Crimson Dawn

Chapter 94

What is righteousness?There are many explanations, but if a person is working for the welfare of the people, the spirit displayed should be called "righteousness".From this point of view, Hua Xiongmao should be upright at this time.But obviously, these people at Yuezhangji Wharf don't think so.In their view, when a foreigner who came from nowhere, when he first came to see Mr. Zhang Youliang, the leader of Yue Zhangji, he blatantly demanded that the land of Mr. Zhang’s family be given to the common people for the same species. Also asked not to collect rent.This is not "righteousness" at all, it is genuine "foolishness".

So when Hua Xiongmao asked to see Mrs. Zhang, the people on the two boats who stopped Hua Xiongmao had no intention of notifying him at all.Now that the other party has made this attitude clear, the meeting between this person and Mr. Zhang will definitely end unhappy.Mr. Zhang has long threatened to get food from the "insurance group" in the county. Although he heard that the insurance group has a large number of people, Mr. Zhang may not do anything to this person this time.But if Grandpa Zhang gets angry, the person who notified him will probably suffer some punishment afterwards.

Hua Xiongmao knew what these people were thinking at a glance, so he simply stopped talking to them, but shouted to the people on the pier: "Folks! The flood has caused such a situation, if we don't rush to plant and harvest now, what do we live on? Our insurance group has food in our hands, which is good. But even if we let everyone take all our food, we won’t be able to eat it this winter. Don’t dare to sow crops now, or are we going to flee for thousands of miles? Don’t you know how difficult it is? When you return from the famine, your land will still not belong to you. I don’t think you have seen it before?”

Hearing what Hua Xiongmao said, the faces of the people on the two boats ahead immediately changed.These words were harsh enough. Zhang Youliang's ability to become the biggest landlord in the area has a very close relationship with natural disasters.After each disaster year, his family's land would expand considerably.One of the reasons why many people still refuse to leave Anhui despite having nothing to eat at home is that these ordinary people are very worried that they will lose their land if they come back after they leave.So they tried everything possible to stay at home.So many of these people worked for the Zhang family on the pier.Hearing Hua Xiongmao's words, there was no guarantee that the people on the pier would listen to them, and they would have other thoughts in their hearts.They first looked at Hua Xiongmao in astonishment, and then they chattered at the same time.

"What did you say?"

"You fart!"

"How dare you speak ill of Grandpa Zhang, you don't want to live anymore?"

Hua Xiongmao laughed loudly, and his clear voice suppressed the voices of those few people in an instant, "The folks know well whether I am telling the truth or not. It's fine if you don't understand it today, and I will tell you the day after tomorrow." Come and visit." After speaking, Hua Xiongmao turned his head and made a gesture, and the members of the insurance group on the boat shouted at the same time, rowed the oars, and the boat headed towards the way it came from.The bewildered dog legs of the two boats just watched Hua Xiongmao and the others walk away leisurely.

The comrades of the insurance group are often on the water these days and have practiced well. The boats rowed fast on the water. It didn't take long for the pier to be left far behind.Yu Wenba all praised: "Zheng Lan is really majestic just now."

Hua Xiongmao did not respond to such praise.In fact, he really wanted to go into this Tuweizi today. According to the materials of the People's Party, Zhang Youliang is almost 70 years old this year.Hua Xiongmao was actually quite surprised that such an old man dared to speak out against the insurance company.It stands to reason that people of this age are conservative.Hua Xiongmao knew the strength of the insurance group. Everyone traveled thousands of miles from Shanghai to Fengtai County, Anhui, and then from Fengtai County to Anqing. After receiving military training for a month and a half, they walked back to Fengtai County.In disaster relief operations, the performance of the insurance group was quite remarkable.Chen Ke once talked about the theory of military construction in detail, and Hua Xiongmao was a martial artist, and during Anqing training, he had seen the level of the Anhui New Army.In Hua Xiongmao's view, apart from weapons, the Anhui New Army and the Insurance Corps were nothing more than half a catty.A country landlord is at best a bandit leader.How dare you hit the idea of ​​the insurance group, did you take the wrong medicine?

