The line lined up, and soon Pei Yungui and Gu Rin arrived.

After the last person was let in, the handful of cold light flashing in the guard's hand lay across the chests of Pei Yungui and Gu Rin.

"Where did it come from?" The guard's eyes roamed over the faces of the two of them, and he asked in a deep voice.

"A certain inner son came from the state of Dianzhuang." Gu Rin bowed his waist and hung his head, looking like an honest man.

The guard Fuyou inquired about his age and family income, and without suspicion, he let Pei Yungui and Gu Rin in.

I thought that the city gate after entering led directly to Youxian Street, but unexpectedly, the two entered a secluded passage, and the surroundings were closed without light.

Pei Yungui's eyes flickered, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, and subconsciously looked at Gu Rin.

Gu Rin shook his head lightly and made a silent gesture, but his eyes became colder and colder.

After a long time, I saw a flickering fire in the distance, illuminating a stone wall, and then a figure gradually appeared, getting closer and closer.

There was a man in a fancy dress with a big waist and a round waist.

Gu Rin and Pei Yungui secretly glanced at each other, then pretended to be trembling and greeted them.

"This lord, I and my wife came all the way to join the You County Business Gang." Gu Rin hurriedly spoke, his eyes showing a cringe, "But you can enter the city gate, why did you come here?"

The man glanced at Gu Rin casually, and said lightly, "This is the only way to enter the hinterland of the Shang Gang, you are not wrong, come with me."

"But ......" Gu Rin's eyes dodged, and he pretended to hesitate, "Is it really possible to join the business gang here, my lord, you didn't lie to me."

The man said coldly, "If you believe it, come with me, if you don't believe it, you will rot and die here, and no one cares about it."

With that, he turned around and left a back.

People often question it when they come and go, and there are not a few people who go crazy on the spot and want to escape.

Everyone thinks that they can make a lot of money by joining the business gang, but how can it be so easy to make money.

Entering the gate of Youxian County, freedom and dignity are firmly locked out.

The man thought that he would go on, and if the two men followed, he would step into another cage, and if he did not, he would starve to death in the secret passage.

Gu Rin clasped his arms in his hands and stared at the short and fat back, his eyes becoming deeper and deeper, as if he was staring at a dead man.

Pei Yungui, who was standing next to her, clearly felt the sudden drop in temperature around her, and she glanced at the man sympathetically.

It's not good to mess with Gu Rin, uncle, your road is narrow.

She sighed, tugged at Gu Rin's sleeve, and whispered, "Now is not the time to be angry, it is the most important thing to follow closely to find out the true face of that merchant gang, general, dissipate your anger."

Gu Rin snorted coldly, the glacier in his eyes melted slightly, and he followed Pei Yungui with that back.

The man caught a glimpse of the two figures behind him, his lips hooked, and he quickened his steps, leading them into the interior of the merchant gang.

The secret passage leads to a room, and it takes about a quarter of an hour to walk along the road to enter it.

The man brought them in, turned around, and said, "This is the reception room, you wait here first, don't try to run around, someone will receive you later."

Pei Yungui nodded, and after the man returned to the secret passage, she and Gu Rin found a place to sit down and looked up at the room.

The house is not big, the furnishings are simple, a few tables and a few chairs are all there is inside, the windows and doors are closed, Pei Yungui tried to open them, but found that they were all locked.

A coldness crossed Pei Yungui's eyes.

What kind of reception room is this, this is clearly a captivity!

"General, the Shang Gang is not a good kind." Pei Yungui said in a deep voice: "And the gate to enter the city leads directly here, the little girl suspects that the government is very likely to collude with this, they use profit as bait to recruit people everywhere, and they must have been instructed by the government behind their backs."

Gu Rin leaned on the back of the chair and gently tapped on the table, and there was no look on the surface.

"We'll have to see what is right and who's wrong, but now there's no hurry, let's stay here for a while, and we're going to see what tricks they want to play."

After a few moments, the stone near the secret passage

The door opened again, and it was still the same man who came out, but there were a few people behind him, the townsfolk who had boarded the boat with them, and who were lined up behind them.

The man repeated the same words to them, and entered the secret passage again.

They were all tall and big, but in the face of the short and fat man, they cowered, as if they were frightened by a sudden strange scene.

It's just that when the men entered the secret passage, the expressions on their faces were in vain, and the aura around them suddenly became solemn.

Pei Yungui looked surprised, but quickly reacted.

Before separating from Li Qingyuan, Gu Rin ordered a few guards to follow them all the way, and these people were most likely Gu Rin's soldiers.

Thinking so, he saw several men kneeling down and saying, "Ministers, wait for the general."

"Get up," Gu Rin said, "When you go out, you don't have to be polite, so as not to miss the horse's feet."

"Yes."

Several people got up, and one of them said with a solemn face: "General, You County is indeed not quite right, the guards stationed outside the city gate interrogated the pedestrians who came in as if nothing had happened, and so many people outside the city gate, they didn't even blink their eyelids, and all of them were let in, but before I entered the city gate, the eleventh rate had already secretly entered the city, and before we entered the secret passage, the book came." With that, the man took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Gu Rin.

Pei Yungui also stepped forward to take a look.

Only a few words were written on it briefly, but it exposed the tragic situation of You County naked/naked.

