Zhu Yixi moved very quickly, working together inside and outside. Within an hour, he had captured most of the mines in Longshouyuan and gathered thousands of miners.
"Sect Master, there is a lot of gold and silver."
Zhu Meng said excitedly.
"It must be some refined gold and silver that was not shipped out."
Zhu Yixi smiled and said: "Quick, collect them all for me."
"Yes!" Zhu Meng hurriedly agreed and left quickly.
However, he underestimated the importance of the mine to the gentry.
Not long after he took over the mine, thousands of guards and servants, including some involved in politics and affairs, gathered in groups one after another in the city of Xi'an.
"Sect Master, troops have been dispatched from Xi'an City."
At this time, Sun Changzhou said in a panic.
"It came so quickly!"
Zhu Yixi frowned and couldn't help but said: "Let the army make an attack posture, prepare the flintlock guns, and aim at this group of people."
After giving the order, Zhu Yixi went directly to the front of the formation without delay and met a group of people.
A group of hot-tempered gentry sons.
After taking them to see Zhu Yixi, they were stunned for a while.
"Inspector Zhu, why are you here?"
The wealthy people in the city were stunned one by one. They did not expect to see him here.
"I was just getting ready to bury the body when I saw a burst of red light in the distance, so I stopped by to take a look."
Zhu Yixi explained seriously.
Everyone looks at me and I look at you, and they all don’t believe it.
"The miners' riot has been suppressed."
Zhu Yixi said seriously: "Everyone, please rest assured, I will never let these people go. I will let them act as the first to waste their lives."
The two thousand people in front of them were waiting in full formation. Seeing such shameless behavior again, many gentry were speechless.
You have taken everyone away, so why open a mine?
But this reason is more reasonable...
"Inspector Zhu, thank you very much for your timely suppression, but we only need to kill the leader of the thieves. The remaining miners are still busy mining, so let us handle it!"
"We will plead for your merit in front of the Governor."
At this time, a representative came out and spoke seriously.
Behind him, dozens of gentry families stood, watching eagerly.
"It's a joke. Brothers suppressed and sacrificed their lives. These miners are already spoils of war. How can they be divided?"
Zhu Yixi said coldly, he doesn't want to do this. How can he spare someone by simply asking for credit?
"Inspection, these dozens of families are extremely powerful in the court and local areas, and they can determine official positions with just one word!"
Sun Changzhou's face instantly turned pale, and he hurriedly explained in a low voice.
"You are just a minor official, but you are so presumptuous——"
The representative was furious, and his chest kept heaving. Such a low-level official was so daring that he didn't even take the local emperor of theirs seriously.
He glared:
"You must think clearly. This trip will offend the entire Shaanxi Province. In the future, there will be no place for you in the huge Xi'an. Even Governor Sun will not be able to protect you."
"Hmph!" Zhu Yixi was quite indifferent to this fake power of a fox and a tiger, and snorted coldly: "You go ahead and impeach me, as long as you can get past the two thousand people behind me."
The crowd mistook the flintlock muskets for muskets, but the cold gazes of the soldiers and the black holes of the muskets scared them all into a cold sweat.
When did this guy have so many troops?
For a while, there was a bit of a stalemate.
"Inspector Zhu, what a majestic figure!"
At this time, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe came on horseback, condescending and majestic.
Zhu Yixi took a closer look and was shocked.
It turned out to be Feng Shikong, the governor of Shaanxi.
He expected trouble, but he didn't expect it to be so big.
Feng Shikong came panting and shouted, which gave the gentry great morale and a threatening atmosphere that made people breathless.
Everyone sneered and wanted to see his joke.
Feng Shikong stared at the young official in front of him and thought, if I hadn't been vigilant and went out to patrol the city, I would never have seen such a rude person.
The little Qiu Ba actually dared to be rude to the gentry and even dared to rob property. He was really bold.
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhu Yixi took out a letter from his arms and silently presented it to Master Feng Kong Maqian.
"I would like to see what kind of articles you have written."
Feng Shikong sneered, took the letter, and read it carefully.
The gentry did not understand its meaning.
"What's a little letter?"
"Even if it's an imperial edict, it won't come true."
Everyone started talking one after another, pointing fingers at the arrogant Zhu Yixi.
However, when Feng Shikong looked at the letter and the governor's seal on the page, he felt a little unbelievable.
Doubt, suspicion, struggle, compromise...
"Since the miners were suppressed by you, they are naturally the spoils of war."
Feng Shikong said somewhat dejectedly, and looked at the seal unwillingly. It was indeed the governor's seal.
Ignoring the dissuasion of the gentry, he waved his sleeves and turned his head resolutely.
In front of the powerful Sun Chuanting, as a governor, he was basically just in charge of logistics and had almost no say. How could he dare to disobey Sun Chuanting's instructions?
Besides, they were just some miners who fought for the imperial court and also contributed to the country.
"Alas, with the national crisis facing us, we can only aggrieve a few gentry."
Shaking his head, Feng Shikong left sadly.
"what is this?"
The gentry were shocked. The dignified governor was scared away by a letter.
Zhu Yixi stared at Feng Shikong for a long time. Seeing that he really gave up, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and his back was covered with cold sweat.
The imitated fonts and real seals are really too confusing.
After a while, after seeing Feng Shikong leaving, Zhu Yixi hurriedly raised his head, his stern face full of ridicule: "Do you still have any objections?"
"this--"
Seeing that the governor had left, everyone could not make up their mind for a moment, obviously not understanding the situation.
There was no choice but to watch the miners being dragged away, unable to stop them.
Zhu Yixi and two thousand epidemic prevention soldiers left slowly with four thousand miners. After being away for a while, he breathed a sigh of relief:
"These people are really local emperors. When something happened in the mine, they even invited the governor out. Fortunately, I was prepared in advance."
Sun Changzhou on the side was also sweating profusely. Seeing that he passed the test smoothly, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Inspector, what did you write in the letter?"
"It's just a few words from the Governor-General."
Zhu Yixi said softly and proudly: "No matter how powerful Governor Feng is, can he still defeat the Governor?"
Sun Changzhou was impressed. Inspector Zhu was indeed the governor's confidant. He was responsible for all these things. It seemed that he was with the right person.
The gentry who stayed where they were were extremely angry. When would a boy as sesame as a mung bean be able to bully them?
Zhu Yixi had another feeling: "It seems that this grenade is ready for actual combat, and my grenadier can also be formed."
"I will cut him into pieces."
Everyone cursed angrily.
"Oops, if the miners are gone, then the gold and silver will also be swept away by these Qiu Ba, right?"
Suddenly, a certain big man thought of something and exclaimed in shock.
In an instant, the gentry panicked, and they were more anxious than if their own mother had died.