Chapter 454: Sudden Chaos (I)
The field outside the county seat of Yanggao has been quite lively during this time, and there are constantly herdsmen from all over the grassland who bring their livestock and bring a large number of furs to trade with Ming merchants.
Today, too, as soon as the gate of the field was opened, countless people poured into the area, and the sounds of shouting, selling, and bargaining were already ringing.
However, a county official who presided over the trivial affairs in the field looked a little strange at this time, and I saw that he kept turning his head to look out, looking in the direction of the county seat. It turned out that the prefectural magistrate, who had been coming to the field in the morning for a few days, didn't show up today, which made him feel a little surprised.
But this is not a big deal after all, maybe because the yamen is busy with official business, so the magistrate did not come. Maybe the adults will come later. With this in mind, he refocused his attention on the security of the field in front of him.
Then he noticed that there was an argument going on in a corner somewhere, and several Mongolian men with horses were arguing with a merchant, and even one of them was very dissatisfied and pushed the merchant with his hand, pushing the man to a kneer.
As soon as he saw this, the official named Zhao Yi hurriedly led someone up to stop him. This is the duty of him to be sent here by the county government, because the relationship between the two sides is special, so it is necessary to quickly control this kind of contradiction, so as not to expand the influence, affect the image of the county, and even bring greater trouble.
So soon, Zhao Yi came to the two sides of the dispute and asked with a straight face, "What's going on?" But is there anyone who cheats and cheats, and forcibly buys and sells? As he said this, a pair of his eyes quickly swept over the face of the merchant in front of him.
As if sensing the adult's distrust of him, the merchant immediately shouted and said, "My lord, villains don't dare to do such things." It's really that these Tartars deceive people too much, and they take the villain for a fool......"
"You talk well!" Hearing the word Tartar, Zhao Yi frowned, and interrupted with a somewhat dissatisfied snort. Fortunately, these Mongolian people don't know much about the Chinese language, so they didn't react much, but their faces were a little ugly, and one of them said in a somewhat awkward Ming official words: "This lord, we just fancy his few loads of tea and want to exchange them with these horses." But this man is good, not only did he refuse, but he also said that he was lying to him...... How can we men on the prairie deceive people? ”
"What the hell is going on?" Zhao Yi understood what was going on, and then looked at the businessman curiously.
At this time, because of the dispute here and Zhao Yi's intervention, it attracted the attention of many other businessmen, and even a dozen or twenty people surrounded him, looking lively.
Seeing this, the merchant's courage also increased a lot, and he immediately said loudly: "This lord, my lord, my fathers and brothers, I have really been fooled by them, so I have no choice but to speak like this. Just yesterday, it was a few of them who exchanged three horses for my five quintals of tea. But in the middle of the night, all the three horses I had just arrived had collapsed and died. I think it must be that they have traded with me as good horses for their sick horses that have been plagued, and it is no wonder that they are willing to offer such generous terms. I didn't do it last time, but today they want to use the same method to deceive me, it's really too deceitful! ”
When Zhao Yi heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter, such a thing happened, so should he take care of it? At this time, those Mongolian people finally understood the reason why the other party said that, and immediately blew their beards and glared: "You are slandering us, how can we sell the plagued horses to you?" These horses are all excellent prairie steeds, and if one of them gets horse plague, it will infect one piece, and we will only lose more. ”
"It's not for sure, who knows if you sold other plagued horses to the other merchants of our Daming!" At this time, someone on the side suddenly called out such a sentence.
As soon as he heard this, Zhao Yi's face suddenly changed, which was obviously stirring up the emotions of the surrounding businessmen.
Sure enough, someone immediately shouted: "This lord, the yamen is going to be in charge of us, we have to take them all down quickly, and detain their horses to find out." If they are allowed to harm people with these plague horses again, it will only be our merchants of the Ming Dynasty who will lose! ”
"Yes, hurry up and arrest these Tartars, so that they don't have to deceive people again!"
"Grab them, and I'll say there's nothing good about the Tartars!" ……
For a while, the sound of angry reprimands and shouts rang out, and the Ming businessmen who surrounded them criticized and resisted these Mongolian people as if they were empathetic, and many of them even put on a posture of stepping forward to do something.
