The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 59: Lord Wang, just follow the Anti-Scripture! (Wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and delicious mooncakes)
Thinking about how he had studied so hard for so many years, and almost went crazy with books, he finally passed the imperial examination and later spent a lot of money to buy the position of the governor of Daozhou, and he also owed a large amount of debt to Beijing for this! Now that the debt has not been paid off, he will have to bear the crime of losing the land. Wang Kuiyi couldn't stop crying. According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, if a governor loses the land, he must either be decent or not!
His official life was really miserable.
Huang Shijie and Zhang Dingxiang arrived a little later because they had to clean up the Huang family's floating wealth in Shuangpai Town and recruit some more people to serve as militiamen. As soon as they entered the city, they went straight to the provincial government office. When they arrived at the lobby, they saw Wang Kuiyi crying loudly.

"Wang, Governor, why are you crying?"

"Sir, why are you putting a rope on the table? The Taimao are about to attack us, why don't you quickly prepare your defense?"

When Wang Kui heard what the two said, he wanted to commit suicide. He said with a sad face: "Deploy defense? How to deploy defense? The soldiers are gone. General Yu and Lieutenant General Wu haven't come back yet. Ziying, Captain Zhang, you guys should run away quickly. I am a minister who defends the land. I can't run away. I can only die to report to the king. This rope is what I plan to use to hang myself!"

If the long-haired guy comes, I will hang myself! Ahhhh."

Speaking of hanging, Wang Kuiyi couldn't help crying.

It looks like he's not willing to die!

Huang Shijie and Zhang Dingxiang both breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the two of them have no feelings for Wang Kuiyi, this Daozhou prefect is still useful now. He must be given hope to survive!

"Governor Wang, please don't let your mind wander. Things haven't come to this point yet!"

"Yes! It has not come to this. On the way to Daozhou, Mr. Huang and I discussed a solution that can solve your difficulties, Governor Wang."

Wang Kuiyi looked up at Huang Shijie and Zhang Dingxiang and said, "Are you asking for help from Sai Zhongtang in Guilin?" He shook his head and said, "It's useless. It's useless. The Taiping army is now besieging Lingling, the capital of Yongzhou. If Sai Zhongtang wants to save someone, he will definitely save Lingling first. How can he care about Daozhou?"

Huang Shijie shook his head and said, "Wang, the governor, is wrong. It is necessary to ask for help from Sai Zhongtang, but at the same time, we should still save ourselves!"

"Save yourself? How to save yourself?" Wang Kuiyi asked with a bitter face.

"Organize a militia!" Zhang Dingxiang said, "Sir Wang, I've already calculated. We only have about 300 soldiers on hand, which is a little short. If we can organize a militia of 1,000 people, then we won't have to worry!"

Huang Shijie said: "Eight hundred will do if we don't have a thousand. As long as we have eight hundred militias, we won't be afraid."

"Not afraid?" Wang Kuiyi was a little bit amused, "Yu Junmen's 2,000 troops are gone. Even if we can gather 800 militias, what's the use? It's useless. Daozhou can't be defended."

Huang Shijie and Zhang Dingxiang looked at each other, then moved closer to Wang Kuiyi and began to persuade him in low voices.

"Sir Wang, we have militia, so we don't have to fear the Taiping rebels, but the higher-ups!" Zhang Dingxiang, the soldier, grinned and pointed to the sky. "Jiang Minqiao relies on a few thousand militiamen. Who is he afraid of? He climbed from a mere scholar to a prefect by falsely reporting military achievements. He is a higher official than you!"

Huang Shijie said: "Why should we be afraid of losing land? The Taiping rebels are about to take Hunan and settle there. By then, many officials will have lost their land, but only a few will have soldiers. As long as we have soldiers, we won't be afraid!"

Wang Kuiyi thought about it and shook his head: "But I owed a large debt to Beijing in order to buy a position."

"Then don't pay it back!" Huang Shijie said with a smile, "Sir Wang, actually my Huang family also owes a lot. Now my family is gone, so I definitely can't pay it back. But as long as I have 800 regiments in my hands, I don't believe anyone dares to ask me for the debt!

Lord Wang, haven't you read the book "Anti-Scripture"? Now is a chaotic world. In a chaotic world, soldiers are the most important! The emperor has to be coaxed, let alone the insects in the capital? "

"Anti-Scripture", this is to be anti-scriptural!
Wang Kuiyi took a deep breath and said, "Ziying, do you want me to be a vassal?"

