The Age of Awakening: From the Young Runtu

Chapter 110
Runtu: "The matter of transporting goods will be delayed for a while."

Such a big thing happened.

Three people carry a truckload of goods.

As a result, two died and one was seriously injured.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang are still not peaceful.

Now cooperate with Caobang, and all future goods can be handed over to Caobang for transportation.

For Runtu, money is still a trivial matter.

The point is that those two people don't know how to explain to their families.

Immediately called Ergou, "For the pension of the two brothers, each arranges 100 taels of silver. In addition, ask the brothers to help take care of them if they have time."

Human life is not very valuable these days.

Runtu still wanted to check it out.

My own guns and these personal trainings have to be pulled out for a period of time to exercise.

Talked about life with Cao Gang.

This time, Runtu took the goods to the pier himself.

I found a small leader of the Cao Gang.

Tell him about Degui.

The Cao Gang has a large number of people, has developed for a long time, and knows a lot of news.

I wonder if they know who the murderer is.

If no one died and only some money was lost, Runtu might not care much about it.

People are gone, I can't bear it at all.

The little leader of the Cao Gang, "I guess he's from the Yamen."

"yamen?"

Runtu was stunned.

"There have been such things before. Officers and soldiers pretended to be bandits to intercept goods. I think it's better to make big things into small things, and make small things into nothing. People in the government are not easy to mess with."

Runtu: "Can you know who it is?"

"This"

"Can't you hear this?"

"Inquiry is sure to be obtained. One more thing is worse than one less thing. Enemies should be resolved rather than knotted."

The thing that members of the Cao Gang dislike the most is to offend the Yamen.

People in Jianghu don't like to deal with Yamen.

It's all tolerable.

Of course, Jianghu gangs like the White Lotus Sect that openly oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty are different.

Runtu wouldn't just let it go.

But bear with it for now.

Get rid of today's goods first.

"These boxes are from Shanghai, and these boxes are from Hangzhou. These are from Jiaxing."

The volume is relatively large.

"Mr. Zhang, what are these goods?"

"There are medicinal materials and food. Next time, I have brothers who will go with you and get on your ship."

Gui Laoqi is training, and when the training is almost done, he can pull it out and use it.

After loading all the goods on board, Runtu was thinking.

It is estimated that what the Caobang people said is true.

It was really the hands of officers and soldiers.

Now many officers and soldiers are similar to bandits.

Especially at the end of a dynasty.

There will also be very scary idioms one after another, killing the good and pretending to be meritorious.To put it simply, it is to use the head of ordinary people to pretend to be a bandit and ask for credit and reward.

There is no peace, and wars are everywhere, but because of this killing, many ordinary people have become the ghosts of the officers and soldiers who should have protected themselves.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a more serious phenomenon like this.

Therefore, at the end of Ming Dynasty, the common people were not afraid of the rebel army, but hated the regular army to the bone. This is why there are nursery rhymes such as opening the city gate to welcome the king of Chuang, and not paying the food when the king of Chuang comes.

I don’t know how many places where there were no wars at all, but they continuously sent out countless success stories to the imperial court, and behind them were ordinary villages that were slaughtered by their own troops.

At that time, Chongzhen priced an enemy's head at five taels of silver. The soldiers at the end of the dynasty couldn't afford to provoke the Manchu army and the rebel army, but the common people could afford it.In their eyes, the fathers and villagers have become white money running all over the ground.These officers and soldiers even learned the art of cosmetology, shaved the dead commoners into Manchu braids, and reported the real ones to the court.This is also a very important reason.

In war, the most dangerous is the soldiers on the front line. Many soldiers will retreat. In order to motivate these soldiers, the first-level military merit system has been formed. The status or wealth in the army is determined according to the number of murders. As early as There was such a system in the Qin Dynasty. After killing a person, take the enemy's head. If you behead more, you will get a lot of rewards. Because of this policy, Qin's soldiers immediately became stronger and formed a group of people. A heroic and skilled tiger and wolf teacher, I have to say that this system is very effective in wartime, but there are also many disadvantages, so there are many phenomena of killing good people and pretending to be meritorious.

Going to the battlefield to kill the enemy is to pay the risk of life. However, some people take advantage of the loopholes. They want to get rewards but dare not go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Take them back to the superiors, frame them as rebels or enemies, use their heads to receive rewards, and often kill the whole family, plunder the money of the family, and receive military merits. At that time, many soldiers killed people. Killing is red-eyed, so he doesn't care about killing a few more civilians.

During the Tianshun period, it was also in the Guangdong and Guangxi areas, and Japanese pirates were rampant. At that time, in order to lead the army, a general killed the villagers of two townships, framed the villagers of these two townships as bandits, and drove them out. It has exceeded thousands of people.

The current Qing court is almost the same.

But foreigners can't do it.

After all, it looks very different from the Chinese.

Can be used as a bandit.

Maybe my two murdered buddies will be treated as bandits by these officers and soldiers to report to receive the reward after they die.Used to the extreme.

When the Taiping Army was rampant decades ago, the Qing court also had many similar things.

Qing soldiers killed some good civilians to pretend to be the Taiping Army to go to the court to receive rewards, because there was an endless stream of officers and soldiers carrying their heads to receive rewards. At that time, many court officials thought that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was dealt a big blow. All of them are good citizens, and gradually this phenomenon is exposed, so it has developed into not only the head, but also the waist badge of the enemy, which can prove the identity of the enemy, and you must be put together to judge you. Killed the enemy soldiers, but as soon as this regulation came out, the number of enemies killed immediately dropped sharply.

Now the foreigners can't do it at all.

The yellow hair and blue eyes of foreigners are incompatible with Chinese, and they cannot be impersonated at all.

If there is extra time, Runtu will visit the school.

The current school has been open for more than half a year.

There are also a few quite outstanding students in it, but more of them are more mediocre, after all, there are more ordinary people.

The official bandit that Runtu told the Cao Gang must be investigated clearly.

When the next time the military supply list for Zhixuesan and Banlangen comes, when the adjutant in Jiangxi arrives in Kuaiji, I will ask him carefully.

There are also good and hateful officers and soldiers.

The Jiangxi adjutant's branch looks pretty good, at least after a few contacts, it feels pretty good.

(End of this chapter)