[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

"Master Xing! Master Xing! Master Xing! Boss Xu was taken away by Grandpa Liang." Xing Wu and his wife slept in separate rooms. Hearing the shouts from outside, he hurriedly lit the candlestick, put on a piece of clothing and took it away. Candlesticks come out to view.

"What's the matter? Don't panic!" Xing Wu saw under the light, it turned out to be the patrol captain in the weaving field.Followed by his own concierge.

"Eunuch Liang came to the factory today to take Boss Xu away! Now that the factory has been sealed off, the younger ones don't know what to do? The younger ones have to come to the master!" Du Ruo said to Xing Wu when he was in the capital. I said to beware of the weaving bureau, but Xing Wu didn't care at that time, who knew they would really attack.

Fortunately, it's weekdays, and the work I do is still qualified, and I have already prepared for emergencies. "How are the workers doing now?"

"According to the original plan, the little ones have closed the various houses, and the servants in the mansion have not yet withdrawn. The villain dare not be self-sufficient, so I just invite them all to Yiyuan for a temporary rest." Xing Wu heard, Don't worry for a while, the workers' residences are easy to attack and difficult to defend, as long as someone looks at them and thinks about it, there will be no major problems.

"Wait for me first, and I'll come when I get dressed." After finishing speaking, he hurried to get dressed, the servant girl had already prepared all kinds of things, and she wanted to serve him to wash his face, but he couldn't wait up.

When he came out after dressing up, several men in the family had already tidied up and waited for him.Xing Wu quickly took them out.At the gate, he saw Nanny Song in Bai's house. Xing Wu knew that his wife in the backyard must have been alarmed, so he explained a few words and left.

When I arrived at the textile factory, I saw it was pitch black, only the burly men in green clothes held torches outside and patrolled in groups of three or four.

"Fire is the most difficult thing to guard against. The villain ordered people to extinguish the candles everywhere early, so that no sparks could be left. He also arranged sentry patrols. No matter who it is, no one is allowed to enter." A member of Wu's army, named Jia Ben, was originally from a good family, so Xing Wu found such an errand for him, and now it seems that he has done a good job.

Going inside to the meeting hall, I saw Xu Shilang, Xu Beiniang's confidant, walking around in a hurry, the accountant and others were also waiting there, there were only three or five candles in the room, and the people who illuminated them became more and more ghostly.Seeing Xing Wu coming in, everyone stood up, and Xu Shilang rushed to meet him.

"Brother Xing, Eunuch Liang bullies people too much. He not only wants to squeeze our family fortune, but also kills us!" Having seen the face of the Weaving Bureau, now that my sister is dead or alive, I don't feel indignant.

"So it's not Han Yi, Eunuch Han?" Han Yi was the previous weaving eunuch and Jiang Cong's subordinate. Jiang Cong naturally knew Du Ruo's favorite, and he got along very well with the textile factory and cooperated very smoothly.Textile factories do not operate in-house products, and mostly produce cheap and beautiful silk fabrics that are usually sold abroad. It has nothing to do with the weaving bureau, and the annual contribution is nothing more than that.

"Brother Xing doesn't know, Han Yi and Eunuch Han have been transferred this year, and the new one is Eunuch Liang Yuliang." After Xu Shilang finished speaking, he whispered in his ear: "I heard that this is He Ding. Eunuch He's men."

Xing Wu immediately knew that this was the third fire for the new official to take office. "Why is he staring at us?"

"You know Eunuch Han's character, so the people under him are naturally..." Han Yi is good in every way, but there is only one bad thing, he can only get in and out. He is living a good life, but the people under him are not living well. "Eunuch Liang asked us to accept 1 bolts of silk cloth, three taels and one bolt. The second sister talked about 12 bolts plus [-] taels of filial piety. It turned out that the promise was good, but I didn't expect him to suddenly attack. Today is the second mother. The host entertained him in Huifang Garden, but he said that our servants were disrespectful, and he had to make up for the gifts he stole from Lou before, a total of [-] taels of silver. Just detaining people and not letting go, isn't this robbery? ?”

"Did he just look for our family?" I just hope it's not just for my family, otherwise it will be difficult.

"That's not true. Boss Li, Boss Huang, and Boss Chu were all blackmailed in this way. It's just that some of them handed over the money in exchange for Ping An, while some refused and were still in a stalemate. Only our second mother was arrested. It is." It was Qin You, the accountant, who was the confidant of the two, "Before I came, I inquired, but it was just some means of smashing and smashing, and there was no kidnapping like here."

"I also asked about the name card of Xu's mansion, but they didn't let me in. I just said that Erniang had negotiated a business with them, and they would let Erniang back only with money." According to Xu Shilang's words, it's just that The money was extorted, but after all, the weaving bureau shouldn't behave like this, and Xing Wu's bad premonition is getting stronger and stronger.

