Chapter 629: The Praying Mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind
The arrow hit accurately, and the two soldiers fell to the ground and died instantly.
This scene made the audience silent for an instant, and everyone's eyes widened, and there was obviously a little surprise in their eyes.
It was not a bandit who shot him, but a serious Dongzhou soldier and a soldier of Da Liang.
Even if this overseer is powerful, it is impossible to kill whoever he wants.
The local official's face changed, and just when someone opened his mouth and wanted to question, Su Qi'an's voice sounded unhurriedly.
"Is the envoy's words bad? Tell you to stop, how many people listened? ”
"Hmph, even if it's a Daliang soldier, he is lawless, and he doesn't even listen to the orders of the envoy, and the envoy has the right to cut it first and then execute him."
"Why, if you have any opinions, you can mention them in person, and I will follow."
Su Qi'an's voice was very cold, but everyone could hear the coldness in his words, at this moment, those officials who wanted to question the words in their hearts reached their throats, and then swallowed them back.
All the people also reacted, and indeed at the moment when Su Qi'an's voice fell, except for the soldiers who executed him, the rest of them stopped, and even the quarrel was much quieter.
Su Qi'an is a supervision envoy sent by the imperial court, with a high and powerful position, and in a way, he represents the imperial court.
If even two little soldiers can't stop him, then who will listen to him? It can also convince the public.
Therefore, Su Qi'an's arrows are indeed justified, and if you want to refute it, there is no way to talk about it.
When everyone present was silent, the first to speak was Zigui Juncheng, who turned his head to the officials with a kind smile on his face.
"Your courage is really overwhelming, you don't even listen to the orders of the overseer, if it were me, then the two of them would also deserve death, there is nothing to say, if you want to speak for the dead soldiers, ask the official first."
"It seems that the official is too merciful to your management, causing you to indulge your subordinate officials so much, and why are you still stunned, all of them bring back a good life and rectification to the official."
"Three days later, the official wants a rectification result, which is really unusual."
Zigui Juncheng's reprimand, everyone heard it clearly, the stunned official came back to his senses, nodded quickly, and then wanted to take his officers and soldiers to prepare to leave.
But at this time, he was stopped by Su Qi'an, "Wait a minute, why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Don't you want to ventilate and run away in advance? ”
"The Inspector made the Lord laugh, who else can we report the news, there are adults here to preside over government affairs, we just cooperate obediently."
"Let them bring it back, also so as not to cause trouble to the adults." Zigui Juncheng looked smiling and explained on the side.
"Yes, the envoy doesn't think it, if nothing else, just those two soldiers who executed, if they hadn't been instructed, I don't think the two of them would have been so bold and regarded what the envoy said as nothing."
"Moreover, looking at the ruthlessness of their attacks, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit of a mouthful."
"Don't joke with the inspectors, they are Daliang soldiers, how can they do something to kill them, isn't this no different from bandits."
"I think there must be some misunderstanding in the middle, and I also ask the supervision envoy to give the subordinate three days, and the subordinate official will definitely find out to the supervision envoy."
Zigui Juncheng's attitude was sincere, with a look of assurance, Su Qi'an nodded slightly, looked at the officials in front of him, and said softly.
"I don't think I bother you adults about this, what happened tonight, just leave it to the envoy to deal with, you adults are still resting, and the envoy will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation."
Su Qi'an seemed to be discussing, but when the voice fell, the hundred and ten soldiers behind him slowly walked towards the group of officials.
It seems that they want to arrest them.
The eyes of the officials flashed, all looking at Zigui Juncheng, seeing Su Qi'an's subordinates arresting them, and finally, Zigui Juncheng couldn't help but speak.
"What do you mean, Inspector?"
"You came to visit the place, we are good food and drink, and now you want to arrest us, even if you are the overseer, what right do you have to arrest us, what law have we violated?"
"And with the hundred or so people under you, if you want to arrest us, can you do it?"
This time, Zigui Juncheng was no longer as humble as before, but with a little arrogance, looking at Su Qi'an, he was not afraid at all.
"Hehe, this is the demeanor of all the adults, and they are also officials of a county, if they always look weak, how can they oppress the local people."
Su Qi'an's ridicule, Zigui Juncheng didn't care at all, he dared to have such an attitude, naturally he had his confidence.
Again, if you want to arrest them, you have to show proof that they haven't broken the law.
At most, it is to manage the people in civilian areas strictly, and to indulge the officials under him a little, and these are at most fines, far from the point of being taken down.
Like the soldiers who were shot before, they were completely to blame, and they did not listen to Su Qi'an's orders.
It is reasonable for Su Qi'an to make an example of the monkey, but they are quite different from the dead soldiers, and they are all officials of the same party.
