There is a space for passenger planes in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 137 Seizing the Mine (Part )

After the arrangements were made, Zhou Zhiwei waved his hand, and the two teams headed towards the mine in two directions.

Zhou Zhiwei led his men straight to Butler Miao's room. To capture the thief, he had to capture the king first. Although Butler Miao is not a king, he is just a small boss. He must be captured first before he can control the mine.

Zhou Zhiwei brought a total of fifteen or six people with him. He first observed the situation from behind. Butler Miao and two or three foremen were still in the original room, while the other supervisors were resting in a room next to them.

He divided his manpower into two groups. He took four or five people to arrest Butler Miao, and asked others to go to the side room to control the other guards and foreman.

With a "clang", a guard kicked open the door and Zhou Zhiwei walked in.

Miao Li, the housekeeper of the Miao Mansion, was sitting on a chair drinking tea. Two or three foremen were probably tired of beating people, so they were all surrounding him and flattering him.

Another miner in the room, Zhang Qing, was still lying motionless on the ground, looking uncertain about his life or death.

When Miao Li saw a group of strangers rushing in with knives, he immediately stood up in shock and asked: "Who are you? This is the mine of the Miao family in Hequ. Our eldest boss is appointed as a magistrate in the county government. Don't you want it?" You made a mistake!"

"Get it!" Zhou Zhiwei ordered without any nonsense. A group of guards immediately stepped forward and knocked down Miao Li and several foremen.

One foreman picked up a stick and tried to resist, but was stabbed to death by the guard. The others immediately became obedient.

Zhou Zhiwei walked to Zhang Qing, who was still lying on the ground, squatted down and tried his breathing. Fortunately, he just passed out and was probably still alive.

He immediately ordered another member of the guard to take out the first aid belt he was carrying, clean Zhang Qing's wounds and apply medicine, and also mixed some ready-made tea on the table with him and fed him some dry food.

The first aid bag is now also the standard equipment of the troops under Lin Feng's command. Each team is issued one. It contains alcohol and traditional Chinese medicine hemostatic powder.

Of course, it was impossible for Lin Feng to distribute the very precious first aid medicines in the cabin space to the troops. Based on this idea, he organized the doctors in Fugucheng to develop some commonly used Chinese patent medicines in the Ming Dynasty and created this first aid medicine bag.

Although it cannot be compared with the first aid methods of later generations, it was already unique in the Ming Dynasty. Once a war breaks out, it can effectively reduce the death of officers and soldiers.

Zhang Qing's coma was due to the severe pain of the wound on the one hand, and hunger on the other.

After a few mouthfuls of tea and dry food, Zhang Qing woke up immediately.

He opened his eyes and saw someone had saved him, and he was about to turn over and kneel down to thank him.

Zhou Zhiwei stopped him and said, "You are still injured, so don't salute. It was your brother Zhang Yuan who asked us to save you."

"My brother Zhang Yuan is still alive?" Zhang Qing asked in surprise.

"You're still alive. You recover first, and I'll deal with the foremen." After speaking, Zhou Zhiwei walked to Miao Li's side.

"You, who are you? It's easy to ask for money or iron. My Miao family can afford it. I advise you to keep a straight line as a human being so that we can meet each other in the future." Although Miao Li was arrested, the Miao family was rampant in Hequ. I was used to it, so I persuaded him half softly and half hardly.

"You don't care who we are. We want this mine. Are you willing to give it to us?" Zhou Zhiwei asked.

"This is the property of the Miao family in Hequ. Do you really want to fight against the Miao family to the end? Our master is not someone to be trifled with." Miao Li said with a guilty tone.

"Haha, I want to test the strength of your Miao family. Take them to the open space outside the door." Zhou Zhiwei ordered.

When they came to the open space in front of the earthen house, several groups of people who went to control other guards and foremen also came out and brought all the prisoners to the open space.

Zhou Zhiwei counted and found that there were 13 people in total including Miao Li. After excluding the 4 people who had already been killed, there were exactly 16 people plus the leader, Butler Miao.

At this time, Li Wanxiang arrived with his housekeeper Li Boxen, prospector Zhang Sidao and others.

As soon as Zhang Sidao came over, he was immediately attracted by the mountains of iron ore. He picked up a piece and looked at it, and said, "Master, this is fine iron ore. It is so dark in color and has a high iron content. It must be good." Make good iron."

