Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 0

Qiu's workshop occupies a large area, the walls are eight feet high, and wooden thorns are pricked on the top of the walls ingeniously. Although most of the escaped workers will be arrested, they will always add a lot of trouble to the workshop.There used to be more than 30 vicious dogs that watched the night in the yard, but they were slaughtered and eaten after the workers rioted.There are several sentry towers sparsely built inside the wall.Guo Hong lay on top of a sentry tower.

"Come, come!" Guo Hong's face was full of surprise, and the court was really willing to come over to ask for safety. He waved excitedly to the brothers below the sentry tower, and made a "two" gesture to show his respect. Only two came.In less than midnight, these apprentices learned a lot of bandit skills without a teacher. "I knew it would be so easy to be recruited for rebellion, so I wouldn't have to suffer so much." Guo Hong lowered his body carefully. Just now, a worker at the watch post was 'shot' into a target by the city guards outside.

Guo Hong's gesture made the more than 3000 people around the watchtower immediately commotion, and someone murmured: "Amitabha, I hope that the one who comes is a master Qingtian." "Finally, we don't want to Rebellion and thieves!" Some people doubted: "Can the imperial court be so easy to talk, didn't they lie to us to be recruited, and then kill them." These workers were more or less careful, and they still shouted loudly: "Everyone! Be careful, don't be fooled by that dog official!" Some people carefully wiped their hands on the front of their clothes over and over again, for fear of being seen that he was the one who beat someone to death yesterday.More than a dozen leading workers encouraged loudly: "This time, we must seek justice. We must make those dog slaves kill people and pay for their debts, and send us to Shishan to claim the land!" Like this matter, he casually echoed: "That is, the [-] mu of land grant must not be less, we are going to Shishan!"

"Brother Fu, is the government really recruiting?" San Gouzi was still a skinny young man, he 'licked' his chapped lips, and held a stick removed from the loom in his hand .Mrs. Xia is as powerful as a wolf and a tiger. As early as in the Kanto, he was able to cure children from crying at night, and the foreman often used it to scare these workers.

"It's hard to say," Fu Qing was tall and tall, and he stood out among the apprentices. He was a kiln owner in Weizhou. He escaped when he heard that Kansai valued craftsmen the most, but he was tricked into the workshop.He stared at the two officials who were getting closer and closer, and said viciously: "Officials have no good things, and they are more vicious than rich people." He bowed his head and said to Sangouzi, "We will play by ear later, you Follow me." Fu Qing carefully polished the blade again with a piece of cloth he got from nowhere, which had the blood of a foreman and a dog on it.

"Okay," San Gouzi nodded, "Thank you Brother Fu." He tightened his grip on the wooden stick less than three feet long in his hand.Seven or eight hundred workers and apprentices gathered around Fu Qing. The workers who rebelled were divided into more than a dozen groups, and Fu Qing was the largest. He personally killed a foreman, and everyone pushed him to be the leader.

Yuan Xingzong looked at the apprentices standing behind the wooden fence of the workshop gate as he walked. He didn't feel any fear in his heart, but felt sad involuntarily.These people are merchants registered in the Xia Kingdom, and they are also citizens of the Great Xia Kingdom, but all of them have yellow and thin faces, scanty clothes, and most of their eyes are sunken and bloodshot. They hardly resemble humans, but more like human beings. It's a group of livestock struggling on the verge of life and death.There are hundreds of people at the gate, only a few dozen in front, and those behind can only stand on tiptoes to look at Yuan Xingzong, who is described as slender.

"Is this an official ordered by the imperial court?" Bao Qizhang murmured in his heart, "Why is there no official authority?" The leader of the workers and apprentices standing in front did not know who spoke first and who spoke last. They looked at each other for a while, and finally Fu Qing shouted loudly. Said: "That official in front, stop." The people behind remembered that, according to the script, spies should not be allowed to approach when two armies are fighting, and they all echoed: "Stop!" "Stop!" "One more step, we are going to shoot arrows!"

Yuan Xingzong stopped when he heard the words, opened his arms and raised them, indicating that he did not have a weapon.Chen Yuyi who was beside him also did the same. After being silent for a while, seeing that there was no other reaction from the other side, Chen Yuyi said loudly: "Everyone, this is Master Yuan Xingzong from the Relief Department. Master Yuan is here to listen to your petitions."

