"King! Respect!" Lan
"you you you!"
Upstairs of the South City Gate.
Sun Daohua looked at Wang Jing's figure gradually disappearing at the entrance of the city wall.
The anger in my heart is finally difficult to suppress.
A sweet smell surged up instantly.
"Sheriff!"
"The Sheriff! The Sheriff!"
"Quick! Go find the doctor!"
"Yes, yes! Go find the doctor!"
For a moment, the officials and government servants on the city gate tower were in a panic.
Dozens of powerful country squires from different aristocratic families were speaking. The people couldn't help but stop in their tracks.
After a while, he looked at the Wang family members who were disappearing at the entrance of the city wall.
After a while, he looked at the increasingly chaotic city gate tower.
finally. Lan
A bald man with a wrinkled face stamped his feet with determination, and then quickly left towards the entrance of the city wall.
As soon as one of them moves, the rest will move instantly.
It doesn't take a while.
Not a single one of dozens of aristocratic families, powerful country squires, and gossips was left.
With a sickly red face, Sun Daohua looked through the gap in the human wall at the "huge" open space not far away.
Finally he shook his head with a bitter look on his face.
Is it wrong for tenants to drain water to save their fields? Lan
Is it illegal for a wealthy family to "fear no power"?
Even if today's events are recorded in Jinluan Palace.
The final result will be that the tenants are not at fault and the wealthy families are not breaking the law.
It comes down to it.
Nothing more than that food is the first priority for the people.
And the aristocratic families and powerful country gentry are also citizens.
What's more, to a certain extent, wealthy families and powerful country gentry can represent half of the people in the world! Lan
Sun Daohua was an official to the county governor, and they were both from aristocratic families.
How could I not understand this in my heart?
That's why.
When King Langya left.
Even though Sun Daohua was extremely angry.
But in the end, I had no choice but to let him go.
As for offending the county governor? Lan
How many years has the county governor been in office?
The aristocratic families and powerful gentry have been established in this land for at least several decades.
Many have been established for hundreds or even hundreds of years.
It seems that the county guard has unlimited glory.
In fact, he has left the support of the local aristocratic families.
Nearly half of the county guards will eventually be like rootless duckweeds, unable to move even an inch.
It’s not that Sun Daohua has never thought about changing the status quo. Lan
But now, this is the case all over the world.
What can he do?
Everyone is drunk, am I alone awake?
Sun Daohua didn't have the guts.
The Sun family behind him also didn't have the courage.
But let them go like this?
Is this the matter of drainage? Lan
Nowadays, the current in the upper reaches of Sanggan River is rapid.
There is always a risk of the embankment bursting.
Once the Sanggan River bursts its banks.
The three cities of Yanxian, Panxian and Xialuo located in the Sanggan River Basin may become a vast ocean in an instant.
More than 100,000 civilians either died in the raging river or were forced to leave their homes.
Once the three cities of Yanxian, Panxian and Xialuo cannot accommodate the raging river water.
By then. Lan
The turbulent river water will surely flow down the Yangtze River.
And once the Yanghe River floods.
Juyang City may soon follow in the footsteps of Yanxian, Panxian and Xialuo cities.
Exactly.
Nearly 80% of the aristocratic families in Juyang City are not only prepared for danger in times of peace, but also take precautions.
Instead, they selfishly drain the water from their own fields toward the already overburdened rivers.
What does this have to do with self-destruction? Lan
Do those aristocratic families and powerful country gentry really don’t understand this?
Are those aristocratic families and powerful country squires really so short-sighted?
Sun Daohua sat limply in front of the city gate tower, staring through the gap in the wall at the "huge" open space not far away.
Strong doubts and regrets could not help but arise in my mind.
at the same time.
At the entrance of the city wall.
Wang Jing, who was about to completely walk down the city wall, couldn't help but pause slightly. Lan
"After all, they are just a bunch of poor people who are obsessed with profit."
The corners of Wang Jing's mouth raised slightly, forming a slightly sarcastic smile.
Then he started walking again, heading down the city wall step by step.
From beginning to end, there was no intention of turning around and looking back.
However.
Just as he was about to take the last step.
Not far away, the densely packed tenants holding shovels, manure forks and other farm tools quickly retreated to both sides. Lan
See this.
Wang Jing frowned for a moment, then looked forward intently.
As far as the eye can see, there is only a three-column green-covered carriage guarded by more than a hundred elite soldiers.
