Of course, in the face of these thousands of people who suddenly appeared, Governor Yang's current state of mind was only surprised, not afraid.

The first reason is that he is guarded by elite personal soldiers, and there are thousands of Yangzhou guards in the city to support, which is enough to ensure his safety in the event of a civil uprising.

The second reason is that he, the governor, has just taken office and has never been to Yangzhou City before, no matter how big an accident happens now, what responsibility can he have?

According to the rules of Ming officialdom, he may be forced to deal with the aftermath, but the responsibility for causing the accident must not be counted on his head.

If there is no impact on personal safety and career interests, then what does Governor Yang have to worry about and fear?

Maybe a bad thing can be turned into a good thing, and then get a hand of interest exchange from the disposal process, the old bureaucrats understand.

However, Zheng Zhiyan, the leader of the salt merchants who accompanied the governor, was a little frightened, and even doubted for a moment that his life was, whose territory was Yangzhou City?

If today's meeting was secretly instructed and organized by Lin Tailai, should it be so exaggerated?

The mobilization of a few hundred people a few days ago was enough to shock the world, and today there are thousands of people!

Where did all these horsemen come from? Don't you guys don't need money to work hard for Lin Tailai?

So whose home is Yangzhou City? Why is Lin Tailai, who came from other places, so casually able to stir up the crowd?

Just when everyone was thinking differently, among the thousands of people who blocked the city gate, someone suddenly shouted: "The governor of Hecao shielded the salt merchants and killed the Cao army!" ”

Everyone: "??? ”

Whether this slogan is right or not, everyone can still understand the first half of the sentence, after all, Governor Yang and Zheng Yanshang look like people all the way.

However, what the hell is the second half of the sentence "mutilating the Cao Army"?

Governor Yang commanded a few words in the sedan chair, so the flag officer stepped out with his sword and rebuked to the thousands of people: "Who are you waiting for, dare to gather all beings here!" ”

Suddenly, a stone was thrown out of nowhere and hit the flag officer's head straight away.

This flag officer was accustomed to being arrogant outside, and after being hit like this, he was furious, habitually drew his sword, and scolded: "Which splash is looking for death!" ”

Then the crowd stirred, and some people took the lead and rushed up, punching and kicking the flag officer.

Several pacesetters around wanted to come up to the rescue, but they were also beaten together.

Immediately, the scene was chaotic, and it was no joke for thousands of people to make trouble together.

The rest of the governor's pacesetters hurriedly shrank and tightly guarded the governor's sedan chair to ensure that the governor was not violated.

But the governor's guard of honor in front was unlucky, and the official flags and the like were either trampled or torn apart, and thrown on the ground like garbage.

Fortunately, these chaotic parties seemed to be very measured, and after beating the flag officer and a few pacesetters, they stopped after colliding with the governor's leading honor guard.

Next, he did not attack the governor's sedan chair, nor did he affect the innocent or kill indiscriminately around.

This damn sense of proportion makes the melon-eating crowd in the distance feel very familiar.

Last time on the cross street near Xiaodongmen, hundreds of Suzhou people beat up the Zheng family's thugs, and they also had such a sense of proportion!

Suddenly, someone shouted: "Zheng Yanshang is there!" ”

Zheng Zhiyan, the leader of the salt merchants in Yangzhou City, seemed to be frightened, and immediately threw down his servants and desperately squeezed into the governor's pacesetter.

Only under the protection of the governor can the scene have a slight sense of security.

Governor Yang in the sedan chair had a blue face, and this conflict was simply inexplicable! It's like a dismount in the dark!

Ask yourself, he didn't do anything, why did this group of rebels make trouble against him like this?

Who can gather thousands of people and still be able to do it like an arm?

Everything was like a fog, so that the old bureaucrat Governor Yang, who was in his fifties, could not find the north at all.

The eyeless flag officer had already been beaten, and the lieutenant officer who commanded the governor's pacesetter had no choice but to step forward in person.

He fully learned the lesson of the flag officer, and did not shout and threaten, but just asked: "Did any leader come forward to speak?" Who are you and what are your demands? ”

No one in the crowd answered, but Zhao Dawu, the Suzhou military attache who had just persuaded the governor to release him, walked over from behind.

Then he said to the Chinese officer: "These people are all Caojun brothers from Suzhou, but Yang Junmen is angry that he favors salt merchants and arrests Caojun brothers indiscriminately!" ”

Governors are generally in charge of military affairs, and it is common for military attachés to refer to governors as military gates.

The Chinese officer looked confused, even if it was fabricated, could he be professional?

Governor Yang just got off the ship, and he didn't even enter the city, where did he get all this black material?

Zhao Baihu seemed to know the doubts of the Chinese officer, and took the initiative to explain: "When the Cao army returns, you can transport goods along the way, and Your Excellency also knows, right?" ”

In today's Ming Dynasty, there is a special policy, that is, when the Cao transport ship returns empty, it is allowed to load commodities.