The eyes of the workers were full of doubts and fears. Facing Yuan Xingzong's request for them to appeal their grievances, they hesitated.It is only said that the world is as black as crows, it is considered good for the officials of the imperial court to recruit security, how can they seriously listen to the complaints of the people, these ordinary people are not fools, the truth of the world is difficult and dangerous, everyone has stumbled.

Guo Hong also climbed down from the sentry tower at this time, and no one cared about him, let alone climbed up the sentry tower to fill his position.He understood Chen Yuyi's Luoyang dialect, tugged at Bao Qizhang's skirt, and asked, "Brother Bao, what kind of official is this Relief Department order? He recruited us, and is his words useful?"

Bao Qizhang shook his head, and muttered: "I've never heard of it, probably older than the county magistrate." Guo Hong's face showed a look of joy, he stared at Yuan Xingzong and looked him up and down, secretly thinking, Guan'er looks okay, but he doesn't know if his heart is black or not.At this time, a worker asked Chen Yuyi, "Who is this? Is he from Kanto?" Most of these workers were deceived by their fellow villagers, but even now they are still from their hometown.The workers behind also asked: "My lord, are you from Kanto?" "My lord, you want to be the master for us!" "My lord, are you from Luoyang?"

This group of skinny people looked at him with all the hope in their bodies. Chen Yuyi felt sore in his heart, and he bowed his hands and said, "This official, Chen Yuyi, is from Luoyang, Guandong, and is now an official of the relief department." He saw the face of the worker opposite him. With a doubtful look on his face, he hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "My ancestor is Taichang Shaoqing Chen Gongxiliang, if you can trust me, I will tell you all the grievances you have suffered."

Chen Yuyi's ancestor, Lord Xiliang, was a very upright official in Guandong, known as Duke Bao. He served as governor of Luoyang for many years. According to folklore, after his death, he served as the judge of the king of Hades in the underworld of Yincao. In front of Liang Gong's tomb, he shouted for injustice.People in this day and age still don't easily recognize their ancestors in a 'disorderly' way. When the workers across the street heard that Chen Yuyi was the descendant of the famous Chen Qingtian, several Kwantung workers' tears fell into the loess, and they staggered and knelt down, crying Said: "Master Qingtian, you must make decisions for Cao Min and others!"

The actions of a few people led more workers to kneel down and cry for grievances.In the end, the scene of thousands of people shouting Qingtian together made Chen Yuyi, who had never seen this scene, at a loss, and muttered in his mouth: "Everyone, please, don't do this, don't do this." He has been in Kansai for a long time, and he is already very uncomfortable Get used to kneeling and kneeling.

Chen Yuyi looked around for help, but was even more surprised. Yuan Xingzong lifted his robe and knelt down in the yellow earth, facing thousands of common people and apprentices. As an official of the imperial court, Yuan is really ashamed." He has a serious face and a sincere expression, which does not seem to be fake, so that the workers on the opposite side turn pale with shock.The people in the Kanto have never seen the scene of officials kneeling down on the people. Many people didn't bother to call Qingtian, and said loudly: "Master Yuan, please get up." Many workers were moved to tears, almost unconsciously Muttered: "Qingtian, Lord Qingtian."

This situation made Chen Yuyi feel his nose sore, his knees softened, and he also knelt down in the loess, his eyes filled with tears.At some point, the thick wooden fence placed between the official of the imperial court and the Kwantung workers was pushed aside by the workers. They surrounded Yuan Xingzong and Chen Yuyituan, and everyone scrambled to talk to them. Complaining surrounded the two of them like a flood that had burst its embankment. In the end, Chen Yuyi couldn't tell who was talking, so he could only nod his head frequently. all good.

In the distance, Chang'an ordered Cui Qianqing to look at the scene in the distance with a complicated expression, and muttered: "Absurd, absurd." There was a flash of panic in the eyes, and then it turned into silence.And farther away, in the darkness, a pair of pupils shot out deep-seated hatred, staring straight at the workers who shouted for grievances, and even more fiercely at Yuan Xingzong who was surrounded by the crowd.