The next day at noon.

Xiangyang.

Song House.

"Why haven't we heard any news yet?"

Song Xin paced a little restlessly.

"Don't panic, you have to rest for more than a hundred miles, even if you return this morning, you will have to arrive in the afternoon."

Li Wenyu, the household waiter who resigned, said calmly with a teacup.

He is also a native of Xiangyang.

The head of the household is Yu Xin, and the two squires are one Xia Yuanji and one of him, but all three of them resigned, in fact, the relationship between the three of them and Yang Feng is not bad, and the relationship between the household department and the Ministry of Industry is not bad with Yang Feng. Needless to say, the Ministry of Industry has also formed a stable cooperative relationship between the Ministry of Household Affairs and the banks, and the Ministry of Household Affairs will borrow money from the banks when it is short of money, and at the same time, the Ministry of Household will use its power to maintain the monopoly position of the banks. When the bank is short of gold and silver, the gold and silver of the household department will support the bank, after all, all the gold and silver produced by the silver mines and gold mines in various places are sent to the household warehouse.

Over the years, the two have increasingly aligned themselves with the A.American Treasury and the Federal Reserve.

And even the household officials have begun to understand the benefits of this game.

As long as the bank does not fail, the household department will hardly be short of money, and as long as the household department fully supports, the bank will not fall, after all, behind the household department is the continuous output of gold, silver and copper mines all over the country, including Iwami Silver Mountain.

It's a closed loop.

Just be careful not to let the treasure money depreciate badly.

But......

Resignation is a matter of principle.

Not resigning means that you are ready to be used by this demon.

In the hearts of Confucian scholars and gentry, it was branded as a traitor.

Don't care if you have a reputation as a virtuous minister before, and don't care if you are really with Yang Feng, as long as you don't clearly draw a line with Yang Feng, then you are a traitor, but now he is glad that he resigned early.

As soon as the Gongtian Law came out, Yang Feng was not just a demon, he was the public enemy of the gentry.

Demons can cooperate when necessary.

It was not uncommon for gentry to cooperate with demons.

But public enemies are different.

If he hadn't resigned at this time, then he would have been like Tie Xuan, who was held up as a banner by Yang Feng, and then miserably flew into trouble, poor Tie Xuan didn't say that he was a family, even a clan or even a fellow family, and now all of them have been tragically affected. The day before yesterday, a Zhuangzi of a lustful landlord who had dealings with his family had just been jointly attacked by the gentry, almost all the men died, and the women were directly divided. The old villagers in the whole county took the young people of the clan to do it, and if you arrest people, a group of old guys in their eighties came out to take the blame, and people said that they were the masterminds.

They have a personal vendetta.

Then list the old feuds that have accumulated over the generations.

The government can do whatever it wants, anyway, we are a vendetta.

In fact, the government basically doesn't care.

There is basically a shortage of magistrates in various places, and because the Queen Mother issued an order to exempt this autumn tax, in fact, the peasants will not collect any taxes this year, and the magistrates have no place to start making money.

What's the matter?

That's it.

Isn't it good to close the door and collect some tips from the gentry, and then drink in the yamen?

It is said that Li Wenyu is also a member of the Xiangyang gentry, if he stays in the capital and is set up as a banner by Yang Feng, it is estimated that these crazy gentry should also play a vendetta game with his family. Whoever doesn't regard Yang Feng as an enemy now, he is the enemy of all the gentry, there is no middle choice, loyalty is not absolute is absolutely disloyalty. Either be loyal to the gentry group you belong to and fight Yang Feng to the end, or you are a traitor, and the old villagers will bring the clan youth to let you know the fate of the traitor. Moreover, the chaos of Xiangdeng is just the beginning, and it will inevitably spread to the whole country, and the entire Ming Dynasty will be involved in this struggle until the fight is won or lost.

Or life and death.

Winning or losing is life and death.

If the gentry loses, it will be the public land law, and the group of land gentry will be destroyed, and there will be a fart land gentry in all fields, and it is possible for the industrial and commercial gentry.

Yang Feng lost......

Yang Feng doesn't seem to be a big deal if he loses.

He can't die!

Li Wenyu suddenly found out sadly that even if Yang Feng lost, what could the gentry do with him? This bastard is completely invincible! Looking at it this way, it seems that the final winner is not difficult to determine, after all, you can never defeat an immortal monster, Yang Feng can lose countless times, but the gentry can only lose once.

"Bang!"

Suddenly the shots rang out.

Li Wenyu stood up instantly.

"This is a short gun, and Xiangyangwei doesn't have it."

He said with a solemn face.

