The east city is the direction from which the pirates came, and the south city is occupied by the pirates.

The people gathered in these two gates were the least, and they were easily persuaded to return.

There are slightly more people in Beicheng, but there are no rich and powerful, and it is easy to deal with.

The hardest part is West City.

Outside the gate of the west city is the pipeline leading to the capital. All the dignitaries go to this gate, and more than [-]% of the common people are also brought under this gate.

Due to the gathering of people, the entire street was blocked to death, it can be said that it was impenetrable.

It's messy like a vegetable market.

"Open the door! Let's get out of town!"

"Stop! If you don't have an order from the magistrate, you must not leave the city!"

"What? You are not allowed to leave the city? Are you asking us to be buried with you?"

"Your government is incompetent. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been killed by the Eastern Japanese pirates. We don't want to wait here to die!"

"That's the reason! The government is incompetent! Just relying on you few yamen servants to arrest and drive away millions of pirates, it's just a dream! We have to go out of the city to escape! Open the door!"

"Everyone, please calm down. In addition to the Yamen servants and the police, we also have thousands of people from the Suzhou Guard!"

"What? Are you kidding me? Where are the people from Suzhou Wei? Besides the general banners guarding the city, is there a ghost?"

"Uh……"

"There's nothing to say! Then open the door and let us go!"

"But we still have Zhifu Xiao. He is a great hero who defeated the Eastern Japanese pirates. Recently, he also wiped out the Lake Bandit. He was conferred the title of champion by the emperor himself! Don't you believe him?"

The crowd was silent for a moment.

After circling a large circle from the city wall, Xiao Yan who hurried over couldn't help but have black lines on his face, this young master is so young, how did he become an old man?

"As far as I know, Zhifu Xiao did eliminate a group of Eastern Japanese pirates, but the number of those pirates is too small, only one or two hundred!"

"There are not many Eastern Japanese pirates outside the city..."

"Why are you so dishonest? Are you trying to deceive us into fools? There are obviously millions of pirates outside the city, otherwise how could you wipe out the 50 army of Marquis Anyuan?"

"Who said there were millions?"

"You don't need to explain, quickly open the door and let us go out of the city!"

The common people were taken aback by what this man said, how about millions of pirates?

It's important to get out of the city and escape for your life.

"Open the city gates!"

"I want to escape from the city!"

"I have an eighty-year-old mother, and I have an eight-month-old baby to raise. Please let us go out of the city!"

The crowd immediately became restless.

"If we don't open the door again, we will all be trapped to death in this city!"

"Woooooo...I don't want to die..."

"The Eastern Japanese pirates are cruel and heartless. Everywhere they go, they follow the policy of burning, killing, and looting. Suzhou Mansion is in danger!"

"If you don't open the door again, don't blame us for rebelling!"

The crowd is excited, and the crisis is imminent!
"This Marquis is here, who dares to make a mistake?"

Xiao Yan stood on the city wall, looking down on everything without getting angry.

"The champion is here!"

"Lord Xiao..."

"Who wants to rebel? Is it you?"

Xiao Yan walked down the stairs step by step, and the crowd automatically moved out of the way.

He walked up to a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes and stopped.

"I have been observing you for a long time, tell me honestly, are you a spy sent by the Eastern Japanese pirates?"

"You...you don't want to spit blood..."

The man stepped back.

Xiao Yan pressed on step by step, "Just now you have committed a capital crime. Firstly, you are demagoguery. Second, you intend to rebel. If you don't kill you, the common people will not be angry! Let me arrest him!"

Xue Feng led two men to capture the man.

The man was afraid and angry, "The Eastern Japanese pirates are about to come in. You, the prefect, don't know how to destroy them, but you come to kill me, an unarmed Daning citizen! I don't accept it!"

"We don't accept it either!"

A few more people voiced their support in unison.

Xiao Yan saw that they were dressed like ordinary people, and when he was thinking about it, Zhao Jian whispered in his ear: "Master Hou, these people are all grain merchants in Suzhou Prefecture!"

If Xiao Yan realized something, he sneered in his heart: So it's not surprising that he is a grain merchant!

Recently, as the treasures seized by Dajin Island have been continuously sold in their newly opened grain stores, the long-awaited shortage of grain has never happened.

From hope to disappointment, from disappointment to despair, until the end, they felt resentful and wanted to kill themselves and then hurry up!
"This Marquis has been busy with government affairs, and I thought I'd come to deal with you guys after a while, but I didn't expect you to be impatient and jump out by yourself! Then don't blame this Marquis for being rude! All of you will be arrested!"

"Hey! Why even catch us!"

"We have done nothing illegal! You are abusing your power!"

"I'm going to the capital to sue the imperial court!"

Xiao Yan pointed at a few people, "Fathers and folks in Suzhou, do you know who these people are?"

Everyone shook their heads and said they didn't know.

"They are all grain merchants, and it is their handwriting to raise the price of grain recently." Xiao Yan directly pointed out the identities of several people.

Everyone was shocked.

"What? It turned out to be a treacherous grain merchant! Damn it!"

"Damn, I was almost bewitched by them!"

"Fucking their grandma, rice sells for tens of pennies a catty, how dare you do such a thing like having a son without an asshole?"

"Damn! Fortunately, a new grain store has opened, so that my family can buy cheap rice, otherwise I might not be able to survive now!"

"Yeah! What's that called... what kind of grain store?"

"I said, what kind of memory do you have, you can't even remember the grain store of your savior? Are you still a human?"

"Uh...I admit my mistake! The main reason is that there were too many people scrambling to buy rice that day. I was afraid that I would not be able to buy it, so I didn't pay attention to the shop sign! I must sincerely admit my mistake!"

"Well, this attitude is pretty much the same! Let me tell you! That's Xiao Jiliang!"

"Oh, thank you very much! Huh? What a coincidence! It's actually the same surname as our magistrate!"

Xiao Yan smiled without saying a word!
You are really very nervous, how many people in Suzhou Mansion have the strength to do such a thing?

"Uh! When did a good man surnamed Xiao appear in our Suzhou mansion?"

"I don't know! I haven't heard of a wealthy family with the surname Xiao!"

"Fuck..."

A young man with a relatively flexible mind suddenly looked at Xiao Yan.

Everyone was also attracted and looked over.

"It can't be Master Xiao?"

"It's really possible that this is the case..."

Su Yu said at the right time: "You guessed right, it is the grain that our Lord Hou spent a lot of money to buy from the surrounding prefectures and counties! It will still be a loss if you sell it to you!"

"What? Loss... loss..."

"Of course, when our Lord Hou bought it, it cost ten Wen a catty. Don't you know how much I sold it to you?"

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