late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou stepped into the front hall, and a dozen women were sitting around three Eight Immortals tables drinking porridge. Li Guolou touched his nose and nodded to them with a smile. Walking, showing a proud expression, these released women are the result of their comfort.More than a dozen women were locked up all night without eating or drinking, and finally figured it out, and drank porridge deliciously.

Li Guolou approached and asked, "Hei Zhuzhu, is there anyone who refuses to come out?"

Hei Zhuzhu smiled and said: "Captain Li, the task you entrusted to us has been successfully completed, and everyone has come out to drink porridge. Why do people have to make things difficult for themselves, don't you think?" After speaking, he threw it at Li Guolou Winking eyes, it depends on whether the chief wants it or not!

Li Guolou pretended he didn't see it, turned to look at the women who bowed their heads, and said seriously: "Well, that's right. I forgive you for your unreasonableness yesterday. From now on, work hard, spin, weave, raise chickens and feed pigs." , Isn’t it very good. You have a good breakfast, wash the clothes for the officers and soldiers, and do what you can. Here is Hei Zhuzhu as the women’s captain, and she will report your performance to the deputy of the Ai team in the future, um;;;; ;;For the sake of your loneliness, each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver as settlement expenses. There are wages for working these days, and the specific number will be determined by Hei Zhuzhu. I have something to do now, so what specific difficulties , let Hei Zhuzhu report to Team Ai's deputy."

Li Guolou thought that he had made it very clear, and started to walk in. Hei Zhuzhu said urgently: "Captain Li, please wait, there are five women here who are not from our Bali Village, what do you think?"

"Huh?" Li Guolou looked in the direction of Hei Zhuzhu's finger, digging obediently, Hokage has a harem to accompany him on the expedition in such a short time, not much worse than Hong Xiuquan.With a sudden flash of inspiration, he said, "Aren't the five of Dongqing bachelors? Let them take them home, get married in front of the fire, and I will be a matchmaker for them. Reward ten taels of silver and two bolts of silk."

Ai Hai interrupted and said, "Two pieces of silk and satin will be made up in two days. Captain Li is very busy. What's the matter with Hei Zhuzhu? Tell me directly." Annoyed secretly, Li Guolou spoke without thinking, saying "five flowers" "Flowers" were given away for free, and many members of the militia team were older youths, and there were a lot of people who asked him to be a matchmaker.

"Yes!" Hei Zhuzhu raised his eyes to look at Ai Hai, throwing winks at random, trying to give it a try when there is a chance, lonely men and widows are together all day long, and a fire can be ignited at the slightest touch.

Ai Hai's Adam's apple twitched, and his mind became more active.Seeing this, Li Guolou didn't show his expression, and still kept a straight face, not giving the charming girl a chance, and said: "Oh;;;;;;; I almost forgot, who of you has a husband or a child? "

A woman choked with sobs and said, "My husband was sent out by Hokage a long time ago. Now that I think about it, he should be dead." After speaking, she couldn't help crying, wiped her eyes, and her body twitched non-stop.

Another woman whispered: "My husband has been taken to the capital, Captain Li, should I wait for him?"

The more than 100 rebels who were brought to the capital by the officers and soldiers were all the achievements of showing the Shangshubao to the people of the capital. Most of the rebels would not be executed, but sentencing and exile into the army were inevitable.At this time, the dispensation of exile and distribution is the same as in ancient times, still branding the faces of prisoners, and the shame of being a thief and distributing the army will never be washed away for a lifetime.

Li Guolou replied: "As long as you are not the main criminal, you will not die, but you will be exiled into the army and escorted to the border to do hard labor. I will do whatever you want. If you can endure the hardship, you will wait for him. If you can't bear the hardship, you will remarry." people."

"Oh!" The woman was a little disappointed, her husband was still alive, which made her choice difficult.

Two and three women and children were outside, and they said they wanted to find their children, and asked Li Guolou to make decisions for them.Several women wept silently as their children were killed by themselves.

Ai Hai glanced and said: "Hei Zhuzhu, don't you know how to do things? Let those children come in. We are a team of ordinary people, and we pay attention to human relations and principles."

Hei Zhuzhu was not afraid of Ai Hai, and argued without hesitation: "Deputy Ai, if you didn't say anything, how dare I make my own decisions? Didn't I listen to you?" .

Li Guolou walked in without hesitation, he didn't listen to the flirting, but Hei Zhuzhu let it go, she was bold and aggressive.He doesn't care about small things when doing big things. He doesn't bother to do this kind of mother-in-law thing. He must learn to be a hands-off shopkeeper, otherwise things will come like snowflakes, and doing this kind of thing makes people feel depressed, no matter how they do it, they will feel depressed.

