Turbulent Times Chapter 894: The heart of the people

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Early the next morning, Wang Junlin asked Feng Xiaoyong to send county soldiers to beat gongs and walk through the streets and alleys, informing tens of thousands of people in the city to gather in front of the south gate. Last night, Feng Xiaoyong led 20 Wang Junlin's guards, and after killing more than 30 soldiers and confidantes of Yuan Duwei, he easily controlled a thousand county soldiers.

At this time, a high platform had been set up in front of the city gate. Wang Junlin, wearing a purple official robe, strode up to the high platform surrounded by officials and nobles such as Du Ruhui, the new county magistrate of Changxiang County, and Feng Xiaoyong, the captain.

Feng Xiaoyong nodded to the one thousand county soldiers on the right, and the thousand county soldiers immediately knelt down on one knee under the leadership of several centurion leaders, and said loudly, "My lord, the prefect."

The common people have long heard that the new prefect has come to the city. Seeing Wang Junlin surrounded by officials from the county at this time, they have some vague guesses, but they did not see the county magistrate, the captain, the magistrate, and the magistrate. He hesitated for a while, seeing a thousand county soldiers kneeling down, they hurriedly knelt down too, but some knelt slowly, some knelt fast, and the words in their mouths were different, so the scene was a bit chaotic, but everyone watched The look on Wang Junlin's face was full of fear, even panic.

Since ancient times, in the past dynasties of China, the people have been full of fear of the government or the officials, not to mention the high-ranking prefect of the county, and the people have also heard that this prefect was burned to death in the legend. Like the poisonous general who poisoned tens of thousands of Turkic savages and Tuyuhun people, there are still many fools who always thought that Wang Junlin drank human blood every day. It has two horns, and there are no tusks in its mouth that are longer than wild boars, but it is still unavoidable to be afraid.

"Excuse me, everyone, get up!" Wang Junlin stepped forward and said in a loud voice. The voice was not loud, but it spread throughout the audience, so that everyone could hear it. The people were more and more in awe of the new prefect, thinking that the prefect really knew magic.

The common people did not dare to get up, a thousand county soldiers looked at Feng Xiaoyong's eyes and got up first, and the common people got up in a mess.

"I called everyone over early in the morning and disturbed everyone's normal life. It's my fault. My apology to everyone." At this point, Wang Junlin bowed his hands to tens of thousands of people present .

This stunned all the people, even the Changxiang County officials and nobles behind Wang Junlin.

In this era when the ranks are strict, the nobles and the common people are like clouds and mud, and the officials are always on top, there has never been an official, or even a small official, who would apologize and salute the common people.

Because most of the people in this era have never read a book and have little opportunity to get in touch with more information, they are relatively simple on the whole. Unknowingly, the new prefect had some good feelings. At least the resentment of being rushed over by the county soldiers early in the morning dissipated. At the same time, he was also curious about what the new prefect wanted to do by gathering them together.

"The purpose of calling everyone here today is to let everyone observe the process of the execution of four corrupt officials in the village of Yurou County in this county. Well, the new magistrate of this county, Mr. Du, will announce the evil done by the four corrupt officials. and show everyone the evidence." Wang Junlin didn't talk too much nonsense, he knew that for these people, too much nonsense would affect the effect, and only some practical or shocking things can achieve the desired effect.

Du Ruhui had been prepared for a long time, and immediately stepped forward and said: "My official, Du Ruhui, was ordered by the prefect to temporarily act as the magistrate of this county. The prefect arrived in this county yesterday and received a complaint from the victimized people in this county. The former county magistrate, the captain, the county magistrate, and the county lieutenant were in the evil township, so they sent people to investigate secretly, and found that these four people had committed heinous crimes."

When I said this, the people in the audience were already discussing, and they were all stunned. After that, many people looked excited, especially those victims who had been persecuted by these four officials or their relatives. The audience was even more filled with righteous indignation, even some common people who had not been persecuted by the four people were equally excited.

Since independence, the common people will be inexplicably excited whenever they see the former high-ranking officials being unlucky, imprisoned, or beheaded. This kind of thing will still be the same even in later generations. Rich mind exists.

Next, Du Ruhui read out the crimes committed by the four criminals one by one, and presented the evidence on the spot. After hearing this, the people were not only simply or inexplicably excited, but also angry. I have heard more or less that these four officials are not good things, but many people don't know that these four people have done so many evil things in secret, and every one of them is enough to make the people extremely angry, and they can't wait to kill these four people. They were eaten alive, and some of the sufferers cried loudly on the spot, making everyone even angrier.

"Kill them."

"It is simply unreasonable."

"Kill four dog officials."

"The prefect please decide for us."

"Kill!"

"Kill Kill!"

……

Under Du Ruhui's eloquent and emotional narration, the anger in the hearts of tens of thousands of people in Changxiang County was completely aroused. They regard them as good officials, even the master Qingtian, and they have won the hearts of the people invisibly, and this is what Wang Junlin needs to see.

After learning that Lu's family is quite popular in Fanyang County, Wang Junlin knew that dealing with Lu's family must not be simple and rude, otherwise there will be too many future troubles, at least a certain foundation of popular support must be won.

So, long before he set off from the capital, Wang Junlin ordered the Lanyiwei Mansion to thoroughly investigate the details of all the officials in Fanyang County. Weak and incompetent, but he didn't do anything evil, but the four officials in Changxiang County are different. What's more, although Wang Junlin is cruel, in terms of personal character and psychology, he will never allow his officials to do anything. So many evil deeds, still get away with it.

Before coming, Wang Junlin used the excuse of dealing with the Lu family to discuss a lot of privileges with Yang Guang. According to the laws of the Sui Dynasty, anyone can be killed.

"Everyone be quiet." Wang Junlin spoke suddenly, his voice was clear and strangely penetrating, and immediately suppressed the shouts of the angry people. There was silence.

PS: There will be five changes tonight—————