This policy is still very good, there are two benefits, the first is not to waste hundreds of thousands of tons of capacity when the ship returns, and to promote the circulation of goods between the north and the south.

The second is that the Cao army in charge of Cao Yun is too hard, so he can give the Cao army a certain subsidy in this way, without increasing the expenses of the imperial court.

The lieutenant officer nodded, of course he knew about this policy, but what does it have to do with today's scene?

Zhao Baihu said very plainly: "The dozen or so Suzhou people ordered by the Fang Cai Army to be arrested are all Cao soldiers who transported grain to Yangzhou Cang. ”

It was difficult for the Chinese military officer to understand this, and after Governor Yang did not accept the complaint of Wu Tian just now, more than a dozen suspicious people appeared, holding two "witnesses", and then they were all arrested by Governor Yang.

Could it be that Zhao Baihu means that these dozen or so people are the Cao Army of Suzhou Wei?

But why did the Cao army of Suzhou Weilai get involved in Wu Tian's complaint?

Zhao Baihu really understands the doubts of others very well, this matter is not understood by ordinary people, or the layout of a certain official is a bit complicated, so he has to explain it in detail.

So he took the initiative to explain in detail again: "Those dozen Cao Jun had a cooperation agreement with the Wu family before, and used empty Cao ships to transport the Wu family's salt back to Suzhou, and the partnership profited from it.

Unexpectedly, the Wu family was ambushed and annihilated by the Zheng family, and most of the members and goods were gone.

Since the Wu family has fallen, the plan of more than a dozen Cao troops to cooperate with the Wu family to make profits has naturally failed.

Out of righteous indignation, they searched for two witnesses from the Zheng family and brought them to Yang Junmen today.

Unexpectedly, in order to help the Zheng family, Yang Junmen indiscriminately arrested more than a dozen Cao soldiers. ”

Hearing this, the lieutenant officer's heart was shaken, and his eyes widened involuntarily.

Although I didn't know the whole story, I could intuitively feel that something was going to happen.

The governor of Fengyang is also the governor of Hecao according to the convention, and it can even be said that the affairs of Hecao are the most important errand of the governor of Fengyang!

But a governor of Hecao, in order to favor the salt merchants, arrested the Cao army who had completed the task of transporting grain, which already sounded a bit of a "political scandal".

In a way, the Cao army sold coolies in order to complete the errand of the governor of Hecao.

And if the governor of Hecao favors "outsiders" like salt merchants and arrests the Cao army unreasonably, it will be a bit ugly.

Not to mention that these Cao troops are still from Suzhou Wei in Jiangnan, and they are not from Yangzhou Wei and Fengyang Wei in Jiangbei, and their jurisdiction does not belong to the governor of Fengyang, Governor Hecao.

Zhao Baihu was still very calm, pointing to the thousands of people who were making trouble, as if he was saying something completely irrelevant to him:

"Most of these people are from our Cao army in Suzhou Wei, transporting the first batch of grain this year to Yangzhou warehouse.

We, the Caojun brothers, have always been very united when we go out, and if one person is in trouble, there are thousands of Caojun brothers to help!

Today, more than a dozen Caojun brothers, also from Suzhou Wei, sued the salt merchant Zheng family, and of course others came to show their support.

Unexpectedly, in broad daylight, in order to shield illegal salt merchants, Yang Junmen directly ordered the arrest of more than a dozen Caojun brothers!

How could the other Caojun brothers not be filled with righteous indignation when they saw this with their own eyes? How can you not be angry?

So when you can't bear it anymore, it's really normal for such a Cao army mutiny, what's so strange? ”

Lieutenant officer: "."

He finally figured out what was going on.

Originally, what I saw in my eyes was that in the first step, Wu Tian sued the Zheng family, and Governor Yang cautiously avoided the pit and did not accept the situation, which is normal.

Then came the second step, more than a dozen people provided evidence of the Zheng family's crime, and Governor Yang temporarily arrested these dozen people in the name of investigation in order to help the Zheng family.

This is also normal, whether it is the person who complains or the person who provides evidence, they are all small people and cannot make waves.

According to the experience of officialdom, taking on such an inexplicable case is likely to be a pit and fall into the rhythm of others.

But you can take another name, take me as the mainstay, and do things at your own pace, so that you can avoid pitfalls.

Then there is the third step, where thousands of people inexplicably gather to make trouble, and it is suspected that there are mysterious people from Suzhou who manipulate and organize it.

However, this kind of disturbance is not lethal to the governor at all, at most it is superficially lively.

But it seems that someone has changed a trick and deceived everyone's eyes, but in fact, the truth is not what it is above!

