Seeing Xu Guantian go in a hurry, Yang Rui immediately asked Chen Guangshou, who was standing aside: "Who is the governor of Shandong now?" ”

"It's our old acquaintance Yuan Shuxun. ()" Chen Guangshou said, "Mr. thinks it will be dangerous for the peasant association to enter the city tomorrow?" ”

"There will be danger in ten **, and it will even arouse Guangxu's vigilance." Yang Rui said with certainty, "If it weren't for the support of the Manchus, it would have been impossible for this peasant association to be built, and if there is such a fuss tomorrow, a fool can see that it will be harmful to the stability of the imperial court." The Manchu Qing Dynasty is rotten, but the more corrupt it is, the more smart people there are, if they look at the tricks we play carefully, they can still see that they are famous, but because they are all smart people, so everyone pretends to be deaf and dumb. ”

Yang Rui only stood by the window, looking out of the house, Chen Guangshou stood beside him and only felt that Mr. seemed to be able to see through everything, after listening to these words, he was a little puzzled and said: "Sir, what should I do now?" ”

"Since it's Yuan Shuxun, it's easy to do. Didn't all the money he embezzled invest in the Jiangnan Bureau, and telegraphed it to Shanghai, asking him to find someone with a head and a face...... Just find Wu Baochu and ask him to call Shandong immediately, saying that this Xu Guantian is his relative, or an old friend or something, and stabilize the affairs of the peasant association first. After this year, when the scale of the peasant meetings in various places is completed, things will be easy to do. Yang Rui looked out the window and said thoughtfully.

When Chen Guangshou saw Yang Rui's order, he immediately went to the communication group to report. As soon as he left, Cheng Ying came over and said, "What's the matter, is something big going to happen?" ”

Yang Rui turned his head to look at her and said with a smile: "Hmm." It's going to be a big deal. A groundbreaking event. ”

Xu Guantian's brain was buzzing, so he waited until the well brought a few buckets of cool well water and poured it down from the top of his head. That's when I got a little more sober. He straightened out the details of the entire procession and petition, and there were several loopholes, such as when the land temple was assembled, the members of the peasant associations in each township and village had to be organized, and the name of the village and village should be on the flag; Then there is the narrow street in Juzhou, and if 10,000 people really pour in, I am afraid that those second-rate people in the city will mix in and steal things. This should be precautioned in advance, so as to save the excuse for the government to settle accounts after the autumn; There is also a city gate in Juzhou, if the patrolmen guarding the gate do not let go of the door. and the backbone of the city shall open the gates; And also......

When Xu Guantian was sorting out the whole process, Yu Liwu came to him and said, "Brother Tian, you still have to find someone to make the flag." Otherwise, the flag will not be finished. ”

The peasants are no better than the army. If you want to command, you still have to rely on the oldest flags, drums and trumpets, otherwise it will be a mess after only a few steps. Now the drum and trumpet are replaced by suona, but the flag still has to be made. The flag of the peasant association is a tic-tac-toe flag, the complete style is a red background, and a white tic-tac-toe in the blue square in the upper left corner, this flag is more troublesome to do, because the upper left corner is to be sewn on a square red cloth, Xu Guantian thought that time was urgent. Only take the blue background and white tic-tac-toe in the upper left corner, not the red background. But the actual effect seems to be very inconspicuous without a red background, and finally changed back to the original scheme of red background, blue frame and white tic-tac-toe, but this will allow someone to sew a thousand large and small flags overnight. The peasant associations near Juzhou City are making those 10,000 pancakes, and there are still not many people to sew flags.

"Let's ask Comrade Wen for help." Xu Guantian knew that there was indeed no manpower, and thinking that there were forty or fifty people on Yang Rui's side, he had to send the task over.

Yang Rui was thinking about the impact of tomorrow's parade on the peasant associations in various places in the next year or two, but he didn't want to come to such a thing, so he couldn't help but let Chen Guangshou arrange it, with twenty large and small flags per person, and he didn't sleep until he finished it.

