"Sir, please wait!"
Master Sun, who was standing next to him, hurriedly stood up and warned, pointing towards the hillside: "Look at the villagers scattered all over the mountains and plains. There are probably six to seven hundred people. This Jiangjia Village is so large, we must not provoke public anger."
Seeing the villagers on the hillside holding sickles and hoes with hostile looks, Wang Captou also had a headache.
"County Master, please be patient and don't be impatient. The law is right and you don't blame everyone. We'd better make a decision after finding out the truth of the matter."
The fifth one stood side by side with Liu Gongfu on the city wall, accompanied by core members such as Lu Buping, Jiang Xiong, and Jiang Erhu.
"Chen Changsheng, the magistrate of Jinping County in Xiayuan, is ranked fifth on his staff. This is so polite!"
The fifth person held a folding fan and shouted loudly.
Liu Gongfu also clasped his fists and saluted: "County Magistrate Deng, I didn't expect that we would meet again. I wonder what wind brought you to this remote mountainous area?"
Seeing the fifth and Liu Gongfu, the officers raised their hands to say hello.
"Fifth Master, long time no see!"
"Captain Liu, I miss you so much!"
"Master, why are you here? I thought you went to Huxian County with Mr. Chen."
"Boss, my brothers have missed you so much. If I had known you were hiding in Jiangjiacun, we would have come to drink with you!"
Magistrate Deng was immediately stunned.
"What's going on? Why did Chen Changsheng's master show up in Jiangjiacun? Didn't that Liu Gongfu say he wanted to go back to Shandong? Why did he stay in Jinping County and not leave?"
Master Sun lowered his voice and said: "Sir, these two people have high prestige in the yamen. It seems that today's matter is a bit tricky. Let me go and find out what's going on."
Wang Biao echoed: "What Master Sun said is absolutely true. Jiangjiacun has built such a high wall and has a large population, so it is not suitable for conflicts."
Deng Kewei nodded depressedly on his horse: "Go ahead and ask why Jiangjia Village changed its name to Chang'an Town without permission. Is it because you want to rebel?"
Master Sun urged his horse forward, clasped his fists and saluted the people on the city wall: "I am Sun Bin, the staff of Magistrate Deng. This is polite."
"I dare to ask Master Sun, I don't know why the county magistrate mobilized troops and came to our Chang'an town in person?" The fifth person asked calmly, waving his folding fan.
Master Sun said with a smile: "Since Mr. Fifth once served as the staff of the previous county magistrate, he must be well versed in the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Your Jiangjia Village upgraded to a town without authorization, but did not report it to the government. Could it be that you are going to rebel?" "
"Master Sun, please see clearly."
The fifth man pointed at the plaque on the city gate with the folding fan in his hand: "Is it possible that your eyesight is not good? Can you count the words?"
Master Sun looked up: "Chang'an Zhencun? What do you mean?"
The fifth person spread his hands and said: "We just changed the name from Jiangjia Village to Chang'an Town Village. We did not regard ourselves as a town. The county magistrate really wronged us."
"Chang'an Town Village?"
Master Sun was a little angry, "Are you insulting my IQ? A town is a town, a village is a village, what is the meaning of Chang'an being a village?"
The fifth person laughed and said: "Master Sun is a little ignorant!"
"how do I say this?"
Master Sun asked, suppressing the anger in his heart.
The fifth person asked: "Master Sun, have you ever heard of Jingdezhen?"
"Jingdezhen porcelain is famous all over the world, who doesn't know it!" Master Sun said angrily.
The fifth person said in a mocking tone: "Excuse me, Master Sun, is Jingdezhen a town or a county?"
"Jingdezhen is of course a county."
"That's alright. Since Jingdezhen can be a county, why can't Chang'an Town be a village?"
The fifth person shook his folding fan and said, "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, villagers can decide the name of the village by themselves. With the unanimous consent of the people of Jiangjia Village, Jiangjia Village was renamed Chang'an Town Village. We just changed the name of the village and did not change it without authorization. The village was promoted to a town."
Master Sun was speechless. After mumbling for a long time, he asked again: "Then why did you build the city wall privately?"
"Of course it is to protect people's lives and property."
The fifth man responded calmly, "Our village in Chang'an Town has had good weather this year and had a bumper harvest. There will definitely be bandits around us. If the villagers don't take advantage of the slack time to build city walls to protect themselves, will they still have to wait for the bandits? Are you going to build it again if you come to your door?"
