While many scholars and merchants had gathered outside the Imperial Court to demand that the imperial court change the law, more and more workers, peasants, and other ordinary people had arrived in Beijing one after another.As a result, the capital city of Daming was overcrowded all of a sudden.The city was already crowded, shoulder to shoulder.If you look at it casually, you can see the dense sea of human heads.Outside the city isn't much better.Both large and small inns were full.Even many private houses have also operated accommodation services.There are even those who don't want to spend money and build an open top outside, and as far as the eye can see, the open top outside the city is connected into a piece, as if a million troops are stationed outside the city at once.And outside the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, more and more people also came.The scholars and merchants who were gathering outside the gate of the Imperial Procuratorate to ask the court to change the law saw more and more people appearing, and they felt uncomfortable and even panicked as if they had committed a phobia.Although it was unarmed civilians who came, not officers and soldiers with loaded guns.Because millions of people poured into Beijing all of a sudden.As a result, the people who came to the street outside the gate of the Duchayuan, plus the people who originally lived in this area, suddenly numbered tens of thousands, and the entire street was full.And these tens of thousands of scholars and merchants who petitioned for change were like streams swallowed by the sea, and they did not see anything frightening at all."
There are too many people, and it's too noisy, and we can't hear each other's appeals clearly!"
Geng Zhiyuan complained depressedly at this time.But not long after he said that, he was knocked back a few steps by a powerful worker who came towards him and did not notice his forceful one.Geng Zhiyuan was about to reprimand, but was bumped by someone walking from behind.By the time he reacted, the powerful worker who had hit him before had already walked away.Even, for a while, because of the endless flow of people, just like the scene of a hot tourist area during the Golden Week in later generations, these crowds directly forced Geng Zhiyuan to continue to retreat several steps.Gao Zhibi, who was following him, also had to take a few steps back: "How can this call on the imperial court to change the law?!"
If this continues, our assembled team will be scattered!
”"I can understand why His Majesty ordered the people of the world to enter Beijing, this is to let us fall into the vast sea formed by the people of the world, and let us be annihilated!"
Geng Zhiyuan said as he walked with the flow of people.He had to follow, because if he stood still, he would be bumped into one by one by the people behind him until he was knocked down and trampled under his feet.If that's the case, there is a possibility that everyone will be trampled to death!
Geng Zhiyuan and other tens of thousands of scholars and merchants who demanded to change the law formed a formation that was thus dispersed by the flow of people.Later, Geng Zhiyuan didn't know how far he had followed the flow of people, and even he couldn't find Gao Zhibi and Wang Yiyan and other fellow villagers."
Brother Gao!""
Brother Wang!""
Where are you?!"
Geng Zhiyuan felt an inexplicable fear because of this.Even though he was now a human being, and there was no one hostile to him, he was so frightened that he shouted in fear and tried to find his companion in fear because he was a stranger to them.Gao Zhibi and Wang Yiyan are also looking for Geng Zhiyuan and other fellow villagers, following the flow of people to find them.But these streams seem to have no direction to come and go, as if they are doing irregular Brownian motion, leaving people with no clue and can only go with the flow, so that they cannot find their fellow citizens at all.And the number of people is still increasing.As a result, although the flow of people has been flowing inside and outside the capital, there is an illusion that everything is in a static state.But only Geng Zhiyuan and others, who are in the flow of people, know how helpless they are now after the density of the flow of people increases.Even when he shouted a few more slogans to change the law, his voice quickly drowned out in the crowd.No matter how loud he shouted the slogan of changing the law, no one would notice him."
Do you still hear calls for a change in the law?"
Zhu Youxiao asked about Zhu Ciwei here."
I can't hear it, even if there are tens of thousands of scholars and businessmen who petition the court to change the law, now they are all as if there is no sound because there are too many people in the capital!""
It's still the father who is wise, and he actually thought of using this method to solve this matter!
Originally, I thought that it was really everyone in the world who asked for a change in the law, but now that many people in the world have come to the capital, they find that everyone in the world seems to be silent, and they don't seem to have any objections to the current government of the imperial court!
”Zhu Ciwei replied."
So, the real voice of the people can't be heard!"
Zhu Youxiao replied with a smile, and said, "We have to find out by ourselves." ”Then, Zhu Youxiao asked: "What is the situation of the strike?"
”"Shops everywhere have started to open one after another, so many people, businessmen are busy operating, I am afraid that I will miss the opportunity to make a fortune, where are I willing to strike the market!""
As my father expected, all the stalls added by Shuntian Mansion were also filled with many vendors who suddenly became more, so not only did the market not strike, but the business was more prosperous than before."
Zhu Ciwei replied with a smile."
What about the strike?"
Zhu Youxiao asked again."
There were no more students and teachers who went on strike, and they didn't even dare to go out of school, and although the streets outside were full of people, not bandits and robbers, nor patients with the plague, the scholars avoided them like tigers!
It was as if the people outside would devour them alive. ”Zhu Ciwei said with a smile and said: "Father, don't you see that there are scholars crying to go back to school because they are scattered by the crowd." ”"This is the power of the people, even if they are not afraid of life and death, they will be afraid of the power formed by the people of the world, and they will either blend in with them and follow along, or they can only hide!
But if you want to go against the flow of the people, you can only be trampled to death!
”Zhu Youxiao instructed as he spoke: "Follow me to Chengtianmen, and let the people come to Chengtianmen to see me with the brocade guards in the city." ”"Yes!"
…… Geng Zhiyuan didn't know where he was in the capital at this time, and he couldn't even decide where he was going next moment, or even whether he should leave or stop the next moment.Even though he was tired, thirsty, and hungry now.Although the store next to it has refused to strike and has opened a shop.But because there were so many people, he couldn't go in and find a place to eat some tea and soup or something.In addition, he also hated to sit and eat with these workers and peasants.Geng Zhiyuan just wanted to go home now, and he felt that he was in great pain right now."
I'm going back!""
I want to go back to Jiangnan!"
Geng Zhiyuan cried because of this.......
"Your Majesty decrees, the people all go to Chengtian to face the saint!"
”"Your Majesty's dictation, the people all go to Chengtian Gate to face the saint!""
Your Majesty's dictation, the people all go to Chengtian Gate to face the saint!"
And just when Geng Zhiyuan was in great pain, the brocade guards who came out of nowhere began to shout for the people to go to Chengtianmen."
Go to Chengtianmen!
The emperor is there!
”"Go to Chengtianmen!
The emperor is there!
”"Go to Chengtianmen!
The emperor is there"......
Many people didn't know where Chengtianmen was, but they just shouted.And the resulting waves of sound are higher and higher.All of a sudden, the entire silent flow of people seemed to be no longer in a state of silence.Geng Zhiyuan had to put away his tears and continue to follow the flow of people, he actually couldn't tell which direction Chengtianmen was in now, and he didn't even want to go to Chengtianmen to see the king now, but this was beyond him.But fortunately, the flow of people where Geng Zhiyuan was located was actually relatively close to Chengtianmen, so he quickly followed the flow of people and came here and stopped in place.Moreover, Geng Zhiyuan really saw Zhu Youxiao, the eldest son of the Great Tomorrow, who was on the gatehouse.