Chapter 55: Chaos

The twilight is dim, the remnant sun is like blood, and the sunset on the sea near Jinmen Port is full at this time, shining brightly, and the dazzling eye mask is like a dream.

It was evening, and it was supposed to be the time for the toiling masses to get off work after a hard day's work.

At this time, they would go to some cheap restaurants to drink some bad wine mixed with water, or buy some fried food in front of the street food stalls.

But at this time, the port of Jinmen is completely different from the past.

The slum-strewn streets are empty of sewage, household waste and even excrement, and the doors of the low, dilapidated buildings along the streets are closed.

The whole slum was nowhere to be seen.

The wharf area is very different, I saw that at this time, every street in the wharf area with the smell of sea in the air was full of Xia people, most of these people were wearing patched short clothes, and some people were in rags.

These ragged people are permanent residents of the slums.

The presence of such a person on the street outside the slum would inevitably attract the contempt and disgust of others, but no one was prejudiced against it at this time.

Ragged, short-robed, long-robed, they shouted aloud to each other for their contents:

"The wolf barbarians of the Patrol Bureau caught Si Wang Youyou, and they seized Wang's rice shop, causing me to lose my job, and my whole family fell into the slums!"

"My parents worked hard for half their lives to open a watch shop in the business district, and they were taken away by Zheng Fuli, the director of the wolf barbarian bureau of the Patrol Bureau, and my parents later died of depression!"

"My family's ancestral shop in the commercial area was taken away by Sun Changsheng, the owner of the wolf barbarian! My family was not satisfied at first, but later the family was destroyed by the government! ”

"My family has some business dealings with the merchants of the Western Continent, and the Red Turban Gang raised by the wolf barbarian government came to harass my family repeatedly, and broke my father's leg!"

……

The more they shouted, the more excited they became, and as their emotions fermented, onlookers felt empathy from time to time and merged into this mighty flow of people.

Finally, someone shouted:

"Brothers and sisters of the Xia clan! Today, the Great Chong Wolf Barbarian Mansion has done a lot of injustice, several sorcerers of the Patrol Department have failed to kill people and practice evil methods, and the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion has also exploded, and Sun Changsheng's family died violently on the spot! This must be a sin from heaven, and heaven will punish it! ”

"Let's go, let's go and ask for justice from Tsumonji!"

As soon as these words came out, there was a response, and countless people became more and more excited under the dual effect of the crowd atmosphere and their own past circumstances, and they responded one after another:

"Let's go! Go ask Tsumonji for an explanation! ”

"Heavenly Punishment Dachong!"

"Heavenly Wolf Barbarian!"

On the streets of the wharf area, thousands of people are pouring towards the most prosperous business district of Jinmen Port.

On both sides of the road, the doors of shops and apartment buildings are closed.

Among them, most of the owners were small shop merchants who had already merged into this vast flow of people, and the property was not large and had not been taken away by the government, and they trembled through the window to look at the emotional Zhuxia compatriots outside the door, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the crowd gradually moving forward.

"This group of people...... It's crazy. ”

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In the mansion of the Hong Kong lord, there is a miserable scene.

The maids and guards in the palace all looked sad and frightened.

According to the Great Chong Law, the Hong Kong lord Sun Changsheng died unexpectedly, and his personal guards were to be executed regardless of the reason. Of course, now that the guards are dead, the law of the land cannot be held accountable to the dead.

They ordinary maid guards in the palace would not have been implicated, but now who knows if the government will be angry with them?

Predictably, they will not end well.

The sky-black smoke from the explosion of the nine steam cars gradually dispersed, staining the clouds in the sky, and the sky was even more black and red under the illumination of the red glow of the setting sun.

At this time, the Hong Kong lord's mansion was already under martial law, and under the orders of the Hong Kong lord's adjutant and other officials, more than 200 guards were searching around the mansion with the intention of finding clues about the Hong Kong lord's accident.

The first floor of the house is brightly lit.

A well-guarded ashram on the fourth floor.

Sun Wenyuan, the general judge with a wolf's tail on his forehead, and Wu Zhao, the general manager of the city defense battalion, stood with a pale face, and the two of them only felt infinite panic in their hearts, and they couldn't calm down for a while, so they had to keep pacing back and forth in this room.

Sun Wenyuan, a civilian official of the Great Chong Liupin, walked restlessly on the wooden floor with his official boots, and the sound of the upper colliding with the floor made him more and more upset, and he stopped abruptly and roared at the outdoor guards:

"It's been so long, have you found anything?"

There were dozens of guards guarding inside and outside this pavilion, and it was obvious that the death of Sun Changsheng, the master of the Patrol Division, had completely frightened these two mortal bureaucrats in one day.

The guards with flintlock pistols and knives on their backs were silent and silent.

"It's all a bunch of rubbish! So many people can't even guard the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion! In my city defense camp, you waste should be rolled up, covered and rolled up! ”

Wu Zhao, the commander of the city defense battalion, also scolded angrily.

