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Chapter 40 Make Way
Boom!boom!

More than a dozen blunderbusses fired at once with great momentum, the miners who had been frightened for a long time suddenly turned their heads, and saw a large puff of gunpowder smoke rising from the hillside in the forest, everyone panicked.When the gunpowder smoke dissipated, I saw the general on the hillside with the flag on his back raised his right hand, and behind him a group of flag soldiers holding bird guns neatly stuffed the lead pellets into the mouth of the gun and pressed them with the blower, and then raised Raise the bird gun and aim at them.

Beside the musketeers, the longbowmen stuck their feathers and arrows in front of them, ready to shoot. There were many sergeants with spears, spears and knives, and their weapons were drawn out of their sheaths, just waiting to charge.

Silent.

Zhang Yongshou, who was besieged on the mountainside, was also shaken by the sound of the blunderbuss, and suddenly got up from the ground to look in the direction from which the blunderbuss came.He really suffered a lot from being chased and beaten by miners. He didn't know where to throw his iron helmet, and his armor was torn into several gaps. At this time, seeing Chen Mu Xiaoqi's behavior a hundred steps away, he directly taught him He raised his hand and hammered hard on his chest.

"Why didn't I think of that!"

Why didn't he expect to stand out of the reach of a miner!

Zhang Yongshou suffered such a big loss, the news of Bai Yuanjie's meritorious service was spread all over Qingyuanwei throughout the winter, leaving aside what ordinary military households think for the time being, Zhang Yongshou was extremely envious.Fighting just outside the city of Qingyuan, harvesting more than a dozen real and fake Japanese heads, and making the first contribution to expel Japanese pirates outside the city, who wouldn't envy this?

The first great achievement is the meritorious service of the Dudufu of the Five Armies. As long as the legs and feet run well, resisting the enemy outside the city can be said to be a meritorious service for defending the city!
Zhang Yongshou regretted it throughout the winter. If he had practiced diligently with the military households in the Qingyuanxia Hundred Households Office, would he have had a close encounter with the Japanese pirates?If it didn't happen, Zhang Yongshou should be the person who was promoted to Deputy Qianhu!

"This is the way of his mother's luck. You fools see Bai Qianhu and the Japanese pirates outside the city of Qingyuan. That's how one person ascended to heaven. Chen Erlang can now be the general flag and set off gunfire." Zhang Yongshou beat his chest and stamped his feet, waving his hands and scolding the cronies who supported him, "Look at you, you were beaten to the ground in the battle with Japanese pirates in Qingyuan Gorge, and all of you knew that his mother ran for his life, and the dog bag was not caught after the battle. There are more than 20 meritorious deaths!"

"I'm not dead, can I beat these miners!"

Zhang Yongshou was cursing on the mountain, and the flag soldiers around him didn't dare to show their air.They were really out of breath. They were beaten to death by miners just now and killed more than a dozen military households. Now there are only more than 30 people left on the mountain. Only by relying on the firearms and crossbows of the army can they get a moment of respite on the mountain. How can they have any strength? Zhang Yongshou said such nonsense.

Zhang Baihu was cursing on the mountain, but the miners down the mountain were really frightened. The group of flag soldiers who appeared on the hillside did not look easy to deal with like the 40 people led by Zhang Yongshou.Among other things, the mere fact that the uniform bird guns were pointed at the crowd made many miners feel scared from the bottom of their hearts.

In fact, without Zhang Yongshou's defeat in Qingyuan Gorge, Qingyuan City had a sense of crisis that the Japanese pirates were powerful and unstoppable, and Bai Yuanjie might not have been able to make great achievements; Baiminer would not be afraid of Chen Mu's more than ten bird guns aiming at it.

Speaking of which, both Bai Yuanjie and Chen Mu should serve wine to thank Zhang Baihu for his kindness!

