I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 341 Conflicts intensify

After Salah told several Mysore officials about his plan and adjusted the details, he hurried back to his inn 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, we can send Jahanzeb to hell."

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

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

"what do you mean?"

"We are like this..."

Upon hearing this, the other people nodded repeatedly.

……

The next day.

Southeast suburb of Mysore.

In the open space outside the largest prison in the city, as many as four to five thousand people gathered, all looking eagerly at the prison gate behind a dozen or so guards.

Today is the day when the government announced the release of arrested rumormongers, and more than 370 people were released.

This made the people of Mysore, who had been suppressed by panic in recent times, breathe a sigh of relief. In addition to the families of the released persons, more people wanted to witness the release process with their own eyes.

After being reprimanded by Tipu Sultan in person, Jahanzeb has ordered an end to the arrests of rumormongers - after this severe crackdown on rumors, he believes that even if no one is arrested anymore, no one will dare to talk about the British casually.

However, the administrative system was much less efficient this time. His orders were only strictly enforced in Mysore and Srirangapatna. In more remote areas, the army was also arresting people who spread rumors.

Jahanzeb hopes that the "demonstration" effect of releasing the arrested persons will allow the whole country to receive the message that "the rumor incident is over", thus calming down the storm.

Soon, the sun had risen to the center of the sky. Under the eager gaze of thousands of people, the prison gate was still not opened, and the number of guards at the gate increased.

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

"I heard that the 'devil' asked the officials to arrest people in large numbers. They would never release anyone without the 'devil's' consent!" another person echoed loudly.

In recent times, since "Britain" 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, let him go... Didn't the official already promise?"

At this moment, a young man suddenly slipped out from a small door on the side of the prison, walked quickly to the front of the crowd, and shouted at the top of his voice: "No one will be released! They are 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 filled with fear, and he pointed to the prison behind him: "Those who were 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. Thousands of people exploded in laughter, especially the families of those scheduled to be released. Many women collapsed to the ground and burst into tears.

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 jail too!" "I didn't lie, the bodies are lying on the grounds of the prison..."

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

Thousands of people immediately responded loudly and, led by dozens of high-caste people, rushed to the prison like a flood.

The prison guard made only a symbolic threat and then wisely moved away from the crowd.

The agile people quickly climbed up the wall, then nimbly climbed over several large trees and reached the building inside the prison.

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

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

"These damned fellows, they killed hundreds of people!"

The people outside the prison were completely shocked. 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 before them was a disgusting scene - more than 300 corpses were randomly placed on the ground, like slaughtered livestock. The hot weather had filled the air with a foul smell, and a large group of flies hovered over the corpses like a black cloud, making a "buzzing" cheer. More than a dozen prison guards were hurriedly wrapping the corpses with straw, but because there were too many dead bodies, they were unable to deal with even one corner.

Women dragged their children into the yard, trying to identify their relatives among the corpses. They heard sharp cries and screams, and from time to time someone fainted. Then came the deafening curses.

A high-caste official led a group of people to drag out several prison officials. Under the interrogation of thousands of people, an official trembled and said: "They were all fine yesterday, but this morning they suddenly started vomiting and bleeding from their eyes and noses. Before I could call a doctor, they all died..."

The middle-aged man of the upper caste shouted, "Are they all the people 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 Sultan's secretary to order them to be killed!"

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

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

"The 'devil' has killed hundreds of people to prevent us from talking about their evil deeds!"

"The Sultan's secretary is an accomplice of the 'devil'!"

"We want justice for the dead!"

"Let's go and complain to the Sultan..."

"We will accuse the Maharaja of their evil deeds!"

Led by a group of upper caste people, the angry crowd took several prison officials and rushed towards the Ambawila Palace.

The news spread quickly, and more and more people joined the team to accuse the Sultan along the way. Of course, this was the result of Sheikh Khan's people fanning the flames and publicizing the "freed people massacre" from door to door.

When Tipu Sultan saw the huge crowd gathered around the palace, he almost thought that someone was going to riot, until an official from Sheikh Khan's faction came to report the situation, and then he was relieved.

(End of this chapter)