"According to the archives, there are only three hundred villagers in your Jiangjia Village. Why are there six or seven hundred people in the mountains and plains now?"
Master Sun asked again, "The county magistrate suspects that you are taking in the people and planning to rebel."
The fifth person looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha... It's really ridiculous. When County Magistrate Chen was in office, the people of Jinping could barely have enough to eat. After Mr. Deng took office, the villagers had no harvest and the people had no food. Not having enough to eat, one by one came to join us in Chang'an Town and Village."
"As the saying goes, saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. The county magistrate doesn't reflect on his own incompetence in governance, but he blames us for taking in the people? How about we go to Guiyang and ask the two yamen of the Chief Envoy and the Inspection Envoy? The village takes in the refugees and gives the people a bite to eat, what's wrong with that?"
"Then why are you two, one a staff member of the previous county magistrate and the other a former arrester of the county government, gathered here? Could it be that you were instructed by County Magistrate Chen and had some conspiracy?"
Master Sun lost his temper due to the rebuke, and in the end he simply attacked him personally.
"I bother!"
Liu Gongfu spat and cursed: "I am no longer a member of the public family. I can go wherever I want! I have fallen in love with the feng shui of Jiangjiacun and plan to be buried here after my death. Otherwise, I will give it to Deng Da Sir, would you like to choose a cemetery?"
After Liu Gongfu finished speaking, he then clasped his fists towards the government officials: "Brothers, I, Liu Gongfu, will not go back to Shandong. I have settled here for the rest of my life. You are welcome to come and drink with me at any time."
Most of the officers had received Liu Gongfu's care, and they all waved in response, "Definitely, definitely, we will definitely find time to bother Capt. Liu."
Deng Kewei listened to the conversation on the city wall with a livid face. He knew that he would not be able to catch anything today, and even if he did, he would not be able to take advantage.
First, Jiangjia Village has a large population and a city wall to rely on.
Secondly, these cadre servants under him were trying to pick things up, and they all treated the fifth and Liu Gongfu with contempt, as if they were their superiors, and they simply didn't take him seriously.
"Take the team back to the Yamen!"
Deng Kewei turned the horse's head and whipped down the horse whip bitterly, "If you succeed, you villain, don't be arrogant. I will repair the book for the prefect immediately, and sooner or later your Jiangjia Village will be razed to the ground!"
Seeing the county magistrate leaving in despair, the villagers working in the fields all cheered excitedly: "County magistrate, go slowly. Welcome to come back!"
"In terms of talking skills, it has to be my fifth brother."
Zhu Renxia climbed up the city wall to thank the fifth person, "Your move to accuse the village of being a village was so powerful that it directly made Master Sun speechless. He is worthy of being an aide to the county magistrate."
The fifth man waved his folding fan and said: "As long as we don't break the law, let alone the county magistrate, even if the governor comes, he can't do anything to us."
"What the Fifth Master said is that according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, it is legal to possess swords and guns, and to hold village militia groups. As long as we don't set up flags, buy firearms, or make armor, no one can convict us."
Liu Gongfu put his hand on his saber and deeply agreed with what the fifth man said.
Zhu Renxia thoughtfully said: "Speaking of which, now I have become the weak spot of Chang'an Town. Counting on my fingers, I have been away from Guilin for a month and a half, and it's time to go back and deregister."
"Indeed, if Tian Zongren uses your clan status to make a fuss and accuses you of forming a party for personal gain and plotting rebellion, we will be passive."
The fifth person deeply agreed with Zhu Renxia's concerns, "Young Master should return to Guilin immediately to remove his membership. As long as you get rid of your clan identity, you can do whatever you want!"
"Without further ado, I'm leaving now."
Zhu Renxia acted resolutely and decided to leave for Guilin today to cancel his registration.
Before leaving, he repeatedly warned Jiang Fuzi, Chen Huang, Jiang Yide and other three elders: "I am going to Guilin, and it will take five or six days at the earliest to come back. The affairs in the village will have to worry about the three elders."
The three of them handed over their hands one after another: "Mayor, please don't worry, the fifth master is a talented person. If he can make decisions, nothing will go wrong."
The fifth man smiled modestly: "I will decide on trivial matters, but the general direction still needs the judgment of the three elders."
