Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

Chapter 210
Taihe County, county government.

Hundreds of people gathered at the gate of the county government office. They all looked at Chen Kuan, the county clerk, who was sitting at the gate of the county government office and writing something down on the desk with a pen in his hand, with a look of astonishment and horror on his face.

"What? One stone?!"

Among the crowd, Chu Zhan and Chu father and son, who were standing closer together, stared angrily and said angrily:

"Didn't we agree before that every citizen who moved to Montenegro would get ten shi of rice and noodles from the government? Why only give us one shi?"

Someone took the lead, and others started asking questions.

"That's right! Why only one stone?"

"Where are the remaining nine stones?"

"That's Montenegro! How can we live if we are only given one stone of food?"

"That's it! One stone of grain can't even survive the summer harvest, not to mention it's so hard to find arable land in the Black Mountains. Wouldn't this make us starve to death there?"

"How can you do this!"

"..."

Facing the questioning from everyone, Chen Kuan didn't even raise his head.

"Didn't you make an announcement?"

While writing, he said: "All the mutual aid grains were placed in the vacated west warehouse. The day before yesterday, there was a sudden change in the fire spirit power near the west warehouse. It was suspected that evil spirits were causing trouble. Water broke out in the west warehouse. Most of the grain stored in the warehouse was burned. The county magistrate took the I will do my best to rescue you, so I can save more than 3000 shi of food and distribute it to you."

After a pause, he continued: "Your Excellency, you know that Black Mountain is a barren land with extremely low grain yield, and you also know that it is not easy for you, but there is no other way. As the head of a county, your Excellency, you have to consider the number of people in Taihe County." For the livelihood of thousands of households, if the grain is distributed according to the original plan, the grain from Dongcang will inevitably be used. Whether the imperial court will approve it is not said. The world is difficult now. If all the grain is given to you, before the summer harvest, the people in the county will not be able to survive. The food surplus at home is exhausted, and the official warehouse is empty, but there will be a big trouble."

Having said this, he finally slowly raised his head, looked around at everyone, and then said expressionlessly:

"It's difficult for you, it's even more difficult for the county magistrate. These are extraordinary times, so everyone should just do whatever it takes."

Hearing this, everyone immediately felt a chill in their hearts.

The official warehouse is leaking?Monsters causing trouble?
So much food was just gone?
They don't know whether this is true or false, or in other words, the truth or falsehood of this matter is simply irrelevant to them.

All they knew was that without enough food, they wouldn't be able to survive for long.

Send them to Montenegro for a stone of grain to serve as food for the Taihe County magistrate?

What's the difference between this and letting them die?
"But the government clearly promised to give us ten shi of grain, but now it only gives us one shi. How can we survive until we can open up acres of land in Xishan?"

Chu Zhan asked in a deep voice:

“How can the government be so unfaithful to its word?!”

Chen Kuan glanced at him and his expression gradually turned cold.

"You're such a cunning person, why are you talking?!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he directly determined Chu Zhan's character.

"How can this be considered as the government breaking its word? It's obviously an evil spirit or half-demon who caused trouble and destroyed the mutual aid food. What does it have to do with the government? Every injustice has its owner and every debt has its owner. If you want to blame, blame that damn evil spirit or half-demon. Go, don’t slander the government here, otherwise you won’t blame me for being rude!”

Seeing Chen Kuan's cold expression, all the people suddenly shrank their necks.

Those who can become imperial officials are all serious monks. Faced with the anger of the monks, ordinary people like them will naturally feel fear instinctively.

To be honest, Chen Kuan was very polite. If this was not the capital of the capital, and the recent trends in the court were a little strange, all the officials had restrained themselves and did not dare to be as blatant as before. Zhan's questioning was somewhat popular today.

Otherwise this matter will never be over.

Even so, as a monk, Chen Kuan could not tolerate these ordinary people like ants offending his majesty, otherwise where would his face be?

If Chu Zhan dared to come forward again, he would not tolerate it again.

Although it was difficult to do anything openly, it was still very simple to make him suffer "a little bit" openly.

Chu Zhan frowned suddenly.

He felt keenly that there was a trace of evil intention in Chen Kuan's eyes.

He subconsciously stopped talking.

However, he calmed down, but his son Chu, who had studied for several years and raised a righteous character, would not necessarily avoid the edge and swallow his anger like him.

"fart!"

But when Chu faced Chen Kuan's scolding, he spoke angrily without hesitation: "The demons don't make trouble earlier, they don't make trouble later, but they made trouble after the mutual aid grains were placed in Xicang, and who doesn't know that the evil spirit can bring life to life?" How could he take advantage of Xicang's ideas if he feeds on his living aura?!"