Thinking of this, Hua Xiongmao turned his head to look at the Tuweizi again, the distance is very far, and the Tuweizi doesn't look like anything special from a distance.After getting used to the buildings in Shanghai, Hua Xiongmao saw this earthen enclosure as simple and dilapidated.During this flood, the original houses outside the enclosure were completely destroyed.Anyway, when Hua Xiongmao rescued people, the place was already full of waves.Now some people have built new houses there.Against the backdrop of this shabby and dilapidated soil fence, the few unparalleled houses outside the fence look insignificant at all.

"I wish I had a telescope." Hua Xiongmao suddenly sighed.

"What?" Yu Wenba didn't understand.He didn't participate in Anqing military training, and he never saw a telescope.I can't understand Hua Xiongmao's mood at this time, who used to use a telescope.

"Wen Qing said that we can make glass in the future, and we will try to make telescopes at that time. You will know when the time comes." Hua Xiongmao gave an answer that was not an answer.

These words obviously aroused Yuwen Batu's curiosity, and he was about to ask in detail what the telescope was, when he heard Hua Xiongmao say: "Yuwen, what do you think that old Zhang Youliang is thinking right now? "

Zhang Youliang, whom Hua Xiongmao called "an old man", was not thinking about anything at the moment.At this time, he was angrily listening to the person in front of him report the process of Hua Xiongmao's visit.

In fact, there was a misunderstanding between Hua Xiongmao and Zhang Youliang.Hua Xiongmao, who had been preparing for the revolution with Chen Ke more than a year ago, never thought that the insurance group was a "semi-bandit" armed force.In his opinion, the insurance regiment was a regular army, and with Chen Ke's army building model and the large number of college student officers in the insurance regiment, Hua Xiongmao never felt that this armed force had the slightest relationship with bandits.

In Zhang Youliang's eyes, this "insurance group" that popped out of nowhere was an out-and-out banditry.Different from other bandits, it seems that the leader of this bandit has something to do with the government.The flood not only destroyed the village of Yuezhangji in Anhui, but also completely cut off Zhang Youliang's information channels.Therefore, his knowledge of the insurance group only stayed before the flood, when the insurance group first arrived.Not to mention Zhang Youliang, other people have exactly the same view on the insurance group.And Zhang Youliang also has an armed force similar to the insurance group.The two parties are directly in a competitive or even hostile relationship in terms of "business".If it hadn't been for the sudden heavy rain and the subsequent flood, Zhang Youliang would have sent his own people to test out the details of the insurance group.

In the flood, the behavior of the insurance group to rescue the people made Zhang Youliang feel that the insurance group had ulterior motives.At that time, the insurance group was going to send the rescued people into the siege, and Zhang Youliang's first reaction was that the bandit armed forces wanted to take the opportunity to capture the siege.So he did not hesitate to shut out the insurance group and those common people.Of course, Zhang Youliang is also very clear that there is also selfishness in it.His first reaction was that after more people died, the Zhang family's land could be expanded a lot.If these people are included, after all, they belong to the folks in the village, and it will always take a lot of complicated processes to start.Moreover, if these people refuse to sell the land in case of making a fuss, it will not be so easy to deal with.Whether it's public or private, it's a good choice to shut out the insurance group and those folks.

Now the people from the insurance group actually came to the door, and made such an outrageous request. After Zhang Youliang heard the hailstorm of trembling from the people below, he felt that the blood rushing emotion that hadn't been seen for a long time had just returned. "Take out your own land for the common people to plant, and don't collect rent, so that everyone can survive the disaster year." What do these insurance group people think they are?A group of bandits actually made such a rebellious request!Not to mention the insurance group, even the county magistrate dared not raise such unreasonable ideas.

Zhang Youliang is 68 years old this year. Ever since he followed Li Hongzhang's Huai army to conquer everywhere, those long-haired people from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have made similar rumors.Farming land and paying rent is justified, and if the land is given out to the people affected by the disaster, then go to drink the northwest wind?

