Chapter 857 Hell on Earth
Chapter 857 Hell on Earth
Bai Qingyan jumped off the horse and turned her head to look at the two children and two women who had been brought back by the cavalry. They were full of uncertainty and panic.
She comforted her with words: "Don't worry, with me here... no one can take a child away from Chunmu City! Go back!"
When the young woman heard the words, tears welled up in her eyes, and she hurriedly pulled the two children to kowtow to Bai Qingyan: "Princess Zhenguo's great kindness, women must remember it! Never forget it! Hu Daner , Niuniu, quickly...quickly kowtow to Princess Zhenuo!"
The old woman also cried and kowtowed: "Thank you Princess Zhen Guo!"
"Princess Zhenguo!" Liu Hong disagreed with Bai Qingyan letting the child go. Since the imperial decree wanted these children, they had to be sent to Jiuchongtai. He believed that the emperor exchanged the throne with King Liang, but he did not agree. I believe that the emperor will use the lives of a thousand young children to refine that ethereal immortality elixir.
Bai Qingyan turned a deaf ear to Liu Hong's voice, and helped the woman and child up: "Get up! You don't have to! Go back!"
Seeing more yamen servants coming after hearing the news, each of them drew their knives and rushed into the government office, Bai Qingyan's eyes were cold, and he ordered: "Yang Wuce surrounds the government office, and don't allow those yamen servants to get close to the people!"
"Yes!" Yang Wuce responded, dismounted half of the cavalry and surrounded the government office.
Those yamen servants who came after hearing the news saw fifty soldiers surrounding the front of the mansion yamen, and even drew their swords at them to prevent them from entering the mansion yamen.
In the government office, those people who had found their children saw that their children were locked in wooden cages, they cried and cursed and smashed the locks to rescue the children, hugging and touching them in their arms.
It was the lame retired soldier who yelled for the big guy to withdraw quickly, and the common people rushed to run out with their children.
Unexpectedly, just as they were about to rush out of the government office, they saw that the entrance of the government office was surrounded by soldiers, but the strange thing was that those soldiers didn't draw their swords against them, instead they drew their swords and stopped the servants outside the government office.
The lame retired man guarded the people and his own son behind him, and watched the Jin army outside the door.
"This general, are you...reversed?" The yamen servant who came to arrest the rioting people was puzzled, "The people who robbed the children are inside!"
"Grandpa, I know!" Yang Wuce stood at the front, holding the sword at his waist, "Princess Zhen Guo has ordered that you yamen servants are not allowed to get half a step closer to the common people!"
The yamen servant knew that he couldn't fight hard against these soldiers, so he turned his head and whispered to his subordinates: "Go! Notify the county magistrate... Princess Zhenguo is here!"
Bai Qingyan and Liu Hong led the remaining fifty cavalrymen towards the government office.
She glanced at those yamen servants, and walked straight to the mansion yamen.
The people in the government office hid the children behind them one after another, gritted their teeth and looked at Bai Qingyan and his party, as if they would fight to the death for anyone who dared to snatch the children.
"Surprised everyone!" As soon as Liu Hong entered the door, he was afraid that Bai Qingyan would first agree to let the people take the child back. He disobeyed the imperial decree, and stepped forward to bow to the people, "Everyone...Everyone! I am Liu Hong, General of the Jin Kingdom Today, I, Liu Hong, put my life as a guarantee, Your Majesty definitely does not want to use the lives of children to refine the elixir of immortality, but to choose children with pure conduct, and go up to the Nine Layers Platform with Your Majesty to seek the elixir!"
"Bah! You are fooling the ghost!" A pungent woman spat at Liu Hong with red eyes, and said through gritted teeth, "If it's so good, why doesn't the magistrate dare to let his youngest son go, and those Wealthy families...all bought their children from Ren Yazi!"
As a result of this incident, boys and girls aged five to ten are now in short supply in Ren Yazi's hands, and the asking price is extremely high.
"That's not true! If it's really just to let the children ask for the elixir, why use such a cool method of sitting together! Whoever has a child who doesn't hand it in... will be beheaded together with the neighbors, do you think we are all fools? ?!"
"Princess Zhenguo!" The lame retired man looked at Bai Qingyan, who was standing with his hands behind his back, and he opened his eyes wide. He recognized Bai Qingyan, and his eyes suddenly became hot.
The man limped forward and knelt on one knee with a cane: "Princess Zhenguo, Xiaomin is a Jin soldier who was injured and retired from the southern border battlefield in the 16th year of Xuanjia. I am fortunate to have met Princess Zhenguo! Here... Many children are the blood and bones left by the dead soldiers of the Jin Dynasty! Xiaomin once saw the princess of Zhenguo teaching the Jin soldiers in the barracks, saying...the soldiers are paid and supported by the people, and they are the soldiers of the people! Although Xiaomin has never read it Many books, but the words of Princess Zhenguo have always been remembered in Xiaomin's heart! Xiaomin implores Princess Zhenguo, for the sake of the fathers of these children who died for the country, please spare these children!"
"Princess Zhenguo?!"
"The eldest granddaughter of Old General Bai, Duke of Zhen?"
"Is it really from the Bai family of the Duke of Zhen's government?"
Seeing the man who led them to snatch the child kneel down, the common people knelt down and scrambled to explain to Bai Qingyan... that their child or uncle or father or grandfather fought to the death for the country.
"Princess Zhen Guo! Please be like the late Zhen Guo Gong, Old General Bai, and protect the children of us common people!" An old man who had been favored by Bai Wei Ting kowtowed heavily and cried.
Bai Qingyan was holding the horsewhip in his hand, almost crushing the horsewhip, feeling a surge of emotion in his heart.
She said in a low voice, "with me here, no one can take your children away from you! Take your children home!"
Without waiting for the common people to thank Bai Qingyan, Liu Hong couldn't help but shouted: "Princess Zhenguo! Do you want to resist the order? These children... are what His Majesty wants anyway! We, as Courtier, why do you disregard the imperial power and majesty?! This is disrespectful to His Majesty!"
"Such an emperor, let me respect...is he worthy?!" Bai Qingyan gritted her teeth, turned to look at Liu Hongba and raised her voice, "Whether it is the two children outside Chunmu City or these children here , Their grandfathers, fathers, and uncles died on the battlefield! Throwing their heads and blood to protect the country and the people! The emperor wants to use the only bone and blood they have left in this world to refine elixir, and ask for immortality! General Liu... Such an emperor is worthy of respect! Respect?!"
Liu Hong clenched his fists tightly: "Your Majesty is the king, we are the ministers... the king is wrong, we can advise you! But we must not be disrespectful!"
"Admonishment?! Didn't Xiang Lu advise? Did the emperor listen? He was imprisoned for the crime of disrespect, and he decreed to abolish the position of prime minister and establish a cabinet. What is the reason for this?! Isn't it because of Xiang Lu's advice!" Bai Qing Yan Gao asked Liu Hong, "This is just Chunmu City! I don't know how many Chunmu Cities in the Jin Kingdom are recruiting children, and how many cities are this miserable image of hell on earth!"
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