This is the official road at the foot of Miaofeng Mountain in the west of the capital. To the east is Xiangshan, and to the west is Shibatan in the west of the capital.

The carriage stopped. After Wang Xiao went out, Tang Qianqian lifted the curtain and looked out.

After taking a look, she shook her head, put down the curtain of the car, still looking lazy, but her brows frowned.

She didn't put on the embroidered shoes, but leaned against the soft couch in the car and comforted Chunning casually.

"You don't have to be afraid, it's just some rioters who may have never seen muskets, let alone grenades. Throwing two grenades over can scare them away."

Chunning sighed, "Are you disappointed, my husband?"

"Yes." Tang Qianqian said: "Although there was a rebellion in the capital yesterday, the rebellion of the gentry was not very firm, otherwise Nan Chu would not have to try every means to force them to rebel.

For example, Xiaolang wanted to catch the fish from this pond to another pond. Although the fish were thumping hard, they really dared to break the net, but there were not many. There were only three or two crabs who wanted to break the net.

But today's riot is like most of the fish in the pond want to jump out... Even these people oppose the new policy, which disappoints Xiaolang the most.

Unfortunately, as Qian Chengyun said, the people are ignorant and will only follow the country gentry, and the time for reform has not come."

Chunning picked up the note Qian Chengyun and looked at it, his eyes slightly dimmed.

"The strategy of fake public land only suppresses the possibility of land gentry and landlords acquiring land in the future. The key lies in the word "later". This is a boiling frogs in warm water, and the rebound caused is still small... However, taking back the world's minerals to the official business, this one has affected the lives of the mining industry, so they had to fight hard."

Tang Qianqian said: "It's not that they don't pay compensation. If they are greedy, they will be greedy. What's the point of greed?"

Chunning thought for a while and said, "This matter is not without precedent. More than 20 years ago, the imperial court wanted to increase the collection of mineral taxes, weaving taxes and tea taxes. However, the tax supervisor sent it down and was beaten to death by the riots. The voices of tax resistance in the world have been heard one after another, causing riots in the south of the Yangtze River.

At that time, several Donglin Party members took the blame alone in order to suppress the matter, and then calmed down the matter. Later, the matter of mining tax, weaving tax, and tea tax was left alone."

"It's over?" Tang Qianqian sneered.

She originally wanted to comfort Chunning, but these words touched her nerves and her tone became unhappy.

"Yes, the mining tax, weaving tax, and tea tax will no longer be collected, which will really benefit miners, weavers and tea farmers?

Wars in Liaodong were flying, and the northwest was thousands of miles away. Where did the military pay and money be added? Didn’t the three pay be added? Isn’t it all added to the farmer? Why did my father rebel? If he could dig out food in the field, who would rebel?!

A few Donglin Party members resisted the charges? Then they wrote a special book, "In the rebellion of the great eunuchs, can the gentry not change their ambitions?" "Is it obvious that life and death are the greatest, and that ordinary men are more important than the country?"

ridiculous!

They have good land and beautiful houses, and have a lot of concubines. They scold the tax prisoner for being in a heart and a wolf. They also claim to represent the "all people in the world" to make another famous in history?

This was like this more than 20 years ago, but it is still like this today. A group of foolish miners and tenants who were controlled by mining owners and industrial owners came out to die, waiting for us to throw a few grenades and blow them to pieces.

After enough blood flowed, the remaining "gentlemen" wrote another biography to praise the gentry who took the lead, saying that they were "very motivated, laughed at and talked about death, and were excited about justice, and ignored death, and told the people of the world that "look, public opinion is like this, and it is not enough to move our industry."

There has never been anything new in this glorious history.”

Chunning turned around and saw an angry look on Tang Qianqian's beautiful face.

"I am not against the new policy." Chunning said: "I also want to implement the new policy, but today you have seen it. Before the new policy was issued, there were riots of two thousand miners. This is just a corner of the suburbs of Beijing... I just think they are too innocent..."

"Are they innocent? Who are they going to kill? You, me, Xiaolang, and our children."

Tang Qianqian asked back, closed her eyes and leaned her head against the wall of the car.

"Xiaolang tried his best to reform the law. Who is it? We can live a life of a fairy couple, why bother so hard? It ruined his prestige, and something happened to his father and elder brother.

But what about them? Just like more than 20 years ago, they are still hopelessly stupid. Even if Xiaolang kills them all today, I don’t feel innocent..."

Not only Wang Xiao, but Tang Qianqian also felt great disappointment.

She spent a lot of energy on "uprising" in her life, and gradually realized that she was embarrassed by the "limitations" of the peasant class. Even herself could not become a qualified leader of the rebel army in the end. She became the princess of Jin, stood with Wang Xiao, and accepted the worship of all the gentlemen and gentry.

This is her emotional life success, but it is her lifelong career failure.

Now that she looked back at the chaotic people like headless flies, she felt that feeling again.

It felt difficult for her to describe this at first, but later Wang Xiao summarized it in eight words.

"Sorry for his misfortune and anger for his failure to fight."

During these days, Tang Qianqian felt more about "sading his misfortune" in her heart.

But today, seeing these people coming to ambush their husbands and children, her feeling of "angry and not fighting" in her heart has completely gained the upper hand.

If Wang Xiao hadn't come forward first, she would have wished she could order the guards to fire guns and throw grenades directly.

Kill it, kill it. At worst, the new policy will not be implemented. Who cares about what kind of life you live...

