Chongming County, located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the county is flat, composed of Chongming, Changxing, Hengsha three islands, of which Chongming Island is the world's largest estuarine alluvial island, is also the third largest island in China, with an area of more than 1,400 square kilometers, Chongming, under the jurisdiction of five towns, population of more than 200,000.

Li Weiguo and his entourage arrived at the wharf of Nanmen Port in Chongming County, Chongming County, and everywhere they saw was a mess, with a large number of ragged refugees gathered, who had just suffered a once-in-a-century flood on the Yangtze River and lost their homes.

"It's the newly appointed county magistrate Li Weiguo, Lord Li is here!" Someone in the crowd suddenly shouted, and the crowd was immediately excited, and Li Weiguo and his party surrounded him like a frying pan.

Is this a Shenma situation?

When Li Weiguo was surprised, Zhang Xiaoliu beside him was already by his side, and a hundred guards quickly guarded with guns, blocking the crowd from continuing to approach, and establishing a separation belt.

"Stand back!" One of the captains of the guard burst into applause, his bayonet pointing at the comer.

Unexpectedly, the man suddenly fell to his knees, and cried out with a handful of snot and tears: "Please ask Lord Qingtian to save us in distress." ”

"Ask Lord Qingtian to save us!"

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The men almost spoke in unison, kneeling in unison.

There is obviously only one Qingtian Lord present, and that is the new Chongming Zhixian Li Weiguo.

But Li Weiguo had a questioning face, the first time he came to Chongming, he was wearing civilian clothes, how did these people recognize him?

There must be someone secretly instigating, eighty percent is not a good thing, I am afraid of being calculated.

Li Weiguo realized this instantly, but his face did not change, and he said calmly: "Fellow villagers, this official is the new Chongming Zhixian Li Weiguo, I don't know why you are shouting for help under this blue sky and white sun?" ”

As soon as Li Weiguo asked, everyone immediately chattered and coaxed, but he understood the general situation.

The reason for this flood is that Chongming County spends a lot of money every year to build and strengthen the Yangtze River embankment, but the problem is that the successive county orders only focus on strengthening the residences of dignitaries and wealthy families and the embankments near their fertile fields, and the embankments near the civilian areas are in disrepair, and the flood is particularly large, and the government deliberately does not strengthen the embankments near the slums in order to relieve the danger of the rich areas. Lack of food and clothing.

Now these refugees are surrounding Li Weiguo, hoping that he can open a warehouse and release grain to help the victims.

"Fellow villagers, rest assured, it is the responsibility of the government to open a warehouse and release grain to help the victims, and the official will immediately start to do it when he returns to the county office."

No matter what, Li Weiguo agreed first, after all, this is what he should do. But he vaguely felt that things would definitely not be so simple, and his intuition told him that there seemed to be a trap waiting for him in front of him.

After receiving the assurance, the refugees took the initiative to get out of the way, but they did not leave, but followed Li Weiguo and his party into the city and went to the county office.

Li Weiguo didn't think too much about this, anyway, when he arrived at the county office, he directly asked the county Cheng and the chief bookkeeper to negotiate, open the warehouse that should be opened, and release the grain that should be released.

Successive county commanders have lived in the county office, so the decoration of the county government is generally very luxurious.

The Chongming County Government in front of Li Weiguo and others is very luxurious, and can even be described as splendid, in stark contrast to the surrounding light-toned folk buildings, and it is obvious that the previous county orders have not been less "embezzlement of public funds".

It's just that there is only one gatekeeper in a huge county yamen, and the other people in the yamen are nowhere to be found.

"Hey, what are the county officials, the chief bookkeeper and the officials doing, why don't you come to greet them? I don't know if the new prefectural commander has arrived today? Zhang Xiaoliu questioned the janitor.

"Our county government has not paid salaries for more than half a year, and everyone is dragging their families, how can they work without money? So they all went home. The janitor glanced at Li Weiguo, who was not far away, and deliberately mocked loudly.

As the saying goes, there are three fires for new officials to take office, and Li Weiguo didn't wait for him to exert his authority this time, but was first put on the reverse by his subordinates.

This is clearly a slap on Ma Wei and deliberately embarrassed him Li Weiguo.

Looking at the refugees who came densely behind him, Li Weiguo's face suddenly sank, someone had instructed these refugees to surround him and force him to agree to open a warehouse to release grain, but now there is no one in the county government, how to open a warehouse and release grain, this is clearly a trap prepared in advance.

"Please open the warehouse and release food to save us!"

"That's it, the adults just promised us to open a warehouse and release grain when we arrived at the county office, isn't it the adults who tricked us into waiting for the small people to be promoted? Please also ask the adults to open a warehouse and release grain, and help me! ”

Someone in the crowd pleaded, and immediately someone followed suit, as if it had been agreed in advance, and suddenly more people shouted in unison.

"Open the warehouse and release the grain!"

"Open the warehouse and release the grain!"

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The crowd immediately became angry and crowded towards the yamen, and Li Weiguo's escorts hurriedly blocked it to block the crowd from pouring in.

