This sudden curse shocked the scholars, but it did not frighten them.
"What do you want to do?"
"Who are you?"
The literati students shouted at the top of their lungs.
In front of these surging crowds, even though their faces turned pale, they maintained their proper posture and refused to retreat.
"Who are we?"
One of the leaders of the crowd shouted, with anger in his eyes and pointing his hand behind him.
Behind him was the military formation of Duke Cheng, composed of soldiers who encountered too many unexpected things one after another and looked bewildered since leaving the camp.
"We are what you call Duke Cheng's sin!"
What does this mean?
"Gong Chengguo disobeyed the emperor's orders, greedy for power and advanced rashly, causing the death of tens of thousands of soldiers just because of us."
"Gong Cheng Guo is cunning, seizes power, and sabotages the peace talks just for us."
"Cheng Guogong was warlike and focused on military affairs. He kept his troops in arms, drained the national treasury, and wasted the people and money all because of us."
"Gong Chengguo is arrogant and arrogant. He demands rewards and fame just for us."
"We are the sinners who made Zhushan, the Duke of Chengguo, the minister of the country's subjugation."
Having said this, he took a step forward. Even though he was in rags, disheveled, and disheveled, he made the scribe in front of him take a step back involuntarily.
"If you want to ask Duke Cheng about his sins, ask us about our sins first!"
As his words fell, the surroundings became noisy.
"If you want to ask Duke Cheng about his crime, ask us first!"
Like strong winds and waves in the sea, the surrounded scribes, civilians, officers and soldiers could not help but be shaken physically and mentally.
The literati students who had not flinched even half a step in the face of fierce soldiers with iron armor and bloody weapons, involuntarily took a step back amid the shouts of this group of ordinary people with sallow faces and skinny muscles.
"Who are you?" the scribe asked.
This sentence caused a commotion all around again.
"I'm from Baozhou."
"People from Bazhou."
"People from Xiongzhou."
Countless chaotic shouts echoed, but they reached everyone's ears clearly.
"We are refugees in the North."
Refugees in the North.
The so-called refugees are naturally displaced people.
Since the war between the North and the Jin people, there have been many such people. More than half of the beggars in the capital are refugees from the North. Everyone knows this identity.
"No, you don't understand at all." An older man with a Bazhou accent said, his voice trembling, "You only know the four words displacement, but you don't know what these four words mean!"
"It means not having a home, not having enough to eat and clothing, not having enough warmth, and feeling uneasy all day long!"
The old man glanced at the people in front of him.
"We will never have the leisure time of watching the excitement like you do."
"What's even more cruel is that it all happened in the blink of an eye overnight!"
These words evoked the grief of the refugees in the north.
"We once had a good life just like you."
"The golden thief came to kill him when he said he was coming."
"Everything is gone."
Listening to the stories of countless people choked with tears, the people present could not help but feel sad.
The officers and soldiers on duty, as well as the scholars and scholars, were a little less frightened. After all, they were just a group of civilians who had lost their homes and became homeless.
"This is all war, and the people are suffering." A scribe said, watching the people take a step forward, "So this is all the fault of Duke Cheng Guo for raising troops..."
Before he could finish his words, he was spat on by the people in front of him.
"What the hell!"
This is an old woman with no teeth, holding a cane in her hand and speaking with a thick accent.
"If Duke Cheng Guo hadn't been guarding and fighting with his troops, we would all have died long ago and we wouldn't be able to live a peaceful life for a day. How could you, a young man with such a fine face, say such stupid things?"
"Yeah, it's really nonsense."
"If Duke Cheng Guo hadn't led these good soldiers to fight against the gold thieves, how could we have lived a good life?"
"You have been living a good life for too long, I don't know how you got here."
"You actually said such heartless words."
"Do you think it's a good day for you to stand here and watch the excitement when the wind blows?"
"That's all because of how many soldiers and generals have blocked the thieves for you, and how many people have died in exchange for it."
