wearing white hats, they all had guys in their hands, they saw what they smashed, it was so fierce, the county lord didn't dare to care, where did the villain dare to care, not to mention that the county's horse catcher is the third child of the Ma family, and those who return to believe in a religion, he doesn't speak, where does the villain dare to do more."

"So, the Ma family village has been dealt with by the government until now? The government has watched them run rampant in the countryside in the past few years? ”

"No, it's always so horizontal when they go back, they hold together, and it's easier to talk when there are fewer people, but there are many people, let alone ordinary people, but the government doesn't dare to take care of them."

"Does this happen often in Tangyin?"

"Not only our Tang County, but also all counties in Nanyang have made trouble, but I haven't heard that the government has managed it."

After hearing this, some guards scolded angrily: "What does the government do for food? When you go to the countryside to collect grain and pay salaries, you run better than anyone else, and no one cares if something happens? But a bunch of mobs can't be killed, so why be afraid of them. ”

A pro-Wei Qi said: "Yes, if there is such a big incident in Huihui, why doesn't the government care?" Aren't officials afraid that our Han people will also make trouble? ”

Chen San smiled bitterly: "The officials don't care, they only care about their own food and drink, how can they care about our life or death?" What are they afraid of us? They just need to tie up with Shangguan to keep their black gauze hats! ”

Hearing this, some guards said angrily: "The government bullies the weak and fears the hard, we Han people abide by the law and dare not make trouble, the government will bully us, and those who return to the group and dare to make trouble, the government is afraid of them." ”

As soon as the words fell, the voice of the big handsome came from his ears, "Since the government doesn't dare to take care of these returns, then Ben Shuai will take care of them for them, they are afraid of these returns, Ben Shuai is not afraid." Sons, are you afraid?! ”