Thanks to Li Weiguo, who brought a hundred guards with muskets, he deterred the angry crowd, otherwise the other party would have rushed in and forcibly opened the only granary in the county office.

Apparently someone in the crowd was instigating and noticing Li Weiguo's escort, which they did not expect, and had to find another way to stir up the crowd and create a riot.

Hum! Playing this method with Lao Tzu, when Lao Tzu is blind, can't he do it?

Li Weiguo sneered, his eyes swept towards the crowd, like an eagle looking for prey, and quickly locked on the three people in the crowd, that is, they were instigating and inciting, and there must be someone behind them, hiding an ulterior secret.

"Arrest them!"

Li Weiguo pointed with his hand, and immediately a guard opened the crowd and arrested the three of them.

Seeing that someone was arrested, the crowd suddenly quieted down, obviously as ordinary people, what they are most afraid of is that the government will arrest people, even if they are not guilty, they will be stripped of their skin.

The three people who were arrested glanced at each other, all of them showed shocked expressions, and looked at Li Weiguo in unison, how could this guy pull out the three of them from so many people?

"Adults spare their lives, the little people are really hungry and just want food." However, they quickly regained their composure, and one of them quickly apologized, and the other two hurried to arouse the sympathy of the other people.

How could Li Weiguo give them a chance, taking advantage of the fact that the people had not yet reacted to make a move, and immediately shouted: "Boldly disrupt the people, dare to pretend to be refugees with bad intentions, this county knows that the three of you are wanted criminals by the imperial court, so they will be quickly taken down and put in prison for disposal by the county." ”

It turned out to be a wanted criminal in the imperial court? The common people naturally believed the words of the county master, and there were originally people who wanted to go up to persuade them, but they stopped at the moment and stopped talking.

The three of them were dumbfounded, and secretly scolded Li Weiguo for being cunning and shameless, and this basin was buttoned up for them, and they were not allowed to explain, so that some guards pressed them down, so that they had no chance to debate in front of the people.

Sure enough, after Li Weiguo's thunderous means captured the three people, there was no one in the crowd who deliberately instigated them, and the refugees were much quieter if they were not bewitched.

Li Weiguo hit the railway while it was hot: "Folks, you have also seen that this county has just come to take up his post, and he doesn't know the situation here, and the officials in this county don't know where to go. ”

"I heard it, don't we disperse quickly, and come back in the evening, otherwise we will be punished as gathering a crowd to rebel and kill all of them." Zhang Xiaoliu made intimidating words, and cooperated with Li Weiguo to sing red face and white face.

The refugees immediately dispersed, for fear that the government would label them as a rebel, and they could not afford to fight the small people.

Li Weiguo personally sat in the court and interrogated the three suspects, but some necessary roles were missing, such as the county clerk, the chief bookkeeper, and the officials of the household, ceremony, soldier, criminal, and official.

But he had a hundred military-trained guards, all of whom had their backs and spears poking at them, and they were faintly murderous, much more majestic than the officials.

It didn't take long for the three suspects to be brought up, all with blue noses and swollen faces, obviously they had been tortured in advance by Zhang Xiaoliu and others, Li Weiguo didn't mind this, this kind of torture was commonplace even in civilized times, not to mention in this era when people are not treated as human beings.

Zhang Xiaoliu handed over the confession to Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo was furious after reading it, it turned out that today's qiē was secretly instructed by Xiao Yang, the chief bookkeeper, in order to incite the rebellious people to attack the county government, if he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Weiguo, otherwise he would have ransacked the county government and the granary, and the court also blamed Li Weiguo, so that he could not eat and walked around. At the same time, the grain in the granary was also stolen by Xiao Yang, and as long as it was burned by fire, there was no proof of death.

"I'm afraid it's more than that, just now the official sent someone to inspect the granary, and most of the grain used for disaster relief in it is fake, so who will tell the official where the other disaster relief food went?" Li Weiguo asked lightly, his calm words were full of irresistible power.

The three criminals were already scared, and they knew that the young county magistrate in front of them could kill them on a random charge, so they didn't dare to hide it and told each other directly.

"My lord Mingjian, we are just taking advantage of the chaos to burn down the county's accounts and granaries over the years, as for the whereabouts of the batch of disaster relief food, the villain really doesn't know, and I hope that the adults will see it."

There is no need to guess, this was a seamless plan, instigating the rebellious people to loot the granary, and then taking the opportunity to burn down the granary and the county government accounts, and pushing all the qiē to the refugees, and the court could not find out about Xiao Zhushu and others. If they can take advantage of the chaos to assassinate Li Weiguo, then these refugees will quickly escalate into a rebellion against officials, and Xiao Zhushu and others can justifiably send troops to suppress it, kill people and kill people, and become an iron case that no one will ever know, and they will be relieved and bold to be greedy for the disaster relief food and salary of the Mo court.

"It's really a good calculation!"

Li Weiguo sneered, since this Master Xiao wanted to assassinate him, then he would never be soft.