"Alas, if you want me to say, it's better to dismantle it! Look at the wall, low and broken, what else can it do? Especially at the city gate, you have to wait in line for a few incense sticks every day, you haven't suffered this kind of hardship! ”

"That is, if the city wall is demolished, it will be much more convenient to go to the concession in the future. Now that the empire is stable, who said that there are still thieves? Talking nonsense will pull you to see the official. ”

"Hey, ignore them. It's just that his family lives by the city wall, and he is worried that the city wall will be demolished by the way. If the house built by the city wall is built as soon as possible, it can be demolished by itself, or the yamen can ask someone to demolish it, and after the city wall is demolished, the yamen will build the house and arrange compensation. ”

"So that's the case, and it will be compensated, the villain is relieved. Tear it down, tear it down quickly, build a big house for the villain and marry a daughter-in-law. ”

“……”

In the streets and alleys around the west of the city, a large number of people were talking about it, gathering around the city gate, waiting.

Finally, at noon, thousands of soldiers from the direction of the county government came, shouldering peach-colored wooden-handled muskets, all wearing uniform military uniforms in winter, and marching majestically and majestically towards the west of the city. Suddenly, the crowd who had just said that they were going to the county government to petition and make trouble were all silent, and the sound of not letting the city wall be demolished disappeared at once, and after a silence, I don't know who broke out into a shout: "Long live the emperor is also here." So, the crowd began to get out of control and crowded one after another, and the people all looked in the direction of the city to see if there was an emperor's royal ride. However, what is disappointing is that there is no shadow of the emperor's imperial ride on the main street leading to the county office.

At this moment, suddenly a sharp-eyed person pointed to the city tower and shouted: "Long live the Lord is there, Long Live Lord is really fortunate to be in our Shanghai county!" ”

Everyone looked up one after another, only to see a vermilion canopy appear on the tower of the city wall of the West Gate, and hundreds of soldiers of the Royal Forest Army in black uniforms surrounded a middle-aged man wearing a golden crown and came to the gate of the city tower.

Under the city walls, some of the people who were close to the city tower had already been isolated by the soldiers of the beleaguering army on duty. However, at this moment, the crowd was surging, and just when the soldiers of the captured army were in danger, I don't know who took the lead in shouting "Long live the emperor!" Suddenly, thousands of people outside the city shouted long live.

Feng Yunshan, who was standing in the city tower, looked at the thousands of people under the city wall with emotion, all centered on the crowd directly below the city gate, and gradually spread to the surroundings like a multi-bone noir effect, and they knelt on the ground one after another, and shouted in unison: "Long live the emperor!" Take a closer look, isn't the person in the center of the city gate just below the Shanghai County Magistrate Zhang Zhidong and others! I couldn't help laughing, this Zhang Zhidong. But as soon as he raised his head again, looking at the dense crowd of people and sincere shouts in the distance, Rao is Feng Yunshan had experienced countless grand scenes, and he was still a little agitated, secretly thinking that he was risking being assassinated, and it was finally worth it.

Liu Shengbang on the side nervously protected the emperor, worried, he was against the emperor showing up, although it was temporary, even if someone tried not to be tricky, it was too late to prepare for the assassination, but he still had to be careful, let Feng Yunshan stay in a special bulletproof gold crown and special bulletproof armor, and then dispatched hundreds of dead soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army to surround and protect them closely.

Feng Yunshan raised his hands and pressed them down, and suddenly under the entire city wall, the seven or eight thousand people who were watching were silent. This made Feng Yunshan very satisfied. This was a spontaneous act of the people, and it was not rehearsed without any arrangement, which shows that the people trusted and admired him, and only in this way can it be explained.

"My people, all be flat!" Feng Yunshan shouted, but under the empty city tower, few people could actually hear it, but fortunately, the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army behind him had already prepared, and shouted in unison under the command of Liu Shengbang, spreading the emperor's will far away.

