Before the Lantern Festival, many villages on the Chaoshan Plain in Guangdong still have their own customs of traveling to the gods, which is a rare noisy and lively day of the year. However, in this year, in the eighteenth year of orthodoxy, which did not appear in history, there was an unusual undercurrent surging in this hustle and bustle.

These people gathered secretly through the temple fair, but not mud legs and bitter ha, but the landlords, gentry, and scholars in various towns and villages, they brought their own family and cronies, and gathered towards Chaozhou Mansion in the name of visiting the door and visiting the Huangtang Mansion, because not to mention the care of the provincial capital and the political envoy, even if there is no this section, they also feel that they have to move.

Something is wrong, I feel that the whole of Guangdong is in chaos, it is to expose the views of the political envoy of Zuobu, and I feel that the entire Chaoshan Plain is in chaos, but this is the feeling of these wealthy gentlemen. Because Zhu Yong presided over the people's military work, it was not carried out secretly, and the labor propaganda team went to every village openly, preached in the vernacular, went to the fields, and went to the ancestral hall in the township......

They did not accept the hospitality of those squires at all, and spoke to the poor people with great presumptuousness: "If this continues, the officials of the Ming Dynasty will all be supported by the poor; The rich are so rich that they can always produce a scholar, and they always do not have to pay for the service; What about the poor? It's okay if you simply raise the officials of the Ming Dynasty, but when you go to the city and go to the town, have the officials who rely on us to raise them ever give a good face? No, it's nice to be able to talk in a friendly way! However, those rich and scholarly people who do not have to pay for the service can always get a lot of compliments from the servants! ”

Say it once. The poor are also having fun, and really, people who can't write their own names. It is really impossible to expect them to be so enlightened that they will wake up and rise up to overthrow this rotten system. But this thing can't stand the workers and propaganda team to talk about it a few times a decade, and they don't live in the squire's house, but disperse to live in the thatched huts of the poor who are bitter. Help them chop wood, carry water or something, there is no entertainment in this era, and someone in the village can talk about a few verses of the Three Kingdoms. It can attract most of the people of the village, and run to hear about the Three Kingdoms after dark - it is really an excerpt of the Three Kingdoms, incoherent, and many of their own interpretations. Because most of the people who speak are also illiterate.

So the people of the labor propaganda team. Talking about how they carried out land reform in Guangxi, how they tried the inferior gentry, and so on, it quickly attracted the interest of everyone, and after dark, many people of all ages gathered over, and when they heard it, they cheered one after another. The landlord is not blind and deaf, naturally there are people to report it, they think. If this continues, sooner or later, something will happen.

Of course, there were also landlords who informed the tenant farmers to approach the workers of the propaganda team. Don't come to rent land and plant. The Chaoshan Plain is also a place where the people are fierce, and the landlords and squires are not good people, not to mention that there are some scholars on the side who incite them to give them bold ideas? These things, ten towns and eight miles, are not without landlords who have done this.

The result? At the home of the landlord surnamed Huang in the Chaoyang area, the front foot taught the family to speak, and the people from the back foot worker propaganda team came, and showed a waist card to the steward of the landlord surnamed Huang, and said to the steward: "The Military Intelligence Section of the Staff Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Four Seas is on a mission, and I don't embarrass you, go to find the Xiucai in the township or raise someone to come over." ”

At first, the landlord of Huang planned to call the courtyard to beat him out, but he was pulled by his brother-in-law and said to him: "I'm afraid it's not easy to fight, the boss of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas is Ding Rongcheng, Ding Rongcheng, brother-in-law, you went to take me to Shangfu City the year before last, I heard the book, didn't you still listen, that Ding Rongcheng is the one who rescued Taishang among the millions of Tartars?" "At this time, communication is not developed, and the countryside still doesn't know about the restoration of Yingzong, in fact, even if they know, for them, it's not too much of a concern, it's too far away, and the relationship between changing the emperor and the people below is really not very big, unless you have to raise taxes, that's another story.

Listening to the reminder of his brother-in-law, the landlord surnamed Huang also thought about it, slapped his thigh and said, "Yes, yes!" It is said that it is sharper than Zhao Zilong's sea golden beam and optimus jade pillar, remember that it is also a silver spear, right? That gun, it's really powerful...... It was said that it was a Liquan gun handed down by Grandpa Yue, right? ”

The brother-in-law smiled: "Brother-in-law, this is the old Huang Li, you asked me to go to Fucheng to buy cloth a few years ago, and I heard it again, Ding Rongcheng still has a painting halberd, do you know?" The emperor of the Tartars was also taken by Ding Rongcheng first! It's true! I asked Zhang Zhutou of Fucheng, this is not what Mr. Storyteller said, it is an official document coming down, saying that the emperor who will be promoted to the court to judge the Tartar in the next year is also first! I heard that the Tartars committed the border, Ding Rongcheng rode out of the pass alone, holding the Liquan gun to kill one by one, but it was useless, so he took out the Tianlong Halberd! This is amazing, this is the weapon of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, just one halberd down, he killed tens of thousands of Tartar iron horses, that's amazing! ”

"Alright, alright! Are you going to be a storyteller? The landlord surnamed Huang was still sober, and hurriedly stopped his brother-in-law's words, but frowned and said, "If his top master is Ding Rongcheng, then he really can't touch it...... However, do you think it will be fake? It's not for nothing that he pretended to be an official and went to the countryside to deceive people in these years! ”

The brother-in-law was very excited, and was pinched by his brother-in-law, extremely unhappy, but when he heard it, he pouted and said: "Yidu said that he called the township Xiucai and the master to come and see, and there is no one in our clan who has passed the Xiucai exam, and the ancestor of the third room has also let go of several wardens, and they have all invited ......."