Li Wanxiang had received the report in advance and knew that Zhou Zhiwei had come to seize the mine, so he asked: "Captain Zhou, are you under control?"

"Back to Vice Chairman Li, everything is under control. These foremen and guards have deep conflicts with the miners. I suggest a public trial to win the support of the miners as soon as possible." Zhou Zhiwei suggested.

"Well, this is a good suggestion. Please invite all the miners out quickly. There will be grievances and revenge!" Li Wanxiang has lived for more than half his life and has rich experience. Of course he knows that this is the best way to win people's hearts. "Zhang Yuan, go and invite all the miners out. Let everyone take revenge today!" Zhou Zhiwei ordered.

Zhang Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this and said, "I'll go call someone right away. Everyone has been looking forward to this day."

Soon, all the miners from Maoergou Mine were brought out. There were about a hundred people.

It was early March, and the weather was still very cold, but most of the miners were poorly clothed and in tatters, and they were all shivering from the cold.

"Take off the coats of these foremen and Miao Da's housekeeper, and go to the foreman's room to find some clothes for the workers to wear, so as not to get cold and sick." Zhou Zhiwei ordered. He was born as an Orion and was full of sympathy for these low-level workers.

Several guards immediately stepped forward, took off the warm coats of Miao Li and the foremen, and gave them to the miners. The trembling man immediately became the foreman of the mine.

But this frozen dish is just an appetizer.

Zhou Zhiwei ordered all miners to redress their grievances, and they would make the final decision for everyone.

At first, the miners were hesitant to speak out because of the Miao family's long-standing power. However, under the leadership of Zhang Yuan and Zhang Qing, they soon accused Miao Li and the foremen of their cruelty to the absentees, just like pouring water from a bamboo tube. persecution.

The crimes of these people are simply too numerous to describe. They killed and maimed more than ten miners. There were only three female family members in the mine who were usually responsible for cooking in the mine. No matter how they looked, they were repeatedly ravaged by these foremen. .

Moreover, these people especially like to ravage women in front of their husbands and fathers to satisfy their abnormal psychological needs.

As for the daily beatings, scoldings, and abuses, there were countless of them. None of the 17 evil servants of the Miao Mansion was a good person, and even if there were good people in the past, they all turned bad.

This time there was just one batch.

Zhou Zhiwei first pulled out Miao Li and three foremen and asked the miners to come forward and execute them.

The miners looked at each other in shock at first and did not dare to take action. Although the hatred is deep, everyone is always a good citizen and they dare not kill anyone.

At this time, Zhang Yuan stood up and shouted: "Brothers, have you forgotten how they killed our relatives, how they insulted our wives and daughters, and how they abused us? Now that we have a chance, shouldn't we? Do you dare to take revenge?"

"Revenge, revenge, revenge!"

The hatred of the miners was suddenly aroused. Under the leadership of Zhang Yuan, everyone rushed towards Miao Li and others with sticks, stones, mining shovels, etc.

"Spare your life, spare your life!" As Miao Li and others cried out in despair, sticks, stones, etc. fell like raindrops, and they were soon beaten to death.

The remaining 10 guards nearby were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and several of them simply fainted.

"Vice President Li, it's too cheap to kill these ten people. Why don't we keep mining first and let them do the heaviest and most dangerous work." Zhou Zhiwei asked for instructions.

"Okay, take them down and lock them up first, and arrange to go mining tomorrow. Let's settle down first today." Li Wanxiang said.

Therefore, Zhou Zhiwei arranged for the security team to set up security around the entire mine to prevent people from outside from approaching and people from inside from leaving. At this time, it must be kept secret.

Li Boshen, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion, took people to arrange accommodation and dinner to prepare for the arrival of the people and all the miners.

Zhang Sidao, the prospecting master of Li Mansion, took people to take over the iron kiln, and Li Wanxiang went to inspect the mine's warehouse in person.

The escort team led by Zhou Zhiwei used the stove on the mine to set up a marching pot and used more than 200 kilograms of rice to cook several pots of yellow rice.

Then he used the dried meat he brought and added some radishes to make a large pot of soup.

When had everyone in the mine ever had such a good meal? Everyone devoured it, and this meal greatly won the support of the miners.

　The dungeon story focuses on the brutality of local powerful men in the late Ming Dynasty.

　　
  　
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