Chapter Seventy-One: A Unique Welcome Ceremony
Guo Zhiyuan looked at Sun Liren, who had a sad face, and then looked at the people around him who were wearing vegetables but even the old and weak women and children were holding weapons, and suddenly felt that the root of his nose was sour, and he suddenly made a move that surprised everyone, and saw that he had straightened his official robe, bowed deeply to Sun Liren and the people around him very solemnly, and then straightened up and said loudly: "Gutian bandits are rampant, ten rooms and nine empty, it is a dereliction of duty of the government!" On behalf of the government, this official hereby pleads to all the villagers, and this official hereby swears to all the villagers that he will definitely clear the bandits in Gutian, so that the people of Gutian can live and work in peace and contentment, and return the people of Gutian to a bright future! If you violate this oath, the sky will thunder! ……”
Sun Liren and the people were stunned, how could there be a reason for the county lord to bow to the people for thousands of years? ! Although Guo Zhiyuan was just a simple action, it made them feel the difference between Guo Zhiyuan and the high-ranking official in their impression before, especially when Guo Zhiyuan actually made a poisonous oath in front of them, which made them feel Guo Zhiyuan's determination to be the master of the people!
"Lord Qingtian! God finally opened his eyes and sent us the Qingtian Lord, and we Gutian people finally have hope! ......" Sun Liren "pounced" and knelt down for Guo Zhiyuan again, this kneeling is very different from the kneeling when I first saw Guo Zhiyuan, this is a kneel that is happy and convincing! As he knelt, the "plop" sounded one after another, and the surrounding people also knelt down one after another, shouting in unison, "Lord Qingtian!" His eyes were filled with tears of excitement and joy.
Guo Zhiyuan hurriedly went to help Sun Liren, but Sun Liren insisted on refusing to get up, and in the end, Guo Zhiyuan could only continue to embark on the road to Gutian County in their knees. Along the way, Guo Zhiyuan was in a heavy mood and was silent, Chu Wan'er, who liked to talk to him, felt bored, glanced at him, and deliberately found fault and said: "Guo Zhiyuan, you are just majestic, but have you forgotten what Mr. Xu said?" The bandits here come and go like the wind, it is not easy to exterminate them, and when the time comes, you can't do it, but you will break your promise, do you really want to be thundered by the sky? ……”
In fact, Guo Zhiyuan was also thinking about this matter at this time, his eyes were black on the situation in Gutian County, and he was angry for a while and swore to the people to completely eradicate the bandits, in fact, he had no bottom in his heart, although he had the advantage of crossing, but what he heard since he was a child was all stories about the Red Army's revolution and guerrilla warfare that frightened the reactionary government, but now he has become an official soldier, and his position has just been adjusted, and all the tricks in the story are useless, and he can't think of any good ways to think about it.
Now that Chu Wan'er said this, he became more and more upset, and glanced at Xu Guangqi, who was sitting in the carriage and was silent, scratching his head and saying, "Sir, do you also think that I am too hasty?" I'm ......."
Xu Guangqi waved his hand and said: "No, I think the prince has done a good job, the son is the commander of Gutian County, and it is the responsibility of the son to protect the territory and the people, if the son wants to gain a firm foothold in Gutian County, he must exterminate the bandits, which cannot be avoided, and to exterminate the bandits, the first thing is to win the hearts of the people, and the son has only exchanged the vows for the hearts of the people, which is already half the success, as for this specific strategy to suppress bandits, it is necessary to wait for the official appointment of the prince to understand the military situation of Gutian County, the distribution of the bandits, etc., before making plans......"
Hearing Xu Guangqi say this, Guo Zhiyuan was a lot more settled, no longer thinking nonsense, and urged everyone to speed up their pace and strive to reach Gutian County as soon as possible.
After walking dozens of miles, I finally saw Gutian County, which is at the intersection of two inland official roads leading to Fuzhou, the geographical location is very important, so the scale is not small, perhaps because of the perennial banditry, the city wall is also quite thick.
According to the rules of officialdom in the Ming Dynasty, when a landlord like the county order took office, the original adjutant of the local government must take the local squires and elders out of the city to greet him, but now Guo Zhiyuan didn't even see a shadow of a person outside Gutian County! Although Guo Zhiyuan didn't care about the red tape of the officialdom that ushered in the send-off, he also thought that the original officials of Gutian County might not be very interested in him, the new county commander, but he didn't expect these guys to do so much, today is his first day of official office, and Gutian County doesn't even have anyone to welcome him to take office, which shows that the current officials of Gutian County don't take him as a county order at all!
Seeing such a situation, Guo Zhiyuan's already bad mood became even worse, and he waved his hand to everyone: "Let's go directly to the county office!" So saying, he struck his horse and went straight to the city gate.
At the gate of the city, a common person asked the general location of the county ya, Guo Zhiyuan, who was holding his stomach, led everyone straight to the county ya, and before the county yamen gate, he saw a large group of people gathered at the county yamen from a distance, and several small officials at the gate of the county yamen were shouting something excitedly.
Guo Zhiyuan was also dumbfounded when he saw this situation, he was so familiar with this picture! In his previous life, when he was a secretary to the mayor, he had never seen this kind of thing, this was clearly a group incident! If you put up a few more banners like "Pay me back my hard-earned money", Guo Zhiyuan will think that he has traveled back again!
This mass incident has always been the biggest headache for officials, why? Because this group of things is the most uncontrollable, as the so-called one person can go, three people become tigers, this person has a lot, one person has an idea, everything is messed up, you can convince this and not convince that, a small accident may make things completely out of control, and then it will be really a show to meet the soldiers and can't explain it clearly, and this kind of group incident is handled well, people will not think that you have merit, and if you don't handle it well, the situation will expand, and people will say that you are incompetent, so even if it is the mayor that Guo Zhiyuan followed in his previous life, When encountering this kind of group incident, you can hide and push, and you will never come forward easily and set yourself on fire!
Of course, Guo Zhiyuan can't escape like the mayor he had in his previous life, and he is indeed unavoidable, he has vaguely realized that this one should be aimed at him, and someone gave him the new county magistrate a "unique welcome ceremony", of course, Guo Zhiyuan will not recklessly deal with such a tricky group incident before understanding the situation clearly, isn't that equivalent to jumping into the trap set by others?
Guo Zhiyuan just wanted to call Zhang Cheng over and ask him to go over first to find out what was going on, but a small official standing on the steps in front of the county government noticed his figure from a distance, his face was happy, he pointed in the direction of him with his finger, and said a few words to the crowd of people who were surrounded in front of the county office, and then the crowd of people who were surging towards him like wolves who had discovered a new target!