MTL - Poor Family-Chapter 895 Public Complaints Boiling (Part 2)

  Chapter 895 Public Complaints Boiling (Part 2)

The magistrate of Huoyi County was called Zhang Bao. He was originally a rogue in the county. He was about forty years old and was very fat. They all abandoned their officials and fled, but Zhang Bao found an opportunity and ran out of the city to meet Jin Bing. Seeing that he was familiar with the situation in the county, Wan Yanchang made him the county magistrate of Huoyi.

Zhang Baozhong faithfully carried out the Jin Bing's various conscripts and distribution of food. At the same time, he also used the opportunity to perform various tasks of the Jin Bing to enrich his private pockets. This time, the Jin Bing gave Huoyi County a quota of 5,000 young adults. Zhang Bao saw an opportunity to make a fortune. He changed the quota of 5,000 people to 8,000 people. All townships that failed to complete the task could be offset with money. Each quota was 20 yuan. It can earn him 60,000 yuan.

  In the county government office, Zhang Bao was in a very good mood, drinking and having fun with his new concubine in his arms. The new concubine was originally the leader of Baihualou in Linfen County, and he bought it back with five hundred taels of silver to become his own concubine.

   "Be good and make me happy. Not to mention a set of Baoyanzhai's makeup, I will buy you one even for the small house in Lin'an City. At that time, you can use Baoyanzhai's perfume and rouge as you like."

   "Hey! When did the master become so rich that he could afford even a small house in Lin'an City?"

   "My lord, I'm about to make a fortune. In a few days, you can lie down and sleep in the silver!" Zhang Bao said more and more proudly, and took a drink from his glass.

  At this moment, the sound of running footsteps came from outside, and a yamen servant hurriedly reported at the door: "The county lord, something has happened, and there are many unscrupulous people coming towards the county yamen."

  Zhang Bao was taken aback immediately, and hurriedly said, "How many people are here?"

   "I heard that there are thousands of people!"

   Zhang Bao was frightened, so he hurried out and ordered: "You ask the brothers to block the gate of the county government, and don't allow the unruly people to come in. Just say that I went to Linfen County early in the morning."

  The yamen servant agreed, and turned to leave. Zhang Bao stopped him and said, "Hurry up and ask Zhou Mazi to ride a horse to Linfen County for help, and ask Governor Li to send troops to rescue immediately!"

  Huoyi County originally had 500 garrisons, but the garrison has been transferred to Taiyuan Prefecture. In the whole Jinzhou, there are only 1,000 township soldiers in Linfen County, the state capital.

   At this moment, there was a burst of shouting like a tsunami outside. Zhang Bao was so frightened that he got under the table and shouted: "You don't have to go!"

  The head of the yamen ran out in a hurry

At this time, seven or eight thousand people had quickly gathered outside the county government. In addition to more than one thousand people from Baishui Township, there were nearly two thousand people from two other townships. They were also led by Liu Da and others, and followed Come to the county seat, and there are thousands of residents in the county seat. Jin Bing and Zhang Bao's cruel exploitation and oppression have already caused the people in Huoyi County to boil. His anger was released.

  Seven or eight thousand people surrounded the county government. Holding a big gun in his hand, Liu Da pointed at the twenty or so government servants in the county government and shouted: "Call that dog officer Zhang Bao out to speak!"

  Liu Da is very skilled in martial arts and is well-known in Huoyi County. All the yamen servants know him. Jiang Quan, the head of the yamen servants, shouted: "Liu Da, don't act recklessly. You are breaking the law by gathering people to make trouble like this."

  Liu laughed loudly, "You Jiang Heixin, you are so stubborn when you are about to die, quickly call out that dog officer Zhang Bao and give us an explanation, otherwise don't blame my brother for being cruel today!"

  Jiang Quanse was terrified, and he shouted tremblingly: "Liu Da, you are really rampant. Let me tell you, Zhangzhi County went to Linfen early in the morning. If you have the guts, go to Linfen to catch him!"

   "Brother, Zhang Gouguan has gone to Linfen, what should we do?" The brothers of the Liu family chattered.

   Liu Da frowned, "It shouldn't be possible. Du Baozheng said that the higher-ups required that the recruitment of civil servants be completed within three days. How could Zhang Bao leave at this critical time?"

   Liu Wu had a bad temper and immediately yelled, "Then rush into the county government office and arrest him!"

  At this moment, there was a commotion in the back, everyone turned their heads, and saw a dozen young men coming escorting a yamen servant. Liu Da knew this yamen servant, and he was Zhang Bao's confidant, named Zhou Mazi.

"How is this going?"

   "Brother Liu, this Zhou Mazi was going to Linfen County to send rescuers to suppress us, but was stopped by the brothers at the gate of the city."

  The crowd was furious, and they rained fists on Zhou Mazi. Liu Dalian hurriedly stopped the crowd, staring at Zhou Mazi coldly, "Did Zhang Bao let you go?"

  Zhou Mazi cried and begged for mercy, "Give me ten guts, and I dare not go to Linfen to move troops. Zhang Bao forced me to go. If I don't go, he will kill my whole family."

   "Stop talking nonsense, where is Zhang Bao now?"

   "He's in the county office!"

Zhou Mazi took care of his own life, and if he wanted to be with Zhang Bao, he didn't care about it, so he confessed everything, "This time we forced the recruitment of civilian husbands, the higher authorities asked our Huoyi County to recruit 5,000 people, and he increased it to 8,000 without authorization. Counting 20 yuan per person, he would personally earn 60,000 yuan, and the last time he forced to expropriate grain, he sold the 2,000 shi of grain in the official warehouse privately, and then spread it all over the heads of everyone. At least he made money from it. I paid 20,000 yuan."

