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Chu Huan said "Oh", but his eyes flashed sternly, but he asked calmly, "Wei Wuji? Are you going to sue Wei Wuji?"

A group of people said one after another: "It is precisely to sue Wei Wuji, and I implore the governor to make the decision for us."

"What did Wei Wuji do to make you feel so wronged?" Chu Huan leaned forward slightly, holding a horsewhip in his hand, and looked down at the group of people in front of him, "How did he drive you to a dead end?"

The old man said: "Your Excellency, the Department of Household Affairs has issued a notice, asking us to report this year's harvest to the account, and then lease [-]% of the harvest to the Department of Household Department. Your Excellency Governor, the harvest is ours, what should we do?" It should be up to us to decide how to deal with these harvests, Wei Wuji is domineering and wants to force our harvests into the official treasury, this has never happened before, please let the Governor make the decision for us."

Qi Hong frowned when he heard it from the side.

He naturally knew that the subletting of borrowing grain was a policy proposed by Chu Huan. Although it was clearly implemented by the Household Department under Wei Wuji's management, Chu Huan was the backer behind it.

These gentry suddenly stopped the road today to sue Wei Wuji, but in fact they came here for Chu Huan.

Of course Qi Hong wouldn't believe it. Don't these people know that Chu Huan is the real decision-maker for subletting grain. Today, they blocked the way to sue Huai.

Chu Huan, however, remained calm and calm. He scanned the hundreds of people in front of him and asked, "Are you all here to sue Wei Wuji?"

Everyone said yes.

"According to your opinion, Wei Wuji shouldn't have borrowed your grain into the government treasury?" Chu Huan asked, "Or, are you all unwilling to lend your grain to the government?"

The old man said: "My lord, we don't steal or rob our food. We harvest it from our own fields. The seeds of our food are all borrowed from other places with our own efforts. We have to pay back double when we have the harvest. Give it away, plus the rations of the elders and children of the clan, if [-]% of the grain is handed over to the official warehouse, we will have no way to survive."

"That's right, Governor, this year's harvest is not much at all. To pay off the debt, there will be even less left over. Even the last bit of food will be taken away by the Department of Household Affairs. Do we still have to live?"

"We don't borrow." Someone even said loudly: "If you want to take away our food, you have to step over our corpses."

"Since the founding of the country, I have never heard of the government forcing big households to borrow food." Someone said loudly: "Since it is a loan, of course both parties must be willing. If we don't want to borrow it, then it is not a loan, but a robbery." !"

"Wei Wuji forcibly borrowed food, which is to seize. He is no doubt like a bandit. I implore the Governor to order Wei Wuji to be severely punished."

The voices of hundreds of people rose one after another, and the momentum was very spectacular for a while. Seeing the momentum, seeing the momentum here, the voices of the people became louder and louder, and their words became more and more bold. Capture Wei Wuji and behead him for public display to appease public anger.

Chu Huan rode on the horse and kept calm from beginning to end. He watched the crowd yelling. They shouted for a while, but when they saw that Chu Huan was just looking at them indifferently, their voices gradually became quieter.

Not long after, the surroundings became silent, everyone looked at each other, then at Chu Huan, and no one spoke.

Snowflakes were flying all over the sky, and Chu Huan actually took off the hat on his head, patted the snow that fell on the hat, and then put it on again, ordering: "Come here, get the pen and ink!"

Soon, pens and inks were brought up, and Chu Huan ordered them to arrange them. Under the curious eyes of everyone, he said: "You are all from aristocratic families, and you must have talented people with outstanding literary talents. Since you want to sue Wei Wuji, you should sue Wei Wuji now. Write a complaint here, and the governor will review the complaint here today, what do you think?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and then many people whispered in low voices.

Chu Huan stared at the old man in his early years, and asked, "I don't know what to call the old man?"

"Villain Xing Long!" The old man replied.

"Old man Xing, you have a very high prestige, and you must be a person who understands etiquette in poetry and writing. How about you write today's complaint?" Chu Huan stared at Xing Long's eyes aggressively.

After all, Xing Long is old and sophisticated, and he faintly felt that something was wrong. He waved his hands and said: "Mr. Governor, the old man is dim-sighted. He has not used pen and ink for many years. There are not a few people here who are proficient in writing and ink. Please, Mr. Governor, choose someone else!"

Chu Huan shook his head and said, "That's all right. Mr. Xing doesn't need to write the pen himself. I think you must have a lot to say in your heart today when you come to appeal for grievances. You must also know the words to sue Wei Wuji. You can find it. One person writes it, you read it out, let someone write it on paper, let's write this complaint in public, what do you think?"

The corners of Xing Long's eyes twitched slightly, Chu Huan raised his finger and pointed at the person next to Xing Long, who yelled loudly just now, "Seeing that you are well-dressed, you must also be proficient in writing, and you will write this complaint instead of old man Xing, what do you think?" ?”

The man hurriedly said: "My lord, the villain's handwriting is ugly, I don't dare...don't dare to show my ugliness!"

"Since we want to sue Wei Wuji, we can't do it without a complaint." Chu Huan calmly said: "Today's complaint cannot be written, so we will continue to brew it in this heavy snow. The governor wants to avenge you, and there is no complaint. How to avenge?"

