Chapter 124: Evidence
If it had been placed before, maybe the miners would have been afraid of the stick in his hand, but now they have nothing to fear, so someone stepped forward and snatched the stick from his hand, pointed at him in turn and said, "You like to bully us so much on weekdays, let you see how good we are today, and know that we are not papier-mâché tigers!"
Seeing them approaching him, his subordinates finally felt that the situation was not good at this time, and knew that they were at a disadvantage, so they panicked and tried to calm the emotional miners and said, "You should be careful, if something happens to me, the people above will not spare you, and you will not be able to eat and walk around when the time comes, don't blame me for not reminding you."
Seeing that he was still hard-mouthed when he was dying, the miners wanted to teach him a lesson in unison, so they approached him even more crusadely.
"Don't come here, don't come here!" The men screamed in amazement that they were surrounded by the miners, and the screams suddenly pierced the sky, but they were quickly buried by the bustling crowd.
As the saying goes, there is no leaky gun in the world, so the news of the miners on the mine quickly spread to the town, and the city was full of wind and rain.
After all, when there was an accident before, the people had heard about the mine, but they didn't expect that there would be new troubles so soon.
Song Qian heard this incident mentioned by the customer who came to buy things when she was in the shop, and she was worried that her plan was likely to be contained, but she didn't expect it to be implemented so smoothly.
But just like that, she blames herself very much. Because the miners ***, I heard that the news that the mine had been playing with them was spread by Song Qian and Wang Niangzi. But now we can only pray that nothing will happen to those miners, and there will be no real irreparable end.
He Yujin came out and saw his absent-minded appearance, and was focusing on the rumors of things in the mine, so he guessed what she was thinking, so he walked over and took the account book in her hand and said, "Song Niangzi, if you have anything, go ahead, I can handle it here."
"Ah Jin...... Forget it, I'm fine." No matter how much she cares, she can't come forward, otherwise it will be easy for the other party to notice that something is wrong, and if she sees through her plan, it will fall short at that time.
So Song Qian's feet that had already stepped out were retracted.
He Yujin didn't dissuade Song Qian anymore, just went with her, but he still sighed and sighed: "Pity these miners, they haven't given an explanation in the mine for so long, and now that this kind of thing has happened, I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to get justice if you want to."
When the people who bought the goods heard his words, they hurriedly echoed him, saying, "Yes, if you want me to say, the leaders of these miners are really not human. Something happened for no reason, so that the miners were injured and couldn't go home, which of the wives and children at home didn't need money to support? If this were for me, there would have been a stir at that time, and let them know that we ordinary people are not easy to bully, and they will not dare to snub us anymore."
In this way, I chatted with Yujin and the guest, and I chatted one by one, and I was very happy.
Song Qian was still worried in his heart, thinking that he hoped that someone would come forward to solve this matter.
As he thought, the county magistrate Zeng Kangan already knew about it. However, at this time, he was anxious in the mansion, because this matter was too tricky.
The officials who came to pay their respects felt that it was not possible for him to walk around like this, so he asked, "My lord, what should we do next?" Don't send someone to suppress it, don't let it get worse and worse, otherwise it's not good to gossip in the town."
Zeng Kangan stopped, thought about countermeasures quietly, and after thinking about it, he instructed the officials: "You go to find someone to go to the mine to see how the situation is now, if the miners are still making trouble, stop them, but don't hurt them, if the people in the mine want to do something to these miners, you remember to stop it, bring more people, and I will arrive later."
Naturally, he had heard about what had happened in the mine before, and knew that the miners were innocent, so he was very sympathetic to the injuries they had. Now the only thing he can do is to ensure that they will not be harmed as much as possible, and other things still have to go to the scene to ask about the situation before making a decision.
After receiving the order, the official did not dare to slack off and rushed to the mine with his people non-stop
The mine turmoil has not stopped, but has intensified.
When they arrived at the mine, they saw the miners destroying the things on the mine, venting their anger without hesitation. And the subordinates left by Chen Yao were driven aside and squatting, their faces were bruised and swollen, and they did not have the same arrogance as before, obviously afraid of those miners.
After all, they really did it.
Hearing the movement of someone coming, the miners thought that Chen Yao had come to reinforce with people, and they stopped smashing things in their hands, and couldn't help but look at them with some fear, knowing that some people were still afraid of Chen Yao and them, and the leader said to them to give them courage: "Don't be afraid, everyone can no longer be oppressed by these people now, raise a stick, it's a big deal to fight to the death with them!"
After the mobilization of his words, the miners really became bolder, and they cheered to meet the officials.
But after seeing the costumes of the government officials, the miners stopped a little confused, and wondered how these officials could appear here.
