Chapter 548 Representatives of the People's Will

After a while, Wang Jijun came.

After the ceremony, he sat absentmindedly on the sidelines, watching Master Meng proofread the letter.

Yesterday in a big battle, he was exhausted, and he slept until near noon before getting up, and together he took the remnants of his subordinates to patrol the streets, and suppressed the chaotic soldiers everywhere.

It wasn't until the gunboats of the thieves on the river fired again that he hurried back to the city.

However, he showed that there was no major movement in the fleet of thieves, and only sent a few small gunboats to approach the dock, and there were a few cannons that were not matched, and it was clear that they were only declaring force and had no intention of attacking the city.

Seeing this scene, he ran to Lord Meng to ask for battle, and wanted to take someone to secretly go to the south gate to ambush, and the camera killed him.

Regarding Wang Jijun's request for war, Meng Tietou did not agree.

He said, "You almost put your life on the west gate, and now you are in a hurry to go to the south gate to die?"

Marked with a wish to be loyal to the country!

Don't lie to me, you're just begging for death!

Meng Tietou shook his head, although you don't say it, I can still guess that your mind is the master, but it's not appropriate to blindly seek death!

You are still young, and you always feel that love is greater than the sky

Saying that, he was embarrassed, if he had seen the real changes, he would feel that life was better than anything else!

My lord

Wang Jijun grunted and swallowed back the words that followed.

He also knows the life experience of Lord Meng, although he is a Manchurian, he is also a Han Chinese

Don't say any more,

Seeing what Wang Jijun wanted to say, Meng Tietou waved his hand and said, if you are bored, you will take your subordinates to inspect the streets again and maintain good military discipline

With that, he leaned back in his chair wearily, closed his eyes and said no more.

He was not surprised that Admiral was in discord - his current situation had reached the point of exhaustion, and he would not be surprised if his own soldiers came to tell him that the Admiral had committed suicide.

It's just, what should I do with this Yangzhou City?

Meng Tietou remembered Ye Bin's plan to burn the city.

Although this Ye Bin was recommended by him, and the plan he offered was also a Jedi survival strategy, he himself did not agree with it very much.

This is too vicious, it's just a desperate plan!

Meng Tietou asked himself, his conscience is still full of poetry and books, although it is the duty of a courtier to be loyal to the monarch and the country and defend the land, but if he really wants to learn from those Manchurian masters to kill people for fun, he can't do it

Seeing that the sun was already setting in the west, listening to the sporadic sound of artillery outside, he was about to go out and walk around again, when a servant pushed the door and entered, whispering a few words, Meng Tietou suddenly lost color, got up and grabbed the door.

As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw a circle of people kneeling in the courtyard.

Looking closely, although these people are all ordinary people with no merit, in fact, they are all people with heads and faces among the people, some of whom he has seen, all of them are honest merchants in the city, and there are a few old people who are old and virtuous.

For the sake of it, it is the meeting of the Rice Grain Guild - Master Cheng.

Master Cheng is pampered on weekdays, a dough rich man's style, at this moment he is actually wearing a coarse cloth coat, kneeling under the stone steps like a mourner, as soon as he sees him come out, he immediately opened his throat and howled.

Master Meng, you have to save the people of this city

With his howl, the people who were kneeling behind him all followed, making Lord Meng's courtyard look like they were doing a white thing.

Meng Tietou hurriedly bowed down and hugged his fists: Don't dare to be! Don't dare to be! Fathers and fellow villagers, please get up and speak, so Meng can't afford it, can't afford it!

Although he had the tone of a blue lord, he secretly wondered in his heart.

It seems that most of the people who came were local wealthy businessmen, and there were also a few chief executives, although they were not gentlemen, but they were also people who had heads and faces in the city, and they could talk to the people in the yamen.

He asked himself, in this Yangzhou city, he was originally just an idle eater, if you want to talk about status, I am afraid that even the Qingke Xianggong who amused and made fun of the military gate can't compare, that is, because he was ordered to govern a new army not long ago, he became a celebrity in the Admiralty's Mansion, as if he had the meaning of the shogunate's martial arts team.

However, it is precisely because of the martial character that most of the people who come to make friends are Qiu Ba and local civil officials, but the gentry rarely come to socialize with him.

Now, this group of representatives of the people's will suddenly came to him, and it was necessary to defend the city

Master Cheng refused to get up, and continued to howl on the ground: Master Meng, you have to save the people of Yangzhou City

What the hell is going on? Please Master Cheng get up and speak, as long as I can help, I will do my best.

Meng Tietou saw that this rich man was in tears, and it didn't seem to be all contrived, and his heart tightened: Could it be that the Zhejiang rout soldiers were taking captivity in the city again?

Although there is chaos in the city, the general order is still maintained, and Ma Jinbao's supervisors are still patrolling the streets.

Master Meng! Since the Ma Junmen came to the local area with a group of generals, Yangzhou has done its best to repay

Master Cheng saw that the fire was almost over, so he got up, wiped his tears and said, the wine, meat and silver that were rewarded, the grain and grass needed in the army, which time was not properly handled by the villain, although he was just a rice dealer, he also repaid 5,000 taels of silver, 500 stone of white rice, and 3,000 stone was requisitioned to be used as military food, and only one-third of the food was given so far, and the small one did not dare to say a word.

After he said this, the people who followed him were gossiping and sighed one after another.

Some said that the soldiers came to the store to get things, but they never gave money, and they didn't dare to ask for it; Some cried and complained that the government levied this and that, and if they didn't have it, they had to send it if they bought it, and they didn't dare to be short at all; Some people even cried that some soldiers forced women to do laundry, and it was not enough to send their own servants there, but they actually had to pull the female dependents of the family, and it took money to be spared

This burst of crying one after another made Meng Tietou annoyed.

He knows a lot about these bad things, of course, the village sages are talking about this, which is nothing more than saying that they are worthy of the officials and soldiers, and paving the way for the next requirements.

The military lord also knows these things, but the military situation is urgent, and he can't take care of military discipline for a while

He hurriedly said in a loud voice, the brothers are working on an expedition, and it is a life of licking blood with knives, it is inevitable that there will be some disturbances, and I ask you to be considerate.

After that, he whispered to Master Qiao: What is the matter?

Today, the Admiral's Yamen sent people everywhere to send stickers, saying that the Admiral would give a banquet to the merchants and people in the city tonight to discuss the plan of defending the city.

Meng Tietou nodded and said, "I've heard about this."

If it was really to defend the city, the little ones would naturally go

Cheng Hui hesitated, but there was news from inside, saying that someone had offered three poisonous schemes to the military gate, although these three poisonous schemes could hurt the thief, but for the people in the city, it was a desperate strategy to hurt the enemy by 500 and lose 3,000 by himself!

Hearing this, Meng Tietou was taken aback!

The plan to burn the city has always been a secret, and not many people know about it.

Although most of the gentry in the city have fled out of the city, either running away to Yizhenjiangdu and other places, or hiding in the countryside villages, there are still many famous people in the city.

After a fire, there will definitely be casualties, and if you really want to make trouble, although you can frame the thief or pass the buck to the rout, but if someone really takes the opportunity to make trouble, it is not easy to clean up.

He hurriedly shook his hand and said: How can there be such a thing

At this point, he suddenly realized that he had slipped out of his mouth.

What are these three poisonous schemes, Master Cheng hasn't said it yet!

Sure enough, he appeared, and the old man's tearful eyes flashed.