Liu Ziguang quickly quelled the riot with a decision that was almost like a strong man cutting off his wrist. The price was the loss of tariffs for a period of time. Although these tariffs were huge, they were still within the tolerable range. Anyway, Liu Ziguang had Hu Yimin and Risheng behind him.
With the strong financial support of Changchang, and the customs duties of the Shipping Department were used as collateral for the Ministry of Revenue's loan from Rishengchang for the Northern Expedition, there was no need to be afraid of trouble even if it came to the court. The only thing to worry about was the impeachment of Liu Ziguang by the censor of Shanghai Road.
Since Zhenwu Bo violently beat up the censor in court last time, every censor in the Ming Dynasty has regarded impeaching Liu Ziguang as their natural mission. This time after the shocking news that the imperial envoys secretly exempted tariffs, the censors of Shanghai Road were like
The hungry wolf smelled the blood, and suddenly became excited, and a snowflake of memorials flew to the capital, vigorously impeaching Liu Ziguang for beating and promoting him for no reason, paralyzing the Shipping Department, and abusing his power by privately exempting tariffs and affecting the imperial court's fiscal revenue. This
This kind of trick has no effect on Liu Ziguang. The emperor is his buddy, Wei Zhongxian, the ceremonial supervisor and the leader of the East Factory, and Qian Qianyi, the cabinet chief, are all his comrades who have fought side by side. They will not embarrass him at this time. Since there is no one
Liu Ziguang let go of his scruples and ordered all uncooperative officials of the Municipal Shipping Department to be imprisoned and tortured.
Inside the Yamen of the Municipal Bureau of Shipping, several municipal officials in blue robes sat in front of the desk with cold expressions on their faces. They ignored the accountants from the Department of Accounts and kept the voluminous files and ledgers locked in the cabinet.
They actually claimed that the key was lost. At first, the accountants tried to reason with them peacefully, but later they simply called in the guards to break the lock. Thousands of account books were inextricably linked, and there was no guidance from relevant personnel of the Shipping Department.
Outsiders have no clues at all. Although several old accountants are experienced, they have no way to deal with this kind of account book and have no way to start.
After the matter was reported to the Imperial Envoy, the problem was solved in one sentence: "Anyone who obstructs or refuses to facilitate the investigation will be treated as an accomplice of corruption." This approach is too cruel and fully reflects the characteristics of the feudal society in handling imperial cases.
, that means not being reasonable and not talking about evidence. What I said is the king's law. If you say you are corrupt, you are corrupt, and if you are not, you are corrupt too!
However, the implementation of this move requires the cooperation of the local government. Liu Ziguang's hundred or so people have to protect the imperial envoys and investigate cases, which is too busy. The Nanchang forces secretly transferred to Shanghai are not suitable for this time.
He showed up, but it was too late for the Shanghai Dao Yamen to cause trouble for Liu Ziguang, so how could he help?
Liu Ziguang wrote several warrants to the garrison and the navy in Shanghai, asking them to send troops to assist him. The warrants were like a mud ox drowning in the sea. People did not buy his account at all. Without the transfer orders jointly issued by the Fifth Army Governor's Office and the cabinet, the army could not arbitrarily
Transfer, do you have a secret decree from the emperor? Sorry, there is only a decree from the emperor, without the signature of the cabinet, so the army does not need to buy it. You are an imperial envoy, I'm sorry, you are in charge of the Inspection and Weaving Department, City Shipping Department and other yamen, our army has no need
Mixed.
"Do all the soldiers in Shanghai have the surname Cheng?" Liu Ziguang was furious and brought people to see Cheng Liangjue. However, the Governor's Yamen said that Governor Cheng had gone to Zhoushan and asked the imperial envoy to come back in a few days.
You thought you were sending the beggar away? Liu Ziguang slapped the concierge on the spot and turned away angrily. People in Shanghai Road don't treat imperial envoys as cadres. If you don't take me seriously, don't blame me.
You're welcome. I can't mobilize your soldiers from Shanghai Road, but I can always mobilize your soldiers from Suzhou Prefecture. A letter was sent to Suzhou Qianhu Office with the latest train. Li Qianhu, who is eager to make meritorious deeds, has long been looking forward to serving him.
Uncle Zhenwu served, and after receiving the order, he immediately led a thousand men and horses to Shanghai, carrying only weapons and no tents, bedding or anything else.
The speed of Li Peng's thousand men and horses arrived beyond Liu Ziguang's imagination and beyond the expectations of all Shanghai Road officials. When the first officers and soldiers from Suzhou Qianhu Station stepped out of the train carriage, there were only a few scattered people at the station.
A police officer from the City Patrol Department was on patrol.
As the saying goes, good iron cannot be nailed, and good men should not be soldiers. Suzhou men with gentle personalities have gone to make money, so they don't bother to eat food and serve as soldiers. The military household system initiated by Emperor Hongwu in the past has long been abolished. Most of the soldiers in Suzhou's Qianhu Station
They are not locals, nor hereditary military households, but peasants fleeing from the Central Plains, and they are the kind of peasants with fierce and vulgar personalities. The Qiu Ba people stood carelessly on the platform of Shanghai Station. When they saw the smooth and clean ground, they always felt that
There was no embellishment missing, so I sprayed it with a mouthful of thick phlegm.
"Hey, the villagers are being screwed, spitting everywhere, fined one tael of silver!" When a patrolling tiger heard the sound of spitting, he pulled out his stick and yelled almost as a conditioned reflex. The rules at Shanghai Station are so strict that mud will fall off the soles of his feet.
