Chapter 2 Ransom as soon as he comes
After going back, Li Yunzhong carefully recalled Yang Xiuqing and Xiao Chaogui, did he know himself and his opponent! He was shocked by what he learned.
Yang Xiuqing is a native of Xincun in the Bauhinia Mountain District of Guiping County, only eight miles away from Dachong Village, where Feng Yunshan teaches. Yang Xiuqing was born poor, lost his father at the age of five, lost his mother at the age of nine, was lonely since he was a child, and was raised by his uncle Yang Qingshan, and usually made a living by farming and burning charcoal. Although he is an illiterate person, he is very alert, strategic, deceitful, and has a great talent for controlling the crowd, and is good at making friends with heroes from all over the world, and has appeal among the masses, and is the spiritual leader of the mountain people on the Bauhinia Mountain. Moreover, the Lu family, which was the first batch to worship God's religion, was his relatives. Now he has borrowed the Heavenly Father to descend to earth, and when Hong and Feng are not there, he is worthy of the name of the first person to worship God, even if Feng Yunshan comes back, he can't help him.
Xiao Chaogui grew up with his adoptive father since he was a child, and his family was poor, and he went to the mountainous area of Bauhinia Mountain in Guiping City to live by planting vegetables, cultivating mountains, and burning charcoal. Parents have four boys, and Xiao Chaogui ranks third. When he was young, his family was poor, he had no money to study, and he didn't know how much he could. In order to make a living, Xiao Chaogui when he was a teenager left home to work and worked as a shop boy. Soon, he left his hometown with his parents, trekked through mountains and rivers, and settled in the ancient shed of Guiping Pingai Mountain, where he made a living by clearing the wasteland and burning charcoal. At this time, Xiao Chaogui was only in his early 20s.
At the invitation of Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui and his friend Yang Xiuqing became members of the God Worship Society earlier. They went around to the Zhuang, Han, Yao, and other ethnic groups to propagate the teachings and benefits of the Worship of God Society, and actively mobilized people of all ethnic groups to participate in the Worship of God Society. Especially Xiao Chaogui, because he has a good kung fu body, he often fights for the people who worship God, so Xiao Chaogui still has a great prestige in worshipping God.
Li Yunzhong decided more and more that he couldn't do things with the two of them, and now it is estimated that even Hong Xiuquan can't do anything to them, and Feng Yunshan still has so much, after completing the matter of redeeming Feng Yunshan, it turns out that Li Yunzhong's wish is to go back to Teng County to make plans again, can't afford to offend, can't he still hide?
Due to the continuous uprisings of the party in Guangxi and Hunan, there were uprisings in Xuanhua area such as Shen Huiping and Su Yixing, who were called the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households. And soon it spread all over the province. During the Daoguang period, at that time, Guanyang, Gongcheng, Hexian, and Yangshuo in northeast Guangxi, Sien and Yishan in northwest Guangxi, Yulin in southern Guangxi, and Lipu and Shanglin in the abdomen of the prefectures and counties all had Tiandihui's rebellion, and hundreds of Shantang leaders were arrested and killed or exiled to Xinjiang. Especially after the First Opium War, the fierce changes in society, the anti-Qing uprising intensified, first Lei Zaihao and Li Shide from northern Guangxi, followed by Chen Yagui from Wuxuan, Zhang Jiaxiang and Su Sanxiang from Guixian and Hengzhou, and Zhu Hongying and Hu Youlu from the Hunan and Guizhou border areas.
Although they all failed, there were still many stragglers who ganged up to occupy the mountains as kings, and they had no money or food to loot merchants for a living.
The next day, Li Yunzhong took the eighty taels of silver that thousands of people in the sect had saved by burning charcoal for six months, which was also considered to be a heavy amount of gold, and he was afraid of being robbed by unknown thieves, so he decided to go to the county seat by water. Before leaving, Yang Xiuqing also asked Lu Xianba and Lin Fengxiang to be guards.
Although Li Yunzhong has been in the third year of high school for 4 years, he studied science. Therefore, his understanding of the history of the late Qing Dynasty is through novels and television, such as Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, Hong Xiuquan, the king of the north, Wei Changhui, the king of the wings, Shi Dakai, the king of Zhong, Li Xiucheng, the king of England, Chen Yucheng, and some of the others, Lin Fengxiang, Li Kaifang, Qin Rigang, Hu Yihuang, Lai Hanying, etc., who were not crowned kings in Yong'an, knew the name of Lu Dao. Lin Fengxiang, this name Li Yunzhong heard of when he was in middle school, and he was hung up as a martyr in the Northern Expedition.
As for Lu Xianba being Yang Xiuqing's relatives, Li Yunzhong suspected that they were all sent by Yang Xiuqing to spy on him.
The three of them hurried away, and soon arrived at the Xunjiang ferry, and the three hired a small boat, and after informing the boatman that they were going to the county seat, the boat changed and went down the river.
Therefore, it is the height of summer, and there are sails and shadows on the river, there are cargo ships carrying charcoal and salt, and there are also bamboo canopy boats that rely on osprey fishermen. A huge two-masted cargo ship is speeding north, and the strange thing is that the cargo ship is guarded by soldiers, and there is a dogtooth flag of "Dahuang River Inspector" on the mast. Seeing the quick boat, it was like hiding on the side, but from time to time some boats that could not be avoided were knocked over in the river, and the boatmen on it also jumped into the river one step earlier, and every time they overturned a small boat, bursts of laughter came from the big boat.
