Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 605: Occupation of Taiping County

In the county government office.

County magistrate Li Zhongping was sitting in his study, drinking tea and singing a little tune.

"I can't think of it carefully, and I can't bear his bad words. I'm trying to be the boss, but he's trying to trick me. Oh, I can't help but shed tears, and I'm thinking again. Let's pull my lover into the golden tent together, and never forget this oath of love."

The humming tune is full of leisure and ease.

He had heard this little tune from his newly married concubine. Thinking of the way his concubine sang the little tune, her slender figure, and her affectionate eyes, Li Zhongping couldn't help but feel itchy in his heart, and he decided to spend the night in his concubine's room.

Just then, a scream was heard outside the door.

This was followed by a series of noisy dripping and clanging sounds.

"Killed!"

"Help!"

"Run!"

The noise became louder and louder, and Li Zhongping stood up suddenly.

Killed someone?

Are there unruly people attacking the county government office?
He came to the door in panic and looked outside through the crack.

I saw a group of young men armed with knives, guns, sticks and clubs chasing and beating the county government officials and clerks. I also saw the county magistrate lying in a pool of blood.

"Oh no! There are really unruly people causing trouble!"

Li Zhongping was horrified and looked around the study room in panic.

Finally he saw the window at the back and without thinking he climbed onto the table, trying to jump out of the window and escape.

He succeeded. At that time, the young and strong men were busy outside arresting the yamen runners and officials, and no one had time to look for the county magistrate.

But he also failed.

He ran towards the back house in such a panic that even one of his boots fell away.

"Quick, quick, pack up, let's go!"

Seeing his old servant, Li Zhongping shouted hurriedly.

The old servant also knew that something big had happened in the front yamen. Upon hearing the news, he did not delay and immediately asked the servants in the house to pack up the property.

Li Zhongping ran to the backyard, ignoring his wife, his children, and his concubine. He picked up the box of silver and ran towards the back door.

"Master, Master~~" His wife called out to him from behind, but he didn't even turn around.

Li Zhongping was carrying a heavy box and running very quickly, but when he was about to reach the back door, a man suddenly jumped down from the wall.

"You you you~~" Looking at the person who suddenly appeared, Li Zhongping was so scared that he stuttered.

Li Cheng was also brought from Xingyue Island by Yang Mingzhao. Today he was responsible for leading people to rush into the back house of the county government office and capture the family of the county magistrate. Everything had been planned and they would take action after they arrived at the location. However, who knew that Yang Mingzhao suddenly had an idea at the city gate and directly ordered the action, so they arrived a little late.

Li Cheng looked at Li Zhongping and grinned, "You are the county lord!"

As he spoke, he opened the back door, and twenty young men armed with sticks entered the back house.

"You, who are you?"

"I tell you, attacking the county government office is like rebelling! You'll lose your head!"

Li Zhongping said in a stern but cowardly manner.

"Haha, you actually knew that we were going to rebel!" Li Cheng laughed.

"Capture him, capture him, don't let him run away, and don't let him die, he can still be useful!"

Several young men stepped forward, unceremoniously pressed Li Zhongping to the ground, and tied him up.

The rest was easy. In just two quarters of an hour, Chen Buyu took control of the county government office and closed the city gates. He also had young and strong men patrolling the streets, forbidding the people to go out.

The whole process went very smoothly, so smoothly that it was unbelievable.

Of course, it's not over yet.

Attacking the county government office was only the first step. The next step was to search and confiscate the wealthy families in the city.

It is common to have military force in the county government, but that is not necessarily the case for the wealthy families. They may be headed by military men, or they may hire military men as guards.

In the whole process, a total of two officials were killed, the county magistrate and the chief clerk. The main reason was that these two guys were blind and insisted on rushing towards the young and strong man's knife, killing two yamen runners and two warriors, who were all shot to death by Chen Buyu.

One young and strong man was injured or killed. Well, one guy rushed in too fast and tripped over the threshold of the county government office, and his right hand and the cap were broken.

Chen couldn't bear to look at the only injured young man among his men, a seventeen-year-old boy.

"Can you please not be so rash when doing things?"

The young man scratched his head and said naively, "I want to catch an official."

"What's wrong?" Yang Mingzhao came over and asked.

"This kid accidentally knocked down!" Chen said reluctantly.

Yang Mingzhao looked at the boy's broken cap and said, "Lu Bo has some golden wound medicine. Go ask him to rub it for you!"

