C67

Chapter 67 - Incitement to Civil Disasters

The conflict in the Letian Firm had already reached its climax. Under the assault of over a hundred people who cried out their grievances, the three people were already in a precarious situation. The guards had more than once requested for Xiao Letian to retaliate, but they were all forbidden by him.

"All of you, just stand guard. I want to see what kind of flowers can be produced from the end of today's performance …" Under Xiao Letian's strict orders, the three human walls formed by dozens of guards formed a semicircle around them, and they started to shrink backwards. Gradually, they were blocked at the main entrance.

"Xiao Letian... "You, you, you're not going to surrender? Hurry up and give yourself up, you might have a way out of this situation …" High Scholar Huang wanted to agitate his men, but before Xiao Letian could even open his mouth, he was slapped by the guard who stood beside him. When the Xiao Pi Sun saw that the guard was actually scared to the point of shrinking his neck back, he held back his words.

Xiao Letian looked at all the merchants present, and spoke with a cold and unchanging attitude, "Yesterday, when all the merchants met with High Scholar Huang and the High Scholar Huang, weren't they discussing how to deal with me? Didn't Huang Juren say at that time that there was a big shot supporting him in the capital? Where are the big shots now? "

"Yesterday, what did the big bosses discuss when they gathered at the Four Seas Trading Station? Do you need me to repeat myself?! Do you think I'm an idiot and don't know anything about what happened today? "

Xiao Letian's eyebrows were already raised. He looked at these people like he was looking at a bunch of idiots.

"As for the two of you …" Xiao Letian stared at High Scholar Huang and Xiao Pi Sun as if they were dead, "You guys have been jumping up and down in those past few days, do you really think that I don't know anything about them? "Are you stupid or are you stupid? You'll see in a bit …"

Just as Xiao Letian was berating these brainless attackers, suddenly, the entire Tanggu City seemed to explode into a bomb, waves after waves of tsunami like sounds shot up into the sky, compared to the hundreds of people in the middle, the few hundred people who were causing trouble, it was not even worth mentioning.

"The People's Transformation!" "It's another civil revolution …" The merchants in the room were all worried. Last time, when Fu Qing's group came to inspect the place, they stirred up thousands of people to mutiny, and in the end, although they were all persuaded to leave, the The yamen of the same knowledge and the Allied Imperial Palace still took thirty thousand silver from them.

From the looks of it, it was at least three times the size today. Now, it was going to be painful again.

Everyone guessed wrongly, they had completely underestimated the degree of insanity High Scholar Huang had. This time, they had incited all the citizens that they could, at least eight thousand people without ten thousand.

Yellow Lord stared at Xiao Letian like a venomous snake, and thought to himself, "If there were tens of thousands of people, there would be no end to it. "Anything can happen in the midst of chaos, don't blame me for being ruthless, if you want to blame someone, blame yourself for offending someone important, if you want to blame someone, blame your vicious counterattack. If you don't give me face, I can't let you live either …"

Tongzhi's first year of Tanggu City was actually a large town with a population of more than ten thousand. Including the surrounding commoners rushing in to live, the greatest number of people in the day was usually not more than twenty thousand. And now, more than ten thousand commoners had gathered on the ground and were shouting slogans. Each one of them was even more excited than if they were celebrating the new year.

"Get the hell out of the Tanggu, is an evil demon sent by the foreigners, he is the one who wants to create this heartless industrial zone, he is trying to kill the citizens of our Da Qing Empire …"

"We can't let them succeed. These letters are all engraved with evil scriptures, and with just a glance, you managed to hook your soul away. Don't believe me, these foreign people's souls can't be frightened of objects called cameras. that is to capture your soul … "

"Killing the second evildoer means we don't want a bullsh * t special district. The machinery of the foreigners in there only works if they want to kill children and female Priests. Those are man-eating monsters …"

"Three meters, three meters …" "We want to eat the white bun …" Eh? Something strange seemed to have snuck in.

Tens of thousands of people walked over from the northwest side of Tanggu, which was the direction of High Scholar Huang's family. At the beginning, the more than one thousand tenants were simply seeking the Huang Family's rent. Other than the water army, the reason why the other commoners joined in was much more complicated.

Firstly was the control that superstitious thoughts had over ignorant people. In the feudal dynasty, the people had no doubt about the faith of the Buddhist and Taoistic sects, as well as the various minority religions. When someone told them that the so-called Industrial Zones would destroy feng shui, or even scare people's souls, more than 90% of the population would not believe it at all.

Secondly, during the process of the westerner using their cannons to break open China's borders, the power displayed by the foreigners was a little too tyrannical, and it was very difficult for the citizens, including the upper echelons, to understand it. This provided the soil for some strange superstitions and rumors.

Third, the Chinese people have not changed their way of thinking for thousands of years. These peasants who didn't think for themselves would only listen to the bewitchment of scholars, clan leaders, and villagers. When thousands of his fellow villagers encouraged him to walk on the streets, very few of them were able to calm down and analyze him carefully. Most of them still threw themselves into the streets.

The so-called people's revolution was so simple.

The entire Tanggu City was already on the verge of chaos, all the smarter merchants had already started doing business, in this situation only fools would be able to do business, there were no obstacles between the civil revolt and the rebellion.

