This night, the big shots in Zhongdu City were all racking their brains.
Some people want to take advantage of the opportunity; some people pretend to give in and make secret plans; some people suddenly realize that enemies and allies are equally weak; of course, some people are just incompetent and furious.
Although that person has the highest status among all the big shots, the other big shots don't take him seriously at all.
But a large number of ordinary people don't think about that. All because although the fire in the palace city was quickly extinguished, the chaos in Zhongdu was still on the rise.
Perhaps after the two Mongolian attacks, too many people in Zhongdu were on the verge of collapse, and they just missed an opportunity to break out; or perhaps, under the increasingly lax management of Zhongdu City, many people planned to take advantage of the situation. This chaos serves as a cover for their own actions.
In short, it is very inexplicable that Guo Ning himself only advanced and retreated at Changyi Gate, killed a few people, and cast a few big lights. However, the riots in Zhongdu that resulted from this continued to occur one after another and could not be completely suppressed. The riots even spread to the south and east of the city. Fires were set in places such as Luoma City, Caoliang Warehouse, Arsenal, East City and Jiao City.
The north of the city, close to the Guangtai Gate that was blocked last year, is where many disaster victims and refugees gathered. They also took the opportunity to riot and roar, and once rushed into the Baoen Temple in Jiahuifang to snatch rice and grains, and had violent conflicts with the monks. .
In this situation, agencies with sufficient manpower in the city, such as Daxing Prefecture, Zhongdu Road Military and Horse Management Office, Zhongdu Road Police Department, Police Inspectorate and even Zhongdu Transport Department, were all involved. And as more and more organizations get involved, each has its own ideas, restricts each other, and confronts each other, and the situation becomes more and more chaotic, with all kinds of absurdities to name a few.
Until the early morning of the next day, Guo Ning climbed to Niuxin Mountain, more than 40 miles west of the city, and could still see the smoke above the big city in the distance. It was probably the disheveled soot that was wrapped in the hot air and flying all over the sky.
The location he was in was a small manor owned by Tu Danhang.
Yesterday afternoon, Monk Luo, Li Ting and others settled here, and Guo Ning also returned here after coming out of Zhongdu City.
Although he made a huge noise in Zhongdu City, the soldiers stationed at the manor were in no hurry to move. This is Tu Dan's manor. If Tu Danyi can't even protect his family's manor, then he has no value in cooperating.
At this moment, the soldiers woke up one after another and lined up in front of the kitchen to wait for their meals. When Zhao Jue and the other three were fighting in the city, they were all slightly injured, but not seriously. However, the soldiers asked these three to stand at the front of the queue and be the first to enjoy it.
Ni Yi was fourth in line. This young man brought most of the bags of exquisite food from Zhongdu City, but after just one night, they were all looted by his followers. At this moment, he was holding the bowl and walking along the line, looking a little dazed, probably because he couldn't bear such a tragic loss.
Cui Xiannu, on the other hand, was running around making arrangements, watching the villagers slaughter a pig and a sheep, preparing to roast them for the soldiers.
He was not so active yesterday. He always felt that his family was being coerced by Guo Ning, and the head of the family was trapped in the fire pit of killing officials and rebelling. Also, because of the hard work of riding long distances, he had a sickly appearance.
However, when Guo Ning and others came out of Zhongdu City, Du Shisheng mentioned a few words to him about the current situation of Mr. Tu Shan. His waist and back pain no longer stopped, and he suddenly became flattering, and even began to He loudly scolded the villagers who were not quick enough to kill pigs and sheep.
Guo Ning is not hungry yet, but the mountain air in the early morning is a bit cool. So he came down from the high slope and went to the farm.
This farm had obviously been attacked by the Mongolian army. The house on one side of the road had been burned, and the walls and column heads were all black. The number of farmers in the manor should have been reduced a lot, and there were many vacant houses. There were lush weeds growing from the corners of those houses to the ravine behind them.
A villager was climbing up the ravine with a basket on his back and a child who was also carrying a basket.
When he came out, he saw Guo Ning and hurriedly nodded and bowed to indicate.
Guo Ning heard something making a "gurgling" sound in the basket and asked, "What did you catch?"
The villager grinned, and the long scar on his cheek twisted. He patted the basket: "Five fat pheasants! Well...last night, the great monk said he liked chickens. He was willing to buy these for two hundred coins!"
Monk Luo has a good appetite. It was a pity that he could not go to Zhongdu City to eat and drink yesterday. However, he had obviously found delicious food in the village. He spent two hundred coins to buy five pheasants, which was quite generous.
"After you get the money, don't hide it, buy more food and store it in the mountains!" Guo Ning said to them with a smile.
The villagers nodded repeatedly, wondering if they heard it.
They hurriedly walked in front, and Guo Ning followed slowly, pacing slowly.
Yesterday's trip was stressful, but also rewarding enough to meet our expectations. The tranquility in the manor at this moment is in perfect contrast to the dirt, dirt and bloody killings in Zhongdu. This made Guo Ning feel a rare sense of relaxation.
But Guo Ning knew very well that no matter whether it was in Zhongdu or outside the city, in a few months, everything in front of him would not be able to escape the fate of being destroyed.
This is one of the reasons why Guo Ning always uses violent means to promote drastic changes in the situation. He is eager to change because he is afraid; afraid of the enemy that will appear at any time and will destroy everything.
However, no matter how fast he moves, he cannot change much in a short period of time.
The world is turning, time is running out! Guo Ning stopped and sighed deeply.
Before the sigh fell, the sound of rapid horse hooves came from the distance on the road.
There are quite a few knights.
There are secret sentries and rangers set up outside the manor, and no one can easily bypass them. The only ones who could enter the manor directly were Li Ting and his men.
Guo Ning quickened his pace slightly, and sure enough he saw Li Ting leading the way and crossing the col.
He and his men were all covered in blood, some of them had killed more than others, and the blood stains on their armor had now dried to purple-black.
The horses of the cavalry were very fast. As he approached Guo Ning, Li Ting calmly grabbed the reins and jumped down.
He jumped off the horse: "Liu Lang, according to your instructions, I have taken back my home in Baodi County, and left Li Yun and more than ten people to station there. However, I haven't gone back for several years, and the local gangsters I didn’t know the reputation of my second master Li, but something happened... Fortunately, there was no mistake."
Having said this, he couldn't help but be suspicious: "Since the imperial court abandoned Yingzhou in the third year of Cheng'an, Baodi has become far less prosperous than Tongzhou, and has become more and more dilapidated year by year. Is that damn place really useful? I spent the whole night running back and forth. , but I’m so tired that I’m going to have cramps... Don’t let me work in vain!”
Guo Ning smiled and patted Li Ting on the back, and said confidently: "Li Er, we still have a lot to do. Sooner or later you will find that all arrangements are useful! Go to eat, after eating, We are going back to Anzhou!"
The general trend of the future seems to be difficult to change, but if you think about it from another perspective, haven't many subtle changes and arrangements in advance begun?
Guo Ning doesn't know to what extent these small changes can accumulate to affect the overall situation and then block the throat of fate.
Even the ultimate success or failure is unknown. But this does not affect Guo Ning's self-confidence, and it further arouses his burning fighting spirit, because this is where the joy and challenge of life lie.
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