When night fell, when the Chengnan Peasant Association arranged tomorrow's parade in an orderly manner, the gentry of the Agricultural Maintenance Association only celebrated the victory in the Anfushun Restaurant on East Street, and Yu Shoucai's face was blue and swollen from the countryside, and he was led by the patrol police to wander around the street, and when passing by the East Street Agricultural Maintenance Association, more than 100 landlords came out to watch, Wang Fucai took a folding fan and knocked on Yu Shoucai's head a few times, but this Yu Shoucai did not have the same kind of low and low in the past, and he had to pay for his smiling face when he was beaten, but muttered: " Brother Tian came back to save me......"

Brother Tian is the affectionate name of the peasants of the peasant association for Xu Guantian, this former scholar is now wearing short shirts and straw shoes all day long, under the stove in the field, where there are farmers, he will go there, there is no need to look down on the peasants, and the peasants everywhere really regard him as a brother, only call him Brother Tian. When Wang Fucai heard him say that Brother Tian wanted to fight again, the patrol police had already pulled Yu Shoucai away.

Under the bright kerosene lamp, all the landlords in Anfushun's restaurant were staggering, and suddenly heard that the next person had come to report that the Japanese peasant association was going to enter the city to make trouble, and even more to encourage thousands of people to enter the city, and everyone was taken aback when they heard this. However, Zhuang Houtao, who has won a big victory today and is a little disdainful of the peasant association, said: "What is there to be afraid of mud legs, there are only a few hundred people who can come, and tomorrow I will let the banker's group also enter the city, and guard at the south city gate to see if they can turn over the sky." ”

Zhuang Houtao didn't care, but Vice President Wang Jingzhong said: "Master Zhuang, this matter must not be sloppy, ten days ago, the peasant association won the lawsuit, and pulled people everywhere to join the association, the number of people said that there are already two or three thousand households, if you really want to bring these people, I am afraid that there are more than ten thousand people." With so many people entering the city, one bad one is going to cause chaos......" Wang Jingzhong said this, deliberately paused for a moment, and saw that the gentry full of gentry were looking at him, and he was still satisfied: "After all, this peasant association is allowed by the imperial court, if it can't be run, it still can't be forced, and they have to let them break the law themselves." Not only must we not stop them, but we must welcome them into the city, and it is better to call some more men to add to the trouble; On the other side, there are only dozens of patrols in the state city, and those shotguns don't know if they can go off, so they still have to go to Dongguan to invite the horse team from the province to enter the city. In this way, once something happens in the city, and the shops on the street are robbed and smashed, then the horse team can stop it. How to deal with it when the time comes, it depends on Master Huang's decision, if it is good, he can cut down Xu Guantian of the peasant association on the spot, if it is bad, he still has to bear the charge of gathering a crowd to make trouble, arson and robbery, and this peasant association will not be able to do it in Juzhou in the future. ”

Wang Jingzhong's words were tortuous, just waiting for him to finish speaking. Only then did everyone understand his plan, and they all looked at him twice, only to think that this person was really vicious. But evil is evil. At least it was good to deal with the peasant association, and after everyone pretended to agree, Wang Jingzhong's plan began to be implemented. The second-rate ruffians in the state city immediately sent people to contact them, asking them to take the opportunity to make trouble tomorrow under the sign of the peasant association; Cai Yuanhai, the leader of the horse team that suppressed bandits in Dongguan, found a merchant gentleman who was familiar with him and sent someone to find him overnight, telling him that someone in Zhou City would make trouble tomorrow, please send soldiers and horses into the city; As for the one or two hundred regiments of Old Man Zhuang's house. You can go to the south gate to stop and scare you, and if the peasant union is afraid, it will be disbanded. After that, they can be dealt with by forceful means, and if the peasants are stopped and dare to rush into the city, then let them throw themselves into the net. After this arrangement was completed, Wang Jingzhong asked someone to send a letter to the peasant association. Explain that the dealer's group will be taken to the south gate tomorrow. As soon as the peasant association enters, it will shoot a lot of guns......

