When the team came to the city gate, Shen Changwen found that in the half month since he left, a lot of wooden sheds had been erected outside the city of King Elis, and there seemed to be a lot of people sleeping inside. Just as they entered the city, Shen Changwen also saw hundreds of people outside the city, who were being ordered to eat bread by a whistle.

It seems that Wu Xiaoqing is right, there are almost no so many people in the city now, so he can only temporarily move some people outside the city.

Their passage was like a magnet passing over a pile of iron filings, and the countless crowds naturally followed the smell of spices in the air. In the end, it was blocked by a group of nobles' vassals.

Many of the nobles who came to welcome him knew Tallinn, and they all knew Tallinn. According to the past, although Tallinn was the chief of the king's guard, he still had to salute in front of these nobles. But today, Tallinn didn't even get off the horse, just nodded condescendingly to the nobles below, and then motioned for the troops to enter the city.

The lords didn't care about Tallinn's attitude, their eyes were more focused on the horses behind them, the spices in the pockets of the soldiers, and the shiny gold coins they held in their hands. Some of the soldiers were obviously a little annoyed by the large crowd of onlookers, and some of them would suddenly throw their gold coins into the distance. With the trajectory of the gold coin, a large number of onlookers almost immediately passed in the direction of the gold coin.

After the first lucky person grabbed the gold coin, he immediately screamed: "Gold coin! ”

"Haha, that's right," the soldier who threw the coin replied loudly, "the gold coin snatched from the puppies of the Southern Xiaoyang Sect!" ”

"Here's one, sir." Someone in the crowd shouted.

"Haha, okay, here's one." The soldier took out another one and displayed it in front of everyone's eyes, but before he could enjoy enough attention, everyone's eyes shifted to the other golden lights in the air—those thrown by his eager comrades.

The crowd of onlookers, who originally seemed to be orderly, immediately became noisy and chaotic after just a few gold coins.

Not only the crowd, but also the Guards soldiers they brought out were also excited one by one, and as the crowd was restless, the soldiers quickly threw more gold coins into the crowd. The rain of gold coins scattered into the crowd was like torches thrown into a haystack, and the atmosphere around the whole team was immediately ignited by this gold.

Shen Changwen immediately contacted Wu Xiaoqing: "Wu Xiaoqing, where are you, the situation is a little wrong, maintain order." In the crowd of people who were snatching gold coins, Shen Changwen clearly heard the shouting.

"It's already been sent," Wu Xiaoqing said, but quickly said in frustration, "It doesn't seem to be of much use, the soldiers sent have also gone to grab the money together, you tell your men not to throw away the money." ”

Shen Changwen turned around to look at the soldiers behind him, why didn't he let Tallinn advise him as soon as possible, but there was only one Tallinn, and the captains he could directly command added up to four or five people, and the hundreds of soldiers were obviously attracted by the audience at the moment, they were like bullfighters walking into the bullring, boxers in the ring, only the cheers of the audience in their ears, as for their commander's orders, they were all left behind. And this sensitive time period, in full view of everyone, is obviously not suitable for them to carry out military orders.

Each soldier was given only seven or eight gold coins, which were originally to be issued after a week around the city, but now, they had only entered the city for less than two miles. Some soldiers began to respond to the spectators' requests, even pulling out some pepper from plastic bags and throwing them at the crowd.

If gold coins are the spark that ignites hay, then pepper is the gasoline that is sprinkled into the flames. Compared to gold coins, which are easy to grab and look good to look at, pepper is smaller in size, but it is more attractive to people. Wu Xiaoqing stood on the top of the city wall, and saw that every time the soldiers threw out a handful of pepper, the people in front of him all knelt down, not praying, but groping for pepper on the ground.

This kind of scene made him suddenly feel a sense of déjà vu, and after thinking about it carefully, when he and Shen Changwen were chased by a group of farmers, didn't they escape by throwing glass beads. At that time, the appearance of those peasants touching glass beads in the field was the same as these ......

No, Wu Xiaoqing's eyes widened, and he carefully looked through the binoculars at the people who were touching pepper all over the ground - those people were not farmers, or even citizens of Elis in the ordinary sense, they ...... They all seem to be nobles! They are all aristocrats who own a lot of land, have fixed taxes, and other commercial projects! And these people are actually lying on the ground and touching the pepper?

Is pepper so good? The crowd in front of them, whether they were nobles or commoners, were desperately groping for small pepper particles in the ground mixed with dirt and horse manure, and the crazy look was simply the feeling of drug addicts desperately looking for drugs when they had a seizure.

