The prison cell in this city is full of merchants from the Ming Dynasty. Among them are people from the Ming Dynasty’s wealthy clan, there are also ordinary merchants, but more are small merchants who dare to take risks.

Originally, even in Yongdu, even if they were all Ming people, they were divided into different levels. The higher ones naturally went to and from the powerful and wealthy families. The ordinary people were medium-sized merchants. The lowest ones were between the exchanges and Mingqin, doing some business of buying low and selling high, making some difference from it.

However, at this moment, the class gap has been smoothed out, and everyone has become prisoners, and even those who were originally high-ranking families have suffered some extra trouble.

A middle-aged man who was surrounded by everyone at this moment was once the highest status among them. He came from the Tian family in Shayang and ran a luxury restaurant in Yongdu. All those who could eat in his restaurant were high-ranking officials and nobles from Qin. As the saying goes, there are no contacts with Bai Ding, and he is usually a representative figure of the Ming Shang Dynasty in Yongdu.

However, it was precisely because of his identity that when Qin Emperor Ma Yue ordered the arrest of all Ming people in Yongdu, his identity did not play any protective role. Instead, he became the first to be the brunt of the one. The Qin people naturally knew what the head of the Shayang Tian family was in Ming.

After torture and torture over and over again, when he finally confirmed that this person was indeed just an ordinary businessman, he was covered in bruises and threw him into this cell, and almost breathed a sigh of relief. His chubby body was almost lost.

Or in normal times, the Tian family also looked down on ordinary people who do some reselling business, but when they were in prison, they were these people who saved their little bit of water porridge and used their body temperature to drag his life back little by little from the brink of death.

Although the situation is still not very good, it has been much better than it was at the beginning. At least in everyone's opinion, I have no worries about my life for the time being.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and everyone surrounded the Tian clan members in the middle and used their bodies to block the omnipresent cold wind for him.

I did all this not because he was from the Tian clan, but because everyone is a wise man.

"We are beyond our rescue." He looked sadly at the extremely weak Chinese people around him, "Either starve to death, or freeze to death, or be killed."

Most people were silent. At this point, everyone was indeed desperate.

The man on the outermost side turned around. Although he was still hungry, his eyes were still bright and bright: "The Ming Dynasty will not ignore us. His Majesty the Emperor will definitely find a way to save us. Don't be discouraged, you must hold on."

The Tian clan members smiled weakly: "Brother, it's impossible, how can we save us? Send an army to sneak into Yongdu. Not to mention it's impossible. Even if there is such a possibility, it will only be a death sentence."

"If the Ming Dynasty defeats Qin, we can survive." Someone shouted.

"If the Ming Dynasty defeated the Qin people, we would die faster!" The Tian clan members said bitterly: "The Qin people will definitely use us to vent their anger. If they can't defeat our army, they will come to chop our heads to vent their anger. Even if our army reaches Yongdu now, there is no time to save us."

"I'm not afraid of death." Another man said quietly: "I, what I'm actually most afraid of is that our Ming army has arrived outside Yongdu, but these damn Qin people took us to the top of the city to threaten our Ming army. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why they still hang our lives like this."

"This is very likely!" the Tian clan members whispered.

"Brothers, fellow villagers." The man on the outermost side was silent for a moment and said, "If there was really a day when we could not be a burden to our Ming Dynasty. At that time, don't be afraid of death. Find a break by yourself, whether you jump into the city or hit the wall or hit the Qin people's knife. In short, don't lose the face of our Ming people."

"There are all dead, what's the point of fear? I won't let the Qin people take us to threaten the Ming army, but I can see that the Ming army surrounded Yongdu and die. Even if we die, the Ming army will avenge us. Do you think so? We just died a while ago."

There was a voice of echoing in the prison immediately.

After a brief silence, a low cry came out again: "But, I really don't want to die. I only married a woman last year and got a baby this year. This is the death of two of them, but they will suffer."

"I have my father and mother at home!"

The sad emotions were slowly conveyed in the prison. Even the heroic man on the outside, who had a look of heroism, silently lowered his head. Who is alone without any worries? Who has no relatives thinking about it day and night in the distance?

If he could not die, who would die?

I don’t know the sun and the moon in my deep prison, and I don’t know what the situation is like outside now.

At this time, a team of envoys holding the Ming Dynasty flag slowly walked into the gate of Yongdu under the protection of the Qin soldiers.

After the case, Prince Ma Chaogao stared coldly at the Ming envoy standing in front of him.

"Do you want to persuade me to surrender? You don't need to fight this kind of idea. There are tens of thousands of heroic troops in the Great Qin Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of people in Yongdu. You will never surrender without fighting."

The envoy smiled slightly and bowed and said, "Your Highness, the foreign minister is not here to persuade him to surrender."

