416. Timely tardiness
Five days later, the situation is still the same.
The people in the Zhang family's mansion are still caged birds and turtles in urns, trapped to death, and they have not taken half a step out of the gate.
The people outside the mansion are more than one day at a time, as if half of the people in the Buddha Oath City are piled up in this square circle.
What has changed is that these people gradually lost their strength to jump, and they stopped shouting slogans.
The volcanic eruption-like protests have turned into silent sit-in protests.
Sometimes silence is more oppressive than noise, because you don't know when the storm is brewing, how powerful it is, and how much damage it will bring.
At this moment, Bao Bao Bald was a little restless, so he summoned his subordinates to ask.
"Haven't there been any reactions in the past few days?"
The subordinates saw his irritability and didn't dare to think about it, so they only answered truthfully, "No."
"No one came out? Don't have a call for help? There is no request for food? No representations have been made?"
"No, nothing, if you can't see it from above, you'd think it's an empty house."
"It's strange, just the little food that the Zhang family has saved is enough for so many people to eat?"
"I don't know, but there are quite a few people out there fainting from hunger."
What this subordinate said was that while the crowd outside was sitting in silence, many people were using hunger strikes to express their protests.
"Heh, they are all stupid, how can they use their own lives to coerce others, how can the Song people care about the life and death of the people of other countries?"
Bao Bald looked disdainful, and then waved his hand to his subordinates, "Go down first, keep an eye on me at all times, and report anything that happens!"
The subordinate bowed down and retreated, leaving the bald flower alone in the room.
Originally, he wanted to take advantage of the situation to coerce Qian Long to succumb, so as to gain shame and seize the initiative, and then use it for himself.
Unbeknownst to him, Qian Long seemed to have insight into his intentions, and he had been sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai platform, as motionless as a mountain.
This put Bao Bald in an embarrassing and dangerous situation, and he was in a dilemma.
Anyone with a bit of brains can imagine that all the previous mass protests were definitely behind someone's back.
But unlike many people's secret speculation, it is not he who keeps the bald flower from the ghost.
In fact, Bao Bao Bald was patronizing and gloating at the beginning, and did not think too much about it, and it was thanks to the reminder of the upright subordinate that he realized the problem.
Although he realized it later, he was not entirely stupid, and soon understood that most of this was hidden to kill him.
However, he was more self-righteous, and felt that he was resourceful and eloquent, and that this small conspiracy was not to be feared.
So, he tried to make a plan, intending to dance on a string and use this wind to achieve his own goals.
But now he feels that his wishful thinking is a little too bad, and the situation will turn to the side of his family at any time.
For the real person behind the scenes, he thought about it and felt that it should be his eldest brother who took the throne.
"Humph! He said that he wanted his brothers to work together, but he always wanted to stab me in the back, and I really couldn't be at your mercy when I was a three-year-old child!?"
Muttering a word to himself, Bao Bao Bald issued several warrants to his confidants, secretly gathering his own forces for the unexpected.
In the Zhang family's mansion, it is actually not as calm as it seems on the surface, because the food has bottomed out.
At this time, several people who could speak gathered in the flower hall of the small courtyard where Qianlong lived.
Zhang Yangfan frowned sadly, "Commander Qian, I haven't seen any signs of improvement in so many days, and our food is about to run out, it really won't last long, and it's not a way to drag it like this."
Pu Shiwen has been frightened and frightened for a while, but he didn't dare to say anything in front of Qian Long, so he hurriedly echoed at this moment.
"Xia Guan thinks that Zhang Yuan's words are reasonable, it's been so long, those Diao people outside are still obsessed, and the Zhancheng officials haven't seen any action
Hand and foot, so the longer this time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us, in the opinion of the lower officials, we should evacuate the city first, and then come ......back when we are more fully prepared."
Qian Long held the teacup in one hand and fiddled with the lid with the other, and the upturned Erlang's legs were still bumped and bumped, very leisurely, and the words of Zhang Pu and the others passed through their ears like a breeze, without stirring the slightest emotion.
After Pu Shiwen spent a long time drooling, he lazily raised his eyelids, "How to evacuate?"
Seeing that Qian Long seemed to be loosened, Pu Shiwen was overjoyed, "We have nearly 100 armor soldiers, and we are also equipped with grenades, if we want to break through and evacuate, it is not difficult to escape, no matter how many people are outside, how can they stop us under the power of heaven?"
This guy said the grenade without concealment, and Qian Long didn't have time to stop it, so he could only glare at Pu Shiwen angrily.
Pu Shiwen himself was accustomed to seeing firearms in the army, but he forgot that these things were still confidential to the outside world and should not be disclosed unless necessary.
This will wake up to his mistake, and he can't help but feel weak, embarrassed and not knowing what to say.
Fortunately, it didn't seem to attract the attention and curiosity of Zhang Yangfan Suliya and others, and Qian Long was worried that it would backfire, so he didn't plan to pursue it too much, and put down the teacup casually.
"To put it lightly, who knows what will become of the tens of thousands of people outside who have gone crazy, and you also said that there are powerful people in the city who are engaged in ghosts, so who can guarantee that the nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers who are currently protecting us will not turn against each other when we break through? Hu Fei has already been sacrificed due to my blind movements, and I don't want to risk any more unnecessary casualties unless I have to."
