This cell was full of merchants from the Ming Kingdom. Among them are characters from the wealthy family of the Ming Dynasty, and there are also ordinary merchants, but more often, there are some small merchants who dare to take risks.

Originally, in Yongdu, even if they were all Ming people, they were divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the high-level ones naturally went in and out of the homes of the powerful and rich, and the general contacts were also medium-sized merchants, but the lowest ones were between the Ming and Qin dynasties, doing some business of buying low and selling high, and making some price difference from it.

But at this moment, the class gap has been smoothed out, everyone has become a prisoner, and even those who were originally from high families have suffered some extra hardships.

At this moment, a middle-aged man who is surrounded by everyone in the middle used to be the one with the highest status among them, he is from the Shayang Tian family, runs a luxury restaurant in Yongdu, and can dine in his restaurant, all of them are high-ranking officials and dignitaries of the Qin State.

However, it is precisely because of his identity that when Qin Huang Ma Yue ordered the arrest of all Ming people in Yongdu, his identity did not play any protective role. Instead, it became the first one. What is the identity of the boss of the Shayang Tian family in the Ming Kingdom, the Qin people naturally know it.

Tortured and tortured over and over again, by the time it was finally confirmed that this man was indeed just an ordinary businessman, he was covered in bruises and thrown into this cell, and he was almost left with only one breath left. The original chubby body has almost lost its shape.

Or in normal times, this Tian family also looks down on those ordinary Ming people who do some reselling business, but when they go to prison, it is these people who save their little bit of water porridge and use their own body temperature to drag his life back from the death line little by little.

Although the situation is still not good, it is much better than at the beginning, at least in everyone's opinion, there is no worry about life for the time being.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and everyone surrounds this Tian clan in the middle, using their bodies to block the pervasive cold wind for him.

He did all this not because he was a member of the Tian clan, but because everyone was a Ming person.

"We're out of the picture." He looked sadly at the frail people around him, "either starving to death, freezing to death, or being killed."

The vast majority of people were silent, and at this point, everyone was indeed desperate.

The outermost man turned his head, although he was also so hungry that he lost his shape, but his eyes were still bright: "Da Ming will not ignore us, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely think of ways to save us. Don't be discouraged, you must hold on."

The Tian clan smiled weakly: "Brother, it's impossible, how can you save us?" Send an army to infiltrate Yongdu, don't say it's impossible, even if there is such a possibility, it can only be sent to death."

"If the Ming Dynasty defeats the Qin State, we will be able to live." Someone shouted.

"If the Ming defeat the Qin people, we will die faster!" The people of the Tian clan said bitterly: "The Qin people will definitely use us to vent their anger, they can't defeat our army, they will come and cut off our heads to vent their anger. Even if our army arrives in Yongdu now, it won't be too late to save us."

"I'm not afraid of death." Another person said faintly: "I, in fact, what I am most afraid of is that our Ming army has arrived outside Yongdu, but these damned Qin people have taken us to the city to threaten our Ming army. Otherwise, I really can't explain why they are still hanging our lives like this."

"It's quite possible!" The Tian clan said in a low voice.

"Brothers, fellows." A man on the outermost periphery was silent for a moment, and said: "If there is really that day, we can't become a burden to our Ming, at that time, don't be afraid of death, find a break by yourself, whether it's jumping the city, hitting the wall, hitting the Qin people's knives, in short, don't lose the face of our Ming people."

"Left and right are one death, what is there to be afraid of. I won't let the Qin people threaten the Ming army with us, but I can see that the Ming army has surrounded Yongdu, and I can enjoy it when I die. Even if we die, the Ming army will avenge us, do you say, we just died a moment earlier."

Immediately, there was a chorus of echo from the prison.

After a short silence, a low sobbing voice came out again: "But, I really don't want to die, I only married a mother-in-law last year, and I got a little cub this year.

"I still have my father and mother at home!"

Sad emotions slowly spread in prison. Even the heroic man in the outermost part of the country was silently hanging his head at the moment, who stayed here, who was single without any worries, and who had no relatives who was thinking about it day and night in the distance?

Who wants to die if they can't die?

I don't know the sun and the moon in the deep prison, and I don't know what the situation is like outside.

At this time, a team of envoys with the banner of the Ming Dynasty, under the protection of the Qin soldiers, slowly walked into the gate of Yongdu.

After the big case, Prince Ma Chaogao stared coldly at the Ming envoy standing in front of him.

"Do you want to persuade you to surrender? There is no need to fight this kind of idea, Daqin still has tens of thousands of heroes, and hundreds of thousands of people in Yongdu, and they will never surrender without a fight."

The envoy smiled slightly, bowed down and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the foreign minister is not here to persuade him to surrender."

