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

Faced with the repeated pleas for mercy from the officials, Lu Chen just snorted coldly with a sullen expression on his face.

He didn't really want to kill them, but just let them know his position and attitude a little bit. As for whether he can follow suit in the future... that's easy, stay if you can, get out if you can't.

As for offending people, causing dissatisfaction among most people and being attacked?

For him, this is not a problem at all.

For a person who is an official, the worst ending is to ransack his family and exterminate his family, and die tragically in office. However, he has a system. When the two poles are reversed directly, it may be uncertain who will destroy who.

So when he is an official, he has almost no scruples, and he can do whatever he wants, as long as he has no regrets in his heart.

It doesn't matter how idealistic the way of being a person and being an official is.

Not to mention these petty officials in front of him, even princes and nobles, if he dared to provoke him, he would dare to draw his sword on the spot and let the other party go down to discuss with King Yu.

His hands were already stained with the royal blood of the clan, and he didn't mind getting a little more.

If they are capable, they will do it for him, but when the time comes, whether it is the limit of one for one or N for 0, it depends on his mood of Immortal King Lu.

Although he has changed his mind now, he will not reject the shortcut of in-situ ascension, but he will not deliberately force it.

"What do you mean, this officer wrongly blamed you?"

No one dared to respond, and all the petty officials remained silent, but their meaning was self-evident.

Seeing them like this, Lu Chen immediately fixed his eyes.

"Let me remember it for you."

The moment the sonorous and forceful voice fell, he turned around slowly, looked at the laborers who were working not far away, and peeked at the laborers here from the corner of his eyes, with an extremely solemn expression:

"My salary is all the fat and anointing of the people. The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully! The people support the court, and our court officials have the responsibility and obligation to benefit them, at least to keep them safe. Whoever dares to bully them wantonly , who is the official's sworn enemy!"

Hearing this, almost everyone, including the laboring farmers and craftsmen, looked at Lu Chen in astonishment.

Da da…

The gilt black boots made a crisp sound when they stepped on the hard stone slab.

"This is the first and last time."

Lu Chen stepped up and walked towards the construction site not far away without looking back.

"If I let this official see you doing this again next time, this official will never forgive me! If you don't believe me, just try it. When you see something wrong, do your backers or backers have the ability, or dare you Take someone from this official!"

After finishing speaking, he stopped looking at the crowd and walked directly towards the construction site.

And those officials, after recovering from the shock, turned their heads inexplicably and slowly, looking at the two seemingly inconspicuous young people behind them.

"Master Chen, Mr. Su, look, this..."

The two young men shook their heads, motioning them to stop talking, and then took a deep look at Lu Chen's receding back, with a chill in their eyes.

Lu Chen didn't notice the strangeness behind him, but even if he did, he didn't bother to care.

To him, it doesn't matter how mysterious the other party's identity is, how amazing his background is, or how terrifying his energy is. Otherwise it's all scum.

"Zhang Xuan."

Halfway through, Lu Chen suddenly called softly.

The assistant officer who had been following behind him hastily responded, and then asked, "What orders does Master Lu have?"

"Pass down the official order to let them stop working for a while, and tell the chef to cook more meat today, and then let them send some hot soup right away."

Hearing this, Zhang Xuan couldn't help being startled, and then looked at him with some uncertainty. Seeing that his expression was normal, without any hesitation, he immediately understood what he should do.

"Yes, my lord, I'm going to deliver the order now."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards those petty officials.

Then Lu Chen looked at another assistant officer.

"Wang Qi, you go and notify them and ask them to prepare the account books immediately. You will supervise them and prevent them from stealing and cheating. Later, the officer will check the account details."

"promise!"

Wang Qi responded concisely, then turned and walked towards the tent.

After the two left, Lu Chen let out a breath of foul air, then quietly looked at the Promise Palace in front of him, which was being repaired in an orderly manner, and looked at the surrounding laborers working with bare arms in the cold wind, with an inexplicably sad expression on their faces. .

It didn't take long for the order to suspend work to be conveyed. When all the laborers learned that they could take a break, their faces showed joy almost at the same time.

It's like the rest of my life after a catastrophe.

At this moment, almost everyone looked at Lu Chen, who was very conspicuous in the purple robe.

"Thank you for your sympathy!"

A man with gray temples suddenly yelled, and at the same time he knelt heavily on the ground and bowed vigorously to Lu Chen.

Immediately afterwards, the servant beside him quickly reacted and knelt down to Lu Chenxing together with him.

"Thank you for your sympathy!"

Not long after, the third, fourth, fifth... More and more people knelt down to Lu Chen, their faces full of gratitude.

Thousands of people knelt down at the same time, and the scene was quite spectacular.

However, seeing this scene, Lu Chen felt inexplicably heavy in his heart.

"Get up, everyone."

Lu Chen opened his mouth slowly, and the sound of the blessing of the sound amplification technique slowly sounded.

"My officer, I am not qualified to accept your kneeling."

"No!"

The man who shouted at the beginning said loudly: "My lord can bear it."

Lu Chen shook his head, but didn't refuse again, because it didn't make any sense.

"That's all, get up, the ground is cold, don't hurt your knees."

Then everyone got up.

Then Lu Chen walked up to the man with gray temples. Seeing this, the man immediately wanted to salute him again, but Lu Chen raised his hand to stop him.

"Don't be nervous, just relax. I just have nothing to do. I came here to check on the renovation of the Promise Palace, learn about the progress of the project and your situation, and see if there are any problems so that they can be resolved in time."

Hearing this, the tension on the faces of the man and the servants around him did not dissipate much, but there was less fear and more respect.

"What do you want to know, my lord?"

"Sit down first."

Lu Chen pointed to the stone beam on the side, then found a small stone pier for himself, patted the dust on it casually, and didn't care if the brand-new official robe would get dirty, just looked at it without any image. Ass sat down.

Seeing such a down-to-earth scene, the men couldn't help being stunned. After a few breaths, they realized that they all sat down on the stone beam Lu Chen was pointing at.

Then Lu Chen asked softly, "What's your name?"

Hearing this, the man who Lu Chen first spoke to hurriedly responded: "Craftsman Zhao Dahu, from Xingping County, Shuntian Prefecture."

Several other people also spoke one after another.

"Caomin Zhou Da, from Jiuqu County, Shuntian Prefecture."

"Grassman Lin Feng, from Heng County, Shuntian Prefecture."

"..."

After listening to their introduction, Lu Chen couldn't help but take another look at Zhao Dahu.

Xingping County... Isn't that the county where his fief is located?

However, he has not sealed it yet, and has not determined the scope of the fief, so naturally there is no food town, so Zhao Dahu is definitely not his leader.

Otherwise, if the people in his food town were conscripted into labor, this matter would have to be discussed.

Shaking his head, Lu Chen stopped thinking about it, and then asked them how much work they had to do a day, whether there was a target, what would happen if they failed to complete the target, whether there would be a reward for completing the target, how about the food provided by the government, and whether they would be full.

Zhao Dahu was silent for a moment, and then slowly opened his mouth, but he didn't answer directly, and then asked suddenly: "My lord, Xiaomin...Xiaomin wants to ask you a question first."

Lu Chen looked at him with some surprise. This man is quite courageous. If he were any other official, he might have to take dozens of sticks.

However, he would not be annoyed by the other party's rhetorical question, so he simply nodded.

"Don't be cautious, as long as it is a question that can be answered by your own senses, let alone one, ten or hundreds are fine, you can ask whatever you want."