The air in Jiao County has been a little nervous recently.

The reason for the nervousness was that a riot occurred in a vassal army stationed outside the city recently. The riots rushed into the city, occupied the granary, opened the arsenal, and took the division commander Du's family hostages, which had a very bad impact for a while.

After the riot, the minions and new troops stationed on the Jiaolai Xinhe defense line immediately dispatched to the site of the incident. In addition, a mixed army battalion in Jiaozhou Port, the important town of Denglai was also ordered to dispatch to Jiaoxian to quell the rebellion.

Jiao County is located on the east bank of Jiaolai Xinhe River and was relocated from the original site of the west bank (the Qing Dynasty re-established the new county on the original site of Jiao County, that is, there are currently two Jiao County in Laizhou, and both sides have one of them). At that time, the people on the east bank demolished the city wall there and moved the people collectively to the east bank of the river to resettle. It has gradually developed into a county with a population of 70,000 to 80,000, which is quite good.

From this we can see that Jiao County is a major river defense center, and the key to the canal is not an exaggeration. Therefore, when the rioters rushed into the city, imprisoned their division commanders, and opened the arsenal, the surrounding garrisons were suddenly mobilized and surrounded Jiao County.

The riot troops were Du Dawei's troops of the 7th Division of the Servant Army, with a total of about 3,500 people. They were the troops of Du Chong, the "Mule Army" (Du Dawei was his son) who was incorporated by General Mo in the four Western prefectures. Most of them were cavalry. This troops fought for the east coast south and north for many years, participated in many battles in Ningbo, and participated in the famous Huai'an Prefecture Battle, not to mention the countless battles they fought with the Qing army in Shandong. They can be called a powerful brigade.

This wave of military dismantling and reorganization of the servants, this old army was also affected. They were informed by Yantai that the troops would be sacked as a whole in mid-1691, and at that time, except for a few, most of them would be forced to move to two small colonies in India. This suddenly ignited the anger of the soldiers: Everyone lived well in Jiao County and made great contributions to the Great East Coast for many years. Unexpectedly, they were treated so badly that they would exil to the miasma land at the end of the world. How could this not be angering?

So, the angry soldiers mutinied. They rushed into the city and fired guns. The police did not dare or were unable to stop them. They could only watch them occupy various key points in the city, and tried their best to protect the county government from being captured by the rioters. At the same time, they sent elite personnel out to report the news. That's all.

Fortunately, these rioters are also very restrained. They do not want to burn, kill, loot, after all, they are all from the villagers. They look up and look down and cannot take action. They make trouble, but they want to express one demand, that is, they do not want to be at will, they do not want to go to India where birds do not shit, and they are only willing to stay in their hometown.

There were about 3,500 people, and less than 2,000 people participated in the mutiny, while the remaining people were stopped in the barracks by officers and did not go out to participate. In addition, they were more out of righteous indignation, and they did not think about what to do before the trouble, nor did they have a careful plan. Therefore, they were quickly suppressed by the army that rushed to the news and did not wait for the Blue-clothed Army to arrive. The new army that drove from Jiaolai Xinhe broke up the chaotic army and the situation was quickly pacified within two days.

Yantai's special envoy is currently on the way. According to internal sources, the officers who cause trouble will be miserable and will be convicted of being tried and convicted. The leaders may even be shot. As for other ordinary soldiers, they are probably going to go, that is, those places in India have been decided! This is related to the dignity of Yantai, not to mention that they are now prisoners, and they have no choice but to act as orders.

However, as the military police officials who were sitting in Jiaozhou City writing a report mentioned that the mutiny of the 2,000 people of the 7th Division of the Servant Army has reminded the upper class of Denglai, that is, the policy should not be too arrogant in the future, but should be realistic and down-to-earth. The captain and commanders always consider the policy in a comprehensive way, and often do this and that, and often damage the interests of the local people. For example, when the 3,000 Ding family in Ye County were laid off, many of them were moved to Brunei in Nanyang to settle down. Do you think all these people are willing? Furthermore, in recent years, Denglai has transported a large amount of food, livestock and other materials to support wars in Ningbo, Lianwu, Manchuria and Mongolia. Are you willing to do it when the people of Denglai are? The tax paid by the local people to you is to build a place and consolidate national defense. As a result, you are all used to squander the war. How can you not make people angry?

