Li Yuanyin replied: "According to the usual practice, the culprit of the first evil has been caught, and the lightest is also the head of the devil to show the public. However, since the three people of 'Chuang Wang', 'Chuang General', and 'Eight Kings' have all run away, naturally there is no way to deal with them. As for the rest of the people who are cooperating with the rebellion, just hit a few boards. But these are all local officials' affairs, and there is no need for Lord Ji to worry about it. ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and said, "It's okay, then it's done as usual, let's go to the Yuzhong County Order, that ...... The one surnamed Jiang is good. But the one surnamed Jiang doesn't seem to be a good person......"

As he was talking, the county seat of Yuzhong County seemed to be dead, but the city gate slowly opened at this time, and a team of more than 20 officials walked out of the door, surrounded by an official wearing a seven-grade civil official uniform, and walked quickly to Ji Qingwen.

I saw that the official saw the golden dragon robe that Zhu Cunshu was wearing, and immediately recognized his identity as a prince, bowed his head, and said: "The prince has won the victory, congratulations, congratulations!" ”

Zhu Cunshu waved his hand: "Got it, get up." ”

The man straightened up, looking like a red-faced, fat-headed, big-eared man—not like a county official in the disaster-stricken province of Shaanxi, but more like a wealthy merchant in a land as devastated as Suzhou. I also saw that the official uniform on his body was bright and new, which was in stark contrast to the ragged clothes of the victims around him.

When Ji Qingwen saw him dressed like this, he immediately felt a little disgusted, and said in a questioning tone: "You are Jiang Yao of Yuzhong County, right?" ”

Jiang Yao hurriedly turned his head and asked, "I don't know this adult's pedigree?" ”

Because Ji Qingwen crossed over from the later generations, he was not used to wearing the wide official robes of the Ming Dynasty, so he usually wore short coats, so Jiang Yao did not recognize his identity.

However, Li Yuanyin took half a step forward and introduced loudly: "This Lord Ji Qingwen is the commander of Suzhou Weaving, and at the behest of the emperor, he came to Shaanxi to supervise disaster relief!" ”

Jiang Yao recognized the flying fish suit and embroidered spring knife on Li Yuanyin's body; Ji Qingwen's name, Jiang Yao has naturally heard of it.

Frightened, he immediately bowed down and said: "It turned out that Lord Qin Chaji was here, and the lower officials were disappointed and welcomed!" ”

Ji Qingwen had a calm face and asked, "It doesn't matter if you welcome it or not." Let me ask you, this official was fighting with the thieves in the city just now, and you stayed in the city and did not move, but now you want to go out of the city to greet you? ”

Jiang Yao heard that Ji Qingwen's tone was wrong, his eyes rolled, and he explained: "Xiaguan is from a jinshi and doesn't understand military affairs. Seeing that the lord commanded Ruoding, the soldiers and the three armies served, and the enemy chieftain fled in despair, the lower officials were already dumbfounded in the city, and even forgot to wave the flag and shout, how dare they make extraneous branches and draw snakes? ”

These few sycophants, even Jiang Yao himself felt that he was very clever, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a smug smile.

Ji Qingwen didn't talk, and changed his words: "I heard that you are not a good official, but a corrupt official and a corrupt official who embezzled disaster relief money and grain, is there such a thing?" ”

Jiang Yao was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, knelt on the ground with a "poof", kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Big ...... Big...... My lord, this is all orchestrated by people who have an enmity with me to frame the lower officials. Don't wronged good people, my lord! ”

Jin Yiwei commanded the servant Li Yuanyin, who was an expert in the trial, and when he saw Jiang Yao's expression, he knew that there must be a ghost among them, and he didn't speak to Jiang Yao, but he asked the official behind him: "I heard that your county master is a corrupt official, I don't know if you have anything to say?" ”

When the officials heard this, they lowered their heads one after another, but none of them opened their mouths to defend Jiang Yao.

Li Yuanyin sneered: "Master Jiang, since even your servants refuse to speak for you, then ......"

Li Yuanyin was still inducing confessions, but Ji Qingwen couldn't wait any longer, and scolded: "What are you talking about with this kind of corrupt official? Don't take it for me yet! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several regimental practitioners pounced on Jiang Yao and pressed Jiang Yao to the ground, and took out a hemp rope as thick as a thumb, tying Jiang Yao like a zongzi eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival - and in this whole process, the official under Jiang County always watched coldly, and no one stepped forward to help.

