Ten years of Wanli, Hangzhou City.

As soon as the sky was clear, the crowd of short-shirted pedestrians raised fire to drive away the fog, and the entourage holding the food box opened the horizontal wood of the telegraph room, and in the creak of the wooden door, the food box was scattered, and the sound of the porcelain plate breaking hit the ears, and someone shouted: "The person is gone, go and report to Mr. Ding, Guo San has run away!" ”

Guo San was a former handyman in the telegraph office of Hangzhou Prefecture, so he had a set of telegraph ciphertexts that had expired.

And the Mr. Ding in their mouths is Ding Shiqing, the thief leader in the telegram sent to Beijing by Guo San with expired ciphertext, he is not a homeless person in Hangzhou in Guo San's telegram, he has a background as a student, and has been a teacher in social studies in Li Fang, east of Hangzhou, for more than 20 years.

But the vast majority of the angry people gathered around Ding Shiqing in Hangzhou are homeless people in the consciousness of officials.

If we divide it carefully, first of all, these people have no land outside the city and no property in the city; Secondly, they have lived in the city for a long time, mainly as various short-term workers and itinerant merchants, and their status can be summarized as proletarian citizens.

In the southeast, the high literacy rate of the common people, the dense population and the prosperity of the urbanized handicraft and service industries have given rise to a large number of proletarian citizens who are idle and idle from work, and in some cities, the number of people who make a living from this can reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

At that moment a few ticks rang out in the empty telegraph room, and the brass bell hanging in the doorway rang, followed by the telegraph machines in the room, scribbling short but coherent symbols on the paper.

Ding Shiqing, who was anxious, limped in the busyness and was surrounded by everyone to the telegraph room, Han Jin, who was also walking by his side, was a powerful man, his shirtless upper body was full of strong muscles, and there were those young descendants who followed the two of them, they were all educated by Ding Shiqing in Donglifang Social School.

It's just that different people have different times of studying, and most of the teachers in ancient China have the style of cultured people, and secondly, they have not been affected by the customs of eunuchs, and while they are respected by their neighbors, most of them are not careful to educate people for money.

The greatest obstacle to the acquisition of culture by the common people is not poverty, but the long-term vision of the family and the lack of labour in the family.

Just like this Han Jin, his name was given when he was studying under the name of Ding Shiqing, he used to be called Han Da, and later Ding Shiqing said that the character of people is described in ancient books, Huai Jin holds Yu, and has the appearance of beautiful jade, so he handed over this name to Han Da, so that he encouraged himself.

But Han Jin only went to school under Ding Shiqing's name for half a year, and went out to work because of his father's illness, groom, veterinarian, moving goods, raising dogs on behalf of others, and doing whatever money he could make.

Ding Shiqing didn't care about Guo San running away from the telegraph room, there were too many things that made him anxious at the moment, and he couldn't take care of Guo San, a little person, but Guo San ran away and no one read the telegram, which gave him a headache, so he had to let people compare the ciphertext found in the telegraph room word by word.

"Sir, we can't control those idle scoundrels, it is better to merge with the officials and soldiers, their weapons and armor, even if the court sends troops to suppress them, they can resist ...... and not to be reduced to fish. ”

When Han Jin said this, his hair was all open, and he clenched his fists and looked excited: "Who is not a life, it's a big deal, fight with those dog officials to the end!" ”

"No!"

Ding Shiqing, who was wearing a plain robe, stood between the young and strong, and his beard was a little abrupt, but he frowned and scolded his disciple for still having the majesty of a teacher: "A little bit of flesh and skin suffering is nothing, we are just waiting to remove the night watch, why rebel?" ”

Ding Shiqing didn't say anything, as soon as his voice fell, Han Jin's five big and three rough men were about to shed tears, and he hugged his fists and said: "Recall, can you be recalled?" When the student was still a child, the teacher ran for the neighbors, from the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing to the fifth year of Wanli, a full eighteen years, the teacher ran for the people and had the courage to make suggestions, before teaching the abolition of the night patrol, the monument is still standing in the city, but now it is not a word. ”

"You went to Beijing to sue for the people, not to mention the deception of the eunuchs, and when you returned to Hangzhou, you were still imprisoned, the teacher is fifty years old, how ruthless are those jailers, and they actually broke the teacher's leg bones?"

