Lu Bu led people to Chengdong Street.

Originally, everything was fine, and many people on the street saw him enter the blacksmith shop, and talked and laughed with the owner of the shop.

Many people even envied the good life of the owner of the shop, who had the opportunity to contact Chu Hou so closely, and Chu Hou was still laughing with him.

When Lu Bu suddenly turned his face, the people who didn't know what was going on were all confused.

The people, who had no idea what was going on, watched as the guards twisted the owner of the blacksmith shop.

When he entered the shop, Lu Bu's face was still very good, but when he came out, his face was actually blue, which made people shudder.

"What's going on?" Watching Lu Bu lead the guards to twist the master of the blacksmith shop and leave, a person on the side of the road asked in a low voice.

"I happened to be outside the shop just now, and I heard everything being said inside." A person next to him lowered his voice and said: "This blacksmith shop makes armor for the army, and there are still armor pieces that are extremely thin, and they can't protect the soldiers at all." I think this time he went in, because he didn't want to come out alive. ”

Someone heard what was happening, and it quickly spread through the streets.

At first, people thought that Lu Bu suddenly took people for some reason, but after knowing the truth, many people actually gloated, saying that the owner of the blacksmith shop had died.

In fact, the people in the market are right.

Practices like those of the blacksmith owner are indeed no different from death.

The soldiers went out on the battlefield and went to the battlefield, and the armor was their most direct reliance.

With armor, the soldiers are more confident in charging into battle, if there is no armor, there is no difference between going to the battlefield and being naked.

Lu Bu pondered every day how to make the armor thicker and sharper, but there were those who were not afraid of death, and they had to touch his mold in this matter.

Lu Bu can endure other things, but Lu Bu definitely can't bear this kind of thing.

Personally escorting the owner of the blacksmith shop to the official mansion, Lu Bu's face was always ugly.

Accompanying him, seeing that his face was not good, Sun Ce whispered: "Chu Hou don't take this matter too seriously, just go back and find out who did it in secret." ”

"How could it not be taken to heart." Lu Butie said to Sun Ce with a blushing face: "But everything related to the national economy and people's livelihood is absolutely no trivial matter. To do this kind of thing is nothing more than to bring disaster to the country that I have so hard won. The soldiers went out to fight in order to ensure the integrity of the party. But these people actually did things with their armor. If I tolerate it this time, I don't know what it will be like in the future. Today they dare to use their hands and feet on ordnance in order to earn money, and tomorrow they dare to use their hands and feet on the heads of the people. Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, chai, meat, tea, which one can't be faked? If this happens, it means that there is a group of people under me who are rotten. Not only are they greedy, but even their consciences are blackened. Since their conscience is black, I will dig them out and dry the blackened conscience, so that everyone else can see clearly, and there is no room for any black-hearted behavior under my rule. Those who dare to infringe on soldiers and people, and use their safety as a way to earn profits, I will not only let them invade their homes and property, but also let them die without a corpse!! ”

Lu Bu gritted his teeth and said this, and Sun Ce subconsciously glanced at the owner of the blacksmith shop who was being held.

He knew very well that no matter what role the owner of the blacksmith shop played in this matter, he was afraid that he would never come out alive when he went to the government this time.

When the owner of the blacksmith shop appears in the market the next time, it is likely that the corpse of five horses will be waiting for him.

Entering the official mansion with a team of people, Lu Bu went straight to the front hall with a blue face.

The officials who came up saw him with an angry face, and they stood on the side of the road in astonishment and didn't dare to ask more.

Sun Ce glanced at them, and the officials dispersed one after another to prepare for Lu Bu's questioning.

When he came to the front hall, Lu Bu went up, Sun Ce stood beside him, and a group of officials sat on both sides of the front hall after following up.

Two guards escorted the owner of the smithy in.

After walking all the way, the owner of the blacksmith shop, who also understood what he had committed, had already trembled in fright, and his crotch was damp.

He was so scared that he peed......

"Let him go first." Lu Bu coldly commanded the guards.

