In Ningxia City, outside the Xunfu Yamen, in the ice and snow, a group of ragged military households were kneeling.
The deputy governor Shi Jifang stood on the steps of the Yamen Gate, glaring at the military households below, and scolded sternly: "You are in arrears with the taxes owed to the court, and you still complain about the lack of winter clothes. Think about it, if the people in the world don't pay taxes.
, how can the imperial court have the money to give you winter clothes?"
One of the military households named Liu Dongyang raised his head, a hint of hatred flashed across his face, but he still begged for mercy: "Deputy Shi, I'd like to ask you to report to the governor. We didn't intentionally default on tax arrears.
In fact, there was a severe drought last year and the harvest in our fields was not good. I sincerely ask the governor to tell the court that we and other military households will be exempted from paying taxes for one year. We have not received pay for seven months, and the brothers can only rely on
We live on the meager yields of the land."
Shi Jifang said: "The harvest in the field is not good, how can you blame the governor? Look at the military households in Pinglu Station, they can still make money by growing vegetables in the winter, why don't you learn from it?"
Liu Dongyang said: "The military households in Pinglu Station were protected by General Xiao Shen of Meng Pinglu Station. They obtained colored glaze for them and mined coal. Every household received coal. However, we and other military households in Ningxia City did not.
My parents' children, we can't afford the glazed tiles alone. How can we build a greenhouse and grow vegetables? If Deputy Shi can persuade the governor to advance money for us to buy glazed tiles, we can't afford it.
You can make money by growing vegetables.”
The entire Ningxia area is not that big, and the things that happened in Pinglu Institute will definitely spread to Ningxia City. For the sake of keeping a low profile, Su Hao did not let anyone tell people that the glazed tiles were provided by the Kanyu Camp, and only took the credit.
It came to Xiao Ruxun's head. While the military households in Ningxia City were envious of the good luck of their colleagues in the Pinglu Station, they were naturally very resentful towards their superiors.
Dang Xin is a man with high ambitions. In his eyes, not to mention the lower-level military households, even generals like Kuai Bei with heavy troops are just vulgar warriors. Dang Xin firmly believes that no one dares to challenge him.
authority, so his behavior was very arrogant. After he took office, he repeatedly defaulted on the food and salary arrears of the sergeants, and the winter clothes that should be distributed according to regulations were also canceled by him with excuses. Not only that, he also ignored the life and death of the military households and urged them to hand over
The tax on farmland aroused the anger of the military households.
This time, Liu Dongyang, Xu Chao, Liu Chuanbai, Zhang Wenxue and other lower-level officers gathered together to petition the governor's Yamen. They hoped to let Dang Xin hear the voices of the lower-level officers, which was somewhat of a compulsion based on public opinion. Who
Knowing that Dang Xin didn't care at all, he sent a deputy to come out and yell at everyone, shouting abuses.
"The governor has advanced money for you to buy glazed tiles. Do you think there is a mountain of gold in the governor's office? The governor is an upright and clean official, so how can he have any spare money to spend on you?" Shi Jifang said.
Hearing Shi Jifang's words, the sergeants all started making noises. There was some dirty content inside and outside the words. They couldn't calculate how much Dang Xin had embezzled from the sergeants' wages, but Dang Xin's usual
The extravagant spending was visible to all the sergeants. Shi Jifang said that Dang Xin was a breeze. This was simply an insult to everyone's eyes. How could everyone not be angry?
"Master Dang, this can't be done." In the second hall of the governor's yamen, the camp officer Jiang Tingfu begged Dang Xin earnestly: "I heard many sergeants complaining in the camp. If it is allowed to develop, I'm afraid it will irritate
If there is a mutiny, then there will be trouble."
"Mutiny?" Dang Xin sneered. "Just these few people at the door dare to mutiny?"
"Sir, there are indeed not many people at the door, but the entire Ningxia Guard's soldiers are sympathetic to them. I'm afraid that when one person shouts at night, the chaos will be everywhere." Jiang Tingfu said, at this time, there was a commotion outside the house.
The noise became louder and louder. Jiang Tingfu pointed outside and said to Dang Xin: "Sir, listen, if the noise continues like this, more and more people will gather."
"Let me go out and talk to them," Dang Xin said.
Jiang Tingfu wanted to ask Dang Xin what he wanted to say, but he also knew that Dang Xin had always been stubborn and would not discuss anything with his subordinates. He came to the door with Dang Xin in an uneasy mood, and saw Liu Dongyang and others shouting loudly.
They were shouting and demanding to see the governor. Seeing Dang Xin appear at the door, everyone suddenly fell silent.
"Why are you making such a noise!" Dang Xin felt quite proud when he saw that he could calm down the scene as soon as he appeared. He scolded everyone with a straight face: "You are making a lot of noise outside the governor's door, but do you want to rebel?
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"My Lord Governor, I forgive you. I don't dare to rebel. I just want to ask you, the Governor, to understand my difficulties and not to demand my taxes. I will definitely abide by the law and not cause trouble to you." Liu Dongyang said.
Dang Xin said: "What do you mean, if this governor doesn't agree to your request, you won't abide by the law?"
Liu Dongyang's words were originally a submissive attitude and did not mean to threaten. After Dang Xin interpreted it this way, it seemed that he was implying something. He is a bloody man, and begging like this is already against him.