"Sir, no need, I'm fine!" the young man said a little stiffly.

"Hurry up, there are still many things to do next, don't think about being lazy!" Yang Mingzhao said.

"Yes!" the boy responded quickly.

The people in the county were very panicked and frightened when they first saw the young and strong men who started the rebellion, but they soon discovered that the rebel army would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, and there were even people maintaining order on the streets.

The people gradually calmed down from their initial panic and fear, and then became curious about the young and strong men on the streets.

Lin Botao, the young man who was bullied by the yamen runners outside the city gate, was indeed a resident of the city.

Originally, the Lin family had a small fortune and owned two stores in the city, doing grocery business, and they also employed five long-term workers.

But four years ago, his father offended the clerk of the county government, who ordered the bailiffs of the county government to go to their family's shop every few days to cause trouble. As a result, the business of the shop became worse and worse, and his parents were beaten and seriously injured by street thugs.

Due to oppression from the government, serious injuries to his parents, and the closure of his business, Lin Botao had no choice but to sell his property to pay for his parents' medical treatment.

The pawnbroker wanted to take advantage of the situation and forced him to sell the shop to him at a low price.

They sold the shop but didn't get much money, not even enough to buy medicine for their parents. So their parents passed away one after another, leaving only the two of them, a brother and a sister.

Lin Botao has been working very hard to support his sister, but the clerk still won't let them go. He is worried that some officials will come to cause trouble.

Until now, the brother and sister can’t even get enough to eat.

With no other options, Lin Botao could only go outside the city to find something to eat.

The bailiff was right, he was just a little beggar and he got the rice bran by begging.

At this time, Lin Botao was hiding at home, observing the young and strong men patrolling outside through the crack in the door. He was hesitating and wavering.

He first went back into the house, looked at his sister who was still running a fever, gritted his teeth, opened the door and walked out.

The patrolling young man saw him coming out, took one look at him and shouted, "Stop making trouble!"

Lin Botao nodded repeatedly and said carefully: "I won't make trouble. My sister is sick and I want to find a doctor!"

Seeing that he was as thin as a weak chicken, the young and strong man also thought that this guy should not be someone who would cause trouble.

"Go!"

"Thank you, thank you sir!"

Lin Botao forced a flattering smile on his face, but his smile was a little stiff.

Seeing that the young man ignored him, he quickened his pace and ran towards the clinic.

The door of the clinic was closed and he knocked for a long time before getting a response.

"Who!" The voice outside the door was trembling.

"Grandpa Li, my sister is sick!"

The door was opened, revealing an old face. The doctor looked around the street. "Come in!"

Seeing that no one else was coming over on the street, the doctor dragged Lin Botao into the clinic.

"What's going on outside?" asked the doctor.

"I don't know! These people appeared suddenly, and the leader seems to be a young man!" Lin Botao said.

"Have you seen them?"

"Yes, I saw him when I entered the city, and I also ran into him when I came here just now!"

"They didn't do anything to you?"

"No, no, they shouldn't be bad people!" Lin Botao said.

Doctor Li leaned against the door and looked outside.

"Grandpa Li, my sister is sick. She started having a fever right after the operation and now she's fallen into a coma!" Lin Botao said anxiously.

Doctor Li looked at him, sighed softly, and said, "Wait for me to get the medicine box!"

They were all neighbors, and he had watched Lin Botao and his sister grow up. He had always felt sorry for the two children, and now he couldn't bear to just ignore them.

Carrying his medicine box and calling his son, Dr. Li followed Lin Botao out.

After they went out, they ran into the patrolling young man again. Lin Botao bowed and said, "This is Doctor Li, he is treating my sister!"

The young man looked at Doctor Li and his son and nodded slightly, "Go quickly, as long as you don't cause any trouble, you can go out as you like!"

"Thank you, thank you~" Lin Botao thanked again and again.

The three of them trotted all the way to Lin Botao's home. After the gate was closed, Doctor Li looked outside the door in surprise, "Strange, these people don't seem to have any bad intentions!"

"Grandpa Li, please see my sister first!"

"Oh, I see!"

Doctor Li didn't think any more about it and started treating the little girl.

In the lobby of the county government, the magistrate, the clerk, and a dozen clerks and bailiffs were tied up and held outside the lobby.

"Sir, this corrupt official actually wants to run away with the silver!" Li Cheng placed the confiscated wooden box in front of Yang Mingzhao.

