The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"What's going on outside? Why is it so noisy? Who is causing trouble?"

Huang Maoguan tried his best to suppress his bad mood and asked the scribe rudely.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the panicked face of the scribe.

Previously, the scribe broke into the house without announcing it. Huang Maoguan thought he had summoned him because he broke a cup.

But the way the scribe looks now looks a bit different.

"what happened?"

Huang Maoguan put on the airs of a third-grade official and asked.

"Big, big, sir, it's not good, we are surrounded by soldiers from Zhenwu Camp outside."

The clerk was very handsome and well-mannered. At this moment, he was frightened by the appearance of the sergeants outside the office, and he stuttered a bit when he spoke.

"Those Qiu Ba still dare to come here to cause trouble. They are really impatient."

The anger that had finally been suppressed was suddenly ignited again after listening to the clerk's narration.

Huang Maoguan shook his sleeves and simply adjusted his official robe. He was about to go out and go to the gate of the government office to see what kind of soldiers were so bold and dared to surround the Hubu Yamen. Do they still want to go out? Rebellion by killing officials?

The Ming Dynasty was at peace for a hundred years. Although there were Mongolian Tatars in the north and Japanese pirates in the south, they were all caused by scabies. How could they still attack the city of Nanjing?

For officials, being an official in Nanjing is a blessing. They came to enjoy the beauty of Qinhuai, but they never thought that anything would happen.

Although a few years ago, some Japanese pirates went to Nanjing City to show off their power, so what?

Their end was not that they were completely killed by the army, leaving nothing behind.

Well, today the soldiers from Nanjing City's capital camp actually dared to surround the Ministry of Household Affairs Office, which is quite remarkable.

At this moment, Huang Maoguan had a strong murderous intention in his heart. He wanted to kill as a warning to others, otherwise he would become a joke in Nanjing City.

"Sir, don't, don't go. Those soldiers are like crazy. They keep shouting outside the door to repay the military pay. Otherwise, otherwise."

"What else?"

Huang Maoguan stood still and asked nonchalantly.

"They're about to break in."

Having said this, the scribe didn't know what to say. There were already excited soldiers outside shouting to kill the thief Huang Maoguan. Can he say it here?

No, isn't this asking for scolding?

"They still dare to attack the Hubu Yamen. I want to see if they have eaten the heart of a bear or the gall of a leopard."

At this moment, Huang Maoguan hated the generals of Zhenwu Camp, and he actually dared to instigate the soldiers to pay. This was in Nanjing City, could they learn from the frontier army?

Those border troops were often in trouble for pay, otherwise they would not transfer Nanjing's reserves to Beijing, but the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and many times the imperial court was beyond its reach.

Although Nanjing is thousands of miles away from Beijing, this is the capital of Liuzhou, and there are still six tribes. These Qiu Ba also want to imitate the behavior of those ** in the north, hum.

At this time, Huang Maoguan did not think that what he and others did was the reason for the soldiers' pay dispute, but instead shifted all the responsibility to the other party.

After Huang Maoguan finished speaking, he strode out of the duty room and walked towards the gate of the office. However, the closer he got to the gate, the louder the noise outside the courtyard became. There must be thousands of people there.

Gradually, Huang Maoguan felt uneasy. There were many shouts in the noise, but some people actually said they wanted to kill him. Are these people going to rebel?

Although I was angry, an unconscious feeling of fear also arose spontaneously.

Huang Maoguan has the experience of being in charge of local affairs, and has also experienced some local troubles, or small-scale civil commotions, but the situation was completely different from today's. There are no old men, old ladies, women and children here, they are all in the second and third grades. Adult men aged ten are all soldiers.

When I walked to the gate of the office, it was already closed and no one dared to open it. The concierge and other people in the office gathered inside the door and talked anxiously about something.

"What's going on outside? How many people are making trouble?"

Although Huang Maoguan was scared, he still showed his usual official power and asked loudly.

In such an environment, the normal volume of speech could not be heard from the other side. Even now, he felt like his ears were buzzing, it was too noisy.

There are more than 2,000 people outside the courtyard. You say something to me, and even if the voices are not loud together, it is very loud.

"Sir, please think of a solution quickly. We are not afraid of thousands of people coming from outside."

A petty official bowed in front of Huang Maoguan and replied.

"Open the door for me. I want to see who dares to cause trouble in Nanjing City."