The foreigners in the harbor were scared. What was all these natives trying to do? In the colonies, however, there were no rare instances of indigenous riots killing citizens of the civilized world. One by one, they climbed onto the boat and pulled the pedals away. On the deck, Gun stood tall enough that even the cannons of the cannons were already open.

Almost all the merchant ships that traversed thousands of miles had their own armed forces. If they were able to break through the encirclement of countless pirates, their combat power would already be quite formidable.

The Letian Firm had already become the center of the storm, and the intelligent citizens were fleeing outside, falling into a frenzy as they gathered. The streets were filled with the sounds of "Let's go, let's go".

Right now, the people in the foreign bank could no longer sit still. The merchants' faces had turned pale. As the curses came closer and closer, they could already sense that this matter was going to become big. Right at this moment, a shop assistant from an unknown family rushed in from the back door and started to wail as he knelt on the ground.

"The sky and the earth are blotted out! Tens of thousands of people have rushed in! Shopkeeper, please run …"

The foreign banks were thrown into chaos. Some wanted to run for their lives, some wanted to go home and protect their wealth, while others simply went blind and didn't know what to do. Keeper Niu looked at the chaos, sighed and slapped his thigh, "If I don't do good business, why would I get involved with this?" After saying that, he slapped himself twice.

The Letian Firm had already gathered all the top merchants, all of the best of them were here, just as this group of people wanted to rush out, Xiao Letian suddenly jumped onto the chair, took out his revolver and shot.

"You all want to die? mob who are outside with ten to twenty thousand red eyes, you guys are going to throw your lives away? "They don't care about your status, they only know that your family is rich …"

The gunshots and angry roars immediately awoken the group of headless flies. Everyone present was dumbfounded. That's right, right now there's a people's revolution outside, and ten thousand people are causing it. Right now, there's no reason at all for us to not find the culprit even if we kill you. At that moment, all the merchants started attacking High Scholar Huang and Xiao Pi Sun, all of them regretting their actions.

Under Xiao Letian's orders, a group of burly looking men rushed in from the back. Bundled weapons were brought out, steel blades, spears, wooden shields and dozens of Gun s were distributed in front of the guests casually.

Luo Huo now had more than thirty musketeers under his command, and stood in three rows in the great hall, waiting for Xiao Letian's orders with a murderous look on their faces.

At this time, all of the guests were shocked. How could there be such a merchant? On the day of his grand opening, he had actually ambushed hundreds of private guards in the back hall? There was actually a Musketeers? Keeper Niu looked and closed his eyes, not daring to look anymore. He raised his hands and slapped himself dozens of times, he was truly regretful.

Yellow Lord and Xiao Pi Sun were already trembling like they were going mad. They finally knew why the big figures in Beijing were so afraid of Xiao Letian. This fellow was not only a scholar, but a rogue warlord! The sky of Great Qing Dynasty has not changed, is he trying to rebel? Who gave him the courage to show his arms in public?

The same question appeared in everyone's mind, but no one dared to ask because the killing intent in this room was something they had never encountered in their entire lives.

"Everyone listen up, the distinguished guests here are the top merchants in all of Tanggu City, the elites! Everyone, protect me well. In the future, I will need the help of these big bosses. Now that the Tanggu City is in chaos, it's not safe. Let's escort our distinguished guests to the harbor, to the Lucky … "

"Ah …" The entire room's merchants were all stunned, what did Xiao Letian want to do? He wants to kidnap all the merchants in Tanggu? High Scholar Huang immediately reacted, cold sweat trickling down his forehead.

Oh no, it was really a miscalculation, I never thought that Xiao Letian would still have this move, he is actually related to the Frenchmen, he wants to capture a whole city's worth of merchants as hostages! When that time came, he would kidnap these people to use the French merchant ship and dock on the surface of the sea, then he would be able to sit back and watch the battle. He would watch helplessly as the Tanggu was thrown into chaos, and at that time, the black pot would have nothing to do with him.

Thinking about this, Yellow Lord also went crazy, he jumped up and shouted, "All bosses, all shopkeepers, don't be fooled! "Those surnamed Xiao want to capture us as hostages, they want to kidnap us overseas …"

Just as High Scholar Huang was shrieking like a madman, the sounds of horse hooves and footsteps came from outside the door. At the most critical moment, the Tanggu City's highest ranking military officer, Allocer Ma Bao, finally brought his troops over.

"With laozi here, I'll see who dares to be rash …" Oh my god, there was actually someone who was hiding his power? This is a rebellion... "Children, surround them and disarm them. If they resist, kill them …"

When the High Scholar Huang and the Xiao Pi Sun heard Ma Bao's voice, they kneeled down and crawled towards the exit as if they had heard their father's voice. "To live and die on the Ma Clan's platform, I …"

Xiao Letian looked at the two scrawny dogs that had no backs, and spat out a mouthful of saliva ruthlessly. "I say, let's see who dares to take away my weapons …" He stood at the gate and shouted under the protection of his guards, "Ma Desai!" "I can only apologize for today. The store has at least four hundred thousand silver taels. It's really inconvenient for you to come in here. You should lead your soldiers and stand guard outside …"

When Ma Bao heard the words "400,000 silver", his eyes immediately turned red. "Children, this group of bandits, kill them all …"

"Kill!" The three hundred Green Battalion s roared loudly. For the sake of money, they would risk it all.