Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 612 From Grandpa to Grandson
Under Yang Menglong's insistence, under the "persuasion" of countless bayonets, and the key point is that under the intimidation of the terrible eyes of the people in the city who saw Yang Menglong coming, the officials and gentry of Xinyang City finally Pulling off his face, he sat down at the negotiating table honestly and started negotiating with the red lady.

The negotiation is about to start, now I will introduce the players from both sides.

Representatives of Zhengfang: Chen Zhifu, Li Tongzhi, and Qian Tongpan are all from a scholarly family, and their roots are in the imperial examination school. Without the Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office, without supervision and resistance, you can search for the people's fat and anointment as much as you want!
Opposition representatives: Hong Niangzi, Feng Lei, Feng Ting.These three are pure grassroots, grew up soaked in bile, and have suffered all kinds of hardships.Their advantage is that they can endure all kinds of hardships, but their disadvantage is that they have a bad temper and like to talk with their fists. The famous gentry hung on the top of a tree, it was too violent.

It can be seen that there is an irreconcilable conflict between the pros and cons. If this matter is left alone, Xinyang City will become a tomb after a few moves. Of course, whose tomb is a very serious issue that needs to be studied. .

Considering that Hong Niangzi and others are not very literate, Yang Menglong thoughtfully appointed Li Yan to help, to balance the strength of the two sides, and to suppress the anger of the bandits, so as not to turn into white knives and red knives in the middle of the negotiation Out of the midnight adult file.As for the witness, Yang Menglong was sitting at the chief seat holding the dog-leg knife that was said to have almost killed Xiong Mingyu, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and was cutting his nails there, indicating that I was here to make soy sauce.

The positive and negative sides were locked in an eye-to-eye confrontation, with six pairs of eyes full of murderous intent glaring at each other. Their gazes collided, causing sparks to fly.

Yang Menglong knocked on the table a few times with the back of his dog-leg knife, and called: "Hey, hey, I didn't come here to make you stare at me. If you have any conditions, just bring it up and talk. Finish the talk early and call it quits. Very busy!"

Chen Zhifu said loudly: "There is only one condition for dismissal: Hong Niangzi and her subordinates must surrender!"

The red lady smiled and said, "Surrender? No problem."

Chen Zhifu thought that Hong Niangzi would fight tit for tat, but he didn't expect Hong Niangzi to agree immediately, so he couldn't help being stunned.

The red lady went on to say: "But after surrendering, we must keep our weapons, and at the same time, officers and soldiers cannot enter Jigong Mountain—that is our territory!"

Qian Tongsan went crazy: "What kind of surrender is that!"

Yang Menglong coughed, and said, "Well... since the red lady has agreed to surrender, don't ask too much, after all, she has difficulties too. The most important thing now is to turn the sword into the jade, and turn the sword into the jade!"

The three giants of Xinyang Prefecture rolled their eyes in unison and secretly said in their hearts: "I will transform into your uncle!" They were all very angry. The Red Lady agreed to surrender, but refused to hand over her weapons or leave Jigong Mountain. What surrender?He was obviously tired from the fight, and wanted to go back to rest for a few days, and then go down the mountain to torment them when the mood came, who the hell could bear it!Li Tongzhi said bravely: "Master Hou, it doesn't matter if they stay in the Jigong Mountain area, but they refuse to put down their weapons. We are really worried!"

Yang Menglong comforted him: "Don't worry, it's good for ordinary people to have weapons in their hands, at least bandits and bandits don't dare to make trouble. If you don't believe me, go to Nanyang, every household there has muskets and crossbows, and the security is very good! As a parent official, you should be more tolerant to the common people, understand?"

Li Tongzhi was so choked that he couldn't speak.

After educating Li Tongzhi earnestly and earnestly, Yang Menglong turned his head, and the smiling face made people think of Pug naturally: "Red lady, you have accepted the prefect Chen's conditions, so what are your conditions?"

The red lady twisted her knuckles and said, "My conditions..." She took Li Yan's drafted document and looked at it. She didn't understand all of it, but the meaning was clear.She cleared her throat and said, "I have a lot of conditions."

The faces of the three giants in Xinyang were all broken, and they looked at Yang Menglong pitifully, their begging intentions couldn't be more obvious.However, this guy completely treated them as nothing, no matter how pitiful his expression was, it was useless.

"First: The Xinyang gentry must distribute all the land to the common people!"

A landlord who was listening on the sidelines jumped up: "This is impossible! We have earned these properties through hard work, so how can we just divide them up!"

The red lady said calmly: "I am not discussing with you, but ordering you! I have already decided to distribute your fields to the people for you. They only need to go to the government to re-apply the land deeds. If you are not convinced and want to Revenge, hum!”

Feng Lei said sadly: "Then you will definitely be hung on the treetops!"

Yang Menglong said: "In my opinion, this condition is still acceptable! You all have a lot of savings, you can definitely do some business or something, why do you have to hold on to that little land? Let me tell you, in Nanyang There are many rich farmers over there who have sold dozens of acres of land at home to raise money to start businesses, and the money they earn in just one year is more than their total income from farming for five years!"