This Sun Wenyuan Wuzhao didn't expect these people to answer.

These guards have been guarding the place as they have ordered, and no one from the guards who searched the mansion has come to report, they are just taking the opportunity to vent their fears.

At that moment, the two of them heard a commotion outside, and it was getting closer and closer, and it was getting louder and louder.

A guard appeared in front of the door and shouted in a trembling voice:

"My lord, march! There are many people marching outside the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion! ”

Parade? Sun Wenyuan's first reaction was to feel ridiculous. You must know that the people's hearts are like iron, and the official law is like a furnace, and the people dare to march, and they are suppressed by the officials with weapons, and they will be coaxed.

Ten years ago, the Three Gods Church in the Western Continent didn't incite the Xia people to march, but what was the result? More than a dozen foolish people of the Xia tribe were shot dead on the spot, and the city patrols and city guards cooperated to suppress them, and the anger of those chaotic people was also extinguished by the threat of death.

"Ridiculous!"

Wu Zhao, the commander of the city defense battalion, laughed angrily, and he walked out of the house quickly, and walked to the window in the corner of the corridor.

The window is facing the outside of the house, and it has a commanding view.

As soon as he saw the scene outside the window, Wu Zhao's eyes immediately became sluggish.

With the help of the view from the fourth floor, he saw that the road in the distance was full of people.

When there are more than a thousand, the earth is torn to the sky; There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.

On the road outside the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion, thousands of Xia people who could not be counted gathered together and poured into the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion.

At this evening, the light was insufficient, and under the shroud of red and black clouds in the sky, this crowd was like a dark cloud that was about to engulf the entire port lord's mansion.

"The wolf barbarian returns my ancestral property!"

"Give me back my child's life!"

"Give my husband back!"

The calls of thousands of people were chaotic, each with its own demands, some exposing the wolf barbarian officials who were plotting to seize the wealth of the Xia people, some of the patrol divisions killing the Xia people to practice the law, and some of the Red Turban Gang doing things for the government.

There are always many of them, and all kinds of revelations make Wu Zhao feel like falling into an ice cellar.

At the beginning of Jinmen Port, as one of the four major ports of Dachong, it was affected by overseas, and there were indeed rebels who intended to coerce the people into carrying out this parade, and the government sent people to suppress it as soon as possible.

The blood was shed, and those hot-headed Xia fools were afraid to disperse.

Now this thing is different, even if these people are suppressed, these shady scenes will be unstoppable!

This is Jinmen, a port, and there are many overseas forces, not the mainland!

"What's going on? How did such a large flow of people gather! ”

Wu Zhao, the commander of the city defense battalion, roared angrily.

Hearing this, Sun Wenyuan, the general judge, also walked over quickly, he looked into the distance, his face turned pale.

With the surging flow of people in front of the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion, the procession arrived near the Hong Kong Lord's Mansion, and the guards had already closed the gate, and they were not worried about them rushing into the mansion for a while.

Sun Wenyuan stared intently at the back of the procession, but he didn't see the end at all, but as the general judge who assisted Sun Changsheng in governing Jinmen Port, he also had a lot of experience in handling things.

He squinted, first observing the composition of the flow of people below.

I saw that most of the Xia people in the crowd were in rags, and they must be slum people; The rest of the people were dressed in short clothes and long shirts, and they should be lower-class people who sold coolies to do manual labor, but none of them were seen in decent clothes.

This is also normal, how can a family and a business have such a big grievance?

Only the poor people who are not living well these days dare to storm the government. Anyway, they have almost nothing, so why are they afraid of death?

Listening carefully to the shouts of the people below, this man's face turned pale with fright:

"It's just a parade, these officials are shady...... How do these ordinary people know! No, now is not the time to delve into this, these shady overseas forces must also know! ”

"What to do? What to do! ”

Sun Wenyuan, who knew the rules of the government, felt a chill in his heart, and only felt that a great disaster was coming.

In a blink of an eye, he saw that on both sides of the vast flow of people were the guards of the city defense battalion and the patrol of the patrol and arrest bureau, who were barely maintaining order on the scene.

"The city defense battalion?"

Sun Wenyuan turned his head to look at Wu Zhao violently, and asked sharply:

"Master Wu, there is such a big civil unrest in this Jinmen Port, why didn't you go to the city defense camp to organize a suppression?"

When Wu Zhao heard this, he trembled.

As he woke up violently, in the depths of his eyes, the mana imprints inlaid with triangles in the two outer rings faded and disappeared.

As the witchcraft from the Western Continent failed, the bits and pieces of memories in the mind of the Thousand Commanders of the City Defense Battalion were revived:

This afternoon, the city defense battalion sent guards to report to him on several occasions that the people in the city were different, and they were suspected of trying to gather a crowd to make trouble, but they were all dismissed by him on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to deal with them for the time being.

"I ...... Am I crazy? How did you give that order? ”

The military officer in charge of the defense of Jinmen Port opened his mouth, and his heart fell into despair.