- Corpses are strewn all over the field, and the ground is full of hunger.

Gu Rin snorted coldly, and the internal force was released, shaking the letter paper into powder.

He said coldly: "There are many complaints outside, there is a nest of snakes and rats inside, Yao Chen is small, and he is very bold."

Pei Yungui twisted his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "When the plague was raging, so many people were recruited to come in, which is obviously raising Gu."

Although I don't know what Yao Chen's purpose is, his actions are already contrary to morality, and no matter how he wants to cover it up in the future, it has become an indisputable fact.

The punishment is dismissal or death.

Several people stayed in the room until dark, and finally someone opened the door, and there were no fingers out of sight.

The man who opened the door was dressed not much differently than the one who led them out of the secret path during the day, and that person should be in the same class as the man in the merchant gang.

"Everyone is here," the man who opened the door looked inside, counted the number of people, and said, "Come with me."

Pei Yungui and others have gone further.

By now, the Shang Gang has finally taken action, and as long as there is action, it can reveal flaws.

The leader led them around and into another, larger room.

It was already full of people, and there were a few familiar faces among them, who had joined the merchant gang in the same group as them.

Pei Yungui and Gu Rin and their party found a hidden corner and sat down, hiding in the noisy crowd.

Then I heard a sharp rebuke from the front of the hall, and the boiling in the crowd gradually subsided.

Pei Yun followed the prestige, but he could only see a palm-sized figure in front of him.

The man was far away, but he didn't know what kind of sound transmission tools he used to amplify the sound in the hall.

"Please be quiet, friends from afar, welcome to officially join the You County Business Gang." The man cleared his throat as if he were a storyteller, pouring out all sorts of propaganda over it.

"All of you who have come to join our business gang today, you must have all been born as civilians."

"Speaking of the word civilian, I feel deeply pity, because I used to be a farmer with a rough fate, we lived in a dilapidated thatched hut, doing the hardest work, sunrise and sunset, wearing the stars and the moon and bowing down to work hard, we worked hard for a year, and ended up with an injury, but everyone think about it carefully, what have we gained in the past year."

The man's subdued tone aroused everyone's emotions, but the desolate tail floated in the air for a long time, and it did not disperse for a long time.

The people looked at each other and excitedly discussed the gains and losses of a year of hard work as civilians

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The more they talked, the more excited they became, and the more they talked, the more sad they became.

Because everyone thought about those meager income for a long time, and finally realized that they had gained nothing.

In addition to the growing soreness of the back and the stiffness of the legs and feet.

Everyone's eyes darkened again.

Pei Yun retreated into the crowd and secretly poked Gu Rin.

"General, what do you think?" She glanced at Gu Rin, but she couldn't see the other party's expression.

I don't know if the merchant gang wants to deliberately create a dark and heavy atmosphere, or if this hall is simply poorly lit, with a dozen candles lit, but it is still dark.

"What do you think?" A low, scattered voice came from the side.

"The words of the little brother above," Pei Yungui rubbed his face with some annoyance, and continued, "I always feel that he has a point, but I feel that something is wrong."

It stands to reason that the person is crying out for the people, but the excitement that can be mobilized in the crowd is strange everywhere, which makes Pei Yungui deeply uneasy. qs

Gu Rin only hooked his lips and said, "If you continue to listen later, you will be able to catch the clues."

"I'm sure you already have the answer in your mind," the person on the stage continued, satisfying the gloomy eyes of those present, "We didn't get anything."

"We've been busy for a whole year at the cost of our broken bodies, and all we can finally get in our pockets is the meager amount that is not enough to even stuff between our teeth, a little bit of surplus food."

"All those grains have gone into the hands of the government, they have suppressed us and enslaved us, but we are so stupid, our grain has fed the family of the official, but in the end we have starved to death of our own children, not only that, we have to kneel down when we see them, we have to bow our heads when we meet them, we have been subservient to others all our lives, we have been cattle and horses, and we can't hold our heads up, are we supposed to live such a life?"

An impassioned remark has ignited the indignant anger in everyone's hearts.

The silence was heated again, and this time, the crowd was furious, and they shouted, "No!"

Pei Yungui was dumbfounded.

Although she is also an ordinary person, she is not a low-level peasant, she does not know how the peasants of Daqi live, but the people of Kyoto, whether it is in the capital or in the villages around Kyoto, are all happy and harmonious.

In recent years, the wind of reform in Daqi has prevailed, and all the laws and decrees issued revolve around the six characters of "light conscription, thin field endowment", and the state treasury is collecting less and less, but why are the people in the villages far away from the capital living so hard? Could it be that corruption is already so prevalent?

As Pei Yun returned to ponder, the sound of shouts and shouts overshadowed her thoughts, and the entire hall was surrounded by a group of crusades.

"Down with the Dog Emperor!

- Down with the Dog Emperor!"

"Rebuild a new dynasty!

- Rebuild a new dynasty!"

"The dog will take care of the raccoon dog!

- The dog will be a raccoon dog!"

"Overthrow the Gu Family's Army!

- Overthrow the Gu Family's Army!"

Pei Yungui swallowed his jerky saliva, glanced at Gu Rin in shock, and whispered, "General, calm down, don't be angry."