Chapter 104: Persuasion Succeeds
My lord, I will arrive twenty miles ahead, the city gate of our Changting County is very weak, if you are interested, this group of thieves can easily take it, very easily. ”
Song Ci has already remembered this sentence, and in time, he will definitely rebuild it.
In the ice and snow, late autumn has arrived, and the dead leaves on the trees have fallen to the ground, and they have chosen to return to their roots and return to the soil.
There are also some above, blown by the autumn wind, and they turn around in the void a few times, and they don't know where they will finally return.
After walking for about an hour, twenty miles away, Song Ci saw many tents set up in an open area in the distance.
This is the gathering place of the thieves, and there is smoke rising from the cooking, which can be seen as if they are cooking.
"My lord, there is a thief ahead, I will bring you here, but these people have bad faces and often speak ill of each other, my lord, they also have weapons, you have to be careful."
Song Ci nodded, watched a few villagers leave, and then said: "Listen, everyone, after the meeting goes, as long as the other party doesn't make a move, we can't strike first, they are willing to be thieves, Song believes there must be a reason."
"Yes, my lord."
Everyone walked over, but they were ready for battle, after all, they couldn't be too passive.
Outside the tent, someone shouted, followed by dozens of people rushing out of the tent, and at the same time, more people ran out, knowing that they had been exposed, and they were menacing, eager to kill a few people.
Song Ci looked at them coldly, and then said: "Everyone, it is the Xinzhi County of Changting County, and I found that you are gathering on a large scale when I pass by today, Song doesn't know, what is the reason?"
Soon a leader walked out, "Are you the magistrate?" Why haven't I seen you? What about Pang Fei in Lao Zhi County? Why haven't I seen him?"
Song Ci said: "Lao Zhi County Pang Fei has been cut off by Song, he is corrupt and perverts the law, violating the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, it is really an unforgivable crime, an unforgivable crime."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of these anti-thieves showed zero joy, where they are! Willing to do this, in fact, has a lot to do with Pang Fei.
"You Pang Fei has been beheaded, why should I believe you? Besides, how come I don't know about such a big thing? Are you deceiving?"
Song Ci smiled and said: "Song is a magistrate, although he is not like an emperor. There is no joke like that, but he is also a seven-grade sesame official, how can he deceive you now? Guys, if you really can't do it, you can ask these people behind me, some of them have been with Song for ten years, you should always believe them!"
These thieves, you look at me, I look at you, and they finally believe it.
Someone jumped out, "Lord Zhixian, we are gathered here, and we are forced to do so at this moment. When Fei was still the magistrate of the county, he took back the land of our wait, you are all croppers, what do you eat without land?"
"Then you didn't go looking for a Fa? Or is it a complaint?"
"Go, go, I waited a few months ago to go once, at that time several people had broken their legs, and threatened me not to go again, otherwise, it will be a bad beating, my lord, how should you and us be good?"
Song Ci felt unfortunate for what happened to them, a corrupt official and corrupt official, in the eyes of the people, there is no need to go into detail, they all understand.
"Actually, I, I don't want to be a thief, but I can't stand it, I haven't eaten rice for months, these have been eating wild vegetables, my lord, who can stand it?"
These people are in line one after another, and Song Ci saw that there were still many old, young, sick and disabled inside, which shows that these thieves are not sincere, they are just trying to get a law for themselves.
Song Ci looked at them and motioned for Wen Cheng Wenwu and the others to lay down their weapons, he intended to settle the matter peacefully.
They, maybe because they can't eat, so they plan to be anti-thieves, if... If they could be given a certain amount of food, they might just disperse.
Song Ci said: "Folks, Pang Fei was punished by Song, about your land, Song promised to return it to you a lot, and, starting next year, the tax will be reduced, so that everyone's food is definitely enough for a year."
Everyone looked at each other, some of them did not believe it, and they said, "Why should we believe you?" What if you lie to someone?"
Song Ci said: "It's Song Ci down there, and I've been a criminal officer for ten years before, I think, you should know the name Song!"
"Song Ci?" Someone in the crowd exclaimed, they couldn't believe that they had actually met Song Ci, the criminal officer.
"My lord, aren't you a criminal officer? Why, why did he become a magistrate? This one.... What the hell is going on?"
Song Ci also smiled lightly and said: "It's not because Song has offended people by catching too many corrupt officials, plus Emperor Ningzong died and Emperor Lizong ascended the throne, and the court has been controlled by rebellious ministers and thieves, so right..."
They understood, it turned out that this was the case, the Great Song Dynasty was still the Great Song Dynasty, and the emperor was always single-minded to the people, but it was true in the court....
Song Cidao; "Ladies and gentlemen, as long as everyone puts down their arms and disbands, Song will immediately send someone back to transport food, there are hundreds of you, Song will give you 1,000 catties per household, enough to eat until next year's sowing, how about it?"
There was a strong joy on the faces of these people, they never thought that there would be a future, so they smashed their weapons on the ground, "Lord Song, we believe in you, if this person has food, who of you wants to be a thief?" This is the sin of the Nine Clans, and we don't want to!"
"Yes, yes, folks."
"Also, my lord, when are we going to deliver 1,000 catties of grain to this household? From the yamen to the cluster, there must be dozens of miles, rather than this, we can't go back and get it, how about it?"
Song Ci thought to himself, this is also a good idea, hundreds of thousands of catties of grain, this matter cannot be done in a short time.
"Folks, since this is the case, then you go back and prepare the carriage, gather at the yamen on time tomorrow morning, Song will go to the granary to put grain for you, but take the weapon home, after all, you will still use it in the future, right?"
"Yes, my lord."
They picked up their weapons and said goodbye one after another, feeling that they had met a great Qing official, a good person, currently in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that he is the only good official!
Everyone immediately tore off their tents and left, they are all people in this vicinity, because there is no land, there is naturally no food, and now Song Ci promised to distribute 1,000 catties per person, which is enough.
Looking at the backs of their departure, Song Ci breathed a deep sigh of relief, the matter was finally resolved, and there was no big problem.