Under Wang Jingzhong's deliberate arrangement, the news from the city soon spread outside the city, and several cadres of the peasant association who were holding the last round of meetings at night heard some differences, and the opinion of the patrol team Hei Qi was to enter the city with weapons - according to the regulations, the peasant associations in each county were equipped with rifles, ten of which were reported to the officials, and the others were private goods, and their main role was to train peasant soldiers. Let them familiarize themselves with the maintenance and use of rifles, and now they have to deal with the patrol officers and regiments in the state city. You can't bring a gun, even if you don't shoot, it can give everyone courage.

And Yu Liwu means that you can't bring it, preferably with your bare hands, on the grounds that the standard operating procedure for the march is that you can't bring guns. In fact, he couldn't say some things clearly, but when he was in class at the Shanghai Peasant Movement Training Center, the teacher made it very clear about the essence of the parade, and that in the final analysis, this parade was to send people to death, and only after blood was shed could hatred and contradictions be deepened, the struggle could be fierce, and bloodshed was the original intention of the parade. As for who should stand in the front row of the parade, the best candidates are students, no, that is, try to choose some ordinary people with innocent family backgrounds, so that they can make a fuss about public opinion when they die. As for the leaders themselves, it is not easy for the revival to cultivate a leader, and the revolution will continue, so the leaders generally ask to be in the back, in the name of command.

Hei Qi and Yu Liwu were in a dispute, and several other cadres did not agree on their opinions, Xu Guantian had no choice but to say: "You are not allowed to bring a gun tomorrow, you can only raise a flag." Whoever is afraid of death will stand in the first row. ”

As soon as he said this, Yu Liwu immediately looked at him and said, "If you go, it's better for me to go!" What happens when you go there? ”

Xu Guantian had the urge to stand at the front, and also the fear of standing at the front, and his face turned pale for a while when he heard the words, but after a while, he said decisively: "Mr. Cheng said that if the revolution can only be achieved by one or two leaders, then the revolution will never succeed!" Tomorrow I'll be in the front row, and you'll be in the back! ”

Xu Guantian's voice was not loud, but it was very resolute, Yu Liwu wanted to say that he was going to report to the commissioner, but seeing his stubborn appearance, he finally sighed and said, "What if something happens?" ”

"If something happens, bury me on the highest mountain in Juzhou, remember to go north, I want to see the Tartars driven out of the capital with my own eyes!" Xu Guantian only said irrefutable, and then stood up and said, "Let's go here." Something will be adjusted on the spot tomorrow. Meeting! ”

The last meeting before the procession was over, and the next morning, everyone went to the Land Temple, which was five miles away. This land temple has been abandoned for a long time, under the broken tiles and candles, the couplet of "there is a temple and no monk wind sweeps the floor, and there are more incense candles and less moons to light the lamp" are even more missing. But now on the grassy groundbreaking platform, the red candles and incense that were hurriedly bought in the morning are already burning, Xu Guantian only stood on these four sides and looked out, he only thought that there should be more people, so that the landlords and corrupt officials in the state city could be shocked, but at this time the time seemed to be too early, and no one came after he looked for half an hour.

"What time is it?" Xu Guantian asked to the side.

"It's less than eight o'clock, and there's still more than an hour." Yu Liwu comforted. His eyes were also very red, and he didn't sleep well all night.

"It's early." Xu Guantian said. He was half-asleep last night, got up early, wore a blue shirt and black pants, a standard peasant association attire, and a peasant association's tic-tac-toe emblem on his left chest.

Xu Guantian said that the time was early, but in the distance, a group of blue shirts came, and there were only more than 100 people, but they walked very fast. From afar, he shouted and waved to them under the flag in front of the Land Temple, Xu Guantian was shocked when he saw the people who came, and said with a smile: "There are still people who can't sleep like us." ”

One village arrived, and then another village arrived. By ten o'clock, the front of the Land Temple was already full of peasant association members in blue shirts and black pants, and some peasants who had just come to see the excitement and have lunch were also standing in the line. It's just that the people's clothes are green, gray and gray, and the patrol is cleaning up. Because there were so many people coming, those whose clothes and colors could not be woven into the procession had to be asked to stand aside and go home after eating the pancakes.

