"Presumptuous!"

As soon as the old man's words fell, Jing Ke immediately drew his sword in his hand, pointed the tip of the sword at the old man's throat, and scolded him sharply.

"Drought or locust plague, these are all natural disasters, what does it have to do with you?"

"You old puppet dare to talk about the king, accuse the king of being an unrighteous teacher, and even want to let the king return the party to South Korea, his heart can be punished!"

After scolding, Jing Ke turned his head to look at Zhao Jia and said, "Your Majesty, please order me to execute this person who deceives the people with evil words, so as to set an example, lest those foolish people continue to slander the king!" ”

Jing Ke's words suddenly frightened the old man, and because his body was too weak, he couldn't support it and fell directly to the ground.

When the rest of the clan elders and squires heard this, their faces also turned pale.

It's just that although these people have a look of fear on their faces, there is a hint of stubbornness in the depths of their eyes, obviously believing that the drought and locust plague are all caused by Zhao Jiaxing's unrighteous army.

Zhao Jia took in everyone's expressions, and then said to Jing Ke: "Stand down." ”

Although Jing Ke was not angry in his heart, he did not go against Zhao Jia's wishes, took the saber and stood beside him, staring at the old man and the others with fierce eyes.

Zhao Jia stepped forward, helped the old man up, and gently patted the dust on the old man's clothes by the way.

"Jing Ke is anxious, this is what disturbed Your Excellency, and please don't blame the old man."

The old man glanced at Jing Ke in shock, and then looked at Zhao Jia, who was full of apologies, and finally plucked up the courage to say: "The monarch is wise and we all know, I don't want to treat the monarch like this, but the drought and locust plague have appeared one after another, if it can't be effectively contained, I'm afraid that there will be no harvest of thousands of acres this year, and many people will definitely starve to death at that time." “

Speaking of this, the old man suddenly knelt down, hugged Zhao Jia's right leg and cried: "The gentleman is kind-hearted, and he forgets that the gentleman can be sympathetic to us!" ”

"I hope that your lord can be considerate of us!"

The rest of the clan elders and the gentry also knelt on the ground one after another when they saw this, and they pleaded.

"It's so stupid!"

Although Jing Ke pitied these people for not surviving easily, he also secretly hated them for being ignorant, but unfortunately Zhao Jia didn't want to conflict with these people, but Jing Ke could only endure it secretly.

Zhao Jia couldn't help frowning slightly when he saw everyone's performance.

He knew that these people were all very superstitious, believing that the outbreak of such a great natural disaster must be due to the immorality of the ruler, which caused the wrath of the heavens.

Even if Zhao Jia can suppress these people by force, it will not solve the problem, but will intensify the contradictions with the people of the party.

We must be cautious in handling this matter, otherwise a bad one will lead to a big mistake.

"Get up first!"

Zhao Jia helped the old man up, and motioned to his subordinates to help the rest of the kneeling clan elders and squires up.

After temporarily calming everyone's emotions, Zhao Jia immediately said to everyone: "Tomorrow at noon, all the people of Qianmu are welcome to come here, and this gentleman will naturally give you an explanation." ”

After speaking, Zhao Jia lost the interest of continuing to inspect the fields, and immediately returned to the city with everyone.

The inner courtyard of the county government.

"How's the investigation going?"

Bian Cheng replied: "As expected, these thousand-mu clan elders and gentry gathered here, and they were really instructed and guided by people with intentions, and wanted to use the will of heaven to force the monarch and return the thousand acres and even the entire Shangdang to South Korea." ”

Zhao Jia's face was slightly cold, and he said, "Have you ever checked whether South Korea is involved in this matter?" ”

Bian Cheng shook his head and said: "Maybe there is, but the other party is too secretive, and the Chen family who was found out refused to confess who instructed him, but just took all the responsibility on himself." ”

"It's just that after investigation, the subordinates learned that the Qianmu Chen clan is a branch of the Korean clan Chen, and it is expected that it is the command of the main line of the Chen clan."

Zhao Jia bowed his head, signaled that he knew, and then said: "Now is not the time to tear up the skin with South Korea, the investigation of this matter ends here, but after the matter is over, the heads of the Chen family and his son will be sent to the main line of the Chen family." ”

"Yui!"

The next day, before noon, many thousands of acres of people had already come to the agreed place, they were talking, nervously and expectantly waiting, wanting to know what kind of explanation the world-famous Pingqi Jun would give.

In fact, because Han is too weak, except for the nobles and gentry, the sense of belonging of ordinary people to Korea is not high.

Originally, with Zhao Jia's reputation, it was not a good thing that these people could become the leaders under the rule of Pingqi Jun.

The bad thing is that as soon as Shangdang became Zhao Jia's territory, an extremely rare drought and locust plague broke out, which couldn't help but make the people doubt Zhao Jia's virtue.

Time passed slowly, seeing that it was getting closer and closer to noon, the people looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally saw Zhao Jia appear in sight surrounded by a large number of guards.

After a brief commotion, calm quickly returned to the place due to the maintenance of order by the elite guards and the fear of the army among the people.

Zhao Jia walked to the high platform set up in advance, and after looking around at the dense crowd of people, he suddenly bowed deeply to everyone.

Zhao Jia's actions couldn't help but cause a little commotion among the people.

Everyone couldn't understand why a noble person like Pingqi Jun Gongzi Jia would bow to these Qiantou heads.

"Shangdang is Zhao Jia's fiefdom, but Jia failed to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and live a happy life, this is my dereliction of duty, today Zhao Jia made amends to all the people of Shangdang!"

Zhao Jia's words that were almost shouted out by his throat made everyone's faces moved.

In this era, it is very important to pay attention to birth, and it is unprecedented for a ruler like Zhao Jia, who is of noble birth and in a high position, to take the initiative to bow to the head of Qiantou in public and make amends.

The accustomed people who are called and drunk by the ruled, and who are constantly oppressed, feel a little unreal at this time.

After the trance, most people couldn't help but sigh in their hearts: Heiki-kun is really as gentle and considerate of the people as the legend says, and it would not be a good thing if he could live under his rule.

But soon, the people wondered again, since Pingqi-kun was so good, why did the heavens send down natural disasters?

Zhao Jia motioned for the commotion crowd to calm down, and then asked Jing Ke to bring the locusts that had been caught a long time ago and lifted the cage high.

He pointed to the locusts in the cage and shouted to the people in the audience: "These hateful locusts are going to eat up the little grain you have in the first place." ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Jia was heartbroken, suddenly opened the cage containing the locusts, grabbed a few locusts, and held them in the air.

He shouted fiercely at the locusts: "You eat the grains of my people, as you eat my heart, now I should eat your heart and lungs, and take revenge on the people!" ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jia stuffed all the locusts in his hand into his mouth, and then began to chew it heavily, green juice overflowing from the corners of his mouth, and everyone was shocked.

"Your Majesty!"

Border City, Jing Ke, Qianmu County Ling and others were even more shocked, and they all rushed to the stage, wanting Zhao Jia to spit out the locusts.