Chapter 342: Tight Strings
ps: Three shifts tonight, and I will make up for it tomorrow
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Under the city, torches gradually lit up in the army of the Green Dragon King, and the dense torches stretched far away, with no end in sight.
After Xiao Ming reported his identity, whispers gradually sounded among the people in the city.
Last year, the news of Xiao Ming's expulsion of the barbarians had already spread throughout the Great Chongqing Kingdom with the newspapers, and many people knew about it.
The young man put away his arrogant demeanor, he burrowed back into the crowd, and after a while he turned and returned, followed by a scholar in a black robe.
Xiao Ming looked at the scholar, and the scholar also looked at Xiao Ming.
After a long time, the scholar said: "I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Qi. β
In the dim light, Xiao Ming couldn't see Qi Zhengyuan's face clearly.
He said directly: "Qinglong King, this king doesn't know what you mean by bringing troops to Yunzhou?" The natural disaster in Jizhou is not done by man, although King Yong is at fault, but now that the barbarian enemy is current, you should be able to take into account the overall situation, how can you do things that are painful to relatives and happy to enemies. β
At this time, the deep voice of the Qinglong King sounded, and he said: "Your Highness may have misunderstood, this time I came here because there is no food in the army, and the people are already very hungry, I just hope that Your Highness can borrow some food, how can a certain person who is a citizen of the Great Yu Kingdom help the barbarians cut off the grain route of the Qingzhou army." β
"Nonsense, since it's borrowing grain, why don't you go to other cities to borrow grain?" Qi Guangyi said.
"Your Highness is still waiting for your highest, how can the defenders of other cities borrow food, after all, in their eyes, we are chaotic people, and we want to be strangled immediately, but we are just a group of ordinary people who have no food to eat and have no choice but to take up arms, but they just smell the righteousness of His Highness, and they are willing to take in us as disaster victims, so we have to bring them here." The words of the Green Dragon King were clear and orderly.
Looking at the victims with no end in sight, Xiao Ming knew that these people were honest victims, and if they were not honest, they were chaotic.
He couldn't have taken a huge risk to put them in the city, and if the people were in turmoil, not only would he lose a state of land, but they might not be able to come back.
Now is not the time to take care of the people, after all, the people are now under the hands of the Green Dragon King and obey his command.
However, the Qinglong King bluntly said to borrow grain, and he tentatively said: "There are some in the grain city, since you want to borrow grain, how much are you going to borrow?" β
"300,000 stone grain." The Green Dragon King said lightly.
Xiao Ming's expression changed, and he said: "One person and one stone of food, enough for each disaster victim to eat for several months, Qinglong King, it seems that you are deliberately making things difficult for this king." β
The Green Dragon King's voice was still very calm, and he said, "Your Highness, how can the natural disaster in Jizhou be alleviated in a few months, this doesn't seem to be too much. β
Speaking of this, he had already understood the deep thoughts of the Blue Dragon King.
He is no longer anti-Yongwang, but anti-Dayu, and what he wants is to overthrow the current imperial court.
Now that the southern cities of Jizhou have all been occupied by the Qinglong King, he now looks at the nearest Yunzhou City.
And the King of Wei, who followed the Qinglong King and accumulated quickly, also made him willing to follow him to do anything.
"Your Highness, the Blue Dragon King is rebelling." Zhan Xingchang defined the Green Dragon King.
Xiao Ming nodded, and now, the Green Dragon King has revealed his true face.
Perhaps at first he did lead the people to find a bite to eat out of dissatisfaction, but now the successive victories seem to have swelled his mentality, and he may have thought that with these plagues he could peek into the supreme throne.
And at this time, the Green Dragon King must also understand that when he takes that step, he can't turn back.
This is a desperate person, his vision is also very vicious, the main force of the Qingzhou Army is outside, and the interior is empty, it is the time for him to make a profit.
Since we have embarked on this road, benevolence, righteousness and morality are all bullshit, and what kind of national righteousness can we talk about, only success and defeat are the truth.
What to do?
This is the question that Xiao Ming and Zhan Xingchang are thinking.
The eyes of the two met for a long time, the army besieged the city, and they only had one choice left, so let's fight!
"It's just a pity for the innocent people." Xiao Ming sighed in his heart, these people don't understand, they only believe that the Qinglong King who can find them food is right.
He didn't want to use this method to rein in the victims, but now it seems that he has to do it.
However, he finally persuaded: "Qinglong King, it is the Qingzhou Army in front of you, not King Yong's native chickens and dogs, you have to think about it." β
"Your Highness, I'm just borrowing grain, if Your Highness refuses to borrow it, why bother saying more, the people behind me don't have food to eat, and I can't control it."
With a cold snort, Xiao Ming was not ready to pay attention to the Blue Dragon King anymore.
He is too naΓ―ve, these three or four hundred thousand victims will only be encircled and exterminated by the Great Chongqing State in the end, and he will eventually embark on the road of failure.
Although the Great Yu Kingdom was in decline, it was more than enough to suppress a rebellion, and if it weren't for King Yong's being held back by the barbarians, they would not have survived until now.
The night was getting darker, and the Qinglong King didn't seem to want to attack the city at night, but the 300,000 victims of the disaster blocked a small Yunzhou siege.
It was night, and the Qinglong King looked at the small city of Yunzhou.
As Xiao Ming guessed, he calculated that Qingzhou would take advantage of the current internal emptiness.
The grain in Jizhou was almost eaten, and more grain was hidden in Jizhou City by King Yong, and now Jizhou City is besieged by barbarians.
He didn't dare to provoke the barbarians, a month ago, his 30,000 people were killed by the barbarians' 10,000 cavalry, although after the army was raised, he also organized the training of the people, but compared with the barbarian cavalry, they were not opponents at all.
To provoke the barbarians now will only lead to defeat.
Therefore, he chose King Qi, in his eyes, King Yong is a royal person, and King Qi is also a royal person, what is the difference between the two.
And in his cognition, King Wei and King Yan are also too powerful, and now he is far from being an opponent.
Therefore, only when he takes the vast land from Jizhou to Qingzhou, can he compete with these vassal kings.
Looking at Yunzhou City, his ambition is constantly expanding, he is no longer the down-and-out scholar he used to be, but a general who controls hundreds of thousands of people.
While he was pondering how to attack the city tomorrow, Xiao Ming was also thinking about how to capture this huge army of disaster victims.
As far as he is concerned, he will never allow the Blue Dragon King to bury the lives of these people, but he will only capture these people, and some casualties will be unavoidable.
"Your Highness, the people of the Green Dragon King are just a group of rabble, without any discipline and training at all, and the determination of the people to follow the Green Dragon King is not very great, the lower officials observed, and many of the people looked very hesitant, so the lower officials thought that there was no need to defend the city, but to take the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle, to subdue the people with musket teams, and to round up the cavalry, so that these people surrendered."
(To be continued.) )