Chapter 372: Depression and Turmoil

The emperor hurriedly pulled her up from the ground, said a few words to the woman, and then offered to go outside to see the people's feelings.

Led by a middle-aged woman, they came to a densely populated place, where many people sat on the floor. They guarded a large tree, and some people picked leaves on it, while others scraped the bark underneath.

Not only that, but what made the emperor feel most desolate was a child less than three years old, who was holding a small loess clod and slowly gnawing on it.

"Today's saints are benevolent and love the people, and I can't imagine that there is such a sad scene in this whole world......" The emperor sighed, and the pain in his heart reached its peak.

As the king of a country, he wanted his people to live in peace and contentment and live a prosperous life.

But now seeing such a depressed and dilapidated scene, as the emperor, he is really shameless to face everyone.

The emperor glanced at the minister next to him, and the minister immediately understood what the emperor meant, and he took out some broken silver from his pocket and began to distribute it to these poor people.

When they saw them coming to hand out the money, these people came like crazy.

"Don't grab it, get in line, everyone has it. Don't worry, my lord is kind-hearted and will take care of each of you. ”

The squire smiled and spoke, and then made a gesture to the rest of them to line up so that they would not be too messy.

These people were very obedient, and they lined up and waited for the emperor to hand out the silver. Seeing them in a long line, the squire gave each of them the money they had with him.

Fortunately, there are not many poor families here, and the silver they bring with them is almost enough.

After each of them received the silver, they said thank you to the emperor, and when he saw them with smiles on their faces, the emperor was happy and came to the children on one side.

"Tell grandpa, what's your name?" The emperor squinted his eyes and directly hugged the child into his arms.

At his age, this child is such a young one, it is correct to call him grandpa.

The child was not timid when he looked at the emperor, and told the emperor his name in a soft voice.

"My name is Rifle!"

"That's a good name, Quartet Blessing! I hope you can always be blessed when you grow up. The emperor smiled and touched his head, and after asking the child a few questions, he put the child on the ground.

After solving these things, the emperor went directly to the county government to meet the county officials. Since he had promised the middle-aged woman, he naturally had to do it, and this was a promise that he had to keep as a man.

The county magistrate was dozing off when he suddenly heard someone beating a drum and screaming grievances, and the whole thing almost ended up on the table.

"Bring the man here." The county magistrate rubbed his sleepy eyes and called out to the people below.

They are just going through the motions here, in order to silence everyone, but in fact, they have not worked at all.

The men agreed to come down, and lazily came outside, and saw a middle-aged man dressed in expensive clothes, followed by the family.

"Where's the old man? It's good to not let people sleep......" They complained while pulling the emperor and bringing him to the main hall.

Seeing the county magistrate sitting there, the emperor recognized it at a glance, this was the Zhao Tanhua back then.

Although it has been ten years, his appearance has not changed much, except that he has grown a beard and looks a little more mature than before, when he was only in his twenties.

But the emperor has changed quite a lot, and now he is disguised and disguised, this Lord Zhao naturally did not recognize it.

"Bold, why don't you kneel when you see this official?" Lord Zhao's face was ugly, and he wanted to question the emperor.

"As the so-called Xiucai can not kneel to the official, he is born in Xiucai, so naturally he does not need to kneel and worship the adult." The emperor explained a few words with a smile.

"You don't have to kneel, but tell me why you beat the drums and shout grievances. You look like you're supposed to be out of town......"

Looking at the emperor's clothes, he must be either rich or expensive, and his eyes have obvious shrewdness. These people have been poor for many years, and they have long had not much oil and water to fish, and now a fat fish has come, and naturally they have to be slaughtered hard before they can let him go.

Questioned by him, the emperor smiled faintly, and then the middle-aged woman ran from outside, and when he saw the middle-aged woman, Lord Zhao obviously knew her.

There was a bit of sadness on his face, and he didn't want to see the middle-aged woman at all.

"My lord, he is my distant relative, he came here to avenge me, and asked the lord to call the shots to get my husband back, I believe that the rich man will give the lord a face......"

This woman knelt on the ground and cried and worshipped, just hoping that the county official would show his face, and only when the county official came forward, the rich man of Zhou would compromise, otherwise how could he release her husband, this is absolutely impossible.

They had obviously said this matter more than once, and when they mentioned it again, Lord Zhao's face was ugly, and he snorted coldly.

"The two of you are really messing around, it is natural for people to arrest your husband, your husband owes the land rent for many days, even if he really catches your husband to work and pay off the debt. As for why your husband didn't come back, you should ask your husband if he has a small one outside, so he doesn't want to have anything to do with you. As far as the people are concerned, your family is very poor, and your husband lives in the rich man's house in Zhou, how can he be willing to go back......"

Lord Zhao laughed coldly, and explained his so-called truth clearly, and ignored this middle-aged woman quite wonderfully.

"My lord, it can't be like this. The husband of the folk girl has always been in love with the folk girl, and he would not do such a thing. The rich man was stingy that week, my husband must not be able to eat good fruit in his house, how can he eat fragrant and drink spicy food, no matter how you ask for the approval of the adult, it is good to let the daughter meet her husband......"

The middle-aged woman banged her head, tears rolled down, and she wanted to ask for Lord Zhao's favor.

"My lord, what she said is reasonable, why don't you want them to meet? What's more, that rich man Zhou is rampant, and the matter of land rent is completely nothing!" The emperor said a few words briefly.

If this Lord Zhao is really an honest official, how can he tolerate this kind of thing. It is obvious that he was corrupt and bribed, and he was in harmony with the rich man of Zhou.

Even if the emperor spoke, Lord Zhao was still stubborn, and he laughed happily.

"As the official said just now, this matter has been made clear, it is simply this woman next to you who is messing around and wants more silver. Your husband voluntarily left with the rich man of Zhou, if you show evidence, you can naturally retract your confession, if you can't show evidence, then the matter is a different matter......"