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Chapter 351 Resistance
Zhang Liang opened his eyes alertly and looked around. Everyone else was still sleeping. Feiyu was lying beside him, sleeping soundly. Zhang Liang pushed Feiyu, stood up, and prepared to go out to take a look. Before he reached the door, several policemen pushed the door open and entered.
Zhang Liang was startled, thinking that the police were here to arrest him, but after thinking carefully, he realized that the crime he had committed was not worthy of so many policemen.
"I wonder what this officer can do for you?" Zhang Liang asked loudly, as if intending to wake up the person who was still sleeping.
The sleeping people opened their eyes when they heard Zhang Liang's voice. When they saw the policemen, they stood up quickly and backed away cautiously like frightened birds.
"We have received intelligence that there are book collectors and Confucian scholars among you. Whoever you are, come forward!" the leading policeman said fiercely.
Zhang Liang finally understood that they were not here to arrest him. Thinking of this, he silently took a step back, quietly retreated to Feiyu's side, and touched Feiyu.
Feiyu gave Zhang Liang a look, asking what happened. Zhang Liang shook his head slightly, indicating that Feiyu would talk later.
"Since you all refuse to admit it, take all of you away!" said the leading policeman, and dozens of policemen rushed out from behind him, armed with weapons, and surrounded the people in the ruined temple.
Feiyu was a little flustered when he saw the policemen surrounding him. He grabbed the corner of Zhang Liang's clothes and looked at the policemen vigilantly.
Zhang Liang didn't know what to do at the moment. If he ran away, he would definitely clash with the police, and then he would be unable to move forward in Xianyang City.
But if I don't resist, according to Qin Shihuang's character of preferring to kill a thousand people by mistake rather than let one go, if I am taken away, my fate will be the same as those Confucian scholars. By then, I will have to rebel even if I don't want to.
Zhang Liang felt Feiyu pulling at his clothes, and patted Feiyu, indicating that he should observe the situation first. If it didn't work, he could think of a way to escape on the way.
The police gathered the people in the ruined temple together, leaving only a few people to guard it. The rest were searching every corner of the ruined temple for something...
"Everyone has seen it clearly!" the captain of the city guard announced loudly.
A moment later, several guards dragged out several large boxes from under the floor, brought them to the captain and opened them.
When he opened the boxes, even Zhang Liang was surprised. This seemingly ordinary abandoned chapel actually contained boxes of ancient books.
"Now that the evidence is conclusive, what else do you have to say? Tell me, who is the scholar?" The captain glanced at everyone.
Zhang Liang noticed that some people looked at the books with sad eyes, and some had expressionless faces, but he could sense their suppressed anger. These people should be book collectors or scholars.
Seeing that no one stood up, the captain was a little annoyed and ordered: "Burn it!"
At the command, several guards dumped the books in the bookcase together, picked up some hay, took out flints and lit them, and threw them on the pile of books. Soon, the fire spread and all the books were destroyed.
"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you!" Someone watched the books being burned, his eyes bloodshot, broke through the guards, and rushed towards the captain, intending to strangle him.
The result is predictable. The captain quickly pulled out the baton from his waist and stabbed the man hard in the abdomen.
Blood splattered, and the man fell in a pool of blood, but he turned his head with difficulty to look in the direction of the books. It seemed that he died with his eyes open.
Zhang Liang sighed in his heart, this is what is called dying with eyes open.
"Every man must die one day, I will fight you to the death!" Someone said this, and several people tried to break through the guards' blockade.
The captain's actions just now not only failed to have a deterrent effect, but instead aroused people's resistance.
In the end, the result was obvious. Since ancient times, the people have never confronted the government. This is an eternal truth. Those who tried to rush out fell.
The remaining people watched all this in horror, the raging fire, the people lying in pools of blood, fear and despair spreading among the crowd.
Zhang Liang wanted to do something, but gave up the idea. Qin Shihuang's policy of burning books and burying scholars could not be stopped by him alone. If he acted rashly at this time, he would not only expose himself, but also be killed.
"Take them all away!" The captain gave the order to his subordinates when he saw that the books were almost burned.
After saying that, he took out the handcuffs he had prepared in advance, tied up everyone, and led them out of the dilapidated church.
Of course, Zhang Liang was not spared and was taken away by the guards. Fei Yu was confused at this time.
I have absolutely no idea why after sleeping in a dilapidated temple, I would encounter such a scene. These people would be taken away and sent to a prison somewhere unknown.
Zhang Liang and Fei Yu were pulled out of the temple with these scholars and walked on the busy streets. They saw crowds of people on both sides of the street. Everyone was looking at Zhang Liang and Fei Yu, and the people next to them were whispering.
Feiyu had excellent hearing, and when he heard them talking about these scholars, he had no idea of the word "scholar" at all.
Just by listening to others talking about these people who had nothing to do with himself and Zhang Liang, Feiyu inadvertently classified these people as "bad guys".