Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 260 You are taking me for a fool!

Zhu Jinsong still failed to go to Qiongzhou in the end, because Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs who stayed in the capital couldn't bear it anymore.

It’s okay for the emperor to go out for a few laps. Emperors from ancient times to the present are good at this, as long as they don’t torment the people to death like Qian Deaf and the old dog, and there are not so many demon moths in the local officialdom. In fact, the emperor once in a while On the contrary, it is a good thing.

But your majestic Emperor Ming left a bunch of government affairs in the court and ran out. Although there are cabinets, six ministries, and the five military governors' mansions as coolies, and there are fast horses to pass official documents back and forth, it will not delay the business, but you this time It's been more than half a year, and I have visited almost all the places that should be visited. If I don't go back to Beijing, it is really unreasonable, right?
Besides, the annual Little Broken Pot Conference is about to be held again, you, the Emperor of Ming, are not in the capital, who will receive Louis XVI and Peanut Ton?
The interests of Daming still need you to discuss with them.

Therefore, Zeng Cheng, who was a little bit unbearable, and the other big bosses began to urge Zhu Jinsong to return to Beijing quickly, at least before Louis XVI and Peanutton arrived in the capital—this kind of trickery It has to be discussed in advance, otherwise it will be easy to reveal the truth.

But Zhu Jinsong didn't expect that it was fine when he ran from Fengyang to Chengdu, and he was fine when he ran from Chengdu to Guangzhou, but something went wrong when he ran from Guiyang to Ningdu Prefecture!

The situation at that time was like this: Zhu Jinsong was sitting in the carriage dealing with the test books sent by the capital, but suddenly there was a sound of artillery, followed by escorts and guards from outside the carriage, etc. The sound, followed by the sound of some messy horseshoes running wildly in all directions.

The sound of calling for escort and guard is normal operation, and the sound of those messy horseshoes is completely normal, because some people want to inquire about the situation, and the other part wants to notify the imperial army and the local garrison behind to come to escort.

The question is how did the sound of gunfire come from!

Zhu Jinsong listened to the rumbling gunfire in the distance, his eyes were full of bewilderment and disbelief.

Jiangxi Chief Envoy, one of the eighteen provinces of Han, has been in the hands of Daming for almost ten years. Jiangxi Chief Envoy said in last year's summary booklet that Jiangxi has good weather, and Jinyiwei's summary booklet Talk about Jiangxi Guotai Minan——Amid the artillery fire, the weather is going well?

It's still broad daylight!
Is it really going to war in broad daylight?
But to say that Jiangxi's chief envoy and the commander of the garrison in Jiangxi teamed up to cheat, and by the way, Jinyiwei, Tiandihui, Dongchang, peasant association, and Yushi Yamen were all dragged into the water, would be a bit too bullshit.

But before Zhu Jinsong could figure out what was going on, Zhang Dequan knelt down on the ground with a thud, and shouted: "My lord, I will send someone to investigate, and if anyone is found who dares to deceive the emperor, my servant will personally kill them." Cut it to pieces, and then apologize with death!"

Ke Zhiming, who had been following the carriage all this time, also rushed in, knelt down and said: "Please get off the carriage for now, the guilty minister will go and investigate this matter, if the investigation is not clear, the criminal minister will come to see you!"

But Zhu Jinsong said angrily: "Shut up! Go away!"

Ke Zhiming is the leader of Jinyi Weiming, and Zhang Dequan is the current governor of the East Factory. Now that this situation happened, the first thing the two thought of was to apologize first, and then figure out the problem.

After Zhu Jinsong scolded Ke Zhiming and Zhang Dequan, he pricked up his ears and listened carefully—when the first cannon rang, Zhu Jinsong was a little dazed, but after Zhu Jinsong came back to his senses, he realized the sound of the cannon fire behind Something is wrong.

The sound of the artillery is not at all the artillery currently equipped by the Ming army, but the sound of what used to be called the [-]-type artillery. The characteristic of this type of artillery is that the sound is relatively loud but the power is relatively small. Be crispy.

Or in other words, it is easier to understand: These artillery were all sold to other rebels in order to make money before the Menglianggu rebel group had fully occupied Shandong. The proportion of saltpeter in these shells was deliberately increased. While the sound becomes brittle, it will also reduce the life of the barrel. In short, there are a lot of problems, and it is purely an export product used to cheat money.

After listening carefully for a while, Zhu Jinsong snorted coldly and said, "Let me check it out! In addition, send someone to prepare my guard of honor for the Son of Heaven."

After receiving Zhu Jinsong's order, Zhang Dequan immediately got out of the carriage and arranged for manpower to prepare the guard of honor for the emperor, while Ke Zhiming also began to arrange manpower to investigate the source of the gunfire.

And the final result of the investigation was similar to what Zhu Jinsong had guessed.

The two villages are not big, but they are not small. Because of the little things accumulated in the past [-] years, they were directly filmed. The firearms, artillery, grenades and other things that were obtained before they were not owned by Daming were all privately hidden. Quite a few—what's more, the peasant association guards of the two villages took out all the grenades and muskets assigned to them.

The village peasant association was turned into a headquarters by the peasant association guards, the veterinarians in the village were captured by them and became military doctors, the women did cooking for logistics, and blacksmiths and carpenters joined forces to produce homemade flintlock guns and cannons, spears and machetes. Not to mention, the two villages and the part of the open space between the two villages were forcibly turned into a battlefield.

Local government?

The local government didn't even know about it, and the two sides controlled the matter between the two villages in a very tacit understanding. No one reported it.

Local garrison?