Huang Maoguan now boldly ordered loudly.

"No, sir, the soldiers outside are clamoring like crazy for food and military pay. If we open the door and let them break in now, what consequences will happen?

Earlier, Old Man Zhang was arguing with the soldiers who came first, but he was kicked several times. They saw that there were many people coming from behind, so they hurriedly closed the door.

It was almost impossible to close the door. Those people were pushing hard outside. If we hadn't heard the noise outside and came to the door, we might have let them break into the yard. "

The clerk didn't care about Huang Maoguan's status as a senior official, and hurriedly explained what happened here before and after closing the door.

Well, this can be regarded as a kind of meritorious service.

Huang Maoguan is not a fool. He knows that if the soldiers are really driven crazy, they can do anything. This is the time when the crowd is excited and the situation is not easy to control. If he really opens the door, the consequences will be unpredictable. Ask for the door to open.

But he always had to take a look at the situation outside and be aware of it.

"Bring a ladder over here and I'll go up and have a look."

Not being able to open the door didn't bother Huang Maoguan. In the past, people blocked the local government offices. He would put a ladder up on the wall to see what was going on outside, identify the troublemaker, and then take his time.

At this time, what Huang Maoguan was thinking was that no matter how the day ended, the leader must be punished. It was the general from Zhenwu Camp who was leading the trouble.

Soon, a ladder was brought and set up on the wall next to the gate. Huang Maoguan stepped aside and climbed on the ladder himself. He climbed up in a few steps and stretched his head out of the courtyard wall to look outside. However, he quickly retracted his head. Withdrew.

Huang Maoguan's face finally started to turn pale as he got off the ladder. Although the time he went up the wall was short, he could clearly see the general situation outside. They were all stinky soldiers, but he didn't see General You Zhenwu Camp. And the figures of those in charge of the team.

There was no general taking the lead, it was the small soldiers who were making trouble. At this time, Huang Maoguan realized that something was wrong. The soldiers outside the door had lost control.

If there is a military general leading them, they know what is good and what is good, and they come here with their men to cause trouble. They also know the seriousness of the matter, so they will not do anything out of control. It is just to scare them and get military pay from him. .

But the current situation is that there are soldiers outside. What do they know?

The more ignorant a person is, the bolder they are. As a minister of household affairs, he is nothing in front of these Qiu Ba. He can only show his authority in front of the generals.

As the saying goes, when a scholar encounters a soldier, he cannot explain why he is right.

By this time, Huang Maoguan finally felt fear in his heart. If he was a little worried before, he was actually more worried that he would become a laughing stock among his colleagues. By this time, he was already worried that this matter would not be dealt with.

On the wall just now, he had heard the shouts outside clearly. These troublemaking soldiers were shouting that they wanted to restore the old practice, that they wanted to return the one penny of military pay that had been withheld since last year, and also demanded that the military pay be paid on time.

At this time, Huang Maoguan was leaning on the ladder, thinking to himself. The soldiers were arguing about pay. I am afraid that this matter cannot be concealed. Sooner or later, it will spread to the capital. What next?

The matter of deducting a penny of silver was reported to Ma Kun when he was the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing. Although there was no reply of approval, there was no rejection, so they took it for granted and went ahead with it. Speaking of which, it would have made things worse. Yes, the superiors will not admit that they agreed to this matter.

As for the arrears of military pay, this is the case throughout the Ming Dynasty, but this does not make sense, at least the court system does not allow this.

At this time, Huang Maoguan suddenly discovered that everything he thought was logical in the past seemed to have big loopholes and was not supported by court laws.

what to do?

Now Huang Maoguan urgently needs to find a way to deal with the current situation, at least coax the troublesome soldiers back to the military camp first, but how to do it?

He had just seen that the soldiers blocking the gate were probably not thousands, but almost all the people from Zhenwu Camp had arrived, more than 2,000 people.

He told the clerk who had previously answered: "Go up to the wall and shout, tell them if there is anything going on, and ask them to go to the Ministry of War. They are soldiers and are under the control of the Ministry of War. This is the Hubu Yamen."

"Sir, they are here to ask for payment."

The little official naturally knew about Zhenwu Camp, so he hesitated and said.

"I know, just shout like this when you go up and tell them to go to the Ministry of War."