And countless tenants watched with admiration.
He walked towards the entrance of the city wall slowly and slowly.
"How did he come so fast!"
When Wang Jing saw this, his face turned pale instantly. Lan
There is no strategizing attitude at all.
As a direct descendant of the Langya Wang family.
How could he have never heard of Xu Yi's methods?
Unless this matter is of great importance and there is really no way to evade it.
It will never appear here.
I was anxious to escape because I was afraid of this scene.
But God did not fulfill people's wishes. Lan
The more afraid of something, the more likely it will be.
For a moment, Wang Jing's heart was filled with despair.
"The common people pay their respects to His Highness King Yan!"
A loud roar came from nowhere.
The sound was like a prairie fire that instantly ignited the entire south city gate.
"The common people pay their respects to His Highness King Yan!"
"The common people pay their respects to His Highness King Yan!"
"The common people pay their respects to His Highness King Yan!"
For a time, countless tenants at the south gate of Juyang City knelt down like waves of wheat blown by the wind and shouted to pay homage to His Highness King Yan.
The sound of greetings gradually changed from noisy to uniform.
After just a few breaths, the uniform sound soared into the sky.
Wang Jing stood at the entrance of the city wall, staring blankly at the three-column green-covered carriage that was advancing.
My ears were filled with the deafening sound of greetings that soared into the sky.
He originally thought he had overestimated Xu Yi, but he never expected that he ended up underestimating it. Lan
Notice!
At least half of the densely packed tenants under the city wall are black households!
And once you become a black householder, you will be bound to the aristocratic family forever in this life and even for future generations.
The power of life and death is naturally in the hands of the aristocratic family, and has nothing to do with the court or the government.
And this class of people should have been running away as soon as they saw an official assignment.
But now these gangsters are...
How terrifying is this kind of popularity? Lan
The three-column green-covered carriage slowly stopped three steps away from the entrance to the city wall.
at the same time.
At the city gate tower.
Sun Daohua, who was sitting limply in front of the city gate tower, could not help but feel a flash of joy on his face.
"Hurry up!"
"Hurry up and help me go to meet His Highness King Yan!"
With the support of two officials, Sun Daohua stood up again and walked tremblingly towards the entrance of the city wall. Lan
Under the city wall.
More than a hundred elite soldiers stood around the three-column green-covered carriage, completely isolating the "idlers".
A pair of palms full of wealth
In the spotlight, he calmly raised the car curtain from the inside.
Immediately afterwards, a chubby middle-aged face poked out of the car.
"Lu Yansheng?! How could it be you?!"
Wang Xingwang stared at Lu Yansheng who came out of the Sanyuan Qingpai carriage with dumbfounded eyes.
His face was full of disbelief. Lan
He remembered that Lu Yansheng had been following Sun Daohua just now.
Why did he appear on King Yan's carriage?
Lu Yansheng glanced at Wang Xingwang, with a hint of pleasure flashing in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, please."
Lu Yansheng calmed down for a moment, raised the heavy car curtain high, and bowed deeply to salute.
Although his posture was weird and funny, not one of the dozens of people present laughed at him.
Instead, one of them looked into the car with more solemn expressions. Lan
In the spotlight.
Xu Yi, wearing a white jade crown, dark jade vassal uniform, and a long black knife hanging from his waist, walked out of the carriage expressionlessly.
"We pay our respects to His Highness King Yan!"
"Wang Shijing of Langya, pay homage to His Highness King Yan."
"The common people pay their respects to His Highness King Yan."
The moment Xu Yi completely stood at the South City Gate.
The sound of greetings like a roaring mountain and a tsunami resounded throughout the world again. Lan
"I'm here to pay my respects to His Highness King Yan."
"We pay our respects to His Highness King Yan."
Sun Daohua, who had arrived late, looked at Xu Yi who was standing among the crowd's shouts. His breath was sore, and then he bowed deeply with red eyes.
In an instant.
Except for the sound of greetings that still echoed between heaven and earth, there was no other sound at the huge south city gate.
"No gifts!"
Xu Yi raised his eyes expressionlessly and looked around, seeing countless people kneeling and worshiping him. Lan
"Thank you, His Highness King Yan!"
"Thank you, His Highness King Yan!"
"Thank you, His Highness King Yan!"
After everyone stood up completely, there was silence at the south city gate again.
"Wang Clan Langya, do you respect me?"
