open sea

Chapter 41
No one knew what Chen Mu wanted to do, he walked forward step by step until there was a thick wall of people in front of him.The miners slowly surrounded them, the danger and panic flickering in their eyes were daunting.What is more frightening than these strong men is the mining picks on the wooden sticks they hold on their shoulders.

In Chen Mu's eyes, these were armor-piercing awls and blunt weapons, which perfectly restrained his cotton armor.

Chen Mu's heartbeat was beating like a drum, he licked his dry lips unconsciously, and looked around at the miners expressionlessly. Fortunately, he could see fear on their faces... He was afraid of beating wolves, this matter It's much easier to solve.

"Chen has killed mountain bandits and Japanese pirates, but he doesn't intend to fight with the common people, get out of the way."

When people heard him say that he had killed bandits, they didn't respond, but when they heard that Chen Mu had fought with Japanese bandits, their eyes showed horror. Some people didn't believe what they were about to say, but they saw Chen Mu's waist with a delicate Japanese sword hanging , retreated one after another.

Raising his arms, splitting the crowd, Master Chen walked towards Yang Fan.

"The iron ticket is ten taels of silver?"

Chen Mu and Yang Fan asked a question face to face. After the official mine owner nodded, he turned to the tax collector who was tied to the wooden post and asked, "Is there any problem?"

The tax collector who is greedy for money has been frightened long ago, and there is no trace of decency when he was corrupt and oppressed the mine owner. With wet tears on his face and urine stains on his body, his chest was ripped open by the miners. Seeing Chen Mu howled as if seeing a savior: "They want to cut my heart!"

Snapped!
"Why don't you be afraid when you are greedy for money? If you don't have ten taels of silver, you will die." Chen Muyang slapped his hand, then rubbed his palm and said to Yang Fan: "You can't open the mine. You still have time to run now. The guards have been tired for a long time. , whether you can escape or not depends on your fate."

"It's not easy, just live well."

After Chen Mu finished speaking, he looked at the miners and sighed. Yang Fan and other miners were still in a daze. Someone asked, "Master Jun, the government won't pursue it?"

"I don't know whether the government will pursue Chen or not, but it's good for everyone if it doesn't stir up civil uprisings." Chen Mu himself felt guilty in his heart. In a desperate situation, if you really had the courage and anger to take a hoe and wipe out Zhang Yongshou's twenty or thirty banner troops who were still fighting in the mine, there is no need to wait until now.

Although he didn't know why, Chen Mu thought it was a good thing. He drew out his saber and cut off the rope for the tax collector.

Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief. The emotions of the miners were stabilized by his few words of non-pursuit. Yang Fan, who incited the employees, put his hands aside and stopped entanglement, as if he was thinking about how he should end up.It seems that this matter should be solved easily like this. The great tax collector will have some complaints about himself, but he can’t control himself if he doesn’t get into their hands. Unexpectedly, he grabbed Chen Mu's boots surrounded by hundreds of miners and shouted.

"Catch them, kill them, they want to kill officials and rebel! Kill them! They want to rebel!" Whether it was frightened or born, Chen Mu only felt that the voice was harsh. Pointing at the surrounding miners on the ground soaked in his own urine, he shouted loudly: "Go out and kill them all, these unscrupulous people, if you don't kill them, it won't be enough to defend the country's laws, and if you don't kill them, it won't be enough to defend the country's prestige!"

This is not a tax collector, this is an idiot!

From firing guns on the hillside to being single-handedly shortlisted, Chen Mu finally eliminated the hostility of the miners towards him, and finally stabilized the atmosphere, which was simply destroyed by two words.To be honest, Chen Mu has never seen such a powerful destructive person in the past six months.

He really wanted to ask Yang Fan and these miners, who would do a favor and kill this tax collector.

There are really such ignorant people in the world!

The road that Chen Mu left when he came in was surrounded by miners. Yang Fan, who was holding a knife in his hand, turned his body slightly and looked at Chen Mu and the tax collector with a bad expression. There was a big disagreement that tore them apart. meaning.

Now the situation became clear, and the miner's nerves that had just been relaxed were severely lifted again. As long as Chen Mu said something wrong, Chen Junye, who struggled to get out of the black mountain and easily killed the Japanese pirates, would die under the mine.

Chen Mu didn't panic.

He raised his left foot and imprinted it on the tax collector's face as punishment for his lack of brains. Then he retracted his right foot, took two steps to the side, turned around, pointed and cursed: "Kill officials and rebel, A low-level official—are you an official?”

With this kick, Chen Junye and the miners reached a consensus again.

Seeing that he couldn't get out, Chen Mu calmed down, took two steps out of the spot and said to the miner beside him: "I'm tired, move a chair."

"Zhu Kushi, this tax collector Chen can't be rescued, come here." Chen Mu called to the hillside, then raised his head and said loudly to the bannermen on the mine: "Zhang Baihu, your bannermen are dead!" Come down and talk about how to solve this matter!"

There was a lot of noise from the miners around, they said everything, Chen Mu also heard someone saying that he was going to kill him, but he didn't know who the speaker was hiding in the crowd.The miners around him obviously didn't have this plan, and some people obeyed the order to move the wooden chairs used in the smelting.

"If you want to die, Chen is inside, and the flag army is outside. At worst, you will kill Chen, and everyone will die together. If you don't want to die..." Finally, he took the bewildered miner with a He sat down on the chair and said to Yang Fan: "Chen will be a middleman and settle this matter."

He now knows what's going on. I'm afraid that neither the tax collectors nor Zhang Yongshou brought the banner army to solve the problem, or they wanted to solve it by means of suppression, just like the order Chen Mu received. , suppress miners.

Officials and military officers are inherently arrogant to the common people, and they didn't come here to reason with the miners. Therefore, when Chen Mu led the army and felt that a fight had already begun, it was embarrassing. Fortunately, Zhang Yongshou's banner army did not Beat the miners, otherwise it's a massacre.

Zhu Xiang didn't know the situation, and felt a little apprehensive, but it seemed that the situation had been controlled by Chen Mu, so she walked down the hillside with the pride of a scholar.Zhang Yongshou didn't want to come down. He thought that Chen Mu's head was either broken by Japanese pirates' arrows, or he had heard too much about the Three Kingdoms in Guangcheng. Why would he go to the meeting alone?

But hundreds of pairs of eyes looked at him, and he couldn't help but come down.

When the two entered the crowd, Chen Mu spread out his palms and expressed his thoughts.

"The tax collector's demand for bribes is the reason why the mountain owner resisted the tax. He should pay the tax, otherwise it will be a civil uprising. The mountain owner's mine cannot be opened, the miners disperse, and they are forced to retreat, so there is no need for ticket tax; Zhang Baihu's subordinate There are many casualties in the army, so this money subsidizes the banner army's pension; what do you three think?"

Chen Mu smiled, "If it doesn't work, whoever can do it will do it!"

　good morning friends!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)