When Dang Xin provoked him, he couldn't deny it. He simply scratched his neck and replied: "Since the governor said this, then the villain has no choice but to admit it. If the villain cannot survive, it will inevitably happen."
Will take desperate risks."
"How dare you!" Dang Xin shouted loudly: "If you want to threaten your superiors by causing chaos, this governor will never agree. If you want to cause chaos, aren't you afraid of beheading and annihilating your clan?"
As soon as these words came out, all the sergeants fell silent, but everyone's eyes turned blood red and their teeth chattered. Liu Dongyang held back his anger, raised his hand and gave Dang Xin a fist salute, and said
: "The governor has made up his mind, and the villain dare not disobey, so he resigned."
After that, he turned around and said to his colleagues: "Brothers, let's go."
The sergeants stood up one by one, turned around and left. Their feet stepped on the thin snow, making a creaking sound. Every time they hit Jiang Tingfu's heart, Jiang Tingfu smiled bitterly and said to Dang Xin: "Master Dang
, the sergeant’s resentment cannot be suppressed like this.”
"Do they really dare to rebel?" Dang Xin said disapprovingly, "I don't believe that tens of thousands of people like Ningxia Wei will follow them to rebel. At most, they can pull up dozens of people. I just say a word and I can wipe them all out.
,Afraid of where they will come from?”
"Your Majesty the Party is decisive in killing and I admire you." Jiang Tingfu mocked helplessly.
Besides, Liu Dongyang and others left the governor's Yamen with a lot of anger. After walking for a while, they saw a tavern on the roadside. Liu Dongyang said hello and everyone walked into the tavern and shouted to the waiter to bring wine and serve food in order to relieve their drunkenness.
worry.
"This bastard named Dang, I really wanted to go out and strangle him to death just now!"
After thirty years of drinking, the blood of the sergeants became hot, and the flag officer Xu Chao shouted angrily.
"Old Xu be careful and don't let anyone hear you." Liu Chuanbai, another commander-in-chief, reminded that he had noticed that many people in the tavern were looking sideways at them.
Xu Chao's voice did not weaken at all, he said: "I'm afraid of a bird, I saw that Brother Liu didn't say anything just now, but if Brother Liu says something, I can strangle both those named Dang and those named Shi to death.
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"It's easy to strangle them to death, but what will we do next?" Liu Dongyang asked, "Dang Xin is right, killing officials and rebelling is a serious crime of beheading and annihilating a clan. We can just fight for our own lives, but how can we bear to implicate three clans?"
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"If we really kill Dang Xin and occupy the Ningxia Guard, we will be the masters of our own affairs. Who can do anything to us?" Xu Chao said.
Liu Chuanbai said: "With just a few of us, can we capture Ningxia Wei?"
"Our brothers in the camp have long thought the opposite. As long as Brother Liu takes the lead, I think there will be at least 2,000 brothers in each guard station to follow Brother Liu." Xu Chaodao.
Liu Dongyang waved his hands and said: "How can I have such great appeal? Besides, even if 2,000 brothers are willing to follow me, compared with the imperial army, they are just a drop in the bucket, unless..."
"Unless what?" Xu Chao and Liu Chuanbai asked at the same time.
"Unless there is a commander-in-chief who can make the decision for you, right?" Before Liu Dongyang could answer, everyone heard someone behind him speaking sadly.
"Commander Kuai!" The sergeants turned around and stood up quickly. They recognized that the person speaking was Kuai Yun, a commanding general of the Ningxia Guard and Kuai Bai's godson.
"Everyone, please take a seat." Kuaiyun chuckled, pulled up a stool and sat down, and then raised his hand to invite everyone to sit down.
Everyone was chatting privately and was overheard by a superior officer. They were all worried and uneasy, not knowing what the other party would think. Kuaiyun didn't panic, poured a glass of wine and drank it, then said slowly:
"I, the general, know everything about you. Some things are purely caused by the government forcing the people to rebel. Not to mention me, the general, even Commander-in-Chief has deep sympathy for you."
"Commander Yi also knows about our affairs?" Liu Dongyang asked.
Kuai Yun smiled slightly: "Is there anything that Commander Kuai doesn't know about this matter in Ningxia City? Besides, everyone knows who Dang Xin is. Last time, my brother Chengen was blamed by Dang Xin.
Army stick, do you think Commander-in-Chief doesn’t have any feelings for you?"
Kuai Yun was the adopted son of Kuai Bai, and he and Kuai Chengen were brothers. What he said was quite a sensation in Ningxia Wei at that time, because the Kuai family and his son always spoke the same words in Ningxia Wei, but Kuai Chengen unexpectedly
How could it not be shocking to receive Dang Xin's military stick?
Liu Dongyang calmed down after hearing what Kuaiyun said. As a Han officer, he was somewhat suspicious of Kuaibai, who was from a Tatar. Among the officers and soldiers of the Ningxia Guard, there was always a rumor that Kuaibai might rebel.
They had never been extinct, but now when a few of them were making angry remarks and threatening to rebel, Kuaiyun came to intervene, and Liu Dongyang had to think more about Kuaibai's motives.
"Commander Yi, what do General Soldiers want us to do?" Liu Dongyang asked.
Kuaiyun smiled and said: "Commander Kuai only sympathizes with your situation, but he has never thought about what he wants you to do. Liu Baihu must not misunderstand. If you can endure what happened today, Commander Kuai will certainly not
Do you care? Do you think so?" (To be continued...)