Dark Sand: My Players Are All Actors-Chapter 544 - 277: Fight to the Death with the Jin!_2

Jianghu visitors slapped the table, "What’s impossible? Since the Jin envoy is bringing the state letter, he will surely approach His Majesty. When that moment comes, taking advantage of the ministers’ surprise, charging to beat up the royal coach, what’s impossible about that?"

"Back in the day, Nie Rang’s assassination attempt on Emperor Yanling also succeeded in almost impossible circumstances, didn’t it?"

"Those from Jin are all wolf-hearted and ambitious, barbarians who drink blood and eat raw meat. This time they even dared to assassinate the king and attack the coach, it’s utterly condemnable!"

The literati stopped joining in the conversation, silently drinking tea, also unable to figure out what exactly was going on.

He found it somewhat laughable in his heart.

Would Jin send an envoy to be an assassin?

Such excuses, probably only the brainless jianghu visitors would believe.

Today’s royal court is capable of recalling General Han Fuyue with twelve gold medals, an act that is clearly indicative of being Jin undercover agents! Have the Jin lost their minds, to think of assassinating him and continue the endless war between the two countries?

To those with a slightly smarter head, the situation is obviously full of doubts and impossible to explain.

That a Jin envoy was beaten to death in the court is true;

That the Emperor and a host of officials were severely injured and are recuperating in the palace, that should also be true.

But to say that a single Jin envoy confronted so many ministers in court and achieved such results?

Is he some reincarnation of a demon?

However, if it wasn’t as the court publicly announced to the world, then what would the real situation be?

It surely couldn’t be the Qi ministers beating each other up, could it?

That would be even more implausible than the official story announced by the court!

In any case, this matter is probably destined to become an unsolved mystery.

Just then, a Jin merchant who was drinking spoke up, "Nonsense, sheer nonsense!

"How can my dynasty’s envoy be so foolish to do such a thing?

"It must be you Qi people fabricating evidence and framing us, breaking the rule of ’no execution of envoys from warring states’, wantonly killing an envoy, and then throwing this dirty pot onto Jin’s head!"

No sooner had he spoken than the crowd exploded with passion.

"The Jin dog still dares to bark wildly here!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"Grab your weapons! Beat him to death!"

Jianghu visitors instantly stood up from their tables, even that literatus from before started rolling up his sleeves.

Although they held different views on the actual truth of events in the court, there was one highly consistent understanding: the Jin must die!

They were arguing only about how the fight in the court specifically started, but as for the outcome of the fight, they were all clapping with joy.

The Jin merchant was instantly stunned, and cold sweat broke out in an instant.

"What are you trying to do? I am from Jin; how dare you touch me?"

If it had been before, the Jin merchant really would have had the confidence to say such words.

Although, a long time ago, there were instances of Jin people being beaten to death by angered citizens, but that, after all, was a long time ago.

Ever since Qin Huizhi had taken control of state affairs, and Emperor Gaozong of Qi had become increasingly indulgent, almost everyone in the court was licking Jin’s boots.

Driving away a great general and making room for Jin envoys was a basic operation.

And after the peace treaty was signed, they vigorously captured and sent back Northeners who had fled to the south to Jin.

Enforcing the peace agreement with Jin was more obedient than dogs.

In such circumstances, these Jin merchants, upon arriving in Qi territory, also regarded themselves as superior; who dared to offend them?

After all, if a real issue arose and a government officer came, he too would stand on Jin’s side.

So this Jin merchant had long been accustomed to doing as he pleased within Qi territory, and without any thought, blurted out his thoughts this time.

However, the atmosphere this time had obviously changed.

The jianghu visitors seemed completely unafraid of the government officers, and immediately surged forward to surround and beat up the merchant!

The Jin merchant, having been toughened by many years of traveling through the south, reacted quickly. Realizing things were off, he quickly ran outside, while running and shouting, "Help! Murder!"

He looked back only to see the jianghu visitors still relentlessly chasing him.

Just as he was about to be caught up with, the Jin merchant’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Because he saw several Qi government officers ahead!

The savior had arrived!

If this had been the past, even if an incident occurred, as long as the Jin merchant found the government officers, they would generally stand on Jin’s side.

Therefore, without hesitation, the Jin merchant rushed over and broke into the midst of the officers.

"Quick, these villains are committing murder in broad daylight, capture them immediately!"

The Jin merchant hid behind the officers.

Several jianghu visitors looked at each other, clearly also somewhat unsure of what to do at this point.

The literatus, who had arrived panting after them, saw that the situation was turning sour, decided to slip away.

Because they all knew that in such a situation, the officers were almost certain to side with Jin. If they really persisted, they might even be arrested and thrown in jail by the officers, which would be a case of losing more than gaining.

You couldn’t really blame the officers, after all, from top to bottom, that was the prevailing atmosphere; if they didn’t help Jin, they themselves would be the ones dismissed or jailed.

However, this time the situation was a bit different.

The officers looked at each other, and the leader among them grasped the hilt of his sword.

All the jianghu visitors were shocked, as if facing a great enemy.

Damn, it seems we’ve encountered the lackeys of Qin Huizhi! Why is he drawing his sword?

But the next second, the officer drew his official sword and with a clang, threw it on the ground.

"Oh no, the officer has carelessly lost his sword, has anyone seen it? Don’t go committing crimes with it; otherwise, if this constable catches you, you won’t be let off lightly!"