Not all the villagers came to the mining area to participate in the negotiations, but this time the village chiefs of more than 10 villages of all sizes were involved, as well as the village elders, as well as six lizheng, and a few young adults who could speak well. These people alone packed Mohong's office to the brim.

In this way, he didn't put down all the people, and the three layers outside the door were surrounded by villagers in rags.

At this time, Mo Hong did not have the demeanor of being a big housekeeper in the capital at all, facing a room of all kinds of people who came to beg for mercy, Mo Hong looked calm, leaned back on a chair peacefully, and put his feet on the heavy table in front of him.

Beside him stood two young guards with fierce eyes, their faces as if they had a layer of frost on them, their sharp eyes glowing with coldness, staring at the crowd in front of them, their hands already resting on the hilt of their sabers at their waists.

It is often said that those who are barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes, and if people are really poor to a certain extent, they can do anything.

Dongxi's men did not bear the reputation of the people's fierce customs in vain, a group of ragged and messy people, in the face of the coercion of Mo Hong and the two guards he trained himself, they were just panicked for a moment at the beginning. Then I looked at my companions, and the fear was gone.

Their current attitude, although they are not confronting Mo Hong and the others, has not fallen behind.

After a while, there was a commotion behind the crowd, and with the sound of "let one let" and "let one go", several stewards squeezed in sweaty.

"What's going on? How did you get here? The first person to ask the question was the steward of the Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion, and he recognized the two people in the group standing in the front row who had done paperwork with him.

One of the two was the patriarch of the surrounding villages, and the other was the Lizheng who was in charge of the three villages.

Li Zheng respectfully saluted the steward and said, "Uncle Zhang, we really can't help it." Every family in the village has sent their best physical laborers here, and now in the cold winter, there is no one at home who can go out to chop wood, don't we have no choice......

"Yes, yes, you guys are considerate of us poor people. Our days are bitter, and you nobles can't imagine it......"

"Please, uncles, it's just two hundred catties of black gold stones per household......."

"yes, yes, a few of you dropped some on the way to the shipment is enough for that......"

"We know that our children can dig up hundreds of catties of black gold stone in a day......"

“………”

All kinds of people and all kinds of words are speaking of supplication, of their poverty and hardship.

Looking at the complexion and clothing of these people, if you compare them with Mo Hong and others, it is really a stark contrast. These villagers are not telling nonsense, and their lives are indeed difficult.

By the time the stewards came in, Mo Hong had already gathered his feet and stood up.

The villager in front of him screamed bitterly for a while, and then lowered his voice before he asked a few stewards: "You have all brought back the documents you signed, and you have read them below." I wonder if you can explain the content of the document clearly when you are looking for a villager to draw a charge? ”

These villagers in Dongxi were not afraid of Mo Hong, but these stewards looked at Mo Hong with apprehension.

After listening to Shao Yi's question, he turned to the villagers with some annoyance: "Everyone, when you hired people at that time, you agreed in every possible way, and agreed not to disturb the mining area and the transportation convoy again. We can say the document clearly, we each have a copy, and you also have a copy in your hand, and the mining area has never coaxed you. How long has it been since you broke your promise? ”

"How can this be considered a broken promise?" First a clan elder said.

His clothes were good among the crowd, and although a black cotton robe was old, it looked gray in many places. The cuffs and neckline are still a little greasy. But it looks fairly neat, with only a patch at the elbow.

Without waiting for the steward to speak, the patriarch continued: "We didn't come to disturb you to do things, we just came to ask for a favor for our family. If it weren't for the fact that life really couldn't go on, we wouldn't have come, would we? We have no other requirements, but we ask you to give our poor people a way to live. ”

A little guy who came in with the steward couldn't listen to it, and interjected: "You old man is so unreasonable, we are mining here this year." If not, will your days not be over? ”

The clan elder was immediately angry, and scolded: "What do you know about a hairy boy, how do you, who are used to living a life without worrying about food and clothing, know the difficulties of our peasants?" If you don't come here, my family won't work here, and naturally there are people in the family who cut wood and wood, and life is better than bad, and we won't look for you. ”

"You! At that time, you all rushed to work...... "The little maid was following his own steward and seeing the hiring process with his own eyes.

The patriarch said indifferently: "Of course it's good to have a job, but the old and young in the family also have to live." ”

"You ...... This is unreasonable! The little guy said angrily. But where did anyone listen to him?

"Yes, our family has to live......"

"You coaxed them here to be well fed and clothed, but what about the old and young in our family?"

The crowd screamed again like an earth-shattering cry.

Gao An, the manager of the exhibition house, spread his hands at Mo Hong and said, "Look, you see, you really don't blame us for this. ”

The men admitted that they had signed the paperwork and that they had promised not to disturb the operations of the mine. But people are here, they are here to ask for kindness from the mining area, and they reach out to ask for things, what should I do?

Mo Hong is also a neat person, and he is not ambiguous at the moment, and said to several stewards: "The hour is not early, finish work early today and call everyone back." Let's go to the other side and verify all the people who have requests. ”

Hundreds of people talk together, but it's not good in the house.

Mo Hong turned out of the table and waved his hand out, "Go out and talk, aren't you still here outside?" And your respective families who have come to work here, let's talk about it together. If you don't talk in the province, it's all trouble in the end. ”

The villagers were not afraid, and those who bought the black gold stone from them said that the basic reason for the money earned in the black gold stone mining area was that their family's labor dug for them, and the transportation route was smooth. Only in this way can the black gold stone be turned into silver, which is a lot of silver with a lot of white flowers.

What they want is not worth mentioning at all, it just depends on whether these rich people who are not benevolent to the rich have this benevolence.

No, even if these rich people don't have benevolence, they have to give in. Otherwise, everyone should not make money, they will only have a little more, and the mining tycoons will lose more, see who is more distressed!

The miners came back very slowly, and it took nearly half an hour before the miners gathered in front of a row of stewards' rooms.

At first, I saw people from the village, and a few of them saw their fathers, grandfathers, and brothers, and these people who had just climbed up from the pit were stunned.

The village elder and others did not recognize their family members immediately. The workers were all wearing cotton clothes, and they had just come out of the mine, all of them with black faces, and some of them had not even taken off the masks covering their mouths and noses, so they couldn't tell who was who at all.