So Ji Qingwen sneered: "Lord Jiang, it seems that your popularity is not very good, and even the officials you raised refuse to help you." But I will not give you a chance, so I will take you under the gates, and I will let you go as long as you gather ten people who are willing to intercede on your behalf. ”

After that, Jiang Yao was pushed and shoved by the regimental training soldiers under Ji Qingwen on the high platform where Li Zicheng recruited the hungry people to start an incident.

Ji Qingwen saw Jiang Yao's dejected look, and said, "Lord Jiang, it's still early, and there is at least an hour and a half before the sun sets. You see that there are so many victims here, there are always a few soft-hearted people who plead for you to confess - before the sun sets, it's not difficult to get together ten people, right? The official is so gracious, if there is really no one to excuse the adult, then the official will be unkind. ”

After that, Ji Qingwen turned his head to look at Zhu Cunshu and asked, "Lord Wang, do you think it's good to do this?" ”

Zhu Cunshu is a person who doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and when he heard this, he immediately praised: "Okay, this is a good idea." I'll just sit here and count for you, and see how many people can say good things to you before the sun goes down? ”

The answer is none of them.

Zhu Cunshu and Ji Qingwen waited at the bottom of the high platform for more than an hour, and gathered to watch the lively people, not a thousand people, but also seven or eight hundred, only those who glared at the county lord angrily and scolded him, and none of them came forward to intercede for him.

Ji Qingwen saw that most of the sun had sunk into the western horizon, so he smiled and said to Jiang Yao: "Jiang County Order, it is not easy for this parent and official to be treated by you as this part, no one has said a good word about you, and the so-called betrayal of relatives is nothing more than that, right?" Okay, I don't want you to be more verbose, this is a stab, you can't avoid it today. ”

Ji Qingwen was about to order his regimental trainers to open their swords and behead, but he heard Chen Wenzhao's report: "My lord, the outpost I sent out came to report that a group of officers and soldiers came from the northeast, and they will come here in a quarter of an hour at most." ”

It turned out that Chen Wenzhao had rich combat experience, and in order to prevent the comeback of the people's army, he sent his soldiers to set up a lookout post within a radius of several miles to collect intelligence from all sides.

Ji Qingwen listened to Chen Wenzhao's report, his heart tightened, and he immediately asked, "What officers and soldiers?" How many people are there? ”

Chen Wenzhao replied truthfully: "There are about four or five thousand people, but judging by the colors of the official and military uniforms, it shouldn't embarrass us." It's just that those who can lead such an army must be either the chief soldier or the governor, and please be careful. ”

Ji Qingwen nodded and said, "Okay, you can lead the army in line, whether it is friend or foe, you must always prepare first." ”

Therefore, Chen Wenzhao issued an order to divide the regimental training soldiers to be stationed in various places immediately and lined up on the spot, only the guns and bullets were loaded and the swords unsheathed, which was no different from preparing for battle.

Seeing this, Zhu Cunshu on the side also led his palace guards to line up next to him, although their ranks were a little sparse, they were still orderly.

Not long after, the team of four or five thousand people came to the city of Yuzhong, only to see this group of soldiers wearing new and old Ming army uniforms, tall, short, fat and thin, uneven, under the reprimand and whipping of several hundred households, flag generals and other grass-roots officers, it took a lot of effort to line up.

At this time, I saw an official, escorted by several generals, slowly coming out of the formation.

This official was also a little strange, he was wearing a crimson official robe, and the official robe was carefully embroidered with a golden rooster singing with its head held high—it was a civil official of the second rank or from the second rank, and this civil official did not come in a sedan chair as usual, but rode a pure white high-headed horse.

I saw that the civil official walked to the front of the team, but did not continue to move forward, but sent a servant next to him, and said in a loud voice: "Born in the same jinshi, the squire of the Ministry of Works, and the governor of Shaanxi, Lord Liu Guangsheng, has arrived!" ”

It turned out to be a governor.

On the ground of Shaanxi, because of the vast area of Shaanxi Province, two people served as the governor of Shaanxi and the governor of Yansui respectively, and were in charge of Shaanxi's military and government affairs. The position of governor of Shaanxi held by Lord Liu Guangsheng is the feudal official who commands the military and political power of half of Shaanxi Province, and he is a high-ranking official from the second grade!