Huang Shijie raised his thumb and said, "Your Excellency is great! Your Excellency, now that things have come to this, let's do it according to the Anti-Scripture!"

Zhang Dingxiang made a beheading gesture: "Do it, or you'll die!"

"But, but what should I do? I haven't finished reading the Anti-Scripture yet!" Wang Kuiyi asked with a trembling voice, "I'm afraid the Taiping will come soon, right?" Huang Shijie said, "Sir, the Taiping will come soon, haven't they come yet? As long as the Taiping doesn't come, you can issue a letter of credit to arrest the criminal. In the name of preventing thieves, arrest all the rich families in Daozhou City, and then force them to pay money to redeem the people! With the money, we can hire people to serve as soldiers! As for the source of soldiers, we can ask the gentry in the four townships to send people."

Zhang Dingxiang added: "General Yu's camp is still inside the city, and there are still some soldiers left behind and a lot of military supplies. My Lord, please send us a few letters and we will go and collect them all!"

Huang Shijie added, "Also, sir, you can recommend me and General Zhang to organize a militia! Hurry up and submit a petition to Sai Zhongtang, saying that the two of us have gathered 800 militiamen to help you defend the city, and ask him to seek grace from the emperor for us."

"This, this..." Wang Kuiyi already understood what Huang Shijie and Zhang Dingxiang meant. This meant that one must use the power to the fullest, because if one doesn't use it anymore, everything will be gone!

Thinking of this, Wang Kui nodded and shouted loudly: "Go and call Master Lu quickly. I want to send a letter and write a petition. Then go and call Captain Zhang San to come to me. I want to arrest people! Arrest the Taiping Rebellion and the Tiandihui!"

A "family member" Wang Kuiyi brought from Beijing who was waiting outside quickly responded loudly: "Yes!"

When Wang Kuiyi ordered his captain Zhang to take his letter of credit and arrest people all over the city to extort money, the real Tiandihui boss Jiao Hong, together with Yu Mieqing's godsons Yu Dabao, Yu Xiaobao, Yu Sanbao and Yu Sibao, led a group of Tiandihui disciples disguised as Qing soldiers and marched into the city with more than a dozen large carts!

Just enter the city in a swagger and blatantly!

When entering the city gate, a captain from Daozhou City Guard Camp saluted Jiao Hong and said, "Master Jiao, you came back at the right time!"

Jiao Hong asked: "Lao Bo, what happened?"

The captain surnamed Bo smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what's wrong with Magistrate Wang. He signed a lot of letters and ordered Master Zhang San to arrest disciples of the Tiandihui throughout the city!"

"Catch the Tiandihui disciples?" Jiao Hong laughed happily, "How can we catch them? And we still ask Master Zhang San to catch them."

"That's right!" Mr. Bo nodded and said, "Mr. Zhang is looking for you everywhere to discuss countermeasures!"

"Well, I'll go discuss it with Zhang San right away." Jiao Hong said with a smile, "Captain Bo, there are all kinds of good stuff in my cart, do you want to search it?"

Bo Bazong waved his hand and said, "What are you searching for? They are all brothers of the Tiandihui, we are one family!" Then he waved his hand and said, "Go in!"

Jiao Hong took out a bag of silver and threw it over: "Brothers, please have a drink!"

"Thanks!"

"Thank you, Master Jiao!"

"Master Jiao is righteous"

Outside the north gate of Daozhou City, there was a great jubilation. From the captain Bo who was guarding the gate down, everyone was a disciple of the Tiandihui!

This was the southern cities in the late Qing Dynasty, where gangs had infiltrated every aspect of life. In Guangzhou, the situation was particularly exaggerated, and even many of the children of the bannermen in the city had joined the Tiandihui.

The situation in Daozhou was not much better, because there were a lot of privately mined ores around, and it was a place full of private mines, and these private mines were almost all people from the Tiandihui. Therefore, the government offices and the Green Camp in Daozhou City had long been infiltrated by the Tiandihui. The constable Wang Kuiyi sent to arrest the Tiandihui was himself a disciple of the Tiandihui!

Of course, the disciples of the Tiandihui are also stratified. The rich ones are rich, and the poor ones are really poor.

When Jiao Hong, Yu Dabao and others passed the city gate and walked on the streets of Daozhou City, what they saw were beggars begging for food all over the streets. They were all strong and healthy, and some of them were beggars who had joined the Tiandihui!

(End of this chapter)