Xu Yi looked coldly at Wang Jing, who was standing in front of a group of talkative people from aristocratic families.
"Wang Clan Langya, please pay homage to His Highness King Yan." Lan
When Wang Jing heard this, his body and mind tensed unconsciously, and he bowed deeply again.
"What are you doing here?"
Xu Yi asked again.
"Back..."
"His Royal Highness, King Yan, came... at the invitation of Commander Sun."
Wang Jing's body trembled slightly, and he forced himself to calm down before answering again.
at the same time. Lan
Behind him, dozens of talkers from aristocratic families lowered their heads unconsciously in the overwhelming aura of oppression.
Wang Xingwang, the talker of the Wang family in Shanggu, wanted to bury his head in the ground.
"Chief Sun, is this true?"
Xu Yi turned his head slightly and looked at Sun Daohua who was struggling to walk down the city wall.
"Go back to your lord!"
"This statement is untrue!"
"The person invited by the lower official is Wang Zhongqi of the Shanggu Wang family, not Wang Jing of the Langya Wang family!" Lan
Sun Daohua gently pushed away the person supporting him, and said with an extremely serious look on his face.
And a hint of joy flashed through his eyes.
"Why are you here without an invitation? What are you doing here? What do you want to do?"
Xu Yi pressed one hand on the hilt of Zhan Yuan's knife and looked coldly at Wang Jing, whose forehead was already covered with thin beads of sweat.
"Back..."
"Go back...back to His Highness King Yan."
"Respect, here comes Daiqi." Lan
"I was quick to speak out before, but I didn't say anything clearly. I hope His Highness, King Yan, will forgive me."
Wang Jing forced himself to calm down and tried to block Xu Yi's "aggressiveness" with words.
"oh?"
"Why doesn't Wang Zhongqi?"
The law comes? "
"Could it be that you caught the cold?"
Xu Yi asked again without changing his expression.
"Shocked..." Lan
Hear this.
The dense sweat on Wang Jing's forehead instantly gathered into a "river".
If it is said to be infected with wind and cold.
Xu Yi will definitely send the royal doctor there.
If you are not infected with the cold.
Xu Yi will definitely punish Wang Zhongqi for disrespecting the imperial court.
This crime can be big or small. Lan
The key point is where it comes from.
If it came from Sun Daohua's mouth, it would naturally be insignificant.
If it comes from Xu Yi's mouth, then...
"Who are you?"
"Could it be that they are all infected with the cold?"
Before Wang Jing could think of a countermeasure, Xu Yi suddenly changed the topic and pointed directly at the talkers behind him.
For a moment, the air pressure at the entrance to the city wall dropped a bit again. Lan
Dozens of aristocratic family talkers all lowered their heads in fear.
"I will give you three quarters of an hour."
"If the person in charge of each family has not yet arrived."
"Then there's no need to come."
Xu Yi slowly glanced at the crowd of talkers from aristocratic families behind Wang Jing, his voice full of coldness.
Hear this.
Everyone in the aristocratic family breathed a sigh of relief. Lan
He fled from the city wall as fast as he could.
"Just one person can go to the Wang family."
"Wang Jing, please follow me to the city gate tower."
Just when Wang Xingwang and Wang Jing were about to sneak away.
Xu Yiman's cold voice suddenly sounded in their ears.
"ah?"
Hear this. Lan
Wang Jing's face instantly turned pale again.
On the other hand, Sun Daohua's complexion gradually turned rosy on the steps of the city wall.
Not long after.
At the city gate tower.
Xu Yi stood at the crenellation of a city wall and looked down deeply.
Everywhere you look there are tenants holding shovels, manure forks and other farm tools, and their faces are honest and responsible.
"Your Majesty." Lan
"There may be something fishy about this matter."
Sun Daohua took a deep look at Wang Jing, who was invisibly controlled by the guards of Prince Yan's Palace, and then quickly stepped forward and bowed his hands and said softly.
"What's weird?"
Xu Yi still looked at the countless tenants below.
"Go back to your lord."
"These tenants under the city walls are acting strangely."
"They came too fast." Lan
"When the rain stops, the official orders people to strictly drain water to the river."
"After less than an hour and a half, these tenants swarmed to the city gate."
"besides."
"There's something wrong with these aristocratic families coming here."
"Your Majesty, you don't know something."
"Before you arrived, these aristocratic families and powerful country squires all looked up to the Wang family."