"And what are you doing here?" Ma Chao is a little strange. Now the only thing that the Qin royal family can control is this Yongdu and several acropolis on the periphery, it can be said that it is already exhausted, not to mention the subjects below, it is Ma Chao himself, and he also knows that the hope of winning is extremely slim, their only hope is to use the tall walls of Yongdu to defend to the death, and try their best to drag down the time, maybe to the end, there will be some new changes in the pattern of this world, is it possible that the Qi State will watch the Ming people annex the Qin State? The Qi people do have a lot of internal problems now, but their emperor is working to solve these problems, and once the Qi emperor is freed up, he will inevitably intervene. At that time, it is possible that the Qin State will usher in a turning point.

"The foreign minister is here for the sake of the people who were arrested by my Ming Dynasty in Yongdu." The envoy of the Ming State said: "They are just some ordinary people, the two countries are fighting each other, and each has its own destiny of victory or defeat, but these ordinary people should not be innocently affected."

"Innocently affected?" Ma Chao looked up to the sky and laughed: "The Ming people invaded my Great Qin, could it be that the people of my Great Qin are not innocent?"

The envoy of the Ming Dynasty smiled slightly: "His Royal Highness the Prince of Good Sect learned that those people of the Qin State who entered my Ming Dynasty are now living well, with no worries about food and clothing, and they are happy to think about Qin. I think with the eyes and ears of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I don't know about these situations, right? Now my Ming food is being transported in an endless stream to those areas that have just returned to my Ming Dynasty, even beggars can eat a full meal every day. And it's going to get better and better in the future."

Ma Chao looked at this envoy, and his face gradually turned purple.

"Since it is hostile, why did my Great Qin let these people go back? Let them go back and be the enemy of my Great Qin?"

"They're just ordinary people." The envoy of the Ming Kingdom shook his head, "Your Highness, is it even afraid and worried about these people?" Then how to deal with my Ming Tiger and Wolf Army?"

"This prince is going to kill these people to sacrifice the banner, in order to strengthen the determination of my Great Qin people to defend Yongdu." Ma Chao said with a cruel smile.

"Slaughtering the weak will not make you more courageous, it will only make you feel more at the end of your rope." The envoy of the Ming Kingdom said solemnly: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, this wise man is not a good man, these Ming merchants are useless to you. It doesn't threaten my Ming determination to attack Yongdu in the slightest."

"In that case, why should you care about the lives of these people?" Ma Chao sneered.

"I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, am merciful, and I can't bear to see the people of the Ming Dynasty suffer such an unwarranted disaster, and I, the Ming Dynasty, will not give up any of the people, as long as there is a slight possibility, we will try our best to rescue them. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince learned that my Ming did not want to bring these people back with empty mouths, and we were willing to buy them."

"Do you think we care about money?"

"Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince care about food?" The envoy of the Ming State said confidently: "As far as we know, Yongdu originally had three major warehouses, which were stored for at least two years, but this time, your country gathered 200,000 troops to attack the tiger prison, but there is not much left in these three warehouses, even if your country retreats to Yongdu, immediately confiscate all the grain stocks of the people, but let me ask, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Yongdu, how long can these grains last?" We, the Ming Dynasty, are willing to give out grain in exchange for these Ming merchants."

"Grain in exchange?" Ma Chao looked at the other party with some incredulity, "Could it be that you still want to poison these grains to harm us?"

The envoy of the Ming Kingdom laughed: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this is the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, Yongdu is already in the palm of my Ming Dynasty, since it can be taken in a dignified manner, why bother to make these ghost tricks, and it is a clumsy method that will never succeed. His Royal Highness the Prince, a native of the Ming Kingdom, I am willing to exchange 2,000 catties of grain for it."

"A 10,000 catties is about the same!" Ma Chao sneered.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, this is not a business." The envoy of the Ming Kingdom said lightly: "Although Your Majesty wants to exchange these prisoners back, the generals who command the battle on the front line are not very happy to exchange a large amount of food for people. Two thousand catties of food is the limit, these people are locked up in Yongdu by you, it's just your burden, it can't help you at all, once my Ming army is launched, it will never stop because of the lives of these people. Now you can exchange 2,000 catties of grain by yourself, and after that, you can't get a grain of grain back."

Ma Chao stared at the Ming envoy opposite, and his anger rose up for a while, and he wanted to draw a knife and cut this person in two.

But what's the use? This person is just a small captain, even if he is killed, what good can he do?

"Okay, it's very good, two thousand catties of grain for one person, it's changed." He said word by word.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed a wise person, in that case, please ask Your Highness to quickly count how many Ming people are still alive, so that we can prepare food." The envoy smiled.

The closed door of the cell suddenly opened, and the prisoners crowded together looked up weakly, looking at a person who was walking steadily under the light of the torch, and the uniform of the Ming army made everyone's eyes widen, and they couldn't believe what they saw.

The envoy of the Ming Kingdom looked at these humanoid skeletons, took a deep breath, and saluted everyone with a positive face: "Everyone has suffered, please hold on for a few days, and I will be able to take everyone home."

There was silence in the prison for a while, and after a moment there were thunderous cheers, and everyone roared loudly with all their strength.

"Long live Daming!"

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"