Xing Long hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Mr. Zhao, you write it!"

A person came out from the crowd, with a hesitant expression on his face, but he didn't refuse. He walked forward and waited with a pen. Xing Taki pondered for a while, and finally spoke out.

He is indeed a man of literary talents, a complaint with gorgeous rhetoric, but it is full of attacks on Wei Wuji. In this complaint, Wei Wuji has become a cruel official who is greedy and extortionate. There are no such and such wicked people, even if they go down to the eighteenth level of hell, they will not be able to appease the public anger.

The complaint was written and presented to Chu Huan. Chu Huan took a look at it, nodded with a smile, and said, "Old man Xing is indeed a good writer. It turns out that Wei Wuji's crimes are so innumerable...Okay, okay, okay!" Xing Long, "There is a complaint, but there is no accuser. Although the governor knows that you are all going to sue Wei Wuji, the governor doesn't know all of you. In this way, those who want to testify in court must do so. Write down your name, the front is not enough, you can write on the back."

Xing Long didn't dare to accept the complaint, and said: "Master Governor, this is a joint complaint from all the gentry in Xiguan, not specific to a few people...!"

"The entire Xiguan gentry?" Chu Huan shook his head and said, "That's not right. As far as I know, there are still some people who are willing to lend grain. Xiguan is in a difficult time. Once winter is over, when the spring plowing season comes, large tracts of land will be destroyed. Waiting for the seeds to go to the ground, before the spring plowing, the distribution of the seeds must be implemented. If there is a mistake and the plowing season is missed, the consequences will be disastrous. As far as I know, the Department of Housekeeping has already borrowed a batch of grain seeds, but the quantity is not enough. It is far from enough, the Department of Households is not only considering the cultivation of a few households, but the cultivation of the entire Xiguan Road...!" His eyes became sharper, "Not long ago, the governor just had a meeting with the seven surnames of Xiguan. Mr. Su, the head of the Su family, had a discussion with Mr. Su. Mr. Su was kind and kind. He told Ben Du that in fact, the whole Xiguan is like a big tree. , and our government is just branches and leaves."

Everyone was staring at Chu Huan, wondering what Chu Huan was thinking.

"The plight of Xiguan is like the lack of water for this big tree. If you want to keep the big tree alive, what needs water most is not the branches and leaves, not the trunk, but the roots." Chu Huan said slowly: "The roots have water. , the whole big tree is alive, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and thriving, but if the root of the tree lacks water and water is poured on the trunk, the tree will not survive after all.”

These gentlemen must be shrewd, and many of them have already understood what Chu Huan meant.

"This governor is a branch of this tree. When the big tree dies, this branch and leaf of this governor will naturally not be able to survive. Therefore, even if this governor is for himself, it is impossible for this governor to let this tree fall." Chu Huan said lightly. : "The purpose of your suing Wei Wuji today, I am very clear, you want to put all the water on the trunk, whether it is the root or the branch, for you, you don't care, what you care about is only the trunk itself, not the tree trunk itself. The whole big tree. This truth is actually very simple, but you don’t want to understand it, and you pretend you don’t understand it. Shaking the complaint in his hand, "It's snowing so much today, it's really not easy for hundreds of you to gather here, and the governor is not an unreasonable person. Since I'm here, I have to give you an explanation."

Everyone opened their eyes wide and held their breath, wondering what kind of explanation Chu Huan wanted to give.

"You understand, I also understand, suing Wei Wuji, in the final analysis, isn't it because you want to keep your own harvest and don't want to lend it to the Department of Household Affairs?" Chu Huan said lightly: "We don't have to play tricks, you accuse Sang and scold Huai. First hand, it is too clumsy, and it is aimed at the governor, and the governor doesn't care. The governor is not a person who makes things difficult for others. Since you have all come here to complain about grievances, then even if you sign this complaint, the governor can tell you, even if it is The gentry in the entire Xiguan signed on this, and the governor will not punish Wei Wuji, but the governor can give you what you want, remember what the governor said, as long as anyone who signs on it does not need to pay the government. Well, from now on, the government will never discuss this issue with those who have signed it."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Many people felt that this matter was too smooth. They came here in the snow today. After all, the ultimate goal was to force Chu Huan to make concessions. They did not want to lend the grain in their own warehouse to the government. With food in hand, that is the last word. If you lend food to the government, you can't control it, and the interest on the lease is too meager. If you keep it in your hands and resell it, the profit will be more than ten times.

They also made psychological preparations in advance, knowing that Chu Huan is not a person who is easy to compromise, so they organized hundreds of families this time, using Wei Wuji as a breakthrough point, just to put pressure on Chu Huan.

Hundreds of gentry families are not weak, representing several huge forces on the first floor of Xiguan. They hope that after seeing them, Chu Huan can weigh them up.

It's just that they didn't expect that Chu Huan seemed to have succumbed without making too much effort today.

However, a few people had already heard an ominous omen from Chu Huan's tone. They were keenly aware that behind the smooth progress of things, Chu Huan seemed to have dug a big hole, waiting for everyone to jump into it.