I have a two world clock

Chapter 163 Rules
"Killing with authority?"

After Li Mu heard Zhou Daoquan's words, he was slightly stunned: "Why did you say that, my lord? We will eradicate the scourge for the neighbors, punish the rebellious party, sit upright, walk upright, clarify the canonical punishment, and try to listen with the uprightness. Become a murderer with authority?"

Zhou Dao's face was gloomy: "Nonsense!"

He patted the table lightly, made a dull sound, and shouted: "Arbitrarily killing people, showing off power, treating people like pigs and dogs, killing people like killing insects, without any mercy, is this called sitting upright?" ? This is not called killing people with power, what is it called?"

Zhang Shihong was so frightened that he lowered his hands and bowed his head: "Yes, what my lord taught me is that it is a humble job that gets carried away and forgets the laws and regulations..."

Li Mu frowned and looked at Zhou Daoquan: "My lord, according to the laws of the Great Yin, we should interrogate, sentence, punish, behead, kill, kill, eradicate disasters for the people, and clean up the chaotic party for the court. We did not have the slightest selfish intentions for any illegal acts, my lord, where does your anger come from?"

Zhou Daoquan stared at Li Mu: "No selfishness at all?"

Li Mu said: "That's right! Li Mu has no selfishness in helping the victims and beheading the rebels!"

He said these few words firmly, without any hesitation.

The hall suddenly fell silent.

At this time, in the hall of the county government office, apart from Li Mu and Zhang Shihong, there were other small officials who were taking orders at any time. Seeing that Li Muji had the guts to confront Zhou Daoquan face to face, they were all horrified.

Zhou Dao is the governor of Yunzhou all over his body. He is a second-rank feudal official who has the right to specialize.

Nowadays, Yunzhou is tens of thousands of miles away from the imperial city of Zhongzhou, so it is extremely inconvenient to communicate and send letters. Every big official in the frontier can almost catch up with the king of a small country. He has great power and can decide the life and death of a state.

Every governor is a well-deserved boss in the territory under his jurisdiction, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the emperor of the land.

In addition to being responsible to the emperor, they can make their own decisions on other big and small matters.

Therefore, except for some royal children and children of big families, few people dared to face the governor's majesty, and few people dared to refute the governor's views face to face.

But now when Li Mu faced Governor Zhou Daoquan, he showed no fear, confronting him face to face, which made the onlookers horrified.

You really want to die, don't drag us!
Is the governor also someone you can contradict?
Didn't you see that Zhang Shihong was so frightened that he didn't even dare to raise his head?

How could you be so courageous, a guy who is not even a scholar, a scholar who has no fame?

Everyone's heart was beating wildly. Standing in the hall, they looked at Li Mu as if they were looking at a dead person.

Even Zhang Shihong raised his head in surprise, stretched out his hand and tugged at Li Mu's sleeve: "Muzhi is cautious..."

Li Mu said with a smile: "We are doing things aboveboard, why not say something? My lord's eyes are bright, I believe he won't really take offense."

Zhang Shihong: "..."

Sweat dripped from his forehead: "Muzhi, don't be impulsive..."

Others may not know much about Zhou Daoquan, but Zhang Shihong has been to Yunzhou Prefecture to catch up for the exam. When he took the rural exam in Yunzhou City, he heard more than once what the new governor Zhou Daoquan did.

For example, which powerful family was killed, which disobedient corrupt official was killed, and the monsters who were sent to wipe out that mountain, all these are too numerous to enumerate.

No matter how you look at it, Mr. Zhou is not a soft-hearted person. On the contrary, he should be the kind of strong-armed figure who will not hesitate to kill all dissatisfied people for his own governance philosophy.

Faced with such a character, Zhang Shihong didn't even have the courage to look directly at him, let alone confront him face to face.

"I was also obsessed with lard, and I actually killed so many people after listening to Muzhi's words."

Zhang Shihong regretted a bit: "Now that I have provoked the anger of the boss, I am afraid that I will not be able to be the county magistrate!"

Fortunately, he is a Juren and has a reputation, so he is not in danger of being decapitated. It's just that he finally won the county magistrate position by chance, and he probably won't be able to become it.

But Li Mu is his savior, and Zhang Shihong has no other choice but to support Li Mu with all his might.

Even if he offended the governor today and was dismissed from office, that could only be said to be bad luck, but he couldn't resent Li Mu.

After all, it was his own idea to punish the villains of the rebellious party, and he couldn't push all of them on Li Mu.

Zhang Shihong was trembling, standing where he was, not daring to raise his head, he just felt that Zhou Daoquan's gaze in front of him seemed real, and when it stopped on his body, goose bumps arose on his skin.

There was a moment of silence.

boom!
Zhou Daoquan suddenly slammed his palm on the table in front of him: "How courageous!"

"what!"

Zhang Shihong was so frightened that he trembled and fell to the ground.

Li Mu remained motionless, looking directly at Zhou Daoquan: "I also ask for your advice, my lord."

Zhou Dao's expression remained unwavering, and he stared at Li Mu for a moment, just when everyone thought he was going to get angry and deal with Li Mu, they saw him suddenly laughing: "Okay!"