Busy in the morning till now, take a short break and wait for the staff to arrive for a meeting. Li Guolou stands on the top of the second floor of the watchtower overlooking the entire Balizhuang. The spring breeze blows on Li Guolou's face, enjoying the joy of success. The dilapidated thatched cottage in the eyes is also the most beautiful scenery.There are children playing on the street, and dogs wandering around. A team of patrolling officers, soldiers, and members of the militia team are walking neatly on the street.

In the distance, the "Snow Mountain Lion Flag" at the entrance of the village is floating in the air, and the misty Yunmeng Mountain is like a lady, which makes people never get tired of seeing it.A small stream flows from the foot of the mountain, and the gurgling water converges into a river, passing through Balizhuang.The women with wooden barrels walked out of the Yunmeng watchtower. A row of women squatted by the river, beating their clothes on the bluestone slabs with mallets. Seeing them washing their clothes hard, Li Guolou showed a gratified smile. washed.

There are no farmers working in the green fields, and there is not a single cow in the whole scenery of Balizhuang.Li Guolou couldn't help cursing a dirty word, the rebels just wanted to satisfy their hunger, and thousands of people sang and danced to celebrate all day long, eating and drinking.The locust-like rebels describe the future as a blueprint like a fairyland, but their actual actions are to leave a mess for the local people.After Balizhuang was occupied by rebels, it became sparsely populated and farming withered.

Now Shandong, Anhui and other places have been wiped out by the Nian army for more than ten years, and the population is withered, and the villages and small towns are dilapidated.

There is a popular saying among the people, "Break into Shandong!"

Unemployed vagrants all ran to Shandong to settle down, and a wave of immigration was in the ascendant, sweeping across the entire north.

Li Guolou thought about it, and murmured to himself: "Miao Fanlu, Ping An, I wish you good luck." After speaking, Li Guolou walked down the watchtower and walked to the front courtyard. Two guards stood at the entrance of the courtyard cave, Li Guolou nodded slightly to them, praising them for being able to stick to their posts, maintain the amiable demeanor of the chief and get close to the people.

"Crack!" The two guards raised their guns and gave a military salute to Li Guolou, and the shiny bayonet cast an eye-catching cold light on the barrel of the gun.

In the living room, a few old peasants cowered, sat hunched over on the stools, and said nothing, fearing that the officials would come to settle the accounts and drag them outside to the old pagoda tree and shoot them!

Dongqing and the other new favorites of Balizhuang listened to what others said, nodding their heads in approval frequently, with flattering smiles in their eyes.

Hei Zhuzhu already had the appearance of a women's captain, standing at the threshold, with her left hand on her waist, and her right finger pointing, and asked several women to be waiters.The bluffing loud voice overwhelmed the chatting and laughing officials.

Ai Hai and other police officers gathered together with Wu Jinshui and other members of the militia team, lamenting the hardships, fighting the enemy bravely for the country and the people, and also dedicated themselves to sharing the worries of the common people.

The living room was bustling with activity, each looking for topics of interest.Li Guolou heard discordant voices. Several members of the militia team were talking about fighting, boasting of their superb martial arts skills and accurate marksmanship.Li Guolou walked into the living room with a volume of manuscripts in his hand, and said firstly, "Old man, don't get up, sit down, sit down for me, I'm younger than you, I should greet you."

After a series of silver bell-like laughter, his face was ugly, and he reprimanded: "Wu Jinshui, shut your beak, and let me hear you talking about the war again in the future, then go back to the capital. If you want to stay here, you have to worry about it." It is our purpose to build Balizhuang into a model village of the Qing Empire. Only in this way can we be worthy of Master Bao’s trust. Do you understand?”

Seeing Li Guolou go crazy, his face elongated into a horse's face, and the policemen and members of the militia team who were talking and laughing stood up like a spear, "It's Captain Li! We understand!"

"Sit!" Li Guolou casually threw the manuscript on the table of the Eight Immortals, lifted his official robes like an official in a play, and sat in the main seat like a golden letter of Malaysia.

Li Guolou picked up the teacup, wanted to take a sip of tea, felt the teacup was too hot, put down the teacup helplessly, and said casually: "I will set a tone first, I take the initiative to stay here, not to let the people of Balizhuang respect me, Some of you are officials, and you need to rely on your own ability to get a salary from the government, and you don't need to bribe me. Haixin and other officials from Balizhuang originally joined the team of rebels because they were connected with rebels Against the people's soldiers. They were arrested and sent to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. What awaits them is a just trial, and the fields and houses here have been confiscated."

