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

Of course they will be injured when the evil spirits attack. They have already received a few taels of solace money, and these people are probably still lying in Yixiangyuan now.

As for things like record keeping, food compensation for relocated people, etc., that's even more impossible to talk about.

The official warehouse is empty, how can he compensate the people?Do you use your own food to make up for it? !

What's the difference between that and courting death?

This happened just at noon today. The people who came to beg for food had just been restrained and he had just begun to make arrangements. How could he give a convincing explanation so quickly?

Being asked now, naturally there are loopholes everywhere.

After a while, Li Yongcheng forced himself to calm down, his mind was running rapidly, and he was constantly thinking about countermeasures.

However, Lu Chen would not give him time to react.

Seeing that Li Yongcheng didn't speak, Lu Chen raised his eyebrows.

"What? Do you still need to think about telling me the established facts? Or do you mean that as the head of a county, you don't even know about such a big matter?"

"this......"

Li Yongcheng swallowed his saliva and said nervously: "I'm sorry, Mr. Lu, I am... I have been fascinated by you for a long time. I saw you today. I was so excited that I couldn't control myself..."

"There's no need to say flattery."

There was a sneer on Lu Chen's lips.

"Or do you want to delay time so you can make excuses for yourself?"

Li Yongcheng's face trembled.

"Understood dare not!"

"Then reply quickly!"

Lu Chen scolded coldly.

"Yes!"

Li Yongcheng responded subconsciously, and then hesitantly said: "The mutual aid grain totals [-] dan. Before returning to the warehouse, the official reported it to Shuntian Prefecture. At the same time, he sent the county's policemen and government officials to guard it all night. ..."

Lu Chen suddenly asked: "Have you asked the Zhuxie Division stationed in Taihe County for instructions?"

"this......"

Li Yongcheng said: "The Zhuxie Division stationed in Taihe County doesn't have many people. When the subordinates saw that they were busy with official duties, they..."

"That is, without asking for instructions, you just rely on the county government officials who are not even warriors to guard the official warehouse, right?"

Li Yongcheng nodded bravely: "I'm a lower official... I'm a lower official for the sake of the imperial court. After all, His Majesty has been in power for a short time, and the watchmen of the Evil Punishment Department must guard against all kinds of evil places and official warehouses... ..”

"Don't talk nonsense with me!"

Lu Chen scolded him coldly again.

"If you have it, you have it, if you don't have it, you don't have it! Where does all this nonsense come from?"

Seeing Lu Chen's anger, Li Yongcheng responded quickly.

Lu Chen then asked a few more key questions. Although Li Yongcheng reluctantly responded and kept speaking for the sake of the court, he was ruthlessly exposed by Lu Chen every time.

After arriving at the back, Lu Chen was too lazy to ask questions and walked directly to Chen Kuan who was standing aside under his anxious gaze.

Chen Kuan's performance was even worse than that of Li Yongcheng. When he saw Lu Chen looking at him coldly, his mouth was trembling so much that he could not speak.

"Is there something wrong with you?"

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes, and a dangerous cold light flashed in his eyes.

"what?!"

Such a simple and straightforward question made Chen Kuan suddenly startled.

After reacting, he quickly shook his head.

"No...no!"

Lu Chen's sharp eyes swept across his body, making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

My body was shivering with cold.

"There is nothing wrong in your heart, so why are you shaking? And why are you so afraid of me?!"

While speaking, a faint golden light quietly flashed across Lu Chen's body. At the same time, a powerful power from a superior suddenly erupted, instantly covering Chen Kuan in front of him.

Bang! !

Chen Kuan felt his body suddenly sink, and he was caught off guard, his body became unstable and he fell to the ground.

Almost fainted on the spot.

The cold pressure quickly spread to the surroundings, and the strong sense of oppression made Li Yongcheng and others feel a terrifying sense of suffocation at the same time.

A strong uneasiness and ominous premonition rose from the bottom of my heart.

It's over... I fell directly into the hands of this evil star. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this disaster...

Chapter 215

After a while, Chen Kuan stood up, wiping the dust off his body in embarrassment, and then looked at Lu Chen in fear, but did not dare to look at him and just lowered his head.

Seeing his bearish appearance, Lu Chen was basically sure of his guess.

But even so, he still did not directly order Zhu Yong to kill people. After all, it was not the style of his predecessor to simply use force to suppress people and then kill them without teaching.

"Chen Kuan."

He called out with cold eyes.

"Xia...Xiaguan is here!"

Chen Kuan hurriedly agreed, fearing that Lu Chen would kill him on the spot if he reacted slowly.

