Chapter 2818 Something is going to happen tonight
At this time, someone in the crowd shouted loudly: "Rebel if you want to, we don't want this kind of government anymore!"
This made the crowd even more excited.
The people in front shouted, and those behind rushed forward. Seeing that these people were about to fight with the soldiers defending the city, Luo Qitong immediately said to the soldiers behind him: "Go!"
"yes!"
A group of soldiers immediately rushed forward and, along with the defenders, shouted angrily at the excited people: "What are you doing? Are you rebelling? Kill these traitors without mercy!"
Some ordinary people were frightened.
But there were also some who simply ignored their threats and shouted, "You just don't want us ordinary people to live, so why should we care?"
After saying that, these young and strong farmers picked up their sickles and hoes and confronted the officers and soldiers.
Just then, a Buddhist chant came from behind the crowd.
"Amitabha."
Everyone instinctively turned around to look and saw a group of monks standing at the city gate. The leader was a tall monk who said to the indignant people, "Everyone, please calm down."
The common people look at each other.
The sound was a little quieter.
Ordinary people still have some respect for monks, and when they see them stand up, they don't know what to say for a while.
When the monks reached the city gate, they addressed the soldiers guarding the city: "Gentlemen, these donors all have important matters to attend to and are not being unreasonable. Why not offer some assistance?"
The soldiers said angrily, "What do you mean by 'convenient'? Can you just ignore the imperial court's order just because it's 'convenient'?"
The monk said, "If the imperial court's decrees are harmful to the people, how can the people be willing to obey them?"
"The imperial court's decrees have their own intentions, which are not something you ordinary people can understand. Stop talking nonsense and get out of here!"
"Amitabha."
The monks looked at each other and could only turn away: "Let's go look somewhere else."
Although they left, the people refused to leave.
They all sat at the city gate.
The soldiers guarding the city said, "What are you doing sitting here? Disperse, disperse!"
The people asked, "Why, the door won't open? Can't we just wait here until it opens?"
"That's right. We have no chance of survival if we go back. Why don't we just wait here?"
"If you don't open the door tomorrow, we'll fight you out!"
The soldiers all frowned, but there was nothing they could do but retreat to the city gate.
Luo Qitong, who was standing nearby, saw this scene, then looked at the monks and asked, "Why are there so many monks in the city these past two days?"
A guard nearby said, "I heard there was some kind of Dharma assembly going on in the south, so many monks from nearby gathered in the capital, preparing to leave the city and head south. Unexpectedly, the city gates were closed, so they have no choice but to stay here."
"oh?"
Luo Qitong looked at the backs of the monks again and pondered for a while.
Then he turned to look at the people sitting at the city gate and said, "Go and tell the guards to be on the lookout. If these people stay here, something could happen at any time. They'd better be careful."
"yes."
Luo Qitong then led his men up to the city wall.
Outside the city, it looked quiet and desolate, but it was not as quiet as they had hoped.
Gusts of wind brought with them the heat that grew stronger day by day since the beginning of summer, as if there was hot lava in the distance, burning them and making them feel restless.
Luo Qitong inspected the place and ordered, "All of you, pay attention."
Everyone said, "Yes."
Just as Luo Qitong was about to go back to the corner tower to sit for a while, the guard behind him suddenly said, "Sir, look over there, is there any movement?"
"Um?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Qitong hurriedly turned around, walked to the edge of the city wall, leaned on the parapet with one hand and looked into the distance.
Outside the city gate, the walls had been fortified and the fields cleared, and not even small bushes could be seen.
The only obstacle in front of them was the rolling mountains in the distance.
At this moment, a cloud of dust seemed to be rising behind the mountain.
Although it was very faint and far away, it was almost difficult to distinguish, but the personal soldiers around him were former scouts, so this did not pose a problem for him.
Luo Qitong frowned and looked for a while, and also saw the smoke and dust over there.
Two nights ago, Jiang Shan's men discovered a strange fire outside the city, which seemed to be lit at the foot of the mountain in the distance. In the past few days, they patrolled all night but did not find it again. His men thought that those people were just mistaken.
Now it seems that may not be the case.
If they could still see the rising smoke from such a distance, there was only one possibility: there were quite a few people creating this smoke.
If the previous anomaly was just one or two scouts coming to investigate the situation in the city, then what's happening now—
I’m afraid there are quite a few people on the other side of the mountain.
The personal guard beside him whispered, "Sir, do you want to send someone out to investigate?"
“…”
Luo Qitong thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Don't act rashly at this time."
“…”
"As soon as the city gates are opened, whatever happens outside will cause chaos inside."
The personal guard said, "Inside the city? The situation inside the city is like this, I'm afraid it's already in chaos."
“…”
Luo Qitong looked at the smoke and dust rising from the distance outside the city for a while, then looked at the people sitting on the ground inside the city gate and refusing to leave.
He murmured, "Something's going to happen."
The people on the side hadn't heard clearly yet, and one of the guards said, "Sir, what did you say?"
Luo Qitong looked at the vast wasteland outside the city.
"Something's going to happen."
“……!”
When the people around heard these three words, they were all shocked.
Luo Qitong said to them, "Pass the order down. Tonight, add more people to each city gate and strengthen the security, especially here."
“…”
"I'm afraid something will happen tonight."
The guards hurriedly said, "Sir, if we send more men to every gate, I'm afraid we won't have enough."
Luo Qitong said, "Go and tell Lord Heyi my message immediately. Tell him that I want the court to send more troops."
When several bodyguards heard this, they looked at each other with horror in their eyes.
This was the first time they heard General Mingwei say such words.
He quickly turned around and went down the city wall.
At this time, He Yi was in the cabinet.
Although he had been excluded from the cabinet before, this time the emperor was assassinated and injured and fell into a coma, so the imperial concubine reinstated the former chief minister of the cabinet. Originally, everyone was worried that Gu Tingqiu would have a fight with him.
Unexpectedly, Lord Gu remained calm.
Instead, he and He Yi divided the work and cooperated with each other. He Yi was responsible for handling the emergency incidents that had occurred in the capital in recent days; while Gu Tingqiu took the ministers to the Wuying Palace to handle normal government affairs.
At this moment, Heyi had just finished reading the files sent by the Dali Temple.
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