Chapter 144 The conflict at the gate of the city
After more than half a year of construction, the Jiangdongmen Thousand Household Institute has long since disappeared from its poverty and desolation as before.
With the efforts of more than 20,000 refugees and military households for more than half a year, both the roads and houses of the Qianhu Institution in Jiangdongmen have changed drastically. Although the city wall of Qianhu Institution has not changed much, the road outside the city wall has been expanded. A wide road that can accommodate at least six carriages in parallel extends from outside the castle toward Nanjing City. Rows of willow trees are planted on both sides of the road. The breeze blows, and rows of willow branches sway in the wind is extremely spectacular.
When Li Youzhi and his party set foot on this road, they were shocked immediately.
This is an amazingly flat road, and the road surface is paved with neither soil nor bluestone nor gravel, but something they have never seen before. The whole road is tight and there is no gap. When Li Youzhi and his party are walking on the road, they can hardly believe their eyes.
"This... what is this road made of? It is so smooth and neat? It is not bluestone, nor blue bricks or earth and stones. Lord Li, you are the Minister of Works and are knowledgeable. Can you tell the officials about what this road is made of?" The Censor Lu Jianshen looked at the ground under his feet and was amazed and curious. Finally, he asked Li Youzhi. After all, Li Youzhi was not only the highest official position among them, but also the Minister of Works and also had the most say in this kind of thing.
Li Youzhi smiled awkwardly and said, "It makes you laugh. Although I am in the Ministry of Works, I have never seen such a magical thing. It is really shameful to pave such a flat and hard road."
Hearing Li Youzhi's words, even the censors and censors who had the deepest prejudice to Yang Feng could not help but glimpse each other. Since entering the territory of the Qianhu House of Jiangdongmen, they found that many things were beyond their imagination. Whether it was the three-story high water truck or the now surprisingly wide and smooth road, they had never seen it. When they thought of Yang Feng's memorial, some people couldn't help but feel a sense of bad premonition.
"Let's go... let's go into the castle and take a look!" Finally, Li Youzhi simply waved his hand and led everyone toward the castle, but the road was destined not to go too smoothly. When they walked near the castle gate, something happened again.
"Get out of the way... Go out of the way... Do you have eyes? Can you walk?" A loud voice rang in front, and then a guy driving a carriage jumped out of the carriage, pointed at Li Youzhi and his group and cursed, "A good dog knows that he won't block the way, how do you go?"
As an imperial envoy, Li Youzhi and his group were all over the place, and they had such a roll of eyes. They were all angry for a moment. A guard jumped off the horse and pulled out the long knife from his waist and put it on the cousin's neck and smiled: "What are you saying? Do you know who we are? If you believe it or not, you will die in vain if you die?"
Facing the bright steel knife, if the average person's legs would have been weak, but the amazing guy didn't know whether it was fearless or other reasons, he pointed at his neck and sneered at the guard, "Come on, if you have the ability, just cut it down. But before chopping, please take a look and then look behind."
These guards who escorted the imperial envoys were all elites selected from the Jinyiwei. They had never been afraid of anyone even in the capital. Now when they saw a small guy who dared to beat him, he had a murderous intent in his eyes. He was furious in his heart and had made up his mind. Although he could not kill this bold guy in front of so many people in broad daylight, he must give him a lesson that he would never forget for life, otherwise the Jinyiwei would have no face.
When he raised the steel knife in his hand, he turned his wrist and was about to hit the guy with the back of his knife, he heard a loud shout not far away: "Stop!"
The guard looked in the sound and saw two sergeants wearing strange green uniforms holding muskets running from the city gate. The two sergeants ran towards him while warning loudly. The sergeants had already taken out a sharp whistle from their necks and put them in their mouths.
"Stop, who are you? Put down your weapons quickly!"
The muskets in their hands were aimed at them, and the bayonets on the muskets flashed with a cold light under the scorching sun.
Although the guard was slightly surprised when he saw two soldiers, he had no fear. Who are they? They are the personal army of the emperor and the famous Jinyiwei in the world. And who are these soldiers? They are just a group of poor military households who are so poor that they are. If he is afraid of these poor military households, then don’t do this. Go home as soon as possible and just take your children.
He looked at the sergeant again and found that although the two sergeants had left legs in front and right legs behind, and the muskets in their hands were also aimed at him, their voices were trembling and their legs were shaking slightly. It was obvious that these two were two rookies who had never seen blood. Maybe they didn't even touch the muskets for long. Seeing this, the guard smiled contemptuously, he stared at the two sergeants and shouted viciously: "Boy, do you know who we are? I advise you not to meddle in other people's business. Come and take good care of you after you teach this kid a lesson, and teach you how to fire muskets!" After that, he laughed.
"Hahaha……"
The guards behind him all laughed wildly. In their eyes, the two soldiers from the garrison, and the two rookies who had never seen blood, were no different from grass chickens. Seeing that they were holding the muskets, which were slightly trembling hands, I was afraid that they would forget how to fire.
When Li Youzhi and his group saw the actions of these guards, many people frowned slightly. These people were too vulgar, but none of them, including Li Youzhi, stood up to stop them. Instead, they acquiesced to the actions of these guards.
Seeing that the adults behind him did not stop talking, the guard became even more courageous. He laughed wildly and shouted: "Come here, boy, see you are thin and tender, come here and let your brother hurt you well!"
After saying that, he smiled and let go of the left hand that grabbed the guy's collar, and grabbed the musket in the hand of a sergeant closest to him. In his opinion, these two guys who had not grown all the hair were not easy to capture, but he quickly paid the price for his carelessness.
"kill!"
Suddenly, the sergeant, who was originally a little panicked, suddenly let out a loud roar when he saw the guard's big hand stretching out, and the musket in his hand stabbed towards the guard's stretching out arm without thinking.
Chapter completed!