"I want to ask you." Lu Chen looked at him and said coldly: "These people were brought to Dongshi and tortured in public. Is it your order?"

Seeing that Lu Chen asked about this matter, Chen Kuan suddenly felt like chaff.

But he still gritted his teeth, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in response: "Yes...it's the order from my subordinate, but it's because..."

"To shut up!"

Lu Chen scolded coldly: "Just answer my questions. Don't say anything more if I didn't ask you!"

Hearing this, Chen Kuan couldn't help but feel helpless in his heart.

Lu Chen added: "Why do you use such cruel methods to treat the people? What have they done wrong? What power do you have to deal with the people? Did you ask the county government for instructions before issuing the order?"

Having said this, he looked at Li Yongcheng standing aside.

"If there is a report, Magistrate Li, why do you impose capital punishment on people without going through a public trial? Do you have such great power? Huh?!"

Facing Lu Chen's repeated questions, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other, and each could see the panic in the other's eyes.

After a while, Li Yongcheng stood up bravely.

"Master Lu, I naturally know about this. The reason for this is because these people are lawless and disrespectful of the court, so...so..."

He argued hesitantly.

It was nothing more than Chu Zhan and others provoking the imperial court, disobeying discipline, injuring government officials, and resisting the imperial court. There was a possibility of riots, and they had to obey the authority when the matter was urgent. They acted in this way in order to nip the danger in the bud, deter lawlessness, and safeguard the imperial court. Such is the case with regulations and stability.

From the beginning to the end, he had no substantive evidence to prove that these people were rioting, and he could not even prove that Chu Zhan, who shot and injured the Yamen servant, was related to others.

Nothing to say.

Lu Chen's face was cold: "In other words... it's unnecessary, right?"

Li Yongcheng's eyes twitched.

"I hope your lord will learn from this."

"Haha...what a shame."

Lu Chen had a mocking look on his face.

"It seems that your methods are still slightly better than that of King Yu, at least you won't even bother to find excuses."

Hearing this, the two of them turned pale with shock.

Li Yongcheng said in a trembling voice: "What do you mean, sir?"

"what for?"

Lu Chen laughed.

"You've been acting like a human being, not doing human affairs, can't you even understand what people say?"

After a pause, he continued: "You promised to give each of the people who moved to Montenegro ten shi of food, but in the end, you only gave one shi on the pretext that evil spirits attacked and the official warehouse was burned down. No matter what the reason, such a promise is untrue. , shouldn’t the people question it? With a stone of food, you can’t even survive in a place like Montenegro, shouldn’t they fight for themselves a chance to survive?”

"What? All of our imperial officials in Daxia are saints. Do we not tolerate the slightest doubt?"

Seeing that Lu Chen was ready to openly accuse him, Chen Kuan couldn't help but feel a little unwilling. With a strong will to survive, he bravely defended himself: "But they are disobedient to discipline and are already rioting. The lower official... The lower official is also for the imperial court. For your own sake, take precautions before they happen..."

However, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted sharply by Lu Chen: "Nip bullshit in the bud!"

He stared at Chen Kuan with wide eyes.

"Don't obey discipline? How can they obey when they can't live anymore?! What? Is the court some kind of god? If they want them to die, they can only wait obediently?"

Hearing this, the two of them were immediately speechless.

However, as soon as Lu Chen said these words, Gu Simiao and Fu Huan inexplicably frowned at the same time.

"This... Mr. Lu, it's really not what you think, Xianguan... Xianguan..."

Li Yongcheng wanted to argue again, but Lu Chen was too lazy to ramble on with him.

He glared at the two men and said sternly: "Without any evidence, he believed that the people intended to riot based on his own imagination, and then he was convicted without a court, and he was hastily convicted and sentenced to death. As a member of the imperial court, "What is the difference between a magistrate who shoulders the important responsibilities of a county and the rise and fall of all people and acts so hastily, and a mediocre official who cares little about human life?"

As he spoke, he waved his hand suddenly.

"The people below are easy to abuse, but the gods are hard to bully, Zhu Yong!"

"I am humble!"

Lu Chen raised his voice and said: "I am ordering you to file a case immediately and arrest all the people involved in this matter. No matter whether they are county magistrates or government officials, no one will be left behind. They will all be under my control." Then summon the nearby Xuanji Guards to investigate the matter thoroughly, find out whether the relief grains were burned, whether the procedures for collecting the grains were in compliance with the laws and regulations, whether the account details can be matched, and focus on finding out the source and whereabouts of the relief grains?"