As soon as the two guards let go, the owner of the blacksmith shop collapsed on the ground with a "poof", trembling and wanting to beg Lu Bu for mercy, but his mouth actually lost his strength and he didn't say anything.

"I just ask how you want to die?" Lu Bu had a cold face and said to the master of the blacksmith shop: "There are many ways for you to die, it depends on how you choose." Whether it was a thousand cuts and Ling Chi died, or five horses died in the market. Or let the executioner slash your neck and give you a crisp blow. ”

"Chu ...... Chu Hou spared his life...... "The owner of the blacksmith shop slumped on the ground, his lips trembled violently, and finally he said: "I...... I...... Jaya...... Don't dare......"

"Spare you?" Lu Bu sneered: "Who is willing to spare the soldiers who died in battle because they wore the armor you made?" You are certain to die, and all you can choose is how to die! The other choice is that you die alone, or do you die together at full price? ”

Knowing that there was no hope of survival, the blacksmith's owner's bladder sphincter had already stiffened, a water stain between his legs spread out in all directions, and the front hall was filled with a smell of urine.

"With such audacity, he dared to blatantly fake." Lu Bu snorted coldly and said to him: "Give me all the people involved, if you don't have one, I will behead you all over the house, as for you, you will be half dead first, and then send the five horses to divide the body." ”

When he said these words, Lu Bu gritted his teeth, and there was no room for any turnaround.

"Chu Hou." Having understood the reason, an official got up and said, "I'd better leave this kind of trivial matter to ......."

"To whom?" Lu Bu glared at him fiercely and interrupted what he was about to say: "I can't trust anyone in this matter, no matter who finds it, I must investigate it to the end." Today, I will say that no matter who dares to make up his mind on the heads of the officers and men of the three armed forces and the people, as long as he dares to endanger the interests of the soldiers and the people, and earn profits by doing some unconscionable means. Everything they earn will be confiscated, and whoever participates in it will be divided into five horses. As for their families, the men were slaves and the women were prostitutes, and there were many of them, and they were all implicated. If you have a bad conscience, you have to be responsible for the lost conscience! ”

"Say!" Glaring fiercely at the owner of the blacksmith shop, Lu Bu asked, "Who bought these armors from you, how many sets of armor have been purchased in total, and where are the armors now?" ”

The owner of the blacksmith shop ...... Pengcheng Mansion was trembling as if he had been electrified, he had already understood that he could not live any longer, and now his only hope was to save his family by confessing to the people involved.

"Who is in the treasury?" Lu Bu's eyes widened and he asked.

"Fu Kucang Cao ......," the owner of the blacksmith shop replied tremblingly.

"Bring me the cangcao from the Pengcheng Mansion immediately." Lu Bu ordered Sun Ce: "Let the soldiers get ready, and if one is interrogated, bring me one." While taking people, I sent people to surround my home with me, and not one of them escaped. ”

"Chu Hou ......" Sun Ce asked in a low voice: "This matter may be implicated, in case it ......"

"I said that whoever you find will be stuck in the end." Lu Bu said: "Even if it finds out my head, I must make it clear and understand, and I must not let the soldiers get an explanation!" ”

"I see." Sun Ce agreed and walked out of the front hall of the official mansion.

When he left the front hall, he was secretly pinching cold sweats for the officials involved in the matter.

To say that those officials are really timid, they know what kind of temperament Lu Bu has, but they want to break ground on Tai Sui's head.

It's not impossible to do something else to make money, how can you think of starting from the armor of the soldiers......

Money, they must have earned it, maybe it is still a lot.

But once they found out this time, they had to spit out all the money they earned, and they also put their lives and the future of their whole family into account......

For the sake of such a little benefit, why bother......

Sun Ce led people to take Pengcheng Cangcao, and Lu Bu personally interrogated him, and soon implicated many people, and even involved the military quartermasters in the army and some people guarding the treasury.

There were more and more people interrogating, and Lu Bu gradually understood that although he tried his best to build the army into an iron army, there was such a group of people, who were involved in the chain of interests, covered each other and cooperated with each other, secretly doing some shady things, and tearing down everything he had built up little by little.

