Chapter 65 Section 64

It turns out that after Yang Chongyi was sent to the Hanzhong Mansion in Shaanxi Province before the Xinyou Rebellion, he intended to be the first to invite Empress Dowager Cixi to teach him the credit, and he would definitely be quoted by Ronglu.Unexpectedly, Lu Chuanlin, who was also the Minister of Military Affairs in Xi'an, looked down on this man and said some unpleasant things about him. Rong Lu realized it and alienated him from then on. At that time, just as Li Hongzhang was ordered to come to Beijing from Guangdong to negotiate a peace, Yang Chongyi, as a close relative of the Li family, was transferred to Beijing as an attache.As a result, Li Hongzhang was forced by the Russians, exhausted physically and mentally, and died of hatred. "The tree fell and the monkeys scattered." Although Yang Chongyi was promoted to a Taoist priest and distributed to Zhejiang, he still failed to fill the vacancy.Last year, Ding You, who was vacant, returned to his hometown to keep the system. He is from Changshu, but he lives in Suzhou, the provincial capital. All dirty money.

A month ago, at the beginning of August, there were two prostitutes in Shantang, Suzhou, who could not bear the abuse of their "family". They fled to the city and complained to the officials.Cases like this are handed over to the family members as usual. If there are no family members, the officials will choose a match.There are many famous places here. Gentlemen in the local area can volunteer to make a leader and choose a good match.It's a good thing to say, but after taking it back to serve as a maidservant or concubine, no one will know. Therefore, Wang Asong, the "family" who opened the kiln, asked Yang Chongyi to help him and promised him a reward of two thousand oceans.Yang Chongyi lived in the provincial capital and was wearing mourning clothes, so it was inconvenient for him to come out, so he asked one of his close relatives to write a letter to Wu Xi, the acting prefect Yuanhe County, hoping to lead the two prostitutes here.His closest relative, surnamed Wu, was also from a Suzhou family, the grandson of Wu Yanchen, the number one scholar in Renxu in the seventh year of Jiaqing, named Wu Shaosheng.Although I have only served as a county school instructor, his elder brother Wu Yusheng was born in the Imperial Academy and is currently a cabinet bachelor. He is released as a high official in the frontier, so Wu Xi will buy this face and let Wu Shaosheng's family lead these two prostitutes went back.

Yang Chongyi sent his family to wait in front of the Yuanhe County Yamen, and when he saw something happened, he flew to report to his master.At this time, Wang Asong was listening to the letter at the concierge of Yang's house, with a banknote of two thousand oceans in his pocket, waiting for the transaction.Yang Chongyi called him in and said that he could lead someone. "Where are people?" "He's at Wu's house, and he brought it when he left." "Master Yang," Wang Asong took the village ticket and raised it, "Here are the two thousand yangtians. As soon as the person arrives, I will give it to you immediately."

Yang Chongyi thought to himself, bringing the two prostitutes here, and then Wang Asong leading them away, it would be indecent for others to see them, and people who don't know the inside story may misunderstand the Yang family's prostitution, which is even more embarrassing.It's better to write a business card and order the family to take Wang Asong to the Wu family to lead the person, and bring back the banker's note, and the money and the goods will be paid. Wouldn't it be clean and neat. But when Wang Asong showed up at Wu's house, it would be a disaster!The servants of the Wu family recognized him, so they had to report to the master. Wu Shaosheng was very surprised!Because when Yang Chongyi asked for entrustment, he said in a high-sounding way that these two prostitutes each had benefactors, and they were all poor scholars. He just took advantage of the invitation of these two poor scholars and entrusted them to lead them on their behalf to fulfill their good relationship.Then I thought it was entrusted by Wang Asong!

When he was at a loss, the girl came to inform and said, "Please, old lady." When Wu Shaosheng got to the room, he saw the two prostitutes kneeling in front of the old lady, weeping uncontrollably.It turned out that they also got the news, and they had nothing to do, they had to come to Mrs. Wu, expressing that they would rather be "rough girls" in the Wu family than go back with Wang Asong. "You originally accumulated meritorious deeds, but now you take people who escaped from the fire pit and push them into the fire pit, isn't this a crime?" "Mom!" Wu Shaosheng rushed to say: "You don't need to talk anymore, old man! Where would I do such a shameful thing?"

