chapter 76
The open space outside the Shuaifu was like a huge square, but at this time it was small and crowded because of the crowd like bees, and even the streets leading to the Shuaifu were crowded with people.
The heavy snow is still falling, and in the open space of thousands of people, the sound of the heavy snow "fluttering" can be heard quietly.
Bai Yu and Ling Gu walked out of the gate of the Shuaifu, and Meng Yu on the side saw it, and as soon as his head was tilted, four or five elite soldiers came over with a long wooden strip thick with a palm thick, but in the blink of an eye, a small high platform was built.
Ling Gu tugged on Bai Yu's sleeve, and the two walked up - Bai Yu was still holding the crimson swaddling clothes in his hands.
The crowd became quieter, and I don't know if it was because of Bai Yu's prestige in Bermuda, or because of his "unexpected" behavior of holding swaddling clothes.
There was only a moment of panic, the people of the city were the sheep who had been deceived into their minds, but there were still wolves with evil intentions in the flock. Immediately, someone shouted: "Bai Yu, you created a dark day, brutalized the families of the city people, and then won the hearts of the people, deceived the city people to work for you, scraped the bones and cramps, fished and plundered, compared with those wild beasts, it is even better!" Today you have to give us an explanation! β
The person who shouted was wearing a student uniform in Taiyuan, which made Ling Gu very surprised. Immediately, Ling Gu searched for it in the crowd, and sure enough, at the front of the crowd, he saw many students from Taiyuan.
The words of the students are very incendiary, and most of the city's citizens really feel that they are miserable people who have been oppressed in their words, and as long as the Shuai Mansion is softened this time, they are about to usher in a more prosperous and comfortable life!
Ling Gu glanced at Boyan, Boyan nodded, moved a tall drum from nowhere, clenched his hand into a fist, and struck hard.
"Boom-"
The dull sound of the drums was like a wet clothcloth, vibrating against people's eardrums, and the crowd had to be quiet, covering their ears to avoid the trembling sound that seemed to break people's hearts.
After the crowd fell silent, Ling Gu used his spiritual power to operate in his mouthpiece, allowing his voice to spread like the sound of a bell: "I also know the reason why you are gathered here. Yes, the spiritual riot back then was indeed caused by Bai Yu's catastrophe. β
Before the words fell, the leading students suddenly buzzed like flies smelling fishy smells: "Everyone heard it!" The commander-in-chief, whom everyone trusts and worships day and night, is the culprit of the Dark Day! Although he is not a wild beast, he is better than a wild beast, in the final analysis, he is also a demon beast after all, before he became a demon, he lived by eating people! β
This explanation is obviously a lot of human beings' perception of demon beasts, and it can't be said that it's wrong, but it can only be said that they generalize.
Ling Gu didn't bother to explain.
He looked sideways at Wei Yuan, and Wei Yuan noddedβthe first few people who echoed had already made the elite soldiers "one-on-one" staring. When you're done, you'll be able to take them all.
After Ling Gu got the information, he hooked the corners of his mouth: "What is the purpose of you coming here?" β
Sure enough, one of the leading Taiyuan students stood up, even though the snow was falling, his face was crimson, as if his blood was boiling: "Bai Yu's dark day caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries to the people of the city, and his crime can be punished." But for the sake of his guilt and the establishment of Bermuda, we will not kill them all. We demand that the area of Bermuda City bounded by the Huguan Gate and the Sancha Gate be demarcated, and that the Shuai Mansion not interfere in the affairs of Taoyuan. In addition, the Shuai Mansion also has to pay compensation to the families who were victimized that year, attacking the compensation of 50,000 yuan; In the years and months that followed, as long as Bermuda City was saved for one day, the Shuai Mansion would be responsible for the safety of Taoyuan for one day! β
"Yes!" The lucrative benefits made those people red-eyed and yelled, as if the more powerful they were, the more they would be able to get them.
The lack of human hearts has been the case since ancient times.
Ling Gu sneered and raised his hand to signal the crowd to quiet down.
The crowd thought that he was going to agree to this condition, and a pair of eyes stared at Ling Gu like wolves in the snow.
"Oh, you can say it." Ling Gu sneered, his voice colder than ice and snow: "These conditions, leave them to your own dreams." β
"Bai Yu's tribulation back then was a natural thing, and the tribulation caused a spiritual riot, which was not what Bai Yu wanted. He didn't do it on purpose; Second, he gave up his ascension and departed, and repelled the beasts for you; The third is to establish a city, allowing you to rely on his prestige and seek prosperity in the troubled times of the central realm. Nowadays, eighty percent of the people in Bermuda City still live in the houses built by Bai Yu with spiritual power back then. β
"You say your enemy is Bai Yu? You have come to besiege the Shuaifu, and even to hurt a cub who has nothing to do with and does not understand the world, is it righteous revenge? In that case, why don't I see you pick up the vegetable leaves and stones in your hands and go to the Eastern Beast Kingdom to fight? Why do you only avoid and cowardly when you encounter bullying by wild beasts on the street, but you dare not stand up? β
"Because you know that the Shuai Mansion will not harm you."
