The sky gradually dimmed. One hundred thousand people in Lingqiu City were dispersed and sorted and detained in different places. Almost all the large houses were filled with people, and all the government offices, warehouses, and shops were crowded. The place of custody.
At this moment, the people no longer have the will to resist, and there are often more than a dozen bandits guarding hundreds of people. These bandits humiliate women in public, and they dare not raise their heads, let alone resist.
Everyone saw their homes and familiar streets being looted over and over again, and their hearts were bleeding with pain. But who could blame them? They were the ones who put a gun to Boss Rong's head when they resisted. !
Bang... bang... ah...
With the sound of whips, screams, and the sizzling sound of hot irons scalding meat, almost all businesses have become a living hell.
"Tell me...where did you hide all the gold and silver? Hand them all over..."
"Your Majesty, have mercy on me... I am just a small businessman selling jealousy... The whole family only has two hundred taels of cash in cash, and there is really none... Ah!"
The bandits don't believe your lies. God knows if you have buried gold and silver underground!
The bigger the business, the worse it suffered, and a lot of hidden wealth was squeezed out through torture and confession.
Chinese people have had the habit of saving since ancient times, and any nation with a relatively developed farming civilization has a very strong habit of saving!
No grain of food is wasted, let alone gold and silver. In ancient times, both landowners and businessmen had the habit of hiding gold and silver.
Isiha knows these people very well, "People are bitter insects. If you don't fight them, you can't survive. If you don't fight them, you won't be able to get out... These old Xiers are stingy!"
"You don't believe it? Haha... They would rather die than reveal where the money is hidden. These people will sacrifice their lives to exchange for a future for their children and grandchildren!"
"The gold and silver are hidden in a secret place known only to the family. When the days of peace come, their descendants will take it out and continue to do business, and they will still be rich businessmen by then!"
"Beat... beat to death... don't kill them. If you die, it will be an advantage for them... We must let them endure the torture until they can't stand it anymore, then they can tell the truth!"
This method is really effective. Lingqiu is an important place on the post road, and there are many merchants leading to Zhili. They have been doing business since ancient times. In addition, the people of Shanxi are hard-working and budget wise. The wealthy businessmen in this city actually have wealth.
The bandits used all possible means, even tying people to iron racks and roasting them like roasted lambs. The charcoal fire under their bodies cooked the skin layer by layer, giving off a scorched aroma.
"Ah...I said...I said...you put me...ah...in the wood in my backyard...I hid in the wood..."
"Stop it...I said...move the pickled cabbage jar...wuwuwu...there's gold under the ninth bite...stop it!"
The bandits had to dig open the huge pieces of wood that were to be used as beams, and it turned out that they were all filled with Yingyang rolled up in red cloth and Chinese silver coins with dragon patterns.
One hundred coins equals one roll. It is estimated that there are at least 70,000 to 80,000 silver dollars hidden in this pile of wood!
Who would have thought that the owner of a pickle shop could be so rich. There were more than 400 taels of gold and thousands of taels of silver found under the pickle vat!
The people of Lingqiu were dumbfounded. Driven by the bandits' whips, they pushed carts along the street to transport gold and silver treasures!
A whole commercial street! They loaded gold and silver from door to door from beginning to end, and it was so full that there was no shelter at all!
The glittering gold and silver money is so charming that many people can’t pull it out after seeing it in their eyes!
One of the bandits laughed and said, "Are you greedy? You've never seen so much money, have you? This all belongs to the rich landlords, and now it's all cheaper than King Erha!"
"If you want gold, silver, or women, just do it with me, and you will have a good life from now on!"
"Coward...don't you dare? Looking at your virtue, you will be a poor man in this life, a two-legged sheep...poof!"
The bandit grabbed a young lady who had just been humiliated, pressed her head against the faces of these poor people, "Did you see... This is a beautiful lady from a rich family, why don't we let us enjoy it?"
"As long as you do it with us, you can sleep with her right away... Do you want to have a taste? There is no shop like this after passing this village!"
"With your despicable lives, you will never have the chance to taste the taste of a rich lady... Hahaha!"
The bandit was so crazy that the pale-faced girl had long been tortured into a walking corpse, and her eyes were hollow, like a piece of rotten wood.
"Fuck! I...I also want money and a woman..."
There are always scoundrels who will lose their moral bottom line. One of the civilians in custody jumped out, hugged the girl and gnawed on it. Several bandits laughed and even threw a few silver coins at him.
"Okay! Follow King Erha, and you will be popular and drink spicy food from now on..."
At this moment, suddenly the hooves of war horses rolled on the street, and the messengers began to shout throughout the city, "The king has an order...The king has an order..."
"Listen up, people of Lingqiu... Anyone who is willing to work with King Erha should go to Nancheng to gather. Pots have been buried outside Nancheng to make rice, and hot rice has been cooked..."
"If you go there, you will have food to eat, wine and meat... There are no restrictions on men, women, old or young, as long as they are willing to take refuge!"
"Damn it... all those who don't want to surrender will go to the Beicheng fodder yard to carry food and fodder for the army... Your Majesty will not feed the idlers, let them work..."
The bandits at each detention center jumped up, pointed at the people in custody and shouted, "Damn it, a bunch of starving ghosts, haven't eaten for how many days?"
"You've been fighting since the morning. Are you starving to death? Why don't you join us quickly... Go to Nancheng to eat! Those who don't join us will go to Beicheng to work as coolies!"
"You're so exhausted...you don't know how to appreciate someone!"
The crowd became restless. As soon as the word "food" was mentioned, the crowd's stomachs could be heard growling. They were so hungry that many people had fainted from hunger.
"I...I want to eat...I don't want to be a common citizen anymore...wuwuwu...I want to eat..."
Hunger is the best inducement to surrender. As soon as they heard that there was food in Nancheng, these desperate people jumped out one after another and walked towards Nancheng under the supervision of bandits.
But there are still some people who insist on refusing to rebel. They would rather starve to death than go to Beicheng. Among them, there are really many people dressed as scholars.
On the city wall, Ronglu and Yisiha were watching the hellish choice below!
"Haha... Yisiha, you have to remember that with just tens of thousands of bandits under your command, it is impossible to control the whole city. If the people in the city suddenly riot collectively, you will be destroyed!"
"If you want to force these common people to become bandits, you have to give them a choice, and then let them see the consequences!"
"Those who are willing to take refuge will have food to eat, and those who are not willing to take refuge..."
"Haha... I tricked them all into the Beicheng fodder yard... and burned them all to death!"
Ronglu's cold tone made the surrounding soldiers shudder. This man was just as recorded in history, ruthless and insidious!