The Ministry of Flint Hair Short Gun has theoretically not been used outside the capital.

"Yun Shigong, that thing is not a fairy magic weapon, not to mention the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, that is, we have skilled craftsmen in Xiangyang to imitate, although it is not as sophisticated as the Ministry of Industry, but it is enough to kill people, the people have a private collection, don't tell you, even the little nephew has a hand."

Song Xin said calmly.

The technology of flintlock pistols has long been overflowing, and the vassal kings, folk iron smelting have all imitated it, and there are even large-scale imitations, such as Zhu Di.

In the final analysis, the technical content of this thing is slightly stronger than the arquebus, the most important thing is the manufacture of springs, but the problem is that the steel used to make springs is easy to buy, after all, Yang Feng is still promoting agricultural machinery, and the steel that can make mechanical parts can of course also make flintlock pistol parts.

Then there are the lathes.

Simple bicycle lathes and hydraulic lathes can be customized from the factory in Wutaishan.

Even their own imitations appeared.

Yang Feng has never restricted the outflow of technology, and he controls glass mirrors and other things that can bring huge profits.

But most of the technologies can be learned by paying a technical fee at the factory in Wutaishan.

Anyway, as soon as the steam engine came out in the end, all these primary goods were swept into the garbage heap.

"Well, this Ming Dynasty is really changing with each passing day, but it is a little lonely and unheard of in Beijing for a long time, but it is not appropriate to hide firearms in private after all."

Li Wenyu sat down awkwardly and said.

"Yun Shigong, if you don't hide firearms privately, do you want me to spray Yang Demon to death with saliva? Not to mention the short guns and long guns, I still have a rapid-fire cannon at home! ”

Mei Su, another lifter, said with some contempt.

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a noisy shout outside, followed by the sound of gunfire that should have been in front of the door, and a large number of soldiers rushed in, led by a young man in a green robe, with a short sword in one hand and a saber in the other, and he was followed by ten brocade guards wearing yellow armor.

"Take them all!"

He shouted.

Li Wenyu instinctively stood up and stepped forward......

"The old old household servant, who are you waiting for, can you have a driver's license?"

He shouted.

The young man gave him a surprised look.

"Li Xin, the official of Xiangyang Mansion, came to arrest the traitors Song Xin, Mei Su and others who colluded with the bandits and intercepted the Jinyi Guard, since Your Excellency was a former servant and knew the laws of the imperial court, but now he is coexisting with the traitors, should this official suspect Your Excellency's involvement? Although you used to be a waiter, but you have returned to your hometown, you are a concubine, and you want to use a concubine to block the Jinyi guard from handling the case? ”

He said.

Li Wenyu immediately sobered up.

At this time, those brocade guards had already commanded the soldiers to rush up and hold Song Xin and Mei Su down.

"What crime have I committed?"

Song Xin struggled and shouted.

"Song Juren, don't struggle, the team you sent has been wiped out, even Liu Wen guessed that you would attack at night, and more than 100 officers and soldiers were already called from Xiangyangwei to ambush, I took the bank escort team, your 100 horses are not enough for us to have a round of guns. We have caught more than 40 live mouths, all of which can be proved to be instigated by you, and by the way, I was already listening to you when you were plotting outside Ren's house yesterday. I am walking with Liu Wen all the way, but he went north in Fancheng, and I disguised myself as an unannounced visit to Xiangyang, I have to say that you have done us a great favor, and we are still worried about when we can be promoted to the rank of meritorious service, but I didn't expect that you have already given us the credit when you just came, according to this situation, I should be promoted to the prefect of Xiangyang at the end of the year. ”

Li Xin said proudly.

Then he looked at Li Wenyu.

"Tuifu, the old man only knew his father, when he first returned to the township, he learned that he had died, so he came to pay tribute to his old friend, as for what Song Xin did, the old man didn't know anything, but Song Xin boasted to the old man that he had a firearm in his house.

In addition, Mei Su also boasted, saying that he also had a rapid-fire cannon in his home. ”

Li Wenyu said hurriedly.

Song Xin and Mei Su's eyes widened instantly, and they looked at him in disbelief.

"Tuifu may wish to search carefully."

Li Wenyu calmly ignored the gazes of the two of them after nearly twenty years of ups and downs in the sea, and said very calmly.

"Search!"

Li Xin said without hesitation.

Daming cold weapons can be used casually, but it is a felony to secretly possess firearms, and the private collection of cannons is basically calculated according to the rebellion, and rapid-fire cannons are also cannons, but this thing is indeed privately hidden by the people, mainly during the Battle of Kaifeng, many generals secretly sold their rapid-fire guns.

Battlefield losses!