Even the champion Hou spoke up, no matter how unwilling the landlords were, it was useless.Besides, when Hong Niangzi rebelled, they had burned their land deeds to the ground, and they couldn't produce any evidence to prove that those fields belonged to them. This dumb person will definitely suffer.

The red lady then said: "Second, I want to build a conference building in Xinyang and set up a team to supervise all local officials!"

The three giants of Xinyang shouted together: "No!"

The red lady raised her eyebrows: "No? No, then let's continue fighting!"

The three giants tightened their chrysanthemums, and turned their eyes to Yang Menglong for help.

Yang Menglong played with the dog's leg knife and said: "I personally think it is very necessary. Many local officials are really not a thing. They deceive the top and the bottom, obey the shadows, use power for personal gain, lawless, no one supervises them, what is it? Dare to do anything! I think this condition is reasonable."

The Big Three almost cried bitterly.What kind of fucking team was set up by these mud legs, no matter what they do, there are countless eyes watching them, how can they embezzle and accept bribes, and use power for personal gain?They absolutely cannot accept this condition, but in this kind of negotiation with disparity in strength, there are many conditions that you cannot refuse if you want to, especially if the other party has a very powerful helper!

The red lady continued to raise conditions:

The government must establish a primary school in each township and a middle school in each county within the next three years;

The government must replace all roads in Xinyang with concrete roads within the next three years;
The government must cancel all exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes within half a year, and promise to never apportion taxes arbitrarily;

The government must dismantle all crossing checkpoints, allow ordinary people to work in Nanyang, and not charge any crossing and bridge tolls;
……

Every time she put forward a condition, the sweat on the foreheads of the Xinyang gentry officials became denser, and in the end, everyone was sweating profusely.My god, if these conditions are really followed, then they will basically have no privileges at all. As for the good days of oppressing fish and meat people at will, it will never come back. How can they bear it!But looking at the red lady who is smiling like a flower, and Yang Menglong playing with a knife with malicious intentions, they dare not say a word!
These two guys are clearly singing oboe!

Hong Niangzi put forward more than [-] conditions in one breath, completely ignoring the Big Three.After mentioning it, she thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was nothing missing. She smiled and asked Chen Zhifu: "Master Zhifu, have you heard all these conditions clearly?"

Magistrate Chen said angrily: "I didn't hear you clearly!"

The red lady was in a happy mood: "Then do you want me to repeat it to you?"

Chen Zhifu said: "No need! I basically understand what you mean. It is nothing more than to let us all be officials who serve the people wholeheartedly, work hard and don't get paid!"

Yang Menglong said excitedly: "Brother, congratulations!"

Chen Zhifu was speechless, and Qian Tongpan and Li Tongzhi were also about to cry.

The red lady took a document from Li Yan, pushed it in front of the Big Three, and said, "Sign it when you hear it clearly!"

Chen Zhifu was about to burst into tears: "Can I not sign?"

Hong Niangzi and Yang Menglong said in unison: "No!"

Chen Zhifu reluctantly picked up his pen, and murmured: "If this is the case, what's the point of being an official?"

Yang Menglong smiled and said: "In order to make your future official career full of passion, I will send someone to take your child to Nanyang to study after the negotiation is over." Pointing to Qian Tongjuan and Li Tongzhi: "You are the same."

The three roared: "You are taking our children as hostages!"

Yang Menglong was angry: "Why are you taking your children hostage? Do you understand that this is to provide your children with a better education?!"

Chen Zhifu was stunned for a while, looked at the red lady, and said in a discussing tone: "How about... I let you be the prefect? ​​I don't want to do it anymore!"

Qian Tongpan took Feng Lei's hand and said sincerely: "My brother, I think you have a clear bone and sharp eyes. At first glance, you seem to be a person who can clearly judge things and understand things clearly. This Tongjuan is more suitable for you to be your boss." ah!"

Li Tongzhi looked at Feng Ting pitifully: "Why don't I let you be my Tongzhi too?"

The red lady waved her hand and said, "No, no, no matter what you say, you were born in the imperial examination. You have read more books and understand more truths than us. Besides, it is very impressive for you to come to this point after ten years of poverty. It's easy. How can we have the nerve to steal your jobs? You still have to be the official."

Chen Zhifu said: "But..."

The red lady said: "Where is all this nonsense? Sign it!"

Chen Zhifu made her shudder from drinking, quickly signed his name, and then handed over the pen to Qian Tongpan and Li Tongzhi.

With tears in their eyes, these two signed their names stroke by stroke. Looking at their expressions, Yang Menglong couldn't help thinking of those modern tigers who signed the documents for their arrest...

After these few people signed, all the gentry also signed one by one, and no one could escape.

At this time, a girl with a sweet smile, a notebook and a quill pen came over and said to Chen Zhifu: "Your Majesty, I am a reporter sent by Nanyang Daily to witness this important event. Can you ask me?" Do you have a few questions?"

Chen Zhifu said weakly: "You ask."

The female reporter said, "Then how do you feel at the moment?"

Chen Zhifu roared: "How do I feel? I just want to say, I don't want to do it anymore!"

(End of this chapter)