Just a few minutes later, Wu Xiaoqing unexpectedly found that the appearance of pepper had miraculously saved the originally chaotic order, the crowd suddenly began to quiet down, there was no shouting, no one cheered, everyone didn't even raise their heads to look at these heroes, but concentrated on this small piece of land under their feet, looking for any possible wealth.

But in front of the pepper, which has not yet been sprinkled, there is still a huge crowd of people. Before he got closer, he could hear the crowd shouting a few words noisily, Shen Changwen didn't understand it for the time being, but he could probably guess the meaning, and here in Wu Xiaoqing, in the entire glasses, there was only one word on the subtitles that kept repeating: "Pepper!" Hero! Pepper! Hero! ”

The king's clerk excitedly recorded this scene with his pen: in the summer of XX, the guards sent to the south by His Majesty King Elise returned to the city smoothly, four hundred horses loaded with spices and sugar, and the triumphant soldiers waved gold coins and peppers in their hands, and the whole city was boiling! The chief of the guard, Tallinn, was named the "Pepper Hero......

Of course, behind the praise means that the soldiers need to pay, and the soldiers at this time have been completely blinded by the fanatical masses, and in the face of the wealth that they have not earned in several lifetimes, several soldiers have sprinkled the whole bag of pepper in public! When those pepper grains flew all over the sky and fell to the crowd, there was a transcendent praise in the crowd: "Long live the pepper heroes!" ”

"Hooray!"

The soldiers excitedly waved their swords and shields in their hands, and made sounds with their rhythmic slapping. The rhythm of this percussion seemed to make the entire royal city tremble, and everywhere the team went, the crowd shouted slogans to the rhythm.

"Pepper! Hero! Pepper! Hero! ”

With these two words, the crowd walked around the city of Elis in a full circle. When they finally came to the square, many of the soldiers had empty their plastic pockets, but they did not regret it, and each one became more excited, and as the king examined them along the procession, everyone could see a flush of overexcitement on their faces.

"Well done, boys!" His Majesty Elise expressed his heartfelt appreciation for the behavior of the soldiers of the Guards, who did not love money and honor, and when he inspected this unit, he did not see an empty plastic bag, and he had to go up and pat each other on the shoulder to show the population, "It is worthy of my guard, today you lose pepper for honor, tomorrow you will gain the whole world because of honor!" ”

"Why is this word so familiar?" Wu Xiaoqing glared at Xu Yan on the side, "You wrote the manuscript?" ”

"I wrote it, but he changed it, the original word was not like this, and I didn't expect pepper to come out like this." Xu Yan is very aggrieved, even if he is doing pyramid schemes on the earth, he is never low enough to use pepper as a gimmick.

After reviewing the troops, the king picked up the loudspeaker that Wu Xiaoqing gave him, and began to give a speech in the expected program.

The content of the speech, the four of them naturally couldn't understand a word, Wu Xiaoqing could only see the subtitles, and the expressions of other people and soldiers.

"All the subjects of Elis, your king is speaking to you, your king is commanding you, your king is ready to lead you to a new era that has never been seen before!"

Wu Xiaoqing has read the speech, but it is obviously different from the text on the subtitles, the king is obviously ready to play on his own, but it is okay, the script written by Xu Yan does have a strong pyramid scheme habit.

"The Great Sun Sect in the north is aggressive, and they threaten to either let me hand over the army and go south for them, or wait for divine punishment in their own city! Yes, they declared that my sickness was a warning and punishment from their God! The Little Yang Sect in the south is besieging the Citor Fortress, and once the city is breached, they will sweep towards the entire Elise Kingdom......"

There is actually nothing to listen to these contents, Wu Xiaoqing pays more attention to the expressions of most people, and he is afraid that there will be uncontrollable group accidents on this occasion. In the Middle Ages, such an accident was very likely to occur, and once it did, it was difficult to resist, and it could easily turn into a riot in the whole city, and he didn't want to do so much work to rescue him, and finally fall short before leaving.

Most people listened very seriously, probably because they had eaten cookies for more than ten days, and had just grabbed a lot of gold coins and even peppers, and everyone looked quite touched. When the king said that he was excited, many people waved their arms in response.

“…… It's not just the cookies and peppers, it's the land and the future that belong to us! The land gods are about to rain down their wrath and destroy the whole world! O people, none of us can realize our luck, for the god of the land has chosen only us, Elis, and only those of us to continue to live! In God's name, we're going to get every man to take up arms, and in God's name, we're going to take every animal and every grain of grain in our house! Because this is a dead land, we will follow the path God has shown us, whether it is a castle, a river, or a mountain. ”

"Onward! Advance! Everyone waved a few peppers in their hands and repeated hysterically.

These people are crazy! Wu Xiaoqing shook his head, he couldn't say whether to be happy or sad - but that was exactly what they planned to achieve.