Chapter 549 The king's eyes are like mustard

Broken! Found out by this old fox!

Meng Tietou's heart jumped, and he hurriedly said: "This is a rumor!" Junmen is a kind person, and he won't come up with any desperate poison schemes......"

When he said this, he himself felt ashamed.

"It was said that someone was giving advice to the Lord of the Military Gate......

Master Cheng wiped his snot and cried, "Collect the people's grain deposits, recruit the whole city into the brave team, and expel the old and weak women and children from the city...... These three strategies, villains and others think it's inappropriate! ”

Hearing that there was no mention of burning the city, Meng Tietou couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, thinking to himself, these three strategies may be true.

As long as it's not a burning city, no matter how vicious the strategy, you can always find an excuse!

Even if the expulsion of women and children from the city seems cruel, at least it can be regarded as giving them a way to live - the thieves are known as "benevolent", and there will be no slaughter of the people, and maybe they will be relieved......

It seems that since all the people who came were "villagers and elders", he had to pretend to explain and compete with the thieves for the hearts of the people.

"If the grain in the city is taken away, the hearts of the people will be lost......

However, before he could speak, Master Cheng preemptively shouted, "Although Ding Zhuang can be incorporated into the city to defend the city, most of them are people who have not fought in battle, and they are just filling in the ravines in vain. ”

"What Master Cheng said is very true, but this is ...... after all It's just a rumor. ”

Meng Tietou thought to himself, you can't come up with evidence anyway, as long as you insist that it is a rumor, you can't say anything.

"Why does Lord Meng still say it's a rumor!"

Master Cheng stomped his feet and said, "Now the soldiers have gone to the streets and are searching for food from door to door...... They said they were searching for food, and they were taking the opportunity to loot! ”

As if to confirm what he said, a terrible scream suddenly came from afar, and then it stopped abruptly, startling everyone......

"Lord Meng, now that the thieves have not broken the city, this Yangzhou is about to become a hell on earth!"

Meng Tietou's face was purple, and his eyes were almost on fire.

These idiots! It's really not enough to succeed and more to lose!

This thief hasn't done much yet, but he actually plundered it first, and things have developed to this point, and he is still guarding a fart city!

He gritted his teeth and shouted: "Mr. Wang Qian! ”

"Mark it in!"

Wang Jijun behind him flashed out.

"Take your brothers out into the streets! Don't loot! ”

Meng Tietou said loudly, "The Admiral's order arrow is in the study, you take it!" ”

"Huh!"

"I don't know about this yet, as for the looting of the rebels outside, it must not be the order of the military gate,"

After giving the order, he turned his head to Master Cheng and said, "Don't be impatient, I'll go to the Admiral's Yamen to meet the military gate, and I will definitely ask for an explanation." ”

"Thank you, Lord Meng."

As soon as the people were about to kneel down again, Meng Tietou no longer had the intention of being perfunctory with them, waved his hand, and asked people to prepare horses by himself.

Seeing that Meng Tietou led a few servants and soldiers to gallop away on horseback, the "village sages" who came to "cry" also hurriedly dispersed - the family may not know what has become of it.

Only Master Cheng and Wang Luo, who were mixed in the crowd, were not in a hurry.

"Brother, you're right,"

Master Cheng's face showed a mixture of horror and viciousness, "These Tartars are really not things...... Real face white heart black! ”

Wang Luo was both happy and worried, happy that Master Cheng completely believed his words, and worried that there was really not much time left for him.

He made a worried expression: "It's ...... now"

"If he is unkind, I will be unjust!"

Master Cheng gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "I'm waiting for the small people, it's a big deal to redo the people of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"It doesn't matter whose people it is, the current situation ......"

"You go back with the old man, and we'll discuss it again!"

……

Meng Tietou Pegasus rushed to the Admiral's Yamen.

Along the way, he noticed that the order on the street was indeed much more chaotic.

There were many soldiers along the street, some carrying bags and some hands, bags and bags of grain, and all kinds of soft food, and some soldiers pulling the woman's hair and dragging the beaten woman and staggering along......

On weekdays, Meng Tietou had to step forward and scold, but at this time he couldn't take care of so much, he ran to the yamen in one breath, jumped off his horse, dropped the reins and rushed in.

Lord Meng was the "red man" of the Admiralty's Mansion, and none of the servants and soldiers stopped him.

He bypassed the flower hall and broke into the back signing room in one breath, but he didn't see Admiral Ma, only saw the deputy general Cui of the Chinese army drinking tea alone, looking calm.

Meng Tietou couldn't be polite, and asked, "What about Lord Junmen?" I'm going to see you right away. ”

"Your body is in disharmony and you are resting,"

Cui Duyan rolled his eyes and said dryly, "What's the matter with Brother Tai, it's the same with me." ”

Meng Tietou and Cui Duyan have always been at odds, but Cui Duyan's status is much higher than himself, and if he wants to see Ma Jinbao, he really has to pass him.

Meng Tietou had no choice but to press his urgent mood and asked, "In the evening, I want to invite the big families in the city to the banquet to discuss the plan to defend the city, is there such a thing?" ”

"It is true."

"It is said that three policies for defending the city should be announced at the table, and the general manager of the big households should follow the ......."

"It's the same."

"So,"

Meng Tietou frowned, and said with a straight face, "It's true to collect the people's grain stocks, drive Ding Zhuang into soldiers, and expel women and children from the city?" ”

Cui Duyan was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then nodded again: "This is also true." ”

"In this way, is there no need for Master Ye of Yuyao County?"

Cui Duyan put down the teacup and said unhurriedly: "Lord Meng, these three strategies are all strategies to defend the city, aren't they just what you want?" ”

Meng Tietou was stunned, this is indeed good.

Only those who defend the city will use these three strategies, otherwise they will be burned down, what will they do with all these efforts?

"But if you do this, the military gate will lose the hearts of the people!"

"When is it, there is still a fart if the people are not popular!"

Cui Duyan squinted his eyes and said coldly, "There is an undercurrent surging in this Yangzhou city, and everyone is a small household, and they have already prepared blue cloth and red paper, incense, candles, and wax skewers, just waiting to welcome the heavenly soldiers into the city and return to the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Words can't be said like that,"

Although he was robbed, Meng Tietou did not give up, "Since the officers and soldiers entered the city, military discipline has been corrupted, day by day, it is said that they are here to protect the people, but it is better to say that they are here to harm the people!" Up to the big gentry households, down to the small people of Lishu, they will not be harmed by it every day! Isn't it self-inflicted blame for today's situation? ”

"Pedantic!"

Cui Duyan kept an iron face, but he didn't interrupt him until he finished speaking, and then he sneered, "Do you really think that if it weren't for the power of the iron hoof, these southern barbarians would be willing to be the obedient people of my Qing Dynasty?" ”

"Everything has a cause, and things are man-made!"

Meng Tietou's nerd suddenly came up and retorted, "The sage has clouds: the king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy......

"You ......"

Cui Duyan couldn't say anything about this sour, smiled coldly, and asked rhetorically, "In this case, Lord Meng must have a plan to defend the city?" ”

When he asked, Meng Tietou was speechless.

Cui Duyan's words are right, all the methods that can be used have been used, and the army of thieves has not yet arrived, and this Yangzhou City can no longer be fought, and it cannot be defended.

If there was a last resort to save the city and its people, it would be Kaesong and surrender.

Thinking of this, Meng Tietou was stunned and stunned on the spot.

The word "surrender", he couldn't say it anyway......