Countless voices came in chaos and anger, not only did the scribe who spoke previously dare not speak anymore, but everyone else also backed away in fear.
They retreat, and those on this side advance.
"Do you know what war is?"
"Have you ever seen with your own eyes hundreds of soldiers going out and only one or two coming back?"
"Have you ever seen the golden thief's knife and gun? Cut off half of his body with one knife."
They shouted angrily, and some simply ran to the nearest soldier.
"Little brother, take off your armor and let them see."
The soldier who was suddenly called was a little stunned.
In fact, they have been at a loss since being surrounded and questioned.
"Team A, Battalion A, take off your armor and clothes." A loud and clear female voice came from the middle of the military formation.
Even though he was still a little dazed, he immediately dismounted without hesitation after hearing the sound. The armor was removed with a clatter, and the dozen or so soldiers standing in front of them looked a little thin.
They did not stop, and did not care that there were women among the people present. They took off their outer robes and fucked their upper bodies.
This series of movements was so fast that the person calling out almost didn't react.
"Look at them..." He came back to his senses and said, pointing at these soldiers, he also looked over, and suddenly stopped talking, with an expression of disbelief.
Because of his words, everyone looked here and saw that these soldiers, without the protection of armor and robes, had lost their power, and their figures were not even as majestic as the imperial guards on duty here.
But the people's increasingly surprised expressions were not because of this, but because of the criss-crossing scars on their bodies.
There are more than a dozen people, tall, short, fat and thin, ranging in age, but the same thing is that their bodies are covered with scars, including knife wounds and arrow wounds, new and old wounds, some shallow and some deep. I never thought that one person could carry
So many injuries, so many injuries and still alive.
The noise all around stopped.
"They have so many injuries..." The man standing next to the soldier finally spoke again, with a complicated expression, "I didn't expect it either."
He did think that the soldiers, especially the soldiers from the North, might be injured, so he wanted to ask the soldier to take off his armor and let everyone see if he was injured.
He didn't expect there to be so many injuries, nor did he expect that these dozen soldiers were like this. So these soldiers...
He looked towards the military formation.
Everyone also thought of this and looked at him.
The other soldiers in the military formation are all wearing armor. How many times have their bodies, which look so majestic and majestic, gone through so many bullets and rain of arrows, and how many times have they rolled through the gates of hell?
"Say they are greedy for merit, say they are warlike, who are not human beings?" A man's shout suddenly rang out, pointing at the soldiers and looking angrily at the civilian scribes and students, "Go and be greedy for one of them!"
Accusations sounded again all around.
The literati and the people once again took a step back.
"It wouldn't be like this if we negotiated peace earlier. Wouldn't it be nice if there was no war?" Someone said in dissatisfaction.
These words did not refute the refugees in the North, but instead caused a cry again.
"Make peace earlier? Do you know how this peace came about? It was not brought about by strong winds! It was brought about by war!"
"Had Duke Cheng Guo not frightened the gold thieves, and had not the brave soldiers fought bloody battles to repel the gold thieves without daring to offend, they would have gone crazy to initiate peace!"
"Not only will they not make peace, but they will march south unscrupulously!"
"Are all you people in the capital stupid? You don't even know this?"
Listening to the overwhelming scolding, the faces of the people in the capital turned red, feeling not only fear but also shame.
Yes, why don’t you understand this truth? Why have you forgotten who guarded the border for more than ten years and allowed them to have this peace and stability for more than ten years?
Otherwise, they will be like these refugees in the North.
Seeing these refugees haggard and miserable, and thinking about the days they just described, the people in the capital couldn't help but shudder.
They didn't want to live such a life, so why did they lose their minds and think that Duke Cheng and the officers and soldiers were guilty? Wouldn't this ruin their good life?
These are all scholars!
The people in the capital instantly looked at the scholars and scribes, then turned around and stood together with the refugees from the North.
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Sorry, I have to go for a review and change the dressing. I will update it today.
Thank you everyone, I’m ashamed. (To be continued)