In short, for many years, except for the earthquake that year, Denglai was basically in a state of being asked for help and did not have much benefit. Therefore, many local people are dissatisfied. They are also living people, and they also have their own emotions and ideas. They are not puppets and puppets, and whatever others say is like playing games. The entire territory of Denglai has basically ended military control. Now everyone is asking for more things. I hope that when formulating policies, the pioneer team will incorporate their opinions more and consider their dignity and demands more (don't be arrogant and don't treat people as humans). Otherwise, the mutiny of the two thousand people in the Seventh Division in the future may continue to take place.

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Coincidentally, just when the Denlai Development Team was reviewing the policy because of the mutiny of the servant soldiers, a group of merchants were also gathering and discussing in a private garden in Dinghai Port of Ningbo Prefecture. Their discussion was mainly about how to unite and put pressure on the Taiwan Bank, requiring this giant monopoly enterprise to delegate power and allow them to trade directly with foreign merchants. To put it bluntly, in the past, they had to sell goods to the Dutch, and then the Taiwan Bank had to settle with foreign merchants. Not only was the funds suppressed, but they also lost a considerable profit margin. Therefore, they really didn't want the Taiwan Bank to continue to peel off and wanted to do it alone.

Of course, they all know what kind of company Taiwan Bank is. It is precisely because of this that they thought of uniting and negotiating with Taiwan Bank. In this way, the heavy pressure from Taiwan Bank can be shared by everyone, which will be much easier.

The reason they had this idea was because Ningbo had been peaceful for many years, and the rulers who had killed them and were in charge of life and death, and were now gradually integrated with them. To be more precise, they were slowly integrated into the ruling system of the East Coast people, and you and I had you. For example, whose nephew is a cadre in the police station, whose son works in the county government, whose relatives are an officer in the army, etc. Many positions in the middle and lower levels of Ningbo have been slowly penetrated by them, such as them. Even though many local students have selected many scholars from the Corps and Forts to serve, it is still far from enough, let alone once these scholars have married and had children in the local area and have their own social circle, localization will inevitably be achieved.

This is not to say that localized cadres are not good. In fact, many local cadres in Denglai and Ningbo are willing to obey the instructions of their superiors and complete their work well under the current situation. The most important difference between localized cadres and foreign cadres is that they are unwilling to do things that harm local interests in order to please their superiors. They will take more care of local areas when implementing policies, which is completely different from foreign airborne cadres.

The Ningbo merchants collectively discussed trade autonomy this time, which was not only a matter of foreign trade, but also a test of Ningbo local forces' ruling forces on the East Coast. Years of good foreign trade gave Ningbo merchants sufficient confidence (accumulated a lot of capital) and enhanced their confidence. Many people even felt that they had run silk reel factories, textile factories, tea factories, rice mills, oil presses, etc., not only produced a large amount of goods, but also created a lot of taxes for the government. Therefore, they subconsciously felt that the East Coast ruling class should give them more autonomy and further enhance their political status, so that they could repay their contributions.

In the past, the conditions for this kind of test were not mature and destined to have no results. But now the situation is very different from those ten or twenty years ago. Their capital strength is becoming increasingly strong, and the positions of local governments have been penetrated by them. Even the new army has some of their people. In such a "good situation", it is time to make some suggestions for power distribution, which undoubtedly requires testing the bottom line from the trade monopoly on Taiwan banks.

As a large syndicate company, Taiwan Bank has not heard any news. In fact, they are very well-informed and have received news about this in a few days before. The company once held a heated discussion, but in the end it was just a discussion. Nothing happened. The reason why they have not yet jumped out to object, probably because they need to take goods from these Ningbo merchants and are controlled by others.

This matter will eventually be resolved by compromise and negotiation. Ningbo has developed to this point and can no longer ignore the interests of local merchants and officials without restrictions. It seems that the correct way to do it, together with these emerging forces, make the cake bigger and stronger and redistribute the proportion of interests therein.
Chapter completed!