Due to the siege.

In addition, the smallpox epidemic in the city could not be controlled.

Even the Holy Mother of the White Lotus, who is also their sect leader, has held prayer ceremonies many times, but it has no effect.

This also caused panic among the people in the city.

Especially since prices are starting to skyrocket.

Now a bucket of corn has risen to 1,000 Wen.

You must know that in the past, before the displaced people entered the city, one stone of corn was only 400 wen.

They don't know how many times this has multiplied.

Of course, this is not the most dissatisfied with the local people, what they are most dissatisfied with is that those displaced people eat and drink for free.

Even many of the leaders of the White Lotus Sect, who managed the displaced people, always acted as traitors in the city.

It's not beating someone, or robbing someone else's wife.

They sued the yamen, but the result was to no avail.

If it weren't for the fact that the army outside the city had been driven out of the city by receiving the people who had been driven out of the city, the smallpox epidemic had also begun to spread.

These people have long been discredited and fled from the city.

Of course, the small people have no right to speak, they can only be ninjas, hoping that the imperial army will quickly enter the city to exterminate the White Lotus Sect bandits.

However, the wealthy merchants and big families in the city secretly gathered together at night to discuss countermeasures.

They were also forced to do nothing at this time.

Now the more than 100,000 White Lotus Sect bandits in the city have eaten up the grain in the official warehouse.

Since the day before yesterday, they began to borrow from the families of these wealthy merchants and big families.

It is said to be borrowing grain, but in fact it is no different from robbing.

Li Yuanwai in the west of the city did not agree to the White Lotus bandits who requisitioned grain, and as a result, dozens of members of his family were killed, and their homes were also ransacked.

"These White Lotus Sect bandits are getting more and more excessive, most of the grain stored by my Zhao family has been looted by them, and if they continue to endure like this, their family will starve to death sooner or later."

After Zhao Yuanwai finished speaking, seeing that the others did not answer his words, he looked at Li Yuanwai with an ugly expression.

"Brother Li, it's all time, don't you want to say something? Don't forget, your eldest brother's entire family of dozens was all victimized by these White Lotus bandits. ”

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Li Yuanwai was angry.

Since the accident at his eldest brother's house, he has been running the governor's yamen every day.

But each time it was perfunctory by the governor.

Now that Zhao Yuanwai mentioned this matter, he was angry but helpless, sighed and said: "Hey, people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, what's the difference between saying it and not saying it?" That's fate. ”

As soon as Li Yuanwai's words came out, the others also sighed.

Hu Yuanwai, one of the top ten wealthy merchants in the city, even persuaded Zhao Yuanwai at this time: "Brother Zhao, everyone is the same, but all of you and I, including the family Ding Nursing Courtyard, have put together, that is, two or three thousand people, the White Lotus Sect is more than 100,000 people, and Admiral Wu is also their people, and if we resist, it will be the disaster of extermination." ”

"Yes...... But even if we don't resist, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to live, I have received accurate news, the hooligans and people who disappeared in the city are actually infected with smallpox plague, and they were secretly driven out of the city in the middle of the night, and the White Lotus Mother is simply pretending to be a ghost and cannot cure the smallpox plague. ”

Zhang Yuanwai didn't dare to support Zhao Yuanwai openly, so he planned to convince these people from another angle.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, someone asked.

"Brother Zhang, since they drove people out of the city overnight, where did those people go? There were no bodies outside the city. ”

There was such a question, which was naturally expected by Zhang Yuanwai.

So he suddenly coughed and beckoned to everyone.

The meaning is obvious, let everyone come together.

Although everyone didn't understand why Zhang Yuanwai was so pretending to be a ghost.

But they all came together.

Seeing everyone coming, Zhang Yuanwai lowered his voice and said, "I heard that they were all taken in by the prince and Master Li. ”

"Master Li?"

When Li Yuanwai heard that the people who came with troops from the imperial court actually had the same surname as him, he couldn't help muttering.

Zhang Yuanwai glanced at Li Yuanwai, guessed what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Brother Li, don't guess, this Lord Li is not the Li family of Hedong, but the Li family of Weinan, the son of the current Xing Guogong." ”

Hearing Zhang Yuanwai's explanation, Li Yuanwai's eyes lit up instead of being lost.

He saw hope for revenge.

Outsiders may not know, but in fact, the Hedong Li family and the Weinan Li family are fundamentally the same ancestor.

It's just that before the founding of Great Xia, there were differences because of the different rebels who supported them, so the two veins chose to separate.

But he didn't explain it to these people, and of course there was no need to explain it.

"What Brother Zhang said is that I heard that smallpox plague is also breaking out in the imperial army, and for such a long time, there has been no siege, which has also verified this from the side, and it seems that it is not very useful to say?"

Li Yuanwai began to talk.

He didn't know the channels of information from the outside.

Now, we can only use this method of knocking on the side to get news through Zhang Yuanwai.

……

Taking advantage of the night, Jiang Hong and Li Xing led troops to surround the Hu family's manor in Hujia Town.

This is the base camp of the Hu family.

The old lady of the Hu family personally sat here.

All the decisions of the Hu family were made from here.

In order not to startle the snake, increase unnecessary losses.

Li Xing and Jiang Hong did not choose to let the soldiers attack.

Instead, let some people sneak into the Hu family's manor first and control the patrolling people with the fastest speed.

Open the camp from the inside.

When Li Xing and Jiang Hong led people into the Hu family manor, it took less than a stick of incense to completely control the manor.

What Jiang Hong and Li Xing didn't expect was that there was an unexpected gain here.

The people who were seized from the manor, in addition to the Hu family, there were also officials who gave them this army and transported grain and grass.

Under interrogation, they actually sold the military rations supplied to them to the Hu family at a price of 150 wen per stone.

This made Jiang Hong angry, and when he took out his portable saber, he was about to cut off the man's head.

Seeing that the crown prince had lost his mind again, Li Xing hurriedly hugged him: "Your Highness is angry, killing him will not solve the problem, what we have to do now is to interrogate this person and find out who is behind the scenes!" ”