Allowing the people of the Xia tribe to gather and march, and it is such a scale, and it also exposed the shady scenes of the Jinmen Division, and the government investigated the matter afterwards, he was almost certain to die!

He didn't answer Sun Wenyuan's question, and turned around sharply and shouted to the guards:

"Pass my orders! Shoot immediately to suppress the Xia rebels! ”

This man's eyes were red at this time, like a gambler who lost his family and lost his fortune, and like an old wolf with a green light in his eyes when he was on a dead end.

General Judge Sun Wenyuan loudly stopped:

"Never! Now that there are thousands of people marching in this procession, the general trend has been achieved, and how many guards are there in the city defense battalion? Once the guns are fired and suppressed, it will only be a demonstration below, and then it will be a popular uprising! ”

Wu Zhao turned his head violently and roared:

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what does Sun Tongju think should be good?"

This person's eyes were gloomy, Sun Wenyuan was shocked in his heart, he himself may not die, but this Qian Zong is sure to die.

You can't deal with this kind of mortal person, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that this person will not drag him on the road, he reluctantly smiled:

"Fang Tongzhi has already gone to the military camp outside the city before, and the garrison must have known about the affairs in the city, and when the imperial court orders it, the army will enter the city, and the chaos will disappear."

Wu Zhao, who was on a desperate path, gritted his teeth and sneered:

"At that point, does Master Sun think the court will let me go?"

This person's voice was cold and cold, and Sun Wenyuan, who listened to it, felt furious in his heart.

At this time, the shouts of the procession on the streets outside the house gradually unified.

"Heavenly Punishment Dachong!"

The originally noisy shouts turned into these four words, and the shouts of thousands of people gradually unified, turning into four words that shook ten miles:

"Heavenly Punishment Dachong!"

The two people facing each other in the pavilion trembled and looked out the window.

"Great rebellion, great rebellion!"

Sun Wenyuan trembled and pointed out the window, his scalp tingling with fright.

How is this different from rebellion?

"It's the other way around...... It's the other way around! ”

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"Head, what should I do?"

In front of the Jinmen Port Patrol Bureau, more than 100 patrols formed a human wall, waving the knives in their hands to block the people who were pouring in front of them.

A younger patrolman waved the sword in his hand vigorously, and after repelling a short-clothed man who wanted to break into the patrol bureau, he turned his head and shouted to the catcher in a patrol suit with a silver tassel badge on his shoulder.

"How do I know what to do?"

At this time, the patrol bureau was surrounded by many demonstrators, who were emotionally pushing the human wall formed by the patrolmen, shouting and scolding:

"Black Dog! You are in vain as Xia people! It turns out that you and the red scarf are in a nest of snakes and rats! ”

A middle-aged woman in a long gown in the crowd with a face covered in wind and frost and wrinkles shouted bitterly:

"Tsumonji, return my son's life!"

More people shouted in a state of agitation:

"Why don't you dare let us in? You have done so many things, are you afraid that others will know? ”

……

Looking at the flow of people in front of them, behind the human wall formed by patrolling, several catchers looked at each other with pale faces.

"It's over...... These thugs have become a big trend, and it is too late to shoot and suppress them. ”

A middle-aged head catcher with slightly dark skin had slightly distorted facial muscles, his eyes were terrified, and he said with fear in his expression.

Although the patrols had firearms, it took twenty or thirty seconds for the flintlock guns to fire, and the number of patrols was so small compared to the rioters that there was a real conflict, and the patrolmen were afraid that after firing and killing dozens of people, they would be killed by the rest of the people.

"That's right, you should kill a few people to deter you when these people are just starting to gang up in trouble!"

Someone picked up.

"What the hell is the Director doing? Why haven't you come out to preside over the overall situation? ”

"Presiding over the big picture? Isn't it just that he wants us to do nothing? Now that such a big event has happened, when the garrison outside the city comes in to suppress these chaotic people, and the government will be liquidated afterwards, let's not talk about this official uniform, whether or not the life can be saved is two words! ”

A headcatcher shouted emotionally.

After saying that, this person could no longer control the panic in his heart, and rushed into the patrol bureau, just about to rush into Zheng Fuli's office, but saw the director of the patrol bureau standing in the center of the patrol bureau hall with a cold face.

The wolf barbarian with the wolf's tail looked coldly at the Xia clan's headhunter and sneered:

"Who let you in?"

Under the accumulation of authority, the man's righteous indignation calmed down, and he shrank and asked:

"Lord Zheng, how can this be good for the people outside to make trouble?"

"Stay as it is, no shooting."

The man spoke coldly and gave the order:

"Now, get out and get back to your post!"

The headcatcher reluctantly replied:

"Yes, sir!"

The person who walked out of the patrol bureau flashed resentment in his eyes:

"Are you still in a position of authority with Lao Tzu? colluded with Ding Yuanshan to arrest people to practice evil law for him, and also prevented patrols and suppressed the chaotic people, Lao Tzu looks at how you Zheng Fuli died! ”