Chen Yongfu and others came and left quickly.
The Xu family coachman who stayed under the city gate didn't know what to do for a while.
Money was spent on leaving the city, but the commander-in-chief just now refused to let him out. He didn't know whether he should continue to leave the city or return to the city.
"Why are you still standing there? Let's go!" Huang Yougui, the yamen officer, said unhappily when he saw the other party blocking the city gate.
"Oh, okay, okay."
The driver jumped out of the carriage and took the reins of the animals, trying to make the animals move back and return to the city.
"What are you doing, what are you doing!" Huang Yougui's face darkened when he saw the driver's behavior, and he said, "I want you to leave the city as soon as possible. Is it possible that you want to pay the exit fee again?"
Only then did the coachman react.
He hurriedly pulled the cage around the animal's mouth and walked out of the city.
The Xu family's carriage quickly left the city gate.
Huang Yougui looked at the Xu family's carriage leaving, curled his lips and said, "Why did the Xu family get such an idiot to drive the carriage? Sooner or later, they will drive the carriage into a ditch, bah!"
As he spoke, he spat on the ground.
"Boss, are you really going to let people out of the city like this?" A white servant stepped forward and said worriedly.
Yamen servant Huang Yougui withdrew his gaze, glanced at Bai Yi who was speaking, and said, "What? You don't want the benefits anymore? You don't want me, but I still want it!"
"No, no, of course I want it, but Mr. Chen just asked us to close the city gate and not allow people to leave the city. Now we have released people from the city. When Mr. Chen knows about it later, I'm worried about you. It's not easy to do business." The white servant said.
Huang Yougui snorted when he heard this and said: "You know what to do, just go and collect the city gate fee honestly. I will be the one to decide whether to close the city gate or not."
The white servant became angry when he saw Huang Yougui, and ran away to collect the city fee.
With the Xu family's carriage leaving the city, the people crowded inside the city gate breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the high fees for leaving the city still stopped many people. Most poor people could not afford a hundred yuan, let alone a family that added up to more than a hundred yuan.
Some people knelt down and begged, hoping that the guards guarding the city would take pity on them.
Unfortunately, in front of money, compassion is the cheapest thing.
Not only did the white servants not show any kindness, but in order to establish their authority, they punched and kicked a civilian who was begging for help, so that other civilians who wanted to go out of the city understood that the only way to leave the city was to pay the city fee.
The effect is obvious after beating someone to establish authority.
Many people withdrew from the team leaving the city and had to return to the city with their families.
But some people gritted their teeth and paid for the exit fee so that their family could escape from the city.
Fortunately, the poor could not afford a carriage, so they had to carry their luggage on their own. At most, they had a wheelbarrow to push them out of the city.
Even so, the basket in front of Huang Yougui was soon filled with the city exit fees collected.
Especially for large families like the Xu family, they basically go out of the city by carriage, and many families have more than one carriage, plus accompanying servants and maids.
It can be said that the money is collected softly.
"The rebels are coming, the rebels are coming!"
While Huang Yougui was guarding the city gate and happily accepting the fee to leave the city, someone in the direction of the city shouted the news that the rebels were coming.
The situation at the East City Gate was originally relatively stable, but the news of the arrival of the rebels suddenly exploded.
drive! drive!
A carriage belonging to a wealthy family rushed out and rushed out of the city regardless of the situation.
Facing the carriage that was heading straight for them, the white servants chose to follow their hearts and hid aside, not daring to confront the carriage head-on.
Seeing the carriage leaving the city, he was helpless.
"Why didn't you stop it? Why didn't you stop it?" Huang Yougui looked at the carriage leaving the city with a look of pain on his face.
In his eyes, it was not a carriage, but dazzling silver.
The white servants ignored Huang Yougui's complaints.
Everyone has his or her own shot in mind.
They are just the lowest-ranking white servants in the yamen. If they die, they will lose their share of the money for leaving the city. Even if they survive, it is not worth it to just break off their arms and legs.
Don't tell me that the city fee collected a lot, but in the end only a few of them fell into their hands, which was not enough to pay the doctor for the decoction.
When other carriages inside the city gate saw a carriage breaking out, they all rushed out of the city in the same manner.
Many people who didn't know how to get out of the city swarmed up and ran out of the city, pushing and shoving.
The scene fell into chaos, and several white servants were unable to stop the people leaving the city.
"Boss, let's go now. This place is in complete chaos." A white servant approached Huang Yougui and wanted to help Huang Yougui carry the basket on the table and leave.
Huang Yougui also understood that the current situation no longer allowed him to continue collecting out-of-city fees.
Although I feel sad that I still haven't received so much money for leaving the city, I also know that I can't keep it here at the city gate.
While the people's eyes were on leaving the city, he took the white servants around him to carry a basket full of copper coins.
He was also worried that if he didn't leave, people would be eyeing the money he finally received for leaving the city.
At the already small city gate, many people and carriages crowded together, all wanting to get out of the city faster. But the more they wanted to get out of the city faster, the more they crowded into a group, which was not as fast as leaving the city when they had to hand over the city fee.
However, Huang Yougui couldn't care about this anymore and took his money to defend the city and hid on the top of the city.
It's not that he doesn't want to go back to the city or go out of the city.
Instead, the city gate was crowded with people, making it impossible to leave the city.
As for the road back to the city, it was also crowded by more and more people fleeing from the city. It would undoubtedly be difficult for him to go back to the city against the flow of people with so many copper coins.
Moreover, he was also worried that some caring people, or rogues like Lahu, might take advantage of the situation and rob him of his money to leave the city.
tread! tread! tread!
The rapid sound of horse hooves appeared outside the gate of Dongcheng, Zhongmou County.
"The rebels are coming, run!"
A cavalry team of over a thousand people appeared outside the gate of Dongcheng, Zhongmou County, blocking the way out of the city.
This caused the people who were crowding to leave the city to swarm back into the city.
However, it is easy for people to retreat, but it is difficult for carriages to retreat. Several carriages blocked at the city gate cannot enter or exit. The driver even abandoned the carriage and fled towards the city alone with the crowd.
"Damn it, these rebels look more ferocious than the official army." Huang Yougui, who was hiding on the top of the city, swallowed subconsciously when he saw the neat and uniform uniforms of the cavalry outside the city.
A white servant hiding next to him whispered: "It doesn't look like rebels! Could it be an official army?"
"You know how to fight." Huang Yougui couldn't help but cursed, and then said, "I have seen all the soldiers and servants, but I have never seen anyone using a firecracker. But the rebels who came to Henan, I heard that everyone has a shot. Fireguns, if you don’t believe me, just take a look and see if the cavalry outside the city all carry fireguns.”