The entire interrogation lasted for three days, and because the implication was so extensive, the officials in Pengcheng had to go to the government every day to witness the interrogation.

Three days later, outside the front hall of the Pengcheng official mansion, hundreds of people actually knelt.

These were all officials and officials who were involved in making fake armor and profiting from it.

After checking this, no matter how much Lu Bu went up, he couldn't ask anything.

Looking around at the officials present, Lu Bu stood up, his face was blue and he said to the officials: "Looking at the group of people kneeling here, some of you should be secretly glad that they were not found in this investigation. There is only one thing I want to say, people are doing it, and the sky is watching! The sky has eyes, as long as you do it, sooner or later it will be shaken out! I have no objection to officials doing some work to supplement their families, but they also have to be honest and responsible for running a business. At least don't make a profiteering from it through shady means. Today, some people dare to do their hands and feet on the armor of the soldiers of the three armies, tomorrow some people dare to do their hands and feet in the people's meals, and the day after tomorrow, some people dare to do their hands and feet on the water source of medicinal herbs! ”

Lu Bu's tone was stern, and the officials lowered their heads one by one and did not dare to say anything.

Turning around and sitting back at the top, Lu Bu's face was still pale, and he then said to the officials: "When Cao Cao besieged Xiapi, I fought hard with the soldiers and tied my head to my waist, so I finally broke Cao Cao and won a respite for Xuzhou. In fact, you and I have long been tied together, we share weal and woe, we are like a growing tree. For a tree to live, it must not only flourish, but at least the roots must not be broken! But today, I see rotten roots! ”

The officials present lowered their heads one by one, Lu Bu was furious, and put on a posture of wanting to kill, how could anyone dare to say more at this time?

Pointing to the group of people kneeling in front of the hall, Lu Bu said: "These people are rotten roots, once some roots are rotten, as long as they are not treated in time, they will spread like a plague. In the end, the whole root rotted, and the whole tree withered and died because of the root that had rotted first. ”

After a pause, Lu Bu said again: "What should I do if the roots are rotten?" The best thing to do to keep it from spreading is to cut it and throw it away! I'm going to cut all these rotten roots today! ”

The officials and businessmen who knelt down in front of the hall because they were implicated in the fake armor case trembled one by one, and when Lu Bu said that he would cut them all off and throw them away, none of them still had the idea of begging for mercy.

Everyone knows that from the day they started to do it, they are already dead.

No matter how much he begged for mercy and handed over all the benefits he had gained from this matter, it would be impossible to get Lu Bu's forgiveness.

The thing has been done, and the only way that awaits them is death.

There was silence, and not a single official spoke.

Officials large and small all lowered their heads, and they didn't even dare to look at Lu Bu more.

"Actually, I know very well that some of you are more greedy than them, worse than them, and even more deconscienceless than them!" Lu Bu stood up again and said coldly to the officials: "As long as you don't put into practice the idea of losing your conscience, as long as you don't destroy my foundation, I don't care what you people are thinking about all day long." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Bu's tone was slightly depressed and continued: "Since this incident happened, I have been thinking about what to say to you in the past few days. Come to think of it, I'm actually only eight words. ”

Looking around at everyone, Lu Bu said in an accentuated tone: "With an open heart, this is a human being!" ”

When Lu Bu said this, no one in the officials present dared to look up at him.

Some of them are indeed secretly glad that they did not participate in this matter, and they can be regarded as saving their lives for themselves and their families.

"I told you everything I should say and shouldn't say." Lu Bu said: "Whether you can listen to it or not depends on yourself. I don't care about it that much, and I don't want to care about it. I just need to be responsible for killing people after something happens! ”

His gaze fell on Chen Gong's face: "Chen Gongtai, Pengcheng's affairs have always been taken care of by you, and if something like this happens, although you are not implicated, you are to blame." A fine of one year shall be imposed on you at your sole discretion. Anyone who participates in it, regardless of their identity and background, will be killed. The family members of all the persons involved in the case, the men are slaves and the women are prostitutes, and they will be handled immediately. If there is a hint of favoritism, I will ask you! ”