Chapter 4: Out of the Indian Ocean (20)
In this surging crowd, Bulgari led five cavalrymen to escort Morena to the agreed location, which was much less difficult than they had estimated. When Morena held the city lord's scimitar aloft, she shouted, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The city lord has an order, with Mahmud, to temporarily command all the city defense forces! "Soon someone from the city guard came up in the crowd to inquire......
When the city guards came up to inquire, Morena did not explain more, but said to them: "I don't know, the city lord suddenly became unwell, and suspected that someone was making trouble in this wooden bone, and ordered me to give an order with a sword, if you have any problems, go and ask the city lord or Mahmud!" ”
If she spoke out, she was afraid that there would be more and more flaws, so Ding had prepared this statement early on, and in this crowd full of uneasiness and commotion, she shouted such words in her voice, which made the city guards who came up to ask no longer be able to ask for a while, so they could only organize people to clear the passage.
The city guards mixed with the crowd quickly drove the crowd away, because the city lord's scimitar was an obvious sign, and the emergency deployment of troops in peacetime was often based on this; The other is Morena, the reason why Ding Yi taught her to do this is not only because she can master Arabic very well, but also because Li Le has lived in this city for some time and found that this city lord has the habit of ordering his favorite concubine to pass orders.
Bulgari guarded Morena, and soon met with the tax collector Mahmood, and when he saw the scimitar in Morena's hand, the tax collector was quite excited, because it meant that Ding Yi and the others had already controlled the city lord, which was what they said before. If you want him to be the lord of this city with wooden bones, more than half of it has been realized, and the rest. It's up to him to do it.
"The rioters in the city have been captured! The city guards are gathering for me! People should return home immediately and not stay on the streets, otherwise they will be punished as chaos! "Mahmoud, a guy who can make Ding Yi look good, is very capable, and immediately issued three orders, which are very effective in calming the doubts and panic of the people, and making the people lose the reason to revel in the streets.
This is a time when there are no human rights and freedoms.
No one will ask why. Because a bright scimitar will answer this question very well.
The crowd around Mahmoud was quickly emptied, and small groups of city guards began to gather around him.
"Please return to the city lord, when the wood bones are all calm again. Mahmud will go and return to the lord of the city. The tax collector said this to Morena, of course, not to the city lord, but to Ding. Mahmoud knew what he was talking about, and so did Morena. So she nodded. He left under the escort of Bulgari.
Mahmud held the scimitar of the city lord in his hand and began to give orders, because the people here were dispersed, and the cavalry of the city guard, which had been assembled, began to drive the people from the square where the tax collector was located, with scabbards and whips. Even Blade, they are not Ding Yi. I don't pay attention to any mass policy, I have to say that this barbaric method, if you don't count the sequelae, can indeed be effective very quickly, when the people screamed, covered in blood dodging, the city guard spoke again: "Those who stay on the street will be punished as chaos!" The area was cleared out one by one, and of course there were many more innocent people who were trampled on and hacked to death, but this kind of important thing for Ding Yi was obviously something that Mahmoud did not need to consider, and no one in the city guard had any objection to this.
Before dawn, they drove all the people home, and Mahmoud gave an order to the city guards who were following him: "The lord of the city has an order, come with me, and arrest the mastermind behind this rebellion!" Then he said a few names, the other tax collector and the henchman of the city lord in the wooden bones.
Eradicating dissent is always an indispensable option, someone in the city guard raised a question, Mahmoud glanced at him, then turned around, pointed to the city guard commander who stood up to ask questions, and said to Wen Fatzi: "You show him something, and he will understand." Even though he couldn't understand Arabic, he could understand what Mahmoud meant.
So Wen Fat quickly made that person figure it out, and he rotated the other party's face one hundred and eighty degrees, so that there was nothing that could not be turned. This made Mahmoud breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that Ding Yi sent these two people, which cannot be regarded as simply spying on him, and should also have the intention of protecting him.
The fat man who returned to Mahmoud's side whispered to the tax officer, "Next time, it's you." He had only learned these few words, but the tax officer knew very well what the fat man meant, that is, if he was assigned an errand the next time, then the fat man would kill him. For Mahmoud, he was not surprised, but smiled and nodded, what he wanted to figure out was an attitude, not that he really didn't have a murderous subordinate around him.
But just as Mahmoud was about to give the order to act, the sound of horses' hooves galloped from both sides of the long street.
It was none other than another tax collector who had just been declared by Mahmoud to be behind the rebellion, and a confidant of the city lord. The city army, which had been gathered around Mahmud, was immediately divided into three, and two groups of men and horses were divided and returned to the two groups that had arrived.
Mahmoud can be regarded as an opponent who must be eliminated at the first time, how can there be no foundation in the city defense army?
