Sima Shao and his entourage came to the outside of Jiankang City, which was very lively at the moment.

Under the drawbridge outside the city, the city lord led a dozen guards to stop in front of the crowd, not knowing what to say.

Sima Shao and Yu Wenjun rode on their horses, looked at each other curiously, and then urged the team to speed up and catch up.

After dismounting, the two approached side by side, and only then did they vaguely hear what the city lord said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the front-line war, who has no way, everyone drags their families and leaves their hometowns, a certain also understands, I just want to ask all the fathers and villagers to be patient for a few more days, I have ordered the surrounding landlords and squires to open warehouses and release grain, and everyone stays in Jiankang and waits patiently for a few days."

The crowd was silent for a moment, but out of nowhere, an alternative word came from the crowd.

"In the past few days, we have eaten and drunk rice soup, which is as thin as water, and you still tell us to wait, can we believe your words?"

The crowd of black oppressors didn't know where the sound came from for a while, but many people nodded in agreement.

"Yes, who knows if they are big fish and meat, fragrant and spicy in private, instead of waiting for death here, we might as well break through the city together and seek a way to live!"

The city lord's face became more and more red, looking at the angry people, he had no choice but to try to stop the people from moving forward.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the grain and grass allocated by the imperial court set off from the granary, and it will take a while to Jiankang, everyone listens to a certain advice, wait a few days, and don't be impatient......

Before he finished speaking, the contrarian voice in the crowd interrupted him: "Tomorrow after tomorrow, tomorrow is so much, one more hungry day, one more corpse that will be starved to death!" ”

The hesitant people were incited, and suddenly they made noise again, and they began to move forward again.

The city lord burst into tears and said: "When you enter the city, it can be regarded as an uprising and rebellion, this is the real dead end, why don't you believe me?" ”

In the crowd, the incendiary voice came out again: "How did this war come about? It is said that it is because His Majesty is mediocre today, so there is a catastrophe almost every once in a while, you say that it is not Your Majesty's fault, God has condemned the world, but it has caused our people to suffer for him! ”

The crowd fell silent.

The city lord and the dozen or so guards behind him suddenly changed unpredictably, their eyes widened, and they tried their best to find the person who spoke just now in the crowd, but finding someone in the crowd was no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

But anger has grown, and an uprising is brewing.

Sima Shao and Yu Wenjun, who had been standing quietly beside the crowd silently, were shocked.

Sima Shao pointed at the crowd expressionlessly and said, "You guys look carefully, and if you find anyone inside who is saying something rebellious, pull him out, is there a problem?" ”

"Whoa."

Sima Shao nodded, his eyes gloomy and continued to stare at the crowd.

The crowd is still moving forward, and there are signs of intensification.

Sure enough, the crowd once again uttered that icy bewitching voice.

"City Lord, the fathers and fellow villagers don't believe in you, they don't believe in the court, Your Majesty is mediocre, why let our people suffer? Everyone went to the city, not only to survive, but also to ask His Majesty for an explanation. ”

When the words fell, the guards beside Sima Shao finally found out the person: wearing tattered clothes, his face was dark, but there was unspeakable rebelliousness in his eyes.

Sima Shao's eyes narrowed, his hand pointed, and he shouted at the young man in the crowd: "Take it for me!" ”

Cha!

More than a dozen guards rushed towards the crowd at the same time, unsheathing the sheath on their waist as they ran, and while the people were in a daze, more than a dozen people had rushed to the front of the crowd, brandishing the scabbard to shoot all the people around them to both sides, and then rushed straight in, rushing straight to the young man.

The young man hadn't reacted yet.

In other words, he thought it was safe to hide in the crowd and incite stirrup, but he didn't expect that Sima Shao's guards had already locked him until they rushed to stand in front of him.

The young man's eyes widened, and he looked at the dozen or so guards who looked like wolves and tigers with a blank expression.

Syllable!

A slap was slapped, and before the young man could cry out in pain, he only felt a pain in his head, and someone hit him on the back of the head with a scabbard, and then his eyes were dark, and his head was dizzy, and finally he felt that his body was light, and the whole person was lifted by several guards and walked out of the crowd.

From the time they shot to the time they took it, the guards moved quickly, until the young man was carried out of the crowd, and the people were still confused, not knowing what had happened.

The young man was twenty-eight or nineteen years old, and he looked very ordinary, looking like a peasant household everywhere, his face was full of despair mixed with a little unruliness, and there was nothing special about it in the crowd.

Yu Wenjun stood beside Sima Shao, watching this scene with wide eyes and stunned, and did not react to Sima Shao's categorical order in time, staring at the unconscious young man in a daze like all the people.

"Husband, is this ......" Yu Wenjun said hesitantly.

Sima Shao turned his head and smiled gently: "Think I took the wrong person?" ”

Yu Wenjun hesitated for a moment and said, "Could it be wrong?" It seems that this person is a simple farmer, if we take the wrong person, the matter will be big. ”

Sima Shao shook his head with a smile, and did not explain, whether he was caught or not, and he was put in prison for the first trial.

In fact, regardless of whether you take the wrong person or not, the matter has already made a big fuss.

Seeing that one of the people was arrested for no reason, the onlookers suddenly became noisy, and the commotion in the crowd became bigger and bigger.

Sima Shao frowned, turned his head and gestured to Gu Chang's eyes behind him, Gu Chang understood, stood a few steps forward, and shouted violently: "Quiet-"

The crowd was frightened by a loud roar on the ground, and Gu Chang's eyes were dark.

glanced around coldly, and then said awe-inspiringly: "I am waiting for me to come from the city, a certain subordinate to the guards of the prince's mansion in the city, this is the crown prince and the crown princess of the current dynasty, this is our waist card, you can see it!" ”

As he spoke, Gu Chang took out a golden waist plate engraved with a four-clawed golden dragon from his bosom and slowly showed it to the people.

The crowd became quieter, and everyone had a look of awe on their faces.

How to say that this era is also an era of strict classes, the people are born with awe and fear of the court in their bones, Gu Chang showed his identity in time, and the time was right to scare the people, and they no longer dared to make noise.

Gu Chang pointed at the young man.

His tone suddenly became stern: "Everyone saw it, we just took down this person, why did we take him down?" At the moment of the catastrophe, it is the time when the imperial court and the elders and villagers are working together to overcome the crisis, but this person hides in the crowd and deliberately provokes the officials and the people, divides the court and the people, and instigates and demagogues the fathers and elders to confront the court. ”

"If you don't take down this person, let him provoke you and others to confront the government, and even incite everyone to rebel against the court, you fathers and elders, imagine that he has achieved his goal, where is your life?"

The crowd fell silent again.