Wu Shaosheng replied without hesitation and refused, saying that it was inconsistent with the original proposal and that it was difficult to follow orders.Yang Chongyi didn't want to have such a result, and was furious, his face was as purple as a pig's liver.The festival account that should be paid before the Mid-Autumn Festival, I told people categorically: "There must be after the festival!" It is because of the assurance of the two thousand oceans.Who knows that things that are sure and sure will change!In Yang Chongyi's mind, it was actually Wu Shaosheng who deliberately made things difficult for him.Why not avenge this revenge?

Revenge is still secondary, the person who wants to pay has already come to the door, how to deal with it is an urgent matter.After much deliberation, the only way to get the two prostitutes is to exchange money without losing "face".Of course, if you can't negotiate softly with Wu Shaosheng, you won't be able to say anything in the first place. Even if you say it out of shame, the Wu family will definitely refuse to agree. Why bother? Soft ones are not good, so we have to come to hard ones.Since the Ming Dynasty, the power of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River has been very heavy, and the local tyrants have bullied others. It used to be the custom to lead their families and destroy their enemies. Dong Qichang did such heinous things. Yang Chongyi is no better than Dong Qichang, why can't he do it?

So at around ten o'clock that night, Yang Chongyi sat in a plain sedan chair with a foreign gun in it, and led his family on the moonlit street, passing by like a gust of wind. Door.Looking out from the crack of the door, I happened to see Yang Chongyi holding a foreign gun in his hand, frightened out of his wits, rushing in in a panic, shouting: "It's not good! It's not good! Master Yang beat you!" Coming to the door!" "Why? Why?" Wu Shaosheng put down his pipe, got up and asked. This is tantamount to knowingly asking the truth, and there is no time to investigate the reason after the fact.Hearing the clamor outside, the only way to go out to negotiate is the top priority, but Wu Shaosheng is cowardly by nature, at this time he was trembling with fright, helpless.

Because the master didn't dare to show his face, Yang Chongyi's arrogance was further fueled. Standing in the hall of Wu's house, he shouted sharply, "Search for me!" The search was of course the two prostitutes.The old housekeeper of the Wu family was afraid that people from the Yang family would break into the upper room and frighten the old mistress, so he deliberately shouted: "Be careful in the lower room!" This is clearly pointing to the residence of the two prostitutes.The close relatives of Yang and Wu's two families are also familiar with many servants, knowing where the servant's house is located, they rushed in and found the person they were looking for without any trouble.A pair of young prostitutes who were frightened out of their wits were dragged away.

After leaving the gate of Wu's house, Yang Chongyi became wary, because the neighbors were alarmed, and they all went out to watch the excitement. Yang Chongyi was deeply afraid that someone would intervene, and his family would not be able to handle it, and his success would fail, so he didn't even bother to sit in a sedan chair, and escorted the team on foot, and cut off the queen himself. When they arrived at the residence, they found a strange thing. Wang Asong, who had been to Wu's house with the crowd, suddenly disappeared everywhere, and the reason was unknown.Yang Chongyi's urgency was no small matter, and he sent people to the mountain pond overnight to look for it, and waited for an answer.

