The guard outside the main town office's face suddenly changed when he heard the person in front of him saying that he was the envoy of Dajin.
One of the guards hurriedly ran back to the main town office.
Soon, a team of more than a dozen soldiers rushed out from the general town office, surrounding the middle-aged man and the few men he had brought with him.
"Don't get me wrong, we just came to see Dongzhu Liu and have no other intentions." The middle-aged man raised his hands to show that he had no ill intentions.
The surrounding soldiers remained unmoved at all, pointing the muskets in their hands at the middle-aged man and those he had brought.
"Throw all your weapons to the ground." One of the soldiers said.
The middle-aged man said: "Okay, let's hand over all the weapons we have. Everyone takes out their weapons and throws them on the ground."
The latter words were addressed to those he had brought with him.
Pieces of short-term weapons were taken out and thrown to the ground, and soon there were more than ten weapons on the ground.
"Go over to the two men and search their bodies." The captain ordered the two soldiers around him to go over and search their bodies.
The middle-aged man raised his hands and allowed the people with the Tiger Flag to search his body. At the same time, he did not forget to say to his own people: "Don't resist, let them search you."
Soon, the two soldiers searched the bodies of the middle-aged man and others, and picked up all the weapons on the ground and took them away.
"Now it can be proved that we have no malicious intentions! Can you go in and tell me that I have made a special trip to see you, Mr. Liu, on the orders of my master." A smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face.
The corps commander glanced at him and said, "Wait here."
The surrounding Tiger Flag soldiers were not at all less wary of the middle-aged man, and they showed no intention of moving away from the muskets in their hands.
Not long after, the guard who ran into the main town office before came out.
He came closer and said to the corps commander on the side: "Commander Wang, the proprietor has sent a message to bring all these slaves and thieves into the main town office for custody. No one can be let go."
"Okay, I'll catch them all right now." The captain nodded and immediately said to the other soldiers, "Catch them all."
The tiger-character flag soldiers surrounding the middle-aged man began to shrink the circle, and there were soldiers approaching with ropes in their hands.
"I'm here to see you, Dongzhu Liu, and you can't do this." The middle-aged man shouted hurriedly when he saw that the people with the tiger character flag wanted to arrest him.
The guard glanced at the middle-aged man and said, "Are you their leader?"
"Yes, I am. These people are all my subordinates. I want to see you, Dongzhu Liu. I am the envoy of Dai Jin. You can't arrest us at will." The middle-aged man defended himself.
The guard said: "You come with me. The proprietor has promised to see you, but the people you bring must be under our custody. Otherwise, don't blame us for using force. You must know that if we really want to do anything to you, none of you will do it." There’s no escape.”
Hearing this, the middle-aged man's face turned pale and uncertain.
Knowing that what the other party said was true, he finally said helplessly: "Don't resist, just go with them."
Several men who had raised their fists lowered their fists again.
"Tie them all up." The captain waved his hand and summoned a few soldiers around him to go forward and tie them up, leaving the other soldiers to continue holding fire cannons to prevent these men from hurting anyone.
Several soldiers handed their weapons to their companions, and then took the ropes and began to tie their hands to the men in front of them.
"Don't resist. You've delayed the master's affairs. No matter how many heads you have, I can't chop them off." The middle-aged man looked at the gloomy and ugly faces of several men, with veins popping out from their foreheads. He was worried that they might hurt the people with the tiger character flag. , hurriedly gave a warning.
Finally, all the men brought by the middle-aged man had their hands tied with ropes.
"Come with me!" the guard said to the middle-aged man, and then walked to the stone steps in front of the main town office.
The middle-aged man glanced at his subordinates and warned them again before following them into the main town office.
Today's general town office has not undergone subsequent expansion. Even so, it occupies more space and is more luxurious than most of the gentry's homes in Datong Town.
The middle-aged man followed behind and looked at the courtyard in front of him as he walked forward.
Along the way, he felt that the house in front of him, although not as good as the palace in Shengjing, was better than the places where many Nuzhen princes lived. In Liaodong, only the masters were qualified to live in such luxurious houses.
"Please go in and report. Dajin's envoy will be here." The guard stopped outside a room door and said to the soldiers guarding the door.
The soldier glanced at the middle-aged man, then went in to report.
Soon, he walked out of the room, pointed at the middle-aged man and said, "Go in!"
"Thank you." The middle-aged man clasped his fists, then walked to the door of the house, opened the curtain and walked in.
The guard who brought the middle-aged man here saw that someone had arrived, so he returned alone to the door of the main town office to continue his guard duty.
As soon as the middle-aged man entered the house, he immediately felt a wave of heat hitting his face.
Then he looked around the room and finally landed on the man sitting behind the table.
"Li Yongquan, the envoy of the Jin Dynasty, has met Dongzhu Liu." The middle-aged man saluted Liu Heng with Jurchen etiquette.
Liu Heng leaned back slightly on his chair, looked at Li Yongquan, who claimed to be the envoy of Daikin, and asked: "Are you Han? How did you become the envoy of Daikin?"
Hearing this, the corners of Li Yongquan's mouth twitched slightly, knowing that Liu Heng asked this deliberately.
Although he felt uncomfortable in his heart, he still explained: "Although I am a Han, I am also an official of Daijin. There are many Han officials working in Daijin, and Tianming Khan is also willing to use us Han people to govern Daijin."
"No, I heard that the old slave disliked Han people very much and killed many Han people in Liaodong. I don't know if you are telling lies or if the news I heard is wrong." Liu Heng shook his head and sighed.
The corners of Li Yongquan's mouth twitched unnaturally again.
What is good at the top will be bad at the bottom.
In the past two years, because the old slaves were on guard against the Han people, the Jurchens were extremely hostile to the Han people and Han officials. Even the wives of Han officials were snatched into the mansion by the Jurchens.
As for ordinary Han people, their lives were even more miserable. Many innocent people were killed, and their bodies piled up in mountains. There were countless dead people.
Liu Heng smiled contemptuously and said: "It seems that I was right. You Han people are not living a very good life in Liaodong. That's right. People who are not my race must have different hearts. How can I trust you to use you?" these people."
"Dongzhu Liu was joking. Tianming Khan treated us Han officials in Dajin extremely favorably, and even married Gege to Han officials." Li Yongquan defended.
Liu Heng sneered and said: "What's so exciting about marrying a foreign woman? It seems that you Han officials have been slaves for so long that you can't straighten your waist. It's a pity."
As he spoke, he shook his head and sighed.
