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

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 an upright character, might not necessarily avoid the spotlight and swallow his anger like him.

"fart!"

However, when faced with Chen Kuan's scolding, Chu Chu said angrily without hesitation: "The evil spirit will not cause trouble in the morning, but it will cause trouble after the mutual aid grains are placed in the west warehouse. And who doesn't know that the evil spirit will cause trouble in the future?" How can you take advantage of Xicang when you feed on the spiritual energy of living beings?!"

"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?"

Ignoring his father's obstruction, Chu Xi walked 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 Hui stand up, the others felt that they would go to Montenegro with only one stone of grain 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 Hui didn't 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.

"My 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 Hu'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? Hehe..."

The yamen servants and police officers 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!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately looked stern, looking at Chu Zhan who was lying in a pool of blood and being beaten down by the government officials. At this time, there was no movement at all. Chu Zhan and others, who did not know whether they were alive or dead, had their mouths trembling, and they did not dare to When he spoke again, he 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.