After holding a meeting with the backbone of each village and village, Xu Guantian went out to the outside of the Land Temple. I only saw that the blue shirts on the wasteland were all boundless, and his already sluggish spirit became excited again. As soon as the dozens of backbones of the meeting in the temple came out, the members of the peasant association who had already sat and finished eating pancakes all got up. He only looked at the leaders of his village on the high platform. They saw the head of their village jumping off the platform with a big banner and running straight to their side, and after shouting loudly, they understood what he meant. That's everyone following the flag. And the head is after shouting. According to the arrangement at the meeting, he led the people in his village to the high platform of the land temple.

In this way, the originally static crowd on the wasteland was chaotic for a while, but fortunately, the wind was not small that day, and under the fluttering of the flags in the hands of the leaders, the names of the villages above were clear at a glance, and the team of one or two hundred people followed their leaders and a team of people to stand under the high platform of the land temple. Here, Xu Guantian was waiting for them to move closer to him with excitement. A good table to pass the speech before entering the city, so that everyone went into the city to petition with high morale.

I saw that the following team had gathered. Xu Guantian stood on a high place and began to speak, "Farmers...... Brothers...... "It's just that his words didn't make the people below quiet, Hei Qi saw this and let people blow a suona, and after the noise, the people below gradually quieted down.

"Farmers, please come here today, not to make trouble." Xu Guantian shouted loudly, and the voice only reached the back of the team. "We are all farming, we don't have a daily livelihood, we don't have the time to make trouble, and we don't have the courage to make trouble because we take care of the family. However, some people saw that we didn't dare to make trouble, and they didn't dare to make up for our losses, so they deliberately bullied us, made fun of us, and didn't treat us as human beings. We are not being bullied today, not being teased now, but our ancestors have been bullied and made fun of for generations. But now it's different, we have a peasant association, our peasant association was reported in the capital, it is recognized by the government, it is a serious meeting, it is a meeting for everyone to fight grievances, and it is a meeting for all farmers to unite as one.

Everyone has heard about Yu Shoucai, and it is clear that the state sentence of the lord has acquitted him, but now the landlords have bribed the patrol police, handcuffed him to the state city, and began to parade through the streets without being convicted. Everyone must be clear, this matter is not a matter of Yu Shoucai alone, but a matter of tens of thousands of our farmers, if this matter is not petitioned today, then tomorrow the person who will be tortured into the city of Zhoucheng may be you, him, or any farmer.

If you don't want to be bullied anymore, you must regard any farmer as your brother, and if you want to stop suffering, you must regard all the things of the peasant association as your own private affairs. Today, if Yu Shoucai is bullied, that is, tens of thousands of farmers are bullied, if Yu Shoucai fails today, that is tens of thousands of farmers are defeated, and if Yu Shoucai wins today, that is tens of thousands of farmers are victorious. ”

When Xu Guantian said this, he took a big flag from the hand of the person next to him, waved it, and shouted loudly: "Farmers, brothers, unite as one, everyone will petition with me, Guantian lives and dies!" ”

After Xu Guantian's speech, the members below clapped their hands vigorously, and as the village leaders took the lead in shouting the trumpet, everyone shouted loudly: "Unite as one, life and death!" Unite as one, life and death! United, life and death are ......"

Seeing this, Xu Guantian knew that the atmosphere was almost agitated, so he jumped off the high platform with a big flag and waited not far away. As soon as he went, Heiqi's patrol team also followed, followed by the Dadian Town team, Liu Guanzhuang team, Xiazhuang team, Dianziji team, and Xiaodian team...... A team of more than 7,000 people followed him, and Xu Guantian didn't wait for the people behind him to line up, only to see someone coming over, so he slowly walked forward. The dense blue squares in front of the Land Temple suddenly pulled up a long blue cloth belt, followed closely behind Xu Guantian, and pulled the entire team more than a mile long.

The team was full of peasant association members wearing blue shirts and black trousers, all of them had a tic-tac-toe logo on their left chest, and they only walked three or four miles, and when everyone was a little sweaty, Yu Liwu, the vice president in front, suddenly took the lead in singing the anthem: "Unity is strength, this strength is iron, and this strength is steel ......."

