Hidden in the court

Chapter 191: Serving the King

"The evidence is solid, the time is right, the wall can be overturned at any time. Enough is enough, just kill them all!"

Ji Mingshang and the other two were thinking about it, but after thinking about it, they felt that it was not a good idea. They were here to chase the fugitives, and now the fugitives were not here. What if they started a massacre in the city and alerted the enemy, and the fugitives ran away?

"Forget it, go out of town and find someone."

These days, Taiyuan City is finally preparing for war. Outsiders are not allowed to enter, and people inside cannot leave. However, climbing over the wall is an old tradition of Ji Mingshang. People in the capital can climb over it casually, let alone the shorter Taiyuan City.

The people might be in the village where the accident happened before. No, as soon as they arrived, the three of them felt that the atmosphere was a little wrong. There was no one from the people. Only soldiers in armor came and went. When they looked again, hehe! Don't be too familiar with Ji Mingshang, Prince Jin's people.

"Ji Liancheng's people actually dared to station here directly. Do you think I don't want to act anymore?"

After thinking about it, I decided to go out and sell my face to see if I can find someone.

The three men came out and the soldier saw them.

"Stop, who are you?"

Ji Mingshang said nothing. He walked with a smile and squinted his eyes. He leaned his body forward, raised his head at a forty-five degree angle, and faced the people with his nostrils.

Zhao Yao and Hu Die behind him both showed helpless expressions.

"Go and call the leader. See if he recognizes me."

The soldiers on the opposite side did not relax their vigilance. They just glanced at Ji Mingshang, called out to the people beside them, and hurried to find the leader.

After a while, the man came hurried over with a burly man.

"I want to see which blind brat it is..."

As soon as my eyes focused, the sound stopped abruptly.

"Oh, who was it? It turned out to be our Deputy General Xing. So impressive, so impressive—"

The fat man reacted immediately, put away his ferocity, and replaced it with a sincere and ugly smile.

"Hey, Prince, how come you have time to come? You didn't even tell me in advance so I could welcome you. I've been promoted now and don't have the title of deputy anymore. When will you go back so I can continue to follow you?"

Ji Mingshang was a little dazed by what he said, although he knew that the voice was the "Ji Mingshang" from before. But it is true that Liang Wu only has a young marquis, and Jin has its own "crown prince". No one remembers that the King of Jin also has a prince?

Looking at the man in front of him, this old Xing must have had a bad life these years. He had been a deputy general of the main army after following the previous "Ji Mingshang", but now he has been sent to transport grain. This trick of promoting in name but demoting in reality is very clear.

Ji Mingshang ignored his jokes and reached out to pat his shoulder heavily.

"Old Xing, I have a question for you, tell me the truth. Has the prince neglected our brothers over the years? Have you all had a hard time?"

Old Xing's face changed slightly. "No, no, that's not the case. The work of transporting grain is also very important. If the prince hadn't taken a liking to Old Xing, would he have done it? Besides, this job is so easy and safe."

How could Ji Mingshang not see it? He pointed at his nose and cursed: "You just said you wanted to follow me, but now you don't even tell me the truth! Tell me the truth, I want to hear the truth before I can save our brother."

Old Xing looked embarrassed, "It's not really a promotion in name only, but a demotion in reality. Now our brothers have all been assigned tasks, and we are about to turn the tables."

"So you are not here just to transport food. What is your mission?"

Old Xing looked at Ji Mingshang and hesitated for a long time.

"Bring your men and pretend to be bandits. As long as Taiyuan City rebels and the imperial court makes a move, we brothers will jump out and cause trouble."

After these words were spoken, before Ji Mingshang could react, Hu Die took a breath of cold air.

Ji Mingshang continued to ask: "All our brothers have been sent out, right? How many people are there in total?"

"They've all been sent out. I need to transport food, so there are a lot of people, more than 3,000 people, and they move slowly. The other brothers each brought a few hundred or a thousand people, and almost all of them arrived in various places and settled down in the past two days. There are about 20,000 people."

"Let me ask you, how are you going to make trouble? Are you going to fight for territory? With hundreds of people, at least you can't even take down a county town, so you can only rob the people. When you followed me on the battlefield, I can't say how good we are at fighting, but at least we didn't do anything wrong! We lived up to our conscience! Let me ask you again, you pretended to be bandits, you couldn't wear armor, you couldn't use siege equipment, and you had to sacrifice your brothers' lives? What are you thinking? Because of Ji Liancheng's grand plan, he said a word, the world will be in chaos? You have to go against your conscience and fight the people? You have to sacrifice your brothers' lives? What kind of bullshit is this!"

Ji Mingshang's eyes widened with anger, and he became more and more excited as he spoke. Old Xing was sweating profusely, lowered his head, his lips trembling, but he couldn't say a word.

Ji Mingshang was defeated, and the anger in his heart seemed to be released all at once. He took a deep breath and asked with a serious face: "Tell me, do you really want to rebel?"

Old Xing then raised his head, his face was extremely ugly, "I don't want to, my brothers all followed you from the south, if we fight, we will just be fighting our own people! Not only me, but I'm afraid all the brothers who came this time don't want to fight, but what can we do? If we don't obey the prince's military orders, our brothers will really become bandits."

At this time, Hu Die suddenly said, "Then why not just surrender to the imperial court?"

This time it was Old Xing's turn to sigh, "Alas... We have thought about this. Our brothers who came from the south are fine. They are alone and have no worries. But the brothers under us are all from the Northeast. Their families are all over there. If we surrender directly to the court, will these people still be able to survive?"

It would have been better if he hadn't said it. His words almost made Ji Mingshang choke again.

After taking several deep breaths, he slowly spoke:

"Let me ask you, can you still contact these people now? If you can, contact them quickly. When Taiyuan City rebels, you will also rebel. But let the brothers stay in the mountains honestly. I will report to the court immediately. When the time comes, you will rebel in name only, and Ji Liancheng will not receive the news for a while. Then you can pretend to go to the nearby villages for a few laps. Even if he receives accurate information from the spies, it will take a long time. Delay it as much as possible. I will find a way to deal with the brothers' family matters."

Then he looked at Zhao Yao, "Brother, you are the only one who can help me this time."

……

In a flash of a few days, the army sent by the court had arrived at the edge of Taiyuan, and the city of Taiyuan had already spread the word: "Rebellion!" There was also a lot of "commotion" in the mountains everywhere.

But the most nervous people now are those in Taiyuan City. Some people have even begun to regret their decision.

In addition, there is General Hu, who is always keeping an eye on Ji Liancheng's movements.

Afterwards, Nangong Lin received a message from Ji Liancheng, which said: "I heard that Taiyuan City has rebelled. Your Majesty, please be prepared. I am going to the capital to defend the king."