Chapter 781: Mass Incidents in the Ming Dynasty
Just as Huang Hansheng led a group of people to the Gaosheng Inn with a fierce killing, Yang Kun put on civilian clothes one step earlier and rushed to the yamen of the palace on foot to ask the prefect Wang to try to protect him.
It turned out that in the afternoon, a young miner who graduated from Liaodong had already received the news when he was wandering outside, and this kind of thing had happened many times in various places, and he had made relevant reminders when he came. In some places, conservative people are often unhappy that their hometowns are destroyed feng shui, and under the leadership of well-intentioned people, there are radical local officials who kill officials.
Xu Hao was reluctant to touch the inland provinces, because there were too many obstacles and forces to be encountered, and there was no need to dig gold and silver mines everywhere, almost all of the private veins in his hands were in Beiping and Liaodong, but after all, he couldn't stop others from mining in the provinces.
Along the way, Yang Kun saw the crowds on the street, shouting one after another, and he was very panicked. After entering the mansion, Wang Xian was also worried when he was alone.
Without waiting for him to ask for help, Wang Xian first asked him how the situation was outside? Yang Kun recounted what he saw.
Wang Zhifu said: "I have already sent a note to the officials and soldiers of the guard to come to suppress them, and it is best to let them move to the palace to live, so as to save me from worrying." ”
Yang Kun smiled bitterly: "The status has moved, no matter where it is, it can't be relied on, and now it's too late." ”
As he was talking, I saw a few subordinates running to report in a panic, shouting: "The master is not good, hundreds of people rushed into the yamen, and the officials had to close the second door. ”
"What?" Yang Kun was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, ignoring the prefect's prefect, and said hurriedly: "In case they kill the merchants of Liaodong, how can I explain if I am asked to go back?" ”
Wang Xian, who had never experienced such a battle, could only sigh for a long time, at a loss, and those officials, officials, officials and family members looked at each other and were all silent.
It's just a matter of being silent, Miss Lady in the inner house. The servants and servants of the family cried loudly, as if a great calamity was coming. Infected by this, the lowest loyalty belongs to the masters in the Shaoxing area, some want to jump over the wall to escape, some want to slip out of the dog hole, and at this juncture, Wang Xian persuaded and was not easy to persuade, and it was not easy to stop, as if the tree was falling and scattered, so they had to flee for their lives.
Mass events are terrible because they are unpredictable. Once it gets out of control, any strict consequences may happen, let alone a prefect at that time, I am afraid that if the emperor comes, the people who are completely violent will also be killed according to the law.
The people hiding inside listened to the voices outside the second door becoming more and more noisy, and some people even smashed the door with bricks, and the situation had reached a precarious stage.
Besides, those people in the Gaosheng Inn, when they saw that Lord Yang went to the prefect to protect them, they didn't let down their vigilance. Tell the soldiers who were sent first to be extra careful and not careless. Sure enough, in the evening, shouts of killing were heard in the distance. A large crowd of thugs swarmed in.
There are more than 30 brothers under the banner man who took the lead, and they did not dare to shoot civilians without a military order, and besides, there were too many people, and shooting would only completely provoke a popular uprising. So I quickly ordered the gate to be closed, and a few large stones were brought over from the back garden to stand up.
Fortunately, Zongqi received two years of education in the martial arts school, experienced the Battle of Jingjing, and also killed the Japanese along the coast. After a hundred battles, he said to the panicked Liaodong people: "Don't panic, there are a lot of houses here, facing the street in front, leaning against the foot of the city in the back, although there is no way to go from the back door to the river, there is a deserted garden outside the wall on the right, which is the stable of the rich man Li next door, you go over and escape on horseback, our brother helps you block." ”
A businessman said gratefully: "If you don't thank you for your great kindness, people outside the customs will be rewarded." ”
At the moment, they didn't need luggage and other things, and each person took a small package, climbed the ladder and jumped into the empty garden. There was no one around, and the soldiers moved a few horses of the Li family, opened the small door, and they rode on horseback and flew away in the vast night.