At this moment, all Huang Maoguan could think of was to divert the trouble to the east, send the people away first, and then rush back to the Hubu Yamen. This would cause a headache to the guys from the Ministry of War who only took money and did nothing.

The clerk had no choice but to climb up the wall and shout outside according to Huang Maoguan's wishes.

However, what greeted him were only stones flying in from outside the yard and a few arrows.

This shocked the little official so much that he almost slipped off the ladder.

Seeing arrows shooting into the office, Huang Maoguan was also scared. This time he was really scared.

What are soldiers without the restraint of a general?

I don’t dare to think about it, I really don’t dare to think about it anymore.

"Is there anyone in the backyard?"

Huang Maoguan asked the people around him eagerly.

"No, most of them are blocking the door. This is the only door in this yard."

The clerk replied with a sad face, he was the chief here, and his work used to be very easy. That is to say, the official came here only when the salary was paid, and he hardly came to the office on weekdays.

He had already arranged things here, such as the janitor and the sweeper. Anyway, he just drank tea in the city every day and made money. But he didn't expect that such a fatal thing would happen today.

"You can find some smart people to report the news to me outside. I can only find some adults in the city to handle this matter."

With that said, Huang Maoguan walked towards his apartment. He was going to write a note and ask someone to take it there.

Soon, he was writing several notes in the public room. The people with nimble legs and feet selected by the clerk were waiting outside the door and handed the notes directly to them. They were doing errands in the Hubu Yamen, and there were few illiterate people. , they all knew each other more or less, and told them where they were going and who they were looking for, and then asked them to climb over the wall and leave from the back.

When the soldiers cause trouble, the household department cannot be blamed for it. None of the guarding eunuchs or Nanjing guards can escape.

Seeing the person running to the back of the office with the note, Huang Maoguan returned to the office and sat down with an uneasy mood. He couldn't help but reassure himself that he had to calm down, stay calm in times of danger, and wait for the reinforcements from the city. If the Qiu Ba gang outside What should I do if I break in?

I should learn from the sage in the book, what kind of momentum he used to suppress these people, the bastard spirit.

When Huang Maoguan was blocked in the office of the Household Department of the primary school, the news had been quickly spread. Not only did the Nanjing Jinyiwei Qianhu Office know about the matter, but Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, who was resting at home, also received a report from his subordinates.

Late yesterday, he gave instructions to several of his confidants, asking them to closely monitor Zhenwu Camp's today's exercises.

As his son-in-law, he had led soldiers, and he said that when he entered the city, he saw something was wrong with those people, and he was afraid that something was really going to happen.

Therefore, Xu Pengju just didn't care on the surface, but in fact he was very concerned about it.

When it was heard that soldiers from the Zhenwu Camp were surrounding the Residential Office, Xu Pengju just nodded, but Wei Guangde guessed it, and he really stirred up trouble.

"Who takes the lead?"

Xu Pengju was actually thinking about the same thing as Huang Maoguan at the moment. He wanted to ask the leader and turn around to give him a beating.

"No one is there, it's just the soldiers who are making trouble. All the generals in Zhenwu Camp ran back to the barracks."

But the next words frightened Xu Pengju, who was lying on the chair, and he fell to the ground.

"What did you say? Say it again? The commanders are not over there, they have all gone back to the military camp to hide?"

Xu Pengju was sitting on the ground at this time. The maid next to him came over to help him get up, but he waved it away and asked eagerly.

After receiving a positive answer, Xu Pengju didn't need anyone to help him. He stood up from the ground in one fell swoop and told the man, "Send the order to stay on the right guard. The Huben right guard and the Wude guard will be dispatched immediately to protect the secrets and not allow any rioters." Break in."

"My lord, should we send three guards to surround the small school grounds and summon other guards to suppress it?"

At this moment, the staff around Xu Pengju spoke up and came up with ideas.

"No, the three guards can only move a thousand men, and the other guards are even less capable. Zhenwu camp has at least two thousand men. If you send troops to block it, if things go wrong, there will be a firefight. Then it will be really out of control. "

Others immediately retorted.

"Stop talking, just protect the important offices of the Imperial Palace and the Sixth Ministry. Also, send someone to deliver a message to Guangde, telling him that there is trouble in Zhenwu Camp and asking him to come to the house immediately."

"Which bastard dares to cause trouble in Nanjing City? Don't you want to live?"

At this time, in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, an old eunuch pinched the orchid and pointed at it strangely but fiercely.