Chapter 605: Occupation of Taiping County
Inside the county government office.
Magistrate Li Zhongping was sitting in the study, drinking tea and singing a little song.
"Think carefully, you can't do that. He said something bad to me. I'm here to force myself to be the boss, but he deliberately swayed me. Oh, I can't help but shed tears, and then I think about it. Pull up the lover into the golden tent together, and don't forget this oath of love."
The little tune is full of leisure and leisure.
This little song was heard from his newly married concubine. Thinking of the concubine singing the little song, thinking of the concubine's exquisite figure, thinking of the concubine's affectionate look, Li Zhongping couldn't help itching in his heart, and he decided to spend the night in the concubine's room tonight.
At this moment, a scream sounded outside the door.
Then there was a burst of noisy sounds.
"Murder!"
"Help!"
"Run!"
The sound became louder and louder, and Li Zhongping stood up suddenly.
Murder?
Are there unruly people attacking the county government?
He came to the door in panic and looked outside through the crack of the door.
He saw a group of young men holding knives, guns, sticks and clubs chasing the county government officials and clerks, and saw the county magistrate of the county government lying in a pool of blood.
"Oh no, there are really unruly people making trouble!"
Li Zhongping was shocked and looked around in the study in panic.
Finally, he saw the window at the back, and climbed onto the table without thinking, trying to jump out of the window and escape.
He succeeded. At this time, the young men were busy outside arresting the yamen runners and officials, and no one had time to look for the county magistrate.
But he also failed.
He ran to the back house in a panic, and even lost one of his boots.
"Quick, quick, pack up, let's go!"
Seeing his old servant, Li Zhongping shouted hurriedly.
The old servant also knew that something big had happened in the front yamen, and he didn't hesitate to tell the servants in the house to pack up the property.
Li Zhongping ran to the backyard, leaving his wife, children, and concubine behind, picked up the box of silver and ran towards the back door.
"Master, Master~~" His wife called from behind, but he didn't even look back.
Li Zhongping ran very fast with the heavy box in his arms, but when he was about to reach the back door, a man suddenly jumped down from the wall.
"You, you, you~~" Li Zhongping was so scared that he stuttered when he saw the person who suddenly appeared.
Li Cheng was also brought by Yang Mingzhao from Xingyue Island. Today, he was responsible for leading people to rush into the back house of the county yamen and capture the family of the county magistrate. Everything was planned, and they would act after they arrived. Who knew that Yang Mingzhao suddenly got the idea at the city gate and directly ordered the action, so they came a little late.
Li Cheng looked at Li Zhongping and grinned, "You are the county lord!"
He opened the back door and twenty young men entered the back house with sticks in their hands.
"You, who are you?"
"I tell you, attacking the county government is like rebellion! You will lose your head!"
Li Zhongping said fiercely.
"Haha, you actually knew we were going to rebel!" Li Cheng laughed.
"Take him down, take him down, don't let him run away, don't let him die, there is still use for him!"
Several young men stepped forward and pressed Li Zhongping to the ground without any hesitation, and tied him up.
The rest was simple. In just two quarters of an hour, Chen Buyu controlled the county government and closed the city gates. There were also young men patrolling the streets, prohibiting people from going out to avoid going out.
The whole process was very smooth, so smooth that it was incredible.
Of course, things are not over yet.
Attacking the county government is only the first step, and the next step is to search and confiscate the wealthy households in the city.
The force in the county government office was common, but it was not necessarily the case for the big families. They might be led by warriors or hired warriors as guards.
In the whole process, two officials were killed, the county magistrate and the chief clerk. The main reason was that these two guys were blind and had to rush into the knives of the young and strong. They killed two yamen runners and two warriors, who were shot to death by Chen Buyu.
One young and strong man was injured or killed. Well, one guy rushed too fast and was tripped by the threshold of the county government office. His right hand and the corrugated cover were broken.
Chen Buren looked at the only young and strong man who was injured. He was a 17-year-old boy.
"Can you not be so impatient when doing things!"
The boy scratched his head and said naively: "I want to catch an official."
"What's wrong?" Yang Mingzhao came over and asked.
"This kid accidentally fell down!" Chen Buren said.
Yang Mingzhao looked at the boy's broken cap, "Lu Bo has some golden medicine, go find him and wipe it for you!"
"Sir, no, I'm fine!" the boy said a little stiffly.
