From Chief to Ball

"I don't know what the Mexican Party is, I only know that they are for us to live better."

"I don't know why they would do something for irrelevant people, but now it is no longer irrelevant. He is my brother, my eldest brother. Even if I am not a black element, he has something to do with me."

"Now the mine has just received a large order. At this time, it is time to let the Wang family know that his coal will not fly out without us. I will not resume work. Even if I am beaten to death by those bastards Let Wang's family miss this opportunity to make money if they can't afford coal!"

"This is the revenge of little people like us...the only revenge we can do."

Having said these words, he left home that night and never came back.

The next day, more than half of the miners fled to the nearby mountains and forests. With more than ten days of dry cakes, the coal mine was paralyzed.

Then the magistrate announced another decree: if you don't go back, you will be sentenced.

The gunmen and hooligans searched for traces of people everywhere in the town, detaining everyone who "broke the law", kicked open the door of the woman's room and searched the house, and charged the woman's husband with the crime of rebelling against the leader. The guard outside the door has already released harsh words.

"As soon as you get home, hang yourself on the gallows. Your husband is the leader of the rebels."

It has been the fifth day since they were guarding outside the door like this, and the original dry biscuits had already grown green mold. It is said that three people were arrested and beaten.

The woman looked at the shivering child in her arms, stroked the silver coin left by her husband to buy wine and gamble, gritted her teeth and ninjad the hunger in her stomach.

rumbling...

There was a commotion outside, someone was yelling something loudly, the woman's heart suddenly tugged, and she didn't care about anything, she pushed open the window and wanted to know if her husband had been arrested.

But standing on the street in the distance was a group of people she had never seen before.

The sheriff and members of the Wang family confronted these people, and a man stood out among the strangers, with his head held high, he said something that concealed his sadness.

"We're here to bury the ashes of our comrades."

Chapter 145 Where Are You Standing?

The sheriff in the township stared at the more than 70 outsiders standing next to the small grocery store in a cold sweat.

These men had guns and short swords and no armor, so it wasn't against the law.

The leader was not tall, and his body was not very strong. He looked like he came from a small shopkeeper or a small workshop family, not those dark miners and workers at all.

But the people standing behind the leader were full of hardships after years of hard work, showing a look of poverty.

There have been many outsiders in this stable, stagnant town, but never such an organized group of people with guns and swords.

The sheriff was very afraid, not because of the guns of these people, but because of the splash of these outsiders like stones thrown into the pool, or even more terrifyingly, digging the dam of the stagnant water.

There were only six or seven people around him. Counting the handjobs in Wang's hands, a little organization could disperse those unorganized miners. The unorganized and money-free loose sand was no match for organized people.

The sheriff has heard of the reputation of the Mexican party, because there was once a living here.

But what I heard more is that the group of people from the Mexican party opened a charity business company, and occasionally donated money to the group of poor ghosts. The first group of people who joined were all with brain problems or idleness.

However, that doesn't seem to be the case now.

Wiping off his sweat secretly, he told someone to report to Wang's house. The security officer walked up to the leader and said, "Who are you from the deceased? What's your surname?"

"Miangui, surnamed Qiao. We are... well, relatives of the deceased. By the way, we will take over the employment association here."

The magistrate snorted and said, "According to the Guild Act, 76 industries including miners, porters, carders, ginners, etc., are not allowed to form guilds due to insufficient annual income and high crime rate. None Constant property has no perseverance, and such people will cause disaster when organized, and most of the thieves, murderers, and hooligans come from these people."

The leader snorted, and the person behind him read with a heavy book: "According to the regulations on guilds in the Guild Decree, we are not a guild, but a mutual aid association for hired workers. Law. Employers' associations are not guilds."

"In addition, Sheriff, according to the "Rebellion Act" and other provisions, these miners did not deliberately sabotage, did not attack the security station, and did not cause casualties, so they did not constitute a rebellion. On what basis is the sentence of summary hanging?"

The magistrate cursed inwardly, and said coldly, "Who are you? Are you in charge of this business?"

The leader said indifferently: "You are not old, you can eat enough to support yourself, can you control it?"

"I just scare them. A group of unscrupulous people always want to get something for nothing."

"Scare? That's good. You have the right to scare them, and I have the right to let them know the truth."

After saying this, he seemingly unintentionally fiddled with the gunpowder pouch and short gun on his waist. In fact, he is just the son of a soy sauce shop owner, and he doesn't know how to use it very much, but he knows that these things can determine whether he is qualified to speak.

Whether you get it or not is no longer justified, but whether someone has money and a gun.

The magistrate looked at the people behind him, decided to back off, and warned them not to do something criminal in the town, or they would be punished severely.

Since the other party is still reasonable, it is easy to say.Reason is always on his side. If he dares to do something out of line, it will be a rebellion, and the county will clean up this group of people.

Most of these 70 people were strong and armed, so it would be difficult to deal with them if there was a conflict. After the warning, the security officer returned to the residence.

At night, in the Wang family's house, the magistrate was slightly drunk.

"Old Wang, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to deal with. The people of the Mexican party are really full and have nothing to do. What do they want to do here?"

"What are you doing? You can't do anything. They can't stay here all the time, and they will leave sooner or later. The poor know who to listen to. When these people leave, it's up to you and me. It's not up to the sky."

"But before this group of people appeared, how could the poor ghosts run away without working? I always feel that this is a little different from before."

The sheriff recalled the people he had seen during the day, feeling a little uneasy.

"Don't work? Their wives and children are all here, and they eat shit if they don't work? They are so full that they are so full that they don't work. In the end, it's me who suffers. Waste it, it won't take long for these poor ghosts I knew that being with people like the Mexican Party would not end well."

The magistrate sighed and said: "Those people today really understand the law. It may not be enough to scare them. What if they are caught? In the past, they could be killed directly to make an example to others, but now they are here. It is not easy for us to take action. "

"Then wait for these people to leave before killing them. These poor ghosts must have a good memory, otherwise they really think that the sky will be turned upside down. They came this time, probably because of the dead person, and want to extort some money. I also didn't expect these people to have such a big influence. I've heard of some of them before. I heard that the leaders are considered figures in the county. I didn't expect it to cause such a big trouble."

"Extortion of money? You said they are just for extortion of money?"

"In addition to this, I may really have the idea of ​​justice and so on. Let's get along with them. The man ran away, but the wife and children are still there. I have to come back sooner or later. I will not make any money. , and you have to punish these poor ghosts, or else you will be like this whenever something happens in the future. You should spend more time these days."

"I'm afraid they didn't come here to extort money. This group of people doesn't look like that kind of people."

"It's nothing to be afraid of. Don't you really dare to do something? If you dare to do something, it's a rebellion. After all, you are also the magistrate here. Even if these people have some power, if they really put on the label of rebellion, they will be suppressed and hanged in an instant." Dead bastard. Well, I'll send someone to talk to them and see what they want."

"we can only do this."

……

A few days later, the faces of the sheriff and the members of the Wang family, who had been calm for so many years, changed.

The people sent to talk talked for a long time, and took out the exciting price of [-] silver coins as labor expenses, and invited these people to go back.

But these people were not moved at all, they sneered a few times at the four hundred silver coins, and sent them outside together with people and money.

Everything changed when these men were stationed in the small grocery store in town.

These people didn't seem to be short of money at all, and all kinds of food were continuously brought in from outside, and delivered to the homes of those men who fled to the mountains and forests on time.