The more Zhang Youliang thought about it, the more angry he became, he slapped the table in front of him suddenly.With a snap, the dog-legged servant who reported it shivered.This Mr. Zhang has been in the army for nearly 20 years, has killed countless people, and has a violent temper.Especially when encountering such "unruly" things, I always swear with my mouth and hit with my hand.Seeing Mr. Zhang so angry, the servant was afraid that Mr. Zhang would take his anger out on him.

"Call someone to come and file a complaint at the county government. I heard that the insurance group has some relationship with the county magistrate. Let me see how the county magistrate will deal with these people?" Zhang Youliang said loudly.

"Grandpa Zhang, I think it's better not to do this. Since the insurance group dares to say that, I'm afraid they already know that we want their food. This is to scare us first. If we lose the complaint, I'm afraid it will Showing timidity." A middle-aged man next to him said quickly.

"Master Wu, what do you think?" Zhang Youliang squinted at this Master Wu.

"What I mean is, let's send people to find the place first, and then report to the officials. You think, my lord, that those people dare to be so unscrupulous must have something to do with the support of the county magistrate. In the current flood period, the county magistrate may still use them to guard against bandits , so we must not offend these people. It is useless for us to report to the government for the time being. And it is empty talk, what shall we say?" Master Wu said his thoughts.

"Hmph, that's what scholars think. Those bandits think that we dare not report to the officials, which is why they are so arrogant. When we report to the officials this time, we don't really want the government to deal with them. It's to make this matter Things got worse, those people threatened us so much, we spread the word that they asked for the land to be planted, not to mention anything else, what do the gentry think? In this year of catastrophe, many people have nowhere to go and have evil intentions It's fine on weekdays, but today, can everyone tolerate this group of people acting so recklessly? As long as the gentry can join hands, the county magistrate will not dare to cover them up. When the time comes, we will do it again, and it will be easier Much more."

Master Wu didn't quite understand Zhang Youliang's thinking. Since Zhang Youliang knew that people's hearts were fluctuating during the disaster year, wouldn't it appear that Zhang Youliang was inhumane?Thinking of this, Master Wu looked a little apprehensive.

Seeing that Master Wu didn't understand what he meant at all, Zhang Youliang just snorted, but stopped talking.After Zhang Youliang joined the Huai Army, he could be regarded as crawling out of the dead.After experiencing life and death, Zhang Youliang looked fiery, but his mind was actually very meticulous.In such a disaster year, there will definitely be civil uprisings.It is not something that the landlord can avoid with a little concession.And this insurance group rescued the victims everywhere during the flood, and now it puts forward such a proposition similar to the equalization of the rich and the poor, and there must be someone behind it.Going directly to the insurance group now is not only morally useless, but also allows those poor people who are dying of hunger to see someone they can rely on.So, now, first of all, we have to unite with the gentry in the county to force the county magistrate to take a stand, and then force the county magistrate to get the food out of the insurance group.

As long as this goal can be achieved, the local poor will feel that the insurance group can be bullied.At that time, the common people can be incited to rob the insurance company.In the eyes of the common people, if the insurance group concedes once, it will concede a second time.What can the insurance group do then?If you do something to the people, you can unite with other gentry and ask the county magistrate to strictly enforce the insurance group.

Of course, such methods cannot be explained to Master Wu in detail.So although he was very dissatisfied, Zhang Youliang just asked Mr. Wu to write the petition, and then shouted to the servant, "You take care of Shuishang, no one will let them go ashore these days." ran away.

But at this time, Zhang Youliang didn't know that, apart from Hua Xiongmao who came by water to face off against the insurance group, the pathfinding team led by He Zudao was struggling to find a land passage to Yue Zhangji.The small fleet of two other small boats made a bigger turn and landed on the west side of Yuezhangji. A few people got off the boat and went around to the north of Yuezhangji. It was almost turned into ruins from there. Yue Zhangji, ready to sneak into the enclosure.This small team was sent by Chen Ke to understand the situation of mobilizing the masses in Yuezhangji.

Chapter 94

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