"Ah…"

Chen Kuan's patience was instantly exhausted.

He sneered and said coldly:
"The government didn't say it must be evil, it's just a possibility, or it could be some kind of semi-demon causing trouble. In short, the government is still sparing no effort to investigate the matter, and will never let go of any thieves who dare to destroy mutual aid food. In short, I will give you an explanation one day, just wait and feel at ease."

"What use do we need this explanation for?"

Regardless of his father's obstruction, Chu stepped forward and said angrily: "We only want food, the food the government promised us, the rest is the government's business, what does it have to do with us?!"

The most fearful thing in everything is someone taking the lead.

Seeing Chu standing up, the others felt that they would go to Montenegro with only one stone of food and wait for death. Suddenly some people got excited and stood up one after another.

"This big brother is right, we just want food!"

"No matter what, since the government promised to give us ten shi of food, we can't break our promise!"

"Where is the County Lord? We want to see the County Lord!"

"..."

Anyway, death is inevitable. It is better to die quickly than wait for death in Montenegro.

"presumptuous!"

Chen Kuan was furious.

"Your Majesty, the county magistrate, has been busy with everything and worked hard for Taihe County. It was for this relief food and for you to go to Montenegro temporarily without having to worry about your livelihood. The magistrate of the county even put down his body and talked to the businessmen to express his feelings and asked them to donate generously. , and even used the official voice to mobilize the people, although the mutual aid food has been destroyed now, no matter what, the county magistrate has tried his best on this matter. "

"It's just that you don't understand the county magistrate, but you still want to cause trouble for him. Has your conscience been eaten by dogs?!"

"Humph!"

Faced with Chen Kuan's remarks, Chu did not buy it at all and directly said what was in his mind:

"Who knows where the fire in Xicang came from? How can you prove that the food has been burned?"

As soon as these words came out, Chu Zhan's expression suddenly changed.

"Son, shut up!"

He subconsciously took two steps forward, then directly raised his one-armed arm and slapped his son's mouth to prevent him from talking nonsense.

However, Chu's words were like a fuse, instantly igniting the anger of many people present.

"That's right! Who knows if the food is really destroyed!"

"I don't know who's pocket it is..."

Snapped!
"Bold!"

Hearing what the people said, Chen Kuan immediately slapped the table hard.

"How dare you slander the government like this? Come on! Get these unruly and unruly people down to me!"

"Yes!"

The moment Chen Kuan finished speaking, all the government officials and policemen behind him immediately grasped the sticks in their hands and strode forward.

"You... what are you going to do?"

Seeing the police officers approaching with malicious looks on their faces, all the people suddenly panicked.

"What are you doing? Haha..." The government servants and policemen sneered, quickly approached the crowd, then suddenly raised their killing clubs and struck them down.

"what!"

Chu screamed in agony, and was knocked to the ground by a stick. Immediately afterwards, the left and right sides of his neck were skewered by killing sticks, making him unable to move at all.

Bang bang bang! !

The killing sticks fell on him one after another mercilessly, beating him to pieces in an instant, with blood flowing freely.

"Son!"

Chu Zhan exclaimed and subconsciously wanted to step forward to stop him.

As a veteran of the battlefield, he naturally had good skills, but on impulse, he shot and injured two police officers.

However, how could he, a disabled veteran, stop more than a dozen wolf-like men?

What's more, there is Chen Kuan, a serious monk.

An ordinary person without spiritual roots facing a monk is like a nine-year-old child holding a branch facing a well-equipped soldier, with almost no chance of winning.

So, soon, Chu Zhan was pressed to the ground by Chen Kuan's spiritual shield. He could only watch helplessly as his son was punched and kicked by the policemen again, and he was beaten to the point of death after a few blows. Foaming at the mouth and losing consciousness.

"what!!"

Chu Zhan's only remaining arm was firmly pressed against the spiritual shield in front of him, and he tried with all his strength to push away the spiritual shield pressing on him.

The roars continued, and veins popped out one after another.

But no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move at all.

"The ants are in a mob, struggling in vain."

Chen Kuan snorted coldly and stepped directly on the spiritual shield. At the same time, the spiritual energy was concentrated on the soles of his feet, instantly increasing the force under his feet.

"Moreover, you dare to rebel against the imperial court, you are an unforgivable sin!"

"Wow!"

Chu Zhan screamed, his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the sneering face of Chen Kuan in front of him, his eyes filled with hatred.

However, no matter how ruthless he was, the difference in strength was there, and there was nothing he could do except glare at Chen Kuan with hatred in his eyes.

