Even if these twists and turns are painful enough in the future, the people who have experienced the previous turmoil can endure the pain tenaciously. After all, it is better to expose some things sooner rather than later, and the current people are in a state of crisis. The most resilient era after the Great Chaos.
"Pull Sun Yong down, who among you is You You?" Chen Xi greeted the soldiers in front of him. Now he needs professionals like You You to lead people to interrogate Sun Yong. As for whether this is in line with the procedures, to be honest, When Sun Yong took action, Chen Xi didn't care about this.
"I am." Cao Chuang, who was holding Sun Yong, said.
The official position of Youyou is a standard official with high rank, but the size of this official position is not very clear, because this official position is one of the five officials under the sect. It is equipped by the three public servants, the county guard and the county magistrate. The state gives a salary. kind.
Cao Chuang's Youyou can be regarded as a middle-ranking official. I really want to say that the size of his official position is about the same as that of Zhang Chen, but the good thing is that this official can appear anywhere in the county at any time and wander around.
By the way, this is why Zhang Chen is the city gate commander, and Cao Chuang is the wanderer. If they were to change, they might have to go up the Yellow River to find Zhang Chen.
"Take Sun Yong down and pry out all the crimes he committed. Don't kill him. When the time comes, he will be handed over to Zhu Yousi and he will be punished." Chen Xi pulled Liu Bei and then told Cao Chuang. In fact, even though he said that, , but Chen Xi knows very well that the current situation in Jizhou is not over yet.
If Sun Yong is defeated, the bureaucrats involved in this matter in other counties may commit suicide or jump over the wall in a hurry. This is all possible. The unrest in Jizhou is just around the corner. This is why Chen Xi came with Liu Bei. Liu Bei can suppress Living in the bureaucracy, Chen Xi can change his mind.
"Yes." Cao Chuang separated out four small cells, surrounded Sun Yong from front to back, and prepared to take him to the prison first, which is the safest place.
"Lao Liu, please go and drive and take Mr. Xuande and I to the inn." Chen Xi saw Liu Bei's gloomy look and didn't want to speak. He turned to greet Bi Lao Liu. When Bi Lao Liu heard this, he felt very anxious. After learning a lot, he quickly ran out of the city and prepared to bring Liu Bei's carriage over.
"Sorry to trouble you, Zichuan." After Liu Bei saw that Chen Xi had arranged other things, he adjusted his expression and tried his best to smile, but it was really ugly.
"Don't force yourself." Chen Xi sighed and said, "This kind of thing is inevitable."
Liu Bei didn't say anything, but stepped forward, then turned and faced the militiamen in front of him and the Nanpi people who came to help him with their own weapons, and bowed deeply.
"I, Liu Bei, did not know people well, and caused this turmoil to all of you. This is my crime, and I ask for your forgiveness, fellow villagers." Liu Bei sincerely bowed deeply to everyone present, and the people present quickly returned the salute, and then seven He kept asking questions about what happened.
That's right, most Nanpi people came out to follow Liu Bei with their own weapons because their neighbors or acquaintances, or because they themselves recognized this person as Liu Bei, and then naturally followed him with weapons and equipment. .
In fact, these people had no idea what was going on. Even if they later encountered Hao Wen and captured Sun Yong, these people did not understand what happened. In essence, these people were just following Liu Bei, the person they firmly identified with.
They don't know what happened, but they know how these days fifteen years ago and today came about, so they don't need to think about why, they just bring weapons and equipment to cheer Liu Bei. People are short-sighted, but The people are the simplest.
It is so simple that the people at least know where this meal comes from.
"The prefect of Nanpi coerced the local city guards to rebel, but Duke Xuande found out." Chen Xi explained to everyone present. In fact, this sentence is also a qualitative statement, that is, the so-called city guards only executed because they did not know what the situation was. It's just an order from a superior.
In this way, even if the soldiers of the Nanpi City Guards make mistakes, except for some who are determined, the rest will at most lose their jobs and go to labor camps for a period of time. There will be no large-scale purges.
On the contrary, those guys who had their elbows chopped off had nothing to do. They went to the battlefield and their swords had no eyes. They were unlucky if they were chopped off.
With such a conclusion, the people of Nanpi finally understood what happened. Many people began to complain that they felt that Sun Yong was unreliable a few years ago, and this year he felt particularly unreliable. Unexpectedly, he was still the same A rebel thief.
Liu Bei also explained a few words, and then the large number of young people who followed him went back to their homes. Except for a few injured people who were sent to the hospital, and some old villagers who expressed a few greetings to the young people, they dispersed.
"Looking at these people, and then looking at Sun Yong, I really feel that the gap between people is really too big." Liu Bei's mentality seemed extremely complicated at this moment. He really saw the nature of human nature in a short period of time. Beautiful, but also seeing the ugliness of human nature.