Wang Xiao sat on the horse, lowered his head and fiddled with his musket.

He knew that most people in this world didn't know what a musket was.

He also knew that many things he knew were unknown to the miners who were getting closer and closer.

Don’t you know it’s innocent? I don’t know now, will you know it in the future?

Zhao Shadan was running on the official road, holding a shovel in his hand.

The reason why he called this name was that according to their custom, the baby born in July used the word "silly" and the word "egg" was used on the 22nd day. It was very convenient to name it and it didn't require his parents to worry about it.

Zhao Shadan always feels that she is very lucky.

His family originally had seven brothers and sisters, and some died from childhood. Later, natural disasters, man-made disasters, famines, plagues, and wars, and other families died almost the same, leaving only him and his younger brother Zhao Choumao.

The two brothers worked as miners in the Panjia Iron Mine. They had never met the big boss before, but they knew that the big boss was a good person. They gave them a bite in troubled times. Otherwise, they would be like other people, unable to find a livelihood, starving to death, and freezing to death.

Moreover, it is better to be in iron ore than coal or silver ore, and they don’t need to enter the mine cave.

Zhao Shadan has heard that those who work in the mine basically only last for two years. Unlike him, he has worked for more than four years and is still there.

But his younger brother Zhao Choumao died the year before yesterday.

According to the officials, because the Qing army entered the pass, the boss paid a large sum of money to save everyone, so he had to reduce the daily chaff porridge of 30% and replace it with powder ground from tree bark.

After eating like this for a month, Zhao Shoumaola couldn't come out. In addition, she had to work at the mine before dawn every day, and her health became worse and worse.

The sun was poisonous that day, and it was so hot that Zhao Choumao was knocking on the iron stone. The shovel was lifted high, and the person swayed and fell straight down...

Zhao Shadan was also very sad at the time, but she had no choice but to peel off her brother's clothes and shoes, which was considered an extra set of clothes that could be changed.

The Pan family also compensated him 500 cents. If he gets sick, he can see a doctor and catch medicine, and there is more possibility of survival.

In short, Zhao Shadan continues to live. Under the protection of the Pan family, he has mixed chaff and bark powder porridge every day, unlike those outside who starve to death...

But now, the world is worse.

It is said that the Chu Dynasty has fought back to the capital. Zhao Shadan knows what the Chu Dynasty looks like. His father was so angry that his land was lost because the Chu Dynasty kept increasing the salary and starved to death.

Sure enough, when the Chu Dynasty came back, he had to increase the mining tax, so the boss had to summon all the miners to discuss.

Just on the iron ore that was dug into deep pits, the boss told everyone that if they collect another mine tax, the iron ore would not be able to be opened.

That means you have to cut off your livelihood and you can only starve to death...

"We must oppose the mining tax! This mining tax was proposed by a corrupt official named "Wang Pixi". Fortunately, there are still honest officials in the court, and the honest officials are trying to get the emperor to stop this matter. But the powerful force of the corrupt official is too great. We can only survive by killing this corrupt official..."

This is the case. Zhao Shadan was confused and didn't know how to kill the corrupt official, but the boss gave him another meat bun.

The white flour and the fragrant meat filling, Zhao Shadan felt... "My God!"

Also, as long as you kill the corrupt officials, each person will be given five taels of silver to marry a wife...

Zhao Shadan didn't listen to what he said later. The three words "marry a wife" made his mind "buzz" and he floated up.

He hadn't seen a woman much in more than four years, so the chubby woman in charge would occasionally come to the mine. Zhao Shadan sometimes secretly glanced at her. The shape wrapped in colorful clothes, he could recall many days...

He never thought about marrying a wife in his life. He was not like his father. He had planted fields before...

This is how Zhao Shadan came with a shovel.

He mixed in the crowd and looked forward, and saw a fleet of cars and horses on the official road, with only thirty guards.

This is also strange. More than 30 people need more than 2,000 people to kill him? One person drowned with one spit.

Hey, come out and make five taels of silver. If you are lucky, you can get five hundred taels of silver if you take the skinned head of the corrupt official king...

As for the things like fire sticks held by the guards, this is the first time Zhao Shadan has seen them. He heard that they are called bird guns. After igniting the fire, they will be able to kill people after a while.

But it was too far away, and he couldn't tell what it was.

He thought to himself, there are two thousand people here, how many of those guards can kill?

At this time, Pan Mingwang and Lu Pingliang were standing on a high place, and behind them, there were nearly a hundred burly men.

"If Wang Xiao ordered the gun to be fired, these miners might be scared and turned around and ran away in fear. But it doesn't matter, things like bird guns must be loaded after a single shot. When the guards fired a few guns and chased the miners to kill, you will rush forward..."

After Pan Mingwang finished speaking, Lu Pingliang said again: "Don't worry, we will settle down with your little one. The same thing is, as long as you kill Wang Xiao, each person will be rewarded with 800 taels of silver. Those who kill Wang Xiao will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver!"

"Thank you for your kindness!" The burly men bowed.

"Okay! You are all powerful martial arts people, and those miners go to die first. I believe this will definitely happen..."

Zhao Shadan didn't know what his boss was thinking.

He strode, squeezed past the miners rushing forward, and rushed to a relatively forward position.

Gradually, I could see a young man sitting on a horse's back facing him, with only more than ten guards around him.

The young man looked completely different from the one who Zhao Shadan imagined as a corrupt official.

Zhao Shadan couldn't help but hesitate.
To be continued...