The two parties met and sat down. Liu Dalin, with the idea of "going here and performing this ceremony", allowed Xiong Buyou to arrange. Then someone brought tea.
Liu Dalin got straight to the point: "Dalin is here to petition for the gentry and grain farmers in the county." As he said that, he took out a book from his sleeve. Xiong Buyou took it and opened it and took a look.
The notice was very long and looked literate. Xiong Buyou was not used to reading traditional Chinese characters, and writing in classical Chinese was not his strong point. There were many people's monograms and hand stencils at the back of the notice, a large area densely packed together. It was probably a joint signature.
of people.
In addition to the warning note, there is also an attachment in the envelope, which is much easier to understand. It is full of the misdeeds of Chen Minggang and his gang.
He pretended to read it again and put the notice back into the envelope.
"I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to forward it to the leader. Please wait a moment, Mr. Liu -"
Liu Dalin nodded in agreement. Xiong Buyou hurried out and immediately delivered the letter to Wu De.
Wu De was actually in the office behind the management office building. Not only was he there, but also most of the leadership team. As soon as Xiong Buyou arrived, the ancient Chinese literature majors in the team began to translate the content posted.
"Damn, you are really full of knowledge." The person in charge of the translation scratched his scalp and said, "Hurry up and find me a dictionary of allusions."
"Don't you have a master's degree in Chinese language and literature?"
"I have never learned so many allusions when I have a master's degree in Chinese language. Besides, I'm not a major in ancient Chinese..."
This post written by Liu Dalin himself uses many allusions. Not only that, but there are also many uncommon allusions. Of course, according to the standards of Ming Dynasty scholars, they are not too uncommon.
"You don't need to translate it so thoroughly, just summarize the central idea quickly." Wu De noted.
"This is not acceptable. The use of allusions is not only to express profound knowledge, but sometimes also to express subtle attitudes. In the past..."
"Okay, okay, hurry up and summarize the main content for me."
The summary of the content is very simple. The complaint paper states three requirements: the first is to stop "farming" because it "disturbing the people"; the second is to cancel the grain and tax package and "just stick to the old practice"; the third is to "severely punish the underprivileged people"
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In the final analysis, the ultimate request of this petition is to hope that everything will continue as usual. Of course, this wish cannot be accepted by the Time Travel Group. Fortunately, the content of this petition has been almost realized by the leadership group, and corresponding countermeasures have been taken. Wu De immediately took care of it.
A few words from Xiong Buyou.
"Old sir." Xiong Buyou returned to the reception room and said with cupped hands, "I will accept the post right now. It will be sent to the executive committee for discussion in a few days. It will take as little as three to five days and as many as ten days. I will definitely give you an answer.
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Originally, it would have been okay to give them an answer on the spot. However, Wu De believed that there was no need to show too much respect for the other party, and the places that should be shown should still be shown.
This reply was probably what Liu Dalin had expected. He had dealt with the government a lot. It is not surprising that it would take a month or two for people to report such things. The reply was already extremely fast if the other party would reply within ten days at most.
Already.
According to the government's style, once the petition was accepted, the meeting was over. However, the Australians had no intention of asking them to walk. Xiong Buyou asked people to change the petition representatives to hot tea and ordered that no unrelated persons were allowed to come in. Then he put on a very sincere face and said:
"I have already read the reports of several elders. I didn't expect that this food requisition would actually disturb you. It was really unexpected! But we are outsiders after all, and we have no information about what happened during the food requisition. Please tell me all the things that have disturbed the people, and I will ask the executive committee members to make a decision."
As soon as these words came out, Liu Dalin felt very satisfied. It seemed that the gift had worked, and the other party was willing to make this gesture, which showed that he did not turn a blind eye to the gift.
"Da Lin is a disabled man. He doesn't know much about the world outside. However, his relatives have been harassed a lot. As for the situation in other places, Kun Kun, you can tell me."
"Yes." Huang Henkun didn't dare to sit in the room and had been standing behind Liu Dalin. When he saw that he was being asked to speak, he immediately gave a salute and told Chen Minggang and his group about all the things they had done to collect grain and land in the county. It was painful to talk about his bad deeds. In order to write the complaint, Huang Huang collected a lot of information from the mouths of grain farmers and gentry. Huang Huang's eloquence is also pretty good, so he talked about it very passionately. When it comes to hate, , it almost feels like eating its flesh and sleeping on its skin.
To be honest, Huang Henkun himself does not necessarily hate Chen Minggang and his gang so much. To the powerless ordinary grain farmers and small landowners, subordinate officials are like wolves; to the wealthy gentry, they are vicious dogs - on weekdays Always give them something good so that they don't bite you, and you can instigate them to bite others when necessary. The relationship between the two parties is not irreconcilable.
