In the tenth year of Wanli, Hangzhou City.

As the sky turned clear, the pedestrians in short-dressed shirts raised fire to drive away the fog. The follower holding the food box opened the crossbar in the telegraph room. The wooden door creaked, and the food box broke all over the floor. The sound of the porcelain plate smashing into his ears. Someone shouted: "The person is gone, go and report to Mr. Ding, Guo San is running away!"

Guo San was a former servant in the Telegram Room of Hangzhou Prefecture, so he mastered an expired telegram cipher.

The Mr. Ding they mentioned was Ding Shiqing, the thief who sent to Beijing with expired secret texts. He was not a refugee in Hangzhou City in Guo San's telegram. He was a student and worked as a teacher in the social school in Lifang, Chengdong, Hangzhou for more than 20 years.

However, the majority of the people who gathered around Ding Shiqing in Hangzhou who were indignant and were refugees in the consciousness of officials.

If divided in detail, first of all, these people have no fields outside the city and no industries inside the city; secondly, they have lived in the city for a long time, mainly composed of various short-term workers and travelers, and their identities can be summarized as proletarian citizens.

In the southeast, the people have a high literacy rate, dense population, and prosperous urban handicrafts and service industries have given birth to a large number of proletarian citizens who are idle and idle. In some cities, there will be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people who make a living by this.

At this moment, a few ticking sounds sounded from the empty telegraph room, and the copper bell hanging at the door rang. Then, the telegraph machines in the room sounded one after another, painting very short but coherent symbols on the paper.

The anxious Ding Shiqing limped in the busy schedule and was surrounded by everyone to the telegraph room. Han Jin, who followed him, was a powerful man from Kong Wu, with his shirtless upper body full of strong muscles, and the young young people who followed about the two of them were all educated by Ding Shiqing in Donglifang Society.

It’s just that different people have different time to study. Most of the teachers in ancient China have the character of being a cultural person, but are not influenced by the official career. While they are highly respected by their neighbors, most of them do not educate people carefully for money.

The biggest obstacle for ordinary people to obtain culture is not poverty, but whether the family has a long-term vision and whether the family lacks labor.

Just like Han Jin, his name was all from studying under the name of Ding Shiqing, the so-called Han Da. Later, Ding Shiqing said that in ancient books, he described a person's character. Huai Jin held Yu and had a beautiful jade appearance, so he handed the name to Han Da, so he encouraged him.

But Han Jin only stayed in school under Ding Shiqing for half a year, but because his father was sick, he went out to work, groom, veterinarian, transport goods, raise dogs on behalf of others, and do whatever he could make money.

Ding Shiqing didn't care about Guo San running away from the telegraph room. Now he had too many things to worry about him and didn't care about the little man Guo San. However, Guo San ran away and no one understood the telegraph, which gave him a headache and had to ask someone to take the secret text found in the telegraph room to compare word by word.

"Sir, we can't control those idle rogues. It's better to join the government army. Even if the court sends troops to suppress them, they can resist... and will not become fish."

Han Jin said this and his beard and hair were wide open, and he clenched his fists and looked excited: "Who is not a life? At worst, he will fight with those dog officials to the end!"

"No!"

Ding Shiqing, wearing a plain robe, stood among the young and strong, with his hair and beard a little abrupt, but frowned and scolded his disciples for their majesty: "A little bit of flesh and blood is nothing. We just want to dismiss the night patrol, so why should we rebel?"

It would be fine if Ding Shiqing didn't say it. As soon as he finished speaking, Han Jin's big and thick man was about to shed tears and said with his fists: "Can you dismiss it? The student Shang Tongzishi went for his neighbors. From the 38th year of Jiajing to the 5th year of Wanli, the teacher worked hard for the people and was brave enough to make suggestions. Only then did he teach the night patrol to abolish it. The monument was still standing in the city, but now he doesn't keep his word."

"You went to Beijing for the people to sue the emperor, and not only did you say that you were deceived by the officials, but you were still imprisoned when you returned to Hangzhou. The teacher was fifty years old. Those jailers were so cruel that they broke the teacher's leg bones?"

When talking about this, how could Ding Shiqing not hate him? But he smiled and said, "How many years can he survive in an old age? It doesn't matter if he has legs but no legs, let alone if he can still leave... What did the telegram say?"

In the master and apprentice room, the clever young man in the telegraph room was already running out quickly with the paper roll in his hand, and bowed to Ding Shiqing to present the paper roll. He knelt down not to respect, but was scared. The young man's hands raised up were all trembling with his legs below.

"Telecom, telegram said, "It's better to see, sir, the student dare not say it."

"What's wrong..."

Ding Shiqing was just surprised at first, and held the paper scroll with crooked handwriting and was not easy to recognize in his hand. Just one glance, he could hold it in his hands as if he had been imposed on a fixed body, and his expression was particularly wonderful.

There were two paragraphs written on the paper. The first paragraph was: Telegram Hangzhou. No matter where the person who received the report was, they would restrain the military and civilians. They would quickly find Shangyu Ding Shiqing and ask him to reply. I waited in the telegram room. The reply was not stopped from happening in various places. Before replying, no one was arrested or killed. The violators were implicated in the nine tribes.

The second paragraph has only eight words: I am Yijun, why are you making trouble?

This is so familiar to look up.

When did you wish you a happy New Year, you won’t see this name?

However, the eight words weigh a thousand equal parts, which is enough to scare people.

Han Jin, who was still rebelling, had a very little regret, and he kept silent and traveled on the telegram and Ding Shiqing's face with no words.

Ding Shiqing was stunned for a moment, and then the old face regained a strong vitality. He said happily: "Compare the secret text quickly and repay Your Majesty. There is a turning point in the night patrol. If it were Your Majesty, you would definitely be exempted from the night patrol."

Two days later, in the Forbidden City, the eunuchs in the telegraph room rushed into the palace, but they didn't even send the cabinet. They knew that the emperor's grandfather had been waiting for the telegraph for two days, and they didn't even go to Tsinghua Park. They specially ordered the telegraph room to report the letter quickly.

What was delivered to Wanli was a long letter with a very old and long statement, which clearly depicted a tax levy in Hangzhou from the 24th year of Jiajing to the tenth year of Wanli.

This incident occurred in response to Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, the General Arc Fire Man system was established to inspect local night security. Scholars and foreign businessmen who were famous were exempted from this battle. The night patrol service was responsible for ordinary people and it was difficult to rest.

Over time, the people of Hangzhou proposed to pay taxes based on the housing area, with the upper, middle and lower levels, and use silver instead of service, and use this part of the money to hire people to patrol overnight.

In this way, ordinary people can get rest, unemployed vagrants can get jobs, and earn some money to support their families, so that everyone can be satisfied.

Until the Jiajing period, Japanese pirates were rampant, and Hangzhou City added Baojia to ensure safety. In addition to taking turns to guard the situation, Baojia was also responsible for night patrols, and the expedient measures became a common practice. The people obviously paid taxes on space, but they were still responsible for night patrols.

At that time, Ding Shiqing, who was teaching in Hangzhou, repeatedly wrote to the local governments, hoping to improve the matter. He ran for eighteen years, whether to beat the injustice drum or stop the horse in the street, until the fifth year of Wanli, Hangzhou City finally abolished the night patrol of the people and erected monuments in the city as evidence.

After reading this page, the emperor couldn't help but wonder, since it was abolished, why would there be another civil rebellion?
Chapter completed!