I ran in a hurry, and I threw it away.

The soldiers immediately began to search.

"Old dog, you old dog, shameless villain!"

Song Xin and the others roared angrily at Li Wenyu.

Li Wenyu pretended not to hear.

Obviously, now Yang Feng's minions can basically control Xiangyang, he has Jinyiwei with him, and Jinyiwei can mobilize the guard to assist in handling the case, as well as the bank escort team, even if the local officials do not cooperate, they can arrest whoever they want. Therefore, none of Song Xin's gang, including the elderly villagers who participated yesterday, could escape, and after these people were arrested, no one in Xiangyang dared to resist. Even if he betrayed his hometown gentry at this time, the latter would not be able to do anything to him, since he was so afraid of a bird, he would either betray his hometown gentry in exchange for his family's safety, or be implicated in this guy's fabricated charges.

It's a given.

It's nothing more than letting those who are caught bite his family.

So it's a good choice.

At this time, Jin Yiwei had already returned with two short guns, both of which were flintlock short guns, but they were much shorter than the ones they used, after all, the shorter the barrel, the easier it was to make.

"This is all the human and material evidence."

Li Xin admired the two short guns and said with a smile.

That's when an officer ran in.

"Tuifu, many people outside gathered, saying that we were framing the Song family and extorting money."

He said.

"Well, that's fast!"

Li Xin said unexpectedly.

"Tuifu, here is the Song family clan, most of the whole fang is, the local clan of the Song family, not only thousands of acres of fertile land, but also a large forest farm, and business, most of the clansmen depend on it for a living, in fact, there are a lot of bad people, otherwise they would not quickly gather hundreds of people to serve the dead.

However, don't worry, the old and decayed clans are also numerous, if this generation is in turmoil, the old decay should serve the empress. ”

Li Wenyu said.

"Let's go!"

Li Xin said.

Immediately afterwards, he took Jinyi Wei and escorted Song Xin and others out of the door.

Hundreds of people were blocked outside, shouting in indignation.

He simply raised his gun and pulled the trigger.

The men all shut up at the sound of gunfire.

"What do you do?"

He asked, pointing to the front one.

The latter did not speak.

Li Wenyu looked at his servant, who hurriedly stepped forward.

"Master Tuifu, his name is Song Er, he is a member of the Song Xin clan, but he has already come out of Wufu, he lives by picking dung for the Song family, and he goes to clean the latrine for the Song family every day, not only people, but also those livestock of the Song family."

He said.

"How much money does the Song family give him?"

Li Xin asked.

"The old man laughed, he has to give the Song family money, but the manure is fertilizer."

The servant said with a smile.

"So you're a man who picks up dung for his house, and now you're learning to be faithful to the Lord? You protected his house, and the next time you go back to his house, you will be rewarded with a bucket of dung? He is a rebel and wants to kill his head, and you protect him to kill his head, so you risk killing your head just to reward you with a bucket of dung? ”

Li Xin pointed at the guy and said.

The servant immediately laughed.

The servants who followed Li Wenyu around, as well as those soldiers, even laughed when they saw the excitement.

Then there was a laugh.

The man was red-faced, but eventually made his way into the crowd.

"You, tell me what your loyalty is for, isn't it also for the dung."

Li Xin asked, pointing to the other.

The man also refused to answer.

"Master Tuifu, he is a hired worker for the Song family."

The servant hurriedly said.

"How much do you get paid a month? Don't care? Do you have health insurance? Is there a pension? Is there compulsory education? ”

Li Xin said.

The man was dazed.

"Nothing, right? The employees of Wutai Mountain have the least five yuan of money a month, and the highest skilled workers are hundreds of yuan, take care of meals at noon, have a free hospital when they are sick, receive money until death if they are disabled, and retire after sixty, and receive slightly less money every month than when they worked, and receive until they die, and the children's school expenses are all free.

Ambassador Yang often said that such benefits are deserved by the employees.

The hired man does not have to be grateful to him.

The work done to him by the hired man is worth the reward.

Then tell me, how much salary does the Song family give you? Tube the rice? Do you have a pension? Do you get free treatment? Do you give your kids free schooling?

Do you have?

Tell me if there is any? ”

Li Xin pointed at the man and shouted.

The man bowed his head melancholy and silently turned away.

"Who else? I asked who else? You can come one by one, and the officials will fight with you one by one, and I will see which of you can be worthy of your death for your kindness? ”

Li Xin shouted arrogantly.

However, no one in front of him dared to come out to discuss this issue with him, but most of them turned away silently.

"None of them can fight!"

Li Xin looked at the scattered people with a lonely posture.

(End of chapter)