But this time Huang Hankun came with the idea of "cutting off the thieves' arm". In the secret discussion between him and his father: the Australians were unfamiliar with Lingao, and if they wanted to effectively control the county, they had to rely on this A group of subordinates who have no king and no father, and only have money in their eyes - after all, only they are familiar with the government affairs and specific conditions of the county. The relationship between the two parties must be alienated, and even conflicts may arise. This is Huang Hankun's plan.
Xiong Buyou nodded repeatedly after hearing this. He had already known most of what Chen Minggang and his group had done. What he wanted to know more was the attitude of Huang Hankun, Liu Dalin and others towards this person. Now it seemed that the wealthy gentry hated this person extremely.
Since it is going to be used to arouse the anger of the people, it needs people with greater public anger to use it.
"Will the next step be to start a mass arrest of Chen Minggang and his gang?" Zhou Botao asked at the subsequent leadership group meeting.
"Of course not." Wu De said, "We have no judicial power in Lingao theory-"
"Tch!" Dugu proposed dissatisfiedly, "We arrested so many people in Dongmen City and sentenced them to forced labor. Didn't we infringe on the judicial power of the Ming Dynasty? Ade, you are too pedantic."
"Yes, we killed many bandits and bullies when we suppressed bandits. Chen Minggang was a government servant, isn't the government servant an untouchable? Even if he kills a commoner, the county may not have anything to say -"
"Please note that this is different from suppressing bandits, and we are suppressing bandits in the name of a militia that unites villages to protect themselves," Yu Eshui said. "Chen Minggang is a pariah in theory, but he is a 'official official' of the Ming Dynasty.
, according to our modern parlance, it is a formal establishment of local civil servants, and they cannot be killed casually without going through the procedures-"
"In other words, this matter has to go through the Lingao County Government?" Dong Weiwei, a half-hearted expert on Ming history, became more alert. "Although he is a civil servant, he is a local cadre. The personnel power lies with the county. There is no need for the Ministry of Personnel to issue a document.
, the county can fire him directly."
"Yes, this procedure needs to be completed." Wu De said, "The group of people under him include some who are registered and some who are not. Those who are registered must be dismissed first."
"I think it's basically necessary. It's unnecessary." Dugu's proposal was typical of the group that kicked out the county government and started a revolution.
"Lingao County Government is now a pseudo-regime under our control, and this pseudo-regime will further deepen." Wu De said, "Since we want to wear this skin for a longer time, we have to give the people in the county some illusion.
We must at least formally respect the authority of this pseudo-regime."
"It's up to you." Dugu proposed and shrugged.
"If we want to discuss it, Wu Mingjin will definitely not agree." Dong Weiwei continued to reason, "Although County Magistrate Wu may not think highly of Chen Minggang, but with his wisdom, he guessed that there is a high possibility that we want to change the county government. We still have to do it.
force--"
"Of course we have to force it, but we don't force it, let the big players force him." Wu De asked Zhou Botao's name, "How is your plan going?"
"It's all done." Zhou Botao stood up and began to explain his plan.
"This is too risky." In a ruined temple in the county town, several dark figures were discussing something.
"It's so dangerous, just throw a knife in the yard in the dark."
"It's easy for others to say that in front of the county school, this is half a yamen..."
"Okay, okay, you guys are talking a lot of nonsense. Do you want to do it or not? If not, I will find someone else."
"Do it, it's just Brother Qi. If someone catches you, you have to be merciful when you are doing things for us at the Yamen and making boards -"
"Does this need to be said?" The person who spoke was none other than Zhou Qi, "Who is my master?"
"Okay, but money -"
"Pay half first, and then pay the rest after you're done." Zhou Qi whispered, "Let's start with the ugly talk. If the money is collected but not completed, interest will be charged."
"How dare you."
"Okay, here are the knives and stickers." Zhou Qi handed them the knife hidden in the cattail bag. This is a common and simple small iron knife in the local area. It is often carried by people walking on the street. It can not only be used for self-defense but also for
Doing things like cutting meat.
After Zhou Qi took care of things, he quickly came out of the ruined temple. He looked around and saw no one around before he breathed a sigh of relief and walked to the designated place.
"How about it, are you sure you can hit it?" On a remote section of the wall in Xiguan, the county seat, there are several figures lying on the wall. As usual, there are minzhuang guards on the city tower, but now that the whole county is peaceful, the minzhuang are also lazy and hiding.
Sleeping and gambling in a shack on the inside of the city wall. There is no one on the wall, only a string of lanterns swaying in the wind, casting dim light.
"Low-light night vision scope, roller crossbow, if I can't hit a door with this equipment, I will die." Dai Xie, who was questioned, said dissatisfied.
Dai Xie was very excited when he heard that he could participate in the "secret activities". He had been working in the Planning Committee and occasionally taught everyone the skills of bow and crossbow - he had expertise in this area. His life was very boring, and Zhou Botao came to him and asked him to
When he took the crossbow and immediately "performed the mission", he thought he was going to carry out an assassination or something. Unexpectedly, after climbing up the city wall under the escort of the special reconnaissance team, he actually did this.