Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 430 High-Quality Soldiers
The scale of the weapon fighting in Qingyuan Town was so large and the scene so ferocious that even Su Qi, a battle-hardened general, could not help but be shocked and dumbfounded.

Gu Yunji's reaction was even more violent than Su Qi's when he saw the fighting with miners' weapons for the first time. He was a civil servant and had never been on the battlefield. He had never seen such a bloody scene. At that time, he was so upset that he turned around and vomited all over the place. .

And Gu Yunji, who has dealt with several armed fights now, is already very experienced in this.After arriving at the place, he ordered his soldiers to open the human wall in an orderly manner to surround the fighting miners and villagers to prevent them from rushing around.

But the miners were blinded and did not pay attention to the changes around them. Even the officers and soldiers could not stop them.

Gu Yunji's expression did not change when he saw this, he signaled the government officials to come forward, banged the gong for a while, and shouted to the miners: "The officers and soldiers are here! Everyone put down their weapons immediately! If not, anyone participating in the armed fight will , his family, relatives and friends will all be prohibited from mining from now on!"

As a miner, to be denied mining is to be denied your livelihood.These words were quite effective. After the government officials shouted a few times, the miners stopped and dropped their weapons on the ground.

The officers and soldiers immediately stepped forward and isolated the old, weak, women and children in a separate place, while the young and middle-aged men were tied up hand and foot and prepared to be escorted back to the Yamen.

There were about 500 people participating in the armed fight this time, including nearly [-] young and middle-aged people. With so many people, let alone interrogation, the yamen's jails could not be closed.If all were really punished according to the law, beheaded by beheading, exiled by exile, hundreds of families would face collapse overnight.

What's more, the local folk customs are like this. Even if you arrest a group and kill a group, it will still treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and you still cannot completely avoid armed fighting.As the prefect and an official of the imperial court, Gu Yunji could hardly intervene in such conflicts in the countryside.

After going back today, the most we can do is arrest a few of the people who took the lead in provoking trouble. The rest will be detained for a few months of hard labor, educated in vain, and then released, and they will continue to participate in the next armed fight, and so on. , there is no end.

Gu Yunji got a headache when he thought of this.

Hundreds of young and middle-aged men who participated in the armed fight were escorted back to the Yamen without landing. The escort queue alone was very long.One of the dark-skinned men seemed to be particularly dissatisfied, with unyielding expression on his face. He refused to move forward until two or three officers and soldiers forced him to do so.

Su Qi saw with his own eyes that this man had just used a big stone to open the heads of three people. He was so cruel and decisive that it was rare in the army.Murder must be paid with life. The man committed a capital crime, but he showed no fear at all, and even looked like he was sworn in.

Su Qi was curious, so he simply walked up to the man and asked, "You are miners. Most of the silver mined goes to the government and does not belong to you. Are you working so hard to protect the mine?"

The man frowned and said, "Why not? To rob our mines is to rob our errands and wages. Taking people's money is like killing people's lives. Of course we must protect them!"

Seeing the man's matter-of-fact look, Su Qi felt more and more curious and asked, "You have to pay with your life for killing someone. This is a capital crime. Aren't you afraid?"

"Not afraid!"

The man raised his chin, held a high posture, and said fearlessly: "Our village has regulations. If someone dies while protecting the mine, he will be given a pension of ten taels of silver, three years' wages, and a place as a miner for his children." , when he grows up, he can go directly to work in the mines."

"Our monthly salary is [-] taels of silver. In this way, if I die alone, my wife and children will have dozens of taels of silver in their hands. Save some money, and you won't have to worry about it for the rest of your life. You can also pay back the money." How cost-effective it is to find a job for your own child?"

As he said this, the man was so angry that he shouted: "Even if you are decapitated, it will only leave a scar as big as the mouth of a bowl on your neck. What's so scary! At least a few decades later, another good man will sacrifice me, and I will be happy." It’s a great deal for the whole family!”

As soon as he said this, either to embolden himself or to echo him, the miners in front and behind shouted: "That's right! Sacrifice one of me and make my whole family happy. It's worth it!"

"It's worth it! I'm not afraid!" "It's honorable to say it out loud if you die to protect the mine!"

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"Good!" Su Qi gave them a thumbs up and praised, "He has backbone and is a man!"

"What's so good!"

Gu Yunji almost had a headache. Seeing that Su Qi was still praising the miners, he gave him an unceremonious slap on the back: "I'm neither going to fight to kill the enemy nor dying for the country. What kind of integrity does this have? My hair is worried. Come on, you’re still causing trouble for me here!”

Su Qi smiled playfully and came up to put his arm around his shoulder: "Just kidding, don't mind. Anyway, you should be arrested and sentenced, and I won't interfere with you. But to be honest, I have never seen anything like this. "Xiudou, when you said you wanted five hundred soldiers before, I thought it was an exaggeration, but now it seems like it's really not much at all."

Gu Yunji sighed: "Anywhere that is profitable, there is always conflict. Don't look at the fact that miners earn [-] wages a month, but compared with farmers, this income is quite good. In order to keep their 'golden jobs', miners Of course they fought tooth and nail to protect us, and over time they developed this tough folk custom."

Su Qi suddenly thought of something and asked, "Then do you know how many miners there are in Qingyuan Town?"

Gu Yunji said: "Less than a thousand. Ours is just a small mine. The big silver mine is next to the Jinhua Mansion. It is quite large, with tens of thousands of miners. Of course, the fighting is more serious than ours. More, I went to see him once, and the hair of the prefect of Jinhua was really gray."

Su Qi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said mysteriously: "Yunji, you are just worried because you think that the miners are very aggressive and unyielding. In my opinion, blocking is worse than sparing. Instead of arresting and releasing like this, you will never There is no end, why not give them an outlet to vent.”

Gu Yunji stopped and looked at him puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Su Qi chuckled: "I mean, what do you think about using the miners from the silver mine as a source of troops for us to train anti-Japanese formations?"

"manpower?"

"Yes, there are soldiers." Su Qi looked excited and affirmed, "The local people are strong and fierce. These miners are willing to risk their lives to protect the mine. Wouldn't they be even more heroic if they encounter Japanese pirates who burn, kill and loot? And the miners are united. They are quite strong, and can mobilize several nearby villages to fight against the outside world in order to protect the mine. These are exactly the soldiers needed to train anti-Japanese formations."

"Besides, they have been mining all year round and are strong and physically strong. Their physical fitness is already better than that of most soldiers stationed at the garrison. If we strictly select them and select the best from the best, wouldn't this be a ready source of high-quality soldiers?"

"On the other hand, I removed the most capable and courageous miners among them. Most of the remaining miners are honest and responsible miners. They will probably not be so keen on protecting the mines and fighting with weapons. This is very important to you, Mr. Gu, the prefect. It is also a political achievement."

Gu Yunji thought about it carefully and found that it made sense, so he said: "It sounds feasible. Some time ago, the imperial court allocated a batch of money specifically to resist Japanese pirates. We can use this to form a new anti-Japanese army. .”

"But we still need to ask Governor Mei for instructions on this matter. If he agrees, then implementation can really begin."

Su Qi nodded and said, "This is natural."

(End of this chapter)