The truth of the matter is: the governor and governor of Hecao bent the law in order to shield the salt merchants, leading to a large-scale mutiny in the Cao army!

The Chinese officer found that at this time he was no longer qualified to reply to Zhao Baihu, and the only thing he could do was to quickly turn around and report to the governor!

Yang Junmin, the governor and governor of Fengyang in the sedan chair, immediately fell into astonishment when he heard the report of the Chinese officer.

And immersed in the deepest philosophical questions, unable to extricate himself for a long time.

Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?

When I gave the order just now, I only thought about arresting more than a dozen Suzhou people, and I could find out the black backstage of these Suzhou people.

But what I didn't expect was that these dozen or so people were actually Cao Jun, and I didn't expect that there would be a rapid chain reaction behind!

After getting off the boat, every step was intended to avoid pits, but unexpectedly, every step was stepping on the pits!

If he directly accepted Wu Tian's petition and started the judicial process, there would not be so many things!

If he accepted more than a dozen of the human certificates provided by Cao Jun, there would be no more trouble!

The governor of Hecao caused a mutiny in the Cao army, which bastard made up the script of this horse?

Governor Yang couldn't sit still, got out of the sedan chair, and raised his eyes to see Zheng Zhiyan.

directly angered: "This is the trouble you caused!" What do you say now! Can you go and fix the matter? ”

Zheng Zhiyan couldn't figure out what he had done wrong?

Big fish eat small fish is a daily occurrence, not to mention a capital-intensive industry like the salt industry.

What is the big deal if you get rid of the Wu family? Why?

In fact, Zheng Zhiyan's idea cannot be mistaken from the perspective of a big salt merchant. There is a phenomenon of land annexation, as well as in the salt industry.

To give another example of time and space, why did the great salt merchants of the Qing Dynasty seem to be ten or dozens of times richer than the salt merchants of the Ming Dynasty?

In addition to factors such as population and production increase, the biggest reason is that the salt industry developed into a monopoly in the Qing Dynasty.

In the late Ming Dynasty, there were 1,200 salt merchants in Yangzhou, but in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou salt merchants were monopolized by the 24 general merchants, and all other small and medium-sized salt merchants were dependent on these 24 general merchants.

Therefore, in this industry with drastic mergers, Zheng Zhiyan, who is determined to consolidate his position as the number one salt merchant, really doesn't think that getting rid of the Wu family is a big deal, and he hasn't taken it too seriously.

Even if the Wu Tian clan ran to Lin Tailai's house, in Zheng Yuanwai's eyes, it was just a confluence of enemies.

But he never expected that someone would be able to take advantage of the Wu family's affairs to make such a flowery article!

Such a layout has exceeded his cognitive ability, and it has also dragged the most critical backer governor into the water.

Now that the governor is directly throwing the pot, how can he solve the problem?

The question is who should he talk to? He doesn't have the ability and prestige to face thousands of "chaotic armies" from other places.

After thinking about it, Zheng Zhiyan cautiously came to a place not far from Zhao Baihu and asked, "Can Lord Zhao restrain the Suzhou Cao army?" ”

Zhao Baihu squinted at Zheng Yuanwai and politely refused: "Even if I am a hundred household official, it is impossible to go against the wishes of all the Cao Jun brothers and forcibly suppress their anger, right?" ”

The main reason is that a certain official who planned the script only gave him the power of on-site scheduling, but did not give him the power to negotiate and conclude.

In fact, the relationship between a certain senior official of the mixed club and Suzhou Wei is like that, he was hunted down by the officers and soldiers of Suzhou Wei, and he also beat the children of military families in the Wu Xiucai examination.

Zhao Baihu, who transported grain from Suzhou to Yangzhou Cang, was originally a proud man, but a certain official gave too much.

When he returned to Suzhou City, Zhao Zhigao, the governor of Jiangnan, would ask him to promote Zhao Dawu to the deputy thousand households!

And he will be transferred from the Cao army system that is hard and tired, running around all the year round, and easy to take responsibility, and will be replaced by a more relaxed city defense system, or a patrol standard battalion, which can be freely chosen.

Zhao Baihu couldn't refuse these conditions, so he took the Cao Jun brothers and cooperated with Lin Daguan.

Anyway, his military status was subordinate to Suzhou Wei and was under the jurisdiction of the governor of Jiangnan, and the governor of Fengyang in Jiangbei had no authority to punish the military attachés in Jiangnan.

Just when Zheng Yuanwai touched a gray nose here in Zhao Baihu and didn't know who to talk to, suddenly a tall figure rushed to the mutinous Cao army and the governor pacesetter, and shouted anxiously:

"It's all mixed in Jiangzuo, look down and don't look up, don't hurt the harmony, you have to value harmony!"

A bit of self-doubt, is it nice to explain a lot of chapters like this?

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