"This has never happened before." Lan
Sun Daohua lowered his voice and expressed all his guesses.
"I understand."
"Governor Sun."
"Where is Captain Pinglu now?"
Xu Yi nodded noncommittally upon hearing this, then turned around and walked towards the other side of the city wall.
"Go back to your lord."
"Pinglu Xiaowei is now leading his troops to clean up the river channel at the tributary of Zhangjia Town." Lan
Sun Daohua was stunned for a moment, and then answered with his hands raised.
"Recall."
"Recalled together with the soldiers and horses under his command."
Xu Yi stood at the crenellation of the other city wall, looking deeply outside the city.
far away.
Dozens of shares "
"Black clouds" are rushing towards the south gate of Juyang City.
"Summon Li Yu back?" Lan
Sun Daohua lowered his eyelids and thought secretly in his heart.
"Your Majesty means that this matter is..."
After counting the interest.
Sun Daohua looked up at Xu Yi's back with a horrified face.
"I don't know, but it concerns nearly a million people in Shanggu County."
"You and I have to guard against you."
Xu Yi was still standing at the crenellation of the city wall, his eyes full of solemnity. Lan
Although he didn't think that Li Yu would be crazy enough to open the gate and release the water, causing the water to flood the upper valley.
As long as you are not afraid of ten thousand, be afraid of the worst.
Xu Yi couldn't afford to gamble, and it was impossible to gamble with him with all his wealth and life.
"Follow the order!"
Hear this.
Sun Daohua hurriedly bowed his hands.
Then he walked quickly towards a group of officials not far away. Lan
Not long after.
When Sun Daohua returned behind Xu Yi.
Suddenly the rumble of horse hooves was heard in the distance.
When Sun Daohua heard this, his expression changed drastically.
"It's Gu's troops who have arrived."
Xu Yi looked at the 20,000 soldiers and horses standing in front of the welcoming pavilion five miles away from the south city gate, and finally a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
But that smile was full of coldness. Lan
"Gu Dengyun!"
"The general is here!"
"Send orders to Qu Baotian! Lead two thousand soldiers to the city immediately!"
"Follow the order!"
The words are over.
Guard officer Gu Dengyun quickly took the order and left.
"King..." Lan
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, this... Your Majesty, this is what?"
Sun Daohua looked at Xu Yi's back with a dull expression.
"Governor Sun."
"Immediately order the household registration to be sent to the city wall!"
"In addition, take some of the four treasures of the study and recruit some students from private schools in the city."
Xu Yi turned around and ordered in a deep voice.
"Follow the order!" Lan
Hear this.
Sun Daohua understood instantly and hurriedly turned around and ran towards the officials not far away again.
at the same time.
Xu Yi strode towards the crenellations of the inner city wall.
"Dear fellow citizens!"
"I am the King of Yan!"
Xu Yi stood beside the crenel and said loudly, facing the countless tenants under the city wall. Lan
The words are over.
The slight noise under the city wall dissipated in an instant.
Countless tenants looked up.
"I understand why you are here!"
"I know you are all terrified!"
"Fathers and fellow villagers, please listen to Gu Yiyi's words!"
"Gu Ye knows that if we don't drain the water in the fields now." Lan
"During the summer harvest, the yield per mu will definitely be greatly damaged! It may even be that there is no harvest at all!"
As soon as this statement came out.
The expressions of nearly half of the tenants under the city wall changed instantly.
Since the heavy rain fell.
The government officials and soldiers strictly ordered them not to drain water.
But what if crops are not drained?
What to do with the landlord’s rent? Lan
What about the family's livelihood?
And the owners are not only inconsiderate.
Instead, they went door to door and announced, "This year the rent will be increased by 20%!"
Twenty percent!
That’s a full 20%!
Even in a good harvest year, the extra 20% could kill them.
How dare you talk about this disaster year that is already destined to reduce production? Lan
later.
The tenants united and went to the master's house to kneel down and plead.
Only then did the host show his "great kindness"
As long as the water can be drained within three days.
The extra 20% of the rent can be waived.
For that slim way of survival.
The tenants had to rush to the south gate.
But what about behind the South City Gate? Lan
The high-ranking officials only talked on the city wall.
The government officials and soldiers kept trying to arrest people.
The servants of the master's family continued to force them with 20% of the rent.
They just want to keep the crops they have worked so hard to grow.
Just so that my parents, wives, and children can barely feed themselves and survive in this disaster year.
