Everyone wanted to give the Crown Prince a warning, but in the end they failed.
Not only did he fail, but he was also outmaneuvered by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. In front of thousands of onlookers, Xiao Heng sent out Wei Desheng and General Yang to settle the matter in one fell swoop. With the support of Emperor Yuanfeng's imperial edict, who would be stupid enough to go against His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
Liao Jingxu had a majestic square face, and at this moment he was frowning, looking exactly like the Chinese character "囧".
Fortunately, he was a high-ranking official after all, and had experienced many storms and waves. The embarrassing mistake before him was nothing but a small matter. He coughed, cleared his throat, and with a smile invited Xiao Heng and others into the city.
Xiao Heng raised his eyebrows and gave him a fake hand: "Governor, please ride with me, okay?"
According to the rules, the Governor's Office sent a sedan chair, so Xiao Heng should naturally ride in the sedan chair into the city at this time.
Liao Jingxu hurriedly shook his head: "How can this be done? Your Highness is the monarch, and I am the subject. There is a difference between monarch and subject. How dare I ride with Your Highness? Please get on the sedan chair."
It seems that deterrence is still effective. At least the priorities are now clear.
Xiao Heng didn't say any more polite words. He looked back and saw that Su Rong had returned to the carriage behind. He nodded and was about to get on the sedan chair. But then he suddenly turned back - a porter carrying two bamboo baskets was walking towards the carriage. At this time, how could there be such a bold porter to run towards the imperial envoy's guard
He immediately shouted, "Sanjiu, He Jian, stop that porter!"
His Highness spoke so harshly, and it was clear that the matter was not simple. Everyone's faces changed, and Liao Jingxu also stretched his neck to look over there.
The porter was not panicking at all. Several soldiers walked towards him to chase him away. He fell backwards and both bamboo baskets fell to the ground. At the same time, the soldiers had already walked up to him. Seeing him like this, they subconsciously took up their spears to pick up the bamboo baskets: "What is this?"
In a flash, Su Rong saw black beads rolling out of the bamboo basket, and then smelled a sulphur smell. His face changed drastically, and he shouted, "Don't move!"
But it was too late. The soldiers' spears had already pierced into the bamboo basket. Su Rong reacted incredibly quickly. Almost at the same time, he suddenly flew towards the carriage. The carriage was frightened and ran a long distance in a blink of an eye. At the same time, the bamboo basket made a loud explosion. The huge explosion raised dust all over the sky. The soldiers who went to poke the bamboo basket at the beginning didn't even have time to scream before they were blown to pieces.
Because Xiao Heng gave the warning in time, the soldiers stopped the people from a distance, and Su Rong took the lead in rushing away, so the number of guards affected by the explosion was not large.
But even so, the area outside Kunming city has become a hell.
Some civilians who were close to the scene were overturned or blown through. There were civilians everywhere who were crying and screaming in pain. Even some local soldiers from Yunnan who had come to check on the scene were injured or killed. For a moment, the scene was extremely chaotic. The terrified civilians fled in all directions, no longer caring about the orders of the soldiers. At this time, how could they listen to the words that told them to stay calm? Instinctively, they only wanted to escape quickly and leave this terrible place as soon as possible.
The out-of-control people simply would not listen to anyone's words or orders. The worst thing was that when the people in the front ran, the uninformed people behind heard the huge explosion and the cries for help. They were already scared and ran faster. The strong men naturally ran very fast, but many women and children could not run at all. They were swept forward by the crowd, stumbling and falling to the ground in a short while, and were trampled by the panicked crowd.
The scene suddenly became like being in the Avici Hell.
Liao Jingxu's face was livid. Wei Desheng's incident had already given him a huge slap in the face. If he, the Governor of Yunnan, was not incompetent, how could he not even be able to control the generals and let them assassinate the Crown Prince? Now, needless to say, with such an incident, countless civilians and officials were killed or injured.
Even if he was a high-ranking official, he would never have a good ending.
At the critical moment, Xiao Heng immediately asked Tang Yuan and others to lead teams to stabilize the crowd, and asked the accompanying military doctors and imperial physicians to rescue the injured. He stared at Liao Jingxu and said, "Lord Liao, this is not the time to be angry. Remember, save the people first!"
Liao Jingxu reacted immediately, trembled his lips a few times, suppressed the anger and worry in his heart, and nodded. After all, he was an important official. After a brief panic, he made arrangements in an orderly manner. All the officials and his own guards joined in maintaining order and rescuing the wounded. At the same time, he sent people into the city to summon doctors and temporarily used the flower shed as a resting place for the wounded.
When the explosion occurred, Su Yao had already been taken away from the initial explosion point by Su Rong in a carriage, but she and Yan Cao's ears were still buzzing from the shock, and they were unable to react for a long time. It was only after Yan Cao and Madam Yuan reacted tremblingly that they rushed towards Su Yao and asked her if she was hurt.
In fact, Yan Cao rolled several times in the carriage, and his head hit the wall of the carriage, and blood was still oozing out.
But in this situation, how could she care about her own injuries? She was already so badly injured, and just now Su Yao rushed over and hugged Mrs. Yuan's little girl first!
Su Yao supported himself on both sides of the car wall, using his abdomen to protect the little girl under his body.
At this time, little Niuniu was crying loudly. She was scared by the huge noise. Moreover, although Su Yao was protecting her, the carriage was bumpy. She was just a little kid and had never experienced such a thing. She was so scared that she cried until her neck and ears turned red.
Su Yao didn't care that his arm was almost broken from the impact, and hurriedly picked up Niu Niu and handed her to Mrs. Yuan carefully.
Mrs. Yuan's tears came out. She took Niu Niu in, patted her on the back and coaxed her softly.
At this time, the curtain was lifted, and Su Rong poked his head in from outside. In this situation, he could not care about the separation of men and women. He looked around the carriage and saw that Su Yao, Yan Cao and the others were fine. He breathed a sigh of relief and asked solemnly, "Are you okay? Are you injured? How is the child?"
Regardless, the child is innocent.
Thinking of the children, Su Rong couldn't help but think of the children who were injured or even lost their lives in the explosion, and his eyes became a little gloomy.
These bastards, if he could find out who is so heartless as to do this, he would make sure they pay him back a hundredfold!