Li Guolou glanced around at the villagers of Balizhuang, making them shudder and bow their heads.Only when his eyes caught a few female compatriots, Li Guolou hurriedly slid past them, not making eye contact with the female compatriots.

Li Guolou coughed and said, "Well, I would like to declare first here that no one is allowed to tell me, 'This piece of land originally belonged to me, and I borrowed it from Zhou Daguan to evade taxes.'" Those with title deeds, all the land will be confiscated, and this is your punishment for tax evasion!" Sneered secretly, the soil beetle will make tricks like this, making you dumb and unable to speak out, while he can firmly grasp the speech Power, save a lot of official disputes.

The chirping sparrows had already reached everyone's ears, and the villagers of Balizhuang couldn't sit still.The villagers pushed back and forth, and finally an old farmer was pushed to the cusp of the wind. Encouraged by the crowd, the old farmer stood up, took off his cap, and bowed respectfully to Li Guolou.

Zhou Jian, with gray hair and a goatee, said with a bitter face: "Captain Li, whatever you say, you can do whatever you want. Since the owner has changed, there will always be people who will suffer. Our people in Balizhuang also recognize it. It made those young people think and believe in the White Lotus Sect's rhetoric. But there are so many people here who follow the White Lotus Sect to rebel, and there is a legitimate reason." Zhou Jian didn't dare to say any more, and looked at him in fear. Li Guolou, I was afraid that Li Guolou would say, "Drag out the remnants of the White Lotus Sect, feed the dog!"

"Old man, the speaker is innocent, I'm listening." Li Guolou picked up the teacup, raised his legs, took a sip of the tea, and spit out the tea leaves in his mouth.How could Hei Zhuzhu not serve the chief when she was slandering her in the stomach?I don't know how the chief drinks tea. He wants to drink high-quality tea. Where did the Huangshan Maofeng tea he brought go?

Zhou Jian stood trembling slightly, bowed his body, and said in a low voice: "Captain Li, our Bali Village is located in the south of Yunmeng Mountain, and there happens to be a stream passing through our village, which belongs to a place with sufficient water sources. But we have a The villagers of Qilitun, a villainous neighbor, have a bully village, Zhengjiang, who insists on pulling out a tributary downstream, using the water in our village without paying a penny, so that our fields are not enough water. Our villagers in Balizhuang and The people from Qilitun fought a few times, trying to block the gap in the water source, but they couldn't beat the villagers of Qilitun. They lost the game and killed more than a dozen villagers. Even Zhou Daguan was kidnapped by Zheng Jiangzheng of the bully village. In the end, Zhou Daguan signed an unequal treaty and sold the interests of our villagers in Balizhuang. So our people here were bewitched by Hokage, saying that they would avenge us. The villagers were full of anger and wiped out the family of Zhou Daguan who betrayed our village interests. The land occupied by Qilitun is [-] mu, Captain Li, you have to be the master of our village regarding this land and water source."

"Yes, yes! Captain Li, you have to decide for us." "Master Bao is not here, you can't be the hands-off shopkeeper!" "Captain Li, you have a hundred guns."

The villagers who knelt on the ground shouted the tsunami, wishing that Li Guolou would go to Qilitun like he went to Balizhuang to hold justice for them.Cut off the river flowing into Qilitun and take back [-] mu of land belonging to Balizhuang.

Li Guolou did not expect the villagers of Balizhuang to be so difficult to deal with, and they had to solve the land and water problems for the "thieves" when they went out of the city to suppress the bandits.Some of the grievances and grudges between villages have existed for generations, and the government can't solve the problems. How can he resolve the resentment between generations?

As for the water flow problem, it should be that it was originally a small stream, but it was turned into a big river by the villagers downstream. With [-] acres of land, the villages are connected. Who can draw a standard foundation line?

Li Guolou looked at the kneeling villagers, made a gesture of support with a smile, and said: "Everyone please stand up, I am the master for the people, but I can't listen to your village's one-sided words. That's all right, my official Go to Qilitun personally. After understanding the ins and outs, I will definitely give you a satisfactory answer. I will never sign a humiliating treaty. It will be the wealthiest, safest and most powerful village on the outskirts of the capital."

The villagers took their seats again, looking at Li Guolou with more kind eyes, and his boastful words were equally inspiring. Balizhuang has a new speaker, who is still an extremely powerful official.