After Qin Ming smiled and asked the people on the merchant ship to get up, he said, "You don't have to be so polite!" ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor...... I'll wait...... We have been disrespectful to you just now, please don't blame Your Majesty......" The middle-aged man wiped his cold sweat.

Qin Ming laughed and said, "As the king of a country, how can I be a stingy person? Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to be so stubborn. ”

"Your Majesty is indeed as benevolent as rumored, and it is really a blessing to all the people!"

"Haha, I can't praise me anymore, I can't praise again, I'm really floating!"

Qin Ming laughed.

The people on the boat also laughed, and in this way, everyone traveled all the way to the boat, and after about half a day, they finally arrived at the port of Chu State.

After going ashore, Qin Ming said to the middle-aged man: "Uncle, from now on, the island country will not dare to bully you anymore, but your official government here doesn't seem to be doing much, take me to the official mansion, I want to see what is going on with these people!" ”

Before, one or two thousand people disappeared at sea for a few months, and the government sent an official ship to investigate, and it was over, Qin Ming couldn't tolerate this.

So, you have to figure it out.

When the middle-aged man heard this, he said: "Our county government here is not far from here, I'll take you there!" ”

Qin Ming nodded, and then followed, and half an hour later, he arrived at the entrance of the local county office.

Qin Ming stepped forward directly and started beating the drum at the yamen.

Not long after, in the lobby of the yamen, a county magistrate about forty years old sat down in the hall and spoke:

"Who beats the drums in the hall? So what's going on? ”

Qin Ming walked up to the lobby: "My lord, I want to report the case, after the fishing boats and merchant ships in this county went to sea, there are almost more than 1,000 people who have not returned, please be careful!" ”

The county magistrate above was stunned when he heard this, looked at Qin Ming carefully, and then got up:

"The strange things on the sea, this county can't control it, you come to this county, it's better to worship the dragon lord."

As he spoke, the county order was about to get up and leave.

Qin Ming frowned: "How can this be true, as an official of the imperial court, he does not seek peace for the people, but only asks people to ask God to worship Buddha for shelter, your county order is simply ridiculous!" ”

The county commander was furious when he heard this: "Bastard, what are you? How dare you say that? Believe it or not to give you thirty boards? ”

Qin Ming sneered: "When you beat me on the board, you were an official, and when two thousand people disappeared at sea for a few months, what were you?" ”

"You ......" the county order's dead hands were trembling.

"What's wrong with me? Now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he will focus on cracking down on officials like you who do not act, you eat a lot of money, don't worry about the king, be a parent official and don't do things for the people, you, an official, are embarrassed to say that you are an official? ”

"Bold, you Diao Min, you dare to slander this official like this? Come on, drag him down and hit the thirty boards! "The county made me angry.

Qin Ming sneered, looked at the few officials who came up, and said, "Do you also want to listen to the words of this inactive county order?" ”

The official at the head was stunned for a moment and said, "We are just a servant, and we don't listen to the county order." ”

"Hmph, you are waiting to take the imperial court's money, eat the people's grain, and do the imperial court's official service, the people's official service, what became the official of this county order?

Ask yourself, a ruler who does not care about the lives of the people and only worships God about the disappearance of 2,000 people, is also worthy of your support? Qin Ming looked at everyone and asked.

The officials present all looked at each other, although they felt that what Qin Ming said was reasonable, but after all, they were just officials.

Above, the county magistrate was furious, slapped the table, and shouted: "Shut up the people, you sow discord like this, the crime is extremely evil!" ”

"The most heinous crime is you, the official who strictly investigates the inaction of the imperial court, although it is far away from the imperial capital here, but you must understand that although the trial will be late, it will not be absent!"

After Qin Ming finished speaking, he looked at the other officials around him and said, "It's still the same sentence, you remember, you are the messengers of the imperial court, and you are serving the people." ”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and prepared to leave, and just after taking a few steps, the county commander seemed to feel that he couldn't hold his face, and said:

"Where did the official not act? I have sent several official ships to investigate, but in the end there is no result, that is, the gods are still doing it, what can I do? ”

Qin Ming took a deep breath and turned around and said, "Sea God? Ridiculous, since you think so, I might as well tell you the facts.

In the past two days, I went to the island country with a merchant ship, and at sea we met a fishing boat that the island people pretended to be ghosts and took away us, and arrived at a small island.

And I found that there were 2,000 corpses of our Chu people on the island, and these corpses were all captured and killed by the islanders. ”

Speaking of this, everyone was shocked, and the most shocking thing was this county order, he was surprised and said:

"What? Did you go to the island? ”

Qin Ming frowned: "Do you know that island?" ”

"Oh no, I don't know......" The prefectural commander hurriedly shook his head.

Qin Ming's brows furrowed, feeling that something was wrong, and then continued:

"Do you know how those Chu people who went to sea were killed in the caves of the island?"

The prefectural magistrate hesitated and shook his head. His hesitation once again made Qin Ming suspect that he shouldn't hesitate.

Qin Ming felt more and more that something was wrong, and continued: "They were refined by a warlock from the island country with all kinds of strange things that can make people lose their minds and even seem to be dead, but they are like wild beasts that can act and bite people. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the expression of the prefectural order, who seemed surprised, but not puzzled.

He should be puzzled, hearing this kind of words, he was not puzzled, only surprised, indicating that he believed what Qin Ming said, and was surprised how Qin Ming could know about it.

"And then?" He actually asked, as if he was eager to know what was going on, which was completely contrary to the doubts and disbelief reflected by the officials present.

Qin Ming took a deep breath and said, "I collapsed the cave, and all the walking corpses inside were buried in the cave. ”

"You...... This ......" the prefectural order seemed to be a little shocked.

Qin Ming smiled: "This is the reason why nearly two thousand people are missing at sea, I will help you investigate clearly, there are more than a dozen people from merchant ships outside who can testify, you have to see the scene, you can also take a boat to the island."

So, your compatriots were brutally hurt, but here you blame the so-called superstition, and you are not willing to investigate, and you say, you are not inaction? Or is it ...... What's the secret in this that you don't want to investigate this? ”

The surrounding officials all looked at the county order, and what Qin Ming said from the beginning to the last sentence now made their hearts shake.

At this moment, they are also curious, why is their county magistrate so abnormal?

One or two thousand people were missing at sea, and as a servant, they often discussed privately why they didn't vigorously investigate.

At this moment, in the face of Qin Ming's question about the cruelty of the people of the island country to the people of Chu, these officials were angry in their hearts, and at the same time, they all wanted to give an explanation from the county order.

The county order seemed to have been pulled by someone's pigtails, and shouted angrily: "Shut up, come here, give the official his mouth!" ”

Below, the officials were indifferent, they just looked at the county order.

Qin Ming smiled slightly, stepped forward, forced the county order to get up and retreated, and said, "You...... What are you going to do......"

Qin Ming sat on the seat of the county order and said to the county order:

"Now, you go down and kneel, replace me, come to interrogate you, now I not only suspect your inaction, I even suspect you of collusion with the island country!"

(End of chapter)