You have to be fined, not to mention spitting. Many foreigners who came to Shanghai to pan for gold suffered a big loss. They were fined and paid all the money as soon as they got off the train. This is also a way for the city patrols to make money. After January,
You can make a lot of money, no worse than those brothers who set up stalls outside.
The soldiers from Suzhou were not wearing armor. They were just wearing indigo blue plain cotton jerseys and red tasseled felt hats on their heads. Their rattan badges and bamboo sticks were left in the car before they were taken down. They looked similar to the coolies who came to Shanghai to work.
When someone shouted at him with a stick, the soldier just glanced sideways, ignored him, turned around and started peeing on the train track.
The patrolling tiger was so angry that he hit his head with a wooden stick. When the soldier heard the wind, he ducked and the stick hit his shoulder. It didn't cause much damage, but his urine spilled on his pants. Coincidentally, this man was a child.
Qi, who also had the No. 10 leader under his command, became anxious at that time, and while twisting and beating the patrolling tiger, he shouted at the brothers to capture the guy.
Several city patrol tigers saw their brothers being beaten and hurriedly waved sticks to come to support. One of them also put two fingers into his mouth and made a sharp whistle to summon his companions nearby. More than 20 city patrol tigers at the station heard the whistle
Quickly gathered together, the patrolling tigers in dark green shirts and the soldiers in indigo shirts gathered together. The people at the front were pushing and shoving each other, all with domineering faces. The City Patrolling Street Cleaning Division was directly under the Governor's Yamen.
, although these people do not have the official establishment of the imperial court, but wearing official uniforms, with patches embroidered on their chests, and the feeling of superiority gained from long-term bullying of ordinary people makes them feel that they are powerful, God is the boss, and they can't wait to be the boss.
Second, these Qiu Ba from Suzhou Qianhu Office are not good people. How can they be kind people who often suppress a gang of thugs who are workers.
The two groups of people are locked with each other. The city patrol tigers have discovered that the other party is not a coolie, but an organized army. The number is many times greater than theirs. Now they have more than 20 city patrol tigers.
They were drowned in the blue ocean of the store, but their sense of professional honor made them stand tall and refused to give in.
"Cina, who's team is this? Dare to go to Ala Shanghai to run wild and ask your battalion officers to come and see Ala." The leader of the patrolling tigers is a gangster himself. He originally specializes in collecting protection money from the train station area. He thinks that
He is well-informed and has more courage than a bear. In addition, he has the courage of a fierce dog on his chest, so he does not take these unscrupulous soldiers seriously.
"Damn it, just because you want to see our camp officer, you have to pay money if you hit someone. I am an officer of the imperial court, how can I be bullied by you? If you don't have a hundred taels of silver to compensate for this injury, you can't even think about leaving."
Xiaoqi rubbed his sore shoulders and didn't buy the patrol tiger's account at all.
The leader of the patrolling tiger deliberately puffed out his chest, fully displaying the fierce dog on his chest, and said proudly: "I am a civil servant. You see clearly, do you still need me to teach you what the crime of a warrior beating a civil servant is?"
"What a bullshit civil servant. I think you are just a dog. You dare to pick a hair without giving me money. Brothers, beat me!" Xiao Qi was a soldier and ruffian. He followed the principle of beating before talking. When he saw the other party, he looked like a bully.
He was angry with his face, so he took the bamboo stick passed by his subordinate and beat him.
The fighting qualities of the Suzhou Guards were all honed while suppressing the unarmed Jiangnan weaving workers. They might have been quite powerful in combat when they were in Suzhou, but compared to the patrolling tigers in Shanghai, they were much inferior. After all, they had many years of dealing with them.
The armed hawkers have very strong combat experience, individual combat capabilities and collaborative combat capabilities. More than twenty patrol tigers actually fought their way out of the siege of hundreds of soldiers and tried to retreat outside the station.
The second train entered the station, and more Suzhou Guards soldiers arrived in Shanghai. Surrounded by hundreds of households, Li Peng also got down from the soft-seat box with dignity. After getting off, he found that there were many subordinates who had arrived earlier.
Their heads were bruised and bleeding, and a few of them were lying on the ground moaning and groaning. They looked injured.
"Who beat you up like this?" Li Qianhu said angrily, and someone immediately described what had just happened to him with added detail, saying that the patrol officials in Shanghai looked down on our military eldest brother from Qianhu Station in Suzhou.
Aren’t the Shanghai officials the same group of guys that my eldest brother, Zhenwu Bo, couldn’t deal with? Li Peng’s mind turned quickly, and he immediately understood that this was another opportunity for him to show his face, and he immediately yelled: “How dare you bully me?”
My men, brothers from Suzhou Qianhu Station, if you are a man, please follow me!" After saying that, he drew his sword and took the lead to rush outside the station.
An older Baihu behind him grabbed him and persuaded him: "Sir Qianhu, we had a conflict with the people from Shanghai Road when we first arrived. I'm afraid we will cause trouble for the Imperial Envoy."
Li Peng chuckled: "The imperial envoy sent us here just to cause trouble. What are we afraid of? What's more, the morale is now available. If they don't cause trouble, I still want to find trouble."
The Suzhou guards who were aroused rushed out of the train station holding rattan plaques and bamboo sticks. They were met by
After hearing the news, the reinforcements from the Xuncheng Jiejie Brigade arrived. The two sides met and fought without saying a word. Fortunately, they used soft-kill weapons such as wooden sticks and bamboo sticks. The intensity of this street melee was not as intense as before.
Not high.
There were more than 300 patrolling tigers who came for reinforcements. With their powerful fighting ability, they were not inferior at all against a thousand soldiers, and even wounded the opponent's general, Li Qianhu.