Looking at the tragedy in front of him, Li Yunzhong said angrily, "Isn't there a royal law, allowing the officers and soldiers to run rampant." ”
Lin Fengxiang said, "Those people are the people of Wang Ji of the Inspection Division, they are used to running rampant on the river, and they are some poor families who are begging for a living on the river, but they have to swallow their anger when they are bullied!" ”
The boatman carefully rowed the boat towards the river, avoiding the big boat. I saw the ship go away. The boatman wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "They, they must have gone to sell opium again." Every once in a while, a large ship full of goods would come from Guangzhou. ”
"With such officers and soldiers, how can we ordinary people live!" Lu Xianba sighed.
Li Yunzhong secretly thought, no wonder Hong Xiuquan could crisscross China with a few thousand strong and tens of thousands of women and children, and once occupied southern China. If it weren't for the lack of enterprising and corrupt lives of senior leaders, wouldn't they have succeeded? Lao Tzu should also rebel, if he succeeds, he will become a big official, and if he fails, he will grab enough money to enjoy happiness abroad, wouldn't it be faster than making money through his own hard work.
After the scene just now, the atmosphere on the boat became more and more dull, but fortunately, it didn't take long to arrive at the ferry port in Guiping County. The three of them paid for the boat and went ashore.
Had lunch in the inn. Li Yunzhong found a silver number, and exchanged the copper coins and broken silver into small ingots in ten taels, a total of six, wrapped in cloth and put them in his arms with the remaining broken silver.
After getting ready, the three of them walked towards the county government together.
On the way, Li Yunzhong finally figured out that it was the month of the A.D. year. I remember that the first Opium War took place in 1840, and I just asked Lu Xianba to end the Sino-British War in the twentieth year of Daoguang. It's been eight years. It was June 11, 1848.
Li Yunzhong visited the ancient county town for the first time, and after the freshness of the beginning, the simple and sour streets, the dwarf and ugly houses and shops on both sides, the numb shops beside the shops shouted a few times from time to time, and a few beggars sat listlessly by the wall waiting for the alms of pedestrians. I was so disappointed with what I saw.
The three of them arrived at the gate of the county government, and a stone lion was placed on each side of the door, which became pitted after the wind and rain.
There were two officials standing next to him, and one of them stepped forward and shouted, "The county government is heavy, and it is forbidden to look at the face." ”
Li Yunzhong prepared dozens of big money and stepped forward and said, "The little people of Bauhinia Town have come to complain to the magistrate of the county, and they are annoyed to report to the little brother, which is a small meaning, not a respect." ”
The official took the big money, weighed it in his hand, and said, "The magistrate is busy with official business, how can he have time to see the untouchables." For the sake of your knowledge, I'm waiting here, and I'll report to my master. ”
After a short time, I saw him bring a middle-aged man from the county office, and the official pointed to Li Yunzhong and a few people while talking to the middle-aged man.
Li Yunzhong secretly said that it seems that he is the master, in order not to be called a pariah, he prepared a few taels of silver and stepped forward and said, "Student Li Yunzhong is here to avenge the magistrate of the county for his mentor Feng Yunshan." ”
The master took the silver and put it in his sleeve and looked at Li Yunzhong a few times. I secretly thought that I didn't expect to make a small fortune today, and in a happy mood, I said to Li Yunzhong and Yan Yuese, "Since you have a grievance to be claimed, follow me to see the county lord." He said to Lin Fengxiang and Lu Xianba, "You two are waiting here." ”
Li Yunzhong followed the master around the lobby and walked to the backyard, only to see that the backyard was a small courtyard, and the two entered a room on the left.
An old man in his sixties, with a yellow face and thin muscles, and blank eyes, leaned on the table and smoked a big cigarette, and there was a Xiao Si next to him, who helped him light a cannon from time to time and take over the cigarette stick. The old man closed his eyes and enjoyed every puff.
For the first time in his life, Li Yunzhong saw an opium smoker, but he didn't expect it to be a magistrate, and sighed secretly: No wonder the Qing Dynasty perished after 60 years.
The master coughed heavily, and the magistrate raised his head to look at it, and said weakly, "The master is here."
The master said to Li Yunzhong, "Don't meet the county magistrate yet."
Li Yun learned the drama on TV, stepped forward to take out the silver in his arms and put it on the table, knelt on the ground and bowed to the magistrate, "The students have come to redress their grievances to the magistrate, Feng Yunshan, a native of Huaxian County, Guangdong, teaches people to read in Bauhinia Town and Jintian Town, and the founded worship of God will persuade people to be kind, who knows that he was arrested by the new lord of Tuanlian Wang Zuoxin for no reason, please let the magistrate make the decision for us."
Jia Zhu of the county magistrate was dazzled by the silver in front of him, he hadn't been the magistrate for a long time, and now he was still an agent, how could he have seen so much silver, and he usually smoked opium and spent all the money. Guiping is a poor country and has no oil and water, and he thinks about how to scrape money every day, but he didn't expect someone to send such a large sum of silver.
"Which one is Feng Yunshan, what did he do and was arrested." The magistrate asked in a low voice.
"Master Qiyu, Feng Yunshan was arrested by Wang Zuoxin, who ran a group training at the beginning of the year, I heard that Feng Yunshan's crime was to be treated by rebellion, but he didn't dare to confront Feng Yunshan in court, the important thing is that Lord Zhizhou also did not agree with the crime of rebellion, and the former magistrate wanted to collect some money and let him go, but no one sent money over, so he has been imprisoned." The master was busy reporting the situation in detail.
After the magistrate learned about the situation, he was overjoyed to see that it was not a big case, and someone sent so much silver to himself. Immediately said to the master, "Yunshan teaches people to respect heaven, is to persuade people to be kind, and there is no illegal crime, order someone to release Yunshan immediately, well, wait, or send him back to his hometown and hand him over to the local magistrate."
"Lord Xie Zhixian" Li Yunzhong was overjoyed and bowed to Zhixian again.
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