Many people were speechless because Ling Gu was right. They dared to come to surround the Shuaifu, but they knew that the city guards had always protected them and had never harmed them. Therefore, they took it for granted that this time the Shuai Mansion would definitely succumb to their "popular will".
"Still." Ling Guyang said: "Since you are all so dissatisfied with the Shuai Mansion, then I also have a solution." β
Ling Gu stretched out his hand and "snapped" twice. Dozens of heavy wooden boxes were carried out by elite soldiers. The wooden boxes were lined up in the open space in front of Ling Bone, and then the lid of the box was opened, and the golden color of brass flowed out like a brilliant stream, full of ten gold nuggets, like a treasure island in the heavy snow, attracting people's attention.
"I'm giving you a chance, from now on, all day. I will let the elite soldiers of the Shuai Mansion inform the whole city that the spiritual riot of the year was caused by Bai Yu's catastrophe, and those who can accept it will obediently go home and prepare for the New Year, and I will not blame the past; But if you can't accept this, then take two pieces of gold in the Shuaifu and leave Bermuda with your family today. As for those who still want to continue to entangle your previous ridiculous conditions, then these two pieces of gold are gone. Think for yourselves. Ling Gu paused after speaking, and added: "By the way, if it is in the afternoon, the people who were still here when I came will also be driven out of the city." β
Ling Gu said, took Bai Yu's wrist and got off the wooden platform, and entered the Shuai Mansion with Bai Yu.
Wei Yun hooked his lips and smiled, since Qin Qian told him about Ling Gu's plan yesterday, the smile on Wei Yuan's face has not receded.
"If there are people who have thought about it, come to me to register their names and receive gold nuggets." Wei Yun waved his hand and asked people to set up a wooden table on the high platform they had stepped on just now, and then there was a person wrapped in black cotton clothes sitting there - he was from the people's livelihood office.
There are people who have people's livelihoods, and those who want to say a household name indiscriminately are naturally impossible.
At the beginning, no one moved, they didn't know whether Ling Gu's words were true or false. As it approached noon, the snow gradually stopped and Bermuda came alive. What Ling Gu said in front of the Shuai's Mansion was quickly spread by the elite soldiers throughout Bermuda City.
I don't know who started it, they said: "This should have been the gold nuggets that the Shuai Mansion compensated us for, and we took it together, tens of thousands of people and their families, can the Shuai Mansion really drive us out?" β
The law does not blame the public, and those who believe in this point no longer have to worry about the future.
The gold nuggets in the four regions of the Shuai Mansion were quickly divided, and when the registered list was sent to the Shuai Mansion, Ling Gu was quite surprised - there were nearly 90,000 people, and of course, there were many people who let their families disperse the registration office and defraud more gold nuggets. Therefore, after the statistics by household, there are more than 40,000 households.
Bermuda is huge, with a population of over one million. Yet the numbers are still staggering.
In order to distinguish between these households, Ling Gu did not realize the action of expelling this part of the people that afternoon. At night, the elite soldiers of the Shuai Mansion were not idle, they captured those who had been eyed for a long time, and did not hide their tracks. The people who received the gold nuggets recognized them as the ones who incited them to make trouble, and they thought that the riot was over with the arrest of these "leaders." After all...... The law does not blame the public.
They were relieved, and went home with the nuggets of gold and slept in peace. The next morning, however, a soldier knocked on their door. Nearly 90,000 people were "invited" out of their homes, and their hearts were packed by the soldiers, and even tables and chairs were moved out, leaving no belongings.
Except for the most precipitous north gate, the east, west, and south gates were wide open, and the crowd was driven away by the generals, who, after crossing the drawbridge, no longer drove them, but retreated back to the gate, and at the same time hoisted the drawbridge. At this moment, these people finally found out - they were really expelled. There were no houses for nothing, no towering walls against wild beasts, no city guards to protect them. Only the two pieces of gold in his bosom that might take years to earn, but so what?
The returnees knelt on the ground, took out the gold nuggets they had received in the morning, held them high above their heads, prayed with tears in their eyes, and wanted to return to Bermuda. However, it was too late.
Only a small fraction of those who were deported were in Bermuda, where they consciously packed their belongings and drove their horses away. As soon as they left the city, they broke away from the crowd and left into the distance, and soon they converged together, and in a carriage at the head, Ma Wanlong turned his head to look back at Bermuda, showed an unwilling expression, and threw down the curtain again.
This is the Ma family's convoy, and the center of gravity of the Wan family is not in Bermuda City, so he will not hesitate to withdraw. The Ma family took advantage of this riot to leave Bermuda and join Wanlu.
"That damn Ling Gu!" As soon as Ma Wanlong entered the door, he couldn't wait to complain, you know, if it was Bai Yu, he would definitely be sure of the success of this incident - Bai Yu would be angry because of the provocation and crush these city citizens; Or they will simply ignore it and indulge the rumors to ferment.
"Don't do that." Wan Lu threw away the clean copper dish, sighed with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Now that it is impossible to go back to Bermuda, in this case, why not seek a new way out?" β
"You mean ......"
"You're lucky to have a noble lord who wants to see you." Wanlu grinned.