New Shun 1730

After being dragged into the house, Cai Shishi was not too afraid, it was nothing more than death.

The two officers followed Cai Shishi. Perhaps because Cai Shishi was swearing and swearing just now, the two officers wanted to make him suffer a little, and they squeezed his shoulders very hard.

Liu Yu pulled up a chair and sat down, and asked straight to the point: "Do you believe in foreign religions? Do you believe in many of the people who work together? Are there any who preach among the miners?"

Cai Fifteen snorted coldly and said: "If the Imperial Envoy wants to kill, he will kill, and if he wants to chop, he will cut into pieces. If you expect me to betray others, the Imperial Envoy should be spared. If I beg for mercy for every good person in the official position, I am not a good man."

When Liu Yu heard this, he smiled and said: "It seems that when you were in Huizhou Prefecture, you were oppressed by the collusion between officials and gentry? You have no trust in the imperial envoys of the imperial court. Why, you have never seen the imperial envoys and Qingtian, the governor of the Eight Prefectures. A show about the great master making decisions for the people?”

He didn't ask Cai Shishi what he had experienced in Huizhou Prefecture, but he could make a good guess. The form may be different, but the essential difference is not big. In Wendeng, we have seen tens of thousands starving to death, and we have seen gold mines colluding with the government. Sometimes things at the bottom are far beyond our imagination.

Cai Shiwu really didn't believe Liu Yu's words at all. He raised his head and held his neck without saying a word.

"If you don't tell me, then you have faith. Some of the new people who have come to work in the past few years must have come from Macau."

Cai Shiwu, who was still holding his head high and making up his mind not to say a word, felt a little strange in his heart. Didn't he want to shoot himself? Why did you ask about Macau?

There were indeed a few people working together from Macau, and there was indeed someone who was secretly preaching, but that man was also a good man, well-literate, and it was said that he had once been a scholar, but was expelled from his job because of his religious beliefs. He is a generous and righteous man, and he is a true man. If he dies, he will die, but he cannot do such a thing to betray a true man.

Thinking about it again, I thought, could it be that the imperial minister is not looking for me? But the imperial court banned religion and came here specifically to find those who preach?

Thinking this way, I became more and more determined not to say a word. It's just that the worst thing you can do is die, but if you implicate others before you die, you'll have others stabbing you in the spine, you won't have a good reputation, and you're not a good man.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Liu Yu had an idea. If not, definitely say no. This kind of asking without answering obviously exists, and he seems to have a good reputation. Otherwise, if there was a conflict or something, he would have said it directly.

He pointed to the chair next to him and motioned for him to sit down.

Cai Shiwu was not polite on his face and sat on the chair openly. I thought that although it was customary to have a meal before death, I had never heard of such a pleasant person. This was trying to induce me to talk, but I refused to say anything. If you ask me to sit down, I will sit down, but if you ask important questions, I won't answer a word.

Liu Yu, who was opposite, took out a box of cigarettes, took one for himself, and threw the rest away.

He struck a match and lit it. Cai Shiwu, who saw a match for the first time, looked surprised, but without asking any questions, he struck it hard like Liu Yu did. After all, it was the first time he used a match and he broke it. Not lit.

The officer beside him smiled, and seeing that Liu Yu's attitude did not seem like he wanted to kill him, he helped him cut a cigarette and lit a cigarette made in Weihai.

After taking two puffs, Liu Yu stood up, walked behind Cai Shiwu, and patted Cai Shiwu on the shoulder. Just as Cai Shishi was about to turn around, he held him down and twisted him back.

This feeling of not being able to see other people's expressions made Cai Shiwu very uncomfortable. Although he was a practicing practitioner, the officers around him were big and round, and they were obviously killed in a sea of ​​blood and corpses. The most important thing was that the officers all had short guns on their waists. Cai Shiwu also knew that no matter how powerful his fists and feet were, he could not defeat the muskets, so he had to endure it. I feel itchy to look back.

The voice came slowly from behind.

"It is true that I am not here today to investigate cases and hear injustice like in the story in the play. I have no control over the affairs here. This is no longer the Xuanwei Department of Old Port, and the court has no control here. I just asked casually Just a few words, how are you guys doing here? You can tell me, right?

Cai Shiwu thought to himself, what can't be said?

"You live like a dog. What else can you do? One person dies every three to five days. It's too hot here and it's easy to get sick. You have to rely on people to go down the wells and drain water. A strong man can only support it for five or six years, and most of them will be turned into opium. If you are a ghost, you are not far away from death.”

"Do you eat a lot of opium?"

"The Imperial Envoy has never worked or worked in the mines. After carrying ore for a day in the mine for three to five years, my whole body hurts. The pain is so severe that I can't straighten my back. Come on now, stop the pain and continue working. You owe the mine owner a lot of money. If you don’t work, you will die. How can you work if you don’t take some opium to relieve the pain?”

"Everyone has a certain amount that must be completed every day. If you don't take opium, you can't stop the pain in your waist and back, and you can't finish the work. Or if you get sick, you can stop the pain by taking some. You have to work to live, you all know If you eat too much of that stuff, you will die if you eat it for a long time. But if you die early, you should die later, right? It’s better to die than to live.”

"Better to die than to live?" A rhetorical question came from behind, which sounded a bit mocking.