The sound of Qi brushing came and went, and the people got up one after another, and after a full two minutes, under the pressure of Feng Yunshan's hands again, they quieted down again.

Feng Yunshan directly announced: "Today's announcement from the Shanghai County Government that it is my will to demolish the county city wall!" From today onwards, anything like the county town of Shanghai, where the city wall obstructs traffic and makes it difficult for commercial ports to be built, can be demolished and roads can be built, so that the inside and outside of the city and countryside will be smooth and straight, and it will be convenient for the people. What I want is not only to demolish this ancient city wall, but also to demolish the city wall in everyone's hearts! Folks, this city wall, just like the decaying Manchu Dynasty and old vices and old ideas, to demolish it today is like overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty, but also to abandon the hierarchy, and all living beings are equal! Gossip short, where is County Magistrate Zhang? ”

Feng Yunshan didn't care how many people understood, and he didn't care whether what he said had any effect or not, he just said it in one breath, and as for the rest, leave it to future generations to comment. Perhaps, one day in the future, when everyone is truly equal, there will be historians who will translate out their words today, or call them the demolition of the prison cage of the wall of thought.

Without waiting for Feng Yunshan to continue, Zhang Zhidong under the city gate had already stood up, bowed to the ground, and waited for his dispatch.

"When the hour comes, demolish the city immediately!" Feng Yunshan, who came to his senses, made an order.

"Wechen obeys!" Zhang Zhidong replied loudly.

The people have no doubts in their hearts at the moment, just kidding, the emperor has personally come out to explain, how can these ordinary people usually have the opportunity to see the face of the sky, and now they can see the emperor's figure with their own eyes (in fact, they just see a canopy), they are already very excited, where can they still take care of opposition.

Not long after, the canopy on the tower disappeared, and the people below understood that the emperor had left. Despite this, they still talked a lot, discussing how terrifying the emperor's majesty was, scaring whose kid peed his pants, and whose little daughter-in-law who loved to cry shut her mouth, etc., and prepared to go home and talk about the things she witnessed with her relatives and neighbors, so that they could envy her.

At this time, groups of soldiers and police divisions ran over, and under the command of the county magistrate Zhang Zhidong, they drove all the people near the city gate half a mile away, which meant that the demolition of the city wall began.

The crowd was noisy. A quarter of an hour later, there was a sudden crisp cannon shot, and everyone woke up to the fact that it was exactly three o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhang Zhidong, the county magistrate of Shanghai in the middle of the crowd, gave an order, and the demolition of the city wall officially began.

Then, fifty meters away from the city gate, under a section of the city wall, suddenly there was a loud noise, the stones rolled, but it was the soldiers of the capture army who had already planted explosives in the foundation under the city wall, and the explosion sounded on time at this moment, and the originally somewhat decaying city wall was blown and overturned, and the city wall that was not too strong and not too high collapsed. This scene shocked the people watching from afar.

As soon as the sound fell, before the large cloud of dust and soot landed, hundreds of young and strong people who had been preparing for a long time shouted forward.

In the late winter, Shanghai is still a little cold, and the water vapor exhaled from the mouths of the young people who are armed with hammers, chisels, iron pestles, hoes and pickaxes will turn into a cloud of white mist when it encounters the cold, snorting among the crowd. Even the onlookers could feel a strange excitement, and the young people who demolished the city wall were shouting, and the pleasure of destruction was rising.

With Zhang Zhidong's order again, the young men were divided into several teams, and between the hammer and pickaxe, the hammer and hoe fell, the masonry collapsed, and the dust rose everywhere, and the city wall, which had been blown open with a gap, was torn apart in a blink of an eye A hole larger than the city gate was opened. As more young people dragged their shoulders to clean up the remnants of the wall, it didn't take long for a long section of the city wall to collapse. And this scene, in the hearts of everyone who came to the audience, many people felt that something that had been shackled somewhere in their hearts for a long time also collapsed and could not be forgotten for a long time......