The beggar scolded and spat in the face of the county magistrate, and the other beggars were also angry and wanted to pounce on him and beat him, but the magistrate panicked and was angry: "Dare to stop them for me and put them all in prison!" ”

However, before his official could make a move, the county magistrate heard a cold voice ringing in front of him.

"How do you want to explain what they say?"

Although they had long known from the mouths of other county residents how this county had made many evildoers, now, Gu Ziyuan and the others had heard so much detail from the beggar's mouth, and they could feel the despair and helplessness from his words.

These beggars were originally county citizens here, and they also wanted to work hard for their lives and their relatives and friends, but the accumulated exploitation and oppression of the county order made them wear out little by little about their lives, and there was nothing left.

The county decree emptied their money and food, and even left their families in pieces, some of their wives and children chose to leave because they could not bear the suffering, and some even sold their homes in order to make a living, and finally they became beggars.

Because they can't leave this hometown where they live, they choose to stay with their only thoughts, but they don't plan to live, because as long as they can die here, it is their last wish.

How sad it is to be alive, but the heart is dead.

Bai Rong's eyes were hot, and he was unbearable with grief and indignation, and turned his head to the county commander and angrily reprimanded: "What they said is right, you are not even as good as an animal!" You eat human flesh and blood, and you drive them to the end of your rope, and instead of repentance, you get worse. ”

"No, it's not like that, it's these beggars who deliberately speak ill of the lower officials, they want to slander me, they are the most vicious people, Your Highness Mingjian!"

The beggar gritted his teeth and said: "If any of the words I just said are false, there are five thunders in the sky, and the family will never be reincarnated, do you dare, you dog official dare to swear in front of us that you have never done those things?!" ”

"You, you dare to speak to this official like this......" The county order was forced to tear apart by this beggar, and was just about to continue to teach those beggars a lesson, but was interrupted by Gu Ziyuan.

I only heard him order in a cold voice: "Go home." ”

"Your Highness thinks, when you return to the house, you will definitely give an explanation to the county order."

When I returned to the prefectural office, I thought of this

So many luxurious architectural decorations may have been exchanged for the hard-earned money of the people, Gu Ziyuan hated to smash all these things in one go, he was not worthy of the county order here.

He is not worthy of using the money of the common people, living a carefree life.

The county commander lowered his head and said stubbornly: "Xiaguan, Xiaguan really doesn't have it, how can His Highness just listen to the one-sided words of those beggars and wronged Xiaguan, is His Highness such an unreasonable person?" ”

At this time, the county order still relied on Gu Ziyuan's lack of absolute evidence to try to get rid of the crime, and even used Gu Ziyuan's identity to talk about things.

Gu Ziyuan didn't laugh angrily, and said coldly: "Okay, since you don't want to admit it, His Highness will give you another chance in the end." ”

"What, what?" The county commander's eyes lit up, but he was really flustered and afraid, he felt that Gu Ziyuan would not let him go so easily.

Sure enough, he heard Gu Ziyuan say in a deep voice: "You take someone and go to the mountains to suppress the bandits in person, if you don't do it, then wait for the impeachment to be sent to the capital, as for what they want to do with you, then I can't control it." ”

Without continuing to listen to the quibbles of the county order, Gu Ziyuan and Bai Rong went back to the room, neither of them spoke for a while, and it took a while to calm down from the anger and unwillingness of this matter, and began to discuss countermeasures.

The county order now looks like he doesn't recognize it to death, and he seems to have made up his mind that Gu Ziyuan has no way to deal with him, but the impeachment in Beijing is obviously one of the weaknesses of the county order, and he knows that what he does cannot be known by the capital.

As for whether he will be ruthless in leading people to suppress bandits, it depends on how he chooses.

The reason why the county order was ordered to suppress the bandits was to let them kill each other, anyway, they were all evil people, and sooner or later they would have to be punished, so it was better for them to fight among themselves, so that the two of them would have to figure out how to deal with the bandits.

"If the county magistrate doesn't go to suppress the bandits, and they deal with us together, how will we deal with it?" Bai Rong had concerns, worried that the county order was in a hurry and wanted to kill people.

Gu Ziyuan frowned: "He shouldn't choose this way until he has to." ”

After all, the collusion between officials and bandits should have lasted for a while, and if the county order suddenly turns around and attacks the bandits, whether the county order can successfully suppress the bandits is actually a thing

It's difficult, those bandits are bitten back, and it is impossible to be caught obediently.

Since the county commander has done so many cruel things, it is not difficult to say whether he will be crazy and want to kill them.

In the evening, taking advantage of the fact that the eyeliner on the county magistrate's mansion was not paying attention, Gu Ziyuan and Bai Rong secretly went to the street, and the county magistrate was so busy dealing with things that he didn't have time to care about whether they were running around.

The two privately gathered the people and sent them a little money, hoping that they would do them a favor.

Gu Ziyuan also promised that they would find a way to rectify this county order, so that they could return to their original life of living and working in peace and contentment, so that other displaced people could return home and reunite.

The common people all knew about Gu Ziyuan's deeds today, and pinned their last trust on Gu them, and promised to help them, in order to overthrow the dog official and let everyone live a normal life.

Gu Ziyuan asked them to pretend to be mountain bandits these days, if the county order sent someone to leave the county seat, they would rush out to surround that person, kidnap him and prevent him from leaving, and hand it over to him to deal with.

When discussing with Bai Rong, they predicted that the county order might send someone to Beijing to do something like that, no matter what, they couldn't let any of the county order's actions succeed now, and they would never give him a chance to turn over.

Back at the house, the county order was issued in the lobby, and through the screen, you could see that he was smashing teapots and vases, and he was still scolding, and I didn't know what he was scolding, anyway, I could hear that he was so angry that he was spitting black blood.

"Looks like he's starting to get anxious." Bai Rong couldn't help but feel proud, this is what he wanted.

After the county order calmed down, he began to think about the authenticity of the dragon robe and jade pendant, that kind of thing can also be faked, how could he necessarily believe that Gu Ziyuan was the prince? What if he is a fake and is deliberately tricking him?

The county commander's eyes sank, and he did not hesitate to call a capable subordinate, planning to let him go to the capital overnight to check to see if there was such a prince, so as not to be tricked.

He didn't know that this right-hand man was about to face many "mountain bandits" hiding on the side of the road, not to mention that this subordinate would be taken to Gu Ziyuan's side, and it was estimated that he would be beaten up by the county residents who had long wanted to vent.