"Then why are you here?" Ma Chao was a little strange. The only thing the Qin royal family could control is the Yongdu and the several acropolis outside. It can be said that they were at the end of the road. Not to mention the subjects below, even Ma Chao himself knew that the hope of victory was extremely slim. Their only hope was to use the tall walls of Yongdu to guard the time and try their best to drag down time. Perhaps until the end, the situation in this world will have some new changes. Will Qi just watch the Ming people swallow up the Qin? The Qi people do have a lot of internal problems now, but their emperor is starting to solve these problems. Once the Emperor Qi is freed up, they will inevitably interfere. At that time, Qin may usher in a turning point.

"Foreign ministers are here for the people who were captured in Yongdu, the Ming Dynasty." The envoy of the Ming Dynasty said: "They are just some common people. The two countries fight each other and their fate is to win or lose. But these ordinary people should not be innocently affected."

"Innocently affected?" Ma Chao laughed to the sky: "Ming people invaded my Great Qin. Could it be that my people are innocent?"

The envoy of the Ming Dynasty smiled slightly: "Your Highness the Prince's Highness learned that the people of Qin who entered the Ming Dynasty were living well now, without worrying about food and clothing, and were happy about Qin. I think with the eyes and ears of the Prince, I would not be unaware of these situations, right? Now my Ming Dynasty food is being transported to those areas that have just surrendered to my Ming Dynasty. Even beggars can have a full meal every day. And they will get better and better in the future."

Ma Chao's face gradually became purple when he looked at the envoy.

"Since it is hostile, why should I, Daqin, let these people go back? Will they let them go back and become enemies with Daqin?"

"They are just ordinary people." The envoy of the Ming Dynasty shook his head, "Are you even afraid of these people? Then how can you deal with my Ming Dynasty's tiger and wolf army?"

"I am going to kill these people to the Qiqi Banner to strengthen our Qin people's determination to defend Yongdu." Ma Chao said with a grim smile.

"Slaughtering the weak will not give you more courage, but will only give you a sense of end of the road." The envoy of the Ming Dynasty said solemnly: "Your Highness, this wise man is not doing it. These Ming Dynasty merchants are useless to you. They cannot threaten the Ming Dynasty's determination to attack Yongdu at all."

"Since that's the case, why do you care about the lives of these people?" Ma Chao sneered.

"I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, was kind and could not bear to see the people of Ming Dynasty suffer such undesirable disasters. And I, Ming Dynasty, would not give up any of my people. As long as there is a slight possibility, we will do our best to rescue them. Your Highness, the Prince of Good Church, learned that I, Ming Dynasty, did not want to bring these people back in vain, and we are willing to redeem them."

"Do you think we care about money?"

"Does Your Highness care about food?" The envoy of the Ming Dynasty said confidently: "As far as we know, Yongdu originally had three warehouses that had stored food for at least two years. However, this time, your country gathered 200,000 troops to attack Hulao, but there was no more left in these three warehouses. Even if your country retreated to Yongdu and immediately confiscated all the stored food among the people, but how long can these grain last for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Yongdu last? Our Ming Dynasty is willing to take out the grain for these Ming merchants."

"Take the food for exchange?" Ma Chao looked at the other party incredibly, "Do you still want to poison these foods to harm us?"

The envoy of the Ming Dynasty laughed: "Your Highness the Crown Prince is to judge a gentleman by his villain's heart. Yongdu is already the thing in my Ming Dynasty's hands. Since I can take it down with dignity, why do you have to use these ghostly tricks? And it is a clumsy method that will never be successful. Your Highness, a Ming Dynasty, is willing to exchange two thousand kilograms of grain for it."

"Ten thousand pounds per person is about the same!" Ma Chao sneered.

"Your Highness, this is not business." The envoy of the Ming Kingdom said lightly: "Although Your Majesty wants to exchange these prisoners, the generals who commanded the battle on the front line are not willing to exchange large amounts of food for people. Two thousand kilograms of food is the limit. These people are locked in Yongdu by you, but your burden is yours and will not help you at all. Once my Ming army is launched, it will never stop because of the lives of these people. Now you can still exchange two thousand kilograms of food alone, but in the future, you can't even get a grain of food back."

Ma Chao stared at the Ming envoy opposite him, and his anger rose up in waves, trying to pull out the knife and cut the man off with one knife.

But what's the use of this? This man is just a small lieutenant. Even if he is killed, what's the use of it?

"Okay, it's very good. One person has two thousand kilograms of food, and it's changed." He said word by word.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is indeed a wise man. Since that's the case, please count how many wise people are alive so that we can prepare food." The envoy said with a smile.

The closed prison door opened with a bang, and the prisoners squeezed together looked up powerlessly, looking at the person who was walking steadily under the torch. The uniform of the Ming army made everyone's eyes widen, and they couldn't believe everything they saw.

The envoy of Ming Kingdom looked at these human-shaped skeletons and took a deep breath. Zhengrong bowed to everyone: "Everyone is suffering, please hold on for a few days, and I can take everyone home."

There were waves of silence in the prison first, and after a moment, a thunderous cheer sounded, and everyone used all their strength to roar.

"Long live the Ming Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!