But what made the miners even more frightened was not the blunderbuss that aimed but did not shoot, but the words in Chen Mu's mouth, "The reinforcements from the Qingcheng Qianhu Division of the Qingyuan Guards have arrived. Are you going to rebel!"

The power in these words is complete, and Chen Mu stands there with his helmet on and his armor is majestic. Zhu Xiang, the rouge tax collector beside him, looks sideways at him, and secretly gives a thumbs up to Chen Zongqi, who he just met not long ago , So majestic!
Only Wei Xiaogui, who was standing behind Chen Mu with the handle of the Japanese knife upright, glanced at his eyes and saw that Chen Mu's left hand, which was behind his back, had been rubbing lightly, and it was still rubbing on the armor after a while—looking carefully, My palms are sweaty!
Although there were fifty sergeants standing behind him, and they repeatedly hinted to themselves that nothing would happen, nothing would happen, but their hands and feet still trembled uncontrollably.Only when no miners came forward after he shouted, did Chen Mu really heave a sigh of relief, and then shouted: "I have no resentment, and I haven't let the tax collector back—that is the head of the mountain master workshop, come and talk! "

What Chen Mu was most afraid of was that the miners had made up their minds, and when they saw them rushing forward, they could only aim their blunderbuss at these poor people with wooden sticks and pickaxes and fight bloody with them.

He has barely been able to overcome the fear of fighting in his heart, but he can't get over the hurdle in his heart.Regardless of bandits or Japanese pirates, in Chen Mu's mind, they are self-protection, killing the people who deserve to be killed, but these miners who are just resisting taxes, no matter what the reason is, they are obviously not guilty of death!

The army of protecting the country should take protecting the people as its own responsibility, not bullying and killing the people - in this era, Chen Mu doesn't think it can change course.

People must have their own persistence. If they insist on not doing the right thing, how is it different from an animal?

Chen Mu's voice fell, and after a brief silence, the miners lost their minds. After they looked at each other, most of them looked behind involuntarily.In the middle of these dark-skinned, muscular but haggard miners, people surrounded a commoner man holding a short knife. He was around 40 years old and had strong limbs, but he didn't look like a villain.What's more, it is impossible for the treacherous and evil people to run here to mine. From the clothes, Chen Mu can tell that this middle-aged man with an excited expression is a merchant.

"You can't let the tax collectors go. If you let the tax collectors go, what should you do?" The man raised his head and looked at Chen Mu. Although the distance was far away, Chen Mu felt that he was undecided in his heart. The tax collector on the pillar said: "Yang Fan, the owner of Caomin Mountain, holds a ticket to open a furnace and dig mines here. There are less than [-] workers and only one furnace. He pays silver and taxes every year and has never refused taxes. It's just because the tax collector said that if Xiaomin gave him You can get a ticket for five taels of silver, but unexpectedly, after receiving the cash, he asked for money one after another, and today he even brought the tax officer to claim the tax. How can the poor people have any money to pay him!"

Speaking of the latter part, Yang Fan yelled out with extreme anger, then his nose twitched, his eyes turned red, and he pursed his lips and said with a complicated expression: "Today's matter is irreversible, and the little people will kill this tax collector and commit suicide here. Lord, don't embarrass these miner brothers, the fault is Yang, don't blame him..."

Hearing the farewell words, Chen Mu knew that things were going to go wrong, and quickly interrupted: "Wait a minute, now that you haven't made a big mistake, make up the ten taels of invoice and silver, and the tax officer will be easy to deal with, so I don't have to make things difficult for you. If you kill the tax collector, not only you will die, but most of the miners you keep talking about will also die."

How could the tax collector's life be saved at such a time?

Chen Mu couldn't think of a perfect solution, but he had the courage to take risks. He put down the blunderbuss, walked around the hillside slowly, and walked towards the miners' gathering place down the mountain alone.

Note: The iron ticket is used to open the official mine. It is sold once a year, and one ticket is twelve taels.

(End of this chapter)