Yang Mingzhao opened the box and found about ten ingots of five taels of silver and more than thirty silver notes, which amounted to almost three thousand taels of silver.

"Is this yours?" Yang Mingzhao came in front of Li Zhongping and asked.

Li Zhongping's mouth was blocked by a rag and he was crying out in pain.

Yang Mingzhao pulled off the rag, and Li Zhongping immediately said, "Sir, this is mine!"

"Where did it come from?"

"This is the family wealth passed down from our ancestors!" Li Zhongping said tremblingly.

Yang Mingzhao sneered, "How dare you lie to me!"

"Hit me!"

Two young men immediately stepped forward and started beating Li Zhongping with sticks, causing him to scream in pain.

"Stop, I'll ask you again, where did this come from?"

Li Zhongping looked at the young man next to him, then looked at Yang Mingzhao's cold and handsome face, and his body trembled.

"This is the tax money that I have withheld over the past few years!"

"Hmph, you dog official!" Yang Mingzhao snorted coldly and kicked the guy over.

At this time, Ma Yan also came over with a few young men, "Sir, the county government's treasury has less than ten taels of silver, and the Changping warehouse has less than three hundred dan of grain!"

Yang Mingzhao laughed. These officials were all rats. A county government office had less than ten taels of silver and three hundred dan of grain.

Depend on!
"Copy the house!"

"Take your men to raid these people's homes and capture their wives, children and elders!"

"And the wealthy families in the city were also raided!"

Then there was chaos in the city again. Many wealthy families were broken into by young and strong men, and all the men and women were arrested.

Compared to attacking the county government office, attacking these wealthy families was actually more difficult. More than two hundred young and strong men were busy for most of the day before they took down all seven or eight wealthy families in the city.

There were casualties during the period, including one death, two serious injuries, and six minor injuries.

Of course, many people were killed by the young and strong men, more than fifty people.

The whole day passed in such a chaotic situation. The people in the city did not sleep well at night, fearing that someone would break into their homes and kill innocent people.

But the night passed peacefully.

The next morning, the sound of gongs was heard in the city.

"I will judge the officials and gentry in front of the county government, redress grievances if there are any grievances, and avenge if there are any vengeances!"

"I will judge the officials and gentry in front of the county government, redress grievances if there are any grievances, and avenge if there are any vengeances!"

The young and strong men shouted along the streets and knocked on the doors of the people from time to time to inform them.

At first the people were a little afraid, but when they saw the young and strong men were very kind, they dispelled some of their fears.

Some brave people went out and ran to the county government office. In just two quarters of an hour, hundreds of people had gathered in front of the government office.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Yang Mingzhao walked out of the county government office, and two young men carried out the table in the lobby of the county government office.

More than twenty young men acting as yamen runners stood on both sides.

"Go to class!"

With a bang, Yang Mingzhao slammed the gavel and shouted.

Then the young men shouted: "Mighty!"

However, they seemed a little unprofessional, their shouting was not in unison, and they made faces at each other, as if they found it quite fun.

"Bring the prisoner!"

Yang Mingzhao shouted.

Immediately, young and strong men came up, escorting a wealthy family. There were more than a dozen people, including men, women, old and young, and five or six slaves, all brought up in an orderly manner.

Yang Mingzhao flipped through the booklet in his hand. "This family's surname is An. They run a grain store and a cloth shop in the city. They also have a thousand acres of fertile land outside the city. You all know them, right?"

The onlookers looked at each other and no one said a word.

Seeing that they were silent, Yang Mingzhao didn't care and shouted, "If you have grievances, I will redress them today. If anyone dares to stand up and explain their crimes, I will punish them severely!"

The onlookers still didn't say anything, but some of them were already eager to try.

"You only have one chance. If you don't identify them, I will let them go. Then you won't be able to take revenge even if you want to!" Yang Mingzhao shouted.

Finally, someone couldn't help but stand up and asked, "Sir, are you serious about what you said?"

"Haha, why would I lie to a commoner like you? Come on, as long as you dare to speak up, I will give you justice and even chop them all to pieces!" Yang Mingzhao didn't sit down anymore, but stood up directly, putting one foot on the chair and the other on the table.

"Sir, they beat me!"

"Who hit you?"

"It's him!" The man pointed at one of the An family's sons.

"Okay, come here, drag him away and give him twenty lashes of the board!" Yang Mingzhao didn't say anything and started beating him directly.

The sound of a stick hitting someone was heard, followed by wailing sounds.

The people watched it with great excitement.

(End of this chapter)