"Why don't you let us in!? Can't you see it?? We are also people of Liang State!!"
"That's to say!! We have walked so far! We finally returned to our capital! Why don't we let in?"
"Where are the people in charge of the business!! Ask you to come out!! It's blind to your dog eyes! Do you know who I am? The Prime Minister is all my old friends!!"
"And I am!! The Secretary of Kalimus is my uncle!! Do you dare not let me enter the city!???"
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"Sir, I heard that these people below are from Tashkent. They are either rich or noble, with a deep background. Are we..." The little official in the gate muttered a few words to the city gate guard, and then the general laughed...
He gave the other party a piece of parchment and instructed the little official: "You go to the city gate and say this according to this statement. As for those with backgrounds... Haha... it's not impossible to go in, it depends on whether they are human beings..." After saying that, the guard general handed the other party a wink. The little official immediately understood and ran to the city gate with a smirk.
"Everyone is quiet!!! It's not that we don't let you in! It's because the prefect gave an order! In order to prevent any spies from sneaking into the capital, you must check your identities before you can let it go! You, stay outside the city for a few days, I believe that the result will be soon--!!"
"What!?? Stay outside the city for a few days! It's snowing now! You can't see it, right???? I think you obviously want to freeze us to death!!!"
"There is still food!!! The food is gone! You don't let us go to the city to buy food!! Don't we starve to death alive!??"
"Young man!! Help me send a message to the Prime Minister!! Just say that an old friend from Tashkent is coming to visit! Wait for me to come in! I will definitely pay me a reward!"
"And I! I'll send me a message too!! I will definitely pay you a lot of money!"
"So too!! I'll give you...three golden beads!!!"
"I also produce three golden beads!!!"
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The little official stood at the city gate and looked at the group of people who were constantly bidding below. His eyes were almost gone, but he didn't dare to answer, so he could only go down the city gate tower silently, run to the guard general, and whisper in a low voice: "Sir! You're rich! These people are quite good at it!"
"In the face of death, fools will be enlightened, hum!" The guard general sneered, stood up, handed the little official a wooden barrel, and said, "Go up and knock three times in front of everyone!" Then he turned around and went back to his barracks and went to bed with his head down.
It was not until midnight that the guard of Varo slowly stood up and ordered a secret crack to open the south city gate, and only one person could pass through this gap at a time...
But there were already a long queue outside the city.
"All of them are smart people... It's great," the guard smiled slightly, took out a pocket from his waist, and said in a deep voice to the outside of the door: "Everyone! Three golden beads! No matter who it is, you dare to break through! Kill it directly!"
“Yes, yes!”
"Oh! OK!"
The officers and soldiers guarding the city and the people outside the city quickly reached a tacit understanding. In front of the guard general, gold beads were thrown into the bag one by one, and even underage children were counted, all three gold beads.
Then the question is...
What should those who have no money do?
Are you willing to die??
Obviously...this is impossible...
Gradually, the crowds gathered more and more outside the team, and several guards immediately pulled out the scimitars at their waists and began to drive them away.
"Don't want to live anymore!? You dare to make a desperate move without money!!??"
"Get out--!! Get out and stand there!! I dare to take another step forward, I will chop you directly!"
The scimitar in the soldier's hand reflected a biting cold light between the light shadows and the snowflakes. The knife licked blood from the knife all year round and poured into the evil spirits of the soldiers. If it were normal, these unarmed civilians would naturally retreat three times, but now it is different from the past...
How could these civilians who were so cold that their lips turned purple in the snowy night that they didn't dare to sleep, under the threat of death, be afraid of mere scimitars...
"Bang!"
A stone hit one of the soldiers' faces, and the blood and snowflakes blended together.
"Who! Who threw it away!!!" Another soldier was obviously a little panicked, but no one responded, and instead there were more stones!!!
After all, there are some stones in the Gobi Desert!!
In an instant, a stone stirred up a thousand waves! Countless stones were picked up by angry civilians and threw them out with force. Countless gravels shot at the group of officers and soldiers like invisible arrows in the dark. The minor official responsible for blocking the door immediately hid behind the city gate and prepared to close the city gate.
But the guard of the city gate stopped him at this time, and instead ordered people to open the city gate completely. He himself hid in a safe place and shouted at the crowd: "Don't throw it away!! I'll let you all enter the city!! Stop it! Otherwise I will close the city gate!! No one wants to enter!!!"
"Sir! Are you crazy? Why did you let them into the city??" The little official also hid outside the city gate and looked at the guard with a confused look on his face.
The guard just smiled, ignored him, and continued to shout the words he had just said. Soon, the city gate was completely opened, which restored the furious people to a little calmer, and the attack of the gravel gradually subsided. However, the distrust of the officers and soldiers and the court forced each of them to hold a few stones in their hands and refused to let go. Until a few bold people rushed through the door opening first, the remaining people went crazy and rushed into the capital one after another.
It was not until this time that the guard general slowly said to the minor officials beside him: "Can't you see that? This city is about to end!! More and more people! The food is getting more and more expensive! If this continues, it will be only a matter of time before being captured by the Liang Kingdom!" At this point, the guard general raised the pocket in his hand again, shook it twice, and immediately made a crisp and pleasant collision sound inside.
"So, it's better to make a fortune before you finish it. As long as you have money, you won't be the master everywhere you go!? Now letting these people go into the city is to completely mess up the court and the yamen. Only when they are in chaos can they not be freed up their hands to capture us! Do you understand?"
After the guard general said something, the little official felt that he suddenly realized and nodded repeatedly.
"Since you understand, hurry up and call your family to escape!" The guard general said, while grabbing a handful of gold beads from the bag and handing them to the little official, and whispered: "It's not in vain that you have followed me for so many years. These golds are enough for your whole family to worry about the rest of your life!"
"Thank you sir!" Just as the little official looked grateful and was about to stretch out his hands to pick up the gold, he suddenly saw the figure in front of him swaying! A scimitar had already passed by his erect neck...
The little official widened his eyes and pressed the wound on his neck with both hands, trying to stop the blood from passing, but these efforts were in vain. With just a few breaths, he collapsed into his pool of blood and twitched violently.
But the guard general just smiled coldly, stuffed the golden beads in his hand back into his pocket, then bent down and said the last sentence to the little official who was about to die of breath: "There is one more thing I forgot to tell you... Actually, I am from Liang..."