Zhou Mazi's words immediately became like a fuse, and the anger of thousands of people finally erupted. They picked up stones and threw them at the gate of the county yamen like raindrops. close.

Amidst the roar, torches were thrown at the county government office, and the county government office was set ablaze. He lost, but Zhang Bao was caught up by angry people because he was too fat, and was finally beaten to death by the people.

Liu Dayi did not stop doing anything, and simply raised the anti-golden banner in Huoyi County. He responded, and people from Jinzhou, Fenzhou, Zezhou, Honglong Prefecture and other places responded one after another, and rushed to join Liu Da. Gathering tens of thousands of people, they captured Shangdang County, Honglong Mansion, won tens of thousands of stones of official food, and quickly became the largest anti-golden army on Hedong Road.

  Li Yanqing also got the news and urgently ordered Yan Qing, who was in Jiexiu County, to rush to Shangdang County to incorporate this anti-golden volunteer army.

  Yan Qing left lieutenant Li Ying to continue collecting intelligence in Jiexiu County, while he himself rushed to Shangdang County with five of his men.

The head of Shangdang County was covered with the yellow dragon banner of the Song Army. Although Liu Da and his men could not bear the oppression of the Jin soldiers and raised their flags to fight against the Jin, their goal was still very confused. The only reason to seize Shangdang County was because there was food here. The soldiers can be fed, but Liu Da still doesn't have a clear direction in his mind on what to do next.

In the morning, Liu Dazheng was sitting in the temporary military yamen listening to a clerk report on the inventory of the warehouse. The most distressing thing for Liu Da now was that his five brothers were illiterate, couldn't read all kinds of documents at all, and didn't know how to manage military affairs. He could only select a few civil servants from the county government to work for him.

  At this time, one of his subordinates rushed to report, "Brother Liu, some men on horseback came from outside the city, and they said they came to discuss with Brother Liu on the order of Li Dutong."

"Ah!" Liu Da stood up in shock. A few days ago, he was just a small hunter, and Li Yanqing was like a **** to him. Now Li Yanqing actually sent someone here, which surprised him. , and a little flustered, hurriedly said: "Please invite them into the city!"

   After a pause, he said again: "I'll go by myself!"

  He put on a robe, ran into the yard, got on his horse, and urged the horse to run towards the entrance of the city.

There are a few cavalry standing outside the north city gate. They are Yan Qing and his four men. They are wearing civilian clothes, but the horses are indeed genuine war horses. With their imposing manner and well-trained skills, people can guess their identity at a glance. identity.

  At this moment, the gate of the city opened, and Liu Da hurried out to welcome him, "How many brothers came from Taiyuan?"

  Yan Qing got off her horse, clasped her fists and said with a smile: "My servant, Yan Qing, the commander of the Jingzhao Army's scout battalion, is here to see General Liu by order of Li Dutong!"

   "Haha! What kind of general am I? I'm such a rough guy, I made Yan Tong laugh at me."

Yan Qing saw that he was wearing a pair of high-quality Shunshui mountain pattern armor, but on his head was wearing a leather helmet that ordinary soldiers usually wear. The general is humble, and my family admires General Liu’s patriotic and righteous deed against the Jin, but also worries that the rebel army will not be able to withstand the killing of the Jin soldiers, so I was asked to assist General Liu.”

   "This is a timely help! Welcome Yan Tongzhi."

  Liu Da enthusiastically let Yan Qing into the city, and the two rode slowly side by side. Yan Qing looked at the situation in the city and asked, "It seems that the army doesn't have a barracks yet?"

   "There is indeed no military camp. The brothers are temporarily living in the west of the county seat, and they all live in some empty houses. It is quite chaotic. The main reason is that we don't have military tents or the like."

   "I can also see that many brothers defending the city are still holding sticks and hoes, not to mention armor. General Liu, this is the most urgent problem that needs to be solved at present."

   "If Li Dutong is willing to support us, we are also willing to become a member of the Jingzhao Army." Liu Da implicitly expressed his willingness to follow Li Yanqing.

Yan Qing smiled slightly, "Li Dutong is the privy envoy of the Song Dynasty, and he will support any rebels who resist the Jin Dynasty. First of all, General Liu needs to understand that Li Dutong has no selfish intentions. He just hopes that General Liu will be loyal to the Song Dynasty and the imperial court. It’s not that I want to incorporate General Liu’s army.”

   Liu Da blushed, and said for a while: "I really admire Li Dutong very much. It would be a great honor for me to be his subordinate."

   "There will definitely be a chance, but the most urgent task is for us to build this army first."

  The two soon came to the temporary military office, Yan Qing said with a smile: "I'll go and find out about the situation of the soldiers and the rations first, and then we'll talk in detail at night."

  Liu Dalian hurriedly asked two of his confidants to accompany Yan Qing to investigate the army and warehouses. At this time, several of his brothers rushed over after hearing the news.

   "Brother, did Li Yanqing send someone here to pick our peaches?" Liu San was straightforward and couldn't hide his words, so he directly made the matter clear.

The brothers all looked at Liu Da, Liu Da shook his head, "You guys think too much, if Li Yanqing wants to recruit an army, as long as he raises his arms, with his reputation, there will be a lot of people responding, now we have nothing , people will not care about us."

   "Then what did he send people for?" Several brothers asked in unison.

"Of course he came to help us. He was worried that Jin Bing would come back and wipe us out, so he sent General Yan. Don't underestimate this General Yan. He is in charge of the Jingzhao Army's scout battalion and has a higher official position than Zhizhou. "

  Liu Er shook his head, "It doesn't matter what official he is, if he wants to convince us, he has to show his real skills."

  (end of this chapter)