"Who just now said that we should order arrows to be fired at the people? Which beast?" Zhang Yanling cursed to himself angrily.
Ji Zhong was extremely angry and refused to call himself a beast. He frowned and shouted: "Master Zhang, why are you still running around here? Didn't I tell you very clearly? I have to handle the relief work.
, There is no need for the Marquis to worry about it. You haven’t left here with your people yet. If you continue to cause trouble, I will report it to the court."
Zhang Yanling laughed and said: "My lord, you are so lenient. Why can't I go up to this city tower? After all, I am also a Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and I am also the governor of the Nanjing Central Military Command. Is this city tower your lord's territory?"
Zhong Zhong didn't want to argue with this scoundrel, so he walked away with a puff of his sleeves. Zhang Yanling called out: "Wait a minute, Mr. Ji, I want to ask you something."
Zhong Zhong said solemnly: "What are you doing?"
Zhang Yanling pointed to the noisy people outside the city and said, "Don't you, Sir, plan to take care of these disaster victims outside the city?"
Zhong Zhong said coldly: "Relieve the victims in the city first, and the victims outside the city will be resettled later."
Zhang Yanling said: "These victims have been rushing all night to come to the capital, hoping to get relief. They are already hungry and cold and exhausted. By the time you arrange the victims in the city, many of them will starve to death and freeze to death. Your Excellency did not consider this."
What?"
Zhong Zhong scolded: "The imperial court has its own decision on how to provide relief, but it is not your turn to worry about it."
Zhang Yanling said: "So, you are unwilling to help the people outside the city. Let's open the city gate and I will go out to help the people."
Zhong Zhong was stunned and sneered: "Master Zhang, I advise you not to cause trouble. The imperial court will make unified arrangements for relief matters, so I won't bother Master Zhang."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "If you don't save yourself, why don't you allow me to save you? Haha, very good. As a relief official appointed by the imperial court, you don't care about the lives of the people at all. You are really a good official who loves the people like his own son."
You are unwilling to open the city gate, right? I will go into the palace to see the emperor and report everything here. I would like to see how your lord will explain."
Zhang Yanling walked away with an arrogant attitude. As the emperor's brother-in-law, he was so easy to use. This was his privilege. Even if others saw anger in their eyes, they had nothing to do. As long as they threw away this golden sign, others would
Weigh and weigh. Zhang Yanling despised doing this before, but now she enjoys this privilege more and more.
Zhong Zhong said coldly: "Marquis Jianchang, do you really want to go out of the city to provide relief?"
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "Then there is still a lie?"
Zhong Zhong pointed to the chaos outside the city and said: "Look at this battle. As soon as the city gate opens, they will rush in. Who will be responsible if trouble occurs? If you insist on leaving the city, you have to bear the consequences. When the time comes, you will be responsible for the consequences.
If something goes wrong, you have to bear the responsibility."
Zhang Yanling laughed and said: "So you are worried about this. Sir, you don't understand the common people at all. Why are they making trouble? Isn't it because they can't get relief and are hungry and cold? After solving their problems, will they still make trouble? It's you.
Such officials and your bunch of civil servants are so self-righteous that they have no choice but to do this."
Ji Zhong couldn't help but sneered: "It seems that Mr. Zhang is confident. However, after leaving the city, we cannot guarantee Mr. Hou's safety. If something happens to you, you can't blame anyone else."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "You should worry about my safety?"
Zhong Zhong nodded and said: "Okay, since Mr. Zhang said so, how can I not let you have your wish? Feng Qianhu opened the city gate and let Mr. Zhang out of the city. After Mr. Zhang left the city, the suspension bridge was pulled up and the city gate was closed.
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Zhang Yanling shouted: "That can't be done. I am going out to the city to provide relief, and materials, food and manpower have to go in and out. If you close the city gate, wouldn't you be harming me? Don't close the city gate. Just send troops and set up checkpoints to guard it."
Zhong Zhong couldn't help but sneered: "Master Zhang is really stubborn. But I kept my words in mind, but when someone rushed to the city, I ordered them to be shot. You are the one who caused these people's lives."
Zhang Yanling waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, I can't blame you."
Zhong Zhong snorted coldly and said no more.
Qianhu Feng Min asked Zhang Yanling cautiously: "Master Zhang, do you really want to open the city gate? I'm afraid something will really happen."
