Chapter 340 Conflicts intensify

Chapter 341 Conflicts intensify

After Salah told several Mysore officials about his plan and made adjustments to the details, he rushed back to his post house to report the operation to Lafayette.

After he left, Sheikh Khan looked at the back of his carriage and said to the people beside him: "If everything goes well this time, Jahanzeb will be sent to hell."

The thin officer hesitated and continued: "But it doesn't seem to be safe enough to just kidnap those who are about to be released..."

Sheikh Khan's eyes flashed with a sneer: "These Europeans are indeed smart, but they are not decisive enough. We must act in our own way to ensure that Jahanzeb does not have any chance to turn the tables!"

"What do you mean?"

"We do this..."

The other people nodded in succession when they heard it.

...

The next day.

In the southeast suburbs of Mysore City.

In the open space outside the largest prison in the city, four or five thousand people gathered, all looking forward to the prison gate behind more than a dozen guards.

Today is the day when the government announced the release of arrested rumormongers, and the number of people released is as high as 370.

This made the people of Mysore, who have been suppressed by panic for some time, breathe a sigh of relief. In addition to the families of the released people, more people want to witness the release process with their own eyes.

After being reprimanded by Tipu Sultan in person, Jahanzeb has ordered to stop arresting rumormongers - after this round of severe crackdown on rumors, he believes that even if he stops arresting people, no one dares to talk about the British casually.

However, the efficiency of the administrative system is much lower this time. His order was only strictly implemented in Mysore and Seringapatam, and the army was still arresting rumormongers in more distant areas.

Jahanzeb hopes that the "demonstration" effect of releasing the arrested people this time will allow the whole country to receive the message that "the rumor incident has passed", so that the storm will subside.

Not long after, the sun has risen to the center of the sky. Under the eager gaze of thousands of people, the prison gate has not been opened for a long time, but the number of guards at the door has increased a lot.

"I knew they were lying to us!" Sheikh Khan's men, who were planted in the crowd, shouted as planned, "The arrests are not over at all, we are still in danger!"

"I heard that the 'devil' asked the officials to arrest people in large numbers. Without the 'devil's' consent, they would never release anyone!" Another person echoed loudly.

In recent times, since "British" has become a taboo word, everyone secretly uses "devil" to refer to the British.

The crowd immediately became agitated, shouting one after another, "Open the door, they are innocent..."

"The child's father has been arrested for half a month. If he doesn't come back, the family will not be able to survive..."

"Please, release them... Didn't the official promise it?"

At this moment, a young man suddenly slipped out of the small door on the side of the prison, walked quickly to the front of the crowd, and shouted hoarsely: "No one will be released at all! Dead, they are all dead!"

This person was naturally arranged by Sheikh Khan.

Another "tug" immediately followed up: "Who did you say died?"

The young man's face was full of fear, and he pointed to the prison behind him: "Those who are about to be released. They were all killed! I saw it with my own eyes!"

His words were like cold water falling into boiling oil, and thousands of people "boomed" and exploded, especially the families of those scheduled to be released. Many women collapsed on the ground and cried.

A middle-aged man of a high caste stood up and pointed at the young man and said: "If you lie, I will put you in prison too!"

"I didn't lie, those bodies were placed on the open ground of the prison..."

The middle-aged man frowned and waved vigorously to the crowd behind him: "Let's go! Let's go in and take a look!"

Thousands of people immediately responded loudly, and under the leadership of dozens of high castes, they rushed to the prison like a flood.

The prison guard only threatened symbolically, and then wisely avoided the crowd.

The agile people quickly climbed up the wall, and then flexibly climbed over several large trees and came to the building inside the prison.

Then they pointed to the courtyard inside the building and screamed, "They are really dead!"

"There are hundreds of corpses. The 'devil' killed them!"

"These cursed guys, they killed hundreds of people!"

The people outside the prison were completely blown up. Since the first batch of people released were people of some status, their relatives and friends were not vegetarians either. Soon someone opened the prison gate and thousands of people rushed into the prison.

What appeared in front of them was an unbearable scene - more than 300 corpses were casually placed on the ground, like slaughtered livestock. The hot weather made the air full of stench, and a large group of flies hovered over the corpses like black clouds, making a "buzzing" cheer. There were more than a dozen prison guards nearby who were hurriedly wrapping the corpses with straw, but because there were too many dead bodies, they couldn't even finish dealing with a corner.

Women rushed into the yard with their children, distinguishing their relatives among the piles of corpses. Sharp cries were heard incessantly, and from time to time someone fainted. What followed was a deafening curse.

Some high-caste leaders took several prison officials out. Under questioning from thousands of people, an official said tremblingly: "Yesterday they were all fine, but this morning they suddenly started vomiting and bleeding from their eyes and nose. Before I could call a doctor, they all died..."

The middle-aged man from a high caste asked: "Are they all the ones to be released today?"

The prison officer nodded.

"Besides them, who else died?"

"No, no more..."

Someone in the crowd shouted: "It was the 'devil' who asked the Sudanese secretary to order them to be killed!"

"Yes! It must be him!" Someone immediately echoed.

"He wanted to threaten us with the death of these people."

"The 'devils' killed hundreds of people in order to prevent us from talking about their evil deeds!"

“The Sudanese secretary is an accomplice of the ‘devil’!”

"We want justice for the dead!"

"Let's go, let's complain to the Sultan..."

“We accuse the Maharaja of their evil deeds!”

Led by a group of upper-caste people, the angry people escorted several prison officials towards the Ambavila Palace.

The news spread quickly, and more and more people joined the procession of complaining to the Sultan along the way. Of course, this was all the result of Sheikh Khan's men fanning the flames and going door to door to publicize the "massacre of freed persons."

When Tipu Sultan saw the dark crowd gathering around the palace, he almost thought someone was about to cause a riot. It was not until an official from Sheikh Khan's faction came to report the situation that he was relieved.