If you invite people who have been officials to come over, you will really be more afraid to do it, because the front of the waist card reads "Deacon of the Military Intelligence Section of the Staff Office of the Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Four Seas" and the back reads, "You can do it if you don't answer any questions below the seven grades of Liangguang and overseas." The old uncle who had been a warden for several terms pondered for a moment, handed over the waist card to the old lifter and a few Xiucai on the side, but opened his mouth and asked the captain of the labor propaganda team, "The old man remembers that the waist card of the Yamen of the Security Bureau is not this recognition. ”

There is still a difference between being an official and not being an official. This old county man would not look at the waist card and think that it was the official family, nor would he think it was the Jinyi Guard, and directly mentioned the Yamen of the Security Bureau. The captain of the Gongxuan smiled and said, "The old man is very knowledgeable. But he took down a small seal and handed it over, "It's okay, I was originally escorted by the guard, and now I live in the village, and the old man can send someone to Guangzhou Mansion and Chaozhou Mansion to verify." ”

However, the county Cheng looked at the small seal, but he didn't even dare to say it, handed over the small seal to the lifter, a few Xiucai passed it around, and respectfully handed it back to the hands of the captain of the Gongxuan team, the old man and the lifter, a few Xiucai were cordial, and they all reported the year when they won the fame, and the captain of the Gongxuan team put away the small seal, but also smiled and said: "The student ran around with Mr., studied for three years from the Thunder Academy, and only graduated by luck last year, and got a medium evaluation." ”

Because of his Di Gonglang, a small seal of the civil and prose official, is not a military position, if it is a military position in these years, these scholars will not sell their accounts, but the civil officials are different. The man and the old warden didn't care, but just said: "But it's a new scholar, disrespectful, ask Mr. Rongcheng how he is well." ”

They are overachievers, and they still have a psychological advantage; But a few Xiucai even said that the captain of the Gongxuan team was young and promising, because of Ding Yi's great power, the Thunder Academy was also rising, and thousands of people in the three academies, every year are divided into three categories: unbridled, finished, and graduated, and generally no more than thirty people graduated.

"It's better to teach someone to find out." The captain of Gongxuan said so, and then pointed to the landlord surnamed Huang and said, "The student wants to ask about him, it is quite serious, involving the border military, once it is solid, it is not a joke to raid the house and kill the head, so you still send someone to verify, but from today onwards, all the people of the Huang family are not allowed to go out or enter. ”

The landlord surnamed Huang couldn't help but take a step back when he heard this, and said with horror: "This, where does this start?" The villain is law-abiding......"

"From the county level down, it is a common practice for the squires and the elders to govern together, and today it happens that all the elders are here, so it is convenient for the students to ask questions, so as not to say that they are trapped in you." The captain of the Gongxuan team has been waiting for this opportunity to make trouble, where will he panic? said to the old warden, "Old man, please make a record, and you and I will have an explanation in the future, so as not to be affected by this guy." ”

Lian Lian, who in this world is not taboo these two words? Especially for people who have meritorious names and official bodies, don't care that the wardens are not in the stream, they are also officials, they are people who know the severity, and they hurriedly asked someone to prepare paper and pencil when they heard it, and the captain of the Gongxuan team asked the landlord surnamed Huang: "Do you know that there is trouble in the nine sides?" Do you know that there are thieves rampant along the coast of Guangdong? Do you know that Hou Dagou is making trouble in Guangxi? Do you know that Huang Xiao has more than a party lurking among the people? ”

The landlord surnamed Huang didn't know how to answer, but the captain of the Gongxuan team continued to ask: "The Metropolitan Governor's Office of the Four Seas wants to weed out bandits from the people, but you encourage the tenant farmers and teach them not to contact the Gongxuan team, is it to harbor bandits?" The labor propaganda team went to the countryside, can I eat you a glass of wine? A grain of rice? A piece of meat? Why do you stop me from doing my errand? Could it be that you are Huang Reverse and Hou Reverse Neiying? Or are they the same party on the shore? "Where does the landlord surnamed Huang dare to answer? But he was about to speak to the old man who had been a warden, but he looked at the old man and shook his head slightly at him, he knew the opportunity, so he didn't call, but honestly admitted his mistake, saying that he would never dare to do such a thing in the future.

But as soon as the labor propaganda team left, the landlord surnamed Huang said a few words to the old man who had been a pawn, but beckoned his brother-in-law to come over: "It seems that the official face is uneven." The landlord surnamed Huang said to his brother-in-law, "Bring a hundred taels of silver, go to find the gang of big head scales and iron monkeys, this work propaganda team is only seven or eight people, the big head scales gang of outlaws have more than 100 people, teach them to do things cleanly, and there will be two hundred taels here!" "The brother-in-law was shocked, as for that? In one sentence, you want to kill an official? (To be continued......)