Zhang Yanling waved his hands, walked to the railing of the city tower, put his hands around his mouth and shouted loudly to the city: "Folks, I am Zhang Yanling, Marquis of Jianchang of the Ming Dynasty, the younger brother of the current queen. On the order of the queen, I will go out of the city to help you."
Listen carefully, don't act recklessly, otherwise I won't be able to leave the city. If you need relief, stop immediately and step back a hundred steps. I will lead my men out of the city, cook porridge and boil water for you, build shanties, and let you settle down.
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Zhang Yanling shouted several times at the throat, and the chaotic situation under the city finally calmed down. Zhang Yanling was right. They were actually just angry because they couldn't get help. Once there was hope, who would do anything wrong? Besides, the city
The man who called out claimed to be the Queen's younger brother, so the Emperor had sent someone to save him, so what was the fuss about?
Now that someone organized a retreat, hundreds of people retreated to the snow a hundred steps away.
Zhang Yanling said to Feng Min: "Feng Qianhu, ask your brother to escort us out of the city. But after crossing the suspension bridge, there is no need to go forward. We only set up three checkpoints in front, middle and back of the suspension bridge to prevent anyone from rushing into the city. Remember.
, don’t let your people shoot and kill people, otherwise that will really trigger a civil uprising.”
Feng Min cupped his hands and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Hou, I will do whatever you want in your humble position."
Zhang Yanling led the people down to the city, and assembled the arriving material convoy and lined up at the city gate to leave. Zhong Zhong stood on the city tower with his hands behind his hands and sneered. In fact, the reason why he agreed to Zhang Yanling's leaving the city was not entirely because he was afraid that Zhang Yanling would go to the palace to sue.
According to the imperial decree, it was the cabinet's decision to block the city gates, and the emperor could not blame himself for not opening the city gates. He asked Zhang Yanling to leave the city, but he was actually waiting to see Zhang Yanling's joke.
You must know that there are more than the seven or eight hundred victims outside the city. There are victims everywhere in the four cities and nine gates, and the city gates are closed tightly. Once those victims know that there is help outside Yongding Gate, they will not come in droves. By then,
Thousands or even tens of thousands of victims came, but Zhang Yanling was not eaten. Zhang Yanling could have escaped if he saw the opportunity, otherwise the hungry and cold victims would have asked him to stay alive.
Zhong Zhong thought to himself: You ungrateful thing wants to seize this opportunity to be in the limelight. I will teach you that the limelight is fatal. I will publicize the news for you to the victims outside the four cities in a while, and I will keep your limelight.
enough.
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With the rumbling sound of the machine shaft, the city gate was pulled up with thousands of kilograms of stone, and the city gate opened with a rumble. Feng Min led hundreds of soldiers and horses to rush out first, and stood at war with each other at the city gate to guard and protect. Afterwards, Zhang Yanling led a large number of
The carriages and horses slowly left the city.
The victims were happy and excited as they watched the large number of vehicles and horses leaving the city from a distance. They were still a little confused at first, but when they saw the large amount of relief materials on those vehicles, they completely dispelled their worries.
The carriages and horses arrived on the snow outside the city gate. Just in case, Zhang Yanling ordered the carriages and horses to line up along the moat bank to form a barrier. Everyone was on alert to prevent disaster victims from coming. After all, they were a group of people who were cold and hungry.
For disaster victims, anything can happen.
In fact, Zhang Yanling's thinking was correct. When the carriages and horses arrived, a large number of victims could not restrain themselves and surrounded them without obeying orders. Most of them were cold, hungry and on the verge of collapse, and were eager to get help as soon as possible.
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"Is there anything to eat? Give me some. I'm going to starve to death."
"Give us something to eat and some clothes. We're about to freeze to death."
The flood of victims made the scene instantly chaotic. The people shouted and made noises and rushed to the big car that had just stopped. Some people even started to rummage around in the car.
"Hey, hey, you can't do this, don't rob me." A Xiu and others persuaded loudly.
The people were not willing to listen. Several people worked together to take off the bag of rice from the car. With a crash, the bag of rice fell on the snow and was soon trampled into mud.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Yanling knew that he could not let things develop. Once looting occurred, it would spread like a plague and must be stopped immediately.
Zhang Yanling jumped onto a large car, reached out and took out a firecracker from his waist, lit the fuse and fired a shot into the sky.