The local garrisons in Daming have always ran to the ravines and cats. Except for disaster relief or military orders, they are usually far away from the places where the people live. After all, the firepower in the army is stronger. If they are too far away from the people Recently, not to mention the impact on the lives of ordinary people, if the shells during the training are shot crookedly, wouldn't there be a joke about stealing a cabbage and shelling it?

Of course, an even bigger joke has been made now—the Emperor of Ming was almost involved in this "war".

Even Ke Zhiming, who ran back to report after figuring out the situation, was in cold sweat: "In the two villages, Xingping Village is dominated by Zhang's surname, and Xing'an Village is dominated by Li's surname. For more than a hundred years, this time it broke out in an all-round way because a woman in Xingping Village eloped with a young man in Xing'an Village. It's such a big deal."

"It has been calculated so far that the two villages have used more than 2000 young and strong people, and more than 160 women and children. A total of eight [-]-type artillery, more than [-] shells, [-] flintlock guns, and [-] bullets were used. There are probably more than [-] grenades."

"There are still many other things that have not been counted. The imperial guards and Jinyiwei have already started searching and counting. All the people in Xingping Village and Xing'an Village have been controlled by the imperial army."

"Just when the Imperial Guards controlled them, they shouted to the Imperial Guards not to interfere in their affairs, as long as they were ready to collect the corpses afterwards, they were not prepared to rebel anyway."

After getting the news, Zhu Jinsong didn't know what to say.

After all the calculations, Zhu Jinsong never thought that this would be the possibility—after dealing with all the big and small rebels in the world, Zhu Jinsong had already issued an order to allow the common people to hold flintlock guns for self-defense or The hunting began in advance to collect civilian artillery and grenades.

That's good. After so many years of confiscation, eight artillery pieces, more than 160 shells, and tens of thousands of hand grenades were found in two villages?

It's almost enough to fight a small battle, you bastard!
As far as the intensity of their firepower is concerned, that is to say, Zhu Jinsong discovered something was wrong as soon as he heard the sound of the guns, and after Ke Zhiming and the others figured out the situation, he immediately sent the guards and the local garrison to suppress them. I'm afraid it's not possible to play out firepower confrontation, decapitation and counter-decapitation, ambush and counter-ambush, landmines and anti-mine tactics, and even thousands of deaths are considered rare!
After sorting out the messy problems here, Zhu Jinsong couldn't help but rubbed his forehead, and ordered: "Go, set aside the guard of honor of the emperor, and go over to see what's going on."

The young and strong in the two villages have been tied up with their hands behind their backs, and the women, children, old and young in the two villages have also been separated by the guards. The members of the peasant association guards in the two villages tied up in front of the crowd are still fighting each other. Glaring, he didn't take the guard seriously.

Some of them continued to be arrogant: "You waited for them to leave. If you don't punch out all the shit in your Ping'an Village this time, you will be considered clean!"

Those from Xing'an Village were also not to be outdone: "When they leave, our Xing'an Village will destroy your Xingping Village sooner or later!"

It wasn't until Zhu Jinsong's guard of honor arrived that these young men who were still hostile to each other finally calmed down.

None of the people in Xingping Village and Xing'an Village knew Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, nor did they know the emperor's guard of honor, but everyone knew what the five-clawed golden dragon robe Zhu Jinsong was wearing represented.

After Zhu Jinsong got down from the imperial chariot, the people of Xingping Village and Xing'an Village had already knelt down, but Zhu Jinsong went straight to the front of the two young and strong leaders, and kicked them both down. After he was on the ground, he asked, "I ask you, what does the peasant association do?"

The two young men didn't dare to make a sound. After being kicked, they struggled to kneel down again, and then said in a low voice: "Be the master of the people. If the government violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant associations in various places will organize the people to fight against taxes and donations, and put the corrupt Corrupt officials and lords are bound to the capital for trial. There is also the adjustment of neighbor relations, so that neighbors live in harmony and avoid fighting. And..."

"okay!"

Zhu Jinsong laughed angrily, interrupted Qing Zhuang's words, and then said: "You Xingping Village and Xing'an Village are so capable. You hide cannons and shells and bombard them with cannons. The peasant associations of your two villages don't stop them." , but took the lead to take out the grenade and the trigger gun? What do you want to do?"

One of them, a young man, raised his head stupidly, and shouted with aggrieved face: "Your Majesty, we don't want to rebel, we just..."

Zhu Jinsong was even more angry, pointing at this young man and shouting: "What is it? You didn't intend to rebel, but you two villages pulled out artillery to bombard each other. If it wasn't for me just passing by here, if it wasn't for the guards coming early, here would be Let blood flow like a river!"

"You bastards, don't you think it's awe-inspiring to use artillery to bombard you? But look behind you, behind you are your parents, wives and children, bastards!"

"Also, what is the crime of hiding artillery? Who hid it? If you have the guts to do it, you have to have the guts to stand up for me!"

As Zhu Jinsong's voice fell, an old man from Xingping Village and Xing'an Village each stood up and shouted in unison: "I am the one who made the decision!"

After finishing speaking, the two glared at each other again, and the old man in Xingping Village shouted first: "Your Majesty, the matter of hiding the cannons is the old man's responsibility. Afraid of any repetition, I decided to hide some of them privately, and later wanted to hand them over, but I was afraid of being questioned by the government, so I continued to hide them, and the emperor will deal with the old man, it has nothing to do with others."

The old man in Xing'an Village also shouted: "I am the same! All the crimes will be borne by the old man!"

Zhu Jinsong sneered, looked at the two old men and said: "You two old men, I respect you a foot, but you want to bully me a foot? You are taking me for a fool!"

(End of this chapter)