When dawn came, Azhu finally collected all the cobwebs, and only the ruins of Yiwang's Mansion remained.

Gong Qianbai deliberately opened a passage for the Fire Lotus Sect to escape from the city. However, only more than 3,000 people escaped from the city, and nearly 2,000 others were turned into corpses and remained in Yidu City permanently.

But the eighteen Arhats of the Fire Lotus Sect, as well as Chen Huolian and Zhang Cailian and his wife, were all intact.

However, although the Fire Lotus Sect's operation failed this time, it was not completely unprofitable, on the contrary, on the whole, they "earned" a lot of money.

First of all, from the material point of view, although the more than 3,000 people who directly attacked the Yiwang Mansion not only died most of them, but also gained nothing except the tearing down of the two walls, before the attack on the Yiwang Mansion, there were 2,000 people under the leadership of 6 Arhats who ransacked the rich households in the city, and used the fire lotus to teach mercy, "Kill nearly 1,000 people who are rich and unkind, and confiscate nearly one million taels of silver"!

One million taels of silver, and in the past three years, the Fire Lotus Sect will no longer worry about money.

Of course, the million silver must first be divided into two percent, and he will be given 2,000 to those who directly grab the goods, and the rest will be incorporated.

Spiritually, "My Fire Lotus Sect has dealt a serious blow to the arrogance of the imperial court in Yidu City this time, and laid the foundation for the complete expulsion of the Mongol Rao rule."

In short, whether it is in the eyes of the Fire Lotus Sect or the people of Yidu City, this Fire Lotus Sect operation is not only not a failure, but a great success.

Except, of course, for Miyachibai.

At this moment, Gong Qianbai, Liu Bingzhong, and Gao Lishi are standing on the tallest building in the palace, looking in all directions like Yidu City, and listening to the cries from all directions in Yidu City.

Last night, whether it was Yidu Lu Daru Huachi, or the governor, the same knowledge, the judge for treatment, and the magistrate, all of them were looted, and people from every family were killed, and Daru Huachi himself was beheaded on the spot.

Therefore, as soon as it dawned, every household counted the losses, and there was no one who did not cry. It didn't take long for the officials and wealthy families in the city to gather at the house of the governor, Zhang Zhilu.

The head of Zhang Zhilu's house, Zhang Zhilu's two sons and many subordinates were killed, the eldest daughter and the third concubine were robbed, and the family wealth was lost countless times.

If he hadn't run fast and hid in the secret room, he would have been in a different place by now.

And there are many officials and wealthy families like him who have escaped by hiding in secret rooms, because most people have secret rooms in their homes.

"Manager Zhang, Yidu City has always been guarded by the palace, and this time it was attacked by thousands of chaotic people, and it was burned and looted countless times in the city, it is simply unreasonable! We must let the palace give us an explanation, please take the lead, and we will follow us to the death! ”

"That's right! The guards of Yidu City were too lax, and no one died when they heard the Fire Lotus teach people to beat the city gate, on the contrary, none of the guards at the south gate died, and the other four gates did not go to the rescue when they saw the thieves attacking the city, which was indeed a dereliction of duty on the part of the palace! ”

"Yesterday, the prince was still blaming me for not being good for governing the people, but the enemy broke through the city last night, if we don't ask for a law, how can we be worthy of our dead relatives?"

"Yes, yes, go ask for a law!"

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For a while, the crowd was excited, and they all pointed the finger at Yiwangfu.

Zhang Zhilu wiped his tears, flicked his long sleeves and said loudly:

"Colleagues! In this matter, on the one hand, each of us has to go to the joint fold and report this matter to the court in detail; On the other hand, let's go to Yiwangfu to ask for a law, if Yiwangfu can't give everyone a satisfactory explanation, don't blame me and others for jointly impeaching him! ”

"Let's go! Ask for a way! ”

Seventy or eighty officials and wealthy people walked towards the Yiwang Mansion. But when they arrived at King Yi's Mansion, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

The walls of the Yiwang Mansion have all been destroyed (in fact, most of them were destroyed by Li Cunxiao), the palace houses have collapsed, and the corpses of more than 500 defenders and nearly 2,000 Fire Lotus Sect members have been piled up in the square, forming a mountain.

And their Mongol prince, seeing the army of officials and wealthy households, had an even more angry expression on his face.

"You're here just in time, you have to give me an explanation for this! My military order to raise military salaries has been issued for three times, but you didn't hand over a tael of silver, resulting in Yidu City being taken advantage of by thieves, and all 500 defenders of my Yiwang Mansion were killed, these are your responsibilities, I will truthfully report to His Majesty the Emperor, and tell him that the officials and rich families in Yidu City jointly bullied this king, so that Yidu City was taken advantage of by the Fire Lotus Sect! ”

When the officials and wealthy families heard this, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Indeed, they have received three orders from the palace to raise salaries, and the order is to let them raise 10 million taels of silver as military expenses to recruit troops and horses, so they roughly totaled it, and found that raising 10 million taels of military expenses is almost a tax of 50 million taels to the people, and only in this way, after deducting the "cost of doing things" up and down, can 10 million cars be left to be handed over to Yiwangfu. However, if the tax is increased by 50 million taels, even if those untouchables are killed and sold for meat, they will not be able to sell it for so much money, so they naturally think that it is impossible, and naturally there is no shortage of truth!

But I didn't expect that now it was used by King Yi as a reason to offend them!

Everyone glanced at each other, and finally set their eyes on the chief manager Zhang Zhilu, Zhang Zhilu gritted his teeth and said to Gong Qianbai indignantly:

"Lord, you can't talk like this! Historically, tax increases have not been increased casually, nor can they be obtained immediately after the increase, and the time for three is not enough to even convey orders, how can it be possible to get a tax of 10 million taels of silver? ”

"Mr. Zhang's words are wrong, right? That's not what I command you! ”

Gong Qianbai's eyes narrowed, looked at Zhang Zhilu and said: "I remember that the military order reads: Yiwangfu took out 5 million taels of silver, and the officials and wealthy households in the city together took out 10 million taels of silver, and the 15 million taels of silver were used to recruit 100,000 troops. As a result, you want to raise taxes privately, which is a blatant disobedience to military orders! ”

Zhang Zhilu and the others' faces changed greatly, and they shouted: "The prince's words are reasonable, since ancient times, paying taxes has been the people's business, and military expenses have also come from the people, how can we let the officials bear it?" The Great Yuan Dynasty has been established for decades, and I have never heard such a truth! ”

Gong Qianbai sneered: "The country and the country, since ancient times, have had a country first and then a home!" This king is willing to sell all the things in the palace for military expenses, but you are not willing to take a penny, which has greatly damaged the laws of the Great Yuan Empire! I'll leave it here now, if I can't see 10 million taels of silver before dark, I'll take all the city gate guards to the countryside to collect money after dark! Don't be preemptive! ”