"It's better to die than to live. This is not what a hero should say. Don't you want to lead the brothers to have a grand fight?"

Cai Shiwu, who was a little dizzy after being asked, suddenly came to his senses. As expected, he got to the key point of the question and immediately shut up.

But I thought in my heart, let’s do it? Of course I'm ready to do it. If it hadn't been for you, the court's hawks and dogs, coming, we would have done it.

Sooner or later, he will die, either from exhaustion or from taking too much opium and turning into a ghost-like person, so he might as well fight. Even if you die, you will have a good time before you die.

When he lowered his head and said nothing, Liu Yu appeared in front of him like a ghost, with a smile on his face.

"Okay, I can see that you are indeed planning to do something. But there is something you have to figure out. What is the purpose of making trouble? What kind of results are you trying to achieve?"

"As long as your family has three to five acres of land, you probably won't be able to go down this road to Nanyang. Or, like you, you might be carrying a murder case. It's unlikely that you will go back to your hometown, right? So what are you planning to do? The result? It’s easy to do it, as long as you’re not afraid of death, but what happens after you do it?”

These words immediately shocked Cai Shiwu, thinking that the imperial envoy is an expert?

He couldn't help but said: "The imperial envoys are considered experts. This kind of thing is a matter of life and death. If you want to do it, just kill them."

"Otherwise, even if they agree for the moment, they still won't look for opportunities to kill you in the future? Regarding the mine, which mine doesn't have many lives? There is no shortage of people in the mine. The people selling people in Macau are selling people every year. There are plenty of people coming to deliver the goods.”

"Either you don't do it, or you kill him directly. If I don't kill him, he will kill me."

Liu Yu shook his head and smiled: "You still haven't mentioned the key point. Even if you kill them, what will you do next?"

"Uh...after?"

After one sentence, Cai Shishi shut his mouth and stopped talking.

Liu Yu's heart skipped a beat and he was done thinking.

This does not mean being stuck, overwhelmed, or ignorant.

Someone clearly asked "What happens after we do it?", so Cai Shishi shut up tightly.

He has been thinking about similar things over the years, and he can be considered an expert in rebellion and uprising at this time. After thinking about Bangga's situation for a while, he felt that there were not many routes that could convince everyone.

It can convince people and prove its feasibility. Those who can put forward a feasible program must at least have some cultural background. Among the miners, the most likely to be Catholics from Macau are Catholics.

The turmoil over the ban on Christianity has made Macau a mixed bag.

"Emperor Taizu of this dynasty started the imperial examination, established the official system, and exempted from tax for three years from Xi'an. Since then, it has been very different from before. You only know how to resist, but you don't know what you will do after you finish it, and whether you will succeed. Even if you are thinking about killing people and setting fires, it is better than just knowing how to do it and not knowing what will happen after you are done. Some people figure out what to do in the future?”

Cai Shishi remained silent, and Liu Yu deliberately sarcastically said: "If you don't have a program, you are a bandit. If you take it one step at a time, nothing will happen. Even if you have been thinking about recruiting people from the beginning, you know what to do. You guys If nothing happens, doesn’t that mean people’s death is in vain?”

"Everyone claims to be a hero, but they ask people to die in vain, just for temporary happiness. To say you are a thief is to praise you."

Cai Shiwu sneered and said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to provoke the generals. We have our own program, so there is no need for the Imperial Envoy to worry about it. Besides, I have also heard the story of Emperor Taizu. Wasn't it just because he couldn't survive that he raised the army in the first place? , is it possible that he is not a hero?”

After hearing that there was indeed a program, Liu Yu frowned, pulled up a chair and sat very close to Cai Shiwu, and asked: "I won't joke with you. You may not know my name, but I am He led tens of thousands of soldiers to defeat Rakshasa, Junggar, and Japanese In my eyes, whether you start an uprising or not is nothing more than a trivial matter. In my eyes, these mining companies are nothing but bullshit. I am the deputy minister of the Privy Council. You really think that I can control those mining companies. To deal with you?"

"I stayed in Panga, just waiting for the Dutch to prepare for the reception. Staying here is very boring, just looking for fun. We will not interfere in anything here. If we really want to interfere, this island will be as big as a slap in the face. How many people are enough to kill the Mongols? Or the Japanese?

"We will leave in a few days. We will neither help you nor them. I just have nothing to do to have fun. Tell me, I will listen and give you some advice, so I can see if there are some among you. figure."

"To put it bluntly, you also escaped from China. You also know about China's affairs, and you don't even think about it. If Bangga was a big-ass place, if it were in China, it would not even disturb Huizhou Prefecture. But Huizhou Prefecture When Yin comes to my house, he may not be able to pass the concierge level."

"This group of miners have been in Old Port for a long time. Yelang is arrogant. Do you really think that the imperial envoys of the Celestial Dynasty are the same as the imperial envoys of the Sultan of Old Port? Can you care about such nonsense?"

"It's just for fun. What does your life and death, and the life and death of the mine owners, have to do with me? It's no different from watching cockfights or cricket fights."

"Tell me about it. I told you, I will give you a way out. I will never care about what happens here and we will not help each other. I am easy to talk about and I am also a very powerful official in the Celestial Dynasty. I carry my orders and keep my word."