"This ......"
Pu Shiwen didn't think that Qian Long was a person who was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, but he had no position to refute this reason, he couldn't say that he couldn't care about the life and death of the soldiers for his own life, otherwise Qian Long could give him a few big ear shaves on the spot.
Zhang Yangfan took Qian Long's excuse seriously, so he hesitated for a while before speaking, "Commander Qian, there is a way to avoid taking too much risk......
"Oh?" Qian Long was a little surprised, although he had a plan in his heart, but after thinking about it, he didn't mind listening to Zhang Yangfan's method, "Then please talk to Zhang Yuanwai."
Zhang Yangfan glanced at everyone in the hall before he said softly, "It's a matter of the Han family's secrets, so I also ask Commander Qian to take a step to speak."
Family secrets?
Qian Long couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, "Okay, let's go to the side room to talk."
In the curious eyes of everyone, the two went to the side room behind the flower hall to have a secret talk, and only came out after a long time.
Zhang Yangfan's expression was relieved, and Qian Long looked pensive, as if he was planning something.
Before the two of them sat back in their chairs, a sergeant entered and announced, "Commander, Zhancheng Zuo Shangqing asks to see you."
"It's finally here." literature
Qian Long shrugged, looking not surprised at all.
Shi Li Heli waited outside the main gate of Zhang's house, surrounded by dozens of guards who showed their blades, and there was a long queue on the road behind him, and the cavalry was full of carts and burdens.
A little outside, the people of Champa who had been driven to get out of the way and then re-surrounded were staring at each other, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.
At this moment, the rope on one of the carts suddenly broke, and the large wooden box that had lost its binding fell to the ground, shattered, and spilled its contents all over the ground.
In front of everyone's eyes, a golden light was extremely dazzling, and a group of people exclaimed.
"Gold!?"
"That's right, what else can this color be besides gold?"
"This box must have hundreds of taels...... Jewelry... Plaything... Ornaments...... Ah, there are even idols!"
"What did Zuo Shangqing bring these for? It can't be given to the Song people, right?"
"A single box is worth a lot of money, so how much money does it cost so many cars, I'm afraid the official treasury doesn't have so much money, right?"
Just when these people were shocked and confused, some of the people who had quietly mixed in just now began to talk about it.
"Hehe, I'm afraid you don't know, most of these belongings are still transported from the official treasury, I heard that the official treasury has been scraped clean......
"And you guessed it right, the money was given to Song
Human...... Why? Why else, on the day of Shiva's Day, one Song soldier died and several were injured, so the Song envoy wants us to compensate, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty will have to raise the teacher to ask for the guilt."
"Our country is small and the people are weak, where dare to offend the country, we have to obediently compensate, in fact, it is not enough for the official treasury to be emptied, Zuo Shangqing even took out his own private property to barely make up for it."
When they heard this, the people of Champa were immediately furious.
"What! Compensate the Song people? Isn't it just one of them!? Are their lives so valuable!? What about our people? We have died so many people, and we have never had an explanation, are we not even as good as ants in front of the Song people!?"
"The official treasury has been emptied, so what should we do with Dazhan, do we have to collect taxes on us again?!"
"Too much deception! It's too much of a deception! How can I suffer such a great shame!? You can't afford to pay for it!"
"That's it, Zuo Shangqing doesn't seek justice for the victims of our Dazhan, why is he so spineless, and the Song people obediently gave away the real money with a few words of intimidation!?"
"Don't say that the Song people have the ability to call, even if they do, will we be afraid of it? Hit it, it's a big deal!"
"Waiting for the Song people to come over, we should rush in now and break the people of that mission into pieces!"
As if ice water had been poured into a hot oil pot, resentment and anger immediately spread, and tens of thousands of people in the city were excited, boiling with white smoke.
The crowd was also mixed with some people who seemed to be excited but had clear eyes, and they guided them in a timely manner.
"Don't blame Zuo Shangqing, he can't help himself so compromised, otherwise the Song army really calls, then we will be covered with corpses."
"Yes, yes, Zuo Shangqing has always been far-sighted, although it is difficult for us to understand what he is doing now, but there must be his deep meaning, let's not be impulsive first......
"The Song people are brutal and greedy, but I believe that Zuo Shangqing also had to do it for the sake of the overall situation, you think, even if the Song people can't beat it themselves, but Yue and Zhenla are both vassals of the Song Dynasty......
These words did not make the people's anger against the Song people diminished in the slightest, but it was true that they didn't blame Shi Liheli so much, and they were still in awe.
Coupled with the shock of the hundreds of cavalry on the street, no one really dared to attack the Zhang family's mansion now.
When Qian Long walked out of the main gate to greet Shi Liheli, he saw the noisy and noisy appearance of the people, like a powder keg that was about to explode at any time, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart.
What's going on here?
These people who occupied the city and didn't wilt a few people before, why did they suddenly rise up again?
As his eyes swept away, he naturally saw several people hurriedly packing up the gold utensils on the ground.
Before he could think about it, Shi Lihe Li stepped forward and took the initiative to salute, "A certain family is late, please forgive General Qian."
Qian Long sneered in his heart, hehe, it seems that you said the same thing last time, you can always be late in such a timely manner, it's really hard for you......