The wheels of the carriage rumbled on the hard stone road, and the cast-iron rims rubbed against the sparks. The update is the fastest and the fastest to the eye

At this time, Wu Yuanqing's carriage was no longer alone, in the rumbling and rumbling run, the eight carriages were crowded into a road, and more than 100 horseback guards had to be left behind.

Fortunately, at the beginning, these landlords wanted to keep a low profile and did not prepare horses, and a small number of carriages were also congested in the crowd and could not run at speed, otherwise they would have been caught up.

The running carriage was actually all acquaintances, Wu Yuanqing was still sweating profusely and looking back, and the carriage next to Leng Buding poked out a fat head, and greeted him very unexpectedly: "Hey, Brother Wu, you also run away?" What a coincidence. ”

What a coincidence? Looking at Leon's fat head, Wu Yuanqing couldn't help but jump out of a few wisps of green tendons on his forehead, and hummed a little depressedly: "Yes, what a coincidence, Lao Tzu couldn't have imagined that the Byzantines were so enthusiastic." ”

Wu Yuanqing's words were quite mocking, not enough Leonti is used to it, you must know that he is a senator of the Senate, he is used to seeing political deceit, stabbing a knife in the back, what is such a betrayal, grinning, Leonti waved his hand indifferently: "Brother Wu, don't worry, our Byzantium is still the place of ** law, let's go to the palace tonight to avoid it, and tomorrow General Leo will send troops to wipe out this group of rebellious ministers and thieves." ”

"I hope so."

Leonti was full of confidence, but Wu Yuanqing was not so confident and reluctantly agreed.

This night was destined to be not peaceful, on the one hand, there was a commotion in the church, and on the other hand, the nobles were in chaos, Leo only had about 7,000 soldiers on hand, and he had to remove the barbarian mercenaries who were guarding the fortresses and fortresses, and there were only more than 4,000 people who could gather, such a big chaos, these soldiers and horses were almost all arranged by him on the front line of the palace.

The fleeing carriage turned to the right road, and the palace was two miles away, and some Byzantine infantry could be seen along the way, but these people did not stand up for justice as Leonti expected, but retreated to both sides of the road, and after another minute or so of galloping, the Byzantine palace was finally close at hand.

Unlike the palaces of China, the Byzantine palace did not have such towering palace walls as a defense, but it was relatively safe to guard the palace walls under the protection of barbarian mercenaries and royal guards.

Seeing that the iron railing gate was closed, and hundreds of Byzantine halberders with halberds were nervously defending behind the gate, far away, Leonti poked his head out and shouted: "Open the door, I am Leonti." Leonida Karen, the purple-robed patriarch, let me in! ”

Leonti felt good about himself, and shouted majesticly, but unfortunately, the iron railing gate was still so tightly closed, and the halberdiers guarding behind him all poked out their halberds to defend themselves.

The eight carriages stopped urgently, and the more than ten horses pulling the carriage ran straight away, looking at the hedgehog-like gate, Leonti almost didn't cry, Wu Yuanqing, who got off one after another, and other big landlords and nobles who had collected land and annexed in the past few days were also green, with no way forward, and there were chasing soldiers behind, and it was really difficult to fly.

Behind, Hou Jie and the others were also nervously holding their horses, seeing that the fire dragon behind them was getting closer and closer, and Hou Jie's smooth forehead also had a few more beads of sweat, but he was in danger, and shouted with a horizontal knife: "Everyone, come with me if you want to live." ”

jumped off the horse and led the team, but Hou Jie ran straight to the left and right church huts, and the sword Qi Hui cut straight open the doors and windows, and a large round barrel and boxes of square things were moved out by his command, and the barrels were directly pried open on the spot, and the unpleasant black and sticky liquid was dumped on the ground.

"Catch them, and don't let these vampire profiteers run away." At this time, the crazy crowd finally arrived, and the faces of the men and women were full of madness and hideousness, screaming and running over, seeing these murderous Byzantine residents, even Hou Jie was jumping on the face, and hurriedly threw down the torch in his hand.

Vacating the ground, a raging fire burned on the street, the two-meter-high wall of fire isolated the crazy landless landlord behind, the fire finally made this group of people sane more clearly, Rao is so, the rear is in a hurry, the sound of angry scolding, and the sound of black words is still coming, gritting his teeth, Hou Jie raised his knife again: "Come on, put those square boxes in front, and arrange them in a row." ”

The various aristocratic guards in the panic were also arranged as they said, and the square boxes were filled with fireworks, which were originally trafficked by Fujian merchants who wanted to make a fortune, but they didn't want the King of Min to suddenly pass the order and deduct it, which happened to be cheap Hou Jie.

Pulling out the fuse on the tail of the fireworks, Hou Jie took the torch and lit it, the fuse burned out in a blink of an eye, and after a while, the fireworks with green smoke whistled out, this time not in the sky, but in the crowd.