Cao Jixiang sneered in a low voice, and said in a voice that only he and Wen Fatzi could hear: "A barbarian is a barbarian, after clearing the street, I don't want to visit the benefactor, but I still want to stand up...... Our young master is a young man, and he is also the first of this generation of Tianjiao, and he will take it when he says it...... This guy still wants to play with the young master? Hmph, it's really lard! ”
"My father-in-law is right." Wen Fatzi also sneered, he was extremely disgusted with Mahmoud letting him make a move, Wen Fatzi felt that Mahmoud was trying to see what Ding Yi's strength was.
If Ding Yi is behind a million tigers, of course Wen Fat Man will not do it, and he will slap him on the spot;
But now Ding Yi is such twenty-three people, Wen Fat Man knows very well that he can't pretend to be forced, of course he can be forced now, and if he finds out in the future, Mahmoud will inevitably feel that the threats on Ding Yi's side are all bluffing, and if he really starts to do it, will he support another city lord? That's why Wen Fat Man will take action and warn this tax collector with absolute ferocity.
This is a temptation, normally speaking, he and Cao Jixiang are the role of the superintendent, this Mahmoud should provide them up, how can they be asked to take action? So Wen Fatzi also felt that this guy was extremely unresponsible.
At this time, the three parties in the square were deadlocked, Wen Fatzi and Cao Jixiang couldn't understand their negotiations, and they were a little anxious, but they heard someone behind them say in a blunt Daming official: "Mahmoud's power is greater, bigger than both of them, but the two of them are stronger than Mahmoud together." The three of them didn't want to go to war, so now they said yes, they went to see the city lord. ”
Cao Jixiang and Wen Fatzi were so frightened that they sweated on their backs, and when they looked back, they saw a commander of the city guards, who looked like an Arab, and said to them: "Don't dare to ask, what do you call the two subordinates?" ”
"It's 'don't dare to ask for advice,' it's not 'don't dare to ask for advice,' and 'up and down,' not 'down and up.'" Wen Fatzi couldn't help but correct him.
At this time, Mahmoud had reached a consensus with the other two forces, and he would go to meet the city lord before making plans, Cao Jixiang motioned to Wen Fatzi to follow the tax officer, and he dragged it back a little, and said to the commander of the city guard: "What is your identity?" Do you dare to come and ask our family? Hum! ”
"Jinyi Weibei Town, Fusi Baihu White Winged Dragon, please show your official position to distinguish between dignity and humility." This person's tone became eager, and he also stuffed an object into Cao Jixiang's hand, Cao Jixiang groped for it, no need to look at it, he was familiar with this kind of waist card, and it was really the waist card of Jinyi Wei Baihu who remembered correctly.
"When will the instrument be incorporated into the Experience Division?" Cao Jixiang returned the waist card to the other party, but asked coldly. Jinyiwei is not a waist card that can be counted, especially hundreds of households, how to say that it is also the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and the experience of the division will definitely be filed.
The commander of the city defense army who called himself the White Winged Dragon listened, but an excited look flashed from his eyes, this thing, what kind of person is the other party, after two sentences, they have psychological expectations for each other, so they whispered again, "In the nineteenth year of Yongle, my father went abroad with Gonggong Zheng and raised the prestige of the country in Diyi...... He was commanded to dwell here...... Xuande five years, the next official was two years old, the mother of Huaxia Guozhou was the master, the father was critically ill, and sent his lieutenants to report to the peak...... On the order of Gonggong Zheng, due to the inconvenience overseas, he was simplified, and he was taken by the subordinate officials, and he still carried out the first strict ministry ......"
Cao Jixiang nodded, he had the impression that there were several hundred households in Jinyiwei, and there were documents and files in the Yu Experience Division, but no one was seen, so he said to Bai Yilong: "Our family is the official school of the Liangguang Ship Division of the Governor of Qincha, and the director of the Transportation Department of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, and the staff officer of the task force Cao, when it is convenient in the future, let's contact again." ”
Because it is really inconvenient now, he has arrived at the residence of the city lord while speaking, leaving behind the dead bodies in a place.
The lord of the city also died, and several concubines also hanged themselves.
Only the corpse of the city lord who was still sitting by the bookcase, many wounds had blood scabs, looking hideous, and the quill pen in his hand wrote a line of unfinished words on the paper: Mahmoud temporarily ......
What is the temporary shooting, there will be no later. This was originally arranged by Ding Yi, how can it be written? It is written that if this tax officer's family is the only one and there is no one to control it, Ding Yi and they are all tied up in this wooden bones, and they are really in danger.
So the three forces began to quarrel again in the residence of the city lord......
Ding Yi had already returned to the small courtyard he had bought at this time, and said to Li Le: "You and the people from the communication class, go back to the residence of the small merchant at dawn, and wait for two days, after the matter of the concession is finalized, you will have your own arrangements." Then he said to Bulgari, "See when martial law is lifted in the city, you take the cavalry squad back to the rainforest, and select dozens of honest and obedient black children to come over." ”
At this time, the first ray of dawn had been revealed in the sky, Emperor Jing looked at Ding Yi silently, and he suddenly felt that if this concession could be fulfilled, his country, is not necessarily a mirage? (To be continued......)