What Zhou Lin said was sincere, but the villagers in Dawangzhuang just lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.
Some didn't take it seriously, while others looked guilty.
There was a sensible man who knew that the imperial court was repairing the river embankment for the benefit of himself and others. He had a look of shame on his face. When he was about to go out because he felt uncomfortable, he was pulled by his wife. When he turned around to look, his wife's face was full of vicissitudes of life. It was to dissuade, shaking his head and looking at the family behind him.
The moment I saw my family, my original enthusiasm also calmed down.
What happened here was that even if Zhou Lin, the Minister of Public Affairs, broke his throat, no one dared to stand up.
Zhou Lin was like a theatrical clown, speaking and persuading in villages.
But it had no effect.
Everyone knows the power of the Zhao family in Bian'an County, and no one dares to disobey.
When Zhou Lin returned to the military camp after dark, he still couldn't hide the disappointment on his face when he saw Li Dingguo.
"General Li, I broke my throat today, but not a hundred people came to help."
Li Dingguo smiled and shook his head. After asking him to sit down and take the two of them to have dinner, Li Dingguo said: "Master Zhou has taken the wrong direction. No one wants to be a citizen. This is not the gratitude that the common people do not understand. For better or worse.
The real key point in this matter lies with the Zhao family. The Zhao family has too much power in Yunzhou County. Before the Zhao family speaks, these people will never dare to even if they know that what you say is right. Come and help. "
"Then what should we do?" Zhou Lin said with a sad face.
As he said this, he couldn't help but get himself a glass of wine and drank it all in one gulp to drown his sorrows.
This was specially prepared by Li Dingguo for him, because he knew that he would definitely not go well today.
Just when Zhou Lin was worried, Li Dingguo smiled, took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it over.
"Master Zhou, take a look."
Looking at the envelope handed to him, Zhou Lin looked confused, but he still took it, opened it, and read it carefully.
Unexpectedly, he smiled and stood up suddenly!
There was a look of horror on his face!
"What!"
No wonder Zhou Lin had such a big reaction, the news in the letter was really shocking.
Just across the river from them, an uprising broke out again in Daxing County!
Daxing County is the largest iron ore producing area in northern Hunan. There is a large amount of iron ore in the county. In order to mine these iron ore, the mine owners in Daxing County have hired a total of 200,000 people to mine the minerals day and night.
Everything was fine originally, the mine owners paid the wages and the miners contributed their efforts.
But there are always some people who are so greedy that at first they were owed half a month's wages, then one month, two months, half a year, and the most egregious ones were owed a whole year.
Moreover, he also threatened the miners in his mine that if they did not continue to mine for him, they would not be able to get a penny of the wages they had been owed for one year.
But year after year, this so-called wages are never paid. On the contrary, many miners have accidents due to mining.
In this regard, a normal mine owner would pay money to settle the matter, but how could he take out the money and throw the body directly into the mass grave area if he was even in arrears with wages.
This incident finally angered the miners who were already depressed to the extreme, and a riot ensued.
Nearly 200,000 able-bodied miners rioted, and the government officials in Daxing County were defeated without even stopping for a moment.
Until yesterday, the entire Daxing County had been occupied by rioting miners. The bastard who owed them wages was hung on the railing to endure the wind and sun.
The county magistrate, who was in collusion with the mine owners and the businessmen, was tied aside and asked to watch the sunrise and sunset with the black-hearted mine owner.
The news from Daxing County quickly reached the capital, and the order from the capital soon came down.
It happened that the Japanese army was in Bian'an, across the river in northern Hunan, so the emperor immediately calmed the Japanese army and went to quell the rebellion.
Li Dingguo didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but he couldn't ignore the court's order at all.
But seeing Zhou Lin's gloomy face and the almost crumbling river embankment, Li Dingguo finally relented. After discussing with his brothers and sending a letter to Yunzhou County for instructions, Li Dingguo.
Only then did he come to Zhou Lin.
Zhou Lin looked at Xin and said, "The Holy One asked you to go to northern Hunan to rebel?"
Li Dingguo nodded.
"Then you can tell me what this means, is it possible?" Zhou Lin had some guesses in his mind, but he was not sure.
Li Dingguo confirmed it for him.
“Since we can’t find anyone to help build the embankment in Bian’an County, we will look for it from other places.
It just so happened that this happened in Daxing County. After we went to quell the rebellion, the generals were brought back to build the river embankments. Wouldn't you have help in this way? "
Zhou Lin still hesitated: "But they are all rebels?!"
Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "So what? If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who else will know?"
When the time comes, I will directly report them all to be annihilated. After the river embankment is repaired, I will be responsible for taking them away and will never let them appear in the pass again.
Wouldn’t this be killing three birds with one stone!
You got people, they got jobs, I got people.
Is there anything else Zhou Shilang needs to consider? "
After everything was said so clearly, Zhou Lin did not continue to be pretentious.
Dang even nodded and agreed.
The situation in Bian'an County is now like this, but the construction of river embankments cannot be stopped.
Otherwise, there is not enough time. Since the locals in Bian'an County are not willing to repair, then let the Ping Japanese Army lead that group of people to repair.
A living person can't be choked to death by urinating!
After making the decision, Zhou Lin asked again: "How long will it take for you to bring people here?"
In this regard, Li Dingguo said confidently:
“It’s just a bunch of miners.
Including round trip, up to seven days!
I will come back with these 200,000 people in seven days. You have to prepare a place for them to live, as well as the materials, money and food to start building the river embankment. Can you do this? "
Zhou Lin nodded and said: "That's no problem. The large ships transporting money, food and materials have arrived at the border between Bianjing and Bian'an County for a long time. They can go down the river from the border of Bianjing at any time. I just need to send the signal and the materials The ship will arrive in the morning and evening!"
After hearing this, Li Dingguo immediately slammed the table and stood up and said: "Okay, since everything is ready, the only thing I owe is Dongfeng. I will go to Daxing to borrow Dongfeng right now!"
"Thank you, General!"
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Heyue Mansion, Zhao family.
"Master! There is news from Huangshan Mountain!"
The housekeeper of the Zhao family, Zhao Yixuan, excitedly came to the yard where the owner of the family, Zhao Ansheng, was.
Zhao Ansheng had just finished handling the things in his hands and asked casually: "How?"
Zhao Yi smiled and replied:
"The effect is very good. In these days, Zhou Lin visited all the villages and counties in Huangshan Prefecture, but no one was willing to build the embankment even if he talked about it. The left minister of the Ministry of Works, Luo Luo It’s really embarrassing to be in this state!”
After Zhao Ansheng listened, a smile finally appeared on his calm face, and he said slowly:
"So what if he is the left minister of the Ministry of Industry? In the territory of my Zhao family, even if he is a dragon, he will be coiled up, and if he is a tiger, he will lie down. If he dares not to act according to the rules of my Zhao family, then we will let him He can’t move an inch!”
Zhao Yi immediately echoed: "What the head of the family said is that no matter who he is, since he is here and bows his head to the Zhao family, he must act according to the rules of our Zhao family!"
Speaking of this, he seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly changed the topic: "Master, this is the case for Zhou Lin, but what really worries me is King Yun's Japanese army.
The villain is worried that if we are too hasty, these killers who are killing people in Gaodong will have some evil intentions! "
Speaking of this, Zhao Ansheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
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(End of chapter)