Just such a simple prayer.
Why is it so difficult! Lan
That's why.
When the legendary King of Yan's chariot, followed by hundreds of horse-riding generals, came slowly.
Many of them clearly know that they are gangsters.
He clearly knew that his master had said that if the government found out about the underworld, the whole family would be thrown into jail.
I was beaten so hard every day that I couldn't live or die.
But they silently moved out of the way.
He didn't run around like before. Lan
Isn't the picture of the legendary His Highness King Yan really loving the people like a son and serving the people wholeheartedly?
Isn't it for that extremely slim chance of survival?
"Your Highness Prince Yan! The little old man is a gangster! The little old man can die!"
"Please show mercy and save the two grandchildren in the little old man's home!"
"They... they're still young... and they don't want to become a gangster!"
At the crenellation of the city wall, Xu Yi has not yet mentioned any promises, and even mentioned anything about "black households".
Under the city wall, an old man with white hair shivered and shouted a few times, then he knelt heavily on his knees facing Xu Yi and kept kowtow to the Prime Minister. Lan
At the crenellations of the city wall.
When Xu Yi heard the words, he swallowed the words that were about to blurt out, and quickly looked at the place where the sound came from with his deep eyes.
As far as the eye can see.
I saw that among the densely packed tenants there seemed to be a man with white hair who was kowtowing continuously.
Xu Yi calmed down for a moment and looked carefully.
I saw the white-haired man, whose figure was as thin as his clothes. His trousers were rolled up high, and his legs were covered in mud.
And on the feet that were also covered in mud, not even the slightest trace of straw sandals could be found. Lan
It's too late, but it's soon.
No waiting for Xu Yi's reaction.
The people next to the white-haired old man immediately knelt down heavily on their knees facing Xu Yi.
"Your Highness, King Yan, the common people are also black households! The common people voluntarily accept death. I only ask His Highness, King Yan, to give the common people two kilos of food."
"So that the infant child of the grass people can survive! Please, Your Highness, King Yan!"
"Your Highness King Yan! I am also a black man! I am also willing to die."
"Can you please let me enter that nursing home? She is really suffering too much! Please, Your Highness, King Yan." Lan
"Your Highness King Yan! The youngest is only twenty-five this year! The youngest was herding cattle for the rich man Wang's family when he was three years old, and he was able to work in the fields at the age of eight!"
"The little one doesn't have much else, he just has a lot of strength."
"From now on, I will do whatever you want me to do! I will die how you want me to die."
"Can you please give me a household registration for my little one who has just turned two years old?"
"The child is still young. I really can't bear to see him without a household registration for the rest of his life, and can only live in the gutter!"
"I beg you, little one! Please show mercy, Your Highness, King Yan!"
For a while. Lan
The cries and prayers under the city wall were mixed together and soared into the sky.
The sound of banging, banging, and kowtowing could not be heard without stopping.
"call."
The crenellations of the city wall
.
Xu Yi raised his head slightly and exhaled heavily, then ordered in a deep voice: "Beat the drum!!!"
No one knew a few days ago.
How many plans did Xu Yi make to turn the black households hiding in the homes of aristocratic families and powerful gentry into people of "Great Zhou" again. Lan
No one knew that most of the people gathered there were tenants.
Xu Yi made a lot of preparations on the way here.
But now.
Don't wait for the plans and preparations to be implemented one by one.
The gangsters hiding in the homes of aristocratic families and powerful country gentry were the first to "expose themselves".
If it were anyone else.
No effort is required to achieve the goal. Lan
I'm afraid I'll be overjoyed.
But at this time, Xu Yi felt not only the slightest joy in his heart.
Instead, I was choked by an indescribable and unexplainable emotion that made me feel uncomfortable all over!
What kind of oppression is it.
Will it lead to countless gangsters to expose their backgrounds at the risk of death?
Thinking about this.
Xu Yi's wide sleeves couldn't help but hang down naturally. Lan
The slightly cold palm tightly grasped the handle of Zhan Yuan's knife.
One side of the city gate tower.
Wang Jing looked at Xu Yi, who was standing motionless on the crenellations of the city wall, looking up at the sky.
Listening to the loud noise, whose words could not be heard clearly, but whose meaning was well understood.
His legs suddenly went weak, and he collapsed on the ground.
"It's over."
"It's over!" Lan
"It's all over."
Wang Jing's face turned pale, his eyes were dull and he kept mumbling.