The general banner ordered all the muskets to be put away and hidden, and said along the gate: "Those Liaodong people went out early in the morning, and they haven't come back yet. ”
The people outside naturally didn't believe it, and scolded and asked to open the door, Huang Hansheng said loudly: "With me here, I will never touch the grass and trees of the locals, you open the door and let us go in and search." ”
Zongqi whispered: "I believe you before you see the hell, Lao Tzu is the living ancestor who took the opportunity to make trouble!" Then he said in a loud voice: "No, there are too many of you, I don't dare to open the door." ”
After such a long time of bargaining, the impatient thugs smashed open the gate and rushed in, and the general flag and his brothers stood in a corner at a distance, and the people did not pay attention to them when they saw that they had no weapons in their hands.
These people searched room by room, and the crowd was chaotic and grabbed a lot of things, and some of the customers in the store were injured because they resisted. Seeing that the people from Liaodong were really not in the store, Huang Hansheng waved his hand, "You must have hidden in the mansion, let's go." ”
As a result, as soon as they came out, they bumped into 500 officers and soldiers led by the local Qianhu, and everyone immediately became weak and ran away in all directions.
And Qianhu did not order the arrest of people, he had the same concerns as General Qi, he could not shoot and hurt people unless he had to, most of them were young and ignorant children, and they had heads and faces in the family, and it was not appropriate to injure any of them.
Of course, they can't come out by doing the stupid thing of killing officials and robbing prisons, and lead the soldiers to the government office. Standing in the queue outside the palace gate, I saw that the crowd inside was very crowded, it is said that the warm pavilion in the prefect's lobby has been demolished, and the second door is sturdy, and it has not been broken.
Chiho relieved himself and immediately came up with a plan and ordered the drumming to intimidate them. Tell someone inside to run out, don't chase after him, let him go by himself, and wait for the group of boys to disperse a little, and then reason.
The rumbling sound of war drums came out far and wide in the night, which made people's hearts beat, and those people inside were all relying on the strength of the people, and they dared to fight and kill with a sharp spirit, and the officers and soldiers were immediately wilted at the sight, and the rabble had no discipline, and the second had no weapons and courage, and many people saw that the situation was not good, and they used the excuse that they were hungry, and they quietly slipped away with their friends.
When they came out in groups, they saw hundreds of swarthy muzzles pointed at them, and they also pressed sharp bayonets, and the deterrent power of muskets was much greater than that of swords, guns, and halberds.
Anyway, the government has broken in, and there is such a big incident. The goal has been achieved, is it really a rebellion against officials?
In less than three watches, there were only two or three hundred people left, and these two or three hundred people were definitely the most courageous, and there were also a few stupid people who didn't hear the drums outside, and blindly laughed and joked in front of the second gate.
Thousands of households were worried that the children would set fire and rob in the city, so they sent 400 people to patrol the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, leaving only 100 people to block the gate.
At this time, the county magistrate, Dianshi and other officials, big and small, heard that the officers and soldiers were coming. He also brought three classes of officials to King Qin.
The two or three hundred people there finally knew that something was wrong, and they left the second gate and stopped fighting, and thought of taking advantage of the chaos and the night to disperse, but they were shouted by thousands of households to take people, and the soldiers and officials worked together, and arrested dozens of people at once, and the rest fled.
Thousands of households and county orders don't order to chase, what are you chasing! If you can run, the monk can't run the temple, and it's enough to catch dozens of people! Yongshun is not rich. I can't afford to feed so many people in prison.
When the situation calmed down, no one was killed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. The county magistrate trotted in and knocked on the door in person. Explain the reason, who knew that the people inside were like frightened birds, asked again and again for fear of being deceived, and tossed for a long time before opening the door with confidence.
The prefect Wang, who had relaxed, was furious. If it weren't for the local officials and soldiers tonight in order to suppress the Miao people, they would be called the elite of the field battle, and they would have changed to another place. Negligent military household soldiers plus the officers of the second ancestor, God knows what will happen?
It is definitely not crushed by the thugs with one blow, or it is a big killing spree to take the opportunity to use people to gain war merits, no matter which outcome is that as long as more than a dozen people are killed, their career will come to an end, not to mention that they will have to be hanged in front of the yamen, and their wives and concubines and daughters will be humiliated by the mobs.