Now it was lively, crackling colorful fireworks continued to explode in the crowd, the landlords of Constantinople who had just been angry were jumped up and down like monkeys, some clothes were blown up, some of their beards were burned, some simply shouted loudly for divine punishment and bowed their heads and kowtowed, kowtowing like a contagion, first the landlords at the forefront knelt down, and then the whole street more than 10,000 landlord families all knelt and kowtowed, and the torches were thrown to the ground.

The fireworks exploded for more than a minute before they quieted down, except for the crackling of torches on the street, but there was already silence, on the other hand, the Byzantine infantry of the palace guards behind them were stupid when they saw this scene, and hurriedly opened the gate to welcome them, and kept praying, but unfortunately, this time Hou Jie, who was relieved, did not enter, pulled over a prepared iron horn, and roared at the kowtow-like crowd.

"This is you Romans? Before I came, I learned from the merchants of other countries that Rome is a civilized country with courtesy, honesty and order, and that the Romans should be worthy of their father's and family's reputation, and as Christians, they should not be greedy or robber, but what are you? When he sells things, he is like a swarm of locusts, and when he regrets, he is like a group of robbers. ”

"Do you dare to touch the Bible and face the judgment of the angels in the moment of death?"

The streets where these words were shouted were silent, full of the huge losses of their own land, and even the law was forgotten, where did these landlords think so much, and now they were even shocked, and all kinds of moral concepts surfaced again, leaving these people speechless, for a long time, or Grande, who was squeezed behind him, shouted back unconvinced through the flames: "Then you ******** your land, and you can face God's judgment with peace of mind?" ”

"Did we force you to sell your land?" Hearing this, Leonti was unconvinced and jumped out again, not wanting to finish shouting, Hou Jie kicked him back again, raised his hands, and shouted at the group of landlords who were angry again in the firelight.

"Indeed, the price at which we buy land is very low, it is based on the fact that you Byzantines can't hold it, the war is ruthless, but the common people and the land are innocent, our Fujian country has an alliance with the Arab Empire, and we can keep most of the property, I believe that at that time, you don't want your ancestors' land to become barren and ruined, right?"

"Now, since you Byzantines can defend it by themselves, and we Fujian merchants are also willing to sell the land back, this matter is already planned by Brother Wu and I, but I don't want you Byzantines to be so robbers and barbarism, so hard to force each other, to tell you, we Fujian people are also strong, we would rather dedicate all the land to the Byzantine emperor than to you!"

The more he talked, the more angry he became, under the light of the fire, Hou Jie's beard was all open, and there was an awe-inspiring presence in it, listening to his words, those noble landlords panicked, and in the rear, the general Leo in the palace couldn't stay still, and a moment later, with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the Byzantine heavy cavalry retreated like a wall, wearing armor all over his body, carrying a three-meter-long Western cavalry spear, Leo personally greeted him with a murderous force.

"Merchants of Fujian, are you really willing to dedicate your land to the emperor? In the name of Your Majesty, if you do this, General Ben can guarantee your absolute personal safety, and Your Majesty will also have a heavy reward! ”

This is not a small number, eight carriages occupy almost all the land of Constantinople and the nearby Ephosarea, Caesarea seven floors, even the emperor himself is not so rich, Leo is not tempted, expropriated these lands, and supplies the army with all his might, he is sure to create a large army.

Listening to Leo's assurance, the rest of the Constantinople landlords were really panicked, if Hou Jie did this, they really had no choice, the successive Byzantine emperors never relented in suppressing rebellions, and they didn't look at the riots of the Ka You riot Justinian I slaughtered more than 35,000 rioting citizens without blinking an eye, regardless of whether they were high or low, and how many nobles were uprooted afterwards, in that case, they would really completely lose their land and never get it back.

"No, I, I'm willing to buy back my land at a price three floors higher than selling it!" It was still Grande on the opposite side who shouted in a panic, it was really like a light in his eyes, and the rest of the landlords also shouted.

"Merchants of Fujian, we are willing to buy back our land according to the former land price in Constantinople, you know, the emperor's reward will never be so much, you have to think clearly!"

In the chaotic roar, Leo became nervous again, full of threats, and roared at Hou Jie, who bowed his head and pondered: "Merchants of the Fujian Kingdom, you have to think clearly, no matter how much money you have, you have to spend your life, without the protection of the emperor, this group of greedy wolves will tear you to pieces in the first moment!" ”

After hesitating for a moment, Hou Jie raised his head and asked Leo rhetorically: "General, the war is not fought by land but by people, even if you own all the land of Constantinople, everyone here hates you, do you think the war with Arabia can still be fought?" ”

The tough and resolute Roman face under Leo's helmet was really hesitant, and just as he was pondering, Hou Jie once again shouted in front of the eager Byzantine landlords on the other side of the fire belt: "The land acquired by our Fujian merchants will be re-sold at half the original Byzantine land price!" ”

Although the price was five times more expensive, after all, it was possible to get back the land of the ancestors and settle down and multiply in Constantinople again, and it was much better than the original full price