"The matter in Jizhou is not over yet." Chen Xi said calmly.
Although Sun Yong has won, the bureaucrats in other counties and counties may not be able to do so. However, with Liu Bei here, it doesn't matter whether those bureaucrats resist stubbornly.
"I will arrange for the soldiers I know here in Nanpi to carry my military orders, contact the local militia, and control the local bureaucrats first." Liu Bei said slowly.
After seeing the performance of Hao Wen and Sun Yong, Liu Bei had a great distrust of Jizhou's bureaucrats, so he decided to tear up the bureaucracy directly.
From a certain point of view, it is completely against the regulations for the local garrison and militia to directly interfere with the local bureaucracy. However, after looking at the previous garbage situation, Liu Bei felt that tearing it up first would at least completely curb the persecution of the local regime by the bureaucracy.
After all, Liu Bei saw the out-of-control bureaucracy today. It really made Liu Bei feel sick, so he eliminated it first.
"It's not that easy. Even Duke Xuande cannot guarantee that the local garrison and militia have not been infiltrated, or that retired officers like Nanpi who should have occupied important positions in Bohai County have been eliminated one by one." Chen Xi shook his head and said. .
Nanpi has become like this, how much better can other counties be? Chen Xi doesn't believe in the integrity of bureaucrats. Since they have gone to this point for power, these people may not be able to do more for power. Power makes people become Ghosts are not impossible.
Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi. Chen Xi closed his eyes as if he didn't feel the complexity in Liu Bei's eyes. There were some things that made Chen Xi not think about the worst case scenario.
"What's more, Jizhou is like this. I don't believe how good the cities in Youzhou close to Jizhou can be." Chen Xi said to himself, not caring about Liu Bei's already uncontrollable anger. Even in front of Liu Bei, Chen Xi Face, dare to say anything.
"I still want the truth." Liu Bei finally suppressed the anger in his heart and said to Chen Xi with some hope, "I can basically deal with all retired officers, so I roughly know who should write letters to each county. .”
"Okay, then you try, I won't stop you." Chen Xi said calmly.
To be honest, Chen Xi believed in Liu Bei's dominance over the country, and those retired soldiers would naturally support Liu Bei's announcement.
Therefore, Chen Xi also believed that if the Nanpi soldiers took the official documents issued by Liu Bei and told the local veterans-turned-bureaucrats about what happened in Nanpi, some of them would return astray, and many would follow Liu Bei's command. , directly taking down the local bureaucrats in charge, but something will definitely happen that will completely wake up Liu Bei.
"I'll find some reliable personnel to distribute the official documents." Liu Bei remained silent after that. When he arrived at the inn and Chen Xi was about to get off the bus, Liu Bei suddenly said. At that moment, Chen Xi really understood. This was Liu Bei's response to Jizhou's retirement. The officer showed his last mercy.
On that day, hundreds of soldiers carefully selected by Liu Bei went straight to various places in Jizhou with sealed official documents, including those going to Hejian, Boling, Qinghe, Pingyuan, Xindu, and so on. , and Liu Bei stood at the top of Nanpi City watching this scene.
Chen Xi patted the stone pier at the top of the city with his sleeve. He was not sure whether the stone pier was the one left behind when he and Ju Shou were playing chess at the top of the city. However, Chen Xi knew that Liu Bei would most likely stand at the top of the city to wait for the soldiers. Now that I'm back, the time won't be too short, it will take about ten days.
When the Hejian Kingdom was successfully completed, Bi Laoliu came to the gate of the city with Liu Bei's official document and an urgent secret message. The Hejian city gate official did not stop Bi Laoliu at all.
"Is Zhao Baifu here?" Bi Laoliu went straight to the government office with the paperwork. Unfortunately, Bi Laoliu received a reply. Zhao Baifu broke his leg during a horse race in April this year and died.
When Bi Laoliu heard this sentence, his breathing became much heavier instantly, and he seemed to have something in his mind. Then Bi Laoliu asked three people in succession. All three of them had accidents this year. Now even the government officials who answered All the clerks felt that something was wrong.
It's okay not to pay attention to some things, but after paying attention, just thinking about the possibilities hidden behind things, cold sweat will soak through your clothes involuntarily.
"Guo Bingcao is here today." When Bi Laoliu asked about the fifth name, the government official quickly replied, then pointed out the place to Bi Laoliu and ran away.
"Guo Shengyang, take the order." Bi Laoliu killed him immediately, and then saw Guo Shengyang shooting an arrow, and said immediately. After Guo Shengyang shot the arrow, he looked at the document in Bi Laoliu's hand and made sure. Authenticity, open it after taking it.
After reading it, Guo Shengyang's expression became much more complicated.
"Sure enough, God is watching what you do." Guo Shengyang sighed after reading it, with a tone of relief.