Wang Xian, who was furious, said with a dark face: "This time, this official will never be good at resting, and he will definitely kill a few evildoers." Interrogated overnight and tortured to extract confessions. ”
Yang Kun was worried about the merchants, and when Qianhu saw this, he said, "They have all run away on horseback, and they should be safe." ”
"No, I'll have to go to them, my lord." Yang Kun couldn't rest assured and left in a hurry.
The only person who could persuade Wang Xian to leave, Wang Zhifu said angrily: "Everyone is hungry, let's put food on the table first and eat a full stomach." ”
After eating, he ordered Qianhu to lead troops to inspect the city gate to prevent bad people from mixing in, leaving fifty soldiers to listen.
He and the county magistrate sat down in the flower hall, took those thugs up one by one for interrogation, and waited for the slightest mistake in their confessions.
A total of 38 people were captured, including two Xiucai, eight Tongsheng, nineteen martial arts boys, and the remaining nine people were businessmen, scoundrels on the street, and some came to see the excitement.
The court asked that the mastermind was Huang Hansheng and Huang Juren, and the prefect Wang ordered the county order to lead people to arrest him quickly.
Seeing that his boss was angry, the county commander didn't dare to slack off, so he didn't say anything about it, and asked for ten officers and soldiers, and brought a prisoner who was familiar with Huang Hansheng as eyeliner, carrying lanterns and torches, and surging away.
And Huang Hansheng came out of the Gaosheng Inn, took a few people to take the path and blended into the mansion, and was about to lead everyone to break the second gate in one go and capture the prefect of the palace alive, so as to coerce the officials and soldiers to retreat, make a good fuss, and make himself famous in the local and Shilin.
I kept walking home, and my heart said that this matter was in trouble, and I was the mastermind, and I must come to get me, but unfortunately I couldn't move down the government.
The more Huang Hansheng thought about it, the more unfortunate he became, so he quickly talked to his family, closed the front door, took some coils and wanted to escape from the back door, and went to the mountains to hide for a while.
Unfortunately, he was used to enjoying himself, and he was a little troublesome when he went out, and he miscalculated the reaction speed of the government, and when he was packing up his salute, his family ran to shout: "The master is not good, the people from the government are here." ”
Without waiting for Huang Hansheng to react, the gate of his house was not as good as the gate of the Gaosheng Inn, nor as good as the gate of the mansion of the government, he was kicked open by the messenger with three punches and two feet, caught a small guy, and asked him where Huang Juren was? The little guy who was trembling immediately told the truth.
The people went straight to the bedroom, dragged the man out from under the bed like a dead dog, put a rope around his neck, and led him away.
Back at Yamen, it was already the fifth watch, and the prefect of the Wang Mansion was like a chicken blood tonight, so he had to interrogate all night.
brought people up, Huang Hansheng refused to admit that he was the mastermind at first, and Qianhu was about to be executed, and the county order said: "He is a person with meritorious fame, and it is easy to use the punishment if he removes his fame." ”
However, the removal of the meritorious name of the person has to be reported to the political envoy and the academy, and it has to be approved by the ministry, and the back and forth can be as little as a few months or more than a year, and the prefect Wang, who can't wait, suddenly sneered: "This kind of rumor-mongering, vainly trying to kill officials and make trouble, is it tantamount to rebellion and rebellion, does the person who conspires rebellion also have to wait until his reputation is abolished to deal with him?" ”
"That's what my lord said." The county commander was helpless, so he had to order the palm mouth, and slapped Huang Juren with a hundred boards.
Huang Hansheng, whose skin was open, endured the severe pain, and naturally refused to admit it, admitting that looking at this posture was the rhythm of a capital crime.
Seeing that there was only one breath left, the prefect Wang had no choice but to put him in prison and continue the interrogation tomorrow, ask if he understood, and then convict him.
But unconsciously, his subordinates have already complained about him, and they are reluctant to beat people without getting rid of their fame, thinking that the prefect should not spoil the scholar so much, it is not the same as Sven. (To be continued......)