"Does everyone know that I am back? Are the workers settled?" If someone does not know that he is back, and the only person in charge of the textile factory is not there, then...

Xing Wu was thinking about it here, when he heard someone outside yelling, "It's flooded! It's flooded!" I saw the fire in the southwest corner, and it was the worker's dormitory that caught fire.

"Sure enough, it's not good." Xing Wu looked at the rising flames and foresaw the scene in the next few days.I was tricked this time, but who is the person behind it? Does a newly appointed weaving supervisor really have the courage to challenge himself, a local snake?

Seeing the flames over there, Jia Ben was astonished and immediately said: "Master, forgive me, I have issued strict orders to prevent fire and chaos."

"Of course I saw it." Xing Wu thought quickly in his heart: Is it really as simple as setting a fire?Could it be this fire...

"Quick! Go! Don't just focus on putting out the fire, just watch the people and don't let them mess up! If you can't do it, just push down a part of the house and don't let them all burn. If it's really bad, don't let them save the burning things. , as long as no one is killed, my family will be compensated with ten taels of silver." Just setting fires will definitely have a limited effect, they must want to burn a lot of people, or burn people to death, or directly cause chaos, so They are easy to do.

The matter was urgent, and Xing Wu couldn't help thinking about the worst.If someone died or there was a mess, it would be hard to argue.

Jia Ben is also smart, he heard the confusion, and the word "dead" instantly understood the importance of the relationship, and hurried away.Jia Ben hurried over, and Xing Wu asked, "There's a fire over there, is there anyone watching over here?"

"Yes, people from the cattle team and the donkey team are watching here, and you can't go away even if it's a big deal." It is half of Du Ruo's property, and Du Ruo naturally manages it with modern requirements, and various contingency plans Well done.Now it seems that it is really effective, if it is someone else's workshop, I am afraid it will be messed up long ago.

"That's good, let them watch it. No one can come here to make trouble. Let's go and have a look." Xing Wu is in charge of the entire convoy, and the second person is a veteran of the car dealer named Zhang Zhao, who is not in the discussion Among the people in the hall, he is now in charge of affairs outside.Xu Shilang listened and sent a message to Zhang Zhao.

The entire textile factory is built along the river. In order not to cause too much pollution to the river, the worker’s dormitory here is only built [-] feet away from the river. It is also built along the river, and small canals are dug to divert the river water for fire prevention. .

It’s just that the plan was perfect, but the reality was for convenience. Everyone dumped the sewage in the small canal and planted two green vegetables beside the small canal.It didn't work a few times, so everyone let him go.The entire canal has been blocked long ago, and it is okay to pour vegetables when the water flows through it. How can such a big fire be extinguished?Everyone can only watch helplessly that the home they finally had was burned down again.

Ordinary people can't support themselves like this, let alone a refugee who has been wandering for several decades and finally found a home.Immediately, some people were irrational and caused trouble there, asking those above to give an explanation.

It was such a chaotic scene when Xing Wu came over.People who have been burned here are trying to put out the fire, but they are tightly held back. In the next to the unburned place, people are demolishing the house, and others are pouring water on it to create a isolation zone.There were also people nearby who refused to let them dismantle it, and those who were dying were also held back.

Xing Wu only wore a green cloth dress, and cut off a large beard when he returned to the capital, so everyone didn't recognize him.Looking from this side, it was really suspicious that a few people cowered there talking to this person for a while, and then went to those people for a while.Those who followed Xing Wu were all old men from Anding Hou's mansion back then, so they naturally understood, so they silently touched them and restrained them.

Fortunately, it was the beginning of March, the weather was not dry, and everyone responded in a timely manner, but only a dozen or so courtyards and more than forty families were burned down.

It's just that this is really suspicious, let's not talk about how it started, does the fire usually spread so fast?But three quarters of an hour already had this effect.

It's not easy for Xing Wu to come forward. If he comes forward and kills his words, there will be no room for loopbacks.Therefore, it was Xu Shilang and others who were busy there to appease everyone. They were busy until it was almost white, and then arranged those people to other people's homes one by one for a few nights. advised to leave here.It's just that no one is allowed to leave the textile factory to facilitate investigation.

After wandering around for a whole night, even if Xing Wu didn't decide the case, he saw some ways.Such a wet roof, how could it be completely burned? There are still a lot of unburned ones next to it, and it looks like it has been splashed with oil.

There are also those who spread rumors. They recruited after a fight, saying that someone took money and asked them to do it.And where the fire started, it was just a single man, already burned.He was the only one killed in the fire.

"Master, why don't you take a rest for a while." The following young man persuaded, seeing the dark circles around his master's eyes.

"At the moment of life and death, you have to do your best." Xing Wu sighed, "Let's go, change your clothes and go meet this Eunuch Liang."

The author has something to say: The next few chapters are about the trip to the south of the Yangtze River.