He smiled at Li Mu: "Although there are quite a few people in the officialdom who can stick to their own opinions without wavering and unyielding in power, they are still a minority. Muzhi, I don't like what you and Shihong have done. But I like your character."

Zhang Shihong slowly got up from the ground, and his mind was settled. Today's incident is considered to be over, but the shock just now couldn't be faked, and his back was soaked in cold sweat.

Zhou Daoquan sat down slowly, and nodded to Li Mu: "You all sit down, this is not an example!"

He said to Li Mu: "You two are using my cover to beat up a group of disobedient people in the county as a rebellious party and kill them all. Although the original intention was good, but the way you did it has fallen into the devil's way. It has nothing to do with bullying officials. What's the difference?"

There are certain rules for doing everything, especially in human society, whether it is in the officialdom or the battlefield, there is a custom or a general sense of the rules.

Now that the Great Yin Dynasty had established laws and regulations, Zhang Shihong and Li Mu, as members of the court, should abide by the rules. Once the restrictions were broken, they basically violated the laws and regulations.

Li Mu and Zhang Shihong pretended to be tigers, and held Zhou Daoquan's name as a banner to kill so many people at once, which was not justified by law and reason. Even if the result was good, it could not cover up the procedural injustice.

Zhou Daoquan was annoyed by this.

Confucian disciples have certain rules for how to behave in the world, there are etiquette, there are rules, and things must be done within the rules. Once the rules are broken and the standards are exceeded, great hidden dangers will inevitably arise.

Just like in the old days when a master taught an apprentice, he could become a teacher under his disciples only if he did what he wanted and did not exceed the rules. Otherwise, there must be something wrong with his thoughts and actions, and his actions will not reach the level of moderation.

Zhou Daoquan was inherited from the lineage of ancient Confucianism, and he valued rules very much, so he was very angry with Li Mu and Zhang Shihong's actions these days. If it wasn't for Li Mu's face, they would have been imprisoned and dealt with according to the law.

He has been injured and recuperated in the past few days, his spiritual thoughts have spread all over the world, and he has been listening to the movement in a radius of tens of miles. From the few words of Gu Qingcheng and Hu Yuniang, he has deduced that the people who saved him a few days ago turned out to be Li Mu and Gu Qingcheng.

At his level of practice, the heart lake can reflect the movement of the world in all directions, and under normal circumstances, no movement can hide from his perception.

It's just that Queyue Mountain's cave and sky formed a world of its own, which made it impossible for him to detect the situation inside, and because he was eager to save people, he had to take a risky fight for Shen Chong's safety. As for hurting him.

Unexpectedly, he was infected by the exhausted breath of Queyue Dongtian, so he was taken advantage of by monsters, besieged and injured. Fortunately, a peerless master punched Queyue Dongtian, repairing the entire Dongtian world, and also removed Zhou Dao The decaying atmosphere in the whole body made Zhou Daoquan take the opportunity to escape from Queyue Cave, and with Li Mu's help, he returned to Qinghe County safely.

He has been recuperating for the past few days, summed up his thoughts, and there are two people who really shocked him.

One is the peerless master who suddenly appeared. He is really extremely powerful. I don’t know which patriarch of the leader level descended. With just one punch, he reshaped a cave world. The supernatural means are really unheard of. It's the old master who is alive, I'm afraid it's nothing more than that.

There is another person, Li Mu.

If he hadn't monitored the movement in Qinghe County, and hadn't heard the chat between Gu Qingcheng and Hu Yuniang, he wouldn't have known that it was Li Mu who saved him from the turtle and snake two demons a few days ago.

Therefore, knowing that Li Mu and Zhang Shihong had acted too much and killed too many people in the past few days, Zhou Daoquan didn't come forward to stop them, so today they just reprimanded them and didn't care about them.

"That's the end of this matter, let's not make an example!"

Sitting in the hall, he said to Li Mu and Zhang Shihong: "You guys have done a good job in arranging the irrigation and water conservancy of the farmland. This time the merits and demerits are equal, and I will neither punish you nor reward you."

Li Mu hastily saluted: "Thank you, sir, for your understanding."

Zhang Shihong was even more overjoyed: "The boss is so sympathetic, the students are very grateful!"

Sitting in the lobby, Zhou Daoquan began to discuss matters concerning the disaster victims in the two counties. After everything was arranged, Zhou Daoquan looked at Li Mu: "Muzhi, in two months, it will be the year of the Dabi. In three days, the government will Return to Yunzhou City to prepare for the invigilation. If you take the rural examination, you have to prepare as soon as possible."

He said to Li Mu: "Based on your merits in the county seat, I can go to the imperial court and allow you a place to be a candidate. You don't need to take an exam, and you will have a reputation. But how can the rewards be compared to those obtained by yourself? You'd better It’s better to take the exam yourself.”

When Zhou Daoquan said this, he laughed and said, "The girls in Wanhualou are all still waiting for you."

　Something happened at home, which caused the update to be interrupted. I'm really sorry.Now that things are settled, the normal update begins.

　　
　
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