Soon some people speculated, could it be Chen Yao and the people above them who let the people from the government take care of them? Speaking of this, the miners were even more excited, as if they were about to swallow the officials, holding sticks, and their eyes seemed to be as hostile as they were to Chen Yao's men.
The officials came closer to see their faces clearly, looking at the dark and rough faces and the scars of injuries, the officials inevitably felt sour, and felt even more pity for the miners.
Instead of the repression that the miners had expected, they were greeted with the concern of the officials: "How do you feel? No one was hurt, right?" If something happened to someone, I was afraid that Zeng Kangan would not spare him, so the officials hurriedly asked their subordinates to check the miners.
After confirming that it was correct, the officials breathed a sigh of relief, and finally saved their jobs with great difficulty.
The miners were puzzled by this move, and the leader asked, "I wonder what you officials are doing here?" Could it be that they are coming to arrest us? If so, don't waste your efforts, anyway, we have already thought about it, and there is no turning back Jane to start work, even if we die, we will not let anyone bully us again."
Hearing their words of great backbone, the official reached out and patted him on the shoulder appreciatively, and said, "It's really good that you can think like this, please rest assured, we are here this time to solve the problem and protect you under the orders of the prefectural magistrate, and we will not harm you, but the prefectural magistrate has ordered us to protect you."
"Protect us? How can an official be so kind?" Someone who didn't believe it questioned it, but the leader stopped him, looked at the official suspiciously, looked at his sincere appearance, and finally chose to believe, "Since you say so, you must protect us."
"That's natural, brothers, don't worry. Since they said they were here to solve the problem, can you tell us about what happened?" The officials cut to the chase, and were about to ask questions, when another carriage drove not far away, and when it came to a quick stop, the dust stirred up choked them.
After the smoke cleared, they saw clearly that the carriage coming was from the prefect Wu and Yifu.
When the beaten men saw that their backers were coming, they hurriedly pushed away the miners who were guarding them, and crawled to the carriage, crying, "Your Excellency, you are here. You don't know, these miners have rebelled! I don't take you seriously at all, the little ones want justice for you, they don't want to be bullied like this."
Listening to them reversing black and white, the grumpy ones already wanted to step forward and teach another lesson, but they were stopped.
The people in the carriage got out of the carriage when they heard the sound, it was Yuan Qing, a henchman in Wu Heyi's mansion, who was even more important than Chen Yao's position in the prefect's mansion.
So Wu Heyi was able to send him this time, but you can imagine how much he attached importance to this matter and was afraid that the miners would make more and more trouble.
After getting out of the car, he glanced at his subordinates with cold eyes, and said, "Such disregard for the image is really detrimental to the reputation of the prefect. What's going on? Let's talk about it soon." Because of his words, his subordinates stopped crying miserably, and added fuel and vinegar to tell what had happened.
The officials listened
He frowned, wanting to step forward to defend the miners, so he first said closely: "This brother is lucky, we were sent by the prefectural magistrate, I think we are still a family, my prefectural magistrate and the prefect are related......
Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Qing interrupted him and said, "I am here to solve the problem today on the orders of the prefect, so it has nothing to do with me if it has anything to do with it, I hope we still talk about the matter and don't announce personal vendettas."
Then he glanced at the angry miners and said disdainfully: "On weekdays, the discipline in the mine is strict, everyone acts according to the rules of the prefect, and will not treat the miners harshly. Could it be that there is some intention to collude?"
Hearing that he blamed the miners entirely for the incident, the officials knew that this man had not come to do justice but to cause trouble. So he also put away his thoughts about wanting to be close, and his expression became indifferent.
"That's not right, you just came here, and you haven't asked anything clearly, how do you know that it's these miner brothers who are making trouble, not your subordinates who are bullying people? Everything must be evidenced, and if there is no evidence, words cannot be spoken nonsense. Evil comes from the mouth, and if there is no virtue in the mouth, he will take revenge on himself after all."
Yuan Qing's face sank and retorted, "Bullying? How come this kind of thing hasn't been heard of? And this time they are making trouble for no reason, is it possible that this is the fault of my men? The county commander is not so confused, why are his subordinates so stupid?"
Seeing that he had mentioned Zeng Kang'an, the officials didn't want to save face, so they approached Yuan Qing and said, "If it weren't for you bullying the miners, would they make trouble today? It's really dark-hearted, and everything is dirty. So, what do you want?"
"Of course, I want to take them away, the troublemakers naturally have the rules to make trouble, how can they be allowed to be so unruly?" Yuan Qing didn't want to conflict with him, after all, Zeng Kang'an's identity still had to give face, so he had to forcibly let people take away the miners.
Seeing this, the officials hurriedly stepped forward to stop them.