"Hurry up, there are still many things to do next, don't think about being lazy!" Yang Mingzhao said.
"Yes!" the boy responded quickly.
The people in the county were very panicked and frightened when they saw the young men who started the rebellion at first, but soon they found that the rebellious army would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and there were even people maintaining order on the streets.
The people gradually calmed down from the initial panic and fear, and then became curious about the young men on the street.
Lin Botao, the boy who was bullied by the yamen runners outside the city gate before, was indeed a resident of the city.
Originally, the Lin family was considered to have a small family property. They had two shops in the city, doing grocery business, and hired five long-term workers.
But four years ago, his father offended the Dian Lie of the county government. The Dian Lie instructed the runners of the county government to go to their shops every few days to find fault. After a while, the business of the shops became worse and worse. His parents He was also beaten and seriously injured by the gangsters on the street.
The yamen was bullied, his parents were seriously injured, and the business could not continue. Lin Botao had no choice but to sell his property to treat his parents' illnesses.
The Dian Li wanted to take advantage of the situation and forced him to sell the store to Dian Li at a low price.
The store was sold, but not much money was obtained, and it was not enough to buy medicine for parents. In this way, the parents passed away one after another, leaving only the brother and sister.
Lin Botao has been working very hard to support his sister, but the Dian Li still did not let them go. Will there be any servants coming to ask for trouble?
Until now, the brother and sister cannot even eat enough.
There was no choice but to go outside the city to find some food.
The yamen runner was right. He was just a beggar and his rice bran was sought.
At this time, Lin Botao was hiding at home, observing the young and strong patrolling outside the door through the crack of the door. He was hesitating and hesitating.
He first returned to the house, looked at his sister who was still having a fever, gritted his teeth, and suddenly opened the door and walked out.
When the patrolman saw him coming out, he glanced at him and shouted, "No trouble!"
Lin Botao nodded repeatedly and said carefully: "I won't make trouble. My sister is sick. I'm going to find a doctor!"
Seeing that he was as thin as a weak person, the young man also felt that this guy should not be a person who could cause trouble.
"Go!"
"Thank you, thank you uncle!"
Lin Botao squeezed out a flattering smile on his face, but his smile was a little stiff.
Seeing that the young man ignored him, he accelerated his pace and ran towards the clinic.
The clinic door was closed and he knocked for a long time before he got a response.
"Who!" The voice outside the door trembled.
"Grandpa Li, my sister is sick!"
The door was opened, revealing an old face, and the doctor looked around the street.
"Come in!"
Seeing that no one else came over on the street, the doctor dragged Lin Botao into the clinic.
"What's going on outside?" the doctor asked.
"I don't know! These people suddenly appeared, and the leader seemed to be a young man!" Lin Botao said.
"Have you seen them?"
"Well, I saw it when I entered the city, and I also met it when I came here!"
"How are they not doing to you?"
"No, they shouldn't be bad guys!" Lin Botao said.
Dr. Li leaned behind the door and observed outside the door.
"Grandpa Li, my sister is sick. She has started to have a fever since she finished her work, and now she is even more asleep!" Lin Botao said anxiously.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
Dr. Li looked at him, sighed softly, and said, "Wait for me to get the medicine box!"
They are all neighbors, and Lin Botao and his sister grew up as he watched them grow up. He had pity for these two children, but now he can't bear to ignore them.
He carried the medicine box and called his son, and Dr. Li followed Lin Botao out.
After they went out, they met the pair of young and strong patrolers. Lin Botao bowed repeatedly and said, "This is Dr. Li, who treats my sister!"
Qingqiang looked at Dr. Li and his son, and nodded slightly, "Go quickly, as long as there is no trouble, you can go out at will!"
"Thank you, thank you~" Lin Botao thanked again.
The three of them jogged to Lin Botao and their home. After the gate of the courtyard was closed, Dr. Li looked out the door in surprise, "Strange, these people seem to have no malice!"
"Grandpa Li, treat my sister first!"
"Oh, I got it!"
Dr. Li no longer thought about it and started to treat the little girl.
In the lobby of the county government, the magistrate, the clerk, the clerk, and more than a dozen civil servants and the yamen runners were tied out of the lobby.
"Young Master, this dog official actually wants to run away with the money!" Li Cheng placed the seized wooden box in front of Yang Mingzhao.
