The prefect's name is Makihara, and he is a middle-aged man. Since the outbreak of the plague, he wanted to leave several times, gave up Ningcheng, went to his relatives, and came back after the plague, but after thinking about it, he was a prefect, if the emperor found out that he was gone, his official position would not be guaranteed, and he might be executed by Ling Chi.

Mu Yuan has an old mother in the family, a wife and children, he doesn't care if he is alone, he can escape, even if the emperor knows, he will only kill his head.

But he has a wife and children, and even if he doesn't care about himself, he has to take care of them. Therefore, he had no choice but to stay and hide in the government with his family, wanting to wait for the plague to pass before coming out.

However, how did he know that the plague had not stopped for half a month after the government had been closed, and the plague had not stopped, but had become more and more intense, according to his officers and soldiers, tens of thousands of people had died now, and the outside could be described as full of corpses, without a little anger, and all the shops in Ningcheng were closed, and the small traders did not dare to set up stalls, in short, they were all afraid of being infected.

The officers and men also said that many doctors in Ningcheng had run away, and the patients could not be treated, some were waiting at home to die, some were dragged around with their sick bodies outside, and some were committed suicide in order not to harm the people of the world.

After the plague was rampant, the officials in the government office, the prison department, the officials' rooms, the households, the ceremonial rooms, the military rooms, the torture rooms, and all these officials ran away. Many officers and soldiers in Ningcheng also died and ran, and those officers and soldiers guarding outside the city still volunteered to stay and guard the city gate.

But it's ridiculous, the prefect of Ningcheng has the urge to run when he encounters difficulties, so why bother those subordinates? He himself has not been the consciousness of being an adult, so how can others stay? What's even more ridiculous is that now that everyone has run away, the prefect has stayed behind for the sake of his family.

Before the outbreak of the plague, the government was very lively, the birds in the trees squeaked and chirped, and every day at noon, the son would come to greet him. Today's government office has long lost the usual laughter and laughter, and now it is like a person going to an empty place, which makes people feel lost.

Mu Yuan was having dinner with his family, and he heard the maid come to report that King Jin was coming.

Mu Yuan was already languishing all day long, and now when he heard that King Jin was coming, he didn't know whether to be happy or afraid, because of the plague, now there are corpses all over the field, and he didn't deal with it, he still had the urge to escape before, if this was known by King Jin, he would definitely be unable to escape the blame.

Thinking about this, how could he still eat, he just dropped the bowl, ignored the inquiries of his wife and children, and hurriedly walked out of the dining room. changed into a red court dress, wore a black gauze hat, and went to the yatang in a well-dressed manner.

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There are six vermilion pillars on both sides of the yatang, and the case desk is full of dust, but there are neatly placed on it, such as a striking wood, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, pen holder, and a judgment signature, and a plaque is hung directly above, and four big characters are written in gold powder in the middle - Zhengda Guangming.

Feng Junmo and the others stood in the middle of the six pillars of the yatang, and when they saw Mu Yuan, they suddenly became serious, which made Mu Yuan at a loss. Now that the situation is like this, I don't know if the next mistake of King Jin will blame him, saying that he is perfunctory.

Mu Yuan's old tears pounced and knelt in front of Feng Junmo, kowtowing to make amends.

"Your Highness, please forgive your sins, it is the humbling duty that did not abide by the duty and performed the duty well, and so many people died of the plague, it is all the fault of the humbling duty, please punish Your Highness." Mu Yuan kowtowed and apologized, and the tears flowed out like a broken embankment, as if he had been brewing for a long time.

Feng Junmo was not angry, but when he saw with his own eyes that the corpses in the city were all over the field, and some of the corpses were flying with flies, but no one from the government came out to deal with them, he was angry.

The imperial court distributed so many sums to them every year, but he did not fulfill his duties, he was so angry that he wanted to kill him to relieve his hatred!