At dawn, when there was an echo, Wang Asong said that he was gone!Admitting the bad luck, I will send a hundred oceans as a reward to "Master Yang for his hard work"! Yang Chongyi was furious, and he threw the thing he received hard, only to hear a "clang clang" sound, and the ground was covered with white money. "What a bastard!" Yang Chongyi jumped up and scolded, "I'm going to shoot him!" The family members who were sent there also benefited from Wang Asong, so they had to explain for him: "Speaking of which, master, I can't blame him completely..." It turned out that Wang Asong thought that after getting the two young prostitutes because of Yang Chongyi's face, he could beat and scold them as he wanted, but it didn't go well, and what was even more unexpected was that Yang Chongyi came up with such a hard way to grab them.The Wu family is also a big country gentry in Suzhou city, so they suffered a short-term loss, so how can they not take revenge?It seems that their relatives will become enemies.Initiate a lawsuit and investigate the cause. If you can't get rid of it yourself, it's better to get out as soon as possible. It's not bad to think about it.Wang Asong is just a commoner, and he is engaged in this kind of low profession. If he is detained in the court, the county magistrate must give him a slap and beat him first.No wonder he was scared.Yang Chongyi thought for a while and said: "Go and tell him, you will never go to court, forgive the Wu family for not dare!" "My lord," the family murmured, "I'm afraid he won't believe it." "How can I believe it?" Yang Chongyi broke his heart, "You tell him to take a look, I have to go to Wu's house to fight a game today! See if the Wu family dares to sue me? " Sure enough, Wang Asong had a different idea.But what about the Wu family?Are you really afraid to file a lawsuit?No one dared to say this.However, the result of keeping silent turned into an invisible support for the master's proposition. In addition to the rumors of this news, everyone said that Yang Chongyi was not only a gentleman, but also a rascal!It made him even more angry. "Call me a rascal, and I am a rascal! The Wu family is settled today. Hire 'thugs' for me!" He slapped his chest hard, "I'm the one who gets into trouble!" The master is like this, how dare the servants disobey him?What's more, there is such a custom, Sanxiao's "Aunt Lu" beats "Zhu Ahuzi"; Jade Dragonfly's "Ms. Shen beats Shen Junqing", as long as the beating is reasonable, it doesn't matter. This is not to find a rogue.Hooligans in Suzhou can be divided into two types, civil and military. The civilized ones are called "broken boot gangsters", because they wear long gowns and boots, and pretend to be a man in clothes. Skills.Wu's are the ruffians scattered in the downtown area, with raised eyebrows, waving their arms, and selling their ruthlessness. If they are looking for "thugs", this generation is them. At dusk, all twenty thugs were found, and Yang Chongyi rewarded him first with good wine and meat, while he was half asleep and half awake on the opium bed, closing his eyes and resting his mind.The bell struck nine times, and he got up from his knees. Holding his foreign gun, he led twenty thugs and seven family members, and ran to Wu's house for the second "killing". This momentum is different from the previous day!Twenty thugs were dressed in short clothes and legged trousers, with braids around their necks, and they all had weapons in their hands, either iron rulers or three-section cudgels. It was obvious at a glance that they were going to fight in groups. Therefore, as soon as this group of people entered Wu Chaofang, they caused a commotion.Undoubtedly, someone went to Wu's house to call the police, and hurriedly tried to close the door, but it was already a step too late! Yang Chongyi rushed forward, rounded the spear, and knocked away the door lamp of Wu's house, and then swept in like a gust of wind, hitting anyone and smashing things.The male and female servants of the Wu family begged for mercy and backed away, but Yang Chongyi stepped forward, looking at the foreign gun, and broke into the middle gate. "It's killing people!" The old butler of the Wu family shouted, risking his life to grab the spear from Yang Chongyi's hand. Even if the old housekeeper was like this, no matter how hard the Wu family's healthy servants backed down, they turned their backs to sumo, rushed forward, and hurriedly helped them hand over their guns.Of course Yang Chongyi wanted to resist, and grabbed the barrel of the gun tightly and grabbed it back. With too much force, he punched himself with a big bump on his forehead. At this moment, the sound of ping-pong-pong smashing things outside suddenly decreased, and then someone shouted: "Master Wu is here, Master Wu is here!" Everyone in the Wu family let go, Yang Chongyi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly roared: "Okay! You fight, you fight! The evil slaves are rampant and lawless. I want Master Wu to give me justice!" As he said that, he staggered and ran out, and when he was about to enter the hall, he suddenly remembered that there was something wrong with the gun in his hand!So he flicked his hand to the side, lifted the hem of the jacket, and flashed out from behind the marble screen with only one empty shelf left. "Old Patriarch," Yang Chongyi said angrily, "please have your injuries checked! Wu's evil slaves, lawless, insulting gentry, please be strict with the old patriarch." "Old man," Wu Xi said coldly, with a livid face, "what's the big deal? You're making too much noise!" "Old grandfather, you can't listen to one-sided words. I came to judge. The master avoided seeing each other, ordered the evil slaves to beat me up and wounded me. No matter what, I must ask the old grandfather to uphold justice." "Okay, okay! They are all respectable people in the local area, why teach people to read jokes?" "That's something that can't be helped! I'm going