The rich merchant frowned in surprise, and was about to say something when he saw Lord Ye take off a waist card from his waist and throw it in front of him.

The rich merchant glanced down at the waist card, and saw the appearance of the waist card clearly, and the rich businessman's eyes widened in shock.

He looked in the direction of Lord Ye and Chen Mu in disbelief, this waist card was asked by Lord Ye to come from the county order in this city.

It represents the county order in this city, and just the county order scared the rich merchant stupidly, and Lord Ye rolled his eyes.

The rich merchant also knew that what he had just said seemed to reveal his own details, so he hurriedly shook his head and stepped forward on his knees.

Just as he was about to say something, Lord Ye raised his foot and kicked out again, knocking the rich merchant to the ground.

"Your Excellency...... I know it's wrong, I shouldn't cut down trees and sell wood, in fact, I didn't cut much, I only cut more than a hundred, and I was willing to give all the money I earned to my lords. ”

"As long as you are willing to let me live, I promise that I will never do such a thing again."

When Chen Mu heard him say this, he sneered with some disdain, more than a hundred trees, he really thought he was a fool.

He had already sent for the people who were cutting trees and selling timber on the mountain. This rich businessman was the only one, and no one else had the courage to do so.

Not long after the decree was issued, the county orders of the various cities were staring at the mountain.

Although it is not known to whom this man sold the trees, it is an indisputable fact that this man cut down trees.

"Just a hundred trees? I had already sent people to explore the mountain, and there were no trees on several mountains in a row, and the trees were all cut down. ”

"I've already asked clearly, and the villagers who live around that mountain can prove that you are the only one who cut down trees on that mountain."

The man's eyelids jumped, and he looked up at Chen Mu sharply.

Seeing Chen Mu staring at him coldly, the rich merchant's throat rolled.

He took a deep breath and a smile tugged at his face.

"Big ...... Your Excellency, you're right, in fact, those trees are not the ones I cut down recently, but the ones I've been cutting down in the last few years. ”

"There are a lot of trees that I cut down a long time ago, and I ...... I haven't cut trees much since I learned that the adults in Kyochu didn't allow us to cut trees, except for the last few days......"

This man also intended to push back the time for cutting down the tree, and if the tree was cut down before the decree was issued, it would indeed not cure the man's sin.

It's a pity that when Chen Mu sent someone to inquire about this person's tree cutting, he had already found out the time when this person cut down the tree.

This man is the tree he has cut down in the last few days!

"You still want to deny it? The villagers can testify that you cut down the tree in the last few days, and now the evidence is conclusive......"

Chen Mu sneered and waved his hand at Lord Ye, who understood what Chen Mu meant, and immediately nodded in response.

He turned around and hurriedly retreated, the middle-aged man didn't know what Chen Mu was planning, he looked panicked, and looked up in the direction of Chen Mu.

Chen Mu met his gaze and hooked his lips and sneered.

"Because after you cut down those trees, the mud and sand rolled down the mountains and raised the riverbed, which caused this rainstorm to fall, and many people were affected."

The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard this, and then pouted.

The look of disdain in his eyes flashed quickly, he had never treated those people as human beings, let alone cared about the lives of those people.

Although he didn't know that if he cut down the tree, it would cause the mud and sand to roll down, but what did the life and death of those people have to do with him?

Now that he noticed that Chen Mu's gaze was still on his body, the middle-aged man stared at him.

He hurriedly retracted the look on his face again, looked up at Chen Mu with a helpless expression, and he spoke.

"My lord, I ...... I do not know...... I didn't know that I cut down the tree to do such a bad thing, and if I knew, I wouldn't have done it. ”

"Please spare me, my lord, I know it's wrong, I'm ...... I'm willing to give my possessions for disaster relief. ”

"I am willing to use my money to settle the people, please give me another chance, my lord."

Chen Mu shook his head, of course he also saw the middle-aged man's reaction just now.

"You didn't sincerely repent, and you continued to cut down trees after the capital issued a decree, you should pay the price for your actions."

The middle-aged man's face turned pale, and his lips moved slightly.

He was about to say something when he heard footsteps outside the door.

It was the county magistrate who learned what the middle-aged man had done and hurried there.

Looking up at Chen Mu standing in the hall, the county commander knelt down in fear, Chen Mu saw him like this, and shook his head quietly.

The county commander sighed helplessly, glared at the middle-aged man viciously, and then glanced at the official who followed behind him.

Immediately, someone stepped forward, grabbed the middle-aged man, and dragged him out of the lobby.

The middle-aged man struggled hard and howled miserably, hoping that Chen Mu would let him go.

When the county magistrate entered the lobby and bowed to Chen Mu, he had already realized that something was wrong.

The person in front of him is a person with a very good status, and he just admitted in front of this person that what he had done was the stupidest thing he had done in his life.

It's a pity that it's too late to regret it now, after letting the middle-aged man take away, the county magistrate knelt down in front of Chen Mu and confessed to Chen Mu.

He hadn't noticed that someone was cutting down trees on that mountain at all, and Chen Mu shook his head when he saw that the county order was like this.

"Didn't anyone in the people around the mountain tell you what the middle-aged man had done?"

The county magistrate made a bitter face, nodded and agreed, and he was also a little helpless.

If he had known that the middle-aged man was so bold and actually cut down trees at the stall where His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had issued a decree, he would definitely not let the other party go.

Seeing that the county order was like this, Chen Mu shook his head quietly.

Looking at the appearance of the prefectural order, it is true that he does not know what happened, and since this is the case, there is naturally no reason to hold the prefectural order responsible.

He reminded the prefectural magistrate to keep an eye on the surrounding mountains, and to send people to plant trees on the mountains.

The county order immediately nodded, and was about to let the county order retreat, Chen Mu's eyes moved, and he thought of an idea.

Wait, if you want to pay more attention to the situation in the mountains, someone has to patrol the mountains.

The county magistrate was in the government office, so naturally it was impossible to go to the mountain to investigate the situation often, so he could only send the government officials in the government to the mountain to investigate the situation.

However, the officials also had other things to do, so it was better to establish a forestry management office.

Let the officials in the government often patrol the mountain, and if something is wrong, they can also notify the prefectural order as soon as possible.

Thinking like this, Chen Mu did not rush to give an order, but glanced at the county order and asked him to go back to the county government to deal with the rich merchant first.

This decree had to be handed over to the people of the capital.