Yang Mingzhao opened the box and found that there were about ten or five taels of silver, and more than thirty silver notes, almost more than three thousand taels of silver.
"Is this yours?" Yang Mingzhao came to Li Zhongping and asked.
Li Zhongping was blocked by the rag and screamed.
Yang Mingzhao pulled off the rag, and Li Zhongping immediately said, "Young Master, this is mine!"
"Where did it come from?"
"This is the family fortune passed down by ancestors!" Li Zhongping said tremblingly.
Yang Mingzhao sneered, "You dare to lie to me!"
"Call me!"
The two young and strong men immediately stepped forward, holding the stick and hammered it randomly, and Li Zhongping screamed in pain.
"Stop, I ask again, where did this come from?"
Li Zhongping looked at the young and strong man next to him, then looked at Yang Mingzhao's cold face, and his body was trembling.
"This is the tax silver that the villain has intercepted in recent years!"
"Hmph, dog official!" Yang Mingzhao snorted coldly and kicked the guy over.
At this time, Ma Yan also came over with a few young and strong people, "Young Master, the county government treasury has less than ten taels of silver, and the often-closed warehouse has less than three hundred stones of grain!"
Yang Mingzhao laughed. These officials were all big rats, and a county government office had less than ten taels of silver and three hundred stones of food.
Depend on!
"Search the house!"
"You took people to confiscate the homes of these people, and arrested all the wives, children, and children!"
"There are also the rich gentry and family in the city who copied them together!"
Then there was another commotion in the city. Many wealthy families were broken into by the young men, and all men and women were captured.
Compared with attacking the county government office, attacking these wealthy families was more difficult. More than 200 young men were busy for most of the day before they captured all seven or eight wealthy families in the city.
During this period, there were casualties, one death, two serious injuries, and six minor injuries.
Of course, there were also many people killed by the young men, more than 50 people.
This day was spent in such a chaotic situation. The people in the city did not sleep well at night, fearing that someone would break into their homes and kill innocent people.
However, this night passed peacefully.
The next morning, the sound of gongs rang in the city.
"Judge the officials and gentry in front of the county government office, redress the grievances, and avenge the hatred!"
"Judge the officials and gentry in front of the county government office, redress the grievances, and avenge the hatred!"
The young men shouted along the street, and from time to time they knocked on the doors of the people to inform the people.
At first, the people were still a little afraid, but seeing that the young men were very kind, they also dispelled some of their fear.
Some brave people went out and ran to the county government office. In just two quarters of an hour, hundreds of people had gathered in front of the county government office.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Yang Mingzhao walked out of the county government office, and two young men carried out the table in the lobby of the county government office.
More than 20 young men played the role of yamen runners and stood on both sides.
"Go to court!"
With a snap, Yang Mingzhao slapped the gavel and shouted.
Then the young men shouted: "Mighty~~"
However, they seemed a little unprofessional, and their shouting was not uniform. They also winked at each other, as if they felt it was quite fun.
"Bring the prisoner!"
Yang Mingzhao shouted.
Immediately, a young man came up with a rich family. There were more than a dozen people, men, women, old and young, and five or six slaves, who were brought up neatly.
Yang Mingzhao flipped through the booklet in his hand, "This family's surname is An. They run a grain store and a cloth shop in the city. They have thousands of acres of fertile land outside the city. You all know them, right?"
The onlookers looked at each other, and no one said a word.
Yang Mingzhao saw that they didn't speak, and didn't care. He shouted to himself: "If you have grievances, I will redress them today. As long as someone dares to stand up and explain their crimes, I will punish them severely!"
The onlookers still didn't speak, but some people began to be eager to try.
"There is only one chance. If you don't identify them, I will let them go. At that time, you won't be able to avenge your grudges!" Yang Mingzhao shouted.
Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up, "Do you take your words seriously?"
"Haha, why would I lie to you, a commoner? Come on, as long as you dare to speak, I will give you justice, and I will chop them all!" Yang Mingzhao didn't sit down, but stood up directly, one foot on the chair and one foot on the table.
"Sir, they beat me!"
"Who beat you?"
"It was him!" The man pointed at a son of the An family.
"Okay, come on, drag him down and beat him with 20 sticks!" Yang Mingzhao said nothing and started beating him with sticks.
The sound of the sticks slapping rang out, followed by wailing sounds.
The people were all enjoying it.