Today's Ming Dynasty is at its peak, and it has never really suffered any losses at the hands of the Mengren. Therefore, the businessmen at this time did not have any intention of calming down when facing them, and only wanted to breathe this evil breath.
However, Zhao Yi was a little hesitant, if he really took people as they said, not to mention whether people were willing to be arrested, just this would cause turmoil in the field, and maybe those Mongolian people would go to other places to do business, which was not something that he could afford as a small county official.
But at the moment when he was entangled, the mutation was reborn.
Seeing the turmoil of the crowd, these Mongolian people didn't feel a little panicked. However, when they were tough by nature, their first reaction in the face of this kind of scene was not to back down, but to meet them with a tougher attitude, and someone immediately shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, our warriors on the grassland are not easy to bully!" As he spoke, he slammed his shoulders and exerted his strength, and he hit a businessman who came in front of him.
At the same time, several other Mongolian people pulled out their scimitars and looked at a group of merchants with vigilant eyes: "Which of you dares to come up!" In fact, these words were more of a threat, and they were also said to Zhao Yi and several county officials behind him.
Seeing that they suddenly flashed their knives, not only did those merchants startle and retreat back with reduced momentum, but even Zhao Yi and the other people in the yamen were shocked and their faces changed. However, he couldn't evade his duties, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't mess around." Since you are here to do business with my Daming, you should follow the laws of my Daming. Don't worry, as long as you are innocent, our county government will never ......"
Just as Zhao Yi wanted to use his words to try his best to stabilize these few Mongolian people who were on the verge of breaking out and let them put away their knives, another roar rang out from the side: "Kill these dog Tartars, let them know that it is not easy to provoke my Ming people!" ”
As soon as these words fell, before Zhao Yi could react, a swarthy iron pot flew over from the side, and slammed into the head of one of the Mengren, until he snorted and fell backwards.
Seeing that his people were attacked, the Mongolian man who was the leader was completely enraged, and when he roared angrily, he immediately swung his knife and pounced viciously in the direction of the iron cauldron, as if he wanted to kill the murderer.
But there were five or six people around at this time, and he couldn't tell which one was doing it, so he could only pick one at random, and cut it with a knife.
The merchant was also completely intimidated by this man's murderous aura, and when he saw him pounce on him, he couldn't even dodge it, but just stood there stunned, watching the scimitar cut through an arc and then slashed into his chest.
"Ah......h But it was sent out by the swordsman and the people around him, and everyone's faces showed an expression of unbelievable fear, and Zhao Yi and several servants were completely stunned, how could things suddenly become like this?
But the real thing is just beginning.
Seeing that a compatriot was actually slashed by the Mongolian people, some businessmen were so frightened that they retreated, while others were completely enraged: "These dog tartars dare to kill people at will in my Ming Dynasty so unscrupulously!" Don't we have any men here who dare to do anything with them! ”
With this roar, several sturdy men rushed forward, and a few sticks in their hands hit the Mongolian man who had not had time to go back. Then, several more people also rushed up, hugging and kicking him.
It was only at this time that several other Mongolians reacted and hurriedly shouted and stepped forward to support. But in this way, the remaining merchants of the Ming Kingdom could not stand idly by, and also rushed over.
Suddenly, the sound of shouting, scolding, and fighting became one, and dozens of Han and Mongolian merchants fought together, and then attracted the attention of more people around them, and people continued to participate in this melee.
Zhao Yi didn't come back to his senses until this time, but his face turned pale. This time it was out of his control, and he didn't even know if he should intervene to stop it at this point. As for those errand soldiers, two of them were actually infected by the fierce battle in front of them, and they also rushed up to help the merchant fight the Mengren.
In the midst of this fight, there were suddenly a few screams, and then a few more screams rang out: "Blood...... It's blood! ”
At this time, everyone realized that a lot of blood had been splashed on their bodies and hands at some point. Then when some people looked left and right in fear, they saw a scene that made everyone stunned - they saw three Mongolian people lying in a pool of blood, and there were several more blood holes on their bodies at this time, and they had already died of exhaustion.
In the chaotic battle just now, someone actually used a killer and directly stabbed these Mongolian people to death on the spot with a sharp weapon such as a sword!
After seeing this consequence, everyone panicked, and then hurrahed, and everyone hurriedly fled backwards......