More than 7,000 people have attended the simple training class of the peasant association, and this song can sing a few words more or less, but generally it is sung by dozens of people at most more than 100 people, and now more than 7,000 people sing together, the sound is so loud and the momentum is so strong that everyone is suddenly excited.

"Unity is strength,

This power is iron,

This power is steel,

Harder than iron,

Stronger than steel......"

The team slowly walked to the south of the city, and the people prepared at the gate of the peasant association welcomed the petition team with suona and gongs and drums, but no matter how noisy the suona gongs and drums were, they couldn't suppress this low but powerful singing. The banker's group blocked the gate of the southern city, and wanted to scare the people of the peasant association, but when they saw a blue torrent surging in the distance, and then heard the passionate singing, they immediately abandoned the door in a panic, and only let go of the gate and let these blue shirts enter the city.

The streets of Juzhou City are narrow, and the team of the game drove here under the drive of the patrol team in the front row, and suddenly held hands and leaned closely together, everyone was a brother in front of and behind him, and every breath and voice was himself. They marched forward in unison, and the majestic momentum only startled the shopkeepers on both sides of the street, until the patrol who opened the road pulled them, and then they gave way and let the team pass.

The procession entered the city through the south gate, and the landlords of the Agricultural Maintenance Association on East Street had already received the news and only stood on a teahouse on the crossroads to watch the wind. In their imagination, the peasant association would be destroyed by itself if it could not open the cross street, and the horse team that rushed back early in the morning happened to take advantage of the chaos to hunt and kill. It's just that the confusion of imagination did not appear, the clothes of the peasant association were completely different from the clothes of the ruffians, and the members of the peasant association walked in unison hand in hand, so that they could not intervene, and there were also scattered patrols on both sides of the team, only a few ruffians who ventured into chaos were taken down, they had practiced the military physical boxing of the revival army, and most of the half a year's training was more than enough to deal with the ruffians.

"Why isn't it messy?" Master Zhuang, the president of the maintenance association, asked, he seemed to hear a low and deep singing voice just now, but he couldn't understand what was singing, and the most important thing was that there was no chaos in the south of the city.

"Quick! Send someone to take a look. Vice President Wang Jingzhong said that this former unsuccessful talent cherishes the position of vice president very much, and he is even more attentive to Master Zhuang.

The family in the house was about to go, but he didn't want to go upstairs with the sound of "boom boom ......", the leader of the group arranged at the south city gate ran up, he didn't kneel or salute, only pointed to the south with the hand half raised behind him, and stammered: "Come, come, they come......"

Seeing that his own people were so rude, Zhuang Houtao kicked over and drank: "Who is here, is it those Diao people?" ”

The leader nodded vigorously when he heard this, and he couldn't seem to describe what he saw, so he couldn't squeeze out half a word with his mouth open. Fortunately, the peasant association team that went to the vicinity helped him, only waiting for Xu Guantian to appear at the intersection with a flag, the members who had rested for a moment began to shout loudly that unity is strength, at this time most of the whole team has entered the city, the city is not as good as the outside of the city, thousands of people suddenly sang, only the wooden buildings on both sides of the buzz, chickens and ducks everywhere also flew into the sky, and the landlords who watched the wind in the teahouse were even more pointed by this vulgar but passionate singing, one by one looked at each other, at a loss, and a long shirt, Wang Jingzhong, who was holding a white paper fan and was dedicated to being a military advisor, his face suddenly turned pale, and he sat on the ground with his butt standing up, and only shouted, "Twist bandit!" Twist bandits! ”

More than 7,000 people are dressed in uniform, neat steps, and singing loudly, such a scene and momentum have only been seen in the twist bandits a few decades ago, but at most, the two are only similar in fighting spirit, and it is impossible for undisciplined twist bandits to be so neat.

When the landlords were dumbfounded, in a teahouse near the left side of the yamen, Yang Rui, who heard the singing, only smiled at the people around him: "Our team is here!" In fact, at this time, everyone also heard the singing, but nothing could be seen on the empty street, only after I don't know how long, a well-to-have flag waving in the wind appeared in everyone's field of vision, and then appeared a blue, advancing team, this team is so vivid and vivid, high morale, just like the Yishui River in the spring. (To be continued......)

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