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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.