When it came to this matter, how could Ding Shiqing not hate, but he smiled: "Old man, how many years can he still live?" There are legs without legs, and the relationship is not big, not to mention that this is not still able to walk...... What did the telegram say? ”

In the master-apprentice room, the clever descendant in the telegraph room had already rushed out with a scroll of paper, bowed down in front of Ding Shiqing and presented the scroll, kneeling was not respectful, but frightened, the hands held up by the descendant and the legs below were trembling.

"Electricity, telegram said, say, sir look at it, the students dare not say."

"Why not......

Ding Shiqing was just surprised at first, took the paper scroll with crooked handwriting and was not easy to recognize, and held it in his hand, just by looking at it, the person was frozen as if he had been immobilized, and the expression on his face was also extraordinarily wonderful.

Two paragraphs were written on the paper, the first paragraph was: telegram to Hangzhou, no matter where the person who sees the report, they will restrain the army and the people, quickly find Shangyu Ding Shiqing, and ask him to reply to the letter, I am waiting in the telegraph room, and the reply must not be blocked in various places, and no one will be arrested or killed before replying to the letter.

And the second paragraph is only eight words: I am Yijun, why make a mess.

This is all too familiar.

What year can't you see this name in New Year's greetings?

It's just eight words, but the weight is as heavy as a thousand even, which is enough to scare people stupid.

Han Jin, who was still hateful and said that it was a big deal to rebel, stopped, and silently circled the telegram letter and Ding Shiqing's face with his eyes.

Ding Shiqing was only stunned for a moment, followed by the old face and then regained strong vitality, and said happily: "Quickly compare the secret text, report to Your Majesty, the matter of the night patrol has taken a turn, if it is Your Majesty, you will definitely be able to avoid the night patrol." ”

Two days later, in the Forbidden City, the eunuchs of the telegraph room galloped into the palace, and they did not even send it to the cabinet, they knew that the emperor's grandfather had been waiting for this telegram for two days, and they did not even go to Qinghua Garden, so they specially ordered the telegraph room to send a letter quickly.

What was sent to Wanli was a long letter with a very old atmosphere and a long statement, which clearly depicted a tax apportionment in Hangzhou from the 24th year of Jiajing to the 10th year of Wanli, called the intershelf tax.

Since this incident and the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang period, the establishment of the general armor fireman system, responsible for patrolling the local night security, meritorious scholars and foreign businessmen are exempted from this service, the night patrol is responsible for the ordinary people, it is difficult to rest.

Over time, the citizens of Hangcheng proposed to pay taxes according to the area of the house, divide the upper, middle and lower classes, and use silver to serve as a substitute, and use this part of the money to hire people to watch at night.

In this way, ordinary people get rest, unemployed homeless people get jobs, and they can earn some money to support their families, so that everyone can be satisfied.

Until the Jiajing period, the Japanese were rampant, and the city of Hangzhou added Baojia to ensure safety, and the Baojia was responsible for the night patrol in addition to taking turns to garrison, and it became the norm by expediency.

At that time, Ding Shiqing, who was teaching in Hangzhou, repeatedly wrote to the local government, hoping to improve the matter, and he ran for 18 years for this reason, whether it was beating the drum of injustice or stopping the car on the street, until the fifth year of Wanli, Hangzhou City finally abolished the night patrol of the people, and set up a monument in the city as evidence.

After reading this page, the emperor couldn't help but wonder, since it was abolished, why did there be another civil uprising?

So, His Majesty moved his fingers and turned to the next page.