"The prince will not lose the support of the people. He just led the troops out of the city to suppress the bandits, and then the bandits took the opportunity to surround his hometown. The prince knows nothing about the rest." Xu Tianze said seriously, with a very serious face.
He looked at the group of people in the room, and the meaning in his eyes was clear.
"Can······"
"Young Master is so righteous. Sun Yi thanks you." Sun Yi shouted first, interrupting Long Er and bowing to Xu Tianze.
Sun Yixing's gift was sincere, and Xu Tianze accepted it calmly.
The other three present also saluted Xu Tianze. They looked at Xu Tianze with gratitude in their eyes. It was not until this moment that they understood why their prince was so willing to give whatever he wanted to the person in front of him.
It turns out that at the most critical moment, this person will always put the interests of his own prince first. From this moment on, they truly identified with Xu Tianze in their hearts.
However, Long Er who was present had a hesitant expression on his face, and looked at Sun Yi with strong dissatisfaction. He even took a stern note of Sun Yi in his heart, waiting for his own prince to come back and complain to him.
Seeing that he had almost finished talking, Xu Tianze asked everyone to leave, but he still sat in his chair without moving, because he knew that Long Er must have something else to say.
Sure enough, after the other four people left, Long Er stood there with an angry expression: "Sir, if the prince knew about this, he would definitely not agree with you doing this."
"Long Er, you still don't understand your master, and he will never know." Xu Tianze stood up and patted Long Er's shoulder, his words full of meaning.
The ultimate beneficiary of his doing this is Long Musi, who will certainly condone such a thing. It is just that Long Er has too thick a filter for Long Musi, so he thinks that his master who is so loyal and righteous would not do such a thing.
The tenth day of the siege of Zhoushan City.
The people in the city were running out of food at home one after another, and looting occurred in the shops. The major shops took the opportunity to raise prices. After repeated dissuasion, Xu Tianze personally led people to behead more than ten shop owners on the spot and confiscated the property of five merchants. Prices returned to their original level.
Although the city was stabilized again by suppressing the rebellion with force, Xu Tianze had killed too many people, and the people in the city were in panic. They all stayed at home and did not go out unless necessary.
"Sir, the stockpiling of goods in the shops in the city is just a drop in the bucket. If this continues, the city will soon run out of food." Wang Yuan, who is in charge of the financial operations of Zhoushan City, had a worried look on his face.
He was in charge of Zhoushan City's economic exchanges and the transfer of materials between the north and the south. Naturally, he had some understanding of the material situation of the entire Zhoushan City, and could naturally infer how long Zhoushan City's surplus food could last.
"Well, I think Xu An will call the city soon." Xu Tianze nodded. He guessed it from the surplus food of that shop when he directly raided the shop, so he was not too surprised.
Then, he turned to look at Long Er, "Is there any news from Long Musi?"
Long Er shook his head solemnly. Although Zhoushan City was surrounded, there were still many underground secret passages, so they could naturally make some simple contacts with the outside world, but there was no news about their own prince at all.
Logically speaking, although the location where his prince led his troops to suppress the bandits was some distance away from Zhoushan City, it should only take three days to get there in a hurry. However, ten days had passed, and there was no news from his prince at all. This made Long Er a little worried.
"It seems that we can't rely on him." Xu Tianze took a deep breath, feeling a little helpless.
"Open the granary and release the grain in five days, and at the same time withdraw all the guards around my yard." Xu Tianze thought about it and prepared to proceed to the next step.
Since there is no way to find those spies, he will just use them as bait. He believes that as long as Xu An's people are not stupid, they will not miss such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even if they know it is a trap, they will not miss such a good opportunity.
"This..." Sun Yi and others looked at each other, not daring to answer for a moment.
At the beginning, they could still agree with Xu Tian's opinion for the sake of their own prince's interests. After all, it was just some reputation. After all, their own prince would still protect Xu Tianze when he came back.
So they agreed very readily, and in their opinion it was a best of both worlds solution.
But now that Xu Tianze's life was used as bait, they hesitated unusually. If anything happened to Xu Tianze, they would have no way to explain to their own prince.
One can’t say for sure, but he might be buried with Xu Tianze.
"No." Long Er didn't think too much and was the first to refuse. "Sir, this move may be able to lure out the hidden spy, but if there is any mistake, we will have no way to explain to the prince."
"Could it be that the Master wants us to be buried with him?"
This time, Long Er did not just say no, but instead gave very sufficient reasons, which surprised Xu Tianze. After all, with Long Er's brain, it was not easy for him to say such words.
"What Long Er said makes sense. Please think about it again, sir." Sun Yi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was worth it for him to teach Long Er privately, and then he quickly followed.
"Young Master, please think twice." Seeing this, the others also expressed their attitudes.
After all, no one wants to be buried with the deceased as long as they are alive and well. They all have wives, children and elderly parents, and they are all the pillars of the family.
"Do you have any other way to lure them out?" Xu Tianze sighed and asked everyone.
He could use severe punishments in troubled times to suppress the troublemakers directly, but as long as Xu An was outside the city for a day, there would not be a moment of true peace in the city. It might have worked once or twice, but it didn't mean it would work this time.
The more you suppress it, the more severe the rebound will be. By that time, it will be too late to say anything.
Xu Tianze understood this matter, and so did Sun Yillong and the others, which was why they were stuck here. At the same time, they also knew that if they continued to hold on like this, they would end up with nothing.
But if they agreed to Xu Tianze, none of them could guarantee that they would be able to protect Xu Tianze all the time. At that time, life and death would really be left to fate.
Just as everyone was silent, Yin Liu, who had been guarding outside the door, walked in and said, "Sir, I am willing to be the bait for you."
"Nonsense! Get out." Xu Tianze was a little annoyed when he saw the gleam in everyone's eyes.
His people are very valuable and not just random people. He felt offended by the calculations in everyone's eyes. At the same time, Xu Tianze was also annoyed by Yin Liu's interruption.
This kind of thing was not something Yin Liu could get involved in. Otherwise, how could he face Xue Sheng and the Xue Wei who followed Long Musi out?
"Master, I have been following you for a long time, so I can get to know you a little bit. Although I can't make a fake look real, I can still fool those spies." Yin Liu was a little anxious when she saw Xu Tianze was going to drive her out.
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