Chapter 426: Public Grievances
The Mo family's military camp was in front of Wei Gang's eyes, orderly, curling with smoke, and their monarch was in it - he saw it once when the Mo family's military was practicing martial arts, she was standing on a high platform, facing him sideways, with a long knife on the ground, and the palms of both hands were placed on the scabbard very casually, and at first glance she was a person who often went to the battlefield.
She could obviously capture Pingzhou in one fell swoop, but she never moved, as if she was trying to torture the people in the city.
Wicked!
While he was thinking wildly, Mo Lingfeng appeared in his sight again.
A group of soldiers, the stars holding the moon, surrounded her out, she seemed to be aware, looked up at the top of the tower, hooked the corners of her mouth, and smiled silently.
Wei Gang's mind "boomed", and a thought suddenly came to him - her ferocity was not in the people, but in him.
She used suffering to destroy his integrity!
His hands and feet were cold, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, took a step back suddenly, and snorted coldly in his heart: "I won't come down if I starve to death!" β
It was getting darker and darker, and the city and its people were drowned in darkness.
The people of the city are like ghosts, who open their mouths at night, crush the hard bark and weeds with their teeth, and suck out the juice from them, not sparing a drop.
The weeds and bark of the trees in the city have been stripped away.
There was no crying β even if someone in the family died, they did not dare to cry because the corpse had become food.
Some fathers, sons and wives eat each other, some people still have surplus grain at home, and they dare not make a fire to cook it, so they put raw rice in their mouths and grind it with their teeth, and some people pick up dead mice and eat them alive.
Hunger bursts from the belly, hands grow, scavenging and grabbing everything that can be put into the mouth, and the city is silent, but the human mind is boiling and noisy, all the sounds of chewing and swallowing.
Whoever moves his throat immediately looks at his stomach, sleeves, and waist.
Starvation was already an unbearable punishment for them.
The organs are hungry and hungry, but the anger in their hearts is fullβwhen the city is prosperous, they have not enjoyed a single day of happiness, and their taxes are increasing day by day, and they have toiled day by day, so why should they starve to death together!
All thoughts were trapped in hunger.
Suddenly there was a heart-rending cry on the street, and it seemed to be a woman, crying for her little treasure.
In an instant, countless eyes flocked to the door and window, and saw a woman with scrawny bones, ragged clothes, and strength from nowhere, holding a seven or eight-year-old child, whose head, hands and feet were hanging down in her mother's arms.
The woman wept as she walked, and behind her ghostly shadows followed her, waiting to eat meat.
The woman did not look back, but walked forward, and the cry finally turned into a vicious curse.
The cursing was sharp, hooking out the poor people who were hiding everywhere, and the evil in their hearts, and the curses became louder and louder, all the way to the west gate.
At first glance, the soldier almost thought that it was a demon crawling out of hell, but he took a step back in shock, and then he drew his sword and threatened: "Go back!" The city gate is heavy, and you must not break in! β
"Open the gates!" The woman ignored it and walked away madly, "Xiaobao is hungry and wants to eat!" Open the gates! β
The people behind her suddenly shouted like crazy: "Open the gates! We're going out! β
"Open the gates!"
"We are willing to submit to General Mo and have food with General Mo!"
"Yes, we don't keep it, we haven't eaten the emperor's grain! Why should we starve! β
The shouts were like a tidal wave, lapping on the soldiers defending the city, and more and more soldiers rushed over, forming a line of defense with sharp long knives to force the people back.
Under the turmoil, Wei Gang rushed down from the city tower and shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't squeeze! Go back! Get back! Reinforcements will be coming soon! β
No one listened to him, the people were driven crazy by hunger, their hair was scattered, they were not afraid of knives and guns, and rushed to the city gate, Wei Gang was swept into the crowd, desperately struggling and shouting: "Hold on!" Don't open the gates! Hold! β
There was no difference between the people and the wild beasts, some were slashed by the soldiers' long knives, and the blood flowed, and a group of people pounced on them and drank the blood of the wounded.
Although Wei Gang was hungry, he still had a meal of gruel every day, and he was terrified when he saw this.
"Open the gates!"
"Open the gates!"
Wei Gang was squeezed to the ground, some colleagues tried to pull him, and he was soon pushed away, countless people stepped on his back, and a sharp pain came from his back, as if the bone was broken - he was unable to move again, fell to the ground, unconscious, I don't know how long later, he heard the "crunch" sound of the city gate opening, barely broke open his eyes, and looked up at the city gate.
The city gate was opened by the people through a large gap, and the soldiers were still struggling to block it.
Looking out from the gap, the black clouds outside were heavy, the fire outside the Mo family barracks was pervasive, the turmoil in the city had already alarmed the Mo family army, the firelight illuminated the rows of soldiers, Mo Lingfeng stood in front of him, and on her left and right, it was a heavy basket.
A layer of sparrows pecked in the basket, and a guard behind Mo Lingfeng stretched out a long knife and pestled the bird, and the black and gray wings fluttered and spread out, shouting and flying away.
Mo Lingfeng bent down and took out a mixed noodle nest head from the basket, and threw it forward casually, and the gap that was barely maintained was immediately washed away, and the people were like wild dogs, frantically pounced on the nest head.
Mo Lingfeng took a step back, and the soldier stepped forward and threw baskets of nest heads forward.
Wei Gang was trampled into a pulp.
Before he died, he figured out one thing - he overestimated himself, what Mo Lingfeng wanted was not for him to surrender, but for the people's grievances, and to use the people's grievances to crush the fig leaf of the dynasty into powder-a dynasty that the people did not support, a dynasty where the people opened the city gate to welcome the rebels to enter, even if there were a hundred or a thousand loyal and courageous courtiers, it would be useless.
She is not half merciful to the people, like teasing ants, subverting their fate casually.
On May 25 of the year of Shengkun, Mo Lingfeng occupied Pingzhou.
Li Shu's killing of the state officials and opening the city gate was unprecedented, and the world was in an uproar.
On May 30, Mo Lingfeng set off for Kuanzhou, inspecting the fields and people's livelihood along the way, and the officials were governing, and only entered the city on the eighth day of June.
The people of Kuanzhou, consciously superior to others - Mo Lingfeng called the emperor, the palace, the palace are in Kuanzhou, Kuanzhou is the capital, the empress returned triumphantly, the people watched on the road, the time is not enough, people have been like a tide, spread to the tree.
Upstairs in the store, it is overcrowded, the window is crowded, only the pavilion is quite quiet, the Cheng family chartered a few small pavilions, and sat separately to watch the excitement.
Cheng Ting was lying by the window, and one of his dog friends downstairs looked up at him and shouted, "Brother Cheng, can I go to your place to add a seat?" β
Cheng Ting was enthusiastic: "Come on!" β
The man below was about to come in in a hurry, but he didn't even squeeze in the door of the restaurant, so he could only hang his head and find another way.
Cheng Ting walked back to Xu Huiran and sat down: "Thanks to the leopard slaves, they took Ah Yu away, otherwise they would have been lost." β
"Don't touch the dog!" Xu Huiran wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, "You also sit and rest." β
Cheng Jian immediately pushed the little yellow dog aside.
Mrs. Cheng pushed the ice cheese to him: "Look at your back is sweaty." β
She said to Wu's mother on the side: "It's better to be Wu Jin, when he was studying, we saw him outstanding, and sure enough, at a young age, he was already above 10,000 people under one person." β
The Cheng family specially invited Wu's father and Wu's mother to come, Wu's mother didn't want to come, but Wu wanted to rub this excitement, and she agreed, Wu's father had a lot of inconveniences and stayed at home.