When Chen Mu saw Meng Qing's appearance, he was a little moved in his heart, and he raised his hand and pressed Meng Qing's shoulder.

Meng Qing noticed Chen Mu's movements, turned her head and glanced in Chen Mu's direction, a smile appeared on her face.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't worry, if there is danger, even if the concubine risks her life, she will definitely protect you!"

Hearing Meng Qing say this, Chen Mu burst out laughing.

Meng Qing clenched her fists and widened her eyes, looking like she was swearing.

When Chen Mu saw her like this, he felt that the other party was quite cute, so he took the person in his arms, and he patted the other party's back and comforted him.

"Don't worry, there will be no danger, those people outside the door are just a group of minions, Lord Ye and the secret guards hiding in the shadows are very strong."

"They can't be the opponents of Lord Ye and the others, let's go back to the room and sit first, I listen to you, I won't go out to check."

Seeing Chen Mu say this, Meng Qing immediately responded, and the two went back to the room and sat down.

A moment later, those few people who sneaked into the inn and intended to murder the county order were caught by Lord Ye and others.

Lord Ye threw people into the guest room, and Chen Mu sat at the table and stared at those people condescendingly.

The masks on the faces of those people were torn off, and Chen Mu's eyes swept over those people, and when he saw the appearance of those people clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned.

These people have rough faces and tanned skin.

Some people still have calluses on their hands, and they don't look like well-trained assassins at all, but like ......

"They look like farmers in the field, how are they doing?"

Chen Mu looked at Lord Ye, and Lord Ye immediately bowed when he heard this.

"The skills are quite good, but the tricks used are some simple tricks that fight hard and speed, and most of these people are indeed from farmers and have great strength."

Seeing Lord Ye say this, Chen Mu nodded.

And when those assassins guessed their identities after listening to Lord Ye and Chen Mu's words, their faces also changed slightly.

The man with the scar on his cheek sneered and said.

"That's right, what if we're farmers, we're here to kill you dog officials!"

Seeing the other party say this, Chen Mu frowned.

What does this farmer mean?

Has anyone provoked them?

Chen Mu was surprised, and when Lord Ye heard the assassin say this, he rushed forward.

Just as he was about to raise his hand to fight in the direction of the assassin, Chen Mu glanced at Lord Ye, and then shook his head,

"Wait, first ask him what he means, Dog Officer...... Have you been bullied by any official? ”

Seeing Chen Mu say this, the assassin sneered and said.

"What to pretend, what we are looking for is you, you, a corrupt official and an official of the Ministry of Industry, will withhold all the money of the people who built the mountain road."

"Now this town is probably also the idea of the trade routes around this town, don't think we can't see what you think."

"The official money of those towns has gone into your pocket, are you worthy of the people who built the trade routes?"

Hearing the other party say this, Chen Mu's eyes sank.

"What do you mean by that? What official money was used to build a trade route? ”

"Bah, you really don't cry when you don't see the coffin, we have heard a long time ago that there are adults from the capital who are in charge of building trade roads, and the Ministry of Works, who is responsible for building trade roads, has suppressed the official silver allocated by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to the people."

"Until now, those people haven't received a penny for building roads!"

When Chen Mu heard this, his face turned cold.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a cold voice.

"You say...... Is this the case with the officials of the Ministry of Engineering who are responsible for building the mountain road? Or is this the case just a few Ministry officials? ”

"I don't know if all officials are like this, anyway, the dog officials I know, one is counted as one, and they are all greedy for official money."

When the big man said this, he gritted his teeth and scolded angrily.

His angry eyes were red, and Chen Mu frowned when he saw the other party's appearance.

It has been half a year since he issued a decree to let local officials unite with officials of the Ministry of Industry to mobilize the people and build trade roads.

If the truth is as the peasant in front of him said, those people have been busy for so long for the trade routes, and they have not received half a cent of silver.

Their own fields are still barren, and those people are afraid that they will not be able to live.

And the truth was not what he expected, and the assassin seemed to remember something, and continued indignantly.

"Do you know how many of the people who built the trade routes are about to starve to death? They work hard during the day, and at night they can eat some porridge, not to mention meat, and they can't even see a bite of food and meat. ”

"Their life was miserable, and I saw that those people were about to die, and I had no choice but to unite my brothers and go to the valley where the officials of the Ministry of Industry had set up camp, and wanted to snatch the silver......

"But ......"

When he said that, the big man's eyes turned red, and he covered his face and cried.

Chen Mu was stunned when he saw the other party's appearance, and he glanced at the few young people kneeling behind the big man.

Those young people also looked sad and angry, and now when they saw Chen Mu's appearance, one of them immediately said with hatred,

"You, and those dog officials of the Ministry of Industry...... It's useless to kill our brothers, as long as we are still alive, as long as there are righteous men like us! Those people will not die! ”

"I'm sure someone will be able to save them?"

Chen Mu took a deep breath when he heard them say this, he had realized something, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart.

"I'm not the one you say you said was the one who united with the Lord of the Ministry of Industry and greedy for official money, I just came here to investigate...... Officials who supervise the government office. ”

"You can tell me what you know, that I have come here secretly, and that the officials of the Ministry of Works, who are building the mountain roads around this city, do not know that I am here, except for the county magistrate of this city."

When Chen Mu said this, those people were stunned.

The big man who was whining and crying immediately looked up in Chen Mu's direction, with some suspicion in his eyes.

"Don't worry, tell me what you know."

"Besides, if you doubt me, and you have now been arrested by me, if I am really a scheming person, whether you say what you know or not, you will die, in that case......"

Seeing Chen Mu say this, those people looked at each other.

The man at the head was silent for a moment, then said with a sneer.

"Okay, since you've already said that, I'm willing to tell you what happened."

The big man told him everything he knew, and it was just as he had just said.

The officials of the Ministry of Works, who were sent to build trade roads here, were greedy for a lot of silver that should be distributed to the people, and according to Chen Mu's decree, the people who built the mountain roads could get at least two taels of silver a month.

A great number of people were mobilized to build the mountain road, and the silver was added together in bits and pieces, and it was thousands of taels.