to accuse the Wu family's evil slaves, and I'm going to run amok, please forgive me, old grandpa!" "Don't say such things! I advise the old man to ask himself, it's better to let things go. If you really want to investigate, 'entering someone's house at night with a gun', what should be the crime? There are clear rules! Come on, don’t you understand?” "What?" Although Yang Chongyi's voice was harsh, he already looked a bit introverted, "Could it be that the old grandfather wants to treat me like a robber?" "How dare, how dare!" Wu Xi raised his face and asked, "Where are the people from the Yang family?" "Go, go!" A guard pushed a family member of Yang Chongyi forward: "The elder has something to say." The family had no choice but to bite the bullet and stepped forward. Wu Xi said with a sullen face, "It's all you bastards who pushed the master to come forward and caused troubles. How can you be sorry for your master. Why don't you hurry up and send your master back." "Yes, yes!" The Yang family members turned around and dragged Yang Chongyi, winking again and again as a warning: If you don't know what's going on, there will be no "falling position"!Ang Mang  Mang 毖 缫 缫 two moves  Ai  Cheng Cong oyster    file collapse pull out Yu Yong stop ∧ threshold ⌒ model ∥ Yiqin テ screen sink play  velvet party hard to grow ? "Zihe" is Wu Shaosheng's alias, he waited for Yang Chongyi to leave the gate before he dared to meet him, he was very respectful and thanked repeatedly, but his body was still trembling. "He Weng," Wu Xi comforted him and said, "You don't have to do this either! Please fill in the complaint, I will always handle it impartially!" "No, no! The old grandpa's kindness, I am very grateful. However, I and Yang Xinbo are close relatives, so I really don't want to get involved in the lawsuit." Wu Xi sighed: "He Weng, you are so honest! However, you don't want to get involved in a lawsuit, that's not what people think. I have to explain this dispute in business, unless the two of you reconcile, there is a written I'll file it there. Otherwise, he'll beat him up and say that I'm protecting He Weng. Do you think so, or not?" This is a necessary concern, and for Yang Chongyi as a person, it is also inevitable.Only by grabbing a plaintiff and gaining the upper hand first can we avoid future troubles.But Wu Shaosheng is too cowardly, no matter how encouraged by Wu Xi, he just refuses to file a lawsuit. "He Weng suffers voluntarily, and has nothing to do with others! However, He Weng also needs to think about it for his brothers, how to explain it in business affairs?" "Yes, yes! Of course the old grandpa can't be burdened. Apart from litigation, there should be some other way, but please tell me, I will obey you." "So," Wu Xi thought for a while and said, "Please He Weng write an abridgement of the cause and effect of this matter, and finally declare that he and Yang are close relatives, do not want to be involved in the lawsuit, and reconcile with each other. I have this abridgement in my hand." , Uncle Yang Xin came to see me, and I have something to deal with him." In this way, Wu Shaosheng was afraid that if Yang Chongyi's bad deeds were written down, he would offend others.After hesitating for a while, seeing the county magistrate's face was very ugly, he finally had no choice but to make an abbreviation lightly, and rewarded the guards' sedan chair class before sending Wu Xi away. On the second day, when Wu Xi was hesitating whether the case should be reported, a corner of the official document was sent by the vassal office. On the 6th and 17th, there was Ding You’s ex-Zhejiang alternate Taoist Yang Chongyi, armed with a gun, led the crowd, and went to Jiangning County at night to learn and discipline Wu Shaosheng’s family before he was banned from the third rank. There is no need to hesitate!Wu Xi immediately passed on the palanquin, and took the abridgement written by Wu Shaosheng to see the feudal chief. There are two vassals in Jiangsu province, one is the Jiangning vassal, which is a subordinate directly under the governor of Liangjiang, and the other is the Jiangsu vassal, which is stationed in Suzhou and under the command of the governor of Jiangsu.His name is Ruicheng, and his style name is Xinru. He is the grandson of Qi Shan, who lost his teacher and humiliated the country, after Lin Zexu was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he was mediocre, just like his ancestor.Just to marry Zai Ze's sister as his wife and get married, so she was released from the ministry and became a supervisor in a few years.At that time, he heard Wu Xi's face-to-face report. After reading the summary, he understood the facts of the case, but he couldn't come up with a solution. "The Wu family is a great gentleman, and Uncle Yang Xin is not easy to mess with. His son-in-law Li Guojie went to Beijing to pay respects to the Empress Dowager on her birthday. Maybe the Empress Dowager will summon him, and maybe he will mention this matter. We have to guard against this. .” "Yes!" Wu Xi replied, "However, it can be asserted that the song is in Yang. If your lord is concerned that Uncle Yang will not repent, or that there will be other incidents, it is better to explain it in detail." Rui Cheng thought for a while and said, "That's the only way!" So the feudal secretary applied for the governor.When the case reached this point, it had to be dealt with!Because the responsibilities of the big officials in the borderlands are different, if such a lawless matter can be ignored, then what is the so-called "comforting the people and improving the government and punishment"?Officials who correct and participate according to the facts will be severely condemned.Therefore, Chen Qitai, the governor of Jiangsu, sent a telegram to Duanfang, the governor of Liangjiang, to ask for a solution. The telegram sent at noon received a reply before dinner, calling Ruicheng to Jiangning to discuss the matter face to face.