Even if Su Qi'an represents the imperial court and has the right to cut them first and then play, he can't take them down without substantive evidence.
If they are forcibly arrested, they will naturally not be arrested, they will directly resist, and even if they make trouble in the state capital or even the imperial court, they will have something to say.
Zigui Juncheng's toughness was not what Su Qi'an expected, he nodded slightly and said with a smile.
"Well, the adults are right," since the adults insist on doing so, I will let you die to understand. ”
Su Qi'an sat on the horseback, patted his hands, and after a while, in the darkness behind him, suddenly more than a dozen black-clothed people were escorted up by his soldiers.
"Let's take a look and see if there are any old acquaintances among these people."
As Su Qi'an's voice fell, the black-clothed man who was escorted up took off the mask on his face, revealing familiar faces.
"Wu Fu! Jiang San, it's you! ”
"Wait, there's the county captain!"
When the people looked at it, they all showed exclamations.
These black-clothed men who were brought up were none other than the local officials headed by the Zigui County Lieutenant, as well as the housekeepers and servants of the Wu family and the Jiang family's mansions.
Unexpectedly, the so-called robbers turned out to be the most familiar officials around them, servants of the family.
But on second thought, this can also be explained, if these people are not the people who live around them, how can they easily enter the county town.
If there is no background behind him, or even collusion, how can it be that a man in black can't be caught.
Looking at the dozen or so familiar people in front of him, everything was explained at once.
Although there had been speculations before, they didn't have any evidence, and they didn't dare to say anything in their hearts, but this time it was different, Su Qi'an directly captured some of the men in black who attacked.
exposed his identity in public, which is basically a certainty, and it is impossible to defend himself.
"Sure enough, it's them, everyone, Wang Wu is right, there are such officials who bully us, how can we live our lives."
"I didn't expect that the so-called parent official turned out to be a bandit who plagued us, which makes people feel sad."
"If we don't resist, will we still have a head in the future, execute them, execute them!"
After a while, a quiet civilian area instantly erupted into fierce crusades.
The momentum converged, filled with thick anger, it can be said that as the identity of the man in black was revealed, the anger that had been suppressed in the hearts of the people for a long time was directly ignited at this moment.
The explosion of such momentum made the officials present tremble with fright, if it were not for the presence of soldiers to maintain order, these people would have to skin them alive.
The official's fear does not mean all, even in the face of the iron-clad evidence in front of him and the monstrous momentum that erupted behind him, Zigui Juncheng still did not blush and his heart did not beat.
After a moment of silence, he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
At this scene, all the people who watched it were stunned, and they all thought that Zigui County was crazy.
The laughter rang out, and after a while, Zigui Juncheng said coldly.
"Hmph, I have long heard that the supervision envoy is good at manipulating people's hearts and coercing public opinion, and today it seems that his reputation is well deserved, so that the lower officials admire."
"But this is Dongzhou, it is Zigui County, it is our territory, don't forget, to deal with these untouchables, the lower officials have the means, and the Inspector really thinks that with the rise of these untouchables, he can wipe us out? Amusing. ”
"I don't know if the supervision envoy still remembers what the subordinate said just now, just with the supervision envoy's manpower, if you want to take down us, it's not qualified."
The moment Zigui Juncheng's voice fell, after a while, behind Su Qi'an, there were suddenly bursts of hurried footsteps.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of soldiers with no end in sight, armed with torches, quickly came towards the civilian area, and without saying a word, surrounded the entire civilian area.
Just looking at the number of torches, the number of state soldiers who came this time was at least thousands, which was completely crushing Su Qi'an's hundred or so people.
With the appearance of the back hand arranged by Zigui Juncheng, the momentum that was still huge just now died down in a moment.
Even if the people at this moment are angry, but in the face of thousands of heavily armed soldiers, even if they want to resist, they will not be a unified general, and if they forcibly rush forward, it is estimated that they are looking for death.
The people's banners died down, and Zigui Juncheng didn't look at them at all, and from beginning to end, he didn't pay attention to these people.
It's just a group of pariahs who jump off the beam, and before facing absolute strength, any tricks are vulnerable.
"Hehe, the envoy underestimated you, this is your backhand, you are really different from other counties, there is an army hidden in the city, which makes the envoy a little surprised, it is really a good drama of praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind."
"Hehe, it is an honor for the subordinate officials to be praised by the supervision envoy, and it is always right to be cautious."
"Okay, now the Inspector Envoy, you can talk to the lower officials about how you used the golden cicada to break out of your shell in front of everyone, quietly returned to Zigui County, and also captured some of the attackers such as the county lieutenant."
"The rest of the attackers, with the temperament of the inspector, should not let go, where are they, all these things, the lower officials are really curious."