Even though he fought tooth and nail to kill enemies for the imperial court, accomplished many meritorious deeds, and ended up with a broken arm, a disabled body, and a body full of pain, he still had no power to resist in front of the monk Chen Kuan. Chen Kuan didn't need to take him into account when he killed him. past honor.

Soon, Chu Zhan was pressed by the spiritual shield so much that his blood vessels burst, he vomited blood, and completely lost consciousness.

click...

Only a soft sound was heard, and the spiritual shield shattered.

"It's all under my watch!"

Chen Kuan retracted his feet, looked around coldly at the people who were frightened after the leader was captured, and said with an indifferent expression:
"My Lord, the County Lord, is kind and righteous, and has worked hard to prepare mutual aid food for you. No matter what, you should be grateful, instead of being like these unscrupulous people, who do not understand the difficulties of the government at all, embarrass the Lord, and even fight against the government. Injuring the officer, don’t forget, resisting the imperial court is a capital offense! As an official of the imperial court, I have the right to kill such undisciplined thugs on the spot according to the laws of the country!"

After hearing this, everyone immediately looked stern, looking at Chu Zhan who was lying in a pool of blood and being beaten to the ground by the government officials. At this time, there was no movement at all. Chu and others, who did not know whether they were alive or dead, had trembling mouths and did not dare to speak anymore. He opened his mouth and just looked at Chen Kuan with fear.

Chen Kuan waved his hand and asked the government officials to carry away the few people on the ground, and then said to everyone with an indifferent expression:
"Don't blame me for not reminding you. I have always handled official business with force and resoluteness. If anyone dares to do such a reckless thing again, you won't even think about taking away a stone of food or a grain of rice from the government!"

hiss!
Everyone immediately took a breath of air and took a step back.

They couldn't help but think that although one stone of food was not much, it was still better than none at all.
After reacting, some people were immediately convinced.

"Sir, the grass-roots people...the grass-roots people know that it is not easy for the county magistrate, so they don't dare to be harsh. Just give the grass-roots people a stone of food..."

"You sirs have worked so hard for us, how can ordinary people dare to ask for anything else?"

"One stone, one stone is enough..."

Seeing all the people surrendering, Chen Kuan finally showed a smile on his face.

That's right.

These are the good people of the Great Xia Dynasty.

The few thorns like those just now, especially the unruly mobster who was so bold and dared to fight against the government officials, should be cleared away quickly. Otherwise, keeping such people will sooner or later be a disaster. If something happens, the first mob will That's the kind of person.

"It's good that you understand."

Chen Kuan looked very happy.

Of course, even if the stick is beaten, the sweet dates still have to be given, or the cakes still have to be painted.

If it were in the past, there would be no need to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, but now the situation is special, and the buttocks that need to be wiped still have to be wiped.

"Okay, let's start distributing food now."

He sat back on the stool and picked up the book beside him.

Then he seemed to suddenly remember something, and while opening the booklet, he said: "Actually, you don't have to be too pessimistic. The County Lord knows that one stone of food is not enough to move Montenegro, so he is now thinking of ways to prepare food everywhere and try his best to help you spend your time." If you get through the difficulties, at least you won't lose your livelihood as soon as you arrive in Montenegro. After you get the food and go back, you can just wait with peace of mind."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and then a glimmer of light quietly flashed in their eyes.

At any rate, this is a glimmer of hope, isn't it...

People always tend to believe what they want to believe, and soon, everyone became more honest.

"Thank you, Lord County Lord, thank you Lord Registrar!"

"Your Excellency, what a good official!"

"Master Qingtian..."

Seeing this scene, Chen Cang shook his head slightly inexplicably, with a hint of indifferent smile on his face.

After an unknown period of time, all the grains placed behind the government office were finally distributed. In order to express the government's apology, Chen Kuan also ordered some more grains to be distributed to some elderly people who were obviously "highly respected".

After receiving the food, everyone left the county government one after another and returned to Montenegro.

At the same time, Yongping Village.

"Hmm."

Chu Baoer groaned, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Wake up."

A magnetic voice sounded in my ears.

Very strange voice.

Chu Baoer turned his head drowsily.

A moment later, when her vision returned to clarity, a handsome face appeared in front of her.

strange face.

stranger? !

In an instant, she was horrified, the chaos in her mind disappeared instantly, and then she hugged the quilt and retreated back.

"Who are you? Why are you at my house?!"

The one who looked at her with frightened eyes was naturally Lu Chen.

Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh when he saw the panicked look of the little girl in front of him who looked a bit like a certain black girl in his impression.

He opened his mouth and was about to speak, but at this moment——

"Oh no!"

Along with the sound of hurried footsteps, a cry of surprise suddenly sounded outside the door.

(End of this chapter)